"Standing by Bush" -- WaPo column so full of CRAP it's almost funny

[Sparkly]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/11/AR2006081101569.html

Pick a line -- any line. Choose from blaming presidents "from Nixon to Clinton" for 9/11 (since none "dared face the issue head-on,") the notion that Chimpy has the burden of "coping" with Congress, his "courage," and the conviction that Chimpy can and will bomb Iran...

I'm sure Joshua Muravchik has a right to write unmitigated CRAP, and it's no surprise WaPo is happy to print it, but it's still astonishing that such outrageous propaganda of this kind makes it into major newspapers.

If it were satire, it'd be hilarious.

[Rose Siding]

1. This one's good-

-for a laugh.

"He led our nation into a war that is both just and necessary and that he knew could not be finished on his watch -- a thankless undertaking."

Wasn't the spin ALL about it taking "months, not years", and "mission accomplished" after just a week or two?

[rusty charly]

11. he knew, but lied to us.

[Sparkly]

20. Exactly, Rose.

If that's what he actually believed, he's a LIAR.
If it's not, he's an incompetent IDIOT.

("Liar" or "Idiot" seems to the be question that keeps cropping up around these people.)

[w4rma]

2. He's an American Enterprise Institute moonbat. (nt)

[madame defarge]

3. We should all write good old Josh a letter...

and say, "That was the greatest piece of satire I've read all week. Have you thought of working on the Daily Show? Thanks for the laughs..."

This is the paragraph that had me in stitches...

Bush has taken on the one problem that is by far most important, and he has done it with remarkable perseverance. He led our nation into a war that is both just and necessary and that he knew could not be finished on his watch -- a thankless undertaking. For this he deserves unflagging support from neocons and other conservatives, and indeed from all Americans.

And in case you missed it, there's this...

The writer is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

[rusty charly]

13. it's more "The Colbert Report"'s style

the dead-on repuke talking point, sautéd in a white wine sauce, served over a bed of angel-hair pasta.

[madame defarge]

19. Good idea...

Maybe Colbert could even get Meulmouth on the show...

[Jack Rabbit]

21. Scholar? American Enterprise Institute?

Next thing, they'll call the Heritage Foundation a research organization. Funny.

[Stinky The Clown]

4. I like the closing line best .......

...... which was written by the WaPo and not the author:

"The writer is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute."

Scholar? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

At AEI they have scholars? :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Accolytes, maybe ...... but scholars?

[unblock]

10. actually, those things are usually written by the author

the wapo typically wouldn't know the proper credentials, nor which of several credentials would be most applicable.

they are written in the VOICE of the editor, but are usually authored by, well, the author.

[Daphne08]

5. He writes as if he were a high school student, and yes, it's

ridiculous.

I especially like the "...must cope with Congress..." part. :eyes:

[theanarch]

23. and how does one "cope" with an automatic rubberstamp?

[POAS]

28. One needs to be sure that

the rubberstamp is properly inked.

Too much ink and it smears, too little and the congressional pockets don't get properly filled.

[DFW]

6. That is certainly some of the most convoluted logic...

...that I have ever read. Ignoring that the justifications given
for the invasion of Iraq were completely bogus, this guy barges
ahead with the usual "just cause-Bush's perseverence" drivel we
usually get from the extreme right. I wonder what Norm Ornstein,
one of the few level-headed people at the American Enterprise
Institute, would have to say about that.

Especially offensive is this guy's inference that Bush knew from the
start that the Iraq debacle would last beyond his presidency. In 2003, he
had Rumsfeld out there crowing that it might take six days, it might
take six weeks, but in all probability nowhere near six months. Bush
knew nothing of the sort (that it would last so long), and if that is
the writer's justification for standinng by Bush, then he has just laid
out the strongest argument yet for not doing so.

[rusty charly]

15. down memory lane with the Downing Street Memo

· Mr Bush told Mr Blair that the US was so worried about the failure to find hard evidence against Saddam that it thought of "flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours". Mr Bush added: "If Saddam fired on them, he would be in breach ".

· Mr Bush even expressed the hope that a defector would be extracted from Iraq and give a "public presentation about Saddam's WMD". He is also said to have referred Mr Blair to a "small possibility" that Saddam would be "assassinated".

· Mr Blair told the US president that a second UN resolution would be an "insurance policy", providing "international cover, including with the Arabs" if anything went wrong with the military campaign, or if Saddam increased the stakes by burning oil wells, killing children, or fomenting internal divisions within Iraq.

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,,1700881,00.html

· Mr Bush told the prime minister that he "thought it unlikely that there would be internecine warfare between the different religious and ethnic groups". Mr Blair did not demur, according to the book.

[Sparkly]

16. good point

That was one of the dumbest revisions of history laid out yet.

[ovidsen]

7. Muravchik is a classic political conservative

He's certainly that if you agree with the definition of a conservative as "someone who is loathe to change his/her opinion on any issue because that would require the acquisition and application of new evidence that runs counter to original conclusions."

These people will be the death of us yet.

[POAS]

29. He must be bucking to be

Minister of Propaganda

[tularetom]

8. Joshua, come back after you've begun shaving

or better yet after you've left your soft chair at the good ol' AEI gone down to your local recruiter, signed up and spent a few months in Iraq.

[Joe Bacon]

9. Muravchik is one of those Neocons incubated in Social Democrats, USA

Google Social Democrats USA and see who belongs to it. Lord, it's like looking at a Roach Motel; every sleazy Neocon ass is there!

[CrushTheDLC]

26. Yep, it's a regular "who's who" of traitorous America hating slime

If Chimpy really gave a shit about fighting terrorists, he'd drop a daisy-cutter on their annual meeting.

[Ken Burch]

32. I was in Democratic Socialists of America,

founded by the great Michael Harrington, and when we had to discuss SDUSA, we pronounced their name "sedusa". They only existed at the AFL-CIO headquarters, and their basic arguement was that defeating the Soviet Union was so important that "social democrats" had to support what we did in Vietnam, what we were doing in Central America and even had to vote for Reagan.

Wrap your mind around that thought process.

[Vickers]

12. He has to cope with a Congress that is CONTROLLED BY HIS OWN PARTY.

That's gotta be a motherfucker right there, y'all. :eyes:

[teryang]

14. Go ahead! Tackle every problem at once!

<But if he is going to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities -- as I believe he will have to do and will not shrink from doing -- his position will be strengthened by having exhausted every diplomatic possibility. I worry, too, about indulging North Korea. But no president can tackle every problem at once.>

Right, his position will be strengthened. This guy is funny.

[Joe Bacon]

27. Gee, Josh, what'cha gonns do when Israel gets counternuked?

John Hagee and his pal Josh are urging Israel to nuke Iran. Now, I wonder what they will do when Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are counternuked?

OOPS, now that IS going to cause a problem building that new temple, RIGHT, Guys???????

[MrBenchley]

17. Jaw-droppingly awful in every regard....

I think the most telling thing is that soembody had to dredge up this obscure bobo to defend Chimpy--nobody else from AEI wanted to get anywhere near the drunken disaster.

[annabanana]

18. Between this and the Newsweek puff piece..

They sure are blowing smoke up his ass aren't they..

(see: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2777232)

I guess Rove & Melhman are pulling out all the stops this week. . .

[ktlyon]

22. what a bunch of crap, total crap

[ima_sinnic]

24. author bio and contact info is on this page

http://www.aei.org/scholars/scholarID.42,filter.all/scholar.asp

e-mail the dumbass and let him know how you feel!

[BenDavid]

25. I clicked the link

and read the article. Did notice too this writer is "resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute". That in itself tells you this person is not objective in his writing and thus it is everyone else's fault but GW Bush.

[DFW]

31. I know one of those resident scholars

His name is Norm Ornstein, and he is one of the smartest guys
I have ever met. Apparently the criteria for becoming a resident
scholar there must be somewhat lower than I thought. Norm is a genius
where this guy is a moron who learned grammar (don't knock it--look
at Bush, he hasn't even learned grammar).

I'd try for a comment, but considering the nature of what this guy
wrote, I doubt very much I'd get one I'd be allowed to publish!

[Arugula Latte]

30. Here's mine:

Dear Joshua,

Thank you SO MUCH for your Washington Post piece on standing by President Bush.

That was the most brilliant piece of satire I've read in a long time. I haven't had such a good laugh in months.

Seriously, you mimic the mindset of a completely clueless Bushbot perfectly.

Thanks again!

~ Your fan in Oregon

[Ken Burch]

33. Love this slight bit of self-promotion.

(when it comes to presidents carrying out neocon ideas)"The results never match the elegance of the policies formulated by people like me..."


Modest little chap, he is.

[NJCher]

34. and then Atlas Shrugged...

He led our nation into a war that is both just and necessary and that he knew could not be finished on his watch -- a thankless undertaking.

...engineering a new culture in the Middle East by means of democratization.

...underscores the magnificence of Bush's achievement in marshaling our country for a war against terrorism.

Republicans--their arguments have a certain kind of childlike charm, don't you think?




Cher