Think Again: Official Evidence vs. “Gut Hatred” »
Posted By Tumultuous 3 months ago in Political NewsFollowing the report that former Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge has admitted that he was pressured by members of the Bush administration to raise the national threat level just before the 2004 election in what he understood to be a purely political move, political ace Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic Monthly wrote a column in which he admitted that the journalists who credulously reported these alerts had erred. But Ambinder added in their (and his own) defense that “Our skepticism about the activists’ conclusions [that the alerts were politically motivated] was warranted because these folks based their assumption on gut hatred for President Bush, and not on any evaluation of the raw intelligence.”
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ibstilyn3 months ago
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Yeah...let's look the other way and ignore the obvious..why this whole thing is just Bush Derangement Syndrome (eyes rolling). Sounds worse than a blue dress ******** to me.
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The reason why the press seems to have a liberal bias is because the truth has a liberal slant to it -
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Georgia503 months ago
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Gutter filth can do no other. This is what they are, how they think. It's no longer about conservatives vs. liberals or the GOP vs. the DNC. Why?
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Because the DNC aincho daddy's Democratic Party, that's why.
When you have Pat Caddell, liberal Democrat and adviser to President Carter, appearing on the Glenn Beck show (Beck being a Libertarian), joining in and providing insight into the left wing extremism of the Obama cabal, then clearly we're seeing a delineation between legacy liberals (like Caddell) and revolutionaries (like Obama and his ilk).
After the Rev. Wright hate-fest hit national television, Geraldine Ferraro became disgusted with everything O stood for. Her continued--if tepid--support was in appreciation for the mentoring of and friendship to Joe Biden over many years. (Her explanation, not mine.)
Here's the problem with revolutionaries: their vision is more about tearing down than building up. After a century of Marxism enforced in various parts of the world in a variety of forms, neither Marxism nor Socialism nor yet any variant has yet to produce a world power.
The USSR and China rightly deserve some credit. However, the USSR aggressively copied Western technology and was the recipient of massive US aid that enabled it to stay in the war against Germany. Its first bomber was a reverse-engineered US bomber that the USSR had quarantined. The copy was so rigidly performed that even flaws in the fuselage skin were duplicated. China's economic might grow only as it moved AWAY from Communism to more market-oriented practices.
Those are the two highlights for Karl Marx, and even then the achievements may be measured in the millions of people dislocated, starved, or murdered in these two countries. It goes downhill from there.
These liars, losers, and destroyers are nothing and have nothing but misery and despair to offer anyone. History screams this at us, and the screams are not negotiable.
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fsev413 months ago
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Georgia, if you're going to quote someone else you should put your comments in quotes and cite the source. The above comment does not appear to be your original thought as it appears inconsistent with your usual grammar and context.
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Tumultuous3 months ago
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Marc Ambinder's apology is just dandy. After making a mockery of those of us who demanded the truth and accountability, his implied admission of guilt is like a swift punch in the gut. It doesn't make me feel any better. But Ambinder implies we should feel vindicated. It is a little late for that.
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To paraphrase Amy and David Goodman, "Official evidence shows George Bush had long preferred illusion to reality. The Bush administration officials strategy for maintaining their grip on power was simple: Perpetuate fear. As a result, the Constitution, Bill of Rights, Geneva Conventions, and the very notion of balance of power had been shredded".
The media failed to present a coherent picture of this frontal assault on our democracy. The right had it's heyday, calling liberals and Democrats unpatriotic.
Truth be told, we were more patriotic than the right because we had the courage to stand up for what was right, even when we were in the minority. Isn't truth, liberty, and justice what America is truly about? For this, we are vindicated.
The right is guilty as charged. But they will never accept ownership for their misdeeds. After all, arrogance is one of the right wing's greatest attributes. -
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TonyByron3 months ago
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Of course the threat level was not raised in response to an osama video tape published a couple of days before the election.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Osama_bin_Laden_...
The one where he admitted guilt for 9/11.
And of course Tom Ridge is not selling his soul to the devil to promote his new book.-
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hamy3 months ago
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Tom Ridge sold his soul to the devil when he started working for Bush. He deserves to be prosecuted instead of making a fortune from this book that clearly demonstrates his guilt in using fear tactics and lies to further inflate Bush's ego and cement his power grab. Ridge is making money on both ends. He made money being in the administration of Bush and now he is trying to make money from telling a few of the illegal and illicit things that they did to stay in power.
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