Newshoggers Comments
Wrong, wrong, and wrong again - as usual:
"The hard-left's attempt to tar Rush Limbaugh for his intemperate remark about "phony soldiers" is a scam. It's not much different from "phishing," which savvy web users know is the act of falsely claiming to be an real business in an attempt to trick the user into revealing personal data that will be used for identity theft.
After the MoveOn debacle, lefties are just itching for political payback, and they've seized on the Limbaugh story like a junky pumping up his last spoon of smack. Yet, while Limbaugh's comments were ill-considered, what was said has been taken out of context: The remarks were off-color statements during a broadcast, in contrast to MoveOn's high-profile smear against the highly decorated four-star commander of U.S. forces in Iraq."
It's one thing to ask these fools in Congress why they don't apply the same standard. It's quite another to introduce further resolutions condemning people for their speech.
It's wrong and stupid and trivializing and dangerous to do this. Anyway, you can't attack the wingers for their stupidity/arrogance if you support similar resolutions in retaliation (no matter how much hand-wringing one does in the process); you end up wasting a perfectly good political weapon this way.
Hey, Donald: Who cares if it was a "smear" of Petraeus? Isn't it a citizen's right to say what he thinks?
I think Petraeus is a liar. I've said so repeatedly at unbossed.com. In fact, I've demonstrated it. So have many others, because his lies are transparent.
Smintheus, I understand your point and would normally agree, but I think Glenn makes a good case for allowing this one to go forward, if simply to illustrate the folly of such resolutions.
If we've learned nothing else from Rove, it's to turn your foes tactics against them. Common sense and reasonable debate just doesn't seem to doing the trick.
The Left's Media Miscalculation (Redux)
"MoveOn's "General Betray Us" debacle -- costing the anti-Iraq War movement $142,000 on the ad and lost political momentum in Congress -- underscores again the power and value of the Right's media machine. It can make small mistakes by opponents big and big mistakes by allies small. In recognition of this hard reality, we are reprising a special report, first published on April 29, 2005, explaining how this dangerous media asymmetry developed."
Great link Kat. Thanks.
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