A New Low?
Great article by Jeff Jacoby regarding Bush Derangement Syndrome.
Six years into the Bush administration, are there any new depths to which the Bush-haters can sink?
George W. Bush has been smeared by the left with every insult imaginable. He has been called a segregationist who yearns to revive Jim Crow and compared ad nauseam to Adolf Hitler. His detractors have accused him of being financially entwined with Osama bin Laden. Of presiding over an American gulag. Of being a latter-day Mussolini. Howard Dean has proffered the "interesting theory" that the Saudis tipped off Bush in advance about 9/11. One US senator (Ted Kennedy) has called the war in Iraq a "fraud" that Bush "cooked up in Texas" for political gain; another (Vermont independent James Jeffords) has charged him with planning a war in Iran as a strategy to put his brother in the White House. Cindy Sheehan has called him a "lying bastard," a "filth spewer," an "evil maniac," a "fuehrer," and a "terrorist" guilty of "blatant genocide" -- and been rewarded for her invective with oceans of media attention.
What's left for them to say about Bush? That they want him killed?
They already say it.
He goes on to give examples like Randi Rhodes and her gunshot on the air schtick, a novel, a movie, "Kill Bush" T-shirts, the list goes on. These are the same people who lament the "politics of personal destruction." The word "hypocrite" isn't strong enough for these morons. They have no ideas and no constructive thought to bring to the issues, so they resort to what they know best: hatred.
JASmius adds: And yet one has to wonder two things: (1) How would they react if the President really was assassinated? And (2) what will it say about American political culture if such literally murderous vitriol is rewarded at the polls in eight weeks?
Six years into the Bush administration, are there any new depths to which the Bush-haters can sink?
George W. Bush has been smeared by the left with every insult imaginable. He has been called a segregationist who yearns to revive Jim Crow and compared ad nauseam to Adolf Hitler. His detractors have accused him of being financially entwined with Osama bin Laden. Of presiding over an American gulag. Of being a latter-day Mussolini. Howard Dean has proffered the "interesting theory" that the Saudis tipped off Bush in advance about 9/11. One US senator (Ted Kennedy) has called the war in Iraq a "fraud" that Bush "cooked up in Texas" for political gain; another (Vermont independent James Jeffords) has charged him with planning a war in Iran as a strategy to put his brother in the White House. Cindy Sheehan has called him a "lying bastard," a "filth spewer," an "evil maniac," a "fuehrer," and a "terrorist" guilty of "blatant genocide" -- and been rewarded for her invective with oceans of media attention.
What's left for them to say about Bush? That they want him killed?
They already say it.
He goes on to give examples like Randi Rhodes and her gunshot on the air schtick, a novel, a movie, "Kill Bush" T-shirts, the list goes on. These are the same people who lament the "politics of personal destruction." The word "hypocrite" isn't strong enough for these morons. They have no ideas and no constructive thought to bring to the issues, so they resort to what they know best: hatred.
JASmius adds: And yet one has to wonder two things: (1) How would they react if the President really was assassinated? And (2) what will it say about American political culture if such literally murderous vitriol is rewarded at the polls in eight weeks?
posted by Jennifer at 1:22 AM
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