The Bush/Cheney Deception
Since leaving office [George W. Bush] has ? like most of his predecessors in their first years out of power ? maintained a dignified distance from public controversies and let the new team have its chance?
The former vice president, Dick Cheney, has brought dishonor to himself, his office, and his country. I am not aware of another former President or Vice President behaving as despicably as Cheney has done in the ten months since leaving power?
It is, again, a breathtaking piece of dishonor from this bitter, angry man. To accuse your successor of ?weakness? because he has actually conscientiously tried to figure out the right thing to do in a war Cheney and Bush clearly botched is a new low in American politics and the partisan politicization of war and peace.
The attack on Obama is an accusation of treason.
American Military Casualties in Iraq
American Deaths
Since war began (3/19/03): 4412
Since "Mission Accomplished" (5/1/03) 4273
Since Capture of Saddam (12/13/03): 3951
Since Handover (6/29/04): 3553
Since Obama Inauguration (1/20/09): 184
American Wounded Official Estimated
Total Wounded: 31874, estimated over 100000
I think about over 20% of the people thus far that have been held to account as a result of the Abu Ghraib issue have been officers. I?m comfortable that we?re getting to the bottom of the situation. And I know we?re doing so in a transparent way.
~ George W. Bush (born: 1946-07-06 age: 64), commenting on the fact finding of probable cause to charge 27 officers and enlisted soldiers with offences ranging from dereliction of duty to maiming and involuntary manslaughter in the Dilawar torture case and charges recommended against 15 of them for the Habibullah torture case.
Even after he knows that he spurred Richard Poplawski to kill 3 police officers, that is still not enough for Glenn Beck. In the quest for higher ratings, he just keeps getting more and more incendiary so that the can fan the flames of those right wingnuts who actually believe the drivel that spills out of his histrionic mouth. He?d doing it for money people. if he actually believes this garbage, he?s crazy, and if he doesn?t he?s a greedy, phony fake. So not funny.
Now he was only pretending to almost set a man on fire to show so I suppose that makes it okay for faux News psycho-tainment. It was all a ?demonstration? to show that Beck is unhappy with the way things are headed in the less than 100 days of Obama?s presidency.
I was reading a blog this evening, questioning why this sort of insanity draws high ratings for Beck. This is what the author, Tana Geneva, thought:
And there?s obviously a self-conscious attempt to fashion Beck in the image of an over-wrought, populist messiah ? aka, Howard Beale. In the absence of any real smears they could stick to Obama, Fox news may be going the insane, overly emotional route.
But is that a bizarre, new shift in conservative media and culture? An almost self-parody of the otherwise self-important rage of a Limbaugh or an O?Reilly? Or is it just the logical conclusion of their self-pity? After all, even as right-wing leaders try to project an image of strength, the Limbaugh-brand of conservatism has been a grievance-based ideology for some time now ? one hinging on the absurd idea that gays/African-Americans/immigrants/feminists etc. have stolen what rightfully belongs to ?traditional? white America. Is Beck the logical conclusion? Or something new entirely?
What do you think?
I think it?s the most irresponsible thing to continually whip up a bunch of people who are already angry with lies and half truths for profit.
If there was a way for the families of those three slain police officers in Pittsburgh to sue Beck and Faux News psycho-tainment, maybe that would finally be the only thing to make them think about what they are doing.
I know they do not care about the consequences, but many of us in America do. Beck and Faux News see money, I see heartbreak in Pittsburgh and God knows where next.
