Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Goddammit! Now I'm Pissed!
(Strap yourself in folks, this one's gonna' be rough.)
This post was originally going to be called "William Rusher Sucks Cock And Likes It," but I realized that it's more than just Rusher. It's everybody in the entire fucking media! I am sick and goddamned tired of all this shit about Durbin! Everybody has completely missed the point!
(Deep breaths...in...out...in...out)
Okay, let me try to explain. I live in the sticks. If you were in a place as far from an urban area as you could get, you'd still have a few more miles to go to get to where I live. Consequently, everyone here is a Republican. For fuck's sake, Alan Keyes got around 40% of the vote in my county. That's how fucked up things are around here. Anyway, when the newspaper arrives every day, I like to turn to the opinion page and see what the rubes are complaining about. We usually get a large political cartoon, a lettor or two to the editor, and an editorial from a syndicated columnist. We get some humdingers around here, too. We get Morton Kondrake, Cokie Roberts, sometimes Bill O'Reilly, and on occasion they throw us Dems a bone and give us Gene Lyons (gotta' look fair and balanced you know). Well, today we got William Rusher. And like all other good conservative puke funnels (props to Atrios for that term) he was spouting the same bullshit about Senator Durbin's comments from last week.
He says:
Do you see it? Well.....?
Not one fucking mention of what Durbin actually said. Not one fucking word about the torture that Durbin was referring to. Not one fucking word about the disgusting, inhumane acts perpetrated in our names. They've successfully changed the subject, again. This is the same shit they pulled on Dan Rather. The information contained in the documents was forgotten because the focus was on the fact that they may have been reproductions. The secretary who worked for the commander who had allegedly written the documents said the information was accurate. She remembered him making statements like the ones contained in the documents. But nobody paid any attention because the documents may have been reproductions.
Welcome to round two of the look-the-other-way campaign. Everyone from Rusher to Limbaugh right on down to the local television news is jumping on Durbin for uttering the words Nazi and Gulag. Nobody is even discussing what he said! We are forcing people to shit on themselves and lie in it for hours! We are stripping them naked and chaining them to the floor! This is despicable behavior and we're glossing over it because Durbin said Nazi and Gulag!
Look, Durbin did not jeopardize our troops by calling this behavior what it is. Our troops were jeopardized by the act itself. Our troops are jeopardized because the current leadership thinks that it is above the law and can do whatever the fuck it wants. If it were one of our soldiers stripped naked, chained to the floor, and forced to lie in shit for hours on end while being detained incommunicado without any charges filed against him in a country like say Iran; we'd be PISSED! We would be amassing our troops at the border to wipe the country off the face of the earth. Fuck Iraq, we got a soldier forced to lie in shit!
It's abhorrant that we would ever tolerate behavior such as this let alone be the perpetrators of it. I know it, you know, fucking William Rusher knows it, and goddamned John McCain knows it even though he said that Durbin should apologize. But nobody is even discussing that. Everyone is all up in arms because Durbin called a spade a spade. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's a fucking duck you ignorant shitheads!
We are the most powerful country in the world because we are better than the Nazis and the Pol Pots of the world. We didn't get to be the world's only super-power because we humiliated everyone else into submission. We got here because we are just. We are an honorable nation that believes in the power of liberty. We are a nation that strives to be a beacon of hope and opportunity for the downtrodden in the world. But every reporter, pundit, commentator, asswipe that has looked the other way on torture and pointed the finger at Durbin is symbolically stripping our country and chaining it to the floor and forcing it to lie in its own shit. If they had any fucking decency that would demand an investigation into this FBI report that Durbin was quoting and wouldn't stop screaming until they were sure that the responsible parties were brought to justice. It is this behavior that prompts our enemies around the world to despise us. It is this behavior that stains the reputation of my country and in turn everyone in it. We are all wearing the stain of this behavior and the media is pretending like it doesn't exist. Shame on them. Shame on Rusher and Limbaugh and O'Reilly and McCain, and everyone else for pretending that Durbin is the enemy. He exposed the truth and anyone who believes that the truth should be kept hidden is fucking criminal. How dare they call themselves Americans. How dare they claim to be from the same country as me. My country is just! My country is proud! My country wouldn't tolerate this!
So to Rusher and the others I say "Fuck you!" It will be a cold day in hell when I disrespect someone for telling the truth.
This post was originally going to be called "William Rusher Sucks Cock And Likes It," but I realized that it's more than just Rusher. It's everybody in the entire fucking media! I am sick and goddamned tired of all this shit about Durbin! Everybody has completely missed the point!
(Deep breaths...in...out...in...out)
Okay, let me try to explain. I live in the sticks. If you were in a place as far from an urban area as you could get, you'd still have a few more miles to go to get to where I live. Consequently, everyone here is a Republican. For fuck's sake, Alan Keyes got around 40% of the vote in my county. That's how fucked up things are around here. Anyway, when the newspaper arrives every day, I like to turn to the opinion page and see what the rubes are complaining about. We usually get a large political cartoon, a lettor or two to the editor, and an editorial from a syndicated columnist. We get some humdingers around here, too. We get Morton Kondrake, Cokie Roberts, sometimes Bill O'Reilly, and on occasion they throw us Dems a bone and give us Gene Lyons (gotta' look fair and balanced you know). Well, today we got William Rusher. And like all other good conservative puke funnels (props to Atrios for that term) he was spouting the same bullshit about Senator Durbin's comments from last week.
He says:
- The Democratic campaign to undermine the Bush administration has recently taken a turn that should concern everyone who cares about the safety of the country — and especially of its soldiers abroad.
[.....]
Above all, as the aftermath of the attack on Saddam Hussein has turned into a long battle against his surviving Sunni supporters and terrorist reinforcements from nearby countries, the Democrats have seized on every administration setback to discredit and embarrass Bush and his top aides, whatever the cost to America’s reputation, or even to the lives of its fighting men and women.
They have mourned loudly, one by one, the inevitable casualties — less than 1,800 dead thus far, in two years — without recalling the 50,000 American lives lost in the Vietnamese war that presidents of their own party began and pursued. They helped keep the memory (and photos) of the scandalous behavior of a few military guards at Abu Ghraib circulating around the globe for months, in the futile hope that doing so would destroy Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and hurt Bush. More recently, they have called for the closing down of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility on the basis of charges of prisoner mistreatment there.
Last week Democratic Senate Whip Dick Durbin upped the ante by comparing the alleged behavior of American guards in Guantanamo Bay to Hitler’s Holocaust, Stain’s gulags, and Pol Pot’s Cambodian killing fields — which generated 6 million, 20 million, and 1.7 million deaths respectively. What danger this charge is subjecting our soldiers to remains to be seen.
As Mr. Dooley observed, "Politics ain’t bean-bag." But are the Democrats in danger of overdoing it just a little?
Do you see it? Well.....?
Not one fucking mention of what Durbin actually said. Not one fucking word about the torture that Durbin was referring to. Not one fucking word about the disgusting, inhumane acts perpetrated in our names. They've successfully changed the subject, again. This is the same shit they pulled on Dan Rather. The information contained in the documents was forgotten because the focus was on the fact that they may have been reproductions. The secretary who worked for the commander who had allegedly written the documents said the information was accurate. She remembered him making statements like the ones contained in the documents. But nobody paid any attention because the documents may have been reproductions.
Welcome to round two of the look-the-other-way campaign. Everyone from Rusher to Limbaugh right on down to the local television news is jumping on Durbin for uttering the words Nazi and Gulag. Nobody is even discussing what he said! We are forcing people to shit on themselves and lie in it for hours! We are stripping them naked and chaining them to the floor! This is despicable behavior and we're glossing over it because Durbin said Nazi and Gulag!
Look, Durbin did not jeopardize our troops by calling this behavior what it is. Our troops were jeopardized by the act itself. Our troops are jeopardized because the current leadership thinks that it is above the law and can do whatever the fuck it wants. If it were one of our soldiers stripped naked, chained to the floor, and forced to lie in shit for hours on end while being detained incommunicado without any charges filed against him in a country like say Iran; we'd be PISSED! We would be amassing our troops at the border to wipe the country off the face of the earth. Fuck Iraq, we got a soldier forced to lie in shit!
It's abhorrant that we would ever tolerate behavior such as this let alone be the perpetrators of it. I know it, you know, fucking William Rusher knows it, and goddamned John McCain knows it even though he said that Durbin should apologize. But nobody is even discussing that. Everyone is all up in arms because Durbin called a spade a spade. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it's a fucking duck you ignorant shitheads!
We are the most powerful country in the world because we are better than the Nazis and the Pol Pots of the world. We didn't get to be the world's only super-power because we humiliated everyone else into submission. We got here because we are just. We are an honorable nation that believes in the power of liberty. We are a nation that strives to be a beacon of hope and opportunity for the downtrodden in the world. But every reporter, pundit, commentator, asswipe that has looked the other way on torture and pointed the finger at Durbin is symbolically stripping our country and chaining it to the floor and forcing it to lie in its own shit. If they had any fucking decency that would demand an investigation into this FBI report that Durbin was quoting and wouldn't stop screaming until they were sure that the responsible parties were brought to justice. It is this behavior that prompts our enemies around the world to despise us. It is this behavior that stains the reputation of my country and in turn everyone in it. We are all wearing the stain of this behavior and the media is pretending like it doesn't exist. Shame on them. Shame on Rusher and Limbaugh and O'Reilly and McCain, and everyone else for pretending that Durbin is the enemy. He exposed the truth and anyone who believes that the truth should be kept hidden is fucking criminal. How dare they call themselves Americans. How dare they claim to be from the same country as me. My country is just! My country is proud! My country wouldn't tolerate this!
So to Rusher and the others I say "Fuck you!" It will be a cold day in hell when I disrespect someone for telling the truth.
