Around the Internets: August 26, 2007
Here’s what struck my fancy as I surfed through the tubes this past week.
Remember all the bunk about the two supposed war critics who thought the surge was working? Read this. And keep in mind: THEY’VE ACTUALLY SEEN IRAQ. Not the dog & pony show Iraq, the real one. Golly gee, wonder why all those pundits aren’t talking about it. They’d rather rely on Very Serious People, rather than the troops. Why do they hate America?
Here’s Time’s excellent article by Amanda Ripley on Giuliani, that gleeful neocon fascist. It’s nice to see the traditional media finally getting around to covering Rudy for what he really is: a power-hungry bully who wants to use about 3,000 corpses to further overcompensate for his own personal shortcomings and failings. One of my favorite quotes:
…he has apparently made a tactical decision to thunder loudly about terrorism, perhaps to deflect from his personal life and his liberal record on social issues—which an internal campaign memo termed potentially “insurmountable” last year.
Not that this is news to anyone actually paying attention to anything, but liberals read more than conservatives and correspondingly Democrats read more than Republicans. There are so many jokes I can put in here, I’m having a tough time picking one. So here’s a few for you to pick your favorite from.
- I was expecting it to be a little more impressive of a win for the liberal side, but apparently Dr. Seuss books counted for the conservatives.
- I guess the back of a cereal box now counts as book. Perhaps that explains the conservatives making it so close.
- 34% of conservatives were honest enough to admit having read nothing in the past year. Given that about 1/3 of conservatives I’ve ever witnessed seem honest about anything, well… you can figure out where that one’s going.
- Does reading the Bible eight times count as eight books? Apparently.
- Conservatives can read?!
- Etc.
August 26, 2007 at 2:13 pm
The media need to stop the spin and admit that Bush already has lost this ridiculous war.
August 26, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Or how about:
Because all those Iraq policy reports didn’t count as books, Bush didn’t bother to read them.
August 27, 2007 at 8:40 am
Actually I have proof that conservatives read:
Personally I kind of prefer that conservatives don’t read a whole lot. They tend to just ignore the parts they find inconvenient to their agenda, anyway.