Freudian Slip?
Remember this Debbie Stabenow picture?
Many of us asked whether this was a Freudian slip on Sen. Stabenow’s part. Thanks to Al Gore, we have something else to wonder if it’s a Freudian slip. Check out this headline:
The Assault on Reason By Al Gore
If ever a headline captured public opinion, that’s it for me. I’ve always thought that Al Gore’s rants were assaults on reason. Now we’ve got a book that verifies that belief.
In describing the empty chamber the way he did, Byrd invited a specific version of the same general question millions of us have been asking: “Why do reason, logic and truth seem to play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions?”
Of all the people asking why “reason, logic and truth…play a sharply diminished role in the way America now makes important decisions”, Al Gore shouldn’t be the one asking. After all, his mindless rants are almost totally devoid of logic. Lord knows that they’re essentially fiction, thereby stripping truth from the equation.
The persistent and sustained reliance on falsehoods as the basis of policy, even in the face of massive and well-understood evidence to the contrary, seems to many Americans to have reached levels that were previously unimaginable.
Mr. Gore’s obviously referring to the intel on WMDs. It’s interesting to note that the Clinton administration, of which he was a high profile part, accepted as Gospel fact that Saddam had WMDs. For him to now say that the Bush administration’s intel was a blatant deception but the Clinton administration’s use of the same information was beyond scrutiny is absurd, which is what I expect from him.
A large and growing number of Americans are asking out loud: “What has happened to our country?” People are trying to figure out what has gone wrong in our democracy, and how we can fix it.
The answer is simple. The Clinton administration put a priority on spinning the day’s news to their liking. They made a mockery of Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s cliche that “Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion. They just aren’t entitled to their own facts.” There’s a reason why conservatives called the Clinton Administration the ‘Scandal a Day administration’. It’s because they treated the truth like radioactive material.
To take another example, for the first time in American history, the Executive Branch of our government has not only condoned but actively promoted the treatment of captives in wartime that clearly involves torture, thus overturning a prohibition established by General George Washington during the Revolutionary War.
This is another blast of Gore’s gift of hyperbole. This doesn’t have anything to do with reality. It has everything to do with him working himself into a lather based on unfounded allegations and extended hyperventilations. Forgive me if I don’t take him seriously.
Technorati Tags: Al Gore, Hyperbole, Clinton Administration, Debbie Stabenow, Scandal, Robert Byrd
Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog
May 17th, 2007 at 11:02 am
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May 17th, 2007 at 11:35 am
Yes, the Clinton admin talked about Iraq developing WMD. And then in 1998 they bombed, and bombed, and bombed. They destroyed Iraq’s WMD infrastructure. And the inspectors agreed that Iraq dropped all efforts after that.
So yes, Bush’s claims that Iraq had WMD were false.
May 17th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Just ask the Kurds if Saddam had any WMD.
Beyond that WHO FN CARES at what TIME he had them. Had the Useless Nations done it’s job then perhaps a day of invasion broadcast which gave Saddam the opportunity to move them to say, Syria?
Fools like you Dave make me sick and will be the destruction of the USA.
You would think even a liberal idiot like you could put aside politics long enough to stand behind such a human rights victory as we’ve accomplished in the M.E. But Nooooo, permanent victimhood, Bush bashing are your lifelong worthless talking points.
Sedition is so un-becoming.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
Who cares? Well, pretty much everybody except Bush and you, Mitch. And does the timing really matter? You’re forgetting the lies the administration told about how the WMDs were under development and we had to stop Saddam before they were complete… only, they weren’t anywhere near ‘under development’ and no “mushroom cloud over an American city,” as Secretary Rice put it, was looming. The most recent estimate puts Saddam’s plans some 7 to 10 years out, and beyond that, Saddam was more worried about gold-plating the toilet seats in his latest palace than he was about WMDs. If only we’d realized this before we aided and abetted the Iranians in taking Saddam out.
Human rights victory? I want some of what you’ve been smoking, ’cause it must be good! You apparently haven’t noticed that Bush announced to Saddam that he had 48 hours to leave Iraq (if there ever was a date definite announcement, this was it), and then we just rushed in, guarded the oil ministry and nothing else, and put up signs on the torture chambers and rape rooms saying “under new management!” I guess that would be a human rights victory, if by that you mean we’d kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, throw our own Constitution under the bus (habeas corpus, free speech, you know, everything in the Bill of Rights except the 2nd ammendment, becuase the NRA would rather see deranged students at college campuses nationwide, and terrorists with radical ideologies, with machine guns than have anyone not be able to freely buy any gun, any where, any time), and leave an entire region unstable for at least two generations.
The destruction of the USA, you idiot, began six years ago when the Supreme Court just couldn’t stay out of the way and let the process work the way the Founding Fathers foresaw, and it’s all been downhill since then. It took a while for the country to wake up and smell the coffee, but now that it has, we can get back on the right track. With a year-and-a-half under this disgraced, lame-duck president left, the adults can step in and begin the process of cleaning up his messes.
It seems, Mitch, you either need to stroll over to one of the online dictionary sites to look up the meaning of ’sedition’, or go back and take a basic civics course. Sedition is the reason this country exists, and is a time-honored and righteous tradition. To simply lay down and accept whatever our government says is an act of treason. And at this point in the history of the US, you’d have to be brain-dead to believe anything this administration says.
May 18th, 2007 at 7:54 am
And Away We Go: As Al Gore’s Book Gathers Steam, So Does The Smearing….
On Thursday, Time magazine put up on its website an advance article of its cover story on Al Gore’s new book, with excerpts. Immediately the right started the character assassination. Just like we predicted, there’s not a word about the……
May 19th, 2007 at 6:43 am
Your discourse was entertaining until the last paragraph, Rocky, where you showed the insipid stupidity of your educators who have dumped ignorance into every arguement about civics you may ever have.
With what you have stated there, I wonder that you are able to read at all. Certainly can’t comprehend, which defeats the purpose of reading to begin with.