Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Gloom, Despair and Agony part 2
Predictably, the rightwing noise machine is virtually orgasmic over Giuliani and McCain from last evening. The left blogosphere thought it was a total farce.
However, an equal opportunity basher found last night's brouhaha pretty offensive.
Media reporter Howard Kurtz, blasted the Republican Convention:
NEW YORK, Aug. 31--I knew the Republicans were going to talk about 9/11 last night.
I didn't know they were going to drag us through every bloody minute of it.
When Rudy Giuliani recalled turning to his police commissioner after the awful attacks on the twin towers and declaring "Thank God George Bush is our president," it was clear they were pulling out all the stops.
Any campaign would take advantage of the president's response to 9/11, even if the convention wasn't in New York, even if the third anniversary wasn't days away. But the endless retelling of those days, the comments by the 9/11 family members, the skyline backdrop, all of that raises the question of whether they went a bit too far.
Indeed. Did 9/11 happen only to the Republicans?
And apparently going after decorated Veterans is the new GOP sport. They give us a candidate who ducks out of his National Guard service and spend their Convention bashing men who served. I'll give them credit for being ballsy, that's for sure. But in terms of loving their country more than their partisan BS? What little respect I had for Republicans was flushed down the toilet after that.
I've been fairly vocal here about my disdain for religion mixing with politics. But as we know, the Republicans don't shy away from beating folks over the head with their own brand of Jesus.
Just think, we're going to be treated to three more days of this disgrace.
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However, an equal opportunity basher found last night's brouhaha pretty offensive.
Media reporter Howard Kurtz, blasted the Republican Convention:
NEW YORK, Aug. 31--I knew the Republicans were going to talk about 9/11 last night.
I didn't know they were going to drag us through every bloody minute of it.
When Rudy Giuliani recalled turning to his police commissioner after the awful attacks on the twin towers and declaring "Thank God George Bush is our president," it was clear they were pulling out all the stops.
Any campaign would take advantage of the president's response to 9/11, even if the convention wasn't in New York, even if the third anniversary wasn't days away. But the endless retelling of those days, the comments by the 9/11 family members, the skyline backdrop, all of that raises the question of whether they went a bit too far.
Indeed. Did 9/11 happen only to the Republicans?
And apparently going after decorated Veterans is the new GOP sport. They give us a candidate who ducks out of his National Guard service and spend their Convention bashing men who served. I'll give them credit for being ballsy, that's for sure. But in terms of loving their country more than their partisan BS? What little respect I had for Republicans was flushed down the toilet after that.
I've been fairly vocal here about my disdain for religion mixing with politics. But as we know, the Republicans don't shy away from beating folks over the head with their own brand of Jesus.
Just think, we're going to be treated to three more days of this disgrace.
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