Comments on Left-Wing Attack Dogs

Let's give credit where it's due:

The only reason these right wing attacks work is because most Americans accept them.

What? No--no one accepts them, because no one listens to them. There's this elite group of people, maybe 10% of the country, with nothing better to do than worry about what this right-winger said about that left-winger, or whatever. Most people are too busy, you know, living, to give a shit about why Mark Foley likes young boys.

Mike Malloy, formerly of Air America, would be my choice of 'Left-Wing Attack Dog'. He could really go off on the 'Bush Crime Family'. Unfortunately, he was inexplicably fired by Air America over a month ago. Randi Rhodes is pretty good, too and has facts to back up her rants. Unfortunately, the Seattle affliate chooses to play her at 8pm! Who listens then?? I say put her on drive-time.

Liberal friends have told me that they do not like Malloy or Rhodes because they are 'over the top' and a basically a lefty version of Rush.

So is that the point? Throw decency and rational discourse out the window so we can smear our opponents and win elections? If liberals are willing to stoop to the level of the far Right, why?

The only way to show the country who's really got values is by having those values and refusing to compromise them for short-term gain. Take the high road, even if you lose every damn election from now on.

Aaah! They all *want* me! I can see it in their eyes!

Back, I say! Back!

>Dennis Hastert is a homo.
>Hastert isn’t, of course. He’s a marred man...

BEST.TYPO.EVAR.

Seth and David,

This recent essay summed up the state of the American public.

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present writer Mark Ames via Alternet:

"Nothing could gall a nation of Bible-thumping, pious militarists more than this awful picture of opposing trajectories, America's pointing downward…
But what the hell am I saying, expecting Americans to have learned a lesson from their recent disasters and failures?
There's an antidote to learning lessons from harsh reality. Complete mass insane stupidity, combined with utter shamelessness.
In a poll released earlier this week, Bush's approval rating has soared -- soared! -- to 44%, the highest in ages. Even more shocking, Americans no longer believe that the war in Iraq was a mistake... when I read that poll this past Monday, I exploded in laughter. The absolute, pure gullibility of the American public is without limit, bottomless... Everyone was asking last week "Why do they hate us?" all over again.
The Republicans have thoroughly raped America... but the suckers are squealing for more! The denial has reached new, hemorrhage-fever dimensions... even in the world of fiction, you couldn't possibly invent a nation of such grotesque, abject suckers if you tried. For one thing, it wouldn't sell. No one would buy it. If the American public were characters in a novel, no editor would let them pass without massive reworking: "Your American public (is) simply not believable."

It's all about the falling gas prices - and how long OPEC can wait before they jack them up - which is ... um ... November 8th.

You heard it here first. Or was that Frist?

The more they are on the defensive, the less they do well. The fewer big lies they get away with.

>Dennis Hastert is a homo.
>Hastert isn’t, of course. He’s a marred man..

Hastert was a high school wrestling coach in his past life. Sit tight, let's see what comes out of the woodwork.

O.

I agree with Orson. There is more to this story than meets the eye. What exactly motivates some of the biggest homophobes in this country to turn a blind eye to exactly the type behavior from which they want to protect the country with a Constitutional Amendment? These are smart men--they had to know this was going to come out eventually, especially with all the conjecture in the past about Foley's orientation. By some accounts, this has been brewing since 2001, when the pages were warned the first time about Foley. What else are they hiding on this issue? Was it just Foley, or were others involved in molesting and harrassing male and/or female pages?

Why the censorship on Slog?

I've noticed some comments erased that were here this morning. Who is making the censorship decisions and what are you trying to prevent Slog readers from reading? Just curious.

Thanks to everyone at The Stranger for finally practicing some censorship on The Slog. Some voices should not be allowed in public discourse. Using your editorial control to erase and marginalize some people is necessary. After all The Stranger is a commercial newspaper. Also the internet has to be monitored, I really think only people with money and education should be allowed to participate in internet dilectics.

In Sweden adults can legally have sex with fifteen year olds! It's disgusting. At least in America we protect our innocent children. Imagine if we were Swedish, this whole Foley thing would be a non-issue even if he'd had sex with the seventeen year old. It's shocking to me how perverted Europeans are. In America we have morals and standards.

Don Rumsfeld was a wrestler in college. Coincidence?

"I really think only people with money and education should be allowed to participate in internet dilectics (sic)"

Thanks for proving your own point, dumbass.

Can we put an embargo on making points based on "This is what the Republicans would do if the tables were turned"?

Comparing this situation to a reality that doesn't exist is pointless.
Who knows what Rove would do if a Democrat Speaker covered up for a boy-diddling teenophile? Who cares?

I delivered GRIT newspaper in Nebraska when I was young. These kind of stories were a weekly feature on our page three. Hard lessons taught behind out buildings with the smell of manure strong in the air and the sound of cracked corn under your boots.