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February 10, 2007

From the Mouths of Commenters

by AltHippo @ 9:03 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

Jonah Goldberg gets mail:

Dear Mr. Goldberg,

I heard you on NPR last evening as part of a discussion on the run-up to the Iraq so-called ‘war’. I must say that I was embarrassed that a man of your intelligence, and probably a Jew given your name, could be so out of touch with the truth. Do you not know what a lie is? Mr. Bush and his cronies obviously lied to get us into this war, have continued to lie, and will continue to lie until they’re out of office. There is no disputing this, for any reason. They did it for Middle East oil. As is usual in a resource war. Now you may compromise your morals because of Israel, but you do the Israelis no good by standing up for evil men. These men have blood on their hands and their souls, and you do too, by standing up for them. So please reconsider why you do what you do, and become a voice for truth. Don’t make excuses for these bozos.
End of story. There is no gray here. Thousands have died for oil.

If the only thing you come away with from this is: become a voice for truth, you are a winner.

One of the stories from last week was about two lefty bloggers, and how they almost got let go by the Edwards campaign. It even made it to a segment on Inside Washington with Gordon Peterson, during which Mark Shields read one of the less delicately phrased blog entries from Amanda, denouncing her, and denouncing the notion of bloggers being part of a campaign. I’m surprised he hasn’t used the platform to denounce Michelle Malkin, John Hinderaker, Glenn Reynolds, or even my buddy Jonah, who wouldn’t know what it means to be a voice for truth if it bit him on Ann Coulter’s Adam’s apple.

Why is the Washington papparazzi so offended by Amanda’s comments, comments that were not politically correct, but comments that sprung from a deep well of frustration with the Catholic church, and yet ambivalent by how deeply we have been lied to? Isn’t the greater thought crime, as long as we’re going to punish acts of verbal expression, defending the Bush administration? Wouldn’t Inside Washington be better served by calling out the Michelle Malkins, John Hinderakers, Glenn Reynolds, and Jonah Golbergs of the world?

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