Fairly Typical Behavior
Posted at 6:12pm on Jun. 28, 2008 *Mister* Delahunt responds.
Calling it an "apology" insults everyone's intelligence.
By Moe Lane
Like Ed Morrissey, we were forwarded a clip of William Delahunt's inarticulate, artless - in every sense of the term - and almost semantic-free... "response" is the best word, I suppose. "Apology" implies an acceptance of wrong-doing. At any rate, listen for yourself:
audio file here
(Via The Mark Levin Show)
Ed's covered a good deal of what I would have, but I just want to clarify something. When Erick said:
If you do not call your Congressman today and demand the House of Representatives, at the very *least*, censure Congressman Delahunt, well damn us all. We have no right to carry on our fight.
...Erick wasn't trying to suggest that our right to speak would be taken away from us if we didn't protest; he was suggesting that there are limits to how much externally-directed hate a man or woman can shrug off, and still keep his or her self-respect. In other words, there is a line - and Delahunt blasted right across it.
I had originally posted two paragraphs of what might have been somewhat self-defeating ranting here, so let me erase it all and get straight to the point: if you do not understand why we are justifiably infuriated at not just what Delahunt did, but where and why he did it, then you are part of the problem - and you do not actually understand us at all.
Moe Lane
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Posted at 11:30am on Jun. 9, 2008 Oh, sure, *now* the Netroots care about anti-Semitism in Tennessee.
It only took them, what, four months?
By Moe Lane
Paul Rosenberg (Obama supporter) is mad, mad, MAD! about the way that EMILY's List (Clinton supporters) candidate and Harold Ford (Clinton supporter) protege Nikki Tinker is using a virulently anti-Semitic flyer against incumbent Congressman Steve Cohen (Obama super-delegate).
As the parentheses might tell you, I'm not really buying his ostensible motivations for writing this piece. Then again, I had already given the "typical Republican" response to this sort of thing - appalled disgust - back in February (see also Ed Morrissey). This is in sharp contrast to Open Left, a site that pretty much ignored the problem at the time (search terms were "steve cohen" and "steven cohen," and only got involved in recently (note hit piece against EMILY's List here). But hey, at least they care now, right?
Even if it's only because of their highly entertaining internal grudge match.
Moe Lane
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Posted at 12:22am on Jun. 9, 2008 Annnnnd now they want to scream about McCain's military pension.
Come, I will hide nothing from you: at first, this rather cheap tactic *incensed* me.
By Moe Lane
Which was probably their goal in the first place*, and never mind what a horrible thing that would be to have on your karma. But then I had the happy thought that if the diarists at Daily Kos and the writers at Americablog (H/T Hot Air) so badly want to trumpet their inability to:
1). Tell the difference between a military pension and a military pension modified for disability;
2). Comprehend why it's a bad idea to pitch fits over a Senator's stance on GI Benefits when they can't even get elementary details about them right themselves;
and/or
3). Internalize that there might be other reasons not to call into question the service and military pension of a man who has been tortured in the service of his country than the rather tawdry one that doing so makes the attacker look bad**;
...then who am I to stop them?
Moe Lane
PS: Of course they're Obama supporters - Aravosis in particular. You actually had to ask?
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Posted at 1:00am on Mar. 24, 2008 Oh, look. Illinois Progressives.
Engaging in a religious dialogue, no less.
By Moe Lane
(Tribune photo by Stacey Wescott / March 23, 2008)
Chicago Police Arrest Six Iraq War Protesters for Squirting Fake Blood on Easter Churchgoers
CHICAGO — Six Iraq war protesters disrupted an Easter Mass on Sunday, shouting and squirting fake blood on themselves and parishioners in a packed auditorium.
Three men and three women startled the crowd during Cardinal Francis George's homily, yelling "Even the Pope calls for peace" as they were removed from the Mass by security guards and ushers.
One Mass attendee, Mike Wainscott of Chicago, yelled at the anti-war protesters.
"Are you happy with yourselves?" he said. "There were kids in there. You scared little kids with your selfish act. Are you happy now?"
(Via Gateway Pundit)
Allow me to answer your question for him, Mr. Wainscott: of course he is. You have to understand that people like you are not precisely real to the antiwar movement; you're sort of... animated icons whose only purpose is to move around entertainingly in the background of whatever is this week's Message. They care no more about your feelings as they would care about those of the AI NPCs in their favorite first-person shooter. Less, really: you're unlikely to come out of nowhere and cause them to lose 25 life points.
So don't take it personally; it's not like they see you as one anyway.
Moe Lane
PS: Please note, by the way, that it's a reasonably safe guess that none of these fools - or anyone else in the Illinois Coalition for Peace & Justice - will be voting for Senator John McCain in November.
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