Because I took yesterday off to let things settle down, I’ve got a twofer and I haven’t even had time to go through the dKos or the HuffPo.
First, SadlyGavin from the SadlyNoblog does a classic leftist interpretation of Bill Kristol from his appearance on Fox News Sunday:
What was actually said
Elisabeth Bumiller: How do you define winning the war? What does that mean?
Bill Kristol: A democratic government in Iraq. The country remaining united (with some federation), with the insurgency under control in the sense of not being able to destroy the country or launch a large sectarian civil war. No weapons of mass destruction. No aggression against neighbors. And that’s quite possible, incidentally. I think it was very possible three years ago, and I think it remains possible.
SadlyGavin’s interpretation:
Elizabeth Bumiller: So basically, you mean pretty much how it was before the war.
Bill Kristol: Except without Saddam Hussein in power, yeah, more or less.
Umm, wasn’t Saddam being in charge, funnelling hundreds of thousands of dollars to terrorists, leaving the al Qiada members in his own dictatorship alone to fester and train, committing countless numbers of actual human rights abuses (not the kind that the left likes to point out), using gying children in fake hospitals as PR tools and breaking the 1991 ceasefire agreement the entire problem?
I remember Saddam turning away the option of stepping down from power and taking sanctuary in a country of his choosing before the invasion.
Maybe SadlyGavin forgot?
Next up, we have this video of a campaign commercial from candidate Vernon Robinson (R) from North Carolina’s 13th CD, which John Amato at the CrooksandLiarsblog calls “Sleazy”, “Sick” and “Vile”.
Methinks it is because it has some truth in it.
“You needed that job,” an announcer says. “And you were the best qualified. But they gave it to an illegal alien — so they could pay him under the table. … These illegals pay no taxes, but take our jobs and our government handouts. Then spit in our face. And burn our flag. Well, Vernon Robinson has had enough!”
That is text from the voiceover in the ad, but only the parts that Amato finds objectionable. Do you see anything sleazy, sick or vile in there? Anything not truthful?
I have seen $15+ an hour roofing jobs go from working families to illegal aliens who are happy to be getting less than $10. Almost universally, you have to speak at least some spanish to be able to get a foreman’s job in the homebuilding industry here in Washington State.
You’d figure the Dems would be all for getting those jobs back into the hands of working families, what with how they bitch about “Living Wages” and frightmonger about “The Shrinking Middle Class” all day and night.
But no, because they can root for the illegal immigrant as an underdog, they’re all for the stripping of jobs from actual citizens.
In the comments at C&L, someone sensibly brings up needing to speak spanish when just trying to order fast food in LA. He, of course, gets hammered on, but the one thing I saw in there was some idiot compare the pay received by the non-english speaking customer service representatives, working in America, I might add, to “Slave Wages”.
What the hell do these people smoke? There is no such thing as a “Slave Wage”.
A slave earns nothing in return for their labor, that is why they are called “Slaves”. What is the “Slave” supposed to spend his “slave wages” on, anyway? They’re owned property, they can’t buy anything.
Hyperbole, Invective, Empty Gestures and Moral Sactimony.
This is all the American left has to offer this country.
