Friday, September 08, 2006

Many are rightly focusing on one part

That is blatantly incorrect in Alessandra Stanley's review of the "Republican Fantasy Path to 9/11":

The Sept. 11 commission concluded that the sex scandal distracted the Clinton administration from the terrorist threat.


That, of course, is the opposite of what happened, as stated by the actual 9/11 Commission:

Everyone involved in the decision had, of course, been aware of President Clinton's problems. He told them to ignore them. Berger recalled the President saying to him "that they are going to get crap either way, so they should do the right thing." All his aides testified to us that they based their advice solely on national security considerations. We have found no reason to question their statements.


But it is the next sentence from Stanley that I want to discuss:

But in hindsight, surely the right-wing groups who drove for impeachment must look back at their partisan obsession with shame, like widows sickened by the memory of spats about dirty dishes and gambling debts.


Alessandra Stanley apparently has managed never to read a conservative blog, let alone listen to Ann Coulter who managed to directly refute both of Staley's subjects in that sentence with her usual excrementitious diatribes in black skank dress. Next to invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and completely fucking up, the impeachment proceedings against the Clenis is one of the greatest things some of these folks think they've ever done. Coulter herself, owes her entire, Julius Streicher-like existence to the matter. You think she is capable of shame?

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