Gerard, I have always said that you're one of the best and most creative writers in the 'sphere, and here you've proven it again. Hilarious and poltically astute at the same time. Makes my own interpretation quite feeble, I fear.

He has the video's of himself with weapons in the war. Probably has a silver crescent, with a star for valor and he'll probably take credit for all those purple fingers in Iraq. He has the support of the liberal press and politicians. Look out Hillary!

Nice work Gerard! How about we design some campaign buttons and posters?? Get a jump on the market.

Why do piss-your-pants-scared republicans think comparing Osama to dems is funny?
[Perhaps because we see the parallels so clearly?]

Ironic would be more like it, especially since you cowards started a fight you apparently can't finish (again).
[Oh, it will be finished. Not to your liking, I'm sure, but finished it will be.]

The Army's raised the age for enlistment again. What's your excuse for not going and getting Osama? Oh, yeah, too busy writing trite crap.
[Strange how this keeps coming up. Transference, I believe. A classic case.]

And your pathetic posters?
[Here you are typing for yourself.]

"Nice work Gerard! How about we design some campaign buttons and posters?? Get a jump on the market."
[For one so quick to use "ironic" you seem unclear on the core concept.]

They should read "2000+ soldiers dead and we still haven't got the guy responsible for 9/11", don't you think? Now THAT'S funny!
[Revenge is a dish we eat cold. Just wait for it.]

Heh-

From Wolcott:

Michael Moore didn't bring down the towers, Howard Dean isn't responsible for Bin Laden remaining at large, and, unlike the fisking blogger, the overwhelming majority of liberal Manhattanites didn't lose their nerve and flee the city after 9/11. They, we, stayed put. It's the cowardly lions who curled up into a fetal ball and remain there today, talking tough and fooling no one but themselves.

Sigh, what is one to say. One hopes for worthy opponents and instead gets barren old drunks like Wolcott.

Oh well, nobody said the Democrats today concentreated on quality.

I couldn't agree more. He is indeed a tool.

Time for you to enlist">http://www.goarmy.com/flindex.jsp">enlist? You want to put your skin where your mouth is, right?
One day soon, the Army's enlistment standards will catch up with your qualifications.

Seriously... I don't get it. Why is this funny?

I don't agree with Democrats all the time, but I don't see what's humorous about calling them "terrorists" because you disagree with their politics. After all, it was a Republican President who said he would catch bin Laden "Dead or Alive", and we've yet to see that happen.

What is funny about insinuating fellow Americans with the man who attacked our country?

After all, it was a Republican President who said he would catch bin Laden "Dead or Alive"

Same guy who said "Mission Accomplished" three years ago, right?

That's unintentionally hilarious.

the sad fact is the tape reminds us that 4 years after 9/11 we haven't caught binforgotten.
I guess wanted "dead or alive" isn't that important.
But at least we are improving the lifes of the people of iraq.

Hm. If Osama's a Democrat, and Bush always triumphs over Democrats, how come Osama's still at large? It can only be because manly men like Ged haven't put their asses on the line.

Obfuscation.
Hyperbole.
Mendacity.
The holy trinity of the modern Democrat apologist.
If you can ignore the myriad international and domestic tragedies which modern liberalism has created, abetted or appallingly ignored, in order to find "comedy" of their policies and style in today's current events, you are indeed gifted in your ignorance.

James Wolcott remains, for me, the pargon of morons.

I still think you are a genius at surfacing the lurkers, Gerard. Remember our plans for the Well: Hard Truths for Deep Idiots. I still regret we didn't get around to that one.
Mandel

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"Some sanity to calm the nerves, and a very good laugh. Just kidding, but do read Joe Katzman's great post, and Gerard Vanderleun's not to be missed translation of the Bin Laden campaign speech"

Even for a left wing idiot, James Wolcott is truly an asshole among men.

I had to rush over here from his site to say that.

Why dont you tell your mommy you got your butt handed to you by a barren old drunk.

Except he doesn't drink, and your older than he is.

As for barren, I won't even go there.

Q: "How many democrats does it take to get a joke"

A: "That's not funny! And you're dumb!"

Yeah, great joke: Democrats = terrorist sympathizers.

Hee-friggin'-larious.

{By their words and works shall ye know them.}

This is kind of sad and beneath you, Gerard. I remember you from your OMNI days, and it's a bit of a shock to see someone I respected smearing his fellow Americans simply because they don't share his current political philosophy.

Wow. Eye-opening. Just not in the way I think you wanted.

When a President leads a nation to a desert so bare that even a cactus cannot find one drop of sufficient integrity to survive, it's not uncommon for members of that nation to cannibalize each other, trying to last.

The problem is that some see the nation as real estate which, left intact, indicates the nation persists. Others see the nation as a set of ideals that supersede the value of mere property.

Measuring the well-being of our nation from the vantagepoint of the property owner, it's easy to conclude nothing's amiss. But without the added value of ideals, codified into law, the country's like real estate in a bad location. It may sell, but at a very cheap price.

Thus, your parody is naught but a sales pitch. It lacks the capacity to uncheapen the price you're willing to sell the country at. And selling so cheap does a grave disservice to those who fought and died or are fighting and dying today, in the hope there is sufficient value to the land to make their sacrifices worth it.

You mistake politicians and messengers as either grass or crabgrass, both of which sit on the surface as the most visible part of the land. But most of the land's gems and natural resources lie just below that. You defend those who would stripmine it and seed the surface, simply because the surface remains green.

I prefer to defend those willing to expose the subsurface - no matter what party they're from - if their goal is to remind us where value can be restored or added.

Bin Laden is a destroyer of property, surface and subsurface, with a messianic complex. None of the political people you've mentioned display similar propensities, so the parody fails to amuse any but those who were anti-Democrat or anti-liberal before you spoke.

Sure, anyone can play to a known audience. But that should not be mistaken as a contribution to the health of the land that either adds to its value or enhances its chances of survival. Astroturf can keep it green. But that's not what will keep it America, even if it suffices to keep your audience.

"Obfuscation.
Hyperbole.
Mendacity.
The holy trinity of the modern Democrat apologist.
If you can ignore the myriad international and domestic tragedies which modern liberalism has created, abetted or appallingly ignored, in order to find "comedy" of their policies and style in today's current events, you are indeed gifted in your ignorance.

James Wolcott remains, for me, the pargon of morons."
Posted by: freethinker

That's just glorious that the people commenting from Wolcott are so pathetic that they had to restate the comment this comment's comment meant to mock. Wolcott at least paraded about in his thong, even though it was leather. I love that look.

OMNI days? What was that? 20 - 25 years back? I know to many it seems like only yesterday, but it wasn't.

If only we could all stay forever as people would like us to be.

After reading the comments from the reactionary left I can only say; friends don't let friends comment in a chemically induced vegetative state.

OMNI? You mean I've been reading stuff you've had a hand in for that long?

Jeebus.