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They've shown such stark lack of knowledge --
political, economic, geographic,
historical -- that they make George W. Bush look like Einstein and even
cause their fellow Republicans to cringe.
'Freakshow'
"When did the GOP lose
touch with reality?" wonders Bush's former speechwriter David Frum in New
York Magazine. In the New York Times, Kenneth Duberstein,
Ronald Reagan's former chief-of-staff, called this campaign season a
"reality show," while Wall Street Journal columnist and former
Reagan confidante Peggy Noonan even spoke of a "freakshow."
That may be the most
appropriate description. [...]
No Shortage of Chutzpah
Then there's Newt Gingrich,
the current favorite. He's a political dinosaur, dishonored and
discredited. Or so we thought. Yet just because he studied history and
speaks in more complex sentences than his rivals, the US media now
reflexively hails him as a "Man of Ideas" (The Washington Post)
-- even though most of these ideas are lousy if not downright
offensive, such as firing unionized school janitors, so poor children
could do their jobs.
Pompous and blustering,
Gingrich gets away with this humdinger as well as with selling himself
as a Washington outsider -- despite having made millions of dollars as
a lobbyist in Washington. At least the man's got chutzpah. [Full
Screed]
You get the
idea. So what's the point of bringing it up? Skoonj sent me the
story and it pissed me off to see this amalgam of agitprop and
distortions peddled overseas. I want you to be just as pissed at
this arschficker— who,
evidently, said God was flying the
9-11 planes! And aware of what our American Taliban are up
to. Carry on.
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