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DrBB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-04 06:08 PM
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A heartfelt -- no -- abject -- no -- craven apology to the right
Edited on Mon Feb-02-04 06:10 PM by DrBB
A tour de force of sarcasm from Tony Hendra....

We See That Now
A heartfelt -- no -- abject -- no -- craven apology to the right from the left for our campaign of hate, anger and malice against God's own president.
By Tony Hendra
Issue Date: 2.1.04

We confess. It's all true. Everything you say. We trafficked in hate. We did it in anger. Just as you said, Mr. Kristol, Mr. Krauthammer, Mr. Brooks: We poisoned the airwaves and befouled the sheets of our nation's most august publications. We attacked a sitting president, impugned his integrity, smeared his family, invaded his privacy, tried desperately to drag him down to our own filthy, rock-bottom, sewer-dwelling level.

There is no parallel between your measured criticism of Bill Clinton and our vile attacks on George W. Bush. Bill Clinton deserved everything thrown at him because a corrupt and evil man who gains the White House by underhanded means should be attacked with every weapon at the disposal of a free press. And yes, it's true, just as your more sagacious radio hosts have maintained: Hillary Clinton does owe her success to the practice of witchcraft. And no, it's not true that ridiculing Chelsea at the most vulnerable stage in her development was the media equivalent of child molestation. Chelsea Clinton was fair game because she is the spawn of Satan. Scurrilous of us to suggest that the tirelessly moderate and civil proponent of these and so many other truths, Robert Bartley, now resides in the circle of hell reserved for hate-mongers and bigots! Mr. Bartley dwells in the bosom of his Republican creator. We see that now.
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DemoTex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-02-04 08:05 PM
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1. Too rich!
Apologia maximus!. Hendra took the words out of my mouth. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
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