WT Blankley compares Dean's Iraq withdrawal to slaveholders.

[edbermac]

Blankley compared Howard Dean and advocates of withdrawal from Iraq to slaveholders

Washington Times editorial page editor Tony Blankley compared Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean and others advocating the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq to slaveholders in the pre-Civil War American South.

From Blankley's December 14 Washington Times column, titled "Bad Faith":

There were many slaveholders in America before the Civil War who "wanted" what was best for their African American slaves -- it was just that they thought slavery was their natural condition and that slavery was best for them. We fought and won a Civil War to defeat that pernicious idea.

While such slaveholders may have been subjectively honest when they said they wanted what was best for their slaves, the rest of the world was entitled to assert that objectively, the slaveholder did not support policies that were best for the slave (what was objectively best for the slave -- any slave -- is freedom) It may be true that Howard Dean subjectively wants to protect our homeland and see Democracy reign in Iraq. But others are entitled to assert that the policy he advocates -- loosing the war immediately -- objectively is not in the best interest of Iraqi democracy and the protection of our homeland.

Blankley -- who also co-hosts Left, Right & Center on radio station KCRW, a community service of Santa Monica College in California, and appears regularly on PBS' The McLaughlin Group -- has previously described post-Watergate Democrats as "fish-eyed sacks of loathsome bile and infamy," and called progressive financier George Soros "a Jew who figured out a way to survive the Holocaust."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512140014

HUH?

[redqueen]

1. LOOSING?!

Even repug EDITORS can't spell! :rofl:

[sasha031]

3. who care what that fat #2 says

[redqueen]

6. Only idiots, or more intelligent people seeking entertainment.

It'd be truly funny, if half the country didn't buy this perverted and evil form of "logic".

[azmouse]

2. wow! Nothing bigoted about him, is there?

:sarcasm:

[tularetom]

4. Can you imagine

this fish-eyed sack of loathsome bile and infamy referring to ANYONE else as a "fish-eyed sack of loathsome bile and infamy"? I watch this POS on McLaughlin group every once in a while and I never fail to be amazed at the sheer gall he shows.

[tularetom]

5. Can you imagine

this fish-eyed sack of loathsome bile and infamy referring to ANYONE else as a "fish-eyed sack of loathsome bile and infamy"? I watch this POS on McLaughlin group every once in a while and I never fail to be amazed at the sheer gall he shows.

[wtmusic]

7. It's the other way around -- Dean is Abe Lincoln

telling the truth that no one wants to hear

[blm]

8. Bad reporting - Dean supports Lawrence Korb's 2yr withdrawal plan.

Murtha's plan is provisionally 6months and Kerry's plan is for withdrawal in 12-13 months.

Blankley is arguing a media LIE.

[sui generis]

9. wha-a-aaa-a?

doesn't matter - the peabrains have their talking point. Dean is a slave owner.

He also impulsively bites the heads off puppies and sacrifices human babtist bebbies to his heathen pagan atheist god.

I swear it's true! I heard it on the news! and the news is always right.

mmm hmmmm. :shrug:

[NYC Liberal]

10. Conservatives are the ones who would be the slaveholders.

They're the ones who argued that slavery was "tradition" and we should keep things as they are.

[greiner3]

11. Washington Times;

And I had heard that they were progressive...:sarcasm:

[Kurovski]

12. And Kurovski describes Mr. Blankley as:

"A sack of tortured analogies stuffed into a Savile Row suit."

[Spinzonner]

13. I suggest that we make an exception

to the general progressive objection to whale hunting

:sarcasm: