Klein’s recitation is perfect; Kerry’s votes were “contradictory.” But if that’s true, what can we say about President Bush? After all, Bush decided to go to war in Iraq, then threatened to veto the $87 billion bill to funds the troops, helping bring it down to defeat the first time the Senate voted on it. Was that conduct “contradictory” too? This must be the most obvious question on earth, but typists like Klein aren’t going to raise it. Lazy, inept and deeply programmed, Manchurian typists—typists like Klein—only produce Approved Press Corps Scripts. When Kerry votes against one form of the $87 billion bill, that is puzzling, disturbing, “contradictory.” When Bush helps defeat another form of the bill, that is ignored, never mentioned, quite acceptable. Readers, it’s all about typing up Approved Scripts, then heading off to swish cocktail parties where other flunkies tell Joe Klein how brilliant and savvy he is.
Yes, President Bush initiated a war, then worked to defeat the spending bill that would have supported the troops! There was, of course, nothing wrong with that conduct; Bush favored a different form of the bill, and he was working to pass it. But guess what? Kerry also favored certain forms of the bill, and if the Senate had voted with him on his “no” vote, they would have been forced to craft a new bill that might have been more to his liking. There was never a chance—never a chance—that the troops weren’t going to be funded. Klein, of course, understands that full well. But then, Klein also loves his God. Like the rest of his hapless cohort, he bows to the great God of Scripts.
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But of course, it isn’t impossible to explain Kerry’s vote; explaining the vote is blindingly simple. Here we go: There were two different bills to fund the troops, and John Kerry—just like George Bush—supported one bill and opposed the other! How hard is that to explain? But Matthews’ panel raucously laughed as they enjoyed their pleasing script. “What was he trying to say, Mr. Mayor?” Scarborough said to hapless, inept Willie Brown, former San Francisco mayor. Brown was there as a Democrat pol, but he gave a ridiculous, uninformed “explanation,” further misleading MSNBC viewers. And all the panel continued to laugh as Matthews went to a break.
Readers, have you ever seen a panel on ESPN treat a football game with such disrespect? Sports writers take their subject seriously, but your national national “press corps” clowns and laughs as they make a joke of another White House election, the thing they seem to do best.
Yes, it's blindingly simple to explain Kerry's vote. And it makes sense. And, here's the best part--for you Republicans out there--it's actually true!
That's the way our government works, patriots! That's the way the legislative process works.
And, yet, for nearly a year, your liberal media has been wracking its brains trying to figure out just how in the heck can John Kerry reconcile being strong on defense with his vote on funding the troops? It's baffling! A total mystery! There's just no understandable answer out there in the cosmos!
And that's the kind of stupidity we're hearing from people who cover politics for a living.
So, again, for about the millionth time, either these are the stupidest people on God's green earth, or they're a bunch of shameless liars, who don't respect you, who don't respect themselves, and hold our democracy in utter contempt.
Or both.
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