Politico equates Palin's "Death Panel" lie with saying Bush misled public about Iraq
September 10, 2009 11:24 pm ET by Jamison Foser
First, it was Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank accusing a Democratic member of congress of making a "fascist salute" to Barack Obama in an effort to "balance" his criticism of unruly House Republicans. Now, Politico offers an even more absurd example of "both sides do it."
In an article about the Republican Party being overrun by nutty claims like Sarah Palin's false "Death Panels" allegations, the Birther nonsense, and conservatives claiming Barack Obama was going to "indoctrinate" schoolchildren, Politico drops in this doozy of a "to be sure" paragraph:
Nor are Democrats strangers to having their crazy uncles take center stage. During the run-up to the Iraq war, for example, Reps. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), Mike Thompson (D-Calif.) and David Bonior (D-Mich.) famously flew to Baghdad, where McDermott asserted that he believed the president would "mislead the American public" to justify the war. The trip made it a cakewalk for critics to describe the Democratic Party as chock-a-block with traitorous radicals.
Got that? Saying George W. Bush would "mislead the American public" in order to justify the Iraq war is the stuff of "crazy uncles" who are easily described as "traitorous radicals." It's on par with accusing President Obama of wanting to create "Death Panels" to kill off the old and the young, and of having been born in Kenya. Except that, you know ... George W. Bush did mislead the country to justify the war. Other than that, they're virtually the same thing.
Oh, and Jim McDermott was as significant a figure in the Democratic Party as Sarah Palin is in the GOP. Right.
The fact that Beltway media like the Politico still think that it is a baseless, fringe position to say George Bush lied his way into Iraq speaks volumes.
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Actually, it was the media that made it a cakewalk for that to happen. And still does, apparently. The DFH were right about pretty much everything, but reading sites like Politico you'd never know.
The trip is so "famous" that Americans are as familiar with that trip as they are with Palin's "death panel" remarks.
Right.
They're still protecting the Bush administration.
Not just on the lies they used to enter Iraq.
But also on torture.
That's what I thought.
O course not America owes no one an apology. We did not deserve to be attacked. The republicans, the democrats and even Hollywood nut jobs are not the enemy. The enemy are Jihadist Muslims (and sometimes France).
>>But Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the chairman of the Republicans’ campaign arm in the Senate, suggests that it’s not fair to tar the GOP with its fringier elements — and that it won’t last anyway.
Cornyn of course is the guy who said this
"I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters on some occassions where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and building up to the point where some people engage in violence."
Strange, how they forgot that fact when they were busy chastising Pelosi for saying the CIA lied to her, when they did the same thing not so long ago.
Between Holder wanting to hold the CIA accountable for it's actions, and Bush forcing them to lie so he could illegally invade another sovereign nation, who is/was really attacking the CIA? My vote goes to Bush/Cheney, personally.
Bush lied about Iraq.
Palin is lying about death panels.