Thursday, September 21, 2006
Utterly bamfoozled.
I must confess to being totally puzzled. Absolutely confused. Thoroughly at a loss. Utterly uncomprehending ... about the wall-to-wall coverage of Hugo Chavez and his insulting talk. All the Republican talking-point vendors are repeating his "sulfur" phrase over and over and over and over and over and over and over, and all the Republican talking-point vendors are saying the same things about it.
Look.
Chavez is our enemy. He doesn't like us. He says bad things about us.
We don't like him. We say bad things about him.
This is completely normal. This is dog bites man. This is not news.
I also fail to understand why it's more of an insult when he bites us in New York, as opposed to biting us in Venezuela.
When you see a fierce dog in front of your door, you should leave him outside.
When you see a fierce dictator asking for admission to your country, you should leave him outside.
If you let him in, you really can't complain that he growls and bites.
The problem here is not that an enemy has bad things to say about us.
The problem is that the Bush administration didn't have enough common sense to lock the door and leave him outside. ¶ 8:25 PM
I must confess to being totally puzzled. Absolutely confused. Thoroughly at a loss. Utterly uncomprehending ... about the wall-to-wall coverage of Hugo Chavez and his insulting talk. All the Republican talking-point vendors are repeating his "sulfur" phrase over and over and over and over and over and over and over, and all the Republican talking-point vendors are saying the same things about it.
Look.
Chavez is our enemy. He doesn't like us. He says bad things about us.
We don't like him. We say bad things about him.
This is completely normal. This is dog bites man. This is not news.
I also fail to understand why it's more of an insult when he bites us in New York, as opposed to biting us in Venezuela.
When you see a fierce dog in front of your door, you should leave him outside.
When you see a fierce dictator asking for admission to your country, you should leave him outside.
If you let him in, you really can't complain that he growls and bites.
The problem here is not that an enemy has bad things to say about us.
The problem is that the Bush administration didn't have enough common sense to lock the door and leave him outside. ¶ 8:25 PM
