tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post3343219779321620429..comments2024-03-29T07:36:51.933-05:00Comments on driftglass: Strategic Forgettery: David Brooks Weekend Editiondriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-32439530078987648342014-05-18T16:11:05.065-05:002014-05-18T16:11:05.065-05:00While I agree that "strategic forgettery"...While I agree that "strategic forgettery" and "both siderism" are ridiculous propaganda weapons, this particular case is a most unfortunately bad illustration.<br /><br />Strategic forgettery happens regrettably on both sides<br /><br />«I do think there’s a fraying of the international order. We have an order that the nation are basically sacred. National borders, you don’t invade them.»<br /><br />Sacred as the borders of Serbia, as Kosovo is still part of it, and the relentless bombing of Belgrade (the capital of Serbia) by USA planes violating the borders of Serbia never happened, and the deployment of USA troops inside the inviolable Serbian borders never happened either.<br /><br />Because Clinton and NATO never ordered anything like that, and anyhow he never really was a Democrat....<br /><br />Both siderism does happen, because on the core values such as neoliberal warmongery there is only one side with a fairly narrow spread of opinion.<br />MyMemorynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-14344296171517715702014-05-04T18:22:51.514-05:002014-05-04T18:22:51.514-05:00Oh dear, Digby the Crazy Cat Lady is at it again o...Oh dear, Digby the Crazy Cat Lady is at it again over at the David "I, the Big Cheese in my county political machine, have blog!" Atkins blog:<br /><br /><i>But it behooves everyone to <b>keep their heads</b>. If there is one thing 9/11 should have taught us it's that there are many people with different motives looking for an opening. And there are even more who react like a bunch of screaming five year olds in a haunted house at the first sign of danger. This leads to <b>bad results</b>.</i><br /><br />Too bad she didn't think of that before losing it over the lurid claims that the NSA was going to drone murder us all to death. National Pot & Kettle Week comes early this year.Horace Boothroyd IIInoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-17996419112011132762014-05-04T16:06:12.766-05:002014-05-04T16:06:12.766-05:00Bill "Great Society" Moyers serves up a ...Bill "Great Society" Moyers serves up a steaming hot pile of Both Siderism (or is it worse than Bushhhhism). Strange how only the lunatic rantings of a Brit Hume or a Laura Ingraham get addressed by the blog host when there are many more articulate and on point Both Sides criticisms that keep oozing down our cracks. <br /><br />After all It takes an Obama to dismantle...<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Wheeler_(lobbyist)<br /><br />http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/05/bill-moyers-obamas-latest-assault-democracy-undermining-net-neutrality.html the cheese eaternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89994355714617364442014-05-04T03:38:45.065-05:002014-05-04T03:38:45.065-05:00``He hasn’t imposed serious sanctions on Putin....``He hasn’t imposed serious sanctions on Putin.''<br /><br />Serious is a word that when it comes out of a right-wing pundit's mealy mouth I want to stuff it back in along with my fist and whatever blunt instruments are handy. Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09300961605043014522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-2634614081539975192014-05-03T19:24:21.886-05:002014-05-03T19:24:21.886-05:00I do think there’s a fraying of the international ...<i>I do think there’s a fraying of the international order. We have an order that the nation are [sic] basically sacred. National borders, you don’t invade them.</i><br /><br />Jesus H. Kee-rice-st. After cheer-leading for a preventative war-of-choice against Iraq, he has the chutzpah to say this? But, of course I'm not really surprised. "Forget it Jake, it's Chinatown, er PBS."<br /><br />The fact that PBS has this lightweight, hypocritical douchebag on the Snoozehour week after week after week etc. etc. is one of the main reasons I stopped watching it long ago. Brooks is a key contributor to the death of news and ideas in our establishment news organizations.Redhandnoreply@blogger.com