Monday, May 04, 2009
Yes, It Was A Stupid Thing To Say. So Is That Other Stupid Thing You Keep Saying.
Pretend comedian/anchorman Jon Leibowitz-Stewart recently called Harry Truman a war criminal. Then a day or two later he took it back, rightly observing that what he had said was "stupid".
Wow. What a monument to integrity this man Leibowitz-Stewart was for those fifteen seconds.
Perhaps having climbed the mountain of his own fine intellect (or having heard the voluminous waves of derision sent crashing his way by thoughtful adults) to conclude that "the atomic bomb was a very complicated decision in the context of a horrific war", Leibowitz-Stewart went on to apply the very same logic to President Bush, who for seven years made very complicated decisions in another horrific worldwide war, including the decision to waterboard three vicious terrorists (one of whom was known to have planned 9/11 and was brazenly warning of more such attacks) in order to save thousands more Americans from the real torture of having to choose between death by incineration or death by jumping a hundred floors to the hard pavement below.
Alas, he did not.
So, back to stupid.
Intellectually dishonest, partisan hack, weapons-grade leftist idiot stupid.
Whereas Chris Dodd is insane.
Wow. What a monument to integrity this man Leibowitz-Stewart was for those fifteen seconds.
Perhaps having climbed the mountain of his own fine intellect (or having heard the voluminous waves of derision sent crashing his way by thoughtful adults) to conclude that "the atomic bomb was a very complicated decision in the context of a horrific war", Leibowitz-Stewart went on to apply the very same logic to President Bush, who for seven years made very complicated decisions in another horrific worldwide war, including the decision to waterboard three vicious terrorists (one of whom was known to have planned 9/11 and was brazenly warning of more such attacks) in order to save thousands more Americans from the real torture of having to choose between death by incineration or death by jumping a hundred floors to the hard pavement below.
Alas, he did not.
So, back to stupid.
Intellectually dishonest, partisan hack, weapons-grade leftist idiot stupid.
Whereas Chris Dodd is insane.
