Thursday, October 18, 2001
Quotes of The Day
Being left-wing in the Age of Beinart, Kelly, Rothstein and Sullivan is like the old joke about the only Jew in a town where everyone else read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion: "All that power they tell me I have! Why didn’t I get the memo?"
— Rick Perlstein, The New York Observer
Why in the world would anyone want to give this man anthrax?
Towers of Jell-O, Mountains of Mush: House tough guys, Gephardt, Hastert et al., covered themselves with a peach fuzz of obfuscation, inaccuracies and wildly overblown descriptions yesterday to make the case for "weapons grade" anthrax "flumes" spraying the US Congress and "infecting" hill staffers. (Actually, Hillary said "weapons grade," too.) There is no such thing as weapons grade anthrax, no one knows how dust "flumes" and no one was "infected." They all went home anyway. As they said fifty years ago, don't they know there's a war on? Our enemies must be slapping their camels with glee.
Gary, Go Home: Ldot poster "pineledger" makes a point we hadn't thought about with the mention of the possible ambivalence Gary Condit may have about 9-11. Now, with his personal scandal part of the collateral damage, this sociopath can't believe his home boys won't want him back. Yesterday, two big "Condit Country" dems said, 'Thanks, but no thanks."
Please, Love Me Do: Claudia Rosset gets down to the nub of it all in this excellent piece in today's WSJ that addresses the wimped out approach to war personified by Lesley Stahl's question to Condoleezza Rice last Sunday. "Aren't you not concerned that hate for us is growing?" While we are going down memory lane with war phrases, who can forget, "If you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow."
To Drop, Perchance to Eat: One old lady to another leaving the dining room of a resort hotel, "The food is terrible and the portions are too small." That's the complaint of Rahul Mahajan who is on the board of something called, Peace Action, in today's Houston Chronicle concerning the our food drops to starving Afghans. Perhaps he would like to stop whining and suit up. We like the whole idea of the food drops. Better someone eats than everyone starves.
Stupid Is as Stupid Does: There are reports that Russia has stopped importing tons of Florida chicken and people are terrified to lick postage stamps. Even the National Enquirer sales are down by ten percent all because of fear of anthrax
What has happened to that great national kick-butt spirit Americans displayed in the wake of 9-11. Or could it be the media has nothing else to do? Don't they know there's a war on?
Your Ready-as-Freddy LComStaff
-- Anonymous, October 18, 2001