Hello everyone - did you miss me? I don't like to blog much
during a Presidential erection election because with all the voices out
there I usually don't have much to contribute. But today I do, so I'm out here
yelling into the ether with no hope of swaying a single soul. Such is my curse.
But I'm taking up the cause again, and that will make my mom happy. There will
be no video version of this rant, but those will return as well.
Mitt Romney is such a fucking slimeball. Saying we sided
with the terrorists that killed our ambassador in Libya (we didn't) and attempting
to do armchair diplomacy without all the facts in place shows just how unready
this dickhead is to lead the free world. I've had spirited discussions today
with people who talk about the pleas for calm and understanding in Cairo, where
the rioting first began, to the talk about the opportunist murderers who took advantage
of this and killed four State Department employees.
The protests in Cairo were sparked by the release of a film
on 9/11 that basically called the Prophet Mohamed a child-molesting drunkard.
It was released by the same "pastor" in Florida who last year was
warned by the State Department what he was putting
U.S. lives in danger for attempting to burn a Koran on the 10th anniversary
of 9/11. 9/11 is an important date to Muslims and has been long before the
tragedy in New York. The Christian equivalent would be calling Jesus a sheep
fucker on Easter Sunday - it would spark outrage and rightly so. In Cairo, the
staff there put out a statement decrying bigotry against Islam - and they were
right to do so. When similar riots erupted in Libya terrorists used this as
cover and launched an attack against our embassy, killing 4 Americans,
including one man instrumental in helping the Libyan rebels when Kaddafi was in
power who was also our Ambassador.
The fact that Mitt doubled down and repeated his lie even
after Obama made it clear that he condemned the violence and felt for the
families of those killed, walking away from his press conference with a
self-satisfied smug smirk on his face just makes me want to punch the son of a
bitch (attention Secret Service - this is rhetoric. I abhor violence in all
forms unless done by a trained martial artist with a film career or former California
or Minnesota Governors).
But this all brings up a real foreign policy question - why
are Muslims overseas protesting against us as a country? It's obvious to those
of us living in the states that the film that sparked the original protests was
put out by a nutcase. We know here that this kind of stupidity shouldn't be
taken seriously and it's not. So why was in taken so seriously in Cairo? How
did it become a pretext for the violence? Why don't people in the Muslim world
differentiate between U.S. Policy and some crackpot with a camera who just
happens to be an American?
For this I blame the President before Obama. Little Bush.
Shrub. President Drunken Chimp. The prior son'bitch.
You see, when he was in charge and directed foreign policy
through the likes of Condi Rice and Don Rumsfeld, he actually was one of those
lunatics who painted Muslims in a bad light. I don't think he meant it
personally - given how many oil sheiks are friendly with his family (including
the bin Ladens, by the way although not their terrorist son) but so many people
he surrounded himself with think of the Islamic faith as one of terrorists and
devils - some of them actually called themselves crusaders, a pretty loaded
word in the Middle East - that the view from their part of the world is that
America is the same thing as the lunatics who disparage them. Our government portrayed
people of Islamic faith as responsible for 9/11 and every other ill we faced -
instead of the small bunch of extremists who really were. He never said it
himself, but not once did he disavow it when the people who spoke for him did,
from Dick Cheney to everyone who worked at Fox News. This went on for nearly 8
years.
Yes, I blame Fox News as well because they are the
mouthpiece of George W. Bush's Republican Party. It is long since time that we
referred to this channel as a news network. They are a propaganda machine and
nothing more. In other countries - especially those in the Middle East - a
network that behaves like Fox News does gets shut down by the government. They
don't understand why we haven't taken them off the air - it would be routing to
do so where they live. As much as I am for free speech it is not a license to
lie and mislead people into thinking that propaganda is news. Their press
passes should be revoked. They aren't the press.
I don't think that Americans really understand the damage
done to our country's reputation overseas during the Bush II Error. The respect
one used to be given automatically by saying that you are an American when you
traveled overseas no longer exists. We are now looked upon with suspicion
because we are now seen in a single broad swath as the type of jingoistic
jackass that GW and the gang presented us to be. A man I know travelled to
Egypt last year and told people he was Canadian in fear of how people would
react to discovering he was American. It never used to be like that.
So a crackpot releases a crappy movie that maybe 500 people
will ever pay to see and it sparks the protests. Would that have happened
before the world went sideways in fall 2001? No.
You know what the craziest WTF moment of all of this is? Romney's
campaign itself has also condemned the movie in question. Oddly enough -
that's the same thing he is deriding the administration for. I'm wondering if
he's suffered a psychotic break at this point.
Because of the nature of today's rant I can't use my usual
tag line because I'm not talking about economics or money matters without
performing a topical pretzel. So forgive me for doing so at the end here. Are
we better off than we were 4 years ago? Yes. I handle money for a living, and I
know this.
Cheap shots (do you remember the drinking game?):
Look at the expression on the man's face after lying to the
press about what happened in Libya this morning. Doesn't it make you want to knock
his fucking block off?
Oh, by the way, Obama's
response is priceless! I hear this sound bite coming back over the next two
months again and again.
Sure, but is it a RIOT
Riot?
Are you better off now than you were 16
years ago?
Jane Fonda and Alan Rickman in the most astonishing
transformation EVAR!
Does Faux News have a Democrat with his own show in a prime
news slot? No. Does MSNBC have a Republican in one? YES.
Jupiter takes the hit so that we
don't have to send Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck into space.
Hey Bill ORLY! If Obama is really waging a war against
Christianity can you please
explain this $650,000,000?
Next time you think of voting Republican, remember - despite what you
might think of them as individual and possibly even good people - they did this.
Hey dickhead! Haven't you noticed that Doctors don't say shit like
this?
Mad Men
Malfunction? (take a shot if you believe it's true)
Once upon a time Dick Morris was a trusted member of the
Clinton political machine. He even helped get them into the White House. Then
Bill fired his ass and something snapped in his head. He hasn't been right
about anything since. Come
see if he thinks you are 70% of a person or 120% of one. Hint: it might be
based upon gender.
And because I love you, Ra Ra Riot:
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