Dowd: Truth as a Weapon

[swag]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/25/opinion/25DOWD.html

As the White House was sliming Richard Clarke, the 9/11 families were stroking him.

Several relatives of victims surrounded the ex-counterterrorism chief after his testimony yesterday and reached out to pat him. After being condescended to, stonewalled, led on and put off by the White House, they were glad to hear somebody say: "Those entrusted with protecting you failed you. And I failed you."

"Mr. Clarke is the first person who has apologized to the families and held himself accountable," said the lovely Kristen Breitweiser of New Jersey, whose husband died in the south tower. "I am enormously grateful for that." She and other widows left the hearing room to protest Condoleezza Rice's lame no-show.

If only Sandy Berger had told the incoming Bush officials that Al Qaeda was no big deal, they might have gotten alarmed about it. They were determined to disdain all things Clinton, including what they considered his overemphasis on terrorism.

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[The Zanti Regent]

1. Whoreen STILL lies for Bush

The last sentence this whore wrote:

It's always gross to see a White House stoop to smearing the character of someone seen as a threat. It was sickening when the Clinton White House smeared Monica Lewinsky, and it's sickening now.  

Clinton NEVER smeared Lewinsky and that liar Whoreen knows it!

[libbygurl]

2. She just couldn't resist slipping in another dig at Clinton in

in her supposed critique of Bush, could she?

[smirkymonkey]

3. Does anyone else ever get the impression

that Maureen made a drunken pass at Clinton and was rebuffed at some point? Her contempt for him seems to transcend politics. Something more is going on there than meets the eye - I can't understand why she still has it out for him.

[dennis4868]

5. "Her contempt for him seems to transcend politics"

All contempt of President Clinton transcends politics. It's very personal hatred toward Clinton even though there is no rational reason for it. The same can be said for Tweety's hate of Clinton.

[rfkrocks]

4. Your right as rain

I can't believe a sexual issue is equated with fundamental questions of going to war-Chris Matthews does the same thing as Dowd-equating Clinton's indiscretion to defaming a 30 year civil servants challenge to the greatest moral question of a country,i.e.,going to war this shows the shallowness of Dowd's writing-it is sad that the fair and balanced media engages in this type of moral relativism-to use a neocon phrase

[dennis4868]

6. you beat me to it...

see post 5