Now that it is safe to do so, even Mark Shields is attacking Rummie

[chaumont58]

After a National Guardsman should our wonderful free(sic) press how to act, even tired old Mark Shields is getting into the act. He has a column in today's Compost attacking just how poorly equiped the ordinary grunt is in chimpie's excellent Eyerackie adventure.
Its only been almost two years, with 1300 American dead, but tired old Mark is showing some balls, shriveled up little peanuts, not as big as even Margaret Carlson's.
The three lefies on CNN's Capital Gang hated Bill Clinton and Margaret Carlson just loved Bush(for a while). The world has reaped the harvest of the beltway whores' love affair with chimpie. If there is a hell, every beltway whore will spend a lot of time there.

link to tired old Mark's article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9249-2004Dec17.html

[cali]

1. It's clear you haven't been listening to Mark

on the Evening News Hour. He's been attacking Rummy and the war since the beginning. I like Mark Shields. He's one of the good guys, and doesn't deserve the contempt you're dishing out.

[pretzel4gore]

2. if he was effective as a voice for opposition to bushinc

he'd be dead, or doing traffic
and cali mark shields KNOWS IT! i like him too (jack germond, bill press are others) but you can literally feel the frustration coming off him (them)

[Cocoa]

4. there's a pattern here

the first thread I read today had a DUer attacking Dick Durbin, of all people, for speaking out against Rummy, of all things.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1082730#1082757

Just like in this thread, the Durbin critic gets it completely wrong. Durbin is not "jumping on the bandwagon," and neither is Shields, and neither poster supports their allegations.

[cali]

5. Fairly depressing, isn't it?

There are quite a few DU posters that are ill informed, stupid, malicious, or all three.

[chaumont58]

6. I stand by what I wrote

I dislike Mark Shields and the horse he rode in on. And I say again, the American people and the world is reaping the results of tired old Mark Shields and those other inside the beltway phony liberals. I'm not malicious, Mark Shields is. I don't think I'm stupid, but again, I sure as hell am not part of the hard left. And I'll bet I am as informed as my detractors. I've been a voting Democrat longer than most of the evil DUers have been alive.

[0007]

8. You sound like an absolute jackass - Your not Zell Miller are you?

[MichiganVote]

9. Mark Shields is malicious?

Look dearie you need a lesson in fairplay. Rove is malicious. Wolfie is malicious. Sharon in Israel is malicious. Putin is malicious. Men like Ken Lay or Murdoch = malicious. Rumsfeld is malicious. Tucker Carlson, Hannity, O'Reilly are cheap, off the rack wanna be's.

Mark Shields is a moderate political commentator. Nothing more. Extremist views such as yours are the exactly what is wrong with this country these days. Take chill pill.

[teryang]

3. repukes are attacking him also because failure in Iraq

...is apparent to any but the dumbest observers. Nothing fails like a military failure. It's political hemlock. That is why Rove, the Pentagon and the MSM strive so hard to conceal it. Even war monger Woolsey, neo-con die-hard and dead ender gives American policy in Iraq only a 51 percent chance of success "because he is an optimist."

The real reason repukes are changing their tune is because they don't want to be associated with unlimited political and military diaster. America now is up the creek without the proverbial paddle and the rudderless course is no longer predictable as white house and Pentagon spinners continue the same tired propaganda responses.

[dand]

7. Mark Shields is a good guy,

He has opposed the Fascist bastards from day one. Carlson and Hunt, now they are throne sniffing assholes. We must be watching different Capital Gangs, you are way off the mark.