Krauthammer: Blaming Katrina disaster on Bush policies is like burning wit

[helderheid]

Krauthammer: Blaming Katrina disaster on Bush policies is like burning witches, massacring Jews

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509090001

Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer opined that blaming the devastation of Hurricane Katrina on global warming, the Iraq war, or tax cuts favored by the Bush administration is an indication that "our progressive thinkers have not progressed an inch" from "less enlightened times," when "witches were burned" and "Jews were massacred" in response to natural disasters.

From Krauthammer's September 9 Post column:

In less enlightened times there was no catastrophe independent of human agency. When the plague or some other natural disaster struck, witches were burned, Jews were massacred and all felt better (except the witches and Jews).

A few centuries later, our progressive thinkers have progressed not an inch. No fall of a sparrow on this planet is not attributed to sin and human perfidy. The three current favorites are: (1) global warming, (2) the war in Iraq and (3) tax cuts. Katrina hits and the unholy trinity is immediately invoked to damn sinner-in-chief George W. Bush.


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[AlCzervik]

1. He is actually comparing criticizing Bush with the holocaust.

OK he is either just plaine disgusting or he has his head planted firmly up his or Bush's ass---or all of the above.

[NotThatNolan]

2. Really, now?

See, I thought the calculated genocide of the black population of NOLA was like burning witches and massacring Jews

[helderheid]

3. They always blame us for what they are doing

Just like "vote stealing"

[notadmblnd]

8. I thought that too

because there is no doubt in my mind. If people had not taken notice, thye would have let all those people die.

[belle]

17. "Projection." Classic.

[BeyondGeography]

4. His boy and his pet Iraq project are both going down

so he starts to throw haymakers like a drunken bar fighter.

Gettin' a little desperate, aren't we Charlie?

[Bob3]

5. kool aid drinker - horseman pass by

and be fair: He's gonna have a real hard time trying to explain why Brown being kicked up stairs is a good thing for * and why all the dead bodies in New Orleans show what a great leader * is.

[maxsolomon]

6. Eat shit, chuck.

Neocons are to be ignored.

[oasis]

7. Dr. Quackhammer has doubled up his dosage of psychotropic drugs.

[mom cat]

9. Outrageous!

Of course the right wing has never criticized anyone...
And just look at how the masters of nasty are whining!
Hypocrisy inaction!
Off to write to the bastards!

Thanks for the find!

[bluedawg12]

10. neocon guilt n/t

[jsamuel]

11. Classic: Sound angry and make ridiculous statements when you are losing

[longship]

12. Go fuck yourself, Mr. Krauthammer. Go fuck yourself, you asshole.

n/t

[CatWoman]

13. separated at birth?

I used to think he looked like Mumbles. Now I think he's more like Flattop.

But then, again.........

[mom cat]

14. Rate this one up!...Also does anyone have a direct link to the article?

[helderheid]

15. here ya go

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801667.html

[mom cat]

18. Thanks...I just found it and was about to post it!

We need to DEMAND a front page retraction!

[StayOutTheBushes]

25. You don't see a lot of retractions for opinion pieces.

:shrug:

[belle]

16. O, poor little martyred, put-upon Bush. HURL. I hate that most of all,

when they start the poor-little-me routine. Just pathetic. Yeah, asshole, having to cut your vacation short and being yelled at to DO YOUR FUCKING JOB is persecution. Pay no mind to the thousands of people actually suffering horribly and dying. miserable twat.

[flordehinojos]

19. krauthammer is an anally retained idiot who is incapble of learning from

whatever facts may face him.

[glitch]

20. They are imploding. Their babble betrays them.

Finally. We've waited long enough.

[nookiemonster]

21. Kosmo Kramer Krauthammer!

eom

[Individualist]

22. Believing Krauthammer

is like believing Baghdad Bob.

[BurtWorm]

23. There's just so much wrong with that, it's impossible to know where to

begin. How any supporter of the "faith-based" "president" could have the chutzpah to suggest reason-based progressives are medieval...! Or to compare the innocent victims of witch-hunts and pogroms to that motherfucker in the WH...!

There just are no words!!

[Cats Against Frist]

24. We really have entered bizzarro world

Now Bush is "persecuted?" First the 85 percent majority of Christians -- half of whom believe that humans were shat out the ass of some schizophrenic deity -- are "persecuted," and now attacking the institutional establishment, a party that controls all three branches of government, and eats canapes in a hot tub with the people who own all of our natural resources is ANOTHER FORM OF PERSECUTION? What the fuck?

And wait, isn't it the LIBRULS who are responsible for everything under the fucking sun? We've "taken god out of school," yet their God is fucking powerless enough that he can't find his way into hearts and minds through any other channel? Liberals don't just control the weather, want to eat your guns and make you marry a gay person -- we've got control over GOD, for fuck's sake. We're INVINCIBLE!!!!!!!!!

And BTW, Charles Krauthammer looks like a hemorrhoid.

[charlie]

26. That needs to be a poster

Every time you criticize the President...

...a Jew dies.

THINK before you speak!

[NRaleighLiberal]

27. Listening to this asshole is like pouring sulfuric acid into your ears

[CTyankee]

28. He's bitter because of his paraplegia

due to an accident as a young man diving into the shallow end of a swimming pool. I have always thought that the accident must have affected his psyche in a terrible, to write the things he writes. Incredible and very sad.

[Ms. Clio]

33. I think so, too---he's incredibly twisted and sick

[fishwax]

29. wow, that's a new low-water mark for intelligent analysis

that is about as stupid as an analogy can be. What else can you say but :wtf:

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Charles Butt-Hammer, Environmental Scientist:

"There is no relationship between global warming and the frequency and intensity of Atlantic hurricanes. Period."

Shit, dude! Thanks for clearing THAT up!

[enki23]

31. no. it's like hanging murders, and shooting nazis.

hey, i didn't start this shit. but what the hell, at least mine is a little closer to the truth.

oh, and for the record: witches and jews were powerless. they were abused, and murdered, by those in power. not... er... the other way around, you fucking tool.

[NNadir]

32. This guy is a real card. I hope he can keep it up.

He's a real plus for our side.

With the wheelchair and all, he's almost as funny as Seller's Strangelove.

[CTyankee]

34. Iknow, that is truly sad

but I feel there is some truth there.

I think he is also Jewish, which makes the whole thing sadder, in my opinion.

He is an ugly dude, to be sure. But, we need to pity him also. His disability has caused him to be twisted and strange.

[bluedawg12]

35. human perfidy- now that's funny neoconman n/t