Just who is this dumb neocon bitch and why is she in the AJC?

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Mary Grabar is identified in today's fact-free whinefest

http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2007/05/28/0528edgrabar.html

about the dirty-hippie protesters as, simply, a "DeKalb County writer." But I see she's had columns posted at the neocon Townhall.com as well.

What is her deal? Hubby got a fat Blackwater contract? Anyone know?

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1. Looks like another RW idiot cheerleader

for the ajc when they're feeling too much pressure from the truth. Watch what you say, else you're helping the terrorists and the trouble is the fault of the intellectuals. Rove or Cheney couldn't have written this one any better. As for fault of the intellectuals--I doubt it, smart people generally know when to quit. It's the stupid ones that don't.

One doesn't have to be a chef to know what a bad meal tastes like. One doesn't have to be a foreign policy expert to see that invading Iraq wasn't a good idea, and staying is even worse.

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2. Emphasis on the "idiot." What I found fascinating about this latest piece

...was that the headline writers (remember, usually the author doesn't get to write the headline) really tried to help her out by referring to the "Uninformed opposition" and adding the subhead, "War's sanctimonious critics give facts no consideration."

So I figured if I bothered to read the piece, I might actually hear a fact or two being offered in evidence against those smelly hippies she finds so offensive.

Nope. Not a one. (and I read it twice, just to make sure I didn't miss something.) It's all about how awful those opponents are. Actually, it's not even that, it's about an overheard conversation on a plane that she stretched out to make an op-ed piece. Sloppy, horrible crap, but I guess you go with the neocon war supporters you have, not the ones you'd like to have.

BTW, she's the same person who posted an earlier piece

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/opinion/stories/2007/04/30/0501edgrabar.html

about how her day at the park was spoiled by anti-war protesters. It wasn't anything they did or said, it's just that the signs were unpleasant to see. Can't trouble her beautiful mind with this talk of war, war, war!

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3. Some LTEs in reply--and they're doozies.

Reading the paper this morning, all I was thinking was that I couldn't have put it nearly so well myself. Nice work!

But here's one that wasn't printed, but available online. I guess it was considered too "shrill" for the delicate readers of the dead-tree edition:

from http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/printedition/2007/05/31/edletts0531a.html

Architects of war should be tried

Noting the ages of those Georgia soldiers who died in Iraq, most of them are in their 20s! Looking at their faces is enough to make anyone cry ("In Remembrance: 102 Georgians have died in Iraq," Metro, May 28).

Everyone I know asks why those who started the war on Iraq aren't being tried as criminals. This war was based on lies now well known and has killed so many of our soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. What is it in our justice system that is keeping President Bush and his cohorts —- Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, et al. —- from being impeached, tried in a court of law and sentenced for what any of the rest of us would be in jail for doing!

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4. Apparently, her deal

is that she's a right-winger. Apparently that's all it takes to get published in some circles. It probably doesn't hurt that she has a Ph.D after her name, either.

You know what's really funny, though? She's a government employee!! According to the Clayton State University web site, she was, as of last fall, at least, a "Temporary Assistant Professor of English" there.

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5. Wait, the AJC is full of neocon-enablers

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