khargushoghli's Comments (28)

“Amen! She's an embarrassment. I can't stand listening to her. I used to be a huge fan, until I heard her shredding some poor slob who had the temerity to disagree with her.”

“No one's berating anyone for "criticizing."
No one I know hoped Bush would fail in the fight against, say, al-Qaeda. They just pointed out he would fail.”

“I agree with you.
Except that this kind of intimidation is regularly visited on the gay community without Newt raising a peep.
But you're right that the knee-jerkers can't seem to understand that their White Knight Henrik could be horribly wrong and just simply admit it and move the heck on.”

“You mean, other than counting the ballots?”

“I don't see how you are responding to what I said. It is not naive to point out that one of your team mates just ran the ball back into their own end zone. Try viewing the video from the point of view of the average American and honestly ask yourself how you think Hertzberg really came off.”

“I'm not a rightist, I'm a leftist. But even leftists have to be responsible in how they write. It is not a "minor mistake" to delete what propels your opponents' argument and then say there is nothing propelling his argument.
And Hertzberg could've dealt with it so easily! He could've pointed out that to compare the acts of a few queer hot-heads with the violence visited on gays every day of the week is such a sick and pathetic argument. But Herzberg was just too lazy and glib to make this easy point.”

“Here is the relevant part of what Hertzberg said http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/12/01/081201taco_talk_hertzbergg):
"Like a polluted swamp, anti-gay bigotry is likely to get thicker and more toxic as it dries up. Viciousness meets viscousness. “Look,” Newt Gingrich, the former House Speaker, said the other day (on the air, to Bill O’Reilly), “I think there is a gay and secular fascism in this country that wants to impose its will on the rest of us, is prepared to use violence. . . . I think that it is a very dangerous threat to anybody who believes in traditional religion. And I think if you believe in historic Christianity, you have to confront the fact.” For diversity’s sake, he added that “the historic version of Islam” and “the historic version of Judaism” are likewise menaced—which is natural, given that gay, secular, fascist values are “the opposite of what you’re taught in Sunday school.”"
Hertzberg left out the context of (alleged) violence. This was dishonest of him and O'Reilly called him out on it.
Also, he was unable to tell O'Reilly's guys that he had actually seen the segment. This made him look bad.
I podcast Hertzberg, and I like him. But he has a tendency to be glib, and this was an instance of this.
O'Reilly's attack was quite effective to those who don't live in the left/liberal echo chamber. It should be a warning to liberals to stop preaching to the choir.”

“This bit of Right Wing bull has been answered by Slate about six years ago.
http://www.slate.com/id/2061092/”

“This bit of Right Wing bull goes back about six years. It was handily answered in Slate:
http://www.slate.com/id/2061092/”

“That's why I'm just jumping for joy that Obama is larding his cabinet with Clintonistas.”

“al-Qaeda really cares about Africans.
Ask about how Ossam treated his serfs on the plantations he owned when he was in the Sudan.”

“Katherine Harris surrogate strikes again.
http://zaiusnation.blogspot.com/2007/01/president-dumps-harris-for-bachmann.html”

“OK, tell me if I missed something.
She is pro-life but does not favor outlawing abortion. Didn't I just hear her say that?
She wriggled around the question of the morning after pill until the reporter forced her to answer it.
She believes in teaching evolution as an established fact. But didn't she say earlier that it should be taught alongside creationism? If I believe that modern chemistry is an established science, do I advocate teaching about phlogiston?
The reporter could have nailed Palin better if she'd carried around some of her earlier quotations.
Is Palin stupid or devious or a stupid person being devious?
I used to be afraid of Palin. But she's just the gift that keeps on giving.”

“Rate of rapes broken down by state.
http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/17602366
Alaska leads the way by a long shot.
I don't know what this means, but...”

“When are you going to cover there real story at the RNC?
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/31/raids/”

“I haven't read Ayers' biography, but from his Wikipedia description, he sounds like a bad guy. I'm not convinced that he lived down his past.
I don't think it reflects on Barack, but he seems to have a way of overlooking some important negative features of his friends. See under Rev. Wright.”

“Yep.”

“Go go Rachel! You're on your way up! Richly deserved!
NOW, get Kent Jones back as your side-kick. Do it for your listeners.”

“What's the URL for this station?”

“This horrible tragedy was a great opportunity for you to display your "wit".
Crawl back into your cave.”

“OK, the HTML on the last post didn't fire. Here's the URL for the Main Event.
http://www.buffalochip.com/EVENTS/Attractions/2008Attractions/WetWildWrestlers/tabid/312/Default.aspx
Maybe The Other One will climb into the pit for votes. I mean, he's stooped this low so far, it wouldn't take much more for him to climb into his Speedos and show what he's made of...”

“Too prudish to provide a link to Ringin' Wet and Wild? Well,
here it is!”

“A perfectly awful add. It reenforces the idea that Obama is all about a vacuous slogan, "hope", and has nothing concrete to offer.
What the heck is MoveOn.com thinking?”

“Well, it's a wee bit more complicated than than.
The Left knew no more about Pol Pot's intentions than the Cambodian people as a whole, who were just as surprised as the rest of the world when they were ordered deported from the cities to the countryside. When the atrocities began, the Left as a whole dropped him like a hot potato, with the exception of Maoist cults like the Revolutionary Communist Party.
But it was the Reagan administration which supported Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge after the Vietnamese (who I guess are part of the Left which was supporting Pol Pot... huh?) threw him out.
So: The Left supported Pol Pot when he was an unknown resisting a brutal air war against the Khmer people.
The Right supported Pol Pot after the world knew what he was made of.
Oh, and...
There was the American secret bombing of Cambodia. A quarter of a million tons of bombs dropped on a peasant society. Two million peasants displaced and hundreds of thousands (exact number disputed) killed, arguably driving the Khmer Rouge into more extreme positions. ("Journalist William Shawcross and Cambodia specialists Milton Osborne, David P. Chandler and Ben Kiernan argued that the bombing drove peasants to join the Khmer Rouge. Chandler writes that the bombing provided "the psychological ingredients of a violent, vengeful and unrelenting social revolution.""--Wikipedia) Prince Sihanouk was no friend of mine, but if we'd left him in power, none of this would have happened.”

“What part of anything do you understand?
These Repub frat boys wanna send the rest of their generation to fight wars they start/cheer lead for.
They want the war so bad? Let them go fight it.
Duh.”