Saturday, July 30, 2005

Breathe deep. Can you smell your own hypocrisy?

(Note: I apologize. I've been waiting all day to post the following blog. Waiting for MSNBC to "update within 24 hours" their Chris Matthews' Hardball from the previous night. Maybe because it's now weekend it takes them 72 hours to update what they promise in 24? In any event, in trying to be fair by including the source of some of what was said on last night's show, I confess I am unable to do so at this time. Hence, unable to wait to blog this, I go forth without proper credit where credit is due. Or should I say, "discredit" is due?)
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Last night Nona over at Fish Wars alerted me to the appearance of Amy Goodman on Chris Matthews' Hardball on MSNBC. I'm a huge fan of Amy Goodman so it was with extreme anticipation I tuned into a later repeat showing of Hardball.

It was with delight I learned that Chris Matthews was not hosting his own show which meant Amy Goodman, rather than being shouted over in mid-sentence like her last appearance with Matthews, might actually be able to finish a sentence, complete a thought. And complete thoughts she did.

I apologize I can't recall the name of the other guest to counterbalance Amy's views, but talking of the John Bolton appointment Bush is likely to make of him while congress is in recess, this gentleman said of Bolton something like, "The U.N.'s in dire need of having its integrity restored," with the implication Bolton's the one to do it.

Well, I would have fallen off my chair and choked on my pretzel had I not been conditioned by four and one half years of Bush administration lies and hypocrisy. Here's Bolton, a nominee of questionable character, who lied to the Senate about never being queried in the Plame investigation; who was nominated by an administration whose seizure of the presidency in 2000 was a theft, who lied us into a war, who abrogated the Geneva Convention to torture prisoners, has held those non-combantant detainees forever without charges or due process, who has used the U.S. Secrets Act to quash testimony of Siebel Edmunds and others about the truth behind 9/11, who transferred $700 million from the budget for the war in Afghanistan for war preparations in Iraq in July 2002, without Congressional approval, lied about the true cost of the Medicare reform bill to our own Senate for its passage, who is covering up the truth on the outing of a CIA agent in violation of national security interests of the United States, etc. etc.--the list goes on and on. And yet Hardball's "other guest" was using the Bolton nomination as justification to re-establish integrity to the United Nations!

Oh my god!! You've got to be freakin' kidding! Can't you smell yourself as you're saying that, "other guest"? You stink within your own incredible hypocrisy! That'd be so laughable if it wasn't so freakin' sick. Was restoring integrity to the United Nations one of the talking points handed you before you went on-air by the pack of self-deluding, self-righteous leeches sucking the life blood from America? They who see the U.N. as an infected wound they're going to heal by pouring their own stinking shit in the form of John Bolton into?? Wow! Incredible!!

Amy Goodman didn't allow that bullshit to go down unchallenged. God bless Amy! Some days my sanity hangs by the strong threads of Amy Goodman and her "Democracy Now!"

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