Liberty's Blog

The Brilliance of Karl Rove

The Democrats, seem about ready to explode, I've noticed a certain meaness, and anger out in the blogospohere, and through out the political left. The Gannon/Guckert affair has Atrios & Kos foaming at the mouth, and screammings of stolen elections, is the war cry of our congressman. Its getting pretty wierd when we think of Hillary as the voice of reason for the Democrats.

In the latest developement Congressman Maurice Hinchey accuses Karl Rove of planting documents, to embarrass CBS and Dan Rather.

Congressman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY): People have been - people in the media have been intimidated. The media has changed in the last four years. People have changed in the last four years. They've had a very very direct, aggressive attack on the, on the media, and the way it's handled. Probably the most flagrant example of that is the way they set up Dan Rather. Now, I mean, I have my own beliefs about how that happened: it originated with Karl Rove, in my belief, in the White House. They set that up with those false papers. Why did they do it? They knew that Bush was a draft dodger. They knew that he had run away from his responsibilties in the Air National Guard in Texas, gone out of the state intentionally for a long period of time. They knew that he had no defense for that period in his life. And so what they did was, expecting that that was going to come up, they accentuated it: they produced papers that made it look even worse. And they - and they distributed those out to elements of the media.

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Audience Member: Don’t you think it’s irresponsible to make charges like that?

Congressman Hinchey: No I don’t. I think it’s very important to make charges like that. I think it’s very important to combat this kind of activity in every way that you can. And I’m willing — and most people are not — to step forward in situations like this and take risks.

Audience: [Clapping and cheering.]

Now one can excuse this as an excess of the truly mad, but as HindRocket notes:

It's easy to write off this kind of thing as limited to the moonbat wing of the Democratic Party, but here's the thing: when is the last time you heard any Democrat criticize this kind of nonsense, or try to distance himself from it?

posted by Liberty @ 5:32 AM