Saturday, June 12, 2010

"Gotcha!" Journalism: McCain Caught W/ Meat In Mouth

Good one (And it's short!) from Glenn Greenwald, reacting to wretched old shithead John Sidney McCain III's typical hypocritical bullshit.
Of all McCain's paragraphs, this is probably my favorite (h/t sandbun):
Is it any wonder that this is the same regime that spends its people’s precious resources not on roads, or schools, or hospitals, or jobs that benefit all Iranians -- but on funding violent groups of foreign extremists who murder the innocent?
As the American war in Afghanistan enters its ninth full year and our occupation of Iraq its seventh, and as we continue to find all new ways to kill innocent civilians in various countries around the world, and as we continue to transfer billions of dollars every year to Israel and the Egyptian dictatorship -- all while thinking about how to slash Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and thus erode the weak safety net even further, while confronting collapsing domestic infrastructurerampant unemployment, and massive teacher lay-offs and even grade elimination for American children -- is there any other country you can think of, besides Iran, which "spends its people's precious resources not on roads, or schools, or hospitals, or jobs that benefit all [citizens]" but rather on wars and support for foreign groups which kill "the innocent"?  And over the last decade, what was the position of John McCain and his party on whether the "people's precious resources" should be spent (a) on "roads, or schools, or hospitals, or jobs that benefit all" (see here) or (b) wars that kill the innocent?
We might quibble w/ that last one: No one is innocent!!

2 comments:

demize! said...

Like The Deadboys referance. These people are surly insane.

M. Bouffant said...

Non-Intentional Editor Realizes:

Hey! We were just being generic. Thanks for putting the words in our ... uh, never mind.