angry

[jaina]

You all know that I almost never talk politics on this journal. But today I'm making a special exception. From the AP:

Speaking in a ballroom just a few miles north of ground zero, Karl Rove said the Democratic party did not understand the consequences of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

"Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," Rove said Wednesday night. "Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war."

Okay, in the first place, that's blatantly false. Blatantly. In the second place, that is a fucking disgusting thing to say, on SO many levels. It's crude. It's divisive. It smacks of opportunism. And did I mention the part where it's COMPLETELY UNTRUE!?

So, so angry right now. The whole mess about cutting public broadcasting funding isn't helping my mood, either.

Comments

[julietvalcouer.livejournal.com]

Well, you have to admit, once it came to actually doing anything about it besides trying to be "understanding", most liberals really didn't want to do anything about it. They're too busy blaming us for it and making improper comparisons to the Soviet Union and Hitler. (I so hope Dick Durbin loses his seat next year. Maybe then he'll think about opening his mouth about subjects he really doesn't understand.) A few DEMOCRATS (as opposed to flaming liberals) have their heads on straight, but the political left is notoriously bad at understanding who the bad guys are and what a practical response to them is. (Look at a liberal administration's response to North Korea making threats--they gave them a breeder reactor. What did they THINK the North Koreans were going to use the plutonium for?)

Public Broadcasting...heh. Let 'em get their own sponsors. The CTW could pay for all their own shows already out of their merchandising deals, there aren't any news shows on PBS worth watching (who would anyway? I can turn on Fox, CNN, or MSNBC any time I want--heck, CNN Headline News means I can get news updates repeating every twenty minutes) and the other good shows are available on BBC America and cable channels. NPR, meanwhile, got a massive bequest and can pay for themselves. They've both long outlived their purpose.

And it's YOUR journal. Post politics if you want. Sheesh. This isn't supposed to be some sort of topical blog, or it wasn't last time I checked. If you get subscribers paying for content, they can start having expectations about what gets put in.