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The S.O.B. Has to Go--Yeah, But Which One?
Exclusive to STR “Neighbor,
how
stands
the
The
liveliest
writers
live
on
the
Net.
The
best
and
brightest
American
essayists
flourish
not
on
the
printed
page,
neither
in
polite
college
presses
nor
pulp
newsprint
but
where
free
thought
meets
the
free
form
use
of
the
English
language.
Only
on
the
Net. Yes,
the
liveliest
literary
minds
now
master
their
sword
strokes
on
the
Internet.
They
slice
through
the
bland
“newspeak,”
severing
a
thousand
pen
strokes
of
turgid
prose
in
the
process,
reducing
the
regurgitated
“op-eds”
of
scores
of
dull,
syndicated
pundits
with
a
few
deft
slashes. When
was
the
last
time
you
read
an
Ali
Massoud
or
Jim
Davies
or
Greg
Szymanski
or
Robert
Fisk
or
Paul
Craig
Roberts
or
Paul
Joseph
Watson
in
your
local,
hometown
rag?
Never?
Imagine
how
dull
and
depressing
the
interior
décor
of
your
mind
would
be
if
only
allowed
the
wallpaper
of
George
Will
or
the
faux-finishes
of
Molly
Ivins.
Imagine
being
a
young
Republican
and
solely
savoring
the
decorative
tirades
of
that
Anorexic
Skank
(queen
of
the
ad-hominem
attack!),
Ann
Coulter?
When
was
the
last
time
you
read
ANYTHING
of
any
substance
or
power,
or
of
genuine
outraged
emotion
in
your
hometown
newspaper?
Never?
How
about
Charley
Reese,
that
old
unreconstructed
conservative
and
former
columnist?
Your
hometown
newspaper
ever
publish
anything
by
him
anymore,
now
that
he’s
slamming
Bush
and
the
Neocons
in
no
uncertain
terms?
Or
how
about
muckraker
Wayne
Madsen
or
foreign
correspondent
Dahr
Jamail?
Most
mainstream
news
editors
wouldn’t
know
Dahr
Jamail
from
Joe
Camel.
Or
how
about
this
guy,
Doug
Thompson? Who? Doug
Thompson,
the
guy
who
writes
the
Rant
for
Capitol
Hill
Blue:
The
Oldest
Political
News
Site
on
the
Internet.
Thompson
just
happens
to
be
one
of
the
keenest
swordsmen
on
the
Net,
slicing
guys
like
Will
and
Krauthammer
into
mincemeat.
Not
long
ago
Thompson
wrote
a
column
entitled:
“Traitorous
Bitches
And
Bastards.”
Doug
referred
to
members
of
Congress
of
course. “For
the
most
part…Congress
sold
out
the
people
who
elected
them
to
office,
all
Americans
who
depend
on
Congress
to
serve
as
a
check
and
balance
on
the
excesses
of
the
White
House
and
the
Constitution
of
the
United
States…the
bitches
and
bastards
who
‘serve’
in
Congress
should
take
a
long,
hard
look
at
the
blood
on
their
hands.
They
stand
guilty
of
high
crimes
and
treason
against
the
Good
stuff.
The
kind
of
honest,
heartfelt
emotional
stuff
you’ll
never
read
in
your
local
newspaper,
that
pulp
fiction
of
the
so-called
polite
mainstream
media. Recently Thompson posted another Rant: The S.O.B. has to go. I’ll leave it to my readers to discern just which S.O.B he referred. My
chief
complaint
with
that
well-argued
column—calling
for
the
impeachment
of
George
W.
Bush--
is
that
Thompson
woefully
limited
his
rant
regarding
all
the
other
Neocon
malefactors. Because
impeaching
Baby
Bush
won’t
do
a
damn
thing
if
all
his
happy
henchmen
remain
in
power.
Okay,
let’s
ask
ourselves
one
pertinent
question.
Which
Neocon
is
doing
a
fine,
honorable
job
for
How
about
spin-meister
Karl
Rove?
You
believe
anything
he
says?
Or
Rice;
you
think
she
has
ever
uttered
a
single,
honest
public
statement
in
the
past
five
years?
In
my
opinion,
Condaleeza
Rice
is
about
as
pure
as
the
DU-riven
snow.
Or
Donald
Rumsfeld?
You
think
the
US
military
will
survive
our
old
“Stop
Loss”
Secretary
of
Defense?
Recall
Rumsfeld
was
clamoring
for
a
hefty
boost
in
the
Pentagon
budget
on
September
10,
2001.
America
was
enjoying
wonderful
weather
and
unprecedented
peace
up
until
then.
How
convenient,
for
the
war
toymakers,
and
the
Neocon
strategists
of
the
PNAC,
that
a
“New
Pearl
Harbor”--the
911
attacks--happened
the
following
day. You
think
the
Neocons
and
their
apologists,
lobbyists,
and
talk
show
fellow
travelers
can
boost
a
single
honorable,
unselfish,
patriot
in
the
mold
of
say,
Washington,
Jefferson,
Adams,
Revere,
Paine,
Franklin
or
Madison?
You
really
think
Tom
DeLay
approaches
Daniel
Webster
in
stature,
or
any
of
the
warmonger/cowards,
like
Rush
Limbaugh
or
Sean
Hannity,
resemble
Ethan
Allen
or
Smedley
Butler?
You
think
any
Neocon—Michael
Brown
or
Chertoff
or
Ashcroft
for
example—could
reach
the
bootheels
of
any
Founding
Father?
Okay—Name
one.
Just
one. Sons
of
bitches
all.
Despoilers,
plunderers,
warmongers,
liars,
cheats,
con
men,
blowhards,
bullies,
religious
hypocrites,
perverts
(even
Bill
Clinton,
to
my
knowledge,
never
had
a
gay
callboy
as
a
regular
White
House
guest). How
about
that
exploding
federal
deficit?
How
many
Red
State
grandchildren
will
rue
the
day
their
ancestors
ever
allowed
the
Toxic
Neocons
and
their
rigged,
electronic
voting
machines
to
take
total
control
of
all
three
branches
of
the
government
and
run
their
country
right
into
the
ground?
Hope
I
live
long
enough
to
hear
those
outraged
(and
indebted
and
impoverished)
grandchildren
give
all
those
traitors
hell.
Because, predictably, those Neocon schemers--sons of bitches all--will have skeedadled with the money long before that happens.
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