It’s Not About Us!

Woke up this morning and was excited to see that the MSM was finally giving us some Iran coverage. Unfortunately, we being America, we had to make it all about us. There were three basic story lines this morning:

1) John McCain criticized Obama for not saying/doing enough to support the Iranian protesters, so the debate was about whether Obama was doing enough. Oddly enough, McCain suggested that the White House let the whitehouse.org site be used by protesters if the Iranian government shut down Iranian sites. Of course McCain is 107 years old and doesn’t understand the tubes we call the Internets. If the Iranian government shuts down the ability to access the Internet, the protesters won’t be able to access the White House web site either.

2) The second story was how this would all play out politically, and I shit you not, how this will effect the 2010 elect. Scary.

3) The final question was, should Bush get all the credit. This one drives me the most insane and it has nothing to do with whether I think Bush deserves any credit. This has been going on for less than a week and every pundit is trying their best to be a mini-historian. Thomas Friedman of all people said Bush should get credit. Would you expect anything less from one of the war’s original cheerleaders?

Let’s just be clear on this, if this ‘revolution’ works and Bush gets credit, does that mean if the Iranian government cracks down tomorrow and kills 600 of its civilians, do we blame Bush? Do we say it was Bush’s fault because it was his policies that embolden the Iran’s the act this way? No, we wouldn’t. Instead, they would blame Obama. It’s simple…Bush gets credit, Obama gets blame.

Stop! That’s all I can say. This is not about US. This is about them. Report on what’s going on, but leave us out of it. Over the last couple days I’ve listen to BBC radio and read up on BBC.com and they have not in any way, politicized this. No mention of who is to blame, who is at fault or how this will effect them. We are the ones who once overthrew the Democratically election government and put in place a U.S. puppet. Let’s just stay on the sidelines this time. As soon as we get involved, then this becomes the Iranian government against a foreign entity.

If you don’t trust me. If you think I’m just some left-wing nut, just ask Billy Kristol:

Some argue that the brave Iranians demonstrating for freedom and democracy would be better off if the American president somehow stayed out of the fight. Really? But Barack Obama is president. His statement wouldn’t be crafted by those dreaded neocons who vulgarly thought all people would like a chance to govern themselves and deserved some modicum of U.S. support in that endeavor. It would be written by subtle liberal internationalists, who would get the pitch and tone just right. And the statement wouldn’t be delivered by the notorious George Bush (who did, however, weigh in usefully in somewhat similar situations in Ukraine and Lebanon). It would be delivered by the popular and credible speaker-to-the-Muslim-world, Barack Obama. Does anyone really think that a strong Obama statement of solidarity with the Iranian people, and a strong rebuke to those who steal elections and shoot demonstrators, wouldn’t help the dissidents in Iran?

The Obama Administration is doing the right thing. Stay out of it and monitor. Promote the right of the Iranian people to protest and condemn any and all violence. We need to be patient on this one. Remember, the Iranian Revolution in 1979 took months, not days.

UPDATE:

“When your adversary is making a fool of himself, get out of the way. That is a rule of politics Lyndon Johnson once put into the most pungent of terms. U.S. fulminations will change nothing in Tehran. But they would enable the regime to divert attention to U.S. meddling in Iran’s affairs and portray the candidate robbed in this election, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, as a poodle of the Americans…

The dilemma for America is that the theocracy defines itself and grounds its claim to leadership through its unyielding resistance to the Great Satan—the United States—and to Israel. Nevertheless, Obama, with his outstretched hand, his message to Iran on its national day, his admission that the United States had a hand in the 1953 coup in Tehran, his assurances that we recognize Iran’s right to nuclear power, succeeded. He stripped the Ayatollah and Ahmadinejad of their clinching argument—that America is out to destroy Iran and they are indispensable to Iran’s defense,” – Patrick Buchanan.

Sarah Palin Demands Apology from…Sarah Palin

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a second swipe at Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday, calling the former Vice Presidential Candidate’s “disgusting” and a “sexual pervert” for appearing on SNL only weeks after the show made jokes about incest with the daughters.

In an e-mailed statement, the Republican governor said: “For  Sarah Palin to appear on SNL only weeks after laughter incited by sexually perverted comments made by SNL aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some Hollywood/N.Y. entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands, gosh darn it — that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by other governors who use and abuse others.”

Her husband, Todd, added, “In that any person, including Governor Palin, who would appear on a show like SNL that do “any ‘joke’ about him having sex with my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it, and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too. Shame on you Sarah Palin.”

Riffing on Palin last September, SNL performed a skit, where a mock reporter joked about incest in the vice presidential candidate’s family, saying, “I mean, come on. It’s Alaska!” Yet weeks later, Sarah Palin, not only didn’t demand an apology or blame the entire SNL cast and crew for the behavior of the men on “To Catch a Predator,” she happily appeared on the show.

// “I doubt Sarah Palin ever dare appear on SNL if it was someone else’s daughter,” the governor added in her statement.

Governor Sarah Palin ripped again to Governor Sarah Palin during a radio interview Tuesday, calling her “pathetic” for appearing on SNL.

“What a commentary there,” Palin told conservative radio host John Ziegler. “That’s pretty pathetic, good ole Sarah Palin.”

Sarah Palin did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Breaking Up With Drudge

Seven months, clean and sober. Yep, it was seven glorious months ago I broke up with Matt Drudge and his site, The Drudge Report.

It wasn’t easy. Trust me, it wasn’t. Like any good drug, Drudge can grab a hold of you, seep into your system and never let go. It satisfies the most simplest urges and desires, while crushing every last brain cell that pot didn’t kill many years ago. It became a part of my routine; like brushing my teeth, bathing, eating three meals a day, I clicked on Drudge like a Muslim prayed towards Mecca. I visited so often, when I clicked just the letter ‘D’, my Firefox new where to go.

It was just too easy. With its simply, never changing white background and black type, that was always easy on the eyes, I could scan through over two-dozen headlines in a matter of minutes, without even scrolling. I could go days, dozens of visits, and never click on a link. Yet that’s not even the saddest part. The worse was when I would click on a link, hoping, praying it came from a legit source, only to be disappointed when I ended up at another ring-wing nonsense news site like World Net Daily or the NY Post.

Class vs. Classless, the Sarah Palin Saga

This past week, Sarah Palin has talked to anyone with a video camera about how David Letterman is out to rape her young daughter, or something to that effect.

Also this week, a South Carolina Republican compared Michell Obama to a monkey. The difference? I haven’t heard one word from Michelle Obama or the White House about the comment. No running to the nearest camera crew, asking for Rusty DePass to apologize to every black person alive (he did eventually, sort of. He added the “if I offended anyone” line).

That’s the difference between class and no class. Of course Sarah Palin doesn’t think David Letterman is a pedophile and if the welfare of her children was really a cause for concern, maybe she shouldn’t have pulled them out of school to race them around the country to use as props in her family-values warp tour during the election.

This is always about being the victim. She’s a permanent victim. She needs an enemy and she needs to always be under assault. That’s what has worked for her. By latching on to this issue, she gets to stay in the news (1.9 million Google hits and counting), fighting evil men, simply trying to go after the women vote in 2012. In essence, she is using her 14-year-old daughter as prop to score political points for herself. Think about it, if your child’s well-being was really the main issue, wouldn’t you just let this go away? Sure, I can appreciate her coming out once, stating she wasn’t happy. She idd and it was followed by a David Letterman apology. For most ‘normal’ people that’s the end. You made your point, you got your apology. Of course, this is Sarah Palin, so starved for attention, I’m just waiting for the Paris Hilton-stlye sex tape to be released. She has to refuse the apology (because if she accepts it, she’s out of the news), accuse Letterman of being a pedophile, demand he apologize to all women (since when did Palin speak for all women?), while her little minions demand he be fired.

For the record, ass of late Monday, I still haven’t heard a word from Michelle Obama, regarding her relation to a monkey.

Class vs. Classless.

UPDATE:

David Letterman AGAIN apologized to the Palin family. Does this satisfy anyone? Nope. Keep in mind, this is not and has never been about anybody’s child. This is a fight against an enemy. They really believe they got Letterman by his Don Imus-balls and can get him removed from the air. Please, if Letterman gets fired, I’ll post naked pictures of myself on this site.

Mitt Romney, Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

This Sunday morning, while trying to digest another bowl of Count Chocula, I had to endure a painful 20 minutes of everyone’s favorite Reagan-wanna-be, Mitt Romney on ABC’s “This Week.” Obviously, there are plenty of questions I would love to ask Mitt if I was sitting in George Snuffleupagus’ seat, but that would probably require me to put on pants and I hate wearing pants on a Sunday.

It seems Romney doesn’t think Obama’s “Apology Tour” is working and this is what I just don’t get. Romney is obviously talking about President Obama’s recent Cairo speech, but I checked that speech and I certainly couldn’t find Obama’s apology. Check for yourself, he never says the word apology, apologize or even, “I’m sorry”.

I’m confused, but maybe, just maybe I’m taking Mitt too literally. Clearly, Romney thinks that a United States President shouldn’t be “over there” admitting to past mistakes. But why? Why do conservatives feel like it’s wrong when America admits or discusses past errors?

Personally, I was ecstatic when Obama became the first U.S. President (as far I know) to admit the United State’s role in overthrowing the Iranian government, so they could put in place the Shah. The Iranian people know we did it. The World knows we did it. We know they know we did it. It only helps our cause and our purpose when we can be open and honest about our past mistakes.

Of course, to conservatives, admitting mistakes is weak, it emboldens your enemies, it is un-American. Can I assume that Mitt’s never admitted to a mistake? Of course he has, but only the ones that make him too liberal to be a modern-day Republican.

My question for Mitt is, was it anti-Mormon or weak when his church apologized for its mistakes? My answer is ‘no’. In fact, it would have been a courageous thing for him to openly talk about these mistakes. Instead, when he had that chance, he choose not to be courageous. As you will see, he skips the question and discusses his father.

You may recall that my dad walked out of the Republican convention in 1964 in San Francisco in part because Barry Goldwater, in his speech, gave my dad the impression that he was someone who was going to be weak on civil rights.

How ironic…using Romney’s and the new Conservative way of thinking, Mitt’s father would be considered “weak” and “anti-Republican” as he’s being mocked by Rush Limbaugh as a liberal, anti-white, Obama butt-lover.

Of course, maybe I got it all wrong. Maybe Romney really doesn’t believe that America has ever made a mistake. Maybe the new and improved Conservative Romney has never made a mistake. Actually, I know that’s not true. We’re all still waiting for an apologize for this.