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:: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 ::
Thanks for visiting. I had a thought yesterday. Every day or every few days as the case may be I end up reading the Arizona Republic's "Plugged In" column at azcentral.com.
It is billed as a weblog by informed Arizonans. Well, after reading I tend to feel less informed. The Arizona Republic has done a poor job of picking "informed" people. Most of the bloggers tend to fall into the anti-Bush crowd. Yet it is not an "informed" but rather an emotive anti-bushism that springs from their mouths. The latest example was "King George" by Earl de Berge who does public opinion and market research apparently. He compares the US Supreme court to the minutemen of the American Revolution and President George Bush to King George III. Well, why not, Bush has been compared to Hitler (see Al Gore's statements on brown-shirts, moveon.org, etc.), so why not King George III, who was the King of England during the American Revolution. I love how he cites Sandra Day O'Connor, "We have long since made clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens." Last, I checked with the exception of Jose Padilla, Hamdi and the Marin County kid, none of the terrorists held at Gitmo were citizens. And they are most definitely enemy combatants. It isn't like they are innocent people. There is a reason they are at Gitmo. They took up arms against the United States of America. Not as soldiers in a defined army but as terrorist. These are the same people who want women in Burqas (head to toe garments for uninitiated), the same ones who debate on the best way to kill homosexuals, and the same ones who praise Septemeber 11th. And where is the liberal left on this, well as we can see by our friend de Berge, they are busy comparing the Bush to King George III and as Michael Moore said, the terrorists in Iraq are the minutemen, the "revolution." Just to clarify things, this is the same Michael Moore who half the Democratic leadership in Washington DC was busy praising.
Now, I don't know that de Berge supports the Michael Moore view point, but by his deliberate comparison of King George III to the President, I have to wonder why?
Anywhow, that's enough for now. I'll post more in a little bit.
:: Nathan 4:05 PM [+] ::
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