My partisans on the right are embarrassing me by caring at all that some film maker has created a drama depicting Bush getting successefully assassinated. What a sorry show last night on the gabfests. Even my hero Ann Coulter shamed me, using this opportunity to remind me that she wants to outlaw flag-burning. Some of these supposed freedom-lovers want broadcasters in the US arrested for showing images of a sitting president assassinated! They make this case on the grounds that it might inspire somebody to kill the president. SO WHAT? Surely we cannot make the US president a special citizen! That would violate the entire concept of the US. These people are no better than those Britons seeking to boycott the BBC for broadcasting the show, "Shoot The Messenger," for portraying black people stating opinions that "offend" the boycotters.
If somebody makes a show that you find distasteful, why not just watch something else? These people trying to ban or punish those who convey comments or images which they find "offensive" are nullifying the First Amendment. One right wing commentator coined a clever line about celebrities using their forums to issue earnest socio-political messages: "Shut up and sing." I endorse that line, but this one also: "Shut up and turn the channel."
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It's about time you're embarrassed by your compatriot's actions.
That you are shamed by this and not your president's illegal wiretapping or his use of torture or his selling of weapons to kill civilians in Lebanon or his support of military dictatorships around the world or his institution of secret prisons or his failed leadership during Hurricane Katrina is beyond me.
Ann Coulter shamed you long ago. You just didn't notice because you were looking at her a$$.
Nadir, you ignorant bastard: I do not find Ann Coulter physically attractive. You are projecting onto me your own sad taste!
And I am embarrassed by:
- Bush supporting or in any way tolerating even the slightest torture
- The inability of FEMA and other fedl resources to arrive by Day 3 and to have rescued 90% of all refugees within 24 hours.
- The inability of NOLA-area leaders (business and govt) to have in the past 50 years acquired for themselves a Holland-like Cat 5 levee system
- The US anti-drug laws
I am proud of Bush for:
- Distinguishing himself as the first US president to move against and pressure some of the US dictator-allies
- Successfully pushing for Capital Gains and other tax cuts.
- At least endorse the flat tax and privatized SS reform concepts (which perhaps future electorates will embrace).
"- Distinguishing himself as the first US president to move against and pressure some of the US dictator-allies"
When? You're delusional.
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