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September 11, 2007
Today's McCarthys
The Left has no boogeyman more hated than Joseph McCarthy, who more than half a century ago ruined his own name by getting carried away in his attempts to defend America from our communist enemies. Yet the Left's tactics are highly reminiscent of McCarthy's, as Peter D. Feaver notes. He refers to the full-page MoveOn.org ad that the treasonous and despicable New York Times saw fit to run yesterday in an attempt to discredit General Petraeus before he could tell us of progress in Iraq:
It is a deliberate attack on the senior Army commander, in a major daily newspaper, with the intention of destroying as much of his credibility as possible so that his military advice could be more easily rejected by antiwar members of Congress.
The attack was part of an elaborate effort to undermine public support for the Iraq war, and was foreshadowed by an unnamed Democratic senator who told a reporter, "No one wants to call [Petraeus] a liar on national TV … The expectation is that the outside groups will do this for us." The effort is funded by powerful special interests, and has all the trappings of a major political campaign.
Precisely because it is so vicious, so public, and so deliberate, the attack on Petraeus cannot be ignored by either side in the Iraq debate. Supporters of the war are duty-bound, like Joseph Welch, to rise and ask of war opponents, "Have you left no sense of decency?" Antiwar members of Congress, like Senator McCarthy's allies, are obliged to answer.
Joseph Welch was the Army lawyer who famously pulled the rug out from under McCarthy by appealing to his decency. McCarthy's allies soon abandoned him. Unfortunately MoveOn.org's allies are unlikely to follow suit.
The American people have an inherent sense of decency that the media and entertainment industry have tried but failed to breed out of us. This does not bode well for today's Democrat Party.
Posted by Van Helsing at September 11, 2007 7:44 AM
Comments
Posted by: V the K at September 11, 2007 8:45 AM
Is it just me, or did the Senators questioning the General look like they had just stepped out of Mo Eisley's cantina? I've never seen so many ugly mugs assembled in one place.
Posted by: phil at September 11, 2007 10:02 AM
"A Dead Statesman"
I could not dig: I dared not rob:
Therefore I lied to please the mob.
Now all my lies are proved untrue,
And I must face the men I slew.
What tale shall serve me here among,
Mine angry and defrauded young?
Kipling
Posted by: phil at September 11, 2007 10:06 AM
One of the Senators with the white hair (a Democrat) looked like ET:The Extra Testicle
Posted by: Anonymous at September 11, 2007 10:13 AM
Oh, well, let 'em have their say. Gen. David Petraeus is slamming these Moonbat-controlled alleged politicians with every word out of his mouth. Love it!
Forget "national service" for teens (a la Israel) -- let's have every Congressman and Senator do a nine-month tour of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan before they can start their political "tours" -- bet we'd see a hell of a lot less of these mewling, puking infants fighting each other for a chance at the microphones.
Posted by: jc14 at September 11, 2007 11:23 AM
Pardon me for the follow-up posting, but I meant to add:
Van Helsing: what a great caption on that photo of Gen. Petraeus. Superb! Deadly accurate!
Posted by: jc14 at September 11, 2007 11:27 AM
Petraeus is a stooge for Bush's handlers. You can't clap hard enough to make what's happened in Iraq, and what's happening now, into anything but a hideous mess.
fecking morons, the lot of you.
Posted by: condoleaserc at September 11, 2007 1:13 PM
Petraeus is a stooge for Bush's handlers. You can't clap hard enough to make what's happened in Iraq, and what's happening now, into anything but a hideous mess.
fecking morons, the lot of you.
Posted by: condoleaser at September 11, 2007 1:13 PM
where's my comment, dickhead? you only post the ones you like?
it figures; there are just a few of you, and you need to huddle together for protection.
Posted by: condoleaser at September 11, 2007 1:15 PM
And the trolls came marching in....
Posted by: phil at September 11, 2007 1:58 PM
Another moonbat triumphantly parroting the Baathist and Al Qaeda party line.
We are at war with horrible enemies like the Baathists, Al Qaeda and the Taliban, but there is a Goebbels in the heart of every one of these moonbats.
Posted by: Freedom Now at September 11, 2007 3:39 PM
And yet, while Joe McCarthy's name is still used as the benchmark for the politics of railroading, few chose to admit that with the release of the Venona Papers, much of what Joe McCarthy believed was actually true.
Joe McCarthy, along with J. Edgar Hoover, believed that we were infiltrated by communists all the way to the highest offices of our land. They are both smiling in their graves. Being right has a way of making someone do that.
Posted by: retire05 at September 11, 2007 4:43 PM
Yep, that's one of the "problems" with freedom -- dingbats (Moonbat larvae) can leave non-sensical, repetitious posts on your website, their Bush-hatred on full display, the spittle flying out of their mouths as they speak, Chris Matthews-style (yeah, talkin' 'bout you, condo-man). BDS, indeed!
Posted by: jc14 at September 11, 2007 5:29 PM
jc14
It would appear that he is surrounded, Dems to the front, drivebys behind, but he will be victorious.
Posted by: James F McEnanly at September 11, 2007 6:13 PM
