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  •  "Odd and unpleasant people?" (4.00 / 5)

    Norm Podhoretz is one to talk about "odd and unpleasant."  I love the US Military, I don't want to see our troops DIE for no goddamn reason, unlike that asshole who sees them as PAWNS for some idiotic scheme!

    by teenagedallasdeaniac on Wed Dec 29, 2004 at 08:18:27 AM PDT

    •  indeed (4.00 / 9)

      and why even dignify him with a remark?  i suppose nowadays we have to defend ourselves against smears like this, but isn't this just giving his bile a longer life?

      fuck John Podhoretz.  in fact, i hope he's reading this thread.

      john, you are a scum sucking peice of shit.  you are not fit to spit shine the boots of our troops. wingnuts like you - who refused to question the wisdom of the bush administration - are the reason our troops are dying at higher rates than they should be.  i dare you to come say to my face that i - or anyone in this community - don't support our troops.  i didn't want them to die in the first place, and now that they are there i want them properly armored and i want them to come home safely and as soon as possible.  and by god if i am going to sit here and watch YOUR bush administration slash veteran's benefits.  FUCK OFF.

      John Cornyn is an asshole with shoes. Support Rick Noriega!

      by anna on Wed Dec 29, 2004 at 08:26:38 AM PDT

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      •  My thoughts exactly (4.00 / 9)

        I sent this to him, it'll probably get deleted before he gets past the header.


        "Democratic Party bottom-feeders -- like the odd and unpleasant people who inhabit the comments sections on Web sites like dailykos.com and democraticunderground.com -- have already long since started spewing their bile at our soldiers, sailors and Marines."

        Mr. Podhoretz,

        Do you even read these websites or do you simply engage in ad hominem attacks based off of information from your buddies at the water cooler each day?
        First, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga (the webmaster and primary author at Dailykos.com) is an Army veteran and a survivor of the civil war in El Salvador, I would think he knows a little more about supporting troops than someone like you.
        Second, it's people like you, who think that all human life is expendable in the name of extreme right-wing ideology, who really don't give a damn about the troops. Your support of an administration that has led our men and women into the biggest death trap in a generation with false information, no discernable battle strategy and a criminal neglect for the well-being of both troops and civilians is the real enemy to democracy. I pray to God that clearer minds and morals than yours prevail during the upcoming years, because your columns are poison in the well of rational political discourse.
        Have a good day.

        Angry letters to 2-bit columnists, what a way to spend 5 minutes.

        by Antioch on Wed Dec 29, 2004 at 08:39:45 AM PDT

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      •  hell yea. (none / 1)

        exactly.

        by b6 on Wed Dec 29, 2004 at 08:42:53 AM PDT

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    •  -sputter-! (4.00 / 5)

      Are these the same "Democratic Party bottom feeders" who are drawing attention to the administration's and Pentagon's miserable treatment of the military, from billing soldiers for food while in the hospital recovering from combat wounds to leaving them homeless vets upon return to the USA?

      If so, I'm glad to be a bottom feeder.

      Republicans can't run a country. All they can run is a smear campaign. ~ GMT

      Vice harms the doer ~ Socrates

      by kdub on Wed Dec 29, 2004 at 08:42:32 AM PDT

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    •  Odd and Unpleasant (none / 1)

      I thought that chickenshits name was spelled John Pudwhoretz. Silly me.

      "Curioser, and Curioser" I must say as we trip down this rancid rabbit hole; In the bile-filed bizarre world of "conservative thought" (sic) not only are we liberals responsible for the catastrophic failure in Iraq (because Clinton gutted the military, dontcha know?!) but by protesting Bushco blunders we're pouring putresence on our proudly serving patriotic soldiers.

      This has never happened here before </sarcasm>

      Normally, I'd like peyote to be involved when there's this much vomit around, but then again I'd like a skeptical (of power) and unbiased press, a fairly elected president and a country full of sane, informed, and compassionate democrats (small d).

      Oh well, I guess I'm still pre-occupied with pipedreams.

      Emancipate yourself from Mental Slavery, No one but ourselves can free our Minds.

      by TustonDAZ on Wed Dec 29, 2004 at 09:02:31 AM PDT

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    •  John Podhoretz under discussion (none / 1)

      Norm Podhoretz is his father (couldn't believe it either). Referring to downthread, Norm Podhoretz has aged and turned over the editorship of Commentary to someone else, I think, as Kristol and Glazer did with The Public Interest. I find the articles in Commentary more worth reading than most of the wingnut press.

      -4.00, -5.33 Strange Bedfellows Money Bomb: August 8, 2008 Civil liberties is not a purity issue.

      by 4jkb4ia on Wed Dec 29, 2004 at 09:39:51 AM PDT

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