Fox News brought on little Ms. Dick I-love-to-torture Cheney and William I-love-it-when-we-invade
It is no surprise that Ms. Cheney, who can only grasp the absurdity by recognizing her father is a war criminal, would chastise the Nobel Committee for not appreciating this:
“The US Military is the greatest peace-keeping force in the world today.”
But of course when you combine this enormous military capability with Bill Kristol’s notion of “American exceptionalism,” an immature frat boy for President and Dick Cheney as his handler, it’s also not a surprise that the rest of the world might view this as a dangerous threat to their peace and security.
It’s perfectly understandable that the much of the world might be very relieved to get rid of the Cheney-Kristol crowd. So there’s some logic in awarding the Peace Prize not just to someone who rhetorically suggests there are other ways to get your way besides invading countries that never threatened you, but implicitly to American voters for kicking the worst warmongers out of office.
But that notion is too complex for the clueless Bob Schieffer, who used his editorial spot at the end of Face the Nation to tell us he just can’t respect those Nobel people any more. I suspect the feeling is mutual.
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“They make it a wilderness and call it peace.”
- Roman General Tacitus (and today’s rethug philosophes)
I can see Kristol’s point.
If the pursuit of war justifies awarding of the Peace Prize, GW Bush certainly has to be considered.
this is what they do, they claim oposites…the very sad thing is people listen and actually believe that’s “the other side of the story”
These people continue to amaze. I wonder if their little bubble is ever going to explode and expose them to reality. thanks for the Sunday morning loopyness, Scarecrow.
War is peace. Democrats and Norwegians are doubleplusungood.
Ms. Dick I-love-to-torture Cheney says, “The US Military is the greatest peace-keeping force in the world today.”
Then why did the Bush-Cheney administration outsource jobs usually done by the US Military to private companies?
Could it be that the only thing that people like her and Kristol love more than invading Muslim countries and enhancing the profits of private corporations is that ever-so-golden opportunity when they can do both at the same time?
This is the extreme right. We should be paid in Halloween candy for sitting through that clip. One problem is when one shuts up another one starts talking.
Military solution, Military solution and what a great day for the Military.
Are we sure Liz isn’t dick with a really cool mask? She sure sounds and reasons like him.Spooky I tell ya.
As I see it, the Obama Peace Prize was a direct kick in the balls for W, as O got it simply for not being W.
How many wedding parties does one have to blow to smithereens to lose their peacenik status?
For any other country, it would be one. But America is Exceptional, so it gets an unlimited number.
New audiobook disc is loaded on my ipod so I’m off again.
I think they want to keep going in Afghanistan because they’re seeing what the US would be like if it actually were run by their expressed theories. And it scares them.
Well, and he gave some kickass speeches, too. That fact takes a lot of ribbing from the conservative spectrum–like it is a bad thing that the rest of the world finds America’s leader alluring–but it doesn’t change the fact that it is a real phenomenon. The BBC coverage of Obama’s speech in Prague is an excellent example. Here in America the media story was at least 50% negative that Obama was perceived as a “rock star” by the rest of the world.
Well, a large portion of the rest of the world was actually listening to the conviction of his message and, guess what, they liked it. There are factions in the rest of world capable of looking into the future rather than merely examining the past. The Nobel Prize committee is one of those factions. I told Bob Schieffer as much.
Why not the Merkin military? Liz is merely echoing Moustache Tom’s brilliant NYT editorial of today, in which he suggests that Obama acquit himself by saying (among other things)
“I will accept this award on behalf of the American men and women who are still on patrol today in Iraq, helping to protect Baghdad’s fledgling government as it tries to organize the rarest of things in that country and that region — another free and fair election.”
Is that not rather like expecting a cookie for starting to glue the jar back together after breaking it? Apparently Obama’s receiving the prize just wasn’t absurd enough for these … nincompoops.
Important to remember that Schieffer doesn’t come to this debate with clean hands, since his brother Tom was a Bush Ambassador (to Australia and Japan, iirc) and big Texas fundraiser for the Bush/Cheney crew.
I’ve never cared for Bob and his conflict-of-interest throughout the Bush years was appalling. It’s just worsening now as he poses as a neutral commentator.
Don’t get caught up in the content. This is the Right trying to parasite some of the spotlight off the Left. This is Dick Cheney MO, say as many outrageous things in order change rhetoric to being centered on the Right.
Don’t get caught up in the content. Some one on the Left in the spotlight on the left now needs to counter.
When Darthetta was speaking about Obama going to Oslo to accept the award she said that he instead send a few of the Troops to accept it. Stop and think for a moment on just how twisted this idea is beyond the insult that is a given.
Between her and Ms. Neocon Kagan I can’t decide which is the most danger to Reality Thinking in American Politics. Maybe it’s just the Halloween spirit in the air ? Nahhh.
The rethugs speak, the sheeple listen. In the end it is just a bunch of meaningless noise. Now how the vote will go in 2010 is the big question. Will the dems manage to beat themselves? Will the rethugs eke out a win in the house? Today is Oct 11 2009. There are only 12 shopping months until the next election. Be prepared for a 24/7 onslaught of rethugs on TV. The MSM is now on the rethug side-no matter how much they cry about “the liberal MSM”, it ain’t.Truthiness rules the airwaves. I throw up my hands and scream I FUCKIN QUIT. No more American Network news, no more cable news. I will restrict myself to KBS-Korean Broadcasting Service. I get more objective reporting from them anyway. Are we really the nation of idiots that we appear to be? I made the mistake of watching a bit of the CBS news on Friday. Where did the adults who used to be in charge of the “news” go? When did the “news” become part of the entertainment portion of the networks? Big sigh, For about the first time in my life I really do not look forward to the future, I do not see any of my kids being more successful
This blue planet has had little peace, not because of it, but the introdictiom of mankind. Animals kill to live, we kill because we don’t like what others do and say. Hannity told Moore he didn’t hate His enemies He wanted to distroy them. These are the people who claim to be religious, the politically smart one’s, and who we should want to lead our Country. The sad part is they use their freedom of speech, to preech hate, and to denounce anyone who doesn’t beleive as they do.
Wouldn’t that be the Nobel War prize for starting a war?
Is it too much to pray that someday soon heads explode for intellectual dishonesty, hypocrisy, and inconsistency? This nation might benefit quickly if the Fox crew and its regressive parasites never again generated a spoken or written word.
If I were a Repugnant AKA Republican…I would be embarassed. We can finally be proud to be Americans again. The last time that I was in Oslo (for 3 months), I took great pains to hide my passport and my nationality. Finally we are regaining some respect in the world. The Nobel Prize was obviously about the vision that Obama has shown and his willingness to reach across the aisle and listen.
Actually George W. Bush and his accessory Tony Blair turned away from the “universally acclaimed” Afghanistan war to their masterpiece in Iraq. And it turns out not everybody agreed with that use of military power.
The American people disagreed so much in fact they threw out as many Republicans as they could get their hands on out and gave leadership of the country to the Party that said they would get US out.
So the Nobel people may have a bias, perhaps stuck on something small like Afghanistan being turned back into a narco-state funding terrorism and fueling misery around the world or one million dead Iraqi men, women and children and slaughtered soldiers from every nation for no reason at all, or war crimes during the occupation, or international terrorism increasing exponential during Bush’s war against it. But if they are sweating the small stuff it is an anti-conservative bias. Like everybody else.
Especially the American people who want their servicemen to come home and leave Cheney and Bush’s blood mines. So who are the anti-Americans in this picture?
I think Homer Simpson deserves the Nobel more than Bush. Just as intelligent but at least Homer made me laugh.
Mr Burns would make for a good Cheney, don’t you think?
My dog deserves the Nobel Peace prize more than bush.
#6 is a five star comment.
Baby Dick.
Geeze, I didn’t see her coming :(