North Korea Calls Rumsfeld a 'Psychopath', 'Stupid Man'

[jenk]

I fell off my chair laughing when I saw this headline

North Korea Calls Rumsfeld 'Psychopath'
1 hour, 2 minutes ago

By SANG-HUN CHOE, Associated Press Writer

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea (news - web sites) called U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld a "psychopath" and a "stupid man" on Saturday, denouncing him for predicting that the country's isolated communist regime will one day fall.



Speaking before a group of U.S. and South Korean businessmen, Rumsfeld said last week that freedom will eventually come and "light up that oppressed land with hope and with promise," casting aside the dictatorship that has ruled the North for more than half a century.


North Korea, whose media regularly churn out anti-American vituperations, is especially thin-skinned when outsiders attack its political leadership.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030927/ap_on_re_as/nkorea_us_rumsfeld

[arwalden]

1. Once Again... Reality Proves Funnier Than Fiction

[cliss]

2. Heh heh

Isn't it great when politics, which can be a dreadfully tragic subject, can actually have comedy written in?

My first take is, how different are these two "leaders", really?

a) both specialize in suppressing free speech of their consitutents, people go hungry

b) both have nuclear weapons which they're willing to use on any perceived "threats" to their security

c) both "inherited" their countries from their fathers

d) the military arsenal is expanded, at the expense of social programs, social welfare

e) one wears platform shoes and has puffy hair

[RainDog]

3. f. the other has a boss who wears a codpiece n/t

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[chenGOD]

4. It's not certain that North Korea has nukes.

There is no solid proof that North Korea has nuclear weapons. The only "evidence" is an accusation by some American officials, and North Korean propaganda.

[10digits]

5. F

Windshield cowboy,

cutti'n brush here on the "LazyW". Vacation time,over? Time for another war where I can't find it. "Bring em on!"

[Jackpine Radical]

6. I hate it when a pissant little dictatorship like that

proves they have a clearer vision of reality than the entire US media establishment and half the Democratic Party.

[rock]

7. When you're right, you're right

Doesn't matter who you are.

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[thebigidea]

12. "public servants who slave away to keep you safe."

yup, I sho nuff love those public servants:



>public servants who slave away to keep you safe.

Silly, we're ALREADY in North Korea. Operation: Digital Potemkin.

Don't forget to put on that Stalin moustache.

[izzie]

8. We have finally turned into the funny countries we all laught about

n/t

[indepat]

10. How dare he call Secretary Rumsfeld stupid:

stupid he ain't.

[Oilwellian]

13. Your post reminded me of this story....

Knowing our enemy

As mindless liberals reflexively attack our elected wartime President, George W. Bush over his brilliant and inspired handling of the near-crisis brought about by the sinister North Korean communist regime and the inept foreign policy of the failed Clinton administration, it is important that we true conservatives remember the nature of the Korean dictator and charter member of the Axis of Evil.

He is the pampered and spoiled product of his country's ruling elite and the son of his country's former leader. Born to the wealth and high social standing of his family's political dynasty, he has enjoyed a life of privilege far removed from concerns of his exploited countrymen. Despite an obvious lack of merit, talent or aptitude, he received the best accommodations his country could offer. He was a notorious playboy and immoral rake until he reached an age at which most men have matured. He produced nothing and accomplished nothing unconnected to his family's name, and owes his current political position to solely his father's cronies.

Surrounded by sycophants and toadies, he adheres to a discredited ideology that most of his countrymen would reject if they were not routinely and massively propagandized. He is unconcerned with the economic devastation his party's ideology has visited on his country, except as to avoid complete disaster and cynically manipulate each crisis to the passing advantage of his party and the ruling elite.

Paranoid and contemptuous of foreign opinion, he has alienated almost the entire world with disjointed, bellicose, but often colorful rhetoric that most other nations find frightening. His erratic foreign policy consists solely of slogans intended to further propagandize a fearful domestic audience rather than assure his neighbors. Often, he unpredictibly reverses his own national policy and acts unilaterally to further a political ideology that is incompatible with democracy.

These are the differences between Kim Jong Il and our own beloved and respected leader. Liberals are blind to those differences.


Dating back to January:
http://snotglass.blogspot.com/

[chenGOD]

14. Hah!! That is great satire, and the author doesn't even know it.

What a moran!!!

Edit: Although on actually looking at the site, that author is one scary individual. "Our elected wartime president blah blah..."....is he applying for a job with the Ministry of Truth? I do notice however that the last entry was June 11, 2003. Hmm maybe he's a sheep who forgot how to say "baaahh"?

[berry]

18. The more I read on that blogsite, the more I think it IS parody,

but sort of failed parody, because the real thing is too close to the parody. That's how bad things are. The site really does look like a right-wing site, but the links are SOOO awful--a list of truly terrible sites. Maybe he's trying to make them look bad (not hard) by outdoing them at their own game.

But my only clue to this is the way s/he describes Jonah Goldberg. Surely he's NOT a professor of military history!!?? And surely the Heritage Foundation didn't send out a Brigade to Iraq (a la Spanish Civil War)!!? Here are 2 clips:

http://snotglass.blogspot.com/

June 11, 2003
Independent research by noted author and professor of military science Jonah Goldberg has corroborated these findings. His research has discovered that the Army is mainly prepared to fight conventional conflicts involving tanks, artillery and infantry. “The Army is shockingly unprepared to meet future conflict. Shinseki’s recent statement that ‘hundreds of thousands’ of American troops might be ties down in Iraq for many years just shows that his thinking and training are out of step with the President’s bold vision for the future.”

May 27, 2003
These findings have been verified by veteran combat journalist and celebrated author Jonah Goldberg, embedded with the lead elements of the Heritage Foundation’s elite Balangiga Brigade. “With a few exceptions of vandalism and petty theft,” said Goldberg, “the Battle of Iraq is over.” Goldberg also reported that his unit is spoiling for its next mission.

So, anyway, I vote for the Kim piece being parody. Maybe s/he gave up the blogging because reality was getting impossible to parody, being already surreal?

[chenGOD]

20. Possibly. Truth IS stranger than fiction...

So there's a good chance that what you say is true. I didn't give the site much more than a cursory glance, especially when I saw the link to Ann Coulter's site.....

[Oilwellian]

22. It's clearly satire

Or at least that was the consensus here when I originally posted it. :D

[BiggJawn]

15. WHAT "differences"????

I'm not clear if the author of that piece was talking about Dumbya or Kim-of-the-bad-blowout.

[rocktivity]

16. If liberals are blind to the differences between Kim Jong Il and Bush

then conservatives are comatose to their similiarities!


rocknation

[Pastiche423]

17. I can't stop giggling

This reminds me of what President Jiang Zemin once said of whistle ass:


"Bush is logically unsound; confused; unprincipled and unwise to the extreme."

[jamesinca]

19. I don't know if he is stupid

But he does fit the description of Psychopath.

[Jim Sagle]

21. A CNN Headline News crawl reported it this way: "Hey, Rumsfeld!"