BushWhore of the day: Tony Blankley

[whometense]

On Hardball tonight he compared Dick Cheney's past 5 days of zero accountability to the days in 2003 between JK's prostate cancer diagnosis and his press announcement.


Un-fucking-believable. He managed to:

1. drag JK into a story that had absolutely nothing to do with him

2. equate Cheney's vile and craven behavior with JK's brave and honorable behavior

3. but...9/11

4. See? Quick, look over there! The democrats are just as bad as the republicans!

On the up-side, he did refer to JK as a "Democratic Leader."

Can't wait for the transcript.

[globalvillage]

1. That was incredibly disgusting.

I have treatable cancer, so I am going to discuss it with my family and my doctors before I tell the rest of the world.

vs.

I shot a man in the face, so I'm going to sober up a bit and then pretend it didn't happen until the media forces my hand.

OK, I see the similarity now.


:sarcasm:

[whometense]

2. Did you see it too??

Just when you think you've seen it all...

Olbermann showed this cartoon tonight:



I think it is hilarious.

[wisteria]

3. LOL, they are good! n/t

[globalvillage]

4. I did. I had sworn off Tweety for a while

but he's been OK lately. Although he should have pointed out that a cancer diagnosis and what may (hopefully not) become manslaughter are two different things.

I switch to SFRC, though, since I missed it today and I looooove to watch the Senator in hearings. So I missed Olberman. Good toons.

[karynnj]

6. I saw it too - I'm actually just as mad at Matthews for

not calling him on it. As you said theirs absolutly no equivalence. It was way before the primaries so the month Kerry took to meet with his doctors, tell his family and friends and likely come to terms with it himself did not hurt anyone. It was almost a year before the primaries, so he wasn't impacting the other Democrats in their decision to run.

[TayTay]

5. Whome, we warned you about Hardball.

Blakely works for the MoonieTimes Creative Writing Tabloid. (It's not a 'news'paper.) Of course he has to bring other more honorable people into the discussion and smear them by vague and dubious comparisons that a 4th grade debate would not allow under the rules. What else do they have? The Vice President of the United States shot a man in the heart, endangered his health enough to put him in ICU for days and then decided he didn't need to talk about it with the press.

This is exactly the same as a man who had prostrate cancer and decided he wanted to tell his family about it before he told the press. (You need to go to RW school and learn the art of equating apples with horses. It's a real art form. See.) See, ahm, that national press was mad at Vice because he wasn't forthright about the event and didn't announce it at once. The Boston Globe was mad at Kerry when he didn't tell them first because they thought they had the right to know everything about Sen. Kerry before anyone else. (Even, in this case, Sen. Kerry himself. The Globe coverage showed that they were upset that Kerry didn't tell them he had something wrong before he knew what it was. Now that is a tough press coverage.)

Vice shot a man and felt really bad about it. Sen. Kerry felt really bad about something that actually happened to him and not someone else. Can't you see that this is exactly the same thing? OMG! Kerry is so much worse. I mean really, what business did he have not telling everyone he had cancer. That is so dishonest. Whereas, when you come right down to it, the Lord High Regent Dick is so sweet and cuddly and wholesome that we should just give him 'one bad' on the shooting and call it a day. I mean, Kerry had cancer, Dick shot a 78 year old man in the heart. There is simply no comparison. Kerry was so much worse.

There. That should now be crystal clear and a positive insight into RW world.

[sandnsea]

10. Horses do eat apples

So they actually do have alot more in common than a cancer patient and shooting someone IN THE FACE!!!

I could not even believe my ears when I heard it.

[ginnyinWI]

7. deny, deflect, distract

:boring:

I hate that guy.

[emulatorloo]

8. Somebody tell Moonie Tony the election is over -- Bush Won, no need to

distort John Kerry's life anymore.

(these people are so scared of Dems like Kerry it is *almost* funny)

[sandnsea]

9. I saw that

Shame on JK for not telling the world that he had cancer when he hadn't even officially announced he was running for anything. Because, again, this is EXACTLY LIKE shooting someone in the FACE!!!

I sincerely hope these propagandists are looking as stupid as I think they are.

[ProSense]

11. Oh, so now

they're trying to blame Kerry's manhood for the Vice Prick almost killing a man? What happened to blaming the Clinton's penis.

[whometense]

12. Relevant portion of the transcript

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11387224/

...MATTHEWS: I think one question, Tony, you can answer it as well as anyone, do you think it‘s healthy in a democracy that a vice president of the United States elected by the country, just like the president, he has the whole country behind him, that he can exercise this kind of discretion?

He selects a local reporter, who is a friend of his host, they put it out the next day. It gets out around noon. It hits the Web page around 2:00 in the afternoon, the following day. Then he waits until Wednesday, four days later to give it to someone they select in the television medium. They select maybe the interviewer for all I know.

Do you think that‘s healthy to have this kind of cherry picking of the media where you get to select the interviewer as well as give the interview yourself? Is that healthy?

BLANKLEY: Well, healthy for the nation. If this was involving government—important government policy, you have some obligation if it‘s not classified information to get it out promptly and broadly. This is an issue that is so small.

John Kerry spent days before he announced he had some health problem when he was a candidate, I didn‘t think it was a big deal. I didn‘t make a big deal about it then. Harry Reid spent days before he announced his health problem. Two major leaders. I didn‘t think it was a big deal. And I don‘t think a hunting accident is a big deal...

They also have video up http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036697/, in case you feel like subjecting yourself to it...