PUBLIC NUISANCES: Coalition on the Evil/The Politics of Personal Quotation
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr.
PUBLIC NUISANCES R. EMMETT TYRELL, JR. Coalition of the Evil WASHINGTON S SADDAM HUSSEIN SULKS in his prison cell, members of his Coalition of the Evil on the outside have...
...The distressed murderer goes on to pontificate that "God does not accept such actions and that will delay victory...
...But Boone Pickens and Zell Miller stole the show, along with Swift Boat hero John O'Neill, who was superb...
...70 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR JUNE 2005 As a letter from a Zarqawi lieutenant, recovered in a Baghdad raid, indicates, we are making headway in breaking down the command structure of the Coalition of the Evil...
...We shall capture the murderers' leaders or kill them along with their henchmen...
...Old Europe's history of appeasement goes back a long way and has taught today's appeasers nothing...
...Perhaps the foremost villain on the "extreme right" known for discrediting people by quoting them is OpinionJournal.com's James Taranto...
...I quoted the writers who a year before had insisted on Clinton's near virginal condition and on the "dishonesty" of those of us arguing otherwise...
...John Howard...
...In Paris in the early 1940s celebrated intellectuals such as Jean-Paul Sartre discoursed on the vulgarity of the English-speaking leaders as the Nazi tourists strolled by...
...Then they send in more suicidal killers...
...Actually, I quite inadvertently found myself accused of this cheap trick back in the middle 1990s...
...As a means of terror and destruction, it is indeed an innovation...
...Well, I would expect nothing better from such people, and it is helpful to the commonweal for Dr...
...Some of Old Europe's most robust thinking is done in cafes...
...The Politics of Personal Quotation WASHINGTON S CONSCIENTIOUS FOLLOWERS OF POLITICS are doubtless aware, the better sort of American 'beral is troubled by the unprecedented vituperation that has stolen into the public discourse...
...Joe Klein, now of Time, was equally critical...
...We do have big mistakes where some of us have been discarded...
...What will eventually end it is the police action of the American army aided by the valiant Australians, British, and others from the Coalition of the Willing...
...But surely they never employed this gruesome tactic on the scale of Saddam and Zarqawi's thugs...
...The insurgents are for a certitude being run down...
...When the Cold War was brought to an PUBLIC NUISANCES end by Western resolve at the end of the 1980s these same sophists had more documents and theories demonstrating that the Soviet Union was not a threat...
...Possibly they did...
...Maybe major media is waiting for Al Franken to put together an amusing meeting...
...Instead their argument is that we ought not to be in Iraq...
...I think President Jacques Chirac and Chancellor Gerhard Schroder would look elegant bearded and in turbans—though their predecessors from the 1930s generally ended up in concentration camps...
...Dean to direct the public's attention to these troubling developments...
...Then, doubtless, the European sophisticates will purr on about humanitarianism and world peace—matters they have so little experience with...
...That was a very successful way to murder women, children, old men, and young men—the last of whom were volunteering to build a free Iraq...
...The Wall Street Journal's David Brooks asked me if I would like to "gloat" about this subsequent vindication...
...Other writers such as David Maraniss had just published the same findings...
...Rush Limbaugh does it every weekday and so does Sean Hannity...
...Hundreds of conservatives turn out for the MRC awards dinner every year and have a very jolly time...
...After setting off their initial explosions, the murderers wait for ambulances and rescuers to arrive...
...This poses a moral dilemma for the prospective rescuers...
...The letter was meant for Zarqawi and goes on to show that there is dissatisfaction among the mujahidin, which is Arabic, I presume, for murderer...
...PUBLIC NUISANCES R . E M M E T T T Y R R E L L, J R. Coalition of the Evil WASHINGTON S SADDAM HUSSEIN SULKS in his prison cell, members of his Coalition of the Evil on the outside have devised yet another grisly innovation in barbarism...
...I must admit I went this year and enjoyed myself immensely...
...It will be a long wait...
...Apparently the Iraqis were better off with Saddam, a tyrant who committed genocide against his countrymen and such ghastly tortures as putting captives through paper shredders—feet first...
...For now the Coalition of the Evil is stepping up the carnage assisted by this recent innovation of attacking rescuers and onlookers...
...All in all it is a very amusing—if merciless—evening...
...Dishonesty" was the word Michael Kinsley leveled at us...
...And after my Journal piece appeared he told me to my face that I had dealt him "a low blow...
...Naturally this year Dan Rather won...
...Do they rush in to aid the injured and the dying, hoping all the while that no second round of bombs is planned...
...Yes, they simply hurl back into a person's face things the person has said, without any regard as to how this cruel quoting coarsens our society...
...Perhaps the intelligentsia in France, Germany, and the other European countries who are so critical of our Iraqi presence will expatiate on this innovation in their scholarly seminars and their cafes...
...They have moved beyond simply packing a vehicle with explosives and rolling it up to a marketplace or some other ill-defended venue before blowing it up...
...Indeed, the treacherous quoting of innocent liberals has become a staple of the American right...
...They hope large crowds of onlookers will form...
...Kinsley explained how unfair it is some time ago when he noted that liberals were having their foolish statements thrown back at them because of the ad-vent of so many search machines on the Internet...
...The people of Iraq are suffering today not be-cause of their liberators but because Old Europe and the United Nations have failed to join us in investing the country with sufficient numbers of troops to run the insurgents down quickly...
...Their intelligentsia had excogitated elegant arguments about how President Harry Truman missed opportunities to compose peace with Stalin in the late 1940s...
...It is appalling to watch these cowards sit back while Iraqis are murdered by the thugs of Saddam and Zarqawi, the little Hitlers of the moment...
...Midge Decter was the heart of suave hilaritas...
...The carnage will end...
...Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, likewise is alarmed by the abusiveness from the right or more generally from Republicans whom he has recently identified as being "evil," "corrupt," and "brain-dead...
...During the Cold War the predecessors of these fops made the same claim, but with a difference...
...Ann Coulter was on the program and Hannity...
...Now the Coalition of the Evil, composed of Saddam's faithful, indigenous religious lunatics, and the terrorists of Mr...
...Today I realize how treacherous it is for writers to remind others of their prior timorousness or imbecility...
...Zarqawi's correspondent writes, "The morale has weakened and lines of mujahidin have become separated due to some leaders' action...
...During the bloody 20th century, I cannot recall ever hearing of the Communist revolutionaries or the Nazis attempting this tactic...
...They, and concerned citizens like them, recognize that this inflammatory rhetoric comes, in the main, from the right—or as they put it, "the extreme right...
...Bearing in mind that Saddam had turned his country into avast arsenal with weaponry lying around that has been estimated to be equal to about 60 percent of our entire conventional arsenal worldwide, there are probably sufficient explosives in the hands of the Coalition of the Evil to continue this sort of carnage for a long time...
...A year after I was scorned for publishing stories revealing that Bill Clinton has an eye for the ladies (and other parts of his anatomy for the ladies as well), it became apparent that I was right...
...Abu Musab Zarqawi, have doubled the deadliness of their bombers...
...My innocent response was some-thing to the effect, "But Joe, all I did was quote you...
...Allow me to point out that "the right" not only indulges in jarring invective but it also has adopted polemical techniques that are very disturbing...
...Search machines make it easy to retrieve a public per-son's errors...
...Curiously, never is it reported on by major media...
...Every year the Media Research Center holds a huge dinner in Washington devoted to ridiculing members of the media for things they have said over the past year—and the Media Research Center uses video tape...
...In the present conflict the brutes against us are so barbaric that it is difficult for today's sophists to argue that the Coalition of the Evil is not responsible for its atrocities...
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...Alas, I committed an egregious journalistic excess...
...Historians pored over documents that supposedly implicated the West in starting the Cold War...
...The Clinton refer to it as "The Politics of Personal Destruction"—well said, Bill and Hillary...
...MRC spends the year taping network news and then plays select tapes back during its dinner...
...Or do they wait, allowing the injured to suffer and die unattended...
...For several years its writers have engaged in discrediting their opponents by quoting them...
...They actuallyclaim moral and intellectual superiority to President George W. Bush, Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Australian P.M...
...It presents awards for the stupidest quotations...
Vol. 38 • June 2005 • No. 5
