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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
CNS Pushes Myth That Congress Exempted Itself From Obamacare
Topic: CNSNews.com

Jeffrey Meyer writes in a Sept. 17 CNSNews.com blog post:

Members of Congress love to remind their constituents that they are just like us because they like beer, music and greasy food. Thankfully, the folks at Bankrupting America, a project of the organization Public Notice, have exposed the congressional myth in a new online ad titled "Inconvenient."

In a short thirty-second animated ad, consisting of nothing more than stick figures, Public Notice mocks how members of Congress have exempted themselves from the burdens of ObamaCare while pretending to be just like their constituents.

"After realizing how much the new health care law would cost them, Congress pushed for special rules protecting themselves from higher prices yet leaving average Americans without any similar help," the ad proclaims before ending with the on-air graphic "Congress: They're just like you. Unless it's inconvenient."

In fact, Congress did not exempt itself. FactCheck.org explains:

Congress isn’t “exempt” from the law. It wasn’t exempt back in 2010, when we first debunked such a claim; nor were lawmakers exempt in May when the bogus bit surfaced again. Three months later, they’re still not exempt. In fact, as we’ve said before, lawmakers and their staffs face additional requirements that other Americans don’t. And the “special subsidy” to which Pittenger refers is simply a premium contribution that his employer, the federal government, has long made to the health insurance policies of its workers.

[...]

Our readers may recall that before this provision was created, there were claims circulating that Congress was “exempt” from the law. This twisted reading of the legislation was based on the fact that originally Congress, like other Americans with work-based insurance or Americans on Medicare and Medicaid, wouldn’t be eligible for the exchanges. In other words, Congress was supposedly “exempt” when members couldn’t participate in the exchanges, and now that they are required to do so, they’re still somehow “exempt” from the law. Neither of these convoluted claims is true.

But it's good right-wing politics for Meyer to perpetuate this falsehood, so don't expect a correction anytime soon.


Posted by Terry K. at 9:50 AM EDT
WND-Touted College Lecturer Says WND-Friendly Crazy Things
Topic: WorldNetDaily

WorldNetDaily tried to make an enticing plug for a lecture in a Sept. 12 article:

Where to start on the subject of sex and politics?

“Monkey Business” and former Colorado Sen. Gary Hart?

The blue dress and Bill Clinton?

Weiner, Spitzer or Filner?

So many cases, but they mostly were men misbehaving.

On Friday, Patrick Henry College’s annual Faith and Reason Lecture will feature Stephen Baskerville, professor of government at PHC, who will talk about the sexual revolution’s impact on modern politics.

Further down in the article, though, one got the idea where Baskerville's lecture would really go, which seemed to stray far afield from the stated topic:

He noted one issue in which “draconian punishments” have been handed out – “the system of unilateral and involuntary divorce, government’s purpose-built mechanism for dismembering families, seizing control over the private lives of innocent people and their children, summarily confiscating property,and criminalizing the embodiments of the hated ‘patriarchy’: fathers.”

[...]

“Parents sucked into the divorce machinery against their will and through literally ‘no-fault’ of their own, constitute the canary in the mineshaft,” he said.

“Their criminalization by the sexual militants who run the divorce industry is the model for what will be inflicted on the rest of us when the sexual militants achieve their control over other bureaucratic gendarmeries. For the divorce machinery is the model for a whole series of new ‘gender’ crimes – many of which no one has ever heard of before and no one really understands,” he said.

And that, in fact, is pretty much where Baskerville's lecture went. Right Wing Watch listened to it so we don't have to:

A mandatory lecture given to the students of the Christian conservative Patrick Henry College on Friday offered apologies for rape, domestic violence and child abuse, and blamed American mass incarceration on feminists’ insistance on prosecuting sexual violence.

Patrick Henry professor Stephen Baskerville, a so-called “men’s rights” advocate, delivered the college’s annual “Faith and Reason” lecture, Libby Anne reported at Patheos. Baskerville started off with his thesis that feminists and Islamists are working together to push Christians out of public life, sort of like the alliance between Hitler and Stalin:

[...]

Elsewhere in the lecture, Baskerville rails against gay rights and no-fault divorce, concluding that marriage equality “can end nowhere but in prison and in death.”

Remember, Patrick Henry College is a school catering to homeschooled evangelicals, and WND editor Joseph Farah has sent at least one child there. This is the sort of thing Farah permits his children to "learn," which may explain why WND is the way it is.


Posted by Terry K. at 12:29 AM EDT
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
Noel Sheppard Racks Up Another Correction
Topic: NewsBusters

The increasingly error-prone Noel Sheppard has done it again.

Sheppard writes in a Sept. 17 NewsBusters post:

When Warren Buffett proposed higher taxes on millionaires in 2011, the media gushed and fawned giving him and his views airtime as if Elvis Presley returned from the dead.

Will they be as fascinating by the Oracle of Omaha stating that ObamaCare should be scrapped?

Sheppard cited an obscure website called Money Morning that "recently" interviewed Buffett, then added:

It seems a metaphysical certitude that if Buffett in this MM interview said ObamaCare will save people a great deal of money and should be implemented exactly as is, the media would be all over it. But the Oracle of Omaha saying it should be scrapped?

Seems highly-unlikely this will get much attention outside of the conservative media.

Stay tuned.

Well, we did stay tuned, and a conservative website did take note of Buffett's statement -- but not in the way Sheppard would like.

The Washington Examiner -- recently demoted from a daily newspaper to a right-wing opinion site -- found that Buffett's remarks date from 2010, before the Affordable Care Act was approved, not anytime "recently." And a Buffett spokesperson has denied that Buffett made the statements as quoted in Morning Money.

That means yet another correction for Sheppard was in order. The top of his post now reads:

Executive editor's note: Due to an error made by a secondary source, the piece below incorrectly claimed that Warren Buffett had called for the repeal of Obamacare in 2013. The interview which was cited actually took place in 2010. We regret the error.

How much of Sheppard's reckless blogging will NewsBusters continue to tolerate?


Posted by Terry K. at 9:33 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 9:38 PM EDT
WND's Erik Rush: Navy Yard Massacre Is A False Flag
Topic: WorldNetDaily

There seems to be no end to the conspiracy theories Erik Rush will believe in (and, by extension, what WorldNetDaily will tolerate by continuing to publish his columns).

In a Sept. 16 tweet, Rush declared that the Navy Yard massacre is "part political diversion, part gun-grabbing theater. NOT random. NOT a lone psycho."

Rush followed that up by declaring, "If you think the #dcnavyyardshooting is random or just an irate doofus, you’re kidding yourself."

Rush also thinks that Malcolm X is Obama's real father, so why wouldn't he believe this?

(h/t Right Wing Watch)


Posted by Terry K. at 5:58 PM EDT
Noel Sheppard: Will Media Portray Robber Who Wore Obama Mask As A Racist?
Topic: NewsBusters

Noel Sheppard really did write this in a Sept. 11 NewsBusters post:

When a rodeo clown wore an Obama mask last month, the liberal media behaved as if he had committed a lynching.

Will they act the same way when they hear about the man that robbed a bank in New Hampshire Wednesday wearing a - wait for it! - Obama mask?

According to CBS's Boston affiliate, "[A] man wearing a President Barack Obama mask, a suit coat, tie and jeans, robbed a Bank of America Wednesday morning."

Shortly after the incident, police arrested John Griffin, 52, of Newport, N.H.

Griffin most-assuredly has to be a racist, right?

And this is likely going be covered by race-baiting so-called "news" outlets across the fruited plain?

Well, no. The robber was using an odd choice for a disguise (not that it didn't keep him from getting arrested), while the rodeo clown not only inserted politics into a nonpolitical event, he was holding Obama up for ridicule in a way that could be considered extremely demeaning and, yes, racially inflammatory. Spectators at the rodeo seemed to think so. There was also a voice over the loudspeaker at the rodeo saying, "We're going to stomp Obama now," which seems to severely undercut much of the purported humor value from the stunt.

In other words, it's another dumb blog post from Sheppard. But we're used to that.

(h/t News Corpse


Posted by Terry K. at 12:28 PM EDT
Coming Soon To A Remainder Bin Near You: Aaron Klein's Book
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Remember when WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah was telling Buzzfeed about how Aaron Klein's WND-published Obama-bashing pro-impeachment book had attracted such attention from booksellers that they "place[d] large orders before the public weighed in" and that the book has presold 100,000 copies? The reality is turning out to be a much different story than Farah's propaganda.

As of this writing, Klein's book is ranked at No. 7,763 at Amazon.com. It also fails to show up in Amazon's top 100 best-sellers in the Politics & Government category.

This means Klein's book is currently being outsold by such evergreen political tomes as Machiavelli's "The Prince," "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" and Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States."

It appears that a significant chunk of those 100,000 books Farah claims to have presold will be heading to remainder bins or will be pulped.

Klein's book hasn't even been out a month, and it's already tanking, which strongly suggests that Farah was lying again. It appears to be headed toward the same fate as WND's previous attempt at pushing for Obama's impeachment with a laughable, falsehood-ridden mess of a book.


Posted by Terry K. at 12:39 AM EDT
Monday, September 16, 2013
Cliff Kincaid's Favorite Dictators
Topic: Accuracy in Media

Cliff Kincaid has a new favorite dictator, and it's Syria's Bashir Al-Assad, credulously quoting everything he says and insisting that President Obama is the one with the credibility problem:

In his interview with Charlie Rose, Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad said there was “not a single shred of evidence” that his regime used chemical weapons. During his Tuesday night speech to the nation, Obama offered none. As the Associated Press noted, “President Barack Obama voiced his conviction Tuesday night that Syrian President Bashar Assad was to blame for deadly chemical attacks against civilians, but again he offered no proof.”

Assad said the Obama Administration “doesn’t have” the evidence. “If they had it, they would have presented it to you as media from the first day,” he said.

[...]

Obama also said on Tuesday that “The Assad regime has now admitted that it has these weapons, and even said they’d join the Chemical Weapons Convention, which prohibits their use.” The implication was that Obama’s threats forced the Syrians to make that admission.

In fact, Syria admitted having these weapons over a year ago, and pledged not to use them in the civil war. Syria’s then-Foreign Ministry spokesman, Jihad Makdissi, told reporters, “Any stock of WMD or unconventional weapons that the Syrian Army possesses will never, never be used against the Syrian people or civilians during this crisis, under any circumstances.”

Kincaid also quotes "Former CIA officer Larry Johnson" as claiming that “My friends in the CIA are still around and they are now warning me that both the United States and the United Kingdom know that Bashar Assad is not responsible for the incident on 21 August that killed and maimed Syrian civilians." But then, Johnson also claimed he had a Michelle Obama "whitey tape."

Kincaid followed that up with a column the next day bashing Obama for purportedly arming Syrian rebel "terrorists." Gut Kincaid made no mention of his stealth dictator crush, Assad ally Vladimir Putin of Russia. And Kincaid is certainly not going to mention how horrible he used to think Putin was.


Posted by Terry K. at 8:24 PM EDT
Obama Derangement Syndrome Watch, Larry Klayman Edition
Topic: WorldNetDaily

On Sept. 11, 2013, a dangerous and viral strain of Muslims invaded Washington, D.C., to march and declare victory over Christians and Jews and to otherwise thumb their noses at everyone who does not believe in allah. While only 30 or so had the “courage” to actually appear on the streets of D.C., having been surrounded by a horde of “Rolling Thunder” Harley Davidson motorcycle riders, and despite the fact that the Muslims secured a permit and the motorcyclists were denied one by Barack Hussein Obama’s National Park Service, let us take a lesson from our Islamic “friends.” It is time that we Christians, Jews, people of faith and all true patriots say enough is enough and ourselves, in a very real way, “Occupy Washington” to cleanse the nation of the half-Muslim, anti-white, socialist fraud in the White House before the nation goes under for the final count.

Having done little to nothing about the growing list of “phony” Obama scandals, ranging from Benghazi-gate, to IRS-gate, to Navy SEAL Team VI-gate, to Fast and Furious-gate, to NSA-gate, to name just a few, it is clear that our elected representatives do not have the will or courage to remove the mullah-in-chief from office.

[...]

I therefore call upon all American patriots, once we obtain this conviction, which we will shortly, to converge on Washington. Millions should stand in front of the White House and other national treasures and demand that Barack Hussein Obama leave. If the Egyptians can do this with regard to another radical Muslim, former president Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood, then can’t we Americans do it with Obama?

And, when we do converge on and “Occupy Washington” in the millions on a date to be announced for the week before Thanksgiving, the people may think about chanting: “Mr. President (to use the term loosely), put the Quran down, get up off your knees and come out with your hands up!”

The power of the people will then be heard without firing one proverbial shot. This fraudster, who stole the presidency and has done so much harm, will finally know that his time has come to leave his perverted, Islamic concept of Mecca, our nation’s hallowed capital.

I do not advocate violence, but it is time we show Obama that we mean business. He would be well advised to ride off into his Islamic sunset, link up with 72 virgins and party on at his expense – not ours!

-- Larry Klayman, Sept. 13 WorldNetDaily column

Klayman also writes: 

Just look at the judges, state and federal, who have had the chance to effectively remove Obama over his lack of eligibility to be president, as he is not a natural born citizen. From Florida, to Alabama, to Georgia, to California, lower court judges have fudged the law to squirm out of having to actually rule on not only his “phony” birth certificate but also his lack of having two American-born citizen parents as required by our Constitution.

If Klayman were a more competent lawyer (which he isn't), he would know that the Constitution at no point defines the meaning of the "natural born citizen" requirement for the presidency. Thus, he cannot say that having "two American-born citizen parents" is a requirement.


Posted by Terry K. at 3:08 PM EDT
Tim Graham's LGBT Freakout Du Jour
Topic: NewsBusters

Freaking about about gays and transgenders is what the Media Research Center does. And few MRC employees do that better than Tim Graham.

In a Sept. 13 NewsBusters post, Graham complains about an upcoming TV series about a transgendered teen: "Unsurprisingly in today’s era of LGBT propaganda on television, the star of the show 'may be the most well-adjusted' character on the show."

The next day, Graham whined about a New York art exhibit on "A Queer History of Fashion" and how it got money from the state: "Here’s more government-subsidized liberalism, for the museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology."

You might remember that the MRC played this same gambit about a gay-themed art exhibit at the Smithsonian,  complaining that tax money went toward it when they were really complaining that gays were the subject of an art exhibit in the first place.


Posted by Terry K. at 11:31 AM EDT
WND's Flaherty Mocks The Idea of White People Rioting To Cover His Race-Baiting
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Colin Flaherty -- WND's resident race-baiter obsessed with "black mob violence" finally finds a riot that black people didn't commit:

In Newark, Del., Monday night, police dispersed more than 3,000 rowdy teenagers who were just blowing off some steam at a “Shmacked Tour” party event.

Everyone was white. There might have been a few Asians here and there. But white was the color of this crime.

But the point of Flaherty's article is to mock his critics for his race-baiting obsession:

News of the white riot should provide some comfort to pundits at MSNBC and other liberal outlets. They insist that WND’s coverage of black mob violence – also documented in “White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence to America and how the media ignore it” – is distorted because the news site and book ignore racial violence from white people.

Even the most devoted denier of black mob violence has to admit white mob mayhem is harder to find. Even so, contrasted with many of the more than 500 examples of black mob violence in WND and White Girl Bleed a Lot, this “riot” is something of a disappointment:

No fractured skulls.

No Apple picking.

No panicked calls to 911.

No bricks through storefronts.

No bottles thrown at cops.

No murders.

No stabbings.

No kick downs.

No bloody faces.

No broken jaws.

No one in the hospital.

No gunfire.

No locks in socks.

No permanent brain damage.

No racist threats.

No beating old people.

No kicking pregnant women.

No baseball bats in the face.

No robberies.

No pushing people into moving cars on a busy street.

No toddler taunting.

Just one measly car fire. And a couple of people jumped on cars.

There was some public urination. And a few guys dropped their drawers, displaying their tighty whities. Other than that, a few parents wondered what videos of their children acting stupidly were doing up on the Internet.

You call that a riot?

Flaherty clearly ignores riots when his agenda warrants. Otherwise, he would've told us about an incident in Huntington, Beach, Calif., earlier this year when a crowd at a surfing competition went wild. Much of the crowd appeared to be white.

Flaherty has a more dishonest take on bashing his critics in a Sept. 14 WND op-ed:

Two things caused me to write about black mob violence: One, I saw a ton of black mob violence and black-on-white crime happening all over the country. When Thomas Sowell wrote about “White Girl Bleed a Lot,” he said the problem was far worse than what he thought.

That was a year ago. Today, I know the problem is far worse than I thought it was when The Great Doctor Sowell wrote that column.

The second thing that caused me to write the book and articles is even crazier than the black mob violence. It is the people who ignore, condone, excuse and even deny it is happening. The deniers are the truly crazy ones.

[...]

Once I started paying attention, I noticed black mob violence was happening all over the country in cities big and small – in places where you might expect it, like Baltimore and Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. But also places like Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Seattle, Portland, Greensboro, Peoria.

Places that if you did not live there, you would never know or even suspect it was happening. And even lots of people who live in these places did not know because their local media did not tell them.

[...]

Multiply that episode and denial by 500 – many on video – and that is what “White Girl Bleed a Lot” is about, and why so many deniers are receiving books as Christmas presents.

Of course, if "black mob violence" is all you're looking for, that's all you're gonna find, even if you have to goose the numbers by including dogs and white people.

But the really dishonest thing Flaherty has done is promote his body count without any context. Over what period of time did those 500 incidents take place? What relation do they have to overall crime rates? Flaherty never says.

That's why people see Flaherty's obsession for what it is -- race-baiting, pure and simple. And that's another reason why nobody believes WND.


Posted by Terry K. at 12:55 AM EDT
Sunday, September 15, 2013
ConWeb's Climate Change Deniers Get It Wrong on Arctic Ice
Topic: The ConWeb

Reports of increased Arctic Sea ice brought out the usual climate change deniers in the ConWeb to trumpet the news:

  • NewsBusters serial misinformer Tom Blumer touted "the cold, hard fact of growing Arctic ice cover, as well as its possible implications," as reported by British newspapers like the Daily Mail, adding: "As is all too often the case, in certain matters affecting things here in the United States, if we didn't have news from Britain, we wouldn't have any real news at all."
  • Newsmax's Melanie Batley similarly promoted how "An unusually cold Arctic summer has resulted in almost a million more square miles of ocean covered with ice compared to the same time last year, bucking predictions that global warming would result in the disappearance of the ice cap by 2013." She also cited the Daily Mail.

But as Media Matters documents, Arctic ice was at a record low last year, so a large percentarge increase of the kind conservative outlets are reporting is not unexpected, and the recent historical trend shows that Arctic ice is in decline and this year's numbers still fall short of the average over the past 30 years. Neither Blumer nor Batley mentioned the historical trend.

Further, Blumer might want to widen his British newspaper reading horizons to include the Guardian, which points out that "When it comes to climate science reporting, the Mail on Sunday and Telegraph are only reliable in the sense that you can rely on them to usually get the science wrong." The Guardian adds: "Every year when the weather acts to preserve more ice than the previous year, we can rely on climate contrarians to claim that Arctic sea ice is 'rebounding' or 'recovering' and there's nothing to worry about."

CNSNews.com's Barbara Hollingsworth --  who we last saw at the Washington Examiner promoting bogus statistics about tea party rally attendance -- devoted a Sept. 13 article to attacking Al Gore for repeating a prediction that Arctic ice could disappear by this year, repeating claims that there is "a 60 percent increase in the polar ice sheet. "Hollingsworth made no mention of the Guardian's statement that given the historical trend, "an ice-free Arctic appears to be not a question of if, but when."


Posted by Terry K. at 8:25 PM EDT
We Still Don't Know Whether Farah Repented On 9/11
Topic: WorldNetDaily

A Sept. 14 WorldNetDaily article by Michael Thompson is a roundup of boss Joseph Farah's "National Day of Prayer and Repentence" three days earlier. But there are some holes in the self-aggrandization.

Thompson claims "an estimated quarter of a million people across the nation this year participated in the first 9/11 National Day of Prayer and Repentance," but he offers no proof to support this claim. Then he quotes Jonathan Cahn -- whose prophecy book "The Harbinger" was retold as a WND-produced video-- claiming that “It was told me [sic] that an estimated 250,000 people or more were dedicating 9/11 as a day of prayer, intercession and repentance.” Again, there's no explanation of who told Cahn this or how that number was derived.

Thompson also repeats previous quotes from Farah about his little event, but there's no evidence that Farah used the day to do any repenting of his own, specifically the sins he has committed against President Obama by publishing lies and dishonest claims about him and his administration.

If Farah didn't repent, what moral standing does he have to demand repentence from anybody else?

That's the problem with having a shameless liar inspire a day of prayer -- there's a good chance he's lying about how many people took part.


Posted by Terry K. at 2:53 PM EDT
Saturday, September 14, 2013
CNS' Jeffrey Upset That Poor People Are Allowed To Own Things
Topic: CNSNews.com

CNSNews.com editor in chief Terry Jeffrey is quite put out that poor people haven't had their blongings stripped from them for the crime of being poor:

Americans who live in households whose income is below the federal “poverty” level typically have cell phones (as well as landline phones), computers, televisions, video recorders, air conditioning, refrigerators, gas or electric stoves, and washers and dryers and microwaves, according to a newly released report from the Census Bureau.

In fact, 80.9 percent of households below the poverty level have cell phones, and a healthy majority—58.2 percent—have computers.

Fully 96.1 percent of American households in “poverty” have a television to watch, and 83.2 percent of them have a video-recording device in case they cannot get home in time to watch the football game or their favorite television show and they want to record it for watching later.

Refrigerators (97.8 percent), gas or electric stoves (96.6 percent) and microwaves (93.2 percent) are standard equipment in the homes of Americans in "poverty."

More than 83 percent have air-conditioning.

Poor people own stoves? The heathens! Jeffrey's scare quotes around "poverty" are also amusing.

Jeffrey is a couple of years late to his new crusade of shaming the poor -- Fox News worked that in 2011. But as Think Progress pointed out, new technology is relatively cheap -- televisions, for example are much cheaper than they used to be, and "even a low income person can reliably obtain a level of television-based entertainment that would blow the mind of a millionaire from 1961" -- but housing, education and health have gotten more expensive, as has quality legal services.

Think Progress adds: "The federal poverty line for a family of three is $18,530 a year. I wonder how many Heritage Foundation policy analysts are deciding they want to cut back and work part time because it’d be super easy to raise two kids in DC on less than $20k in salary?" We suspect the same is true about CNS reporters and editors.

(Picture taken from Productive Flourishing.)


Posted by Terry K. at 10:15 PM EDT
WND Pushes Unproven Threat of Terrorist Setting Forest Fires
Topic: WorldNetDaily

Joe Kovacs uses a Sept. 11 WorldNetDaily article to raise "the question of arson as a form of major terrorism" in the wake of Western wildfires, but try as he might, he can't prove that terrorists have ever set a wildfire.

The subhead for Kovacs' article reads, "Ex-NSA official: Al-Qaida ignited California blazes." But that's extremely misleading to the point of being false. The only "ex-NSA official" Kovacs quotes is William Scott, and 1) his quotes are from last year, and 2) he offers no proof.

Kovacs quotes Scott claiming that “U.S. officials have pretty much determined that some of the fires that burned in California [in 2011] were ignited by al-Qaida operatives." At no point is it stated who these "U.S. officials" are or how they "determined" this.

Kovacs' article is shoddily written with the intent to fearmonger, not enlighten -- which seems to be WND's modus operandi.


Posted by Terry K. at 3:59 PM EDT
Updated: Saturday, September 14, 2013 10:22 PM EDT
Friday, September 13, 2013
Anti-Heathering: Newsmax's Ruddy Praises Obama Speech
Topic: Newsmax

Christopher Ruddy's pro-Obama contrarian streak continues by being one of the few conservatives to say anything nice about President Obama's address to the nation about Syria:

President Obama's speech to the nation reminded me of the other best speech he gave, that one was in Oslo, Norway.

Back in 2009, accepting the Nobel Prize, the new president offered some surprising remarks. While acknowledging the virtues of nonviolence as preached by the likes of Ghandi and Martin Luther King, he reaffirmed that the powerful cannot sit by idly in the face of evil. Evil doers, as Obama noted then, must be confronted, even with the use of military force. He cited World War II and the necessity of force to stop and defeat Hitler.

His comments then were sensible. As Americans we prefer not to use force, but we do so, to paraphrase the great statesman Edmund Burke, because we know that evil triumphs when good people sit back and do nothing.

Tonight the president offered a justified response to evil.

He reiterated some of the key points I made in my recent column on Newsmax.

That last part is what seems to impress Ruddy the most. He continues:

On the right, one can still oppose Obama on many issues — as I do — but support the president on a military strike in this case. On the left, one can still hold strong to their opposition to the war in Iraq, but support a limited action to punish the Assad regime for their particularly heinous act.

I realize I may not persuade one person with this column, so strongly held are views here. But one thing I do admire about Obama today is that he is sticking to his guns and, despite overwhelming opposition from the public and even the world community, is making a stand for what he believes is right.

if Ruddy keeps this up, he's going to get Heathered by NewsBusters.


Posted by Terry K. at 11:09 PM EDT

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