Just Observing

Just Observing

Plain truth: I'd love to see most of BushCo down the drain. Don't like their attitude, their arrogance, their anything. Not one bit. He's never been and never will be "my" president. In my thoughts, this admin is a completely different matter from the Repubs I know and love and admire and think the world of. They are many and varied and I wouldn't part with a single one of them, and I don't care who they voted for. They have that right every bit as much as I do. So that's that.

And then there's this business about Repub Rep Jim Gibbons of Nevada...who sits on all kinds of intel committees and chairs some of them. Ed Schultz, on Air America, was having a fit this morn about that guy and well he should have. Seems Gibbons went off to a fund raiser or whatever in Elko, Nevada, and flat said some very unseeming things about Dems. Especially Hollywood Dems. Absolutely uncalled for things. Which he's had to apologize for. Think I accept his apology? Not a chance. The man is a hate-monger, as Ed said. So what'd he say?

Well, he's said that people who protest the Iraq war are Communists. But, on March 1st, he elaborated a bit when talking about the "liberal" Hollywood people who have spoken out against this war. Said they ought to be shipped over to Iraq to serve as human shields for the insurgents. Which means, of course that they should be killed....by our troops. Now the reporter for the Elko free press is concerned for his own well-being and thinking maybe he shouldn't have reported what Gibbons said. Or at least not all of it. Not the above part. I disagree. That reporter did good. That reporter is a journalist. He wrote the truth. He heard it, he wrote it. Good for him.

A Reno station reported Gibbon's apology, but did not include the bit about human shields. And I do wonder why. Lack of courage? Pressure from their station's owners? Far as I'm concerned, old Gibbons should catch billy-hell for those viscious remarks. Just check his website--google it--and see the chairs he occupies in intel committees in Congress.

Ed Schultz is offering $500 for an audio tape of Gibbon's speech. Wonder if somebody taped that sucker.
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