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Friday, June 25, 2004Non-baseball: I shall wear it with prideIn case you haven't noticed, Al Gore has gone off the deep-end. He's one crazy mother f'er these days. I'm talking full-on Loony Toons. As Dennis Miller would say "he's decided to turn into the crazy skid." Anyone who has been paying attention since his failed 2000 presidential bid have surly noticed a leftward-shift in his rhetoric. He's even moved to the left of Edward Kennedy, which is actually quite impressive when you think about it. I guess that's what happens when a politician no longer has to worry about making people like him. He spends most of his time these days hanging out with guys like Michael Moore and Greenpeace, trying to stick it to the Bush administration using distorted facts and half-truths. Now he's labeled anyone who happens to disagree with him or his leftist pals as Nazis: The Administration works closely with a network of "rapid response" digital Brown Shirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for "undermining support for our troops." Paul Krugman, the New York Times columnist, was one of the first journalists to regularly expose the President's consistent distortions of the facts. Krugman writes, "Let's not overlook the role of intimidation. After 9/11, if you were thinking of saying anything negative of the President...you had to expect right-wing pundits and publications to do all they could to ruin your reputation.The Brownshirts were of course the private army of the Nazi party, also known as the Sturmabteilung, or "Storm Troops." They were renowned for their extraordinary brutality and whole-hearted embrace of Hitler's anti-Semitic propaganda. Well, if fighting for balanced reporting in the media makes me a Nazi, then you can call me Gerhard. I shall wear my "Digital Brownshirt" with pride.  |
