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July 29, 2004

Josh Marshall: Capture of Al Qaeda Leader Shows "Suspicious Timing"

Again with the timing crap.

I'm sorry that hunting terrorists conflicts with your political calendar, Joshy.

Is Marshall suggesting that we delay capturing terrorists until after November 2nd so that we score no victories against Al Qaeda that might hurt John Kerry?

Remember, this is one of our fellow patriotic Americans talking. A fellow patriotic American who sees a captured Al Qaeda leader and screams in agony over it.

He'd rather have the terrorist free than in Bush's prison.

Hey, fuckface. Douchebag. Shall we delay all anti-terrorist measures until November 3rd? Please explain to us why we should do so.

Make you a deal. We'll cancel all such measures, but if there's a terrorist attack in the US that results in any American deaths, John Kerry concedes the election. Fair, asshole?

I'm sorry, but I just can't fucking take it anymore.

Update: At this point they -- meaning Marshall and his paranoid-fringe brethren at DU (except they're not fringe anymore; the liberals have embraced their inner lunatic) -- are actively on Al Qaeda's side. Any victory Bush scores against Al Qaeda is a victory against Kerry. Ergo, they're praying their little hearts out for Osama bin Ladin and Musab al-Zarqawi.

Is this an overstatement? Let's once again check in with Gary Kamiya, penning this "confession," self-justified though it is, in Salon after the fall of Baghdad:

"I have a confession: I have at times, as the war has unfolded, secretly wished for things to go wrong. Wished for the Iraqis to be more nationalistic, to resist longer. Wished for the Arab world to rise up in rage. Wished for all the things we feared would happen. I'm not alone: A number of serious, intelligent, morally sensitive people who oppose the war have told me they have had identical feelings.

"Some of this is merely the result of pettiness -- ignoble resentment, partisan hackdom, the desire to be proved right and to prove the likes of Rumsfeld wrong, irritation with the sanitizing, myth-making American media. That part of it I feel guilty about, and disavow. But some of it is something trickier: It's a kind of moral bet-hedging, based on a pessimism not easy to discount, in which one's head and one's heart are at odds."

The liberals keep claiming that these sorts of feelings don't exist. When confronted with statements like this one, they allow that such feelings exist, but are restricted to a tiny unbalanced fringe of lunatics. (Oddly enough, many members of this tiny fringe of lunatics seem to have permanent salaried positions in high-visibility mainstream media outfits, as well as in the Democrat Party.)

You combine these admissions with Marshall waving the bloody shirt over the fact that we caught a very high ranking Al Qaeda leader -- sad news for the nation indeed! -- and you tell me these people put the security of their country above getting their precious fucking liberals back into the White House.

Anti-American Minds Think Alike: No one ever accused Oliver Willis of possessing an overly-inventive mind.

Except when it comes to Filet-O-Fish sandwiches, of course. I have it on good authority that it was this brilliant thinker that thought of putting that little wedge of cheese on the Filet-O-Fish sandwich.

And this is the same asshole that's forever complaining, in his "cute" turn of phrase of which he's tremendously proud, of the "Right Wing Wurlitzer Machine," whatever that could possibly mean, parroting the day's official political talking points. But of course he's only too happy to ape Marshall's latest conspiracy theories.

I salute you, you obnoxious ovoid. You've got the triple-crown: You're you're untalented, you're unoriginal, and you're viciously hypocritical.

You've done a man's job. Why don't you reward yourself with a nice feedbag of White Castles?


posted by Ace at 05:14 PM
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I swear to God, I actually started writing a comment to your "Pakistan Captures . . ." post a few minutes ago asking which Dem blogger would be the first to accuse Bush of trying to steal Kerry's thunder with this announcement. But I stopped, because I thought, "Nah. They wouldn't sink that low." Fuck me for being naive.

Needless to say, if the rumors of Zarqawi's capture pan out and there's an announcement within the next few days, the screaming won't stop until 2008.

There are already 100+ posts along the same line as Marshall's over at Democratic Underground.

Posted by: Allah on July 29, 2004 05:24 PM

To people like Marhsall -- to the mainstream Democrats, as well -- it is blindingly obvious that they believe the threat *simply does not exist.* All of this is a game to them, because, really, no one's going to die except for the disenfranchised / victimized / baby-killing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their deaths are to the good because they hurt Bush.

Not long after 9/11 a friend of mine suggested that given enough time, the Left would come to believe the success of those attacks was just a fluke; that the Islamists had shot their wad and the danger to the homeland had passed and would not come this way again. I think it is this belief more than anything else, whether held consciously or unconsciously, that allows dilettantes like Marshall to blithely write off a captured terrorist as a "dirty political trick."

I can only echo Rammesh Ponnuru: "I hope that on November 3rd, Bush hatred becomes Bush despair."

And Ace: I'm hitting your tip jar so you can buy yourself a drink. You sound like you need it.

Posted by: Il Padrino on July 29, 2004 05:25 PM

Grasping.at.straws.

Posted by: fat kid on July 29, 2004 05:26 PM

At the risk of appearing as intemperate as I actually am: To a man/woman/trans-gendered freak, these people are beneath contempt. Douchebags are embarrassed to share an appellation with them.

Posted by: Patton on July 29, 2004 05:51 PM

At this point they are actively on Al Qaeda's side. Any victory Bush scores against Al Qaeda is a victory against Kerry. Ergo, they're praying their little hearts out for Osama bin Ladin and Musab al-Zarqawi.

Posted by: ace on July 29, 2004 05:52 PM

The Democrat Party has become Conspiracy Theory Central. They should just nominate Howard Dean or Dennis Kucinich and end the facade.

Posted by: Cpl. Menno on July 29, 2004 06:12 PM

I really hope there's no good economic news in the next few months. Otherwise, it might be traced back to another nefarious "October surprise" cynically calculated to win the election!

Posted by: Russell on July 29, 2004 06:20 PM

And on that note, how long do you think it'll take for Joshua Hezekiah Bucephalos Greenberg Marshall to state that he has an inside scoop developing on this story, to be revealed in a "future" [re: never gonna happen] post?

Posted by: Cpl. Menno on July 29, 2004 06:21 PM

Cpl. Menno:

"Bucephalos?"

It figures. I always thought that wet end Marshall was scared of his own shadow.

Posted by: Il Padrino on July 29, 2004 06:34 PM

Grrr... Please don't call them Liberals. They are not. They are socialists. Weak-as-water socialists. Little-'S' socialists. Jefferson was a Liberal. Kerry is a socialist.

Posted by: Teh Gurk on July 29, 2004 07:05 PM

Gregory Djerejian at http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/ is on Marshall's case about this also.

Posted by: Cpl. Menno on July 29, 2004 07:08 PM

Hey, Ace, I plopped some coin in the old tip jar myself today. You COULD use a drink.

I had decided to flip some cash to four of my fav bloggers and when I read about you having to employ shoddy, black market semicolons...well let me just say even with a stone-cold, black neocon's heart knew I had to kick a gratuity your way.

Don't sweat it, though. Like all good conservative Republicans, I stole it from a granny who runs a half-way house for AIDS infected orphans.

Enjoy!

Posted by: kelly on July 29, 2004 07:59 PM
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