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July 12, 2005

As I Said: The Left Can't Say "Terrorism," Except With Respect To America And/Or Bush

Pundit/moron/lunatic Julianne Malveaux:

Semi-regular USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux said Monday that President Bush is “a terrorist” and that America is “a terrorist nation.”
In an interview that began with Malveaux accusing U.S. troops of “beating” terrorist suspects at Guantanamo Bay, the controversial author and economist told ABC Radio host Sean Hannity: “Terrorism in the United States is as old as we are. You want me to give you a litany of terrorism? You want me to start with what’s happened to the Indian population? You want to go on to what happened in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921?”

“C’mon now, Sean,” Malveaux told Hannity. “We are terrorists.”

Asked point-blank if the U.S. was a “terrorist nation,” Malveaux shot back: “Oh, Absolutely.”

And so it goes.

posted by Ace at 02:07 PM

Comments

Well, if this stupid git is going to use our collective past as a means to condemn us, then she should have no problem not voting in the next election as this country did not always allow women to vote. No, she is just another in a long line of people who look at our past as something to use to condemn the present with no eye for the idea that we put that crap behind us.

Posted by: Defense Guy on July 12, 2005 02:38 PM

The US is a terrorist nation? Really? Well, that's good to now. Now maybe we can finally get Ms. Malveaux to put her burkha on and get her ass moved to the back of the bus, pronto.

The freedom to blast the government this way is prima facia evidence (spelling? fuck it, I'm no lawyer) that the United States is a free country - but this fact seems to escape the tinfoil hat DNC crowd.

Posted by: Russ from Winterset on July 12, 2005 02:50 PM

The US is a terrorist nation? Really? Well, that's good to know. Now maybe we can finally get Ms. Malveaux to put her burkha on and get her ass moved to the back of the bus, pronto.

Posted by: Russ from Winterset on July 12, 2005 02:50 PM

typo in the original & a double post........Hi, my name's Russ, and I ride the short bus. grrrrrrr

Posted by: Russ from Winterset on July 12, 2005 02:51 PM

I, with President Hillary's help, will get hate like this shut down PERMANENTLY!

Posted by: Brad on July 12, 2005 02:54 PM

As an American of (real, not "Ward Churchill") Cherokee ancestry, let me be the first to tell the turd Malveaux that me heap big grateful to former "American terrorists" that my people no longer live in the stone age.

Posted by: Rocketeer on July 12, 2005 02:57 PM

She is gives morons a bad name.

Posted by: River Rat on July 12, 2005 03:00 PM

She is just repeating what Bill Clinton just over three years ago.

Bill Clinton, the former president, said yesterday that terror has existed in America for hundreds of years and the nation is "paying a price today" for its past of slavery and for looking "the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed."
"Here in the United States, we were founded as a nation that practiced slavery, and slaves quite frequently were killed even though they were innocent," said Mr. Clinton in a speech to nearly 1,000 students at Georgetown University's ornate Gaston Hall.

"This country once looked the other way when a significant number of native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human.

"And we are still paying a price today," said Mr. Clinton, who was invited to address the students by the university's School of Foreign Service.

Mr. Clinton, wearing a gray suit and orange tie, arrived 45 minutes late for the event. Some students camped out overnight to obtain tickets. The former president, a member of the Jesuit university's Class of 1968, opened his 50-minute speech by thanking a former teacher.

"He never abandoned me over all these years, even though he did not succeed in convincing me to become a Jesuit," said Mr. Clinton, drawing laughter and then cheers from the almost entirely white crowd of students.

Mr. Clinton spoke from notes about the world after September 11. He sought to dispel fears of terrorism and "this anthrax business."

"I submit to you that we are now in a struggle for the soul of the 21st century and the world in which you students will live to raise your own children and make your own way," he said.

Mr. Clinton said the international terrorism that has only just reached the United States dates back thousands of years.

"In the first Crusade, when the Christian soldiers took Jerusalem, they first burned a synagogue with 300 Jews in it and proceeded to kill every woman and child who was a Muslim on the Temple Mount. I can tell you that story is still being told today in the Middle East and we are still paying for it."

Mr. Clinton said America needs to pay more attention to its enemies and to the way the United States is viewed by the rest of the world.

"There are a lot of people that see the world differently than we do. It is quite important that we do more to build the pool of potential partners in the world and to shrink the pool of potential terrorists. And that has nothing to do with fighting, but that has to do with what else we do.

Posted by: Dman on July 12, 2005 03:08 PM

....rant on.....

The US is a terrorist nation?

You want to see terror? We will give you terror!

Let us break out the nukes and inform Iran/Syria/SA/France of our demands:

mass conversion to athesim,
all young people must go nude & drink American Beer while eating pork BBQ,
korans to be burnt nightly as crowds chant 'Bush is Great! Long life to America!',
the country must agree to be ruled by the US without the privilege of statehood,
etc. etc.

If they refuse to comply within the next 48 hours, we say we warned them, quote some random biblical verse, and then nuke the entire country.

Every. Last. Acre.

If we take a few nukes ourselves, so what? We are terrorists and we love death more than they love life!

Then we blame them for not understanding our values. Demand that they stop insulting America and (sniff) burning our flag. Demostrate how they forced us to nuke them, The USA, the country of Love and Peace.

AFter we clean out the ME maybe N. Korea? Demand 'Dear Leader' Kim shave his head and tap-dance "Oh Oklahoma" on State TV or else we nuke once again.

Oh. And we round up the fools such as Julianne Malveaux and demonstrate what real torture is like.

.......rant off.....

Xlefty

Posted by: Xlefty on July 12, 2005 03:28 PM

If they refuse to comply within the next 48 hours, we say we warned them, quote some random biblical verse, and then nuke the entire country.
Every. Last. Acre.

Only if you promise to use Samuel L. Jackson to present the demands - a la Pulp Fiction (Ezekiel 25:17 - the path of the Righteous) [ed: and yes, we know it's a BS quote, but totally appropriate.]

Posted by: lawhawk on July 12, 2005 03:33 PM

This is one of my favorite appeals to mass guilt from Bill.

No, we paid that price from 1861 to 1865. We paid in blood. A quarter of a million men on the battlefields alone, 3 million total casualties.

That's what we paid Mr. President.

Posted by: Dave in Texas on July 12, 2005 04:15 PM

Ace,

Sigh.

It must be asked, again and again, what then are the terms of our surrender?

OK, Ms. Malveux is right.

We be bad.

Evil.

It's all Bush's fault.

Everything.

Whitey too.

Every last fucking thing.

So now what?

What is it that she wants?

Money?

Take it all, who cares?

Land?

That too, it's yours.

What else?

An apology?

OK, Bush sorry, whitey too.

Anything else?

Kill the Jews? Give away Israel?

Done.

Now what?

...

Waiting...

Still waiting...

...

Let's be honest, it makes me fucking sick.

Sorry for the bad language, but these people are beginning to get to me.

...

And so it goes.

Sigh.

Posted by: MeTooThen on July 12, 2005 06:04 PM

Good Lord, Oliver and Julianne Malveaux both exposd as insane on the same day.

Posted by: TallDave on July 12, 2005 06:47 PM

Oliver Stone

Posted by: TallDave on July 12, 2005 06:47 PM

More of the same... Per the Cato Institute:
In 1994, commentator Julianne Malveaux said of Clarence Thomas, "I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early."

Posted by: Regret on July 12, 2005 07:00 PM

Oliver Stone has been exposed as insane for a long time.

No big deal, I'm accused of terrorism pretty regularly lately. Anytime I question a hate crime report in the news, or ask for proof on any subject from a lib, I'm suddenly a pro-terror fiend or worse. Being skeptical is the same as burning churches down and blowing up schools for some folks.

Posted by: digitalbrownshirt on July 12, 2005 07:28 PM

I hate that bitch.

Asked if America was "a good country," Malveaux responded tersely, "We're a country." Pressed on why she omitted the adjective "good," she replied: "I can't answer that. I think we have some good and I think we have some evil."

Whattaya say we take up a collection and send Malveaux to what she would consider a "good country?"

Posted by: carin on July 12, 2005 07:31 PM

Malveaux is a one-note racist superbitch who's so aggressively stupid she probably gets a headache from reading the table of contents in her Oprah magazine. She shouldn't be allowed to subscribe to a newspaper, let alone write for one. I have never heard one single sentence escape her hideous mouth that didn't drip with cliched lefty idiocy. Anyone who seriously believes this country, that has shed more blood in wars of liberation than any other in history is a terrorist nation should be mocked and ridiculed until expatriation is the only choice left. Canada is a big, cold country north of here, Juliane, let's get that fat ass moving.

Posted by: UGAdawg on July 12, 2005 07:34 PM

Good Lord, Oliver and Julianne Malveaux both exposd as insane on the same day.

There was still doubt?

Posted by: zetetic on July 12, 2005 07:41 PM

Aside from the fact that her argument is nonsense, what is she suggesting?

Should we feel bad about what we've done in the past such that we condone present evil?

Should we welcome terrorist acts with open arms saying, "You know, I really hate getting blown up, but welp...we had it coming."

Or should we progress as a civilization, attempt to stop evil wherever it is because it's best for everyone.

I'm so tired of liberal guilt. Liberalism thrives on feeling bad about yourself, even if you have not personally done anything wrong. If they can get you to feel guilty, they can manipulate your emotions, and even your actions.

In closing, buy one of my dorky t-shirts.

Posted by: Cole from Conservatee.com on July 12, 2005 09:20 PM

You know, I for one am sick and tired of hearing liberals complain about how evil this country is. If for no other reason than to spite them, I think we should (at least in public) announce that from now on we are going to be every bit as evil as they think we are.

After all, its the perfect excuse, by their terms: We can't help it, were just plain EEEVVILLL.

OT Ace:

Where is the usual bear porn and war porn stuff? I am missing my usual fix!

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