Monday, July 25, 2005

Thought exercise

Here is a handy and flexible technique you can use to pry a wingnut loose from his president when facts just won't do the job, by IndyScott:
  • If Bill Clinton had been in charge of the national security of this country on September 11, 2001 and terrorists murdered 3,000 Americans, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Bill Clinton had invaded Iraq based on WMD that didn't exist, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Bill Clinton had dressed up in a flight suit and landed on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln five weeks after the war began and told us it was over, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Bill Clinton had said "Bring 'em on" and encouraged Iraqi insurgents to kill American troops, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Bill Clinton had made us the face of torture in the world, what would you be saying about him?
  • If James Carville and other members of a Clinton White House outed an undercover CIA officer during a time of war, what would you be saying about them?
  • If Bill Clinton had sent troops to Iraq without adequate body armor and other equipment, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Bill Clinton's hatchet-men claimed that John McCain and Chuck Hagel never served honorably in Vietnam and didn't deserve their medals, what would you be saying about him?
  • If participants at the Democratic National Convention handed out Purple Heart band-aids to mock McCain and Hagel, what would you be saying about them?
  • If a male prostitute posing as a White House "reporter" for a left-wing media organization was throwing softball questions to Bill Clinton, what would you be saying about him?
  • If the Clinton White House had paid off Molly Ivins and Paul Krugman to endorse administration policy in friendly opinion pieces, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Bill Clinton's administration had inherited a budget surplus and turned it into a $400 billion deficit, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Bill Clinton had been elected without winning the popular vote, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Bill Clinton's electoral victory was decided by roughly 500 votes in a state where Bill Clinton's brother was the Governor and his state campaign co-chair was the vote-counting Secretary of State, what would you be saying about the integrity of that election?
  • If Al Franken (not Rush Limbaugh) had three failed marriages and a drug habit, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Michael Moore (not Bill Bennett) had a gambling addiction, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Keith Olbermann (not Bill O'Reilly) had a phone sex addiction, what would you be saying about him?
  • If Bill Clinton (not George W. Bush) was born into political and financial royalty with a grandfather in the Senate and a father who would later be President of the United States, would you still consider him to be "one of us" or "authentic" or "a guy you'd want to have a beer with"?
Because facts, after all, are stupid things.

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