A Silence That Speaks Louder Than Words
Jeff Goldstein rounds up the reaction of the top lefty bloggers to the Iraqi elections; with a few notable exceptions, there is either silence or cynicism, typified by this late entry not on Jeff’s roundup, found on the front page of Kos: “More Purple Fingers, But To What End?”. JHC, but these guys are tedious bores…
UPDATE 11:13 p.m.: More on the Silence of the Lames from the Commissar…
Kos should have titled it-
“More purple fingers, from which end?”
It of course would be from the lefties as**s, denoting their disdain for foreign intervention. Along their lines of thought, if an ally were attacked, but we were not in danger, they would keep their thimbs up their … afterall, its none of america’s business, and that would be an elective war.
[...] Oh, hell, yeah, and many times, too – but the question is, does this post humiliate me? One of my many, many fans takes issue with this post yesterday and writes: So anti-war bloggers are “silent” about the Iraqi elections, are they? I don’t think so, unless you consider it “silence” when war critic Glenn Greenwald slices up your argument into pieces and humiliates you in the process… Ah, the warm glow of fan mail… [...]