Right-wing whore Ann Cunter shown in March, about the time of the Terri Schiavo fiasco. Why doesn't the right wing insist that a feeding tube be shoved in her? (Actually, I am even more opposed to a feeding tube for Cunter as I was opposed to the continued feeding tube for Schiavo.)
Ann Cunter still hates America
You don't lie to someone you respect. You lie to someone for whom you have contempt.
Ann Cunter has a national column. She lies in her national column. All of the time. Ergo, Ann Cunter hates America.
This is an excerpt from her current execrable column, for which she actually gets paid [my comments are in brackets]:
We're sorry about [Cindy] Sheehan's son [no, Ann, you most certainly are not], but the entire nation was attacked on 9/11. This isn't about her personal loss. America has been under relentless attack from Islamic terrorists for 20 years, culminating in a devastating attack on U.S. soil on 9/11. It's not going to stop unless we fight back, annihilate Muslim fanatics, destroy their bases, eliminate their sponsors and end all their hope. A lot more mothers will be grieving if our military policy is: No one gets hurt!
[Um, Sheehan nor anyone else ever fucking said that our military policy should be that "No one gets hurt!" If you were to ask Sheehan what our military policy should be, she probably would say something along the lines of we shouldn't send our troops in harm's way unless absolutely necessary, and that it was completely unnecessary for the Bush regime to take the United States to war with Iraq, which not only hadn't done anything to the United States, but had not even threatened to do anything to the United States and never even had the fucking capability to do anything to the United States. Nice try, Ann.]
Fortunately, the Constitution vests authority to make foreign policy with the president of the United States, not with this week's sad story. But liberals think that since they have been able to produce a grieving mother, the commander in chief should step aside and let Cindy Sheehan make foreign policy for the nation. As Maureen Dowd said, it's "inhumane" for Bush not "to understand that the moral authority of parents who bury children killed in Iraq is absolute."
I'm not sure what "moral authority" is supposed to mean in that sentence, but if it has anything to do with Cindy Sheehan dictating America's foreign policy, then no, it is not "absolute." It's not even conditional, provisional, fleeting, theoretical or ephemeral.
[Um, is that really the point that Dowd was making, that Sheehan should dictate America's foreign policy, even though a brain-damaged chimpanzee could do a better job with our foreign policy than can the war-profiteering members of the Bush cabal? Cunter likes to say or imply that people asserted things that they never asserted -- and then refute those assertions that those people never made. (It's a living, apparently.)]
...Dowd's "absolute" moral authority column demonstrates, once again, what can happen when liberals start tossing around terms they don't understand like "absolute" and "moral." It seems that the inspiration for Dowd's column was also absolute. On the rocks.
[Unless Cunter has proof that Dowd is an alcoholic, and I have not heard that Dowd is, then Cunter, who wrote a liberal-bashing book titled Slander, has just very hypocritically libeled Dowd. If I were on a game show and I had to choose, for the brand-new car, which one is the alcoholic, Dowd or Cunter, I'd choose Cunter, hands down. All you have to do for a clue is read her columns, which are often nonfuckingsensical. (USA Today, in fact, last year refused to publish a column of hers on the Democratic National Convention because at least parts of her column didn't even fucking make sense.)]
Liberals demand that we listen with rapt attention to Sheehan, but she has nothing new to say about the war. At least nothing we haven't heard from Michael Moore since approximately 11 a.m., Sept. 11, 2001. It's a neocon war; we're fighting for Israel; it's a war for oil; Bush lied, kids died; there is no connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. Turn on MSNBC's "Hardball" and you can hear it right now. At this point, Cindy Sheehan is like a touring company of Air America Radio: Same old script and it's not even the original cast.
These arguments didn't persuade Hillary Clinton or John McCain to vote against the war. They didn't persuade Democratic primary voters, who unceremoniously dumped anti-war candidate Howard Dean in favor of John Kerry, who voted for the war before he voted against it. They certainly didn't persuade a majority of American voters who re-upped George Bush's tenure as the nation's commander in chief last November.
[Note that Cunter doesn't bother delve into whether or not any of these assertions are true; she only tells us how well, in her estimation, these assertions did in the popularity polls, because, in Cunter's hellish world, it's not the truth that matters, but it is what the masses can be beaten with relentless right-wing propaganda into believing that matters. Hillary Clinton is a Democrat in name only, which I've established, and McCain has always been a conservative; it's only since his presidential aspirations that he has donned the mask of a moderate. Democratic primary voters selected Kerry over Dean because they saw Kerry as more able to beat Bush, and Bush removal was their No. 1 priority. (I myself supported Kerry early on because I saw him as more able to beat Bush than Dean. Dennis Kucinich was my ideological favorite, but again, Bush removal was my No. 1 priority, so I supported Kerry.) And Cunter conveniently "forgets" to tell us that, probable voting fraud on the Repugnicans' part aside, in November 2004 Bush won less than 51 percent of the popular vote to Kerry's 48 percent. That's no landslide, that's a fucking squeaker, but that fact doesn't support Cunter's point, so, as usual, she just omits it.]
But now liberals demand that we listen to the same old arguments all over again, not because Sheehan has any new insights, but because she has the ability to repel dissent by citing her grief. [Um, so what is Sheehan to do? Keep her mouth shut in case some wingnut like Ann Cunter might accuse her of using her grief for political gain? Really, Ann, go fuck yourself.]
On the bright side, Sheehan shows us what Democrats would say if they thought they were immunized from disagreement. Sheehan has called President Bush "that filth-spewer and warmonger." [He is.] She says "America has been killing people on this continent since it was started" [it has; that's basic fucking U.S. history] and "the killing has gone on unabated for over 200 years" [also, um, true]. She calls the U.S. government a "morally repugnant system" [under the control of the Bush regime, it is] and says, "This country is not worth dying for." [The way this country is right now, in the grip of the unelected, treasonous, war-crime-committing Bush regime, no, it is not worth dying for.] I have a feeling every time this gal opens her trap, Michael Moore gets a residuals check. [Ha ha ha ha ha! In an earlier post today I indicated that conservatives aren't funny, but Cunter certainly proves me wrong! She's a fucking laugh riot!]
Evidently, however, there are some things worth killing for. Sheehan recently said she only seemed calm "because if I started hitting something, I wouldn't stop 'til it was dead." It's a wonder Bush won't meet with her.
So Cunter, whom I'd like to hit until she were dead (and from her photo above I don't think that I'd have to hit her very many times), ends her column by suggesting that Bush -- who, ironically, simultaneously is the most protected man in the world and the man who is the least worth protecting in the world -- won't meet with Cindy Sheehan because she is violent. It couldn't be that Bush is a fucking coward who surrounds himself only with people who have been meticulously ideologically pre-screened. No, it's because Cindy said, allegedly (I don't take anything that Cunter writes for the truth) that "if [she] started hitting something, [she] wouldn't stop 'til it was dead."
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! That's a "joke," you see, but Cunter's clear implication is that Sheehan is unstable. Gee, Ann, why didn't you call Cindy an alcoholic, too, while you were at it? Too drunk while you were writing your column, maybe?
But I digress.
The central lie of Cunter's column, of course, the mother of all of the lies in her column, is this one:
We're sorry about Sheehan's son, but the entire nation was attacked on 9/11. This isn't about her personal loss. America has been under relentless attack from Islamic terrorists for 20 years, culminating in a devastating attack on U.S. soil on 9/11. It's not going to stop unless we fight back, annihilate Muslim fanatics, destroy their bases, eliminate their sponsors and end all their hope. A lot more mothers will be grieving if our military policy is: No one gets hurt!
"The entire nation" was not attacked on 9/11. Symbols of the American empire, the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001. The 19 9/11 terrorists -- 15 of whom were from Saudi Arabia and not one of whom was from Iraq -- weren't personally attacking 57-year-old Betty Lou Who of Louisiana, who goes to church every Sunday, has a faded "Pray for Our Troops" magnet on her car, hates fags and always votes Republican. The terrorists were attacking, in the only way they figured they could, the rich and the powerful Americans who make so many people's lives around the globe miserable for their personal profits. It is vital to the rich and the powerful, however, to assert that such terrorist attacks actually are attacks against the common man or woman, because if the common man and woman were to see the true cause of the terrorist attacks -- the actions of the rich and the powerful boomeranging back -- the rich and the powerful might, just might, be overthrown. It is Cunter's job, as a propagandist for the rich and the powerful, to help ensure that that never happens.
Still I haven't gotten to Cunter's central lie -- in each column of hers there are more layers of lies than there are layers in an onion -- which is that Casey Sheehan's death, the deaths of hundreds more of his comrades, the deaths of thousands of innocent Iraqis and the deaths of many others in Iraq since the Bush regime's March 2003 invasion had anyfuckingthing whatsoever to do with 9/11.
"America has been under relentless attack from Islamic terrorists for 20 years, culminating in a devastating attack on U.S. soil on 9/11. It's not going to stop unless we fight back, annihilate Muslim fanatics, destroy their bases, eliminate their sponsors and end all their hope," Cunter froths.
The people of Iraq, before they were bombed into American dictatorship, were under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, who not only was secular and ran Iraq as a secular -- not as a Muslim -- nation, but who hated al-Qaeda and other Islamist fanatics, whom he probably viewed as a threat to his own power. (Saddam Hussein, like George W. Bush, didn't give a shit about religion or God or anything like that, but cared only about power, money and what things and what power money can buy.)
Further, Saddam Hussein never perpetrated a terrorist attack on American soil. Not once.
Yet Ann so casually makes the link between 9/11 and Iraq. The central idea of Cunter's column is this: Islamist fanatics attacked us on 9/11, so crazy, unstable Cindy Sheehan should just shut the fuck up. Even though Sheehan's son died in Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11 or Islamist fanatics. (Again, Cunter gets paid to write and I don't.)
Ann's an evil cunt, but she's not entirely stupid. She fucking knows not only that neither Saddam Hussein nor Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 -- as the 9/11 Commission concluded in its July 2004 report -- but that Iraq never was part of the problem of terrorist attacks upon Americans or American interests committed by Islamic fanatics. Al-Qaeda, founded by Saudis and still led by Saudi-still-at-large Osama bin Laden -- not Saddam Hussein or Iraq -- was and still remains the problem, as the 9/11 Commission concluded.
Ann knows all of this, yet she lied in her column. You don't lie to people you respect. You lie to people for whom you have contempt. Ann Cunter continues to lie in her national columns. Ann Cunter still hates America.
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