Kettle? This is the pot calling.
From Bush's Veteran's Day speech:
"The murderous ideology of the Islamic radicals is the great challenge of our new century. Yet in many ways, this fight resembles the struggle against communism in the last century. Like the ideology of communism, Islamic radicalism is elitist, led by a self-appointed vanguard that presumes to speak for the Muslim masses. Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, "what is good for them and what is not." And what this man who grew up in wealth and privilege considers good for poor Muslims is that they become killers and suicide bombers. He assures them that this road -- that this is the road to paradise -- though he never offers to go along for the ride."
Just as a little intellectual exercise, let's see how difficult it would be to make this paragraph sound like it's referring to Bush...
"The murderous ideology of the [right-wing] radicals is the great challenge of our new century. Yet in many ways, this fight resembles the struggle against communism in the last century. Like the ideology of communism, [right-wing] radicalism is elitist, led by a self-appointed vanguard that presumes to speak for the [American] masses. [Bush] says his own role is to tell [Americans], "what is good for them and what is not." And what this man who grew up in wealth and privilege considers good for poor [Americans] is that they become killers.... He assures them that this road -- that this is the road to [freedom and democracy] -- though he never offers to go along for the ride."
Would you know the difference?
"The murderous ideology of the Islamic radicals is the great challenge of our new century. Yet in many ways, this fight resembles the struggle against communism in the last century. Like the ideology of communism, Islamic radicalism is elitist, led by a self-appointed vanguard that presumes to speak for the Muslim masses. Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, "what is good for them and what is not." And what this man who grew up in wealth and privilege considers good for poor Muslims is that they become killers and suicide bombers. He assures them that this road -- that this is the road to paradise -- though he never offers to go along for the ride."
Just as a little intellectual exercise, let's see how difficult it would be to make this paragraph sound like it's referring to Bush...
"The murderous ideology of the [right-wing] radicals is the great challenge of our new century. Yet in many ways, this fight resembles the struggle against communism in the last century. Like the ideology of communism, [right-wing] radicalism is elitist, led by a self-appointed vanguard that presumes to speak for the [American] masses. [Bush] says his own role is to tell [Americans], "what is good for them and what is not." And what this man who grew up in wealth and privilege considers good for poor [Americans] is that they become killers.... He assures them that this road -- that this is the road to [freedom and democracy] -- though he never offers to go along for the ride."
Would you know the difference?
posted by Joanne at 3:50 p.m.
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