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Mona Gable, HuffPo Blogger And LA Times Contributer, Is A Shrill And Hysterical Idiot

Kneejerk exaggeration in the form of moral equivalence. Check.
Accusations of Bush administration shadiness where anyone who's not a total moron can tell that things were totally above board. Check.
Blindingly obvious contradictions and logical incoherence? Check.

And that's just the first four paragraphs.

A few days after 11 American soldiers were killed in Iraq, I opened the mailbox to find along with the Pottery Barn holiday catalogue and other seasonal items a letter from the National Guard. Addressed to my 16-year-old son. I have no idea how they got his name and address. That's not true. I know perfectly well how they got it. They got it the same way Bush is getting personal information about the rest of us in the guise of fighting "the terrorists." They tapped into some secret database and up popped my son's name. It was right there under the category: Potential Cannon Fodder for Iraq.

I felt like I'd been sent a letter bomb in the mail.

This administration has no respect for families. It never has. Why else did Bush with the eager support of the Senate ban news photos of flag-draped coffins of soldiers coming home?

First of all, Bush banned photos out of respect for the families. So that they didn't have to see their son's coffins on TV. We would say that "even smart leftists agree with that", but it's not something you agree or disagree with - it's the terms of the debate. The entire dispute is about balancing the "public's right to know" with "respect for the families". This woman is not even in the dialogue. She's just pulling things out of thin air and expecting her audience to overlook the fact that there is no connection from one sentence to the next. Just a series of idiotic accusations that sound properly leftist.

Speaking of idiotic accusations - "some secret database"? Yeah, the list of soon to be graduating high school students is soooo secret. The only people who have access to it are the US federal government, every college in America, most testing bureaus in America, and any several commercial high school honors societies. She'll understand that next year when her son starts getting letters in the mail from every second-tier college in America next year. Assuming that she can produce offspring capable of matriculating, which at this point we're kind of skeptical about.

Holy shit this woman pisses us off.

And that's before we get to a letter offering her son the chance to serve his country being equivalent to a mail bomb. Rarely do you see dumb liberalism so nakedly on display.

Incidentally, one of top posts at the HuffPo this morning: Nathan Gardels about how Jimmy Carter is "taking on Israel's apartheid policies" Mind you, even Carter admits - in his own damn mistitled book - that Israel's policies are precisely not like South African apartheid. They might just become that way, maybe someday. And yet here we have an ostensibly educated and rational person acting like he hasn't even read the book, but he's just agreeing with it because it's anti-Israel.

No, but really. The traditional alliance between American Jews and the political left is working out great. Lets do it for half-century.

Previously: Jews Now Being Blamed by Media for Harassing Nonexistent, Modern-Day Joseph and Mary, Note to Liberals: You're Not Smarter Than Everyone Else. Really., Even the Funny Liberals (Implicitly) Lie About Israel

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