It took David Shuster to say what Democrats could have been saying all along about this ridiculous MoveOn ad controversy. Marsha Blackburn had all the stats at the ready about MoveOn (except the one where the organization has raised $1.6 million dollars in a week because of the mau-mauing from the establishment), but she couldn’t name the last soldier from her district to die in Iraq, couldn’t understand why that would be kind of an important thing to know, and indeed said “I don’t know why I don’t know that” in defense of herself.
SHUSTER: Congressman, let’s talk about the public trust. You represent, of course, a district in western Tennessee. What was the name of the last soldier from your district who was killed in Iraq?
BLACKBURN: The name of the last soldier killed in Iraq, from my district, I do not know.
SHUSTER: His name was Jeremy Bohannan (ph). He was killed August 9, 2007. How come you did not know that the name?
BLACKBURN: I do not know why I did not know the name. We made contact with the families in our district. When you have a major military post, you are very sensitive to this and sensitive to working with those families, and that is something that my staff and I do daily. Our district director is a gentleman who has served in the U.S. Army and currently serves in the National Guard. And we do everything that we possibly can do to assist those families. We are very appreciative of the sacrifice.
It goes without saying that Blackburn is supporting the Freddie Thompson campaign, who has turned not knowing things into an art form.
But the point I want to make is that this was a lay-up. We know that Republicans manufacture outrage but are impervious to compassion or empathy. We also know that they have an ideological blind spot when it comes to the attacks perpretrated by their side. Why, indeed, then, can Democratic leaders not take a look at what was sung out loud during the “Values Voters” debate, attended by 7 Presidential candidates, and make a little noise about it?
Why should God bless America?
She’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back
On everything that made her what she isWhy should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sin and heal our landThe courts ruled prayer out of our schools
In June of ‘62
Told the children “you are your own God now
So you can make the rules”
O say can you see what that choice
Has cost us to this day
America, one nation under God, has gone astrayWhy should God bless America?
Shes’s forgotten he exists
And has turned her back on everything
That made her what she isWhy should God stand beside her
Through the night with the light from his hand?
God have mercy on America
Forgive her sins and heal our landIn ‘73 the Courts said we
Could take the unborn lives
The choice is yours don’t worry now
It’s not a wrong, it’s your rightBut just because they made it law
Does not change God’s command
The most that we can hope for is
God’s mercy on our land
That’s really the most direct statement of hatred against America that you can ever possibly hear. And yet the DC establishment fears a backlash, somehow, if they deigned to bring up these radical, disgusting views, for fear of offending some mythical voter in the “heartland.” Do they REALLY believe that most every American wouldn’t reflexively recoil at this bile? Every Republican officeholder in the country should be asked if they support a view that God has abandoned as sinful America, and if they would be willing to condemn those who sang it. I mean, every Democratic officeholder was asked about a pun.
2 Responses to “Misremembering Is Contagious!”
i wonder if senator clinton knows the name of the last new yorker killed in the war she voted for?
Something to say?
the sandbagging of the congresswoman was one of the more pathetic things msnbc has done, and there are quite a few. schuster acting surprised that the congresswoman would know alot about the patraeus controversy, seeing how his network’s fawning over the ad and the ensuing debate about it has helped make it such a big story.
but the worst part, the exploitation of the dead soldier to play a disgusting game of ‘gotcha’, should see david schuster fired. word is the family of the soldier was highly offended by the exploitation, but what else is new, this is a network that allows its lead primtime personality to compare rubert murdock and fox to osama and al quada, oh wait excuse me, worse then osama and al quada. no wonder the viewership of this left wing shill garbage network is in the toilet.
Left by matt
September 25, 2007 at 1:42pm