Our cup of bang-head-against-the-wall insanity runneth over in Ari Fleischer's visit to "Hardball."
He proudly announces that his group Freedom's Watch is running a $15 million ad campaign for that thing called war.
Fleischer calls those who complain about the conflation of Al-Qaeda and Iraq "stuck in the 2001-2002 time table and debate." Apparently, he has moved on.
In Ari's case, moving past 2001 consists of showing a video where a legless veteran says "they attacked us," with those words superimposed over a photo of the World Trade Center attack.
Fleischer also serves up a surreal — if commonplace — comparison between Operation Pandora and WWII. Note to Ari: Japan and Germany a) had actual weapons, b) posed a real threat to us and our allies and c) declared war on us. Other than that, it's an awesome analogy.
But the bigger questions are these:
- What sort of people contribute to a charity whose raison d'etre is the veneration of war?
- Why, on top of their prodigious funding from some angelic — and surely unconnected to the GOP — benefactors, would such people get free national TV time, as well?
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Truly, it was an amazing Hardball, Vastleft
I sat there watching it in a kind of befogged incredulity. Frankly, I hope they give this guy plenty of BIG TV time; what a loser.
I think my favorite moment was after they showed one of the commercials wherein an actual Iraqi war vet who has lost an actual leg pleads for us not to desert him or his fellow soldiers in their quest for victory, and Mike Barnacle, the stand-in for Matthews this week, asked Ari what the name of the veteran was and Ari didn't know the guy's name. What a fucking loser. Jees, when you can be got by the likes of Barnacle....
It reminded me of a favorite moment from a SNL skit during the 1988 Dukakis-Bush-42 campaign; it was supposed to be one of their debates, and Dana Carvey was doing his patented Bush take-off, emphasizing George, Herbert, Walker's penchant for getting lost inside his own rhetoric, and Jon Lovitz as Dukakis, glancing from Bush straight into the camera says in wonder, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy."
I suppose that should also be taken as a caution.
you know where that money comes from: you!
your taxdollars, funneled to this or that corporate, "non-profit," or rich guy's coffers. which they then turn around and use so that even more of your money flows that way.
here's my question: so if they have all this cash and they care so much about the vets, how about sending some of it to the troops who don't have armor, or who are being billed for what they expend in war, or who don't have the health care they need, or...you get my drift.
i suppose i'll never get a shot to ask ari about that. sad.
Great question, CD
But, really, is there a higher calling than promoting our $2T program to inflame the Middle East?