The swift boating of Jim Webb

Bob Cesca


10.27.2006
Johnny Reb Allen's Swift Boating Of Jim Webb

Bear with me as I try to figure out this Jim Webb situation. Senator Allen and the mighty GOP cabal is making a big deal about several historical novels written by Jim Webb and endorsed by Senator McCain which depict the horrors of the Vietnam War. The horrors include sexual references and acts which many veterans observed in the war. This somehow proves Jim Webb's lack of character.

Am I getting it so far?

Good. Let's continue.

Senator Allen and many of his fellow right wing parrots never served in Vietnam or in any war for that matter and one of the only Republicans who did in fact serve in Vietnam is actually on the record claiming the book is a vivid depiction of the some of the war's atrocities.

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Now tell me -- because maybe I'm missing it -- do Senator Allen and his chickenhawk supporters in the wingnut media have a leg to stand on? Does Lynne Cheney, who has written salacious books and whose husband received five deferments from the draft during Vietnam ("Dick did not"), have any right to impugn Jim Webb on CNN? Do the hypocrite roll call. It's not too difficult. Check out some of Arnold's movies. Check out what the president and others did while members of Yale's Skull & Bones society.

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Now Jim Webb, a well-vetted Reagan appointee, has been forced to defend his stories of the war. Likewise, Michael J. Fox has been forced to defend his Parkinson's symptoms. What kind of party is this which controls our entire government and most of our media right now? It's surely a party which hasn't deserved a single second of that kind of success. And the only reason why they've managed to attain this power is very simply because they're good at "one thing," as Karl Rove quoted from City Slickers this week. That one thing is manipulation. They manipulate you and everyone they encounter through fear, deception and ignorance of the truth. They manipulate good people into defending themselves when no defense would otherwise have been required.


Continued: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/johnny-reb-allens-swift-_b_32694.html

Listening to Wold Blitzer right now grill this douch-bag on her own writings that are as "dirty" as anything Webb wrote - but you can bet no rightie will swift her boat!

:wtf:

At least Web's books are Historically accurate and reality. Lynn Cheney come up with her porn. And now we have a porn author writing children's books. Oh, the irony!

can get elected and that Webb's election is another legacy of the power of Reaganism in this country.

By whom? Your Republican friends?

Yes that is what will be said and we'll have to be ready to say it's the first step back to the middle after a dangerous lurch to the right.

Having spent more of my votes on Repubs than Dems I feel almost violent against Any Repub running for office. That party has lied it's way through history. Enough of them destroying this country with an arrogant smile on their face.