Damn Those Damnably Irresponsible Bloggers...

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Sunday Afternoon (extremely feverish) Update at the bottom of post

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I mean, how can those no good terrible, conspiratorial, cultist, jump-to-conclusion nutbars who stew in their own juices in the outer fringes of the fever swamps even begin, in the absence of any, you know, actual evidence, write things like this:

"....there is a specific jihadist connection here: “Just nine days ago, Norwegian authorities filed charges against Mullah Krekar, an infamous al Qaeda-affiliated terrorist who, with help from Osama bin Laden, founded Ansar al Islam – a branch of al Qaeda in northern Iraq – in late 2001.”

This is a sobering reminder for those who think it’s too expensive to wage a war against jihadists. I spoke to Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute, who has been critical of proposed cuts in defense and of President Obama’s Afghanistan withdrawal plan. “There has been a lot of talk over the past few months on how we’ve got al-Qaeda on the run and, compared with what it once was, it’s become a rump organization. But as the attack in Oslo reminds us, there are plenty of al-Qaeda allies still operating. No doubt cutting the head off a snake is important; the problem is, we’re dealing with global nest of snakes.”...

Oh.

Hang on a second....

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On a not unrelated note re: "The Media Really is Killing Us"....Friday's NYT editorial page is an unbelievable exercise in "Everything Goes, Therefore Everything Is Going Just Fine"....Why?...Well, first you've got Paul Krugman rationally explaining what is actually going on with the world economy and offering up his opinion about why the stimulus actually mattered then, matters now, and will very likely really matter really, really, soon...That, as you might expect given the new, uber-modern 'Everything Goes" circles that the Grey Lady now travels in is backed with Grover Norquist nattering on about how the only real shining path is a totally scorched earth fiscal policy licked clean by the genetically re-engineered-to-vaguely-resemble-Dutch's collagen-re-inflated lip-words of George HW 'Sushi-Barfing' Bush (ie. read 'em Cowboys/MarlboroMenchildren: "No New Taxes" ever, especially, and most importantly, for the Richiest Richests job creators of the universe who almost, but not quite, walk amongst us who are, essentially paying none now - taxes I mean)...What's the problem with all this good 'ol fashioned "he said/he said" finger pointing and counterpointing you may be asking?....In a word, "Bobo"....Or, as Driftglass likes to call him, David "F*cking" Brooks, who washes all this down by saying that both perspectives are uber extreme (ie. Democrats actually trying, as in trying to protect Medicaid and Social Security by reducing other spending programs and by rolling back G.W. "CodpieceBoy" Bush's egregious tax holidays for the RichieRiches/Masters of the Universe as being exactly and equivalently as bad as Scorched Earth 'Burn it All Down' Republican/TeaParty Extremism)....Therefore, according to Bobo, who is the one who gets front page billing on the Grey Lady's outer aproon, let's all just go along to get along and let everything settle in the faux mushy middle, which isn't because it's really a thick, goopy melange of Randist-Reganite (again, faux at its center) mucky, mucinous, mucilage cut with AEI-laced crystal methods designed for building barren, but (again, totally faux) guilded cages that will sit upon the huge mountains of corporate cash that can, apparently, now reach the soon-to-be-fully privatized moon....And how do we know, for certain, that we (ie. the rest of us) will be forced to live in those barren cages (together with a few trinkets all, of course, faux)?....Because the fourth story on the NYT Ed page Friday was a totally serious examination of crazy (like, of course, a real faux fox) Michelle Bachman's migraines....Seriously.

Update Sun July 24th, 3:oopm: The WaPo's irresponsible Ms. Rubin is now trying to justify her irresponsibility with, as far as I can tell, more of the "suspicious" same.

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