If you peruse the news sites for more than a few weeks, it's unavoidable that you're gonna read about some important person saying something that's just totally fucking stupid. And one of the dumbest things we've seen anyone say lately is what former White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said about the war.
I know that the 52-year-old Snow has been seriously ill with cancer, but I'm not going to let what he said slide. I wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't call him out on what he said - which was so outrageous that it almost doesn't deserve to be dignified with a response.
Just before a speech at Oklahoma Christian University, Snow talked to reporters and declared that Bush will be vindicated by recent progress in the Iraq War.
Seriously. He really said that.
What progress? If he thinks terrorists lopping off people's heads and blowing up soldiers is progress, then 'progress' may be the first word ever to defy its own meaning. This has already been the deadliest year for U.S. forces so far in the war, and every few weeks you hear about some part of Iraq being put under lockdown again. The war is going as badly now as ever.
This is just like when Snow's predecessor Scott McClellan got a Conservative Fool Of The Day entry for saying something equally idiotic and wrong. A couple years back, McClellan boasted that the nation's economy was in a "sustained economic expansion." Yes, he said that in 2005 - not 1977. I would have loved to have been in the room when he said that, because you could probably hear reporters bursting into laughter at that one! Or probably not, because the fact that America had lost 5,000,000 jobs since 2001 really wasn't all that funny.
Now that Tony Snow said the war is going great, I know where the dinosaur media is going to go with this: They'll say the war really is going great, just because Tony Snow said so. I can tell already they're going to try to make the recent months of failure disappear down the memory hole.
(Source: http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=7430133&nav=menu410_3)
Friday, November 30, 2007
The Conservative Fool Of The Day is...Tony Snow!
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1977-01-01 7.5
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1977-11-01 6.8
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Scheff???????
ReplyDeleteDo you actually believe these numbers????
You know they only count the unemployed who receive benefits for it?? If someone is unemployed for more than a few months (I think it's one momth now??) they're no longer eligible for benefits and do not get counted.
That is not true. The labor dept. statistics bureau calculates the unemployment rate based on the number of people who are of employment age AND would like to work. It excludes people like Tim Brown who do not activity seek employment and decide to instead become full-time, independent bloggers. Also excluded are people who retire early, are disabled or are in prison.
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