Klarinet Archive - Posting 000528.txt from 2004/06

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] The Bush Junta
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:02:03 -0400

At 12:41 PM 6/30/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>At 05:11 PM 6/29/2004 -0400, Jeremy Schiffer wrote:
>Oh my god, this is too funny. You're pointing out the Hitchens ad-hominem
>attack article (which I read days ago, by the way) as something coming
>from the 'liberal media?' Do you not know who Christopher Hitchens is? The
>guy's a former Trotskyite who got fed up with the left and went the way of
>the Neocon. He was one of the most rabid voices cheering on the buildup
>and the invasion. That's like pointing to William Safire's Op/Ed in the
>Times and saying 'look, this is the what the liberals think about this
>subject becuase it's coming from the NYTimes.'

If you figure that questioning the guy's motives, ability, and logic to be
ad hominem, then I guess so. (I read it days ago, too.)

>The fact is, if you actually read the article you linked (I know, it's
>hard to get through Hitchens' diatribes sometimes), it didn't point out
>any facts that were incorrect, it focused mostly on bashing Moore for
>things that *weren't* in the movie (his lack of a harsh treatment of
>Saddam) as well as the things I mentioned originally about his maddeningly
>patronizing style. Additionally, if you follow the link (and read it) for
>the article where Richard Clarke supposedly took full responsibility for
>the post-9/11 Saudi flights (the one area where the facts are in dispute),
>you discover quickly that Clarke didn't say what Hitchens claims he said.
>Even the headline on that story is rather misleading, given what it says
>several paragraphs in.

Clarke's exact words were, "I take responsibility for it. I don't think it
was a mistake, and I'd do it again." and "It didn't get any higher than
me. On 9-11, 9-12 and 9-13, many things didn't get any higher than me. I
decided it in consultation with the FBI." Only later did he try to weasel
out of those statements.

What is NOT in the movie is just as important as what IS. Can you play
Mozart leaving out the rests and just playing the notes? Leaving OUT truth
that contradicts your point is just as much lying as making up stuff.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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