The Commisar dwells on: Suppose you had fallen asleep in the late 1990's and awakened to read today's headlines from the Middle East.
The always laughable Minipundit quips:
Bernard Kerik, Bush's first choice to defend our country, has been paid $75,000 for writing 11 sentences. If that applied to this blog...
Don't even consider it, dude.
You are guilty of practicing that most Stalinist of practices: revisionist history:
I have to say that there is little that Little Green Footballs has done that quite compares with its demonization of Rachel Corrie. For those of you who haven't heard, Rachel Corrie was a pro-Palestinian activist who, while protesting Israel's policies (and its existance)(sic), placed herself in front of an IDF bulldozer before it did what she believed to be a home demolition, but which the IDF insists was an effort to dismantle underground terrorist facilities. The bulldozer promptly hit her (though it is disputed whether or not it ran over her or just into her). Supporters of Corrie claim that her death was intentional, while the IDF claims that the bulldozer driver couldn't have possibly seen her. I don't know who is right, and I won't try to discuss that here. I won't try to defend Corrie's political views either; they were indefensible tripe, terrorist apologism infused with a vile dose of anti-Semitism. But she had never conducted a terrorist attack, has never assisted a terrorist organization, and never so much as harmed an Israeli citizen or IDF soldier. She certainly did not deserve to die, as LGF and co. seem to believe.
But she did assist those that were plotting terrorist attacks through Gaza and that is plain wrong. If you inject yourself into a battle on one side or the other, there are consequences. The death of Rachel Corrie was not the fault of the Israeli's and was the fault of Rachel Corrie. You have attacked LGF's commenters, not the content of what Charles' writes. Sounds like the Inquirer.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Across the Blogosphere
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In related news on Rachel Corrie, I found out from MacBoar this morning that her parents are sueing Caterpillar.
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