All the neocon blabbermouths, from smarmy Fred Barnes and the creepy Charles Krauthammer to Hannity and the rest, threw a collective hissy fit yesterday over the fact that Time magazine chose ole Vlad Putin as its “Person of the Year.”
“He’s responsible for killing people!” they collectively screamed, conveniently forgetting their own role in encouraging Dub-Yuh to wage a unnecessary five-year war that has killed hundreds of thousands.
The memo from Hate Central apparently instructed all card-carrying neoconmen to repeat at least a hundred times that “General Patraeus should have been Time’s man of the year.”
Why General Patraeus? He’s just a soldier who takes orders from the commander in chief (and his neocon advisers), and is the latest military bureaucrat to be handed the hot potato of command in Iraq. The neoconmen have been declaring “victory” in Iraq lately, even though more Americans have been killed there in 2007 than in any other year. But reality doesn’t matter to the neoconmen. What matters is what they say reality is on their TV and radio shows. And making General Patraeus man of the year would be a way of effectively naming THEM, THE NEOCONMEN, as the real “persons of the year.” It is they, both in and out of the Bush administration, who are responsible for Iraq, after all. Now that they are spinning “victory” (which only a moron could believe), they obviously think of themselves as deserving of some awards.
Here’s an award I would give them: The William Duranty/New York Times Award for Bald-Faced Lying Disguised as “Reporting” Award.
12:05 pm on December 20, 2007
