Let me get this straight. According to Ted Rall, George Bush may be behind Paul Wellstone’s death, even though Rall admits there’s no reason to think that he was, and even though Rall admits that the GOP thought he was vulnerable to defeat, certainly more vulnerable than any successor candidate.
It’s also obviously suspicious to Rall that so many politicians die in plane crashes, even though it’s also understandable that it happens more frequently to politicians who rely so much on our Rall-admitted awful civil aviation system. And clearly the lack of black boxes (at least as reported) is suspicious, even though under other lights the Rall would be railing against shoddy regulation of the air industry.
And, of course, the only reason we’re having this conversation, according to Rall, is because the Dubyans have created such an environment of divisiveness, of cruel, unfounded accusations and villification, nay, demonization of their opponents.
Yeesh.
(via InstaPundit and Transterrestrial Musings)
Yeah, Ted Rall is what I commonly refer to as, “Out There.”
Waaaaaay out there.
I thought this is what the GoP was busy doing in the Clinton Admin…
creating “an environment of divisiveness, of cruel, unfounded accusations and villification, nay, demonization of their opponents.”
You mean *gasp* they are always like that?
Tell me again how/why W’s businesses failed?
Because he was a doofus?
I’d be the first to agree that politicians and too many commentators in general, and on all the axes of the political spectrum, have been quick to demonize their opponents for some time. For Rall to claim this as a particular aspect of the Dubya administration is not only disingenuous, it’s apallingly hypocritical.
No, I think he’s trying to get across that since this Administration stole its way into power, people have become jaded.
Do you know what the #1 hit on my site is lately, thanks to google?
Wellstone+assassination.
We’re talking dozens of google hits, which is unheard of for me.
When Paul’s plane went down last Friday, I left a simple post stating that maybe I should put on my tin foil hat, as I was suspicious. Nothing more.
Elsewhere on my page was the word, “assassination,” in regards to something about Iraq, I think. I’ve since put the words together, as a demonstration of the power of the two words in tandem.
Rall is not a loon — he’s just noting that the culture is there now that wouldn’t put it past the Shrub and his cronies. You can’t deny that fact.
I’d like to see something from Rall on the apparent “suicide” of Vince Foster. Let’s see, ole’ Vince was lying on the ground, arms at his side, with a gunshot wound to the chest. Ya, that’s your typical white male way of dispatching ones self. I think Rall’s political ideaologies cloud his logic. And yes, he’s a loon. As Dave said, what was to be gained? Wellstone was in a fairly tight race. Why bring in the sympathy factor for a successor candidate?
I’d like to see something from Rall on the apparent “suicide” of Vince Foster while Slick Willy Clinton was in office. Let’s see, ole’ Vince was lying on the ground, arms at his side, with a gunshot wound to the chest. Ya, that’s your typical white male way of dispatching ones self. I think Rall’s political ideaologies cloud his logic. And yes, he’s a loon. As Dave said, what was to be gained? Wellstone was in a fairly tight race. Why bring in the sympathy factor for a successor candidate?
Frankly, I blame Richard Nixon.
Not for Wellstone (or Foster) but for irrevocably shattering the idea that the Government Can Be Trusted.
Really. Folks were willing to believe anything from anyone after that. Maybe not about Ford or Carter, but Reagan (and his cronies) were, Rall’s words notwithstanding, considered capable of Awful Things — Iran-Contra stood as proof that consideration was not beyond the pale. Same for Bush Sr. (up to his eyeballs in I-C, too, if not its mastermind), Clinton (Vince Foster, rape, and Wag-the-Dog style goofiness), and, now, Bush Jr. (who may be Evil Incarnate or else a Dupe of Evil Incarnate, take your commentator’s pick).
Do I think that the Administration would assassinate someone? Yes, I do. Do I think they would assassinate a liberal senator from Minnesota? Not without a lot more reason than has been given. The problem with conspiracy theories is that that conspiracies are damnably difficult to keep secret.