Dead-tree Clownhall, plus, a general unloads on Cheney

Did you know Townhall had a magazine? Me neither. I found it via a link on one of our auto-generated blog ads. The magazine is what you’d expect.

A glance at the two sample covers on the site captures the content better than the drool-propelled pixels comprising the text. The covers after the jump:

Get it? True colors? The next one appeals to me for some reason:

If only Rachel Maddow would quit sneering at this magazine’s subscriber(s), they’d stop babbling about Mao Zedong, death panels and teabags.

The general fires back

Like an arsonist climbing from under a dumpster to criticize the fire department’s handling of his conflagration, Dick Cheney slithered from his undisclosed location this week to blast the Obama administration’s handling of Afghanistan, characterizing it as “dithering.”

National Security Network Senior Adviser General Paul Eaton was having none of that shit:

“The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters. They ignored Afghanistan for 7 years with a crude approach to counter-insurgency warfare best illustrated by: 1. Deny it.  2.  Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. While our intelligence agencies called the region the greatest threat to America, the Bush White House under-resourced our military efforts, shifted attention to Iraq, and failed to bring to justice the masterminds of September 11.

“The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy ‘experts’ have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan. Simply put, Mr. Cheney sees history throughout extremely myopic and partisan eyes.

“As one deeply invested in the Armed Forces of this country, I am grateful for the senior military commanders assigned to leading this fight and the men and women fighting on the ground. But I dismiss men like Cheney who inject partisan politics into the profound deliberations our Commander-in-Chief and commanders on the ground are having to develop a cohesive and comprehensive strategy, bringing to bear the economic and diplomatic as well as the military power, for Afghanistan—something Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld never did.

“No human endeavor can be as profound as sending a nation’s youth to war.  I am very happy to see serious men and women working hard to get it right.”

Well, somebody had to say it.

PS: I think Ron Reagan just threatened to kick Frank Gaffney’s ass on Hardball.

And then Grayson came on and said he couldn’t understand Cheney on a video clip because of the “blood on his teeth” and asked if Cheney turned into a bat and flew away after the speech.

Tweety then asked Grayson if he had any GOP friends, and Grayson said, “Some of my best friends are Republicans.”

Posted by Betty Cracker on 10/22/09 at 03:22 PM • Permalink

And did the Gaffney/Reagan thing really happen?  I’m going to have to watch the 7 o’clock rebroadcast if that’s the case.  Sounds far more exciting than Prager/Penn, which would be over in a millisecond. I think Gaffney may be able to hold on for a half minute at least.

Here’s the clip of the Gaffney/Reagan showdown. Wielding someone’s dead father is pretty low, but the wingnuts sure like to use it.

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