WaPa Calls Thompson A Liar For Stating That U.S. Has Shed More Blood Than Any Other Nation To Bring Liberty
Here is what Fred said:
– Fred D. Thompson, stump speech in Des Moines, Sept. 7
The “claim” does not give us the name of the author for the WaPo, but this is their response:
Terry says that Ed Morrisey at Captain’s Quarters blog decimates the fallacious and highly biased claims made by the Washington Post’s anonymous writer
The Post awards Thompson “four Pinocchios” for his statement. I’d award the Post about ten dunce caps for borderline illiteracy.
Thompson specifically mentions that we shed our blood for “other people’s liberty”, not our own. That excludes any nation that fought to defend its own territory. The Soviet Union had allied itself with Nazi Germany — right up to the moment of Hitler’s invasion of June 1941. The Soviets did not fight the Germans to liberate anyone except themselves. True, they bled massively in their defeat of the Nazis, but they didn’t do it out of love of liberty or selfless devotion to France or Britain. Their effort certainly helped the West in achieving victory on Hitler’s Western front, but that wasn’t why Joseph Stalin insisted on crushing the Nazis. Had Hitler not launched Operation Barbarossa, Stalin wouldn’t have lifted a finger for anyone’s liberty, let alone those of his own people — which he proved in the post-war Iron Curtain he imposed on Europe.Anyone who can’t figure this much out has no business writing for a professional newspaper. It’s a ludicrous, almost ghoulish argument in the face of what followed World War II in Europe. It’s worthy of Walter Duranty, the disgraced Soviet apologist of the 1930s New York Times.
The rest of the piece is almost as bad. The unidentified writer uses the conquests of the Alexandrian Greeks (actually Macedonians, to be accurate) as a counter-example to Fred’s claim, as well as Napoleon. The Post seems to have some trouble distinguishing imperial acquisition from liberty, a lost distinction that explains quite a bit of what appears on the pages of its newspaper.
memeorandum has links to Outside The Beltway , who states:
So, yes, the facts are more complicated than Thompson’s stump speech line; they always are. Americans have fought a lot of wars, none of them for a single purpose. Over the last century, though, all of them have had at least some substantial “other people’s liberty” component. Who else can make that claim?
My question to the WaPo is what motivated them to print this? Do any of you think that the most liberal members of the elected sector would stoop to this level of stupidity? I don’t. We may not see eye to eye politically, but Fred spoke for all of us when he said “You know, you look back over our history, and it doesn’t take you long to realize that our people have shed more blood for other people’s liberty than any other combination of nations in the history of the world.”
September 19, 2007 - 07:51 AM on September 19th, 2007
Anyone expect anything other than partisan excess from the MSM?
September 19, 2007 - 07:52 AM on September 19th, 2007
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September 19, 2007 - 07:59 AM on September 19th, 2007
How does the Compost have any credibility to call anyone a liar? This bird cage liner lies routinely, like it’s cousin the New York Slimes.
In fact it has gotten to the point with both of these Leftist rags that if they state something, you can almost assume the truth is the opposite.
September 19, 2007 - 08:06 AM on September 19th, 2007
This is what you get from the WASHINGTON COMPOST
September 19, 2007 - 09:36 AM on September 19th, 2007
To address the question posed in this topic, why the Compost would post this excrement: Because the Editors have diseased Leftist minds. I have been saying for 20 years that Liberalsim is a form of mental illness, and the anecdotal evidence mounts!
There is no other possible rational explanation for the behavior exhibited by so many American Leftists/Liberals!
September 19, 2007 - 09:39 AM on September 19th, 2007
A ground breaking, innovative, truly useful pHd thesis topic for some Grad student in psychology would be to invetigate and prove my hypothesis: That Liberalism is a form of mental illness.
I fimly believe it could be done.
September 21, 2007 - 12:40 AM on September 21st, 2007
As long as they define insanity as the act of doing something exactly the same repeatedly but expecting different results, it’d be a cinch.