Sunday, September 10, 2006

Smearjobs

What do you run on when your party has, for four straight years, shown itself 100% incapable of governing?

After creating the largest deficit in our nation's history, after murdering tens of thousands of innocent foreign citizens in their own country and thousands of your own soldiers in a war of choice sold on a bed of lies, after Jack Abramoff and Halliburton have ripped your democracy off like bank robbers, after you fail to protect a major American city or rescue them from hurricane flooding, after lowering taxes for the wealthy minority while stagnating or lowering wage means for the gross majority, after your only significant piece of legislation all summer is a bill banning horse slaughter for human consumptions, affecting just three-count'em-three factories in the all of the U.S.?

You smear those trying to unseat you, those trying to right the ship of state.

If you want to know why this mock-you-drama smearing of the Clinton Administration is hitting network television, check out this comprehensive uncovering of the neocon/fundamentalist plot to rewrite history with baldfaced ideologically motivated lies, courtesy of Seeing the Forest. At some level it all goes back to Richard Mellon Scaife, right wing zillionaire who gave a million dollars to Richard Nixon's re-election campaign and was the major funder of the Arkansas Project, the organization that hounded Bill Clinton throughout his term of office, eventually achieving his impeachment. He seems to have funded rabid reactionary neocon (once Liberal academic) David Horowitz...
..."who has worked for more than a decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.">...who has worked for more than a decade to establish a right-wing presence in Hollywood and to discredit mainstream film and TV production. On this project, he is working with a secretive evangelical religious right group founded by The Path to 9/11's director David Cunningham that proclaims its goal to "transform Hollywood" in line with its messianic vision.

That's right, this is a planned smear on history by the very same people who tried to tear down the man who brought America eight years of peace, prosperity, balanced budgets, and effective anti-terrorism intelligence work. But don't take my word for it, as Joe Conason delineates the findings in the official 9/11 Commission Report itself:
"President Clinton was deeply concerned about [Osama] Bin Ladin," remarks the opening section of Chapter 6, titled "From Threat to Threat." It goes on to note that by the summer of 1998, Clinton and his national security advisor Sandy Berger "ensured that they had a special daily pipeline of reports feeding them the latest updates on Bin Ladin's reported location."

...Again and again, the report takes careful note of Clinton's active, personal participation in the effort against al-Qaida during the Millennium alert, exploding myths about his supposed distraction by domestic scandals. Clarke spoke directly with the president on several occasions that month. "In mid-December," the report reveals, "President Clinton signed a Memorandum of Notification (MON) giving the CIA broader authority to use foreign proxies to detain Bin Ladin lieutenants, without having to transfer them to U.S. custody. The authority was to capture, not kill, although lethal force might be used if necessary."

So The Path to 9/11 isn't so much based on the 9/11 Commission Report as it is on the radical rightwing imagination of the filmmakers and their coven.

That's right, tell anyone who will hear it over the next few 9/11 commemorating days, Bill Clinton was a terrific defender of the country against terrorist attacks.

You can't blame them -- their Presidente ignored (with his trademark lack of intellectual curiosity) memos like, "Bin Laden Determined to Attack within U.S.", read My Pet Goat instead of responding immediately in any true leadership fashion, and has conducted and foreign and military policy since then seemingly dedicated to exponentially increasing the number of recruits wanting to participate in attacks on America and Americans, all the way up to the cost of their lives.

Don't let the smear stand: Clinton may have been a flawed human being, but he was a hero on terror.

Now leaving behind the propaganda set-up (see now how Karl Rove could have known about this all the way, and influenced perhaps the timing?), there's the not inconsequential issue of how the GOP dig themselves out of a hole in the November election, in large part to avoid turnover of either House of Congress which would certainly lead to investigations and individual indictments for all the Admnistration's crimes and cronies.

The answer, per The Washington Post:
Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues and local controversies, GOP officials said.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, which this year dispatched a half-dozen operatives to comb through tax, court and other records looking for damaging information on Democratic candidates, plans to spend more than 90 percent of its $50 million-plus advertising budget on what officials described as negative ads.

My one caveat in the face of such skullduggery is that such Swiftboating and sewage work actually tests the mettle of the individual Democratic candidates; those who respond quickly, decisively and lethally actually prove themselves moreover as right for the job.

American politics doesn't get any prettier even after you're elected.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Mock-you-drama"? Nice.

Mark Netter said...

Working overtime for you, valued reader! :)