Only The NYT’s Would Feature A Frank Rich

Frank Rich has always been an ass.  the former movie reviewer promoted to political pundit would be an ass to most newspapers. But not to the NYT’s.  No, they feature his idiocy.  Only the Times would feature an idiot who is almost always wrong. 

He thought the Iraq war was over in 2005:

LIKE the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J
Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that
for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. “We will stay
the course,” he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you
mean we, white man?

~~~

Nothing that happens on the ground in Iraq can turn around the fate of
this war in America: not a shotgun constitution rushed to meet an
arbitrary deadline, not another Iraqi election, not higher terrorist
body counts, not another battle for Falluja (where insurgents may again
regroup, The Los Angeles Times reported last week). A citizenry that
was asked to accept tax cuts, not sacrifice, at the war’s inception is
hardly in the mood to start sacrificing now. There will be neither the
volunteers nor the money required to field the wholesale additional
American troops that might bolster the security situation in Iraq.

He called our citizens who served over in Iraq mercenaries:

We first learned of the use of contractors as mercenaries when four Blackwater employees were strung up in Falluja in March 2004, just weeks before the first torture photos emerged from Abu Ghraib. We asked few questions. When reports surfaced early this summer that our contractors in Iraq (180,000, of whom some 48,000 are believed to be security personnel) now outnumber our postsurge troop strength, we yawned. Contractor casualties and contractor-inflicted casualties are kept off the books.

And now the king douche is telling his KOS minions that the Republican candidates for President only want one thing, to become dictator:

To believe that this corruption will simply evaporate when the Bush
presidency is done is to underestimate the permanent erosion inflicted over the past six
years. What was once shocking and unacceptable in America has now been
internalized as the new
normal.

This is most apparent in the Republican presidential race,
where most of the candidates seem to be running
for dictator and make no apologies for it. They’re falling over each
other to expand Gitmo, see who can promise the
most torture and abridge the largest number of constitutional rights. The
front-runner, Rudy Giuliani, boasts a proven record in extralegal executive
power grabs, Musharraf-style: After 9/11 he
tried to mount a coup, floating the idea that he stay on as mayor in
defiance of New York’s term-limits law.

Since when does upholding the Constitution, limiting government, and ensuring that the right to bear arms is not infringed upon make a dictator?  Meanwhile the Democrats push for constitutional rights for the enemy and decry the use of waterboarding to extract intelligence while trumpeting abortion on demand.

Gitmo?  Instead of expanding it, as they should, they are releasing prisoners all the time who really don’t want to go back home to the execution.

On the silly Giuliani bit he fails to tell his readers that this “coup” by Giuliani was the idea that maybe his term should be extended a bit immediately after 9/11, which was quickly dismissed and Bloomberg was inaugurated soon after as Mayor.

Rich is a drama queen of the highest order, and an ignorant one at that.

Only the Times.

UPDATE

Beautiful response from a reader at The Corner:

“During that unpopular war, disaffected Americans took to the streets and
sometimes broke laws in an angry assault on American governmental
institutions.”

What he meant to write:

“A bunch of spoiled
children, destined never to grow up, threw a huge tantrum over the fact that
they didn’t have everything they want in life, then spent the rest of their
pathetic lives pretending that they were actually valuable
to society. And
now they want to be wealthy in their retirement and expect the government to
force younger taxpayers to pony up the cash for the life of luxury to which
they feel entitled by right of birth.”

Curt

See author page