Reading notes

Honestly, I don’t know how David’s wording could be any better:

When it comes to politics in a time of war, I think that relativism is, well, relative. Fahrenheit 9/11 must be viewed in the context of the Iraq occupation and the torrent of misleading claims that got us there. It must be viewed in the context of Rush Limbaugh repeating the charge that Hillary Clinton had Vince Foster murdered in Fort Marcy Park, or laughing off the exposure of Valerie Plame when, had this been a Democratic administration, he’d be calling every day for the traitor’s head. It must be viewed in the context of Ann Coulter calling for the execution of people who disagree with her. It must be viewed in the context of another new documentary, the superb The Hunting of the President, that documents — irrefutably — the lengths to which the right went to destroy Bill Clinton. Moore might be a demagogue, but never — not even during Watergate — has a U.S. administration left itself so open to this kind of savaging.

I am so tired of being tut-tutted, ridiculed, and sometimes declared treasonous and worthy of death for simply pointing out the obvious about this Administration that I want big rumpled grumpy Mike to deliver an effing TKO. “Blessed are the merciful,” I know, I know, but never in my memory has anyone strained honest mercy to be forthcoming like these bastards.

[via Joeesha]