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I'm a veteran, I wore the boots(Germany) and never saw combat, so I know what our guys are going through(Iraq)

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The man needs counseling...to hear Jefferson AND LaRouche screaming at each other in your head is cause for ANYONE to seek some mind altering drug to silence the shrill.

So, Kos Kidz, your Bishop of Bloviation™ has been busy of late-dancing all the talk shows, sheepishly claiming for himself all your collective glory, dissing the country, and declaring himself a mainstream kinda guy-as fuzzy a puppy as Moe might suggest-and all the while suggesting that YOU sheep are the "real America."

You know, with the Moulitsas circus pimping rampant in front of all the tv cameras he, (and you-his minions) holds in such great disdain, I got to wondering something I hope you can help clear up for me. You got a revenue shortfall? He got a book full of YOUR thoughts and ideas and activism he's putting together he wants to pimp for a little MORE personal wealth accumulation at your expense?

You guys sure as hell have a negative cerebral quantity index, so either you people took your little yearly gizmo a bit more seriously than the suck-up wannabes hoping to fool you in to voting them IN to the Pennsylvania Ave. mansion did...how's that working out by the way? Or, you fruits and nuts actually bought IN to all the drivel from your Liberal sock puppets on the Hill...and, when the convention, group hug, and fireside rendition of "Michael Row" was done, he DID break up those 5 loaves, multiply them, and share the wealth and proceeds equally amongst you in accordance with the redistribution policy you all espouse, yes?

What say? NO? Horror of Horrors!

Sorry-am I twisting your undies all in a bundle? Too bad kool-aiders, your poster-boy and his pimping you liberal lunatics as THE America is not going to go unanswered. If he says Karl Rove's mind manipulation of the puppet Bushs' brain to cut taxes so bridges could collapse and levees could breach ONE MORE TIME, I'm going to have a Scarface moment...say hello to my little friend.

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So I'm headed to bed Monday night, and I hear AGAIN that the God of the new America-the Liberal America- Markos Moulitsas, is "up next" THIS TIME on Charlie Rose. No worries, PBS is NOT a liberal bastion of the media. Nor are ANY of the Sunday talk shows...no twitch in MY brain...go to bed anyway? And miss the chance to hear, AGAIN, all the salient points the liberals have to make now that they are self-deluded into believing Americans are READY to see and hear what a superior agenda they have in store for us if ONLY we could get past the Bush black helicopters and mind-control conspiracies?

Not on your life.

And with that resonating, masculine and authoritative voice, dripping with machismo, I hear the Nutroots Wet Nurse™ start off with this stroke of genius:

There really isn't very much good I can possibly say about Karl Rove. I think his legacy is going to be Iraq, it's going to be Katrina, it's going to be crumbling infrastructure - bridges collapsing in Minnesota.

Funny Moulitsas, I thought George Bush was President. Oh wait, it's been Dick (Darth) Cheney...no? It's been ROVE all this time? Whodathunk?

Mainstream America's anchorman had more...sadly, MUCH more, of his genius and insight and wisdom to share with the world.

...what he [Rove] was really good at was using fear as an electoral tool for winning elections.

Asked by Rose "fear of?", the Pied Piper leading the rats IN to our cities and towns had this to say:

Terrorists, fear of "scary liberals", but mostly terrorists.

Using the war as an electoral bludgeon to hurt Democrats. I mean, this is somebody who essentially beat Democrats over the head in Congress to authorize the war in Iraq and then went after those very very same Democrats in the following election and defeated a whole lot of them.

Now, I don't know this Liberal savior the Kos Kidz keep raving and hurling F-bombs at the feet of, and I surely hate to get personal and all, but when someone comes along and suggests what Moulitsas suggested when opining Rove supported Iraq because he saw elections going his way, I just gotta pull the EMO button before my head spontaneously combusts:

There's a whole neo-conservative cabal in this Administration, led-probably-by Dick Cheney, so I don't know if Karl Rove led him [Bush] that way [to go to war in Iraq] but he [Rove] saw the political benefits of the war, and I don't think he saw it so much as saving the West from this rising tide of Islam terrorism...I think he saw it as a great way to win some elections.

So, if I have this right, Rove was a cheerleader for getting a few thousand American warfighters killed if it meant winning "some elections" and this is BAD. Moultisas and the "get out now" crowd sees a few hundred thousand dead Iraqis as a chance to win "some elections" and THIS is good? I get that right you mainstreamers?

To the question, "is America turning left", he who knows us best says, perhaps, the funniest thing throughout his 18 and change minutes of nonsense:

I think the country is realizing that Democratic values are essentially mainstream American values. I think things like opportunity, and making sure we invest in our country and our infrastructure - keeping our bridges in one piece [insert school-boyish blush & chuckle here], getting our troops home from Iraq so they can be safe and sound with their families. I'm a veteran. I wore combat boots, so I know what they're going through and I know that they desperately want to be back with their families.

Excuse me? (hand raised sheepishly) What conflict did you engage an enemy again, sir? What say? None? Ah-well I own combat boots too, and even though I bought them at the Army-Navy surplus store, do I get to say I TOO know how our warfighters feel?

Really now...

Well, it drones on of course...here's a good snip:

I think there was a period of time when the media was essentially scared into a sort of parroting the Bush Administration's lines on things such as Iraq, terrorism, National Security...and that fear-mongering really had a way of masking what Democrats are really about. And now that we have the ability to actually get our message out...and you know, bloggers are part of that you know, but there's this brand new movement that I'm a part of that's starting to get the word out to activists, who are getting people engaged and motivated, and getting the word out, and suddenly it's a lot more difficult for the Administration to sort of try to demonize Democrats and once the American people see the real Democrats, they like what they see.

Ok, I want a pound of that, cut nicely into blunts wrapped in Swisher Sweets, and sent to me ASAP. I NEED to smoke what this crazy person is smoking...and I need it NOW.

If Mainstream America went to his little sandbox and watched the flaming f-bombs that get hurled around like so much confetti in their hoped-for Defeat and Surrender Parade, I doubt seriously they would like what they see. But of course, there is more...

Unwittingly, methinks, Moulitsas shows the base hypocrisy of his "movement's" assertion that Americans want to be Democrats, but for the fear-mongering and bludgeoning into submission this Administration (still sitting at the lowest approval rating in almost forever) has subjected the parroting media and its oppressed readership to, when he discusses the Hildebeast and her position on the war. Rose asks "she's [Clinton] ok on the war for you:

You know, I don't know. I'm still not quite sure - I don't know where she is on the war.

Rose asks "what's that say about you AND her...A you can't find out and B she's not clear enough to tell you?"

She's done a fantastic job of blurring distinctions. You know, she talks a great game about ending the war and bringing our troops home and that sounds good, it looks good, I think 'right on' and you go to her website and she talks about leaving behind a force to train the Iraqi troops and you suddenly realize 'well, is she going to pull our troops out or is she going to leave a certain number in' and she's done very good at avoiding an answer.

Rose asks "well, can't you ask her a specific question and get that answer?" and the boy wonder groans:

Oh my God, you think? I mean, you've been in politics long enough. You know you ask these questions and they go around in circles and then you forgot you asked the question.

Is it not true that Moulitsas blurs the distinctions every bit as much as those for whom he appears to believe he speaks when he suggests Democrats represent the real America? He does, after all, seem to believe the left is pure as the driven snow and would be paving our lives with gold and providing us all some utopia were it not for the Darth Republicans.

Rather than answering Rose's second attempt to ask if America is turning left, we get to the "America According to Moulitsas" moment I stayed up to see and hear with my own eyes and ears:

It's, um, America's turning in the right direction.
[Rose rephrases-what does it mean, left, anyway?]
You know, that's one of the problems I have anyway with this. You talk about right or left and you try to pigeonhole people into this sort of two-dimensional continuum and it doesn't really make a lot of sense. Uh, you look at me, um I'm left on the war supposedly, but 60 to 70 percent of Americans want to get out, they want to bring our troops home, so is 70 percent of America now left? I wouldn't go that far.

Now, they rabble here for a few minutes, but a striking apology for the Dem Presidential hopefuls is uttered from the golden child. He suggests they get a pass for now while they assemble their position papers...on things like health care, and domestic issues, but come September, by golly gee, they better have their positions nailed down. Funny that.

Come September, they're going to need to really be crystal clear about where they are on Iraq, and if they're not, I think a lot of us are going to assume the worst.

Hmm, what benevolence from the rulers of the Democrat party-Moulitsas, Inc...giving them until September to be clear on their intentions...where do I sign up?

The problem here, of course, is there should be no need to fine tune their Iraq position. No need to issue any white papers, no need to take further leave to study the issue. It's long been debated, dissected, kicked around, voted over (in November 2006, and every other freaking day on Capitol Hill ever since). It has, in fact, been used as a bludgeon on all the good people of America, and the aristocrats in Congress as well. What's left to consider, ponder, or investigate?

Wait...it's coming to me...oh yeah! I remember now! Petraeus report...opinion polls...America REACTS!

As sockpuppets go, I like Moulitsas more after dissecting the video transcript-I feel sorry for him of course, but hey-being a liberal kills brain cells...rehab, rest, a little quiet time in his happy place, and he could come back...consider this from him about the surge:

The war in Iraq isn't going to get any better, surge notwithstanding. It's not getting any better.
[...]
What's happening with the surge...it's whack-a-mole, you know, they send a bunch of troops to Baghdad and they go off to Fallujah [the bad guys I assume he means] you know...they go off to different cities. It's not, overall if you look at the number of deaths-civilian deaths-and if you look at civil war type of statistics, there's still a lot of killing happening and I don't think the surge has really had much of an effect on that.

A non-combat Vet suggesting a war initiative as yet unfinished and assessed is already a failure? Whew-I have just been in the mind of a genius.

Now, here is a "screen cap" of the look on Moulitsas' face as he answered Rose's question "You believe that, where you are politically, is the mainstream of the Democrat Party" with this:

I think we're the Mainstream of America

Gulp. We're doomed.

"If people want to label me, I'm actually a Libertarian. I'm not even a Liberal...I don't call myself a Liberal..."

If you're still reading this (having suffered with all this yadda yadda, I encourage you to go to minute 14 and watch him twist in the wind about HIS definition of Libertarianism, and how he believes Government needs to control Corporations so they don't mess with HIS life and HIS affairs...and that he actually USED to be a Republican, because of these "custom" re-definitions of Libertarianism, until the religious right broke into people's bedrooms...all very very entertaining stuff.

In making for a good close, I HAD to save this for last. Rose-"What philosopher most reflects your views?":

I'm very much a Jeffersonian individual.

Tommy MUST be rolling, like a roto-tiller, in his grave as I type.