Where did the idea that David Broder was a conservative come from?

Of course, it’s not his fault. We have allowed the NEA to educate at least 2 generations of our young according to leftist principles. Broder os obviously a victim of that sort of education. This is probably not hyperbole – his view of history probably justifies his remarks fully.

A few months ago, when I asked my 11 year old son where rights come from, he didn’t hesitate for even one second: ‘the government,’ he said. I straightened him out fast, but it’s a slow process. Last night when I asked again, he said ‘the declaration of independence’ – I gave him 1/4 credit for that answer since that document does correctly give us the right answer.

My son goes to school in the people’s Republic of Santa Monica.

This is what we get when we neglect the education of our children and allow our most ‘prestigious’ institutions to lead the way in that neglect.

Not only do we end up with public servants and opinion leaders who are seriously challenged by everyday life, we end up with fewer friends who can authoritatively challenge them when they are wrong.

Hey, it’s only history! It’s only government.

It’s only our lives.

This meme alone acounts for the lack of knowledge in our population.
More 1st person stories of the danger and action in the events of history could help dispell that meme, if taught in school alongside the dates. Nothing sticks to your brain like a good story.

Take heart ye weary hearted.
Despair not though you are surrounded by fools.
Mighty Moe, Master of Zing will show you how the mighty fools are dispatched.

Im guessing splashing some water on a terrorist’s face ranks higher on the list then say interning thousands of Japanese Americans during WWII – or the CIA testing LSD on unsuspecting subjects – or the entire state of law enforcement interrogation techniques prior to 1980 – or perhaps the institution of slavery -

You know come to think about it when my older brother, as a kid, used to repeatedly dunk and hold my head under the water in the pool, that was a pretty dark chapter in American history too

Forcible removal of residents of the Blue Ridge Mountains to create the Shenandoah Naitonal Park.

Forcing the Plains Indians onto reservations.

To add to the category of labor difficulties, the Pullman strike, bombing miners at Blair Mountain, machinegunning miners at Ludlow, CO.

The ever popular removal of Japanese from the West Coast in 1942.

Broder is just a shill.

Hey, self-flagellation is fun….

o American aggression against Canada – 1775 AND 1812.

o The “discontinuing” of four towns in western Massachusetts in the early 1930s for the creation of what’s now the Quabbin Reservoir – both to provide far-away Boston with good drinking water AND to make work a la FDR and all that.

(There are reservoirs all over the place from the FDR era where people were kicked off their valley farms so that dams could be built and reservoirs created – both for drinking water and/or flood control.)

I suffer an attack of cognitive dissonance, “Can (fill in the name) possibly believe this is true???!!!.” followed by, “How can (fill in the name) lie through his teeth like this???!!!.

Then my eyes start rolling around and my brain goes, “woo woo woo”.

So I try to stay away from them.

dismantling Norah O’Donnell. Too bad Norah and her mother are such babes.
Their heads are fill o’ mush. So Is Broder- full o’ mush.

US treatment of captives under wartime conditions, I’m not sure this ranks in the top 5 in even this narrow category. I can think immediately of the treatment of Confederate POWs, followed by Tory/Brit captives. Then there’s killing Indian leaders under a flag of truce, and Operation Keelhaul. I could probably come up with a half-a-dozen more given time.

This is not to blacken the reputation of the US, only to suggest that war is a very stressful time, and to measure historical wartime actions by a modern, humanitarian, peacetime standard is rediculous.

implacations.If they start at the top and put these people in jail for their decions where will we go from there?

Will we start putting police in jail for sleep depervation?
Will we put teachers in jail for putting kids in time out?
Will we put preachers in jail for preaching?
Will we put everyday people in jail for stating their opinion?
YES YES YES YES.
9\11 Bin Laden said “We will beat you with your own laws”.
You might want to look around people.

what’s funny is that people on some lefty blogs are asserting that it was in fact cheney who’s ass was handed to her. Some insight by clicking the link in my sig.

But really getting back to my brother dunking me in the pool when I was 6 – what is the statute of limitations on torture? I’ll have to double check if he signed the Geneva Convention but I am sure if I get a good enough lawyer… or hell maybe Norah can represent me.

Many ” Experts” on the left are claiming there is no evidence that waterboarding resulted in acquisition of information which stopped an attack. They claim other means may have been responsible. So lets examine what other tactics could have coerced this major Al Qaida mastermind to spill his guts.
1) They made him wear a panty hat. But the panties were pre worn by Helen Thomas?
2) He would be judged in a beauty pageant by Perez Hilton
3) He was told he would be treated like a Somalian Teen Pirate
4) He was told the Tuzla snipers were after him
5) He was threatened with an Audit by Tim Geithner?
6) They threatened to move detainees to Detroit and close Gitmo if he didn’t talk.
7) The told him Keith Olbermann would place him on the WORST PERSON list
They threatened him with arranged marriage to Octomom.
9) They told him if he didn’t talk he would be sent to Neverland Ranch for a week with Jacko.

So just what other tactics got him to speak is a secret I guess.

The Terri Schiavo “how-dare-anyone-lift-a-finger-to-intervene” insanity, 2005. Whether you agree or disagree with the Federal attempt to intervene, the national rage against those daring to be concerned over the the life of an innocent, defenseless woman, and trying to prevent her being starved and dehydrated to death, was disgusting. The national reaction sickened me. There was a case of real torture.

Mr. Broder seems to forget the forced detention of American-born citizens in concentration camps (Japanese-Americans) by that paramour of liberal virtue, FDR.

I mean, classifying natural and naturalized citizens as enemies based solely on race??? Hmmm, but I thought Libs knew how to fight wars the right way.