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Ralph Nader turns up to an Al Gore book-signing event. According to Dana Milbank in the Washington Post
It would take a highly creative legal team to build a case against Nader for causing the bloodbath that is Iraq. But we live in a time when people closer to power make increasingly outlandish claims against their foes. Rather than call for heads to roll, it becomes the job of liberals and the Left to prove, say, that the men who committed suicide in Guantanamo Bay were, far from working for an ad agency, deprived of the dignity of zoo animals.
In line with this culture of blaming the persecuted, Post
It begs the question of which other people you can talk of as being collectively diseased without being accused of racism? It is left to The GuardianPulp Fiction.
In a visual culture, nothing short of video evidence will force columnists such as Krauthammer to abandon their lies. There is a chance, of course, that their intention is not to deceive. After all, it may yet transpire that the 24 people murdered in cold blood by US soldiers in Haditha were working for Ogilvy & Mather as part of an Al-Qaeda in Iraq PR drive. And in London, the young Muslim man shot by police in his home -- apparently on suspicion of being a young Muslim man in his home -- was working for Saatchi & Saatchi or, who knows, Nader & Gore.
It would take a highly creative legal team to build a case against Nader for causing the bloodbath that is Iraq. But we live in a time when people closer to power make increasingly outlandish claims against their foes. Rather than call for heads to roll, it becomes the job of liberals and the Left to prove, say, that the men who committed suicide in Guantanamo Bay were, far from working for an ad agency, deprived of the dignity of zoo animals.
In line with this culture of blaming the persecuted, Post
It begs the question of which other people you can talk of as being collectively diseased without being accused of racism? It is left to The GuardianPulp Fiction.
In a visual culture, nothing short of video evidence will force columnists such as Krauthammer to abandon their lies. There is a chance, of course, that their intention is not to deceive. After all, it may yet transpire that the 24 people murdered in cold blood by US soldiers in Haditha were working for Ogilvy & Mather as part of an Al-Qaeda in Iraq PR drive. And in London, the young Muslim man shot by police in his home -- apparently on suspicion of being a young Muslim man in his home -- was working for Saatchi & Saatchi or, who knows, Nader & Gore.
