The Brazen Hussy Blog
columnist: Sherry Baker

Topic: War On Terror
Has Hell Frozen Over? Bill O’Reilly And Newt Gingrich Are RIGHT! (Sort of..)

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Scott McClellan IS a Judas, but just whom did he betray? And Newt is right about what sort of attack could take away our civil liberties, but didn't it already do just that?

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by Sherry Baker
(Libertarian)
Thursday, May 29, 2008

Of course, it takes a media one-of-those-sell-your-souls-bodies-and-anything-else-for-the-almighty-buck kind of person ( starts with "w", rhymes with "more") to know one so Bill O' Reilly certainly can claim to know, on a smarmy propaganda politico level, the likes of Scott McClellan.

You know who Scott is, the former White House mouthpiece who has returned to the limelight for another 15 minutes of fame and has incurred the wrath of Bill " I Can Attack Anyone I Want But Don't You Dare Bring Up That Nasty Sexual Harassment Suit I Settled" O'Reilly.

Bill , in one of his spittle spraying snits, says Scott is a "Judas" for writing the tell-all book (I'm not mentioning the title, he's had enough free publicity) about his days inside the Bush regime.

Notice Bill calls him "Judas", the betrayer of Jesus. Yes, in this bizarro war-is-peace, l984-ish age in the American Empire that was once the United States of America, we must have  allusions to our great leader as Christ-like. Heck, they aren't even thinly veiled.

What's next? Will Bill cry crocodile tears and moan George W is being "crucified" over the Iraq debacle?

Uh-huh. And whom would Jesus bomb?

But I digress... We all know George W. talks to "God" or at least hears voices and answers them by invading sovereign countries under false pretenses.

Now I hope ol' Scott came clean and that he tells the truth in his book.

But he is a Judas.

Here's where I disagree with O'Reilly, however.

 Scott McClellan was a Judas to his fellow Americans.

He stood in front of the media, answered hard questions with eye rolling, sarcastic pontification and repeated lies that he surely must have known or suspected were just that. He betrayed me, and you and our country.

It was only until he was dumped by the White House and signed on the dotted line for some more of the fame game and money that he told the truth -- how many years, how many American and Iraqi lives later?

How much further in the economic and soulless pit are we now than we were when the light bulb first went off for Scott?

I won't read his book. I suspect there's not a fact that any of us who were reading history, the world's press and THINKING and opposing the Iraq invasion from the get-go didn't know way back when.

This is not an attack on McClellan's looks but, well, let's look at him. This is an observation: he looks soft and mushy and , well, weak. Spineless is the word that comes to mind.

No, I will not read his book.

Now on to Newt : Raw Story is reporting that at a recent book signing, Newt was asked why the U.S. hasn't had any more terrorist attacks. His answer was that he had expected another attack and , golly gee whiz, when the sicko snipers were loose shooting people at random  a few years ago, he thought those darn terrorist would have figured out they coulda, woulda, shoulda just sent in sniper teams into the country to scare the pants off us, but they didn't.

Anyhoo, Newt opined the Bush regime has done TOO GOOD of a job of "stopping" attacks since 9/11 sopeople don't really believe we are in danger from terrorists.

Ok, here's where I agree with Newt: apparently, we aren't in much danger from terrorists , at least not the ones that popular culture thinks were behind 9/11.

If we were, after all, with few of our ports guarded and OUR BORDERS VIRTUALLY WIDE OPEN they would have pretty much done what they wanted by now.

Unlike Newt, I don't credit the Neocons in charge with protecting us at all.

They wanted their excuse to invade Iraq. They got it. They used every wily trick in the book to slice away our constitutional rights.

But protect us? Surely, Newt is smarter than that...

Let's all say this one more time, out loud: THE BUSH REGIME DID NOTHING TO PROTECT OUR BORDERS. That fact alone screams loud and clear that the powers-that-be didn't really think there was any reason to protect our country with anything resembling common sense.

Think about it.

Newt went on to say, according to Raw Story, "... think the greatest danger to our liberty is to actually have the country end up in the kind of attack that would lead us to favor a dictatorship for security."

I agree with him again -- to a point.

You see, I think that kind of attack already happened on September 11, 2001.

I hope Newt wakes up. I hope we all do, before it is too late to ever take this nation back.

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