The new year is only a little over 30 hours old for me and already I have a nomination for Disgusting Comparison of the Year. It's Chris Kelly at Huffington Post.
One way to think about the last few days - the deaths of Gerry Ford, Saddam Hussein and James Brown - is to imagine them like the final half-hour of The Godfather, with the Bush Family settling all scores. Ford for some internecine slight at the convention in 76, Saddam for not taking orders, James Brown for making drunk driving look so much cooler than when a preppie does it.
It's all connected. How many guys worked with Gerry Ford and Saddam Hussein? Only Bush button man Donald Rumsfeld. Eerie. Plus Rumsfeld tortures prisoners and James Brown served time and recorded "Please, Please, Please."
All this to pan The Good Shepherd.
Yes, I'm waiting for the snarky comments about how certain rogue conservatives accused Bill Clinton of murdering a variety of inconvenient people, plus drug running, just to keep his presidential ambitions "viable."
The difference, of course, is that, with the notable exception of Rev. Jerry Falwell, most conservatives rejected the allegations made.
I'm just not sure how many conservative columnists (although Bill Clinton was probably the catalyst for the conservative publishing industry) spent much time comparing Clinton to the Godfather. Or, for that matter, how many of them essentially accused a sitting president of wiping out famous people who could only be connected in a six-degrees-of-separation kind of way.
What Kelly's comment mainly shows is the moonbat blindness of the left and why even the more logical arguments they make get lost in the noise machine.
Cross-posted at Common Sense Political Thought.
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