When You’re In A Glass House… Don’t Act like Jack Murtha

Posted on June 19, 2006

Using his blogger name “kos”, Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the very founder of the liberal/progressive/left-wing blog Daily Kos, gloats about how Jack Murtha has supposedly put Karl Rove back in his place, quoting the Democratic equivalent of Jabba The Hut during his appearance on Today’s “Meet The Press”.

He’s in New Hampshire. He’s making a political speech. He’s sitting in his air-conditioned office on his big, fat backside-saying stay the course. That’s not a plan! We’ve got to change direction. You can’t sit there in the air-conditioned office and tell troops carrying seventy pounds on their backs, inside these armored vessels-hit with IED’s every day-seeing their friends blown up-their buddies blown up-and he says stay the course? Easy to say that from Washington, DC.

Not counting the fact that all evidence indicates that Karl Rove’s office is not in New Hampshire, Murtha The Hut’s little spat has inspired me to reply in kind; this is what I’d have to say were I responding:

He’s in Washington. He’s a politician who has decided to run for the House Democrat’s leader spot should the Dems win the next legislative elections. He’s sitting in the ABC studios on his big fat backside-calling Marines murderers. That’s just wrong! He’s got to change direction. You can’t sit there in the air-conditioned ABC studios and tell the troops that you support them while violating these Marine’s right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty, and in the process unleash the press into some kind of Stalinist, Pravdaesque kangaroo court nailing these men to the wall even before their court-martials have begun! That’s easy to say on TV.

As a former Army paratrooper and Somalia veteran, I would like to remind Congressman Murtha one one basic truth he may have blissfully overlooked: his star may be bronze, but silence is golden.

For more insanity from Murtha, see Expose the Left. Also more insanity from the Kos kids over there. And now a picture of MarKOS Murtha! Heh.
Also see Wizbang.

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3 Responses to “When You’re In A Glass House… Don’t Act like Jack Murtha”

jimmy on June 19th, 2006 1:18 am

Wow. You managed to miss the entire substance of what he said. Impressive.

To start: “Not counting the fact that all evidence indicates that Karl Rove’s office is not in New Hampshire”
Shows a nice little bit of entirely missing the fact that the speech Murtha was responding to was given in, you guessed it, New Hampshire. You might have caught that fact if you’d have read the deeply elusive allusion disclosed in THE FIRST TWO SENTENCES: “He’s in New Hampshire. He’s making a political speech.”

While this speaks volumes of the careful analysis you did of what he said, I’ll push on.

You don’t have to parse Murtha’s statements that carefully to catch that he’s saying that a politician with absolutely nothing to lose should offer more of a plan than “stay the course”, which is open-ended and provides no road map for ending a conflict which is costing America’s young their lives. As for the sitting in an air-conditioned studio, I think after 37 years of service, and being of ripe old age of 74 he’s done his duty to the military already.

It also ignores the speech which inspired this response. The speech in which Rove, yet another draft dodger (though, I’ll give him credit for at least finding out where in the lottery he was before getting a deferment, unlike Cheney or Bush’s defacto deferment) is attacking Kerry and Murtha for being cowards who’ll run at the first sign of trouble. Of course, those he’s attacking actually DID serve, and actually DID see combat. This is so brazenly hypocritical it’s unbearable. It also shows a common tactic: take your opponent’s advantages and pretend they’re somehow a disadvantage, whilst claiming your disadvantage as an advantage. A tactic I have to show disgusted respect for when it’s so painfully successful in the media. It also is an attack based entirely on the idea that a politician should never, ever, ever change their minds based on the changing face of reality. A mind-numbingly stupid idea, to say the least.

Finally: “Congressman Murtha one one basic truth he may have blissfully overlooked: his star may be bronze, but silence is golden.”

You have GOT to be kidding. If a congressman in a time of war isn’t supposed to be talking about the war in progress, who the heck is supposed to be? I could sure rant on, but this is already longer than it should be. I’m not a Democrat, but I’m one of those “crazy far left fringe liberals” (who are tremendously common for how crazy, far and fringe it is), and I’m willing to admit when a liberal says something inappropriate and stupid. You might consider doing the same.
kerwin_brown on June 19th, 2006 5:20 am

jimmy,

What position did Jack Murtha serve his country in the military and what position did Raging Anura serve his position in the military.

I am still wondering how a battalion staff officer managed to see combat. It was probably quite the surprise. I doubt very much that he has a clue what the line troops are thinking.

These are line troops that are willingly signing up during a war. There are even a large number that are reenlisting. 24.8 thousand or so the first 6 months of 2004. It sounds to me like a lot of those troops are thinking like Raging Anura.
4TheLittleGuy on June 20th, 2006 1:30 am

Hey Jimmy,

You really need to build your web site if you want to post a book like that. Almost no one is going to read past the first paragraph before they move on to the next comment.