Even by the low standards of our wretched elite media complex, this is amazing..the NYT had a buddy of Kissinger review Niall Ferguson’s Kissinger hagiography and this is what he wrote:
[I]f Kissinger’s official biographer cannot be accused of falling for his subject’s justifiably famed charm, he certainly gives the reader enough evidence to conclude that Henry Kissinger is one of the greatest Americans in the history of the Republic, someone who has been repulsively traduced over several decades and who deserved to have a defense of this comprehensiveness published years ago.
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Patricia Kayden
And that’s just one paragraph. Wow.
Mike E
Disraeli wept.
ThresherK
My only question: Is “three” enough for a circle jerk, or is that simply a “two-way plus one”?
CONGRATULATIONS!
Kissinger is a monster. I submit to you as proof the fact that he’s still alive and about 120 years old or so.
Ha, but seriously, the guy is one of the 20th century’s most evil people, flat out.
Betty Cracker
Sweet babby Jeebus. If the oceans of blood Kissinger is complicit in spilling were to rain down on his head, it would quickly fill the area he was standing in and drown the old bastard, even if he were standing in Yankee Stadium.
donnah
Kissinger and Cheney, cut from the same vile cloth.
EconWatcher
Say what you will about the late Christopher Hitchens, he knew how to handle the likes of Henry Kissinger.
schrodinger's cat
Niall Ferguson is vile. Anyone who calls the British Empire, responsible for millions of deaths in India alone, benevolent is.
debbie
Niall Ferguson and Henry Kissinger. Perfect together.
Elizabelle
It’s the Judith Miller New York Times, Doug!
WTF is going on over there these days? Do they have too many subscribers? Trying to peel a few of them off?
geg6
Jesus fucking Christ. Will this monstrously evil man never die? And the NYT can go fuck itself. This guy running it these days is the worst! If I felt comfortable calling him an Uncle Tom, I’d do it but I don’t have the melanin to feel comfortable enough in saying it. But he is definitely the media version of Clarence Thomas.
RSA
By coincidence, I received a broadcast email from the NY Times a few days ago with an attachment titled, “Ethics Reminder For Freelancers”. (I still get such stuff; it’s sometimes interesting.) Two relevant bits:
and
Hmm.
benw
History’s greatest Americans (wingnut edition):
1. Reagan
2. Kissinger
3. Cheney
4. Coolidge
5. Kim Davis/Jefferson Davis (tie)
History’s greatest monsters:
1. B. Obama
2. Carter
3. H. Clinton
4. FDR
5. M. Obama
This is a weird country.
JGabriel
Reminds me of a joke from the seventies:
Mike E
@benw: U libz and yer hatred of great men and visionaries.
/in b4 srv
Sherparick
Well, from Ferguson’s and Roberts’ view, most of those killed were Wogs, or from the working class and swarthy surplus of Americans whose deaths in foreign wars meant that they served some sort of useful purpose as opposed to causing problems for their betters at home. Ironically, in the mid-1970s the people who hated Kissinger the worst were right-wingers who thought he and Ford were selling us out to the Russkies.
JGabriel
@debbie:
It’s so sweet watching young love blossom.
low-tech cyclist
This gives me an excuse to link to my favorite Doonesbury strip about Kissinger.
Just checked Wikipedia – he’s 92 years old. Since it’s unlikely that he’s going to be put on trial for war crimes in the next few years, it would be nice if he would just up and die already.
JPL
@JGabriel: Nice.
Alex S.
Question: Should I read Kissinger’s ‘On China’? I found (and bought) it at a flea market two weeks ago.
OzarkHillbilly
So my continuing refusal to subscribe to the NYT is reconfirmed.
Mike E
@Alex S.: Sure, if you don’t mind the thick accent.
debbie
@JGabriel:
(To sink even lower) The love that dare not speak its name?
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
I look at stuff like this and I wonder — the NY Times knows we can see them, right?
Woodrowfan
@low-tech cyclist: I knew it’d be that one. A classic…. and right on target..
SFAW
@benw:
WTF? Asshole libtard.
EVERYONE knows – well, all REAL AMERICANS know – that B. Hussein Obama occupies the top 20 positions in that list. And if the list went to 11, he’d have that one sewn up, too.
Anoniminous
No he isn’t.
benw
@SFAW: You make a cogent, well-written point. Let me try again:
History’s greatest monsters:
1. B. HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!!1!
2. Carter
3. H. Clinton
4. FDR
5. M. Obama
EDIT: aw, darn, blinking text isn’t supported. And neither is font size. Darn x2. It was funnier with large, blinking text, trust me.
rikyrah
Kissinger should be behind bars somewhere.
SFAW
@benw:
Well … okay, I guess. It’s better – but I’m keepin’ my eye on you from now on, commie..
But shouldn’t you also have included Alinksy, by the way?
MattF
@debbie: Yeah. The post on Crooked Timber notes that the book in question is the ‘authorized’ biography. Ferguson was K’s second choice for the project– the NYT reviewer was the first choice. But there’s no conflict of interest there, no, no, no.
SFAW
Even though Dr. Strangelove was allegedly fashioned after Edward Teller (I think), Kissinger would have been just as appropriate a model.
SFAW
@MattF:
Does that mean Steve Carell gets to play Niall Ferguson in the movie?
Germy Shoemangler
I remember this sort of stuff from the old Spy Magazine. Logrolling in our time.
Also, his subject’s justifiably famed charm… Really? He had/has as much charm as something one would find under a rock. I thought Barbara Walters was the only person who found him “charming”
benw
@SFAW: I went back and forth on a bunch of names for the 5 spot, and settled on Michelle ’cause she’s the prettiest. I’m a sucker.
White Trash Liberal
They tried to rehabilitate McCarthy and now it is Kissinger’s turn. Chicken fucking and painting the roses red at the same time.
Just One More Canuck
it is to barf
MattF
@benw: ‘Misuse of blink’ is an internet felony.
ETA: I don’t want to ever think about what the BJ comment threads would look like if blink was enabled.
SFAW
@Germy Shoemangler:
Probably Andrea Mitchell as well. That would be consonant with her falling for evil motherfuckers.
Germy Shoemangler
@RSA:
What the hell is going on at the NYTimes? Does one hand know what the other is jerking off?
Germy Shoemangler
@SFAW: True.
Andrea fell for Mr. Greenspan, and Mr. Greenspan fell for Ayn Rand.
MomSense
NOPE.
MomSense
@Just One More Canuck:
I had the same reaction. Projectile vomit worthy.
SFAW
@benw:
No argument from me, although I don’t think of her as “pretty” – except when it precedes “damn good looking.” (“Pretty” strikes me as a word used with girls somewhat younger. Michelle Pfieffer, Ava Gardner, and so forth were not women I think of as “pretty.” But that’s just a semantic idiotsyncrasy with me.)
ThresherK
…and I see that LGM already used “circle jerk”, hours before me, about this, and I simply didn’t read it. If I’m going to be late to the party, at least I unwillingly imitate the best.
Frankensteinbeck
@benw:
I don’t think they view Carter or Clinton as monsters. Conservatives view them as failures and jokes. They think Carter was wildly incompetent and Clinton was a corrupt, greasy, fat, lecherous hayseed. Only the fringe thought Clinton was Coming To Take Away Their Guns. Mainstream conservatives are terrified of Obama.
SFAW
@Frankensteinbeck:
Well, except those two groups are now the same.
Oatler.
@low-tech cyclist:Kissinger and Cheney are immortal, just like Chuck Grassley. “Well done, thou good and faithful servants” said Azazel.
schrodinger's cat
@Frankensteinbeck: There is no fringe, the fringe has become the entire dress.
Alex S.
@Mike E:
Ok then… the advantage of Kissinger, and of other people from the ‘realist’ school of foreign policy, is that they view things ‘as they are’ – because only with a clear perspective are they able to exploit the weaknesses of other countries to push American interests. It’s not the ‘we create our own reality’ school of the neo-conservatives. So as long as Kissinger’s books aren’t part of a still active policy program, the book should be somewhat insightful.
Roger Moore
@rikyrah:
The same cell block as W, Cheney, and the rest of the Iraq war criminals.
schrodinger's cat
@Roger Moore: Send them to Gitmo.
boatboy_srq
My NYT scrip expired. I was regretting that until now.
@Germy Shoemangler: Consider the competition: Birch, Cheney, Dulles, Bolton, Norquist, Koch, Paul, Cruz…
schrodinger's cat
OT: BTW the Pope Francis visit has made TTHF go into Holocaust denial territory. She has gone completely mad.
Cervantes
@Alex S.:
Except that Kissinger’s congenital dishonesty is a stumbling block when interpreting his words.
Plus we could talk about how to define “American interests” — but some other time.
Roger Moore
@Germy Shoemangler:
Their policies for opinion pieces are obviously different, and much lower, than for actual news reporting- which is pathetic considering the depths to which some of their news reporting has sunken.
NobodySpecial
@Roger Moore: Lock them in a cell, and then throw away the cell, as a friend of mine used to say.
C.V. Danes
@benw: Yeah, I’m thinking it’s only a matter of time before Regan gets added to Mt. Rushmore and $100 dollar bills start being called “Cheneys”
srv
@Alex S.: Liberal’s hate realists. They’re more comfortable inventing their own realities that mimic the neocons.
Neocons bomb for freedom, liberals bomb for the children. All nuance in their view, still all baby killers in the end.
randy khan
The excerpted paragraph is a crime against good writing, and punishment should ensue just for that.
There’s actually a long, often amusing, tradition of having people who appear to have conflicts of interest doing book reviews. I bet whoever picked him hoped that he would think the biography was flawed and go after it.
The problem, of course, is that they picked someone who was in love with Kissinger, rather than someone who was mad he didn’t get picked to do the bio or someone who had a public fight with either Ferguson or Kissinger in the recent past. Those kinds of reviews are fun to read, even if they generate a lot more heat than light.
Steeplejack
@schrodinger’s cat:
Who is “TTHF”?
MomSense
@rikyrah:
But where? How about Chile?
SFAW
@srv:
Thank FSM we have the nihilists to set things right! Or is it the anarchists?
Roger Moore
@Steeplejack:
I assume she’s referring to The Thinking Housewife, but joking by calling her “Haus Frau” instead because of her Holocaust denial.
Origuy
@MattF:
No modern browser supports the blink tag. It was thought up as a joke and implemented by a Netscape programmer after a night of drinking. True story.
MattF
@Steeplejack: ‘The Thinking Housewife’ website– if I’m not mistaken. It’s always been somewhat crazy right-wing, but lately has fallen off the edge.
Cervantes
DougJ:
Andrew Roberts, the author of the “review,” is not merely a “buddy of Kissinger,” he’s an unrepentant cut-throat imperialist, a British historian very similar to Ferguson in that his mistakes are obvious, grandiose, and ludicrous.
Even the Economist, that well-known Marxist rag, dismissed his magisterial History of the English-Speaking Peoples since 1900 as “less a history than a giant political pamphlet larded with its author’s prejudices, with sneers at those who do not share them[,] and with errors.”
And yet here he is, published by the NYT, ejaculating his wisdom hither and thither with no concern for what the children will make of it.
MattF
@Cervantes: And frightening the horses.
trollhattan
@benw: FTW
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
I had never heard of that site, so bopped over to take a gander.
Holy fuck.
Apparently Zyklon B was an insecticide used to kill the lice in the clothing of those unhygienic Jews, not kill the Jews themselves. And did you know that there were more Cathoiics killed in Auschwitz than there were Jews killed? I am so glad we have someone to set the record straight, because the World Jewish Conspiracy has been feeding us lies about the Holocaust for years, apparently.
But, as I said before …
Holy fuck.
rikyrah
Hillary Clinton’s big break with Obamacare is puzzling
The Washington Post
Editorial Board, The Washington Post
Hillary Clinton rolled out several modest but serious health-care proposals last week. This week she canceled out any claim to responsibility on the subject by calling for repeal of the “Cadillac tax” on employer health-care plans.
The tax, set to take effect in 2018, is a key component of President Obama’s health-care plan and its most effective means of controlling health-care costs.
Without it, Obamacare becomes one more entitlement program facing ever-rising health-care costs that the country will eventually be unable to afford.
Ms. Clinton said she would find ways to make up the revenue the tax would generate, but that would not repair the principal damage. She also would have to find alternate ways to control health-care costs, and that seems unlikely.
As the Huffington Post’s Jonathan Cohn wrote, “The Congressional Budget Office made it clear that, without something like the Cadillac tax, the health care law was unlikely to reduce health care spending.”
To understand why, you have to understand that health benefits are a form of employee compensation that the federal government doesn’t tax: The government subsidizes employer-provided health insurance, in other words, but not wages.
http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-cadillac-tax-decision-2015-10
schrodinger's cat
@Roger Moore: You get an A!
benw
@MattF: sometimes you’ve got to take the law into your own html tags!
@SFAW: it’s fine with me if we debate exactly how to describe Michelle’s attractiveness.
BGinCHI
Fuck that war criminal.
But you know…even the Liberal NYT.
SFAW
@schrodinger’s cat:
And you get an F for steering (indirectly) us there. Brain bleach does not, in fact, exist, so being able to un-think the evil I just read at that site is not currently possible.
JCJ
@geg6:
Be careful, you might summon former commenter Uncle Clarence Thomas.
schrodinger's cat
I found TTHW website quite by accident. It was while reading Get off my internets, mainly a website to snark on fashion bloggers, mommy bloggers, DIY bloggers etc.
ETA: Going through through her archives was like going through a rabbit hole that lead to a bizzaro world.
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
Encouraging people to read The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion is a nice touch, also, too.
SFAW
@benw:
I’ll see if I can somehow finagle my way into doing some “primary source” research. Over dinner. Now, if she can just
get rid ofsend that tall skinny guy what hangs out with her, to someplace to negotiate with somebody.sigaba
@SFAW:
Strangelove came out in 1963, a little too early for people to know who Kissinger was (Stanley was always a little ahead of his time).
While Teller is mentioned as a prototype it’s also known that Strangelove was also patterned after Werner Von Braun and, most directly, Herman Kahn.
The deeper question is, who keeps letting all these death- and war-obsessed European migrants into the US (Niall Ferguson included)?
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
Was that at TTHF? (No, I’m not going back there to find out.) Or something I missed from schrodinger?
Cervantes
@SFAW:
This will not end well.
benw
@Frankensteinbeck: Jimmy Carter gave away the Panama canal. Hillary arranged BENGHAZI. (I think you are talking about Bubba Clinton, who didn’t make the top 5.) But you are correct, as @SFAW pointed out, that Obama is number one in bold, giant, blinking text on that list.
@C.V. Danes: liberals have to retaliate by making sure the Redskins get renamed the Washington Obamas!
schrodinger's cat
@SFAW: Well isn’t it good to know that such vile people exist, ignorance is not bliss. I like to know what the crazy people are thinking. I check her website out once a week, just like I pay a visit to KLo’s crazy corner.
Also, I did not post a link, it was your curiosity that led you there.
Roger Moore
@sigaba:
I assume it’s death- and war-obsessed Americans. The German ones get let in because nobody knows death and war like the Germans. The British ones get let in because they have posh accents, and nothing is quite so convincing to American ears as an upper-class English accent.
@SFAW:
Yes. She’s into full anti-Semitic and Holocaust denial mode, which apparently includes treating The Protocols of Zion as a serious source.
TG Chicago
@rikyrah: I don’t think it’s that puzzling. It’s in the Clinton nature to triangulate. They have to position Obama to their left. It’s all they know. And if it’s terrible policy, well, who cares when there’s an election to win!
More proof that Hillary doesn’t care much for liberal policy:
https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_SeptemberWeb/O-2015-08630-141/DOC_0C05777023/C05777023.pdf
A benign change on a form from “mother/father” to “parent/parent” was just too much for her to handle. She lives in fear of Sarah Palin saying mean things about her.
Even from a political perspective, this is ridiculous. There’s no way a minor change on a form in January 2011 is going to be a media story even in February 2011, much less in November 2012. So Palin goes on Fox and whines about it; so what? She’s gonna whine about something; that was her job at Fox! Who cares? It was quite clear by January 2011 that Palin had zero ability to influence anybody’s vote. She had a higher profile then, but she was already known to simply be a right wing red meat slinger.
HRC is just a lousy politician, and yet she’s so focused on politics, not policy (as the Cadillac tax issue underscores). It’s sad if the Democratic Party can do no better than this hack.
Cervantes
@TG Chicago:
Sexist!
Mike E
Srv is on top of the libs’ neo-cuck conspiracy…the square has been circled, History eats itself.
#mybrainhurts
Cervantes
@sigaba:
Profit-obsessed Americans.
shell
And it had to be a hippie, cause back then, who else would have a backpack?
benw
@SFAW:
I expect a full report on my desk by oh-nine-hundred hours!
SFAW
@sigaba:
Yeah, I thought I had also heard that he was an amalgam of “thinkers.” I didn’t recall von Braun’s name, and I don’t think I’ve ever heard of Herman Kahn being “associated” with Merkwuerdigeliebe, although I can see some justification.
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
Nicht wahr?
patrick II
@donnah:
I have always considered Kissinger more of a dispassionate intellectual whose sin is hubris — the rest of us are pawns in the great trends of history which he thinks he understands.
Cheney is more pure paranoid psychotic. Not only is he as disdainful of other people’s lives — he doesn’t have the intellectual chops to at least do his evil competently. The Iraq war was not only unnecessary, but incompetently run. So of the two I prefer Kissinger, but that only means I would like to see him in prison for life, while Cheney should be on death row.
Cervantes
@patrick II:
How about the US invasion of Vietnam?
SFAW
@benw:
If I’m home by then.
Yeah, right. Unless Michelle develops a sudden passion for short, bald, overweight guys … hey, it could happen! (It’ll happen right after I win the Olympic 1x – comin’ for you Mahe! You too, Hamish!)
sigaba
@Roger Moore: yeah, but that doesn’t really explain the historical situation, particularly in the 20th century, where so many of these guys were foreigners. why does it seem so often that the military-industrial complex cultivate these people for the roles they play in our government and society?
I think it’s because, tunic stand for in émigrés are the closest thing our society has to what in Europe would be called a parvenu. these people come here with very little, they don’t have any connections were society or elite culture, they can say crazy outrageous things, and can be easily written off. but if someone likes what they say, they can be welcomed and excepted, and there ethnic background will give what they say an academic or intellectual gloss. in the end, foreign emigrés are a bit like converts to the religion of Americanism, and no one is ever as fervent as the converted, nor does suspicion ever completely depart the converted.
dmbeaster
@Germy Shoemangler: Except that the falling happened in reverse order. Its not as if Andrea woke up in bed with hubby to discover him getting excited over the revelations in Atlas Shrugged.
SFAW
@Roger Moore:
The scare-quotes around “Pope” Francis, and referring to him as Jorge, are nice touches. Fucking loons.
Alex S.
@TG Chicago:
Hillary is a bit like our blog host, in that her political instincts are almost always wrong but she can usually be convinced to accept the liberal view.
sigaba
@Roger Moore: yeah, but that doesn’t really explain the historical situation, particularly in the 20th century, where so many of these guys were foreigners. why does it seem so often that the military-industrial complex cultivate these people for the roles they play in our government and society?
I think it’s because, émigrés are the closest thing our society has to what in Europe would be called a “parvenu.” These people come here with very little, they don’t have any connections to society or elite culture, they can say crazy outrageous things, and can be easily written off. but if someone likes what they say, they can be welcomed and excepted, and there ethnic background will give what they say an academic or intellectual gloss. In the end, foreign emigrés are a bit like converts to the religion of Americanism, and no one is ever as fervent as the converted, nor does suspicion ever completely depart the converted.
SFAW
@dmbeaster:
Brain-bleach trigger warning!
It’s not impossible that Greenspan plays with himself while reading that book, rather than watching pron. I mean, to him, it IS a type of pron.
benw
@SFAW: it’s what you’re like on the inside that matters, not the outside!
Cervantes
@benw:
This is really not going to end well.
SFAW
@benw:
Keep telling yourself that.
@Cervantes:
Not for me, at least.
glory b
@geg6: I have enough.
He’s an Uncle Tom.
EconWatcher
I will say, if you read Stephen Kinzer’s dual biography of the Dulles brothers, Kissinger comes across as a bit of piker in the monster department. Now those guys were evil.
And the way that John Foster Dulles and his firm (Sullivan and Cromwell) got filthy rich on blatant conflicts of interest is, especially for lawyers, just amazing. He did dual-purpose missions in Latin America to execute US foreign policy and to drum up business for Sullivan and Cromwell, and pretty much did both during the same meetings with high government officials.
If you’re a lawyer and ever bump into any of those snooty Sullivan and Cromwell lawyers, be sure to remind them that their firm was built on sleaze, corruption, and conflict of interest. I’ll bet they all already know.
Roger Moore
@sigaba:
I guess I would put a higher priority on the intellectual gloss than you appear to. Americans still have something of an intellectual inferiority complex, so that they’re more willing to accept answers from somebody saying them in an exotic European accent than a standard American accent. There’s probably also some kind of an outsider effect, where people are more likely to accept things about their own society when they hear them coming from a putatively neutral outsider, e.g. Alexis de Tocqueville. The combination means that people wanting to push an unpopular agenda can help themselves out by asking a like-minded foreigner to present their views for them.
Cervantes
@EconWatcher:
Safe bet.
Cervantes
@glory b:
In fact, Dean does not like being called an “African-American.” Prefers “Creole.”
In New Orleans, where he’s from, his family ran a succession of good restaurants I used to enjoy: the Chicken Coop, then Eddie’s, then Zachary’s. (I’m forgetting others.)
Great food — and if it were still available, the Times would not be fit to wrap it in.
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah & @TG Chicago: Sanders and O’Malley also support killing the Cadillac tax. I think it’s bad policy, but it’s not just Clinton.
Cervantes
@Betty Cracker:
No, you’re right, it’s not just Clinton. In announcing her position, she’s finally answering a call by Sanders that she take a position.
Sanders has opposed it for a long time. In 2009 he (memorably) said the plans in question are more like Chevrolets than Cadillacs.
Last week he (and seven Democratic co-sponsors) introduced another bill to repeal it. I think the cost of repeal would be about $90B, which Sanders proposes to raise via a surtax on the wealthiest among us. I’d support that if it can, indeed, be implemented.
NorthLeft12
I for one am eagerly awaiting the revised edition of this book with a new chapter which will cover his trial and incarceration for crimes against humanity.
Yeah, I know I am a dreamer……..but I’m not the only one.
Betty Cracker
@Cervantes: Yes, but you see, it’s good progressive policy when Sanders and O’Malley propose it. It’s corporate whoredom when HRC does.
TG Chicago
@Betty Cracker: As I said, it’s sad if the Democratic Party can do no better than this hack. If Sanders and O’Malley are similarly hackish (though I’m not sure they are vis-a-vis a minor change to a State Department form), then that just makes it all the sadder.
TG Chicago
@Betty Cracker: Can’t speak for anyone else, but I never defended Sanders and O’Malley on it.
If Sanders and O’Malley are as awful on gay rights as that email shows HRC to be, then I’ll criticize them for that as well.
Patricia Kayden
@benw: Surprised that Bull Connor and Supreme Court Justice Taney didn’t make the list for people most beloved by Republicans.
Chris
I posted this on the LGM thread too;
Isn’t calling Kissinger an “idealist” deeply fucked up even by his own standards? I thought Kissinger considered himself the epitome of an IR Realist, the kind of cold and rational and logical person who understood that “foreign policy is not missionary work.”
Cervantes
@Betty Cracker:
Actually, I don’t remember what O’Malley’s position is.
Jamey
@Alex S.: Only if it’s about his head on a plate ….
Betty Cracker
@Cervantes: A Google search of “O’Malley Cadillac tax” returns the answer in 0.40 seconds if you’re interested.
Cervantes
@Chris:
The book runs only through 1968. It’s easy to be an idealist when you don’t have power.
In that frame, Ferguson’s argument is that Kissinger, if you ask Kissinger (by looking at his words), appears to be an idealist. There is much talk of Spinoza.
One counter-argument: Kissinger on Kissinger never was particularly reliable.
Cervantes
@Betty Cracker:
You’re catching on.
PS: But thanks.
Chris
@EconWatcher:
Kinzer wrote a Dulles biography? Must find. I’ve only read his Iran book, but liked it very much.
Chris
@Cervantes:
Ah. Thanks 4 clarifying.
Cervantes
@Chris:
No problem.
And if you have suggestions for what the post-1968 sequel should be called, you should send them to Ferguson!
Betty Cracker
@TG Chicago: Yeah, but you probably won’t hear about it. The media jihad is aimed squarely at HRC. That’s why every time someone posts something lambasting Clinton for dissing Obama or some such shit, I do a quick Google search for context. So far, it’s bullshit on stilts approximately 100% of the time.
Cervantes
@Chris:
Blood of Brothers: Life and War in Nicaragua, his book on the fall of Somoza, is also worth reading.
low-tech cyclist
@Woodrowfan:
Great minds think alike!
Second choice would have been this one. And an honorable mention to one that didn’t mention Kissinger, but was really about him anyway.
TG Chicago
@Betty Cracker:
So pointing out a candidate’s shitty views on gay rights is a media jihad?
Cervantes
@TG Chicago:
No, I doubt that was a reference to your particular observation.
I think it refers to a stance she perceives the national political media to be taking.
mclaren
TRANSLATION: “Henry Kissinger has video of many important people in bed with underage boys.”
Roy Cohn, J. Edgar Hoover, Henry Kissinger…sociopath of the week.
mclaren
@Cervantes:
Oh, I don’t know about that. When Henry K. was joking with a buddy at Kissinger & Associates, jesting “We should name this place CALL 1-800-BOMB-CAMBODIA,” I think that was pretty accurate.
mclaren
@low-tech cyclist:
Not possible. We haven’t found Kissinger’s horcrux yet.
Cervantes
@mclaren:
You’ve got the story wrong. It was publisher Michael Korda who made that grim joke about Kissinger, while waiting for the latter to come to the telephone.