I actually agree with Tom at least 99% on this one, versus about 2% for Dick and Joe, but on the fatuosity scale, City Slicker Tom makes the country boys look good. Remember the old “beam/mote” thing, Tom? I’m sure you do! Well, the point is, to take the beam out of your eye, not to ram it in!
But wait, there’s more. Tom also has to tell us that “In my world, you don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and be against common-sense gun control — like banning public access to the kind of semiautomatic assault rifle, designed for warfare, that was used recently in a Colorado theater. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” and want to shut down the Environmental Protection Agency, which ensures clean air and clean water, prevents childhood asthma, preserves biodiversity and combats climate change that could disrupt every life on the planet. You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” …”
You get the picture. Smug liberalism hath made its masterpiece. But you left out one thing, Tom, and here it is: “You don’t get to call yourself “pro-life” unless you called for the invasion of an unoffending country, costing your own nation thousands of lives and another nation perhaps one hundred thousand, ‘because we could.’”*
*Freidman phrased his famously offensive justification of the invasion of Iraq, undertaken, in effect, to prove that the U.S. could kick the shit out of a country one-tenth its size just for the hell of it, in a variety of fashions. This is taken from his famously repulsive “Suck. On. This” interview with Charlie Rose, who, sitting next to Tommy, actually smelled like one.
