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Thursday, April 26, 2007

More Lies Of the Left -- The Patriotism Canard

Time and again Democrats have complained that the White House was trying to squelch debate by questioning the patriotism of war critics. Well, the Economist has checked out those complaints and found them to be baseless.

There seems to be a White House rule that officials are to avoid any mention of patriotism while vehemently attacking critics of the war. The Google searches I ran brought up only instances of Democrats attacking the White House with such language. In fact, the White House takes pains to say it's not questioning anyone’s patriotism.
What is actually going on is that Democrats are trying to squelch debate by claiming that anyone who criticizes them is unfairly questioning their patriotism. Once again the Democrats issue a big lie and it is uncritically accepted by the MSM.

As the Economist puts it,
I fail to see any hypocrisy in the White House saying to Democrats, "Your intentions are decent, but your ideas are rubbish."
Indeed.

Read the post here.