A Chickenhawk AND a Liar

Via Atrios, a link to Matthew Yglesias over at Tapped:

An awful lot of ink's been spilled in recent weeks on hand-wringing over liberal Bush hatred, but as Tom DeLay's appearance yesterday on Meet The Press shows, the left still has a long way to go before reaching the rhetorical depths of the GOP leadership. The interview began with DeLay referring to Democrats as "hateful," "moronic," "beyond the pale," "outrageous," "cruel," and "extremist" by way of trying to establish that liberals are excessively negative.

The Hammer went on to smear Wes Clark, whose spokesman reminded us of something Tom said back in 1988:

"He and Quayle, DeLay explained to the assembled media in New Orleans, were victims of an unusual phenomenon back in the days of the undeclared Southeast Asian war. 'So many minority youths had volunteered for the well-paying military positions to escape poverty and the ghetto that there was literally no room for patriotic folks like himself.' Satisfied with the pronouncement, which dumbfounded more than a few of his listeners who had lived the sixties, DeLay marched off to the convention." [/Houston Press/, 1/7/99]

If you make it over to Tapped, check out the post immediately below the link above as well. Short version: Sam Donaldson admits he's got the fine herding instinct of the best of sheep. Even though Howard Dean's pronouncement that "America is not safer because of Saddam's capture" is factually correct (my note: if we WERE safer, why did they raise the terror threat level?), he, Sam Donaldson, and the rest of the corporate media, are COMPELLED to attack the statement because--well, because. Baaahhh.

And Sam went off bleating into the night...