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April 26, 2004
This attack dog likes chomping on mystery left legs!
This is very annoying: "It's time for Dick Cheney to call off the Republican attack dogs. The American people have better things to do with their time than listen to more misleading attacks from a man who has been misleading them from the day he took office," McAuliffe said. (Via Travelling Shoes.)OK, for the sake of argument, let us suppose the American people have better things to do than listen to Dick Cheney's criticisms of Kerry. Does that mean that anyone who asks legitimate questions about Kerry's medal-tossing is one of Cheney's attack dogs? Even ABC Good Morning America's Charlie Gibson -- a man Aubrey Turner has called a "socialist scumbag"? How did Gibson become one of Cheney's attack dogs? What really caught my attention though, was that just as the big media and the blogosphere were abuzz over the numerous contradictions in the medal-tossing extravaganza, Kerry suddenly started talking about shrapnel in his left leg. There's no reason to doubt this claim, or in any way belittle his proven courage under fire in Vietnam. But the timing.... Why is it that right now we're suddenly hearing about shrapnel in the leg? Unless his campaign is urging him to hold back, this would be the kind of thing he'd be expected to brag about. Often. If there is a strategy of holding back the best for later, I wonder what goodies we'll hear as we get closer to November. There was that shoulder surgery not long ago; why aren't the paranoid conspiracy theorists speculating about what might have been removed? Or added? (Don't look at me; I'm shouldering enough responsibility without biting off more than I can chew....) Speaking of mystery legs, here's more on the mystery leg that had me up in arms recently. Jordan conceded under defense questioning that someone else may have been killed because one left leg could not be matched with any of the 168 known bombing fatalities.(Readers who insist on reading the entire story but have problems logging in can get help here.) I am simply not buying the story that a team of pathologists is unable to determine the sex of that leg. Identification of Y chromosomal DNA will determine the sex -- even of skeletal remains. The fact that the left leg was shaved reveals there was plenty of flesh available for testing. Why hasn't that been done? Does a shaven leg necessarily prove that the leg came from a woman? I don't think so, because men shave their legs too! Lest readers think I'm referring to drag queens, this report shows that there can be other reasons why a man might shave his legs: investigators searching the luggage of suspected hijacker Mohamed Atta had found what appeared to be instructions for the suicide hijackers. Excerpts released by the Justice Department included this instruction: "The previous night, shave the extra hair from the body [and] pray."Either way, though, it sounds like a drag. posted by Eric on 04.26.04 at 09:07 PM
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Steven, You have reappeared just in the nick of time to save me from a creeping case of Blogger Burnout Syndrome! Thank you for this and all the other comments.
Eric Scheie · May 11, 2004 02:32 PM |
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