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| 2004-08-07 |
| Amazing Similarities by Slate.com's Darrel Cagle You decide, then try your own hand at this form of ignoble equivalency. If Cagle spent more than ten minutes researching and drawing this scrawl, he is either mentally retarded or drunk or possibly both. Our time limit is therefore 5 minutes: Amazing Similarities between..... John Kerry and Saddam Hussein: Both have French-speaking wives Both are well-liked in Europe Both are enemies of GW Bush Both have praised European economic models. Both have been photographed in green fatigues Both opposed the Vietnam War Both have given speeches about alleged American war crimes Neither will admit to having met Osama bin Laden Both claim religious beliefs but avoid public displays of piety. Both have been targeted by hostile artillery. Both would be President of their respective countries in 2005 if prominent lefties had their way. or Darrel Cagle (Slate cartoonist) and Julius Streicher (Nazi propagandist hanged for inciting genocide)----- Cagle, like Streicher: relies on crude caricature to make his points. opposes a war against Jew-haters. is not a Republican. has been published in two-bit weeklies. habitually uses facetious half-truths. would be applauded in Arab countries accuses his enemies of plutocratic conspiracies. favors pen and ink over other media finds the Kennedy family favorable to his viewpoint (Joe in the 30s, Ted today) makes demonizing comparisons (well, ok, maybe that one's not so bad) |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #5 Craig writes: "Kennedy and Lincoln both have the same number of letters in their last names. K and L both were assasinated while in office. K and L blah blah blah blah" Craig, you forgot the most eerie-- Lincoln was once in Monroe, Maryland; JFK was once in Maryland Monroe. |
| Posted by: JDB 2004-08-07 8:50:22 PM |
| #4 Speaking of demonizing comparisons, I actually heard a history teacher (at the McKenzie Jr High in Lubbock Tx) compare the current generation of Vietnam War historians (who dispute the orthodox media-left interpretation) to Holocaust denialists simply because the term "revisionist" has been applied to both at one time or another. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-07 11:17:08 AM |
| #3 So, then, Craig, the common lefty tactic of making such comparisons may in fact be misleading? Whoduhthunkit? |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-07 11:13:46 AM |
| #2 Kennedy and Lincoln both have the same number of letters in their last names. K and L both were assasinated while in office. K and L blah blah blah blah .......... Each and every human has literally hundreds of thousands of facts about them. It would be an impossibility NOT to be able to find dozens of these facts that "line up" between any two humans on this planet. |
| Posted by: Craig 2004-08-07 10:20:59 AM |
| #1 Another one, from the thespian world Martin Sheen and John Wilkes Booth attacked a Republican President... belonged to a family of actors... had dark hair... were regarded as handsome... opposed the war of the time... accused the US military of atrocities... associated with homeless people.... |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-07 12:40:29 AM |
