From a reader:
“The Clintonoids at FAIR”? Cute phrasing, which always seems to be the priority with you, but in this case at the expense of the truth. If you wanted to reveal your ignorance of FAIR’s stance you could scarcely have chosen a better phrase. Just a few examples:
http://www.fair.org/whats-new/publicdeception.html
http://www.fair.org/extra/9303/clintoncabinet.html
http://www.fair.org/media-beat/980820.html
Unlike you, I actually read Extra! and get FAIR’s alerts–and have for years–so I know their position on Clinton. You should take the time to familiarize yourself as well if you plan to comment on them. And if you do, I only hope you’re not one of those people for whom criticism of the impeachment and “pro-Clinton” were synonomous. Clinton *did* deserve to be impeached, but not for anything he did with cigars. I despised Clinton, and yet I also realized that the impeachment was a joke, a travesty, and a threat to democracy.
As for FAIR’s love for General Clark and his war, you could also have disabused yourself of your ignorance on that point if you’d taken the time to look around a bit and find out what they were actually saying DURING THAT WAR (which is, of course, not the point when they’re discussing his position on Gulf War Part II):
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kosovo-ceasefire.html
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kosovo-talks.html
http://www.fair.org/activism/embassy-bombing.html
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/kosovo-solution.html
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/victory.html
You can check the full list for yourself here (particularly those under “Action Alerts and Media Advisories”):
http://www.fair.org/international/yugoslavia.html
Thank goodness for FAIR, eh?
Sure. Hey, I said they had a decent review of his statements on Iraq. Of course, Clark only commented on that war; he didn’t lead it. I just thought it funny that in a piece on whether or not Clark is antiwar, they focused on things he had said, instead of things he had done.
A whole entry with no cute phrasing!