Karl Rove says you're a traitor

The politics of hatred in our own New York.

Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.

I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble."

Mr. Rove also said American armed forces overseas were in more jeopardy as a result of remarks last week by Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, who compared American mistreatment of detainees to the acts of "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others."

"Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year?" Mr. Rove asked. "Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."

Senator Schumer properly said: "In New York, where everyone unified after 9/11, the last thing we need is somebody who seeks to divide us for political purposes."

Gadflyer says Schumer should have used stronger language:

"Karl Rove's comments are even more despicable than what we've come to expect from Republicans. There is no depth to which they will not sink, no tragedy they will not exploit for political gain. The next time Mr. Rove wants to come to New York to lecture us about what September 11 means, he'd better hope this New Yorker isn't in the room."

Also: the point has properly been made that Durbin didn't compare what happened at Gitmo to nazis, Pol Pot, or gulags. He read something by the FBI and made a perfectly valid point: that if he hadn't told you that it described American actions, you would have thought that it described the actions of some totalitarian dictatorship. And you know what? He's right.

Leave it to Karl Rove to use 9/11 to divide New Yorkers on their own turf.

Honestly, I just edited a string of expletives before posting. I do very much hope he's not in the same state as I anymore.

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Also: if you're in Reynold's district, as I am, ask him if he shares Karl Rove's opinion about his own liberal constituents. Does Tom Reynolds also believe that the liberals living in the 26th want troops to die?

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