I’m too old to cry and it hurts too much to laugh

NewMexiKen missed the Daily Howler yesterday but got to it this morning. It is absolutely required reading if you want to understand how the political discourse in this country has been framed.

Here, via Somerby, is Brian Williams’s actual first question to Senator Clinton:

Senator Clinton, your party’s leader in the United States Senate, Harry Reid, recently said the war in Iraq is lost. A letter to today’s USA Today calls his comments “treasonous” and says if General Patton were alive today, Patton would wipe his boots with Senator Reid. Do you agree with the position of your leader in the Senate?

As Somerby says, “Good God! Nothing too ‘loaded’ about that question!”

Or his question to Senator Obama:

Senator Obama, you have called this war in Iraq, quote, “dumb,” close quote. How do you square that position with those who have sacrificed so much? And why have you voted for appropriations for it in the past?

As Somerby points out, Obama called the war “dumb” BEFORE the war. When Obama used that term, no American soldier had died.

Go read it all!