6:30 am: blood pressure up already
One of the reasons I will never subscribe to Newsday, even though it is my local paper, is Jimmy Breslin.
Next time one of those telemarketers calls and pleads to know the reason why I won't plunk down the money to buy their paper, I will direct them to this column.
Breslin reprints Hitler's speech of Sept. 1, 1939, that started WWII. And then he added at the end:
On that night, Hitler used this dry, unimaginative language to start a world war that was to kill 60 million, and they stopped counting.
Last night, George Bush, after speech after speech of this same dry, flat, banal language, started a war for his country, and we can only beg the skies to keep it from spreading into another world war.
I am trying to be literate and adult about this. I am trying to find the right words that would express my feelings in an intelligent, courteous manner.
Unfortunately, all I can come up with is: Fuck you, Jimmy Breslin. You are a blithering idiot.
Comments
But Michele, Breslin's always been a hateful, blustering drunk. Why expect him to change now?
We don't allow Newsday into the house, at my place. I've issued a number of "on behalf of all decent Long Islanders" apologies for some of the things it's printed in its Opinion Section. Particularly odious are the emissions of racist-collectivist thug Les Payne, whose first name really should be changed to "More" by judicial decree.
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto | March 20, 2003 07:14 AM
Someone should invoke Godwin's Law on Mr. Breslin.
Posted by: robyn | March 20, 2003 08:01 AM
Oh gawd, is that old bastard still alive?
Posted by: Ken Summers | March 20, 2003 08:38 AM
It already is a World War (IV) Jimmy, wake up you senile ass. The so-called "War" in Iraq is merely a campaign in the global conflict, similar to Operation Torch in WWII (landing in North Africa and taking Morocco from technically neutral Franc. BTW, the invasion of Iraq is no more a pre-emptive war than was the invasion of North Africa.
Posted by: Dean Douthat | March 20, 2003 09:48 AM