More McDermottism: In this October post, I noted that Seattle Congressman Jim McDermott is a demagogue who uses the same methods as the late, unlamented Senator Joe McCarthy. Today the Congressman tossed off this smear on the Dave Ross show.
In an interview Monday with Seattle's KIRO-AM Radio, McDermott said the U.S. military could have found the former Iraqi dictator "a long time ago if they wanted."
Asked by host Dave Ross if he thought the weekend capture was timed to help Bush, McDermott chuckled and said, "Yeah, oh yeah."
Does McDermott have any evidence for this disgusting smear, this example of McDermottism? Of course not.
Here's the interview if you want to listen for yourself. If you do, you will find that, like Joe McCarthy, Jim McDermott is not constrained by logic. The United States, he claimed, went into Iraq "unilaterally", and we are now "isolated". As evidence for that, McDermott listed some of the losses our allies have taken in Iraq. What can one say to someone who makes an argument like that? That they need to see a psychiatrist? But McDermott is a psychiatrist.
- 6:00 PM, 15 December 2003 |
