In the last few days, there have been a slew of accusations or insinuations of treason in the debate over US foreign policy and the war in Iraq, continuing the pattern of attacks on dissent since 9/11.
Rush Limbaugh, who once accused ...
Time for another entry in the history of the nation's most hacktastic newspaper, the Washington Times, whose inspired brand of "journalism" kept us busy at Spinsanity for years.
Their latest offense comes in an article disclosing a pri...
Earlier this month, I noted a Rick Reilly column in Sports Illustrated that gently turned against the war in these concluding paragraphs:
Athletes love teams, and when they run out of sports teams they sometimes join bigger teams, o...
It was bound to happen. For years since 9/11, Republicans have suggested that anti-war dissent helps al Qaeda. Now Josh Marshall, an influential center-left blogger, has reversed the charges, arguing that "It's hard to imagine that the...
Here's one of the more vile statements I've seen recently. Atrios flags conservative pundit Mike Gallagher -- the sixth most popular radio host in the country -- wishing for another 9/11 in order to silence left-wing dissent:
Seeing Jan...
RNC chairman Ken Mehlman in an email to supporters yesterday invokes Janice Rogers Brown after claiming that Bush's nominees are being filibustered because they would not legislate from the bench:
Democrats are obstructing President Bus...
Washington Times national reporter Eric Pfeiffer has written a piece for The New Republic Online that describes President Bush as "a failed oilman before becoming governor of Texas," says the President "has accumulated a disastrous envir...
In the wake of the attack on Hillary Clinton by Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman, two major conservative editorial pages have published editorials suggesting that supporters of withdrawal from Iraq are treasonous and support genoci...
Comment by Sven on “Playing "the treason card" since 9/11”
Posted by: Sven | July 07, 2006 at 11:25 PM