Weekly Mail Commentary
Every year, Weekly Mail hands out its Nerd of the Herd award, the past few years it has gone to a public figure who has done something incredibly stupid, and/or has really annoyed me.
Well, in this past week alone three early contenders have emerged. So without further adieu, lets look at these 3 losers.
1) Michael Chertoff-- Lots of people liked to rag on Tom Ridge, President Bush's first ever chief of Homeland Security, mainly because his biggest contribution to our nation was the color coded alert levels that really didn't seem to do much of anything.
But while some may have found Ridge to be useless, at least he wasn't a total buffoon. Only a total buffoon would divert terror fighting funds from New York City and Washington, DC, to such targets as Fargo, North Dakota, Boise Iowa, and Middleofnowhereville, Idaho. Only someone with no sense of history, or no sense at all would cut terror prevention funding to New York City and Washington DC by 40%! What kind of idiot would not only do just that, but then defend that decision so smugly and arrogantly.
Well, his name is Michael Chertoff, and unfortunately for us, he is not some Midwest talk show host. No, Michael Chertoff is the man President Bush chose to replace Secretary Ridge, he of the color coded terror alert system. Compared to Chertoff, Ridge's invention ranks up there with the wheel.
Finding incompetence in this, the President's second term is like shooting fish in a barrel. But Chertoff has been particularly awful. As the investigation into what went wrong during the Katrina rescue disaster delved deeper, it was apparent that Chertoff was more at fault for what happened than almost anyone, even Nerd of the Herd Michael "Brownie" Brown. On that horrid record alone, Chertoff should be kicked off the job.
But to then take federal money away from the two places where Al-Qaeda struck on 9/11 is borderline criminal. Yet he remains in office, with no plans to put someone with half a brain in there.
Senator Hillary Clinton has promised to fight the administration on this. If she can somehow win this fight, it should give her Presidential aspirations a boost. And yes, I'll give the devil her do.
But this isn't about Hillary or Schumer or any other New York politician who's taking on the White House. This is about having a clueless schmuck in charge of the most important cabinet position in the country. People are always yelling at me because George W. Bush doesn't care about New York City. Well, if he keeps Chertoff in charge of Homeland Security, they may have a point.
2) Ann Coulter-- I realize that many of you think that Ann Coulter is Satan in high heels, an evil, wicked beeotch hell bent on seeing this country become a White-Christian-police State.
Being a right wing nut-job myself, I have had occasion to agree with Coulter on certain topics.
And on the topic of people who have used the terrorist attacks of 9/11 for their own political agenda, well she probably has a point.
But she was barking up the wrong tree going after those women from New Jersey who lost their husbands that day. For Coulter to say what she did about those women, shows you Coulter's real colors. And they're not red white and blue.
These women who Coulter referred to as the witches of East Brunswick, are four women, who along with thousands of others, lost loved ones on September 11th. They have been outspoken in their quest for answers as to what went wrong. They go on TV, on the radio, in the newspapers, on the net, trying to hold people accountable.
They pressured the federal govt. to form the 9/11 commission, which found fault with both the Clinton and Bush administrations for failing to act on intelligence that might have foiled the attacks. (I know that I've gotten in trouble for defending Bush on this, but even though I still believe he shouldn't shoulder all the blame, he deserves some of it)
For Coulter to say that these women are enjoying their husbands death is unconscionable. And the other things that she calls them are equally if not more disturbing. I'm sure they would give anything to have their husbands back with them and be as anonymous as they were on September 10, 2001.
I'm not even going to start in with how I feel the extreme left attacks our country, you know where I stand on that. But what Coulter did was just as bad as what Michael Moore and his crew does. She's just as much the problem and not nearly enough the solution.
Because she's doing exactly what she's accusing these women of doing. Cashing in on the tragedy.
Do you think she's going to give all the money that she makes from this book and donate it to charity? Or do you think she just going to pocket that money. In other words profit off the tragedy.
Me too.
3) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- One of the best things I heard about the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at the hands of the US military was that he actually initially survived the bombing and that he tried to get away. That means that this piece of garbage suffered and suffered badly after he was hit. My only regret was that he only suffered for 52 minutes, he deserved so much more torture.
That he tried to escape from US forces should (but probably won't) put the bed the idea that this guy was some sort of martyr. He's a coward, the same way Osama Bin-Laden is a coward, because they have no problem sending someone off to die while they hide out. He was no martyr, he had no intention of giving up his life for his cause. Thankfully our military dashed his plans.
The world may not be safer without al-Zarqawi, indeed the fighting goes on in Iraq, but the world is definitely better off with this animal in a box.
Well, in this past week alone three early contenders have emerged. So without further adieu, lets look at these 3 losers.
1) Michael Chertoff-- Lots of people liked to rag on Tom Ridge, President Bush's first ever chief of Homeland Security, mainly because his biggest contribution to our nation was the color coded alert levels that really didn't seem to do much of anything.
But while some may have found Ridge to be useless, at least he wasn't a total buffoon. Only a total buffoon would divert terror fighting funds from New York City and Washington, DC, to such targets as Fargo, North Dakota, Boise Iowa, and Middleofnowhereville, Idaho. Only someone with no sense of history, or no sense at all would cut terror prevention funding to New York City and Washington DC by 40%! What kind of idiot would not only do just that, but then defend that decision so smugly and arrogantly.
Well, his name is Michael Chertoff, and unfortunately for us, he is not some Midwest talk show host. No, Michael Chertoff is the man President Bush chose to replace Secretary Ridge, he of the color coded terror alert system. Compared to Chertoff, Ridge's invention ranks up there with the wheel.
Finding incompetence in this, the President's second term is like shooting fish in a barrel. But Chertoff has been particularly awful. As the investigation into what went wrong during the Katrina rescue disaster delved deeper, it was apparent that Chertoff was more at fault for what happened than almost anyone, even Nerd of the Herd Michael "Brownie" Brown. On that horrid record alone, Chertoff should be kicked off the job.
But to then take federal money away from the two places where Al-Qaeda struck on 9/11 is borderline criminal. Yet he remains in office, with no plans to put someone with half a brain in there.
Senator Hillary Clinton has promised to fight the administration on this. If she can somehow win this fight, it should give her Presidential aspirations a boost. And yes, I'll give the devil her do.
But this isn't about Hillary or Schumer or any other New York politician who's taking on the White House. This is about having a clueless schmuck in charge of the most important cabinet position in the country. People are always yelling at me because George W. Bush doesn't care about New York City. Well, if he keeps Chertoff in charge of Homeland Security, they may have a point.
2) Ann Coulter-- I realize that many of you think that Ann Coulter is Satan in high heels, an evil, wicked beeotch hell bent on seeing this country become a White-Christian-police State.
Being a right wing nut-job myself, I have had occasion to agree with Coulter on certain topics.
And on the topic of people who have used the terrorist attacks of 9/11 for their own political agenda, well she probably has a point.
But she was barking up the wrong tree going after those women from New Jersey who lost their husbands that day. For Coulter to say what she did about those women, shows you Coulter's real colors. And they're not red white and blue.
These women who Coulter referred to as the witches of East Brunswick, are four women, who along with thousands of others, lost loved ones on September 11th. They have been outspoken in their quest for answers as to what went wrong. They go on TV, on the radio, in the newspapers, on the net, trying to hold people accountable.
They pressured the federal govt. to form the 9/11 commission, which found fault with both the Clinton and Bush administrations for failing to act on intelligence that might have foiled the attacks. (I know that I've gotten in trouble for defending Bush on this, but even though I still believe he shouldn't shoulder all the blame, he deserves some of it)
For Coulter to say that these women are enjoying their husbands death is unconscionable. And the other things that she calls them are equally if not more disturbing. I'm sure they would give anything to have their husbands back with them and be as anonymous as they were on September 10, 2001.
I'm not even going to start in with how I feel the extreme left attacks our country, you know where I stand on that. But what Coulter did was just as bad as what Michael Moore and his crew does. She's just as much the problem and not nearly enough the solution.
Because she's doing exactly what she's accusing these women of doing. Cashing in on the tragedy.
Do you think she's going to give all the money that she makes from this book and donate it to charity? Or do you think she just going to pocket that money. In other words profit off the tragedy.
Me too.
3) Abu Musab al-Zarqawi -- One of the best things I heard about the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi at the hands of the US military was that he actually initially survived the bombing and that he tried to get away. That means that this piece of garbage suffered and suffered badly after he was hit. My only regret was that he only suffered for 52 minutes, he deserved so much more torture.
That he tried to escape from US forces should (but probably won't) put the bed the idea that this guy was some sort of martyr. He's a coward, the same way Osama Bin-Laden is a coward, because they have no problem sending someone off to die while they hide out. He was no martyr, he had no intention of giving up his life for his cause. Thankfully our military dashed his plans.
The world may not be safer without al-Zarqawi, indeed the fighting goes on in Iraq, but the world is definitely better off with this animal in a box.
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