Tuesday, January 18, 2005

Michael J. Totten, liberal?

Wondering what the right was considering a liberal nowadays?

How about Michael J. Totten who voted for Bush and writes for the conservative PR front (more on funding) Tech Central Station.

Reminds me of former self-described liberal Roger L Simon who is a raving Bush supporter urging a jihad against the jihadists or something and goes into rants about his Hollywood neighbors liberalism. Perhaps all it takes to be a liberal now is to support MLK or at least believe he wasn't a communist danger to the U.S.. (Even Freepers must now sprinkle laudatory phrases around King compared to the conservative rhetoric during his lifetime.)

NRO: "Michael Totten, a liberal who voted Republican this election"

UPDATE

The New York Times carries the controversy on Iraq the Model and here is reaction from another National Review Online classified 'liberal'. Is everyone who is not Attila the Hun a liberal to the National Review Online? (Some discussion of 'liberal warhawks' here in the libertarian Reason.)

My Reaction: Overblown hysterical reaction to Iraqi brothers who outed themselves long ago. It has been no secret who these brothers are. The announcement of the run for Iraqi political office mentioned their blog. Speculation has been rampant from the beginning based on the fact that their blog has never printed anything that the large intel group in Iraq would not approve of.

The function of US agents has long been to befriend and finance individuals who will support the U.S. and get them involved in politics and in government leadership roles. Their blog has supported all of the U.S. efforts in Iraq. Two of the brothers are now involved in politics. One has left because he has problems with those efforts.

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