tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58651772011-04-21T20:31:21.352-07:00This blog deconstructs the writings and ravings of Cal Thomas, America's "most widely syndicated op-ed columnist". Robnoreply@blogger.comBlogger541100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5865177.post-1097555291385272672004-10-11T21:23:00.000-07:002004-10-12T19:41:57.006-07:00

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/thomas100604.asp Shorter Cal Thomas: Dick Cheney clearly won his debate with John Edwards because I agree with everything he said, even the stuff that later turned out to be blatant lies like never meeting Edwards before. Ok, I didn't like one thing--the part where Cheney expressed actual human feeling for his lesbian daughter and stated his personal

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Shorter Cal Thomas: Since Richard Clarke's former employer, the Clinton administration, had a less than perfect record fighting terrorism, Clarke has no right to criticize the even worse terrorism-fighting record of his former employer, the Bush administration. Therefore, I need not address any of the facts in Clarke's book demonstrating the Bush administration's failures in fighting terrorism,

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Shorter Cal Thomas: John Kerry is an elitist flip-flopper and nobody likes him, least of all Democrats. (My favorite line from the column was this one: "Not many seem enthusiastic about Kerry, the man. He is merely a tool, and an elitist one at that. If he were a hammer, he would be made of sterling silver. He'd be Tiffany & Co. to President Bush's Wal-Mart." Ah, yes. George W. Bush, that

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Shorter Cal Thomas: The Spanish electorate's decision to vote out its current ruling party, a party whose leader lied to prevent the Spanish public from finding out Al-Qaeda was responsible for the recent Madrid terrorist bombings, and whose leader supported and sent troops to aid President Bush's Iraq War against the express wishes of the overwhelming majority of the Spanish public opposing a

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Shorter Cal Thomas: Unless the Bush administration can force the millions of Christianity-hating Islamic fundamentalists in Iraq to respect Christianity, the Iraq war will have been as big a disaster for us as Vietnam was.

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Shorter Cal Thomas: People should vote for George W. Bush in November because he'll nominate Supreme Court justices who will vote to overturn Roe v. Wade. Of course that decision would have been overturned in 1992 but for three things: (1) the late Justice Blackmun was bamboozled by his law clerks; (2) Justice O'Connor has a vagina; and (3) Justice Kennedy is a big girly-man who doesn't have

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Shorter Cal Thomas: Our public schools should be treated like a business. A money-losing, failing business that gets closed down in the real world. This will allow all of our children to go to private religous schools. I offer no opinion on the feasiblility, constitutionality, or logistics of such a massive change in our societal structure. What I can tell you is that a student in Washington

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Shorter Cal Thomas: The Bible forbids homosexuals to marry. Therefore, gay marriage can never be legalized in the United States. Ah, who am I kidding? Sadly, the American people are just a bunch of godless degenerates so I'm afraid gay marriage is inevitable and, as night follows day, legalized incest, polygamy, and any other kind of sick relationship you can think of will follow. By the

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Shorter Cal Thomas: In 1971, a number of anguished veterans told fellow veteran and war hero John Kerry about war crimes they had been forced to commit in Vietnam. Instead of pretending that this never happened, Kerry testified about this before Congress hoping to stop further atrocities and needless American casualties. This proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that "Kerry doesn't know what he

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Shorter Cal Thomas The American people must change for the better and the only hope of that happening is if we are lucky enough to suffer through another Depression and world war.

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Shorter Cal Thomas: I pulled strings to avoid going to Vietnam but at least I can openly laugh about it as I'm not running for office like President Bush. Anyway, since Bush is running against a genuine Vietnam war hero, this topic is an embarrassment so Bush needs to change the subject by reminding Americans that anyone who votes against him in November is helping the terrorists kill us all.

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Shorter Cal Thomas: We are in a War on Terror. There are millions of Palestinians in the Middle East and some of them are terrorists. Ergo, we are in a war against all Palestinians. Unless each and every Palestinian can guarantee that not a single Palestinian is or will ever be a terrorist, the Palestinians can never have their own state. If they did, that country would just be a giant

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Shorter Cal Thomas: Saddam was a bad man, a very bad man, and John Kerry once thought he had some WMD's. Therefore, President Bush was right to go to war with Iraq even though all the reasons he actually gave for going to war were completely false, and if everybody in this country could go on a date with an Iraqi they would agree with me. (One additional note: In defense of the war, Mr.

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Shorter Cal Thomas: I am in complete denial about the failure to uncover any weapons of mass distruction in Iraq. We know Saddam had them in the early 1990's. Everybody said so. Therefore it follows he must have had them in 2003. They are obviously being hidden in Syria. Syria I tell you!!!

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Shorter Cal Thomas: The Super Bowl halftime show was just like one of Caligula's orgies, except that nobody had any sex or even took their clothes off unless you count that one crazy woman who exposed one of her breasts for 2 seconds. The FCC must crack down immediately on all shows featuring any suggestion of sexual behavior even though millions of people allegedly like that sort of thing.

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Shorter Cal Thomas: Fiscal conservatives now finally realize Bush's economic polices are horrible!

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Shorter Cal Thomas: If we broke the news to every pregnant woman that the fetus she carries in her womb has the potential to become a real, live human being, something she may not be aware of, abortions would be a thing of the past. That's good because we all know that everyone who has ever had an abortion later regretted it and wished they could go back in time and abort themselves.

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When the obituary of the George W. Bush administration is written, hopefully historians will recognize Bush's 2004 State of the Union address as the beginning of the end. While Cal Thomas praises it, most of the country spat out the vile product as if drinking from a carton of milk long past its expiration date. Mr. Thomas thinks Bush "directly and artfully made a good case" for his Iraq

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Cal Thomas is a little upset about George Bush using a recess appointment to place Charles Pickering on the federal appeals court. Is Mr. Thomas upset because Judge Pickering is a racist tool? No. He's upset Bush found it "necessary" to use the recess appointment after Senate Democrats filibustered Pickering's nomination. Why oh why would Democrats do this awful thing? Well, to hear Mr.

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Sports columnist no more, Cal Thomas dons another of his guises--book reviewer! Today's target: The Price of Loyalty, David Suskind's new book about former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's tenure in the Bush White House. Actually, Mr. Thomas doesn't target the book, he targets Mr. O'Neill. Cal compares him to a "disgruntled former employee who returns to his old workplace and starts shooting

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Two sports columns in a row? Will we soon be seeing Cal Thomas sitting across from Tony Kornheiser on ESPN's Pardon The Interruption or taking Rush Limbaugh's place on Sunday Morning NFL Countdown? Well, he certainly couldn't be any worse than Rush was and he's probably not a money-laundering, drug-trafficking junkie either. As for the column itself, it's about Pete Rose. Mr. Thomas certainly

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Shorter Cal Thomas: It ain't the Second Coming, but Joe Gibbs' returning to coach the Washington Redskins is the next best thing!

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Fundie catfight! Fundie catfight! Cal Thomas blasts his ideological and theological soul brother Pat Robertson. Why? Because Reverend Robertson recently "told his television audience he believed he had 'heard from the Lord' that President Bush was going to win in a 'blowout.' The Lord has blessed Bush, said Robertson, and 'it doesn't make any difference what he does, good or bad. G-d picks him

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Want to win the So-Called War on Terror? Well, there's a handy new manual for doing just that called "An End to Evil: Strategies for Victory in the War on Terror", written by Richard Perle and David Frum. Cal Thomas says it's must reading. I'm going to take a pass myself given Perle and Frum's previous track record. After all, Iraq isn't exactly the "cakewalk" they predicted and setting up a

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Shorter Cal Thomas: Any reporters who note that polls show President Bush is not universally popular among Democrats are biased liberals. Longer (too long) Cal Thomas: It's a new year, but the same old Cal Thomas. Despite all evidence to the contrary, Mr. Thomas still believes the myth of the Liberal News Media. Or at least he portrays himself as someone who does. After the media war against

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Worst column of the year! With this final entry of 2003, Cal Thomas doesn't disappoint. Usually the bigotry is hidden under the guise of "morality" but here it's right out in the Jew-hating open. Unfortunately, every Democrat needs to read this nauseating swill because it's just a taste of what conservatives have in store for the Democratic nominee for president. Op-Ed writers like David

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Mr. Thomas really, really doesn’t like homosexuals, and he really, really, REALLY doesn’t want them getting married. Why else would he write what is essentially the same exact column he wrote back on November 19th? The new column makes about as much sense as the earlier one. Mr. Thomas is pimping a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage yet he says, “Marriage has traditionally been a

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Does Moammar Kadafi's announcement he will give up his efforts to develop weapons of mass destruction and allow inspections constitute vindication for the "Bush Doctrine"? Of course Cal Thomas thinks so since to him all world events must be spun for the benefit of George W. Bush regardless of the facts. The reality? Well, I'm no expert on Libya so I'll turn to others who know more. Flynt

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Playboy Magazine is 50 years old but Cal Thomas doesn't feel like celebrating. How could he when, according to him, "the progeny of the Playboy philosophy - which said men did not have to limit their sex drive to their wives but could plunder whatever woman would allow them - is brokenness, depression, addiction and, in some cases, suicide." Now I thought the Playboy philosophy was actually "

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Cal Thomas joins in the world's celebration over the capture of Saddam Hussein. All Americans applaud the arrest of the evil dictator and mass murderer who will soon stand trial for his many crimes. Of course we all knew Mr. Thomas wouldn't just stop there and he'd somehow have to find the capture "proved" Bush was right to go to war with Iraq. Well, unless Saddam has super powers and is

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Cal Thomas fears for the First Amendment after the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the McCain-Feingold law. Mr. Thomas has no love for the First Amendment where the separation of church and state is involved so forgive me if I don't take his concerns here very seriously. For some reason Cal quotes a sentence by Justice Harlan from an unrelated 1958 case. Persuing the actual case at issue, McConnell

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Our country's educational system is going to hell in a handbasket!. Because of lack of funding? Overcrowded classrooms? Of course not. Blame the devil of "multiculturalism". Apparently "some" history books teach "more about popular culture than the Founders". It'd be nice if Mr. Thomas cited to any of these alleged books but he does not and his premise sounds phony to me. Mr. Thomas worries

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Typical right-wing smear job on Hillary Clinton. What makes it worse than most is that Mr. Thomas argues with skills inferior to an average high-school debating student. Check out this line: "While praising the troops, Sen. Clinton questioned the administration's post-war policy, a distinction I find inconsistent. The Nazi leadership believed the troops at Auschwitz also did a "good job." The

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Merry Christmas Charlie Brown! Cal Thomas' latest column has the same message as Charles M. Schulz' beloved cartoon "A Charlie Brown Christmas". Christmas is too commercial. While a genius like the late Mr. Schulz can make Charlie Brown's quest for meaning in Christmas both moving and funny, Mr. Thomas can only crank out a hackneyed, "holier-than-thou" lecture. His column's just a more

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Good stuff. You have to give Cal Thomas some credit for placing conservative principles ahead of Republican Party power. Mr. Thomas blasts the Republican congress for "increasing spending, expanding big government", and "dishing out "$95 billion in tax breaks and pork-barrel projects". The GOP once ran as the party of smaller government but those days are gone as "Republicans, having tasted

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The Michael Jackson case shows us one thing. That you should stop after your 15th nose job? No, that pedophilia will soon be accepted as normal behavior in America. Who in their right mind could ever come to that conclusion? Well, just look at all the evidence Cal Thomas has mustered: the Abercombrie & Fitch catalog and Calvin Klein billboards. Case closed? Let's take another look. (1) A & F

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After two reasonable columns in a row, it was time for Cal Thomas to roll up his sleeves and write a stupid, offensive, bigoted piece of crap and he delivers in a big way! It's strange that in a column claiming marriage was "was established by God as the best arrangement for fallen humanity to organize and protect itself and create and rear children", the writer would then go on to condemn

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Not much to say about this one. Mr. Thomas reminisces about the assassination of JFK. Apparently this was a required assignment for all Op-Ed writers this week. Mr. Thomas is surprisingly generous about the man who remains a liberal icon to this day.

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Interesting column. Mr. Thomas advocates more lenient sentences for non-violent criminal offenders. We "should be focusing on restitution" rather than locking such people up given the fact that "states have become incapable or unwilling to pay the cost of housing record numbers of inmates". Well, when you're right you're right. Only problem is that thanks to Cal's buddies like Rush Limbaugh

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Cal Thomas strays from the Republican reservation! His beloved president restated his commitment to establishing democracy in Iraq and the rest of the Muslim world. Mr. Thomas believes that to be a virtual impossibility as Islam, in his view, is incompatabile with liberty. Is that true? Well, any form of religous fundamentalism is incompatible with democracy and liberty whether that religion

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Mr. Thomas is all excited about the 2004 elections.  The election of Republican governors in Kentucky and Mississippi (plus Ah-nold in CA) is a harbinger of GOP success next year.  His expert witness? None other than Democrat Senator from Georgia Zell Miller.  Now Miller is obviously no longer a Democrat for whatever reason but as he's leaving the Senate and can afford to burn his bridges I

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Former Fox News producer Charlie Reina posted a memo on the web proving "higher-ups at Fox compose a daily memo to the staff, ordering them to slant news coverage to the right." This is no big deal to Mr. Thomas, a Fox News employee, because he admits Fox is conservative. He pats himself on the back for suggesting years ago, before the blessed birth of Fox News, that there was a market for

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Cal Thomas demonstrates his mastery of economics here through a simple syllogism: 1) Bush cut taxes. 2) The economy is growing. 3) Therefore, tax cuts have produced an economic recovery. Well, Bush has been cutting taxes for the rich for his entire term, plus he's had three years of wild, drunken deficit spending, and he's been financing a war of late. And don't forget historically low

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Mr. Thomas is mad about CBS' upcoming miniseries about Ronald Reagan. Apparently, the show gives Reagan "credit for ending the Cold War and depicts him as an exceptionally good politician and moral man". Yeah, that does piss me off! How can Reagan be responsible for ending the Cold War when all evidence shows the rotten communist system collapsed from within? And how can anyone consider Reagan

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Should Terri Schiavo's feeding tube be removed? Reasonable minds may disagree. Her husband believes his wife would have wanted the tube removed and a Florida Court has ruled it should be removed based on Florida law and the evidence presented by her husband. The Republican-controlled Florida Legislature passed a law allowing Governor Jeb Bush to stay that court's order. Mr. Thomas approves of

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At least he's honest. Cal Thomas defends General Boykin's comments about Islam. Mr. Thomas agrees with Boykin though Boykin's words directly contradict those of his Commander-in-Chief who has told the American people and the rest of the world that we are not at war with Islam. Mr. Thomas is prbably correct when he says most Muslims, not just a radical minority, are anti-Semites and

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Part Two of Mr. Thomas' interview with Ariel Sharon. More a reiteration of the previous column than the rest of an interview. Sharon reiterates his five conditions necessary to "move forward" with the peace process. The fence is staying and Syria's probably going to get bombed again. There's no sense of how the larger end game might be played out here. The current situation isn't going to

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An uncritical interview with the "relaxed" tea-sipping Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Sharon says there's no chance for peace with the Palestinians unless the Palestinian side can prevent more terrorist attacks against Israelis (i.e. there's no chance for peace). Sharon will continue building the security fence and doing whatever he believes is necessary including further attacks on Syria

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I bet you didn't know David Kay's interim report actually supports Bush's war in Iraq! Did Kay and the Iraq Survey Group find the stockpiles of biological and chemical wepaons the Bush people claimed were there? Uh, no. The group admitted they found no WMD's. Did they find evidence of an active nuclear program? Again, no. So how does the report support Bush? Well, it turns out the team "

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Cal Thomas helpfully cautions Democrats not to get too jacked up about Bush's tumbling poll numbers and Rush Limbaugh's drug problems. Contrary to all available evidence, Mr. Thomas informs us Bush's slide is not the result of his failed policies, but rather from liberals' "relentless and over-the-top invective." Paradoxically, Mr. Thomas tells us liberal media dominance has declined thanks to

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Not much to say about this one. Mr. Thomas plugs sociologist Alan Wolfe's new book The Transformation of American Religion: How We Actually Live Our Faith. Wolfe asserts American culture has "triumphed" in the battle between faith and culture. Mr. Thomas agrees and blames churches that have become businesses and evangelicals who have become too reluctant to share their faith. Whether he's

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Shorter Cal Thomas: We should allow the Iraqi people to show their gratitude for the preemptive war we launched against them by taking all of their oil revenue until we have enough money to pay for all of our war expenditures. Longer analysis: We now know the Bush administration's stated reasons for going to war in Iraq were lies. No WMD's, no imminent threats from Iraq, no connections to

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9-25-03 column Unbelievable. You'd be hard-pressed to find a column with more lies, infantile name-calling, and idiotic conclusions than this one. It's like an Ann Coulter book--just pick a sentence at random and find something provably flat-out wrong. How about the second sentence? "President Bush ignored the advice and pleadings of the mostly liberal punditocracy and his enemies on the left (

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9-23-03 column Mr. Thomas must have received his memo from the right wing's Mighty Wurlitzer. Mission: attack General Clark ASAP. Thus, Mr. Thomas paints a portrait here of Clark as Hamlet. Indecisive. Why oh why can't the poor general just make up his mind about his postion on the Iraq war when he's had all this time to do so? The man's flipped-flopped in a mere 24 hours! Yes, he may be a

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