January 24, 2003

THE REASON NIXON MUST NOT BE JUDGED BY WHO HIS ENEMIES WERE:

There was an amusing bit on The Diane Rehm Show this morning. They were doing the Friday Roundtable with Susan Page, David Brooks and Daniel "Dogtrack" Schor. They discussed the imminent war in Iraq for a while and Mr. Schor huffily interjected that no one had yet mentioned oil. Mr. Brooks said that Tony Blair had effectively dealt with that issue by pointing out that if it was about oil it would be easy enough to cut a deal with Saddam and, in fact, we currently buy substantial amounts of Iraqi oil. Ms Rehm asked how Mr. Schor would handle that argument. He said the point was that you can't trust Saddam to honor an oil contract, so you might get the oil for awhile but then he'd renege.

There's the silliness of the Left in a nutshell: Saddam can't be trusted to sell us oil on a consistent basis but we should trust that he's stopped developing WMD and that he's going to honor the 1991 peace treaty.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 24, 2003 12:10 PM
Comments

Schorr is senile. And apparently nobody even bothers to help him. He keeps misattributing quotes that he was, generations ago, actually present to hear delivered.

Posted by: Harry at January 24, 2003 7:20 PM

Speaking of Nixon ...



I am sure Oliver Stone, the film director, would have few ideological

allies in these parts, but I'd like to mention his film on Nixon.



I saw this a few months ago and have to say it was surprisingly good,

even sympathetic to a degree. This was no 'leftist' demolition of

the man but a commendable (albeit flawed) attempt to

understand the man and his roots. So your title is correct - one must

not judge a person by statements made by their enemies, since they are

usually superficial and always biased. Would some people believe that

my opinion on Nixon could be attenuated by an Oliver Stone film?

Posted by: Alastair at January 24, 2003 7:24 PM

Alastair:



Richard Nixon was our most liberal president, why would the Leftists destroy him?

Posted by: oj at January 24, 2003 9:07 PM

Schorr also in his old age has begun developing (or accentuating) a lisp, which when I heard him on Weekend Edition a couple of Saturdays ago made him sound a bit like an 85-year-old Elmer Fudd (who was not too happy with those wascaly wepubwicans, BTW).

Posted by: John at January 24, 2003 11:57 PM
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