1 I agree--Allah's being much too kind.  It's the smarmy crack at the end about Addington's penchant for being unobtrusive that sealed it for me.  Delahunt's smirking because now Al-Qaeda has a face to go with a name.  Sad, but not surprising. 

2

The last paragraph pretty much sums it up, but there's also the borderline fatal stupidity that makes most congressmen think that they're as untouchable as kings. Once AQ is knocked off, there'll still be Hamas and Hezbollah to deal with... and this fucking moron thinks that they're just going to go away if Obambi is POTUS.

But they wouldn't dare target American leaders!

tmi3rd

3 yeah, pretty much: another patriot expresses his patriotism by hoping that Al Qaeda will notice and kill one of Cheney's aides. Because, you know, hoping that your country's enemies will kill your political opponent is also patriotic (a special exception for the left).

I am working on a smarmy aside about how this relates to Valerie Plame...

4 yeah, Addington didn't take more than a second to fire back "I am sure you are" as Delahunt stumbles to finish his sentence.  To be semi-fair, while I think it is obvious that Delahunt seems to think that he is communicating a turn-about-fair-play scenario where Al Qaeda can finally figure out who to blame for all that waterboarding goodness while Delahunt sort smiles suggesting that...nah fuck it, I can't make the jump to saying that AQ is saracastically glad because they aren't glad. 

No, obviously delahunt thinks of AQ as the struggling underdog against a mean old country.

5 Actually, I thought Allah was being sarcastic in anticipation of the Democrats usual practice of saying treasonous poisonous crap using plain words, then claiming they were takin out of context like everyone who understands the English language is retarded.

6 Is anyone in Congress willing to stand up and call for this asshole to be censured?

7 Don't be too hard on Delahunt, it can't be easy being a terrorist protecting scumbag like him. First he and his Democrat friends can't stop AQ terrorists from being waterboarded or killed and now his allies in Iraq are getting their asses handed to them for the last 6 months to a year.

You'd be bitter too if your side were losing the war on terror.

8 Does censure involve a cheese grater and salt water?  If so, I'm all for his censure.

9 I disagree. I don't think Delahunt meant to suggest that Addington ought to be a target for Al Qaeda. I think that, in the heat of a protracted, confrontational hearing, Delahunt was simply going toe-to-toe and said something that, considered, could be interpreted as being malicious. I don't think it was meant to be. It was a "yo mamma--no, YO mamma" moment. Sure, he was a snippy bitch, but reading much more into it than that it is a little small. It happens in such venues.

10

Awww, isn't that nice, and the fine liberal blog idiots had no problem with it.

isn't that precious? Aww, I love those nice little angels we call Democrats, they are so wonderful!

11 railwriter

I've watched the video and I'm pretty sure he knew exactly what he was implying, otherwise I'm unsure he was pleased al Queda could see how unobtrusive Addington was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j2uvxsCU_M

12 BTW, this is one of the same MA douchebags who is buddy-buddy with Hugo Chavez and is "arranging for a gift of oil from the People of Venezuela" for the "poor of Massachusetts".

You don't know how many times I've almost kicked the TV following those TV ads.

13 DrewM: "You'd be bitter too if your side were losing the war on terror." How true. They've invested so much in defeat. Surprised DeLahunt didn't blurt out Addington's home address as well.

14 I agree with your assessment and YES I question their patriotism every single day!!

15 TS: Thanks for the link. I did watch; hadn't seen it before, though I'd read Delahunt's claim that it wasn't what he meant, and other conciliatory language that seemed sincere enough. I hope you're wrong about Delahunt's motivation for saying what he did. Maybe heat of the moment; maybe he really is a hateful SOB. I still have a hard time believing that he'd take pleasure out of Addington's vulnerability to AQ; I think it was just jousting. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got a phone call to take, from a buddy who wants to open a gun store on K Street in D.C....

16

When Hitchens said that assholes like Delahunt weren't really anti-war, they're pro-war, just for THE OTHER SIDE, he was pretty much spot on.

And that is just so sickening it's hard to describe.

A congressman wishing our sworn enemy, who blew up 3000 people and so much more, to kill a member of the Presdient's administration.

Let that shit sink in...

It's fucking disturbing on so many levels.

17

" I still have a hard time believing that he'd take pleasure out of Addington's vulnerability to AQ"

Yeah, well, maybe you need to pay closer attention...

A chump who shoves his face into the fat ass of Hugo Chavez while ripping this country is not an American in my book, he's a fuckin traitor.

What a piece of shit.

18

"A chump who shoves his face into the fat ass of Hugo Chavez while ripping this country is not an American in my book, he's a fuckin traitor."

Damn straight

19 "...pay closer attention..." You're right. Maybe I should.

20 sincerity would be something like "I never meant blah, blah, I understand why people would think this because "I" chose my words unwisely and I sincerely apologize to Mr. Addington"

not weasel out of context pablum and outraged blame everyone else for hearing the words he said and understanding the English language like this:

Delahunt told FOX News that … “under no circumstances” was he implying during the hearing that Al Qaeda may target Addington…

“That’s absurd. That was not my intent,” he told FOX News. “And I’m sure Mr. Addington knows that was not my intent.”

Delahunt said he was just trying to express that he was glad to see Addington. Delahunt said he recalls saying “I,” not “they,” during the testimony – though the video, broadcast on C-SPAN, shows he was talking about Al Qaeda.

“I’m sure that he understood,” Delahunt said. “I would be surprised if he had any other interpretation other than the one that I suggested I intended. And if he believes in any way I wish him ill, I assure him that’s not the case and I’d be happy to have another conversation with him.”

Don't know how you can take this as A- Sincere and B- Stan up. And in watching the video it's clear Addington took it pretty much like other native English speakers contrary to Delahunt's insistence otherwise.

21 TS: The guy did as well as he could have--which isn't, as you show, not much--to make his mea culpas. Not the apology I'd have wanted, but I think he made clear that he didn't intend what people have rushed to believe that he did. Was it a man-up apology? No. Should he have had the sack to clear the deck better than he did? Yes. Did he really mean to imply that Addington ought to be considered an AQ target? I don't think so.

22 "...which isn't, as you show, not much..." Duh. I blame Boodles. You know what I mean.

23

You do know, of course, that Delahunt is not a Member of that Committee and had previously been prohibited by a Republican Congressman (from Iowa, I think) from addressing Addington. Unfortunately, that Republican was called out and, guess what?

What I want to know is why didn't the other Republicans prohibit this?  

24

We are obviously not waterboarding the people we should be...

 

!

25

And, BTW, they DID out Lt. Col. Oliver North's home address...

 

Sen. Joe McCarthy was correct.

There are many people within our government who are on somebody's communist/leftist payroll. 

It is called, "treason".

 

!

26

bastard

/spit

27

If this came from joe Lieberman, we'd say, "maybe he didn't mean it that way."

But it came from this worthless sack of left wing shit.

So...I take what he said as some sort of manly liberal wish of second hand manly death, because everyone except Bill Delahunt, who is a stud, is a fucking chickenhawk, and especially this asshole who works for the biggest one of all DICK CHENEY.

28 Hey, watching Triumph the Insult Dog's best of DVD. The Star Wars one with all the geeks was scary. Is nyc really like that?  Am I really seeing some of you morons?

29 I agree with your assessment and YES I question their patriotism every single day!!


"One may not question that which does not exist."
-Stuff Jefferson Said
4th Edition, Revised

30

GRC-

Fuck yeah, that was all of us! Just look for the Ewoks...

tmi3rd

31 I still believe that the Democrats have latched onto the Obama as a surrogate because his name evokes the guy they are truly fascinated by and admire who stuck it to America.  He really has nothing else going for him cept the name. If they just wanted the melanin they could have nominated Jesse Jackson.

32 Yeah, now Al Qaeda can properly target Addington because they'd never have had a way to put a face with his name before.

C'mon, man.  As much as I'd like to say that Dela_unt was wishing a bomb down Addington's chimney, he was saying that he was glad that Addington was appearing before Congress.  Nothing more.  Seeing more in that comment is looking for monsters under the bed.  There's enough things to be genuinely pissed off about.

33 Yeah Spam. Delahunt was genuinely sporting a boner and glad to see Addington, only that isn't what he said:

“I’m sure they are watching. I’m glad they finally have a chance to see you, Mr. Addington, given your penchant for being unobtrusive.”

34 Spamhead, no, Delahunt's gaffe obviously did not actually endanger this man any more than his work already has.  The problem is that Delahunt made a joke with the implication that it did. It's about the mindset of these dems who really think the US should be brought down a peg or two, that they should root for the underdog islamists who are fighting the evil Amerikka, and that it would be nice if Bush's success in the war on terror were less of an obstacle to their power, perhaps via some terrorism on their political adversaries.

It's not about whether Delahunt actually endangered this man so much as the fact hat Delahunt takes glee in the fantasy of terrorism harming his opponents.

We've won the intial battle in the war on terror in Iraq, but we have become completely complacent, even about our own traitors, and I fear we are going to have significant setbacks.  I only hope our resolve is somehow strengthened without needless harm to my country.

35 Close Italics?

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36 Well, I'd say that's a gaffe in the saying what you really mean sense.  Sheesh.  

37 Surely he knows that the terrorists will kill him and his gay-lovin', God-hatin' buddies first.

38

(Heard on Rush today) -- Now we are retroactively wrong on WWII.

39 Hahaha!!! 

Dem pols are such little chickenshit fucks!

40

I don't know what accepted protocol for a Vice President's aide testifying before Congress is, but if it includes meekly turning the other cheek to this horseshit, it needs to be changed.  Addington should have gathered his papers, stood up, and walked out.

The next request from this committee for a briefing from the VP's office should be simply ignored.  And the one after that, etc. until an apology is forthcoming.

Hardball, people.

41 I'm with sherlock. These crass little cocksuckers will continue to get away with shit like this until the Republicans call them on it, which they seem unwilling to do. A comment like this deserves censure, not any type of response from Addington. Actually, it deserves a punch in the fucking jaw, but I guess that is too much to hope for.

42 Thirding the motion.

The Executive should refuse to provide any personnel, especially under Congressionally-advised subpeona, to provide any testimony at all until there is a censure and public apology by Delahunt. If a warrant is sent, Bush should step in and say, "This is going nowhere and know that I have a Pardon Pen dedicated for this exact cause."

This cannot stand.

43 DemocRats are traitors.

44

all of the above......

Stalinist show trial?  Fuck off.  I've got chunks of little homos like you in my stool.

45

The Executive should refuse to provide any personnel, especially under Congressionally-advised subpeona, to provide any testimony at all until there is a censure and public apology by Delahunt.

The Clinton administration would have done this - sadly the Bush administration won't. They just seem beaten down after 8 years of abuse.

46 Clearly it was a botched joke about Bush's failed policies.

Isn't that right, Senator Kerry?

47 Spamhead, no, Delahunt's gaffe obviously did not actually endanger this man any more than his work already has.

Well I don't know. Al Queda could see this as a gift to Delahunt, sorta like a cat sees delivering a dead bird to his owner.

48 Not at all surprising yet totally disconcerting. Why can't we agree who the enemy really is? The leftist fascists will be running reeducation centers in the great US of A sooner than we think.

49 Doesn't sound like the Delahunt I knew...

50 Delahunt has for years pretended to be a war veteran. He isn't. His opponent in 2006, Jeff Beatty, was actually a combat vet and Jeff's campaign tried to get hold of Delahunt's military record. One problem: he doesn't have one. He now claims he spent a week in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, whatever that is. Delahunt's typical of the Mass. political crowd. A few weeks ago I was at the dedication of two training areas on Camp Edwards, to a SGT Kelley and MAJ Jeff Calero. The guy who introduced Gov. Deval Patrick told us how the Deval-u-ator makes a point of attending all the Mass. Guard KIA funerals. Two problems with that. One, I was at Jeff's funeral and nobody came except for personal friends, guys from his own company, battalion, group and regiment, and one Mass Nat'l Guard senior officer who came out of sheer respect for the fallen man (I don't want to name this officer for fear it gets him in trouble) -- bottom line, Deval couldn't be bothered. But he went to Kelley's funeral, right? Er... no. At that time he wasn't yet governor. And that's it -- while about 8 Mass Guardsmen and -women have died overseas since the war broke out, the two I name here are the only combat deaths. And Deval skipped their funerals, but doesn't mind bragging that he went (through his aides). Just like Delahunt tells everyone he's a veteran, while he isn't a vet of anything but the cesspool of graft and self-indulgence that is Congress. Who can respect a four-flisher like that?

51 Ah, I need HTML to make paragraphs here.

Sorry about that dense block of text, friends... it wasn't, always.

52

Oh yeah... the dedication I mentioned above...

...was in Bill Delahunt's district, on Cape Cod. He wasn't there either. He showed his support for his side by not attending this solemn ceremony for our side.

53 Kevin - I'll never understand why the voters of Mass keep electing these creeps. Most of the individuals I know from that Commonwealth are stand-up people. . . what the hell happens to them when they get into the voting booth?

54 I will just say this:

I'm glad that I have finally had the opportunity to see Congressman Delahunt.

55 Delahunt's military record. One problem: he doesn't have one. He now claims he spent a week in the Coast Guard Auxiliary, whatever that is.
Well, actually, I just blow sailors for fun is all.

56 Allah consistantly defends any vicious attacks by democrats on Republicans. That's why Hot Air is hemorrhaging visitors. It's sad to see how one person can ruin what was once a great site.

57

I'm not sure why Allah doubts Delahunt meant what he seems to have meant.

A sane non-evil person wouldn't say what Delahunt said and Allah doesn't want to turn around and start believing his political opponents are evil which I understand, hell the demonization of Bush and my not believing it started me on the road to non-liberalism.  In this case though watching the video it's clear to me this Delahunt guy is a bad guy.  His cynicism serves Allah well in most cases but in this case I'm not sure what else you are supposed to think.  The smirk on Delahunts face when he says it tells the entire story for me.

58 TSK9,  If anything,t his actually protect Addington.  Al Qaeda knows damn well that the democrats are their path to success.  They aren't going to deliver to the GOP an issue like this by following through on the recs of Delahunt.

Al Qaeda is actually pretty crafty about target selection.  They chose the WTC and their hijackers primarily to screw up relations with the Saudis, and I think there was some success there (not that I give a shit about the Saudi government).

No, AQ won't dare risk Delahunt's career.  He's practically as important to them as Conyers and Zarqawi.

Personally, I believe that accepting the trechery within our nation, be it to the USSR's remnants or to the Islamists, is the core battleground in the war on terror.  If our people can't accept the truth, that we have a lot of evil people who hate our nation and would lead the world to ruin, then I don't see how we can win this long war.

59 I love that Obama photo. It's like some sort of Urkel fantasy poster that you would have seen on the bedroom wall of a slightly slow, perhaps mildly autistic 9 year old. And Delahunt should be censured

60

" If our people can't accept the truth, that we have a lot of evil people who hate our nation and would lead the world to ruin"

A lot of them blog at Barry Obama's Presidential site.

Go figure...and they are teachers, also, go figure.

61 Great.  Dems run on a pro-Al Quida platform yet the repubs are still too stupid to have a chance of getting seats back in the senate or house.  How stupid do you have to be to vote Dem or be a Repub politicain?

62 RE: ghy (June 26, 2008 06:54 PM): "It's not about whether Delahunt actually endangered this man so much as the fact hat Delahunt takes glee in the fantasy of terrorism harming his opponents."

Not to be persnickety, but there actually is harm being done with Delahunt's suggestion. It lends comfort to the enemy. It says to Al Qaeda intelligence, "I'm a critic of this administration, of this policy, of handling terrorists using 'torture,' and of this person in particular, so much so that I'm siding with you, Al Qaeda, in the hopes that I can buttress your position and undermine his. Should you, Al Qaeda, do something untoward to this man and those who carry on with current GITMO policy, I and others would not actually be as upset as you might have imagined."

That's the bullshit Delahunt dumps and spins domestically because he wants power and wants to take down the current administration that is accomplishing its goal, the goal he and his Democrat cronies have desperately tried to destroy. Unfortunately, we know that a) Delahunt may be mixing genuine hatred with b) political opportunism. That being the case, Al Qaeda either a) won't appreciate the more subtle power grab on display, or b) will recognize the power grab but instead minimize that component and propagandize the internal conflict to further Al Qaeda's message that they have true allies in the Democrat party. That boosts enemy morale and those they might court for assistance against the Great Satan.

Delahunt just lent aid and comfort to our enemy. Unfortunately, and has been noted, we seem not to recognize treasonous acts or openly hostile statements... or our leadership is unwilling to do anything about it, perhaps for fear of a media machine ready to go all McCarthy on us again. It started with the NYTimes and its frontpage revelations, it continued with Joe Wilson (yellowcake), Pelosi et al. (visiting Syria), H. Clinton and the Petraeus smear, and continues still with Delahunt.

We have elected officials, moneyed domestic interest groups (Soros, I'm looking at you), and propaganda-laden media outlets, not to mention particular (Supreme) Court Justices, that are trying to lose this war and get Americans killed. For Hope and Change.

63

"No, AQ won't dare risk Delahunt's career.  He's practically as important to them as Conyers and Zarqawi. "

This logic reminds me of the old  trick intelligence service enemy information problem (Saddam got caught by his own scam): 

We have information that x is going to happen, but how do we know that this is not a trick to make us do y. But then again...

I for one am extremely gratefull that the Congressman went out of his way to ensure AQ will not target Addington.  Of course I am worried that AQ will target the Congressman for making them forgoe the opportunity to kill off Addington?

 

Confused yet?

64 The democraps don't even bother to hide it anymore....their support for Al Qaeda, that is. There's one consolation....they know what Delahunt looks like, too.

65 Eh. I didn't take this as a vicious attack. I took it as a smartass-sarcastic one with horribly bad delivery but intended to mock the guy for not answering his question. Without the pauses and the monotone voice and with a little better wording, it might read like this:

'I can't talk about waterboarding because AQ might be listening to CSPAN'
'I'm glad AQ wastes its time listening to nobodies like you, seriously though, answer the goddamn question'

66 Well, actually, I just blow sailors for fun is all. Posted by: Congressman Delahunt (D- al qaeda) at June 26, 2008 10:12 PM (YcIuv)
Now dat dare is some funny. Almost pooped my pants. Get r dun!

67 "24   We are obviously not waterboarding the people we should be..."

I wish we coiuld throw around rep on this board.

Anyway, have you noticed how the Massachusetts (100% Democrat) delegation has been quickly imploding here over the last few months?

Delahunt, Frank, McGovern, Mrs. Tsongas, Kerry, Kennedy, Fagan in the State legislature... not to mention what a joke Devil Patrick is.

I challenge any other state out there to match Massachusetts in the level nincompoopery of representatives.

And yet, I've still evaded the thought police.

Best Wishes

68

But the nice part is that we know who the traitors in our government are, and in this modern digital age they can't hide their records, addresses, and faces for long. When it becomes necessary to deal with these traitors that our corrupted government will not, at least we have a nicely gift-wrapped enemies list to work with. Start stocking up on ammo and piano wire.

69 Now this version of events is funny. I've always wanted to see somebody give a Congressional committee a body slam .. and this is about as close as it will ever get.

70

DrewM #29  Bulleye!  Like Benedict Arnold, the Democrats have invested heavily in America's defeat.  But then, they would say Arnold was just moving some office files, sort of like Sandy Berger with his baggy pants.

71 Holy crap! Go to Leo's link and read the comments. The libs have lost thier minds. Oh and Dana Millbank is quite the peice of work. That screed he wrote is reminiscient of the worst yellow-muckraking jounalism in history.

72 Correct me if I'm wrong but Congress already WAS very likely targeted and it's only thanks to some extremely courageous civilians on a plane that a bunch of our "fearless leaders" didn't get incinerated.  Has anyone ever actually contemplated what would have happened had Flight 93 hit the Capitol?  I have, often.  Our Congress is mostly a bunch of feckless, ungrateful wretches.  I suspect AQ knows where they are if they really want to get them, but Delahunt is a scumsucking tool.

Listen to and read the words and tapes of AQ and their fellow terrorists (including Ahmadinejad).  Undistinguishable in every respect from Democrat politicians.  Anyone who thinks there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans needs to think about this.

73 If it weren't for a few brave Americans on a flight over Philadelphia back in '01, Rep. Asshole and his fellow creeps would probably be farting sand right now.

74 ADrivel: "It started with the NYTimes and its frontpage revelations, it continued with Joe Wilson (yellowcake), Pelosi et al. (visiting Syria), H. Clinton and the Petraeus smear, and continues still with Delahunt."

Oops. Surely I've left many off the list, but I'm not forgetting this guy. John Murtha. No list is complete without that scum.

75

The good Congressman's office is no longer answering the phone - only voicemail.

76

I'll never understand why the voters of Mass keep electing these creeps.

Massachusetts is for all intents a one party state.  There simply isn't any real alternative for virtually any office.  It allows for the worst extremes, like Ted Kennedy and Delahunt, to do just about anything without worrying about a serious challenge.

It's unbelievably sad when you think about the history of this state and the giants it produced and the scum who represent us now.

77

Now that Delahunt is spinning his remarks (pathetically) and offering to have "another conversation" with Addington, how sweet would it be if Add took a page from his boss and publically told Delahunt to go fuck himself.

 

78 As a MA resident I can tell you this is the product of living in a 1 party state. Markey, Capuano, Olver, Frank, Delahunt, Tsongas, Kennedy, Kerry. All complete and total assclowns. 

79 "nincompoopery of representatives" buwahahahahahaha...thanks for that, you made my afternoon.

This showed the heart of the man and that is what is so sick...gaining power, defeating his political enemies by any means necessary and anyone who opposes his political opponents is seen as an ally even if they are murdering jihadists.

80 The New York Times is always on the look-out for columnists who can compromise American intelligence assets.  Maybe there could be a career in "journalism" for this gentleman.

81 Nothing wrong with Delahunt that a first-class hanging wouldn't cure....

82

I called Delahunt's office and the young lady there, while polite, gave me the usual BS that since I was not from his state my feelings were not important. When I told her that she needed to factor in that my checkbook would be open to any of his challengers in the future, you could actually hear the quick intake of surprise.

 

 

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