Listening to FOXnews on Sunday evening,
January 6, I was impressed by the oceans of venom that greeted the nomination of
Chuck Hagel for secretary of defense. At 6:30 PM, the usually sober Brit Hume
remarked for the umpteenth time that this "nominee was a strange choice" and one
who was clearly unsuited for the position he sought. I then listened to Bill
Kristol tell us how shocked he was by Obama’s appointment. According to Kristol,
the President should have nominated "someone else," including a Democratic
feminist who Kristol deemed to be good on "defense needs" (read bending to the
will of the Likud coalition in Israel). The other panelists in a discussion
group on FOX that followed the evening news deferred to the smirking
Weekly Standard editor, who spent about ten minutes dumping on the
nominee, without ever taking the grin off his face.
After
this display of animosity, we got to see several Israeli dignitaries rage
against Hagel as an enemy of the Jewish state. We then beheld the "conservative"
Senator from South Carolina Lindsay Graham, indicating that he would never vote
for this odious nominee. (John Podhoretz in the New York Post actually
referred to the same person as an "ugly choice.") Although, unlike Graham, Hagel
was a decorated warrior during the Vietnam War, it seems that Chuck could not
meet Graham’s exacting patriotic standards. We know that Graham is a special
kind of patriot because he predictably supports John McCain, every time that
Arizona senator calls for military action somewhere in the Solar System. Like
McCain, Graham slams other politicians who, in his judgment, do not back the
Israeli government unconditionally at all times.
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