Webb Making Pundits Ill!!

    It looks like Jim Webb is getting under the pundits skin already! they're all making a big deal about his comment to Bush about bringing his son home from Iraq. Boo-Hoooooooooo!

   Here it is from DailyKos:

 

Jim Webb: Already Pissing off the Right Winger Pundits

by adigal

Thu Nov 30, 2006 at 05:12:41 AM PST

I have been impressed by Jim Webb since I first heard of him. That an ex-Republican, who served under Reagan, decided to run for the Senate in Virginia caught my attention. After watching him throughout his Senate campaign, I thought to myself, "Yes! THIS is the type of new Democrat we need in Washington. Tough as nails, not afraid to speak his mind, concerned about the lower and middle classes, and wants us OUT of Iraq."  

He has had my admiration for months now. And obviously, he has caught the attention of those on the other side, as George Will attacks him today , in an editorial entitled, "Already Too Busy for Civility"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

Update: Just for fun, I sent George Will this diary, Kos' diary and the diaries of Delaware Dem and Wolverinethad. I doubt Will can handle being mocked for his absurdity.  Could this be his Tucker Carlson moment???

• adigal's diary :: ::

Let us put aside for one moment that this President responded to a rejoinder by Webb with his usual snippiness. Why should Webb be civil to this fool of a Commander in Chief??? He has lied to us to get us into war, he has mangled the war, killed thousands of us, killed tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians in Iraq. Why the hell should Webb be civil?

You know that Webb is hitting a nerve when Will comes out swinging, calling names, the old ad hominem attack and all that. I wonder what Will will do when Webb ignores him or, worse, responds without wilting as the Democrats have been prone to do the last six years?

That was certainly swift. Washington has a way of quickly acculturating people, especially those who are most susceptible to derangement by the derivative dignity of office. But Jim Webb, Democratic senator-elect from Virginia, has become a pompous poseur and an abuser of the English language before actually becoming a senator.

Oh, Will, all those big words don't hide the fact that Webb scares the hell out of you. He wants to make America a level playing field again, and that would hurt you and all of your other inside-the-Beltway wealthy pundits, wouldn't it? Could you imagine the audacity of Webb to point out the growing disparity in wealth, George??? How dare he???

Even before his studied truculence in response to the president's hospitality, Webb was going out of his way to make waves. A week after the election, he published a column in the Wall Street Journal that began this way:

"The most important -- and unfortunately the least debated -- issue in politics today is our society's steady drift toward a class-based system, the likes of which we have not seen since the 19th century. America's top tier has grown infinitely richer and more removed over the past 25 years. It is not unfair to say that they are literally living in a different country."

Well.

Will tries to take Webb to task for this editorial, saying that no, no, no, none of it is true. He quibbles over the word "literally," missing the big picture, as conservatives are wont to do:

And never mind his use of the word "literally," although even with private schools and a large share of the nation's wealth, the "top tier" -- whatever cohort he intends to denote by that phrase; he is suddenly too inflamed by social injustice to tarry over the task of defining his terms -- does not "literally" live in another country.

Yes, George, they DO live in another country. They never see poverty, never see kids who cannot afford dental care, adults with no teeth. I know, because I spend a lot of time with these privileged people, who truly have NO clue what America is like for many of us

My mother always taught me that when the argument is lost is when people start calling names. Watch George Will here:

Webb certainly has conveyed what he is: a boor. Never mind the patent disrespect for the presidency. Webb's more gross offense was calculated rudeness toward another human being -- one who, disregarding many hard things Webb had said about him during the campaign, asked a civil and caring question, as one parent to another. When -- if ever -- Webb grows weary of admiring his new grandeur as a "leader" who carefully calibrates the "symbolic things" he does to convey messages, he might consider this: In a republic, people decline to be led by leaders who are insufferably full of themselves.

I said in a comment the other day that I think Bush is going to regret the day that Jim Webb was elected, and I think this column proves me right. They are already trying to damage Webb before he has even taken his oath of office, expecting him to tone down so that he wins the approval of the pundits.  I think Webb is going to continue to surprise and alarm them.