(1) "What is momentous in the Moore phenomenon is that the Democratic Party - or at least its intellectual wing and its activist core - has embraced a piece of Marxist agitprop as its most potent election campaign spot."
Marxist agitprop? I like Moore very much, but all I can say, "Gawd, I wish!"
(2) "In other words, it's "blood for oil," the slogan made popular by the North Korea-aligned Workers World Party which through its political front International ANSWER was responsible for all the early mass demonstrations against the war in Iraq."
How cute is what Horowitz *doesn't* say, which is that when a proposition P is uttered by some group G whom Horowitz holds to be Very Bad (tm), therefore that proposition P automatically becomes a Very Bad Thing (tm). I look forward to Horowitz denouncing members of the WWP and ANSWER for stating publically that the world is round. (NB: I'm neither backing the "blood for oil" claim, nor that Moore's thesis can be condensed to such, only savoring the stupidity of Horowitz's inneuendo)
(3) "As a result of the Left's propaganda war against the war, the American government is now almost as hamstrung as it was in the post-Vietnam era - and until the War on Terror. It realistically cannot raise another 100,000 troops - even if they are necessary to pacify Iraq or deal with other terrorist threats - without threatening to bring the political house down."
This one always tickles me pink (or Red). Anti-war sentiments have impeded the prosecution of the war. Exactly how does this happen? It's a little like the theory of forms: absolutely immaterial forms determinine matter by, uh, *participating* in them.
(4) "In fact, we know that there were WMDs (and have found some)."
Serves me right for not keeping my eyes on Fox News 24/7.
Curtiss