Josh Marshall on Rewriting History
Josh Marshall has an excellent post from a few days ago (I’ve just gotten around to reading it), in response to the president’s Veteran’s Day speech. If you will remember, the president accused his critics of rewriting history. My comments on his remarks were stronger than anything I have ever posted in this blog.
Following is the first graf in Josh’s piece. If you are a frequent reader of his material, you know these are extraordinarily strong statements for Josh.
What a sorry, sorry, unfortunate president — caught in his lies, his half-truths, his reckless disregard — caught with, well - caught with time. Time has finally caught up to him. And now he doesn’t have the popularity to beat back all the people trying to call him to account. He could; but now he can’t. So he’s caught. And his best play is to accuse his critics of rewriting history, of playing fast and loose with the truth — a sad, pathetic man.
Those are strong words coming from Josh, but he really brings things together quite nicely in this graf, but with a powerful punch.
In the president’s new angle that his critics are trying to “rewrite history”, those critics might want to point out that his charge would be more timely after he stopped putting so much effort into obstructing any independent inquiry that could allow an accurate first draft of the history to be written. In any case, he must sense now that he’s blowing into a fierce wind. The judgment of history hangs over this guy like a sharp, heavy knife. His desperation betrays him. He knows it too.
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