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What's the difference between Julian Assange and Bill Clinton? Assange is better - according to Scott Wheeler in The Daily Caller:
Does anyone else notice the eerie similarities between Julian Assange and Bill Clinton? Aside from the anti-American attitudes they both share, Assange exposed U.S. national security secrets, as did Clinton while he was president. Both were undone by claims of various forms of sexual harassment, which, however disturbing, were minor compared to the subversive activities in which they were routinely engaged. Both are self-aggrandizing, needy narcissists who require power in order to bed women. And both victimized Hillary Clinton.
Odious though they both may be, based on what we know of Assange, he is at least better than Clinton. After all, Assange didn’t sell out his own country (Australia) the way Clinton sold out the United States. And, Assange made the secrets he stole available to the entire world, Clinton only to Communist China.
The beat-down is just getting started too. Read the rest here.
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Two comments, Drew:
1. Scott Wheeler makes a serious, and important, point, about the wanton transfer of military technology to China during the Clinton years. Congressman Christopher Cox, now retired, investigated the matter thoroughly, in 1999 producing a bipartisan report that should have rocked the nation but that instead--ah, the days when the mainstream media still controlled the conversation--but that instead was quietly slipped into the memory hole. Take a look at the report here.
2. "[S]elf-aggrandizing, needy narcissists who require power to bed women." So beautifully devastating that I wish I'd written it. (Admit it, Drew. You wish the same.)
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True, Peter. It's the prose equivalent of that scene in Casino where they beat those two guys senseless with baseball bats.
Jul '10
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Wow. Andrew, I must confess I occasionally fire up Netflix streaming and fast-forward to that scene. Either Nicholas Pileggi has a truly epic imagination or he really knew people who did that sort of thing. I've heard it said that an assassin can't do a proper job unless he summons up a visceral hatred of his victim...
The other scene in Casino that's similar is where the hitman wacks the guy in Costa Rica. "Where you goin' (expletive)?" Bam!
Scorcese is sometimes the worst director in the world (New York, New York; Shutter Island). But sometimes he produces works of genius.
Sep '10
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