I was never a fan of John Murtha. Though he was a democrat, he always seemed like a crooked republican to me. Ms. Malkin's invented word (corruptocrat) does apply to Murtha. But he was right about the Haditha massacre so I disagree with the bulk of her essay. Nevertheless, this is all beside the point.
Ms. Malkin made a libelous charge in this column. She wrote that Murtha died because of "botched gall bladder surgery." No ma'am!
The news outlets reported that he died from complications due to gall bladder surgery. There's a big difference. Most likely, doctors performed the surgery correctly--it's a simple procedure. It's more likely he died from an infection which can occur regardless of how well the surgery went. It's quite possible Murtha waited too long to have surgery and he had jaundice and/or an infection that already spread before he was even operated on. Jaundice can be caused when the gall bladder duct is blocked.
Creators syndicate should not have released this column without editing out Ms. Malkin's sloppy accusation. Michael Ryan should not have run it.
But I've demonstrated how sloppy he is himself--he didn't even realize the mistake Malkin made.
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Re: "Lead by getting out of the way," from this same edition.
Mr. Ryan makes a confused statement in the column. He writes "Most rational economists...would agree that the best way government could really help stimulate the economy in the long term is to get out of the way--through tax cuts, regulatory reform, spending cuts, and incentives for the free market to break back into a gallop."
This is what Obama is supporting. It seems curious that Mr. Ryan would be attacking politicians who are trying to do the things that he writes are necessary.
But the worst thing about this column is Mr. Ryan's bad writing. He uses a terrible simile. Get this: "...this Congress, boasting an approval rating embarrassed by that of brussel sprouts, doesn't seem to know how jobs are created anyway." Not only is this a terrible simile, but it should be Brussels sprouts. Mr. Ryan's editor was asleep on this one.
Then, Mr. Ryan again feeds his readers the bullshit claim that a 3% increase in taxes on people making $250,000 a year is going to somehow bust the recovery.
As I've written before, those low taxes, when in effect, did not keep us out of a recession. There's just no evidence that tax cuts stimulate the economy.
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Re: "Not their cup of tea," from the February 14th edition of the Augusta Chronicle.
Mr. Ryan makes a blind idiotic defense of the tea party, while whining about how the "left wing media" hates the Tea Party movement.
Mr. Ryan claims the Tea Party movement isn't racist. Can he not see the signs these people carry? The ones depicting President Obama as a monkey.
Just the day before, he ran a column written by Bonnie Alba comparing Obama with Hitler. The Tea Party idiots also are always carrying signs depicting Obama as a Marxist, and Nazi, and the comic book villain, the Joker. What a bunch of incoherent ignoramuses.
Speaking of comic books, Mr. Ryan whines about an anti-Tea Party comment in a recent issue of Captain America. That's the purpose of his column--to gripe about the evils of the left wing media in the comic book business. Hey, comic books were invented by liberal Jewish artists. If conservatives don't like it, well, they have Fox News and all of AM talk radio. They've got nothing to complain about here--they've got plenty of their own "hate" media.
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