June 8, 2006
Earlier I posted about Michael Berg on FOX & Friends, saying Bush is to blame for his son’s beheading, not his killer Zarqawi. Here is the description I wrote:
Michael Berg, the father of slain Nick Berg appeared on FOX & Friends this morning discuss the death of al-Zarqawi. Nick Berg was beheaded by al-Zarqawi in a video, however the elder Berg says that he does not believe the terrorist did it, even though it has been authenticated by several sources. He adds that he forgives Zarqawi even if he did do it. Instead of blaming the deceased terrorist, he blames President Bush for the death of his son.
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7:57 pm [ Quote ]
hummmmm victim running for congress.
?
Isn’t this exactly what Ann C. was pointing out?
Can we question Loon-Berg or is he off limits???????
8:05 pm [ Quote ]
No, nick, we’re not allowed to criticize Michael Berg. If we do, it means we hate all of the parents who lost a son or daughter to terrorism. If we ourselves lost a son or daughter this way, it means that we hate ourselves.
If we criticize Cindy Sheehan, who considered running for the Senate, than means we hate all Gold Star Mothers. Other Gold Star Mothers who disagree with Cindy Sheehan hate themselves.
And if we criticize John Murtha or John Kerry, that means we hate every veteran who ever served America. Veterans who question Murtha and Kerry hate themselves.
Such is the main ‘argument’ of modern liberals.
8:38 pm [ Quote ]
what a sad insignificant little man
8:40 pm [ Quote ]
Berg: No Good in Al-Zarqawi’s Death…
Father of man believed to be beheaded by al-Zarqawi sees no good in terrorist leader’s death…
8:58 pm [ Quote ]
Mr. Berg is obviously delusional about who killed his son. He also seems delusional to the fact that his son made a decision to go to Iraq ON HIS OWN and paid for it at the hands and swords of terrorists. I tihnk he really needs some serious psychological counseling. You can’t help but feel sorry for him and his family.
9:01 pm [ Quote ]
did berg go to iraq under his own volition?
9:08 pm [ Quote ]
Berg not only went to Iraq of his own free will, he went to make a buck. He saw an opportunity there to do business so he went, and paid with his life. He wasn’t military, he was an opportunist. He went there knowing the risks, so there is no one to blame but himself.
Put a sock in it Mr. Berg, your son was preying on the disrupted society, hoping to score a quick buck. Blame yourself sir.
9:08 pm [ Quote ]
Berg’s unbelievable comments are going to make him an ICON among the far Left in this country.
I can’t even imagine a parent having to go through something like that, but his son’s death did not transform him to a Bush hater or a rabid anti-war protester from someone who was either ambivalent or supported the effort at one time.
It was reported a couple of years ago at the time of Nick Berg’s death that Michael Berg was VEHEMENTLY anti-war and anti-Bush even BEFORE his son was beheaded by Zarqawi.
This is exactly the kind of argument that Ann Coulter is making in reference to the 9/11 widows, but she could have chosen her words wisely and not sounded so nasty by calling them names.
Her overall point is legitimate, but her tactics and personal attacks are not.
9:11 pm [ Quote ]
I tell you, with Cindy Shehan (one mother out of 2500), the 9/11 4 widows (out of 3000), and Nick Berg’s father do more to get moderates to vote for the GOP than anything else.
We should encourage them, not suppress them. They advertise the moral idiocy of the left for free, saving the GOP millions of dollars in campaign funding.
9:28 pm [ Quote ]
I’m no defender of Michael Berg because he has completely lost his mind, but that’s out of line.
There are a lot of people in Iraq who aren’t military and went over there for work and were murdered by terrorists.
In fact, EVERY American in Iraq is being paid for doing work, whether we are talking about the soldiers themselves, politicians, the media, or civilian contractors.
Just because the guy was being paid for doing work doesn’t diminish his contribution and sacrifice to the overall cause. If we didn’t have people like Nick Berg over there to help rebuild the country of Iraq, we would not be able to win that conflict and win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people.
In some ways, these contractors are just as important to the completion of the overall mission as the soldiers. The difference is that they aren’t carrying guns.
9:29 pm [ Quote ]
thanks for answering my question, sjr. i had a feeling he went on his own. doesnt mean his death was justified…
horribly wrong,
but doesnt make it GWB’s fault
9:30 pm [ Quote ]
Sorry, my post in #10 is a response to #7.
9:34 pm [ Quote ]
i agree with your point on contribution, anaconda.
good one
10:09 pm [ Quote ]
Michael Berg: Only Sadness at the Death of Son’s Killer, Al-Zarqawi…
Michael Berg, the father of beheaded Nick Berg, expressed only sadness at the death of his son’s killer, Al-Zarqawi. Following news that Al-Zarqawi had been TERMINATED, “This will just bring a new cycle of revenge killings”Reuters ra…
10:21 pm [ Quote ]
One Down…
We all know that the war against the jihadists is far from over, and this really only changes things a little; it’s a baby step, as it were, but a baby step forward is a step in the right direction. A victory is a victory, and there’s not…
10:39 pm [ Quote ]
Mike Berg is a classic example of an America-hating lib.
10:53 pm [ Quote ]
anaconda,
“This is exactly the kind of argument that Ann Coulter is making in reference to the 9/11 widows, but she could have chosen her words wisely and not sounded so nasty by calling them names.
Her overall point is legitimate, but her tactics and personal attacks are not.”
With all due respect, screw Berg’s dad, screw the 9/11 widows, and screw Cindy Sheehan. They want to use their victim status for political gain, fine. But that doesn’t mean they are holy and above reproach. They exploit their loved ones’ death, which is filthy and disgusting. This idiot Berg forgives the man who sawed his kid’s head off for all to see, but blames the President for his kid’s death.
11:28 pm [ Quote ]
I was going to repeat my question that went unanswered in the previous Michael Berg thread, but it seems you all have confirmed what I said, which was:
Again, I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure this guy chose to go over there because he saw dollar signs. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with that at all, but I believe he went there for telecommunications work… so who is his father to blame the President for that?
Someone please explain this to me if possible.
I agree with whoever it was that said Michael Berg will now become an icon for the left because they are such a bunch of evil America haters who consistently blame the wrong people and defend the indefensible, etc. etc. (I don’t think I need to explain the American left, we’ve all seen it for our own eyes in the past few years). The scary part is that these people possess the ability to cancel out our votes.
Anyway, I really just don’t understand this guy’s problem. His son wasn’t in the military (and if he had been, he’d have been a volunteer anyway)... But he was a civilian looking to make some money and CHOSE to seek that money in Iraq. It was a tragic death, but who the fu** is he to blame the President? I’m sure the left will come up with the ridiculously weak argument that “this wouldn’t have happened if Bush didn’t start a war there”, to which the obvious response is “Nick Berg would have also never been going to Iraq for work had the war not started (was Saddam hiring telecommunications contractors from the USA?), and again he didn’t have to in the first place!”
I would like to give this guy the benefit of the doubt that he’s disturbed over the loss of his son, but it seems quite clear he suffers from liberalism, rather than depression, and as refreshing as it would be to realize that liberalism is a disorder, it’s not… it’s a choice made by the willingly ignorant.
11:31 pm [ Quote ]
anaconda,
“This is exactly the kind of argument that Ann Coulter is making in reference to the 9/11 widows, but she could have chosen her words wisely and not sounded so nasty by calling them names.
Her overall point is legitimate, but her tactics and personal attacks are not.”
With all due respect, screw Berg’s dad, screw the 9/11 widows, and screw Cindy Sheehan. They want to use their victim status for political gain, fine. But that doesn’t mean they are holy and above reproach. They exploit their loved ones’ death, which is filthy and disgusting. This idiot Berg forgives the man who sawed his kid’s head off for all to see, but blames the President for his kid’s death.
I don’t disagree with you on any of that. I agree with Coulter on her point and overall message.
However, the problem is that she chose to call them names on top of it with the divorce reference and their millionaire status.
She wins the argument on legitimacy and merit, but she loses the argument when she hits below the belt like that.
Because she resorted to stupid name-calling, the MSM paid a lot more attention to that instead of her overall point, which is a legitimate one.
Al Franken and Michael Moore have become millionaires and icons of the Left solely because of their cheap shots and tactics against conservatives because they can’t win the argument on the merits alone.
Coulter doesn’t need to stoop to that level because she can win the argument on merit without taking cheap shots.
11:48 pm [ Quote ]
She says that because she is making this point so ascerbically, the message is getting through. She’s got a point. Many people have been saying this about supposedly unimpeachable women like Sheehan or the NJ girls, Nick’s dad, etc. They’ve had substantial success with Cindy Sheehan, but the rest of the lot were still pretty hard to debate without sounding unkind.
I’m uncomfortable with her style as well, but I think she may have broken through a barrier with this particular rant. Even one of my slightly left-leaning friends said that “she’s rude as hell, but she does have a point”. I’ve been arguing with him for years and could not ever get such a response from him. She did it with a single rant
11:53 pm [ Quote ]
[...] Update again: Ian at Expose the Left has video of Berg’s Fox News interview, where he blames Bush for his son’s beheading and for all those Zarqawi killed. That’s truly bizarre. I can understand not wanting to rejoice at another person’s death, no matter how evil that person is. I can understand praying for that person’s repentance – to pray for people like Zarqawi is at the heart of what Christianity is all about. But Berg is not a Christian, and this is not a matter of faith. This is just sad. The man has lost his mind. He personifies Bush Derangement Syndrome. [...]
12:15 am [ Quote ]
I tell you, with Cindy Shehan (one mother out of 2500), the 9/11 4 widows (out of 3000), and Nick Berg’s father do more to get moderates to vote for the GOP than anything else.
We should encourage them, not suppress them. They advertise the moral idiocy of the left for free, saving the GOP millions of dollars in campaign funding.
You have no idea how right you are, my dad is a lifelong Democrat but he feels the party has moved too far to the left.
Watch some leftist is going to be pissed and say I’m not a real moderate. HA
12:18 am [ Quote ]
#19 – anaconda,
Here’s what I think. I agree that Coulter comes off as brutal in her commentary, but I think it is because she is turning the left’s tactics against them and she has logic and reason to back up what she says. it’s a double edged sword, which is why the loons fly into a rage over her.
By the way, notice that the loons are just as easily enraged by the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity etc. Limbaugh himself isn’t half as bad as Coulter in his commentary, but still the rage flies.
Bottom line is that if you’re a conservative you are automatically attacked by libs for the simple fact that you disagree with them.
12:28 am [ Quote ]
#23 ~ Phil (TOCO)
You’re absolutely correct in your assessment. Ann has every right (and DUTY) to say what she is saying. And its about damn time someone (besides M. Savage) said it.
4:07 am [ Quote ]
I was at the Festival in downtown Grand Rapids with my kids and my ex… my daughter was drawing a portrait on the sidewalk with chalk…
When she finished, I made the mistake of borrowing the chalk.
I drew: “Bush in ‘10”
You’re right. It makes no sense. IT WASN’T supposed to. It was a joke.
Suddenly my ex is jumping on my half-finished joke, trying to rub it out.
I notice a family of four, a few feet away, amused by my ex.
So I step aside.
My ex takes the chalk and teaches my youngest child to deface what I believe in.
Then the other family steps up and writes “Dems Rule”. My ex laughs and he says his oldest son’s name is James and the baby boy is ‘Carter’.
Jimmy Carter.
No lie.
What ya gonna do. It is getting ugly.
4:36 am [ Quote ]
#19 – anaconda,
Here’s what I think. I agree that Coulter comes off as brutal in her commentary, but I think it is because she is turning the left’s tactics against them and she has logic and reason to back up what she says. it’s a double edged sword, which is why the loons fly into a rage over her.
By the way, notice that the loons are just as easily enraged by the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity etc. Limbaugh himself isn’t half as bad as Coulter in his commentary, but still the rage flies.
Bottom line is that if you’re a conservative you are automatically attacked by libs for the simple fact that you disagree with them.
Once again, I don’t disagree with any of that.
Coulter is preaching to the choir when she adds the personal insults. She doesn’t persuade anyone to her point of view outside of strong conservatives and her fans.
If Republicans want to keep winning elections, they have to appeal to more than just their extreme right-wing of the party.
Yes, it’s important to rally the base to cast their votes on Election Day, but it’s also important to persuade moderates as well. George Bush could not have won in 2004 without them.
I can’t stress this enough, Coulter is absolutely right about this issue and I agree with her 100%.
However, these “Jersey Girls” are paid Democratic operatives, not just 9/11 widows who are ambivalent about policies pertaining to Homeland Security, Iraq, and the overall War on Terror.
The Left constantly uses them and Cindy Sheehan as pawns and gives them a “holier than thou” status to bludgeon Republicans who criticize their behavior, tactics, and statements.
Coulter can argue that point without the name-calling.
Instead, Coulter throws in the harsh personal attacks for good measure with the “divorce” stuff and how they are “enjoying their husbands’ deaths,” and the MSM tends to rally even MORE sympathetic support for them, while at the same time portraying Coulter as a ghoul.
This is exactly the opposite message that Coulter is making. Nobody pays attention to her overall point because they only focus on the personal attacks that sound very mean-spirited.
The reason why Republicans have won the last few elections is because they can win on the issues without the other crap.
The Dems NEED the smear merchants to win because they can’t win elections otherwise.
11:07 am [ Quote ]
Understanding Bush Derangement Syndrome…
Putting on my engineer/scientist hat… Problem: Why do so many of the people on the political left have such outlandish claims that no rational person could believe them? Given:Bush derangement syndrome describes some of the symptoms in general t…
12:40 am [ Quote ]
Michael Berg is vigina!