In response to a comment on that his blog is "full of hatred and anger", Corrente not only denied the charge, but set out to compile a list of things he was not angry about, as well as things he doesn’t hate.
It’s not only long, but a work-in-progress, so check out Corrente’s site for the latest revisions and updates:
- We are not angry at Bush for his war of choice in Iraq.
- We are not angry at Bush because 2,000 Americans have died in Iraq, together with many thousands of Iraqis.
- We are not angry at Bush because in Iraq quot;the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
- Nor are we angry at Bush because the WMDs were not found.
- Nor angry that the aluminum tubes story was not true.
- Nor angry that the drones story was not true.
- Nor angry that the bioweapons story was not true.
- Nor angry that the "yellowcake uranium" story was not true.
- Nor are we angry at Colin Powell because nothing he said in his UN speech to justify the war was true.
- Nor are we angry at Bush for claiming that Iraq and 9/11 were connected when they were not.
- Nor do we hate the members of the press who enabled Bush’s war of choice.
- Especially we do not hate Judy Miller whose WMD reportage helped Bush "fix the facts"
- Nor her boss, Bill Keller.
- Nor his boss, Arthur Sulzberger.
- We are not angry at Donald Rumseld because his "Revolution in Military Affairs" resulted in sending our troops into urban warfare in Iraq without proper armor.
- Nor do we hate Donald Rumsfeld because after three years the problem is not yet corrected.
- Moreover, we do not hate Donald Rumsfeld for using an automatic signature machine to sign condolence letters to the parents of dead soldiers.
- And furthermore, we do not hate Donald Rumsfeld for taking souvenirs from the Pentagon site on 9/11, a felony.
- We are not angry at Alberto Gonzales for writing memos purporting to justify torture.
- Nor are we angry at the higherups who set up torture camps and then let their subordinates take the blame when the truth came out.
- Nor do we hate the higherups who got promotions after torture occured on their watch
- Neither do we hate the doctors and psychiatrists who violated their Hippocratic oaths by abetting torture at Gitmo.
- And if the torture techniques we have spread in Iraq are ever used in this country, we promise not to get angry about it.
- We are not angry at the Republicans for losing $8 billion dollars meant for Iraq.
- We are not angry that Iraq has become what it was not before the war, a training ground for terrorists.
- And we promise we will not get angry if Iraq ends up as an Islamic theocracy.
- And we further promise not to get angry that 2,000 Americans will have died to make that happen.
- And we promise never to hate the members of the White House Iraq Group (Hughes, Libby, Card, Matalin, Wilkinson, and Rove), who worked together to make it all possible.
- Even if Bush gave them all promotions. Every single one of them.
- We are not angry at Bush for stealing election 2000 in Florida by using the "felon list."
- Nor do we hate those who helped him to do so.
- We do not hate Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris.
- We do not hate Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Bush’s brother
- We do not hate the freepers who staged the "bourgeios riot" to intimidate the vote counters, not even Buckhead.
- We do not hate the majority in Bush v. Gore, not even Antonin Scalia
- We do not hate Al Gore for not getting all the votes counted.
- Nor are we angry at the Republicans for claiming a "Bush Mandate" in 2000.
- Neither are we are angry at the press for dropping the story.
- We are not angry at Bush for stealing election 2004 in Ohio by preventing Democrats from voting
- Nor do we hate those who helped him to do it
- We do not hate Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell
- We do not hate any Republican election official
- We do not hate Tom Noe and his wife, Bernadette, even though they steered contracts to Diebold for machines that left no paper trial.
- We do not hate the Republicans in Warren County who closed their building during the count, claiming a terrorist threat when there was no threat
- Nor do we hate any of the electronic voting machine manufacturers
- We do not hate them, even though they are all Republican contributors
- Nor do we hate any of the authorities that certify electronic voting machines
- We do not hate them, even though they too are all Republican contributors
- Nor are we angry at the press for refusing to cover the story.
- We are not angry at Bush for making all his appearances before screened audiences of Republicans only.
- We do not hate Bush for doing this during the campaign.
- We do not hate the Republicans for removing citizens who visibly did not support Bush from campaign events.
- We do not even hate the Republicans for removing schoolteachers and then stripsearching them.
- We do not hate Bush for doing the same thing during his Social Security barnstorming
- Nor are we angry because we, as taxpayers, must pay for events that we will never be allowed to attend.
- Nor are we angry because White House political operatives removed citizens from a barnstorming rally while impersonating Secret Service agents.
- Nor are we angry that the White House will not tell us the name of this operative.
- Because we consider hypocrisy the tribute that vice plays to virtue, and a natural part of the human condition, we do not hate any Republican who exhibits it, not even those put forward to us as moral exemplars
- We do not hate Rush Limbaugh, even though he had a 30-a-day Oxycontin habit
- In fact, we do not even hate Rush Limbaugh because he got his housekeeper to buy his drugs for him.
- We do not hate Bill Bennett, even though he had a million-dollar gambling habit.
- We do not hate Bill O’Reilly, even though we can’t forget the word "loofah."
- We do not hate Newt Gingrich for handing his wife the divorce papers when she was in a hospital bed recovering from cancer.
- We do not hate Henry Hyde for his "youthful indiscretions."
- Or Robert Livingstone
- Or Arnold
- Especially we are not angry at the Republicans for spending $70 million investigating a blowjob.
- We do not hate war-backers who do not or have not served their country in the military
- We do not hate any administration official who has not served the country in the military.
- Above all, we do not hate Dick Cheney for having "other priorities."
- Nor do we hate Bush, even though his missing year in TANG has never been explained.
- Nor do we hate those Republican war-backers who do not ask their eligible adult children to serve.
- Not even Bush.
- Especially we do not hate Jonah Goldberg, even though he says he can’t serve because he has a job and kids.
- We do not hate gay Republicans who back a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.
- Not even Ken Mehlman.
- Let alone "Jeff Gannon."
- Nor are we angry that Bush used Homeland Security as a pork barrel in the red states while leaving blue state cities unprotected against nuclear attack.
- We are never angry at Beltway Dems even when they are gutless and feckless.
- Especially we are not angry at John Kerry for taking the Swift Boat attacks lying down.
- Nor are we angry at John Kerry for not keeping the Ohio 2004 in the forefront of the public mind.
- Even though he solicited contributions for doing precisely that
- Nor are we angry at Tom Daschle for losing the 2002 mid-terms because he wouldn’t confront Bush on the war.
- Nor are we angry when Joe Lieberman attacks other Democrats on FOX.
- Nor are we angry when the Democratic Leadership Council calls war opponents "anti-American."
- Not even when they don’t call Republican war opponents, like Chuck Hagel, anti-American.
- Nor do we hate any Democrat who voted for Bush’s war of choice in Iraq, not even John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, or Evan Bayh.
- Even though the Democratic netroots had Bush dead to rights on this one from the start.
- Nor are we angry at any Beltway consultant, not even eight-time-loser Washington General Robert Shrum.
- We do not hate Rush Limbaugh, or any Republican, or any member of Little Green Footballs, even when they call us traitors and call for our exile or summary execution.
- We do not hate any member of any Republican think tank, not even the Discovery Institute.
- We do not hate the right wing for calling political operatives "scholars."
- We do not hate any so-called Christian.
- Not the so-called Christians at the Air Force academy who called their fellow pilot a "filthy Jews."
- Nor Pat Robertonson, who supports assassination as a way to get rid of Hugo Chavez.
- We are not angry at the billionaires who funded the right.
- We do not hate Richard Mellon Scaife, who funded the attacks on President Clinton.
- We do not hate R.J. Rushdooney, who funded the Dominionists
- Nor do we hate Koch, Olin, Coors, or Bradley
- Nor the Bush Rangers and Pioneers, even though many of them are criminals
- We are not angry that 50 million Americans don’t have health insurance.
- We are not angry that the No Child Left Behind Act is designed to destroy public education by requiring tests but not funding the teaching for the tests.
- We do not hate Doctor James Dobson, or any other theocrat, not even Reverend Moon, or Reverend Moon’s backers on Capitol Hill.
- Nor are we angry that Bush is trying to destroy Social Security.
- Nor are do we hate the CEOs who make hundreds of millions of dollars while their companies fail and workers lose their jobs.
- In fact, we don’t even hate Bush’s top contributor, Enron’s Ken Lay, who is not yet in jail.
- Even though Enron’s market manipulation caused California Democrat Gray Davis to lose the governorship to a Republican.
- Nor are we angry that …