Billingsly is only regurgitating twisted talking points
Any further political commentary from Z. Dwight Billingsly should be moved to the Comic Section. Billingsly’s political commentary, published on Thursday, May 28, is evidence thereof. His writing has been reduced to the clichéd talking points of the Republican propaganda machine, which have become morosely humorous due to their incessant regurgitation and hyperbolic twisting of historical events.
For instance: Billingsly begins his anti-Obama psychobabble with the premier Republican talking point; that George W. Bush kept America safe after the 9-11; that Obama is risking the safety of Americans via poor security policy, etcetera. The element of this argument never cited by Republicans is the FACT that Bush was president on 9-11 and many months prior thereto. It too was Bush who ordered the CIA to reduce the daily presidential intelligence briefing memo to one page. Obviously Bush couldn’t be troubled reading comprehensive reports concerning the security of America! Also, it was Bush who disregarded CIA warnings that terrorists were planning to use commercial aircraft to attack American cities; information given to him months prior to the 9-11 attacks. And it was Bush who sat blissfully dumbfounded on a child’s chair in a grade school classroom while Americans watched in horror as terrorists attacked New York and Washington.
Yup! George W. Bush kept us safe! You betcha!
Michael K. Broughton
Green Park


Z. Dwight Billingsly is one of a number of paid Republican operatives who flood the Post-Dispatch and the message boards at stltoday.com with their talking points. The Republican Party has become extremely irrelevant, but they still have to spew their propagand in order to get paid. They are unable to think for themsleves, as they are all mind numb robots that are programmed by Rush and the hate-mongers at Faux News. While I do not subscribe to conspiracy theories, BuchCo knew that 9-11 was going to happen, and let it happen. It was the reason that they needed to go not only into Afghanistan, but the illegal invasuion of Iraq.