Wolf Blitzer was complaining to Bill Cohen earlier this afternoon that Hamas' victory in the Palestinian elections constituted a huge "intelligence blunder." Lou Dobbs was clucking and moaning to Kitty Pilgrim about it, too, saying that it was basically incomprehensible that our intelligence sources there in Gaza and the West Bank hadn't seen Hamas' victory coming.
Well, get ahold of yourselves, morons. It was an election. An election that even Jimmy Fucking Carter says was on the level ---which means that whatever plotting and coordination that delivered such a decisive margin to the Palestinian Nazi Party was done in hundreds of thousands of individual [consciences].
And what that further means is that, yeah, we are going to blame the Car Swarm People. Individually and together. Because they chose to elect a bunch of hardline Islamist buzzkills with whom no one will work.
An "intelligence blunder." I really can't get over that. You'd think that liberal dumbasses would've gotten over their fascination with polls and numbers after about lunchtime, 2 November 2004. You know, that morning, I thought it was going to be a steady diet of crow for the next four years. But pollsters and the people who listen to them are often wrong.
Or, is the expectation that we should have known that Hamas would win so hugely by some other means?
The Palestinians themselves are still amazed and shocked and worried at what they have done.
Stop imagining that we are supposed to be omniscient, Wolf and Lou. It makes you sound childish.
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Updated: Monday, 30 January 2006 8:00 PM CST
Updated: Monday, 30 January 2006 8:00 PM CST