Ah, the scummy piety that goes with remembering 9/11–may it never die.
Sarah Palin: She had a ghostwriter post the verbal equivalent of unicorns and smiley-faces on her Facebook page again. Will she ever quit acting like the world’s most insecure prom queen?
Rush Limbaugh (rushlimbaugh.com): Obama is hijacking 9/11 for his Muslim commie robot agenda, and I’m sure Rush means nothing insidious when he uses the word “hijacks.” One thing about ol’ Rush, he sure does love his Manichean universe–there’s nothing he likes better than galloping all over it on his faithful horse Saltlick and separating the good guys from the bad guys for his audience of beered-up white dudes. Todd Beamer, Band of Brothers, Abe Lincoln? Them’s are all good guys, leastways if we ain’t talking about the simpy side of Lincoln who said “With malice toward none, with charity for all,” because we all know that Lincoln was a [holding 'L' in front of forehead]. Also bad, real bad: ACORN. (Jesus, people are still worrying about ACORN? What about David Canary replacing Pernell Roberts on Bonanza? Are they still mad about that, too?) Also ACORN bad: Van Jones and Sol Alinsky, even though Van Johnson was worse than either of them. How bad are they? Super bad, says Rush, and he doesn’t mean the movie. But the worstest bad of all is community service. That’s jumping-up-and-down bad. It really is amazing: we’ve graduated beyond the point where doing good works for other people was just a sucker’s game. Now it’s actually considered the Devil’s work.
Mark Tapson (Big Hollywood.com): It’s nice to finally see someone admit that “righteous outrage” is the rightwing’s Viagra.
Victor Davis Hanson (National Review Online): Herr Professor Hanson is boring the room to tears, as usual. What catchy lead does he have for us today? “Ninety-six months ago 19 Islamic terrorists led by Mohamed Atta…” Stop, Herr Professor, stop! I’ll tell you anything you want to know! This torturous throat-clearing continues for six or seven paragraphs before Hanson finally gets around to doing what he does best, which is twisting the lessons of history to suit his political ends. Adjusting his pince-nez and brushing the Velveeta out of his beard he announces, “Today one-third of Democrats believe that President Bush was involved in the planning of September 11.” Now, does that figure sound a little high to anyone besides me? I’ve talked to scores, maybe even hundreds, of Democrats since 9/11, and of them all exactly one has said that Bush might–that’s right, might–have had a hand in the attacks. (On the other hand, I wonder how many Republicans believe Obama has a secret radical agenda. Think it’s more than one? Think it might be, oh, I dunno, a third of them?) Herr Professor also describes as a “new post-9/11 narrative” the idea that “insensitivity and chauvinism on the part of the United States” drove Muslims to radical Islamism. Nein, Herr Professor–that idea was widely available as a pre-9/11 narrative, of course, conforming as it does to everything we know about human psychology. Anyone who doesn’t have a monopoly on righteousness understands that revenge, whether or not it’s justified, can credibly explain why 19 young men would leave their families to travel halfway around the world and commit mass suicide. The idea that they did it out of some nebulous mistypoo grudge against Western “freedoms”? Sorry–that one never did pass the smell test.
Burt Prelutsky (Big Hollywood.com): Obama’s election was more tragic than Pearl Harbor and the 9/11 attacks–yes, he actually says this–because “aside from the 5,041 innocent lives lost, ships, planes and skyscrapers can always be re-built, but once lost, freedom and liberty ooky-ooky jeeba-jeeba.” Hell, if you look at it that way, aside from those 1,500 innocent lives lost on the Titanic, a bigger tragedy occurred when I sat on my cookie last night. After all, ships can always be rebuilt, but crumbled cookies fade away.
Had to read at least one of your threads to see from whence you come. No more. You’re goofy. There might be some good points in there somewhere that might have been better conveyed pre-toke.
Bye.