Friday, July 21, 2006
Fascism on the March
The head of NATO’s security forces in Afghanistan describes the country as “close to anarchy,” criticizing private security forces as “poorly regulated” and “all too ready to discharge firearms.” Ahh, the free market at work.
Europe effectively has and is evacuating its citizens from war-torn Beirut; the US bungles the operation and then the right criticizes the evacuees for even needing help. Meanwhile, US media coverage of the conflict is bent hard right. The United States speeds up bomb delivery to Israeli so it can use them to pound Lebanon as the Lebanese Prime Minister vows that the Lebanese Army will resist an Israeli invasion.
The stated policy of the Executive Branch to ignore congressional law at will raises its ugly head again as the Executive Branch refuses to estimate how much the Iraq War will cost. I have said it before, I will say it again, this movement refuses to acknowledge that Congress or the American people have any real right to know or provide input as to what is going on the sphere of foreign relations.
The most bigoted and pig-ignorant member of the Senate once again opens his mouth, this time to attack Al Gore and the concept of global warming. Thank you, Oklahoma, for sending yet another jackass to the US Senate.
The White House transcript of the president’s NAACP speech gets edited.
Good news on the NSA wiretapping program: a federal judge has dismissed the government’s state secrets claim.
The Butcher of the Honduras has stonewalled the CIA’s efforts to produce a National Intelligence Estimate for Iraq, as the situation there is so bad. Honestly, how long and how badly can this administration beat up on intelligence gatherers to keep a positive face on its policies?
Tony Snow has repeatedly bumbled about during his press briefings, handling pointed questions with hostility, as I have written previously. He repeats the pattern again. Then he sinks to just lying about another troublesome issue.
Limbaugh continues to lead the legions of inbred born-again zealots in their assault on the concept of science.
Neal Boortz once again simply spouts unabashed bigotry: “it is perfectly legitimate, perhaps even praiseworthy, to recognize Islam as a religion of vicious, violent, bloodthirsty cretins.”
I’m not even sure it’s even worth it to criticize a man whose audience must be composed of three-toed troglodytes and mullet-coiffed, proud, confederate-flag-waving patriots, but there are a billion Muslims, you Nazi, and they are not all the same. They are not an “inferior” religion, Adolf, and there is no American flag big enough for you to hide your elephantine slander behind.
Chris Matthews kisses Trent Lott’s ass. We know Chris LOVES his conservatives, but Trent Lott, Chris? Have you no shame? The unreconstructed secessionist? The KKK sympathizer? The man who compared homosexuals to alcoholics and kleptomaniacs?
Even the National Review turned on Lott back in 2002, though the Brutus carrying the dagger was, amusingly, the black republican Deroy Murdock. I suppose that Bill Buckley thought it might be ironic to send his house nigger to stab Lott in the back; it certainly was amusing to me to read an article written by an African-American who excoriates Lott for racism while gushingly describing his affection for Ronald Reagan, one of the masters of the Southern Strategy. Ha! That one was priceless. Thanks, Bill.
I actually sympathized with Trent a little, back in 2002. Here he was, a cultured southern gentleman from Mississippi. Of course he’s racist. Then Buckley gives space in his magazine for a lunatic to stab Lott in the back: a gay, black republican, undoubtedly one of the most conflicted and hysterically-Stockholm-Syndrome-ridden individuals on the planet, a man who should be committed. Jesus, Buckley. Why didn’t you just send a homeless guy with a gun to shoot Lott?
For what? Because racism is any worse than fascism? What is your litmus test for a republican, Buckley?
Honestly, for a fascist you really lack spine. How do you have the gall to say, regarding a dictator like Pinochet, “Chile was happy to have produced one in its hour of need,” but you don’t have the courage to defend a Mississippi senator with the typical southern prejudice? Saying that “Chile was happy” to have Pinochet is the equivalent of shitting your pants in public: it’s so embarrassing and disgusting I am not going to draw any more attention to it.
But conservatives have an amazing habit of throwing one of their members under the bus when their whole movement is guilty of the same thing. It’s like some sacrificial scape-goat will carry their sins away from them and erase the long, sad history of conservative race-baiting from existence.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 11:42 PM 
