Post by RS Davis on Oct 9, 2006 9:33:38 GMT -5
Eight things libertarians can learn from conservative talk show caterwaulers:
1. Everything President Bush has ever done or said makes him a great American, a hero, a patriot, and the savior of the Western World. If a Democrat had done and said exactly the same things, he would have been a communist, a coward, a traitor, and the Devil incarnate.
2. One of those Bush-kissing Neocon callers to the Mark Levin show painted a smiley-face on Iraq by explaining the fact that the violence was only happening in three of Iraq's Provinces. This must be a common party line, as a posting on the website DefenseTech.org mirrored this exercise in repulsive stupidity with a similar dry fact: "Most people don't know that most of Iraq is safe and secure, that it is only the 2 or 3 provences [sic] that is [sic] under attack." Yet this very same rosy-spectacled war-spinning crowd would explode in rage like a roadside IED if domestic murder and maiming were so casually dismissed by the following dry fact: "Most people don't know that most of America was safe and secure on 9/11, that it was only three states that came under attack from suicide jetliners." [sick]
3. Whenever Bush or Cheney or Rumsfeld or any of the other anointed Saints of Neo-Conservativedom are dissed in the media, rabid rightists swarm to their defense with simultaneous attacks on Democrats and the media. "When Cheney accidentally shot his bud while bird hunting why didn't the media remind the American people that Ted Kennedy killed a girl while trying to drive across a bridge?" "Oh, you want to impeach Bush for secretly spying on us? Where's the media's memory about Clinton's lying under oath about his Monica mess?" "You want us out of Iraq now? Why don't newspeople remember that wimpy Jimmy Carter couldn't even get our embassy staff out of Iran?" Yet all of this foaming at the microphone is doing libertarians a favor by repeatedly reminding everyone that both the Left and the Right mutually misrule our world, and mainstream media's complicity helps keep it that way.
4. Slobodon Milosevic was the New Hitler. Bin Laden was the New Hitler. Saddam Hussein was the New Hitler. Kim Jong Il in North Korea is the New Hitler. Iran's Ahmadinejad is the New Hitler. So why are there never any New Stalins?
5. Sean Hannity steadfastly and stridently justifies his anti-immigrant stance by insisting that giving amnesty or citizenship to illegal immigrants will only reward them for breaking the law, as though "the law" is somehow sacrosanct simply because it is "the law." So what's new? Lawbreaking has been rewarded repeatedly in our republic. The axe-wielding Carrie Nation and her likeminded axehandlers illegally hacked up other people's barrooms and brandy barrels. Their eventual reward was Prohibition. Tens of thousands of people illegally boozing it up during that same Prohibition were rewarded with Repeal. And what about those rowdies of the Negroid race breaking all those wonderfully fair separate-but-equal Jim Crow laws (yes, "the law" again) by riding in the front seats of buses and registering poor share-croppers to vote and eating in whitey's diners and peeing in white people's privies? They were rewarded with (gasp!) civil rights. Would Hannity have been anti civil rights back then on the premise that lawbreaking shouldn't be rewarded? Our country was founded on English subjects breaking English laws, as for example dressing up like Indians and illegally dumping other people's tea into Boston Harbor. Such lawbreaking was eventually rewarded with independence. Would Sean Hannity have remained a good little English Tory?
6. The response to every criticism of the War on Terror is "The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein out of power." Wonder if the 2600-and-counting dead American GIs and their families now have a better world. Wonder if all the Iraqis killed by American arms have a better world. Wonder if the world would be a better place if all the talk show gabbers were out of power.
7. Rush Limbaugh, the liege lord of rightwing radio, is reportedly unrepentant about his past Drug War cheerleading even after becoming collateral damage himself. Rush gets 18 months of probation for prescription drug fraud, a felony. But why should he repent? America has a long history of slapping celebrities on their collective wrists. Celebrities don't do Jail. Probation awaits our public idols; America's jail cells are reserved primarily for black teenage ghetto boys.
8. We clearly need more libertarian talkers.
- by Garry Reed
