Sunday, August 14, 2005
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Listening to the Fox Sunday morning discussion on Traitor Sheehan. One of the reporters just mentioned that he had talked with Sheehan, and that she was 'engagingly naive', stating that she knew very little about the intricacies of politics and didn't want to influence people on those other subjects. Absolute bullshit. Reporter, you're the naive one. "Oh, I'm not really political; I just happened to get passionate about this one issue" is THE OLDEST FUCKING LEFTIST GAMBIT IN THE GODDAMN BOOK.
Rosa Parks wasn't a housemaid who happened to get tired of sitting in the back of the bus; she was a long-time leftist activist. Betty Friedan wasn't an abused housewife who had an epiphany; she was a lifelong Stalinist. And on and on. Among the serried ranks of American Commie heroines, the only one I can remember who was not a Commie first was Karen Silkwood.
More generally, why in the fucking hell do we expect a wartime President to be the National Counselor and Psychotherapist? Why do we expect any President to pay attention to any individual? His job is to protect the Nation. Doing that job properly, especially in wartime, requires ignoring and even coldly sacrificing individuals. He will do far more for national morale, which happens to include individual morale, if he concentrates on HARD AND FIERCE fighting, if he tells us about our successes, and if he honestly explains what he is doing and why. I don't know if any of those things are happening; if so, the information isn't reaching this neck of the woods. This is why Traitor Sheehan has resonance. ¶ 9:25 AM
Rosa Parks wasn't a housemaid who happened to get tired of sitting in the back of the bus; she was a long-time leftist activist. Betty Friedan wasn't an abused housewife who had an epiphany; she was a lifelong Stalinist. And on and on. Among the serried ranks of American Commie heroines, the only one I can remember who was not a Commie first was Karen Silkwood.
More generally, why in the fucking hell do we expect a wartime President to be the National Counselor and Psychotherapist? Why do we expect any President to pay attention to any individual? His job is to protect the Nation. Doing that job properly, especially in wartime, requires ignoring and even coldly sacrificing individuals. He will do far more for national morale, which happens to include individual morale, if he concentrates on HARD AND FIERCE fighting, if he tells us about our successes, and if he honestly explains what he is doing and why. I don't know if any of those things are happening; if so, the information isn't reaching this neck of the woods. This is why Traitor Sheehan has resonance. ¶ 9:25 AM
