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Thread ID: 17346 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2005-03-16
2005-03-16 16:54 | User Profile
[I]I call this a 'smear 'n scare' piece. Completely 'smear' the leftist-loonie-psycho-commie-antiwhite-liberal fringe on the basis of their staunch anti-Bush, anti-War stance which 'scares' the people like us (moderate, paleo, libertarian, etc) away from publicly indentifying as anti-Bush, anti-War simply because we don't want to be guilty by association with the fringe. Those of us on the Old Right are the target of this 'scare' article, since we're much more likely to peruse Vdare than those "moonbat" liberals. (I personally don't like these leftist groups at all, although I'm in agreement that they have a right to assemble and to free speech...especially when it's anti-war.)
Malkin, and neo-cons like her, rationalize everything the Bush administration has done, simply by stating that "freedom is on the move" and if you're not for "freedom", then, boy, you're definitely on the wrong side of history. Iraq has democracy now courtesy of American lies, American bombs and American lives!!! Whoppee!! Lebanon, Ukraine, Libya, etc. Utopia, right around the corner, folks!
Of, course, we know that "democracy" evetually leads to tyranny and totalitarianism, originally detested by America's Founding Fathers, but don't look for M. Mal-con to express that sentiment since she busy condemning Americans for exercising their Free Speech rights, even if they're loony "moonbats". Why do a few once-a-year protest by fringe elements rattle the neocons like Malkin so darn much????? If "freedom is on the march" then wouldn't that make an anti-war protest automatically irrelevant and insignificant??[/I]
VDARE.COM - [url]http://www.vdare.com/malkin/050315_moonbats.htm[/url]
March 15, 2005
[B][COLOR=Red]Moonbats on Parade[/COLOR][/B] By Michelle Malkin
With freedom on the move across the Middle East and beyond, aggrieved anti-war protesters here in the U.S. have nothing better to do this weekend than what they have always done: stand in the way.
The most unhinged of left-wing activists, from breast-exposing pacifists to the conspiracy-mongers of MoveOn.org, will descend on New York, Washington, and other major media markets to "mark the two-year anniversary of the U.S. bombing and invasion of Iraq." They will do so by clogging the streets, tying up police resources, and leaving behind a trail of anti-Bush propaganda litter.
Who says the Left doesnââ¬â¢t know how to create jobs?
In New York, the "Troops Out Now Coalition" plans to march on Saturday from Harlem to Central Park to Mayor Michael Bloombergââ¬â¢s home to demonstrate against the "occupation." Their solution for helping the Iraqi people and demonstrating American leadership: Cut and run. Now!
You can guarantee there will not be a single sign of purple ink solidarity in sight, but the dictator-luvinââ¬â¢ ladies of Code Pink who prance around in pastel underwear will be out in full force.
Along the way, the marchers will stop to harass workers at a local military recruiting station. Yes, these are the supposed peaceniks who derive pleasure from ripping yellow ribbon magnets off of minivans and throwing rocks through ROTC campus offices. These are the acolytes of Michael Moore, who compares Iraqi head-choppers to American Revolutionary war heroes.
"Oppose the war, support the troops?" Bull.
By lunchtime, the protest mob will convene at Central Park to take in stirring sermons from New York City councilman Charles ("You know, some days I get so frustrated I just want to go up to the closest white person and say, 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing,' and then slap him, just for my mental health.") Barron; convicted terrorist conspirator Lynne Stewart; and Saddam Hussein sympathizer and pro bono legal counsel to thugs worldwide, Ramsey Clark.
Organizers will also broadcast a taped message from convicted cop-killer and America-basher, Mumia Abu-Jamal. Death row diatribes are de rigueur.
In New Paltz, N.Y., the weekend anti-war festivities will be capped by a speech from Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.)ââ¬âthe unhinged tin-foil hat wearer who continues to assert that White House adviser Karl Rove planted the bogus National Guard memos that Dan Rather wrapped himself in at CBS News.
In San Diego and Fayetteville, N.C., Code Pinkââ¬âco-founded by Medea Benjamin, a self-confessed fan of Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavezââ¬âwill target military communities at Camp Pendleton and Fort Bragg. The Code Pink web site informs its minions that "Beyond Fort Bragg, North Carolina hosts four other of the nation's largest military bases, making the state one of the friendliest to the military-industrial complex."
Code Pink is the same group that champions military deserters and traipsed around the Jordan-Iraq border last year condemning America, praying for the "people of Fallujah," and doling out $600,000 in aid to what they called "the other side."
"Oppose the war, support the troops?" Bull.
The Bush-bashers, as always, have impeccable timing. Nothing highlights the bankrupt obstructionism of the anti-war movement more than the inspiring photos of the renaissance of freedom taking place in Lebanon. Contrast the faces of hope and defiance against terrorism pictured at the massive rallies in Beirut's Martyrs Square this week with the faces of Bush hatred and capitulation to terrorism that youââ¬â¢ll see this weekend. Any question about whoââ¬â¢s winning?
Seasoned observers who cover the War on Terror in the "blogosphere" (the increasingly influential world of Internet weblogs) have a useful term for the American leftââ¬â¢s protesters against progress: moonbats. Perry de Havilland of the blog Samizdata (samizdata.net) defined a moonbat as "someone on the extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be."
Surveying this bizarre array of grim-faced parade organizers on the extreme edge of anti-Americanism, itââ¬â¢s clear: The barking Left has been left behind. And itââ¬â¢s driving them batty.
Michelle Malkin [email her] is author of Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores. Click here for Peter Brimelowââ¬â¢s review. Click here for Michelle Malkin's website.