David Drake: FahrenLIES 911 1/2

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

FahrenLIES 911 1/2

Remember Sherman and Peabody? Well, let's hop into their Wayback Machine and return to the year 2004, courtesy of Sherman and, the all-knowing, Mister Peabody!

Mr. Peabody and Sherman at The Wayback Machine

Let's time travel back to 2004 as we approach the 2008 election coming up in a few months. What type of propaganda will we see from the Radical Left Wing as we get closer to the November? What kind of lies can we expect from the Radical Left in their attempts to regain a foothold in Congress?

Will the Fat Bastard release his untruthful and distorted sequel this summer, trying to sway those who are not fully informed, to vote for the LiberNazis? We can only imagine what's in store from the Lying Left.

Back in 2004, writer Christopher Hitchens, once a darling of the Left until he recognized and wrote about the dishonesty and duplicity of the Liberal party, wrote a fine and noteworthy piece for SLATE titled "Unfairenheit 9/11". He put the spotlight on all of the blatant lies told by the Fat Bastard. And the sequel to "F-911", inventively and in a stroke of unequalled, mind-blowing creativity, titled "9-11 And 1/2" will soon be hitting theater screens.

But what did Mr. Hitchens write almost two years ago? Let's take a look:

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.

STOP: Political cowardice is the only ideology that the Left knows. Whether they are a politician or a lackey, the only method they practice is one of doom, gloom and unadulterated, untruthful fear-mongering.

In late 2002, almost a year after the al-Qaida assault on American society, I had an onstage debate with Michael Moore at the Telluride Film Festival. In the course of this exchange, he stated his view that Osama Bin Laden should be considered innocent until proven guilty.

[President Bush] is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, on a golf course, making a boilerplate response to a question on terrorism and then asking the reporters to watch his drive. Well, that's what you get if you catch the president on a golf course. If Eisenhower had done this, as he often did, it would have been presented as calm statesmanship. If Clinton had done it, as he often did, it would have shown his charm.

STOP: A fine example of the Left applying their decidedly subjective interpretation of splitting hairs in their portrayal of Their Own and their portrayal of their Political Opponents.

More interesting is the moment where Bush is shown frozen on his chair at the infant school in Florida, looking stunned and useless for seven whole minutes after the news of the second plane on 9/11. Many are those who say that he should have leaped from his stool, adopted a Russell Crowe stance, and gone to work. I could even wish that myself. But if he had done any such thing then (as he did with his "Let's roll" and "dead or alive" remarks a month later), half the Michael Moore community would now be calling him a man who went to war on a hectic, crazed impulse.

STOP: Again, another example of being damned if you do, damned if you don't. The Left will never apply to themselves the same standard they set for others!

I remember asking Moore at Telluride if he was or was not a pacifist. He would not give a straight answer then, and he doesn't now, either.

STOP: Oh, Moore knows whether or not he is a pacifist. He simply refuses to say, for doing so would identify his own self-induced delusion and deep rooted denial.

In 2001, Saddam's regime was the only one in the region that openly celebrated the attacks on New York and Washington and described them as just the beginning of a larger revenge.

STOP: But the Left never acknowledges this, admits this, or report on this. Why? Because they lose credibility if they do.

The same "let's have it both ways" opportunism infects his treatment of another very serious subject, namely domestic counterterrorist policy. From being accused of overlooking too many warnings - not exactly an original point - the administration is now lavishly taunted for issuing too many.

STOP: Is one too many, is a hundred enough? Well, only the Left is permitted to define such an arcane matter, right?

There are no words [in F-9/11] for real, impromptu bravery like that [of Todd Beamer and a few of his co-passengers that helped bring down a United Airlines plane, in Pennsylvania], which helped save our republic from worse than actually befell. Moore is a silly and shady man who does not recognize courage of any sort even when he sees it because he cannot summon it in himself.

STOP: Show me a morbidly obese individual like Mooooooooooore and I can tell you EXACTLY how much courage and willpower that person has.

Moore has announced that he won't even appear on TV shows where he might face hostile questioning.

STOP: A true documentary is one that objectively presents all views on its subject matter. Is there any doubt that Moore is nothing but a propagandist and is as far removed from being a documentarist as can be?

If Michael Moore had had his way, Slobodan Milosevic would still be the big man in a starved and tyrannical Serbia. Bosnia and Kosovo would have been cleansed and annexed. If Michael Moore had been listened to, Afghanistan would still be under Taliban rule, and Kuwait would have remained part of Iraq. And Iraq itself would still be the personal property of a psychopathic crime family, bargaining covertly with the slave state of North Korea for WMD. You might hope that a retrospective awareness of this kind would induce a little modesty. To the contrary, it is employed to pump air into one of the great sagging blimps of our sorry, mediocre, celeb-rotten culture.

Nothing much has changed for the Left since the above was written in 2004. Mr. Hitchens magnificently nailed it two years ago, and his words ring as true now as they did then. But then again, as others so often say, nothing much has changed for the Left in fifty years. They're still using the same dusty playbook from decades past. And this is why they are not the party able to deal with terrorism or any other problem or challenge facing the United States, or the world, today or in the future.

To say the Left is stuck in a pre-9-11 mentality is to be extremely generous to them. Whether they are politicians or propagandists, they are still, using Mrs. Clinton's words, a party stuck "in the plantation" days. They believe they own the African American voter bloc. They believe that their ideas cannot be questioned or examined. They believe that no one except their elite own has a solution for a problem.

When you only believe what you believe, regardless of facts, you have the makings of Fascism. When you attempt to push those beliefs onto others, and ridicule and belittle those who disagree with you, you have - you guessed it - the Democratic Party of Today. A party of which Adolf Hitler would be most proud.