Topic: Media
The striking thing about liberal complaints against the Republicans, the administration and Karl Rove even more so, is that they usually entail the fact that they are "extreme" in their policies, that they don't listen to others, that they are arrogant, and in the end incompetent as well as evil.
But the irony of the whole thing is that it is the Left that fits the bill. In a new motion picture, the fantasy of a successful assassination against George W. Bush is shown in a fake documentary. I have not seen the film yet, though I have read some reviews, but the mere thought of such a horrific event (and in one of the reviews, the writers says, come on, even if you like him or not it's pretty unethical to do this) makes my skin crawl.
I remember when the terrible movie "Contact" came out in movies. Now "Contact" was a miserable piece of garbage, so boring and unsatisfying at the end (her father was an alien?), but the Democrats got all upset, I remember, when the director of the film used doctored footage of Bill Clinton to add to the movie. In the scene, Clinton is commenting on the events taking place but it was footage from real life. That, apparently, was a misuse of the President's image.
But the director of Death of a President used real life footage to contruct a possible murder of the sitting President of the United States...who is, I might add, a human being who does not deserve this. It is appaling, and frighteningly enough, perhaps a message to some wack-job to actually commit such a crime.
The Left, and I have talked to many here in Connecticut who feel this way, have said for years they would not be upset if George W. Bush were killed. To them, they do not see him as the rightful president and, in fact, is the beneficiary of a "velvet coup" as some have alleged. In both 2000 and 2004, they argue, Bush stole the election. They have no evidence of this, but just that they lost is evidence enough.
It is the Left's extremism, personified by, what one reviewer called, a political pornographic snuff film, that shows their rabid desire for power. They have lost repeated elections for Congress and the White House, and that has only fed more their hunger. In their failure, their incompetence to show the American people why they deserve to win and what they would do (aside from by anybody but Republicans), they lash out. I only fear that this movie is a foreshadowing of liberal desperation.
Today in the AP, Lincoln Chafee, who won his Rhode Island Republican primary, was described as a "moderate". This shows that to the Left, there is only them, i.e. the moderate center, then there are the moderate Republicans like Chafee, and then the rabid right wing. There is no Left wing. When Republicans like Chafee (who proclaimed he wouldn't vote for Bush in the 2004 election) and Jim Jeffords (who abandoned the Republican party and forced them into the minority) forsake their party, they are moderates and mavericks. When Democrats like Zell Miller (who campaigned for Bush in 2004) and Joe Lieberman (who is liberal but supports the war) do so, they are traitors and are thrown out.
When Democrat John F. Kennedy, who in reality had some glaring failures in his short presidency, was cut down so young, the nation united in utter grief and he was cannonized in American politics. When Richard Nixon was found to have abused his office, the nation united and threw him out and he has forever been given a scarlet letter. When America was at war in World War II, or Korea, and while Johnson led Vietnam, we all united to win.
But when it came time to hold Bill Clinton accountable for abusing his office, no such unity existed. When Nixon tried to win the Vietnam war, the Democrats became anti-war. When George W. Bush tries to combat terrorism, the greatest threat to our nation in this new century, Democrats undermine every effort. And while liberals proclaim they wouldn't mourn Bush's death, and liberal Hollywood makes snuff films about it, I know this nation would be torn apart if such a horrible attack occured. Liberals would celebrate and conservatives would be irate. I pray it does not happen.
