Racism's Feinting Couch (Appearances)

"So when all these guys get up here and stand on their soapbox and wag their fingers and start talking about 'Oh, we won't tolerate this racism! We won't tolerate what Donald Sterling said!' What they're not tolerating about Donald Sterling is the fact that what he said was impolite. And what he said was gauche. That's what their problem is."

"We want executions to be humane from our perspective. We don’t want to feel icky about it all."

All Around The World: The Same (Wrong) Song

"At recent rallies, town hall meetings and 'tea parties,' a few protesters have shown up with signs comparing Obama to Hitler (i.e. depicting him with a Hitler mustache), or displaying swastikas in the context of implying that Obama and/or his administration are Nazi-like.

One would think that this would not be particularly newsworthy, but Democrats, the White House and their supporters are expressing outrage at this 'horrifying' and 'menacing' turn of events. (Or faux-outrage, at least.) Pundits, bloggers, media outlets and even top politicians like Nancy Pelosi are claiming that such signs are unprecedented, racist, and even that anyone who brings a swastika to a protest must be self-identifying as a Nazi (instead of accusing their opponents of being Nazis). When anyone tries to point out that the Left continuously compared Bush to Hitler and brought swastikas to rallies for six straight years during the Bush era, Obama supporters mock such claims, demand proof, and then try to ignore any individual examples proffered.

Since I had a front-row seat between 2003 and 2008 at anti-Bush protests in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I saw literally THOUSANDS of Bush/Hitler comparisons and swastikas, I thought perhaps it would be useful to compile here in one place a small sampling of them — to prove beyond any doubt that Hitler and swastikas were referenced incessantly at basically every single protest during the Bush administration. Anyone who claims otherwise is lying, as is anyone who claims that people who bring swastikas to rallies are necessarily self-identifying as Nazis.

I’m not saying I 'approve' of the new variant of this trend (comparing Obama to Hitler), nor that it is any more clever or insightful than comparing Bush to Hitler; I only post these images here to highlight the hypocrisy of anyone now expressing outrage that Obama could uniquely suffer such an indignity."

-- Zombie, catching 'em with their pants down - which ain't hard with this crowd - because it's always Zombietime.

Read the whole thing. Oh, and (as this blog has attempted to point out) the people bringing Obama/Hitler posters are in the crazy political cult of Lyndon LaRouche.

I guess I should add that I saw my first Bush/Hitler poster in Wissembourg, France, carried happily by the child of my friend, Patrick Kastner, and - despite the fact I showed a bit of outrage (more like faux-outrage, in order to be civil) none of the adults around this child considered how wrong it was to insult their American guest in this manner. Not that they'd care - as long as they thought it was funny (or believed it was true) nothing else - like, for instance, good manners - mattered. (And - if anyone thinks this blog displays bad manners now - well, having lived in France, I learned from the masters,...)

I also remember a conversation at Patrick's house, where the subject turned to the war (as it inevitably did at french gatherings) and the Bush-bashing started. Someone asked me what I thought about the president and I said I liked him and why. They all looked at my (now-ex) french wife, Karine Ann Brunck, and asked if she agreed, and she said, "I do when he says it." They all mumbled their disagreement, questioning her choice in mates.

Later, after she had started sleeping with Wissembourg's murderous homeopathic quack, Robert Wohlfahrt, I read some of their e-mails to one another and found that he'd rail against Bush to her - with no disagreement - revealing that I had been, literally, "sleeping with the enemy" for 20 years. I cried for months over that, alone.

Now that Obama is fighting "Bush's Wars" - and the left appears to have lost interest - the hypocrisy is maddening.
Hat Tip: Robert Wohlfahrt

24 Protesters Vs. 10,000: Which One's "News"?

And please notice that Andrew Klavan mentions how much more gracious President Bush is, toward his detractors, than Barack Obama - he's just a better man. He's definitely a better person than those who make up the media. It's not their job to choose sides but to report the damn news - and they haven't. They've been no better than Pravda for the last 8 years. We, America, have been - and still are being - betrayed:

President Bush deserved better, as do we all.

Put It There

It’s uncertain if it was a teleprompter malfunction, but Fox News reported today that when President Obama met the Queen he shook her hand with both of his hands.

Apparently, this is not an acceptable way to greet a useless woman wearing a crown.

Anyway, It did remind us of this:

Conservatism Doesn't Need A Stick Up It's Ass

"I try to live by a code of manners and decorum that sets my little chunk of the world somewhere on the gentility scale between, say, a Henry James novel and a Judd Apatow movie.  But I also try to create art—which has nothing to do with decorum or manners, everything to do with brutal truth telling in whatever language you need. Art has to map out the entire city of life, not just its palaces and cathedrals, but its gutters, alleys, carnivals and cheapjack malls as well.

This is a website about our culture, right? At moments—like when Iowahawk tears up the joint or this RevoLucian guy practices a non-governmental Bale-out—it actually commits acts of culture itself. To which I say: Huzzah–or some word to that effect. Those of us who believe in the arts—whether in the form of South Park or the cantatas of Bach—believe that it’s the truth that ultimately sets us free.

What you do with your freedom—how you choose to behave and speak and treat your neighbor: dude,  that is entirely up to you."

-- Andrew Klavan, fighting the conservative language battle this blog has championed from Day One, but doing it on Big Hollywood.