Posted by
novelator on Friday, September 18, 2009 8:04:32 AM
I was watching a movie the other day--Good Night and Good Luck, about
Edward R. Murrow when he and CBS News took on Senator Joe McCarthy--and
I was struck by the similarities between the tactics of McCarthy and
those of the liberal left today.
An air of unspoken terror
prevailed in the country during McCarthy's era. If you publicly opposed
Joe McCarthy, you were immediately branded a communist or a
communist-sympathizer. The thought police would be digging into your
past and if you ever picked up even so much as a magazine the junior
Senator deemed subversive, you might be hauled before the Senate
Committee for questioning.
McCarthy was not against lying
either. He was fond of stating untruths, such as organizations like the
ACLU had been listed as communist by one government entity or another
when, in fact, they had not and never were. The ends justified the
means, according to McCarthy, even if those means meant trampling the
constitutional rights of anyone who opposed him.
Now apply that to the "race card" and "racism."
According
to the mainstream media, the official mouthpieces for the current
leftist administration in Washington DC, you must be a racist if:
1. You're white.
2. You're white and you disagree with the purported president of these United States.
3. You're white, you disagree with the purported president as well as oppose the spendilicious Democratic majority in Congress.
When President Bush was booed by Democrats during a speech to a joint
session of Congress, were these Democrats reprimanded for their rude
and crude behavior? No. No resolutions of disapproval. No pointing
fingers or continuing accusations fabricated out of thin air that
Representative Joe Wilson was even thinking "boy" let alone considering
adding that to his "you lie" shout during Obama's healthcare
propaganda...er, speech...a week ago Wednesday.
I'm not
defending Joe Wilson's lack of decorum, by the way. But he apologized,
the president accepted and that should have been the end of it. But the
liberal left won't let the issue go--a simple "you lie" has now
blossomed into a race issue, at least according to the mainstream
media, FOX News excepted. Why is that? Why does the media feel a need
to continue to exploit "race" at every turn? Think McCarthy-style
tactics and you'll have your answer.
Decades ago, I believed
with all my heart--to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson--that if I had to
choose between a government with no newspapers or newspapers without
government, I would choose the latter. Over the years I have been
rudely and crudely disabused of that notion, to my grave
disappointment.
There is less a problem with race in this
country than those with an ulterior motive would have us all believe.
So why do those so-called journalists who would shout to the rafters "I
am not a racist" see racism at every turn? Can anyone here spell
"manufactured crisis," as in "never let a good crisis go to waste?"
A
race war could "force" the purported president to declare martial law,
thus suspending elections until such a time as he "deems" the American
People fit to choose their next president. And since, according to the
60 minutes interview, Obama intends to "be president for a while,"
these McCarthy-style tactics with "race" and "racism" may just be the
first shot in an all-out coup de tat. I wouldn't put this past him, or
Pelosi, or Reid, who said only a few days ago that if he can't get
healthcare passed with a proper Senate majority of 60 votes, he'll
resort to a budgetary "resolution" that will allow Congress to pass
healthcare, whether we the People want it or not, with just a simple
majority vote in the Senate.
So, what is the liberal agenda anyway? And what does it mean for America as we know it?
Edward R. Murrow must be rolling in his grave.