We were discussing the Gorific PR campaign and magical transformation of a man who talks endlessly and righteously about the rape of the planet but never names the rapists-- my man Al. Last week he could barely walk under the weight of the pollyannic profusion of detritistical fawnacious crap lobbed his way by the pimp media and self-delusional Democrats with Hillariphobic dysentery.
People are so starved for any miniscule sign that anyone is even listening, that they latch onto the slightest dissentious uttering like it was The Gettysburg Address.
Near asphyxiation, we have lionized and inflated middle of the road whiners like Keith Olbermann to be our standard bearers. Just by squeezing some Bush bashing in between trashing Britney and OJ and Rush Limbaugh, Olbermann has become a multi-blogged email-forwarded cable Spartacus, despite the fact that his vision, in deference to the guys who sign his checks, sees no further than The White House.
And of course -- as I said last time- "...finally, comes Frank Rich- of that famous bastion of morality and journalistic integrity- The New York Times, to declare that We, (the group formerly known as) The People quite possibly might be sidling toward Good Germanism. What a blast of bracing fresh air, bleats the flaccid progressive blogopoly. At last, someone to Pericles our asses into shape. A crock of dialed tears, I say, a sanctimonious self-semi-flagellation with a licorice stick. After all, how COULD we have known ?"
FRANK RICH
Ya can't be amazed at Frank being what and who he is. And ya can't be surprised that The NY Times carries his stuff, since its exactly the kind of myopic propaganda for which their paper has become famous.
It's Us -- the desperately gullible who Paul Revere this kind of superficial bilge that should be ashamed.
How many emails did U get -- how many "progressive" blogs did U read- trumpeting Rich's Op-Ed of Oct 14-
"The Good Germans Among Us"?
As if it was some kind of brilliant call to arms, or piercing revelation, or courageous self-analysis.
As if-- it meant one damn thing, except more evidence that we are none of us ready to take real responsibility for what WE have done.
It seems that Rich has just figgered out that We have some culpability in the global atrocities and murders being committed in Our name, with Our money, and Our acquiescence. What a concept !
“BUSH lies” doesn’t cut it anymore. It’s time to confront the darker reality that we are lying to ourselves."
A promising start, if a litttttle tardy.
But the Big Lie goes on- It's THEM, the bad guys, Bush and them, what did it, and not US. We should be speaking up more, but its not like it was US that actually did any of it or anything like that.
"...We can continue to blame the Bush administration for the horrors of Iraq — and should. Paul Bremer, our post-invasion viceroy and the recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom for his efforts, issued the order that allows contractors to elude Iraqi law, a folly second only to his disbanding of the Iraqi Army. But we must also examine our own responsibility for the hideous acts committed in our name in a war where we have now fought longer than we did in the one that put Verschärfte Vernehmung on the map.
Like Gore, Rich reports the crime, and then refuses to name the perps. Hint: it wasn't Paul Bremer.
Causing chaos, destroying the rule of law, disbanding the fundamental organizing principle of the Nation of Iraq- and then obliterating the Iraqi Army, sending 300,000 armed angry vengeful UNEMPLOYED men into the streets -- was no "folly" -- no mistake. Calling it folly perpetuates the myth of inadvertent disorder, and misses the whole point.
"...I have always maintained that the American public was the least culpable of the players during the run-up to Iraq. The war was sold by a brilliant and fear-fueled White House propaganda campaign designed to stampede a nation still shellshocked by 9/11. Both Congress and the press — the powerful institutions that should have provided the checks, balances and due diligence of the administration’s case — failed to do their job. Had they done so, more Americans might have raised more objections. This perfect storm of democratic failure began at the top."
And why, does he suppose, did "powerful institutions" coalesce to push us into war ? And WHO, does he suppose, are the REAL powers - the quintessential beneficiaries of murderous cuibonoism- who really did the deed ?
Rich names only "Congress and the press" as the guilty parties, which is like busting two 14 year old nickel bag pushers, and letting the big time dealers walk.
He knows who Congress works for, everybody does.
He DEFINITELY knows who the press works for, who HE works for.
Like Al, he is totally mum on the real villains --- who he KNOWS run the show, whose profits have exploded logarithmically, whose share prices have octupled, whose labor costs have evaporated, who have sold enough weapons to arm every country on earth eight times, and who have bought and control the very "powerful institutions" that Rich sticks in front of our eyes to blind us from the truth.
And then, Rich lets US off the hook. It really wasn't our fault.
"...It was always the White House’s plan to coax us into a blissful ignorance about the war..."
We were merely poor innocent dupes, bamboozled into acquiescence, ignorance, complicity.
We were lied to, and couldn't see the real truth.
We were bribed by tax cuts and distracted by Cable news, lulled into passive consumeristic somnambulance -- unawakened by a draft or nasty TV pictures.
"...Instead of taxing us for Iraq, the White House bought us off with tax cuts. Instead of mobilizing the needed troops, it kept a draft off the table by quietly purchasing its auxiliary army of contractors to finesse the overstretched military’s holes. With the war’s entire weight falling on a small voluntary force, amounting to less than 1 percent of the population, the rest of us were free to look the other way at whatever went down in Iraq."
Who is he talking to here ? Who is he exculpating if not his own self ? We are all totally responsible for our own ignorance, and the fact that most of us have sacrificed nothing is not justification for never noticing that sacrifices were made-- it only reinforces the arrogance of our reliance on our own privilege to feel safe.
At long last, Rich speaks tersely - exactly one paragraph - of the real victims-- the Iraqis. Then, of course, it's back to our problems.
He bemoans the inefficiency of our interrogation techniques, complaining that torture just doesn't work too well, we need to try chess.
Here's his Big Finish. Read it, but don't eat first:
"...Our humanity has been compromised by those who use Gestapo tactics in our war. The longer we stand idly by while they do so, the more we resemble those “good Germans” who professed ignorance of their own Gestapo. It’s up to us to wake up our somnambulant Congress to challenge administration policy every day. Let the war’s last supporters filibuster all night if they want to. There is nothing left to lose except whatever remains of our country’s good name."
Our humanity has been "compromised " ?
Is that it ?
And it's been done by "Them" again- those nasties who used "Gestapo" tactics.
Oh.
And who ya gonna call ?
Congress.
And, there is nothing left to lose but the good name of the USA ?
Help me someone I can't breathe. The stench is too strong.
I know why everyone sends around Frank Rich-- because he grants us moral absolution. We need to complain to Congress more, but basically we are good people who got fooled by the Bad Guys.
Please don't send me Frank Rich, or Aribotox Huffingbilge, or Keith Smirk.
if ya wanna quote someone with some balls- who stands up and tells it, send me Pete Stark.
Anyone who offends Nancy Pelosi is OK in my book.
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