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Tuesday, May 24, 2005

PREDICTABLE LINGUISTIC DISTORTIONS

It's SCARY (because the TRUTH of it has such ominous implications) how predicable the events of the past month have really been. At the beginning of this BLOG we stated the observation that there tends to be a cyclical and/or repetitive and therefore somewhat predictable character to the nature of current events.



What's elusive is the naming of the common theme that underlies events and makes them predictable. Nevertheless, a fairly good approximation might be the 'A-Factor'.



The 'A-Factor' encompasses such characteristics of the current activities of DEMS and other LEFTISTS and their allies the MSM (Main Stream Media) maggots, as OBSTRUCTIONISM (this brings to mind a recent series of credit card commercials with David Spade, an appropriate metaphor for the DEMS and/or MSM maggots, consisting of a display of seemingly infinite breadth and depth, of ways to say NO), BIGOTRY, FUBARING the language, LYING, HYPOCRISY, DOUBLE STANDARDS (they spin this as 'tolerance for ambiguity'), lack of BALANCE and SYMMETRY etc.



What seems to have happened is that as the DEMS have increasingly come to be dominated by LEFTIST EXTREMISTS (the current head of the DNC is none other than Dr. Demento, Howard Dean... see him bare himself in public on Face the Nation with Tim Russert on May 22, 2005 ), there has been a corresponding decline in the number of people voting for them at both a local and a national level. The more EXTREME they become the more elections they lose.



As a result, they can no longer rely on political power to promote their EXTREMIST POLITICAL AGENDA, and are forced to use other tools. These tools are beyond the direct reach of the POPULAR WILL, and are therefore less likely to be held ACCOUNTABLE. As we stated on other occasions, these tools consist primarily of the IRON TRIANGLE of the INFORMATION OLIGOPOLY, the LEGALISTAS, and ORGANIZED LABOR.



In adopting such tactics, the DEMS are moving further and further away from two of the principles which represent the foundations of our country, i.e. FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY.



In the past month, the most visible component of the IRON TRIANGLE has been the INFORMATION OLIGOPOLY, as exemplified by the various Distortions, Fabrications and FUBARings perpetrated by the MSM maggots.


THE KORAN FUBAR

The latest outrage involving the MSM maggots is of course the 'Newsweek and/or Isikoff lied, people died...' debacle, where as a result of Newsweek printing an unsubstantiated story alleging that the Army flushed Korans down the toilet in Guantanamo Bay, Muslim EXTREMISTS in several countries rioted and 17 or more people were killed. While it's a matter of semantics whether the Newsweek story was 'fabricated' or simply a case of a single unidentified source not being checked out, it's by no means an isolated instance of 'fabricated news'. In recent memory there were also fabrications perpetrated by Jordan(CNN), Rather(CBS), Kelly (USA Today) and Blair (NYT). We know of these because they were caught 'red handed'. There may well be many, many more. At least no one (as far as we know) got killed as a result of the antics of these 'famous four'.


Apparently it's not enough for the MSM maggots to filter and spin actual news; they also seem to have a need to make things up if it suits their purposes and the truth does not. It would seem that they're totally contemptuous of anyone suggesting that their 'source credibility' has been severely damaged as a result of these shenanigans. Isikoff's insistence that what happened with Newsweek represented "...absolutely no lapse in journalistic standards...", suggests that this GITMO KORANGATE debacle was somehow standard operating procedure for Newsweek. That's SCARY. That the rest of the MSM maggots closed ranks behind Newsweek, thus implying that comparable operating procedures are standard for them as well, is even MORE SCARY.


KORANGATE was a mistake by Newsweek on two counts. First of all, the more pedestrian 'mistakes were made', of not checking the veracity of the 'undisclosed' source they used, and not getting corroborating witnesses. Secondly, even if such 'news' was actually not a fabrication, not anticipating the deadly effect it would have as an excuse to set off ISLAMIC RADICALS.



Perhaps the second mistake came about as a result of the MSM maggots in general and Newsweek in particular routinely not only reporting but implicitly endorsing such sacrilege as a urine filled jar containing an inverted cross, and a dung encrusted batik of the Virgin Mary, and hailing it as 'ART'. They afforded similar treatment to the now commonplace and systematic efforts of the ACLU to attack the Bible, the Ten Commandments, and God. Burning Christian Children in Waco was A-OK. Vilifying, dissing, and persecuting Christians seems as commonplace to them as it was to Nero.



With this kind of mind set with respect to the Christian religion (and by extension, religions in general), they may very well have thought that a similar outrage alleged to have been performed on the Koran would not stir any more reactions from ISLAMIC RADICALS than the previously mentioned sacrileges did among Christians here in the US. Never mind what ISLAMIC RADICALS showed themselves capable of doing on 9/11.


Was Newsweek really this clueless? We doubt it. They pretty much knew what would happen and felt that whatever the cost, it was worth it just to hurt the USA and Bush. It's the same kind of 'reasoning' that drove RATHERGATE.



THE BOLTON FUBAR

This is the first time that we can remember, where a Presidential nomination for US Ambassador to the UN has been anything but routine. We suspect the problem is more with the DEMS and the MSM maggots than with the nominee, Bolton. This is another manifestation of the persistent DEM theme of 'NO' we referred to earlier.


Of course, we already seem to have forgotten the calumnies and distortions heaped on Condi Rice when she was nominated to head the State Department. Ditto for Alberto Gonzales and his nomination for Attorney General. Ditto for Ashcroft's nomination before that.



In this case, the DEMS and the MSM maggots distort and FUBAR Bolton's record (he has been nominated and unanimously approved on several occasions beforehand without any furor, which is how he got to his current position) by alleging that all of a sudden, Bolton is inappropriate for the job because he (in their words) 'kisses up and kicks down'. Roughly translated, this means that he supposedly sucks up to his superiors and abuses his subordinates. If this allegation were true, it would seem that such characteristics are ideally suited for the ethos of a MEGA bureaucratic organization like the UN.


Let's deconstruct this calumny one point at a time.


First of all, based on what people who know him have said about Bolton, 'he does not kiss up to ANYBODY'. The DEMS and MSM maggots would obviously like him to 'kiss up' to the UN, and to favor and be deferential to the interests of every nation EXCEPT the US. Apparently one needs to 'pucker up' in order to be suitable for the UN, in spite of the fact that it's now badly tainted by corruption. That's how the DEMS and MSM maggots seem to view the mission of diplomacy and the State Department. Standing up for the interests of the US and pointing out that the UN is badly in need of reform, is 'unthinkable' and 'undiplomatic'.



Secondly the 'kick down' allegation. It seems that Bolton is known to have a temper and has upbraided some subordinates at one time or another. Compared to WHAT??? Both Clintons were legendary for their temper tantrums and their vindictive streaks (SEE: Woodward's book on the Clintons... also SEE: TRAVELGATE and Billy Dale). Such traits certainly don't seem to be uncommon in Washington.


State Department and Intelligence careerists are not some kind of untouchable species of 'Sacred Cow' who are beyond questioning and disciplining and accountability. They are there to serve the interests of the US and to follow the policies of their superiors rather than to formulate and implement Foreign Policy on their own as they see fit. This seems reasonable. However, it does not seem to appear this way to the DEMS and the MSM maggots.


Finally, look at some of his critics. There's Joe Biden who's as honest as his hair (remember the plaigiarism charges when he considered running for President back in the 80's???). It has been rumored that the hair on his head has been transplanted from below his belt, which would account for some of his personality traits. Then there's Chris Dodd, who's been rumored to have taken bribes in exchange for his support for every RED in the Western Hemisphere (the Sandinistas, Castro, Chavez, Kirchner, Aristide/Lavalas etc.). He's the only one whose political career did not seem to be affected by the suspicion that he engaged in such activities. Similar suspected politicians like Wright, Solarz, Downey, Coelho etc. have exited from the political scene. Enough has already been said about Kennedy and Kerry. To say more would be to belabor the obvious. Finally there are Pelosi and Boxer, who seem to represent the 'state' of San Francisco, and have been selected by the DEM Politburo to be 'designated hitters' whose extremist comments are purposely designed to make Hillary look like a Centrist by comparison.


People such as these presume to sit in judgment of Bolton, and are aided and abetted every step of the way by the MSM maggots.


'THE NUCLEAR OPTION' FUBAR

Have you ever wondered where the term the 'Nuclear Option' came from in reference to the GOP planning to change Senate filibuster rules to exclude judicial nominees? Historically, there have been seven previous times when filibuster rules have been changed, so it's not exactly unprecedented. The filibuster is not a law enshrined in the Constitution, but a Senate tradition which remains so because it is infrequently used. In fact, the Constitution states that judicial nominees require a simple majority 'Advise and Consent' vote rather than the super majority needed to break a filibuster. Interestingly, when the Constitution was still being crafted, Madison proposed that a 2/3 super majority should be required to REJECT rather than to confirm a Presidential nomination.



    * THE NUCLEAR OPTION vs DEM FUBARING OF SENATE RULES
    PART (1 of 1)



Surely the GOP did not coin the term 'Nuclear Option'. It was more likely the DEM's lapdogs, the MSM maggots FUBARing the language via their 'newspeak' (or is it 'news speak'?), who came up with this. If there was such a thing as a 'Nuclear Option' it already happened in Bush's first term when the DEMS started systematically using the filibuster to block Bush's nominations to the Appellate and/or Circuit Courts. The DEMS knew full well that those sitting on Appellate Courts are usually selected as Supreme Court nominees as the need arises at a later time. If a nominee they don't like does not make it to an Appellate Court, then the next step is also out of the question.


Prior to this, no one ever used the filibuster to block Appellate or Circuit Court nominees, so this is actually the event that could be regarded as the first 'Preemptive Nuclear Strike', and it was of course perpetrated by the DEMS. The GOP's currently contemplated filibuster rules change would thus only represent a 'Retaliatory Strike'.


It might also be argued that the 'Nuclear Option' first happened in 1987 when Bork's nomination was blocked by the DEMS on ideological grounds rather than on the basis of judicial excellence and/or competence. Then there was another 'Nuclear' event, i.e. the attempted 'lynching' by DEMS and the MSM maggots (remember NPR's Nina Totenberg??) of Clarence Thomas.


It's a shame the wimpy GOP did not choose to retaliate in kind when the nomination of dogmatic leftist ideologue and blatantly gender biased Ruth Bader Ginsburg (formerly of the ACLU and with strong ties to NOW) came up during Clinton's term. If political philosophy all of a sudden trumps judicial excellence and/or competence as a criterion for barring a nominee, then the GOP seemed to wake up too late to this new fact of life. Some of them, it would seem, still haven't (SEE: McCain). Not one of their number even dreamed of filibustering Ginsburg's nomination.


At the same time, the DEMS and their MSM maggots have completely forgotten the slogan they brayed and yukked and screeched to the high heavens after the 2000 elections and to a lesser extent after the 2004 elections, i.e.




    "Let EVERY vote count!"



Apparently such sentiments are totally irrelevant when it comes to allowing a judicial nominee an 'up or down vote' as called for in the Constitution. What we have instead is a linguistic distortion perpetrated by the DEMS and their MSM maggots. The efforts of a small group of RADICAL LEFTISTS to ignore the WILL of the PEOPLE and impose their DOGMA on THE REST of US (in effect, 'Wagging the Dog' via misuse of Senate 'filibuster traditions') is morphed and FUBARed by them into:




    "Protection of minority rights."



Since when does a minority have the 'RIGHT to impose its WILL on the MAJORITY
??


FUBARS of a DIFFERENT COLOR

This FUBARing of the language is further evident in the color inversion the MSM maggots have manufactured in describing GOP states and counties as 'Red', and the DEM's as 'Blue'. Surely there are more REDS (i.e. RADICAL LEFTISTS) in the 'Blue' states and counties than the 'Red' ones, but the MSM maggots laid this 'switch' on us to try to obscure the obvious color associations that accompany LEFT and RIGHT in politics. It wouldn't do to 'see RED' when thinking of LEFTISTS.



IRAQ FUBARS

There are other examples of linguistic inversions and further FUBARing of the language when it comes to the MSM maggot's coverage of Iraq and Afghanistan. Both were not liberated from oppression but were 'INVADED'. Kamikaze style TERRORIST BUTCHERS of innocent civilians in both places were magically transformed into more 'romantic' sounding 'INSURGENTS' by the MSM maggots. Free elections in Iraq somehow morphed into 'the systematic suppression of the Sunni vote', and therefore the election was 'ILLEGITIMATE'. What by comparison to the slaughter and mutilations (cutting out tongues and cutting off hands) that went on in Saddam's prisons (including the ones for children), would be more like 'frat house hazing' by a few disturbed individuals who have since been punished, became the 'Rumsfeld sanctioned torture chambers of Abu Ghraib' as portrayed by the MSM maggots. If the TERRORISTS kidnapped and subsequently beheaded someone, it was somehow our fault, while the TERRORISTS were simply demonstrating their 'legitimate anger and frustration', as spun by the MSM maggots. The alleged lack of intervention by coalition troops during the looting of 'hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable Mesopotamian artifacts' from the State Museum during the liberation of Baghdad, turned out to be fewer than 100 items stolen by museum insiders who were the only ones knowledgeable enough to know what was worth taking. As regards the rationale for liberating Iraq and Afghanistan according to the MSM maggots, the US and the Coalition were 'In it for Halliburton and the OIL' but the 'Oil for Food SCAM' is a 'scurrilous attempt by RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS to SMEAR the UN'. The fact that the biggest opponents of the liberation of Iraq (France, Russia, and the UN) had oil and arms interests there as well as being complicit in the 'Oil for Food SCAM', was virtually absent from the MSM maggots' radar. The allegation of deliberate targeting of journalists by coalition troops made by CNN's Jordan, turned out to be a total fabrication. The al Quaqaa KAKA foisted on us by the NYT a week before the election was yet another instance of informational malfeasance, along with the 'bin Laden tape', which sounded like it was scripted by Michael Moore.


CONCLUSION

There are similar distortions in matters dealing with Social Security,



scientific matters (which we increasingly can't comprehend) related to global warming,



legal issues relating to judicial overreach,



and all of these distortions appear to be lame attempts to cling to the past.



    * FORGET RETRO RADS... LET'S LIVE IN THE 21st CENTURY
    PART (1 of 1)



It goes on and on this way, ad infinitum and ad nauseam.


We could just shrug all of this off, and put the latest issue of Newsweek on a spike in our toilet to be used in lieu of something more Charmin', but that might be a case of under reacting, and playing the role of guilty bystanders. Perhaps we're already there or perhaps several more incidents like this (for instance the latest tragi-comic centerfold of Saddam in his underwear in a British tabloid) adding to a cumulative total, are needed before 'critical mass' is finally reached. When this happens, THE PEOPLE will begin to drag out their pitchforks and torches and gather in front of the various headquarters and branch offices of the MSM maggots and demand an accounting.

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