• April 19, 2003  How the Third Half Lives
• April 19, 2003  CNN Admits It Hid the Truth for Saddam’s Regime – What a Surprise!
• April 19, 2003  If Only America Could Look Unrespectable!

Fun Quote:

You're not going to believe this one.

An interviewer asked General Franks whether America should blame Syria because Iraqi leaders are escaping there.

Frank replied, and this is an exact quote:

"Any country that wants to control its border can do so."

                                                              How the Third Half Lives                                                                                

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Operation Iraqi Freedom could not be justified because it freed the Iraqis from oppression.   Putin said that if America could invade countries to free them from oppression, she would have to invade most of the world.

 That makes Putin a Nazi.

 A conservative must earn the “respectable” label from liberals if he is to be allowed on the major media.   No conservative is allowed to question liberal policy toward minorities.  Anyone who does not want to be labeled a Nazi must praise every "liberal accomplishment" in Racial Progress.     

First and foremost, you cannot question Glorious Integration.

Another thing every respectable person  must praise is the freeing of third world peoples from evil colonialism.

Putin is pointing out that those nonwhites that liberals "freed from colonialism" are not free.

You and I know that there are people screaming in agony right now in almost every African country.  All over "liberated" Africa people are being tortured exactly the same way Saddam tortured his people.

You and I know that every day most former colonies are doing things to people that colonial powers would never have done.

You and I know that every day in most former colonies things are being done to people that would have the media screaming bloody murder if any colonial power had done them.

 We all know that.   But we never say that.  Only Nazis say that.

 Putin said that.  That makes Putin a Nazi.

                                      CNN Admits It Hid the Truth for the Saddam Regime -- What a Surprise!                          

Just last week I pointed out that anti-Communists behind the Iron Curtain didn’t tell reporters how they hated the Communist regimes.   I stated flatly that people under a Communist regime are afraid to talk to the Western press they fear because the media might turn them in to gain brownie points with the Communist regime.

I didn’t know whether I should say that because it sounded so extreme.

See World View for April 5, 2003, On Popular Opinion the Media are Clueless and the Experts are Even More Clueless.

This week CNN publicly admitted it did something very similar.   A top CNN executive, Eason Jordan, was told by Saddam’s brother that, when two of Saddam’s family came back after defecting to the West, they would be killed.

Jordan didn’t warn them that they would be killed.  Jordan said he did it to keep the CNN office staff in Baghdad safe.

Jordan also admitted that CNN hid stories of the Iraqi regime torturing people so Saddam would keep cooperating with CNN.

On MSNBC, a respectable conservative was rubbing this in, denouncing CNN with shock and outrage.  One of his guests calmly pointed out that almost all the media in Baghdad covered for Saddam.   He said only a fool wouldn’t know that.

Of course any fool would know that.  But every conservative has to say that the media are filled with honest, patriotic people.  The fact that the media routinely sell people out is  something everybody knows but no one is allowed to say.

CNN is the only cable network that has been allowed to have a Havana office.  Do you think any sane Cuban would tell CNN what they really think of Castro?

But every conservative will tell you that, while Ted Turner may be mistaken in his political views on some issues, he is a gentleman and a scholar and a patriotic American.

But as soon as CNN is caught red-handed and begins admitting one of its sellouts, we are told that the media all sell out, not just CNN.   And nobody remembers that a week ago every conservative commentator would have denied it.

That's how it always works. One minute it’s McCarthyite to say something and the next minute everybody admits it’s something anybody but a fool would know about.   This is exactly the phenomenon I talk about in  the World View for March 15, 2003,  “Whatever Happened to the Communist Conspiracy?” 

In the 1950’s you were not a respectable conservative if you said that many if not most liberals loved the Communists.

By 1968 hard-core liberals hit the streets praising the Viet Cong.  Huge crowds were marching with Viet Cong flags and shouting their support for Ho Chi Min.

To be a respectable conservative you have to condemn whatever liberals say isn’t true.  What liberals forbid one day is something everybody always knew the next day.  Conservatives have to know what the liberal line is every day.  Respectables must follow that line slavishly and talk about how wise and honest and consistent liberals are.

You cannot be a media conservative unless liberals call you a “respectable” conservative.  Every respectable conservative has to say that leftist may be wrong, but they are gentlemen and patriots and honest and honorable.

They aren’t.   But then again neither are the conservatives who say that.

                                                 If America Could Only Look Unrespectable!                                                                

Liberals and respectable conservatives are worried to death.   They cannot stand the idea that this war will make America look dangerous and mean.

Oh, goodness gracious, all the cocktail parties will turn against us if we look dangerous.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, nothing could be better for a real war on terrorism.

Liberals want America to be “respected”, by which they mean they want us to beg other countries to please let us protect them while we lie down on the floor for them to walk over.

I love the idea of looking unrespectable.  When you are dealing with the third world or with terrorists, there is nothing better than having them fear that you may suddenly tear their tongues out and stuff them down their throats.

That’s how third world governments govern.  That is the only thing that would cost state sponsors of terrorism a night’s sleep.

The very idea of looking unrespectable is a nightmare to liberals.  So respectable conservatives denounce the idea of America looking “unsophisticated” and scary.   What would the Europeans say about us?

For me, America acting a little threatening would be a gigantic relief.

Throughout the Cold War America begged other countries let us protect them.  We paid them hundreds of billions of dollars to bribe them to let us protect them at our expense.

I got so sick of Uncle Wimp, once known as Uncle Sam, being Uncle Turkey

It would be so wonderful if, just once, America was the country everybody else was a little scared of..  It would a relief if we demanded that people listen to us when we speak.

And Lord, wouldn’t it be great if, for once, we were the people other countries had to appease!?