B. U. G. S.

I love the North Carolina saying, “You’re ugly, your feet stink, and you don’t love Jesus.”

Like ALL Southern wisdom, it completely escapes outsiders.

That statement makes fun of a phenomenon I see all the time. I often quote people I abhor when they say something that is just plain GOOD.

Others are blind to the smart things their opponents say because if they are evil Nothing they say can be rational. This means that ugliness, foot odor, and always being wrong.

And they’re probably perverts to boot.

If I thought this way, one of my favorite quotes would ne er have come from Senator Fulbright of Arkansas, the hero of the opposition to the Vietnam War.

Like commenter Simon, Senator Fulbright was the kind of animal I hate more than I am capable of hating even the most obnoxious and loud-mouthed New York Jew. Like Simon, his point of moral pride was that he was a white man who wanted the end of the white race.

Fulbright was a public segregationist and a private integrationist.

As a senator from Arkansas, he was a part of the Southern Caucus which filibustered against all civl rights legislation. Back then Arkansas was not the diaper-soiling population that it is now is. It was very Southern. So Fulbright had to be a segregationist to stay in the Senate.

If Fulbright had not been a public segregationist there was a point at which he could have Secretary of State. He wanted that more than anything else in the world. he had always loved foreign affairs.

Remember that the Fulbright Scholarships, which Clinton took, were named for him.

But in order to be in the Senate Fulbright had to disqualify himself for the post he desired most. After all, he could not have been considered for Secretary of State if he had not been a senator.

So a reporter, an ardent opponent of the Vietnam War, worshipped Fulbright and took it for granted as all the media did (they are independent thinkers, each of them is independently just alike) that Fulbright was a Great Senator. So he asked Fulbright, “Senator, what does it take to be a Great Senator.”

Fulbright, who had been frustrated out of his lifelong ambition to be Secretary of State by the necessities of electoral politics, brought the reporter down to earth with bang.

He had been asked how one becomes a Great Senator. His reply was, “FIRST, you have to be SENATOR.”

To be a brave congressman, you have to be a congressman.

As noted in the last article, one commenter said that the congress was to blame for the present mess. He conveniently forgot that the congress is a product of the electorate.

Which leads straight into Tim’s statement (This is TWO comments, Tim!) that the congress is responsible for our present mess. Tim, in order for a congressman to show courage as a congressman he has to first be a CONGRESSMAN.

He has to get ELECTED.

If he shows courage he doesn’t stand a chance. The media will label him an extremist and the same electorate that keeps demanding COURAGE from congressmen will consider him an embarrassment and get rid of him.

They will then wonder why congressmen don’t show courage.

That is the table leg, Tim. You and Joe Sobran have not been through enough real campaigns. Joe gets paid to write outraged columns. He keeps going and going and going and going…

Joe gets PAID to keep pushing that table leg.

You don’t.

Now to another person who is not our hero but who said something vital.

Kissinger said something that took true Chutzpah. His family left Austria when Hitler took it over, so he is no fan of anti-Semitism. But he has the kind of dry humor I like.

We all know that the myth that the Nazis made soap out of Jews is a myth. So the EveryReady Men will not get the humor of my second favorite Kissinger remark. He will be so lost in denouncing the myth that he will miss Kissinger’s important point.

When Kissinger visited Austria, someone asked him if any of his relatives were still there.

He really didn’t want to discuss that. If someone is revisiting New Orleans right now, he will tell you about the survivors in his family and the deaths in his family. But pressing him on it is a nasty thing to do. The average peson doesn’t know how to smack teh reporter down.

But Kissinger was a pro, and he wouldn’t take that crap.

So when the reporter asked Kissinger about his relatives in Austria, Henry cut this intrusive question off with the remark, “They’re all soap.”

He did not get asked again.

My favorite Kissinger statement, of course, comes from the fact that he is a cold, professional diplomat. In other words, he gets paid to make things WORK. If what you are doing isn’t working, you can’t just whine about how the other side is unreasonable. In the real world of diplomacy, you have to assume it takes two to tango.

He doesn’t like whiners. Even Jewish whiners.

So when some Jewish leader was talking about the self-pity Judaism is based on, the idea that everybody is mean and the Jews are always sweeties, Kissinger replied, “Any people that has been persecuted for two thousand years is doing something WRONG.”

His feet may stink, and he sure as hell doen’t love Jesus, but he said something that desperately needed saying.