John Gibson is worried. Very worried.
Last week, Gibson--the Fox News commentator who last year courageously alerted us to the
War on Christmas--stunned America once again with a new threat to those of us who are deeply concerned about maintaining white supremacy...I mean, a white majority in our nation.
Here are the shocking statistics in his own words:
"...half the kids under 5 years old in this country are minorities. By far, the greatest number are Hispanic. Know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority population is Hispanic. To put it bluntly: We need more babies."
I know it's not PC to say this, but I don't think our forefathers decimated the Native American population just so that their brown relatives from south of the border could later overrun our nation with their poor, their tired and their fast-breeding masses.
After all, white America massacred thousands of Mexicans in the 19th century just to create the borders of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California. If that hadn't happened, where would the good white people of our great land relocate to in their desire to seek the perfect climate...and the perfect tan.
It's good to know that there are still heroes in America. John Gibson, a man who oozes wholesome whiteness from every pore and hair follicle, will undoubtedly be vilified by traitorous liberals and unchristian race-mixers who have given up the dream of creating a color-free America (except, of course, for those lovely tans). But for the rest of us, I will stay glued to my Fox News Channel, where The Truth is always served red, white and blue.
But mostly white.
Let the Name Calling Commence
In an
article from the London Sunday Times--a Rupert Murdoch-owned newspaper--there is an interview with Hugo Chavez' ex-mistress. It is called "My lover, the great dictator".
This sensational interview conveniently comes just days after Chavez and Bolivia's new president, Evo Morales,
faced down the European Union.
While the word dictator has been bandied about rather loosely by our own Bush Administration in regards to Mr. Chavez, it is interesting to note that whenever Chavez is written about, it seems to be impossible to write objectively about the man. For instance, this is the first paragraph of this article.
"The ex-mistress of Venezuela’s leader, darling of Britain’s left, predicts an autocratic disaster, reports Tony Allen-Mills"
Using the phrase "darling of Britain's left" is apparentliy supposed to marginalize Chavez, but I think there are many more people behind Venezuela's Bolivarian Revolution than just a few fringe lefties.
As for this woman's predicted dictatorship in Venezuela, let's examine political philosophies a bit.
Indoctrinated in this country to be great believers in democracy as a
the best of all political systems, we have witnessed in the last six years the blatant subversion of what is left of OUR democracy with a bought and intimidated media, corrupt and just-plain-wacked politicians and worst-of-all, a manipulated and dull-witted electorate more upset by gays and illegal immigrants than the ruthless redistribution of wealth upward by Republicans and their ilk.
Masters of the Southern Universe
Ever since 2002, when I watched an old US CIA trick being played on the people of Venezuela, I've followed the ongoing war of words between Hugo Chavez on the one hand and George Bush and numerous members of his Administration on the other.
In 2002, as we might remember, Chavez was overthrown in a coup that was wished for, initiated by and presumably financed by the Bush Administration through its foreign swat team, the CIA, and any number of governmental and right-wing non-governmental organizations (NGO's). To the Administration's dismay, however, the coup only lasted a few days, during which the official US position was basically
good riddance.
This did little to endear Mr. Chavez to our leaders and only brought back bad memories of another South American nation, Chile, and another Socialist leader, Salvador Allende.
In both instances, those leaders had the affrontery to attack the foreign corporations that were exploiting the resources of the land while offering little to the people whose land and resources it was. Epidemic poverty continued while islands of obscene wealth and exploitation of the indigent population were the visual byproducts of the corporatocracy that really control most of the nations in Central and South America.
In 1972, the CIA and corporations like ITT and Anaconda Copper were instrumental in fomenting civic unrest, and in the coup that eventually resulted, President Allende was assassinated. This led to a nearly 30 year reign of brutal right-wing dictator--but US corporation-friendly-- Augusto Pinochet.
Since, 2002, I've expected the same thing to happen to Chavez--a man who has brought real change to the poor of Venezuela for the first time-- just because of the constant public demonization by an Administration that breathes, eats and shits corporate greed.
Four years later, however, Chavez is still alive and has become a hero to millions in South America, where country after country are turning left because of his example. As a result, the man has become a real threat to world corporatism.
This week Chavez and the latest Chavez-like leader in South America, Evo Morales of Bolivia,
strode into Europe with their brand of South American machismo and are fucking freaking out the EU leaders, who all live by the Western corporate code. In their world--as in ours--there is no room for any other system but free-market capitalism.
Democracy, as we have found out all too well in the last 6 years, has little to do with what our world is really about. Capitalism is the true game and we should give some degree of gratitude to the Bushies and their larcenous Republican foot soldiers for showing us the real underbelly of American politics; corporate money, unbridled greed and lawlessness.
In their attempts to shake-up the corporations (in the guise of political governments) that have run roughshod though third-world nation after third-world nation since the end of colonialism, I commend their bold efforts.
In their desire to pioneer real change in a part of the world that has known little but greedy exploitation by outsiders, I wish them success.
In their need to stay alive, I can only hope that they stay out of the line of fire from those entities they really threaten.
Stephen Colbert: Hero of Truthiness
Having watched the
Crooks and Liars webcast of the Annual White House Correspondents' Dinner held last Saturday night, I was interested in the mainstream press's reaction, or--as was the case--lack of reaction.
Still, there were a few entries on
Huffington Post that I found interesting. As usual, the response in blogovia was generally dependent on whether you like Bush (for god-knows-what reason) or don't like him.
So there was this writer name Nathan Gardels who said that Bush "outironicized" Colbert because he was able to make fun of himself.
Ahh...such a clown our Shrub is. And really, doesn't everyone love a clown?
Unable to keep myself from answering my own question, I wrote this:
Stephen Colbert--in the guise of almost every right-wing talking mouth on radio and TV--was relentless in his courage to stand up and blast so many of the Washington power players in politics and the mainstream media.
cvcobb01 was right on the money. We, the dissident majority, were really the intended audience that night. When else have we, the powerless in America, ever gotten to witness the expression of these kinds of widely-held criticisms of politicians and the press before...with them as a captured audience?
And the reaction of those attending is a perfect example of why it was evidently dangerous to one's career to show dissent even by laughing at such witty and biting satire.
Mr Gardels, it's always easy to laugh at a clown. That doesn't take any great talent or intelligence. But to appreciate the art of great satire as it has been used for provocation throughout the ages takes a mind that is evidently more facile than yours.
Thank you Stephen Colbert for giving voice to 5 long years of our having to put up with a clown rather than a true leader.
And Helen Thomas, you've got more balls than anyone in the White House Press Corps...bar none!
I've been a big fan of Colbert since his new show began last fall. I'm constantly amazed at how he (and his writers) are able to say in such a succinct and funny manner what so many bloggers (including myself) can only say with a kind of seething disdain simmering below the surface.
One of the things I always notice about totalitarian states is the lack of public humor. We should all be thankful, then, for people like Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Will Durst and many others who somehow manage to channel much of our righteous anger into laughter. Doesn't mean that we don't feel the same emotions about the issues that bug us. Just means that our frustration doesn't do more harm to ourselves than to those who are doing us harm.
Last week, Gibson--the Fox News commentator who last year courageously alerted us to the War on Christmas--stunned America once again with a new threat to those of us who are deeply concerned about maintaining white supremacy...I mean, a white majority in our nation.
As the United States spirals closer to the kind of banana republic that has generally defined Central and South American nations, I find it a hopeful sign that the endemic poverty of this area is being addressed--in Venezuela at least--by this so-called "dictator".
Few South American elections can be called fair in that region's long history. Certainly the doubts that I now harbor over the democratic process can be easily understood in South American terms. Chavez understands as well as anyone that the direction of a nation can be turned 180 degrees in one election.
For my part, I'm willing to see how the majority of the people fare under Chavez before condemning his mission to raise his people up from a poverty that has never abated regardless of who was elected in the past.
If I can listen every single day to apologists for the Bush Administration downplay and rationalize the evils done by this Administration, then I don't mind in the least being called an apologist for this kind of "benevolent dictator".