October 3rd 2008
The Most Ridiculous Story Of The Year: Part 5
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aomi Wolf’s Fascist America in 10 Easy Steps won the inaugural year competition, becoming Cheat-Seeking Missiles most ridiculous story of 2007. Now she’s back with another horror fantasy on the Bush-Cheney-Rove Cabal, The Battle Plan II: Sarah “Evita” Palin, The Muse Of The Coming Police State.
Wolf lives in a perpetual nightmare. On Dennis Prager’s show yesterday, she was complaining about being on the TSA watch list. This from a woman who just penned a book called Give Me Liberty: A Handbook For American Revolutionaries. She wants to foment revolution, and she can’t understand why she’s on a watch list. With that introduction to her acuity, let’s take a look at why Wolf looks at Sarah Palin and sees Evita Peron.
Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah “Evita” Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.
You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand “Palin Power.” A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections — but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control. Remember, Russia has Presidents; Russia holds elections. Dictators and gangs of thugs all over the world hold elections. It means nothing. When a cabal has seized power you can have elections and even presidents, but you don’t have freedom.
There’s a small flaw in her thinking here: Soviet Russia didn’t exactly offer up a multi-party election, and if anyone had such an idea, the KGB would quell it quickly. And they were better at appearances than the rest of the world’s dictators and gangs of thugs. Our elections still mean something.
I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites (“the heart of America is on display”) and realized Bush’s speechwriters were writing her — not McCain’s — speeches. I heard her tell George Bush’s lies — not McCain’s — to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners — this is Rove-Cheney’s enthusiastic S and M, not McCain’s, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit –but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain.
How many Clintonistas are on the Obama campaign? Never mind. The reference to supporting torture? I believe it’s this, from Palin’s convention speech:
“Al-Qaida terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America; he’s worried that someone won’t read them their rights.”
The left has been trying to redefine torture so it includes just about everything, and with this, they’ve done it. Not read your rights? TORTURE!! Continue Reading »
