The Anchoress

Remember a while back, the Washington Post reported on secret tapes of President Bush, having been made by a trusted friend, being released?

‘member that? Think back. It was a HUGE story…until the tapes got listened to and…ewwwwww…Bush actually came off like a sane, rational and decent man!

Ewwwwwww! That wasn’t what the MSM had in mind, at all!

And so the whole story died, very quickly.

One of the things I remember reading in the transcripts was President Bush’s absolute refusal to bash gays. Many bloggers noted it, simply because the taped remarks were so clearly at odds with the narrative the gay left has been pushing for years, that Bush is a mean old homophobe who is out to put all gays in concentration camps. The tapes showed a man who basically had a perfectly respectable “live and let live” idea about homosexuality, although - by his lights - he could not go the “gay marriage” route.

So, then of course, the goalposts got raised, and “live and let live” wasn’t good enough. Suddenly, you were only a “good” person if you moved beyond “live and let live” and into a full and whole-hearted support of gay marriage. Unless you were, of course, John Kerry or Bill Clinton, in which you could have EXACTLY the same position on the issue as President Bush, and yet be assured that your “gay-friendly” credentials would be intact.

Because President Clinton could sign the Defense of Marriage Act, and John Kerry could campaign that he was “against gay marriage” just like President Bush, but neither one of them had to endure this sort of dubious “art” from the angry gays who feel un-tolerated, oppressed and pushed aside when a Republican says “no” but don’t much mind if the same word is said by a Democrat.

This is such seamless hypocrisy I doubt these “artists” right hands ever knew what their left hands were doing.

Michelle Malkin has jpegs of the taxpayer funded (and profoundly stupid, and intellectually dishonest) “artwork” that features such images as a naked President Bush, bent over an oil barrel and being sodomized by an Arab. (Because, you know, everything President Bush does is all about ooooiiiiilllll. ) The President as the Statue of Liberty, wearing a Bishop’s mitre (an economical modern-day “tolerant liberal,” this artist manages to skewer two targets at once) and a button saying, “God hates fags” while an Iraqi flag burns in the torch (you know, Iraq - the place Bush just helped to liberate - the place that just had elections and put a government in place) and the obligatory “Presidency for dummies” book tucked under the arm (because the “Bush-is-stupid” yawner simply can’t be said enough by these bright, brilliant, hip, enlightened eternal adolescents (giggle-snort, LOOK what I DID Mommy! I was daring and bold, wasn’t I?? Woohoo, I’m such a COUNTER-CULTURALIST, giving it to the establishment! Ooooh, this is DANGEROUS!)

Because it is so dangerous, so very dangerous, to use juvenile ideas to castigate someone all your friends already hate.

Dangerous, I think, is daring to engage in a little intellectual honesty, even if your friends won’t like it…but I guess you have to be an 800-lb gorilla like Bono, if you want to do that.

I’m just disgusted and disappointed in this silliness, and by the double standards we see again and again. Oh, and btw, according to Malkin, there’s also yet another “Bush-as-Hitler” piece of “art.” How ORIGINAL! No one’s ever thought of THAT before! (Although if you suggest that Howard Dean’s hate-speechifying rants remind you a bit of Berlin in 1931, why…why…you are horrible to imply that anyone could be a nazi! Except Bush or most Republicans!)

Taxpayer funded posturing, double-standards and hypocrisy.

These people can say any damn thing they want, but I’m a little tired of my hard-earned bucks going to fund some darling who doesn’t have to get a job because he is busy drawing a cartoon of mindless hate, and if I don’t like it, well, I must be a nazi, too. It’s tiresome. It’s idiotic. It’s phony and fake and hypocritical. But there it is. Over and over again.

Victor Davis Hanson is right. These people are just boring.

And yet, so morbidly fascinating are they, that I still must stop and stare. This much hate, produced so mechanically, so thoughtlessly…it’s boring and hideous…but I can’t look away!