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September 21, 2006Chavez clearly listened to Dems and Air AmericaSo, Hugo Chavez is is still at it. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez launched a new personal attack on President George W. Bush, using a visit to a church to call the US leader an “alcoholic” and a “sick man.” A day after Chavez used the UN bully pulpit to call Bush “the devil” a “tyrant” who acts like he owns the world — prompting broad condemnation in the United States — Chavez was equally vitriolic as he spoke at the Olivet Baptist church in the New York neighborhood of Harlem. “Bush is an alcoholic, a sick man with a lot of hang-ups,” declared the left-wing Venezuelan leader. “He walks like John Wayne.” Hmmmmm….sounds awfully familiar, that tripe. Bush is “an alcoholic?” That sounds like Martin Sheen (a “good Catholic” with enough 12-step exposure to know better than to take another man’s inventory) calling President Bush “a white knuckle drunk” Bush is a “sick man with a lot of hangups?” That sounds like almost anyone at Air America, or on any lefty blog who pretends to sophistication by suggesting - like real bigots - that President Bush is an “uptight Christian,” simply because his moral values are not theirs. Bush “walks like John Wayne?” Crap, the press has been caricaturing President Bush as a “cowboy” since before he was elected. All Chavez is doing is repeating exactly the idiotic crap that the left has been spewing for 6 years. And the Democrats have who have encouraged the hate.
But maybe some on the left finally understand that while they’ve been having fun and laughing while calling President Bush every manner of ugly name and insult, dangerous people have been watching. And they have made a calculation: We can disrespect Bush and America will laugh with us. Bush is weak. America is once again the appeasing “weak horse” it was throughout the 1990’s and even before…when we could attack anything and be accountable to no one. I’m sure Hugo, once he left the guffawing chamber of hyenas at the UN, was shocked to discover that most Americans were not laughing, that even some Democrats were not. And I’m sure some Democrats were shocked to see just how ugly their words sounded, when coming out of the mouth of someone else, someone with “no right,” to spew hate for political expediency. There are some on the left who are suggesting that Hugo Chavez’s remarks are simply an indicator that the world “disrespects” President Bush…well…I wonder who gave them the idea that they could? Was it John Kerry calling him a “fucking liar,” and not having to answer for that rudeness to anyone while the press shrugged it off? Good heavens, Bush calls terrorism “evil” and he was mocked and criticized for using that word, but the press never had a problem with “fucking liar, fucking crooks and thieves” or with adolescent musings about the president’s name and female genitalia. It was alllllll soooooo funnnnneeeeeee, newsreaders could hardly deliver the spite without grinning, themselves. Let me tell you, I didn’t see “disrespect” at the UN while President Bush was speaking…while he was speaking he was accorded that dubious body’s full and complete attention, and like it or not, nothing he said was disregarded, because the world knows he means what he says. They may not like him, but they respect him. And if they don’t respect him, they fear him just enough to pretend. Which frankly I prefer to a president they all “love” but don’t respect or fear, one who plays games. But if Bush is being disrespected, then the Democrats need to look to themselves and their actions and understand how complicit they have been in encouraging it. Dems like Charlie Rangel, who called President Bush “Bull Connor,” knowing full well how wrong, inaccurate, unfair and inflammatory that was, or like the idiots who called Bush “a genocidal racist” after Hurricane Katrina, or like the party (and the press) who spent years telling America about Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction only to later pretend they never said such things, and to pretend further that somehow Bush’s believing the same things they believed…made him a liar. The Democrats alleged something that disingenuous - that what they believed was true was suddenly not only false but one man’s lie - and the press let them do it. The press repeated it, ad nauseam, and the press and the Dems promoted films with that message, and books, until that damnable, transparent and nonsensical lie was repeated enough…because everyone knows that if you tell a big lie enough, it becomes “the truth.” If tinpot tyrants and madmen now come to the United Nations and believe they can say anything they wish about The American President, it is because - as some of us have been warning, for some time - while all manner or irresponsible nonsense and hate has been directed at this president…the world has been watching. And now, these tyrants and madmen sound eerily like the Democrats and the press and the left. One ideology, the world over, has completely lost its bearings, its self-control and its manners concerning one man who has never - not once -repaid them back in kind. Not in speeches. Not to the press. Not to “friendly audiences.” He came to town talking about “changing the tone,” and that’s what happened, in a perverse way. One side’s tone went rabid, the other side went nearly-silent, but this one man…kept his tone. Blue Crab Boulevard writes: I think Pelosi and Rangel also are starting to see that there is real damage being done with the level of rhetoric not just to Bush, but to the United States. At least I hope that is what motivated them today. I know both of them have made horribly slanted and nasty attacks of a highly personal nature on the President, so it sure isn’t the moral high ground that they are talking from. [...]It is completely out of character for Pelosi and Rangel to have done this today. So it may well be they are seeing the unintended consequences of the spiteful attack politics and not liking them very much. He wonders if Nancy Pelosi and Charlie Rangel, at least, have figured out that the chickens of their out-of-bounds rhetoric and out-of-control malice are not coming home to roost. Could be. We can only hope they realize it, and that Rangel is not simply the “safest” Democrat to send out to do a little political damage control. America is a great nation that deserves politicians who can manage to keep civil tongues in their heads. Clearly, some Democrats even after Chavez, can’t figure that out. I think we are certainly looking at whirlwinds touching. http://theanchoressonline.com/2006/09/21/chavez-clearly-listened-to-dems-and-air-america/trackback/ 27 Responses to “Chavez clearly listened to Dems and Air America” |
September 21st, 2006 at 11:12 pm
Some waiting would appear to be in order. Wait for the furor of Hugo’s speeches to die down.
Then see if Rangel, Pelosi, et al go back to their old habits.
September 22nd, 2006 at 12:58 am
Your comments tonight seem particularly on-target and articulate. I am astonished and saddened that anyone who calls himself an American would allow a foreign dictator to smear an American president anywhere, but most particularly in a city where we suffered such a savage attack. It’s unbelievable to me that there is no overwhelming outrage being directed at Chavez. On the contrary, we see him being applauded and hugged by Danny Glover!
And you are right, President Bush has never once returned a single insult for the bushels he has received. What amazing restraint he must have! Maybe it’s true that he isn’t bothered by it and it just runs off his back or maybe not. But in any case, I think he is a pretty impressive role model in how a real Christian acts. I hope you are right that maybe some of the most vocally insulting Democrats are seeing the damage they are doing to our country with their over-the-top rhetoric. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just get back to arguing about policies and goals and leave the personal attacks behind.
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:19 am
[...] Chavez and Ahmadinejad have said nothing different then what the Democrats have said over and over. They have stolen the DNC talking points and Pelosi/Rangel have the gall to be upset about it. It’s an obvious media ploy, but one which our MSM will eat up….The Anchoress notices much the same thing: Bush is a “sick man with a lot of hangups?” That sounds like almost anyone at Air America, or on any lefty blog who pretends to sophistication by suggesting - like real bigots - that President Bush is an “uptight Christian,” simply because his moral values are not theirs. [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 1:55 am
Please do not give Air America any ideas, even at $50 a barrel, Chavez could bail them out.
Al Franken could get his back pay!–remind me not to get any gas at Chevron (it gets its oil from Venezuela).
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:06 am
Anchoress:
I completely agree with you.
I also think there have been people on the right who have treated Bush with total disrespect and that has made it seem even more acceptable to go after the President in a personal way in a public setting. I think the immigration debate made it plain that both extremes of the political setting can forget how to behave.
I know I will never feel the same way about certain people on either side of the divide and I fear that this will last far beyond Bush.
September 22nd, 2006 at 5:12 am
Guess who’s coming to dinner?
We implanted a super-secret, blogospheric eavesdropping device at the recent dinner party for Iranian dictator Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The event was hosted by a liberal “think tank” — the Council on Foreign Relations…
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:24 am
[...] So imagine the surprise of the liberals, the Democrats, the MSM when the Boobsey Twins parrot the same hateful venom that they themselves have spewed for years toward the President, conservatives, Republicans and any other group they could think of. The Anchoress, as usual, nails this one. But maybe some on the left finally understand that while they’ve been having fun and laughing while calling President Bush every manner of ugly name and insult, dangerous people have been watching. And they have made a calculation: We can disrespect Bush and America will laugh with us. Bush is weak. America is once again the appeasing “weak horse” it was throughout the 1990’s and even before…when we could attack anything and be accountable to no one. [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:36 am
[...] Chavez backlash? Hugo Chavez’s speech seems to be having unexpected consequences. The Anchoress speculates: Hmmmmm….sounds awfully familiar, that tripe. Bush is “an alcoholic?” That sounds like Martin Sheen (a “good Catholic” with enough 12-step exposure to know better than to take another man’s inventory) calling President Bush “a white knuckle drunk” [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:11 am
[...] The Anchoress broadcasts in Chavez Clearly Listened To Dems And Air America, some real and ugly truths that have contributed to the an environment of the lowest common denominators. But maybe some on the left finally understand that while they’ve been having fun and laughing while calling President Bush every manner of ugly name and insult, dangerous people have been watching… [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:17 am
One ideology, the world over, had completely lost its bearings, its self-control and its manners concerning one man who has never - not once -repaid them back in kind. Not in speeches. Not to the press. Not to “friendly audiences.” He came to town talking about “changing the tone,” and that’s what happened, in a perverse way. One side’s tone went rabid, the other side went nearly-silent, but this one man…kept his tone.
Oh, please. Bush is the dude who said, in September 2002, that Democrats in the Senate were “Not interested in the security of the American people.”
The Democratic convention in 2004 barely mentioned Bush, whereas every speech the Republican convention was built around Kerry Derangement Syndrome — and it worked.
And of course Rush Limbaugh and Fox News and other GOP proxies basically encourage their listeners to hate not only liberal politicians, but “liberals” in general (that is, they encourage Americans to hate their relatives and neighbors).
Face it, there is no such thing as Bush Derangement Syndrome, at least not on a major scale. The reason Chavez’s comments came off as over-the-top is because no national Democrat would call Bush the devil; instead they say he lied, or that he’s a bad President, which is what every opposition party says about a President from the other party.
This is simply the projection strategy at work: accusing others of what you yourself do. You are deranged with hate of liberals and Democrats, and you mistakenly believe that your opponents are as deranged and hate-filled as you are.
September 22nd, 2006 at 10:56 am
Where Chavez Gets His Ideas
The Anchoress has an excellent post taking a look at the background of Hugo Chavez’s rhetorical spew at the president and, consequently, all of us. Chavez clearly listened to Dems and Air America All Chavez is doing is repeating exactly…
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:29 am
[...] Check out this post, “Chavez clearly listened to Dems and Air America”, from The Anchoress where she exposes the origin of Hugo’s rhetorical vomit. I’m sure Hugo, once he left the guffawing chamber of hyenas at the UN, was shocked to discover that most Americans were not laughing, that even some Democrats were not. [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:30 am
More on Chavez, the Dems and the Press
Power Line
Blog of the Week The Anchoress has excellent thoughts on the provenance of Hugo Chavez’s over-the-top attack on President Bush at the United Nations. A sample:
If tinpot tyrants and madmen now come to the United Nations and believe they …
September 22nd, 2006 at 11:41 am
Say No To CITGO
Dr. Freud may have enjoyed diagnosing this demagogue.
September 22nd, 2006 at 2:02 pm
[...] The Anchoress puts this into perspective with Chavez clearly listened to Dems and Air America [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:01 pm
The Anchoress has a wonderful take
on Chavez and the Democrats: Hmmmmm….sounds awfully familiar, that tripe. Bush is “an alcoholic?” That sounds like Martin Sheen (a “good Catholic” with enough 12-step exposure to know better than to take another man’s inventory) calling Presiden…
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:52 pm
[...] Hat tip to Power Line for this link to The Anchoress, with what is a pretty good apologetic for Bush’s silence. But maybe some on the left finally understand that while they’ve been having fun and laughing while calling President Bush every manner of ugly name and insult, dangerous people have been watching. And they have made a calculation: We can disrespect Bush and America will laugh with us. Bush is weak. America is once again the appeasing “weak horse” it was throughout the 1990’s and even before…when we could attack anything and be accountable to no one. [...]
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:16 pm
First, I mistyped, I guess. I prefer ATKeys–Appalachian Trail and my trail name: a minor matter.
This post should be scrubbed. I know no other way to suggest a fix: x x x ad nauseum x x x should be: ad nauseam. (Think of nausea.) A quick Googling will back me up.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:26 pm
Wonderful analysis. Not only are the Dems squealing like stuck pigs now that loons Ahmadinejad and Chavez have appropriated their talking points, but the Dems and tinhat dictator-tyrants and now forever joined at the hip. Hearing one automatically will remind us of the other.
What part of hating Bush and hating America did the Dems think would NOT bite them in the a$$?? They really are dumber than dirt.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:33 pm
The Dems are squealing like stuck pigs because loons Ahmadinejad and Chavez have appropriated their talking points. Furthermore, the Dems and tinhat dictator-tyrants will forever be linked in our minds because hearing one will always remind us of the other.
What part of constantly beating the hate Bush and hate American drums did the Dems think would NOT bite them in the a$$?? They really are dumber than dirt.
September 22nd, 2006 at 7:42 pm
Thanks for the spellchecking, AT…I’m writing with a fever today and also probably working too fast. I always appreciate a heads up.
September 22nd, 2006 at 8:49 pm
BDS is worldwide
The Anchoress:
If tinpot tyrants and madmen now come to the United Nations and believe they can say anything they wish about The American President, it is because - as some of us have been warning, for some time - while all manner or irresponsible nonse
September 22nd, 2006 at 9:22 pm
Iran and changing attitudes
What is Iran doing today? They are talking about their ‘”most advanced”weapons, such as fighter jets, sub-to-surface missile, “Air Mining System” and short range surface-to-surface missile”, and how their military can strike their enemies with ‘…
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:34 am
Are Cons Really This Stupid? Yes.
“The Anchoress” opines that the reason Hugo Chavez said mean things about George Bush is because… wait for it… because the Democrats and Air America have been so mean. That’s right, slappy, this person is claiming that until Democrats were
September 23rd, 2006 at 11:22 pm
The Democrats And Chavez
The Anchoress: There are some on the left who are suggesting that Hugo Chavez’s remarks are simply an indicator that the world “disrespects” President Bush…well…I wonder who gave them the idea that they could? Was it John …
September 24th, 2006 at 5:25 am
Dangerous Feedback Loop Discovered
Victor Davis Hanson spots an ugly international feedback loop. He writes, “The Left sees it as McCarthy-like to even suggest that our own are the ideological godheads of the enemy. But it is true”:There is a hot-house plant feel to…
September 24th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
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