Speaking of John Wayne, we've watched a number of Western movies on Video tape recently, and have noted that they almost always feature a speech with a hero elaborating on America's principals of honesty, fair play, and a code of conduct using the principle of chivalry for the treatment of captured enemy soldiers.
We are waiting for some politician to give a stirring speech in Congress reminding America that the country holds itself to a higher level of principles than those exemplified by the Inquisition, Genghis Kahn (of "Citizen Kahn" fame?), and the Gestapo. We have abandoned hope for such a Frank Capra moment to occur in Washington D. C.
The World's Laziest Journalist isn't being paid to shill for the Democratic Party and so we feel free to continue our criticism of the Bush war crimes even if they are being embraced by his Democratic Party successor.
Advocating human rights for people suspected of conducting terrorist activities is as outdated and antediluvian as it would be to suggest that the Hayes code be reinstated.
In the 1940 movie "Dark Command," directed by Raoul Walsh starring John Wayne, the script writer just had to inject some political propaganda and have a character assert that the Civil War was about cheap labor and not over the South's campaign to continue the efforts of America's founding fathers to administer the Constitution's establishment of state's rights. Is it any wonder that soon after that Congress had to hold hearings to reveal to the voters how communists were infiltrating America's pop culture to sway their thinking?
Partisan political commentators must always follow the party line but curmudgeonly columnist critics of contemporary culture don't have to be so boringly predictable. They can, if they choose, vacillate between liberal and conservative from one paragraph to the next. If the net result is to make readers stop and think about what the columnist is trying to say; that may be a clever way to lure readers into starting to think for themselves and not letting Fucks News do it for them.
When George W. Bush first announced his intention of using combat soldiers to bring democracy to Iraq, did any of the critics on the Left think that by 2012 the Democratic Party would be adhering to most of the aspects of the Bush administration methodology such as an attack on Libya without any Congressional approval (or debate even) or torture or attempts to straighten out the Social Security "mess"? Are we there yet?
If the Democrats go "all in" with the Medicare Issue and the results are a Republican landslide, will FDR's New Deal then be as much of a quaint anachronism as is Howard Hugh's movie "The Outlaw"? Will the Democrats then still consider critics of the electronic voting machines as conspiracy theory lunatics . . . or prophets?
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