Posted on 04/19/2009 1:48:26 PM PDT by moneyrunner
My local paper, the Virginian Pilot is in high dudgeon about the labels being thrown around regarding Barack Obama. They begin with a red herring: the fact that George Bush was called a fascist during his time in office. But that's a little disingenuous, as Jonah Goldberg explains, it doesn't take Guantanamo or a new entitlement to get you labelled a Fascist:
I suspect - but can't prove - that the Pilot's editors are a little upset over the success of the "Tea Parties" and are ready to explain to the people who participated:
"SHUT UP."
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So let's take a look at the Pilot's reasoning:
It's not fascism, folks. It wasn't fascism when George W. Bush opened a prison for suspected terrorists at Guantanomo [sic] Bay. It wasn't fascism when Barack Obama forced out the head of General Motors Corp.
For some reason I can't remember the Pilot's editorial staff getting exercised about Bush being called a fascist for opening and operating Guantanamo. And what does fascism have to do with that facility anyhow? The characteristics of fascism are the subordination of the individual to the group, economic and social regimentation, the whole thing headed by a supreme leader. Does that describe the Bush administration? Not in my view. But when the country's leader can force out the chairman of General Motors and its entire board of directors, threatens the leaders of the country's major banks with physical harm and tell them what their wages are, and pledges to take over the country's health care and school system, that begins to look less and less like a free market economy and more and more like a fascist state.
The Pilot invokes Godwin's Law only in times when its pet politicians are on the receiving end:...
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Not enemy of the state (we are that).
But he is the enemy of the People.
Leftism is a slave mentality, of course they all want to be the slaves who are trusted to carry the whips and pistols for mastah government.
of course its fascism
That pic is like a real bad dream!
Well, if the shoe fits. The tools in Obama’s hands were set in place by whom? There was more than just a whiff of fascism in the air during the Bush administration, too. Obama’s just building upon it and running with it.
But, if the word provokes so many reactionary outbursts among the left, when directed at one of their own, perhaps we can just call it Obamunism. There, there, it’s all better now.
The “Shut Up” vid seems very accurate to me.
P.S.
Finally obtained your tip of the month. A couple of tins are heading my way also. I've educated myself about its quirks. Thanks.
GREAT! It’s a lot of pistol for the money. Make sure you clean it after firing corrosive milsurp. And get some of that Wolf Gold JHP ammo for social work.
Obamaism?
Obamismo?
Me too, I like the way Klavan delivers the goods.
The paper is published in Norfolk and is owned by Landmark Publishing Company. Its publisher is R. Bruce Bradley. Isn’t it high time that publishers like Bradley receive the scorn they so richly deserve?
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