Make that plural: the idiots who lost [Horowitz' comments on Smiley's bile]

My last blog was called "The Idiot Who Lost" -- make that plural. The outpouring of ignorant, intolerant hate against George Bush and the Republicans -- even as Bush's hand is extended to the defeated -- is merely a continuation of a campaign by the left (Puh-leeze don't insult your intelligence by referring to these people as "liberals") against those who disagree with them that has bordered on the psychotic for more than year. This is certainly a sign that we are headed for rough waters. I am posting in full a Slate column by the celebrated American novelist Jane Smiley which is a case of the purest projection of her own invincible prejudice onto others.

I don't know Smiley's family -- but the mere fact that she would draw them into her public harrangue as an example of mindless prejudice suggests that she has shall we say unresolved psychological issues that were best dealt with in private. In Smiley's view (what an inappropriate moniker!) to be religious is to be a biblical literalist and to insist that everyone toe your doctrinal line rot in hell. This is the view of the Islamists but it is a caricature of Christians like George Bush -- a man who has a compassionate view of gays (I have personally discussed the subject with him) and who to take one small example, opened the White House for the first official Chanukah celebration in its history, and who has gone out of his way to hold Islam harmless in a war in which everyone of our terrorist enemies has set out to destroy us Koran in hand. Shame on Smiley and the hate-full left for this jihad against decent Americans and their exceptionally decent leader. This is more than sore losing and just as they paid for it in their defeat at the polls, they will pay for it in their defeats in the battles to come.

I read Jane Smiley's critically acclaimed book, 1000 Acres, a long boring diatribe about a midwest family with a successful farm but with deep family secrets of guilt and shame, naturally brought on by dad's incestuous relations with one or more of his girls. It was published back in the day when fiction and nonfiction books about incest and shame were all the rage, late '80s - early '90s.

Many feminist psychologists and social workers got caught up in the "recovery" movement, pointing fingers at men, alcoholics, ritual abuse and supporting alleged victims of such mistreatment. There were elements of truth and enlightenment in the movement, but as in everything the feminazis touch, they went over the top on into absurdland, damaging families everywhere, causing deaths of children in unnecessary protective custody, etc.

Smiley is, of course, an icon and guiding light of the movement to protect women and children from fathers, husbands, and brothers -- all of whom are considered knuckle-dragging, raping, pillaging monsters. She and her coven detest anything that smacks of patriarchy, including virtually everything that defines Western civilization. In her black heart, I'm sure she believes every filthy lying word she writes.

The outpouring of ignorant, intolerant hate against George Bush and the Republicans -- even as Bush's hand is extended to the defeated -- is merely a continuation of a campaign by the left (Puh-leeze don't insult your intelligence by referring to these people as "liberals") against those who disagree with them that has bordered on the psychotic for more than year...'rat analyst Peter Fenn on C-Span today was outraged that anyone would dare say that libs were disdainful, vitriolic, and intolerant toward their opponents - he and his buddies on the left really should take a good look in the mirror, or at least read a few articles like Smiley's - they are all deep in denial, and the more others try to point their nastiness out to them the deeper they go - I'd bet a good percentage of the Bush vote came in reaction to the hatred and arrogance they exhibited throughout the campaign......

Wow, I just finished reading this column. She actually states that the "Red State" people "cultivate ignorance" and that is why they win.

Look here Mz. Smiley, we win inspire of the mass ignorance cultivated by "blue state" people. Think about it. How many people who voted for John Kerry knew about the following things:

1) Bold face lie about stealing social security
2) Bold face lie about the reinstatement of the draft
3) Bold face lie about "1,000,000 disenfranchised black voters"
4) His vote against the first Gulf War.
5) His almost over the top warrior like instincts leading up to the Iraq War and after that.
6) His real time praising of the Tora Bora operation.
7) His sudden flip on the Iraq war that can be traced to Howard Dean
8) His 20 separate lies about spending 1968 Christmas in Cambodia
9) His Jane Fonda-esque protest regiment and involvement with a massively anti-American organization VVAW
10) His bold face lies in front of a Senate panel about atrocities in Vietnam (and the fact that He actually admitted that He, himself, was a WAR CRIMINAL!!!!)
11) His two meetings with the North Vietnamese in Paris
12) His meeting with Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua
13) His statement that Communism could never be defeated
14) His statement that the Reagan years were "eight years of moral darkness".
15) The fact that he refused to sign a Form 180 to release his military records

And this leaves out some of the unknown things like:

1) The question of the Honorable or not discharge
2) The question of his various purple hearts and the fact he left his tour of duty early.
3) Whether or not he was present at a VVAW meeting that discussed the assassination of pro-war US Senators

Ask people who voted for him. Do they know about these things? Probably not. Ask them if they have heard of the Oil for Food scandal and if they are aware how it affected the votes of three permanent and one non-permanent member of the Security Council at the UN. Ask them if they know about the hundreds of thousands of people massacred in Iraq. Ask them if they have heard about all the good news coming out of Iraq. Are they aware that we just had elections in Afghanistan? Did they know that John Edwards, a presumably pro-choice Senator, made his money in part by telling a jury that he could read the thoughts of a unborn baby in the womb?

In the end, I'd surmise that people who voted for Kerry were, on average, doing so without all the facts at their disposal. In other words, they were IGNORANT!!!!!!! Even despite that, President Bush won. Even despite the role played by the mainstream media in covering up these rather damning facts, President Bush won. I believe that Red State people are not as ignorant as this writer wishes to believe.

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