How To Rewrite History
Posted on November 12, 2005
Its become an art form for the left, and they have many tools to do it. They spin the truth to the point that people believe it. Examples are numerous, and the methods are too. I’m not saying that it doesn’t happen on both sides of the political spectrum, but from my point of view…I see it all the time coming from the left. The latest spin has been on the pre-war intelligence, and the whole Bush lied mantra. Yesterday, Bush addressed this. Now we see the reaction of the left.
The ACLU have launched a television paranoia propaganda campaign trying to say that our government is suppressing dissent. This seems to be a common mantra on the left now. That we on the right, think that dissent is unpatriotic. This isn’t true at all, dissent is part of the American way. What most of us on the right have a problem with is the extreme methods used in the left’s dissent, which often is unpatriotic.
Insapundit got a lot of backlash with his praise of Bush’s speech yesterday.
WELL, THE HATEMAIL HAS POURED IN after my earlier post on Bush’s speech. For the record, though, I didn’t say (and don’t think) that anyone who opposes the war is unpatriotic. (In fact, only antiwar people seem to keep raising this strawman). But the Democratic politicans who are pushing the “Bush Lied” meme are, I think, playing politics with the war in a way that is, in fact, unpatriotic. Having voted for the war, they now want to cozy up to the increasingly powerful MoveOn crowd, which is immensely antiwar. The “Bush Lied” meme is their way of getting cover. This move also suggests that their earlier support for the war may itself have been more opportunistic than sincere, which I suppose is another variety of unpatriotism.
This bit of hatemail, though, seems to carry the flavor best:
Did you ever really think you’d be the kind of person who would be calling dissenters from a right-wing, gay-bashing, anti-evolution, incompetent war-making administration “unpatriotic”?
I’m not sure where evolution or gay rights come into this (I’ve “dissented” on those points myself, after all), but I think this illustrates that the “Bush lied” issue has more to do with anti-Bush sentiment than with anything having to do with the merits of the war.
But it’s not “dissent” that’s unpatriotic, something I’ve been at pains to note in the past. It’s putting one’s own political positions first, even if doing so encourages our enemies, as this sort of talk is sure to do. And that’s what I think is going on with the sudden surge of “Bush Lied” stuff from Congressional democrats.
Just another example of rewritting history. All of the sudden, the war has something to do with gay rights, and evolution. I think Glenn put it well here. Putting a political agenda ahead of the Nation’s best interest is one very big reason the left are finding theirself in the fringe, and why many people straight up think they sound loony.
In an article in the Washington Post, Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus are already picking apart the details of Bush’s speech.
The administration’s overarching point is true: Intelligence agencies overwhelmingly believed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and very few members of Congress from either party were skeptical about this belief before the war began in 2003. Indeed, top lawmakers in both parties were emphatic and certain in their public statements.
But Bush and his aides had access to much more voluminous intelligence information than did lawmakers, who were dependent on the administration to provide the material. And the commissions cited by officials, though concluding that the administration did not pressure intelligence analysts to change their conclusions, were not authorized to determine whether the administration exaggerated or distorted those conclusions.
Captain’s Quarters tears this apart:
This Post argument does nothing but take small peripheral points out of context and try to spin them into major points of contradiction. It fails to make any point whatsoever, and it especially fails in rebutting the central argument from Bush yesterday. The Democrats had the same intelligence as the Republicans, the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, and everyone else. They also came to the same conclusions as everyone else, and supported the Bush policies that sprang from those conclusions — when it was politically beneficial for them to do so. Now that they think they can score a few cheap shots at the President, they claim they got hoodwinked by manipulated intelligence. It’s a cowardly and despicable strategy, especially during a war which they voted to start when it suited their purposes, and no amount of anklebiting by Milbank and Pincus can cover that up.
Point Five has a great Satire piece on this issue: Democrats Deny That Bush Speech Called For End To Historical Revisionism.
This speech is only the latest example. The ACLU has made rewriting history an artform through judicial activism. They have completely rewritten the Constititution, and the Courts have helped them every step of the way. The Cantwell case is a prime example.
The ACLU tries to rewrite our history by erasing its Christian heritage. If there is a historical cross, or ten commandment memorial, the ACLU will try to claim it is against the Constitution. It happens everywhere from the left.
We saw it with the fake documents of CBS. It happens in our schools. Bernard Goldberg named Jonathan Kozol #9 in his book, “100 People Who Are Screwing Up America”.
Kozol is the patron saint of today’s powerful liberal educational establishment. For decades, on the lecture circuit, in the press, and in books with heart-wrenching titles like Death at an Early Age, and Savage Inequalities, which focused mainly on poor and minority kids, he has preached his version of how kids should be educated, and his influence is immense. Kozol is a fierce opponent of traditional learning, which he says deadens children’s souls. He believes that education cannot and should not be politiically neutral. Indeed, the once-outrageous idea that teachers should use their classrooms to espouse liberal/radical political views-i.e., to propagandize-can be traced directly to Jonathon Kozol. His views on the subject are laid out in his influential book “On Being a Teacher”, which was written following a visit to Cuba in the mid-70s.
A typical chapter in On Being a Teacher is called “Disobedience Instruction”-about how important it is for students to have skepticism of authority.
Its pretty simple. The left take the advice from the Communist. You start with the young. This is why the ACLU fight for schools to teach gay tolerance to 1st graders, while their minds are still fresh, and easy to mold. And this is the same reason they are fighting so hard to have any other “dissenting” views of evolution taught. The left, and their special interest groups have been very sly in rewriting history. Somehow their is now a right to kill your unborn babies. Nowhere in the Constitution can this right be found, but the left have rewritten history in the mind’s of the youth.
Thankfully, some of our youth are waking up to the indoctrination:
She put up political cartoons all period, and she put up one that said “Reproductive Rights” at the top. On the left it had a coathanger with the words Conservative Policy below it, on the right it had a coat hanger with the words WE (HEART) OUR CUSTOMERS on it, and the words Compassionate Conservative Policy below it.
Go check out, how this young man, is standing up to the liberal eductation indoctrination at Right on the Right. A great young conservative mind, you should add to your blogroll.
The left cry about us calling dissent unpatriotic, while their Court jesters are taking away our rights to dissent. What they really believe is that dissent is good, unless it is against their viewpoints. When parents tried to dissent against a school teaching 1st graders about sex, the 9th Circuit Court said parents had absolutely no rights to do so.
I’m glad President Bush called the Democrats on their outright lies and attempts to rewrite history. Its time to take a stand against it. I’m glad to see others are doing so.
Oh, Here’s someone else standing up!
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The right wing is people with liars, crooks, and extremists.
Bush CLEALRY lied in order to wage an aggressive war against Iraq! His body count is higher than that of Saddam Hussein.
He has NO defense.
Read the Downing street memos.
Read Colin Powell’s pack of lies to the United Nations. That was no inadvertent lie. It was a GESTALT of pre-planned lies, evidence of a conspiracy inside the White House to defraud the American people and, in deed, the world.
Get a life, you creeps!
“Somehow their [sic] is now a right to kill your unborn babies.”
Actually, therapeutic abortion has been a legal procedure in every state in America since 1973. “Rowe v. Waite,” I think. Anyway, it was a SCOTUS decision. So who’s really rewriting history here?
Also, what’s wrong with teaching first-graders to be tolerant of other races, creeds and preferences? The only reason any of the writers (so to speak) here are allowed to even remain (mouth-) breathing is that America, land that I love, is wonderfully tolerant of boundless, 140-decibel idiocy. The fact that you hate homosexuals isn’t grounds for encouraging others to do so, you shallow, shameless bigot.
Finally, there is no reason to teach dissenting views of evolution just because a large number of Americans are bound by laughable religious dogma to reject well-established facts several solar systems beyond your comprehension. I suppose we should also teach schoolchildren alternative forms of math, such as 2 + 2 = 5, for the benefit of mentally compromised people like…well, no names mentioned, but you get the point. Maybe.
By the way, even if this essay were anything more substantial than an unthinking hodgepodge of histrionics and evidence of ludicrous and unwarranted victimhood, any points you try to make are lost in apocalyptically bad grammar and atrocious spelling. Believe it or not, this stuff matters. Help your readers (so to speak) out and put some effort into your work. You’ll remain a wingnut, but at least you’ll be a coherent wingnut.
Looks like you got some looney ACLU lawyers Opps I mean liar to comment on this post. Sorry I did not mean to call them lawyers, will try not to offend any more scumbags like the two above.
Watch your name calling D. Charles
“Looks like you got some looney ACLU lawyers Opps I mean liar to comment on this post.”
“Opps,” did it ever occur to you that one needn’t be an ACLU representative or even a liberal in order to find the posts here hilariously repugnant?
I’m quite sure the ACLU doesn’t monitor this site; this would be like the White House keeping tabs on the kindergardeners of Dead Elk, Montana as a security precaution. Put simply, the ol’ Ackloo is not shaking in its collective boots over the damage you folks can’t do.
That said, it’s fun to watch you fellas deal with the issues. You mangle ‘em all to Hell and back, but you compensate to some degree with raw fervor and unintentional humor.
Whatever, Dot. Glad you enjoy us for something.
Bull crap the ACLU doesn’t monitor this site. Yea they are not shaking in their boots yet but are increasing losing court cases. Out goal is to start making them shake in ther boots. Any organization is interested in anyone who is trying counter their interests are monitoring the site. Go ahead read and laugh because laughting too requires a person to use their chest muscles too much might strain some so will have a difficult time to function properly.