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Saturday, June 2, 2012

Sargent Salvatore Giunta, Michael Berry and The Lord of the Flies

Staff Sargent Michael Giunta, Michael Berry and The Lord of the Flies

Dear A,


Here is the complete videotape of President Obama conferring the Medal of Honor on Staff Sargent Salvatore Giunta.



Notice that Sargent Giunta's family is seated in the front row, not the "3rd row" as Michael Berry alleged. 



It bears mention that Berry was buddies with Andrew Breitbart, the Republican trickster whose devastation of Truth sullied Shirley Sherrod's honor, forcing her resignation. 




It is impossible to heap due ignominy on Berry, a shameless liar whose whole-cloth falsehoods overshadow Sargent Giunta's heroism. The net effect of Berry's lies is to divert attention from Giunta's exemplary courage by spotlighting his own craven mendacity. (A google search for "Giunta, medal of honor, seating arrangement" gets three times as many hits as "Giunta, medal of honor.")


The phrase "dirty tricks" conjures Republican sleaze. Ever since "the Watergate plumbers," American conservatives have gravitated to the sewer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_tricks


Consider the view of three-time Republican presidential candidate, Pat Buchanan, who has spent more time in The Oval Office counselling presidents than any living American. "The Republican philosophy might be summarized thus: To hell with principle; what matters is power, and that we have it, and that they do not.” "Where the Right Went Wrong" http://www.amazon.com/Where-Right-Went-Wrong-Neoconservatives/dp/0312341156


"To hell with principle." 


Were it not for the infinite reach of irony, who could have thought that American theocrats' first impulse would be damning principle to hell.


Mr. Berry is a reprehensible person, a self-professed "patriot" who, true to breed, projects personal shortcoming onto President Obama whose administration (in the collective view of American historians) ranks ahead of Ronald Reagan's. 



Lamentably, The Republican Party is enthralled by anti-rationalists who disdain the preponderance of evidence, asking instead: "What do intellectual elitists know?" 


To unearth the "real truth" (which, supposedly, has been concealed by peer-reviewed scholars), Republican Know-Nothings steer the decerebrate to Limbaugh, Beck, Savage and Faux Newshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_nothing  ///  http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/glenn-beck/Content?oid=1230641  (I encourage you to read "My Break With The Extreme Right," by Reagan employee, Michael Fumento. http://www.salon.com/2012/05/24/my_break_with_the_extreme_right/)


Remarkably, there is good evidence that Fox News viewers are more poorly informed than fellow Americans who watch no news at all. http://www.mediaite.com/online/yet-another-survey-fox-news-viewers-worst-informed-npr-listeners-best-informed/


Dimwits like Berry, puffed by personal vanity and corrupted by ideological cruelty, may yet succeed in dissolving The Union by sowing divisiveness for its own sake. In the minds of contemporary "conservatives," dysfunction is not a calamity but a consummation devoutly to be wished.


Ever since Smirk and Snarl, modern "Republicans" have been unable to "win" on the merits of truth and instead make common cause with The Prince of Darkness.


Devout servants of illusion and distraction, these neo-diabolists are keenly aware that false alarms "cannot be un-rung" and that persistent falsehood is Beelzebub's only path to power.


It surpasses irony that America's faux patriots can achieve political "victory" only by bringing the nation closer to collapse.


Admittedly, America may not collapse in the traditional sense of the word. 


But if these minor demons succeed in persuading people that frank falsehood is Truth, they will so degrade the United States that the nation's "technical" survival will be bitter reminder of what we've lost. 


"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: "It's a pound." Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating." Denis de Rougemont (Bruce Cockburn's song, "People See Through You" contains this telling lyric: "You've been lying so long you don't know what's real. You're a figment of your own imagination." Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53JkTgdTKd0  Lyrics: http://www.cockburnproject.net/songs&music/psty.html)


With malice aforethought, these villains have endeavored to dissolve the greatest experiment in the history of Liberal Democracy, and they aspire to its demise for no other reason than Liberal Democracy is essentially liberal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_democracy


Berry and his confederates are below epithet.


Like psychopaths, they are shameless.


They know no guilt.


Pax on both houses


Alan


PS Sargent Giunta's Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvatore_Giunta To learn more about Michael Berry, whom The Police Officers Union of Houston, Texas, named Councilman Of The Year, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Berry_(radio_host)  (Here's a revealing study of Texas police culture: http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/texas-executed-wrong-man.html)


PPS The determination with which American "conservatives" want to be deceived is the most ominous political change in my lifetime. The bilge that circulates in right-wing emails is so weird that one conservative friend -- after years of careful correction from "my end" -- finally confessed, and I quote: "I like being partially right." Perhaps the pleasure of being "partially right" is something like believing "rattlesnakes are reptiles but are not poisonous." Here, hold this for me. It's as gentle as my pitbull. 

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On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 3:58 PM, AC wrote:


Talk about cheap shots. This is about as bad as it can get. What can I say?


A

From: Mitchell
To: Undisclosed Recipients
Sent: 6/1/2012 3:02:48 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Fwd: The Third Row? MUST SEE - powerful statement

Subject: The Third Row? MUST SEE - powerful statement


  
The very sad part about this email is, that ALL the recipients will NOT forward it to those they are connected with.  Most will take a look at it, and then delete it because it MAY be controversial.  And, that is the problem with the world we live in today.  Most are not willing to admit to how badly things are right now and are unwilling to step up and be heard.  I am so tired about things like this continuing that I am losing faith in those around me. Send            it and urge all others to do so and lets try to put an end to such nonsense.  
                  
Think about this.
The Third Row?
                      


1 comment:

  1. You are a total ass. Can you write anything that does not criticize people who disagree with you? The issues you lay at Berry's feet about being mental and fixated on a scholarship...check your mirror because you have the same issues against conservatives. You are not even worth reading.

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