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.
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 News. http://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.
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:
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.
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:
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
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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