Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Finding my political calling Maybe I do belong to a political party after all (from lgf 1n 2002, via Instapundit): What bloggers are more than anything, I think, is anti-idiot. That makes life tough for Noam Chomsky, Cornel West, and the Revs. Falwell, Robertson, Jackson, & Sharpton, for reasons that transcend traditional partisanship and ideology. Who would have thought, anti-idiotarian after all these years! 11:51:24 PM    comment []

Much ado about Robertson Yesterday when I first heard of what Pat Robertson had said about the US needing to kill Chavez, I did not even think of writing about it, after all, Mr. Robertson has said sillier and crazier things than that. For example, he is the author of such wisdom as: “Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians” Hey! look at the density of wisdom in that sentence! You have to be amazed that any brain could cook all of that up in a single sentence. All this time I thought it was Osama (or Robertoson, who seems to spout similar philosophies!) that was the main threat to the world and it turns out to be Feminism! But let’s look at it closely, it says I am a socialist (which I am not) because I am in favor of feminism, but goes against the same man he wants killed, who has demonstrated to be a true machista, so there are inconsistencies right there, to say nothing of the killing of the children (of which neither me nor Chavez is in agreement with), mentions witchcraft which Chavez does appear to be intrigued with at the Santero level. As to lesbianism, it is one subject that Chavez has never addressed in the last 40,000 hours he has spoken to Venezuelans in nationwide adresses, so I could not tell you even if he has an opinion on it. Then, of course, there will be the Venezuelan politicians who will say that Robertson is just like Bush, because they come from the same country and speak the same evil language, when in fact, Robertson is as far away from Bush as he can, if not look at what he thinks about the US State Department: “If I could just get a nuclear device inside Foggy Bottom, I think that’s the answer” Wow! Talk about being in agreement with Chavez! He actually proposes nuking Condoleezza, a somewhat stronger action than what Chavez said the US Secretary State needed, but the feeling towards her does appear to be mutual. I actually thought that Chavez and Pat (Am I allowed to call him Pat?) had more in common, so the proposal does take me somewhat by surprise. After all, Chavez in his spiritual evolution during the last seven years actually went through an evangelist phase, which took everyone by surprise, but lasted only a few months until he declared himself a catholic, right before he said he was a Maoist. He is, of course, now a XXIst Century Socialist, which even the coiner of that term now questions. Although they claim being a XXIst Century Socialist is not akin to being an evangelist or a Catholic, but I really have to wonder. In any case, I wonder who told Robertson to say what he said, he does have some important connections up there, wasn’t he the one that said that Satan told him that Jesus was playing him for a sucker? Chavez wished Fidel would talk to him with such frankness! In the end, Chavez should be grateful to Robertson, not because of then noise that he will be able to make with the statement, but because Robertson after all, proved that Chavez is not a communist, as I remind everyone regularly in this blog, when Robertson stated clearly and unequivocally: “Communism is the brainchild of German Jewish intellectuals” Chavez after all, is neither of the three (or four!). What I do have to take seriously is the suggestion that Robertson needs to be jailed for saying what he said. First, there is no gag law in the US like here (see previous post). Second, Robertson did not say he would do it, he asked the US Government to do it for him. Finally, it is not illegal to say what he said, after all Chavez has said much worse things, for which he would then should be jailed for, in the spirit of mutual reciprocity. 6:48:38 PM    comment []