February 13, 2003

Sofia Sideshow: READ MY LIPS
jrank of Sofia Sideshow offers a compelling (and very funny) case that the "anti-U.S. war" protesters are the best argument for backing those of us who are pro-war and on the Right.
Here's some of it to savor:

We are winning. Massively. We haven't fired a shot and yet we are routing them!
"But Madonna has a new anti-war video coming," a friend warns.
"Revel in it!" I say.
In an ideology that regards humor as suspicious at best, offensive at worst, the Left's attempts at satirizing will fail, due to their poorly-concealed malice and mental indolence.
Even when they try to be funny, the smile looks more like the baring of teeth than pleasure.
This has already happened, with George Michael’s "Shoot the Dog." An object lesson in 'not funny,' it merely was mean in an incoherent, ankle-biting way.
Madonna will blow it. It will be malevolent and sanctimonious. The only people who will enjoy it are those who admire Ted Rall's scribblings.
Noisy protestors who claim George W. Bush is Hitler are the best thing for the Right in decades. Decades! Huge golden calves, yellow Stars, masks of George W., swastikas…you couldn’t ask for a better self-immolation.
The vast majority on the Left have inadvertently revealed that they can only be relevant when the issue at hand is trivial: flag types over courthouses, McDonald's wrapper composition, number of owls per acre, hazards of untested lipsticks on cats, proper ergonomics for office chairs, use of "he", "his," or "him" in oral presentations, possible coded dangers in children's drawings, SUV's gas mileage.

Nuclear annihilation? Biological plagues? Waaaaay out of their league.

Reality is again punishing the Left. When countless protesters exclaim that the UN is our only moral choice, and the UN shows its colors by appointing Libya to head the Human Rights Commission…how can it get worse for them?
Well, it will. Once Iraq’s prisons open, the people cheer, documents are aired out, millions fail to die…and we turn our eyes to Iran.
I hope this grand mental breakdown eventually leads to a more coherent, thoughtful Left. It is possible. They weren't always this way.
So cheer up!

Great stuff, jkrank--thanks!
[But I disagree about the Left: they've always been this way.
They've just never been this way in America...until Carter and the Crintons.]