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August 05, 2006
Bigotry and other symptoms of A.S.S.
Hugh Hewitt comes out swinging against the bigotry that develops under Andrew Sullivan Syndrome. Sullivan's continued decline in efforts to best David Brock have been noted on this page many times. Hewitt's simply has had enough of it:
Mostly, though, Sullivan's invention and use of the bigoted term [Christianists] was intended as shorthand for those who think George Bush a very good man and a very good president. I am a defender of the president, though not when I think he or his Adminstration makes an error like the ports deal or the briefs in the Michigan affirmative action cases. Sullivan's frenzied, sometimes even hysterical attacks on pundits and analysts who admire the president and his team are the means to understanding Sullivan. He is consumed by Bush hatred. So much so, in fact, that he has branched out into hating those who not only don't hate Bush, but admire him.
Kathleen Parker defines this "Christianist" slander for us:
These are rich times for conspiracy theorists, and the mother lode these days may be found in the fevered minds of anti-Christianists.
Among paranoiacs who see a Jerry Falwell or a John Hagee in every burning bush, U.S. support for Israel isn't about protecting the only healthy democracy in the Middle East, but about advancing Armageddon and, yes, the Second Coming.
At last, we'll get to know what Jesus would drive. Most likely, he'd drive out the conspiracy theorists on both sides of this imagined apocalypse.
For those who do not spend their days pulling imaginary bugs out of their eye sockets, "Christianist'' is a relatively new term that roughly refers to a virulent strain of right-wing political Christianity that, supposedly, parallels Islamist lunacy.
I am firm in my long held belief that anti-Americanism is the new, more en vogue, anti-Semitism. All the worlds problems will be solved now with not only the destruction of Israel, but the destruction of the United States.
No job? It's their fault - the Americans TOOK it from you. No food? It's their fault - Americans won't GIVE you any. No children? It's their fault - Americans REQUIRE us to use your children as bombs.
And the left helps these folks spin their web of conspiracy:
A slew of new books have emerged with titles like "American Theocracy,'' and "Kingdom Coming,'' that tackle the perceived emerging Christocracy, while op-ed-ists opine that right-wing evangelicals are directing foreign policy through the White House. Words like "theocrats'' and "American Taliban'' have become commonplace in describing those who fill televangelism's La-Z-Boys.
All you need to do is take any speech by Hitler, switch Jews with Americans, and you have the Democratic and international communities platform of grievances.
This site bid a fond farewell to Sullivan years ago when he essentially stated that America will only be truly free and a force for good is if we closed down all of our terrorist S & M torture chambers around the world and replaced them with bathhouses with a 24 hour chapel for those who want to get married before they have sex with 10 men.
Posted by Aaron at August 5, 2006 08:53 AM
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"All you need to do is take any speech by Hitler, switch Jews with Americans, and you have the Democratic and international communities platform of grievances."
One thing that is striking about Hitler's speeches is how often he attacked the LEFT and how often he referred to the Nazi's poltical opponents as not being Germans. Hitler is the model for such ideas as Democrats are against Americans or Against Christians. You have to make such a separation of your countryman in order to make them the enemy so you can eliminate them.
Posted by: at August 5, 2006 11:57 PM