Salt Lake City, Utah - ©2008 - The Deseret SpectacleGlenn Beck, in his on-going efforts to lay claim to the crown of right-wing idiocy, wrote a
riveting opinion piece on one of the great threats of our time. What is this looming force of darkness which Mr. Beck has rooted out for our consideration? Che Guevara T-Shirts. That's right. America's crack team of far-right punditry has once again focused us on the really
important issues that we never knew existed. From the
CNN article:
That's right, the same T-shirts you see Hollywood celebrities, starving pseudo-artists and confused hipster teens wearing around local coffee shops. To all those who decide that you want to be coffee house communist-chic, remember this: When you are wearing a Che T-shirt, you're wearing the same shirt that makes terrorists believe you're just one of the gang. I hope that latte is tasty.
Oh Glenn! You and your butter-knife sharp wit! Thanks to your formulaic sarcasm I'm sure those latte-sipping liberals are all dropping their heads in collective shame. He continues..
"This is a history of a failure" is how he himself described his efforts in the Congo. He was killed in Bolivia, trying to fire up another failure of a war. Earlier, he even managed to drop his gun and shoot himself in the face.
Well, if there's one thing I hate, it's people who are complete failures at starting wars. I prefer those guys who
successfully wage wars which result in
hundreds of thousands or
millions of civilian casualties. Who do we know that fits that description?
But more important than his incompetence is the fact that the man was a mass killer.
Thanks for steadying us all with that tidbit of sobering wisdom, Glenn.
With the exception of the fact that Che killed a lot more people, what's the difference? You shouldn't be wearing an "I heart abortion clinic bombers" T-shirt, and if you have any respect for humanity, you shouldn't be wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt, either.
Right. You should be circuitously defending the actions of abortion clinic bombers, not wearing non-existent T-shirts which leave no doubt as to your ideals. Obfuscation and moral/intellectual ambiguity is the motto of the modern-day conservative, after all.
sigh.Glenn, you incompetent hack. Are you really equating respect for humanity with not wearing an article of clothing? Call me crazy, but I think you lost your moral authority when you equivocated over whether water boarding was torture or not. I mean, when did that even become a question? We've gone decades without what qualifies as "torture" being called into question. And then with the arrival of President Bush and his band of integrity-deficient Neocons, suddenly it's a big gray area?
Look, this isn't a defense of Che, this is a refocusing on genuine evils and real consequences. Consequences of the actions taken by our leaders, defended religiously by loons like Mr. Beck. I suspect that the families and friends of those hundreds of thousands of Iraqi's who have died in the war Mr. Bush waged - based entirely on "factual inaccuracies" (A nice way of saying 'lies') - hardly care what noble (and constantly changing) reasons precipitated it.
Try to stomach that. Hundreds of thousands dead. Millions displaced. Approaching a trillion dollars of debt stacked on the shoulders of an ailing economy and a dollar which has nose-dived almost since day-one of the Bush Presidency.. Was killing Saddam and replacing him with a largely ineffectual, whining government really worth it? I guess that's a question for history, but I doubt it's of any question to the millions of people in Iraq who have lost their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, etc, to a bloody war justified with lies and waged with criminal incompetence.
Now why were we discussing Che Guevara again?
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