February 13, 2004
Truth and Lies: John Kerry as a Useful Idiot
ONCE AGAIN, SOMEBODY LIED, and once again -- just as Josef Goebbels predicted -- a chorus of malleable morons broadcast the deceit far and wide via the alchemy of incompetent journalism, and a venomous lie was thus transmogrified into an apparent truth.
I started this piece with the notion of quoting Vladimir Lenin on the revolutionary function of "useful idiots" and then following up with a few vivid examples of John Kerry’s useful idiocy – none more outrageous than his 1971 statement to Congress that U.S. behavior in Vietnam was "reminiscent of Genghis Kahn." Since Genghis Kahn is considered the very nadir of murderousness (worse than Hitler or even Stalin), this was tantamount to labeling America equivalent to the most bloodthirsty conqueror in history.
Hence, because I am of the old school and believe fervently in confirming my facts -- not distorting reality a la Maureen (Doctored Quotes) Dowd or simply making it up a la Jayson (Affirmative Action) Blair -- I dug out an ancient copy of Ten Classics of Marxism, a book produced in 1940 by International Publishers, a long-defunct Communist Party printing operation in New York City. I blew the dust of many years off the book’s exposed surfaces, paged dutifully through both "State and Revolution" and "‘Left-Wing Communism,’ an Infantile Disorder," and discovered I could not find the notion of "useful idiots" anywhere in Comrade Lenin’s turgid prose.
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great article thanks bob-2
Posted by: rdolin at September 27, 2004 11:30 AM (vnN4m)
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>>especially now that Islam has renewed its 1300-year war against civilization
Understand the Muslim revival movement before you cover it with copious amounts of mud and call it a war against civilisation. Not only was that comment extremely ethnocentric and xenophobic, you are also throwing all the Muslims into one basket --> pure militant fundamentalists
Just like the metaphorical egg on your face for believing that Lenin spouted the "useful idiots/fools", I would hesitate to jump as quickly to conclusions as you have done once again, within the space of your article.
Incidentally, I also believe in fact-checking, and you have saved me from the same mistake of quoting Lenin's "useful idiots". For that, thank you. But I have seen too many sweeping statements like your comment on Islam, and will not hesitate to knock it. There's too much misinformation already, please help to put it straight.
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Posted by: directv at March 05, 2005 04:54 PM (cN2QS)
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John Kerry served in Viet Nam with honor and was highly praised by all his superior officers as well as the men who directly served under him.
George Bush had strings pulled to get into the Texas national guard where he promptly lost his flight privileges by refusing a medical exam the month after the armed forces instituted drug testing. We all know why -- cocaine. After this, he deserted his post, his fellow soldiers, and his country during wartime -- a crime for which others have recieved long prison sentences or even execution.
It should be pretty clear to anyone with half a brain which candidate's war record better recommended him to be commander-in-chief of the USA.
Further, you have a very flawed understanding of what "aid and comfort" means. Making a statement that might give an enemy a warm fuzzy feeling but in no one contributes to his ability to resist American forces is not "aid and comfort". Selling weapons to terrorists, as Saint Reagan and Bush the Smarter did, most definitely is "aid and comfort". See the difference?
Posted by: Von Rex at April 29, 2005 02:51 PM (vw6iz)
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"especially now that Islam has renewed its 1300-year war against civilization"
-- it hasn't; that's the lie that has successfully been used to gain public complicity in the continued unrelenting sequestration of resources by the U.S. And if you think that country is 'civilised', think again.
Posted by: Toby at April 29, 2005 03:54 PM (puGeM)
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Reality
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Posted by: Khodran at August 25, 2005 12:26 AM (ldOir)
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