[POLCafe #533] Bijna weekend.

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Op zaterdag 19 februari 2005 22:48 schreef George-Butters het volgende:

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Ga je dan met pensioen grijze neger?

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Op zaterdag 19 februari 2005 23:08 schreef Johan_de_With het volgende:
Oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. Het tussendoortje dat altijd tussendoor kan.

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Op zaterdag 19 februari 2005 23:08 schreef Johan_de_With het volgende:
Oorlog in het Midden-Oosten. Het tussendoortje dat altijd tussendoor kan.

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Op zaterdag 19 februari 2005 23:08 schreef Aaahikwordgek het volgende:

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Als parkeerplaats is het wel te ver weg.

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Op zaterdag 19 februari 2005 23:08 schreef Aaahikwordgek het volgende:
Als parkeerplaats is het wel te ver weg.

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Among the believers
[i]At the Conservative Political Action Conference, where rabid Bush-worshippers learn that liberals hate America and that we really did find WMD in Iraq.[/ii]

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By Michelle Goldberg


Feb. 19, 2005 | WASHINGTON -- It's a good thing I went to the Conservative Political Action Conference this year. Otherwise I never would have known that, despite the findings of the authoritative David Kay report and every reputable media outlet on earth, the United States actually discovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, vindicating all of George W. Bush's pre-war predictions. The revelation came not from some crank at Free Republic or hustler from Talon News, but from a congressman surrounded by men from the highest echelons of American government. No wonder the attendees all seemed to believe him.
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And why would they? Like comrades celebrating the success of Mao's Great Leap Forward, attendees at CPAC, the oldest and largest right-wing conference in the country, invest their leaders with the power to defy mere reality through force of insistent rhetoric. The triumphant recent election is all the proof they need that everything George W. Bush says is true. Sure, there's skepticism of the president's wonder-working power among some of the old movement hands -- including the leaders of the American Conservative Union, which puts CPAC on. For much of the rank and file, though, the thousands of blue-blazered students and local activists who come to CPAC each year to celebrate the völkisch virtues of nationalism, capitalism and heterosexuality, Bush is truth. They don rhinestone W brooches and buy mouse pads, posters and T-shirts showing the president as a kind of beefcake Uncle Sam, with flowing white hair and bulging muscles threatening to rend his red, white and blue garments.

It's not only liberals who have noticed that Bush's most committed followers are caught up in the fact-filtering force field of a personality cult. In January, Paul Craig Roberts, assistant secretary of the treasury during the Reagan administration and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal's far-right editorial page, published a damning column in the progressive Z Magazine about fascist tendencies in the conservative movement. "In the ranks of the new conservatives, however, I see and experience much hate. It comes to me in violently worded, ignorant and irrational emails from self-professed conservatives who literally worship George Bush," he wrote. "Even Christians have fallen into idolatry. There appears to be a large number of Americans who are prepared to kill anyone for George Bush … Like Brownshirts, the new conservatives take personally any criticism of their leader and his policies. To be a critic is to be an enemy."