A few years ago the press and the left were gasping about the “brilliance” of some novella (whose name escapes me – it was called Checkpoint, or Flashpoint or Freakpoint or something – I’ll have to go to the Borders Bargain Bin and see what it’s called, again) in which a character discusses “assassinating George W. Bush.” How daring! It represented the staggering intellectualism of Bush Derangement Syndrome, or whatever.
And there have been, here and there, in London and NY, small theatre productions all about how “Bush is bad and Bush is dumb and Bush is the worst person ever and Bush is evil and he should be killed,” yadda, yadda. Little flashpoints of malice offered up as entertainment for people for whom malice is a drug and a way to get through the day.
Those were just little appetizers to the great hunger of Bush hatred which has been fed for five years on forgettable books, tired jokes and Bill Maher. Now, finally here comes the main course, the piece de resistance (or what AJ Strata refers to – correctly – as a Bush-hater’s wet dream): The Assassination of President Bush in a TV “Docudrama!” Ta-da! Applause, applause – what a masterful chef to concoct so enticing a recipe, so desireable a meal! The haters will feed on it ravenously, as though they’ve had no Bush Hate to gnaw on for long years.
And when they eat it, it will destroy them. This meal will taste delicious in the mouth, and it will go down easier than a California mudslide, but after a while – not immediately, but after a while – they will realize they’ve poisoned themselves, willingly, lasciviously, voraciously, luxuriously. Bloated and gaseous they’ll look for an antidote, but there is no antidote to this much hate, except full-scale surrender, contrition and conversion – not necessarily to a religious idea, but to a more humbled mindset, one willing to be taught to love…and these poor folks will probably be too weakened and too ill to manage all that.
This much hate backfires on the hater. You’d think they’d know it by now, but they don’t, of course. They always overplay their hand. They can be counted on to do it.
I feel kind of sorry for the people who – undoubtedly – are multiple-orgasming over this story today. You know what sites to visit to find them, if you must seek them out. I feel sorry for them because this is all they are, loyal subjects enthralled to a Kingship of Hate, which is an evil and a real oppressor, although they don’t think they’re oppressed – well, except by that evil moron, Bush, who is keeping them from living freely or speaking out while they sip their lattes.
Just as prayer is a force, and love is a force, hate is a force, too. It has power, horrible, destructive power. And the worst part about the power of hate is that it is so often invisible – it cannot be seen – its effects cannot be seen until much later. Its effects are not immediately clear, as with a hurricane, or even “eventually” clear, as with a child loved into being. The effects of hate prefer to remain hidden – they hate to be brought out into the light and examined. Hate’s hiding place, of course, is deep within the human heart and soul. It slumbers there, eats there, plays there, sends forth destruction from that comfortable and well-camouflaged bunker.
I used to think that John Paul II was the man toward whom more hate and more love were directed, in the world, than any other, and that the hate and love balanced each other out, in a way. Now, of course, President Bush is the most hated man in the world, without the balance of corresponding love. What an awful life for him – what a terrible burden to carry – how many of us would be willing to endure it?
And if hate is a force – an “energy,” if you like – then what is going to happen to all of that hate when President Bush is no longer in office? Where will all of that force go? It must go somewhere. If it does not go outward, it will go inward.
I know many in the blogosphere, on the left are thrilled with this “docudrama” idea. And many on the right are appalled and enraged. I personally think that this idea is “too-cute by half,” and that aside from feeding those who so hunger for it, it is going to repel the rest, especially those who do not “love” the president, but who do not “hate” him, either.
The film will have its apologists in the media, of course, people who will harrumph and sneer at the rubes of the world who don’t recognise how daring and sophisticated it all is. And no doubt, some wild-eyed rightwing person will be brought on the air, somewhere, to hyperventilate over the piece and quote scripture, for the edification and amusement of the sophisticates.
But for the rest of the world, the folks who are not mad from ideological overdosing, I think The Bush-haters and their Derangement Syndrome may have just jumped the shark.
Jonah Goldberg has a good piece up – not smearing jelly-kisses all over President Bush, by any means, but suggesting that perhaps it is time to cut President Bush a little slack. A nice idea, and a fair one, if anyone is interested.
Blue Crab Boulevard says, “this may finally be the point where the vast majority of the public recoils in utter revulsion from the left.” His piece is powerful – a must read.
AJ Strata says it’s a foolish horse head in America’s bed. He adds: “Americans may have their doubts about things, but we do not want another assassinated President.” Exactly right.
Ed Morrissey thinks any sensible person would be appalled. You’d think so, wouldn’t you?
Rick Moran says: In their world, the death of Bush at the hands of an assassin would not necessarily elicit public celebration but rather more likely, present an occasion for snark such as we see above. They are much too sophisticated to share in the horror that such an event would cause the overwhelming majority of their countrymen. [Emphasis added - admin]
Indeed. What did Euripides say? Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. Reading some of the lefty comments found around the blogosphere, full of snarky good cheer and expressing not the faintest disdain for the idea of a president being slain, one wonders where their minds have gone.
Related:
Oh, yeah, this is a RECENT hate
it’s not really about Bush
Michelle Malkin has a Bush-haters round-up, past and present
Flopping Aces checks out some lefty forums
Roger L. Simon, screenwriter, rightly calls it “political porn.”
Lorie Byrd wonders if the left shouldn’t beware what it wishes for
Hang Right Politics
Political Pit Bull
Jawa Report
John Stephenson
Webloggin
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August 31st, 2006 | 11:50 am | #1
I can see it now- images and interviews of cheering Festival film goers.
Like you, there’s a part of me that cam hardly wait.
They are like the ‘Mikey’ kids that will eat anything- even the crap that is shoveled in in front of them.
August 31st, 2006 | 11:59 am | #2
This in enraging. I remember when during the Clinton presidency he and his cronies began harping at all the criticism he was getting from talk radio show hosts. They said it was hate speech and that if any violence occurred toward Clinton or his Democrats then the radio show hosts would have blood on their hands.
Well, now we see the way the left handles hate speech. This is disgusting. The left are a bunch of hateful cowards. They deserve what they are going to get.
August 31st, 2006 | 1:20 pm | #3
More on Shooting Bush Movie:
The Anchoress examines the latest entree served at the Hate Bush Buffet. “The haters will feed on it ravenously, as though they’ve had no Bush Hate to gnaw on for long years. And when they eat it, it will destroy…
August 31st, 2006 | 2:04 pm | #4
I think Bush has been much maligned, most of it unfairly. Certainly, he’s made mistakes. But I believe he does what he earnestly believes to be the best for this country. He doesn’t seem care about what is said about him or about where he stands in the polls. He does care about protecting us, his citizens. I can hardly stand to see the news daily. My stomach is in knots over it all and I’ve become physically sickened at the way he’s portrayed in the media. I just hope I live long enough to see him vindicated by history.
August 31st, 2006 | 2:31 pm | #5
An Anchoress And A Woodshed
The Anchoress has a tour de force reflection on hate and where it will lead for those who wallow in it. She takes more than a few people to the virtual woodshed with this post. She reflects on this particular made for TV movie that is going t…
August 31st, 2006 | 3:21 pm | #6
[...] UPDATED: The Anchoress says it all. By “jumping the shark” with their Bush Derangment Syndrome, the left may have finally shot themselves in the foot. Finally, they may have gotten the attention of the general public and they are repulsed by what they see. This much hate backfires on the hater. You’d think they’d know it by now, but they don’t, of course. They always overplay their hand. They can be counted on to do it. [...]
August 31st, 2006 | 3:26 pm | #7
[...] And The Anchoress at her most eloquent: This much hate backfires on the hater. You’d think they’d know it by now, but they don’t, of course. They always overplay their hand. They can be counted on to do it. [...]
August 31st, 2006 | 3:38 pm | #8
This is disgusting. No president, left right or in the middle deserves this kind of treatment. And there is no way to make people like this happy either.
August 31st, 2006 | 5:10 pm | #9
A closely-related phenomenon is what I call the “imaginary voices joke.” You see at least one of these virtually every night on Jay or Conan. The form is quite rigid — the comedian tells us some made-up story involving Bush which ends in the president saying something stupid. I find it really creepy to watch. It’s kind of like watching a homeless schizophrenic person in the park conducting a vivid conversation with the voices in his head. But at least with the schizophrenic you can understand that he’s mentally ill and be sympathetic. When a person who at least appears to be sane does it then it is just creepy.
August 31st, 2006 | 5:11 pm | #10
“They are much too sophisticated to share in the horror that such an event would cause the overwhelming majority of their countrymen.”
I don’t think “sophisticated” is the proper word. How about “callous”? Shallow? Self-absorbed?
August 31st, 2006 | 11:34 pm | #11
An Unhealthy Fixation
I have often written about the fixation that the Left has on George Bush as a type of illness, which some name Bush Derangement Syndrome. This fixation leads some to blame Bush for all of the world’s ills and to…
September 1st, 2006 | 3:04 am | #12
Testing ability to post
September 1st, 2006 | 2:54 pm | #13
Obviously, these people are sub-human. If only we could just send them all to Gitmo.
September 1st, 2006 | 7:53 pm | #14
[...] …You find hateful (and probably suicidal, if not homicidal) barking lunatics like the one who wrote this. I’m not linking to the vile scum; you can get to the idiot’s crappy blog through Lorie Byrd’s post. Several comments to make on this: First of all to all the lefty bloggers out there falling all over yourselves to say “Of course, I wouldn’t want the president killed”, shut the hell up. You know you would do a little dance if someone whacked that idiot. You just want to appear “above” such a thing. Secondly, the only real problem I have is that he’s gunned down. Too quick. A flash of pain and then the big dirt nap. For Bush I would prefer bone cancer, flesh-eating bacteria, or perhaps one of those deadly four hour erections we keep hearing about. Alright, seriously. I would prefer Bush spend the rest of his life in a cell, tried and convicted of war crimes, but somehow I just don’t think it’s going to happen. So I can only hope for him to suffer in some other way. Sad that I’ve been reduced to wishing great physical agony and death to my fellow humans but I truly believe that he deserves to suffer. Many right bloggers refer to my kind of hatred as Bush Derangement Syndrome, but I prefer to call it a yearning for karmic justice. This president has overseen the most criminal, arrogantly stupid, and homicidal administration in American history. He, and his partners in crime, deserve whatever horrors that karma may have in store for them. As for Bush’s cheerleaders on the Internet, such as the creepy Anchoress (who, by the way, is another right wing blogger that doesn’t allow comments because she’s such a coward) I can only hope that someone they care for deeply dies in one of Bush’s wars of choice. That seems fair. Been saving up lots of dark thoughts. Can you tell? [...]
September 2nd, 2006 | 6:26 am | #15
It revolts me to my toenails. I’ll admit to thinking Bill Clinton is the lowest of the low, but I don’t wish him ill. I want him to live a long life so that he can finally repent.
December 28th, 2006 | 5:43 pm | #16
[...] My optimism has lessened somewhat. Helen Reddy is partly to blame. But demographics may doom us all, anyway. On the mania for the murder of a pope or a president. [...]
May 8th, 2007 | 3:27 pm | #17
[...] In reading it all, though and my email, I’m getting the sense that – as ever – they’ve overplayed their hand. The press and the Dems have piled on to excess (remember when “piling on” was bad? Oh, that was the other president, sorry) and I think some people have realized it. It’s just a little thing…but I’m seeing it here and there, little mentions that “the president has stood fast through it all,” bits of grudging respect as some start to realize that telling our enemies when we’ll depart so they can mark it on their calendars and wait it out is a really, really stupid idea. Maybe, finally, Bush hatred is actually close to jumping the shark. [...]
May 29th, 2007 | 9:52 pm | #18
[...] Cafeteria. While you’re here, please look around. Today we’re also talking about how Bush Hatred May Have Just Jumped the Shark, the staggering Incuriosity of the Press, how the word “fascist” is only objectionable [...]
December 3rd, 2007 | 2:24 pm | #19
[...] can’t remember a time when the assassination of presidents and popes was so openly discussed by so many, and so clearly considered a desirable event by people [...]
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