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Whitaker's Current Articles April 26, 2003
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Fun Quote:
A little while back
the "B.C." cartoon said something that I could not believe a
mainline cartoonist would dare say:
In this B.C. episode,
the guy who sends messages by throwing them into the ocean wrote :
"We have a new
Department of Homeland Security to protect us. I recommend it to
you."
The reply said, "We
don't need it. We just enforce our immigration laws."
B.C. author Johnny
Hart is a very brave man.
Santorum Joins Lott and Moran in the Doghouse
Republican Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania has joined
Senator Lott and Congressman Moran in the doghouse. He
said one of the many things that are true and that no one is allowed
to say.
Let's review these three heretical comments:
Lott said that if Strom Thurmond had been elected president in
1948 we would not have the problems we have now. Moran
said that if Jewish leaders had opposed the Iraq war strongly it
would not have happened. Santorum said that if the
Supreme Court's "privacy" doctrine applies to homosexuals, if people
can do anything they want to behind closed doors, then people have
the right to commit incest.
Liberals said Lott's comments were racist, Moran's comments were
anti-Semitic, and Santorum's words were gay bashing.
All three statements were true.
But under today's doctrine that calls itself "Free Speech," that doesn't
matter. A British judge sent a man to prison for a
year under the British Hate Law for telling the truth. In his
decision in The Crown Versus Joseph Pierce. 1986, he said, "The
truth is no excuse."
If you think about it, if the truth is no excuse, there is no
point to Free Speech.
As Long as Santorum Thinks Like a Yankee, He is
a Hypocrite
The reason that Lott was right is the same reason that Santorum
was right. Santorum said that the Supreme Court has torn
up the Constitution. What is really wrong with Santorum's comment is
that he thinks like a Yankee.
Like other Northern Catholics, Santorum thinks that the Supreme
Court didn't start to tear up the Constitution until its decisions
on abortion and gay rights. Those decisions, which started in
the 1970s, violate tenets of conservative Catholic morality.
When the Supreme Court invented a "right to privacy" to strike down
all state abortion laws, Northern Catholics suddenly decided the
court was getting out of line.
But in 1968, when the Supreme Court struck down all state laws
against racial intermarriage, they openly threw the Constitution out
the window. The amendments the Supreme Court cited for
its 1968 decision were adopted by states almost every one of which
had and enforced laws against racial intermarriage. But
every Catholic leader praised that decision to the skies.
When it struck down state anti-intermarriage laws in 1968 the
Supreme Court simply said that it would be a good idea to strike
those laws down, precedent be damned. Every single
Catholic leader said that was the way it should be done.
Then when the Court did exactly the same thing about abortion and
gay rights, Catholic leaders went ballistic, just like Santorum did.
Santorum came down as hard as anybody on Lott's comments about
Thurmond, but the fact is that, if Thurmond had been elected, the
decisions Santorum is objecting to would not have been made.
To put this in Lott's own words, "If Strom had been elected in
1948 we wouldn't have had all these problems."
The "Ally McBeal" Heresy
If conservatives don't want homosexuals kissing on network
television, they have to respect my right to object to blacks and
blonds kissing on national television. Until
they stop thinking like Yankees, they're hypocrites.
"Ally McBeal" is a television show that is wildly popular with
young people. It is about an unmarried woman of about thirty
who is a lawyer in a really hip law firm in Boston. She is
pro-homosexual and once said that if a particularly bad decision was
made in court, "We might as well be in Alabama."
But when the blond Ally McBeal had her obligatory love affair
with a black man, fans raised hell. The network was
absolutely stunned. Surely all those "with it" young people
would be all for an interracial affair! One fan of the show in
a newsgroup I was in said he or she had stopped watching the show
when that happened.
Like all liberals, the show's producers are living in the 1960s.
The hippie creed said that "The white race is the cancer of
history." Intermarriage was the Final Solution to the
White Problem, and hip young people in the 1960s praised it to the
skies. No trendy person in the 60s generation would dare object to interracial sex.
Interracial kissing is ugly. Many of today's
young people don't know that they are not ALLOWED to object to it.
So they did object, big time. To repeat, "Ally McBeal"
executives were totally astonished. If they allowed this
kind of criticism they would be in the same dog house with Lott and Moran
and Santorum.
Normally the network executives would have told viewers to go to
the Bad Place if they didn't like this interracial affair. To
show how desperate networks are to court trendy opinion, CBS gave up
a solid Top Ten lineup by 1970 because hit shows like "The Beverley
Hillbillies" and "Green Acres" were getting them laughed at at their
cocktail parties.
It is simply not true that the bottom line in show business is money.
CBS threw away huge fortunes to get rid of its reputation in
fashionable circles as "the hick network."
When you see how desperate these products of the 60s are to court
fashionable opinion, you would think they would have put Ally McBeal
right in bed with her black lover to show viewers who was boss.
Instead, McBeal begged the black man for sex but HE refused.
No more of the kissing that fans objected to. That must have
been a hell of a lot of fans!
And these were fans who showed every sign of supporting gay
rights and abortion.
These young people don't like to see a blond girl kissing a black
man. Unlike their elders, they don't realize that they are not
allowed to say that.
Today's Conservatives Think Just Like the
Leftover Hippies Do
All the rightists I know assume that everybody who is pro-gay is
anti-white. But opinion really is divided among young
Americans, and throwing all their opinions together is stupid.
The 60s leftovers and today's conservatives have exactly the same
picture of young people. Both assumed that all the young
people on campus would be against the Iraq War the way "young
people," meaning leftover 60s hippies, were.
The fact is that what looks unnatural and ugly to me and you
looks unnatural and ugly to young people. Liberals have told
young people what opinions they are allowed to express, and the
truly rebellious young people won't accept it.
Conservatives and leftover hippies think that "campus rebellion"
means loud mouthed leftists. But a surprising number of
young people realize that the so-called "revolutionaries" are the
most obedient servants the ruling liberal professors have.
Those so-called "campus revolutionaries" are the thugs who
enforce Political Correctness. A lot more students realize
that than do leftover hippies or professional conservatives.
I find those young people a lot easier to deal with than
conservatives who thump the Bible and give in to fashionable opinion
when liberals demand it.
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