Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The politics of mass hysteria
www.spectator.co.uk ^ | 10/31/2008 | melanie phillips

Posted on 11/02/2008 7:52:29 PM PST by Jet Jaguar

So what if The One should actually lose next week? The brainwashed hysteria whipped up on his behalf is, to put it mildly, dangerous. The media proclaims daily that Obama has already won. He cannot lose. He is the Saviour of the Planet. McCain is a mumbling senile idiot. Palin is evil incarnate. The polls show an Obama landslide. So if the world should revolve backwards on its axis next Tuesday and people wake up and find he has lost, then either the election will have been stolen in the way we all know evil Republicans always steal elections – or the American public will be proved to be, as we all know they are, irredeemably racist. Accordingly, we are warned that there would then be riots on the streets.

Those who see a racist in every non-Obama...

So what if The One should actually lose next week? The brainwashed hysteria whipped up on his behalf is, to put it mildly, dangerous. The media proclaims daily that Obama has already won. He cannot lose. He is the Saviour of the Planet. McCain is a mumbling senile idiot. Palin is evil incarnate. The polls show an Obama landslide. So if the world should revolve backwards on its axis next Tuesday and people wake up and find he has lost, then either the election will have been stolen in the way we all know evil Republicans always steal elections – or the American public will be proved to be, as we all know they are, irredeemably racist. Accordingly, we are warned that there would then be riots on the streets.

Those who see a racist in every non-Obama voter are themselves the people for whom Obama’s race is his defining characteristic. They say in terms that his race is the reason we must vote for him. They are the people who, by smearing every conceivable criticism of Obama or revelation of his unsavoury associations as ‘racist’, have emptied the term of its meaning. They are the people who, posing as ‘progressive’, display daily their utter contempt for their fellow human beings who are apparently incapable of voting against Obama on the rational grounds of the disturbing information they have learned about him, because by definition such information is just a load of racist smears. It cannot be true because there cannot be any dissent.

The same media which is whipping up this hysteria has failed to tell people that some polls are telling a different story – that the gap between the candidates is closing. The same media have either failed to tell the American public about Obama’s deeply questionable record, influences, sayings or associations, or the fact that it is the Obama campaign which has tried to steal the vote by delivering more than a million fraudulent voter registrations, or its systematic lies about all of the above, the equivalent of any one of which affronts would have instantly sunk a Republican candidate -- or else have trivialised and dismissed them.

Insofar as the American public has managed to obtain some of this suppressed information, it has been delivered by the Western Resistance comprising internet journalists, Fox News and talk radio. The British press, however, have taken their cue entirely from the fifth-columnist liberal US media. So the Telegraph’s Andrew Gimson reported yesterday his deep distaste, upon arriving in America for the election, to encounter on Fox News a

sustained exercise in character assassination, in which Barack Obama was subjected to volley after volley of slurs and innuendo. Viewers were assured that Mr Obama was associated with an ‘unrepentant terrorist’, was helped by ‘a convicted Chicago slum landlord’, was connected with someone else who made ‘grossly inappropriate videos targeted at your children’, and was even acquainted with a Communist poet who ‘advocated for black soldiers to take up arms against the United States’.

Tsk! Just fancy!! ‘...even acquainted with a Communist poet’ ? Presumably this is a reference to Frank Marshall Davis, the Communist Party anti-American agitator and black power racist -- with an FBI file an inch think -- who was Obama’s most important mentor for most of his younger life, and whose unshaken influence on Obama’s thinking is plain from everything he has done and the associations he has formed. To call this merely ‘an acquaintance’ is just risible.

In similar vein, Obama’s relationship with the ‘unrepentant’ former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers is dismissed as of no consequence on the basis that this was a chance association. But the real issue is that Ayers stopped being a terrorist because he realised that he could more effectively undermine America through radicalising the young through education. As this article reiterates, Obama and Ayers -- at a fund-raiser in whose front room Obama's political career was launched -- between them systematically funded radical school projects to indoctrinate American children in sedition. This is all part of a pattern. Daniel Pipes has further essential facts on Obama’s links with corrupt sources in a web that extends all the way back to Saddam Hussein. Join up the dots.

But what is frightening is the way so many people are suspending their rational faculties so that they shut their minds to all this on the basis that it is all just ‘smears’ -- and instead fire an unparalleled barrage of smears at the other side. Thus Christopher Hitchens launched a vitriolic attack on Sarah Palin on the grounds that she had demonstrated her deranged and medieval hostility to science by ‘denouncing wasteful expenditure on fruit fly research’ which she said she would rather spend on children with special needs. This was particularly unfortunate since the fruit fly was

useful in studying disease, and since Gov. Palin was in Pittsburgh to talk about her signature ‘issue’ of disability and special needs, she might even have had some researcher tell her that there is a Drosophila-based center for research into autism at the University of North Carolina.

This has prompted an incredulous and horrified David Horowitz to rebuke his friend Hitchens thus:

... she wasn’t campaigning against fruit fly research. She was campaigning against earmarks – the $18-billion-a- year scam under which forces taxpayers to underwrite personal favors that congressmen perform for their ‘constituents,’ like giant agribusiness corporations. Such earmarks are transparent bribes since they are bound to encourage constituents who receive them to fund congressional campaigns. The fruit fly earmark was the project of a California congressman named Mike Thompson; the service provided was to the California agribusiness community, which was looking for taxpayer help with a fruit fly problem that threatened their designs to turn olive trees into a profit. The earmark was not about autistic kids. It was about a corrupt patronage system used to benefit one congressman and the olive oil industry’.

Ah, but what’s a little thing like ending corruption, to say nothing of behaving rationally, when we are all just about to be Saved?


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-35 next last

1 posted on 11/02/2008 7:52:29 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar
Find out the truth about Barack Hussein Obama at: The Obama Disaster.com
2 posted on 11/02/2008 7:53:17 PM PST by Stayfree (The Obama Disaster.com has all the latest reasons why Obama shouldn't be President!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Stayfree

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2122710/posts


3 posted on 11/02/2008 7:54:02 PM PST by DBCJR (What would you expect?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar
He cannot lose because a Messiah's mission is pre-ordained. Rejecting Obama to the Left, is akin to rejecting Jesus. They cannot see it happen.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

4 posted on 11/02/2008 7:54:29 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

good article


5 posted on 11/02/2008 7:54:34 PM PST by Richard from IL
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

If any riots occur — God forbid — be ready for some ugly pictures on the news. This time, there’s not going to any of that Rodney King can’t-we-all-jes’-git-along stuff. People all over the country are going to be armed and looking for anybody that doesn’t look like they belong in the neighborhood.

Those black “leaders” who keep threatening riots if things don’t go their way are playing with fire. For the sake of all law-abiding people, they’d better hope the streets stay peaceful. Katrina was a wake-up call for every white person in America, and there are worse things than being called a racist.


6 posted on 11/02/2008 7:56:12 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

If O does lose, I definatly will not go to the ghetto and proclaim that Im glad he lost. If there are riots, they wont be in the suburbs, but hey, I’m a clingy Pennsylvanian, so bring it on!


7 posted on 11/02/2008 7:56:12 PM PST by Edizzl79
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

I’ll be keeping my shotgun and pistol handy on election day. I live in an apartment complex with a lot of African-Americans, and while I’m not making any assumptions, I’m also not taking any chances.


8 posted on 11/02/2008 8:01:02 PM PST by RWB Patriot ("Let 'em learn the hard way, 'cause teaching them is more trouble than they're worth,")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

Who cares if the idiots riot. Stay out of city cores and the big metro cells and you’ll be fine. Let the cops take care of the trash. Meanwhile, keep your powder dry and don’t freak out.


9 posted on 11/02/2008 8:01:34 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth ($750 billion is nothing - surrender your children, wealth and gold fillings now to avoid the rush.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: caveat emptor

noted


10 posted on 11/02/2008 8:02:03 PM PST by caveat emptor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: goldstategop
Photobucket
“People get the government they deserve.” Joseph deMaistre.

And when people become THIS freaking STUPID and inattentive to their freedoms, THIS is the candidate they deserve.


11 posted on 11/02/2008 8:03:06 PM PST by Dick Bachert
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: RWB Patriot

Lay low and if trouble starts, call the po-po./Just Asking - seoul62.....


12 posted on 11/02/2008 8:03:54 PM PST by seoul62
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar
As a NYC resident — I can attest that — the fear of rioting is legitimate.

What would you do if you had been brainwashed into GENUINELY BELIEVING that the Messiah had come to rule on earth and then had been thwarted by Racist White Devils?

I am looking now for someplace to go — outside of NYC — for election night... I could be wrong, but I don't want to live with the consequences of being right and staying here...

My money is on — McCain wins, Urban Dwellers Riot.

I pray to god I'm wrong about the 2nd part.

13 posted on 11/02/2008 8:05:36 PM PST by NYC_BULLMOOSE ("extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" -- BG)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar

So, what’s her FReeper screen name? She has to be one of us.


14 posted on 11/02/2008 8:06:16 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RegulatorCountry

She asked me not to mention it.

;0)


15 posted on 11/02/2008 8:07:58 PM PST by Jet Jaguar (Who would the terrorists vote for?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: WorkingClassFilth
wonder how Obama’s white liberal supporters will react to having their cars, homes and business burned by Obama’s Black liberal supporters?

Will give a whole new meaning to Party Unity My Ass...

Make no mistake, if (may god prevent it) it goes down... wearing an Obama pin on your polo shirt isn't going to save you... and the Obama/Biden bumper sticker on your Saab isn't gonna prevent it from burning...

16 posted on 11/02/2008 8:09:58 PM PST by NYC_BULLMOOSE ("extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice" -- BG)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies]

To: B-Chan

Roll film of Korean-American business people during Rodney King riots. Their businesses were not burned down because they were firing back. In fact, the rioters paid a heavy proce that day near any Korrean- American businesses. The business owners were never prosecuted.


17 posted on 11/02/2008 8:12:18 PM PST by Frantzie
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: NYC_BULLMOOSE
I am looking now for someplace to go — outside of NYC — for election night... I could be wrong, but I don't want to live with the consequences of being right and staying here...

New Hampshire is doable, but it's not a day trip, up I-95. Same for Virginia, but you'd have to get south of NOVA. Surely there are conservative towns in New York, upstate somewhere?

18 posted on 11/02/2008 8:17:13 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: seoul62

You mean the ones who took almost two hours to respond to a shooting that occured a few months back?


19 posted on 11/02/2008 8:20:22 PM PST by RWB Patriot ("Let 'em learn the hard way, 'cause teaching them is more trouble than they're worth,")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Jet Jaguar
OK, I won't ask again *wink*.
20 posted on 11/02/2008 8:20:28 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-35 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson