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Yelling at Rush on the Radio
1/25/2006 | Tasmanianred

Posted on 01/25/2006 7:25:24 AM PST by TASMANIANRED

My phone lines were laying in the backyard yesterday as the repairman took his old sweet time repairing them.

I listened to Rush . For the first time I was actually tempted to pick up the phone and try to get on the air.

With no phone service, I was reduced to yelling at the Radio.

It's time to push back on the language of the left.

Israel lost public opinion when it lost the PROPAGANDA war to the Palestinians. If you watch "Exodus" from 1960 you will see that "Palestinian was synonymous with Israeli" . That was until the Soviet Union took the "Arab Palestinians" under their wing and trained them in both terrorism and propaganda. After the 1967 war, where Israel was attacked, suddenly they became the Oppressors and not the victims.

Israel fought 5 Arab nations and won. They were defeated in the world of public opinion by words.

The Palestinians were trained by the best, The Propagandists and Disinformation specialists of the Soviet Union. The same thinking is evident everywhere on the political left around the world.

It is very apparent here. Schummer runs his mouth about Judges being out of the mainstream. It is Democrats that are out of the mainstream. In the past 10 Presidential election cycles Democrats have had 3 terms, Republicans 7. They hold neither the House of Representatives since 1994 or the Senate but they claim to be the mainstream.

It is the same old Bolshevik trick. You can't carry the majority but you claim it through use of language. You look at black and claim it is white and you repeat it and repeat it and repeat it. A lie is as good as the truth if you can get someone to believe it.

They won on Abortion through a war of words calling it Pro-choice, and Reproductive Freedom. A desperately needed stimulation policy during a recession was tagged with "Tax cuts for the rich".

It is called spin in some circles but it is far more insidious and dangerous than that. You can only spin isolated incidents.

This is a deliberate corruption of the language in an attempt to deceive the uninformed and to take attention off the threat of terrorism by shifting attention to President Bush all for the sake of politics.

The enemy within is willing to encourage and to protect terrorist cells inside the United States -- terrorists who plot the death of American citizens and the end of our freedom -- for the sake of a political election cycle.

They have gone too far with it this time.

The crux of this is the perversion of language. Every time I hear the phrase "bugging Americans", I feel as if I have been spit on. Bush is countering by saying it was legal.

He is not doing enough. Saying it was legal and he has the obligation under the Constitution to protect Americans is true and I am grateful.

For God's sake we need to attack the concept that they are Americans.

It means something special to be an American.

Citizens of the United States -- Americans -- have spent blood in the defense of every continent except Antarctica. Almost half a million Americans died in World War II, in jungles, in deserts, in cities and on the oceans for the defense of our own and the freedom of other nations. We have died for Asians, Jews, Arabs, Europeans and Africans.

Most of us at some point in our family's history came to this country with nothing. And we built a nation from coast to coast. It is something special to be an American.

The left has spent the last 40 years trying to make the profound name American into something vile.

I am deeply outraged that Kerry, Clinton, Gore and the rest of the motley crew use the sacred word "American" to apply to Foreign Nationals, legal or illegal, intent on doing harm to the people of this nation.

To claim that foreign nationals are Americans simply because their feet defile this land is a travesty. There may be a few "American" traitors here but in previous wars we tried them and executed them very swiftly.

To claim that these terrorists and their support network have a right to "privacy" in their communications as they plan the murder of Americans is criminal.

There is only one place in a terrorist incident that it can be interrupted without bloodshed and that is during the planning.

Kerry will claim that he wants to aggressively fight terrorism but his actions and language encourage and support it. He gets the pass because of the corruption of language. He pretends the high ground while his actions and his language insure the deaths of real Americans. Deliberate lies are deadly weapons.

Damn them for every American death, for every wound inflicted in Iraq because their rhetoric encourages a terrorist to hold out one more day, to build one more IED . As Murtha proclaims “Cut and Run,” the terrorist is affirmed. Kerry, Kennedy and pals are holding the gun that is shedding American blood.

It may seem wise to pick your battles strategically but language is one battle that must be fought.

Push back each and every time words are corrupted to mean the antithesis of their definition.

The next time some liberal brings up the War on Terror being illegal, or Bush lied, look them squarely in the eye and ask "How many Americans do you want dead in the next terrorist incident?”

The Israelis found out the hard way that the Propaganda War is as important as the ground war.

In terms of long term consequences, the pen is mightier than the sword.


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1 posted on 01/25/2006 7:25:26 AM PST by TASMANIANRED
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To: La Enchiladita; MNJohnnie; Lady Jag; writer33; MS.BEHAVIN; EsmeraldaA; bentfeather; GummyIII; ...

To everyone that requested a ping and a few that didn't.


2 posted on 01/25/2006 7:27:00 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (Democrats value the privacy of terrorists higher than the lives of Americans.)
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To: TASMANIANRED

I don't believe Israel really cares about what the rest of the world thinks of them. They will continue to do what they, or at least their current government, thinks will be best for them and their citizens. If public/world opinion were the main catalyst for nations' actions, then we'd all be total subservients to the UN by now........


3 posted on 01/25/2006 7:29:42 AM PST by Red Badger (LUKE 22:36 JESUS: "........and if you don't have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one."........)
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To: TASMANIANRED

Nice rant.

And right on the money, of course.


4 posted on 01/25/2006 7:29:43 AM PST by dsc
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To: TASMANIANRED
My phone lines were laying in the backyard yesterday as the repairman took his old sweet time repairing them.

He was probably yapping on his cell phone. (Hint hint)

5 posted on 01/25/2006 7:29:48 AM PST by freedomlover (The only reason you are still conscious is because I don't want to carry you. - Jack)
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To: TASMANIANRED

I don't get it. Why were you yelling at Rush?


6 posted on 01/25/2006 7:29:58 AM PST by P-Marlowe
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To: TASMANIANRED
Thanks for the ping.

Great article Tas.

I couldn't agree more.
7 posted on 01/25/2006 7:30:15 AM PST by Mrs.Nooseman
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To: TASMANIANRED

Nailed. Words matter. The word "liberal" used to mean something quite different from what it means today. There are a slew of other words that have had their meanings diluted and corrupted by this tactic. It's long past time to stand firm.


8 posted on 01/25/2006 7:30:49 AM PST by cinives (On some planets what I do is considered normal.)
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I don't get it. Why were you yelling at Rush?

That makes two of us...

9 posted on 01/25/2006 7:32:48 AM PST by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are familiar bedfellows)
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To: TASMANIANRED
Well Done TAS!
10 posted on 01/25/2006 7:32:56 AM PST by Soaring Feather (~www.proudpatriots.org~Supporting Our TROOPS~)
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Tas! That was an awesome rant! And you are right! The detractors say that we haven't had any terrorist attacks so what are we still worrying about. Wellllll, why do you suppose we haven't? Because our President IS doing everything he can to try to prevent it.

I will blame them if we are attacked again if they "successfully" ham-string us in the venue of security!

11 posted on 01/25/2006 7:33:39 AM PST by luvie (Everyone that doesn't like what America and President Bush has done for Iraq can all go to HELL.-BD)
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The enemy within is willing to encourage and to protect terrorist cells inside the United States -- terrorists who plot the death of American citizens and the end of our freedom -- for the sake of a political election cycle.

Indeed, the "open border" policy and the unwillingness of the administration to expel those here illegally does indeed threaten our freedom.

12 posted on 01/25/2006 7:34:01 AM PST by WhiteGuy (Vote out all incumbents and pass term limits now.)
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To: Red Badger
Israel can't afford to care about public opinion now.

They were sort of the worlds Darling after WWII and up to about 1956...

They were the pet of the left with their combination of socialist welfare state and Capitalist economy.

I believe they were completely blind sided when the rhetoric turned against them.
13 posted on 01/25/2006 7:34:13 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (Democrats value the privacy of terrorists higher than the lives of Americans.)
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The deadly monopoly of the leftist media world-wide is the danger, they have been in charge for 40 years.

They write the script, our policies, they elect our pols, and they control our culture.

Until we take up a war against them, the NYT and its ilk will remain in charge of events.
14 posted on 01/25/2006 7:35:58 AM PST by roses of sharon ("I would rather men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one". ) (Cato the Elder)
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To: TASMANIANRED

A good coin you turned, but just one face is stamped. In matters Israel, the other half is always inscrutable.


15 posted on 01/25/2006 7:36:00 AM PST by bvw
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To: P-Marlowe
He was talking all around the point that the group targeted in the "surveillance" is predominantly foreign nationals not Americans.
16 posted on 01/25/2006 7:37:03 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (Democrats value the privacy of terrorists higher than the lives of Americans.)
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To: cinives

I'm working on that one too.


17 posted on 01/25/2006 7:38:01 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (Democrats value the privacy of terrorists higher than the lives of Americans.)
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To: WhiteGuy

I am in full agreement.

Slam the borders shut and shovel the debris back where it belongs.


18 posted on 01/25/2006 7:39:31 AM PST by TASMANIANRED (Democrats value the privacy of terrorists higher than the lives of Americans.)
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To: TASMANIANRED
Thanks for the ping and good job Taz! May I ask about the muse? Knowing you this will be a great story! ;]
19 posted on 01/25/2006 7:43:27 AM PST by Diva Betsy Ross (Embrace peace- Hug an American soldier- the real peace keepers.)
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To: TASMANIANRED
Check out The Tyranny of Words by Stuart Chase at Amazon. Here's the first review:
Let Me Frame the Argument..., July 30, 2000
Reviewer: John A. Goodson (New Brunswick, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

The book is dated but fascinating. It introduces the notion that much of what we argue about is really not an argument about facts but one about definitions. It is fascinating also to note the players in the 1930s and to see what their predictions became. A wonderful introduction to semantics with the caution that if you let an enemy select the terms of the argument, he has already won it.

ML/NJ
20 posted on 01/25/2006 7:43:47 AM PST by ml/nj
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