Patriot Paradox
Posted on 11/01/2004 8:47:09 AM PST by sonsofliberty2000
Paul Harvey Tells It Like It Is
Ouch, Paul Harvey commentary (I decided to transcribe it. These are Paul Harvey's exact words, not mine, but I agree wholeheartedly) Politics
Advantage OutThey can say I have a plan, and yet never define it. Incumbent politicians doing the best they can have exposed their own limitations, but the politicians on the outside wanting in can claim I have a plan for winning in Iraq . They never have to name it. I have a plan for saving social security. I have a plan for full employment. I have a plan for defeating terrorists. Elect me and I'll win the war, win the peace, save the whales and audiences applaud. Anybody with a valid pragmatic plan for resolving any of these challenges, if he persists in keeping it to himself is less than patriotic. If he cared about you he would tell you now; how to resolve the war now. He would tell us now how to accomplish peace and prosperity and security now. So let's listen carefully to what he's not saying.
Listen yourself on Mr. Harvey's site, under the Monday Morning link.
Actually, that is urban legend although there is much truth in the general story. See: snopes.com
I guess we could listen to Malzberg by streaming audio, but that would mean giving up Curtis & Kuby...otoh, I could live without Kuby...hmmm.
IE After banning Israel, Iraq and Afghanistan from the UN, admit alQaeda as the only "True Islamic Seat" and rename the UN Plaza as "bin Laden Square".
Paul Harvey always says it as it is.
Alas, if Kerry gets in, we'll never hear..."the rest of the story!"
"Paul Harvey always says it as it is."
he's wrong as much as he's right. I get sick of hearing from him how all cars should run on corn or soy so we can save the farmers and the planet.I'll bet he ain't driving a
fuel cell car, but he can afford one.
order a cd from paul harvey dot com
Let's hope Bush emerges as "the rest of the story"!
Monica has more gravitas.....
I'm Effin Skerry, and I approved this plan....
I have loved Paul Harvey since I was small child.
ping
BTTT
This needs a bump up... I was just about to post it myself.
Gotta love Paul Harvey, a great American icon.
,,, man with a plan? Tai chi twice a day and all the sauce you can swallow.
No sh!t, is that true?
***.....The first truth about leftist missionaries, about believing progressives, is that they are liars. But they are not liars in the ordinary way, which is to say by choice. They are liars by necessity-often without even realizing that they are. Because they also lie to themselves. It is the political lie that gives their cause its life.
Why, for example, if you were one of them, would you tell the truth? If you were serious about your role in humanity's vanguard, if you had the knowledge (which others did not), that you were certain would lead them to a better world, why would you tell them a truth that they could not "understand" and that would hold them back?
If others could understand your truth, you would not think of yourself as a "vanguard." You would no longer inhabit the morally charmed world of an elite, whose members alone can see the light and whose mission is to lead the unenlightened towards it. If everybody could see the promised horizon and knew the path to reach it, the future would already have happened and there would be no need for the vanguard of the saints.
That is both the ethical core and psychological heart of what it means to be a part of the left. That is where the gratification comes from. To see yourself as a social redeemer. To feel anointed. In other words: To be progressive is itself the most satisfying narcissism.
That is why it is of little concern to them that their socialist schemes have run aground, burying millions of human beings in their wake. That is why they don't care that their panaceas have caused more human suffering than all the injustices they have ever challenged. That is why they never learn from their "mistakes." That is why the continuance of Them is more important than any truth.
If you were active in the so-called "peace" movement or in the radical wing of the civil rights causes, why would you tell the truth? Why would you tell people that no, you weren't really a "peace activist," except in the sense that you were against America's war. Why would you draw attention to the fact that while you called yourselves "peace activists," you didn't oppose the Communists' war, and were gratified when America's enemies won?
What you were really against was not war at all, but American "imperialism" and American capitalism. What you truly hated was America's democracy, which you knew to be a "sham" because it was controlled by money in the end. That's why you wanted to "Bring the Troops Home," as your slogan said. Because if America's troops came home, America would lose and the Communists would win. And the progressive future would be one step closer.
But you never had the honesty-then or now-to admit that. You told the lie then to maintain your influence and increase your power to do good (as only the Chosen can). And you keep on telling the lie for the same reason. ...***
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