Posted on 02/15/2006 10:00:09 PM PST by smoothsailing
Our Angry Left
By R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.
Published 2/16/2006 12:08:40 AM
WASHINGTON -- For weeks now civilized observers around the world have been astonished by the dispendious angers vented by indignant young Muslims. These young indignados have listened to the counsel of their venerable leaders in government and in the mosques. They have noted the intolerable provocations of the unbelievers. Finally, they have taken to the streets and city squares to burn flags, bash passersby, rush the cops, and -- from what I have observed on the TV news -- take a swing or two at each other. Their righteous anger could be contained only so long.
Taking it all in, I can only wonder: How long will it be before such scenes erupt in the streets and squares of America? Listening to their indignant leaders, witnessing the daily provocations within our society, how long will it be before this country's young Democrats give themselves over to the fiery passions that their own mullahs are stoking? America's Angry Left, as it is called, can only take so much. Then, vavoom! Our Angry Left's own indignados will be out on the street, haranguing the Republican Congress, chanting anti-Halliburton jingles, and burning three-piece suits. Wal-Marts will be stormed. Former vice president Al Gore will be called back from Saudi Arabia to mollify the masses.
Doubtless you heard about his oratory at the celebrated Jiddah Economic Forum. There he told the assembled sheiks and mullahs, gentlemen and ladi...well, there were no ladies. At any rate al-Gore told the assembled that the Bush Administration has been committing "terrible abuses and it's wrong." The abuses, according to the former vice president, involved Arabs who after 9/11 have been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa…and held in conditions that were just unforgivable."
Gore is bidding fair to become the Muqtada al-Sadr of America's Angry Left. Savor his recent vituperations. He has called our suave president a "moral coward" who is in alliance with "digital brown shirts." He refers to Abu Ghraib prison as "the Bush Gulag"; and, forgetting the discrepancies of his former boss, he calls President George W. Bush "the most dishonest President since Richard Nixon."
Of course, Gore is not without competition among the party's elders. Dr. Howard Dean's rage is ceaseless. Just the other day he apprised CNN that "This is probably the most corrupt administration we've had since maybe ever and certainly since Harding, I would guess." Former President Jimmy Carter is angrier still. He could not even stifle his anger during the funeral of Coretta Scott King -- and with President Bush accompanied by his father sitting nearby.
There Carter suggested that it was racial prejudice that accounted for the slow governmental response to Hurricane Katrina. Alluding to the present controversy over the Bush Administration's NSA wiretapping of suspected terrorists, he lamented the long-ago federal surveillance of the Kings. Predictably, he was careful not to mention that that surveillance was perpetrated by Democrats. In recalling his dedication of a portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. back in 1974, Carter was also careful not to mention that early in his political career he had courted the Georgia Ku Klux Klan. Instead he recalled that outside the building during those dedication rites there were "chanting members of the Ku Klux Klan, who had too much support from other Americans." Well maybe, but the hooded morons' support had declined sufficiently for you, Mr. Carter, to look elsewhere for votes.
Yes, with all this moral indignation pouring forth from the Democratic elders, how long will it be before their listeners take to the streets? Already the Internet resounds with the young furiosos' enraged responses. Can it be long before they march? And when they do they will be more dangerous than any Arab street demonstration, for America's Angry Left includes its womenfolk. Boy, are they angry. Possibly when the mullahs and potentates of Araby see the incomparable wrathfulness of America's left-wing women, they will revise their thinking on male-only street demonstrations. Tantrums thrown by women can be very persuasive.
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R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator, a contributing editor to the New York Sun, and an adjunct scholar at the Hudson Institute. His latest book is Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House (Regnery Publishing).
I only wish... Think of the Targets of Opportunity...
....a result of being out of power (which they see as their birthright) for such an extended period, not realizing that the crazed behavior of the Gores and Deans of the world - the face of their party - is the reason they've been squeezed out. Losing even more ground at the midterms will either intiate some much-needed introspecton or send them completely over the edge into near-riot mode. ....and I'm betting on the latter.
al-Gore... Perfect!
"Tantrums thrown by women can be very persuasive."
And if it takes place, it can also lose a very large bloc of the moderate democrats.
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Fyi.
We've got the guns...
<< America's Angry Left, as it is called, can only take so much.
....a result of being out of power (which they see as their birthright) for such an extended period .... >>
There are two factors in play. Both being denied their birthright and the every-day-demonstrated superiority of they who deny them that perceived birthright brings out in them hostility that exactly facsimiles the islamanazis' envy-seeded, self-loathing-rooted hesperophobia.
Hence, just as islam needs dictatorship, their froth-and-foam-flecked panting after the reimposition of such hallmarks of their tyranny and totalitarianism as the Fairness Doctrine to facilitate their regaining of ownership and control of radio and other media and their fevered efforts at surrendering our Internet to their fellow-totalitarian-oriented UN cohorts.
...this kind of rioting would require something most liberals don't have: ambition.
Not enough Tyrell articles posted around here.
I enjoy his articles immensely.
He's a great writer.
One of the best, always funny, and definitely in the "hammer meets nail" category.
Does anyone know if the Admin has responded to this Gore speech?
Thanks!
There's nothing new about inchoate rage - the Dems have been feeding on it since the 60's and it's finally clogged every artery in their body politic. The patient is, however, convinced that "more of the same" will provide the remedy. Would you feed an ailing Michael Moore in ICU another three greasy pepperoni pizzas with extra cheese?
Oh, you would? Never mind.
I hope they do. Our boys and girls in blue love a little stick time.
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