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August 31, 2005

VoldeMarx

I guess the Gipper didn't defeat Communism after all.

Over the last couple of days, the ideology-who-must-not-be-named has begun to find itself attached to the likes of MoveOn.org, Cindy Sheehan, Code Pink and even Martin Luther King, Jr.

Yesterday's story on Jesse Helms' new biography:

Helms suggests the South could have integrated voluntarily if the federal government had not intervened. He wrote, "I believed right would prevail as people followed their own consciences."

He claimed he opposed creation of a national Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in 1983 in part because the Senate rejected his amendment that would have unsealed the FBI's files on the civil rights leader. Helms contends King's advisers included Communist sympathizers.

In other words..Helms' opposition to King had nothing to do with the fact that Helms supported racist, bigoted individuals from a region of the country notorious for undermining civil rights. It was all about King's ties to the Red Menace.

King was long dead and Communism alledgedly along with it by the time the US Senate came around to recognizing King's accomplishments.

But if only Jesse could just prove that King was Red by association. Then the bigotry and racism of North Carolina could be justified!

Not to be outdone by the likes of Jesse Helms, John Tierney trots out his own brand of VoldeMarxism to red bait fears against the anti-Iraq war movement:

Tierney researched the movement for a book and came up with some choice descriptions. "I have to say it is communist," he told an audience at the conservative think tank, also describing the groups involved as "revolutionary socialistic" and "cohorts" of North Korea, Saddam Hussein and Fidel Castro's Cuba. "We're really dealing with . . . a comprehensive, exhaustive, socialistic anti-capitalistic political structure," he said.

I've been against the Iraq War since before we invaded. I thought I'd been pretty vocal about it, too. I'm starting to feel left out of the red scare.

And how dare Sheehan bring her filthy muggleness to Bush's doorstep:

Tierney singled out Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq and who camped out at President Bush's ranch this month to protest the war. "I've never heard of a woman protesting a war in front of a leader's home in my life," he said. "I've never heard of anything quite so outrageous."

Yeah. Outrageous.

Tierney's side can't be held up to accountability and scrutiny...so he's got to trot out the boogeyman...communism.

It's getting desperate out there in ProWar Land.

Posted by Carla at August 31, 2005 11:35 AM