Fools and Fear

Today we at IRdC bring you a wonderful article from the Providence Phoenix.  We felt it was a good one to reproduce in it’s entirety on our site.  We couldn’t make these points any better than Phillipe and Jorge.

HONOR THIS!

Let’s see.

Those two professional nitwits, racist loony Glenn Beck and shrieking, delusional, and just plain dumb harridan Sarah Palin, hold a huge rally in D.C. this past weekend entitled “Restoring Honor,” frothing over how Americans have to repo our country and turn it back over to God, who we suspect they presume to be the original owner.

P+J will leave the weighty journalistic questions — whether the crowd amounted to 100,000 religious freaks and Tea Party “Angry Anglos,” as the aerial photos would suggest, or 500,000, as congenital fact distorter Beck claims — to the major TV networks and Rupert Murdoch’s good Germans at Fox News and the Wall Street Journal.

What we would like to know is just what honor is being restored? The honor of wars built on lies in Iraq or an untenable, uninformed and unwinnable effort in Afghanistan, both courtesy of the Bushies? The honor of Gitmo and torture at Abu Ghraib? The honor of lying about the death of Pat Tillman and rescue of Jessica Lynch by Dubya puppeteer Don Rumsfeld and his Pentagon underlings? The honor of totally corrupt and murderous private contractors (say hi, Dick Cheney and Halliburton) who betrayed our troops with corner-cutting service and propaganda-undermining killing of innocent Iraqis? The honor of the shameless buccaneers on Wall Street stealing the money of middle America so the hedge fund managers could upgrade their Mercedes model and pay the mortgage on the house in the Hamptons? The honor of lobbyists who eviscerate environmental regulations to serve the masters in Big Bidness and Big Oil so we end up with catastrophes like the BP spill? The honor of encouraging the clueless and ignorant public to call President Obama a “Nazi” or “Communist” (oops, can’t be both, kiddies, gotta settle on one) instead of “nigger,” which is what they are really thinking?

No, P+J believe the United States has honor in surplus, exhibited by our troops who put their lives on the line daily to try to help people even as they have their legs cut off by their civilian overseers. Honor exhibited in the philanthropy of the majority of Americans toward their less fortunate neighbors — unlike the GOP Party of “No” and their followers. Honor exhibited by those who have their faith and spirituality and don’t try to browbeat people into going along, or wrap themselves in the flag while saying it’s God’s will.

The Founding Fathers were courageous, open-minded and had the wisdom and strength to embrace new ideas that would serve the common weal. The people at the “Restore Honor” rally are scared, fearful, close-minded, naive, and want nothing in their little universes challenged in thought or deed. You got ‘em, Glenn and Sarah. And you can keep ‘em.

Amen brothers.  We couldn’t agree more.  These two lame brain jackasses are the epitome of what’s wrong with our country.  Fear and ignorance rule the day, instead of intelligence and leadership.  The old saying, “You can talk the talk but can you walk the walk?”, seems apropos.  Glenn, Sarah, don’t demagogue, lead by example and deed.  And until that day comes, you will remain fools and traitors to the American dream.

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