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| …Lastly, I don’t want to let the following quotation slip away: In the matter of the cerebral fever swamps of today’s liberals who blame Sarah Palin and conservatives for the horror last Saturday in Tucson, Arizona, here are the words of that quintessential, 1960s’, pointy-headed liberal intellectual Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the in-house idolater of the Kennedy clan, after Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated by an Arab a few years in the United States on the first anniversary of the Six-Day War, June 5, 1968, in a hotel kitchen in Los Angeles. The facts of the murderer were known immediately, but Schlesinger – like Caspar Weinberger had a paternal German Jewish grandfather, hence the name, but who in likely reaction always made sure to be anti-Jew -was incapable of dealing with the truth that his friend Bobby had been shot dead because in the wake of the glorious Six-Day War he wanted to be associated with miraculous Israel and became its greatest champion in the Senate in the matter of sending Israel its first shipment of American warplanes, Phantom jets. That is why Sirhan Sirhan murdered him.
Instead, Schlesinger, four days later, opined in print, perhaps because his friend Jack had been assassinated in 1963, and two months earlier Martin Luther King, Jr. was murdered in that earthquake of a year 1968, with its burning city riots, Schlesinger said, “the United States was home to a violent people with a violent history, and the instinct for violence has seeped into the bloodstream of our national life…” This is crazy. Schlesinger surely knew the gunman was an Arab, a “Jordanian immigrant.” Today he would be called a “Palestinian” immigrant. Schlesinger read the newspapers and watched TV just like everybody else. Still he went on, “What sort of people are we, we Americans…today we are the most frightening people on this planet…This was so because of the war in Vietnam… [America must recognize that] the evil is in us, that it springs from some dark, intolerable tension in our history and our institutions…a primal curse fixed on our nation…perhaps when we began the practice of killing and enslaving those whom we deemed our inferiors because their skin was another color….” This was the liberal mind even then, like today, reflexively lashing out at others because they don’t measure up to his liberal’s standards of morality and tolerance. Instead of fingering the Arabs and their chronic, homicidal hatred of Israel, Schlesinger chose to vilify Americans for being racist killers and enslavers. Maybe someday the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, will register a new one called Liberalitis… |
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