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When will the crazy stop? Rep. Allen West is a man — a two-hundred-poundish, handsome, intelligent man, with his own ideas, experiences, memories, loves, dislikes, hatreds, prejudices, whathaveyou. He is not a canvas.
Yet that’s what lots of people want him to be. Since he first hung up his dress uniform, the fringier parts of the American right have turned him into a kind of human Rorschach Test; a screen upon which to project whatever transient desires most obsess them.
Check out this cracked effusion from Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, penned by Michael Moriarty:
Nothing so reinforces the essential integrity of the American character than another viewing of the American classic, From Here To Eternity.
Seen through contemporary eyes, it looks like an extended examination
of Lt. Col Allen West’s entire experience with the Third Millenium
American military…Why was [Allen West] singled out for an “enforced resignation”?
The
collective bargaining and cronyism of the Third Millenium, American
Army-at-War was seen spitting on its own best soldiers because of the
New World Order’s increasingly Marxist agenda.In the film translation of… From Here To Eternity,
individual freedom and individual responsibility are the heroes
battling the community organizing pressure and collective bargaining
going on under the guidance of Captain Dana “Dynamite Holmes”……There
are prophetically Marxist-style cabals and pressures existing to both
force Prewitt, the Montgomery Clift character, to box, and to
“transform” Frank Sinatra’s Maggio [character] into a coward and someone
ashamed of his Italian roots. Maggio would rather die, be beaten to
death, than succumb to any bully.Neither effort succeeds, of
course, and both Maggio and Prewitt, true to themselves, die as heroes,
fighting not only their enemies abroad but the very “community
organizers” and “collective bargainers” that can so obscenely crop in
any military setting.
Funny. As I recall it, the villains in From Here To Eternity were boxers, not Marxists. That said:
No, no, no!
Just because Republicans don’t like “community organizers” this year,
‘cuz Obama was one, and just because the stink wafting southwards from
Wisconsin has soured them on “collective bargainers,” doesn’t mean they
get to use those labels to retroactively tar everything they’ve ever
disliked. That’s silly, dishonest, and horribly, horribly stupid.
Listen,
Moriarty: You can grouse about Marxism all you want. I’ll join you. But
let’s be sane. Allen West wasn’t booted from the army for not being
sufficiently Marxist. If you’ll recall, it was Stalinists who fingered,
detained, and tortured “enemy collaborators” on scanty evidence.
Americans are supposed to be better than that. Right?
Also —
Allen West’s military career was not ended by “collective bargainers”
and/or “community organizers.” Unless you think the Geneva Convention
was a plot hatched by grassroots literacy and anti-crime activists, the
insinuation is meaningless.
Dear reader, please recall that Andrew Breitbart is a Very Big Deal. Big Hollywood is
not some kind of lunatic’s demesne, frequented exclusively by the
tinfoil hat crowd. These are the same people who brought down ACORN. And
now they have decided that collective bargainers and community
organizers killed Montgomery Clift. This is a weird, weird world.
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