Don’t expect to read this story in America’s most influential newspapers.
Throughout this week, the scurrilous lies trumpeted a fortnight ago by noted Democrat barstool boasters such as Congressman I Am So Gay, Congressman I Am So Black and Congressman I Am Even Blacker have crumbled under the weight of scrutiny.
Barney Frank, John Lewis and Emanuel Cleaver — together the moral equivalent of Grandma Ghastly, Slapsie Maxie Waters — have, uh, been forced to entertain second thoughts about whether their lies about assaults from Tea Party members will withstand inspection.
They are surrendering faster than members of the old Confederacy.
Beaver Cleaver (D-Mo) is the latest liar to be defrocked, unmasked as a faux victim. Again.
On the weekend that Swish Obama, the last surviving member of the Three Stooges, Jesse Jamesed his healthcare reform bill through the House, several members of the Congressional Black Caucus, spoiling for a fight, were strolling tightly together through a crowd of Tea Party protestors. They stayed close to elevate their collective IQ into three figures.
I Feel a Spell of Victimhood Coming on
Upon encountering a reporter he recognized, Mr. Cleaver claimed that he had been spat upon by one of those racist white-boy Tea Partiers. On the truth scales, this packs the same weight as my telling you that I have ridden an elephant home from the office the last five evenings.
Since about the Garden of Eden, the sympathetic, sycophantic liberal boys in the media have swallowed and regurgitated, unfiltered, every bogus claim of attack ever unleashed by Democrats against Republicans, no matter how implausible.
To retrace an earlier assertion, if, heaven forbid, something outrageous happened tonight at our family Shabbos dinner, you probably could dial YouTube in the morning and witness every gesture unfolding.
Historically, this is how liberals have behaved in the 50 years since vision media became a staple in our daily lives. Their strategy is not complicated. They are, after all, Democrats. Works this way:
Neither Original Nor Imaginative
Revile Republicans over the most controversial issue of the day. Lambaste them, by name and ideology until your arms wear out. At the end, especially if you triumph, accelerate your charges that the infuriated Republicans are behaving in ways perilous to America’s welfare.
Clinch the case by making a sexy charge — you are gay, you are black, you are transgendered, you are Siamese twins, and those filthy white-boy Republicans made fun of the way you were born.
Accuracy is totally unnecessary.
For three or four days, longer if you are luckier, the media will inflate the story, blue-ribboning the vile details as if they were the national defense equivalent of Pearl Harbor or Sept. 11. (For evidence, see the ubiquitous avalanche of minute, exploitative coverage of this week’s arrest of 9 members of a Christian militia. Cumulatively, they probably possessed the firepower and significance of your household’s newborn kitty.)
By the time those ignorant Republicans deduce they have been scammed, that the puerile accusations were phony, the public will have lost interest and the media will be onto the next round of anti-liberal insults. Meanwhile, you and the Democrat party will have bought a mountain of sympathetic goodwill and grist that you can deploy in the next election campaign.
The recently-deceased brilliant conservative thinker Irving Kristol was writing about these schoolboy-level tactics back in the 1970s. Cops have a name for the odious concept: Hit ‘n run.
The day of the many-legged fairy tale, Beaver Cleaver’s Congressional office issued the following statement:
“For many of the members of the CBC, like John Lewis and Emanuel Cleaver who worked in the civil rights movement, and for Mr. Frank who has struggled in the cause of equality, this is not the first time they have been spit on during turbulent times.
“This afternoon, the Congressman was walking into the Capitol to vote, when one protester spat on him. The Congressman would like to thank the US Capitol Police officer who quickly escorted the others Members and him into the Capitol, and defused the tense situation with professionalism and care. After all the Members were safe, a full report was taken and the matter was handled by the US Capitol Police. The man who spat on the Congressman was arrested, but the Congressman has chosen not to press charges. He has left the matter with the Capitol Police.”
When a television reporter interviewed Beaver Cleaver this week, the Beav stuttered, backpedaled, and said with a crooked face:
“I haven't talked about this incident on TV or anywhere, and I’ve been approached to talk about it on every national TV show. I never, I never reported anything, never a single thing in Washington, not one thing. People assume I went somewhere, never done press conference, never done an interview on it and I'm not going to do it.”
I believe this is called trapping a skunk in his own grease.
