"Unamerican" Debate

Just when you think you've seen it all. Or read it all. Or heard it all.

A few months ago the Tea Bag movement was called "teabaggers". CNN thought that was funny. Keith Olberman loved the term. White House said nothing.

Now, as the number of protesters has grown and as the Fuhrer's poll numbers has dropped 17 points, Speaker Pelosi has called the them "un-American". Secretary Sebelius has called the protesters "terrorists".

Is this America?



Where were Madam Speaker's sentiments when this happened?







Or this?









Surely she must have agreed with this?:





Protest is a right, Madam Speaker. And heated protest, organized, planned and "orchestrated" protests are a tactic of your left. And violent protest birthed our nation when "a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

President Obama comments on a black man being arrested in Cambridge. But he has no words for a black man being beaten in St. Louis. And the difference between these two men is politics: one agrees with the leader and one doesn't. So one deserves White House commentary, one is deemed unworthy. Heil Fuhrer.

Orwell, Huxley, Didion all wrapped up into one opus magnum that we don't read but live.