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January 28, 2005
Pay no attention to the death camp behind the parka.
I note that today, as the Vice President attended ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the left wing of the blogosphere lit itself afire with fury.
• Fury over the memory of the families mercilessly incinerated?
• Fury that the German people and government today dare to sanctimoniously lecture the US on the need for tolerance and peace?
• Fury at the knowledge that some still deny the Holocaust?
• Fury that the world allowed it to go on in the first place?
• Fury over the fact that the Nazi ideology still survives intact in Islamofascism, and Americans are still losing their lives fighting it today?
Obviously not. Who could be offended by such trivialities? The Left has unleashed its sputtering rage on the military-issue parka Dick Cheney wore in the subzero weather.
Over here -- no, don't look that way -- not at the camp -- don't look at the ovens -- over here! There's an outrage taking place! A parka! A PARKA, for God's sake! Don't distract yourself with the bitter reminder of a history that is still playing itself out today in the Middle East! Don't ask what Auschwitz means to its survivors, to their descendents in the diaspora, to the birth and history of Israel, to the war on terror today, to humanity! Realize the real story is in the parka! The PARKA!
You are looking at the eeeevilll parka. You are loooooking at the paaaarrrrrrkka. You are getting sleeeeepy... you are forgetting what antisemitism really means... you are forgetting what fascism really is.... concentrate on Cheney... the paaaarrrrkka... the paaaarrrrrrrkkka.... the paaaaarrrrrrkkkkaaaaa.....
Update: I'm glad to see that Say Anything [in the persona of Ace of Spades] is on the case as well, as is Jeff from Protein Wisdom. Jeff is in particularly fine form with lines like "Gore could have shown up at Auschwitz wearing a suit made from Jackie Mason and trimmed with the ass hair of Woody Allen..." and the Left would have called it a "daring deconstruction..." Oh, just Read the Whole Thing.** "Read the Whole Thing" is a trademark of the Instapundit International Sinister Rightwing Consortium.
Posted by EtherPundit at January 28, 2005 08:46 PM Category: Current Affairs
Comments
So why haven't I heard any complaints from the left about those Arab dictatorships in the UN who refused to commemorate the anniversary of the Holocaust because they would rather celebrate its re-enactment?
Or a single mention in the MSM about the increasing anti-Semitism in Europe?
No, but we will hear about how offensive Dick Cheney's parka was.
These people are so blinded by their undying rage that I can only rejoice that they will eventually self-destruct as a political force altogether, but with the gnawing premonition that such an implosion is likely to result in desperate deadender violence.
Posted by: Mick McMick at January 29, 2005 11:48 PM