One of the implications for this idea of bringing in ‘thugs from the sticks’ in terms of our own domestic politics has not been discussed at all.
A couple of weeks ago, NPR had an Iranian on who compared the voters for Ahmadinajad to American conservatives and rural devout Christians in the U.S. Few said anything, but Rush Limbaugh (of all people) picked up on this and was content to simply ridicule the notion. Of course the idea should be ridiculed – there is no meaningful connection between these groups, is there? Ah, but you would be wrong about that.
That Saturday night, I was at a friend’s home for a graduation party. A couple of Obama worshipping NPR leftist public school teachers were parroting, line for line, what the Iranian had said on NPR earlier that week.
In what had to have been a carefully crafted way, our taxpayer funded leftist propaganda radio network had made certain to get on the air this Iranian with this particular statement to make, giving permission to these two teachers(and in all likelihood millions of other people) to conflate the goons in Iran with the Republicans in their town and with the Baptist family who lives next door.
This idea – that hardcore Islamicists in Iran are the same as conservative Americans, particularly those who are devoutly Christian – is, of course, eagerly consumed by the American left. It is already part of the core of the narrative of the left that conservatives living on their street are the greatest evil possible in the universe. Since it fits the narrative template of the left regarding the unassailable evil of conservatism, and since the information that supports this desired conflation was recieved from NPR, well, then, it must be true.
The end result is that if the goons of Ahmadinajad win, in the minds of Obama supporters, it will have been the fault of people just like conservatives and Christians here in the U.S. And if the other side wins, it will be because of their beloved Obama’s speech in Cairo, and will represent people like themselves triumphing over goons who are really not different in any way from those awful gun toting, Bible owning, NASCAR watching subhumans that live in their own town.
If the center/right/libertarian part of America is to overcome the left, they will need not only to be able to counteract this sort of media campaign, but get the public to understand the evil of this sort of blood libel so that this tactic cannot be used going forward. A few yuks from Rush are useful but not enough.
