Goodbye Earl?  How About Goodbye Natalie?

March 19, 2003

By the time you read these words we will, in all likelihood, be at war.   The vicious rhetoric of the so-called peace demonstrators, hopefully, will have died down.   But don’t hold your breath.

Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks unwittingly (quite an appropriate description for her) revealed what it is that’s eating at these people.   It’s not the war.   If it were they would’ve opposed Bill Clinton in Kosovo.   It’s not the carnage.   If it were they would be opposing Saddam Hussein instead of war.   Then what’s bothering these people?   The 2000 election.

As I’ve written here before, these people are still hacked that George W. Bush “stole” the election.   They are bitter, vindictive people who cannot face the reality that President Bush won the election fair and square.   They try to hide their animosity under a veil of pacifism but Ms. Maines spilled the beans before a decidedly anti-American audience in England.   She said, “ Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.”   She later explained that she was frustrated over the impending war with Iraq but her comments betray her true feelings.   Her ultimate apology fell on deaf ears as incensed Chicks fans threw them overboard.   Obviously Maines never attended her record company’s focus groups or she would’ve better understood who her audience is.

Maines is not alone in trying to hide her contempt for the president behind a façade of peace.   Notable Hollywood stars like George Clooney, Sean Penn and Martin Sheen are doing the same.   Probably the most disturbing addition has been the NAACP.   They’ve been staging ‘peace protests’ all over the nation.   What protesting for peace has to do with the advancement of black people, I haven’t the foggiest.  

You see, that’s the point.   It has nothing to do with peace.   It has everything to do with a left-wing agenda.   Just for the record, I will henceforth refer to the NAACP as the NAAPC, the National Association for the Advancement of Political Correctness.   After all, they long ago ceased their existence as the preeminent civil rights organization of their glory days.   They are now merely a propaganda arm of the extreme left, preaching government dependency in order to keep a stranglehold on their constituency.   What a shameless ploy to do all that under the guise of peace.

As this war is prosecuted to a successful conclusion, will all the dissent fall by the wayside?   Some will.   Certain folks, like the Dixie Chicks, whose livelihood is dependent upon satisfied customers, will fade back into the political woodwork but the most vocal agitators will remain.   The Clooneys, the Streisands, the Sheens, will continue to beat the drum, calling any victory hollow.   They will claim that the inevitable mountain of evidence confirming Saddam’s brutality, that will surely be unearthed, was planted by the American imperialists, despite hundreds of embedded journalist who will bear witness.

When it comes right down to it, these folks hate George W. Bush so much that they are willing to trust a sadistic mass murderer like Saddam Hussein before they’ll believe our own president.   Gives you an indication of just how much they hate this guy, doesn’t it?