The Left's unlovely faces
jose soplar
By Dimitri Vassilaros
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Sunday, November 16, 2003
Several high-profile liberals are inadvertently painting very
revealing self-portraits these days. Their creations are exquisitely
beautiful because they are so explicitly grotesque. Like Picasso's
"Guernica," complete with fascist overtones. Call it the new realism.
Mainstream Americans are seeing the left for what it is these days --
ugly, mean-spirited and overflowing with hyper-hate.
Mutli-kazillionaire George Soros is just starting to spend his 15
minutes of fame. Picture a Hungarian-born Ross Perot without the
satellite dish ears -- and without Perot's tact.
Soros has essentially called President George Bush a Nazi, blaming him
-- and the Israeli government -- for fostering anti-Semitism. Soros,
who is Jewish, has handed out $10 million to liberal activists and
pledged to raise tens of millions more to defeat Bush.
Soros is a Holocaust survivor, yet he blames Jews for anti-Semitism
and equates the Bush administration with the Nazi and Soviet
occupation of Hungary. And they said Perot was nuts.
Soros is not one of the high-profile liberals referenced above.
Cowardice
None of the Democrat presidential candidates has had the courage to
stand up and say that this rich benefactor has lost touch with
reality. Maybe the nine enlightened leaders should talk with victims
of anti-Semitism to see if they deserved to be targeted. Maybe the
nine also could do a junket to Budapest to ask the man on the street
if Hungarians see a difference between Bush and Hitler and Stalin.
During a recent debate, former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean suggested that
he would like to court Southerners who had Confederate flag decals on
their trucks. When the other candidates heard that remark, they
finally took a stand -- but not about the condescending put-down of a
region. The Left was upset that Dean would try to win over good ol'
boys in their pick-em-up trucks.
Soros is fortunate that he did not mention that flag -- "America's
swastika" as candidate Al Sharpton calls it. The Rev. Al still has a
few minutes left on stage. That will end when the first primary ballot
is cast.
Fading fast
Two other hateful leftists -- Barbra Streisand and Rosie O'Donnell --
are fast-fading celebrities who are down to a few ticks of the fame
clock.
Streisand's behind-the-scenes influence on "The Reagans," the hatchet
job CBS made on a dying president Ronald Reagan, should tell you all
you need to know about the blackness of her heart, as well as that of
CBS for agreeing to air the docudrama until public outrage caused the
network to pull it from their program schedule.
O'Donnell was a stand-up comic who was not very funny and yet she
eventually landed a gig hosting an afternoon talk show. Some called
her the queen of nice or something. Some of us knew better, like when
they remembered one of her "jokes" when she was doing her routines
about the latest personal computer, the Ronald Reagan PC -- no colon
and no memory.
And do not forget her on-air ambushing of guest Tom Sellek because he
had the nerve to believe the Second Amendment is not a loophole that
must be closed.
The pictures of a bitter and angry O'Donnell outside a New York City
courthouse, after her case involving her failed magazine was decided,
speak volumes about who she truly is.
Take a closer look at the Left these days. It is not a pretty picture.
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John Starrett
<snip>
> Soros is fortunate that he did not mention that flag -- "America's
> swastika" as candidate Al Sharpton calls it.
<snip>
Jose is fortunate that he did not mention the Jews, or "the vermin" as
Adolph Hitler calls them.
--
John Starrett