A lot of people get it, some don’t. Especially clueless – those lefties outraged that I would compare people to Hitler, amazingly ignorant that I was mocking them for doing the same thing with Bush or Cheney.

Anyway, I assumed that by now, the left would finally stop with this crap, now that they’ve got their Prog-God in charge.

But no.

Check out TheRoot.com, a blog owned by the Washington Post, which, in its list “Black Folks We’d Like To Remove From Black History” includes Clarence Thomas and Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele alongside Idi Amin, the “DC Sniper” John Allen Muhammad, Zimbabwe thug Robert Mugabe and Haitian dictators “Papa Doc” and “Baby Doc” Duvalier.

No lie: black Republicans are as evil as genocidal maniacs.

Meanwhile, during a Senate hearing, socialist Bernie Sanders compared climate change skeptics to Nazi appeasers – people “who said ‘don’t worry! Hitler’s not real! It’ll disappear!’” How weird is it that a socialist like Sanders would have the stones to say capitalists are worse than Hitler. Sorry Bernie – look it up. Hitler was one of yours, d-bag.

Anyway, it serves to remind us all, that the people on the other side don’t just disagree with you, they hate you. They want to ruin you. They think you’re Nazis, monsters and Nazi monsters.

It’s why we should look to Andrew Breitbart for inspiration. He’s right when he says “bullies crumble when you hit them back.” So let’s hit them back, as hard as possible.

Metaphorically, of course. Prison sucks.

And if you disagree with me, then you sir are worse than Bernie Sanders.

Tonight we’ve got Nick Gillespie from Reason, Anthony Cumia from Opie and Anthony, the always awesome Patti Anne Browne, and GWAR’s Oderus Urangus.

That’s a line-up!!

Apparently the Americans at Jonestown were part Chinese, eh?

Here is the Last Will and Testament of Jonestown: 

Dear Comrade Timofeyev, 

“The following is a letter of instructions regarding all of our assets that we want to leave to the Communist Party of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 

Enclosed in this letter are letters which instruct the banks to send the cashiers checks to you. I am doing this on behalf of Peoples Temple because we, as communists, want our money to be of benefit for help to oppressed peoples all over the world, or in any way that your decision-making body sees fit. 

The letters included listed accounts with balances totaling in excess of $7.3 million to be transferred to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 

Hmmm …. Communism.

It is my opinion that the ultimate fate of both Communism and the American version of the same tyranny, the centralized governing ambitions of Progressivism, will prove to be as murderous and as ultimately suicidal as Jim Jones and Jonestown.

The body count of Mao Zedong’s own Jonestown-like reign over China is presented in detail by the authors Jung Chang and Jon Halliday. Now we have high-level members of the Progressive Obama Nation’s court and Progressive Hollywood’s elite applauding the likes of Mao, Che Guevara and Hugo Chavez.

Millenniums of Judeo-Christian Law, not to mention a bust of Sir Winston Churchill, are now being tossed out the windows and doors of the White House.

The question is: how can Hollywood and its Progressive Film Industry romanticize the likes of Mao Zedong in a film of his life?

Unless Mao can become the charismatic magnet of Hollywood that Marlon Brando was at one time, the likes of Anita Dunn and her admiration of Mao cannot go any further than the Oval Office.

However, Mao and Che shirts are being sold worldwide.

Mao’s image was on the White House Christmas tree.

What is Mao but a survivor’s version of Jim Jones, multiplied by a death count of about 27,233?

And where did Mao spend all the money he received for selling almost all of the rice crops in China to Stalin’s Soviet Union?

As payment, China received lethal military weapons and materiel.

These were Mao’s endlessly death-dealing obsessions.

Former Governor Sarah Palin labeled one particular portion of the multi-thousand-page, obfuscating Health Care Bill as the creation of a “death-panel”. With Mao on the minds of the Obama Nation, what have we invited into our most powerful seat of power?

All that Progressives need now is a super-star they thought they had in Barack Obama. Obviously they are looking above and beyond Obama to Mao!

If only Marlon Brando hadn’t gotten so fat and died, eh?

Obviously the great actor had a taste for roles holding imperial power, performing as both Marc Antony of the Roman Empire’s first Triumvirate and Napoleon Bonaparte of France. Also we caught, I believe, a brief glimpse of a Mao-like guerrilla fighter in Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.

Brando’s Col. Kurtz wallows in an insanely homicidal progress through Vietnam’s own  “killing fields”, killing, killing and killing, mirroring much of Pol Pot’s Communist massacre of Cambodia.

Cambodia post-Pol Pot

Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward left a similarly homicidal swath of starvation throughout all of China.

“The horror …” as Kurtz says. “The horror of it!”

Marlon Brando could have had Mao mugging through the Lotus Gardens like a playful Don Corleone with his grandchild. He could possibly have charmed us with Mao as another revolutionary, Emiliano Zapata, stumbling humbly through his reading lessons.

In the same way Marlon Brando inspired our affections for Don Corleone, he could have actually left us amazed with the deadly declarations of Mao’s right-hand man, Zhou Enlai.

However, as Hollywood does do, the script writer could put the words of Zhou in the mouth of Marlon’s Mao.

So far my article on Kissinger as a “Courtier” is the only response to what I still consider one of Kissinger’s most revealing admissions: how the Mao Regime had “shamed” him. 

How can the most shameless dictatorship in the world possibly shame one of America’s most shameless advisers to one of our most shameless Presidents, Richard Nixon? 

Mao Zedong is, in actual fact, the secret God of not only Dr. Kissinger but American Progressivism in its entirety. Therefore it is not so much “shame” as reverence.

In conclusion, if you really wish to be led to drink Kool-Aid or starve to death like the so-called, life-hating Chinese, then fall for Progressive Hollywood’s version of Mao.

Combine Brando’s poetic but ruthless Kurtz with his lighter turns in Teahouse of the August Moon, the cunning madman in Missouri Breaks and, of course, Don Corleone of Godfather?

You are well on the way to Marlon’s Mao!

However, there are reports that Marlon Brando’s own last days were like a self-inflicted euthanasia.

Purposely disregarding the advice of his doctors? Hmmm …. there is certainly a personal Apocalypse Now, or, even more precisely, The Heart of Darkness in that decision. Marlon’s Mao, I have no doubt, would be everything Joseph Conrad, Francis Ford Coppola and possibly even Mao Zedong himself might have dreamed of.

A lofty and irrefutable model for Progressive Maoism, with a particularly intense concern for the environment which, in turn, would nicely justify wholesale slaughter and some forms of genocide. In Marlon Brando’s absence, who could possibly capture this monster adequately?

Well, with Oliver Stone’s revised versions of World History, perhaps his most culminating achievement will be his revisionist’s history of Mao Zedong.

There will really be no way to “top” such a film. Could there be anything more centrally important to the Progressive New World Order than Oliver Stone’s MAO?!

We certainly don’t want the God of Communism to be left misunderstood in the same way that Oliver Stone feels Hitler has been, do we?

It is possible that Mr. Stone might convince one of my favorite actors, Sir Anthony Hopkins, to create the same, immensely complex and surprisingly sympathetic portrayal of Mao that he did for Oliver Stone’s Nixon.

Yes, perhaps Marlon Brando’s absence, in this case, was a favor, not only to Oliver Stone, but to Marlon Brando himself.

With only the likes of Oliver Stone’s MAO to beckon Marlon Brando back to his former imperial glory, is it any wonder that the Far Left’s Screen Hero just stopped taking care of himself?

[Part one of this article can be read here.]

However most – if not all – of them – are powerless. They don’t run governments. They’re lucky if they run laundromats.

But in Iran, you’ve got a full-blown neo-Nazi running the government. You’ve got a modern day Hitler boasting about nuclear capability. He shares so much in common with Adolf it’s eerie – his envy-driven hatred, horrible hair and an irrational love for animals. All that’s missing is the funny mustache.

But the bottom line: he’s not white, and you can’t be a neo-Nazis without it. It’s an insidious form of racism: if Ahmadinejad were from Indiana instead of Iran, my gut tells me Obama would have no problem speaking truth to power. Instead, we we hope for change. Or change for hope. I don’t think it matters how you phrase it anymore. The point is, a madman has a bomb, which is slightly more frightening than a wornout pair of Doc Martens.

And if you disagree with me, you’re probably a racist homophobe who kills caterpillars.

Tonight, an awesome show!

the delightful Carrie Keagan!

the demonic Jim Norton!

the delicious Jill Dobson!

the body language king Jeanine Driver!

Epic.

Just when you think this joke has run its course…

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Just a couple years later, in the middle of a tough war in Iraq, Kennedy would play the scorpion to Bush’s frog when his ugly, ungrateful, unpatriotic, selfish, leftist default position would rear its ugly partisan head when he accused Bush of being a fraud who cooked up the war for personal political gain.

Today, let us celebrate the delicious irony that Kennedy the Horrible’s Senate seat is about to be occupied by a rock-ribbed conservative who believes in and campaigned on everything Kennedy the Horrible opposed. Yes, a pro-water-boarder will sit where “The Lying of the Senate” once did. 

The Lying’s legacy was supposed to be the punishing health care reform his successor, Scott Brown, effectively killed last night. That this occurred on the one-year anniversary of President Bush’s last day in office makes that victory all the sweeter.

Stone’s scripts for Midnight Express and Scarface blew our collective minds with staggering violence and raw language.  Then he directed Platoon – an awesome film if you dig sophomore-level meditations on the duality of good and evil leavened with gunfire.  JFK came along and demonstrated that Kennedy was murdered not by the commie misfit who actually did it, but a conspiracy made up of big business, the government, the military, the Trilateral Commission, the Knights Templar, Prince Olaf of South Ruritania, and everyone else on Earth except Lee Harvey Oswald and JFK himself – or was he in on it too?  After that, Stone was ready to completely abandon the constraints imposed by concepts like “story,” “characters” and “coherence.”  Natural Born Killers was the result, the perfect Oliver Stone film – all controversy, great visuals, and nothing that made anything remotely like sense.

For Stone, it’s still about shock, but he hasn’t inspired any awe in years.  So, to even approach this series, called Secret History, as a serious effort to convey anything like a coherent idea is to miss the point.  This show and his nakedly calculated attempt to incite a backlash are nothing but a waning artist’s sad attempt to seize the limelight one last time.  And he has a back-up plan – his next movie is a cash-the-check sequel to the venerable Wall Street.  I guess greed really is good – at least when Stone’s the one being greedy.

Does Stone really believe that Hitler somehow lacks “context,” or that “American corporations were involved [with the Nazis], from GM through IBM”?  Sure, to the extent he believes in anything besides gobbling pharmaceuticals and ginning up publicity, but make no mistake:  His Secret History will be neither.  It will not be “history” in the sense of relating what actually transpired in the past.  Nor is its tired leftist wisdom on how America was somehow to blame for the rise of the Nazis – as it is to blame for all evil throughout the ages – a “secret.”  If you can’t wait to get a dose of it, just check out the Daily Kos comments or join the other half-dozen lonely lefty shut-ins who actually saw Howard Zinn’s recent celebrity-filled trash America fest.

The real Secret History that Stone won’t disclose involves the identity of the Americans who actually thought the Nazis had quite a lot to offer with their collectivist, anti-capitalist vision, their refusal to let things like democracy stop their agenda, and their fondness for eugenics.  Here’s a hint:  It starts with a “P” and ends with a “rogressives.”

So I would not be at all surprised if the Secret History ends up showing that Third Reich silver lining we short-sighted conservatives always seem to overlook.  I expect the show will remind me of being stationed in Stuttgart in the late-Eighties/early-nineties and hitting the volksfestswith my Army buddies.  There’d be a bunch of Germans at the long tables eating pretzels and pounding away on the Schaweben Brau and after the seventh or eighth stein-full they’d lean in to me, bleary-eyed, fingers wagging, and in slurred English say, “You know, you Americans don’t understand Hitler.  He vas not all bad…”  It was then that I understood why my ancestors left Deutschland.

But it’s not constructive to simply criticize, so for Mr. Stone’s benefit here is some help with the proper context for the poor, misunderstood Adolph Hitler: 

Auschwitz. 

Treblinka. 

Dachau. 

There’s your context, Ollie.  You’re welcome.

Well thank the Devil for Oliver Stone, for he’s revealed that his upcoming Showtime miniseries “Secret History of America” will help put mass murderers such as Hitler and Stalin “in context.”

“Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy — these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history,” he told reporters during a press tour, managing to slip non-killer Joe McCarthy into the mix, without causing a murmur.

Now, I suppose “thoroughly” was code for “unfairly,” but he’s right about Mao, Hitler and Stalin – it’s just the way things works, I guess, when you kill millions of innocent people. But true to his blind allegiance to relativism, Stone claims that “we can’t judge people as only ‘bad’ or ‘good.’ Hitler was an easy scapegoat.”

He’s right: you had to blame the Holocaust on someone. But finger pointing is so judgmental! Case in point: Stone claims that conservative pundits will really dislike the show – maybe because conservative pundits don’t require psychoanalysis to understand Hitler’s motivations. Me? I don’t care if Adolf’s mommy never loved him, or the maid made fun of his willy. I had similar problems, and I still didn’t kill six million Jews.

But saying only conservative pundits will be upset by this is really a slap in the face of all progressives. For Stone assumes that – unlike right wingers – the left will willingly accept his revisionist look at history’s greatest mass murderers.

He’s right: as embracers of all things relative, they are crackers to his cheese.

And if you disagree with me, then you’re worse than Harry Reid.

Tonight’s guests:

Dr. Marc Lamont Hill!

Ann Coulter!

Michael Baden!

and, a comedian to be named later!

Director Oliver Stone’s upcoming Showtime documentary miniseries “Secret History of America” promises to put mass murderers such as Stalin and Hitler “in context.”

“Stalin, Hitler, Mao, McCarthy — these people have been vilified pretty thoroughly by history,” Stone told reporters at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour in Pasadena.

“Stalin has a complete other story,” Stone said. “Not to paint him as a hero, but to tell a more factual representation. He fought the German war machine more than any single person. We can’t judge people as only ‘bad’ or ‘good.’ Hitler is an easy scapegoat throughout history and its been used cheaply. He’s the product of a series of actions. It’s cause and effect … People in America don’t know the connection between WWI and WWII … I’ve been able to walk in Stalin’s shoes and Hitler’s shoes to understand their point of view. We’re going to educate our minds and liberalize them and broaden them. We want to move beyond opinions … Go into the funding of the Nazi party. How many American corporations were involved, from GM through IBM. Hitler is just a man who could have easily been assassinated.”

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“You cannot approach history unless you have empathy for the person you may hate,” Stone said during the show’s trailer, which promised to put historical villains “in context.”

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Stone also warned that the same military industrial complex forces that he’s explored in movies such as “JFK” and in “Secret History,” are now corrupting Barack Obama.

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“My father was a voracious New York Times reader,” he said.  “We consider that in The Middle. Sarah Palin would disagree.”

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Much more here.

The plan has many critics, and rightly so.  For one thing, as Zinn openly admits, his is an activist history meant not only to inform the student, but to inspire them to take up his cause.   This puts the teaching of Zinn in public schools on precarious legal grounds at best.  Others draw attention to Zinn’s radical views themselves.  Zinn says of America, with her representative government and guaranteed freedoms, that,  “The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history,” parceling out just enough wealth and comfort to its citizens to keep them from revolting.  But to truly understand Zinn, and why his work has no place in public education, all a person needs to know is this –  Howard Zinn is not an historian at all; Howard Zinn is a religious zealot.

Now, this is not to say that Zinn or his followers believe in God.   Theirs is a secular religion, but religion none-the-less.  It is a faith in what Rousseau called the natural morality of man, an innate goodness that has only been corrupted by the oppressing evil of power, wealth and property.  It is a belief that when man is truly free, free from ‘wage slavery,’ from bankers and bosses, from states and from God, he will at last be purged of all sin.  Laziness and violence, covetousness and anger, all of these will disappear when the liberation arrives.  The religion is Marxism, Zinn’s denomination, Democratic Socialism (or possibly Anarcho-Syndicalism), but all of it, in the end, is simply Communism.

Of course, Christians actually hold similar beliefs.  Man is fundamentally flawed by something he cannot ultimately control: Sin.  This sin is dealt with by the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, through whose Spirit a man’s nature, and ultimately behavior, might be changed.  And when Christ appears again in His glory, the world will be made right and all evil will be dispelled.

Another similarity is that faith is required for both, since neither religion can be proven scientifically.  The Spirit of Jesus cannot be measured out in beakers and applied in dosage, or the results of faith in Him tracked against a control-set, since His presence in the life of a man cannot be truly ascertained. Examples of evil done in his name are not true metrics since many wield His name for gain or tribal loyalty, but do not place their faith in Him.

For Zinn and his followers, the same holds true.  True Communism cannot be judged by failed Communist experiments because true Communism must be global, democratic, and de-centralized, none of which has yet occurred.  Point to the failure of the Bolshevik Revolution, and you will hear that all power corrupts.  The failure of the Soviet Experiment?  Stalin’s misguided belief that single country communism could survive in a world of capitalist forces.

And neither religion can prove that their future Utopia will ever exist, but unlike the Christian who renders unto Caesar what is his and is not called to transform the world into his own image but to trust in God’s will and timing, Zinn ultimately believes that the glorious Communist future will, to borrow from John Hiatt, come through your hands.  This is the fundamental danger of Zinn’s world-view.  It is far beyond evangelistic.  It is a crusade.

“We’re dreamers,” writes Zinn.  “We want it all. We want a peaceful world. We want an egalitarian world. We don’t want war. We don’t want capitalism. We want a decent society.”

For the dreamer-crusader, the standard is perfection, and all have sinned and fall short.  Zinn points out that radical historians often make the mistake of judging the past by the standards of the present.  Thomas Jefferson was not deliberately excluding women from civic life when he penned that, “all men are created equal,” says Zinn.  Rather, in his time, the civil rights of women were not even a consideration.  However, this does not prevent Zinn from passing judgment.  While the past may not be judged by the present, Zinn seems fully content to hold both past and present to the standard of the coming Communist Utopia.  Jefferson’s failing was not that he was less sympathetic to select minority interests than we are.  His failing and ours is that we both support and uphold a system of power and oppression of the poor.  For Zinn, as for Marx and Engels, “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle.”

For this reason, man cannot look backwards to determine what forms of government are most desirable, or what evils to avoid.  There is no past wisdom to preserve.  There is only the truth that every effort so far has failed.  We must look to the future, gaining from history only those rare glimpses it affords of what might be accomplished when the oppressed stand united against their oppressors.  Moments of inspiration that evidence what could be.  “Not overwhelming evidence,” Zinn writes on his educational website, “just enough to give HOPE, because for hope we don’t need certainty, only POSSIBILITY.”

Less academic and more religious words were never spoken.

To Zinn, all of America’s wars are evil.  It is not that he supports Hitler, or King George, or slavery, or Mullah Mohammad.  It is that he views war as merely another excuse for the rich to expand their wealth while controlling the people with words like valor and justice.  Rich colonists grow richer in the name of national liberty, rich northerners in the name of ending slavery, rich businessmen in the name of defeating fascism, and on, and on.

If Zinn is occasionally more sympathetic to one oppressor than another (Mao for the as-many-as forty-million people killed in just three years in The Great Leap Forward, over, say, Columbus, who Zinn blames for the ultimate loss of a similar number of Native Americans over three-centuries) he can be excused his mild hypocrisies.  In the end, he would consistently denounce both as proof of his master thesis – That power and wealth corrupt.  Thus Zinn holds no allegiance to any man, party, or nation.  He has written that he may, from time to time, vote for one candidate over another based on the fleeting circumstances of the moment, but his support exists, “only for the minute [he is] in the voting booth.”  Beyond that, the perpetual revolution must continue.  Those in power, even those put there by Zinn’s religion, must then be opposed until all who are oppressed, children by parents, minorities by majorities (except for the minority which is the bourgeois), workers by employers, are liberated and the millennial kingdom of Communism is ushered in.

The question is whether or not this religious revolution belongs in public schools.

Sir Ian:

“It was illegal for me to do (things) as a private person. Outside London, where I lived, there was no gay pub or bar you could go to. And even if you found one, it was, ‘Knock three times and ask for Louis’. It was horrible living this secret life. You could feel a little bit what it was like to be a Jew in central Europe during a certain period. It was horrible.”