…the truth is shockingly radical to some people. How DARE he say that! Well it isn’t truth’s fault that truth is sometimes shocking, is it? Well is it?
Allen West does a pretty good job of standing his ground and staying focused;
Did you catch the fact that the Vice Chairman of the National Communist Party thinks that being called a communist is insulting? I found myself hoping that West would bring it up. Could you imagine a high ranking NRA executive thinking it an insult to be called an NRA member?
Communists (Progressives) have to slink around in the dark as a way of life and they know it. Turn on the lights!
“Well I don’t care what he says.” I love it. CNN goes to the actual, openly named Communist Party (they’re probably on a first name basis) for their reaction to someone calling someone else a communist. Oh, the layers of irony and stupidity. See; this how these things make the major headlines.
It’s all because Allen West had the gall, the nerve, the cheek, the chutzpah, to describe what was right in front of his face and for all to see. The loonies go apoplectic, try to beat West over the head with his own comments, and now a lot more people have heard that the communists had to re-brand themselves, that they have a caucus in Washington, the self described Communist Party comes out saying it’s insulting to call people communists, and West gets a boost. This is how it works, people. We win every time we stick to basic truth.
Now if West had gone all Republican (getting scared, going marshmallow, saying he didn’t really mean it, and sorry to be so reckless with my words, please forgive me, mea maxima culpa) he’d have lost. And we’d lose with him. As it is, the loonies actually look like loonies, making loonies of themselves, calling out more loonies to join the loony-fest, and the truth gets a boost.
Hat tip; Glen Beck, and I credit him also for bringing some of our history (the parts that don’t get taught in the coercive, i.e. government, schools) into the public spotlight over the years.
Lyle, your post inspired me to create Communists Against Terrorism pdf, mocking FBI/BJA’s Communities Against Terrorism pdf. Thanks!
I also like the way, in the beginning, he makes it clear that they are trying to get cute by knowingly oversimplifying/obfuscating both his words and the larger issue.
I love it.
“I don’t care what he says.”
And I agree. I don’t think we’re doing ourselves any favors by playing along with the collectivists in letting them define the terms of things.
“Oh, I’m not a communist, I’m a socialist.”
Whatever. “I don’t live in Los Angeles, I live in Hollywood.” From a thousand miles away, it looks like the same thing, and you’ve got the same crappy traffic and the same shit in the air. I don’t give a rat’s ass about whether you think of yourself as a communist or a socialist or an anarcho-syndicalist or a progressive or just a plain marxist, I care about the fact that you believe in the forcible redistribution of wealth and the plethora of evils that go along with that bundle of ideologies.