The Left Again Proposes the Exhumation of Senator McCarthy

It was during the height of the infamous Foley Scandal, and David Corn blogged about his list of Gay Republicans that he would immediately out to the public if he didn’t get instant gratification on some pet peeve issues of his. His outing threat ran as follows.

"[The list] includes nine chiefs of staffs, two press secretaries, and two directors of communications—is that (if it's acucurate) it shows that some of the religious right's favorite representatives and senators have gay staffers helping them advance their political careers and agendas"- David Corn, 2006

The staff of National Review Online rightfully denounced David Corn as the unhinged nut-job that he truly had become. Here was a man who wrote in vituperating high-dudgeon about how bad Senator Joseph McCarthy and his infamous blacklists were for the country doing the exact same thing the first time he thought he could help his own ideological and political causes. It was gross hypocrisy on the level of John Edwards’ architectural taste or Al Gore’s indoor, heated swimming pool.

David Corn pales in comparison to what Slate Legal Hack, Dahlia Lithwick, posited after visiting Netroots Nation this last July. She speaks glowingly about holding a “first 100 days of accountability” for former Bush Administration officials starting the second a Democrat gets control of The White House. Lithwick’s delusional Committee of Public Safety would investigate every member of George W. Bush’s administration that had anything to do with Operation Iraqi Freedom. Lithwick describes how it would differ somewhat from the tactics employed by Robespierre.

We're already falling into this trap of either positing Nuremberg-style war crimes tribunals, or nothing, immunizing everyone from John Yoo up and down…but everybody says there's a lot of gray area in between that, and that accountability doesn't necessarily mean Nuremberg, it doesn't necessarily mean nothing, it means possibly a truth commission, possibly appointing a special prosecutor to look at it…

So if Lithwick underwrote a movie about this, it wouldn’t imply having Leni Reifenstahl’s poltergeist directing. We could get Michael Moore or the ghost of D.W. Griffith to direct her disgusting propaganda instead. But in keeping with her poorly written articles for Slate Magazine, Dahlia can’t quite get around to making up her mind.

Certainly long before we make a decision to do what Stuart Taylor suggested this week, which was immunize everybody in advance, or alternatively make a decision to trot them out before a war crimes tribunal before the whole world, we should really find out what happened…

So the Netroots Nation is already making its list and deciding who to round up, once their anointed one is elected. They probably have the real estate under contract where they would like to start building the death camps. This reminds me of the rather telling observations that liberal blogger Thomas P. M. Barnett made about Kos and his ilk.

Here's my favorite from a guy whose ego left the universe sometime in recent months, the wordsmith terror known as Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, who really belongs in some left-wing dictatorship deep inside the Gap where he could spit out his threats with more elan (and, one presumes, force):

"Absolutely, we could take her out."

Can't you just see this guy making people disappear if you gave him the chance?

People who posture so extremely are typically the ones who, given the right circumstances, turn into monsters. I mean, on face value, can you see this guy with any real power he wouldn't abuse? - Thomas P. M. Barnett, Feb 2007

The money quote in here was the rhetorical question at the end. These people have lost any sense of propriety or respect for others. The ideological blinkers are on and the humanity of those who disagree with them has been chucked aside as a detriment to the goal.

But do they even know what the goal is? Once they shot all the Bushinistas, where does this beast go to feed? People like Kos and Dahlia Lithwick represent a profound threat to any sane society. They advocate a direct descent into Hell. They are stupid, evil and depraved and totally do not deserve any shred of respect or justification. They are haters that masquerade as intellectual debaters.

Hilaire Belloc understood better than most what a monumental threat that this strain of mobocracy represented to modern society. He described what people like Kos, Lithwick, and all of the other members of Netroots Nation represented in accurate and stark terms.

“We sit by and watch the barbarian. We tolerate him. In the long stretches of peace, we are not afraid. We are tickled by his reverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us: we laugh. But as we laugh, we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond. And on these faces, there is no smile.”Belloc

So we all are probably somewhere on one of Netroots Nation’s list of malefactors. With enough blog traffic and advertising, we could even make the Big Show and be one of Kieth Olberman’s Worst People in the Universe. We all know he’s just kidding with that stuff; don’t we?

Don’t just hope that you off some liberal bigot’s hate list. Vote yourself off. McCain 2008.