THERE YOU GO AGAIN

There you go again, Cockburn, writing a magnanimous piece about a hate figure from the American Right’s pantheon of living Dilbert characters. Robert Novak up there with Lush Limpdick and Glenn ‘scream like a girl’ Beck. Magnanimous whilst managing to be both muckraker and troublemaker at the same time, magnificently conjuring mention of Georgia’s attack on Russia, and government issue meth, MDMA and murder, in the same piece.

Georgia, and McCain’s neocon nutcase adviser Randy Scheunemann’s attempt to make his man look more presidential by restarting the Cold War with Georgia’s attack on Russia, which the Right were hoping would be forgotten as soon as possible. Along with the government issue meth, MDMA and the murder of Russian civilians.

But where is the true verbal viciousness; the unforgiveable phrase that can never be taken back. In short, where are the immortal words that Hunter Thompson used in his obituary of Nixon?

“He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin. ... he should have been buried at sea. (His) body would be wrapped and sewn loosely in canvas sailcloth and dumped off the stern of a frigate at least 100 miles off the coast and at least 1,000 miles south of San Diego, so the corpse could never wash up on American soil in any recognizable form.”

You didn’t get your verbal reticence over polite cups of tea in suburban Dalkey on the Barnhill Road. Must have been Glenalmond and the sanctimonious Scots prezzers fooling you into believing that being polite to the English is the way to heaven. At least for the janissaries they were educating, yourself excepted we hope.

An Irish passport saved your brother’s life and you carry the same; at least until your recent elevation to citizen of Wome (*). No Irishman would fail to keep alive the flame of hatred for the enemy across the water; likewise, surely, no true progressive for the Neocons. But you appear to have followed Tony Benn’s advice to keep your disagreements to the issues and avoid making it personal. Which, after the last eight years this correspondent singularly fails to do; whilst recognizing that Tony Benn is completely right and admiring your own success in the matter.

Some say that the English don’t have feelings; it’s their boarding school education, where feelings are the first thing they tear out. “Give me the child until the age of seven,” say the Jesuits, “and I will give you the man.” “Rush Limbaugh and his epigones.” Steady there, Cockburn, people will be saying that Keble college and the hated English have unmanned you sir, after all. That, or your time at Glenalmond is still not undone and may never be.

Can I suggest placing your original passport in front of you on your desk when you write such pieces. The green one. Think of it as a variation of ‘play the green card’. Let us have no more of this lily-livered politeness to tyrants, their minions, their hangers-on and their MSM liars.

Else, how will the progressive ‘Tiocfaidh ár lá’ come about?

(*) Wome on the Potomac, home of Biggus Dickus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5k9wPOegbs

Tiocfaidh ár lá - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiocfaidh_ár_lá

The Right Wing’s Prince of Gonzo, by Alexander Cockburn - Counter Punch - 082109 -

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn08212009.html

You really shouldn’t speak ill of the dead, but Novak is the exception to the rule.  The world is a better place without him!

REVISIONISM

This obituary is up there with the revisionist eulogizing of Ronnie Raygun; leading candiate for worst president in US history; but it’s a very large field.

Revisionist eulogizing that in Raygun’s case was forced on radio and TV stations who were deluged with extremist activists demanding that they run their sickening disinformation to rewrite history and the US people’s majority detestation of the man.

One is reminded of Hunter Thompson’s obituary for Nixon—no man deserved it so well, and oh so much more. For the Valerie Plame / Cheney leak affair - pick the appropriate phrase

“(He) was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. ... He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin.

... he should have been buried at sea. (His) body would be wrapped and sewn loosely in canvas sailcloth and dumped off the stern of a frigate at least 100 miles off the coast and at least 1,000 miles south of San Diego, so the corpse could never wash up on American soil in any recognizable form.
Change Nixon to Neocon and it could have been written yesterday. Hunter Thompson’s Obituary for Nixon - http://www.counterpunch.org/thompson02212005.html

Don’t let the Neocons have _you_ for lunch -

http://exiledonline.com/class-war-101-meet-the-reptiles-who-are-making-meat-out-of-you/