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December 26, 2005
Never Trust a Moonbat
Opponents of the Patriot Act have been hobbled by the fact that no one has ever had their rights infringed in any way by its common sense antiterror provisions. Some have reacted to this problem in typical moonbat fashion — by believing in lies.
A student at UMass Dartmouth managed to start an Internet firestorm recently by telling professors that he received a visit from Homeland Security agents after requesting the genocidal tyrant Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book" from a library. At last the Left had some proof that the Bush Administration isn't actually concerned with terrorism, but with harassing the readers of leftist propaganda.
Unsurprisingly, it has come to light that the whole thing was a lie, as the student admitted after being confronted with the inconsistencies that piled up as he embellished his story. The young man behaved in true "reality-based community" fashion:
The story began to unravel, and the student, faced with the truth, broke down and cried.
The unmasking of this lie is a disappointment for Ted Kennedy, who passed it along in a bombastic diatribe attacking the Bush Administration for defending us from terrorism. Here's what Massachusetts's esteemed senior Senator had to say in the Boston Globe last Thursday:
Just this past week there were public reports that a college student in Massachusetts had two government agents show up at his house because he had gone to the library and asked for the official Chinese version of Mao Tse-tung's Communist Manifesto. Following his professor's instructions to use original source material, this young man discovered that he, too, was on the government's watch list.
Think of the chilling effect on free speech and academic freedom when a government agent shows up at your home — after you request a book from the library.
Incredibly, we are now in an era where reading a controversial book may be evidence of a link to terrorists.
Of course Chappaquiddick Ted has apologized profusely for unwittingly disseminating lies to the public by buying into this hoax... Just kidding! Here's the Kennedy camp's reaction, according to Saturday's Boston Globe:
Laura Capps, a Kennedy spokeswoman, said last night that the senator cited ''public reports" in his opinion piece. Even if the assertion was a hoax, she said, it did not detract from Kennedy's broader point that the Bush administration has gone too far in engaging in surveillance.
Or, as the likeminded Dan Rather might put it, the hoax was fake but accurate.
The imaginative student, whose name has been withheld from news accounts, will apparently pay no price for leaving egg on the Cape Cod Orca's misshapen face:
John Hoey, spokesman for UMass-Dartmouth, said the university did not expect to take any action against the student. ''This was a conversation that took place between a student and his faculty members," Hoey said.
Whoever this sniveling young moonbat might be, we owe him one for providing a lesson in the pitfalls of willful gullibility — although I'm guessing that more than a few will fail to learn from it.
With thanks to V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at December 26, 2005 9:43 AM
Comments
What can we expect? These dolts have been shooting blanks trying to take down the evil Bushitlerburton regime for 5 long years...it only stands to reason they're grasping at every straw they can find in the dark, dark wilderness Chairman How Tsedong has led their party of idiots into.
Posted by: LC Triplenecksteel at December 26, 2005 12:54 PM
Brokaw and Koppel Let Their Leftist Freak Flags Fly on 'Press the Meat'
With Tim Russert hosting Ted Koppel and Tom Brokaw and no one else, it was predictably an hour of liberal sermonizing. It's a scandal that America won't raise taxes. It's a scandal that America won't acknowledge they go to war for oil. It's a scandal that some people still don't have government-funded health insurance. They started with Hurricane Katrina. Brokaw railed against America still having a "permanent underclass."
Left-wing bias in the news. What you talkin' 'bout, Willis?
Posted by: V the K at December 26, 2005 12:58 PM
On-Topic: I'm sure the kid was one of Karl Rove's double agents. Who made up the whole story as a double-bluff to discredit the left.
Posted by: V the K at December 26, 2005 2:50 PM
OMG, wherever did you get that pix of Pumpkinhead Ted? It is ghastly, utterly painful to behold!
Posted by: The MaryHunter at December 26, 2005 6:07 PM
Somebody ought to tell Ted that "The Communist Manifesto" was by Marx, not by Mao.
Retarded alcoholic left relics really should consider retirement. Kos will be happy to take over for you, Ted.
Posted by: Cato the Elder at December 27, 2005 3:51 PM
Fakes, phonies and fools! What a sad state the formerly loyal opposition finds itself in.
Real life and death issues confront this nation every day and these folks can't get past their own lies.
Posted by: Mike's America at December 28, 2005 12:27 AM
Cape Cod Orca...heh!
Posted by: Pam at December 28, 2005 7:40 PM
