Mark Steyn is very angry [worth quoting in full]:
As the week ended, Obama’s palace guard in the American media were demanding that every other Republican candidate distance himself from Donald Trump’s failure to correct, among thousands of attendees at his events, one who apparently is under the reprehensible illusion that the President is a Muslim.
Any candidate who plays this game with the Obamamedia is a fool. Assuming for the sake of argument that the questioner is genuine and not a plant (like, say, the 14-year old all-American schoolboy clockmaker who didn’t make a clock at all and is the son of a belligerent Muslim activist and perennial Sudanese presidential candidate whose brother runs a trucking company amusingly called Twin Towers Transportation), putting all of that to one side, there are several entirely reasonable responses one could make to the gentlemen of the press:
1) Unlike Hillary Clinton’s under-attended “rallies”, a voter doesn’t have to undergo a background check or sign a piece of paper pledging to support her in the election before being permitted into a Republican candidate’s presence. So at our campaign events there are all kinds of people with all kinds of views – and it goes without saying I won’t agree with them all. If you find that odd, maybe you’ve been covering Hillary too long.
2) Why does one Republican candidate’s “scandal” get hung around the neck of every other guy’s? I’ll answer your question to me about Donald Trump’s ‘gaffe’ after you ask Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee and Joe Biden about Hillary Clinton’s server and how she handled Benghazi. Till then, get lost.
3) In the normal course of events, the President – who is supposed to serve as president of all the people, not just the half of the country that voted for him – should command a certain respect. But this particular president has compared the members of the loyal opposition to terrorists and to the more hardcore Iranian ayatollahs. And none of you media bigfeet huffing and puffing about lèse-majesté gave a crap about that. So, if you’ll forgive me, as someone designated a terrorist and ayatollah by Obama, I’m disinclined to rise to defend the President’s amour propre. Go hector someone else.
4) As to respect for the office, the President is so respectful of the papacy that his White House reception for Pope Francis will be filled with gay bishops, transgender activists and pro-abortion nuns. Apparently His Holiness is expected to have a thicker skin about dissenting voices than King Barack.
5) If I understand you shrill little twerps correctly, I’m supposed to point out to this guy in New Hampshire that the President is not a Muslim but a Christian. Well, his father and step-father were both Muslims, which means, as far as Islam is concerned, he was born a Muslim. Has he renounced it? My fellow candidate Ted Cruz entered this world in Calgary, Alberta in 1970, which means that he was born a British subject and a citizen of Canada. I don’t suppose the Queen cares about that one way or the other – unlike your average Islamic scholar in Qom or Cairo. Yet you media types made such a big deal out of it that Ted was obliged to write to Ottawa to renounce even any theoretical Canadianness. Have you inquired of your buddy the President whether he’s done anything similarly clarifying?
6) As to whether he’s a Christian, have you asked him whether he has attended even semi-regularly any church other than that of Jeremiah (“God damn America”) Wright? A man is free to attend the Westboro Baptist Church but if he chooses to do so I’m not obligated to defend his Christianity. And frankly, whatever the President’s personal faith, there is no dispute that his leadership of the western world has been an utter catastrophe for Christians around the planet. Some of the oldest Christian communities on earth have been entirely extinguished on Obama’s watch: in Mosul, Iraq, which was an American protectorate on the day he took office, not a single Christian remains. Every single one of them is dead or fled. So, instead of jumping through your preposterous hoops and speaking up for the most powerful man in the world, I would rather speak up for the powerless – for the Nigerian schoolgirls, for the Yazidi, for the Copts in Egypt, and for all the other beleaguered Christian communities in the world this feckless president has set alight and watched burn.
7) Oh, and one other thing. This kind of super-fake-o lame-ass nothing controversy that you dowager duchesses of the press are having the vapors about is precisely why the political process has fallen into such disrepute and your own industry is bankrupt. No real person cares about this “scandal”. So, unless you’ve got a question about the economy or immigration or something real, screw off outta here.
I’m glad to see Mark getting this angry. We all need to get this angry — and stay angry.
America and The West are going to Hell very quickly. Totalitarianism is on the march — actually, a run, these days.
Because it never stops marching towards Utopia, never ceases to ‘lean forward’ spreading it’s black poison.
With the loss of resolve in The West, particularly in The Anglosphere, all that has happened is that the forces of Totalitarianism have picked-up speed in their efforts to enslave the World, shove it head-long into The Darkness, snuff-out The Light Of Truth.
Certainly, at the very least, we are facing as bad a situation as in the 1930’s when Totalitarianism triumphed and hundreds of millions died as a result. I think it’s worse this time because the opposition to it is so much more weakened, so much more dispirited. So many of us have lost the Will to defend what is Right, what is Good, what is Honest, Decent, and True. We are standing on the brink of a new Dark Age, a regression back to Primitivism.
The Nihilists are gaining Power And Control across the face of the whole of the Earth. They despise Life. They reject God. They spit on Freedom and defecate on Morality. They seek Destruction for Destruction’s sake, worshiping, as they do, at the Alter Of Death. They are The Culture Of Death personified.
We, The Remnant, those who still believe in Absolute Truth, who believe in Humanity, who have Faith in The Creator, must stand athwart the tide of Nihilism and say: ‘This shall not be our fate; we will not sink into The Darkness’.
We have a Duty to those who fought and died for us before us and to our Posterity to fight this War with all our hearts and minds, to seek Victory over the Forces of Evil that seek to encompass The Camp Of The Saints and The Beloved City. We have no choice in the matter if we dare to call ourselves ‘Human’.
‘Be not afraid!’
‘Never Despair!’
