Obama Flag Redesign Shows His True Stripes
Sept 24, 2012 15:34:43 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on Sept 24, 2012 15:34:43 GMT -5
Obama Flag Redesign Shows His True Stripes On Muslim Innocence
By MARK STEYN
Posted 09/21/2012 07:25 PM ET
I see the Obama campaign has redesigned the American flag, and very attractive it is too. Replacing the 50 stars of a federal republic is the single "O" logo symbolizing the great gaping maw of spendaholic centralization. And where the stripes used to be are a handful of red daubs, eerily mimicking the bloody finger streaks left on the pillars of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi as its staff were dragged out by a mob of savages to be tortured and killed.
What better symbol could one have of American foreign policy? Who says the slick hollow vapid marketing of the Obama campaign doesn't occasionally intersect with reality?
On the latter point, after a week and a half of peddling an utterly false narrative of what happened in Libya, the United States government is apparently beginning to discern that there are limits to what even Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice can say with a straight face.
The official line — that the slaughter of American officials was some sort of improvised movie review that got a little out of hand — is now in the process of modification to something bearing a less patently absurd relationship to what actually happened. That should not make any more forgivable the grotesque damage that the administration has done to the bedrock principle of civilized society: freedom of speech.
The more that U.S. government officials talk about the so-called film "Innocence Of Muslims" (which is actually merely a YouTube trailer) the more they confirm the mob's belief that works of "art" are the proper responsibility of government.
Obama and Clinton are currently starring as the Siskel & Ebert of Pakistani TV, giving two thumbs down to "Innocence Of Muslims" in hopes that it will dissuade local moviegoers from giving two heads off to consular officials.
"The United States government had absolutely nothing to do with this video," says Hillary Clinton. "We absolutely reject its content, and message." "We reject the efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others," adds Barack Obama. There follows the official State Department seal of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad.
Fellow government-funded film critics call "Innocence Of Muslims" "hateful and offensive" (Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations) and "reprehensible and disgusting" (Jay Carney, White House press secretary).
Gen. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior Pentagon advisor to Variety, has taken to telephoning personally those few movie fans who claim to enjoy the film. He called up Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who apparently thinks Innocence Of Muslims is the perfect date movie, to tell him the official position of the United States military is they'd be grateful if he could ease up on the five-star reviews.
news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/092112-626735-obama-administration-coddles-violent-muslims.htm?src=SThru
By MARK STEYN
Posted 09/21/2012 07:25 PM ET
I see the Obama campaign has redesigned the American flag, and very attractive it is too. Replacing the 50 stars of a federal republic is the single "O" logo symbolizing the great gaping maw of spendaholic centralization. And where the stripes used to be are a handful of red daubs, eerily mimicking the bloody finger streaks left on the pillars of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi as its staff were dragged out by a mob of savages to be tortured and killed.
What better symbol could one have of American foreign policy? Who says the slick hollow vapid marketing of the Obama campaign doesn't occasionally intersect with reality?
On the latter point, after a week and a half of peddling an utterly false narrative of what happened in Libya, the United States government is apparently beginning to discern that there are limits to what even Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice can say with a straight face.
The official line — that the slaughter of American officials was some sort of improvised movie review that got a little out of hand — is now in the process of modification to something bearing a less patently absurd relationship to what actually happened. That should not make any more forgivable the grotesque damage that the administration has done to the bedrock principle of civilized society: freedom of speech.
The more that U.S. government officials talk about the so-called film "Innocence Of Muslims" (which is actually merely a YouTube trailer) the more they confirm the mob's belief that works of "art" are the proper responsibility of government.
Obama and Clinton are currently starring as the Siskel & Ebert of Pakistani TV, giving two thumbs down to "Innocence Of Muslims" in hopes that it will dissuade local moviegoers from giving two heads off to consular officials.
"The United States government had absolutely nothing to do with this video," says Hillary Clinton. "We absolutely reject its content, and message." "We reject the efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others," adds Barack Obama. There follows the official State Department seal of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad.
Fellow government-funded film critics call "Innocence Of Muslims" "hateful and offensive" (Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations) and "reprehensible and disgusting" (Jay Carney, White House press secretary).
Gen. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and senior Pentagon advisor to Variety, has taken to telephoning personally those few movie fans who claim to enjoy the film. He called up Terry Jones, the Florida pastor who apparently thinks Innocence Of Muslims is the perfect date movie, to tell him the official position of the United States military is they'd be grateful if he could ease up on the five-star reviews.
news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/092112-626735-obama-administration-coddles-violent-muslims.htm?src=SThru
