John Derbyshire says Rev. Wright is a fatal pre-existing condition for the Obama campaign.

The MSM can’t smother this, not in the age of the web, though they are trying mightily. (The Sunday New York Times “Week in Review” Section had nothing about Wright; neither did the main news section.) Americans are a fair-minded people, who find double standards obnoxious. A guy who says “nappy-headed ho’s” in an irreverent radio show is dragged round the city walls behind a chariot to the delighted howls of a mob of self-righteous “anti-racists”; yet a man who uses the authority of the cloth to damn our country and curse white people, is praised as a “biblical scholar” by a candidate for the presidency? I don’t think so. This won’t stand. The man is toast.

Propaganda posters from early in the 20th Century.

Propaganda posters from early in the 21st Century.

The creepy dimensions of the Left’s Obama fetish just continue to unfold. And if many of the official and unofficial Obama posters bear a striking resemblence to marxist and fascist “Glorious Leader” posters from last century, it’s no accident. The guy who is designing many of the Obama posters is the same guy whose “art” involves creating posters such as these.

American Digest has a fascinating analysis of this whole propaganda vibe. And as I suggested in the headline of this post, the same clueless trend-sheep that buy and wear Che Guevara T-shirts think the whole retro-propaganda thing is oh-so-very chic. And if you’re using it to sell jeans and skateboards, maybe it is.

But when you appropriate the aesthetic of those who marketed the divinization of Stalin, Hitler, Mao and the rest of the 20th Century’s blood-soaked, genocidal monsters in order to promote a candidate for the most powerful elected office in the world. . .

Well you’ve just turned the creepy knob to “11”.  

 

Chris Matthews’ Leg to Obama: “You Make Me Want to Be a Better Limb” 

The President was here this morning and spoke to a luncheon. I wasn’t able to attend but heard it was very good.

UPDATE: Here is a transcript of the President’s speech to the NRB.

Meanwhile, Friend-of-Blather, Bonnie has posted some healing reflections on the recent atrocity in Jerusalem. Read “Finding the Quiet Center.”

I’m sitting in one of the lobbies of the leviathan Gaylord Opryland Hotel watching the toupees go by.

I’m taking the annual dose of punishment required of all who wish to particupate in the Christian media industrial complex–attendance at the National Religious Broadcasters convention.

It’s sort of like that initiation ritual Richard Harris’ character had to endure to be a member of the Indian tribe in “A Man Called Horse.” Only the ordeal happens every year.

Okay. Perhaps I’m being a bit dramatic. You hardly ever get hung up by hooks through your chesty parts at these things.

Jerusalem Post: “Attack Will Be Seen in Messianic Terms”

Ben-David: “An Assault on the Heart of Zionism”

DEBKA: “Leads to Hamas-Damascus, Hizballah – or both – in Jerusalem students’ murders”

Israel Insider: “Why there’s a Hamas-Israel war.”

YNet: “Hamas Countdown Has Begun“

Here is footage no U.S. News organization has the huevos or integrity to show you. Palistinians in joyous celebration of the successful slaughter of Israeli students.

Naturally, the blame-the-victim reflex among America’s “progressives” kicked in before the blood had been mopped up off the floor.

There is a war coming, dear readers. Israel will not allow Olmert to appease and restrain much longer. In fact, the last straw may have already hit the camel’s back.

. . .if Hillary somehow finds a powerplay that gets her the Dem nomination? Pretty darned ugly if this is any indication.

When I was composing my Moses post (below) last night, James Lileks was having similar thoughts about the same time:

 . . .if Moses was tripping we wouldn’t have ten commandments. We would have three. The first would make sense, more or less; the second, written half an hour later, would command profound respect for lizards who sit on stones and look at you, because they’re freaking incredible when you think about it, and the third would be gibberish.

Never mind the problem of getting the tablets down the mountain – anyone who has experience of watching stoners try to assemble pizza money when the doorbell rings doubts that Moses could have hauled stone tablets all the way down.

Scroll down for the whole thing, here.

Here’s everything you need to know about why it was vital to cast that strategic vote for Hillary in the Texas primary this week—all bundled up in an appalling, terrifying, three minute-five second bundle.

Update: I have some additional thoughts on this video over at my “Stop Worshiping Celebrities” blog.