Heard on WLS as "Teri's Soapbox," August 25, 2004
“Bush is, in fact, a thrice-cursed fascist tyrant and man-killer as he revifed the fascist war doctrine which had been judged by humankind long ago and is now bringing dark clouds of a new Cold War to hang over our planet and indiscriminately massacring innocent civilians after igniting the Afghan and Iraqi wars,” the statement said. It added: “It is the greatest tragedy for the U.S. that Bush, a political idiot and human trash, still remains in the presidential office of the world’s only ‘superpower,’ styling himself “an emperor of the world.”
Glenn Kessler, “N. Korea Continues Criticism of Bush,” Washington Post, 8/25/04
Which member of the chorus of carping chronics and malcontents who constitute the ABB, as in “Anybody But Bush” crowd said that? Who could it be? The folks at Moveon.org and the Left’s Leading Lying Lardsack, Michael Moore perhaps?
No, it was none other than the government of North Korea. As we discussed yesterday, apparently the Stalinist dictatorship has borrowed the script that has become the stock-in-trade of those stellar lights and has taken to reciting the litany of clichéd insults that would be more appropriate on a pre-PC, pre-anti-bully, retro school playground than in the realm of public discourse. Yesterday’s tantrum referred to the president as a “political imbecile bereft of morality,” and—here’s a shocker—compared him to Adolph Hitler. Anytime you can be compared to Hitler by a guy whose political mentor was Stalin, you must be doing something right, in my book.
Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not, last night the History Channel aired a documentary entitled “The Real Dr. Evil,” the subject of which was not that guy in LA injecting everyone with Botox at the behest of his pharmaceutical company pals, but North Korea’s own “Dear Leader,” Kim Jung Il. The program described several terrorist acts committed by the regime back in the 1980’s, which it explained were considered justifiable to further the “revolution,” and also touched on the 1994 episode involving the Korean nukes. President Clinton was quite concerned that the North Koreans were developing nuclear weapons, they explained, and dispatched Jimmy Carter to save the day by negotiating with the current dictator’s old man, Kim Il Sung. As a result, as the film’s voice over put it, “War was avoided.” Technically correct, perhaps, but that’s not exactly how I remember it. I recall that Jimmy, who had been sucking up to the North Koreans since the disco era, and who couldn’t resist another chance to appease an anti-American thug regime, insinuated himself in the process and gave away the store. When Kim Il Sung bought the farm shortly after this deal was sealed, a popular joke suggested that he had died of laughter from negotiating with Jimmy Carter.
Back to current events. The North Koreans are furious and here’s why:
“North Korea’s ire was raised when Bush, campaigning last week in Wisconsin, called North Korean leader Kim Jong Il a “tyrant” when he alluded to the administration’s effort to enlist other countries to restrain North Korea’s nuclear ambitions. “I felt it was important to bring other countries into the mix, like China, Japan and South Korea and Russia, so there’s now five countries saying to the tyrant in North Korea, ‘Disarm, disarm,’” Bush said at a campaign event.
Then further on in the article:
“But some administration officials believe that Pyongyang is seeking to scuttle the talks in order to deprive Bush of any political advantage from movement on the Korean issue. Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry has criticized Bush for not negotiating directly with North Korea, a long-sought goal of North Koreans in more than a year of talks.”
MMM. . . Let’s connect some dots. The King of Useful Idiots, Jimmy Carter, shares a skybox with the Pathological Pinko Pantload, Michael Moore at the Dem convention where they nominate the guy that the North Koreans hope becomes president. Coincidence? I think not. Anti-American symmetry----CATCH IT!!