The Thomas Clown Affair

So, White House Press Corps Goon-Maven Helen Thomas goes where Don Imus would fear to tread, and now there's hamburger all over the highway.

Let me point out that I, too, have urged the Jews to leave Israel. They should come to America. This is the land for them. Among the matters that their culture has been known for across all their history is their grasp of money as technology: concepts put to work on material life. Nowhere in the world has there ever been such a home for such a thing as this one. This was an element of America when "the New World" was still a only gaseous dream of scripture.

I object to Israel and I always have. One aspect of this is how weary I become over anyone equating anti-Israel with Jew-hater. I suppose there is more than enough room for discussion over that equivocation, but I always hope for sharp minds who can move it along to the correct understandings and conclusions.

No, I object to Israel on general grounds of heresy and rebellion. I understand man as a reasoning species in an understandable universe whose governance by transcendental beings is strictly without evidence, let alone proof, and therefore reject any and all religious claims for temporal government or other coercive political schemery. And why any reasonable person would claim a home on religious grounds in the middle of hundreds of millions of howling savages specifically intent on bringing them to ghastly murder is quite beyond even my enormous powers of comprehension.

I have enough on my plate, though, despising this cancer of a government lying on the spine of my country, now, to include whatever sustenance for Israel is gouged out of American productivity by force, so I'm generally content to watch at arm's-length. In breadth-of-history terms, I sometimes wonder whether America will be reduced to truly medieval existence before the Middle East all goes nuke-green, or the other way around. It's an idle wonder, though, given the horrible facts about a dying America. In all that context, I wish the Jews of Israel a hearty "good luck!" albeit quite without my dime in their pot, and also while I shake my head at the futility of attempting a religious foundation against religious objections of stark maniacs. Really: good luck with that.


Presuming that you might, dear reader, please bear that all in mind when I point you to what is the real matter of The Thomas Clown Affair, which is of course that she's a cranky-ass old lefty belt and that nobody in Washington has the least grounds for outrage simply because generations of them have let her glare and sneer them into submission.

The blood's in the shark-tank now, though, I think. America is in that queer stage of ethical downfall during which the fortunes of the powerful can turn-over just about instantly on nothing but fashion, and we might get to see her laid low before she dies.

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1:46pm edit: Drudge's header is delicious: "HELEN SENT TO POLAND"

Very well played, sir. Splendid backhand.