Monday - March 08, 2004

Category Image The Parrot is Dead


I've always liked Monty Python, but I've never been an expert on it. I'm not one of those guys that can quote every line from The Life of Brian, and in fact I don't even think I've seen that movie yet. But I do like some of their other work and find this troupe to be very funny and remarkably intelligent.

One of my favorite skits is the one about the dead parrot . It's not their funniest, but to me it is the clearest satire of how people can ignore truth by simply refusing to acknowlege it. John Kerry uses this same belligerent method to attack his political opponents.

So the skit about the dead parrot goes something like this. A man comes into a pet shop with a dead parrot sitting at the bottom of a bird cage. He complains that he just bought the bird from the store and it died. He wants his money back.

The pet shop owner denies the bird is dead, it's just sleeping. No matter what evidence is presented, he denies the bird is dead. But it has rigor mortis? No, it is just petrified with fear. The denials get more and more absurd.

This denial of truth is comical on the television, but it is sinister when practiced by politicians. And politicians are doing it more and more lately, with less and less regard for common sense.

John Kerry, for instance, likes to come out of the blue and make attacks on Bush that have no relation to reality. There are a lot of things to attack Bush on, but it is surreal for Kerry to have accused Bush a few weeks ago of waging an attack campaign against him. Bush at that time had done no campaigning and was staying discretely out of the Democratic primary fight. Then Kerry accuses Bush of slandering his Viet Nam record, when no such thing happened. Then at the same time Kerry and company began a completely fabricated, and old, assault on Bush's time in the National Guard.

And then there's the often repeated tale of the plastic turkey. The fact that the turkey was real stops no one in the press from repeating ad nauseum that Bush held up a plastic turkey. Okay, this wasn't Kerry, but it sure stinks of his methods. I'm not even sure why it's wrong to hold up a plastic turkey, even if he had.

In all these cases, there is no basis in reality for the charges made, but that is precisely why they are being made. Kerry is a communist and anti-American and hopes that if he can sling enough mud onto his opponent, no one will notice his own poor hygiene.

I don't know how things have been in the past. History notoriously sanitizes past events. But it seems to me that since the demise of the Cold War that the Democratic party has gotten more and more vicious, and as their plight worsens they have resorted to more and more desperate tactics to retain or regain power.

Americans, the bird is dead, and no denying will re-animate it. The socialist agenda of the Democratic communists is bad and the wrong direction for our country, only slightly worse than the agenda of the Republicans. But the wholesale destruction of reality is worse than any mere domestic or foreign policy direction, it is a danger to our rule of law and our civilization.

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