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   From: LiberalismKills@freedom1a.air   
      
   By Shawn Macomber   
   May 26, 2004   
      
   People ask whether the media is "liberal"? They should be asking how far   
   left it will eventually become. The recent appointment of Harold Meyerson --   
   an obscure radical and quaint believer in working class radicalism -- to one   
   of the most coveted jobs in American journalism provides a troubling answer.   
   Meyerson, a political editor for The L.A. Weekly, a leftist throwaway   
   tabloid, and Editor-at-Large for Bill Moyers’ ideological journal, The   
   American Prospect, has been made a regular columnist for the Washington   
   Post. Meyerson also has an activist career as Vice-Chair of the Democratic   
   Socialists of America, and refers to George W. Bush “The Most Dangerous   
   President Ever,” frequently describes America as “belligerent” and   
   “xenophobic,” and openly yearns for a European superstate to “prevail” in   
   blocking American interests and power. “We need Europe to save us from   
   ourselves,” Meyerson recently wrote.   
      
   The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), by its own admission, is “the   
   largest socialist organization in the United States, and the principal U.S.   
   affiliate of the Socialist International.” Meyerson is so well respected by   
   the DSA that he was the honored guest at their annual 1995 dinner and is a   
   featured speaker at the Socialist Scholars Conference, an event which   
   annually gathers intellectuals of the hard left including indicted   
   terrorist, Lynne Stewart.   
      
      
      
      
   On Sept. 12, 2001, before the smoke of the Twin Towers cleared, before a   
   single mound of rubble had been moved – before most Americans were even   
   completely sure who attacked us – the Left was already knee-deep in plans to   
   oppose America's efforts at self-defense with Meyerson inthe lead. Less than   
   24 hours after the attacks, Meyerson set the template for the next three   
   years of left-wing talking points on the attacks:   
      
      
      
   If Bush uses the attack to send Pentagon spending soaring, the Dems have to   
   muster the gumption to say that even with Tuesday's attack, our defense   
   budget is still indefensibly high. If the Administration sees the attack as   
   a graceful way to back out of an open-border policy with Mexico, and the   
   extension of rights and citizenship to million of illegal immigrants, the   
   Dems still must persist in their pro-immigrant line. If John Ashcroft's   
   Justice Department sees this as the perfect pretext to squelch   
   anti-globalization protests and to get more billions for the FBI to monitor   
   the protestors, the Dems must fight the security apparat's consistent   
   inability to distinguish between threats to public safety and threats to   
   conventional wisdom. (Emphasis added.)   
      
      
      
      
   “By night, we drop bombs; by day, we drop peanut butter and jelly,” Meyerson   
   wrote of the short Afghanistan campaign that followed, one of the most   
   humane in the history of warfare. “Our daytime rounds, at least at the   
   outset of the campaign, seem more symbolic than our nightly ones; the amount   
   of food we're delivering from the sky does not make up for the amount of   
   food that no longer can be delivered on the ground now that our   
   counterattack has begun.”   
      
      
      
   As the war on terror moved on, he was soon was begging Europe to rescue   
   humanity from the Great Satan. “Americans must hope that, in this era of   
   global integration, we are not at the brink of the American century. If   
   anything, the Europeans should take some time out from perfecting Europe to   
   project their values more forcefully on the wider world.” Clearly Europe is   
   political home for Meyerson. “At the outset of the 21st century, the battle   
   between Europe and America for the power to shape the century, and on behalf   
   of different models of social organization, is already joined,” Meyerson   
   lectures. “And may I gently suggest that the best possible outcome for the   
   American democratic republic – for the America of Jefferson, Lincoln and   
   Franklin Roosevelt – would be an American (or more precisely, Bushian)   
   defeat.”   
      
      
      
      
   Meyerson was not so decisive in describing Saddam Hussein's defeat.   
   Genuflecting to the obvious he wrote that the United States was safer now   
   that Saddam Hussein was behind bars.” But he quickly added a laundry list of   
   other things that would make us “safer” than capturing Saddam. Among them,   
   having John Ashcroft step down as attorney general.   
      
      
      
   It would also make the world safer, according to Meyerson, if Iraq were   
   handed over to the United Nations. “The fact that it's our blood that has   
   been shed among allied forces in the war does not necessarily mean that we   
   are therefore the best qualified, the most experienced or the most   
   politically legitimate force to be in charge of post war Iraq.”   
      
      
      
   In keeping with his 19th Century class prejudices, Meyerson thinks that   
   investment is not work.   
      
      
      
   Take a quick look, or a long one, at the tax code as Bush has altered it   
   during his three years as president, and you're compelled to conclude that   
   work has become a distinctly inferior kind of income acquisition in the eyes   
   of the law. Bush tax policy rewards investment and inheritance. Relying on   
   work for your income, by contrast, turns you into a second-class citizen.   
   Republicans are projecting themselves as an inclusive, moderate party, even   
   as their platform snarls at gays and W’s economic plan declares war against   
   the poor.   
      
      
      
   As a reflector of the paranoid, Marxist fantasies of the Democratic Party   
   left, Meyerson is on target. But as a columnist for the most politically   
   influential paper in America his presence is truly troubling.   
      
      
   --   
   Left-wing liberals are EVERYTHING they accuse the right of being.   
   They are mean, vicious, hateful, greedy, cold-hearted, closed-minded,   
   selfish, intolerant, bigoted and racist.   
      
   Liberals HATE America!   
      
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