From a Nightmare Reader: 2005 Year-End Review

Here's an email from a frequent reader of the Nightmare.

Year-end review of 2005. You will not see this in the MSM

1. Every day in Iraq and elsewhere our military has performed gallantly, courageously, selflessly. There have been thousands of individual acts of sacrifice, heroism and patriotism. You will not see these in the MSM.

2. The Iraqi front, in this global war brought on by the Islamist terrorists, has been a scene of great progress politically, economically and militarily in 2005. You will not see this in the MSM.

3. The Iraqi people voted in 3 elections setting the foundations in place for a free, democratic Iraq. Done with upwards of a 70% vote despite the threats & bombs of the Islamist terrorists. This was truly a monumental achievement which history will record as a milestone on the long march toward freedom for them and thruout the Middle East. You will not see this in the MSM.

4. 2005 will be remembered as the 4th year without an attack by the Islamist terrorists in the United States. Thank you President Bush for your unwavering leadership and thank you to the US military for your heroic service. You wont see this in the MSM.

Happy New Year Semper Fi Joe Fitzgerald



Thanks Joe, and Happy New Year to all of you from Political Nightmare.com

Is King Kong Political?

Or am I just obsessed with politics...

Yesterday, my son and I headed to the new Pittsburgh Mills shopping mall that is just north of Pittsburgh. It's brand new and has state of the art movie theatres. What better place to see the new King Kong movie. Let me just say the three hour marathon that is this movie is worth it if you're just going to be entertained. And that was my thinking going in. I knew it would be entertaining with the special effects that I knew Peter Jackson would use. And it was. The King Kong vs. The three T-Rexes was beyond cool. The scenes of 1930's New York were amazing. I don't know how they do it.

So, I'm watching the movie. We all know the story. Some evil capitalist captures this giant ape and brings it back to New York with no consideration for the giant ape, only dollar signs. Ape has girl. Ape loses girl. Ape destroys city looking for girl, etc... Well, the girl sees something special in the giant ape that will undoubtedly cause millions in property damage and take countless lives. But it's a love story. That's the important thing to remember. (I guess...)

The movie is over and my wheels immediately start spinning thinking about this movie. And though it was quite entertaining, I couldn't help but think of the moral this story told my impressionable 12 year old son. He feels bad for Kong. Poor Kong... Here he was, living on his undiscovered island, not bothering anybody. And then out of nowhere, the capitalist shows up, captures him and not only takes his woman from him but then tries to make money off of his now lack of freedom. Now, I'm not disputing that capturing a giant gorilla and taking him to New York is a bad idea. But this was more emotional than that. The looks between Kong and the girl were very emotional. They laugh together, and are clearly building a relationship. Then later, she's crying, he's protective. She clearly loved Kong. Why? I have no idea. He's a giant gorilla that has killed how many people...

Anyway, he has the girl, climbs to the top of the Empire State Building, gets shot repeatedly by military planes and falls and dies. Boo hoo, we're all very sad. The odd thing to me is that we are sad that Kong is dead. We're not concerned with the hundreds of people he killed prior to climbing the Empire State Building. We're not concerned with the multiple military pilots that were killed trying to stop Kong from killing perhaps thousands of people. We're not concerned about the thousands of jobs that were lost do to the massive property damage caused by this giant ape. What we're supposed to feel is grief for Kong and the girl because their love is now lost and Kong is dead.

What the hell kind of story is that? Being a former Marine, I generally identify with any military man in a movie. I see the military as a noble and honorable profession and far too often in Hollywood, they are portrayed as the bad guys. Whether they are supposed to oppress the people or take people away from the ones they love, or even kill the beloved Kong. Nobody ever mourns the loss of these soldiers and we're not supposed to. We're supposed to feel bad for the bad guy or in this case, Kong.

Yes, in my view, Kong was the bad guy. He was very violent. He killed hundreds of people. He would have killed any one that got in his way. That's not a good guy. This is where the liberal mindset causes a problem for me. After watching this movie, we're supposed to feel bad for Kong. That is because in the liberal mind, Kong was just misunderstood. Sure he killed hundreds. Yeah, he destroyed millions in property. Sure he basically kidnapped a beautiful girl. But he loved her. And the most important thing in a liberal mind is love and emotion, not reality.

Think about the liberal mindset in regards to our enemies in real life. During the Cold War, the libs were constantly trying to fight Reagan when he was trying to bring down a truly evil empire. They constantly attacked him for being tough on Communism. They told him he was going to start a war. They told him not to confront but to try and understand the Soviet Union. He understood the true Soviet Union, stuck to his guns and the Soviet Union is no more.

How often have we heard from libs that we need to understand the terrorists? They, are after all, people too. Senator Kerry said during the 2004 Presidential campaign that we need to "Fight a more sensitive war on terror." We're told we need to seek diplomatic solutions with people that want nothing more than to see us die. In the liberal mind, those that confront evil are wrong. In the liberal mind, those that try to defeat evil are Neanderthals and war mongers who want nothing but death and destruction. They can't see that sometimes you have to kick a little ass to prevent your ass from getting kicked. In the liberal mind, being willing to kick some ass, even when absolutely needed, is a bad thing. And that is one major reason that liberalism fails. It's lead by emotion, and not reality.

Think about what you've read here. And if you go see King Kong, you'll see how we're supposed to cry over a murdering ape, and not over those that died trying to save New Yorkers. And you'll see for yourself how liberals have everything upside down and back to front.

The Main Stream Media Double Standard

As if we didn't know...

Linda Chavez has written an excellent piece for Townhall.com talking about how the left wing media has a complete double standard when it comes to getting to the bottom of classified leaks. You are all well aware of the Valerie Plame case that caused a big uproar from the left when her name was supposedly "leaked" by a member of the Bush administration. She was and is still being portrayed as a covert agent in the media, when in fact she was a desk jockey and had been for some time. No real threat to national security resulted in her name being released.

But recently, the exposure of the secret prisons in Eastern Europe and most recently the wiretapping techniques being used by the NSA in which they listened in on phone calls between suspected terrorists and people outside the country leads many, including me, to the question; Where's the investigation into who is leaking this information? These two instances of classified information being leaked by far outweigh the naming of a desk jockey at the CIA and nobody is asking who leaked this. Why is that?

I'll tell you why. The leaking of the name of a supposed covert CIA operative by someone at the Bush administration makes the administration looks bad. But the leaking of other classified information that may not play well with the American public is, in the minds of the left, a good leak so who cares where it came from. What it boils down to is if the leak makes the administration look bad, or if they can spin it to make the administration look bad, they don't care who leaked it. When the leak is inconsequential, but potentially came from a Bush administration official, we must get to the bottom of that leak. That is just another example of the left playing politics with our national security.

The left will politicize anything and everything they can to get back into power. They cannot stand not having control and they have demonstrated time and time again that they jump on anything they can to hurt the President. There are ways to criticize an administration without causing damage to a war effort. You can work with the administration or you can attack the administration at every turn. The left has chosen to attack our President in a time of war. And they wonder why people call them traitors.