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One of the things I'll never understand is why the extreme right, who has probably never had so much power as they do now (I wasn't alive during McCarthyism, so it's hard for me to compare) yet sees themselves as victims, as the persecuted.
Take for instance this screed on planning for a Ground Zero exhibit, which managed to ooze itself out the inkwell of candidate for freeperhood Michelle Malkin:
In fact, the IFC's list of those who are shaping or influencing the content and programming for their Ground Zero exhibit includes a Who's Who of the human rights, Guantanamo-obsessed world:
• Michael Posner, executive director at Human Rights First who is leading the world-wide "Stop Torture Now" campaign focused entirely on the U.S. military. He has stated that Mr. Rumsfeld's refusal to resign in the wake of the Abu Ghraib scandal is "irresponsible and dishonorable."
• Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, who is pushing IFC organizers for exhibits that showcase how civil liberties in this country have been curtailed since September 11.
• Eric Foner, radical-left history professor at Columbia University who, even as the bodies were being pulled out of a smoldering Ground Zero, wrote, "I'm not sure which is more frightening: the horror that engulfed New York City or the apocalyptic rhetoric emanating daily from the White House." This is the same man who participated in a "teach-in" at Columbia to protest the Iraq war, during which a colleague exhorted students with, "The only true heroes are those who find ways to defeat the U.S. military," and called for "a million Mogadishus." The IFC website has posted Mr. Foner's statement warning that future discussions should not be "overwhelmed" by the IFC's location at the World Trade Center site itself.
• George Soros, billionaire founder of Open Society Institute, the nonprofit foundation that helps fund Human Rights First and is an early contributor to the IFC. Mr. Soros has stated that the pictures of Abu Ghraib "hit us the same way as the terrorist attack itself."
Concludes Burlingame: "Ground Zero has been stolen, right from under our noses. How do we get it back?"
I will give Malkin this: she managed to write a whole page without using the expression moonbats.
What exactly makes Malkin think that Ground Zero is the province of the right? Maybe this is something she heard on Fox News, or read in the Washington Times: This just in. The President has designated the former site of the World Trade Center to be far-right Republican only. No Democrats will be allowed to visit or view what has come to be called Ground Zero.
Or maybe those of her ilk believe that the results of the last election mean it's now her country and she should be able to do what she wants with it.
A number of the Drinking Liberally folks in DC work at Human Right First. They should get a kick out of this.|||111825949413194615|||Ground Malkin Save Template Changes.