“Useful Idiot”
“Useful” is a term many might be hard put to associate with John Kerry. But Gateway and Mudville find an application:
Today in the Opinion Journal, former KGB intelligence officer Ion Mihai Pacepa explained the propaganda tactics of the communists during the Cold War.
Here is a bit of what Pacepa had to say about the Soviet’s propaganda campaign in the West:During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world, pretending that America’s presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren’t facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.
Does that remind you of anyone?
Here are the words of future democratic Senator John F. Kerry in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971:They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam…
Maggie’s farm takes it a step farther: useful but no idiot. More from Pacepa on this from NRO 2004.
Here’s some more recent Kerry usefulness, by the way:
“We heard that argument over and over again about the bloodbath that would engulf the entire Southeast Asia, and it didn’t happen,” Kerry said, dismissing the charge out of hand as he argued that the American presence only makes the situation worse every day.
I wonder how his Cambodian-American constituents in Lowell, Mass., took that one. Those about whom the news stories usually begin, “So-and-so survived the killing fields of … ”
On the Senate floor recently, Kerry recalled his famous question before the Foreign Relations Committee in 1971.
“I never thought I would be reliving that question again. I never thought I would have parents of young Americans killed in Iraq look me in the eye and tell me: Senator, my son died in vain,” said Kerry, quickly adding that no death is in vain when it is in service of the country.
An odd turn, has an interesting “for vanity before he was against it” quality to it.
Topics: pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:37 pm on Tuesday, August 7, 2007
8 Responses to ““Useful Idiot””
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August 7th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
An here you are, 30 years later, having to borrow money offa the Commies to pay for your grubby little attempts at Empire.
Thank goodness they were willing to take all your manufacturing jobs as collateral, eh?
August 8th, 2007 at 1:50 am
And here I thought that THE ALPHTARD™ loves Stalin, and all things Communist. After a;;, according to THE ALPHTARD™, the Commies won WWII in spite of the aid and assistance from the Allies.
On a more serious note (I mean, really, THE ALPHTARD™ should not be taken seriously, except [perhaps] by His jihad brothers)…….
All of this is part of “The Big Lie”, whereupon useful idiots (like THE ALPHTARD™, for example) believe whatever is presented to them as truthiness. They do this in part because they are too lazy to weigh other facts, and in part due to a certain degree of nihilism and narcism.
But, really, they keep on lapping it up because they want to. The Kool Aid, you see, is simply too delicious, and they want to drink it all to the dregs. That is may result in the destruction of the civilization they live in is immaterial; they are too focused upon themselves to care about anything else.
August 8th, 2007 at 3:45 am
I cannot speak about John Kerry without seeing red. I came home after two tours in Viet Nam in April of 1971, to the Naval Hospital at Balboa in S.D. I was exhausted, both mentally and physically. I watched the Kerry show unfold from my hospital bed. I still feel the cold hard anger I felt then. That bastard was a traitor then and he is still a traitor. There are few people in the world that I actually hate, but John Kerry lives among those at the top of the list.
The left has never accepted responsibility for what happened in SE Asia after they demanded and won defeat, not just for this country, but for millions in that area. The consequences didn’t end there, either. We are fighting the war we are today because of it. I don’t give a damn about people like the little Alf-Turd (he’s a nothing), but I do care about this country and what he and his fellow ants are doing to it. Civilization is a very thin and fragile veneer between us and hell.
August 8th, 2007 at 3:54 am
I don’t love the Commies, real_jeffy.
I just find it amusing that the budget-busting “conservatives” gotta borrow money off them every month to keep their little wars going.
August 8th, 2007 at 9:38 am
I don’t love the Commies
Hark! What is that I hear? Is that the sound of THE ALPHTARD™……lying? ‘Cuz it sure sounds like THE ALPHTARD™ has consistently supported, admired, and fawned over Communism, up to and including denigrating Western nations.
If that ain’t love, what is?
August 8th, 2007 at 9:40 am
saltydog, I was too young to remember John Kerry during his “Winter Soldier” campaign. But I’ve seen the results of his efforts, and remain forever grateful that that traitorous clown did not gain the White House; it’s bad enough he is in the Senate. Beauchamp was but following in Kerry’s footsteps.
August 8th, 2007 at 10:02 am
As Jefferson said, “Parroting the propaganda of America’s enemies is the highest form of patriotism!”
Oh, wait…that was al-Phie.
August 8th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
There are a lot of words I could use to describe John Kerry, and not one of them is “useful” or even “idiot”. That’s far too polite.
And some of them apply to you, al-Phie, but keeping in mind Jules’ filter, let me just say that you, in fact, are the internet equivalent of the sour-smelling bum who shuffles back and forth, gleefully proclaiming the end of the world through broken teeth. Half the time you disgust me, and half the time I just feel really, really sorry for you.
To get down to business, cite documentation that supports this claim of yours that we’re borrowing money from the Communists to finance Iraq. And not that tired old “Page 34″ again, if you please.