THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

BASICS: THE CAMPAIGN IS THE SCREWUPS | nationalsalvation.net

Back in the 60s I noted a change in the nature of politicians. No one else understood what I was talking about, as usual.

I put it this way: If a Strom Thurmond or even a Hubert Humphrey were lost for two weeks on a trip and gave a press conference, they would hold a press conference at which they would speak off the top of their heads.

If a New Type politician were lost for two weeks, a Lott or a Dukakis, he would not hold the press conference until he had read over the newspapers and seen the latest polls.

On talk shows, media people always say, "The question is whether he will screw up during the campaign."

These same media types then bitch about how both sides are so negative. They wonder why the public is not interested in a candidate's program but only on the dirt.

They just SAID that the campaign IS the dirt. The campaign IS the screwups.

If you want to make a LIVING as a reporter, you send your editor what he wants to PRINT. When he hands out a paper droning on abut some policy initiative, you are thinking about how to use the question time to get him to screw up, to say something Jesse Jackson or NOW can declare is Evil.

"Professional" has only one meaning: You get PAID.

For a "professional journalist" a campaign is the screwups, not policy.

The changeover from the Ole Stroms to the new Lotts came largely because of the simple fact that campaigns meant less and less each time. People elected Strom or Humphrey because they MATTERED, and when Ole Strom or the Ecstatic Frog said something stupid it was just entertaining.

Strom was fighting integration and Humphrey was putting civil rights platforms into the Democratic Platform. Harry Byrd was fighting every expenditure and liberals were pushing whole new areas of taxation. Nobody was going to give up those critical matters over a silly remark.

Today in terms of real policy the only difference between Obama and Clinton is, IN FACT, the color of the skin. Every dime that can REALLY be spent is being spent, every tax that can in real politics be taxed is BEING taxed.

"Civil rights" and every other critical non-fiscal issue is decided it the courts, not in the White House or in Congress. All that is LEFT to vote on is looks. All that is LEFT to report on is verbal screwups.

CL | 2006-12-24

This got me thinking about the book _Black Sea Sketches_ I got from "Chronicles" a few years back. The author, William Mills, mentions in passing that the bottom of the Black Sea is still fresh water (I'm going from memory). The first I'd ever heard of this was in some of Zecharia Sitchin's stuff. He mentioned it as proof of the validity of "great floods," particularly THE GREAT FLOOD. I didn't make much of it at the time, but immediately took notice when Mills made the same comment in a "respectable" publication. (I suppose there are different levels of respectability, eh?) Anyway, Sitchin also makes a big deal in his cosmology about Mount Ararat. I actually couldn't find it on the map until I read him–not that I'd been looking. I forget which one, but the view of Ararat from one of the Caucasus capitols is one of the most beautiful scenes on Earth. The picture is on the net somewhere. I wish I had a page reference from Mills'excellent book, but alas it has no index.

A Black Sea home is consistent with a lot of things, including the well known arrival of European peoples from the nebulous "Central Asia." It also squares with the "Chinese" mummy discoveries. It never made sense to me that we would all and only have gone west.

Comment by CL — 12/20/2006 @ 10:32 pm | Edit This

To continue this stream of consciousness, let me also observe that when the Central Asia exodus is mentioned (which isn't often), along with a complete lack of specific starting point (and thus complete lack of archeology, which is inexplicable) is a complete lack of reason. What passes as "explanation" is that we were run-out by some nasty pre-historic Ghengis Khan types. This is nonsense not just in retrospect, but in light of the logistics necessary to carry out such a move.

The Black Sea would fit all of this to a T.

Comment by CL — 12/20/2006 @ 10:45 pm | Edit This

Re Black Sea freshwater–

It's the salt water at the bottom with some freshwater at the top (density, duh). I now think Mills was saying that there are freshwater fossils aplenty there–and that's what was news to me.

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ME:

This is the kind of thinking that makes me happy. What I said reminded CL of some BASICS that had not geled in his mind.

I have a special problem here. If I were a Wordist trying to leave my WORDS to you, this would be easy. I would just quote Chapter 5, Verse 2 of Whitakerism. But hwat I really want is exactly what your entiure education has been dedicated to making you reject as a reflex action.

COMPLETE that line of thinking that you didn't complete. Tie together things that do not tie together.

It was called THINKING FOR YOURSELF, and I am honestly terrified that it will die out with me.

And that last sentence made me tie two things together that others would not think of. We have been speaking of ourselves as a wolf pack. When my time as lead wolf is over, I want to be sure this pack is ready to he sicced on the "intellectuals."

I want all the mental predation back in you that they leached out. You will be looking for the truth, the whole truth, and NOTHING BUT the truth. You will smell the stink in Truth. When you hunt the truth you hunt down our enemies.

AFTER THE KILL | 2006-06-30

I ended the last piece on this note, "Suck your thumb or be in on the kill."

I have already been in on several kills. As I said, one of the joys of my life was standing onthe bridge across the Moscow River, looking back at the Kremilin after the Soviets had fallen, and giving it the bird:

"We DESTROYED you evil, silly bastards!"

Now, of course, everybody will tell me that wasn't a victory. I won't try to list all the "real problem" crap I get for saying that. The same is true for the fact that no one in academia today even bothers to object when Rushton and Jensen publish an article about how race is family. A few people I have been working with for decades wrote me about that great breakthrough, but only they know it.

All the effort I have spent fighting for these victories is put forward by those who insist they were not victories. Liberals and respectable conservatives will insist that they always believed that. Historians will write so that they always believed that. Most of the members of Stormfront will put forward endless effort to prove that those were not victories, and all is lost.

Meanwhile, those of us who won those victories while the John Birch Society frothed and the liberals shrugged live on the Panet Earth.

You know this fact: When taking the side of a hated truth is all cost and no benefit, only two types of people will stand on that side:

1) Those who are smart enough and experienced enough to see through it all, PLUS having the raw courage and Nordic dedication to truth for its own sake to take the world on, decade after decade

AND:

2) Nut cases.

The nut cases have no sense of reality. No matter what happens, they will still be nut cases. Their imaginary reality will be there until they die.

Meanwhile, back on Planet Earth, no war is ever completely won. We live ina world where all the meidda are still controlled by the enemy. So we have an obvious alliance here betweenthe crackpots on our side and the media. Both the media nad the "All is lost!" crackpots devote most of their time to proving that those of us who spend our lives in the thick of it never won a single victory.

Both agree that there is not even a struggle going on. The media say the Liberal Idealists always were for whatever won, and the "All is Lost!" crackpots say that the Evil Left foresaw every move and it all fits into the Pattern. I have been living in this nuthouse called hte Political Right for over fifty years. I have learned to tune out the screams of the innmates.

For God's sake, if you can't see we have done anything, then go SURRENDER and get behind me, Satan! I am sick of listening to you shriek every time I try to tell people how the battle should be fought.

Go away! Cry on somebody else's shoulder. I am sick of you beyond the imagination of anyoone who has not listened to you for half a century.

I want to talk to sane people about how this war can be fought and won.

You can whine anywhere. You whiners nad the media can go anywhere else in this big, wide world. Us sane people only ask for a tiny space in which we can continue winning the victories you say are impossible.

Maybe I can break that down into language even you can understand:

GO AWAY!

JOE | 2006-07-29

Joe says I am attacking him "in front of the class." He doesn't seem to be intimidated by this, since he has made several commemts in his usual bashful way since he said that.

Hey, gang, I get to have a little FUN here.

I hit at Joe because I enjoy it. The world is not exactly full of people I can drop the hammer on and not have to worry about it. What I say to Joe doesn't bother me. What may concern me is htat readers, especially those new to the blog, may think that these two old dogs are actually BITING each other. Our snarling and mixing it uyp may make others uncomportable.

It shouldn't. Joe and I enjoy each other because we have something irreplacable in common. And that was true long before we discovered we were both in "the program."

One thing that suprises newcomers in alcohol and drug recovery is how us inmates talk about the most tragic things and LAUGH. Long before I entered the program at age 51, I had learned you hvae to either laugh or end up in a padded cell. If you see people tortured to death, if you see your world being destroyed, you HAVE to learn to laugh at the absuridty. Someone put it perfevtly, "We laugh and we joke but we don't PLAY."

Laughter in the program was just a late manifestation of this. Joe likes my brutal humor because we couldn't have survived without it. This is important:

Man is the only animal who knows he will die. Man is the only animal who LAUGHS.

I have just as much if not more in common with the young idealists like Dave and the older idealists like Budarick. But each thing I have in common with you is irreplacable.

I don't mind admitting that I'm not tough. I've been HURT with Elizabeth, I seek faith like Shari. I was a drunk like Joe. It hurts me to see a white person with a black adoptee the way it does Dave or Pain.

Joe talks about how he would have personally executed Ted Bundy. I have been in a lot of fighting, and I doubt there is a single commenter here who would NOT be willing to pull the switch on a cold-blooded killer.

That includes the women. In fact that may ESPECIALLY include the women. But Joe seems to think he is especially tough. He look down on mere words. The problem is that we do not have the CHANCE to pull the switch on people who deserve it. The battle is words. That's the fight, and that's the battle I fight. Pullling hte switch is a luxury I don't have. But if I do what I am trying to do, my young idealists will get to pull it.

The humor Joe and I share is the pain Joe and I share.

No war hero ever made the slightest difference in real history. Only those who fought with words determined reality.

I am not the slightest bit concerned with whether I am bragging or not. or things like that. I have said that it would be mistake for me to be in any clique because I woud be destructive there. Nobody is less qualified for electoral politics than I am, because that requires an absolute obsession with leaving the right impression of ONESSELF and that most low and superficial of talents, remembering people's NAMES.

Since Dale Carnegie people have freely admitted, even bragged, that they elect people to decide the future of their race and their children on the basis of whether a person remembers their NAMES, whether a person made sure they weren't personally insulted. I would rather be accused of about anything than to admit that I let someone's remembering my NAME determine the future!

No one else seems to consider that an insult. They say it is "human nature." It's sure as hell not the nature of THIS human. I think a human should have frontal lobe, not just a herd instinct. But REVEREND Dale Carnegie, the philosopher for psychopaths, said it was OK.

I have just recited a list of things above. Each would merit a book, but I have written all the books I plan to. Each of the observations I have made show how people have stopped being human, and not just in politics. I will use words to help make some of them human again.

I don't need a faith or Judgement to make me act human. I judge myself every day. If I face a Judgement, I do not expect it will be an exam on the Old Testament or a test of how I followed any other theological BOOK. If God is THAT shallow, I don't stand a chance anyway.