THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

WHEN ISRAEL GETS INTO TROUBLE, LEFTIST MONEY DRIES UP | 2003-05-24

In the 1970s Israel was in the midst of a crisis. During that crisis there was an election in the United States.

The result was that a Republican campaign manager in Arkansas made one of those statements that,

1) everybody knows is true; and

2) You can get killed for saying.

He said that liberals were losing the election because all their campaign money was going into dealing with the current crisis in Israel.

We all know that when Israel gets into trouble, money that would be spent for leftist causes in America goes to the Israeli Lobby and to Israel. That was true in the 1970s and nobody denied it. They just wanted anybody who said it lynched.

Today when Israel gets into trouble it drains money away from American leftists. No one actually denies this obvious fact, but they will still lynch you if you state it.

Only an Evil Man would say this.

That's what you have me for.

JOE | 2005-12-25

In Response to my very long piece below, "Isn't Vesuvius Pretty Today?" Joe Ororke writes:

"Well, that was certainly a long piece. I have no use for national review. I subscribed to it for a year in 1992. I decided it was crap. A lot of pompous sounding words and talk about what they wanted to do and, in the end, they caved in to you know who. IMO, Rusher was and is one of the worst. national review is despicable. In my opinion. I really should read your book "A Plague On Both Your Houses." I'm sure I would learn plenty. If Rusher wrote the forward to your book my only question is did it change his life? Was this the thing he was looking for all his life? When I do read your book I can only hope that it won't be filled with "everybody" and "nobody" and "only me." So many of your pieces here are filled with "everybody" and "nobody" and "only me." That makes reading difficult for me. This generalization won't work. It is extremely unlikely that only you noticed something. It may be that someone else failed to comment on what he or she noticed but that only one person on the planet noticed something is just too unlikely for me to accept as fact. And "everybody" won't work either. Unless you know everybody. Just because someone doesn't comment on something does not mean he or she does not notice it. Lots of people notice things and say nothing. Anyway, I'll read the book. Maybe I'll highlight every time I run into "everybody" and "nobody" and "only me." Just for game purposes. "

Comment by joe rorke — 12/25/2005 @ 4:37 pm

Yes, it was a long piece. I don't normarlly do long stuff. If yu can get all that into a shorter piece, please do so.

Rusher I will do a separate piece on.

It is difficult to write a short piece if, instead of "everybody," I say, "everybody except illiterates, those who don't know anything about the subject" and the endless list of qualifications that you can find in any academic publication.

Poetic license is the only way to write a SHORT piece, not to mention that it is the only way to avoid boring your audience out of its gourd.

My father was colorblind. When I write about a flag being red, white and blue I could remeber that my father was color blind. On some days that flag would gray, yellow, and purple to him and maybe a million other people.

So every time I mention a color, I could discuss the fact that is not in fact red or white or blue. I could give a very substantial discussion to the variety of looks it has to many different people.

I could also talk about the blind.

I doubt many people would want to read all that.

I also devoted a piece some time ago as to why I use "everybody" and "nobody" so much, besides not boring you out of your mind.

Many times my opponent has made the mistake of concentrating so hard on correcting me that all he managed to get across to the audience was the fact that finding an exception was so hard.

Which is the point I wanted to make.

For example when I state Bob's Mantra,

" Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries."

"The Netherlands and Belgium are more crowded than Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them."

"Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to "assimilate," i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites."

"What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries."

"How long would it take anyone to realize I'm not talking about a RACE problem. I want the final solution to the BLACK problem?"

"And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn't object to this?"

"But if I say that, I'm a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews."

"Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white."

the other person should try to get me off the point. But many of them make the mistake of attacking my use the words "ALL" and "ONLY." They may even win their point. They may find one person who has criticized Japan for not opening its doors to immigration. But they have also made my point again. Such exceptions are extremely difficult to find and rare.

The exception often proves the rule. And if someone wants to prove my rule, he is welcome to win his quibble.

Likewise, "only I have thought of this."

I have been very profitably corrected on this. Anonymous corrected me on being the only one who mentioned Jewish mob bosses in power in Hollywood by telling me about a book attacking Reagan -- the latter point was brought up by others -- which talked about how bad Reagan was for dealing with the mob whilst he was in Hollywood as president of the Screen Actors Guild.

I have yet to hear of a book devoted to attacking Jewish mob control itself. This seems to have only come to light in the context of an attack on Reagan.

This is a point worth making. And Anonymous made it FOR me. I didn't know it.

As I say, I think the exchange was very useful.

I could say, "The media agrees that racism is awful."

But people can and have argued that the internet is "media," so my generalization needs a paragraph or two explaining exactly what I mean by "media."

I doubt seriously readers want to see that. It's boring.

One expects people to accept certain things as poetic license and if they feel it goes too far, to say so.

Without that assumption, much of what I write would be MUCH longer that the one you said at the outset was very long.

A seminar is not a lecture. When the prof is wrong, the other participants tell him so.

TOUGHER THAN THE GREATEST | 2006-01-20

Everything I write ends up relating to something else I write.

The piece below probably strikes my readers as gushy, but there was something I wanted to say there, and it wasn't just about women.

Of all things, it relates to the bane of my life, the World War II Generation.

The Greatest Generation fought a War.

Now the problem with the group that calls itself The Greatest Generation is not that they have an inflated opinion of themselves. That a normal fault in human beings.

The problem with what I call the Weakest Generation relates directly to something else I keep writing about:

1) As Oliver Hardy said, "There is nothing as DUMB as a dumb mad who thinks he's smart."

2) I have repeatedly said that the disaster with professors is not that they are bigoted and oppressive, but that they believe sincerely that they are the only truly objective and unprejudice profession on earth.

Nobody is as provincial as the Southener who is trying desperately to be sophisticated.

3) The most sadistic Inquisitors were the ones who did not do it for gain, but believed they were doing it all for Christ.

4) The disaster with professors comes from their absolutely unshakable belief that their bigotry is the opposite of bigotry.

And so forth.

Being silly is one thing. But when someone simply cannot be convinced that he is anything but Righteousness Incarnate in the area in which he is being silly, he has given himself a license to kill.

The Weakest Generation went from being silly to destroying everything I care about simply because no one ever brought them up short.

The Weakest Generation was told, over and over, that they had shown all the courage they ever needed to show by fighting the War. When tyrants came along and told them to let their daughters dance with blacks or screaming Jews occupied the university campuses in the 1960s, real Americans would have, "We won't STAND for this!"

What did The Weakest Generation say? I know it by heart. I heard it every time there was a moral crisis and the Weakest Generation broke and ran:

"Well, you young people have to fight your own battles. Look at me! I FOUGHT IN WORLD WAR II and you didn't!"

They had fought their battle, they had proved their courage. It was up to everybody else to fight the moral war that has been the history of the last sixty years.

Sixty years of breaking and running because they fought a war!

So when I praise the routine couage and self-sacrifice of women, I am focusing on the 99.99% of the human race which was NOT part of the Weakest Generation.

The wren who pretends to have a broken wing to get the fox away from her chicks would have gotten at least a silver star in World War II.

Let me give you another one of THOUSANDS of examples. At the end of World War I the entire Western world suffered from a flu pandemic. Millions died, probably more than died in the War, all in one year.

Thank God that flu did not occur at the end of World War II! The Weakest Generation would have said, "I just got back from fighting a WAR. I'm not going to risk my life at the bedside of somebody with flu. YOU show your courage for a change."

Nobody had any idea where this sudden murderous epidemic had come from, and this was long after the Middle Ages when deadly pandemics were not so rare.

This was new and it was terrifying.

And one of the thousands of untold stories of heroism in history is about the men, and more WOMEN, who were right there ministering to people they knew could kill them.

I was raised with that generation, too.

And I never heard ONE of them brag about it.

Practically nobody has even HEARD of it.

Of twelve million American men in uniform in WORLD WAR II, about one in three ever HEARD a hostile shot fired. The number of people in a smaller America who risked their lives in the flu pandemic was a lot more than four million.

As I say, this is one of THOUSANDS of examples in history.

The fatal disease of the Weakest Generation was that thought they were uniquely courageous so they never showed courage again.

The real curse of mankind is dumb people who think they are smart, hopeless provincials who think they are being sophisticated when they follow a cut-out pattern that Harvard or New York tells them will make them sophisticated, professors who INCURABLY think their bigotry is the only true tolerance.

And the moral cowards who truly believe they are Courage Incarnate.

A MAN WITH A MEMORY LOOKS AT LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AGO | 2005-04-02

Less than two weeks ago a little nine-year-old girl was raped and murdered by a repeat sex offender.

Again.

Her father, obviously a regular working man, choked back his tears and begged the country to PLEASE, at long last, get these perverts off the streets before more little girls were killed.

It was national news less than two weeks ago.

Remember?

The man said he was going to the state capitol to BEG the legislators to do something about these child molesters. The whole country was with him. Geraldo Rivera was interviewing him and said he would be there, too.

Remember?

But then the right-to-life bureaucracy got itself a big, juicy cause. A brain-dead woman was ordered off of life support. They marched and picketed and grabbed all the publicity.

I complained in my blog that this big, juicy right-to-life story was going to hog all the publicity thousands of molested children and thousands more children who are going to be molested and murdered desperately needed.

I pointed out that, thanks to the pro-life industry, thousands more children will have their lives ruined and many will be murdered before anything is done. This week hundreds of children will be molested. But the pro-life industry can't be bothered with that.

Have you heard anything about that murdered little girl on the news since right-to-life hogged all the coverage?

I haven't.