Whispers in the Wasteland

Night of the Long Knives

Mark Shea writes in his blog that there seems to be some purging goin' on 'round he'ar. Yep, and in my humble opinion, it seems so Leftist.

I see that this purge began with David Frum's hit piece on paleo-conservatives. It may be as Mark Shea believes -- that now in power, the Right wishes to remove some of its more "embarassing" elements that put them in power in the first place. Well, this thesis does have some weak points. First off, the Bush administration did not put out the memo. This purge seems to be over who gets the right to be the voice of the Right in the Fourth Estate.

At NRO, Deroy Murdock blasts social conservatives for moaning over Lawrence:

If social conservatives really believe American adults should be placed in jail for private, voluntary sexual behavior, they at least should be honest enough to admit openly that they desire a system in which grown-up homosexual taxpayers can be arrested and thrown behind bars for such activity.

Well, if it really matters, I'd like to raise my hand for that. The truth is that almost all conservatives thought the sodomy law was "stupid." It seems almost reflexive for conservative commentators to moan about Lawrence while in the same breath claim that they would have voted against the Texas sodomy law. It makes me wonder how far political correctness has infected the Right after watching the "Gay Brownshirts" (TM by Mark Shea) take down Dr. Laura and drown out Santorum for essentially speaking the truth.

What makes this interesting is that that the SA (aka Hitler's Brownshirts) was full of homosexuals. At least their leadership was. Hitler was remarkably tolerant of sexual deviants and drug addicts. During the Night of the Long Knives when Roehm was arrested and Hitler was informed that Roehm was not alone in bed, Hitler's main concern was that Roehm was not in bed with a boy -- that would have been unforgivable. After all, fascist dictators do have their standards.

Meanwhile, Savage has been fired from his TV show at MSNBC. It seems to me that everyone is a little too concerned about the "sodomite" name calling. I left the following comment in Mark Shea's comment box:

--- quote ---
"So you're one of those sodomists. Are you a sodomite?" Savage asked.

The caller replied: "Yes, I am."

"Oh, you're one of the sodomites," Savage said. "You should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig. You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage. You have got nothing to do today, go eat a sausage and choke on it."
-- end quote --

I would have thought "you should ... die" would be much more objectionable than "sodomite."

Learn something new every day, I tell ya.