If you're an anti-war activist appearing on Fox News with Laura Ingraham, it's best to bring some real arguments -- and leave the Che Guevara T-shirt at home:
The activist is Sunsara Taylor of World Can't Wait, identified by Discover the Networks as a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party, the largest U.S. Maoist organization.
Miss Taylor's interests, according to her Blogger.com profile, include "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."
Video courtesy of Hot Air, where Bryan Preston says:
They are not merely anti-Bush or even anti-American. They are not merely on the other side in this war. They are and will always be against anything and everything that America does. ... They make common cause with the jihadists now because the jihadists are our current number one enemy. Once the jihadists are defeated, World Can't Wait ... will size up the country's mood, figure out what enemy might be lurking out there with evil designs on us, and Sunsara and her merry band of Stalinist throwbacks will make common cause with whoever that is. It's just what they do.Oh, and about that Che T-shirt: How about a Che Guevara poster instead?
-- Robert Stacy McCain, assistant national editor, The Washington Times
UPDATE 11 p.m.:
Via Memeorandum, here is Steve J. at Radamisto:
Almost 50 years after Frank S. Myer equated liberalism with communism, that idea is slavishly repeated by the wingnuts. In today's jargon, "far-left" means both something they disagree with AND communism. ... Laura Ingraham made a fool of herself when she described the protest against Alberto Gonzales as resulting in "mayhem" and further spewed about the Marxist inspiration of the protesters. Hot Air, Van Der Galien and the Washington Times concurred with [Ingraham].OK, we'll let Meyer rest in peace, and Ingraham, Hot Air and Van Der Galien can speak for themselves. Let us instead focus laser-like on these points:
1. Anyone can click on that video, watch it, and decide which of the participants "made a fool of herself."
2. Miss Taylor (a) is wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt, and (b) represents a group affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party. Given these facts, in what sense does one "spew" by taking note of the "Marxist inspiration"?
-- RSM
UPDATE 12:30 a.m. THURSDAY:
OK, just in case Steve J. or anyone else wants to scoff about the relevance of "Marxist inspiration" to Miss Taylor's activism, here is a sentence -- or more accurately, a collection of phrases -- posted to Miss Taylor's blog, discussing the conditions necessary for a revolution:
Once there is a major, qualitative change in the nature of the objective situation, where all of society is in a profound crisis, owing fundamentally to the nature and workings of the system itself -- and along with that there is the emergence of a revolutionary people, numbering in the millions and millions, conscious of the need for revolutionary change and determined to fight for it. (Emphasis added.)The "system" in question, as Miss Taylor's blog makes clear, is capitalism. One doesn't have to read a lot of Marx and Lenin (though I'm sure I've read more than Miss Taylor has) to recognize that advocating revolution against a capitalist "system," while prophesying an approaching crisis of the aforesaid "system," is Marxism.
Whatever specific grievance Miss Taylor and her comrades in the Revolutionary Communist Party may suggest against "the Bush regime," their stated objective is a Marxist revolution, an objective for which she urges them to "fight."
-- RSM
Comments (6)
College students in the U.S. today seem to have a real problem with reality. They have never really been exposed to it. We used to have to learn a second language to go to college. How many of them speak Arabic and understand the associated culture? They speak of ideas in a protected environment but their ideals don't apply to anyone but the U.S. Where are the protests against Chinese, Pakistani, African or Iranian Human Rights issues? Answer, you can't protest in any of those countries without being shot or arrested. Therefore they protest here. (They are following the Bill Clinton paradigm of pulling out if you have to expend to much political capital) When you talk to other people in world, you get the impression that the U.S. cultural public lives in a bubble with one feeding tube, the U.S. media. The reality is there has always been a power entropy over the globe in which powers advance and recede. For the past 60 years or so the U.S. has advanced. A German tourist recently told me she thought we had seen the best 50 years. Our social intellectual structure can't seem to deal with anything culturally past the edge of U.S. technology, its media and self denegration and these are the people that are supposed to lead us into the 21st century? I would definitely feel more secure with those returning from Iraq in the lead. At least they have a sense of reality.
Posted by Larry Stone | November 22, 2007 2:29 AM
Miss Taylor needs to understand that this is not the 60's and there are still enough people (vets) around that remember and have analyzed the 60's chaos and understand the fact that it was different war. Those that have never experienced another culture (other than the preaching of college professors), those that have never fought and died for another culture as well as ours, are the ones that are naive. When our men and women return from Iraq, they will be the new leaders because of acquired insights and their endeavors. Perhaps that is what Miss Taylor is afraid of.
Posted by Larry Stone | November 22, 2007 7:07 AM
Typical clueless liberal. She's ask if she believes in free speech and she refuses to answer the question but instead starts ranting against the government. She keeps stating that people should "stand up" against policies they don't support and she's right, but she doesn't realize that "standing up" doesn't mean interrupting someone else's speeches. That's called a tantrum and it's just childish behavior.
If you want to make a stand for or against something, go ahead and make you're own speeches and your own protests, but you better not interrupt the speeches of others or you're only proving one thing: you really have no true belief other than adherence to juvenile mischievousness. That's not a good message to be sending, especially at a collage.
Posted by Ray | November 22, 2007 10:53 AM
I used to think that going to college meant studying different topics like English, History, Science, or foreign languages. That's pretty much what my friends and I did when we went to college back in 1979. We didn't rush any stages and prevent people from speaking, we didn't throw military or government recruiters off of our campus, and we certainly didn't waste our time with any Marxist/Communist discussion groups. We went to school to get an education so that we could get a decent job when we graduated. Sounds pretty simple, right? So when did colleges make that tricky U-turn from being a center for higher education to being centers for Communist and Islamic thugs who like nothing better than to prevent people from voicing their opinions? People like Sunsara Taylor represent the very worst colleges have to offer today and I wonder if she ever plans on getting a real job? Maybe she intends to become a professional protester for the rest of her life? Well, dressed like that, I don't know of many people who would be willing to give her a job, except for maybe the Village Voice or The New Republic. She'd fit right in there. Taylor just proves that Communists and liberals tolerate anything EXCEPT people who disagree with them.
Posted by Libertyship46 | November 23, 2007 2:39 PM
"Miss Taylor (a) is wearing a Che Guevara T-shirt, and (b) represents a group affiliated with the Revolutionary Communist Party"...
Hmmm, hardly a fact if one takes even the most cursory glance at the inane Ms. Taylor and her rant, one sees mixed messages and mixed metaphors...
Rather pathetic...
Posted by juandos | November 24, 2007 8:29 AM
This Taylor girl is a loon, but what's with the gratuitous shot against Buffy? Does liking Buffy make one a loon now? Buffy has themes of heroism, sacrifice for others, redemption, good and evil, all themes that are hardly liberal. In a time of mealy-mouthed political correctness, where else on TV would you find such bold themes? Oh, and Sarah Michelle Gellar is a Republican.
Posted by JD | November 28, 2007 9:42 PM