Shiny Object Lesson

The above image should be emblazoned everywhere. It says everything we need to know about where we are and where, unless reason returns to our politics, we're inevitably headed.

In case you hadn't heard, the image is the new logo of the Missile Defense Agency. It's hard to escape the horrible truth: not only is it DELIBERATELY created to echo Barack Obama's campaign emblem, it's an unmistakable -- if subtly coded -- reference and homage to Islam, based, as it is, on the STAR AND CRESCENT!!!!!!! To say it's evidence of a nefarious plot, a subliminal message to the Islamic world, encoding President Obama's plan to establish Sharia law in the US, to cry out to anyone who is listening, to awaken from slumber our country in its darkest hour, as our very existence is threatened, is merely to establish what's obvious...

.....TO THE IDIOTS WHO READ DRUDGE, LISTEN TO FOX "news," AND WHO GIVE CREDENCE TO SUCH ABSOLUTE AND PATHETIC NONSENSE.

I read the most laughable disquisition on the matter here, where "nefarious" is actually in print.

...A just-unveiled symbolic action suggests, however, that something even more nefarious is afoot...

...[Obama's missile policies] seem to fit an increasingly obvious and worrying pattern of official U.S. submission to Islam and the theo-political-legal program the latter’s authorities call Shariah...What could be code-breaking evidence of the latter explanation is to be found in the newly-disclosed redesign of the Missile Defense Agency logo...

...Watch this space as we identify and consider various, ominous and far more clear-cut acts of submission to Shariah by President Obama and his team..."

And here's the thing: the author is a regular commentator on cable news, a respected (by the crazed class) talking head on Fox "news" and is among the conniest of the neo-cons, an enthusiastic defender of the Iraq invasion and of torture. That people believe such crap: entirely unsurprising. Even in the comments on this blog, we see daily evidence. But that such a guy gets to micturate his stuff into the mainstream; that he is considered --by anyone -- credible; that listeners believe it, is why we're so clearly and truly screwed.

When I first heard this breathless story, a couple of thoughts occurred to me, as well they might to anyone with a modicum of sense: how likely is it that the President of the United States would be involved in the design of military logeri, and, given how the military and government work, what are the chances this thing was in the works long before Obama was president, much less running for the office?

Well, to the surprise of no one with a brain, to no one who isn't bathed, broiled, and steeped in constant paranoid hatred of our president, guess what:

"This was a logo that was developed three years ago for our recruiting materials and our public Web site," MDA spokesman Rick Lehner told our colleague Ed O'Keefe. "It did not replace our official MDA logo, and of course it has no ties to any political campaign. It was done one year before the 2008 elections. So the whole thing is pretty ridiculous." Lehner said the insignia was chosen because it was "cheaper, because it's three colors as opposed to the five colors on the official logo."

Hey. Wait a damn minute. Three years ago??? That was during the BUSH ADMINISTRATION. Omigod. It's just as I've said: since Bush's invasion of Iraq gave Osama bin Laden everything he wanted and more, it's BUSH who's the secret Muslim.

Well, I guess since it's so stupid it should just be laughed off. Point out how crazy are the RWS™ and those who believe them, and move on. But the problem is, that's not tea in those tea bags: it's this sort of sh*t. Dipping it in their polluted water, over and over, screaming nonsense, certain of their victimhood, people drink this particular form of poison and take to the streets in the throes of their dance macabre.

It's a poison unique in its ability to kill those who don't even touch it to their lips. Which is exactly what it's doing, even as the above example -- only because it's more obvious than most -- ought to be more than enough to discredit the purveyors and to inoculate the sippers.

[Well, who'd've thunk: I wrote this post a couple of days ago, since which time it seems Mr Gaffney has found Jesus, as it were. Good for him. However, it doesn't change the fact that he believes, finds it entirely credible that President Obama is planning to place our country under Sharia law; his retraction was only about the symbol; he did nothing to back a way from the underlying claim. And, clearly, there are plenty of people only too happy to believe the crap they hear: in the interval between writing this and posting it I've gotten a classic (and anonymous, of course) comment on the previous post, claiming Obama is a "socialist" who "hates white people." So, like the dude, the crazy abides.]