Among the believers (At CPAC conf. with rabid believers)

[kskiska]

A popular poster image of President Bush as Uncle Sam that was for sale at the Conservative Political Action Conference.

At the Conservative Political Action Conference, where rabid Bush-worshippers learn that liberals hate America and that we really did find WMD in Iraq.

By Michelle Goldberg

It's a good thing I went to the Conservative Political Action Conference this year. Otherwise I never would have known that, despite the findings of the authoritative David Kay report and every reputable media outlet on earth, the United States actually discovered weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, vindicating all of George W. Bush's pre-war predictions. The revelation came not from some crank at Free Republic or hustler from Talon News, but from a congressman surrounded by men from the highest echelons of American government. No wonder the attendees all seemed to believe him.

The crowd at CPAC's Thursday night banquet, held at D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Building, was full of right-wing stars. Among those seated at the long presidential table at the head of the room were Henry Hyde, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman, Dore Gold, foreign policy advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and NRA president Kayne Robinson. Vice President Dick Cheney, a regular CPAC speaker, gave the keynote address. California Rep. Chris Cox had the honor of introducing him, and he took the opportunity to mock the Democrats whose hatred of America led them to get Iraq so horribly wrong.

"America's Operation Iraqi Freedom is still producing shock and awe, this time among the blame-America-first crowd," he crowed. Then he said, "We continue to discover biological and chemical weapons and facilities to make them inside Iraq." Apparently, most of the hundreds of people in attendance already knew about these remarkable, hitherto-unreported discoveries, because no one gasped at this startling revelation.

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It's not only liberals who have noticed that Bush's most committed followers are caught up in the fact-filtering force field of a personality cult. In January, Paul Craig Roberts, assistant secretary of the treasury during the Reagan administration and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal's far-right editorial page, published a damning column in the progressive Z Magazine about fascist tendencies in the conservative movement. "In the ranks of the new conservatives, however, I see and experience much hate. It comes to me in violently worded, ignorant and irrational emails from self-professed conservatives who literally worship George Bush," he wrote. "Even Christians have fallen into idolatry. There appears to be a large number of Americans who are prepared to kill anyone for George Bush … Like Brownshirts, the new conservatives take personally any criticism of their leader and his policies. To be a critic is to be an enemy."

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http://salon.com/news/feature/2005/02/19/cpac/index.html

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Holy crap! One of the scariest articles yet.

I'm beginning to understand how the Nazis took control of Germany, an industrialized, "Christian" country with an educated middle-class population, before most people realized what was really going on.

[livvy]

2. I was just going to post this also....

It really is a scary article. These people who worship the nitwit are just not normal by rational standards. The fact that they are fed this type of misinformation is disgusting, feeding fat to the fire.
That picture is the most ludicrous rendition, not to mention the most insulting one I've seen. I can't imagine framing that poster, unless it was to use as a dart board.

I found this paragraph interesting:

<snip> (words in italics are mine)Their mere presence (Cheney, Rove, members of Congress, etc) was more significant than their words, putting the White House imprimatur on an event that featured, in addition to the Swift Boat Veterans, venomous CPAC regulars like Ann Coulter, Oliver North and Michelle "In Defense of Internment" Malkin. It was yet more evidence that this administration puts little distance between itself and the most reactionary forces in the Republican Party.

Their presence when others are spewing these lies is an affirmation that what they speak is true. But then, this is what they want them to believe since it supports their agenda.

What a truly vile bunch we have "in charge". When I read something like this it disgusts me, but also feeds fat to my fire, which is to rid this country of the nitwit and his dangerous crew.


edit to get rid of the smiley that somehow appeared by the snip

[Demeter]

3. You Know, If Bush HAD a Personality, I Might Believe in a

personality cult.

[Demeter]

4. A Personality Disorder Doesn't Constitute a Personality!