ABOVE: Matthew Vadum
As we approach the annual season of wingnuts fretting about the liberal war on this or that holiday, the particularly gullible Matthew Vadum has discovered another liberal war on a holiday. In this case, it concerns Obama’s vilest plot yet, his plot against September 11, the day on which no other subject is to be discussed and on which all Americans are supposed to be dressed in the blackest of crepe bathed in the bitterest of tears. According to Matthew, if Obama has his way, September 11 would be renamed “tarehe kumi na moja mwezi wa tisa,” which is Swahili for September 11 and which no ordinary American can ever remember, much less pronounce. School children will no longer be allowed to sing 9-11 songs at their 9-11 pageants, but will instead be forced to sing socialist stuff like “This Land is My Land,” “L’Internationale” (in French!!! ) and “Big Yellow Taxi.” Department store clerks will no longer greet their customers with the traditional September 11 greeting of “My Heartfelt Condolences for Our Country’sTragic Loss,” but rather will brightly and cheerfully greet customers with “Happy Barack Obama Green Day.”
So I invite you to join me on a trip through Matthew’s latest cry for help and plea for re-adjustment of his meds: “Obama’s Plan to Desecrate 9/11”
The Obama White House is behind a cynical, coldly calculated political effort to erase the meaning of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks from the American psyche and convert Sept. 11 into a day of leftist celebration and statist idolatry. The president signed into law a measure in April that designated Sept. 11 as a National Day of Service, but it’s not likely many lawmakers thought this meant that day was going to be turned into a celebration of ethanol, carbon emission controls, and radical community organizing.
Of course, Matthew twists the facts here by giving the wrong name for the holiday. It’s not the “National Day of Service,” but the “National Day of Service and Remembrance.” But if Matthew mentioned the “and Remembrance” part, that would more or less shoot to shit his claim that under the new law, September 11 would be completely dedicated to to planting trees in the shape of a crescent facing Mecca and scouting libraries to remove copies of the 9-11 report and replacing them with copies of The Joy of Gay Sex.
More sinisterly, Obama has put another Negro in charge of these tree-hugging, kumbaya-singing sessions that will replace the traditional keening and revenge-fantasy sessions that are more appropriate for the solemn day.
The administration’s plans were outlined in an Aug. 11 White House-sponsored teleconference call run by Obama ally Lennox Yearwood, president of the Hip Hop Caucus. Yearwood, who uses the honorific “Reverend” before his name, has been in the news in recent years, usually for getting arrested.
Vadum prefers to mention the Hip Hop Caucus connection for Reverend Yearwood, rather than his position as the National Director of the Gulf Coast Renewal Campaign because, of course, “Hip Hop” has more scary blackness to it. Another loathsome swipe at Yearwood is to say that “he uses the honorific ‘Reverend’ before his name,” which makes him sound like some Internet graduate of “His Holy Hallelujah African-American Temple of Light Church Preacher’s School,” rather than as someone who earned the right to use the honorific after graduating with a Master of Divinity from Howard University. Oh, and did Matthew mention that Yearwood is an Iraq war veteran? Not so much.
The plan is to turn a “day of fear” that helps Republicans into a day of activism called the National Day of Service that helps the left. In other words, nihilistic liberals are planning to drain 9/11 of all meaning.
I am assuming that this momentary lapse into honesty by Vadum was completely unintentional.
According to Matthew, the group behind the desecration of 9/11 is “a coalition of far-left … groups” such as, get this, Friends of the Earth, the National Wildlife Federation, and the National Black Police Association, three groups somewhat to the left of both the Baader-Meinhof Gang and Hugo Chavez.
With the help of the Obama administration, the coalition is launching a public relations campaign under the radar of the mainstream media — which remains almost uniformly terrified of criticizing the nation’s first black president — to try to change 9/11 from a day of reflection and remembrance to a day of activism, food banks, and community gardens.
And, as we all know, every time you plant a tree or a vegetable garden or feed a poor person, the terrorists win.
