The Times mourns

The paper of record editorializes on the defeat of its Precious:

The immigration compromise collapsed on the floor of the Senate Thursday night. Many of its hard-line foes are celebrating, but their glee is vindictive and hollow. They have blocked one avenue to an immigration overhaul while offering nothing better, thwarting bipartisanship to satisfy their reflexive loathing for amnesty, which they define as anything that helps illegal immigrants get right with the law.

For once the Times’ description of right-wing bogeymen is partially correct! And I have no regrets. To all things there is a season, a time to laugh, and a time to mourn, and a time for vindictive glee. And the glee isn’t hollow, it’s brimming over. The last three weeks have witnessed the culmination of the modern liberal campaign to destroy America, with a bill designed to bust America so wide open it could never be put back together again. They told us it couldn’t be stopped, they told us it was a done deal, they (the Times) told us that a broad majority of the American people supported it. But it was stopped, by Americans who looked at this evil bill, saw what was in it, and said NO with all their might. And that’s what the Times and all the bill’s “conservative” supporters can’t stand, and what they call “bigotry.” What they mean by bigotry is—America.

So, having emerged at least temporarily victorious over this attempt to destroy America by people who hate her, we’re supposed to feel what? Sorry?

Once again, a Dylan verse happens to be so exactly appropriate here, in conveying the inverted moral order to which the Times seeks to subject us, that I cannot refrain from another quote:

When he knocked down a lynch mob, he was criticized.
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
When he destroyed the bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him, he was supposed to feel bad.
He’s the Neighborhood Bully.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 10, 2007 02:43 PM | Send