[lit-ideas] Re: The Strident Voice of Defeat
- From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Lit-Ideas" <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 08:19:56 -0800
I see that Ursula wants to send me a bunch of donuts, but I’ve already
traded my nickels in for several boxes of donuts; so I’m rolling in
doughnuts. Well, no, no one is going to come right out and say “Saddam is a
‘good guy,’ or ‘I love the way Saddam held his AK47,’ or ‘didn’t that
mustache of his send goose bumps up and down your neck?’ Nothing like that.
They can’t come out and speak their mind, but then no one really does. As
Greg Laurie says on House everyone lies. But he is a clever doctor and
ferrets out the truth, and no one is going to pull the wool (obtained from
Joerg’s little lamb or not) down over the eyes of Sigmund Helmenfreud!
Notice last night when the alleged (by me) Saddam supporters were throwing
fulminated brands at me one after the other and I remarked “where is
Andreas, and where is Irene”? You remember my saying that, don’t you? I
was worried about them. Of course, psychologist that I am I couldn’t help
speculating about why they are so often gone at the same time, and why they
use the same expressions, and why they look as though they dressed in the
same closet, but . . . that is for another discussion. And then when
Andreas appeared, what did he say? Do you think unless he says, “how dare
you say bad things about my beloved Saddam that he is not fond of him?”
Notice what Andreas does say. He makes a casual reference to one of my
anti-Saddam comments and immediately launches into an attack against Bush.
He forgets that I now think Bush a Leftist; which he himself guessed, but
what is he going to say? He can’t come right out and defend Saddam so his
tit for tat has to be in a different form, the form of “Oh yeah? Well look
at the dumb thing that Bush did.”
Put it another way: you are in the school yard saying bad things about
Saddam Hussein and every time you do someone throws a rock at you. No one
says, “I love Saddam,” but all those rocks speak a love of which they dare
not speak, to use a colorful psychological phrase.
Lawrence
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