“Friendly Persuasion”
Pat Boone has some thoughts about waterboarding—other than to admit that being locked in a room and forced to listen to his greatest hits would drive even the most hardened terrorist to volunteer for it. So what’s a played-out crooner to do but post his pensées on World Net Daily?
His logic goes something like this. We’re at the mercy of “an enemy with absolutely no moral compunction and with a demonic bloodlust to destroy us, our homes and families and way or life.” (Should there be any confusion, that would be 19 hijackers nearly eight years ago, not the massive military footprint that’s killed thousands of Iraqi civilians and driven millions from their homes.) Because of the “extreme urgency and unimaginable danger”—someone’s been watching too much “24”—Boone has no problem with treating terror suspects to an “extremely uncomfortable experience.”
There’s no chance that waterboarding is torture, he claims, because Khalid Sheikh Mohammed endured 130 rounds “with no lasting damage at all” before he “divulged information that thwarted the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge and saved an estimated 10,000 lives. (Small wrinkle: Iyman Faris, who was convicted in the bridge plot, abandoned his scheme before Mohammed was even in custody.)
Then comes that twist you never saw coming, proof of Boone’s literary genius. It’s not just for evil jihadists anymore. “America is being waterboarded!” by the Obama administration–which suddenly makes waterboarding a really bad thing. “The nation—its economy and political body—has been strapped down, blindfolded and hosed,” says the kid in the white buck shoes. Worse, we’re “drenched and near drowned and gasping for breath”—still with no lasting damage? Apparently tortured metaphors also have a breaking point.
All your friends, on what we conservatives call the “hard left”, will agree with every word you have posted.
The part you leave out, of course, is that most conservatives that have known Pat Boone (through the media) for the last 50 years, tend to consider him politically a joke, albeit “well-meaning”, most times. He seems sincerely religious.
You Have our permission to make fun of him. But then that was not your purpose, was it? You were hoping we considered him an icon, so you could make fun of conservatives.
Close. No cigar. Keep trying.
Admittedly “Love Letters in the Sand” and “April Love” were gag inducing, but “Moody River” is a classic. When singers think they can exploit their celebrity to say dumb things, they deserve to be put down, even if they are also “sincerely religious.”
Barney, I don’t know what your religious beliefs are but what part of the New Testament exactly does Boone and his buddies cite to justify the US engagement in a world wide war against Muslims to include torture? How do you justify it and where do you get off calling it conservative? It ain’t my conservatism, that’s for sure.
Philip Giraldi said, “I don’t know…”, and then proves it for us.
Barney said, “most conservatives…”, “tend to consider him (Pat Boone)… a joke…”.
Point being, Barney says, “If you make fun of Pat Boone, you aren’t making fun of conservatives”.
Part of the LIBERAL LIE – find something to belittle, spread the lie that it is representative of the group you hate, then predict that all that group will act like the exaggeration the LIB is belittling.
In 50 years, Pat Boone has never represented me politically, or religiously. I never made ANY comment about his music.
“Part of the LIBERAL LIE – find something to belittle” (the energy wasted belittling an irrelevancy like Boone, setting up a straw man), “spread the lie that it is representative of the group you hate” (this is representative of LIBS), “then predict that all that group will act like the exaggeration the LIB is belittling.” (All your friends on the hard left will agree)
Barney Rebble = LIB. Who knew?
Pop’s Mr. Clean meets reality TV’s answer to The Addams Family, and slips the tracks on a deranged locomotive.
[tip: SpecialX, channel 154 on XM Radio, May 2008]