By DEXTER DUGGAN
An important character in the early twenty-first century novel The Devil Wears Prada is a very negative editor who dresses herself from this Italian fashion house.
If the Devil is still fashion-conscious in 2020 — and doesn’t he always try to present his evils in an appealing way? — he boldly wears the Marxist hammer and sickle (not for the first time), and editors fall all over themselves in admiration.
Today’s left-wing assortment of rioters, looters, and arsonists still gets the benefit of the doubt of being “peaceful protesters” from elitists, although the radicals’ ill will can’t get much plainer, petulantly denouncing America’s Independence Day as “the Farce of July” and “the Fourth of You Lie.”
The Catholic News Agency posted on July 5 that after protesters yanked down yet another statue of St. Junipero Serra, this time at Sacramento’s California state capitol the evening of July 4, they “beat it with sledgehammers….
“One man burned the face of the Serra statue with an ignited spray from an aerosol can, before it was pulled from its base using tow straps,” the news service added. “After the statue fell, members of the crowd struck the statue with a sledgehammer and other objects, dancing and jumping upon it.”
Today, religious statues literally pummeled. Tomorrow, religious people? It wouldn’t be the first time, or the tenth. A photo tweet of five armed Catholic men protecting a Michigan statue of the Crucifixion outside their church recalled well-known Catholic blogger Fr. John Zuhlsdorf’s June 30 post that “the way things are going, we are all going to need guns soon.”
On July 2 Fr. Zuhlsdorf linked to a television report at his blog (wdtprs.com) saying that six statues at a Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes in northern Ontario, Canada, had been beheaded.
See an updated report by Zuhlsdorf at the end of this article about a Black Lives Matter attack on praying Catholics in St. Louis.
Facing facts isn’t alarmist. It looks at the day’s news around the United States and beyond our borders with swarms of politically radicalized thugs on the prowl, leaving buildings ablaze, innocent people shot, others’ possessions hauled away.
This is unrestrained evil, but dominant media restrain themselves quite a bit from condemning such frenzied assaults. They recognize the thugs as their ideological kindred.
On the other hand, when President Trump delivered an uplifting, patriotic address for the Independence holiday at Mount Rushmore, dominant media descended into a frenzy of outright lies about his talk and their seething rejection of it.
And these media’s pals like left-wing Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D., Ill.) knew they themselves could lie with abandon and without consequence.
Despite Trump’s rejection of slavery and praise for those who ended it in the Civil War, Duckworth lied that the president “spent all his time talking about dead traitors.”
Although the editor of National Review Online, Charles C.W. Cooke, wrote that he didn’t know how Duckworth could have said this, he knew the reason for it: “Duckworth said what she said because almost the entire press corps said the same thing within seconds of the speech’s conclusion, and, in so doing, it signaled to her and to everyone else that she could get away with it.”
Wall Street Journal columnist Holman Jenkins and Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson, among others, noted that The Washington Post account began:
“President Trump’s unyielding push to preserve Confederate symbols and the legacy of white domination, crystallized by his harsh denunciation of the racial-justice movement Friday night at Mount Rushmore, has unnerved Republicans who have long enabled him.”
To be blunt, these are frothing, filthy lies by the Post about Trump’s speech. I used to look at the Post’s online front page at least three or four times a day but I hardly ever bother now at all because of such shameless Democratic Party-style propaganda pretending to inform.
If the Post’s “news” account was dangerous gasoline — which inflammatory words can be — it whipped up more explosive social tension at a time overburdened with the same.
Suddenly, dominant, left-wing media insist that the entire U.S. is absolutely drenched in systemic racism, and always has been.
Republican President Trump, whom they hate, faces re-election in four months. Trying to solidify the black vote for Trump’s Democratic opponent is one of their goals, although many blacks see through this propaganda campaign and reject the Democratic plantation’s hold on them.
And amid all the media frenzy about racism, how little they seem to recall that not long ago at all, the very Democratic, liberal, pro-abortion governor of Virginia, Ralph Northam, was in that photo of a black-faced guy and a Klan-hooded guy. Northam admitted he was one of them, he just didn’t recall which one.
Where there had been widespread racism and official segregation, it was for decades in the Democratic Party-dominated South, under the heel of segregationist Dem, not Republican, politicians. While dominant media blaze with resentment over what was done centuries ago, they have more trouble articulating what racist Democrat officials stubbornly did within living memory.
If racism so strongly endures throughout the U.S. today, consider this. Twenty-seven years ago Democrat Bill Clinton became president and served for eight years. Eleven years ago Democrat Barack Obama entered the White House and served for eight years.
Somehow the liberal media that supported them saw none of the constant racial holocaust they blare out today, nor did these media condemn Clinton and Obama for failing to remedy said monstrosity.
Think of this parallel. English domination severely oppressed Irish Catholics over centuries, even at the cost of their religious faith. But something sinister would have been plotted in political back rooms if today dominant media insisted on seeing everything through an Irish-victim prism, and asserting that immigrant Irish grievances must dominate modern U.S. politics and society.
The Wanderer asked national conservative commentator Quin Hillyer about the sudden media discovery of systemic racial disaster after failing to find it during the 16 relatively recent years of these two Democratic presidents.
Hillyer replied on July 6: “The establishment media is taking a real issue, which is subtextual, unofficial bigotry in the hearts of some people, and treating it as if it were deliberate, institutional racism. The media does so without regard to history or context, and with a desire to bully and shame rather than promote real conversation. The behavior is despicable.
“Even worse,” Hillyer added, “is when senators such as Tammy Duckworth go even a step further and misrepresent a president’s superb appeal to unity as if it were something sinister. Even worse, Duckworth herself refused to disagree with those who would sully our Founders. She, not Trump, is the one who is deeply wrong.”
Hillyer also pointed to a column he had posted at the Washington Examiner site on July 6 that lauded and defended Trump’s speech as “the single finest of Trump’s presidency.”
“As you know, I remain a Never Trumper,” Hillyer told The Wanderer, “but I strongly defend him in the column.”
Trump’s speech “featured realistic, entirely justified pushback against civilization’s despoilers. And it married that with an appropriate, much-needed celebration of the essential goodness of the United States and its history, along with plenty of unifying thoughts and proposals,” the column said.
It’s not Trump who’s waging the “culture war” that media accuse him of, Hillyer wrote. It’s “the radical left” being on the assault to have people fired for uttering their thoughts and dangerously hounded from public forums, while radicals “deface or destroy public art, as opposed to removing it through legitimate representative processes.”
Defending Trump’s talk, Hillyer wrote, “Since when is a rejection of such destruction, married to concrete achievements and aspirational themes, somehow ‘dystopian’? Only an establishment media and corporate culture that are morally twisted, themselves committed to the destruction, could somehow treat a defense of decency as if it were an affront.”
Even so, Hiller wrote, less than one-fourth of the president’s talk was spent defending U.S. honor, while the rest “was a stirring asseveration of civic virtue,” citing the nation’s ideals and its heroes.
Trump said, according to the White House text, “We are proud of the fact that our country was founded on Judeo-Christian principles, and we understand that these values have dramatically advanced the cause of peace and justice throughout the world.”
Hillyer cited a remark a few moments later: “We believe in equal opportunity, equal justice, and equal treatment for citizens of every race, background, religion, and creed. Every child, of every color — born and unborn — is made in the holy image of God.”
“That’s not dystopian,” Hillyer wrote, “it’s quintessentially American.”
Here We Go Again
The Wanderer also asked northern California conservative commentator Barbara Simpson to comment.
“Here we go again. Media have discovered another slam at our country and our lives by painting anyone who disagrees with the Black Lives Matters rant as being ‘inherently racist’,” Simpson said. “In fact, the entire United States now is slammed by every Democrat in sight, as well as all the liberal media outlets….
“What exactly that means and how we got that way is conveniently ignored; it’s much easier to call names, especially when the target is the white race,” she said. “Sen. Tammy Duckworth jumped on the media bandwagon with her criticisms of President Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech, claiming the monument is racist at its core and probably should be done away with.
“What makes her remarks so egregious is that she is considered a possible running mate for Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential race. If this country has problems now, just consider that,” Simpson said.
A major force behind the chaos is the Marxist-inspired Black Lives Matter, which dominant media are happy to pass off as a civil-rights organization. Meanwhile, amid leftist calls to disband and defund police departments, criminals feel freer. The conservative Washington Times headlined on July 6, “Violence sweeps U.S. as ‘systemic liberalism’ handcuffs police.”
Reporting on increased violence and shootings around the nation, including children as victims, the Times wrote, “Law-enforcement professionals say the eruption of violence is a perfect storm of animosity toward the police and liberal criminal-justice reform policies that have put violent offenders back on the streets and hamstrung police departments.”
Priest-blogger John Zuhlsdorf posted a video on July 7 of a Black Lives Matter activist screaming insults and blasting away with an airhorn to disrupt St. Louis, Mo., Catholics praying the rosary to help protect the statue of St. Louis IX of France they surrounded, but which radicals wanted to tear down.
Zuhlsdorf headlined the item, “The Coming Storm: St. Louis,” and wrote: “This is what the streets are going to be like, more and more often. There is clearly a demonic component to this.”
He wrote regarding the airhorn man: “What a tough guy. He goes into a crowd of people praying the rosary and gets up in their faces because he knows that they are not the types to take him out. What courage. Threatening to beat a woman. What a manly man, with his little horn.”
St. Louis television station KMOV, Channel 4, posted a video on June 30 of black activists assaulting defenders of the statue, with one of them saying the Catholics are “terrorists” who “needed to be met with force.”
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch posted on June 28 that an anti-statue activist said the name of the city of St. Louis should be changed, too, “to celebrate the city’s racial, ethnic and religious diversity.”
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