Theres little more purely revolting and loathsome in the political world than an interdependent drone, a minion, a lapdog, a lackey. A self-righteous, pretentious, sycophanticaza goon who’s only purpose in life is to comply with and corroborate the doctrinated frameworks manufactured by his duplicitious masters. These are the most miserable of all political punditry pissants, a brainless foot soldier who’s only objective is flagrantly pronounced as the universal transmission and marketization of the talking points capitulated by whomever their bosses might be at the time. See, thats the particularly ugly thing about lackeys, since they have no principles they tend to interpolate between sides whenever its most convenient or financially lucrative.

David Horowitz has always been, always will be, the definition of a lackey. Whether it was during the 60s when he was a champion of black seperatism and Stalinism, or now when he’s casually converted to a blatant Judaeo-fascist crusader of Zionism and social regressivism, he’s been nothing but a conniving, shameless and wholly unprincipled dog. Unfortunately his masquerades have gained some foothold recently, and I fear this dangerous demagogue’ and his equally pathetic henchmen may very well do some serious damage to truly important issues, damaging good causes and denigrating the level of civil discourse.

Circa 1960s, Horowitz was the definitive stereotypical hippie straight out of UCLA. The son of Marxists, he was recruited by the Black Panthers surely as some sort of freakish “Jewish black seperatism”, mindlessly reciting promulgations of extremist black activism for a cheap profit. At the same time he was at the forefront of every New Left convention, frontlining the anti-war movement, free sexual exercise movement, neo-communist movement, amongst others. This guy wasn’t some preppie on LSD “going with the flow”, like most hippies, he was conscripted as a figurehead of hte whole enterprise and he played the part flawlessly. Because David Horowitz knows how to sell the party platform.

Then, after some “violent tension” within the Panthers ranks, Horowitz had an “intellectual epiphany”, by the end of which he miraculously transformed from a neo-Marxist anti-war hawk sexual promicuist to a self-proclaimed “Zionist social conservative”, subsequently forming a whole platoon of extreme right-wing think tanks and populating them with the most backwards-minded dofans in the business: Coulter, Medved, Prager, and likewise.

Now, it will undoubtably be said that a change of heart or an intellectual transition isn’t unheard of, its usually quite healthy. Christopher Hitchens went from being a far liberal to a neolibertarian, I myself had a similar progression as well. But neither of us completely rejected and repudiated our previous principles, we both uphold our values of classical liberalism, we’ve just accomodated them to 21st century political mechanics. I still believe that the grassroots neoconservative movement is actually the most liberal faction in politics today. So this sort of growth is healthy and respectable.

But Horowitz cares not about such trivial things as “intellectual honesty” or integrity of the mind. No, he has made it perfectly clear his only objective is how to make the most amount of money with the most expediency. It is no coincidence that Horowitz’s “profound inner cerebral re-configuration” took place right around the time of the New Left’s demise and the rise of the 80s Reaganite Falwell right. Horowitz saw a new business venture opportunity and seized it like the dignity-bankrupt urchin he is.

Since then he’s maintained a number of deceitful and scholarly-unsound endeavours. He’s released volumes of books attacking the “hijacking of the educational system by Stalinists”, all largely plagiarized from Dinesh D’Souza’s original and far more intelligently-composed Illiberal Education, and all the while neglecting to point out that these “Marxist professors” maintain the same intellectual mindset he once venerated. He’s also been the provacateur of various cliched right-wing causes, being a personal spokesperson and defender of his personal prostitute Ann Coulter, seeking the dissolution of the barrier between church and state, the list goes on.

Most recently all this week he’s been entertaining (and shouted off) 200 college campuses with his “Islamofascism Awareness Week”, a touring circus which seeked to spread the word of the impending danger posed by Islamic totallitarianism, which itself was being operated by a gang of Horowitz’s own ardent religious fascist buddies like Medved, Coulter, Spencer and Prager. This is a perfect demonstration of how Horowitz and people like him can truly be corrosive to vital intellectual engagement.

All this week there have been ludicrous little debates about whether the term “Islamofascism” was appropriate to be employed on a campus setting. As someone who has used the term repeatedly and vociferously belives that it is a valid and justifiable moniker to be attached to Islamic leaders who truly are religious fascists, I laughed at these meaningless debates. Because that wasn’t the question that should be debated. The question is: why the hell is David Horowitz and his traveling freak show the ones to engineer an Islamofascism Awareness Week? You can’t condemn Islamist fascism while simultaneously propitiating Christo-fascists, that is absurd. I would be adamantly in favor of an Islamofascism Awareness week if it was managed by Christopher Hitchens, or Sam Harris, or Richard Dawkins, or Ayaan Hirsi Ali, or Salman Rushdie, or Walid Phares, or a whole host of legitimate political scientists and philosophers who are not part of an edifice of any theocratic cult.

So I applaud the utilization of the term, but would I go to a civil rights march or a secularism celebration rally if it was run by neo-Nazis?

This is a prime example of how Horowitz is a truly infectious creature, he takes timely and imperative points of social discourse and totally corrupts them and strips them of their legitimacy. But then again, thats what he’s always done. He is an insentient, profiteering, back-stabbing human virus, the epitomy of the failure of our socio-political interface. Its astonishing how easily he’s attracted the sympathy and respect of many braindead Christian conservative fools, this really is a guy that should be universally reviled by every thinking human being, regardless of political affiliation.

The statement “David Horowitz is a worthless lackey” isn’t just a formulative insinuation. Its an infallible job description.

Whilst observing the coverage of the horrendous California frestorms that have plagued the region and its denizens so remorselessly this week, several things caught my attention that I found immensely grotesque and revolting, yet simultaneously quite interesting.

First was the incessant, unctuous and wholly shameless adulations and accolades being afforded to the unscrupulous Geraldo Rivera. “Thank you so much Geraldo, we appreciate you so much Geraldo, we love you Geraldo”, what is this foolishness? Don’t mistake my pretenses, if these glorifications were coming from the mouths of the beleaguered and distraught Californians who’ve now lost everything and decided to afford some of their emotional gratification to a ragged illegal immigrant apologist on an unending cosmically egocentric power trip, I’d have no quarrel. Who am I to question these people who’ve been through such a traumatizing and catastrophic affair?

But almost uniformally the praise and admirations were coming from other reporters and media stooges. Is this how abysmally low the level of integrity in the news business has sunk? So much so that, even within the midst of a national disaster and surrounded by a sea of human abject misery and disillusionment these morally and intellectually destitute imbeciles have to literally prostitute their dignity and honor to fellow hucksters like themselves? The flock looks after its own, even when people are suffering and admirably enduring such a clearly psychologically-tolling episode and hell is non-metaphorircally breaking loose, these so-called journalists find it necessary to gravel at the feet of one of the most definitively mediocre faces on television, bar none. Truly this is a disgrace.

But it gets worse still. The media’s sordid coverage of the event seems ineradicably embedded with constant invocations of Hurricane Katrina. Thats the perfect way to console people during a cataclysmic event, right? Conjure up images from previous cataclysms? But there is a lot of things to be said about this, as the left in particular has been making some astonishingly idiotic points of commentary regarding this subject.

It seems that in the absence of the chaotic discord and non-coordination between local and federal administrations and disaster-amelioaration mechanisms as it was with Katrina, the left has elected to callously and masochistically blame the victims, since it can’t even conceivably blame the government this time. Before, we were subjected to Spike Lee’s disgusting and almost treasonous insinuations of a “conspiracy against black people” in the midst of the festering havoc resultant not from the sole fault of the Bush administration, as he cluelessly argued, but due to staggering incompetence and corruption at the local level. Apparently he and his zombified leftist lackeys missed the lesson federalist socio-political architecture, that is assuming they ever learned anything about government at all at school, which is ultimately to presume that they ever received any education period.

Now that there is optimal and effective harmony between local and federal forces in their valiant efforts of reconnaissance and mitigation in the burning fields, the left has to abjure its old stance of “its the government’s fault” and has to instead argue “its our fault”. Its our fault for building houses in the precious environmental pulchritude of pre-domesticated landscape, for raping Mother Nature (which has apparently become a literal divine deity for the philosophically bankrupt liberal environmentalist religious movement). We had this coming, we deserve it, its our fault, we ignored global warming and these are the ramifications for it. Humans are greedy and only care about salvaging their evil, tumor-like property, not about becoming suppliant steward-slaves to the planet. This is essentially the sort of rhetoric we’ve been hearing from the left now. Its past the point of just sound-bye fluff, I believ they actually ardently favor the insane, obscurantist points they’re trying to make.

These wretched, ungrateful and utterly shameless cretins truly know no bounds. As of this writing 14 innocent people have been burned alive due to this tragedy, and 50 astoundingly courageous firefighters have been seriously injured. And from Geraldo to Hollywood and every blasted pompous media goon and entertainment whore in between all they can to warp this into a ghastly, self-indulging sensationalist 24/7 media bonanza and a miserable political statement, patting themselves on the back the whole way.

One of these days a burning fire should incinerate all of Hollywood and all the corporate news studios. That wouldn’t be a tragedy.

Hollywood has for the past couple of decades completely abandoned its alleged original purpose, to serve as a medium for the cinematographic entertainment and satisfaction of its viewers. What was once a diverting and diversive experience of affordable, purely frivolous and genuinely satisfactory and stimulating theatrical engagement has been reduced to a ghastly, incomparably over-priced affair of cheap visually appealing “dead-pixel CGI” light-shows, appeals to cheap psychosexual impulses, mind-wretchingly abjectly miserable toilet humor, bravado-imbibed transparent plotlines and a staggering demonstration of non-virtuosic acting performances.

Going to the cinema is like an excerise in gambling, first you have to read through an entire comprehensive framework of reviews wherein the mediocrity in prose is only paralelled by the worthless of the movie itself. You have to go through that just to envisage a scope of the probable “odds” that the next two hours of your life and the appalling $9.50 you just handed over to that unscrupulous ticket-jockey was actually worth the trouble. But then you eventually ceom to the conclusion that trusting the judgement of braindead movie reviewers is a wholly futile enterprise, that 1 movie in a million that is actually worth all the trouble watching usually attracts negative attention. So the old simulacrum of indigenous American family culture of “a night at the movies” is an irreversibly and inescapable egregious and almost entirely dissatisfying and unpleasant affair.

But it wasn’t enough for the talentless, over-paid, cerebrally-calcified sub-primatic, pompous, egocentric, self-satisfied, smirking, inherently hideous and insolent socialite assholes to constantly barrage us with an unending onslaught of filmographic fecal matter. No, it wasn’t enough for them to simply make an entire mockery of the convention of video-recording, they also came to the conclusion that it was their obligation to inject their excruciatingly-painful, profoundly unsustainable, meteorically unsubstantiated, and yet, with an air of intellectual superiority, vhemently pronounced socio-political and economic beliefs. So now, when people pay for that ridiculously elevated ticket price, just hoping to spend the next couple hours just to have a good time, instead they get a Frankenstein-monster of a horrid, cliche-ridden plot executed by unbelievably stock and uninspired actors, all fashioned within the microcosmic concept of some sort of intentionally hyperbolic, absurdist “profound” political or philosophical message, one that is perpetuated by fruads and charlatans who’s non-capacity in the performing arts is only dwarfed by their intellectual bankruptcy and that any child with half of a semi-evolved cerebral cortex could shred through within the span of 10 seconds. Unfortunately the people who actually do buy into Hollywood politics really are at an intellectual level thats even stupider than that.

This went from an epidemically-viral phenomenon to a mere job description of the Hollywood elite, it is now virtually impossible for one to watch a high-tier and luxuriously-budgeted film orchestrated by the upper-echelon of Hollywood that isn’t a piece of overt propaganda and an exercise in shameless indulgence into the most insane aspects of leftism. I’ve coined the term “V for Vendetta syndrome” to connotate Hollywood’s revolting practice of engament into the political discourse. The name is of course inspired by the catastrophic, post-modernist anti-art of a movie, the 2006 adaptation of the brilliant graphic novel of the same name. This is surely one of the most unobjectionable disgraceful and fallacious incarnations of any printed work onto the big screen in history. It took the original graphic novel (a truly commendable work I urge everyone who hasn’t already to read) strips it of all its poignant and objective political and social commentary, of its metaphysical contemplation of the deeper complexities of the dichotomy of good and evil, and utterly rapes it. The insidious, talentless, plagiarist Wachowski brothers took a whole pool of fully promising and prospective plotline composition and threw it shamelessly defenestrated it, taking a deep, thoughtful and concerted effort of socio-political commentary and transforming it into an ugly, cliched and spiritless anti-neoconservativism freak show. It was such a mortifying act of artistic homicide that Alan Moore, the author of the original novel, refused to have his name attached to the film in any respect, not wanting to be associated with such a mind-blowing abomination of film.

But at the same time, the movie galvanized and stimulated a whole generation of illiterate and disillusioned teenage boys who hadn’t a foggiest idea about the world or the book upon which this movie was based. But they ate it up, they consumed the conspiratorialist lies and defamations of this hideous waste of movie-reel and were transformed into far leftist sycophantic, “post-materialist” conformist slugs. Exactly what Hollywood was intending. This movie has been glorified and exalted by a whole platoon of brain-washed young liberal militia-men, perhaps irreversably. I’ve tried, on numerous occasions, to get some of these people to read the book, telling them that it not possible for them to respect the movie after reading the book, that they would have an intellectual and artisitc epiphany. But they refuse. This is what Hollywood does, it doesn’t create art, it perverts and destroys it, and subverts the minds of its pathetic flock with the callous atrocities and feeble excuses they pose as substitutes for true manifestations of the creative and sentient mind.

November 9th marks the opening day of Lions for Lambs, perhaps the very epitomy of this non-artform, the apex of cinematographic prostitution. A squalid critique of the war on terror, American foreign policy and America and what it represents in general, frontlined by Hollywood’s “axis of evil”, if you will. Directed the treasonous Robert Redford, a long since discredited and hopelessly mediocre actor who, in the nascent aftermath of 9/11, suggested that we shouldn’t retaliate with anger or animus towards are sadistic murderers, that we should respond with shameless masochism and “love”, because ultimately its our fault. People should be hanged for such crimes against reason. Next up on the cast roster is the alien gothic cultist, latent homosexual and phenomenally talentless waste of human flesh, Tom Cruise, who’s subscription to the unprecedented scam-artistry and huxterist charlatanistic death cult of scientology discredits him not only as an actor or purported political scientist, as a sentient human being in general. And finally we have Meryl Streep, an unbelievably overrated decaying old prune who’s feeble mind could never pull off a believable performance, let alone compose an articulated or coherent political statement. This staggeringly shining avatar to Hollywood’s mediocrity has attracted raving press and has already been hailed as one of the best movies of the year, truly a damning harbinger of apocalyptic proportions, especially if the stultified, Hollywood adoring sheep of an American constituency actually tkaes any of its treacherous positions seriously.

But this is where we’re at in American culture, this is how far we’ve denigrated. To the point where a troupe of abysmally intellectually-regressed prats who are so blind, and so tupid that they can’t perceive the ultimate truth of actors: that beyond all the press and the fancy cars and fake, impassioned speeches propagating neo-Marxist lunacy, their entire profession is about pretending. Pretending to have looks, pretending to have class, pretending to have brains.

And yet they’ve managed to successfully engender a framework in which they can inculcate their axiomatically ludicrous strain of non-thought into a mentally-malleable constituency of capriciously-thinking, servile imbeciles with not scathing admonition as blowback, but uproarious applause from their “adoring public”.

This really is a fine tableau of the state of abject groveling and incapacity for independent inquiry that our society has become. That we can be dominated by a group of illiterate gangsters and masqueraders, and pay them handsomely for the satisfaction with our money and our applause. I say we obviate from thsi dangerous trend, that we spit on the faces of these solipsistic cretins and make them aware of a resounding conviction: we have higher standards. We don’t need to be lied to and profiteered by slobbering politicians, and we certainly don’t need to be worshipping false idols in the image of braindead clowns with delusions of grandeur who think they’re something special because they’re on a big screen.

A grand premiere of a a smug, cliched little piece of Hollywood political bullying bile overridden by a glorious cacophany of boos and hisses. Now that would be a movie screening I’d love to attend.

It requires no further extrapolation or rhetorical expansion to make the case for retaining Western surrogate installments and military forces within the perimeters of Mesopotamia, any objective analytical observation would come to the conclusion that the perpetuation of the presence of American emissaries within Iraq is not a matter of political expediency or convenience or marginal tactical advantage, but a sheer matter of geopolitical imperative, of civilizational survival. The prospects of an Iraqi societal implosion would be utterly calamitious to the future of the entire region, and therefore would strike a seriously piercing blow to the vital security and stability interests of Western civilization as a whole. The purported premature departure of American forces from Iraq envisaged by the so-called anti-war liberal front would result in said absolute collapse, this is an inarguable matter of reality.

But the last week has brought issues to light that have raised the stakes, so to speak. In light of these exceedingly important and influential occurances, the call to maintain our combative fortitude in Iraq needs to be emphatically re-invigorated, there really is no turninb back at this point, all notions of defeatist evacuation from Iraqi soil needs to be thoroughly evaporated and replaced by a resounding resolution to up the ante.

First and foremost, we have observed the evident eminent demise of Al-Qaida in Mespotomotamia, a serious victory that has been seriously downplayed by the white-flag liberal jingoists. Of course we need to recognize that AQM is not the sole arbiter of discord and terrorist instability within Iraq, but it has been a central fomenter and agitator of violence, deliberately spurring civil strife and chaos through various calculated and insidious guerilla tactics, amongst them ruthlessly demolishing the glorious Golden Dome Shia mosque in Samarra. The dissolution of these vile gangster clan marks a real victory in the Iraqi dialectical history, the expulsion of the primary prion of civic schizmatic activity in the post-Saddam era. With their defeat, Iraq is now slowly but surely on the path to social recovery and reconciliation.

Furthermore the anti-Kurdish ambition of the newly-consolidated Islamist AK party administration of Turkey warrants us to maintain our forces in Iraq in order to defend our Kurdish allies. The Kurds are the shining example of secular democracy, emerging from the mires of tribalistic warfare and now a fully-functioning, liberalized and secular democratic force in a sea of violent theocratic mediocrity. We absolutely cannot disavow the Kurds, they are the grand success story of the enterprise of American foreign liberation endeavours, the proof that neoconservative policy works. To emancipate this proud and prosperous people from the psychotic machinations of a fascistic sadist only to make a shameless recantation of all principles of humanity, retreat and let them to be cannibalized by the vicious parties of God would be a true disgrace. America could never, ever recover from such a disgusting act of compromising the future of a nascent and striving people just for petty domestic gratification from a stupid and cerebrally-stultified liberal constituency.

And if all that wasn’t enough, the final emerging factor calcifying the vital nature of resilience and perseverence in Iraq is simply to spite the disgusting and shameless behaviour and innuendo of the disgraceful Gen. Ricardo Sanchez. A man who’s reputation was so irreparably marred by his incompetence in allowing Abu Ghraib to take place under his watch, as well as being a commander of forces in Iraq during one of the most miserable periods of the re-construction effort, that he felt the need for some cheap media gratification and satisfaction by backstabbingly posing some shallow and cheap attacks against the effort in Iraq, as well as the media coverage of it. After all it was tha tdastardly media that exposed his mediocrity concerning the ghastly affairs at Abu Ghraib. Departure from Iraq would be tantamount to proving this conniving fool right, and that would be simply unacceptable.

The forces of divine representation have congealed at Iraq for a final desperate stand at total socio-economic and cultural erosion of a fledgling secular democracy. Their numbers are waning and now they require sustainance outsourced from other nations in the form of military, as well as verbal, support. We cannot kneel to such a squalid and revolting cast of barbaric and insipid villains, the ultimate survival of the future of  civilization as a whole unequivocally gravitates upon the task of ameliorating the fire that burns at its cradle.

May the fireworks in Iraq hit a magnificent, triumphant crescendo and disipate. We’ll be watching.