It was such a good story, you can't help but wonder if it had been
scripted out in advance.
An American convoy in Iraq comes under enemy attack. A teenage female
soldier (read, Damsel in Distress) is wounded. Eight days later, a
Special Ops team (read, Knights in Shining Armor) stages a dramatic
midnight rescue. As Lynch is carried aboard the plane, she smiles coyly
for the camera.
This story did not find its way into your children's fairy tale book,
with its "and they lived happily ever" ending. Instead, it ended up on
the front page of the Washington Post.
According the Washington Post story, PFC Jessica Lynch had "sustained
multiple gunshot wounds" and was stabbed while she "fought fiercely and
shot several enemy soldiers...firing her weapon until she ran out of
ammunition."
Of course, that Rambo-like description bears no relation to the truth.
Looking back, we now see that the story provided an irresistible mix of
straight
news, social entertainment, and feminist propaganda.
But this story is more than an object lesson how the liberal media has
lost its moral compass. The Jessica Lynch fiasco is the latest episode
in the budding Cultural Revolution.
Because the Lynch story really boils down to a mockery of the archetype
of the male warrior -- the time-honored tradition of the man who risks
life and limb to defend family and home.
The story undermines the male archetype, of course, because Lynch is
female.
Worse, the story ignores the true bravery that happened that March 23
morning on the road to Baghdad.
By her own admission, Lynch's weapon jammed and then she passed out. And
that was it. She did absolutely nothing that could be counted as an act
of heroism.
In contrast, PFC Patrick Miller, who was traveling in the same convoy,
singly-handedly turned back the second-wave Iraqi mortar attack. He was
credited with saving the life of Jessica Lynch. Afterwards, Miller was
awarded
a Silver Star for valor.
But the liberal media barely mentioned him. PFC Miller's picture did not
appear on the cover of People magazine. He was never offered a $1
million book deal.
So here is the real message: "Girls, join the army, survive an enemy
attack, smile for the camera, and you can be a hero, too."
And exactly who are the people who are waging this divisive Cultural
Revolution?
David Horowitz, a former liberal himself, understands the radical left
agenda all too well. He calls these agitators the
neo-Communists.
Neo-Coms know they cannot topple the economic and military power of
capitalism. So instead, they subvert the culture.
It's like
Betty
Friedan, who took the American ideal of suburban comfort
and privilege, and then turned it inside out by calling it a
"comfortable concentration camp."
Babette Gross, who was involved with socialist front movements for many
years, describes their tactics this way:
"You do not call yourself a Communist. You do not call upon people to
support the Soviets. Never. You claim to be an independent-minded
idealist. You don't really understand politics, but you claim the little
guy is getting a lousy break."
Philospher Herbert
Marcuse is one of the leading neo-Coms. Marcuse
describes the Cultural Revolution in terms of "a type of diffuse and
dispersed disintegration of the system."
To manipulate the media with an utter disregard for the truth, to
emasculate the male warrior archetype, to openly call for the
"disintegration" of our society -- these are the tactics of the Neo-Com
Cultural Revolution.
