There is a forgettable Elvis Presley film called Kissin’ Cousins with an equally forgettable title song. Presley sings about kissing his cousin all night but only after singing they’re distant cousins and that makes it “alright”. Less than a decade after his fellow rocker, Jerry Lee Lewis, married a 13 year old cousin it’s likely Americans weren’t buying bouncy tunes about incest.
The Presley song came to mind today as I watched Morning Joe on MSDNC. The Washington Post’s Katrina vanden Heuvel spent a lengthy portion of the program defending Teamsters President James Hoffa. If you’re just returning from a long beach weekend, Hoffa declared war Labor Day on the Republican Party and the Tea Party and he also called his dogs to violence. After Hoffa warmed the crowd, President Obama took the stage and praised the mobster. These are the same socialists who’ve spent the last several years railing against the harsh rhetoric of the American right. I was waiting for vanden Heuvel to offer Hoffa is a fellow traveler, so that makes it “alright”.
You know the drill. Palin, Perry or Tea Party talks about revolution then it’s bad and causes violence and borders on treason. The commander of an army of union illiterates wants to bash my skull in and he’s just expressing the frustrations of working Americans. After all, union violence is an American tradition!
Frankly, the relationship between mainstream media and the socialist left is downright incestuous.
The country is heading for civil war. Wise men have been telling us this for several years. My friend, Father Charles Vavonese, told me at lunch some years ago he saw the writing on the wall. Father Chuck is the man behind the parochial school system in the Syracuse, New York Roman Catholic Diocese. There are Superintendents hired from time-to-time but Father Chuck was the policy guy for education for decades. His job was to educate young people in the classics and faith and in many respects to arm them against a post-Christian culture. I haven’t seen him since I left radio in Syracuse so I’ll offer our conversation took place in 2005. Here we are, almost 7 years later and we see a mainstream media even more hostile to another old tradition. A Christian culture begging for workplace justice but also tempering the message by reminding us our work and lot in life can also lead to sanctification.
A trade union isn’t God. Mainstream media isn’t God and no matter what you fellow travelers insisted upon until very recently, Barack Obama surely isn’t God.
I agree with Father Chuck. Civil war is coming, whether it’s an outbreak of urban riots or union thugs firebombing homes and businesses of so called enemies. Some weeks ago I referenced my neighbor and friend, Gary Knapp. He was raised Roman Catholic in Ohio and now pastors a Reformed Presbyterian Church a short drive from where I live. He was raised pondering the meaning of faith and what God asks of us. He suggests it’s perhaps time Christians remove themselves from public life and seek shelter. Let the captains of graft, the labor mob bosses and the street urchins battle for the visible. Eventually, when fatigue settles in, someone will emerge from the shelters and put America back together. It would be interesting to take a count, and I’m sure someone long ago has, of how often these 3 words appear in both the Old Testament and the New Testament: Be not afraid.
Hoffas, Obamas and vanden Heuvels come and go. None are eternal.
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