"Give me just two or three men in a village, and I will take the village"
-Mao Tse-tung
They are the flies in the ointment, the worms in the apple and the maggots in the mix, they are the filthy fifths or more precisely the fifth columnists, those disloyal to the very concept of America who work to undermine the country from within. The filthy fifths have long been a tool of moneyed, corporate interests as well as of the predatory jackals of Wall Street and have pumped billions of dollars into a long standing effort to discredit and destroy the very fabric of an America that is inclusive to all in terms of both equal protection under the law as well as the opportunity for all to prosper economically or more appropriately to share in the mythical American Dream. The filthy fifths have a vested interest in the destruction of a more egalitarian society as their personal and family financial interests trump any such concept as patriotism or shared sacrifice for the good of the country as a whole, in fact they detest the very concept of America and the promise that it used to stand for prior to the ascension of the extreme right.
The upper echelon of the filthy fifths never enter the fray themselves for they are the captains of industry and commerce, they are investment bankers, oilmen and arms manufacturers but rather they employ legions of highly compensated, ideological allies or otherwise hired guns and public relations flacks and shills to poison the public discourse and to pit Americans against each other so that the greediest and smallest percentage can continue to exploit with abandon in order to enrich themselves, nonetheless they are all parasites no matter their level of involvement in the movement against American democracy.
The moneyed interests behind the filthy fifths disseminate their propaganda in order to break down longstanding American barriers to the acceptance of heinous practices such as torture and sexual degradation, the trampling of civil liberties and the demonizing of dissenters, they spin intricate webs like mutant Orwellian spiders in which logic and common sense are ensnared never to emerge intact. The elimination of the media fairness doctrine under filthy fifth lackey Ronald Reagan's administration as well as the breaking down of regulatory controls and the green lighting of media conglomerates to seek both monopoly and message supremacy under the all too willing guidance of Bill Clinton with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 laid the groundwork for the reigning paradigm of FOX clones and tabloid trash that is the pathetic swill that passes for media in America today.
Former Vice President Henry Wallace put it best:
"The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."
Which is precisely what has happened. Using the early model of Father Coughlin the ranting demagogue of the 1930's the American fascist movement eventually turned to a man who would become their biggest megaphone by sowing the heartlands of America with poisonous misinformation and a discourse designed to divide and demonize. That man was Rush Limbaugh and he was the forerunner of the extremist advocates of American fascism that have ridden on his coattails to become the dominant voices in the media today.
The Propagandists:
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
-Joseph Goebbels
The winged monkeys of Wall Street and the globalist elite were sent forth on a mission to sow the seeds of discontent, abolish the freedom of the press and dump intellectual cyanide into the well of the American mind through their pontificating of think tank distilled folderol from their electronic pulpits and unleash their poison pens at mainstream newspapers and other publications. These highly paid pitchmen and pitchwomen are shills for fascism more than they are journalists which is a label that many of them falsely affix to themselves to present a false façade of legitimacy to their treasonous actions. The truth is that a whore is a whore whether they are turning $1,000 an hour tricks for the wealthy elite or giving cut rate $15 blow jobs on skid row and the army of babbling asses in the right wing media are anything but the self proclaimed `journalists' that they so often claim to be.
They are legion and they are pretty much indistinguishable from each other in their vileness and ability to instigate and dissemble. There is the bullying Bill O'Reilly who is the king of the angry white men who are clueless as to the true reasons behind their rage. Sean Hannity was personally plucked out of obscurity by Newt Gingrich himself who saw vast potential in his homophobic rantings (now Sean what exactly is it with your obsession with fisting?) and demagoguery. Joe Scarborough holds court on MSNBC he is the former congressman who once had a dead intern found in his office. MSNBC, the FOX wannabe has as it's star the pink and puffy Chris Matthews, a notorious sycophant all to willing to go into mock tirades and otherwise lie when necessary in order to propagate the daily talking points and fawn over Bush with statements like he "glimmers with a kind of sunny nobility."
There is Michael Savage (ironically his real last name is Weiner) who was so virulently anti-gay that in a rare exception to the normal business procedures for cable networks he was actually sent packing by MSNBC for his tirades the one that finally resulted in the pink slip was:
"Oh, you're one of the sodomites! You should only get AIDS and die, you pig! How's that? Why don't you see if you can sue me, you pig? You got nothing better than to put me down, you piece of garbage? You got nothing to do today? Go eat a sausage and choke on it. Get trichinosis. Okay, got another nice caller here who's busy because he didn't have a nice night in the bath house and is angry at me today?"
The savage Weiner is back broadcasting his hate on radio and given his hatred for gays may even be able to land a slot on the growing empire of `Christian' talk radio if he cleans up his dialogue just a tad. Studies have actually shown that the most militantly homophobic of men are actually latent gays themselves acting out as a part of their self loathing, not to allude that Weiner may be one of them of course (maybe guiltlessly sucking a cock now and then would improve his disposition) but he sure does rant about them.
Of course no list of television filthy fifthers even a truncated one like this could be complete without mentioning the insipid McCarthy apologist and object of masturbatory fantasy to the angry white male losers who flock to the GOP like flies to dung and that is of course Ann Coulter. Coulter is the firebrand forty-something and single (were she a Democrat the 'L' word would be flying on Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing outlets and I don't mean 'Liberal') blonde with a face like a horse and a vocabulary like a Nazi propagandist but is the darling to the same type who cheerlead to send others to fight their king's illegal wars but would never have the guts to themselves serve. Coulter is so shrill and hatful that by giving her psychotic ranting any airplay or publicity at all not only shows just how foul and corrupt that the media itself has become. The greatest mockery was the Time Magazine cover story on the Eva Braun wannabe that threw the longtime `news' weekly's credibility into the toilet far more than any of their complicity in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame ever could. A textbook example of the pathologically vitriolic nature of Coulter's spewing is:
"To The People Of Islam: Just think: If we'd invaded your countries, killed your leaders and converted you to Christianity YOU'D ALL BE OPENING CHRISTMAS PRESENTS RIGHT ABOUT NOW! Merry Christmas."
Rants like this are evidence that the psychotic bitch definitely needs to be committed for some serious electro-shock therapy sessions and a lobotomy certainly needs to be kept on the table as an option.
Syndicated op-ed columnist Charles Krauthammer is a particularly nasty member of the filthy fifth , a rabid neocon attack mongrel with a nose that looks as though it were gruesomely mashed when the ass cheeks of his master George W. Bush suddenly slammed shut. The Kraut is one of the more influential advocates of Staussian neo con policy and his primary gig with the Washington Post provides him with a soapbox from which to launch his dissembling and menacing diatribes, not surprisingly he is also regularly featured in Time Magazine.
One of the filthiest of the filthy fifth is reactionary conservative activist David Horowitz who has personally undertaken a crusade to purge American schools including colleges and universities of any liberal thought.This troll-faced little fascist's latest hunk of smoldering ass wipe is something called Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam and the American Left which is a blatant example of the same type of red baiting tactics so successfully used by McCarthy era thugs. David Horowitz is a bitter and hateful little man whose ideological underpinnings are far closer to Hitler than even the worst of the vile right-wing slime throwers. Horowitz' personal crusade to take down all liberal thought in the nation's colleges and universities under the facade of promoting the 'elimination of political bias' smacks of brownshirt tactics and uses the nazification of German educational institutions in the 1930's as a model.
His soon to be relegated to the bargain bins, overstock clearance houses and 1.79 Half.com specials tries to make the argument that liberals are terrorist facilitators and enemies of the state, more rabble-rousing cant and racist demagoguery than typical for Ho Chi Horowitz which is saying a lot. The best advice to anyone seriously contemplating spending any time in reading fascist reactionary garbage is to simply skip this offering by a notorious fifth columnist and go directly to Mein Kampf which is also available and is a few bucks cheaper on Amazon, at least it has some historical value unlike this hate-drenched, venom-dripping swill. An avowed 'former' Marxist the author is exactly of the type who seek to use subterfuge and deception in order to divide Americans and tactics like this certainly could make one suspicious as to whether or not he is in fact a communist mole seeking to promote the overthrow of American democracy.
And of course there are Richard M. Nixon's former henchmen in G. Gordon Liddy, Charles Colson and Patrick Buchanan who all parlayed their service to their dark and evil master into well paid gigs as fascist right wing shills although I will give Buchanan some credit for his animosity towards globalization although it is probably more of an offshoot of his racist and anti-Semitic views than anything with serious roots in any sort of loyalty to American values. The leeches who parlayed their infamy due to their association with a man as despicable and vile as Nixon was need to be scrutinized accordingly and you can ALWAYS judge a person by the company that they keep.
Other filthy fifth propagandists and hacks include media moguls Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Rupert Murdoch, Bernard Goldman, a man with a permanent hard-on due to his anger over being subservient to right-wing bogeyman Dan Rather during his tenure at CBS, Brit Hume the administration go to guy at FOX, Tim Russert the slavering Sunday morning host of Meet the Press, Bush golf pal Bob Schieffer who took over for Rather at CBS, CNN establishment flack Wolf Blitzer, NY Times columnist John Tierney, globilization pr king Thomas Friedman, Bob Novak, FOX house `liberal' Alan Colmes, internet gossip conduit Matt Drudge, Max Boot, disgraced Uncle Tom and recipient of taxpayer funded payola Armstrong Williams, William Kristol, Dick `the toe sucker' Morris, good ole Ollie North, former am radio shock jock Glenn Beck, John Stossel, George Will, Robert Bork, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, every teleprompter reading bimbo with fair hair, nice tits and a vacant thousand yard stare who recite the daily talking points and a cast of hundreds if not thousands of lesser known cogs in the great Republican Noise Machine.
Incidentally, that is the title of a great book by David Brock of Media Matters which I would highly recommend to anybody who wants a far more comprehensive expose of the filthy fifths in the mainstream media as well as a look at the ideological foundations of the American fascist movement that Vice President Wallace warned about.
The Theocrats:
"There is no such thing as separation of church and state in the Constitution. It is a lie of the Left and we are not going to take it anymore."
-Pat Robertson
Some of the biggest members of the filthy fifths are the evangelical Christian radical clerics. These are the worst of the worst when it comes to distortion and the spewing of bigoted diatribes and anti-American sentiment all wrapped up in the cross and the flag. Pat Robertson, James Dobson, Jerry Falwell, Paul Weyrich, Colson, Fred Phelps, Gary Bauer, Gary North, Phyllis Shlafly, D.James Kennedy, Richard Land, Tony Perkins and Donald Wildmon are the most well known of filthy fifth theocrats but there are thousands of lesser known leaders who are just as dangerous although they aren't household names to mainstream America.
There is the siren song of the virulent strain of false prophecy that is the gospel of the enthusiasts of the Rapture, the day where Jesus returns to earth but only after the `chosen' ones suddenly disappear and are transported into heaven, leaving their gaudy thrift store clothes behind. The best thing for these people is that they then get to sit around with God and watch the show as all left on the planet go through The Tribulation, the smash hit Left Behind series of biblical revisionist thrash that transforms Christ into a vengeful and warlike figure is such an affront to all that the man stood for that any who seriously consume Timothy LaHaye's fever dream vision of kingdom come (and there are millions who do) may just as well sell their souls to the Satan directly and eliminate the middle men. They of course are nothing more than pawns in the grand scheme of Christian reconstructionist philosophy of dominionism and domination.
The filthy fifths of the fundamentalist movement have such contempt for American principles of freedom, liberty and inclusion that they are ideological allies of the very Ayatollahs that they so fervently denounce. Fundamentalist Christianity shares more than a common bond with radical Islam and their parochial schools and home schooling movement are nothing more than domestic versions of the same madrassas that churn out suicide bombers.
As they say, the biggest trick that the devil ever played was in making people believe that he didn't exist, well the biggest trick that the theocrats ever played was in ensuring that there was belief that the Rapture is truthful and not the preposterous hunk of childish garbage that it is. It isn't even in the bible for Christ's sake! Then again idolizing the rich, destroying the environment, endorsing usury, sanctioned bigotry and cheerleading for illegal wars isn't either unless you happen to pick up one of those new and improved versions that are all so prevalent today. I actually saw one that radically reinterprets Jesus' message to his disciples that "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God" to state that `the needle' was merely the nickname for the city gate and that avarice and screwing your fellow man in order to profit obscenely was no reason whatsoever to be denied at the pearly gates.
Religion has always been a tool to manipulate because it can't be completely debunked, the flip side of course is that it can't be proven either. Why do you think that the theocrats and institutions of the church have used it so effectively throughout history? I could go on nearly forever about the filthy fifths that are the theocrats and their desire to destroy the country from within but there is just too many examples so it's going to have to wait for another time. Suffice it to say that they are enemies of freedom and democracy intent on overthrowing the government by utilizing the existing framework to pack the legislature and courts and then rewrite and reinterpret the laws to be more in line with Rousas Rushdoony's `Institutes of Biblical Law' than with the U.S. Constitution. One of his quotes speaks volumes about the intent of the theocrats "Christianity and Democracy are inevitably enemies." AMEN!
The Rest of the Scum:
"It is not good enough to win; it has to be a painful and devastating defeat. We're sending a message here. It is like when the king would take his opponent's head and spike it on a pole for everyone to see"
-Grover Norquist
The filthy fifths are churned out by an extremely well funded, impeccably organized and relentlessly ideological institutions known as think tanks, these breeding grounds for right wing operatives have become a far greater threat than any would have thought possible a quarter of a century ago and they are paid for by global corporations and extremist sugar daddies with roots in the John Birch Society the likes of Richard Mellon Sciafe, the Koch Brothers and beer magnate Joe Coors. The policy organizations aka think tanks are hugely influential when it comes to bringing down pressure, creating a unified message, controlling the media and manufacturing activists the likes of anti-tax whacko Grover Norquist, media harassment king L. Brent Bozell III, the aforementioned scourge of liberal campus thought David Horowitz, disgraced K. Street commando and longtime Norquist pal Jack Abramoff, former Pat Robertson right hand man Ralph Reed and the always behind the scenes and active Newt Gingrich. There has been billions invested in creating an infrastructure of extreme right wing, domestic fascist neo-conservative movement think tanks and it is impossible to go into them at length here. I would suggest the organization Source Watch as a useful tool for sorting out these various organizations as well as other industry funded front groups and the charlatans that they employ as `experts' to make their case to the public.
The filthy fifths have been allowed to breed like cockroaches or more appropriately termites that have for too long eaten their way through the very structure of the American democratic system unimpeded and in most instances unnoticed. There are very few institutions of influence that haven't been infiltrated by the filthy fifths to various degrees where they act as enemy saboteurs dropped behind the lines to covertly weaken the system in order to prepare it for destruction and ultimately overthrow. Were it not for the brazen criminality of the Republican congress and the utter disregard of the ruling Bush administration for the very concept of America it is likely that they would still be operating completely under the cover of darkness and subterfuge.
It is the unbelievable arrogance, corruption and incompetence of the Bushists that have brought the activities of the filthy fifths out into the open for those who pay attention. The true test will come only if America itself is ever able to shake itself free from the spell of fear, dread and the electronic stupor of too much television in time to see the threat before the termites have chewed through the very pillars of what was once a great country before it was attacked from within.
What will become of the filthy fifths then?