American Values

Whoopi Goldberg delivered an X-rated rant full of sexual innuendoes against President Bush on Thursday night at a fund-raiser at Radio City Music Hall in New York. source

Waving a bottle of wine, Goldberg fired off a stream of vulgar sexual wordplays on Bush’s name in a riff about female genitalia.

Also, singer John Mellencamp sang a song that called the president �just another cheap thug.�

Ah, a night on the town for Democrats. Forgetting for a moment that this fundraiser for a party that claims to be for the middle-class and poor required $1,250 to get in - it was a veritable fest of pornographic jokes and unprofessional slander…. So what did John Kerry think?

[Kerry] told the crowd that “every single performer” on the bill had “conveyed to you the heart and soul of our country.” source

So John Kerry’s view of the “heart and soul” of our country is a hate-filled celebrity fundraiser to which most American couldn’t afford to gain entrance filled with x-rated comments and people calling the sitting Commander-in-Chief a “thug”. No wonder I keep hearing about there being “two Americas”. This sure doesn’t represent mine.

Defending “freedom”?

As a followup to the thousand-dollar-a-ticket celebrity hate fest that the Johns enjoyed so much this week, it seems John Kerry may be backing off his undying love for the content of that party….HOWEVER, in doing so he appears to be rewriting history to fit his rhetoric. (by the way, in case you didn’t already know, John Kerry was in Vietnam)

“John Kerry speaks for himself, and performers have a right to speak their minds even when we disagree,” a Kerry spokesman said. “That’s the freedom John Kerry put his life on the line to defend.” source

Oh really? He was defending “freedom” in Vietnam now? I mean, it’s the traditional view of the Right that Vietnam was part of the Cold War fight against totalitarianism, but the Left always maintained it was just a worthless cause and horrible loss of human life. The Left has never proffered that Vietnam was about defending the rights of performers to speak their vitriol. Until now.

But don’t take my word for it. John Kerry, in his 1971 Congressional Testimony, said it, himself

“…to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam…by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom…is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy…”

Thanks, Chuck, for this catch.

Color me confused. So was he lying then, or is he lying now?