I’ve long liked Chevy Chase, but now I like him even more. He joins Jon Stewart and Bill Maher as my favorite comedians.
To stand up and call Bush a dumb fuck at a hoity-toity
event like one hosted by the People for the American Way in mid-December
[see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3216-2004Dec15.html],
takes some guts. Chase just said what most of us want to say,
but doubt we would if we had a national stage
like Chase has and had to worry about pissing off fans who pay to see our
movies and acts.
And I don’t know why Democrats and liberal-types
have to apologize for, and distance themselves from, Chase, such as some
with the People
for the American Way and others on Fox shows
like Hannity’s did. They come off sounding like wimps, and maybe a lot
of liberals are wimps
[as are a lot of conservatives, especially those
who talk tough but don’t act on the talk, such as the chicken hawks who
wimped out on going to Vietnam].
Don’t call Chase’s remarks offensive and act like
Bush is a legitimate U.S. president. Just say Chase’s opinions are his
own and leave it at that. I mean,
if Cheney, who is supposedly a moral statesman,
can use the f-word on the floor of Congress, a comedian can surely use
it at an awards ceremony.
Bill O’Reilly, that purveyor of morality who paid millions to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit by an employee after transcripts revealed he admitted to having extramarital affairs amid phone sex with her, was indignant at Chase daring to "disrespect" the president this way.
O’Reilly and others overlook how Bush & co. have desecrated the office with the way they lied and cheated to get there, and the way they have lied and cheated since. Bush disrespected the Constitution, including in violating the part about the president and vice president living in separate states. He said he supported the will of the people, then worked to stop the legal counting of votes. He is among the most dirtiest campaigners in American history. History will show that his campaign engaged in high-tech cheating and intimidation tactics in 2004. He doesn't deserve respect. And Chase reminds us of this in an effective way.
O’Reilly asked on his recent show for examples
of Republicans who have publicly cussed at or called Democrats or opponents
profanities. Bush and Cheney themselves have done that numerous times,
including last June when Cheney told Sen. Patrick Leahy [D-Vt.] on the
god-damned SENATE FLOOR to go "fuck yourself." Right-wingers like Joe Scarborough,
who allegedly had an affair with a female employee who died in his office
in a weird way, continue to gloat about that.
How about Bush calling a reporter a major-league
asshole in public in 2000? Did Cheney or Bush
apologize for those statements? HELL, NO! Other
examples are in a column I wrote a few months back for numerous sites,
including the Moderate Independent at http://www.moderateindependent.com/v2i19thoreau.htm.
And journalist Jeanne Wolf said on O’Reilly’s show that no one will defend Chevy Chase. So I am doing so in this column.
Instead of Dems apologizing and sucking up to
Republicanazis, we need to stand up to the bullies
like Chase did. We need more national celebrities
to call Bush a dumb fuck. Some people say Bush is not so dumb, that he
may not read books or position papers or even the Cliff Notes his staff
prepares, but he does run campaigns that win, even if he cheats.
That’s not the point. The point is Bush doesn’t
deserve respect. He’s not in the White House
legitimately – even if you don’t think he cheated
in 2004, which he did, there is the more widely
acknowledged cheating to take the White House
in 2000. He shouldn’t have even been in the position to run in 2004. Calling
him a dumb fuck is reminding people that Bush is illegitimate. He’s a presidential
bastard, besides being a dumb fuck.
I don’t care if you think I’m unpatriotic for
defending Chase and calling Bush a dumb fuck myself.
I’m not interested in being patriotic to a country
whose leaders are taking us down a road to fascism. I’m interested in seeking
truth, in being set free, in honesty, in the purity of the moment. I’m
interested in the future of the entire planet, not just my own country.
I’m interested in being patriotic and true to the planet, and to my creator
and the creative forces that run through me.
Say it with me. Bush is a dumb fuck.
It describes him honestly. And it feels good,
huh?
Jackson Thoreau, a Washington, D.C.-area journalist,
contributed to Big Bush Lies, published by RiverWood Books
and available in bookstores across the country.
Thoreau’s latest electronic book, The Strange Death of the Woman
Who Filed a Rape Lawsuit Against Bush &
Other Things the Bush Administration Doesn’t Want You to Know,
can be read at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/know.html.
He can be reached at jacksonthor@yahoo.com