Health Care BS

Expanding on the MSM narrative that anyone who disagrees with the Obama regime is violent and dangerous, Time has accused the Republican Governor’s Association of deliberately using the Remember November video to invoke Guy Fawkes, who was involved in a scheme (the Gunpowder plot) to kill James I on November 5, 1605:

The Republican Governors Association has embraced the symbolism of Fawkes … President Obama plays the roll of King James, the Democratic leadership is Parliament, and the Republican Party represents the aggrieved Catholic mass.

This is not merely dishonest—-the RGA video makes a no mention of Guy Fawkes, November 5th, or blowing anything up—it is historically illiterate. However, before we get into the illiteracy of the the post’s author, Michael Sherer, watch the video. It won’t take long to see that Sherer’s real problem is its effectiveness:

Now to Sherer’s illiteracy. It’s clear from his post that he believes Fawkes was the leader of the plot and that it was a kind of peasant revolt somehow analogous to the Tea Party movement. The leader was, in fact, a wealthy and influential aristocrat named Sir Robert Catesby and Fawkes was just the guy they found sitting on the explosives under Parliament.

The plot itself was, at bottom, an old-fashioned palace coup whose goal was to place a nine-year-old girl on the throne through whom Catesby and his aristocratic cronies could rule England.  Unfortunately, because Catesby was Catholic, the failed coup was used as a pretext to suppress the already-curtailed rights of his co-religionists, 99% of whom were as angry as any protestant about the plot.

It’s obvious that Sherer is utterly ignorant of these facts (along with much else), and that he bases his whole idiotic post on a few snippets he remembers from a mediocre (and historically inaccurate) film by Andy and Lana Wachowski. ”Remember November” has nothing to do with Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot isn’t remotely analogous to the Tea Party movement.

Ironically, Sherer and his fellow ”journalists” have repeatedly told us that Republicans and Tea Partiers are a bunch of knuckle-dragging morons too ignorant to spell our own protest signs correctly.  Now, we are suddenly so sophisticated that we will respond to a “dog whistle” for violence based on hopelessly obscure imagery about an event that happened 400 years ago in another country.

In short, it’s preposterous to suggest that the ”November” reference in this video is meant to invoke images of the Gunpowder plot or to encourage “right wing violence.” To any but the infantile intellect of a contemporary journalist, it is an obvious reference to November 2, 2010. The only explosion this video encourages is a blast of voter wrath that the Democrats will feel via the ballot box.