by Alan Stang
>January 19, 2009<
One of the many symptoms of the decline and fall of American civilization is its confusion about heroes. We have sports “heroes,” men who are paid lots of money to play games. We have movie “heroes,” who are paid even more money to pretend to be someone else. Our newest “hero” is an illegal alien whose real name we don’t know, whose total qualifications are a beautiful, black preacher voice, who will be coronated tomorrow as Emperor Also Known As the First.
Show me a nation’s heroes and I’ll tell you what it is. Our heroes used to be patriots, preachers, inventors and military leaders, etc. No more! The true heroes we have are vilified, preeminent among them Senator Joe McCarthy. So thoroughly has the Conspiracy for World Government besmirched his name that today, when the truth of all he said is available, even putative “conservatives” still use his name as a curse.
On the other hand, as we shall see tomorrow, traitors and mountebanks are enshrined. Today is the official, federal holiday that honors Martin Luther King. Regular readers and listeners know that every year we uncelebrate that event.
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