previous (and latter-day incarnations), a comeback kid. Hence the now
classic Checkers Speech. Hence his post-Watergate disgrace
foreign-policy essays and his posthumous apotheosis of the pageant of
his funeral attended by the exclusive club of all living former
presidents as well as the then president in office--with CNN and other
major networks wasting patriotic liturgical air-time on an unpatriotic
deposed president. Nixon's way of showing both of his middle fingers
to his lifelong political enemies--the "eastern seaboard liberal
elite" embodied by the Kennedy family.
Nixon imparted his racial theory to his White House coterie of
aides--one of whom, Dr Henry Kissinger, happened to be a self-hating
Jew!
Nixon's foundational racial theory, like all great theories, is
beautiful in its laconic formulation: "I've just recognized that, you
know, all people have certain traits" (Feb. 13, 1973).
Nixon expounded didactically the empirical data on those "certain
traits" he'd meticulously garnered over the years on close
observations of the various specimens of the human species and from
which he'd inferred his essentialist theory.
Here's a non-exhaustive sample:
1) ON THE IRISH:
"The Jews have certain traits. The Irish have certain - for example,
the Irish can't drink. What you always have to remember with the Irish
is they get mean. Virtually every Irish I've known gets mean when he
drinks. Particularly the real Irish" (Feb. 13, 1973).
2) ON THE ITALIAN:
"The Italians, of course, those people don't have their heads screwed
on tight. They are wonderful people, but..." (Same date).
3) ON JEWS:
"The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious
personality" (Same date).
(March 1, 1973, moments after receiving at the White House Israeli PM
Golda Meir, who was pressuring the US on the issue of emigration of
USSR Jewish citizens, an uncanny conversation ensues between
self-hating Jew Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon:)
HENRY KISSINGER:"The emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union is not
an objective of American foreign policy. And if they put Jews into gas
chambers in the Soviet Union, it is not an American concern. Maybe a
humanitarian concern."
RICHARD NIXON:"I know. We can't blow up the world because of it."
(Same date, to personal secretary Rose Mary Woods, on the state dinner
dubbed by him a "Jewish dinner" for PM Golda Meir, NIXON:)
"I don't want any Jew at that dinner who didn't support us in that
campaign. Is that clear? No Jew who did not support us."
(Same conversation, while crossing out from the dinner list
Jewish-American personalities pressing Ms. Woods to attend the "Jewish
dinner," NIXON:)
"What it is, is it's the insecurity. It's the latent insecurity. Most
Jewish people are insecure. And that's why they have to prove things."
(On his reluctance to grant amnesty to Vietnam War conscientious
objectors exiled in Canada and Sweden, NIXON:)
"I didn't notice many Jewish names coming back from Vietnam on any of
those lists; I don't know how the hell they avoid it... If you look at
the Canadian-Swedish contingent, they were very disproportionately
Jewish. The deserters" (Feb. 13, 1973).
4) ON BLACKS:
(To Ms. Woods, on the same date of the "Jewish dinner," NIXON:)
"[Secretary of State] Bill Rogers has got - to his credit it's a
decent feeling - but somewhat sort of a blind spot on the black thing
because he's been in New York...He says well, 'They are coming along,
and that after all they are going to strengthen our country in the end
because they are strong physically and some of them are smart.' So
forth and so on.
My own view is I think he's right if you're talking in terms of 500
years...I think it's wrong if you're talking in terms of 50 years.
What has to happen is they have to be, frankly, inbred. And, you just,
that's the only thing that's going to do it, Rose."
***
Make no mistake; this isn't the long-dead folklore and laughable urban
myth galore. This is a virulent "meme" and it is still festering
today.
Consider what "one of the world's most prominent scientists" and "a
Nobel Prize winner for his role in unraveling the DNA," DR JAMES
WATSON, who some 3 years ago looked around and saw a perspective
"inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" [as]:
"all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence
is the same as ours – whereas all the testing says not really...People
who have to deal with black employees find this not true."
In other words, Nixon and Dr Watson aren't just blabbermouths spewing
once in a blue moon insensitive oddities they might live to regret and
to apologize for the next day. The minds of both Nixon and Dr Watson
are instead inhabited by the same parasitic viral meme--a dangerous
and growing entity that is pretty much alive and kicking and
contaminating thousands of other minds out there.
A year ago President Jimmy Carter saw this malignant meme rearing its
ugly head in the minds of tea-partiers and birthers brandishing
Photoshopped face-painted Obama in Masai penis sheath or waving signs
advising "Obama-go-back-home-to-Kenya"... No one took Carter
seriously. Even Obama distanced himself from Carter's perspicuous
diagnosis!
There are similar memes of the same genus: sexism, anti-gay
bias--including the gesticulations of Senator John McCain latching on
to "don't ask-don't tell" as if the very life and future of a nation
depended on it, and unwittingly by the same token reminding people of
his previous frantic gesticulations and verbal ejaculations against
the doom that would lay waste on America if a Dr Martin Luther King's
Day was ever implemented!
One could almost pity these meme-contaminated people as we do
alcoholics: their minds are simply diseased!
The only problem is that, being totally unaware of their disease and
holding positions of power, they step onto the public stage where they
use their bully pulpits to spread wide and far the virus!...
I have in mind here all the meme-stricken minds that continue to
dispense publicly with impunity their symptomatic meme-induced
"psycho-talk" (Ed Schultz) in crazed fits of possessed freaks: Glenn
Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin, and zany tea-partiers
and birthers...
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