Monday, March 26, 2007
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Bowling for Al Qaeda: Santorum to Take a Documentary Turn?
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
4:54 PM
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Gore started a trend, and Santorum wants to follow him by documenting what I'm sure Gore will consider a much more dubious and abstract threat than the oceans overflowing into our living rooms by 2017-- radical Islam:
The first project, Santorum said, would explore the relationship
between radical Islam and the radical leftists in various countries
around the world, including Latin America. It would be about an hour in
length. Hmmm, maybe he could enlist the help of Hot Air alum Clint Taylor, who knows a bit about the subject?
The other project? The culture wars, of course. That's a snoozer for me, but I like the radical Islam idea and the fact that Santorum is interested in creating messages to counter the other side. He's got name recognition and a lot of big donors who might also be interested in fighting the immense message machine the Left has in Hollywood.I don't know much of Santorum's film-making skills or who he might have helping him, but I do know he was one of the best guys out on the campaign trail this year when addressing the threat to the West posed by radical Islam. It would be nice to see that clarity and seriousness reflected in film. In case you're wondering what else the former senator is up to: Central to most of what he is doing, though, is his focus on what he
says are the dangers of ''Islamic fascism,'' which Santorum often
talked about as he toured the state during his re-election run last
year. He said at the end of his campaign he made a decision o stay in
the public sphere because of the gravity of the danger he thinks
America faces from radical Islam.
At the beginning of the year he joined the conservative Washington
think tank Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he is heading a
program that focuses on highlighting what it calls the threat from
radical Islam and other anti-Western forces.
''One of the reasons we are not doing well is because our leaders,
including myself, have not been direct in describing this enemy and why
it is so dangerous,'' Santorum said.
Santorum is also writing a book on a related topic, speaking at
conferences and universities and has signed on as a contributor to Fox
News. I'm glad to have him in the game, still, especially because it seems dedicated conservative elected officials seem to gain some likability and respectability among media once the MSM decides they're not endangering the Republic anymore by actually being in office. I'm happy to have Santorum as a telegenic, likable, serious spokesperson on the War on Terror if we had to lose him in the Senate.
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He is the only one naming the enemy and spelling out the threat from Islamofascists. I believe he is the Churchill of our day. Unfortunately, like Churchill, he was thrown out of office because people didn't want to hear what he was saying, even though he is right. |
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Santorum is Churchill?
He's nearly Dan Quayle.
Not even Barney Fiffe.
Almost Eddie Haskel.
If you think Santorum is Churchill, you must also believe Bush is Lincoln.
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Karen Santorum has a book out that we use pretty frequently in our guidance curriculum. Highly recommend it to anyone with children. The kids at our school have learned a lot and they apply it. It's called 'Everyday Graces'.
I am glad Rick is staying in the public eye, and I hope we get to see a lot more of him in the future. His loss was disappointing, to say the least. |
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would be re-educating the majority of us who somehow perceive the Holy Crusades as a shameful chapter of history. Europe and America would surely not exist without them. Christianity was the only possible issue that could unite the European peoples in rising to stem and reverse the Muslim invasion of the time. It was a good thing and we should be reminded why. |
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I am surprised that Mary K says "The culture wars, of course. That's a snoozer for me" It is what Mike Adams is all about, as well as many others on Town Hall. For those with an Episcopal church background, it is also what David Virtue is about on Virtue on Line, and in the end is probably the mosst important issue of our time. Anyway, I seldom snooze through this issue, but it does raise my blood pressure. |
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When Sen. Santorum was in Congress, I rated him the worst, #100, in the Senate. He's a sad case, influenced by Opus Dei and such wildly extremist and unAmerican groups. It's a joke that he is concerned abour Islamofascists, when Opus Dei was a big supporter of Francisco Franco, friend of Hitler and Mussolini!
I rarely pray re politics, though perhaps more prayer is needed. But I actually prayed for Santorum's defeat, Now, I don't pretend to have influenced God, of course, but I was very happy when my prayer became reality.
Another Senator is also Opus Dei-influenced. That is Brownback of Kansas, another wierdo. Or, is that weirdo? Anyway, anyone who allies himself with Opus Dei must be mentally disturbed, mentally incompetent, and/or dangerous. |
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The comment by MKH that she considers the culture wars to be a "snoozer" is incongruous with her comments about Islamo fascism.
It is in fact the decline in American culture--moral and cultural relativism--which posits the challenge from radical Islam as such a serious threat. It is the fact that there are those in our society who are unable to distinguish the cultural superiority of a culture which produced the Mona Lisa from one that destroys 2000 year old Buddahs cut into the side of a mountain which makes this all so serious.
In the end, this is a war of ideas. Post-Modernism and relativism are simply an insufficient foundation for us to meet the challenge before us.
Extremely Disappointed,
Eddie Burke |
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