Gems from the winger film fest: Medved says "seculars" are "outclassed"

[BurtWorm]

From salon.com <must have day pass>

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/09/15/hollyweird/print.html

One of the films Goodman picked up was "The Siege of Western Civilization," the 45-minute fledgling effort by Herb Meyer, a 58-year-old who once served as vice chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council under President Reagan. An avuncular, moon-faced man with bright, engaged eyes, Meyer speaks with disarming calm about the second civil war he believes the United States is currently fighting, a war his film seeks to explain as it bounces from the dangers posed by al-Qaida to those posed by liberalism and low birth rates.

"There are those who wish to turn us from a Judeo-Christian into a secular culture," he explains, sitting in the Intercontinental lounge. "This really is a kind of civil war. This is not normal politics. We are two cultures in one country. That's never happened before. I'm not sure we can survive where half of us think marriage is between a man and a woman and half think a man can marry his goldfish."

"It's panic time for the liberals," he says. Medved echoed him, saying, "Secular people in America know very well they're outnumbered. They know very well they're outclassed, and they are in fear."

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. kick

[mitchum]

2. I believe that loony spook Herb Meyer has it completely backwards...

I came of age in an America that WAS a secular culture, but now he and his cohorts are intent upon turning it into a Judeo-Christian culture. Progressivism replaced by irrationality...uh...thanks a lot, Herbie.
Damn, I'm really starting to miss the 20th century.

[BurtWorm]

3. Hey, mitchum!

I was wondering where you were. :toast:

You're right, of course. These guys are, again of course, living in fantasyland. You have to be to draw 50 people to watch movies and call it a "film festival." ;)

[mitchum]

Hey!

Good catch on what constitutes a "film festival" for them. :) I guess Ted Nugent could stage "The Patriot Woodstock" on a half acre lot in Florida

[wtmusic]

4. A civil war it is

There are those who wish to turn us from a secular state into a theocracy...

If Herb wants to marry his goldfish, it's fuckin-a alright with me. :thumbsup:

[BurtWorm]

5. Herb is probably more interested in the babe with the purple heart bandaid

in your sig. And that union should maybe not be allowed to happen. :scared: