The Useful Idiot Edition

Some of you may remember the large banner featuring Condoleeza Rice with fangs that was unfurled in Lebanon during the war. Powerline has the story on it here.

The image at right is different but is also from Lebanon. It was recently rolled out courtesy of Hezbollah for Kofi Annan's visit.

-- A Lebanese man holds a flip-flop shoe beside a Hezbollah protest banner depicting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice holding two dead children with the words 'the terrorist' written in Arabic, immediately after U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan visited the area in the southern suburbs of Beirut, which was repeatedly attacked by Israeli forces during the 34-day Israeli-Hezbollah conflict, Monday, Aug. 28, 2006. On the first day of his two-day visit to Lebanon, Annan on Monday demanded that Hezbollah release two captured Israeli soldiers to the international Red Cross, pressing both sides to fulfill their commitments to solidify the two-week-old cease-fire in Lebanon. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Where do you suppose this vampire imagery comes from?

Now take a look at Michelle Malkin's latest post - making sure to read the top line of the protest sign held by some useful idiot from Salt Lake City.

Which comes first, the chicken or the egg? I'm not really sure. But if a large part of this country, perhaps even one entire political party, remains intent on mimicking the rhetoric of our enemies, or vice versa, eventually we'll have much larger and more dangerous problems than we do right now.

Update: Perfect timing courtesy of lgf - Matthew Yglesias, another useful idiot, has the perfect answer, let's give Iran nukes. Yeah and more vampire posters, too!!

Comments

[Carol Herman]

Okay. Let's give the iran's an A-Bomb. Yes. Let's put the Enola Gay back into commission. Better than bombs over Broadway. That nut loose in iran, though, is losing steam and power. So, hope we do this soon. (I'm only kidding.)

[phin]

I wouldn't really consider Matthew Yglesias useful. Unless it's to disprove Darwin's Theory of Natural Selection / Survival of the Fittest.

[SinCerely]

Good one Phin. I have a short oak tree in my back yard we could hang him from.

[Phoenix]

Yglesias bases his assertions that Iran hasn't the weaponry nor military to damage anyone because everything looked real fine on the street? I suppose if they'd been having one of their Military-Might parades, he'd have seen a different picture. Nothing like seeing what you want to see. Or worse, failing to hear the hum beneath the street. Too bad Hezbollah wasn't there doing one of their cool clown marching shows with those guys dangling out of the sky like spiders and the Little Suicide Bombers On Parade. Oh, yeah, and they should have a nuke because their neighbors have them. That makes sense. Let's give Mexico and Venezuela nukes so we can be fair. And Cuba. Not that any of Iran's neighbors have ever threatened them...... we have to be fair, you know.

[Brian C. Ledbetter]

That banner has shown up in one other occasion as well. It looks like it might be on its way to being a traveling sideshow! I've got the details over at Snapped Shot, if you're up for a laugh.