Phil Brennan
Wednesday, Mar. 10, 2004

This wasn't supposed to happen. After months of being harangued by the media, the intellectual, and the degenerate Hollywood elite, huge numbers of decent Americans blithely ignored false warnings that by patronizing the film they would be promoting hatred of Jews, exposing themselves to a distortion of the Bible's description of Christ's passion, or encouraging more extreme violence on the screen.

To the horror of the elite, tens of millions of decent ordinary Americans decided that they preferred to see for themselves this cinematic - and accurate - portrayal of Jesus' last 12 hours, and by so doing they helped make it the most successful film opening in filmdom history.

Incredibly, the elite has yet to get the message so clearly conveyed to them by us plain folks. They continue to rage, unable to understand that the power they have so long wielded over the national psyche has suddenly ceased to have any effect on the despised masses.

And so they continue to pontificate, ignorant of the fact that suddenly nobody is paying any attention to their pretensions of superiority, or their now frantic rantings and ravings.

A case in point: Poor Maureen Dowd, the New York Times resident common scold, wrote a column Sunday that showed just how divorced from reality the reigning elite has become. Writing an unintentionally hilarious account about the cultural gap she sees existing between her sainted hero John Kerry and the pitifully plebian George Bush, Dowd advanced her case for the election of the Massachusetts senator by informing us that he is a cultural giant facing a cultural pygmy.

Kerry, she gushes, can recite reams of poetry, citing an instance where Kerry suddenly burst forth with T.S. Eliot's entire "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," an iconic treasure of the elite most ordinary folks would view as an exercise in the banality that somehow transfixes our cultural betters and allows them to see something grand where there is really nothing. Quote a line from the poem such as "Do I dare to eat a peach?" to one of the elite and they'll promptly swoon in ecstasy as if they been hit with a cultural stun gun.

Listen to this if you can bear it: "He not only reads poetry — 'I love Keats, Yeats, Shelley and Kipling' — he writes it" an awestruck Dowd reverently informs us . "'I remember flying once; I was looking out at the desert and I wrote a poem about the barren desolation of the desert,' he said. 'I wrote a poem once about a great encounter I had with a deer early in the morning that was very moving.' "

She doesn't tell her readers whether he wrote any poems about his moving encounters with the likes of Hanoi Jane Fonda or the butchers of Hanoi then busily engaged in the killing of his fellow Americans. Or this: "When I gave George W. Bush a culture quiz in 2000, he gamely struggled to come up with one answer in each category, calling baseball his favorite 'cultural experience,'" Dowd recalls.

And he didn't recite a single poem - not even "Casey at the Bat." He's a yahoo, obviously unfit to hold office for another second.

"Mr. Kerry, on the other hand, struggled to stop coming up with a cascade of things in each category, rarely settling on a definite favorite."

Thus spake Dowd. No kidding, that's what she wrote - and the poor thing was serious.

Want another example? How about the Washington Post's Ceci Connolly's pronouncement on high that the masses must go about connecting the dots in the Martha Stewart case - dots she implies that lead to Bush and the GOP (what is it about these broads with Celtic surnames? How did they ever get mixed up with the cultural descendants of the snobs who told job seekers in the 19th century that "No Irish Need Apply"?)

Employing the elitist strategy of making blatantly false claims in the belief that the great unwashed won't know any better, Connolly advised Democrats that, "if they’re smart," they will "connect the dots" amongst people "losing jobs," "high-rollers" and CEOs "getting off easy" as they "give campaign contributions to President Bush," not to mention "Cheney with Halliburton," and Martha Stewart.

As the Media Research Council reported, after panelist Charles Krauthammer suggested that Bush can use Stewart's conviction to show he’s tough on corporate crime, Connolly declared: "Some voters already are connecting certain dots and I think Democrats, if they’re smart, will attempt to really connect dots which go something like this: What we talked about in the first segment, people are unemployed, losing jobs; wealthy, high-rollers, CEOs etcetera getting off easy, making a lot of money; give campaign contributions to President Bush; Cheney with Halliburton. I think it’s possible for Democrats to exploit those sort of emotional connections that people make out there."

Unfortunately for Miss Connolly, without her permission the non-elite have connected the dots and where do they lead? To that nest of snakes who slither around the Clintons and the National Socialist Democratic Abortion Party. Martha Stewart, you see, was a huge contributor to Bill and Hillary and assorted other Democrats of their ilk. As Lowell Ponte has written in FrontPage Magazine, Martha was Bill's fervent apologist when he was trying to perjure his way out of the Monica mess.

Together, Martha and the Clintons have long danced the liar's polka. Then there is Miss Connolly's Post colleague, critic Tom Shales. He has issued his edict from the elitist heights and condemned Mel Gibson to the fiery pit. Usurping the prerogative of a deity he probably doesn't believe exists, he tells us that Mel's "parking space in Hell has already been reserved."

The condemnation is of course merely rhetorical. Surely the intellectually superior Mr. Shales doesn't subscribe to such antiquated myths as the reality of Hell.

Having created a false portrait about Gibson's film, the liberal elites stand exposed for all to behold as liars and blatant anti-Christians who will stop at nothing to preserve their self-proclaimed status as the final arbiters of what is right and fitting for the American people.

The bottom line here is that the slumbering giant that is the great American public has re-awakened, just as Japan's Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto feared it would be after his sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. That attack, he said, had no doubt filled the awakened American giant "with a fearsome resolve."

Japan recognized the truth of that prediction at Midway, Tarawa, Iwo Jima and finally, at Hiroshima. Yamamoto wasn't around to see the end - the awakened giant shot had his plane down on April 18, 1943.

The reaction to Mel Gibson's magnificent film was not the reason for the reawakening, it was a manifestation of it. Something is happening out there in both the red and the blue states, and the astonishing reaction to Mel Gibson and his film is merely one result of it. In short, what Americans are at last saying is it that we've had enough and we're not going to take it anymore.

After years of being scoffed at for being God fearing Christians and clinging to Judeo-Christian morality in the face of continuing assaults from the pagan elite, Americans are at last asserting their determination to reassert the principles and the morals of their faith.

If you listen carefully, that march you're hearing in the back of your mind as you contemplate the scandals of same-sex marriage and abortion on demand and the onslaught of judicial tyranny is "Onward Christian Soldiers."

What is needed now is a reassertion of that fearsome resolve Yamamoto feared. There is much to be done and time is short.

Back in my days in the sacred Marine Corps when the time came for us to get up and get moving we got the order "Saddle up."

Your future is at stake, America. Saddle up!

Faugh A Ballagh!

Phil Brennan is a veteran journalist who writes for NewsMax.com. He is editor & publisher of Wednesday on the Web (http://www.pvbr.com) and was Washington columnist for National Review magazine in the 1960s. He also served as a staff aide for the House Republican Policy Committee and helped handle the Washington public relations operation for the Alaska Statehood Committee which won statehood for Alaska. He is also a trustee of the Lincoln Heritage Institute and a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers.

He can be reached at phil@newsmax.com