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sifting through the intellectual landfill upon which the American left
has built its worldview, a researcher can find any number of artifacts
to help decrypt the Obama presidency.
Among the more illuminating is Weather Underground, a watchable 2002
documentary on the soi-disant Weathermen and their times.
Although superficially objective, the film allows the final comment of
Weatherman Mark Rudd to stand as something of a thesis statement.
"It was this knowledge that we couldn't handle,"
says Rudd, explaining the group's turn to violence. "It was too
big. We didn't know what to do. In a way I still don't know
what to do with the knowledge."
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It's here that my weathered, splintery pea brain has trouble. I see "the truth too big to handle" as facts that Rudd, and others, kept tripping over. Facts that "did
not naturally fit their template." Facts they simply
reengineered. Or, maybe that's my template. Author Jack Cashill,
whom I know to think with clarity, sees this.
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contorting every fact that did not naturally fit their template, the
Weathermen and their allies concluded, in Ayers' words, that America's
"intentions were evil and her justifications dissembling, her
explanations dishonest, her every move false." This was the
"knowledge," uniquely intuited by the hard left, that Rudd and his
colleagues found "too big" to handle.
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We're otherwise copasetic. I've never watched this Weathermen film, but I will now so I can yell at Obama, "you malignant bastard, I watched your film!"
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