Honduras: A Light on Pravda's Limits

The failure of the White House spin on this one will be more damaging than you think…

We wrote months ago that the power of the internet to spread truth is reason for optimism for the cause of freedom in America and the world, despite the official media’s morphing into tools of Orwellian disinformation. We think that optimism is going to find validation in American opinion on the so-called ‘coup’ in Honduras.

Yes, we know Honduras is not on the radar screen of many Americans, no matter what events may occur there. There will be a relatively small subset of engaged Americans who are actually knowledgeable about what is going on. But within that subset, we think there will be a huge and important disconnect between the words and actions of the Obama administration, and the perception and opinion of the American people. We may get a telltale demonstration and illustration of Pravda’s loss of control over the spin game. If so, it should be heartening to Americans who are in doubt about their ability to rescue their nation from a radical and out-of-control government that seems to be surviving solely on the will of the Pravda media to uphold it.

The facts on the ground in Honduras are as American as apple pie. The Honduran Constitution imposed term limits on its President Manuel Zelaya, but Zelaya wanted to ignore the Constitution and schedule a popular referendum to allow him to continue in office. He demanded that the Honduran military support his unconstitutional referendum, they refused, and he fired the military leaders. The Supreme Court of Honduras upheld the Constitution and ruled the firings unjustified. The Honduran Congress denied the validity of the referendum, and selected a new President (who is even a member of the same party as Zelaya). Unofficial on-the-ground polls in Honduras indicate overwhelming majorities support the action of the Supreme Court, the Congress and the military in ousting Zelaya. In short, a nation and its people are standing for the rule of law under their Constitution, and against a would-be dictator.

Obama supports the would-be dictator and condemns the action to remove him as a ‘coup’. Obama’s position is a story in itself, but for our purposes, it is more interesting, at least temporarily, to watch the Obama administration’s spin of this situation flail and fall before the truth.

Axelrod, Gibbs and company think that so long as they can associate military uniforms with those involved in removing Zelaya, the American people will buy the story of a military coup, and loyally align against the military and in favor of the civilian ‘dear leader’ who was removed. The radical left’s instinctive hatred of all things military blindly trusts in its ability to sell this spin to America. We don’t think it will work, and the reason is the internet.

Perhaps more than many US domestic issues, the Honduras situation connects mostly with the truly engaged. A whole lot of Americans may have no knowledge and therefore no opinion, but of the truly engaged, there is more than enough easily accessible information to completely expose the Obama spin as a flatly false characterization of what is going on in Honduras. Not only is the false characterization fully exposed, it begs the next question of “why in the world is Obama supporting a dictator who wants to flaunt his nation’s Constitution?” And following so closely on the heels of Obama’s mostly incoherent but largely sympathetic embrace of the Iranian mullahs using street militias to murder their own people, it begs another question of “how in hell does Obama think of America and freedom and the rule of law and the Constitution”?

These questions are inherent in a lot of Obama administration domestic actions, but Pravda and the Democrat-led Congress seem able to generate enough noise and disinformation to keep his agenda more or less alive despite strong and growing majorities of Americans who oppose every element of it. But the dishonest spin, incoherence and inconsistency of Obama’s Honduras position (why must we meddle in Honduras but not in Iran?) seem unusually transparent. The internet is blasting away on this. As such, we think Honduras has more potential for puncturing the Obama popularity balloon than Axelrod may believe.

Examples of Orwellian doublespeak and lies grow every day with this administration, and the internet assures that large and increasing numbers of Americans know of these examples. And each time they awaken a few more Americans from their stupor and cause them to ask “who is this guy?”

We’ve answered that many times: he’s a fraud, he committed fraud on the American electorate, and he should be impeached and removed.

The spirit of the 4th of July is calling all Americans to STOP this government, and the internet is amplifying that call so that all may hear it. It’s time to answer.

Paul Gable

June 30, 2009