Julia Baird, who hails from Oz, probably wouldn’t dare write this in Newsweek, where she’s currently (but for how long?) gainfully employed as a deputy editor. But she feels perfectly free to unload on the land that gives her sustenance in the pages of The Age, one of the leading Australian newspapers.

And you know what she thinks of America? She thinks it’s weird:

America’s weirdness is well documented. And I don’t mean just the plastic-surgery addicts in LA, the outsourcing, pill-popping perfectionists in New York, the toddler pageants, the deep fried Oreos, or even the testicle festivals, the smelly sneaker competitions or the towns that speak their own language and print their own money. Or the fact that four in 10 Americans believe alien abductions have occurred. Or even that in Connecticut you are not allowed to walk across a street on your hands. Nor are you allowed to cross the Minnesota border with a duck on your head. In Florida it is illegal to sing outside in a swimming costume, for unmarried women to skydive on Sunday, and for men to leave the house in a strapless dress. Which cuts out half of Sydney’s social life.

In truth, many parts of the everyday are more peculiar than the freak shows in the US, at least to the Australians who come to visit or live here for a while. At first it’s the enormous food portions, entire aisles of drugstores devoted to digestive aids, the blatant, direct advertising of pharmaceuticals, a sugar-drenched gastronomic culture which rebrands fatty meals as “family guy” specials and the fact that in Manhattan women use Botox to shrink earring holes and corner stores peel mandarins for you.

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Andrew Breitbart’s recent smackdown of Max Blumenthal at CPAC (for his vicious smears against James O’Keefe) serves as a reminder to us all that when Liberal “journalists” attack, they have one goal – and it isn’t reporting the truth.  It is to win at any cost no matter what the damage is to the victim.  It is called the politics of personal destruction and it reflects the utter nihilism of Liberalism.

The tactic has been used repeatedly by the left (see Sarah Palin), but is particularly disturbing when used as a cudgel to destroy decent, hard-working Americans.  One such decent, hardworking (and extremely patriotic) American is Barrett Moore, founder of Triple Canopy.

I met Barrett a couple of years ago in Chicago at a luncheon for Navy SEAL, Marcus Luttrell author of the bestselling novel, Lone Survivor and boy do the Liberals hate him.

As I mentioned, Moore was the founder of Triple Canopy, one of America’s first private military companies (or PMC) and under his stewardship, he assembled one of this nation’s most impressive fighting forces – most of whom were retired members of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta (1st SFOD-D) (Delta Force) – and sent them overseas to help carry our burden in Iraq.  What’s more, he did it at a fraction of the cost and much more efficiently than the American government ever could.  That’s private enterprise for you, but because his private enterprise involved guns, the Liberals focused on him like a laser beam.

Their attacks would come not only while he was at Triple Canopy, but even more devastatingly once he had been forced out. (more…)