Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXI

Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXI; Beware of those who call themselves friends and offer unsolicited advice.

Previously, in Part LX, the senate race in Arizona provided the launching pad for song parody, though the results continue to be tabulated. This week, we will examine the musings of one who used to deceive and obfuscate for a living, as he continues to practice his profession in retirement.

I read one of the most asinine articles recently on the topic of political division. It was authored by Marc Polymeropoulos, who self-describes previously as such:  “As a former CIA officer who writes on leadership, sports, and foreign policy, I have a modest social media following. I pontificate on the news at times, and my politics are smack dab in the center (an increasingly lonely place in America, or so I thought). I am very liberal on social policy and conservative on foreign policy. I’ve appeared on both MSNBC and Fox News and am a contributor to the Washington Examiner, as well as a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council. I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats throughout my life.”

Unfortunately, one of the characteristics of those who serve in the intelligence community is a willingness to deceive. While many Americans prefer to believe that this deception will be directed primarily at our adversaries, stories such as this one and this video help establish or support the notion that the leadership in this profession is quite willing to do so to Congress and the American people as well.

Mr. Polymeropoulos, like Vladimir Putin, was formerly also a part of the senior intelligence service, and like this other fellow former professional has shown a willingness to deceive and obfuscate in order to interfere with US elections. Marc Polymeropoulos was one of the 51 signatories of the letter proclaiming that Hunter Biden’s laptop and the troves of data contained therein bore the hallmarks of “Russian disinformation” in an effort to help censor, conceal and discredit this evidence of Biden family corruption from the voting public before the 2020 presidential election. As such, like the role of the Y chromosome in determining biological sex, his credentials as a non-partisan interested in helping republicans or conservatives will always remain suspect, regardless of how he chooses to identify.

The title of said article and its subheadline says everything one needs to knows about Mr. Polymeropoulos, as it proclaims “The GOP needs a counterradicalization strategy (It’s not democrats who must act. We need to find strong voices within the Republican Party).”

Given the in-kind contribution of providing cover for the censorship and suppression of information in favor of the Biden campaign supplied by Polymeropoulos and 50 fellow travelers from his profession, I am tempted to respond to the last sentence in the manner attributed to his native companion when the Lone Ranger, surrounded by an Indian war party commented on their inevitable doom, and Tonto responded “What do you mean ‘We’, paleface?”. By virtue of his agitprop falsely labeling the Hunter Biden laptop, Marc Polymeropoulos has forfeited any claim on the use of the collective pronoun “We” with respect to republican or conservative affiliation. Other than the Biden campaign and the administration that was installed as a result of the ballot count, the only other “We” that could conceivably be represented is those 50 fellow travelers. Given his prior efforts to deceive them, Mr. Polymeropoulos could not suddenly be talking about the voting public.

As a propagator of leftist propaganda falsely labeling true information as likely Russian propaganda, Polymeropoulos goes on to blame the attack on Paul Pelosi on “right-wing propaganda”. While this might seem akin to Missouri Border Ruffians in the late 1850s labeling John Brown and his fellow abolitionists as terrorists, Polymeropoulos further fails to identify how a homeless illegal alien in the conservative bastion of Berkeley, California would become immersed in the ideas of the “right”. Indeed, even the New York Times seems flummoxed by this, noting “In the days since the attack, those who know Mr. DePape have described a shy man who once seemed to live the lifestyle of a Bay Area hippie, making hemp jewelry and attending protests against a ban on public nudity, but who in recent years fell into homelessness, isolation and darkness, spending his time immersed in an online world of conspiracy theories and bigotry.” Ironically, it seems lost on both that the Bay Area was also once home to John Walker Lindh, and remains a stronghold of the left wing conspiracy theorists and bigots of Antifa.

Having directed his experienced analytical mind at this attack, Polymeropoulos has determined that republicans bear responsibility for the assault. He failed to even even touch on how the enforcement of immigration laws that Pelosi and the democrats obstructed with their “Abolish ICE” movements [wherein the current Vice President equated the efforts to deport illegal aliens to the activities of the Ku Klux Klan (created as the terrorist arm of the democrat party during Reconstruction) while she was in the Senate] might have enabled the attack. Polymeropoulos also ignored Nancy Pelosi’s and her fellow democrat’s embrace of political violence and disrespect for decorum and how this might impact the toxic atmosphere of politics in California as well as the D.C. Beltway.

Citing the example of human rights guiding light Saudi Arabia (designated a “pariah nation” between fist bumps with its leader by the presidential candidate he supported), Polymeropoulos suggests that republicans are responsible for “de-radicalizing” those who might embrace violence because he cites a poll that suggested “almost 1 in 3 Republicans believe that violence may be necessary to save the U.S. That is a deeply alarming poll that should shock all of us. (Democrats were better, with only 11% agreeing with the idea, but still far too high…).”

Of course, there was criticism in some corners that pointed out some of the additional democrat leadership calls to violence that Polymeropoulos failed to address, including the Bernie Sanders campaign supporter who sought out and shot republicans at the 2017 congressional baseball practice and abortion counseling center bombings. Chuck Schumer’s threats to Supreme Court Justices Gorsuch and Kavanagh and the unprecedented and unauthorized leak of the Dobbs decision certainly could not have influenced another mentally ill young man from California who traveled to Maryland to assassinate one of those Supreme Court justices at his home there , though these were brought up as well. There also seemed to be less attention to democrat behavior during the Trump administration when elected officials and party members called for his assassination and assaults on his supporters and administration.

After some of the response to his musings were called out for the partisan hack nonsense that they were, Polymeropoulos fled to MSNBC to complain that republicans were critical of him, and that Fox News, which published the criticism noted above, amplified such extremism. Ironically, having demonstrated mastery of false equivalency, he did not take credit for inciting violence against Ted Cruz at the World Series parade as a result of his original article critical of republicans, because apparently that is what happens when someone is critical online.

Of course, recommending deprogramming for political opponents is not a new phenomenon. John Brennan, who was previously Polymeropoulos’s boss, admitted embracing the American communist party nominee in 1980. Reeducation was the method that communist movements who successfully overthrew the governments of South Viet Nam and Cambodia in the mid 1970s embraced in order for their political opponents to get their minds right. It certainly seems easy to conclude that Polymeropoulos is embracing the methods of Saudi Arabia and Pol Pot in order to pacify those whom he feels threatened by through their disagreement with his political positions.

It should stand as no surprise that someone pretending to be “in the middle” could write such an unbalanced and poorly researched piece when one looks at the actions of too many from inside the beltway with connections to the intelligence community leadership. The public trials of the Durham investigation have given a peephole into the warped mindset that produced the false Russia collusion narrative wherein people masquerading as patriots turned out merely to be partisan political hacks. One such former CIA officer masquerading as an independent recently lost his latest election in a landslide.

The Central Intelligence Agency failed so miserably in preventing the Al Qaeda attacks that they were replaced in their “Central” role by the National Director of Intelligence. After failing for 10 years after the attacks to locate Osama bin Laden hiding in plain sight in Abbotabad, Pakistan; after their operation had Seal Team 6 kill the terrorist leader, they failed to protect the operation’s secrets, leading to the imprisonment of one of the doctors who aided our efforts there. While it can allude that it has protected the US successfully from foreign attack in secret, the failures are quite public, and the CIA has yet to challenge the Obama administration narrative that its operatives killed in Benghazi along with the Ambassador Chris Stevens and Sean Smith were attacked because of “The Silence of Muslims”. 

While Polymeropoulos boasts of his counterterrorist credentials, it bears mentioning that the three most important operations dispatching America’s terrorist enemies (the killings of Al Baghdadi, Qasem Solemaini and al Zawahiri) all occurred after his retirement midway through 2019. His most successful operation known to the public was in 2020 joining with his colleagues to assist in the censorship of true information about his preferred presidential candidate in a manner that helped deceive about one in six of that candidates voters. In so doing, he set the stage for the assembly of the foreign policy team that lost Afghanistan to the Taliban in 2021 and convinced Putin that he could invade Ukraine. Like Putin, he believes if he calls his opponents “extremists”, he can call for their reprogramming ln a manner similar to Putin’s need to “De-nazify” Ukraine.

Of course, each time I would read the name, I could not help recalling the Adam Sandler music video from the 1990s about his nemesis Steve Polychronopolous. In addition to the PG 13 version linked previously, another R rated version for language was also made to celebrate the jackass that no one liked but who wouldn’t go away. It was not just the similar sounding polysyllabic name that Mr. Polymeropoulos came to mind, but there seems to be other characteristics shared with Adam Sandler’s antagonist (though, to be fair, it does not seem likely to miss a baseball game someone else was paying for) as well. Given that Sandler didn’t bother to rhyme any lyrics, it made the tune easy to borrow to celebrate such an obnoxious purveyor of disinformation and unsolicited advice.

 

I’m retired C I A
I like baseball
I think I know it all
I’ll tell you what to do
I’ll write articles and books
I’ll ignore inconvenient facts
I’m a non resident fellow
No one should believe me

My name’s Marc Pol Pot Polymeropolous

I value my own opinion
I know more than you do
I write my name on letters
I know others like me
I will tell you about a laptop
Even though I never saw it
I tell you it was Russians
and not Hunter at a party

‘Cause my name’s Marc C I A Polymeropolous

I’ll blame the Russians while I act just like them
I’ll deceive your mother and laugh when she believes me

Polymeropolous
Beltway
Deep State
False Patriot
Deep Fake

I helped leave the border open
So the cartels get away
I’ll make fun of your anger
Then I’ll say you need to change

‘Cause my name’s Marc K G B Polymeropolous

And I tell lies
And I tell half truths

I’ll promote the big lie
And call the truth propaganda
I think I’m better than you
But I’ll prove I’m wrong

Everybody knows I’m Marc Vlad Putin Polymeropolous

Listen to me

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