In honour of the Soviet KGB defector, Yuri Bezmenov I bring you Bill Maher:

And you know what? I realized listening to this rhetoric that it reminded me of something. It reminded me of Tiger Woods’ text messages to his mistress that were made public last week, where he said, and I quote: “I want to treat you rough, throw you around, spank and slap you and make you sore. I want to hold you down and choke you while I f*** that ass that I own. Then I’m going to tell you to shut the f*** up while I slap your face and pull your hair for making noise.” Unquote. [laughter]

And this, I believe, perfectly represents the attitude the Democrats should now have in their dealings with the Republican Party. [applause]

Yes, it does. That’s what they should be saying to the Republicans: “Shut the f*** up while I slap your face for making noise! Now pass the cap-and-trade law, you stupid bitch, and repeat after me, ‘global warming is real.’” [applause]

The Democrats need to push the rest of their agenda while their boot is on the neck of the greedy, poisonous old reptile. Who cares if cap-and-trade bill isn’t popular, neither was health care. Your poll numbers may have descended a bit, but so did your testicles.

So don’t stop. We need to regulate the banks, we need to overhaul immigration, we need to end corporate welfare including at the Pentagon, we need to bring troops home from everywhere, we need to end the drug war, and we need to put terrorists and other human rights violators on trial in civilian courts — starting with Dick Cheney. [applause]

Democrats, in conclusion, Democrats in America were put on earth to do one thing: Drag the ignorant hillbilly half of this country into the next century, which in their case is the 19th. And by passing health care, the Democrats saved their brand.

But of course, it’s Ann Coulter who should be locked up for hate speech.

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Like every self-appointed messiah before them, these militant environmentalists view with chill contempt those others who cannot see their truth, who won’t bow to their self-assigned imperatives. It’s not just that they won’t abide those who differ from them. They want them actively punished.

Rex Murphy, National Post, April 17, 2010

On the Goldman Sachs SEC charges:

Goldman has become the focus of demonization by the Obama administration at a time when the Democrats want to introduce yet another massive “reform” package. But reform does not always mean improvement, and the massive bill as now structured could turn banks considered “too big to fail” into taxpayer-backed public utilities, and lead to bureaucrats overseeing lending policies.

Peter Foster, April 27, 2010

Every murderous totalitarian government of the 20th century began with some insulated group of faux-intellectuals congratulating each other on how smart they are, and fantasizing about how, if they could just install a dictatorship-for-a-day, they could right all the wrongs in the world.

It is the ultimate fantasy of the narcissist. And we’ve got whole generations of them, in control of our media and our government, all intent on “remaking America.”

Elizabeth Scalia, May 24, 2010

Five surgeons from big cities are discussing who makes the best patients to operate on…

The first surgeon, from Bristol , says, “I like to see accountants on my operating table, because when you open them up, everything inside is numbered.”

The second, from Manchester , responds, “Yeah, but you should try electricians! Everything inside them is colour coded.”

The third surgeon, from Edinburgh , says, “No, I really think librarians are the best, everything inside them is in alphabetical order.”

The fourth surgeon, from Birmingham chimes in: “You know, I like construction workers…those blokes always understand when you have a few parts left over.”

But the fifth surgeon, from London shut them all up when he observed: “You’re all wrong, Politicians are the easiest to operate on”

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“There’s no guts, no heart, no balls, no brains and no spine, and the head and the arse are interchangeable.”

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In his recent posts he has taken his criticism even further, once again reflecting critically on adherents of his own left-leaning political views:

“I am going to ask Chomsky why the US left appears to have a soft corner for some of the most brutal murderers of Muslims—the al Qaeda and the Taliban,” says Fatah. “Would he have remained silent if the victims of the Taliban had been Americans? I will suggest to him that part of the Left that seems unable or unwilling to slam the misogyny and homophobia of the jihadi radicals, is practicing a racism of lower expectations that places Muslims as less than human.”

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But alas, the intention of this post is not to heap more praise on Tarek – even though his work deserves praise. Rather, I wanted to draw attention to one of Tarek’s recent remarks, quoted in the National Post. The article itself is worth a read, but it was this that caught my attention:

“The racist right will talk about these things to frighten people about immigrants. The liberal-left has abandoned its responsibility to fight medievalism. And nobody wants to talk about what is really happening here.”

Tarek, many of us here on the right are talking about this issue, and I must question why you denigrate the credit for this discourse by claiming the right is motivated only by racism and a desire to curtail immigration. Is it not conceivable that there are some values that we share, and that we might be as passionate about them as you are? Values such as individual freedom, gender equality, and political self-determination? Why are you able to claim noble motivations for your position, while the right is demonized, accused of being motivated by racism?

Not only is the “racist” stereotype you are perpetuating offensive to right-leaning folks like myself, but it damages the cause you have so bravely fought for.