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.”
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Quote of the day – Elizabeth Scalia
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010“Useful Idiot”: Bill Maher
Sunday, March 28th, 2010In 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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The Hypocrisy File – It’s not bad if liberals do it.
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009Michelle Malkin writes today about the liberal mainstream media’s attempt to discredit recent revelations regarding ACORN’s illegal activities. Rather than focus on the very real concerns that have been raised about ACORN’s operations and the close ties it has with the Obama administration, NBC is instead criticizing the investigator’s use of hidden cameras:
Conservative documentarian James O’Keefe and writer Hannah Giles, working for the BigGovernment.com website, posed as a pimp and prostitute during visits to ACORN offices in Baltimore, Washington, D.C., and Brooklyn. ACORN housing officials and tax advisers offered them brazen suggestions on how to lie on their applications, disguise their income, obscure their child sex-ring business and hide cash from abusive johns. (“When you buy the house with the backyard, you get a tin,” an ACORN counselor in New York told Giles, “and you bury it down in there, cover it and put the grass over it.”)
Summing up the ACORN Housing Corporation philosophy, another Brooklyn ACORN official told the undercover pair bluntly: “Honesty is not going to get you the house.”
ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson blasted the investigation as “gotcha journalism.” Echoing ACORN’s defenders, MSNBC anchor Norah O’Donnell fretted on Tuesday that Giles and O’Keefe’s methods “might be viewed as entrapment. That some conservative activists used hidden cameras to get this stuff on camera.”
O’Donnell has apparently forgotten the inglorious history of news “entrapment” by her betters at NBC News.
This is the network that surreptitiously rigged GM pickup trucks in staged crash tests in 1993 to show that the vehicles were unsafe — and failed to inform viewers that the simulations used incendiary devices to ignite the explosions. Jane Pauley admitted in a nationally televised apology that “NBC’s contractor did put incendiary devices under the trucks to ensure there would be a fire if gasoline were released from the gas tank. NBC personnel knew this before we aired the program, but the public was not informed because consultants at the scene told us the devices did not start the fire. We agree with GM that we should have told the viewer about these devices.”
If you’re not yet familiar with this developing story you should visit:
www.biggovernment.org
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Related: “Jon Stewart Mocks Media on ACORN Story: ‘Where the Hell Were You?”
Quote of the day: Hillary Clinton
Sunday, August 16th, 2009“I am sick and tired of people who say that if you debate and you disagree with this administration somehow you’re not patriotic. We should stand up and say we are Americans and we have a right to debate and disagree with any administration.”
The Hypocrisy File – It’s not bad if liberals do it.
Saturday, August 15th, 2009
I find it so strange, that after years of the most vitriolic hate expressed toward any US president in history, that the media would suddenly discover new and imminent threats of terrorism and danger directed at Barak Obama. During the Bush years, where open calls for the death of Bush-Hitler, celebrations of his death in the arts, and internet hate-mongering on a scale never before witnessed (for 8 whole years) … the press and it’s herd of shadowy “experts” seldom, if ever, expressed concern for the safety of Bush.
h/t to Kate.
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Update: Here’s short video that touches on some of the misinformation and hypocrisy coming out of the Obama camp.
The Hypocrisy File: David Suzuki
Friday, August 14th, 2009
“Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism”
– David Suzuki
But of course that virtuous “skepticism” should not be applied to to the debate raging over climate change – those who are skeptical aren’t skeptics – they are “deniers”.
The latest position is that ‘the science is settled’. In February Suzuki stormed out of an AM640 Toronto radio interview when interviewer, John Oakley, made the accurate observation that global warming science is not a “totally settled issue.”
And while I’m on the subject of Suzuki hypocrisy, let’s not forget this.
h/t to Kate.
The politics of personal destruction
Monday, August 10th, 2009I wanted to highlight this article for two reasons: Firstly, it includes the use of one of my favorite words, “bamboozle”. Secondly, it does a nice job of capturing the mood and the political reactions that we are witnessing over the Obama Healthcare debate taking place in America.
As Jennifer Rubin points out:
The White House’s attempt to paint ordinary citizens who come to speak out against ObamaCare as pawns of the insurance industry takes on a comical air when one considers the president’s own background and tactics. As Charles Krauthammer remarked:
There is a certain irony in an administration denouncing ordinary Americans who get together to express what they believe and to confront authority, when that administration is led by a man who began his career as a community organizer, whose job, as I understand it, is to take ordinary Americans, get them together to express what they believe, and express demands against the authorities.
So it’s unbelievably hypocritical. And, of course, as we just heard, this only happens when you have a conservative protest. It is called a mob. If it’s a liberal protest, it is called grassroots expressing themselves.
Remember, just a year ago under the Bush administration, dissent was the highest form of patriotism. And today it is a kind of either organized anger, it’s a facsimile of anger, it’s unpatriotic, it’s whatever.
Ultimately, the “blame the voters” tactic is self-defeating, if not downright embarrassing. The White House can’t demean the voters whose support they need. They must persuade and engage, not spy on and smear the town hall attendees.
The Hypocrisy File – It’s not bad if liberals do it.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Let’s just imagine for a moment, the outcry and the venom that would come from the NDP if a U.S. Republican leader were to embark on a cross-Canada crusade in the midst of a national Canadian policy debate. Jack Layton has stated that he is doing just that – in the United States. He is off to defend the honor of Canada’s socialized health care system, and spread the gospel according to Jack.
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Apart from the obvious hypocrisy of this political meddling south of the border, one has to wonder what’s in it for Layton? I also have to wonder why Jack is not spending his time dealing with the many issues of national concern, right here in Canada.
But this is Jack Layton, of course.
How’s that new diplomacy working out Barry?
Act 2.
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
But even before Thursday’s vitriolic statements from North Korea, American officials said they were more focused for now on inflicting pain on North Korea than on luring it back to the bargaining table.
“We are not interested in half measures,” Mrs. Clinton said. “We have no desire to pursue protracted negotiations that will only lead us right back to where we have already been.”
Mrs. Clinton said the North Koreans had been intransigent in their public statements during the conference. Other senior American officials said the tone of the North’s statements was openly hostile.
Hey Tarek, I resemble that remark!
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009I have been an admirer of much of the writing of Canadian Tarek Fatah for quite some time now. As an outspoken critic of radical Islamism Tarek has shown a very rare – and very brave – willingness to speak out about the injustices and the hypocrisy of Islamic institutions that many within the Muslim world have been silent on.
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.”
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.