Bloodthirsty Liberal

My liberal friends have been telling me how indispensable MSNBC is to their lives and well-being. I’ve been skeptical, but last night I gave it a shot.

What do you know, it was great! Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow—all johnnies-on-the-spot in the special election here in Massachusetts:

Rachel Maddow

“I would like to apologize for calling Senator elect Scott Brown a irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model teabagging supporter of violence of women and against politicians of who he disagrees, I’m sorry, I left out the word sexist.”

Keith Olbermann

Religion seems to play no role in this election, which is so unique in Massachusetts. Brown is a Protestant. Nobody’s even mentioned it—I guess I just did.

Chris Matthews (unless it’s Henry Winkler)

It’s also important to understand what USAID is up to [in Haiti] because the idea of more diplomacy and development, more USAID-style power, is a major part of the Obama administration’s agenda. … Putting someone as high-profile and powerful and capable as Hillary Clinton in charge of the State Department, all of that, central to what the Obama administration says it wants to do differently than what Bush and Cheney did.

Watching these gasbags blow their stacks was the most viewing enjoyment I’ve had since Petticoat Junction went off the air.

In gratitude, I’d like to offer this bumper sticker free of charge to our left wing readers.

If you don’t get the historical significance, ask a hairy gray hippy. Those who haven’t toasted all their brain cells on drugs might remember the McGovern campaign.

UPDATE:
Boy, am I red-faced! What an error! That’s not Chris Matthews, and it’s certainly not Henry Winkler.

Buddy Holly lives!

“Everyday” still gives me goose bumps. One of the most beautiful songs since Franz Schubert turned toes up. How could I have been so mistaken?

By way of apology:

You thought this was going to be another Scott Brown post, didn’t you?

Well, not directly…

About 30 residents expressed outrage and disdain at the idea of welcoming a Guantanamo Bay detainee to Newton, and tossed around ideas from rehabilitating the city’s image to recalling the aldermen responsible for the contentious proposal.

But most of all, they wanted a public hearing and vote on the proposal, instead of seeing it dismissed through parliamentary procedure even as the board seeks to dispose of the item without an up-or-down vote.

“I don’t want to see it go away, I want to see people take a position,” said Robert Cera. “Cowards walk away. The city raised the issue, I want to see them deal with it.”

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To a person, speakers were opposed to bringing in “murderous thugs,” as Nelson Lipshutz said.

“They want to behead and explode our children, grandchildren, friends and parents and us,” Lipshutz said to applause.

“There’s no reason to give him the freedoms of an American,” said Alan Waxman, who thought the whole controversy could lower Newton real estate values.
Sallee Lipshutz, Nelson’s wife, also said the kerfuffle had tainted Newton’s reputation.

“The blogs have equated Newton with Amherst,” she said. “We are painted as moonbats. We have to combat that image.”

And attendees seemed to feel, as one speaker put it, “wronged” because the aldermen would consider such a proposal. Helga Lustig, who said she fled Hitler to come to Newton in 1941, said she voted for local officials on the basis of how they would govern the city, not their stance in national matters.

“I’m particularly upset that you think you can represent us on a matter with no input from the Newton public,” she said. “There should not be resolutions going from Newton to Washington that suppose we’re all on the same page on controversial matters.”

We are Massachusetts because our elected officials feel they can make empty moonbat gestures that put our security at risk and waste everybody’s time.

We might not be much longer because the people… can’t… [bleeping]… stand it.

In other words… GO, SCOTT, GO!!!

Tell me I’m wrong:

Filmmaker Michael Moore urged President Barack Obama on Monday not to expand the war in Afghanistan, as Washington prepares to announce a surge of US troops in the conflict-torn nation.

Moore, visiting Japan this week to promote his latest documentary “Capitalism: A Love Story,” told reporters that he had sent Obama a message from his father, a World War II veteran.

“I passed on to him a personal request from my father and his Japanese friend: ‘Mr. Obama, you do not know war. We both know war and want it no more’,” he told reporters.

Who says President Obama doesn’t know war? He sure talked like he did during the campaign, threatening to escalate the conflict into Pakistan. The delusion on the Left that Obama is an innocent led astray by the big bad world is laughable. He’d drive over his own grandmother if—oh wait, he already did.

Just ask the Elphaba of the Left (cow):

There’s scum that attack and more scum that protect those attackers.

There’s scum that take away our rights to peaceably assemble and to freedom of speech, and more scum that protect those who try to steal those rights.

We the People need to be the ones to vigorously defend our rights and defend peace on earth from everyone from Sgt. Phil Ward to President Obama who think that killing is “right and proper.”

Here’s the video of the “scum” “attacking” Cindy Sheehan. It’s pretty clear she doesn’t mind getting in the face of a decorated American veteran significantly older than she—and it’s equally clear she can’t take anyone who disagrees with her. Watch, and tell me she’s not the bully. Cow.

In Cindy’s defense, she hasn’t changed her tone a bit since Obama’s election. She is just as crude, hateful, and offensive as she’s always been, but now the media don’t want to hear from her. She has to resort to sticking a megaphone in an old man’s face to get any publicity.

Cow.

Jonah Goldberg at NRO reads Copepink’s online missive so you don’t have to:

Codepink:

The recent shootings at Ft. Hood and the resignation of top Foreign Service officer Matthew Hoh demonstrate how even our military officers are opposed to US strategy in Afghanistan.

Got that? According to Codepink, Hasan was speaking for the U.S. military officer corps.

Well, Hasan wouldn’t want to threaten his military career by registering a complaint or expressing a dissenting opinion or anything. He simply reacted in the only way a respectable officer in the Unites States Army could: by fragging everyone in sight.

If that’s how Code Pink is thinking these days, how ’bout our girl Cindy Sheehan?

So glad you asked:

This Sunday (November 15th), Cindy (finally) welcomes Noam Chomsky. Cindy asks questions submitted by listeners, and Professor Chomsky provides his usual deep and profoundly meaningful insights. And then Cindy asks another listener question, and Dr. Chomsky does it again! The illumination this man sheds on our situation is so overwhelming - I can’t even write a good enough description!

We are lucky to have such an intellectual star sharing his wisdom with us.

Thank you, Cindy!

The world has long waited to hear the “profoundly meaningful insights” of Dr. Chomsky, not to mention his overwhelming illumination. What’s it been, fifteen minutes?

And you say you don’t write good.

Amherst… Amherst… didn’t I just write about Amherst three weeks ago?

This quaint leafy town in Western Massachusetts is known for its diverse mix of college students and retirees, a former farming community characterized by suburban small talk just as much as cultural institutions. But it is never one to shy from foreign policy, either.

“We like to set our own foreign policy,’’ said Ruth Hooke, a retired University of Massachusetts professor, a Town Meeting member, and participant in Pioneer Valley No More Guantanamos, a local chapter of a national movement calling for the release of detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay.

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Under a petition Hooke submitted to the town’s Select Board - approved by a 2-1 vote Monday night - the town will call on Congress to rescind its ban on detainees resettling in the United States….

Right, that place.

Well, they’re at it again:

“Gov. Patrick is outraged and extremely disappointed at reports that the University of Massachusetts has again extended a speaking invitation to Raymond Luc Levasseur,” said Patrick spokesman Joe Landolfi.

The governor last night called on UMass brass to “review” the abrupt about-face.

Levasseur, now under federal parole in a Maine halfway house, was the radical leader of United Freedom Front, a violent anti-government group linked to some 20 bombings, including one at the Suffolk County Courthouse in 1976.

So, he’s our Bill Ayers, in other words. Maybe not free as a bird, but guilty as sin.

Because the group’s rage resulted in the slaying of a New Jersey state trooper and attempted assassination of two Bay State troopers, cops strongly protested and the speech at UMass-Amherst was called off last week - until news yesterday that it was still being planned for Thursday night on the publicly funded campus.

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Law enforcement sources said the event will take place in a campus building. Separate sources said the event is being sponsored by the Department of Social Thought and Political Economy, a progressive campus group, and that a UMass professor extended the invitation to Levasseur. Attempts to reach that group last night were unsuccessful.

If this were truly about freedom of speech, I would look forward to the German Department’s sponsorship of an address by Holocaust denier David Irving, or even the Physics Department’s invitation to global warming skeptic Richard Lindzen.

But no, their views are not welcome, not worth defending (one with good reason, one without—you figure out which is which).

But I’m not letting the governor off the hook. A governor with stones would kill this thing good and dead. Sarah Palin would come in, guns blazing (literally); even Rod Blagojevich would threaten to throw a can of hairspray at the guy if he didn’t leave.

I saw this bumper sticker in a parking lot the other day, and I couldn’t figure it out. Given the other messages plastered over the jalopy (including one from the IWW—the International Workers of the World), I think it’s a leftist notion, but what paradigm do they want to subvert?

The oxygen-based life form paradigm?

The gravity paradigm?

The Democrat-dominance over Massachusetts politics?

What?

We’ve all met ‘em, and barely lived to tell the tale:

From a former Hill mom happy to be back home:

Kathryn, that picture is nothing new to the few Republican families who live on Capitol Hill. I can tell you true horror stories about the welcoming liberals who live up there. A few years back on Halloween one house had a sign up that said “No Candy for Little Republicans.” I once made the mistake of letting my two kids wear “W” shirts I picked up at the 2004 convention. The “W” shirt was a superman shirt but instead of an S in the middle there was a W. My boys loved them since they thought it was Superman. I thought it was pretty subtle. Not for the women at the park. We were accosted by fellow Moms. Insults were thrown not only at my little ones but at me and my parenting abilities.

My most favorite was when our car was bumper stickered! Someone actually went into our alley, into our driveway and placed anti-Republican bumper stickers ON our car. We didn’t have any pro-Republican signs up so I have to assume it was one of our very kind neighbors who actually knew us.

Trashing personal property, abusing children, incomprehensible rudeness—it’s only because they care about people so much. When they stone us, as in Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, I’m sure they’ll be singing Kumbaya.

BTW, I am generally troubled by our Category creep, as the number of Categories in the right hand column grows and grows. But as you can see, I needed quite a few of them for this post.

I’ve been a pretty staunch defender of the First Amendment, but given the craven surrender of the ink-stained wretches of the press, I don’t know why I bother:

Republican Congressman Connie Mack sent out a press release on Sept. 8. His flack received this reply from John Guerra, a reporter for the Key West Citizen in Florida:

“The Republican Party is now a mentally ill group of people who want nothing more than to destroy Obama’s first term no matter how much the country needs his policies. I despise your party’s activities and the hatred you spew on Fox and other sounding boards for the insurance companies. Please don’t you dare get him killed, which is the underlying goal of you right wing nuts.”

Intrepid reporter that I am (what can I say, it’s true), I found the press release of that date. Here is the incendiary document, the smoking gun, if you will, that set off Obama’s stenographer:

“This “trigger” idea is just another way for President Obama and Democrats in Congress to push our country down a path of nationalized health care.

“The Administration and the Democratic Leadership have made it quite clear that they believe the government, and not the free market, has all the answers. They refuse to listen to the American people, who are opposed to a government takeover of our health care system.

“The people of Southwest Florida and the nation aren’t going to fall for this gimmick. More freedom, and not more government, is the right path to reforming our health care system. Maybe one day the liberals will grasp this simple concept.”

That’s it, and there’s only one statement even remotely arguable: that the Democrats refuse to listen to the American people (and I’m being generous even there).

But the trigger is just a step toward socialized medicine; the Democrats do believe in government over the market; most Americans do oppose government takeover; the trigger is a gimmick; more freedom is always better than more government; liberals just don’t get it.

Those are axiomatic.

As a right wing nut, let me assure all my readers I wish President Obama a long and healthy life, in retirement. Give him a library, let him publish his memoirs (oh wait—he’s already done that—twice), may he have many grandchildren.

Just stop, please, sir.

Boy, those tea-party protesters really are racist riffraff, just like Jimmy and Janeane say:

Say, they don’t look like tea-partiers:

“Bankers, bankers, watch your back, we don’t protest, we attack!” [With pitchforks? ed.]

Protesters held signs specific to their cause – environmentalism, animal cruelty, human rights; many had anarchy flags. Some toppled garbage cans in the street.
A man dressed as a bloody seal carried a sign that said, “Canada stop the senseless seal slaughter.”

Many people played instruments, chanting, “Let’s take our country back.”

I looked for the picture of the man dressed as a bloody seal, but I couldn’t find it. You know I’d post it.

So conservatives and patriots can descend on Washington in the hundreds of thousands, leaving the place spotless, cleaner than they found it—and they’re racists—but 500 leftist sleazoids trash Pittsburgh, and they’re not?

You’d hardly recognize him if you listened only to NPR:

The president’s green jobs czar, Van Jones, quit his post in the face of criticism from conservatives about statements he made before his appointment. Jones resigned, saying the controversy following him was distracting people from the real issues. Host Jeff Young asks Joe Romm, a political analyst at the Center for American Progress what his departure means.

Statements. Words, just words. And words that only a conservative would find objectionable. Let’s learn more about the martyr Van Jones, on the fast track toward beatification in the Church of the Perpetually Soft-Headed.

Not long after President Barack Obama took office he excited environmental activists by making Van Jones a White House special advisor on green jobs. An African American trained as a lawyer at Yale, Mr. Jones built an agency in the Oakland, California area that took off with a campaign for green jobs.

CURWOOD: He’s a best selling author and, as Living on Earth listeners heard last year, an electrifying speaker.

JONES: The people who said we could have a financial strategy based on borrow and spend and bubble and bailout, they’ve had their turn. They’ve been totally discredited. It’s our turn now. Green jobs now! Green jobs now!

Electrifying. Ha, I get it. But if chanting a lame slogan makes one electrifying, watch me unleash my inner Consolidated Edison: Commies out of government! Commies out of government!

What, you didn’t know? You listen to NPR and you didn’t know he was an avowed communist?

CURWOOD: But as soon as Van Jones was on the job he was under attack from conservative commentators like Fox News host Glen Beck.

BECK: Van Jones, Van Jones, he’s our green jobs czar. What does that tell you? It says that the president has an agenda that is radical, revolutionary and in some cases Marxist.

YOUNG: The pundits dug into his past and found Jones once used rude anatomical slang to describe some Republicans.

Right. You have to watch Fox and listen to Rush (among many others) to learn anything—anything—of value. NPR presented the accusation, but left it hanging to twist slowly in the wind. Van Jones is not shy about his Marxist background, and is articulate and passionate about why he felt, or feels, that way. Why should NPR be?

And while the “a-hole” comment was obnoxious, nobody demanded he resign for it. (Note to NPR: the comment was hardly in his “past”. He said it in February, one month before being appointed.)

It was those other comments that troubled people and got his ass canned faster than you can say “Let’s roll.”

More damaging, he long ago signed a petition involving the families of victims of 9/11. Among other things it claimed the Bush White House had some prior knowledge of the attacks. Van Jones says he never saw that petition’s full text and not does agree with it.

Oh, come, NPR. You can do better than that.

Van Jones did:

“The bombs the government drops in Iraq are the bombs that blew up in New York City,” said Van Jones, director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, who also warned against forthcoming violence by the Bush Administration. “The US cannot bomb its way out of this one. Safety at home requires justice abroad.”

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“Everyone should be as wise as these inner-city youth here today,” Van Jones concluded. “We all have more in common with the working people of the earth than we do with George Bush or Colin Powell.”

Almost everyone who died on 9/11 was working at the time. Yet this was how Jones saw fit to honor them barely one day after they died in the worst terrorist attack in US history.

That’s why he was fired, NPR. Not because he called Republicans “rude anatomical slang”, not because he signed a petition he claimed never to have read (though we’re getting closer to the truth), but because he held views that were offensive to the memories of the nearly 3,000 people who died that day. He’s welcome to his opinion—this is America, after all—he’s just not welcome to represent the American people in government—snuck in via the czar route without any vetting—when he holds them in such contempt. That is the “truth” of 9/11.

Oh, and what day did NPR choose to share this story with us?

Air Date: September 11, 2009