How So-Called Liberals Are Incapable of Rational Thought: Matthew Yglesias
Matthew Yglesias and I watched the same C-Span broadcast of the House debate on a parliamentary motion to extend remarks on the House bill. According to Yglesias, sexist Republicans (including — although he fails to mention this — Republican women) attempted to suppress the views of members of the Democratic women’s caucus by talking over them when they stepped to the podium to express their views. read more…
Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman, Michael Steele inadvertently flipped the light on for Obama faithful, Chris Matthews host of MSNBC Hardball. Although it was on, it was too dim for Matthews to see the entire picture.
Matthews’ started his interview with Steele by peppering his questions with insulting statements, calling conservatives “wing-nuts.” It didn’t take long for Steele to stop the questions and address the statement, asking why Matthews kept calling his people “wing-nut?”
Then Steele turned the “wing-nut” to the far left.
Steele: “What about all the left-wing-nuts who won’t let the president get his agenda through? What about all the left-wing-nuts that are the reason we don’t have health care right now? You’ve got 60 votes in the Senate, you’ve got 78 seat majority in the House, and I don’t see anyone talking about the left-wing-nuts who are stifling the health care for my mother and my family and my community. So don’t give me the name calling here.”
That’s when the light came on. Well, at least a flicker.
In 2003, the Union of the Muslims of Italy (UOMII), led by a radical convert to Islam named Adel Smith, brought a court action to have the crucifix removed from all public schools in that predominantly Catholic country. Calling the crucifix a “small body on two wooden sticks,” and “a miniature cadaver,” Smith and UOMII lobbied hard for their removal. Also on their agenda was the removal of an “offensive” 15th century Giovanni di Modena fresco in the Bologna cathedral and the deletion of Dante’s Divine Comedy from the school syllabus. Smith said both showed the prophet Mohammed cast into hell and were blasphemous against Islam.
The local Italian Court ruled in favor of the Smith and the Muslims. The schools appealed. read more…
In my life’s journey I have acquired, among other things, a public persona. As a result, strangers sometimes approach me bearing images of a self, lost long ago. In a recent spring, I spoke at a university in Connecticut, whose name I have forgotten. When my talk was over, a compact man with Irish curls and a snow-white beard came up to introduce himself: “It’s me, Johnny O’Brien,” he volunteered, foreseeing that I would not be able to recognize him. All at once, the eye of memory began daubing color into place, rusting the locks and deepening the freckles that time had faded, until I was able to identify the youth who had stood in front of me in the lines arranged by “size place” at the elementary school we both attended half a century before.
With the recognition came old feelings that reminded me of the fondness and frustration with which I had approached him when we were both so young. I recalled my desire to reach out to him and be his friend and also how we never did become close. When we had talked for a while, I asked him how he had regarded me then. “You were frightening,” he answered. “I was twelve and just trying to figure out who I was and what it was all about. But you already knew.” Of course, I did; I was already embarked on my father’s mission. “You had a certainty and a purpose,” John continued, “that was daunting in someone so inexperienced and young. It was as though you already knew what to think about everything, about who you were and where you were going. I sensed in you an indefinable contempt for those who were too ignorant to see these truths. It became clear to me that someone unanointed with such knowledge could never get near you. So I gave up trying.” read more…
Fall will turn to winter soon, but if the White House thinks the summer’s tea party movement is going to cool down with the weather, they’re in for disappointment.
On Thursday, between 20,000 and 45,000 Americans descended upon Capitol Hill (along with talk radio host Dr. Mark Levin and conservative actor Jon Voight) to protest the nationalization of America’s healthcare system, answering a call put out by Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) just a week before. Bachmann and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) joined Sean Hannity to reflect on the defiant spirit of the American people, as well as ObamaCare’s political prospects.
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Editor’s Note: If you have not read Part 1 of this 5-part series you are strongly encouraged to do so.
Having disposed of the CO2 myth in part 2 of this series, we’re now going to discuss a number of the other lies that Al Gore, the IPCC & the EPA have been spreading.
(Note: I gratefully acknowledge The Monthly CO2 Reports published by SPPI, and edited by Lord Monckton, which has been invaluable in putting together this series. ……… Thanks m’ Lord !)
The British High Court has ruled that Gore’s absurd movie may not be shown in British public schools unless the students are forewarned that Gore made 9 significant mistakes in the film. As you’ll learn shortly, there were FAR more than just those 9. read more…
We expect moral imbecility from Keith Olbermann on issues such as the Fort Hood murders and last night he didn’t disappoint. Enumerating the pressures Nidal Hassan must have felt, the Countdown host itemized especially Islamophobia (“They keyed his car!) and the brazen assault on the Major’s free speech rights (“And ripped off a bumper sticker!”)
But surprisingly, Olbermann was outdone a little later on the Bill O’Reilly Show where Geraldo Rivera, whose mind often seems as empty as Al Capone’s vault, insisted that the defining characteristic of the murder spree was not the specifics of Hassan’s behavior—criticizing the American mission, finding brotherhood with Iraqi and Afghan fighters, handing out commemorative Korans just before leaving to rendezvous with his evil destiny at the base, etc—but how similar he was to Jason Rodriguez, the Orlando shooter, and to other demented killers (even, under O’Reilly’s clumsy prodding, including Charlie Manson.) read more…
Today’s Lunch Break is from Cas Balicki, who said:
Here’s my suggestion for a lunch break. The news these days seems bleak, with Fort Hood commanding headlines and Obama seemingly at his silliest, so I am forwarding this YouTube link of Stan Rogers singing the Mary Ellen Carter.
Rogers was a Canadian singer/songwriter who died in 1983 on his way back from a music festival in Texas on board a plane that landed safely after catching fire. He died of smoke inhalation at age thirty-four.
The lyric that sticks in my mind:
“…And to you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow
With smilin’ bastards lyin’ to you everywhere you go
Turn to and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter rise Again.”
The song is both uplifting and an apt metaphor.
Lunch Break is NewsReal’s daily apolitical post. (We all need a break from this political stuff every now and then!) When commenting on Lunch Break posts do not start political, religious, or philosophical debates. In fact from now on any such comments on Lunch Break posts will be deleted. You’ve got all of NewsReal’s other posts to be argumentative. Lets keep this one pure. read more…
I write a weekly “talk radio watch” column for another website. All by myself, I listen to the big conservative talk radio shows, then assemble audio highlights and news bytes for folks who can’t keep up with Rush, Beck and company.
I only mention this because, in a bizarre inverse ratio, it evidently takes not one, not two, but three people to write a Media Matters column about just one talk radio show.
Ken Hamidi, after a bloody SEIU brawl
As the nation waits to see when or if SEIU members involved in a physical confrontation with Kenneth Gladney outside a health care town hall meeting in August will ever be prosecuted, another allegation of union violence has cropped up. A California state worker went to the hospital bloodied and bruised Thursday night as a result of a beating administered in an SEIU union hall. Kourosh Kenneth “Ken” Hamidi says four or five members of the Service Employees International Union local 1000 assaulted him as he entered their Sacramento meeting with a video crew for his public access TV show.
Hamidi says union leaders ordered him to be attacked, while local 1000 leaders claim Hamidi assaulted the union members first. Police Sgt. Norm Leong told the media, “The statements we received kind of conflict about who started it and who provoked it.” What is beyond dispute is the video that shows multiple rank-and-file attacking Hamidi on the floor.
Ken is a reporter for SHOUT TV (Strength Holds Our Unions Together) and an indefatigable critic of what he considers local union corruption. A native Iranian who came to America in 1978, Hamidi ran for president of local 1000 last May. He has since shot a number of episodes informing state employees of their rights to object to non-germane uses of their forced union dues (e.g., political lobbying for the Left) and criticizing everyone from local leaders to SEIU President Andrew Stern. He says the beating was to silence his activism.
Hamidi has a history of activism in his new country…
Obama’s Ft. Hood Reaction is Far Worse than the Left’s Smear of Bush’s “Pet Goat” Moment
Will President Barack Obama be able to avoid negative attention for his initial reaction to the Fort Hood Massacre? His first speech after the killing of at least 13 soldiers on a US military base showed a complete lack of any presidential leadership. It may (and should) go down in history as far worse than the “Pet Goat” incident. read more…
On Thursday, President Barack Obama took time to gloat to reporters in the White House Briefing Room about the endorsements given by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), and the American Medical Association (AMA), for his proposed socialization of the country’s health care system.
Amy Goodman’s Marxist mouthpiece Democracy Now! network also took a moment to report on the President’s dynamic achievement, while simultaneously contrasting it with an anti-health care rally led by angry right-wingers: read more…
This is racism, huh?
Before Keith Olbermann accused Rep. Michelle Bachmann of fomenting a rebellion, MSNBC’s David Shuster had already hiked the old hyperbole trail. Sitting in for Ed Schultz on The Ed Show, Shuster insisted the rally opposing President Obama’s socialized medicine bill “had all the trappings of a proverbial orgy of bigotry, racism, anti-Semitism, and hate!” In fact, one sign alleged contained “a reference to right-wing claims that the president is secretly a Muslim terrorist!” (Emphasis Shuster’s.)
As usual, he could not produce these references to racism, anti-Semitism, or Obama-secretly-got-Islamic-terrorist-training-ism. Even the Huffington Post with its “12 Most Offensive Signs from Bachmann’s Tea Party” found only one sign (a reference to Dachau) that was over-the-top. Despite the underwhelming nature of his evidence, Shuster pumped up the hate.
In a panel discussion about the economy minutes later, an enraged Bill Press challenged Republican Ron Christie, “You show me one sign that any Code Pink protester ever had that matches that disgusting stuff we saw yesterday in front of the U.S. Capitol.”
I’ll see ya and raise ya. A few years ago, I put together a page for FrontPage Magazine featuring some of the most disturbing signs “peace” protesters had carried up to that point. Here a few images from that cache:
After the publication of Radical Son, I continued to question the beliefs that had brought tragedy to my own life and even greater sorrows for others. The book that followed was called The Politics of Bad Faith and was prefaced with an epigraph from the great heretic of Soviet Communism, Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The epigraph encapsulated the truth Solzhenitsyn had won through a radical life and through immense suffering: “Gradually, it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through the human heart, and through all human hearts.” It was the conclusion I had come to through my own experience.
While Sarah was alive, I failed to appreciate the extent to which she shared this insight. Nor did I fully comprehend the ways in which it had shaped her choices. Although she was involved in progressive causes, her commitments were never consuming like mine. The passions that governed her interests were literary and moral, and they served as a check on what she believed humanly possible. Nonetheless, she was drawn to the social causes of the left both by friends and by her own inclinations. read more…
President Obama took all of about one minute and 30 seconds on Friday morning to comment on Thursday’s Ft. Hood massacre before moving on to comments regarding the economy. We were admonished thus:
“I would caution against jumping to conclusions until we have all the facts.”
Exactly what IS one to conclude about this incident in which 13 were killed and 30 injured by a Muslim officer in the United States Army who according to witnesses shouted “Allahu Akbar” before gunning down innocent bystanders? That he was a victim of harassment who simply “snapped?” An unfortunate victim of “post-traumatic stress disorder” who had never been anywhere near a war zone? A random nutcase? read more…
This has nothing to do with what happened at Fort Hood.
2009 November 6Jihadi Columbine: We are all Nidal Malik Hasan?
What Part of “Allahu Akbar” Do You Not Understand?
It is an insult of criminal magnitude, to the intelligence of the American people, that the Media and Military collectively present the Radical Islamic Terrorist Attack at Fort Hood, resulting in the slaughter of American Soldiers and civilians, as anything but what we all know it to be.
Any journalist or Military authority who “needs to study the situation to ascertain motive for the shooting,” needs to be instantly fired, perhaps prosecuted for endangerment of America. read more…
Editor’s Note: See NewsReal’s previous commentaries on the Fort Hood Massacre:
- Forsmark Got It Right – And It’s Not Just Olbermann
- Our Brain Dead Country
- To MSNBC the Least Important Thing about Killer Army Doctor is He was a Muslim Who Lauded Suicide Bombers: Meltdown with Keith Olbermann Part 14
- Huge Military Slaughter — But First A “Shout Out” to Obama’s Bud
It would be reassuring if Muslim organizations were more unequivocal in their condemnation of acts of violence done in the name of Islam. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) includes in its statement condemning the killings at Fort Hood, the following warning:
“Unfortunately, based on past experience, we also urge American Muslims, and those who may be perceived to be Muslim, to take appropriate precautions to protect themselves, their families and their religious institutions from possible backlash.”
This statement is designed to create and establish among Muslims the feeling they are victims within America. It also is meant to provide the basis for understanding why some lunatic who is Muslim might have reason to “snap.” This is not much different than the view, still held by a large minority of Americans (Reverend Wright anyone?) that 9/11 was simply America’s chickens coming home to roost. read more…
“This whole thing is starting to smell like the Clinton era.” -- Chris Matthews
Coming from a man who usually possesses the objectivity of a lovesick puppy when it comes to Obama, Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC’s Hardball sounded out of character when he barked at White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs, accusing the president of hanging out with the rich cats, and smelling like a Clinton.
Matthews: “You’re a communications expert, I know it’s tough to have to defend the White House and speak the complete truth… It seems that this president has had to go to a lot of fund raisers lately. He’s played a lot of golf lately, he’s hung around with Geithner, and Summers, and the Paulson crowd. The whole New York rich guy scene; he’s beginning to look like a Clinton. He looks like a typical Democrat now. Hanging out, playing golf, going to rich people’s parties, bringing people in the White House to go bowling. I mean this whole thing is beginning to smell like the Clinton era. What happened to the change we believed in? I’m asking?”
If you put lipstick on a bulldog – it’s still a bulldog, but if a news network puts lipstick on The Village Voice’s Michael Musto and portray him as Sarah Palin – then they are no longer a news network. NBC has been the host to Saturday Night Live’s fake and funny news for decades. Now, thanks to Countdown with Keith Olbermann, NBC’s cable news network MsNBC has become equally fake news but far less funny.
Here is the biggest mockery of a news segment you may ever see (you might want to cover the eyes of small children-or yourself for that matter): read more…
Meltdown is only the tip of the iceberg on media blindness toward Jihad.
I was all set to write about Sean Hannity’s Great American Panel segment of November 4th, where he discussed abortion with Ralph Reed, Steve Murphy, and (strangely) Alison Rosen, an entertainment writer.
Then I heard about the extermination in Texas.
Stay with me for a second on the Hannity telecast though, because the machinations of the Left all tie together.
As you might expect, Murphy and Rosen had a hard time explaining why THEY PERSONALLY found the process of vacuuming a fetus out of a woman’s uterus abhorrent, but thought it was only right that they defend someone else’s wish to do the very same thing if this “other person” thought it was OK. read more…
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