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Giuliani: “The President Doesn’t Get It”

Unfortunately Barbara, Whoopi, Sherry and Joy are even slower to learn than the president.

h/t: NewsBusters

Analysis of a Taibi Rant

Matt Taibbi gets on my nerves. I see him as purely partisan, rabidly partisan. I have never seen him say one kind thing about any of his opponents. He does seem to be in possession of a wider fund of factoids than the average lefty talking head. But I have quit trusting his use of factoids since I feel sure that he would never offer any context that might in any way diminish their support of his pet positions. He is just too much on the a constant offensive to inspire trust.  Brad Schaeffer who wrote a piece for Breitbart’s Big Journalism on a recent piece by Taibbi seems to like him more than I. But he ends up as suspicious of Taibbi’s arguments and conclusions as I am. I am offering a couple of long quotes from Schaeffer’s piece since they are very insightful. Keep an eye on Big Journalism because Schaeffer is due to write more about Taibbi.

"For Matt, like many on the far left, can only see one possible explanation for the genesis of the movement.  The Tea Party’s appeal must be rooted in… (wait for it)… RACISM! Well of course!  And so (yawn) here we go again.
"Taibbi offers as evidence that at a right-wing Gospel rally in Kentucky he didn’t see a single black face (doubtful, but for sake of argument we’ll take him at his word).  Therefore, the Tea Party is a racist movement.  I would imagine if he set foot in a Baptist Church in Harlem he wouldn’t see a single white face.  Would that make the entire Baptist Church an anti-white organization?  Here’s a thought.  Could it be more a matter of mathematics than attitude that the Tea Party is predominantly white?  This is an admittedly ad hoc equation, but do the numbers:  Blacks made up 13% of the 2008 electorate.  Now, in the last election 94% voted Democrat.  So, in all of the country, the pool of black Americans who did not vote Democrat is just 6% of 13% or a mere .78% of the total voting population.  That is a pool of roughly 1 million people.   This paltry sample out of a voting population of over 131 million.   Perhaps then the true story behind the mostly white complexion of the rallies is not that blacks are excluded, but rather an overwhelming number of them are affiliated with the opposition party.  Cynically keeping an entire race captive as wards of the state to ensure a reliable voting block suits the Democratic Party and  profiteering race hustlers like Al Sharpton just fine.  But it belies Taibbi’s thesis of rampant bigotry inside the Tea Party movement and, by default, a GOP which has fielded more black candidates this election cycle than ever before.
"Among many charges Taibbi claims that:  “They blame the financial crisis on poor Black homeowners”  Really?  I didn’t know Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, the execs at Fannie, Freddie , AIG, various Wall Street banks, Countrywide (just to name a few culprits with whom the Tea Partiers I know have issue) are poor black men.   Franklin Raines is black, yes, but hardly poor.  He goes on to harp on the right’s “reports about how the New Black Panthers want to ‘kill cracker babies.’”   Is that not what their Philly leader King Samir Shabazz said?  Try to imagine Taibbi’s outrage if a Tea Partier suggested “killing non-white babies.”   And since when is questioning racial favoritism in the Justice Department off limits?   Incredibly Taibbi even sees racism in the Tea Partiers’ objections to Charlie Rangel, who, yes, happens to be black.  So what?  Naturally, it has nothing to do with him a being chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee who cheats on his taxes.  Does he honestly believe that were Rangel white he’d get a pass?  Give me a break Matt!   I myself have penned several articles on Rangel’s indiscretions.
"As you can tell, the man’s color never  enters  my mind.  But it does enter Matt’s. And that’s the point isn’t it?  In fact, to label Taibbi as a tad race-obsessed is about as much of a stretch as to label DeNiro’s Al Capone handy with a baseball bat.  And, propelled by his textbook liberal white guilt complex, Taibbi’s race-tainted Louisville slugger comes whistling down hard on the back of the head of a movement that in my travels I have found to be anything but racist."
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"The thing is, it never dawns on guys like Taibbi who deal out the race card with the proficiency of a riverboat gambler that perhaps of all the people viewing the world through race-tinted glasses, he is among the biggest offenders.  Oh right, I forgot, only right-wingers are capable of racism.  A white male left-wing journalist who spends so much of his time characterizing everyone and everything he sees on the basis of ethnicity, who surely sees a black person or awhite person rather than just a person, surely is not a racist at all.  Just ask him.  This is a man who, in a discussion with Dana Loesch recently, found Glenn Beck’s rally “offensive” because all he saw was “100,000 white people gathering on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.”   Don’t tell that to Alveda King.  Again, race, race and more race from this post-racial reporter.  When pressed, however,  he admitted he wasn’t even there."
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". . . As much as they pay lip service to “the marketplace of ideas” liberals stopped caring about any opinions but their own a long time ago – and are quick to either patronize or demonize those with opposing views, all the while preaching tolerance.  (Ask Juan Williams).   This close-mindedness is grounded in a sense of intellectual and moral superiority through which they view their place in the world.  It is a condescending attitude that practically oozes off the pages of this article.  They see themselves as the sole arbiters or truth, justice, and enlightened thought and so if you oppose them you cannot be doing so from a reasonable point of view.  Therefore some baser motivation must be driving this opposition to their iconic symbol, Barack Obama, who by the way is black.  Ah-hah! Any opposition must be driven by racial animosity then.  And that is the arrogant premise from which the Matt Taibbi’s of the world strike out in search of their stories.  The problem for him is that outside of the dwindling group of the MSM faithful, no one but themselves are buying the false narrative anymore.  And so, as the election nears, and they see the tidal wave of rejection (based on principles, not skin color) of so much of what they stand for – and thought they had finally achieved in 2008 - building on the horizon, they will lash out with ever more disingenuous pieces that masquerade as journalism."

Janine Turner and the Constitution

I'm not posting this because Janine Turner is hot. (Even though she is.) I find it inspiring that a normal citizen who works for a living has become so involved in studying the constitution and the Federalist Papers. I also like the way she calmly evaded Spitzer's attempt to get her to say something extreme or crazy. She was too classy and in control to even treat him like the back stabbing bottom feeder he is.

Arianna Needs A New Act: The Returns from 'Lizard Brain' Are Diminishing

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Allen West on the Laura Ingraham Show

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kos Confused about Juan Williams/NPR

Maybe the daily kos is trying to reverse the trend of hysterical desperation that the frenzied left has been discharging nonstop into the public discourse. Maybe in an attempt to scare off fewer voters they are attempting a less strident tone. Because they went easy on Sarah Palin today. They damned her with faint abuse when they modulated their slander to the mild epithet, “the inconsequential dropout former governor of Alaska.” Without knowing their history on this you wouldn’t know if, instead of hating her, they don’t just feel that she is beneath their notice.
Juan Williams was dealt with in the same tone of mild disgust. In a statement that mangles the facts they send Juan off stage with the other nonentities: “Juan Williams was fired for making bigoted comments, but the real statement about the state of our traditional media is that such a mediocrity had a job as a pundit to begin with.”
Off the front page one of kos’s diarists does an analysis of the NPR FU. This confused leftie wants to make the discussion about how wrong William’s friends are to classify this as a First Amendment issue. Very revealing. I have not come across one serious commenter on the flap that sees it has having anything to do with the First Amendment. The inescapable conclusion is that kos must feel that NPR’s position is so indefensible that they have to act like it doesn’t even exist. Kos feels the need to create a fantasy issue and a fantasy battlefield so that they can declare victory and depart the field.

THOUGHT CRIMEs: Think What We Think...Or Else

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Another nightmare of ‘liberal’ intolerance and anti-intellectualism forced on students through emotional coercion and abuse of authority. This is eerily like what was recently done to Juan Williams. He was fired for a thought crime. He had a feeling that his lefty employers dislike and he did not fearfully hide it from the light of day. So he was fired. Over the phone, yet. While his former employer made a snarky remark to the press about his mental health.
But those who spend time in the MSM see this kind of intolerance and anti-intellectualism all the time. The regular inhabitants of the MSM seldom engage in reasoned arguments and almost never provide empirical proof of what they have to say. They traffic in name calling and the assignment of blame and shame. All of their opponents are some blend of racist, insane and extreme. The reader or viewer will seldom know why the enemy is felt to be such a nasty, no good person. The viewer only knows that the target has been sent to stand in the naughty corner by the loud person who thinks he is an authority figure.

CNN’S COOPER NAILS NAACP’S JEALOUS ON TEA PARTY ‘STUDY’

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Michelle Malkin defends conservative women

Sometimes it feels like most denizens of DC and NY are surrogates of the president. It used to be that there might be one or two surrogates. I wonder if this just indicates how much the ‘elites’ feel that their self worth is dependent on their political party having power.

Out of 5 Lefties of Note Only 1 Has A Clue About the First Amendment

Ever notice how lefties will call lots of people liars but NEVER have any proof? I usually will not post Bill Maher's ranting on this site but this clip so clearly shows the left’s instinctive prejudice against freedom of expression that I feel it deserves airing. They fear freedom and keep resurrecting long discredited arguments to justify censorship.

h/t: NewsBusters

Advocate for the Unemployed Is Refusing to Vote Saying Problems with Unemployment Compensation “Is the Democrat’s Fault”

Ed Schultz looks defeated. He wants to defend the Dems but they are indefensible and slandering Republicans seems to have lost much of its thrill for him.


h/t: NewsBusters

CNN's King Defends Fox from Obama's Attack

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h/t: NewsBusters

O'Reilly, Ingraham Discuss 'Crazy' Attack on Tea Parties

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Pam Geller Talks About the Back Stabbing from '60 Minute'

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k/t: NewsBusters

HOWARD DEAN REVEALS HOW DEMOCRATS EVADE TOUGH QUESTIONS

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h/t: Breitbart TV

NAACP Continues to Accuse Tea Party of Racism But Cannot Produce Any Evidence

You would only be embarrassed by the lack of evidence if you actually believed what you said. This guy lacks both embarrassment and evidence.

h/t: Breitbart TV

THE PARTY OF ‘NO’?

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h/t: Breitbart TV

BIG JOURNALISM’S GINA LOUDON EXPOSES VANITY FAIR REPORTER’S HIT PIECE ON SARAH PALIN

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Runner Up Comment of the Day

The nation demands the impossible: quick, painless solutions to long-term, structural problems. While they’re running for office, politicians of both parties encourage this kind of magical thinking.

That’s a lie right there. Only the dems do this. They promise that they can cut taxes, increase spending, reduce the deficit and give you free healthcare.

Republicans generally don’t promise these things. I love how liberals will talk about the “hard choices” of “reforming an unsustainable system of entitlements” and blaming the dumb electorate on not wanting to do so – when it is the dems who promise to “protect” those entitlement programs from the big-bad republicans every election.

Where’s Eugene then? When does he side with republicans who consistently talk about reforming SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare and the like? He is supporting the dems who are promising easy answers to hard problems.

Talk about projection and intellectual dishonesty.

Monkeytoe on September 3, 2010 at 10:55 AM


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