Day By Day (December 16, 2010)

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- JP

What's behind the Left's latest Big Lie

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The Left and its lamestream media lapdogs have launched a full-scale, coordinated attack on Republicans, TEA Parties and Sarah Palin using Alinsky's tactics and the Big Lie theory in an effort to associate political opponents of President Obama and Congressional Democrats with racism and violence. Our colleagues Adrienne Ross, Ron Devito, Karen Allen and Ian Lazaran (here and here) have ably addressed what the Left is up to and the lack of substance in their arguments. To their lists of examples of the Left inciting violence, we would like to add two more.

The first example comes from the Democrat party's unofficial house organ, the Washington Post:

On Monday morning, the Washington Post decried the "hideous display" of Tea Party protests, but it sounded pretty foam-flecked on Wednesday as Post Metro columnist Courtland Milloy was expressing violent rage on the front of the Wednesday Metro section against the Tea Party protesters:

"I know how the 'tea party' people feel, the anger, venom and bile that many of them showed during the recent House vote on health-care reform. I know because I want to spit on them, take one of their 'Obama Plan White Slavery' signs and knock every racist and homophobic tooth out of their Cro-Magnon heads."

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Milloy’s racial animus is on Red Alert, but no editor at the Post suggested he count to ten. They must have wanted it this angry.

The second example is from the DNC's unofficial PR agency, MSNBC:

If there's one liberal pundit in absolutely no position to criticize others about stoking a climate of violence, it's Chris Matthews. Just a few months ago, the Hardball host indulged this hyper-violent fantasy: "at some point somebody's going to jam a CO2 pellet into [Rush Limbaugh's] head and he's going to explode like a giant blimp." [H/t reader Matt W.]

But, predictably, that didn't stop Matthews, as NewsBuster Geoffrey Dickens has documented, from making the condemnation of Republicans in connection with recent untoward incidents the focus of his show this evening.

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So please, Chris, spare us the moral indignation. You don't come with clean hands.

There are many more examples, some of which NewsBusters has collected here and Big Government reported here.

These attacks from the Left could all too easily be dismissed as the usual hysteria we have seen so often from unhinged "progressives," but that is only a partial explanation of what is behind this latest Leftist scheme. This time it's not just the usual Palin-hatin' suspects (Huffington Post, Keith Olbermann, Alaska Hit Squad, Lamestream Media, etc.) trying to slime Gov. Palin. Democrat Congresscritters Louise Slaughter and Steve Israel, both of New York, have joined in the attacks. Indeed, Sarah Palin is working to get 17 of their fellow travellers in the U.S. House fired, but the less visible reason they are doing this is to give Congressional Democrats cover.

House Dems who voted for ObamaCare knew that they were doing so at considerable risk to their own careers. They can read public opinion polls just like anyone else can, and the Congressmen didn't want to face the prospect of going home to their districts and having to explain their votes to their constituents. So the Big Lie was put to use to cover their backsides. When your number one talking point is that you allegedly fear for your own personal safety and that of your family, you can use it to to weasel your way out of taking phone calls, answering e-mails or -- God forbid -- having to actually interact with those pesky citizens face to face. Some Democrats used this excuse to cancel town hall meetings that they had scheduled last summer.

So the twofold purpose behind this latest tactic by the left is not simply to demonize Gov. Palin, TEA Partiers and Republicans, but to also give the Congressional Dems who voted for ObamaCare a bogus excuse not to have to grow a spine and face We The People, whose will they so blatently defy. Be ye not deceived.

Oh, and those "crosshair" icons on Gov. Palin's Facebook post? They're metaphors.

- JP

Quote of the Day (November 20, 2009)

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Greg Gutfeld:

"So apparently Sarah Palin sold over three hundred thousand copies of her book in one day – and as you can guess – they were all purchased by racists. At least, that’s what the sociology professors over at MSNBC Community College believe... I used to think this race-baiting tactic was a political ploy. But now I believe they mean it. They do think that if you’re against the policies of Obama, you must be racist. And that’s because in their profession, they don’t know anyone who’s against the policies of Obama!"

- JP

Olbermann still pushing "kill him" lie a year after it was discredited

Hysterical MSNBC moonbat Keith Olbermann is still pushing the discredited "kill him" meme nearly a year after it has been debunked by the Secret Service. Last week on his ratings-challenged cable television program, Olbermann and guest Melissa Harris-Lacewell, a Princeton University professor, were rationalizing ways to justify labeling any criticism of president Obama as "racist" when the unhinged host dredged up a favorite moonbat meme -- "kill him." After showing a video clip of Sarah Palin criticizing Obama for his connections to unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, Olbermann commented:

"So when calls to kill him rang out at some GOP rally, who could legitimately claim that it had to be isolated from that context?"

But only one lone person at the rally, a liberal reporter, claims to have heard that shout. It is absent from video and audio recordings of the event, and the Secret Service, after having investigated the allegation, dismissed it:

Agent Bill Slavoski said he was in the audience, along with an undisclosed number of additional secret service agents and other law enforcement officers and not one heard the comment.

“I was baffled,” he said after reading the report in Wednesday’s Times-Tribune.

He said the agency conducted an investigation Wednesday, after seeing the story, and could not find one person to corroborate the allegation other than Singleton.

Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell “kill him.”

“We have yet to find someone to back up the story,” Slavoski said. “We had people all over and we have yet to find anyone who said they heard it.”

But Olbermann, like all good leftists, knows his Lenin:

"A lie told often enough becomes the truth."

And so, for nutroots bloggers who hang on Olbermann's every word for inspiration, this discredited lie has become their truth. That he and they still invoke it nearly a year after it has been discredited only shows how divorced from reality these moonbats have become.

- JP

Sarah Palin vs the Sexist and Racist Left

Ours is a culture obsessed with physical beauty. Media consultant Karen Northon writes that in politics, this obsession results in a diversion away from the real issues. While it has long been part of American politics, it has never been so prominent a factor in national elections as it was in 2008, when the American media obsessed over Sarah Palin's physical attractiveness and virtually ignored her accomplishments as a politician. Things were somewhat different nearly fifty years ago:

Not since the days of John F. Kennedy’s campaign has a candidate’s physical appeal played such a central role in the race for president. Even then, however, mainstream media did manage to avoid the easy, salacious diversion from the issues — primarily Cuba, the space program, and the economy. There were, in news coverage, occasional and brief allusions to his charm and good looks, and those of his wife Jacqueline. But it was never the central focus of coverage.

Flash forward to the 2008 race for the White House. Opinion coverage in mainstream media — as I hesitate to call it news coverage — was sounding more and more like conversations you’d hear at a frat party.

Although Palin's executive experience as both a mayor and a governor was a sharp contrast to Obama's mostly legislative experience, the press was loathe to mention it. Instead the media hammered away at Palin's rather brief time as a beauty queen and strongly implied that the Alaska governor was so blessed with beauty that she must have been short changed in the brains department. Feminists, argues Nortron, should have pounded the media on that score, but they remained silent:

Whether or not we women agree with her politics, we should all agree that rather than examining Palin as a political candidate, mainstream media morphed into a gaggle of horny frat boys and failed the American people in the 2008 election.

But instead of pounding the media for its sexism, the feminists pounded Sarah Palin for her conservatism. According to The Daley Gator, if Sarah Palin had espoused liberal views rather than conservative ones, liberals would have embraced her:

You see, Palin is the clearest example of the Left’s tactics, which I think should be called victim pimping. Sarah Palin could have, had she chosen a different path, a shining star of the Left. Young, charismatic, good looking, Sarah would be a valuable commodity to the Left. If only she had toed the Leftist lines of proper ideological conduct.

Instead, liberals have attacked Palin like no other conservative has been attacked since Ronald Reagan nearly thirty years ago:

Now, we see reports of how Leftist bloggers are making up stories about Palin’s impending divorce, an affair with Newt Gingrich, or how she is really Barry Goldwater brought back to life, by Dick Cheney, or whatever other BS story these pinheads want to dream up. Oh, yes, I know, they have “sources”, so they MUST be telling the truth! Again, truth? Who needs that! The goal is the destruction of Sarah Palin here.

All of this illustrates how it is the Left that is sexist, and racist. It is they who seek to compel group-think upon minorities. It is they who wish to enslave monorities to eternal victimhood. And it is the Left that loathes anyone who dares to think for themselves.

Tennessee Guerilla Women is one of the all-too-rare feminist websites that makes its leftist politics secondary to the battle to end sexism, for which we believe they deserve some credit. TGW recently slammed fellow liberal site Democratic Underground for reporting unsubstantiated gossip about alleged trouble in Palin's marriage and then treating it like it was a cause for celebration:

Women left DU in droves last year while the sexists droned on and on about the first ever viable bit*h candidate for the presidency. Now the misogyny directed at Hillary has been replaced by the misogyny directed at Sarah Palin, and DU continues to look like a good old lowlife sexist cowboy forum.

As Texans, we feel we must point out to the good Guerilla Women that cowboys don't refer to women as "bit*hes" or obsess about their private parts. Word must not have reached Tennessee yet that cowboys are still the good guys, and they treat women with a degree of respect that females have never seen from the beta male leftists that liberal women tend to associate with. TGW can't seem to tell the difference between cowboys and frat boys, but at least they got part of it right.

Wish we could say the same for Natalie Holder-Winfield, an employment lawyer who has an op-ed up at HuffPo whining about white women, whom she believes get breaks in the workplace that women of color do not. While she may have a point, she steps all over it with her strange reaction to creepy Denny Deutsch and his misogynistic treatment of Sarah Palin:

This morning, on MSNBC's Morning Joe, Donny Deutsch was a guest-anchor turned into mush. A man who just a month ago accused Palin of "manufactured outrage" during the Letterman debacle and criticized her for parading her family around during the 2008 presidential election, had a change of heart. No, Palin has not defected and become a Democrat, nor has she become more scholarly and well-reasoned in her discourse about government. Instead, it was a little rumor about Palin's pending divorce that turned Donny into a junior-high school boy with a crush. He expressed -- a number of times -- that he was going to cease with the aspersions and criticisms (despite how dead-on they are) because he would like a date with Palin.

No, it's not sexism that bothers Holder-Winfield. It's all about playing the race card on the first hand of the deal with her. We wonder if she would feel better about Donny Deutsch if he had hit on a married black women rather than a married white one? Would it have been okay with Holder-Winfield if Deutsch had said that he would like a date with Michelle Obama if she and the president ever decide to call it quits? We also wonder where in the dickens Arianna Huffington finds the clueless caliber of writers that are responsible for the majority of her website's material.

- JP