Comments Posted By Travis Monitor
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RUSH AND RACE: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY
RM: "I think Dreher overreacts a little but his point is well made. "
Phooey. I think Rush overreacts a little to the massive media malpractice and Democrat demagoguery wrt race-card playing, but his point is well made.
If Rush is a lout then so is Dreher for engaging in the shaming-on-behalf-of-political-correctness that makes us "a nation of cowards" on race.
It's a plain fact that Dreher's: "increasingly hysterical atmosphere of protest against that black president" is unadulterated bullcr8p. there is nothing 'hysterical' about the protest against the increasingly unpopular President Obama. Just because one Congresscritter got vocal when Obama told a presidential whopper does not mean things are 'hysterical'.
Obama is simply a mediocre President who is over his head and has made bad appointments, has an over-ambitious leftist agenda, and lacks the leadership skills to pull it all off. This is becoming obvious now EVEN TO OBAMA'S SUPPORTERS.
Opposing Obama's agenda has nothing to do with race. It's the same old politics practiced throughout our history. Only now the race card gets played anytime the President is critiqued or challenged, as a defense mechanism by the left to shut down criticism. It is shameful and disgusting way to close down dissent, it's completely false, and it won't save Obama's credibility nor his agenda.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 16.09.2009 @ 23:19
"This whole we white men are victims and under siege spiel. IMHO, that is pathetic whining."
Really? Who's whining??? ...
This whole 'our black President running the country and his minions and ACORN and Van Jones and Gate are victims and under siege' spiel. IMHO, that is pathetic whining.
there are a lot of Democrats who susceptible to this kind of demagoguery. And many who engage in it. Jimmy Carter for one....
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 16.09.2009 @ 23:09
"The Rush Limbaugh of 2009 channels is inner Mark Levin too much"
The Mark Levin who sold 1 million copies of his excellent book?
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 16.09.2009 @ 23:06
#1 bestselling author?
"But the point is towards the media and their reactions and not the event itself."
EXZACTLY!
80% of what Rush does is actually media criticism ... 'The Drive-Bys'.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 16.09.2009 @ 23:04
"The amount of hyperbole in that snippet could fill the Superdome."
Nope. Satire. Sarcasm. Ring a bell? You dont think 30+ years of political correctness crushing rightful debate and dissent isnt worthy of such treatment? There was a ritual beating up of Congressman Joe Wilson for doing something tamer than most members of the Democrat caucus did in 2005, and racism was
Rush is a lout for daring to tap dance on the third rail of racial identity politics and expose this hypocritical 'race card' politics in his own way?
Rush uses the liberal media narrative as a way to interpret an event (blacks beating up whites on a bus) to show how ABSURD that liberal media narrative is. He has even called it as much:
"illustrate absurdity by being absurd" Of course neither he nor any liberal believes that there was a race riot on a school bus. But he knows perfectly well the double-standard the liberals play."deliberately failing to engage their minds"
On a week when a former President Carter is calling criticism of a President 'racism', when the race card is played by a corrupt organization (ACORN) found to have engaged in agreeing to illegal activities, when the 'race' epithet is thrown around more now in Obama-America than ever before... it's about time someone called out this Jackass Behavior for what it is.
It is vile, outrageous, and despicable to call conservatives 'racists' for daring to criticize Obama. That vile, outrageous and despicable behavior - by folks like former President Carter - deserves a response ... you want it to be prudent ... you can go the Michael Williams route:
http://www.williamsfortexas.com/posts/34
" I say to them that I can disagree with my president based on the politics of ideas rather than the politics of identity."You know why Rush is needed? BECAUSE THE LIBERAL MEDIA WILL ROUND-FILE THE DECENT, HONEST, HONORABLE STATEMENT BY AFRICAN-AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE POLITICAL LEADER MICHAEL WILLIAMS.
So you get the satire, sure to make conservative laugh and nod and liberals to blow their top ... "We know that white students are destroying civility on buses, white students destroying civility in classrooms all over America, white congressmen destroying civility in the House of Representatives."
As for RM: "I will go to my grave wondering how in God’s name so many people who think themselves “conservative” can find anything of value by listening to such a pompous lout."
Maybe because we are in on the joke and dont take all as seriously as a Lehrer News Hour interview.
Because Rush exposes the absurdity of the liberal media in an entertaining way. he channels the liberal MSM without having to suffer through actually watching that dreck. If you know he's over the top, chalk it up to Rush's 'entertaining hyperbole' and get off the pedestal of faux huffery.... Who in the media is NOT a 'pompous lout'? NONE OF THEM. (Except the Moran bros, of course).
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 16.09.2009 @ 23:01
DEBATE OVER TEA PARTY PROTEST NUMBERS MASKS THE REAL HISTORY MADE
"Given differing political visions, I’m convinced America must be governed from somewhere in the middle. "
Ah yes, bipartisanship. Given the choice between going port or starboard to avoid the iceberg in front of the ship of state, we compromise and go full straight ahead!
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 13.09.2009 @ 22:23
"If Charles Johnson is to be purged"
LGF has been crapping on conservatives of various stripes for a while now, its a sort of Palin derangement syndrome.
It was bad enough when his crowd was calling a GOP congressman a 'birther' on the basis of said congressman (who is NOT a birther) being polite to a constituent who was.But the day I decided to not bother with his stie anymore was saturday, when this amazing rally was reported by him to have 'too many obama=hitler signs'. Bashing the Tea Partiers as kooks. Yet on no real pics did I see any such sign, AND I saw a sea of "Dont tread on me" (a libertarian favorite flag) and American flags. And many other smart, funny, to-the-point yet decent and respectable homemade signs.
In short, he's been reduced to parroting the kind of lame talking points found on dKos. This kind of wee-weeing (as BHO would put it) on the extreme right is done with a lot more class by Frum and Co. Big yawn.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 13.09.2009 @ 22:22
"I received an email from a long time reader yesterday who was concerned I couldn’t see that the protests were, at bottom, “anti-American, racist, and dangerous…”"
How did this person pick that up? Too many American flags? The coal miner who spoke in a hard-hat? The playing of "God Bless America"?
If the numbers cracked 100,000 it was the largest taxpayer protest in American history and has as much significance as the Boston Tea Party, which was much smaller... and yes - WAS anti-authority and 'dangerous'.
"I predict the Tea Party Protesters will have the same impact on Obama’s decision making as the Anti-War protesters in 2003 had on Bush Jr.’s decision making."
Obama is the New Bush, they share that trait of stubbornness ... CALL BHO GEORGE THE THIRD.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 13.09.2009 @ 22:15
IMPRESSIVE TURNOUT IN DC FOR PROTEST
"I found it interesting that Yahoo’s article identified it as a “mostly white crowd”"
They were speaking about Obama's speech up in Minnesota, right? ... no? hmmm.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 12.09.2009 @ 14:42
"I’m just apparently the only independent here who actually has the balls to call out the Right as well as the Left."
Yawn. NO guts required to spew the sock-puppetry you can get on MSNBC nightly, or any leftie blog or HuffPo. Heck, the DNC will send you mails with Obama's pic for your 'useful service'.
As for "CORPORATE-SPONSORED by Lyndon LaRouche ...", ROFLMAO, that guy is a Democrat-socialist-anti-NWO-conspiracy-kook, about as far from corporate as you can get.
Comment Posted By Travis Monitor On 12.09.2009 @ 14:40
