Posted on 10/17/2008 5:05:58 PM PDT by hecht
Friday Afternoon Roundup - Joe the Plumber vs Obama's Orwell
Joe the Plumber is important. Not simply because he represents the defense of middle class aspirations against a socialist system designed to create a wide gap between the dependent ranks of the working class and the upper classes safely ensconced and managing the socialist bureaucracy...
but because his case demonstrates quite well the fate of those who criticize an Obama administration. Even without government control, Obama's backers are using the weapon of media intimidation to silence and suppress critics and clear his way to the top job.
The media has managed to turn up more negative material on Joe the Plumber in a day than they have on Barack Hussein Obama in a year. The latter is running for President, the former was an ordinary man who asked him a question.
This is the way things are supposed to work in a dictatorship, not in the United States. Here the critical eye is supposed to be on the politician, not on the American who asks him a critical question. Yet that is exactly where we are now, and if we don't stop it, there may well be a country called America, but it will have little in common with the United States of America.
Which makes it all the more important on election day to get out there and tell the messiah to stick his arugula where the sun don't shine.
Meanwhile in more of the Rage problem on the Obama side, PJM has an attack on a McCain supporter in Manhattan.
I'm not remotely surprised that the supporter was a middle aged woman or that the attacker was a burly man. This is actually common for your average enraged liberal coward. At pro-Israel rallies, lefties routinely went after signs held by older women.
Typical of this kind of enraged leftie cowards such as Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller at an anti-israel rally who assaulted Rachel Neuwirth or Nathan Winkler who chased a woman for having a Bush-Cheney bumper sticker on her car.
Now put this in the context of the psychotic hate being directed at Sarah Palin, and you're closer to the real face of liberalism, sheer cowardice.
(By the way if anyone knows where I can buy a McCain button in the New York City area, I'd be grateful, since by the time the official store ships me one the election will be all but over.)
Meanwhile Obama supporters are doing their own GOTV in their own old fashioned way, by stealing it.
First we have this disgusting story when a mentally handicapped man was forced to vote for Obama when he was taken to the polls for early voting. Look for a lot more of this happening particularly with senior citizens in New York and Florida. Forget the Big Schlep, the real story will involve caretakers and social workers and others going in with disabled people and seniors into the voting both and voting for them. I've seen this repeatedly in New York City at the polls.
Secondly the Supreme Court just legitimized Ohio's massive vote fraud, which just shows that the left will be happy to steal the election using the Supreme Court after all. How ironic.
Meanwhile anti-jihadist sites are running reports of a link between terrorists and pedophilia websites.
British security sources confirmed that such a link had been discovered in several cases. They noted the contradiction between people supposedly devoted to theocracy and Islamic fundamentalism and their use of child pornography. “It shows that these people are very confused,” a source said. “Here they are hating Western decadence but actually making use of it and finding that they enjoy this stuff.”
This of course just goes to show you how dim British security sources are. Pedophilia is a product of the decadence of the Muslim world, far more than it is a product of Western decadence. And Islamic terrorists routinely piggyback their fund raising ventures on organized crime based on doing things that are illegal in the West but a part of their culture, whether it's drug, car theft or pedophilia. After all Islam's prophet raided caravans and took a child bride. I have no idea if he chewed quat, but either way it's 2 for 3.
Meanwhile the fire sale of Israel continues with the US having now chosen to back the giveaway of the Golan to Syria. The circus goes on with more terrorists set to be freed, Haredim continuing to sell out Israel, Shas playing its cynical games on Yerushalayim and the religious zionist camp experiencing leakage away from sanity. The picture could be grimmer probably, but not by much.
As I've said before a lot is on the line this year and by the end of this year we will either be headed in a virtually irreversible downward spiral. All the while the Obamas will be chowing down on Iranian caviar in the White House.
In a brief blogsphere roundup,
Daled Amos covers the murder of 3 Americans by Palestinian Arab terrorists
Not much attention seems to have been paid this past week to the 5th anniversary of the murder of three American security contractors, John Branchizio, Mark Parson, and John Martin Linde Jr. by Palestinian terrorists on October 15, 2003.
At the Keli Ata blog, riffing on Obama's Grapes of Wrath
In the movie, Henry Fonda does a much better job reciting it than does the plagarist Barack Obama. Another reference to Obama in pop culture/American literature? I can't help it because the man keeps framing himself with it, plagarizing.
For a man described as a poet, Obama has so little orginality. I'd even go so far as to say his whole platform of Hope (including the many hope signs) were plucked right out of The Grapes of Wrath:
The always highly readable Breath of the Beast blog has an important post on the underlying psychological framework behind what's going on today
Obama intentionally presents us with an image of ourselves in that is calculated to make us feel is a reflection of the kind of world we desperately long to see. Because of that image, many people have made the commitment to ignore any thing negative that may come up about him and threaten the coherence of the image. This, as in the strange little mirror dance of Groucho and Harpoo ceases to be gullibility and becomes credulity. Even in the face of mounting evidence that he is not a man of good character, experience or, even, good will.
The media has been fed the info, I suspect.
This is the way things are supposed to work in a dictatorship, not in the United States. Here the critical eye is supposed to be on the politician, not on the American who asks him a critical question.
Right on Right on!
BTW, if it were "Tyrone the Plumber" the media would be making him the heroic victim of white racism.
Not if he were Republican.
IS IT TIME FREEPERS? ACE OF SPADES THINKS IT IS!
Re: “Vetting” the Media
—Ace
A lot of people want to know why we shouldn’t begin “vetting” the media — and by “vetting,” I do in fact mean vetting. I mean starting a fund to put detectives on them and begin outing them, one by one:
In the closet.
Hits his wife.
Messing with her editor.
Stoned out of his mind on coke half the time.
Etc.
And to reduce costs, I’m sure some budding citizen journalists-detectives would be wiling to take a night a week following these bastards around, taking pictures.
The media’s position that Joe the Plumber who merely asked a question must be “vetted” out of existence certainly supports the full-blown “vetting” of them.
After all, far more turns on the questions they ask and... refuse to ask, more importantly.
Will we do this?
I’ve had angry phases where I was within inches of proposing just this. Even starting a corporation with limited liability protections to do so.
It may be time.
But not now. There are only two weeks left. The media isn’t changing. They are in the tank for Obama; this is the full-court press. If we “got” one or two of these bastards by election day, what effect? None.
However, I have been loathe to even post such a notion in the past. It’s too ugly, too vicious.
Not anymore.
It is their own “rule” — those who ask questions that harm one’s preferred candidate must be hounded and harassed and humiliated until they are silenced.
If this is the rule they impose on everyday citizens, it’s time for everyday citizens to impose it on them.
Yes, this is where we’re headed. And while I used to greet the prospect with disgust, now I’m comfortable with it.
It is their own “rule.”
They will have to live by it, same as all of us.
Joe the Plumber was the last straw.
He was the last “freebie.”
Posted by Ace at 05:37 PM
LET’S FREE OURSELVES FROM THE BOOB TUBE MEDIA BOOBS!
I thought the left found Privacy rights in the US Constitution. yeah, right.
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