Posted on 04/29/2013 5:53:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
It doesn’t matter whether you’re on the far left, far right or somewhere in the middle, there is absolutely no denying the rise of the tea party has altered America’s political landscape. And the elite media is making clear, in no uncertain terms, they despise this type of change.
Last week, Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND) voted against the Schumer-Toomey gun bill because her constituents were opposed to the bill. On MSNBC’s Morning Joe, former lawmaker Joe Scarborough and his sidekick Mika Brzezinski lit into her:
MIKA: She is defending her vote saying her office was flooded with calls from constituents who opposed background checks by a 7-1 ratio.
JOE: You can’t handle that?
The implication is that Heitkamp, who is not conservative, is supposed to ignore the citizens of her state because the elite media in New York City say the “overwhelming majority of people want to go the other way.”
In fact, a Pew Research-Washington Post poll found 47 percent of those closely following the gun debate were “happy” or “relieved” the bill failed. It would be logical to conclude folks in North Dakota, the state with the 8th highest gun ownership in the country, were even more relieved.
The cascade of righteous indignation continued, though:
JOE: Heidi Heitkamp wants to be a United States Senator but she is not tough enough to handle 4% of her constituents calling into her office a lot. She’s not even taking the phone calls!
MIKA: That’s what they do.
JOE: … This is one of the saddest most pathetic votes I think I’ve ever seen in Washington, DC. What Heidi Heitkamp has done. Cowarding [sic] in the corner because 4% maybe 5% of the people in her state were making phone calls that her staff had to answer.
MIKA: What about her own opinion? Does she have one?
The coastal elites regularly dismiss people in fly over country. The difference with this tantrum is that the elites are dismissing a fundamental constitutional right. The 1st Amendment guarantees citizens the right “to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
If it seems as though they’re advocating for a callous disregard of their constituents, you’re right:
JOE: They are really vocal. Oh, my gosh. When she has to walk past her staff and saying a lot people are calling. I’ve done that. They are calling! I said, “that’s great. I’ll be back.”
When you consider this for standard operating procedure for the political and media elites, it should come as no surprise the vast majority of Americans are dissatisfied with Washington and the media.
It goes beyond just demeaning commentary, though.
The Washington Post reported this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner “will raise about $150,000 for journalism scholarships, according to the WHCA, a nonprofit group.” The piece then went on to report “some media organizations will drop as much as $200,000 each to entertain an elite list of guests” at after parties.
Ultimately, the money raised for scholarships is “small change.” The Post concludes “The real targets are a few hundred elite and influential guests. The parties help news organizations court would-be advertisers and reward existing ones by putting them in proximity to power and the Hollywood figures who will be transported and pampered at the media’s expense this weekend.”
Of all people, former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw has the self-awareness to realize this type of display is just “another separation between what [journalists are] supposed to be doing and what the people expect us to be doing.”
Whether talking heads are dismissing the beliefs and opinions of one segment of the country or engaging in a schmooze-a-palooza with another, there is no doubt a massive disconnect exists between the elites and the rest of America. And politicians, elected by a ridiculed constituency, should remember who they represent.
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are more like some sort of performing journalists.
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MSNBC is a Left-wing circus. Performers there are Left-wing clowns. Life is too short to waste watching them, much less caring what they have to say.
Good! The feeling is mutual. Mika is the t*rd in the punchbowl (with Matthews), and Scarface is punch drunk.
Once upon a time, he was a pretty reliable conservative congressman, but now, he is just another whimpy metrosexual talking head.
Soon they will all be dead.
It’s nothing personal. The elites despise conservatives - obviously. The elites despise us in part because we value and cultivate independence, but they would still despise us if we obeyed every one of their nonnegotiable demands. They also despise minorities as indicated by their confident assumption that blacks, Hispanics, and women cannot compete against others without special help and holding them to lower standards. They hold homosexuals in complete contempt, as evidenced by their assumption that gays cannot control their biological urges and it’s unreasonable even to ask them to try. More than anything, they hate themselves, as proven by their suicidal policies and tendency to blame themselves when they are attacked.
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Yup, as previously stated, the feeling is very, very mutual.
The press is the slime that sits below the floating Obamas in your septic tank.
The best comparison I’ve heard to the “media attitude” is that they think of the consumers of ‘news’ in the same way that prostitutes think of their customers - with abject contempt and hatred, masked with demeaning ingratiation.
Even the the fawning Obamasexual Chris Matthews, is like the rare whore who has fallen in love with a single customer, rendering the whole exercise extremely creepy.
And yet, ironically, while prostitutes at least have a chance for personal redemption, looking at their former career with regret and shame, but still transcending it to be more honorable people; media have no such grace.
They languish in a Hell pit of their own vices, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual, embracing and reveling in the deadly and ordinal sins that brought them there, and cursing all who do not dwell in that pit with them.
Just smile and be content in the knowledge that if they get their way, someday some ginned-up OWS-type mob will accost Mika in her SUV.
“Soon they will all be dead.”
You are right. The hippies have played the long game, and kicked our butts. They took over the schools, and turned out generations of stupid, apathetic Americans. They control the media, and to a large extent the government.
They won’t be dead soon enough. I can’t adequately express my hatred of the hippie slime.
By all means, keep paying that bill for cable TV or satellite every month. Having high def access to fake reality tee vee and over produced hour long reminders that the US beat Germany in WWII is way more important than cutting off the revenue stream to people who are quite happy to see you and yours dead or cowering to a swat team.
“What a thoroughly corrupted, and dare I say evil, generation.”
I hate watching what they’re doing. And knowing they have zero ability to take responsibility for their actions. No matter how badly the mess things up, it will always be the fault of conservatives.
They are evil. As evidence, I give you Jane Fonda.
This ranting was last week.
Joe and Mika are really on a gun control quest with these periodic hissy-fits.
Joe is more and more liberal by the day.
These two are monkeys, like trained chimps they will do or say anything to keep their paychecks coming.
That makes us even.
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