Posted on 03/24/2016 4:29:48 AM PDT by Hilda
There's so much nonsense being spewed in this country. I'm drowning in it. I can hardly breathe anymore.
The Donald Trump phenomenon is built on nonsense and born from nonsense. His surrogates and minions in the media drop 80 tons of nonsense on every conversation like a nuclear bomb incinerating everything in its path and wiping out any chance of a coherent dialogue.
Exhibit A: I wrote a blog post last week listing a few of the so-called conservative leaders in media and politics who sold out to Trump. Maybe you read it. Amanda Carpenter, a writer for one of my favorite websites, Conservative Review, compiled her own list a couple of days later. She concentrated particularly on the politicians who've stabbed their conservative constituents in the back by endorsing Trump.
Keep this in mind. There have been only two "lists": mine and Amanda's. That's it. There's been only one -- mine -- that mentions traitorous conservative "thought leaders" like Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Sean Hannity, etc. Nobody else has written a list of traitors who slaughtered their integrity on the sacred altar of Trump. Or, if they have, they wrote it after the fact.
What happened next would be funny if it weren't so sad. It started with Breitbart, a Trump propaganda outfit, which turned our two editorials into a blaring front page headline. The website quoted me in huge capital letters:
"BLACKLISTED: DRUDGE, COULTER, HANNITY, CARSON, BREITBART, O'REILLY, CHRISTIE MAKE GOP SMART SET'S LIST OF ‘IDEOLOGICAL HUSTLERS'"
Over the next few days, many other articles were written hysterically shouting about a nefarious "enemies list" being etched into stone tablets in a shadowy room by robed figures known as "The Establishment." Over and over again, I heard that these lists were written by "The Establishment."
Laura Ingraham led her Monday radio show talking about the dreaded lists. She at least made sure to mock us for being silly "bloggers" she's never heard of, but she still presented it as proof that there's some DC conspiracy being hatched against Trump fans.
As usual, Sarah Palin had the most ridiculous reaction, ranting that "the man" and "the professional political class" and the "DC herd" have blacklisted her and her fellow Trump lickspittles. The next day, her PAC launched a campaign using "the blacklist" to bolster her own mailing list. A frantic message on her PAC's Facebook page urged her supporters to stand with her in her fight against "The Establishment's" efforts to "silence the voice of the people." It said that the "The Establishment's" list includes Drudge, Hannity, Coulter, Breitbart, and others.
Again, I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO WROTE A LIST WITH THOSE NAMES ON IT. My point isn't to claim credit for sparking this conversation, but to point out how the Trump sell outs in media have only proven my point by how they reacted to my post. They're lying. They're acting. They're using a column written by a 29-year-old blogger who lives in a small town in a rural county many miles from DC to reinforce a narrative that Trump and his disciples are fighting against powerful, villainous forces in DC.
Nonsense. So much nonsense. Just utter nonsense.
Amanda Carpenter, the only co-conspirator in this dastardly plot, did work in politics for a short time, I think, and does appear on TV sometimes, but I don't believe she'll be insulted when I say she's not the most powerful figure in DC. And neither am I, although I have been to the Smithsonian a bunch of times so maybe that makes me a part of the "DC crowd"? Is that how it works, Sarah?
You'll have to explain this, Sarah, because I thought WE were the much less powerful conservative criticizing the much more powerful, rich, famous, influential conservative icons. But we've victimized you, have we? We've intimidated you? You're a martyr yet again, Sarah, but this time you're a martyr at the hands of the grassroots? Get a grip, you carnival barking shill.
Sarah Palin is a ridiculous, attention starved phony, but she's not alone. Just look at where we are now: wealthy and powerful media figures are calling grassroots bloggers "The Establishment." See, conservatism is a game to these people. It's just a product to be sold, a drama to be performed, a brand to be exploited for personal gain. That's why they support Trump. He is doing with conservatism exactly what they are doing and have done.
Many of your conservative heroes are frauds, that's the truth. Perhaps they didn't start out that way, but that's what they've become. They got rich and they got famous and they fell in love with the attention and the acclaim and the money. They stopped fighting the culture war. Then, at some point, they realized losing is better for business. And now, in their final act of betrayal, they are joining forces with Donald Trump to actively sabotage their own side.
But I guess you can't trust me. I'm The Establishment. I never set out to be The Establishment, but here I am. I've never even been invited to a cocktail party. I don't even know what a cocktail party is, to be honest. I mean, do they actually just serve cocktails or can I get, like, a beer? Does a Jack and Coke count? Can I wear jeans? I don't know. These are things I thought I'd learn before I was finally inducted into the club. I feel so unprepared.
Well, anyway, allow me to get back to plotting world domination with my fellow conservative bloggers while the humble grassroots freedom fighters like Sarah Palin, Sean Hannity, and Ann Coulter courageously stand against us. So brave. So brave.
‘nonsense’?
Really?
The NEA has made certain, over decades, that the US population and voters are thoroughly habituated to ‘nonsense’...and that they wouldn’t know what the h^%$ to think of anything ELSE!
Excuse me, but can I please have back the minute I used to actually read this?
What an absolutely worthless, piece of partisan puff.
Walsh is not establishment. He’s just an idiot.
Oh, pleeze. Amanda was calling for a blacklist not so long ago IIRC.
I used to like Amanda. She’s gone over to the dark side.
Part of what makes someone a member of the establishment is the assumption that that person has the authority to tell other people what to think, linked with the imaginary power to excommunicate those who think independently from the ranks of the “true conservatives”, “consistent conservatives” or “common sense conservatives”.
And Matt Walsh is a two-bit no-talent HACK.
I don’t know who Matt Walsh is but he seems to be a bit of a drama queen.
Reneging on campaign promises after being elected is stabbing conservative constituents in the back.
Endorsing another candidate is not stabbing conservative constituents in the back.
-PJ
What a bunch of nonsense
Cruzlim Persecution Complex is an ugly disease.
some how I missed it........ who is matt walsh and is he on facebook any more relevant than bert on Free Republic?
He’s a poor little snowflake. wahhhh
Who is Matt Walsh and why should I care, in fact why should anyone care?
The problem is a blind man can see Cruz for what he is, a fake.
Matt Walsh apparently doesn’t know or has forgotten that it is much more becoming to campaign FOR someone, than to campaign against someone.
In most cases that mud has a tendency to ricochet back and splatter you.
Why didn’t Walsh mention that Carpenter works as the communications advisor for Ted Cruz, and is a regular fixture on CNN?
This isn’t news, nor is it ‘activism’ in the sense one would normally expect it to be realized.
It is drivel in and out. FaceBook isn’t a credible news source; if anything it is a venue for the foolish and pretentious among us who think spurting out the nonsense of ideas in our heads actually has any merit thinking people would need to have in their own personal lives.
This does not constitute ‘news’, it’s a Facebook rant, no better than some obscure blog. Should have been posted in ‘bloggers and personal’ not ‘News & Activism’.
OK. This guy doesn’t like Donald Trump or Sarah Palin. I understand that. I happen to like both of them for the ideas they espouse. Matt Walsh spewing invective against them is not going to change my opinion of their ideas. No amount of name-calling or ranting is going to affect the validity of these ideas in the least.
Let’s stick to policies in politics and not get so wrapped up in personas.
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