Posted on 05/09/2014 9:48:43 PM PDT by Valpal1
It is hard not to have total contempt for a political culture that thinks the picture at right is a useful contribution to rescuing 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by jihadist savages in Nigeria. Yet some pajama boy at the White House evidently felt getting the First Lady to pose with this week's Hashtag of Western Impotence would reflect well upon the Administration. The horrible thing is they may be right: Michelle showed she cared - on social media! - and that's all that matters, isn't it?
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“First of all, They’re not OUR girls... They’re Islam’s girls.”
I thought they were Christians? There was all that talk about “converting” them to Islam.
Some were/are Christian, others Muslim. Boko Haram believes no woman/girl should be educated in anything other than the Qur’an.
Of course the Lib idiots won’t blame the kidnappings on Islam.
#WeCareMoreThanYou
That’s why Liberals love hashtags, it’s another way they can show how much they care; like the stupid ribbons.
There are only a half-dozen special forces around the planet capable of doing that without getting most or all of the hostages killed: the British, the French, the Americans, Israelis, Germans, Aussies, maybe a couple of others. So, unless [elite Special Forces action] . . . is being lined up, those schoolgirls are headed into slavery, and the wretched pleading passivity of Mrs Obama's hashtag is just a form of moral preening.Theodore Roosevelt said, “It is not the critic who counts . . . the credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena . . .” That is what “liberalism" used to mean everywhere - and what it continued to mean elsewhere, long after the inversion of the meaning of the word in America in the 1920s.But then what isn't? The blogger Daniel Payne wrote this week that "modern liberalism, at its core, is an ideology of talking, not doing".
In America now, “The idea around which ‘liberalism' coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.” Which I adopted as my tagline there for a while . . .
Once understand that “liberalism” is simply PR uber alles, and the reason why the masters of PR - “objective” journalists - would be simpatico with “liberalism” becomes excruciatingly obvious.As to why journalists are able to coalesce around a single ideology, and to monopolize the claim to “objectivity,” that is precisely the sort of “conspiracy against the public” which is, and Adam Smith asserted in Wealth of Nations, only to be expected when “People of the same trade” "meet together" as persistently as journalists communicating via the Associated Press newswire do.
Boko Haram be quaking in they sandals now!
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