Posted on 03/23/2010 6:46:43 PM PDT by publius321
Look friends, it’s obvious that Fox News is enamored with Juan McCain and they are doing everything they can do to win his primary for him. Forgive me for being crass but they are playing that lame ass McCain sound bite (about the deathcare bill) ad nauseum. Sean Hannity is on his show, once again schmooching John McCain’s rear end as though the guy’s last name is Romney.
This is exactly what Fox did in the past presidential primary which got us McCain as our candidate and got us Hussein as terrorist in chief. They appear to be totally shutting out Hayworth and this is disgusting. I could be wrong but I have Fox on morning noon and night and I cannot REMEMBER the last time I saw Hayworth on the network. The last time I saw JD was on CNBC.
This is 2008 all over again.
Here are my past two columns on McAmnesty: March 10, 2010
My Tough Love response to a McCain Enabler by MrArbitrage
I received many emails regarding my column on the McCain v. Hayworth Senatorial race. One reply to which I devoted great solicitude was by a gentleman who wrote under the name “Reformer”. I found his pseudonym ironic because he is a John McCain supporter and we have seen more “reform” from McCain over the past decade than we can possibly afford.
His comment prompted me to write another column because despite its banality, it is an expression that the McCain enablers will try to cultivate into a full-blown mantra if not quelled in its infancy.
“Reformer” wrote “The Senate needs the level of wisdom McCain carries, regardless of age. Age is often the forerunner of wisdom.”
As the Old and New Testament indicate, I believe that wisdom is granted by - God. Age can certainly be a forerunner of experience but wisdom is certainly not a concomitant of age. As Clapton sang “it’s in the way that you use it”. If you HAVE wisdom, you can use the extra experience to your advantage; if not, you’re just an old fool.
McCain & Wisdom? As I wrote in my reply to “Reformer”, those two words are certainly not synonymous. I don't think McCain has ever exuded wisdom in his entire senatorial career. I can enumerate many examples starting with the Keating 5.
I remember being appalled by the delusions of John McCain before most Americans ever even heard of him. I was vexed by him calling himself a Republican back when I was in college, as I read about how he was working with the leftist of Democrats, trying to put price controls on cable television service! This is a prime example of how you KNOW beyond a doubt that you are either dealing with either an unabated nitwit -or- a socialist: Politicians who attempt to promulgate such nonsense appeal to the lesser angels of our nature by offering us what is guaranteed to be POPULAR, rather than ethical.
You see, I did not like paying $45 a month (at the time) for cable TV, so if I were -ignorant- I would like today’s indoctrinated blockheads - get on board with that concept without giving any consideration to the ramifications. He gave no consideration to the fact that the cable companies were at that time (and for years) BLEEDING RED INK and could have gone bankrupt without price increases. As they were to spend hundreds of billions upgrading their lines from copper to fiber optics and digital compression, McCain and his left-wing Democrat buddies were doing everything they could to stifle innovation through their senseless vote buying schemes.
Never mind that the snake oil he was trying to sell us on was the entitlement minded concept that cable television was a -right- something essential for human sustenance, therefore should be "price controlled".
So if we capitulate to the impetuous whims of politicians like McCain, where does it STOP? Next, the price of a steak dinner at Ruth's Chris should be regulated or a Starbucks coffee... Actually, I don't have to make up examples because we are now LIVING through the consequences of the McCain years. The people he spent a career appeasing and even encouraging are now in the majority.
There is nothing conservative about this man. Excuse me for being crass but politicians like McCain have for too many years been defecating in the drinking well of liberty. It is convenient for them - but it is very short sighted and as experience is teaching us, it has deadly ramifications, deadly to our economic system and perhaps to our Constitution.
This is not my normal tone. The outrage of Americans who want our country back is fermenting. It is time for you to go Mr. McCain.
Your Modern Day Pamphleteer,
MrArbitrage Contact: mrarbitrage@tableofwisdom.com
March 5, 2010
Do You Really Want your Country Back? McCain v. Hayworth - a key Appraisal of Resolve by MrArbitrage
This race has national importance for a number of reasons, one of which is it will demonstrate that for a majority of Republicans, John McCain was near the bottom of candidate choices in the 2008 primary. Initially, he could only win through the wide dilution of conservative votes, spread over several candidates.
If –instead- of voting on which presidential candidate we actually wanted, we were voting on the one whom we found the LEAST palatable, McCain would have probably won that “inverse-election” by a land-slide. If it were a reality TV show, the Senator would have been quickly “booted off the island”.
Most conservatives have no enmity for Senator McCain as a person but as a Senator we have long found his actions appalling. To represent the people of this country one should expect to be held to the highest scrutiny. This election is indeed a test to determine whether we truly want to “take our country back” or if that expression is a mere platitude For Arizonans to leave Senator McCain in that seat would be to proclaim to the nation that they have not learned a thing from our past disasters. Republicans cannot continue to allow imposters to undermine our fundamental principles and alienate the conservative base of our party.
It seems clear that after the GOP negligence in squandering the majority we recently held, conservatives want –almost- a complete changing of the guard. From McCain-Feingold to his “Gang of 14” betrayal, the kind of compromise that John McCain represents makes him the embodiment of everything we did wrong over the past decade.
This would be an auspicious time for Senator McCain to bow out gracefully because the Jacobin’s are at the gate and their patience is wearing thin. We can throw him a nice going away party and he can spend the rest of his golden years with his family. At certain critical junctures of our nation there was need for the wisdom of an old sage on the floor (like during the Constitutional Convention of 1787); but John McCain needs to know that he is no Ben Franklin and it was his cooperation for adulation that paved the way for the debacle in which we find ourselves ensnared.
McCain v. Hayworth is a bellwether race. It will be useful in measuring the degree of resolve we truly have toward the goal of returning to our constitution and founding principles. We can all participate in this race through our financial contributions - but only Arizonans can answer the question of whether the prodigal has come home or if he is still out blowing his inheritance. Have we suffered enough pain?
If you would like to get involved by contributing to the J.D. Hayworth campaign, click this link and it will take you to his official website: https://www.jdforsenate.com/civicrm/contribute/transact?reset=1&id=2
Contact: MrArbitrage@TableOfWisdom.com
I’ve seen JD on Fox once since he announced, two or three weeks ago on their morning show that’s after Fox and Friends. Martha McCallum interviewed him, and she was fairly contentious with him, and he criticized several McCain policies near the end of the short interview. Then, she became very flustered, and sputtered a little, closing with, paraphrasing: “Senator McCain is on Fox all the time, but we’ll have to him a chance to respond to those accusations.”
She was edgy and nervous, as if she was very uncomfortable hearing any criticism at all of Juan.
Have also noticed what a suck-up Hannity is, and his positions on the issues are much closer to JD than to Juan. It’s amazing how many are throwing all their passion about McCain/Feingold, McCain/Kennedy, McCain/Lieberman and other huge issues out the window, and supporting Juan instead of the real conservative with whom they are much more in agreement.
Watching Fox very little lately. They’re just as into Beltway cronyism as anyone else.
If I were a high powered media mogul, I would buy a cable station and make a pure conservative talk station. Think 4 hosts like Beck/Hannity without having to mix in Greta/Shep etc. Ailes said he needs the opinion guys to pay for the news operation, screw the fair and balanced, give me the red meat. Oreilly still gets big ratings but if he were on head to head vs Mark Steyn/Walter Williams/maybe a libertarian hour, I would watch it in a heartbeat. During the day you could broadcast talk radio guys in their studios.
You have a point. While I am enraged at Democrats and Marxists I lost site of it. They promote people like Gingrich, Grahamnesty, Hatch, and McCain.
But even worse is Shep, Geraldo, Bob Beckel, Marc Lamont Hill and Juan Williams. While Juan is ok sometimes, he is showing his colors more lately.
I get the fair and balance kick they are on. But and I mean it but where is J.D. Hayworth.
I’ll still support Fox News. But at times it is good to question it.
Total BS. And McCain is far worse than Specter ever was simply because he is a backstabber and an underminer squatting in the Republican party. What was it: Specter/Feingold, Specter/Kennedy, Specter/Lieberman???
If JD doesn't win it, I'd much rather see a Dim in that seat then Juan McCain. Another Dim would do much less harm than Juan McCain.
Oh horseshit. Saying that FNC promotes RINO’s is total, utter barnyard matter. I can say this as one that has it on almost 24/7 (and have for years).
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Hannity is phony as a $3 bill. He has McCain on constantly and never asks him a tough question. He had Gingrich on 2 weeks after he endorsed Scozzafava—and didn’t press him on it! He is a real dunce and a “Cliff Notes conservative” who makes up in Irish charm what he lacks in brains. I’m sick of him, but then again I’m sick of Fox with Shep Smith dfendig the agenda every day, etc.
roger.ailes@foxnews.com
I wrote to him to express my displeasure with the coverage of Bloody Sunday, Shep, Jerry Rivers, BOR, et al.
It’s worth a try, though I doubt he listens.
Fox News is not as conservative as most people think. Yes they may be more balanced than the rest, but they are by no way conservative.
Dhep was loving it ripping into the ex congressman asking why did they not do more when he was in..shep loves obama.
I couldn’t agree more. I have been real disappointed with FoxNews lately. Last weekends Fox and Friends coverage of the Obamacare Nightmare was sickening.
I watched American Idol tonight to get away from BOR and Hannity!
Just curious.
Has anybody put together a list of elected RINOS and a list of elected “real” Republicans? What’s the ratio of RR to RINOS? how bad is the RINOvirus infection in the republican party today?
I must be really far to the right. I find Faux News to be just as left-wing as the other MSM.
Fox News appears conservative only because by contrast the other television stations, newspapers and writers are so far left.
I’m to the point that I absolutely cannot stand to watch or listen to Hannity anymore
A week cannot go by without one of his RINO guests (radio or TV) coming on to have a slobbering, fawning interview! Good grief, he won’t even call McCain out on his RINO tactics and hypocrisy.
I will not listen or watch Hannity anymore! He acts like an annoying little child!
Sean Hannity is the water boy for the Republican party (and for some of his Liberal buddies on the Left, too).
Would I like McCain to lose in the primary? Yes.
Do I dislike McCain? No.
Did I vote for McCain in 2008? Yes, and enthusiastically in the end. I knew then that the alternative, Barack Obama, would threaten our basic freedoms.
I still believe I was right. I hope and presume that many who bashed McCain at the time would now agree.
P.S. I have always, always been an enthusiastic Bush supporter. Loved him as President.
I agree. Who would have thought a year or two ago that Greta would have one of the best shows on Fox. I’d put her behind Beck but that’s it. Anyone notice that Greta seems to be the only television show on which you see Rush appear?
Occassionaly he’s on Hannity but he’s almost exclusively on with Greta. She really seems to have changed her old leftist ways.
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