Telling America to "shush"

Main Line Times ^ | 02 September 2004 | Kevein Williamson

[Lorianne]

You know, the Republicans are the ones routinely denounced as "extremist" for their views on abortion, but take a look at that convention line-up, which includes lot of folks who aren't exactly fire-breathing pro-lifers: Rudy Giuliani, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Laura Bush, Michael Bloomberg. Pennsylvanians should remember that not long ago, our Democratic governor, Bob Casey, was forbidden to speak at his party's convention because he wouldn't toe the line on abortion absolutism.

This from the party that likes to talk about how much they love "diversity" - so long as it's their kind of diversity. Just like they like Catholics, so long as it's their kind of Catholic - John Kerry - and not Bob Casey or some other reactionary pro-life extremist like, oh, the pope. Or Mother Teresa. They prefer Mother Teresa Heinz Kerry, sugar mama at large.

Democrats love diversity the same way they love free speech. Free speech is an absolute right - until you start to criticize one of them. Then, as we've seen from the Kerry campaign, they will try to ban your books, sue you, sue television stations that run your ads and, if all that fails, slander you, as they have slandered the thousands of Vietnam veterans who oppose Kerry. Of course, slandering those who served in Vietnam comes naturally to Kerry; he's been doing it for 30 years. Who would have guessed that the most noteworthy undertaking of the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004 would be the effort to ban a book? Tipper Gore vs. rock 'n' roll albums, John Kerry vs. veterans, feminists for campus speech codes: Meet the party of censorship.

Speaking of attack ads, the president has come out saying he doesn't much like 527s in general, which is understandable, given that the great majority of 527 money that has been deployed in this campaign has been used to deliver the broadcast dope-slap to Bush via MoveOn.org, Americans Coming Together, and other groups financed by billionaire currency speculator George Soros. But, come on, Mr. President: If 527s are so nefarious, shouldn't you have done something about that before you signed Sen. McCain's silly, self-aggrandizing campaign finance "reform" legislation - thereby creating with a stroke of the presidential pen the very organizations you now decry? Yeah, I know, there's a war on. But you still have to get it right on the other issues, too. What's the point in being the boss hoss if you aren't going to act like it?

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One of the reasons that conservative presences in the media - whether it's talk radio, Fox News commentators, or even a humble column in a weekly newspaper - drive the Sarandon-Moore axis absolutely batzoid is that Democrats have come to regard the media as one of their little fiefdoms, like the public schools and the colleges and the unions. To them, it's like: "Well of course The New York Times shares our point of view and slants news coverage in our favor, along with The Washington Post, the Associated Press, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, MTV, and pretty much any outlet that is not explicitly conservative. Of course they do. That's the natural order of things." And then when something comes along and upsets that natural order, they wig out. Witness the spectacle of the Kerry daughters being heartily booed at the MTV awards. They were shocked, flustered - and appalled. They were totally, wonderfully, entertainingly lost as last year's Easter eggs. One of them actually made like a librarian and raised a finger to her lips to "shush" the crowd. Nothing like the sight of a couple of expensively educated limousine liberals trying to shush an MTV audience. Priceless. Oh, the humanity. Oh, the ridiculous snobs.

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Is this the time to point out to the Kerry Kidz and the general reader that most political studies in the past several years have found the 18-to-25 set to be much, much more conservative than their parents? It may not be that the kids are all Right, but a lot of them are. This goes counter to the preferred storyline, that young voters are by nature leftish and motivated by preference for some amorphous and ill-defined "change." There are some other things that you'd know if you looked at the data but wouldn't know if you only read The New York Times: The majority of American women come down pro-life. The most reliably pro-choice cohort in the body politic are upper-middleclass unmarried white guys. Which I guess, if you think about it, sort of makes sense. The whole pathetic delusional "sexual revolution" of 1971 vintage is set up to maximize the sexual opportunities of middle class white guys - and to minimize any results that might be described by terms rife with bummer associations such as consequences or responsibility. Go ask some struggling abandoned mother of three how great sexual "liberation" has been for her and her kids.

[martin_fierro]

[xcullen]

Unmarried, upper-class white guys - must be gay