Posted on 05/13/2009 6:41:17 AM PDT by MuttTheHoople
May 13, 2009 | In John Frankenheimer's taut 1964 film, "Seven Days in May," the Joint Chiefs of Staff, appalled at a disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union, plot a coup d'état to remove the president whom they regard as too soft and naive about the evil of America's enemies. The screenplay by Rod Serling (based on a 1962 novel by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II) is filled with passionate lines that seem right out of today's talk radio -- "intellectual dilettantes" versus patriotism; America's loss of "greatness"; the superiority of military experience to civilian judgment and governance.
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She must have slept through 8 years of the Bush Administration where persons like Randi Rhodes REPEATEDLY made death threats against the president on the radio (on Air America).
Recall the comedy program with the "snipers wanted" gag?
And here are more examples of Left Wing Hate Speech:
All the Rage--Wanda Sykes’ death wish is but the latest exhibit of leftist bloodlust. (FrontPageMagazine.com May 13, 2009 Ben Johnson)
And get this...
The gravity of this case was unfortunately overshadowed by feisty comedian Wanda Sykes' clumsy jibes at Rush Limbaugh the next night at the Washington Correspondents Dinner.
It was a "clumsy jibe" to say she'd like him to get kidney failure.
What she doesn’t touch on is that the “disgruntled demographics” include many of the most productive and “patriotic” citizens. They are they groups that Pew Typology classify as enterprisers: the most likely to be veterans, stock traders, gun owners, small business owners, etc. Also by the way, the wealthiest. They are disenchanting the backbone of the nation.
Which hosts do you listen to?
Is Hannity still plugging his book?
Don't get me wrong, him being a fellow Temple Owl, I have genuine affection for the man (not to mention his excellent books).
I'm just disappointed that he doesn't put his incredible knowledge and intellect on display more often on his radio show.
I may have a heightened sensitivity to the "loud mouth jerk" moniker being placed on people and I feel he's lining himself up for that with his rants.
We are told that we should let the President do whatever he wants now (as he put it, he doesn’t need consensus, he won) and that we need to “give him a chance” since he is different than the person who occupied the White House for 8 years. I don’t recall them having that attitude in 2001 when Bush came in after 8 years of Clinton-Clinton.
Don’t know. Didn’t know he was published.
See by tagline
Michael Medved has come out on air against trying to label Obama’s policies socialist. Then again Michael Medved is a struggling recovering liberal.
It isn’t that he doesn’t see them as “Socialist”. He just thinks it turns off moderates and uninformed persons.
There is a reason that Socialism is an uncomfortable word to Americans. And they need to be made aware when the Socialist policies of the government are being expanded.
Your suggestion would be...?
Right, the townhall hosts you mention aren’t so vitriolic (although Michael Medved does have some fight in him when it comes to Islamic jihad and the antisemitism of people like Jimmy Carter who he briefly had on his program this year).
They generally try to give the audience something positive to ponder (not the silver lining, just other topics than constant negativity).
And some of the Clear Channel hosts don’t make a good case for conservativism. There are a lot of syndicated and local loudmouths (heard one who’s beef was about a school that had cancelled the prom because of swine flu). It’s a show. They want to generate calls. Doesn’t mean that it has anything to do with conservativism or accomplishing anything.
After several years as a Senator and now president in DC, he still does not have a church in Washington DC. He DID go to church on Easter but still has not actually found a church. He pretends to be a Christian. Does he borrow Bill Clinton's prop Bible?
If Christians don't mean much in this country anymore, why play at being one? Stand proud and declare your secular humanism.
““The sepulchral, doom-obsessed and megalomaniacal Dick Cheney’s self-intrusion into the news last weekend was a nice demonstration of just what a fresh new breeze Obama represents in Washington.”
Is she not guilty of the same hyperbolic bomb-throwing that she accuses the right of ?!?!?”
OK, shipmate, she’s guilty. Which has nothing to do with the fact that the majority of talk radio hosts on our side are shrill and repetitive. If anything, hopefully the shrillness and repetition will invigorate enough of us to get out from behind the computer and get to work electing CONSERVATIVES who have enough spine to take on 0 and his disciples.
Yes, I am involved w/the Tea Parties, and yes I do have a great social network, albeit a small one. the libs have done their work well in brainwashing a good percentage of the american public.
The presstitutes could STILL ask him about Scare Force One if they wanted to. He's joked about it being his kids joyriding. How about asking him to tell us the TRUTH?
See post 17 (I think it was) - a little of Rush and what I can take of Hannity during my commute home.
Bashing the president in fine. If conservatism means anything it SHOULD mean skepticism toward centralized federal power (Republican or Democrat). The problem with Rush, Boortz, and Hannity (especially Hannity) is that they too often gave Bush a free ride as he pushed through the most massive increase in big government in decades. In other words, they held Bush to one standand and Clinton/Obama to another and, for this reason, have lost much of their credibility. For this reason, the bashing right now (though justified) looks more than a tad selective and opportunistic.
No doubt. I gave up counting how many times he says, “you’re a great american”.
“The gravity of this case was unfortunately overshadowed by feisty comedian Wanda Sykes’ clumsy jibes at Rush Limbaugh the next night at the Washington Correspondents Dinner.”
Paglia is actually trying to do the same thing that Sykes was doing in that her article implies that talk-radio conservatives are the equivalent of terrorists. While Sykes (or Obama) have never apologized for their nasty remarks of course David Feherty had the decency to apologize for his comments but making that comparison is ignored by Paglia in her article and she even goes so far as to make her own excuse for Sykes nasty comments against conservatives.
“Rabidly Bush-bashing Democrats shouldn’t have done it to the last president either, but that’s no excuse for conservatives, who claim to revere our institutions, to play schoolyard tit for tat.”
Of course she even goes on to claim that there is no excuse for a conservative to talk this way implying that there is an excuse for liberals to do so. (And yet it is the democrat KKK party that has engaged in acts of terrorism against their own country)
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