Posted on 02/12/2010 6:04:25 AM PST by The Conservative Camp
When Sarah Palin delivered the keynote speech at the T.E.A. Party’s first national convention in Nashville last Saturday, she touched on many of the Obama administration’s policies which were delivered on the empty rhetoric of the “Hope and Change” campaign he ran last year. As she addressed the enthusiastic crowd of delegates by citing all of the President’s promises for “change” in how Washington politics would become the most transparent in the history of the republic, while eliminating all partisanship that had “gridlocked” the Beltway for so long, Palin reminded the American people that Obama’s administration, coupled with Congressional Democrats holding a “super majority” in the House and Senate, had proved to be the most divisive, most partisan and least transparent governing political party in American history.
Touching on Obama’s other campaign mantra of “Hope” for all Americans seeking relief from “eight years of Bush,” along with all the promises of health care reform, no more tax increases for the “middle-class and working poor,” and “repairing America’s international reputation” with the “international community” by using sanctions and negotiations rather than military force to defeat terrorism, Palin highlighted how Obama’s so-called “stimulus-packages” and his governmental power grab of banks and auto companies had created the largest unchecked spending deficits for our nation since World War II. She pointed out the many failures of his foreign policy, such as the arrogant Obama belief that his own sheer presence and soaring oratory skills would bring all of America’s adversaries into a new world order of cooperation and peace for all. Palin pointed out that for all the unconditional negotiations that Obama asked for with dictators in Iran, North Korea, the Middle East and everywhere else, America has been rewarded with an Iran thumbing its nose at the U.S. and Israel while on the verge of becoming a full-fledged nuclear power. She listed the growing rhetoric against Obama and the United States by tin-pot dictators who are making demands of American submission on all levels. She cited Obama’s complete and utter failure in the war against terror by his administration’s refusal to treat the Islamist threat as a war instead of a police and lawyer action to appease weak European and militant Islamist desires by highlighting the major terrorist attacks and near misses on the American homeland since Obama’s ascendency to the presidency. She highlighted the fact that our adversaries view Obama as a weak president who can be manipulated, endangering our national security.
After reminding the delegates of all these empty promises and real failures, Palin made clear that the Obama Administration arrogantly hold middle America in total and utter contempt, disregarding the average American as not being “enlightened enough” to know what is best for themselves.
Having fixated her audience on this litany of issues, Sarah Palin asked all those American’s who bought into the Obama myth and drank his Kool-Aid, “How's that hopey-changey stuff working out for you?”
The message from Palin was clear that Americans are growing suspicious of the largest government growth in generations while they fear leaving their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren with an insurmountable debt from which they may never recover. Americans want the government to quit spending money they don’t have, quit printing money by the trillions to finance the progressive’s never-ending appetite for a totalitarian nanny state, and to prioritize on the most urgent items, such as national defense.
The recent Democrat losses in Virginia and New Jersey, coupled with the election of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate seat in Massachusetts, recently vacated by Ted Kennedy’s death, clearly demonstrate the American people’s wariness of the government trying to socialize our free market system. There is no doubt that Brown’s campaign promise to be the “41st vote” against the Democrat’s government-run health care agenda was a resounding “NO” to the progressive dream of socialist utopia in America. Palin was firing a shot across the Democrat’s bow, warning them not to ignore the current contentious mood of the country.
Rather than heeding the warning, the progressive-liberals and their lefty friends of most of the mainstream media reacted to Palin’s speech, Brown’s win and the T.E.A. Party convention in the only way they know how; they went into their attack, slander and libel mode using their infamous playbook, Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Their favorite rule, “Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it,” is the weapon they immediately gun for to attack members of the opposition that they truly fear.
When it comes to bitter, condescending liberals, attacks on those with whom they disagree are never simple criticisms about policy or issues. Bitter, condescending liberals start to attack their opponents to wholly destroy that individual. Ignoring the message sent to them by the voters, and despite their own failures to do what they promised, the progressives and bitter, condescending liberal elitists intend to continue focusing the blame on George W. Bush and conservatives in general, while they work to totally and personally destroy Sarah Palin and Scott Brown.
In Palin’s case, the extreme, bitter and angry progressive-liberals have been on the warpath since the day she was selected as McCain’s vice-presidential candidate. During the campaign, the self-proclaimed “enlightened intellectuals” of the media attempted to portray Palin as not being intellectual enough for the VP role. East coast media elitists such as Katie Couric tried to make Palin out to be an “unread” individual and “simpleton redneck mayor” from a “small town in Alaska, not even worth mentioning.” The liberal elites of the Hollywood set, with their allies in the mainstream press were relentless in their lowball tactics of trying to find dirt of any kind they could throw in the face of Palin. When they could not, they would turn up the heat in their attacks of her own family values, beliefs and opinions. They resorted to attacking her family, including her children in their attempt to ruin the Alaskan governor.
Since the T.E.A. Party convention, Sarah Palin was immediately the target of further attacks. As she gestured with her arms during her speech, the camera picked up a few lines of notes she had inked onto the palm of her left hand. The note simply said, "energy", "budget cuts", "tax" and "lift Americans' spirits", while the word "budget" had been crossed out.
The rabid left went after her use of “crib notes” as an indication of her “ignorance” and her “lack of intellectual enlightenment.” For example, The New York Times printed a monologue from Jimmy Kimmel, who mocks Palin for having a few notes written on her hand when she makes remarks about Obama’s over dependency on his teleprompter. But his “fun” doesn’t stop at poking a little fun about Palin’s inked hand. He continues with a personal attack, saying, “Maybe Sarah Palin would be smarter if she had bigger hands.” Then he went on to explain that it was a “calculated move” on her part, in order to promote a non-existent book about killing and cooking moose.
While Kimmel’s attack is a comedic monologue, the personal attack is relatively mild and not totally unexpected by a late night television comedian. However, when the attacks continue all the way to the President’s team itself, a line has been crossed. In this case, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs tried to make fun of Palin in an immature fashion by inking a fake “grocery list” on his left palm during a regular press conference to take a direct shot at Palin. Rather than hurting Palin, Gibbs childish attempt at humor sent a message that even the White House itself is not above the fray of participating in personal shots at the former Alaskan governor.
These two examples, while petty and personal at the same time, paled in comparison to the continued verbal assault against Palin by a slew of extremist, bitter liberals. On a recent airing of The Joy Behar Show, bitter, condescending feminist liberal Eve Ensler, an American playwright, performer and activist who is best known for her play The Vagina Monologues was responding to the host’s question of what she thought of Sarah Palin, especially what Ensler thought of Palin’s world view, beliefs and the prospects of Palin’s political future: BEHAR: Back with me is a woman who has done more for the vagina than the Brazilian wax - the talented Eve Ensler," Behar said. "You know, I must talk about Sarah Palin quickly with you because you do mention her in one monologue in the book. And you say a woman running for U.S. vice president believes in creationism but not global warming. What were you driving at there? May I ask? ENSLER: Well, I just think the idea that she doesn't believe in global warming is bizarre. BEHAR: Every scientist at every note believes in it but Sarah Palin doesn't believe in it. ENSLER: And I think we just kind of have to walk around the world at this point and look at what is happening to nature and earthquakes and tsunamis. BEHAR: Right. ENSLER: And weather changes to just feel it. But I think that idea that she doesn't believe in global warming and she could actually run for vice president, and we have a country where that is possible, it seems insane. BEHAR: It's unbelievable. It does seem insane and the fact that she has not negated the possibility of running in 2012. ENSLER: But we have. We have negated the possibility of her winning. While these two bitter, condescending liberal feminists continued demonstrating their sheer stupidity of what causes earthquakes while tossing insults at Palin, the circus of extremely bitter, liberal pundits at last-place cable network MSNBC were in full swing with their daily dose of vitriolic, defamatory and immature insults against Sarah Palin. Last Monday, on his low-rated show, Hardball, Chris Matthews went on a rant against Palin, suggesting that she is a brainless “palm reader” who only appeals to “mindless TEA Party robots.” Said Matthews:
Can a palm reader be president? What do we think of kids in school who write stuff on their hands to get through a test? What do we think of a would-be political leader who does it to look like she`s speaking without notes? What do we think of Sarah Palin this weekend answering pre-screened questions from a like-minded audience in Nashville, a tea party convention, and still having to put a cheat sheet on her palm to answer what she calls the basics of her beliefs? How can someone presume to be auditioning for president when they can`t even answer questions they know are coming?
Not to be outdone, Keith Olbermann, another completely insane, bitter, angry, condescending and utterly clueless colleague of Matthews who also hosts another low-rated MSNBC rant disguised as a political opinion program threw his vitriolic remarks into the fray by declaring that conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and former Alaska governor Sarah Palin are trying to kill us all by misinforming the public about the dangers of global warming.
While the Countdown host and his guest discussed how the record snowfalls along the East Coast have given conservatives ammunition to shoot all kinds of holes into so-called “man-made global warming,” Olbermann decided to show just how uninformed and hopelessly stupid he really is when he said, "[L]ife on earth is going to be threatened because the people who recognized and warned about climate change did not just go with that phrase, climate change, and instead chose global warming, opening this opportunity up for Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin to kill us all." He also referred to Glenn Beck and Wall Street by accusing them, along with Palin, Limbaugh and the whole conservative movement, of using their vast wealth to “trick” their listeners into voting for people that do not support the global warming crowd. In this, Keith Olbermann was making reference to how absolutely mindless anyone who is not in lockstep with his leftist, radical, angry belief system is an idiot who cannot think for themselves and therefore can be controlled via conservative talk radio.
Unsurprisingly, Olbermann never once refers to the evidence of man-made climate change being exposed as the scam it truly is in the recent ClimateGate scandal as being a possible reason why the majority of Americans do not buy into the fraud of “man-made global warming.” When you’re a bitter, condescending, angry liberal elitist who knows what’s best for everyone else, why would you let something simple like the facts get in the way?
While Palin is a favorite target of the extreme leftist progressives in the mainstream media and the political world, there are others who are in the crosshairs of the liberal slander and libel machine. For example, Republican Senator Scott Brown, who overwhelmingly won the Senate seat in Massachusetts for the Republicans, has been chastised by certain members of the left-wing media who were absolutely convinced that Democrat Martha Coakley would simply be “coronated” into the “Kennedy Family seat.” However, Brown’s victory of the “People’s seat” in extremely liberal Massachusetts have left members of the bitter, condescending liberal elites extremely angry with the voters.
Democrat carpetbagger Rep. Patrick Kennedy of Rhode Island, son of the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, recently lashed out at Brown’s victory, saying that Scott Brown’s win in Massachusetts has been “way overblown.” Trying to downplay the win by disputed the assertion that voters in Massachusetts’ are very liberal, Kennedy continued with the put down.
“This whole notion that it’s a liberal state -- how many Republicans do I have to mention who got elected up there?” Kennedy said, citing Republican governors such as Mitt Romney, Paul Cellucci and William Weld. “This is way overblown. Bottom line is, it just served a lot of people’s political interests to spin this story the way they wanted it.”
While Mr. Kennedy demonstrated what a spoiled bunch of losers the Kennedy Democrats are while mourning the decline and fall of the “Kennedy Political Dynasty,” Keith Olbermann was again spitting out vitriolic and slanderous insults at Scott Brown. During his Quick Comment segment on the night of the Massachusetts special election, the Countdown host, who ranks last in ratings during his time slot, went into a foaming, rabid tirade:
"We stay with the Massachusetts special Senate election for tonight’s first "Quick Comment." Here’s the real take away from the election of Scott Brown: If the far right disagrees with it, it’s a lie. The latest is from an assistant editorial page editor at the Dallas Morning News named Michael Landauer who writes that I, quote, "smeared Brown all night sort of correcting the record in one rant, dismissing the responses to lies he had told earlier, and coming back with more name-calling." Mr. Landauer is writing on the Internet, and, thus, in theory, has an infinite amount of space and time to fill. That was it – no refutations, no specifics, just the word "lies," as if designating them were Mr. Landauer’s exclusive right.
I said Mr. Brown was irresponsible. Specifically, he swore at a hall full of high school students in 2007. Last night, he paraded his daughters out and told the nation they were, quote, "available."
I said Mr. Brown was homophobic. Specifically, in 2001, he said that two women having a baby together was, quote, "not normal," and, in 2007, he voted for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.
I said Mr. Brown was racist. Specifically, in September 2008, a fellow guest in a TV interview noted Barack Obama’s mother was married when he was born. Mr. Brown returned to the oldest racial stereotype of them all when he said, quote, "Well, I don’t know about that, huh, huh."
I said Mr. Brown was reactionary. Specifically, that is defined as "extreme conservatism, opposing political or social change."
I said Mr. Brown was an ex-nude model – specifically, in the June 1982 issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.
I said Mr. Brown was sexist. Specifically, nine years ago, he said a woman Massachusetts state senator had, quote, "alleged family responsibilities."
I said Mr. Brown was tea bagging. Specifically, as recently as the 2nd of this month, Mr. Brown was the star of a fund-raiser with the Greater Boston Tea Party Group at Westborough Mass.
Then I said Mr. Brown was a supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees. Specifically, this past Sunday, when a man at a Brown rally shouted they should, quote, "shove a curling iron up Martha Coakley’s butt," Brown responded by answering, "We can do this." Or, if that remark was unconnected to the shout, he never refuted, condemned, nor disassociated himself from the call to violence and even sexual assault. Scott Brown is an "irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, sexist, ex-nude model, tea bagging, supporter of violence against women and against politicians with whom he disagrees."
And all the rabid right-wing howling about that only helps prove it. The response to lies is to offer the truth. The response to truths you don’t like is to simply call them "lies.""
There are just way too many instances of the bitter, condescending liberal personal attacks against all those with whom they disagree to mention in this article. It would take an entire book to detail the full, complete arrogance and utter contempt that the progressive left hold against the vast majority of the American people. It is a book I am seriously considering writing.
It would be nice to see the radicals of the political left try to engage in political debates and disagreements in a civilized manner instead of trying to destroy the lives of those with whom they disagree. However, with every vitriolic slam the bitter, condescending liberal progressives make against the likes of Sarah Palin and Scott Brown, the stronger and more appealing the latter become to the vast majority of the American electorate.
Condescending, bitter liberal progressives would do well to heed the real message being sent in the recent elections of those opposing their agenda. They would be wise to start listening to the people who elected them to public office and to whom they are supposed to serve, rather than hold in contempt.
Should they stay the course, it is going to be a very bad election cycle for the progressives, culminating in a really bad hangover the first Wednesday in November.
Sources: 1. Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1963564,00.html 2. Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1960726,00.html 3. New York Times: http://laughlines.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/a-calculated-move/ 4. YouTube/AP News: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdPS1eua_9c 5. News Busters: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/jeff-poor/2010/02/09/brilliant-vagina-monologues-creator-tells-palin-look-earthquakes-and-tsun 6. News Busters: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/08/matthews-attacks-sarah-palm-reader-palin-she-balloon-head 7. News Busters: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/11/olbermann-limbaugh-and-palin-trying-kill-us-all-global-warming-skepti 8. The American Spectator: http://spectator.org/archives/2010/02/08/the-kennedy-joke 9. Rules for Radicals: http://vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/rules.html 10. The Conservative Camp: http://conservativecamp.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=36935:climate-change-fraud-exposed&catid=143:robert-ditmar&Itemid=128
Everyone make sure, when you have to talk to a liberal, or are engaging one, to look to their left and their right every few words.
Some will get it right away, some will be too dense in their libtardation to understand, and might ask.
Tell them that you have come to understand that talking this way is, to them, a sign of brilliance.
And then, just to rub it in, look straight at them and say
“would you... uhhhh.... prefer... well... uh... that I... um... errr... talk... like.... well... directly to you?”
Do you think Sarah will be president or that she will continue her current role through 2011-2012?
I hope the left and their agenda is kicked to the curb in November for the rest of my life, however long that might be. :)
Message to libs: keep it up. Keep it up until you piss people off enough so that they’ll party like it’s 1789. You’ll be the ‘guest’ of honor. You don’t want that. Really.
Excellent article. Thanks for posting.
I would like to see the word “progressive” retired when referring to leftists. It is a positive word used to describe an evil agenda.
‘Progressive’ is the term of choice for practically everyone who has a politics that used to be called ‘radical.’
Check out what horowitz has to say:
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=93&type=issue
Exactly. The word is used by the left to deceive stupid people. That’s why I would like to see conservatives refuse to use it when referring to the left. The only progressives are the conservatives.
I don't think she will. Her time is not yet for that goal. However, what she IS doing is supporting conservatives (McCain notwithstanding), and most important, yanking the chain of Obama and his fellow radicals. This act alone (and their rabid responses) helps to expose them, and serves a very useful purpose.
I agree. Well put!
When do you think she will announce her candidacy? The normal time is December 2010 after the midterms. When Fred Thompson avoided the race for 9 months in 2007 it was a disaster for his candidacy.
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