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The Drumbeat of the Mob
Steyn On-line ^ | January 21, 2019 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 01/21/2019 11:58:26 AM PST by Twotone

Guest-hosting for Rush on Friday, I mentioned the strange need of the right to virtue-signal to their detractors - as in the stampede of Congressional Republicans to distance themselves from their colleague Steve King over an infelicitous interview with The New York Times. Democrats never do this; Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam declare that the Jews are pushing defective marijuana on black men in order to turn them gay - which would appear to be a prima facie slur on at least four Democrat constituencies: blacks, gays, Jews and potheads. Yet Clinton, Obama et al speak not a word against Calypso Louie.

There was another conservative virtue-signaling stampede over the weekend. A short video from the Lincoln Memorial went "viral" (notwithstanding its ubiquity, I'm keeping the word in scare-quotes because, like any other virus, this one should be contained): it purported to show a group of Catholic schoolboys in MAGA hats harassing an elderly Native American drummer. The lads were instantly identified as students from Covington Catholic High School, which I'd never heard of but is clearly the kind of tony white-privilege joint where they book Brett Kavanaugh to spike the punch at the gang-rape prom. So naturally social media instantly convicted them and moved on to the usual doxing and death threats. The school itself leapt to dissociate itself from its own pupils and threatened to expel them.

Midst the present fevers, my advice and practice is that, when the media are in lockstep on a particular "narrative", proceed with caution and, if you must join the great thundering herd of independent minds, tag along at the tail end out of sight. A genuinely conservative temperament should be wary of crying "Me too!" and scampering after the media-Democrat-cultMarx bandwagon...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bigotry; conservativeinc; covington; fakenews; hatecrime; marksteyn

1 posted on 01/21/2019 11:58:26 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

As in another post I said if nothing else, the demoLibs will line up behind a lie regardless of what it was. If one of them said it, it’s true no matter what.


2 posted on 01/21/2019 12:06:28 PM PST by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: Twotone
Mark Stein echoed my thoughts exactly.

Too many Republicans are too quick to apologize, to "virtue signal" in a knee jerk fashion in any of these episodes - even when all the facts are not yet in.

I can't wrap my head around why they would do that. Do they think the Left will ever like and respect them? No! The left loathes and hates them regardless.

We saw what happened to two Republican "darlings" of the Left who decided to take on Obama and 2008 and 2012 respectively. You would think that McCain and Romney were the second coming of Hitler during those campaigns. But as soon as the campaigns were over, the bootlicking resumed and both McCain and Romney got the requisite patronizing head-patting once they were no longer a threat.

3 posted on 01/21/2019 12:06:39 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: Twotone

Brilliant!


4 posted on 01/21/2019 12:10:21 PM PST by madprof98
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To: Twotone

A good description of the evil left and their foot soldiers:

“They rationalize power, envy and greed in the name of virtue, or claim it (virtue) is beyond rational discursive evaluation.” - Pontynen and Miller’s “Western Culture at the Crossroads.”


5 posted on 01/21/2019 12:15:26 PM PST by CharlesMartelsGhost
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To: Twotone

Rush seemed to spend a good amount of time on this sliming of the white, Catholic teens. Good for him. Thank you, Rush & Mark Steyn for sticking up for the innocent.


6 posted on 01/21/2019 1:30:57 PM PST by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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Far from engaging in racially motivated harassment, the group of mostly white, MAGA-hat-wearing male teenagers remained relatively calm and restrained despite being subjected to incessant racist, homophobic, and bigoted verbal abuse by members of the bizarre religious sect Black Hebrew Israelites...

They call them crackers, faggots, and pedophiles. At the 1:20 mark (which comes after the Phillips incident) they call one of the few black students the n-word and tell him that his friends are going to murder him and steal his organs. At the 1:25 mark, they complain that "you give faggots rights," which prompted booing from the students. Throughout the video they threaten the kids with violence, and attempt to goad them into attacking first. The students resisted these taunts admirably: They laughed at the hecklers, and they perform a few of their school's sports cheers.

Under sustained crude and obnoxious provocation, the boys were remarkably good-humored throughout - a credit to the school that threatens to expel them.

Shameful on the part of their school. And all the people who piled on.

7 posted on 01/21/2019 1:59:48 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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... it isn't an "American" disgrace. An American disgrace is the declining life expectancy of white males due to addiction, or the collapse of the family in rural America, or a bipartisan political class admitting millions of unskilled illegal immigrants to the country so that MS-13 gangs are now a fact of life in suburban Long Island in order that the Dems can get voters and the GOP's donors can get cheap labor ...or any one of a ton of other "American disgraces" Conservative Inc doesn't talk about because it only takes to the field on the left's terms.

Indeed.

8 posted on 01/21/2019 2:03:01 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: SamAdams76

“I can’t wrap my head around why they would do that. Do they think the Left will ever like and respect them?”

Decent people are often the last to admit that scoundrels are scoundrels. They don’t want to. They want to think that others are a lot like themselves, and to give them the benefit of the doubt.

They do not yet understand that leftwads deserve the headsman’s axe.

“No! The left loathes and hates them regardless.”

Evil hates good, always. Evil always attacks good, as that is its nature.

More people are aware that the demonrats are evil, but the job is far from done.


9 posted on 01/21/2019 3:59:11 PM PST by dsc (Our system of government cannot survive one-party control of communications.)
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To: Twotone

10 posted on 01/21/2019 4:30:57 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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Controlling the narrative is essential. The media like the rats protect the invaders, the muslims, the brown people, gays lesbians and transgender. Anyone of these protected classes and an incident with a white boy or girl and bang! guilty! to the gallows. Anyone sick of this sh## yet? We can all do something from the comfort of our homes and it stems from our pocket, boycott! It worked in the revolutionary era, it will work today. By contributing and purchasing their goods your continuing to allow them to F U every chance they get


11 posted on 01/21/2019 4:52:44 PM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: SamAdams76

Most are not Republicans, much less conservatives. RINO exists for a reason.


12 posted on 01/21/2019 5:38:48 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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