Speaking of shrieking and screeching, have you ever seen so many people literally crying over the results of the election? It’s almost like someone promised them a lollypop and took it back. I feel like bringing a box of tissues anywhere I go and there are progressives likely to feel emboldened by their numbers to speak out and express relief they live in a blue state.
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Outslugged
The day after the election, the “Netscape network news with CNN” website included a photo of President Bush and first lady Laura. No big deal until you passed your cursor over the pic and read how it was labeled. The slug “asshole.jpg” has been since changed to “georgelaura135.jpg.”
The Netscape employee who labeled the picture was reportedly terminated and will probably be hired by moveon.org.
The Truth Is Coming Out...Finally
On the drive back from Boston (I’ll explain that later), just for yuks, we listened to “Air America.” Spend just five minutes on that station and you’ll find the myth of “progressives” being tolerant and inclusive as the BS it is. We winced as we listened for almost an hour...
The host had several guests delving into a few election-related topics and steered those guests with the same opening question, “How bad was it?”
The general consensus amongst progressive America seems to be two-fold: the people in the red states are Christian, right wing ignoramuses, and “progressives” (they hate the word “liberal”) didn’t get their message out. I beg to differ.
I’d say Michael Moore’s doc-toon “Fahrenheit 9/11” graciously articulated where a lot of progressives where coming from. Moveon.org’s Bush-to-Hitler ad morphs were kind of effective, albeit financed by one of their own evil rich, George Soros. MTV’s “Rock the Vote” brought Hollywood celebs and rock stars together believing that they could awaken a sleeping young electorate by instilling fear of the “coming” draft.
Scholarly actress Cameron Diaz assured us (via Oprah) that a Bush victory would lead to legalized rape. I would contend a woman is safer in small town America than she is in progressive Hollywood where the right amount of money can hush the victims of industry racism and sexism, while paying lawyers who work to exonerate celebrity wife and girlfriend beaters, pedophiles, hit-and-run drivers, public restroom sex addicts, drunk drivers, prostitution solicitors, and even murderers.
The progressives postulated the intellectual political introspections of Sean Penn, Susan Sarandon, the Dixie Chicks, Danny Glover, Bruce Springsteen, Alec Baldwin, Robert Redford, and the like would make us all come to our senses and vote for John Kerry.
Bill O’Reilly made a great point that I will expound on. Not that it would happen because it would mean a serious cut in pay and a dependable ability to read, but would a President-elect Kerry appoint a Michael Moore to be his Press Secretary? Actually, that should go to Dan Rather...he earned it.
Would he appoint Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks as Secretary of State? How about choosing Matt Damon as Secretary of Education or Al Franken as Secretary of Defense? Would he pick Halle Berry to head up the Department of Transportation or Johnny Depp as Ambassador to France? Would George Clooney make a good National Security Advisor? Could Janeane Garofalo efficiently head up the Central Intelligence Agency? I’ll bet they think they could.
These celebs may consider themselves mainstream but when Kirstie Alley can reportedly ask her publicist, "Say, aren't you nursing a baby right now?" and order her to breast feed her pet possum, how many of us could get away with that? Incidentally, the milk was pumped into a bottle for the possum consumption. They do have sharp teeth.
Celebrities are hardly mainstream when they revel in an opportunity to knead their wealth in our poor ol’ stupid faces by showing off their multi-million dollar homes, exotic car collections, “bling bling”, and revolving-door spouses, while making increasingly mediocre (at best) product they demand we patronize despite their insults at our believes and choices.
Although I don’t think much of his genre, P. Diddy is one of the only celebs who has begun to rethink his political position of asking the youth to kick George W. Bush's "ass out of office.”
"I was a little reckless with my comments, to be honest. I realized I relinquished my power too early after I educated myself. I shouldn't have said that until I felt that there was somebody that could be better for my people. I learned a lot in this process. I learned that my power could be used better. Instead of attacking Bush, it would be better to light a flame under young Americans and let them make the decisions."
P., don’t forget to tell your homies how you misused your “power.”
Pond Scum
On the other side of the Atlantic, the British Daily Mirror kind of summed it up with the following front page:
Progressive hypocrisy and elitism rears its ugly head again.
One London publication even hinted that Bush should be assassinated when it asked where’s John Hinckley, Lee Harvey Oswald, and John Wilkes Booth when you need them? As usual the tolerant, compassionate progressives are advocating the deaths of people they disagree with and if a conservative used that same language, we all know the lengthy condemnation that would surely follow.
Since history is selectively taught nowadays, some progressive Brits should be reminded that if not for the intervention of the United States, they would be speaking German along with the ungrateful French.
The “proper” British delight in any opportunity to instruct America as to how to behave with civility. The progressive British collective is as hateful and emotionally driven as is their American brethren, and should be similarly dismissed.
Pip, pip.
Campaign Financed
Despite the “good intentions” of Senators McCain and Feingold, progressive trial lawyers quickly and efficiently neutered Campaign Finance Reform. The result was the now-infamous “527’s” that gave us an energized (and funded) moveon.org, swift boat vets, and more negative personal ads than we’ve ever seen before. A single 527 progressive contributor could donate in the millions, yet liberals shrieked because thousands of brown-shirted red state guys and gals donated a little.
Speaking of shrieking and screeching, have you ever seen so many people literally crying over the results of the election? It’s almost like someone promised them a lollypop and took it back. I feel like bringing a box of tissues anywhere I go and there are progressives likely to feel emboldened by their numbers to speak out and express relief they live in a blue state.
As if a Bush re-election would lead to nuclear bombs raining down, urine coming out of faucets, and Comedy Central being yanked off of cable. I’m sure most of us have seen these pitiful, crying Kerry supporters who now want to leave the country for Canada. Only a selfish progressive would cut and run instead of either trying to get along with the opposition or fight for what they believe.
I don’t hear anyone begging them to stay.
What You Don’t Know...
For those of us who believe the media is biased against conservatives, more post-election examples have been revealed. Why now are all the anti-Kerry stories being presented after instead of before the election? Duh…!
"I can't believe I'm losing to this idiot.” -- Senator John Kerry to a campaign staffer according to Newsweek Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas
He wrote Kerry wanted John McCain to be his running mate early on. "To show just how sincere he was, he made an outlandish offer. If McCain said yes he would expand the role of vice president to include secretary of Defense and the overall control of foreign policy. McCain exclaimed, 'You're out of your mind. I don't even know if it's constitutional, and it certainly wouldn't sell.'“ Kerry was thwarted and furious. "Why the f--- didn't he take it? After what the Bush people did to him....'"
Hmmm. Seems to me that’s something the electorate should have known before the rush to embrace Senator John Edwards.
In August when the Swift Boat ads started to sting, Kerry reportedly said, "It's a pack of fucking lies, what they're saying about me." With the new rules, they could have run that quote in its entirety on CBS. That would’ve been nice to know prior to November 2nd.
The Newsweek piece also smacked Teresa Heinz-Kerry. “Early on, the campaign staff regarded Teresa as something of a hypochondriac, and she canceled three trips in October at the last minute, usually for what was described to aides as a "nonspecific malady.”
Next time you don’t want to go to work, call your boss and say you have a "nonspecific malady.” On second thought, don’t do that.
“Audiences were mystified when Teresa turned her back to them at daylight rallies and wore dark sunglasses and a hat at night (backstage, the candidate's wife complained of migraines and sore eyes). As they reached the climax of the tour, an hour-long "family vacation" hike in the Grand Canyon, the planned happy-family-vacation was disintegrating in plain view. Daughter Vanessa didn't enjoy being a prop, Teresa was complaining of migraines and telling her husband she couldn't walk anymore. The candidate tried to bravely soldier on, pulling his sullen wife and children to show them the magnificent condors flying overhead.”
After all I’ve written about Teresa, it would’ve been a done deal that I would’ve been audited and had my FBI file wind up in a Kerry White House. Food for thought: as evil as President Bush is said to be, how many of the progressives who’ve bashed him mercilessly over the last four years have ever said they’ve been harassed by the IRS or speculate their FBI file may be in the wrong hands?
I haven’t heard one accusation yet...
News flash: the so-called objective media chose sides. We know why they didn’t print the negative stuff about Kerry. We know that the progressive media and celebrities said and did anything to get our minds right so we would vote the way they wanted. Dan Rather and CBS coined the phrase “forged, but true.”
In the future, instead of using exit polls or Nickelodeon viewers to call an election, the nets should try citing a more informed group whose prediction was correct this time: the “Weekly Readers” voted for Bush.
Raining On The Parade
We just returned from a night in Cambridge, Massachusetts where I received three awards from the Alliance for Community Media, Northeast Region. Two of the awards were for my opinion television program “Black & Right.”
I’m sort of glad the Second Place for “Best Talk Show” and “Judge’s Special Merit Award” were not categories that required an acceptance speech. I don’t think it would have been embraced with tolerance.
As expected, there were acceptance speeches that turned pitifully political, ridiculing the ignorance and stupidity of the “red states” and expressing fear that a conservative-led FCC would eventually shut down cable access stations.
Tell you what: considering they claim cable access is a forum for ideas, I would hate to think that mine was the only conservative show in the New England region and New York state combined and I only got awards because I had the balls to submit them in the first place. If cable access would encourage programs that counter a “Democracy Now!” that fronts itself as a news program and the “Media Education (liberal indoctrination) Foundation”, Congressional Republicans might have a reason to keep their hands off PEG channels.
It amazes me how when Democrats win big, they can’t wait for an opportunity to shut out Republicans. But when they are on the losing end, they demand conservatives reach out to them. That kind of nerve need be replaced by humility.
I won’t hold my breath.