Posted on 12/27/2002 5:05:17 PM PST by doug from upland
It ain't going to get anything. It will die right here on FR.
Watch for signs of the media turning on Bubba Rex...
You made me laugh so hard I nearly fell out of my chair! He's teflon. Did you read this book? Or this one?
A sizable portion of women are gullible and are drawn to the fast talkin' sociopath, especially if they have managed to surround themselves with the pheremones of power. Think of the pathetic shallowness of Monica Lewinsky, rewarded with a stent on Saturday Night Live, her 15 minutes (well 90 minutes) of shameful, mocking "fame" as the reward for satisfying an aggressive sexual predator, someone who did not even know her name at the beginning of their "relationship." Lots of American women are that slutty and spirituallly empty.
Since you read his page, I'd thought I'd take a peek as well.
LOL!....I could have written it.
Though, as a Dem, I "hated" Bork for firing Archie Cox, I had to admit while watching his comfirmation hearings, that he was eminently qualified and would make a solid justice, even if his ideology and mine (at that time) differed.
I was shocked to see the attacks by the Dems on the committee.
It made me go Hmmmmm.
And then when I watched the "compassionate" party members smear a learned black man (I was a Dem because, silly me, I thought all men were created equal and those 'evil' Republicans were racists) I was appalled.
Boy....did THAT one ever open my eyes. Sent me to reading Atlas Shrugged and I've never looked back.
Not to mention the fact that I attended West Georgia College from 1970 to '74 and so KNEW Newt personally. He was considered a bit of a hippy environmental wacko there, so when the press started saying he was wanting to poison the air and water I knew I was never going to get the truth out of the national media.
She certainly won't be drafted for a POTUS slot; that sort of stuff just doesn't happen any more. And I remain utterly unconvinced as to why any RAT presidential candidate would feel he owes Hitlery anything, or would want someone with poll negatives as gigantic as hers within fifty miles of any campaign stop, much less standing right next to him as his Veep candidate. To say nothing of having to spend the next four or eight years in the White House having that witch trying to outmaneuver him every single day. You'd have to be INSANE to want her involved in your administration at any level.
I have the pleasure to interact on a regular basis with a vast spectrum of humanity and I observe democrats to range from moronic trailer trash who bought too many lottery tickets to overintellectualized yuppies who bought too many bad ideas from their Stalinist Professors. With a wide range of stupidity, immorality, and cupidity in between. (I am into prose poetry tonight!)
1) That commie professors so totally dominate academia despite the amazingly overwhelming evidenc of the complete human, economic, and spiritual failure of Marxism/socialism.
2) That they are not run out of town in SW Missouri!
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Who is it then that I am seeing on TV giving speeches and contradicting our president's foreign policy. Who has his face on TV calling the GOP racist? It looks like him.
Tammy Bruce is an interesting individual. I recently had an opportunity to listen to her speak. She is not only very articulate, but she is also a strong individual thinker. She stated when she was the president of the L.A. NOW chapter and the Clinton scandal hit she realized the women of NOW were not feminist but were socialist, because they all supported Clinton and none of them would speak out against him.
She also stated when Donna Schalayla of the Clinton administration gave the L.A. NOW chapter a federal grant (I think it was $500K) it was administered by the staff of the local Democrats instead of the staff of NOW. When she asked why, she was told it didn’t make any difference because they were all the same. FWIW, Donna Schalayla also gave the National Chapter of NOW an ungodly amount of money as well.
From her experience at NOW Tammy has become very vocal and critical of the left. There are some lessons that we on the right can take from her experience. She has written a book titled The New Thought Police-Inside the Left’s Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds.
The New Thought Police
Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds
Review By Steven MartinovichIt is under the guise of good that much of the bad in the world has been done and proving the validity of that principle the best may be the actions of previously marginalized groups. As Tammy Bruce, a self-described "openly gay, pro-choice, gun-owning, pro-death penalty, liberal, voted-for-Reagan feminist," can tell you, hell hath no fury like a marginalized group come to power. Bruce's The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Minds aims to show why the left has, in her words, become "so compelled to resort to speech and mind control, thus contributing to a vicious circle of destroying individual liberty." Political correctness, the most benign but still dangerous form of the left's campaign, began with suggested speech and has ended up with campaigns designed to destroy anyone who disagrees with their agenda.
Dr. Laura Schlessinger is the best recent example. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation's campaign against Schlessinger in 2000 was calculated to stop the popular radio host from expressing her opinion - and what you were told she said differs from what she really said, as Bruce proves - about homosexuality and to serve as an example to others. It began with a group that at best represents 4 to 10 per cent of the American population and ended with Schlessinger's television program cancelled and a respected commentator mocked from op-eds in every major newspaper to television programs like NBC's Frasier.
Bruce is well placed to know how the process works. A former head of the Los Angeles wing of the National Organization of Women, she used the same tactics in her work. Though occasionally bumping heads with the national wing over her unorthodox beliefs, Bruce was a loyal foot soldier in the politically correct army until the guns turned against her.
And they are powerful guns, as Bruce details, that come from all directions. Wielding more cultural and political power than the right, the left now has the power not only to defend groups that used to be on the wrong side of those guns, they now use that same power in the same way they used to criticize the right for. The victicrats, made up certain African-American civil rights leaders, the lesbian-gay-bisexual lobby, feminists, multiculturalists, academia, media and the entertainment industry - all of whom Bruce explores, have formed a loose but mostly united front that gives them the leverage necessary to get their message out unopposed while silencing their critics.
"Ironically," Bruce writes at one point, "it is the progressives who, while seemingly committed to freedom of expression, attempt to exact severe social punishments on anyone who espouses an idea or opinion that challenges their status quo. Perhaps it's time for all of us to reread George Orwell's 1984."
When you're the one facing that silencing effort, the ordeal can be terrifying. Your name is smeared by a media still respected to a certain degree by a public unaccustomed to thinking poorly about previously marginalized groups and the more zealous members of that community make is a mission to ensure your life is turned upside down. For Schlessinger, that turned into death threats and the papering of her neighborhood of flyers, the same tactics ascribed to militants opposed to abortion. Although Schlessinger remains popular, other people's careers and lives have been completely destroyed for the crime of being perceived as insensitive.
If there's some good news, Bruce does write that it's not too late to fight what she calls the Thought Police, as long as your willing to suffer the initial wave of attacks by whatever group you've angered and their fellow travelers, something that rightly should scare someone more interested in making it through the work day than changing the world. But for those that are willing to stand up for themselves, Bruce offers some comforting words. Activism relies on individualism, not groupthink, and legitimate activism empowers people, not the opposite. If you decide to fight the good fight, you can at least sleep easier knowing you are doing the right thing.
In fact, I think you could safely say that the jury was completely RAT voters.
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