Disrupting the Narrative of the New Left, its allies in Academia, Hollywood and the Establishment Media, and examining with honesty the goals of cultural Marxism and the dangers of reactionary and abusive political correctness.
THE NARRATIVE AND POLITICAL CORRECTNESS
“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”-George Orwell
What exactly is going on in Arkansas this summer? Frequently cited as one of the Republicans' best chances to flip a Senate seat, it looks like it shouldn't be all that hard. It's true that it has been fertile ground for the Democrats in the past, (Mark Pryor didn't even have a GOP opponent in 2008) but the President is deeply unpopular, and two years ago, Mitt Romney carried the state by 23 points. The GOP has a fine candidate in Tom Cotton (who I interviewed in April) and Pryor should be on the ropes. And yet, for some reason, the poll of polls still shows Cotton hanging on to a three or four point lead and lists the race as a toss-up. What sort of dark magic are the Democrats working here?
Molly Ball has done some sleuthing and thinks she's come up with the answer. The Democrats have a secret plan and have been quietly turning and burning in dozens of field offices to register every last Democrat they can find and get them out to the polls in November. The author visited one such field office in Pine Bluff...
It's comically obvious that the Democrats (and their good buddy, "independent" socialist Bernie Sanders of Vermont) are fully committed to the Obama Scandal Damage Control playbook over the VA outrage.They're going to try to drag this thing out for months, and hope the public loses interest. The delaying tactics are painfully obvious. In one voice, everyone from President Obama and Secretary for Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, to Administration flacks and congressional Democrats, is saying: slow down, wait for more reports, forget about this story, stop asking what Obama's been doing for the last five years.
The endgame is easy to see: crucial news cycles will roll by with friendly media having nothing fresh to report – because we've got to wait for more studies and reports before jumping to any conclusions, don't you know! – and the tides of the 24-hour news grind will wash the whole thing away. It's Fast and Furious, Benghazi, ObamaCare, and the IRS scandal all over again, except it's even more transparent this time.
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives acted swiftly to pass the VA Management Accountability Act this week, with a lopsided vote of 390-33. The bill would have swept aside bureaucratic obstacles and given the VA Secretary the ability to clean house by swiftly terminating those who orchestrated the appalling treatment of veterans, and the ensuing cover-up. In other words, Obama and Shinseki would have to put their money where their mouths are. And we can't have that, so the urgency of the House was quickly dissipated in the Democrat-controlled Senate. The Heritage Foundation hears the loud snores emerging from the meadows where Harry Reid's caucus slumbers...
Whatever you do, don't believe the triumphalist hype flowing like raw sewage out of the mouths of Kool-aid intoxicated, Left-wing concern trolls these days. Instead, Karl Rove makes some good points:
Republicans need not jettison their principles. But they must avoid
appearing judgmental and callous on social issues. Offensive comments
about rape by GOP Senate candidates in Missouri and Indiana gave the
media an excuse to put social issues at the election's center in a way
that badly hurt the entire party, as well as costing Republicans two
Senate seats.
The GOP must reduce the destructiveness
of the presidential primaries. In the first place, activists can
withhold support from candidates who make reckless assaults on
competitors, which happened too often this time. Also, the Republican
National Committee should limit the number of debates and, by showing
wisdom in picking debate moderators, limit the media's ability to depict
the party as a fringe group.
Another idea: Holding the convention in late August made sense when
candidates relied on public financing for the general election. That
will never happen again. The Romney campaign had tens of millions it
couldn't spend for months until he was officially nominated on Aug. 28.
Future conventions should be held as early as late June.
And I also have an idea, which is that the RNC should not only reduce the number of primary debates, insist on objective debate moderators and hold the convention two months earlier but should also go back to having winner-take-all primaries so that the process of winning delegates will be completed sooner. And if the GOP does win the White House in 2016 it would also be extremely helpful if the VP nominee is someone who will be willing and able to make his or her own run for the White House in 2024. This kind of continuity can help avoid the primary bloodletting of 2008 and 2012.
This was the first part of Eastwood’s simple and effective argument.
Eastwood points out — in a prodding, joking manner — that Obama was
elected to bring peace and prosperity, but failed to bring either. That
Eastwood may disagree with the GOP on some war issues is perfectly
alright in this context, because, as suggested earlier and explored
further below, Eastwood is not really targeting Republicans.
Eastwood then arrives at his Joe Biden joke: “Of course we all know
Biden is the intellect of the Democratic party. Just kind of a grin with
a body behind it.” That last part is not accidental in a performance
featuring an empty chair. But the first part is even more dangerous.
For the last 3+ years, we have been accustomed to having Biden as safe
material for humor, while Obama has been kept off-limits. Eastwood
leverages the latter into the former, suggesting that Sheriff Joe is the
real brains of the operation. Ouch! No wonder Team Obama got annoyed
enough to respond.
But perhaps the best indicators of how powerful Eastwood's debate with the empty chair really was can be found in the frenzied attempts to defend Obama by ridiculing Eastwood. The wicked satire even caused the Left's favorite comedians to pick sides in the argument, with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert mocking the monologue but Bill Maher (of all people) admitting that Eastwood "killed." That's the highest possible praise one can receive from a comedian. And for those who follow the Maher link and watch the clip, what's more ridiculous: Jason Alexander's objection to Maher's praise of Eastwood's performance...or the fake hair Jason has bought himself? He's become the kind of caricature that the Seinfeld show used to mock mercilessly.
For anyone who is foolish or dishonest enough to say that the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street are merely two sides of the same coin, I suggest you either educate yourself or stop lying to yourself and others. THIS is Occupy Wall Street and this is what Occupiers do on a regular basis. Listen to the irrational rhetoric and impotent rage from those who have to be kept "peaceful" by a police presence.
The first two active nights of the RNC in Tampa were certainly an eye-opener. Anyone listening to the speeches could not help but be moved by the personal stories and the pride in American exceptionalism they conveyed. And if hearing the speeches wasn't enough to convince someone of their effectiveness one only has to take a quick look at the frantic response from the Left, particularly in the Establishment Media, to recognize the unmistakable stench of desperation.
I enjoy seeing the repeated meltdowns by members of the Establishment Media who are horrified at the damage done by basic reality to their carefully crafted but generally false narratives. But I also find it nauseating, quite frankly, to see such raw hatred, racism, bigotry and lying erupt from them, especially since they claim sole ownership of the "civility" issue. They are "civil?" Nothing could be further from the truth.
So, what did we learn on Tuesday and Wednesday nights?
Juan Williams disgraced himself Tuesday night by making a snarky, angry comment about Ann Romney. Even though he was supposed to be talking about her speech performance, he instead chose to dismiss her as looking like "a corporate wife" and somebody who is "taken care of." Williams is not exactly a novice here. He knows perfectly well what he did and it's apparent that he couldn't care less.
It's ironic that according to the bizarre "logic" of the Left, the fact that Williams is black and Ann Romney is white would qualify his statement as "racist." In other words, if a white commentator were to make a similar statement about Michelle Obama is it even remotely possible that the Establishment Media wouldn't totally freak out? Since the talking heads at MSNBC and CNN (and basically the entire Obama Media Group) are already obsessed with the "dog whistle" meme, they would be all over any white male commentator who "went there." In fairness to Williams, his comments were hardly the most offensive example of the Left's hatefest.
Now if you want to argue that the Democrats have more minority members; more blacks and Hispanics, more homosexuals, etc. then that would certainly be an undeniable truth. There's no question that in terms of volume, the Democrats have more. But that's not the claim - accusation, really - that Democrats are making. They repeatedly insist that the GOP is a party of "old white men" and lacks diversity. And that's simply not true.
The GOP is without question diverse, not only in terms of race, gender, religion, income levels, etc. but also diverse in ideas, outlooks and life stories. Minorities are always welcome in the GOP because they share common Conservative values. In fact, minorities are particularly valued by the GOP precisely because it is so hard for minorities to break away from the hive and follow their values rather than simple PC conformity. On top of everything else they have courage and conviction to go along with their Conservative views.
It's really hard to decide which is more outrageous and shameful: the reactionary and bigoted attitude of the Democrats or their breathtaking hypocrisy. It begs the question, "If the GOP is so hopelessly "racist" then how could any members of a minority group belong to it? The logical and rational answer is that it isn't "racist" at all. However, the answer the Reactionary Left comes up with is to accuse those minority members of being "sell outs" or "Uncle Toms" or "house niggers." The Democrats of 2012, despite of all that tremendous "diversity" about which they like to boast, is still talking the same hateful, divisive and reactionary talk that it did in the 1950s and 1960s. The circumstances are different but the end result is the same: bitterness, division and disappointment.
We had further confirmation of the outrageous bias of the media when Yahoo! News bureau chief David Chalian got caught on a hot mic mocking Mitt and Ann Romney with regards to the convention and hurricane Isaac:
"They aren’t concerned at all. They are happy to have a party with black people drowning."
As Newsbuster's Matthew Sheffield noted, this is "the perfect example of the pervasive anti-Republican bias Mitt Romney faces in his bid to unseat President Barack Obama."
The most vile statements imaginable are routinely uttered by people on the Left who claim to be blessed with extraordinary amounts of "empathy" and "tolerance." It's a joke and would be hilarious if it wasn't so completely disturbing,disgusting and dishonest. But that's what happens when one side - the Democrats - have become totally reactionary and committed to protecting The Narrative and stubbornly clinging to the status quo.
