They would dispute this. The Left doesn't know itself.
"The further (you mean 'farther') Left you go the more anger there is."
They thrive on being more ready to spot a problem than the more moderate people in this country, and more ready than anyone on the Right, who are so damn stupid they can't recognize a problem to save their souls. Thus, "Left is smart, smarter than centrists, way smarter than conservatives (who are all imbeciles, of course)."
It goes back to the heirarchy of goodness, on top of which all leftists live and from which all leftists draw their meaning.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
14,000 Votes uncounted
I'm listening to Charlie Sykes's podcast from Friday, 2011-04-08 (yymmdd, always!).
Apparently the leftist judge claimed a clear victory with only 206 votes' margin ahead of her opponent.
Then Kathy Nicholas, a competence-challenged voting official, realized that a clerical error had misreported the number of votes for the more conservative candidate. No "found ballots", no "uh oh, this voting machine had a short in it and the republican gets more votes", it was purely a number that had been written down and relayed incorrectly to the central voting committee.
Needless to say, the left has gone unhinged. Oh, by the way, the seven thousand vote gap in the other direction is now "too close to call." What is the matter with our left, that reality can change so quickly with them? It was not so when I was a liberal back in the Sixties. We were maybe a little nutty but in no way did we alter reality like that.
Want any other examples? Conservative talk radio hosts, back when Clinton was president, used to get a steady stream of callers (they didn't put all of them on air, of course, but it amounted to several a day) demanding that the host "Show respct to the office of the President. I don't care how you feel about Clinton himself, you dis him and you dis the office and you gotta stop that, now!"
They were, of course, seminar callers, or people who had heard other seminar callers and picked it up from them. The goal was to stifle all criticism of the democrat.
And then came G.W. Bush and the democrats who were so harshly demanding "respect for the office" totally vanished and left behind "well, he deserves it."
Totally gone was any idea that "respect for the office" meant anything. Totally gone was the underlying assumption that we're all better off when there's civil discourse instead of criticism.
Gag me with a spoon!
Addendum: Search for Wisconsin Kathy Nicholas election and read the hatred and the spitting and fuming and the calls for lynching and impeachment from places like HuffPo. Do you think these jackasses called for impeachments when Al Franken and his lawyers found four hundred new votes? (I always wondered how they assumed that the fourth count was more accurate than the first count. Answer: because they found more votes for a democrat.)
Apparently the leftist judge claimed a clear victory with only 206 votes' margin ahead of her opponent.
Then Kathy Nicholas, a competence-challenged voting official, realized that a clerical error had misreported the number of votes for the more conservative candidate. No "found ballots", no "uh oh, this voting machine had a short in it and the republican gets more votes", it was purely a number that had been written down and relayed incorrectly to the central voting committee.
Needless to say, the left has gone unhinged. Oh, by the way, the seven thousand vote gap in the other direction is now "too close to call." What is the matter with our left, that reality can change so quickly with them? It was not so when I was a liberal back in the Sixties. We were maybe a little nutty but in no way did we alter reality like that.
Want any other examples? Conservative talk radio hosts, back when Clinton was president, used to get a steady stream of callers (they didn't put all of them on air, of course, but it amounted to several a day) demanding that the host "Show respct to the office of the President. I don't care how you feel about Clinton himself, you dis him and you dis the office and you gotta stop that, now!"
They were, of course, seminar callers, or people who had heard other seminar callers and picked it up from them. The goal was to stifle all criticism of the democrat.
And then came G.W. Bush and the democrats who were so harshly demanding "respect for the office" totally vanished and left behind "well, he deserves it."
Totally gone was any idea that "respect for the office" meant anything. Totally gone was the underlying assumption that we're all better off when there's civil discourse instead of criticism.
Gag me with a spoon!
Addendum: Search for Wisconsin Kathy Nicholas election and read the hatred and the spitting and fuming and the calls for lynching and impeachment from places like HuffPo. Do you think these jackasses called for impeachments when Al Franken and his lawyers found four hundred new votes? (I always wondered how they assumed that the fourth count was more accurate than the first count. Answer: because they found more votes for a democrat.)
The only place to get clarity about America ...
...was in a foreign country that had experienced it.
Poles, Czechs, Cambodians, know about evil, they know what to avoid. They know that "America establishes bases on foreign soil" isn't the most horrific act on earth. France, Germany, England, Canada don't have a clue and that's why they can crap on us for our "evil" and ignore Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao.
And once they have that achievement under their belts, our own "college-educated", self-styled "intelligentsia" start digging in and label us evil. Sadly they carry a lot of weight, because we're so enamored of their certificates and degrees, and the unintelligent middle of this country latch onto "liberalism" to borrow status from the illuminated ones and thus climb the intellectual ladder.
Don't tell me I'm lying. I used to be one of them and I, too, borrowed status from the self-labeled "intelligent" position. "I'm smarter than you and my heart is better than yours: I'm a socialist." Credit by association. It's vacuous.
Poles, Czechs, Cambodians, know about evil, they know what to avoid. They know that "America establishes bases on foreign soil" isn't the most horrific act on earth. France, Germany, England, Canada don't have a clue and that's why they can crap on us for our "evil" and ignore Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao.
And once they have that achievement under their belts, our own "college-educated", self-styled "intelligentsia" start digging in and label us evil. Sadly they carry a lot of weight, because we're so enamored of their certificates and degrees, and the unintelligent middle of this country latch onto "liberalism" to borrow status from the illuminated ones and thus climb the intellectual ladder.
Don't tell me I'm lying. I used to be one of them and I, too, borrowed status from the self-labeled "intelligent" position. "I'm smarter than you and my heart is better than yours: I'm a socialist." Credit by association. It's vacuous.
Bruce Herschensohn
This is important enough to put at the top:
Bruce Herschensohn is no rabid conservative, he's just your everyday conservative. He has put together a book we all need to read, recalling what our then-leftwing Congress did, the part they played, in fluffing up our enemies and abandoning our friends.
Why would any foreign leader want to align with us, given our track record?
As Herschensohn says, "They wouldn't, they would fare much better and get more support by opposing us."
Bruce Herschensohn is no rabid conservative, he's just your everyday conservative. He has put together a book we all need to read, recalling what our then-leftwing Congress did, the part they played, in fluffing up our enemies and abandoning our friends.
Why would any foreign leader want to align with us, given our track record?
As Herschensohn says, "They wouldn't, they would fare much better and get more support by opposing us."
"My Opinion of Great Significance"
This is Prager's label for the opinion he is offering today. Calm down, he is saying it tongue in cheek, a slightly self-deprecating and slightly ironic statement.
You should be so humble.
Yes, yes, I know, he's not particularly humble in other things he's said. I get sick and tired, myself, of him bragging that he's probably one of eleven people in the nation who would be interested in this or that thing. Sorry, Prager, you're not such a rare bird. I admit that where I am now, there are no people within my acquaintance who are interested in things like that. But there are plenty of us anyway, I just don't happen to know any of them any more.
It's more to your shame that you don't, either. If your wife falls asleep when you start to tell her why and when peanuts sprout, that's your problem, and you must have married the wrong woman. But some of us really are interested in such matters and there are a helluvalot more than eleven of us.
Me, I find it fascinating that some of the people here in Kentucky STILL say "hit" when we would say "it", and that that's straight out of Middle English of approximately Chaucer's time. It amazes me that an accent could have survived so long and so far. I'm sure you're intrigued too. And there are a lot more than eleven of us.
So stop it. I know you're joking, the underestimation is deliberate for the sake of humor, but it's annoying.
You should be so humble.
Yes, yes, I know, he's not particularly humble in other things he's said. I get sick and tired, myself, of him bragging that he's probably one of eleven people in the nation who would be interested in this or that thing. Sorry, Prager, you're not such a rare bird. I admit that where I am now, there are no people within my acquaintance who are interested in things like that. But there are plenty of us anyway, I just don't happen to know any of them any more.
It's more to your shame that you don't, either. If your wife falls asleep when you start to tell her why and when peanuts sprout, that's your problem, and you must have married the wrong woman. But some of us really are interested in such matters and there are a helluvalot more than eleven of us.
Me, I find it fascinating that some of the people here in Kentucky STILL say "hit" when we would say "it", and that that's straight out of Middle English of approximately Chaucer's time. It amazes me that an accent could have survived so long and so far. I'm sure you're intrigued too. And there are a lot more than eleven of us.
So stop it. I know you're joking, the underestimation is deliberate for the sake of humor, but it's annoying.
Guest: Charlie Sykes of WTMJ
Charlie Sykes. I had never heard of him till today.
He has been with WTMJ Newsradio AM620 for almost 20 years. His show airs from 8:30 AM till 12:00 noon, Central time (9:30 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern, 6:30 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific).
There is also a podcast available on his page at WTMJ. Link to the podcast.
Sykes was on today to make the point: It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin last week, yet it slid past the Old Stream Media* with barely a whisper.
(*My term, I cannot refer to them as the Mainstream Media because that would be a lie.)
He has been with WTMJ Newsradio AM620 for almost 20 years. His show airs from 8:30 AM till 12:00 noon, Central time (9:30 AM to 1:00 PM Eastern, 6:30 AM to 10:00 AM Pacific).
There is also a podcast available on his page at WTMJ. Link to the podcast.
Sykes was on today to make the point: It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Supreme Court election in Wisconsin last week, yet it slid past the Old Stream Media* with barely a whisper.
(*My term, I cannot refer to them as the Mainstream Media because that would be a lie.)
Friday, April 8, 2011
Caller: "Why do you object to abortion?"
The guy seemed utterly without a clue, completely unable to understand why the hell anyone would think the fetus was worth anything or had any value or ought to get any consideration when the mother had decided against it.
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