Flying Pig Moment: David Brooks Calls Out The Left

David Brooks nails it in his column today.  Many others on the right have said as much in recent days, but when the left’s pet moderate calls out their shameful behavior it is more stinging and satisfying.

This probably won’t go over very well at the Upper West Side cocktail parties.

These accusations — that political actors contributed to the murder of 6 people, including a 9-year-old girl — are extremely grave. They were made despite the fact that there was, and is, no evidence that Loughner was part of these movements or a consumer of their literature. They were made despite the fact that the link between political rhetoric and actual violence is extremely murky. They were vicious charges made by people who claimed to be criticizing viciousness.

Yet such is the state of things. We have a news media that is psychologically ill informed but politically inflamed, so it naturally leans toward political explanations. We have a news media with a strong distaste for Sarah Palin and the Tea Party movement, and this seemed like a golden opportunity to tarnish them. We have a segmented news media, so there is nobody in most newsrooms to stand apart from the prevailing assumptions. We have a news media market in which the rewards go to anybody who can stroke the audience’s pleasure buttons.

I have no love for Sarah Palin, and I like to think I’m committed to civil discourse. But the political opportunism occasioned by this tragedy has ranged from the completely irrelevant to the shamelessly irresponsible.

Unfortunately, this will fall on deaf ears.  The left has no shame as was proven within minutes of the Arizona shootings.

Et tu, Barry?

As the left shrieks and tries to lay the blame for the Arizona shootings on Sarah Palin and the Tea Party, let’s take a trip down memory lane and revisit the following statements made by the Hope and Change president who was going to heal our country:

“I think it’s tempting not to negotiate with hostage takers, unless the hostage gets harmed. In this case the hostage is the American people and I was not willing to see them get harmed,” Obama on keeping taxes from increasing, December 6, 2010

“A Republican majority in Congress would mean “hand-to-hand combat” on Capitol Hill for the next two years, threatening policies Democrats have enacted to stabilize the economy,” Obama, October 6, 2010

“If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun,” Obama in July 2008

“Here’s the problem: It’s almost like they’ve got — they’ve got a bomb strapped to them and they’ve got their hand on the trigger. You don’t want them to blow up. But you’ve got to kind of talk them, ease that finger off the trigger.”  Obama on banks, March 2009

“I want you to argue with them and get in their face!” Barack Obama, September 2008

“We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us.” Obama to Latinos, October 2010

“I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!” Obama on ACORN Mobs, March 2010

“We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.“ Obama on the private sector, June 2010

Now do I think Obama is to blame for what happened in Arizona?  Not even for a second.  BUT, if we are to follow the lead of the shriekers on the left and apply their standard in assigning blame for the acts of a deranged madman, we must look at all rhetoric equally. 

Or people could stop using the unspeakable horror to gain political points and say a prayer for the victims instead.

Lesson Of The Day: Predominantly White Crowds For Obama = Good, Predominantly White Crowds For Glenn Beck, Tea Parties = Bad

Got it?

Via Jim Treacher at the Daily Caller

The DNC just sent out this pic of Obama in Madison yesterday, with the subject line, “A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words.” They’re right, but not for the reason they think

John Fredo Kerry Blames Stupid Voters For Democrats’ Pending Doom

Fredo is on a roll.  First he calls the Tea Party and Republicans “extremists” in his lame Delawow! fund raising email,  then he turns around and implores the very same people he insulted to support the doomed Disclose Act. Now he’s blaming the uninformed rubes of the electorate for his party’s epic failures.  Not exactly a winning strategy, but nobody ever called Fredo the sharpest knife in the drawer.

A testy U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry yesterday blamed clueless voters with short attention spans for the uphill battle beleaguered Democrats are facing against Republicans across the nation.

“We have an electorate that doesn’t always pay that much attention to what’s going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what’s happening,” Kerry told reporters after touring the Boston Medical Center yesterday.

Conservative political blogger William Jacobson, who writes Legal Insurrection, immediately pounced on Kerry’s comments, saying that attitude is why voters are looking to shake up Capitol Hill by electing upstart candidates such as U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.

“It just continues the Democrats’ theme that the reason people are upset is because they don’t understand. They’re not smart enough. That sort of rhetoric just gets people even more upset,” said Jacobson.

[…]

Kerry made the remarks on voters following questions about U.S. Rep Barney Frank’s re-election campaign and queries about securing federal funding for the Hub hospital.

“I think a lot of the anger today – while it’s appropriate because Washington is broken – is not directed at the right people,” said Kerry. “Barney is prepared, as others are, to explain what we’re doing. I think when people hear the facts and they see what we’re doing, it frankly makes sense.”

In the interview, Kerry added that voters should be mad at stonewalling Republicans and “big money” in politics instead, referring to a bill blocked by Republicans Thursday that would reveal corporate and union leaders who fund big-bucks political ads.

He went on to blame the legislative logjam in Washington, D.C., for fewer federal dollars sent to the state.

Keep talking, Fredo.  Pretty please!

Scott Brown Will Vote No On Disclose Act, John Fredo Kerry Seethes; Update: Dems Fail To Get 60 Votes Needed For Cloture

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Yesterday, Scott Brown announced he would vote against the Democrats’ thinly veiled attempt to influence the midterm elections in the name of the Disclose Act.  John Kerry, the Fredo Corleone of the Massachusetts Senate delegation,  begged the Tea Party and GOP to go along with the scam.

“In the year of the Tea Party, when the Tea Party is asking for accountability and the Tea Party is asking for sunshine and they want reform, I’d like to hear the Tea Party stand up today and say, ‘Republicans ought to vote overwhelmingly to have sunshine shine in on the funding process of our campaigns,’” Kerry said in a speech on the Senate floor. “I would think that the Tea Party ought to be excoriated over the notion that a corporation has been given the same rights as the Constitution gives to an individual.”

Senator Scott Brown criticized the bill, and Democrats for trying to move forward with it.

“Americans, especially those looking for work, want this Congress and this administration focused on job creation and getting the economy back on track,” the Massachusetts Republican said in a statement. “Putting people back to work should be our number one priority, not pushing through a wildly unpopular campaign bill that gives a tactical advantage to the majority party in future elections.”

Poor Fredo.  Michael has spoken.  Now go entertain some of your senator friends in Cuba.

Update:  Disclose Is Dead…for now.  Even the Maine Twins saw this bill for what it is.

John F-ing Kerry Disses Tea Party Candidates, Sarah Palin

Yesterday, John Kerry took some time off from cruising on his $7 million dollar yacht to send out a fund-raising email bashing the Tea Party and Sarah Palin.

U.S. Sen. John Kerry yesterday mocked Republicans as “Sarah Palin’s party” even as the New Hampshire Senate candidate she backed claimed victory in Tuesday’s primary and a Tea Party favorite emerged as the GOP’s best hope to break the Democratic stranglehold on the Bay State delegation.

“I think the Tea Party couldn’t ask for any better publicity than to be denounced by a millionaire who dodges paying taxes on his yacht,” said conservative gadfly Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.

Kerry seized on a Republican rift following Tea Party victories across the country – among them, Palin’s “chosen radical rightwing candidate” GOP U.S. Senate nominee Christine O’Donnell, who triumphed in Delaware over establishment Republican Mike Castle.

“The news from Delaware is crystal clear: It’s Sarah Palin’s party now,” Kerry wrote in a fund-raising e-mail titled “Delawow!” distributed yesterday. “We have to fight back. Click here to contribute right now to make sure we defeat the Tea Party extremists.”

But conservative Washington observers said Republicans will get the last laugh come November.

“Kerry is the guy whose political instincts are always wrong. This guy’s presidential campaign was a punch line,” Reynolds said. “To call the Tea Party extremists is a joke.”

GOP analysts reveled in big conservative wins Tuesday, including Kelly Ayotte – graced by Palin with one of her coveted “mama grizzly” endorsements – who snatched a primary victory over Tea Party favorite Ovide Lamontagne.

Among GOP challengers to the Bay State’s all-Democrat congressional delegation, Republican state Rep. Jeff Perry – beloved by local Tea Partiers – is given more than a fighting chance of winning the seat being vacated by Democratic U.S. Rep. William Delahunt.

How inspiring.  If the Democrats are relying on Captain Botched Joke to rally the troops, then they are in even worse shape than we thought.   Keep it up, Dems.  Pretty please.

Husky Blogger: Can’t We All Agree Discovery Gunman Was Just Nuts And Not A Lefitst, Al Gore Worshiping, Global Warming Alarmist, Environmental Militant?

Just like the Holocaust Museum and Pentagon shooters, right?  Since James Jay Lee doesn’t fit the narrative for the Husky Blogger, we are told we must agree that some people are motivated to do crazy things simply due to mental illness.

If anyone out there thinks for one nanosecond that if there was even the weakest whiff of a tie to any “bad crazy”, right-wing group or *gasp* the Tea Party, the Husky Blogger wouldn’t be posting thread after thread exposing the connection,  I have some 2010 LGF calendars to sell you.

Boston Tea Party Pictures – Round Two

I was finally able to download the rest of the pictures from the Tea Party on the Boston Common yesterday.

Enjoy!

(Scroll for new photos courtesy of Tank)

These people must have missed the memo that anti-war protests have fallen out of fashion since Obama’s election.

So angry.  It could incite violence…

What’s this?  There goes your narrative, Comrade Keith.

The only Hitler references/imagery came from the Lydon LaRouche DEMOCRATS.  That’s supposed to be Barney Frank sitting next to Barack H(itler) Obama.

Sorry, Husky Blogger…just another LaRouche DEMOCRAT.

Barack Obama, mmm mmm good!

A Palin impersonator.  Keep your day job, honey.

The kid on the left called me a retard and said he thought Obama’s Special Olympics joke was hilarious.

This was my favorite sign of the day.

Clearly a raaaacist from Southie.

This young woman actually started crying when she couldn’t explain her t-shirt to me.  It might have had something to do with the (lovely) black Tea Partier standing next to me.  Or the gay man holding the pro Tea Party sign.  Or perhaps she was furious at herself for being caught up in a wave of disinformation provided by her college friends and felt like a total ass for wearing a shirt that made her look like an uninformed fool.

Tank’s Photos:

Great job, Tank!

Boston Tea Party – Seen and Heard

I just got back from the Tea Party on Boston Common.  What a great event!  I have heard crowd estimates of between 7,000 and 10,000.  The only hateful signs I saw were those being held by snotty, liberal college students who were hurling insults at Sarah Palin while she spoke.  There was a lot of PDS on display.  I saw people from all walks of life, of all races, young, old and in between – all of whom were there to express their opposition to the direction that Obama and the Democrats are trying to take our country. 

On the drive home I heard that some of the aforementioned college students threw eggs at the Tea Party Express bus.  I hope someone got video.  And I hope they got arrested.

Keith Olbermann would heart these guys

Another open-minded, tolerant liberal calling us retards while he spells “does” as “dose”

An obvious homophobe

Try telling that to the Husky Blogger

CNN’s David Gergen was strolling around without any press credentials – looking for racist  signs, I presume.

They look incredibly hateful if you ask me

The Hammer gets some love

OK then you must be a homophobe, cuz that’s what the Husky Blogger sez

More homophobes

Yeah, baby!

Toys today…your hard earned dollars tommow, kid.

This clown was one of the Sarah Palin hecklers

These enlightened college kidz thought they were making a brilliant point by calling the Boston Common socialist because its upkeep is paid for with tax dollars.  The dude with the skinny jeans wasn’t pleased when I pointed out that it’s the Boston Common – not Commons. 

The kid holding this sign was a foul-mouthed puke who heckled Sarah Palin while she gave her speech.  His friends were delighted with his antics.

“Biden” has become an adjective

Finally.  A raaaacist sign.

George would have been proud today

More to come!

Linked at Instapundit and JWF!  Thanks!

Ready To Party!

I’m heading to Boston for the Tea Party rally on the Common.  The organizers are expecting thousands to turn out to hear Sarah Palin and to protest against ObamaCare, tax increases, soaring deficits, ever-increasing government intrusion in our lives, Obama’s alarmingly naive national security policies, lack of transparency, etc. etc. etc.

I’ll be meeting up with a fellow Patriot to make a few signs.  I think one will be a sign to expose plants – with an arrow on it and I’ll stand next to the person.  If you have ideas for signs, please send them along.  I’ll have my iPhone with me and will be checking in and posting pics in the comments section of this post.

Oh and if you are going, shoot me an email at spitfire.murphy@yahoo.com – I’ll check it on the dreaded T.

Wish me luck!