Where Do Rabid Liberals Come From?

From New York’s Upper West Side, of course:

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I grew up in New York and went to high school on the Upper West Side, but I don’t know if I can adequately convey how thoroughly the “progressives” in this video typify your average New York liberal. They speak passionately for the fair and humane treatment of terrorists, saving their toxic hatred for centrists and Republicans with political views that differ from their own.

If you’re thinking of moving to New York and you have kids, just remember that these are the people with teaching certificates.

October 1, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008, Liberal Absurdity

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VP Debate Mod Will Profit From an Obama Win

The liberal bias in the media has gotten so bad that debate moderators no longer even aim for the appearance of impartiality.

Gwen Ifill is the PBS anchor moderating the Vice Presidential debate this Thursday. Like all of this year’s debate moderators, Ifill is left-leaning, but that alone doesn’t preclude her from performing impartially. No, what calls her objectivity into question is the fact that she is about to publish a book called The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama. That’s not a joke.

Michelle Malkin has plenty of details on this travesty. She also has a suggestion for how the debate should begin:

In an imaginary world where liberal journalists are held to the same standards as everyone else, Ifill would be required to make a full disclosure at the start of the debate. She would be required to turn to the cameras and tell the national audience that she has a book coming out on January 20, 2009 – a date that just happens to coincide with the inauguration of the next president of the United States.

That’s right, a win for Obama means a win for Ifill’s wallet.

Her absurd lack of neutrality is outrageous enough to get me spewing nastiness like a feminist rampaging against Sarah Palin. Such a flagrant assault on even the most lax conflict-of-interest standards was almost unfathomable to me before I read Michelle’s piece.

I know, I’m naive.

At least I can take consolation in my belief that Palin has it in her to take whatever Ifill dishes out and use it to her advantage. The debate will be great as long as we get Palin v 1.0, not the newfangled 2.0 the McCain campaign has been trying to sell.

October 1, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008, Media Bias

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Free to Be Sarah P.

Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican, is out of favor with some conservatives when it comes to Sarah Palin.

But Bill Kristol remembers the Sarah Palin that invigorated the Party not so long ago:

Some in the McCain camp are nervous about Gov. Palin, but they shouldn’t be. They’ve totally mishandled her for the last week or two. Free Sarah Palin! Free Sarah Palin, that’s what I say! They have surrounded her — look, McCain picked her because she is a good governor, a good politician, a good communicator. Let her be a politician! Let her communicate. Put her on TV, put her on radio. Let her relax. Let her go into the debate and try to win the debate!

Mona Charen, Jonah Goldberg, Kathryn Jean Lopez, and Mark Steyn agree that the McCain campaign needs to free Sarah Palin to be herself, particularly at the debate on Thursday.  I don’t believe she’s done a bad job with her interviews, but there’s certainly something overly packaged about many of her responses, and we’ve had enough with the stump speech lines.

Sarah Palin isn’t just the latest interchangeable kid to be swapped into Menudo because the average age of band members was creeping up.  She’s a bright and gifted politician who dazzles voters with the rarest of political assets: her authenticity.

Bring back Sarah, unleashed, unbound, and authentic.

September 29, 2008 · Filed Under Election 2008, Sarah Palin

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The Deep Childishness of Contemporary Liberalism

A 700 billion dollar bailout looms ominously on the horizon, and Barack Obama wants to make sure he can still increase early childhood education funding? Here’s the relevant line from the first presidential debate:

The problem with a spending freeze is you’re using a hatchet where you need a scalpel. There are some programs that are very important that are under-funded. I want to increase early childhood education….

Bill Kristol’s analysis of that gem is spot on, and contains my new favorite description of liberalism (in bold):

We’re in a major financial crisis, and Barack Obama wants to increase spending in an area where there’s notoriously little evidence that spending has paid off, an area that in any case isn’t a primary responsibility of the federal government (or perhaps of any level of government). Obama’s ritualistic invocation of early childhood education as deserving ever more funding is a reminder, one might say, of the deep childishness of contemporary liberalism.

I love that line. It does a superb job of capturing what I’ve discovered as my views have moved rightward. Full acceptance of doctrinaire liberalism requires a childlike shallowness of thought, almost a suspension of disbelief.

As one’s depth of thought about politics, governance, and law increases, there arises a stunning cognitive dissonance. Those who successfully cross the expansive chasm between contemporary liberalism and reality have shed that deep childishness of liberal thought.

Unfortunately, they’re few and far between.

September 27, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Election 2008, Liberal Absurdity

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McCain/Palin Smears, Now in Two Delicious Flavors

How do you prefer your smears? Overt or covert? Team Obama is playing it both ways now, and in all likelihood has been for some time.

So which is worse, the Obama campaign smearing Sarah Palin via a clan of astroturfing sockpuppets or Obama’s latest radio smear campaign against John McCain? And will it matter to voters?

Just askin’.

September 24, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Corruption, Election 2008, John McCain, Sarah Palin

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Vicious Palin Smears Traced Back to Obama Campaign?

My nomination for blog post of the year goes to The Jawa Report for their meticulous research on the source of the Sarah Palin smears.  This story is huge.

Their findings suggest that at least some of the smears were orchestrated by Winner & Associates, one of the world’s largest PR firms.  The research also indicates a likely link to David Axelrod, Obama’s chief media strategist.  They weave quite a convincing narrative and it’s imperative that the news organizations and the rest of the blogosphere pick this up and take it as far as it can go.

A mere summary doesn’t do their work justice – read it yourself.

September 22, 2008 · Filed Under Barack Obama, Corruption, Election 2008, Sarah Palin

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