Category — Talk Radio

What do I think the GOP really needs?  They need candidates that can communicate.  When President Bush first hit the scene, I didn’t see his tendency to mangle the English language as a real impediment or reflection on his intelligence.  I’m still not convinced that he’s “dumb”, but his communication skills caused considerable harm to his presidency and the conservative cause.

Bush simply didn’t have the skills required to rally people from the bully pulpit of the presidency.  The few conservative programs he pushed, like privatizing a portion of your Social Security tax, went down in flames.  His inability to communicate meant he was forever at the mercy of the MSM where all things Republican wither and die.

The next Republican standard bearer doesn’t have to be Reagan, but he does need those kind of communication skills.  Reagan faced the same MSM bias in an era before talk radio and blogs.  However, he overcame them and is now widely regarded as a very successful president.  Even liberal academicians, a redundancy I know, consistently rank him in the top 10 for everything he got accomplished.

Republicans don’t need a new philosophy as much as they need someone who can explain it.  John McCain’s communication skills weren’t great, but he still captured plenty of electoral votes.  It’s an amazing accomplishment when you consider everything arrayed against him–a hostile MSM, Obama’s funding lies and spending advantage, and a bad economy.  Amazingly, this election still hinged on a few percentage points here and there.

The GOP needs to start grooming candidates that can communicate and pronounce nuclear.  We can’t afford to run more Bushes, Doles, and McCains.

“There would be meat stored in great piles in rooms; and the water from leaky roofs would drip over it, and thousands of rats would race about on it.  It was too dark in these storage places to see well, but a man could run his hand over these piles of meat and sweep off handfuls of the dried dung of rats.  These rats were nuisances, and the packers would put poisoned bread out for them; they would die, and then the rats, bread and meat would go into the hoppers together”.

From “The Jungle” by Upton Sinclair (1906)

It’s pretty hard to come away from a novel like The Jungle (mainly, but not entirely, about the meatpacking industry ) without some sympathy for the socialists of the last century.   The same is true with Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier (provided to me by Vermont Woodchuck) which is a record of coal-miner and lower-class suffering ummatched in English Lit. Still Orwell never developed a convincing argument for socialism even though he had the visible material for it.  Sinclair did, because he tried harder than Orwell.

The Jungle is one of the few muckraking books still in print, and widely read.  Sinclair’s jungle was the ruthless capitalist system, where power expands and is exercised in the dark.  His book led to the Pure Food and Drug Act with the help of Teddy Roosevelt.  Sinclair went on the other causes and other books, even one about corruption in journalism (The Brass Check), and Oil! which was twisted into the recent film “There will be blood”.  An energetic socialist all his life, by the end of it, Sinclair was a cold-warrior and supporter of the Vietnam War. 

The charging, reformist spirit is always more complicated than the ideologies that spring from it.  Men like Sinclair have been incorporated into the myth systems of liberalism/progressivism, with just the right amount of editing.  Through the first half of the 20th century, Sinclair’s socialism came and went in hard and soft versions.  It’s fulfillment in America was inhibited, I think, because the bubbling reformist mind, with its loathing for big, arbitrary power (big business, etc.) wished to control it with another big, arbitrary power called The State.  No one seriously believed in that transfer of authority.

In fact, even The New Left of the early 1960’s, before its movement was seized by sociopaths and anarcho-fascists like Bill Ayers, Dorhn, Mark Rudd and others, was narrowly communitarian - meaning that they idealized smallness and local control; deploring and fearing corporate and government ”bigness” in principle, they wisely realized that practical efficiencies and stable, perpetuating cultures were upheld when the mechanisms of society are small, personal, observable and transparent.   The libertarian, Carl Oglesby, once President of the SDS, wanted a rapprochement with the American Right, and was eventually banished for believing in it, and for a his lack of revolutionary radicalism.

The Oglesby faction lost the struggle within The New Left, and the Hillary Clinton factions won.   That’s bad.  The dangers with radical, big-state reformism is its proximity to big and little tyrannies - the ones it abhors and the ones it tolerates, and the powers it deploys to eliminate the first and establish the second. 

If persons are made to work out their individual destinies apart from mankind’s, then collectivism is not the answer to any question I know.  The paradox of trusting the jungle of big,  gargantuan government while fuming about the jungles of big business and Big Talk Radio is the signpost to  the “consolidated government” feared by the Anti-Federalists. Their fears of 1787 seem even more relevant today.  Barack Obama is NOT an heir to the Oglesby traditions of The New Left. 

I have a sinking feeling that NYC Mayor Bloomberg and President-elect Obama will be sharing similar tax plans this year:

To illustrate the problem, the mayor said a 7.5 percent increase in income taxes for a family of four earning $50,000 to $70,000 annually would mean they would pay an extra $116 a year.

That “does put in perspective what might have to change,” Bloomberg said.

Bloomberg defines the “rich” as a family of 4 making $70K a year in the world’s most expensive city.  You have got to be kidding me.  But that’s not all by a long shot.  Mayor Mike wants to eliminate property tax rebates, hike property taxes, fire 1,000 cops, raise sundry fees, and hire more meter maids to, as liberals would quaintly put it, raise more revenue.

I’m so glad the Republican Party supported the liberal Bloomberg.  He not only embarrassed the party by turning independent, but he continues to damage the Republican brand with liberal policies.  It would have been better to have a Democrat in office to push these liberal policies and let them own them.

That’s right.  If Republicans are going to rise from the ashes, they have to let liberals own their policies.  This will be especially important for Congressional Republicans.  If they follow the moderate “reach across the aisle” meme and provide a fig leaf for the failed Democratic policies soon to be pushed by Pelosi, Reid, and Obama, they’ll be slitting their own throats.

There’s nothing in Obama’s priorities that Republicans should support.  Are Republicans going to “compromise” on higher taxes?  Is muzzling talk radio via the Fairness Doctrine a good idea after the media just kicked the “moderate” McCain in the teeth?  How about adding 10s of millions to Democratic coffers by supporting card check for the unions?  Will the GOP add 20 million new Hispanic voters after they just broke 2 to 1 for Obama even though John McCain has been front and center on all their issues?

There’s nothing to do now but let the Democrats kill themselves.  They’ll overreach.  They’ll kill an already bad economy with higher taxes.  Be disciplined, take some media flack, get out of their way, and get ready to run against them when even a blind monkey could tell their policies have failed.

From the moment Barack Obama announced his intentions to run for POTUS, I assumed that he would win.   The Clinton machine was worn out, and there were social forces and irrefutable facts that no “conservative” candidate could overcome.  Everything was in place when it came time to vote.  Briefly….

First, demographics:  Immigration and generational changes have eclipsed the Euro-centered, Post WWII electorate.  The young don’t care about Bill Ayers or radicalism any more than my generation cared about Tokyo Rose and Henry Wallace; the world of the young today is so bizarre and free-wheeling that nothing as tame as Jeremiah Wright can stand out and get serious attention.   Immigrants - most of whom have come here from despotic or chaotic countries - are seeking advantage through political power, and Barack Obama poses no threat to their conception of liberty.  They also don’t give a damn about Ben Franklin or Paul Revere, if you get my point.

Second, The Welfare State, or the same thing by other names:  Has grown in every administration since 1936, with a lapse during WWII.  All administrations have supported and expanded Human Resources and Defense ”superfunctions”, until it accounts for almost 62% of federal outlays since 1940 (adjusted for inflation). Everyone gets a piece, including those who call themselves conservatives.  Arguments about The Welfare State are window-dressing, because no faction or party seriously argues about its existence, and none attempt to define its sufficient size.

Third, popular conservatism itself, today, is a side show.   Buckley’s generation-long efforts to make conservatism respectable expired along with his sincerity, good sense and originality.  His heirs - like the bore George Will,  have made the essential muscularity of conservatism into a watery, disgusting gruel fit only for bow-tie wearing drama queens.   George W. Bush’s incoherence and government by passive silence has earned the detestation of almost every political perspective, especially the paleoconservatives.  Compassionate conservatism appeared to be ritualistic soul-cleansing, where things not belonging to you could be freely given to others.  Watch Barack Obama on this issue, too.

On the radio side, conservatism is dished up in the same old tropes, accompanied by country music, audio cuts of Ronald Reagan’s speeches and Wright’s squeals, and endless hammering on the anvils of American Exceptionalism and Rugged Individualism.  Together, their conclusions about why conservatism is moribund, is that voters dismayed by Republican cowardice and cupidity, punished them by voting for liberal Democrats.  Brilliant.   With analysis like this, we can win the T-Shirt slogan contest and forget the battle of ideas.

Speaking of ideas, that was McCain’s fatal problem.  He didn’t have any; he had a maverick personality, a biography, and expected us to generate ideas from there.  Obama projected plainly liquid and uncertain ideas, and his persona expanded like a Macy’s Parade balloon while McCain turned into a homunculus. Why this happened is unclear, and material for another post.

Right now I’m damned angry.   We’re exchanging one set of fools and poltroons who are clueless about the rationale, modes and aspirations of conservatism, for another set who are clueless about life, human nature, and the dangers in the world at large.  Great.

Obama needs a dose of the ZACKLEYS

TERRY ANDERSON, A BLACK LOS ANGELES TALK RADIO HOST, WENT DOWN A LIST OF THINGS SENATOR OBAMA HAS SAID THAT AREN’T EXACTLY CORRECT.
1.) Selma March Got Me Born - NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google’ Obama Selma ‘ for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.)
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya . It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Oba ma, is Odinga’s follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone. Check out the following link for verification of that….and for more.
Obama’s cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers have burned Christians’ homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter.. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started.

5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.

6.) My Name is African Swahili - NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side. While Barack Hussein Obama’s father was from Kenya , his father’s family was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama’s father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father’s birth
Certificate even states he’s Arab, not African Negro). From….and for more….go to…..
http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?Barack_Hussein_Obama_-_Arab-American,_only_6.25%25_African
http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?
Barack_Hussein_Obama_-_Arab-American,_only_6.25%25_African

7.) I Never Practiced Islam –
NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office. 4-3-08 Article ‘Obama was ‘quite religious in islam” http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559&pageId=60559

8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - NOT EXACTLY, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’ This is just one
example of what Pamela is talking about when she says ‘Obama’s narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts.’

9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.

10) Because I Lived In Indonesia , I Have More Foreign Experience –
NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn except how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.

11) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.

12) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine

13)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did exist.

14) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life – NOT EXACTLY,
Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t and never did exist.

15) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08 - NOT EXACTLY, here you are despite saying live on TV that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.

16) Voting ‘Present’ is Common In Illinois Senate - NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.

17) Oops, I Mis-voted - NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.

18) I Was A Professor Of Law - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

19) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

20) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - NOT EXACTLY, you didn’t write it, introduce it, change it or create it.

21) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days from start to finish.

22) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation – mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.

23) I Have Released My State Records - NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.

24) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens . You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.

25) My Economics Bill Will Help America - NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.

26) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.

27) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.

28) No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA – NOT EXACTLY,
the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.

29) I Am Tough On Terrorism - NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction off Israel.

30) I Want All Votes To Count - NOT EXACTLY, you said let the delegates decide.

31) I Want Americans To Decide - NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.

32) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - NOT EXACTLY, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.
33) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.

34) I Don’t Take PAC Money - NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.

35) I don’t Have Lobbysists - NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.

36) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - NOT EXACTLY, your own
campaign worker made the ad on his Apple http://www.apple.com/ in one afternoon.

37) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - NOT EXACTLY, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.

38) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - NOT EXACTLY, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.

39) My uncle liberated Auschwitz concentration camp - NOT EXACTLY, your mother had no brothers and the Russian army did the liberating.

So, who EXACTLY is this Obama guy and what is he trying to sell us?!
Please get to work now…don’t let your friends and neighbors vote the fraud party.

A bite from the reality dragon is lethal

Stephen Bainbridge believes John McCain will appoint conservative justices to the Supreme Court if elected. He pledged to do so at CPAC last week, and presidents are easier to pressure these days. Remember Harriet Miers?

McCain pledged to uphold the Constitution too. How did that turn out?

[snip]
To be sure, Presidents all too often break campaign promises. Remember George Bush 41’s “read my lips” pledge on taxes?

In the new media environment, however, it’s getting easier to hold a President’s feet to the fire. Remember George Bush 43’s aborted nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court?

Those of us who waged war against Miers succeeded in part because in the 2000 campaign Bush had explicitly promised to nominate justices in the mold of Scalia and Thomas. We demanded that Bush keep that promise and, as it became clear that Miers was made from a different mold, we kept up a stead drum beat of criticism. In the end, we won. Miers was forced to withdraw and Samuel Alito became the newest member of the Supreme Court.

If a President McCain were to nominate a David Souter clone, the right’s netroots would have a collective conniption fit that would make the Miers fight look like pattycake. We might not win, but we’d at least bleed McCain of enough political capital to give even Warren Rudman second thoughts.

Remember McCain-Feingold? What was that bit of cheese for the conservative voices. Do you think he’ll flip-flop on that posture. At the first agitation from talk radio and the blogs, he’ll reintroduce the Fairness Doctrine to stifle any enmity. He may even do that beforehand to steal a march on the conservatives. Smart aggressive move, isn’t it?

How about the McCain-Kennedy fiasco, a highly destructive multicultural program packaged in a “We’re so diverse” wrapper. Call it another Mariel boatlift sans boats! It achieves the goal as well as the diversity agenda in the Balkan States, which has become a PC word for ethnic cleansing.

Who can overlook the McCain-Lieberman bill, the “Climate Stewardship Act of 2004” which was the most regressive tax on energy. All promoted by a person who never held a real job in business.

If you are buying McCain’s rhetoric, you’ll conclude Obama will join the Marines to get Osama.

Quack…..wheeeeeze….cough….Quack!  He’s back!

When Don Imus was brought to ground by a few liberal jackals, race-profiteers and media hounds a while back, his removal from WFAN was a mercy killing.  With the comic motility of a Maine potato, Imus was painfully lodged at the lowest regions of nasty talk radio.  Now, he’s about to stage a comeback, by displacing  Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa and the old William Koenstler associate, Ron Kuby at WABC.

That Imus would have lasted beyond 1989 is itself, improbable.   True, he’d walked the standard reformative path admired in the liberal media - re-hab for drugs and alcohol, an irreligious book demonstrating his ability to concentrate and willingness to villify the defenseless, but that wasn’t enough.  Along the way he also became a humanitarian, with the Imus Ranch for Kids With Cancer.   That punched his ticket.

With the Imus Ranch came two essential, and several unfortunate, things.  The first essential was that some children with dreaded disease were helped.  The second essential was the approval of liberals, who poured into the show through the chute provided by Westwood One Entertainment.  David Gregory, Howard Feinneman, Chris Matthews, Kerry, Dodd, Lieberman, Frank Rich, a list too long for this post.  

The unfortunate things attributable to the ranch were Imus’s very young, insufferable twit of a wife, the unknowable and uninteresting spawn Wyatt Imus, the maundering brother with his obliterating stupidity, and the product line, which stretched to the New Mexico horizon and was just as interesting.  

The Imus in The Morning Show on WFAN was a sustained and relentless commercial for the Imus family and its marketing wing.  Maybe it’s just me, but the true iconoclast, the indignant rebel doesn’t shill for cowboy hats, baseball caps, denim shirts and salsa.  What Imus is, in addition to everything else, is a phony, a charlatan.

Up against these concerns for children with cancer, was the bizarre counterpoint of a show so nasty, vile, vindictive, slanderous and gratuitously vulgar that the people involved seemed oblivious to the infected popular culture they created for the same kids they were helping in New Mexico.  Were they just cynical about their charitable pursuits, or just craven in their pursuit of wealth through shock radio, or both?  Or neither?  

I don’t know.  The existence of some things seems to reduce or expand the likelihood of other things.   Real goodness has a way of spreading through the person who’s trying to be good, which always made me wonder how the supposedly religious Charles McCord could be so obsequious to Imus, and how he could write such clever but vulgar routines.  

Imus himself, so misanthropic and awful in his judgements,  seems unfastened from the human qualities necessary to manage  a ranch for children.   That’s a question about the soul and the mainspring of human effort.  I’d like an answer, even though I don’t deserve one. 

I obviously used to listen to the show, though it became clear years ago that hearing one edition means you’ve already heard the others.  So I stopped listening, and suggest to Imus that his new format do/not do the following.

1. No Bo Dietel, all the time

2. No mention of “my friend Kinky Friedman”

3. No mention of Lobster Newburgh.

4. Stop saying “what a nightmare”

5. Let Delbert McClinton slip into obscurity

6. Stop saying “get Lupaca on the phone”.

7. Talk for three minutes without saying the proper name “Imus”

8. Take your own advice, and “Get Out!”

             The Man who makes Peter Lorre seem like Shirley Temple

Stay tuned.  The sinister, Phantom of the Opera impersonator, Henry Waxman (Totalitarian, CA)  has ordered his “staff” to investigate the doings of Talk Radio personalities Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin. 

 Consider this normal today for the crypto-thuggery of Liberalism.   Herr Waxman does the bidding of Evita Clinton.  

The North American Union Versus One Nation

[snip] The globalists’ primary goal is the North American Union merging Mexico, the USA, and Canada by 2010! …the NAFTA Highway [is] being built by a Spanish company (emphasis mine) so that no information about it gets out.

The NAFTA Highway has it’s first stop in Kansas City. Plans are for it to go through to Canada. No customs checks until KC. All trucking will be Mexican trucking with Mexican vehicle inspections done in Mexico.

“What can we do to defeat this?” [snip]

• Visit NumbersUSA
• Listen to talk radio, get informed, and call in.
• Talk to your local county officials: some Virginia counties are restructuring illegal immigrants’ access to services.
• Support H. CON. RES. 40: ask your congressmen to halt work on the Highway.
• Support H.CON.RES.22: demand that we withdraw from NAFTA
• Demand that the fence between Mexico and the US be built now.
• Demand that current immigration laws be enforced
• Demand an end to “anchor babies.”
• Demand an end to “chain migration” which comprises 2/3 of illegal immigrants.
• Discuss the issue! Spread the news!

The Coalition to Block the North American Union, Vienna, VA, 703-893-2777,

The American Council for Immigration Reform, Washington, DC, 202-659-9499

[snip]

Further Reading: Blog posts related to this topic

Bush is working this through the Executive Office so no treaty needs to be ratified. Neatly cuts out the electorate by circumventing Congress, doesn’t it.

Use NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your Senators and Reps. Everything is prepped for you with space to add your own personal thoughts OR compose and send your own fax.

Hear Islamic leaders in London: ‘Queen Elizabeth, go to hell!’

Across town from the site of the recent attempted car-bomb attacks, several thousand Muslims gathered in front of the London Central Mosque to applaud fiery preachers prophesying the overthrow of the British government – a future vision that encompasses an Islamic takeover of the White House and the rule of the Quran over America.

“One day my dear Muslims,” shouted Anjem Choudary, “Islam will govern Britain!”

Choudary was a co-founder of Al Muhajiroun, the now-banned group tied to suspects in the July 7, 2005, London transport bombings and a cheerleader of the 9/11 attacks.

“Democracy, hypocrisy,” Choudary chanted as the crowd echoed him. “Tony Blair, terrorist! Tony Blair, murderer! Queen Elizabeth, go to hell!”

The Muslim leader’s charge, along with interviews with protesters and a “literal foaming-at-the-mouth” diatribe by another speaker, were captured on tape June 22 by nationally syndicated talk radio host Rusty Humphries.

…recorded angry Muslim leader Abu Saif, who kept his voice at a fever pitch through declarations such as: “Brothers and sisters, make no mistake. Make no mistake. The British government, the queen, the MPs in this country, they are enemies to you, enemies to Allah and enemies to the Muslims.” [snip]

“Say, for instance, I was a Muslim in America. Could I call for the destruction of the American government and establishment of an Islamic state in America? No. So where is the freedom of religion? There is none.”

Humphries asked: “Do you call for that?”

“Of course,” he replied, “we want Islam to be a source of governance for all of mankind. And we also believe that one day America will be ruled by Islam.” [snip]

“There’s nothing we can do to be friends?” Humphries asked.

Abu Saif replied: “There is something you can do to be friends. You can become Muslim.” [snip]

The MSM doesn’t print or air items like this; this doesn’t fit the despise America agenda.

Meanwhile, the bedwetters in congress are telling us we must hold a dialogue; we just need to talk. It seems like only one side wants to talk.

This is redolent of the uproar in congress over the immigration bill. Remember congress’ reaction to the voters telling them how they wanted them to vote. The indignity of it, having talk radio and the blogs riling up the people against the will of the high and mighty.

How close are we with our current batch of congressional royalty to getting this type of control over our communications. Tell me you believe they wouldn’t try.

Chinese city bans anonymous web postings

XIAMEN, China, July 7 (UPI) — A Chinese city plans to ban anonymous online postings after Internet users successfully campaigned to stop completion of a chemical factory. [snip]

City officials acted after thousands of residents rallied each other through cell phone text messages and Internet blogs to march on the site of a $14 million chemical plant. Construction since has been stopped pending an investigation into environmental concerns, the Times reported. [snip]

Dozens of Web journalists and Internet commentators are serving prison terms throughout China for alleged subversion.

The other major thing Uncle Teddy was pandering to his Hispanic audience with today besides his poor Spanish skills was the DREAM (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) Act. The DREAM Act would give illegal immigrant children in-state tuition rates. If you’re a NH resident working in MA and paying state taxes, that’s just too darn bad because your child will pay out-of-state rates at MA public universities. No taxpayer sacrifice is too large to make for illegal immigrants.

Of course, there’s also the fact that very few of these students will pay anything given that most universities distribute grant dollars based upon parental income. Guess who gets the limited grant dollars when most illegal immigrants are showing no legal income while you dutifully file your taxes every year? Again, it doesn’t matter to Teddy that your child will take out a lot of extra loans when those limited dollars flow to illegal immigrant lawbreakers.

This law clearly violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution by extending rights to noncitizens that citizens clearly do not have. Although originally targeted at state discrimination, the Supreme Court has extended it to discriminatory Federal practices too.

Is it any wonder illegal immigrants are flowing across our borders when our politicians can’t stop throwing our tax dollars at them? We don’t need talk radio to tell us our politicians aren’t serious about border security. Their actions send that message loud and clear.

An interesting exchange here between Chris Wallace and Senator Diane Feinstein. It seems that Diane isn’t real pleased about talk radio’s take on the amnesty bill:

But let me ask you about yourself. Do you have a problem with talk radio, and would you consider reviving the fairness doctrine, which would require broadcasters to put on opposing points of view?

FEINSTEIN: Well, in my view, talk radio tends to be one-sided. It also tends to be dwelling in hyperbole. It’s explosive. It pushes people to, I think, extreme views without a lot of information.

This bill was negotiated in secret and ¾ of the US Senate didn’t know what was in it. Then they tried to pass it in less than a week. And Feinstein can say with a straight face that talk radio didn’t have a lot of information? Comical.

This is a very complicated bill. It’s seven titles. Most people don’t know what’s in this bill. Therefore, to just have one or two things dramatized and taken out of context, such as the word amnesty — we have a silent amnesty right now, but nobody goes into that. Nobody goes into the flaws of our broken system.

“Complicated” is code for “not easily understood by the little people”. What about free speech, Diane? If some people want to call it amnesty, isn’t that their right? It’s way to dangerous to let people have their opinion though.

This bill fixes those flaws. Do I think there should be an opportunity on talk radio to present that point of view? Yes, I do, particularly about the critical issues of the day.

WALLACE: So would you revive the fairness doctrine?

FEINSTEIN: Well, I’m looking at it, as a matter of fact, Chris, because I think there ought to be an opportunity to present the other side. And unfortunately, talk radio is overwhelmingly one way.

It might be time to switch to satellite and Internet radio. I get enough liberal pabulum from the NY Times, CNN, Washington Post, et al.

WALLACE: But the argument would be it’s the marketplace, and if liberals want to put on their own talk radio, they can put it on. At this point, they don’t seem to be able to find much of a market.

FEINSTEIN: Well, apparently, there have been problems. It is growing. But I do believe in fairness. I remember when there was a fairness doctrine, and I think there was much more serious correct reporting to people.

I love how she completely skips the free market question by stating “there have been problems”. Yeah, like nobody wants to listen to liberals on the radio. And we know how liberals fix “problems”—more government regulation. Apply a fairness doctrine if you like, but include the NY Times, CBS News, and the nightly news casts while you are at it.

Liberals are always complaining about the lack of “progressive” talk radio, and now they have “proof” the system is rigged against them. But what our progressive friends always forget is the market they’re trying to serve. People driving to and from work are understandably not excited to hear about how they haven’t done enough for people who aren’t driving to work on a daily basis.

But at the end of the day, unlike their “progressive” friends at NPR, these stations are in the profit business. They cite a case in Portland, not exactly a conservative “Mecca”, where supposedly the evil conservative station owners won’t fill the void for “progressive” talk. I don’t see any evidence in their report to back up their Oregon claims, but the bottom line is still profit. Stations aren’t going to pass up profits for ideological reasons.

If people are dying for “progressive” talk, how do they explain Air America’s collapse? You can’t blame that on stations not being willing to carry the content. If only Soros and Bloomberg had been giving their money away earlier, maybe listening to Air America could have made the list of things the “poor” can do to get paid. That’s certainly the only way I’d willingly listen to Al Franken.

Speaking from his exalted position, Sen. Trent Lott (R) Miss. informed the conservative base that they are idiots. He explained further that reading too many right wing blogs and listening to talk radio instead of listening to their anointed leaders is rotting the mind.

Lott commands you too be more like Air America addressees and swallow the Cool-Aid.

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