"In a democracy (‘rule by mob’), those who refuse to learn from history will be the majority and will dictate that everyone else suffer for their ignorance."
The End Times approach. I’m looking for the Earth to shudder (well, one sure went through the Hivemind collective!), the Sun to go nova and time to end!
Why? Someone at the LA Times (the LA TIMES, folks!) noted that Charlie Gibson twisted Sarah Palin’s request for prayer:
A video [this video, folks—twc.] shows Palin asking a group to pray that the nation’s leaders were sending troops to Iraq “on a task that is from God.”
Gibson, however, mischaracterized her as simply asserting that the nation’s leaders were sending troops to Iraq on a task from God.
Next up? Surely the sea will disappear… (Revelation 21:1), pigs will fly and Satan will open Hell’s Ice Rink on the Left Coast…
It’s the End Times, I tell you folks. Running for the hills won’t help. The LA Times, of all spore collectives… The Hivemind must have the vapors.
I watch/read political attack ads, speeches and interview comments very, very carefully. They can contain useful information a candidate simply would prefer to keep hidden, after all. But when I see an attack by an Obamassiah campaign ad that features comments like the following, I look very, very carefully:
“”He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail, still doesn’t understand the economy, and favors two hundred billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class”
Hmmm, My dad’s 85 and is as computer literate as the average Windows user. What’s the story on McCain, I wondered. So, checking up, I found this (Thanks, Jonah Goldberg):
McCain gets emotional at the mention of military families needing food stamps or veterans lacking health care. The outrage comes from inside: McCain’s severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes. Friends marvel at McCain’s encyclopedic knowledge of sports. He’s an avid fan – Ted Williams is his hero – but he can’t raise his arm above his shoulder to throw a baseball.
(Emphasis in the material as quoted by Goldberg)
So, McCain “doesn’t know how to send an email”? Sure, I guess he could have someone set him up with a voice command system, but tell me: how easy would it be for YOU to use a computer if you couldn’t use a keyboard?
For making a scurrilous personal attack the cornerstone of his attack:
Strke one for that ad.
As for “still doesn’t understand the economy”… I’d not be throwing rocks from your glass house, were I you, Mr. Obamassiah. The kinds of central planning and control you’ve advocated for everything from energy to health care have all been done before, and the Soviets didn’t have any success, even with totalitarian control over people’s lives.
Strike two.
Tax breaks for the rich? What is the Obamassiah Campaign smoking? ALL of Obama’s tax proposals are: soak the producers and give to the drones. The tax cuts proposed (to be kept or expanded) by the McCain ticket, while falling far, far short of the benefits that would accrue with The FairTax, would nevertheless benefit all Americans. Think about it: tax cuts for corporations=lower operating costs. Those lower costs go to
–the bottom line, benefitting shareholders, among whom are nearly every non-governmental retirement fund in America, millions of individual, hard-working Americans saving and planning for their children’s college educations, to start a small business, for their own future retirements, etc.
–more capital for expanding business and creating jobs here, instead of shipping them to a more favorable tax climate
–more money for wages
And much, much more. Heck, lowering business taxes and thus spurring growth has proven to actually raise tax “income” for the government in the past (facts are stubborn things).
Who, exactly, doesn’t understand the economy and taxation? *feh* What a maroon.
Sarah and Todd Palin’s decision to complete her recent pregnancy, despite advance notice that their baby Trig had Down syndrome, is hailed by many in the pro-life movement as walking the walk as well as talking the talk.
But a senior Canadian doctor is now expressing concerns that such a prominent public role model as the governor of Alaska and potential vice president of the United States completing a Down syndrome pregnancy may prompt other women to make the same decision against abortion because of that genetic abnormality. And thereby reduce the number of abortions.
While the answer to my question is obviously, “Yes!” I’d advise you click on over to read the whole thing. See for yourself just how stupid and tone deaf leftists can be.
Once again,
“Never stop a man who’s commiting suicide with the jawbone of an ass.”
Yep. That applies as well to the Hivemind.
UPDATE: The LA Times post referenced above is now missing, but you can just RIGHT CLICK on the image below and open to see a sreencap of it:
Let’s let this post begin with some Begala (rhymes with “Big Caca”):
I was in the middle of a Neil Armstrong Moment when I was on CNN Tuesday morning. Rather than let McCain and Palin get away with their lie, anchor John Roberts played a videotape of Sarah Palin in a 2006 gubernatorial debate in which she endorsed the bridge from Ketchikan to Gravina Island saying, “I’m not going to stand in the way of progress that our congressional delegation and the position of strength that they have right now.” Perhaps her supporters, noting Palin’s support for banning books, teaching creationism and doubting global warming will argue that for her, calling the bridge “progress” was her way of saying she was against it.)
Full stop. Would that be the “anchor John Roberts” who recently “slipped and said ‘we’ when asking [Begala] how Democrats should respond to Republican attacks”? Well, obvious bias aside, what’s the substance of Begala’s attack? As to the Bridge to Nowhere, see my previous post today, Mr. Begala (he won’t, of course. Its substance–Jim DeMint’s article–is in the Evil Wall Street Journal, the reading of which no doubt gives Begala a rash).
The banning books lie? Read this and weep, Mr. Begala. (note: the link is to a pdf) The first paragraph of the linked document suffices to demonstrate that Begala is a liar or a fool:
We at the City of Wasilla have received many emails and requests for information about “banned or censured” books at the Wasilla Library while former Mayor Palin was in office. We have no records of any books being “banned or censured” ever.
The emphasis is in the original.
And what of Biggaliah’s assertion that Palin supports “teaching creationism”? First, by simply and baldly stating a very genral assertion of contrafactual “trutherism” Begala is simply attempting to bias his readers’ perceptions of Palin as a whole. Second, by doing so, he’s attempting to impeach any arguments refuting his earlier assertion with this disingenuous, subtle ad hominem attack. But for anyone willing to do 30 seconds (or less) of fact checking, OK, maybe 45 seconds for a slow reader following up on footnotes giving actual sources, the “Palin wants radical fundie nutjobs teaching superstition in schools” meme falls flat.
Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska’s schools. She has said that students should be allowed to “debate both sides” of the evolution question, but she also said creationism “doesn’t have to be part of the curriculum.”
As to doubting global warming *sigh*. From Begala’s other bloviations, one gathers he means anthropogenic global warming as opposed to heliogenic global warming. *heh* That being the fair assumption based on Begala’s consistent stance, one can only respond to his assertion that Palin is a “global warming denier” (or at least dounter) with a big fat, “So? So she’s rational and you’re not. That’s a crime?”
The less than 30 seconds it took me to read the “analysis” at Factcheck.org and click through to a primary source (“Palin has not pushed creation science as governor,” Alaska Daily News–Dan Joling, with references aplenty) would have served Begala well, had he any desire for truth–or even to NOT appear to be an idiot.
“Yes, she once supported the project: But after witnessing the problems created by earmarks for her state and for the nation’s budget, she did what others like me have done: She changed her position and saved taxpayers millions. Even the Alaska Democratic Party credits her with killing the bridge.
“When the Senate had its chance to stop the Bridge to Nowhere and transfer the money to Katrina rebuilding, Messrs. Obama and Biden voted for the $223 million earmark, siding with the old boys’ club in the Senate. And to date, they still have not publicly renounced their support for the infamous earmark.”
Watch the whole thing from which Charlie Gibson drew a partial comment out of context in order to make it say something Palin did NOT say:
In case you missed it, let me reproduce the relevant portions that Gibson either wittingly or stupidly twisted, with significant the words Gibson left out or glossed over with paraphrase:
” Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God… That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”
So, either Charlie Gibson did not actually listen to Palin’s comments or read a transcript or understand what he heard or read OR he did and deliberately edited her comments to twist them. Those words are plainly and clearly a conditional statement, anexhortation to pray for our national leaders to chose a path approved by God, to make their plan for Iraq line up with a Godly purpose.
That’s been a perfectly normal Christian thing to do for a couple of millennia–actually longer given Christian acceptance of the Jewish scripture as authoritative and such injunctions as to the Jews in captivity in pagan Babylon demand that the captives,
“Seek the welfare of the city where I have sent you into exile, and pray to the Lord on its behalf; for in its welfare you will have welfare.” Jeremiah 29:7
And, among other passages in the New Testament exhorting Christians to be good citizens, Paul wrote to a young pastor concerning his new pastorate,
“1 I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;
“2 For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.”–I Timothy 2: 1-2
Sarah Palin’s exhortation to pray THAT our leaders plan in agreement with God’s will is no statement of belief that their plans already are.
Any other reading of it is either disingenuous or stupid.
Therefore, Charlie Gibson is either an idiot (for not carefully listening to or reading her actual words or because of his inability to understand plain English) OR he is a liar for taking bits out of context and twisting them to say what she did not.
Either way, unless he recants his slander (that’s “lieing accusation”)–or ABC slaps him upside the head hard–ABC will be on my list of banned networks, just as CBS has been ever since Rathergate.
UPDATE: OK, I’m going with option 3, that is, Gibson is a fool AND a liar. And the Mass Media Podpeople who’ve (that’ve? After all, their actual humanity is lessened the more deeply they’re absorbed into the Collective… ) jumped on this and other Gibson-Palin points, as noted by Bill Dyer (Beldar) guest Blogging at Hugh Hewitt’s place, about her “Bush Doctrine” NON-gaffe:
Anyone who criticizes Sarah Palin, then, for asking Charlie Gibson to be more specific about the “Bush Doctrine” is trying to mislead you in at least two ways:
They’re pretending that the term “Bush Doctrine” has a single clear, unambiguous meaning that anyone who follows national affairs ought to have immediately recognized. It doesn’t, as I think this post and the materials I’ve linked here more than adequately establish.
They’re pretending that because Gov. Palin didn’t immediately try to guess which of several plausible meanings Gibson meant to give that term, but instead asked for clarification, she therefore must have been unprepared to discuss any of them. Gov. Palin herself disproved that premise, because upon receiving the requested clarification, she immediately responded with clarity and self-assurance.
If they had bothered to look, even the Wikipedia could have cured Josh Marshall, Greg Sargent, or Andrew Sullivan of their illusion that there’s a single, simple meaning to the term “Bush Doctrine.”
Yeh, I think I’ll stick with “Charlie Gibson and other Mass Media Podpeople Hivemind Spores of its ilk are fools and liars.”
