What is the worst sort of liberal? A person who says something really terrible, then accuses his most hated political enemy of making the offensive statement. For example, meet liberal Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen. Theoretically, he gets paid big money to express his opinions about politics, not mine. But in a recent column purportedly about Chris Christie and the Tea Party, Cohen wrote about newly-elected mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio: Today’s GOP is not racist, as Harry Belafonte alleged about the tea party, but it is deeply troubled — about the expansion of government, about immigration, about secularism, about the mainstreaming of what used to be the avant-garde. People with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman and with two biracial children. (Should I mention that Bill de Blasio’s wife, Chirlane McCray, used to be a lesbian?) [emphasis added] This family represents the cultural changes that have enveloped parts — but not all — of America. To cultural conservatives, this doesn’t look like their country at all. Really! What exactly constitutes a "conventional view?" For whom does Mr. Cohen claim to be speaking? The columnist suggested that he had been misunderstood by his usually reliable liberal readers when they called for him to be fired. He even had the audacity to claim that it hurt his feelings to be called a racist. Oh, cry me a river, Mr. Cohen. I believe the applicable expression for him would be hoisted with one's own … [Read more...]
Occupation protests versus the TEA party
Mainstream television media paints an interesting picture of the "protestors" staging rallies all around the country -- from Wall Street to Washington DC, and now Atlanta... However, the "unsanitized view" of the Atlanta protestors is much more disturbing. What's up with this echo chanting of the masses, an inculcation of group think? While I respect John Lewis for his participation in the Civil Rights movement, I'm not the biggest fan of his work as a Congressman from Georgia. Nonetheless, I'm shocked that a crowd of his admirers and supporters would refuse to let him speak at their protest. It seems that he wasn't on their agenda. Seriously -- these people had an agenda? As we learned from "Occupy DC", the protestors involved are basically clueless. Their only common goal seems to be the transformation of America into a Communist society by targeting the only real source of wealth generation, the private sector. It's rather telling that one man standing next to Lewis at the occupation in Atlanta wore a t-shirt proudly declaring himself a "union thug". These misguided angry people bemoan the salaries of "corporate fat cats" but ignore the real cause of economic turmoil in America -- entitlement programs, bloated government salaries and excessive government pensions. You only have to read the Sunday paper in Savannah to learn the local school superintendent's annual salary paid from taxpayer coffers is $192,147 and "numerous administrative positions make over $100,000 a year." (Savannah Morning News 10/9/11 pg 14A, letter to editor … [Read more...]
