The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Special Rights for Teen Lesbians?

Posted on | June 3, 2013 | 107 Comments

You know how the “Free Kate” crowd say they have no agenda beyond “fairness” and “equality”? There is reason to doubt:

It’s difficult to describe my reaction to Kristin Ireland’s tearful “Lifetime movie” sympathy for Paige in Pennsylvania, jailed for being an 18-year-old having sex with a 14-year-old girl.

According to Ireland, this is a story about “railroading and “discrimination,” as if 18-year-old guys in Pennsylvania were routinely banging 14-year-olds without any fear of prosecution.

I think not, ma’am.

And I think Kristin Ireland wouldn’t be boo-hooing if this was a teenage boy doing time for statutory rape. No, her sympathy is reserved entirely for her fellow lesbians, and so therefore either:

  1. We must create a special Gay Jailbait Loophole to prevent the prosecution of “consensual” gay sex with 14-year-olds;
    or
  2. We must effectively end all prosecution for such crimes, hetero or homo, because equal application of the law would occasionally result in some 18-year-old lesbians going to jail for dating ninth-graders, and this would make Kristin Ireland cry.

Do these people ever think in terms of contingencies or unintended consequences? Can they not remove themselves from the emotional zone where tearful mothers bemoan the fate of their criminal children?

“Sure, Johnny stole that car, but lots of teenagers steal cars and get away with it. Why did they send my poor Johnny to jail?”

Nobody’s making a Lifetime movie about that, are they? No, and if Johnny the Teenage Hoodlum gets caught banging a 14-year-old, Kristin Ireland doesn’t give a damn about that, either.

It’s all about the Sacred Sapphic Sisterhood with her, and so the parents of Paige’s sexual conquest who objected to their daughter’s initiation into that sorority at age 14 are just hateful bigots.

Ditto for any parent who might object to their 14-year-old son playing naked leapfrog with 18-year-old guys, and we don’t know if Kristin Ireland if willing to extend the acceptable range beyond this specific 18/14 spread, or whether she’d grant enough leeway for a 19-year-old to take your 13-year-old to the Seventh-Grade Dance (and then go parking at Lover’s Lane afterwards, of course).

Exactly where Kristin Ireland would draw the line is hard to determine, but we can only hope it’s somewhere short of the point at which a perp tearfully tells us, “But she willingly got in the van — she said she wanted to help me find my puppy — it was consensual!”

A Lifetime movie, indeed.

UPDATE: If it’s OK for lesbians to have sex with 14-year-olds, certainly there’s no reason 16-year-olds should be off-limits, right?

On March 21, Garcia picked up the girl, and went to Starbucks for coffee. It was at the coffee shop that the teacher told the teen about her romantic dream involving the student.
A week later, Garcia texted the girl to inform her she had just broken up with her boyfriend, and the pair expressed personal feelings for each other.
The teen told Garcia she needed to see her, and the teacher picked her up in a rental car to drive the girl back to her apartment, “where they kissed passionately for the rest of the evening.”
The following day, the pair reportedly went shopping together for a sex toy at the Katz Boutique and Sex Shop.

“Her romantic dream”! And only haters could object.

UPDATE II: Thanks to the commenter who found this July 2010 sentencing record for Warren, Pa.:

Paige Moriah Johnson, 19, of 2407 Lenhart Rd., to six to 24 months in a state correctional institution, $825 in fines and fees and pay the cost of prosecution for corruption of minors; and to six to 12 months in a state correctional institution consecutive to the first sentence and undergo a sexual offenders evaluation for corruption of minors. Johnson was ordered to have no contact with victim in the case.

This is evidently the “Paige” whose case drove Kristin Ireland to tears, and it so happens that the next case in the docket is this:

James Edward Vroman, 22, of Centerville, Pa., to 12 to 24 months in state correctional institution, pay the cost of prosecution, $750 in fines and fees and undergo a sexual offenders evaluation for statutory sexual assault; and to three to 12 months in a state correctional institution consecutive to the first sentence and 100 hours community service for interference with custody of children. Vroman was ordered to have no contact with the victim in the case.

So it’s not just females who are doing time for messing with jailbait, but Kristin Ireland weeps no tears for James Vroman.

 

Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt

Grow Up or Go Home

Posted on | June 3, 2013 | 14 Comments

Over the past couple of years, Ali Akbar has occasionally suggested doing a book called Operatives, about all the behind-the-scenes drama in politics, the existence of which most people never suspect.

But I’d never write a book like that, because (a) my sources would never speak to me again, and (b) it’s probably best people don’t know what kind of shady backstabbing egomaniacal polecats earn their livings by getting Republicans elected.

The fate of America hinges on defeating the Democrats and that, in turn, requires hiring a crew of vicious unscrupulous pirates whose motivation is best summarized by the question, “What’s in it for me?”

Having seen these people at close range — I never burn my sources, so I’m honor-bound to take their secrets to the grave — I have to say that most of them are not really bad people, it’s just that the business of politics naturally attracts people whose chief characteristics are ambition and an appetite for power. Goody-two-shoes types don’t last long in a racket like that. Either they quit in disgust, or else they get screwed over and dumped by the side of the road. “Idealist = loser.”

The classic example of how the political operative game works was the Abramoff scandal, in which “Indian Jack” went to federal prison while Ralph Reed, who reportedly collected $5 million in fees from Abramoff’s casino clients . . . Well, Ralph kept his $5 million. Legally.

Only a hard-boiled cynic lasts more than a few weeks in that kind of business. Fortunately, I’m merely a journalist — like a sports writer reporting the final score, and never mind if the starting tailback is jacked up on illegal painkillers and dodging child-support payments. If he scores the winning touchdown, he’s the hero of the story. But if he loses . . .

Somebody has to be the scapegoat for defeat and it’s predictable that, whenever Republicans lose elections, we’re treated to tawdry tales of incompetent staffers and money-grubbing consultants whose blunders and grifting are blamed for the loss. Most of the time, it’s the same “sources close to the campaign” (who were confidently predicting victory in October) who anonymously leak out post-election dirt on their campaign insider buddies.

Loyalty? They can’t even spell the word.

Nevertheless, even in the treacherous shark-tank of Republican politics, there are standards no wise operative would ever violate:

Eyewitnesses reported that Miner followed former Senate candidate (and potential Congressional candidate) Dan Bongino into the parking lot at Michael’s Eighth Avenue. Miner reportedly was involved in a drunken confrontation with Bongino (Miner was reportedly the drunk one as you will see in a moment) that resulted in Miner shouting and cursing at him. It’s a good thing Miner didn’t try to get physical with Bongino — it could have gotten ugly.
Sometime after that and before the charges were filed at 1:22 a.m. on Thursday May 30, Mr. Miner was stopped by a Westminster Police officer on Route 140 Westbound at Route 31.
Miner (Ryan Richard Miner if you’re using Maryland Case Search) ended up being charged with driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, driving under the influence of alcohol per se, driving while impaired by alcohol, failure to display registration card on demand, negligent driving, and failure to obey traffic control devices. The per se charge means that Miner did agree to take a breathalyzer test and blew over a 0.08. I’ve heard that Miner has retained GOP activist and attorney Greg Kline as his defense counsel.
Miner has been volunteering for the gubernatorial campaign of Harford County Executive David Craig. While doing this, Miner has made all sorts of backhanded digs online and elsewhere about Bongino, who was originally thought to be running for governor.

You can read the rest of that at The Quinton Report, and also the follow-up about Miner getting thrown under the Craign campaign bus.

This kind of stuff happens often enough that political junkies seldom pay attention to it — another operative who pushed his amateur-hour act too far — so it’s pretty impressive when a feud involving an Ohio-based consulting firm you never heard of turns into a 5,000-word feature article by McKay Coppins of BuzzFeed.

Show of hands, who ever heard of Strategy Group for Media? Rex Elsass? Nick Everhart? No, you never heard of those guys, but somehow the fact that Everhart worked 10 years for Elsass’s firm, then left under less-than-amicable circumstances is big news at BuzzFeed.

Question: When did McKay Coppins or anybody else at BuzzFeed ever write this kind of inside-dirt story about Democrats?
Answer: Never.

BuzzFeed is a partisan liberal blog, or otherwise they would occasionally dish dirt on Democrats this way, which they never do.

Do I want to wade through a 5,000-word gossip column about routine backstabbing among Republican consultants? No, I don’t, and I think that the world of Republican operatives should be divided into roughly two categories:

  1. People who never talk to McKay Coppins; and
  2. People who are never going to work in GOP politics again.

If McKay Coppins were on fire, I wouldn’t piss on him to put out the flames.

Category: Republicans

Comprehensive Aggregation Reform

Posted on | June 3, 2013 | 6 Comments

National Immigration Forum
Funded by Soros and the Left
— Matthew Boyle, Breitbart.com

Schumer predicts immigration bill
will pass Senate by July 4, aims for 70 votes
— Russell Berman, The Hill

Finally, the Left Protests the Gang of 8
— Mickey Kaus, Daily Caller

Immigration reform deal hangs on border security
— Carrie Budoff Brown and Seung Min Kim, Politico

What’s up with you haters, huh? You know who I’m talking about, you partisan xenophobic extremists who think that we can’t do border security without granting amnesty registered provisional status to illegal aliens undocumented workers future Democrat voters.

Everybody knows that the necessary first step to fixing our immigration system is to give a free pass to 11 million sneaky foreigners, and the only people who disagree with that are hate-filled bigots who aren’t paying attention to what George Soros tells them to think:

In 2009, OSI [the Soros-funded Open Society Institute] donated $257,152 to NIF aimed at “implementing immigration reform campaign through communications, policy, and field organizing.”
Also in 2009, OSI donated another $1.5 million to “allow” NIF to “manage and lead Four Pillars Campaign for comprehensive immigration reform, and sustain core policy work supporting and leading policy efforts.”
A year later, in 2010, Soros’s OSI gave NIF another $1.5 million over two separate grants both intended for “general operating support.”
NIF has also received $1 million total from the leftist Ford Foundation, spread over two separate half-million-dollar grants in 2009 and 2011. Those grants were both intended for advocacy in favor of comprehensive immigration reform.
Jim Wallis, the president and CEO of Sojourners, a leading force in the Evangelical Immigration Table group, has admitted to accepting funding from Soros as well.
World magazine writer Marvin Olasky laid out in a 2010 article how Wallis and his organization, Sojourners, had received $325,000 from Soros groups over three grants from 2004, 2006 and 2007. According to OSI’s 2007 990 form filed with the IRS, available publicly through the Foundation Center, the 2007 money — a total of $100,000 — was for Wallis’s Sojourners “to support the Christians for Comprehensive Immigration Reform Campaign.”

This is the Open Borders Gospel, and the only problem is that you heretics don’t have sufficient faith in St. George of Soros!

Gang of Eight Bill Would Cost $6 Trillion

Well, yeah, there’s that, too. And there’s also the frightening possibility that you won’t click this link and read more at Viral Read.

Haters!

 


Category: Immigration

LIVE AT FIVEEIGHT: 06.02.13

Posted on | June 3, 2013 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Erdogan Says Protests Not “Turkish Spring”

According to the BBC, this is a bulldozer making its way toward the PM's office

According to the BBC, this is a bulldozer making its way toward the PM’s office

Violence flares on fourth day of protests

At Least 119 Dead In PRC Poultry Plant Fire
“I think safety…is not the first priority in their design plan.”


Wikileaker’s Court-Martial Finally Gets Underway
Could face life in prison



POLITICS
Sen. Schumer: Immigration Bill To Pass Senate By July 4

Senator Chuck "U." Schumer (D-NY)

Senator Chuck “U.” Schumer (D-NY)

House GOP says they’ll write their own bill, one piece at a time


IRS Woes Grow With Report Of Conference Spending

Massachusetts Senate Hopefuls To Meet In First Debate


Virginia Governor McDonnell Announces End Of Waiting Period For Restoration Of Felons’ Rights

Rand Paul: GOP Needs To Become A “Bigger” Party

Brass Seeks To Temper Military Justice Overhaul

Rep. Issa Calls Jay Carney “A Paid Liar”

Obama To Host Conference On Mental Health In Response To Newtown Massacre

Administration Faces Opposition In Bid To Sell TVA



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Brent Falls Below $100 On Oversupply, PRC Slowdown: NYMEX $91.40, Brent $99.68
European Manufacturing Up As Outlook Improves
Dollar Under Pressure In Asia After Mixed Data
Draghi Defends ECB Bond Program Ahead Of Court Hearing
ROK Finds No GMO In Initial Tests Of US Wheat
Bonds’ Point Of No Return About A Standard Deviation Away
Apple Said To Be Pressing For Internet Radio Deals
Asus Transformer Book Trio Runs Windows 8, Android Simultaneously
Apple Goes To Trial To Defend Alleged E-Book Price Fixing
Asus Vivo Mouse Marries Mouse With Multi-Touch Trackpad
Foxconn Developing Five Firefox OS Devices, Could Include Tablet
Film Crew To Dig Up New Mexico Landfill In Search Of Atari’s “E.T.”



SPORTS
Blackhawks Strike Quick, Take 2-0 Lead Over Kings

L.A. goalie human after all

L.A. goalie human after all

‘Hawks prove speed kills in 4-2 Game Two victory

For The Finals: Pacers, Heat To Meet In Game 7

Tony Stewart Back In Contention After Win At Dover


Clippers’ Grant Hill Retires After 19 Years

Rays Bounce Back, Pound Tribe 11-3

NBA Fines Pacers’ Hibbert $75K For Saying “No Homo”, Calling Reporters M****rf***ers

BoSox Blank Yanks In Rain-Shortened Game

Astros Hold Off Angels For 5-4 Win

Stormy Days: Latest Loss To Braves Drops Nationals Below .500



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Michael Douglas Claims Oral Sex Caused His Throat Cancer

YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG

YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG

Claims smoking and drinking had nothing to do with it

“All In The Family” Star Jean Stapleton Dies, 90

Amanda Bynes Kicked Out Of Her NYC Apartment

Matt Smith To Quit “Doctor Who” After Christmas Special

Box Office: “After Earth” Loses To “Now You See Me”; Both Crushed By “Fast & Furious 6”

Bruno Mars’ Mother Bernadette Hernandez Dies Of Brain Aneurysm, 55

“Why Does Female Empowerment Have To Involve Leather Knickers And Heels?”

Selena Gomez Regrets Nothing

No Family Counseling For Lindsay After Mom & Dad Lohan Have Huge Fight



FOREIGNERS
Turkish Markets Tumble As Protests Unsettle Investors
Thousands Flee As Flood Waters Rise In Central Europe
Russia Says US Not Putting Enough Pressure On Syrian Opposition
Abbas Appoints New Palestinian Prime Minister
Egyptian Supreme Constitutional Court Rules Legislature Illegally Elected
Activists Call on Chinese People To Wear Black In Memory Of Tiananmen Square Massacre
Queen Elizabeth Celebrates 60th Anniversary Of Coronation
Pro-Hezbollah Sheikh Survives Assassination Attempt In Lebanon
PRC Deflects Criticism Over Maritime Disputes, Defends Relationship With Norks



BLOGS & STUFF
Vodkapundit: Tiff For Tat
Jammie Wearing Fools: Obama Stooge David Plouffe – Hey, That Criminal Darrell Issa Has Some Nerve Investigating Obama And The IRS
Gateway Pundit: THE PIGS ARE SQUEALING – IRS Agent Point To DC Officials In Targeting Scandal
Protein Wisdom: IRS Agent Indicates Washington, Not “Rogue Agents”, Directed TEA Party Targeting
Power Line: The Friends Of Richard Windsor
Rick Moran: Marco Rubio Wants Congres To Develop Border Security Plan, Not White House
NewsBusters: CNN Insiders Say Wolf Blitzer To Be Gradually Eased Aside For Younger, Hipper Hosts
American Thinker: House Judiciary Committee “Very Concerned” About Holder Perjury


Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Desert Plains

Posted on | June 2, 2013 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

I was tempted to put up a Rob Halford pic for the benefit of the ladies and other folks who like the leather look (IYKWIMAITYD) but :effort:. As usual, some of these links lead to pix which are decidedly NSFW, so exercise discretion when making with the clicky clicky.

Valley of the Shadow leads off with Elvira and a plea for help on behalf of a friend being cyberstalked. If you can help, please do! Laughing Conservative follows with Katerina Kurkova, Randy’s Roundtable chips in with Chandler Lawson, and Blackmailers Don’t Shoot has Pretty Girls on a Thursday: This One’s For The Jocks. Ninety Miles From Tyranny returns with a Hot Pick of the Late Night and a Morning Mistress, Animal Magnetism points us to Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and First Street Journal submits Swabbies. Also, Fishersville Mike has Miranda Lambert and Subject to Change offers a fine selection of lingerie and evening wear. 😉

EBL rounds up all Stacy’s Kaitlyn Hunt posts in But I’m A Cheerleader, adds more lesbian content with Blue Is The Warmest Colour; also, Women of Sicily and some sad, pathetic and batshit crazy Rule 5.

A View From The Beach presents Denise Richards, What Is It About Mitch McConnell?, It Must Have Been Their Furlough Day, Dodge Ball Anyone?, Science Says Tattoos Make Women Look Easy, Yes, It Is About The Damn Nail!, Silly Canadians, Sharknado!, All Lesbian All The Time, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, and Fast Fingers.

Soylent Green starts the week with a housewarming gift and the Memorial Day Monday Motivationer, followed by an Afternooner via Irish, Tuesday Titillation, Humpday Hawtness, Overnighty Angie, Falconsword Fursday Ginger, Corset Curios, T-Gif Friday, Overnighty: Best Chainmail Ever, and AM Awesome Luci.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Denise Richards, and his vintage babe is Linda Christian; also, Sex In Advertising! Dustbury offers Colbie Caillat and Joni James.

The DaleyGator’s DaleyBabes this week included Regina Hall, Vanity, Maya Sano, Anna Konno, Michelle Sarmiento, Kristen Weatherbee, Paulina Rubio, Manuela Arbalaez, Tomoko Aoyama, Olga Kurylenko, Julia Biniek, Brit Bliss, Rosie Jones, Tugba Ercan, Emma K, and Marielle Jaffe. Also, Random beauties to ward off Feminuts, Boy Kisses Hot Reporter On Live TV, and Why Would A Woman This Hot Date Chris Brown?

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Submissions for next week’s D-Day Edition of Rule 5 Sunday will be due in the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox no later than Saturday, June 8.


Category: Rule 5

PHOTO: ‘Model Citizen’ Kaitlyn Hunt Helps Sister in 2-on-1 Beach Beatdown

Posted on | June 2, 2013 | 91 Comments

Five days ago, I called attention to the video in which alleged victim of homophobia Kaitlyn Hunt screams at her younger sister: “Beat her f**king ass, Emily! Beat her ass! Get that bitch!”

Someone who was present for this incident captured the image above, which shows Kaitlyn — with the telltale bird tattoo on her right shoulder — turning this fight into a 2-on-1 beatdown of the other girl.

Are we really surprised that some local gay-rights groups aren’t supporting the “Free Kate” campaign on Hunt’s behalf?

Who wants to join the herd of credulous people who were deceived by Kaitlyn’s mother’s May 17 Facebook post, which described her as “wonderful . . . exemplary . . . respected and well liked . . . never been in trouble, ever, she truly is the model student and child”? Who really believes that Kaitlyn Ashley Hunt (Booking #2013-00000708) is, as her lawyer has claimed, a “model citizen“?

Is this how “model citizens” behave? Have law enforcement authorities in Indian River County seen this video?

Shouldn’t they be investigating this incident as an assault?

After the initial fact-deficient hysteria, which portrayed Kaitlyn Hunt as a martyr for the cause of equality, Matt Ross says it “seems that calmer voices are starting to prevail.”

Let’s hope so. Another blogger coins the word “Trayvoned”  to describe this myth-making process: The media provide a carefully constructed narrative of victimhood and, by the time countervailing facts emerge, the crusading mob is already emotionally invested.

S.J. Reidhead compiles some of the more vicious examples of irrational hate generated by the “Free Kate” mob, including a Canadian transsexual named Amber Dawn Redman who wants to see conservative Christians “tied . . . to a stake, tortured and burned.”

Again, are we really surprised by this? What do we expect of people who celebrate a violent tattooed she-hooligan like Kaitlyn Hunt?

“Beat her f**king ass, Emily! Beat her ass! Get that bitch!”

You stay classy, Hunt family . . .




 

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Category: Crime, Florida, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

It’s the New Astrology, or Something

Posted on | June 2, 2013 | 19 Comments

The belief that we have found the Rosetta Stone of human personality — the one factor that lets us analyze others as “types” — is not new, but the study of temperament isn’t very interesting to us sanguine/cholerics.

(Grin.)

There is an old joke that all people can be divided into two broad categories, the largest of which is “Arrogant Assholes Who Think All People Can Be Divided Into Two Broad Categories.”

Few people will endorse a schema of human traits that does not flatter them personally. The belief that we possess Special Insight into the personalities of others is always enormously flattering — “We are so wise!” — and the natural desire to think well of ourselves is the subject of two books that I frequently recommend:

  1. The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell; and
  2. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminished Expectations, by Christopher Lasch.

Now, it must be remarked that Lasch was both a man of the Left and a Freudian, so you will find certain obsolete analyses and expressions of unfortunate prejudice in his book. Nevertheless, his insight into how the post-1960s culture reflected of a society-wide tendency toward narcissistic traits was right on target — and Lasch’s work was praised by many conservatives at the time.

Sowell’s excellence scarcely needs recommending to any conservative reader, but if you’ve never read The Vision of the Anointed, or if it has been a few years since you read it, please try this: Read Sowell and Lasch back-to-back and cross-reference their insights.

People with damaged egos have a desperate need to feel good about themselves and, over the past half-century, changes in American society have left a lot of ego-damaged people floating around out there, seeking personal validation through politics, the way people once sought validation in cult religions and astrology.

“Hey, baby — let me guess: Scorpio, right?”

You’ve got about an 8% chance of being right on a hustle like that and if she says, “No, I’m a Leo,” your next line is obvious: “Really? But I’m guessing you’ve probably got a Scorpio moon, right?” Given that most people have never done a full chart, she’s got no idea, but if she is into astrology — and back in the ’70s, it was a big thing — she’s going to be intrigued by your pretended insight.

Of course, the whole point of that line is to find out if she’s into astrology, because chicks who are into astrology are easy.

Did anybody else notice John Edwards’s baby-mama Rielle Hunter was all into that kind of foolish “New Age” stuff? Bingo.

On the one hand, such ready-made belief systems — whether it’s astrology or Marxism or birth-order analysis — are just a hustle.

On the other hand, although the fashionable nonsense changes from decade to decade, the type of personality who buys into fashionable nonsense remains fairly consistent. So if you’re into the Latest Thing (whatever that thing may be) you have thereby classified yourself as the type of person who is always into the Latest Thing.

Think about that, OK?

Category: Intellectuals

Marshall University Journalism Professor Expresses Violent Fantasies Against NRA

Posted on | June 2, 2013 | 62 Comments

Professor Christopher Swindell rants in February 2011 YouTube video

America’s university faculty lounges harbor totalitarians, and Christopher Swindell, Ph.D., is a campus commissar of communications at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. His field of expertise apparently includes Hating Right-Wingers 101:

Watching the celebration at the NRA convention over the defeat of background checks was the most nauseating experience of the day.

Coherent sentences are optional for Professor Swindell:

This foaming at the mouth, Obamar is coming for the guns, Nanny Bloomberg is a bad billionaire, and most despicable of all, those survivors and victims are pawns in the liberal agenda is knuckle-dragging Cretan talk.

(He means “cretin,” unless the professor or his spell-check program intend an insult to residents of the Greek island of Crete.)

And no matter how many times Sen. Joe Manchin tries to explain his compromise (a decent attempt thwarted by extremists), the hard right lies and foams. The repeated lies now seem like the truth, what with the likes of Sen. Kelly Ayotte telling them.
Probably the most serious miscalculation opponents make is the guest list for the NRA speaker’s podium. To let the half-wit half-term quitter Sarah Palin have a microphone is to alienate the very people Republicans need to work with on future legislation. To say nothing of the other speakers. . . .

A journalism professor wrote this ranting gibberish? I’ve seen better prose in the comments at Daily Kos. Eventually, Professor Swindell gets around to making his point — The Glorious People’s Army must crush this reactionary insurrection of the kulak saboteurs!

The NRA advocates armed rebellion against the duly elected government of the United States of America. That’s treason, and it’s worthy of the firing squad. . . .
Normally, I am a peaceable man, but in this case, I am willing to answer the call to defend the country. From them.
To turn the song lyric they so love to quote back on them, “We’ll put a boot in your —, it’s the American way.”
Except it won’t be a boot. It’ll be an M1A Abrams tank, supported by an F22 Raptor squadron with Hellfire missiles. Try treason on for size. See how that suits. And their assault arsenal and RPGs won’t do them any good.

Do Professor Swindell’s colleagues on the Marshall University journalism faculty approve these sentiments? Do the taxpayers of West Virginia know that they’re paying this semi-literate clown to teach journalism to their young people? I’m sure readers will be shocked — shocked! — to discover that Professor Swindell agrees with Charles Johnson:

“Stop treating climate change as a myth. Good conservatives should abandon leaders who take this settled issue and kick it like a political football.”

That’s from Professor Swindell’s 2011 YouTube rant entitled, “Why we’re not getting along.” Of course, he’s a semi-literate journalism professor and not a climate scientist, but I’m sure “good conservatives” won’t mind letting Christopher Swindell, Ph.D., tell them who their leaders should be, just like I’m sure the taxpayers of West Virginia don’t mind paying the salary of a professor whose environmental agenda would effectively shut down the coal industry.

One of the few sane men left in academia sees this as further proof of the Higher Education Bubble. More commentary at Weasel Zippers and Twitchy. Background reading from Bryan Preston at PJ Tatler.

 

 


Category: Education, Intellectuals
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