The Other McCain

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

Andrew Breitbart Moments: 2010 Tax Day Tea Party Edition

Posted on | March 3, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

Mr. Pinko at iOwnTheWorld brings tears to my eyes with this bit from the 2010 Tax Day Tea Party, which starts with me demanding Big Fur Hat come to CPAC11, and then segues to AB:
The irony here is that neither BFH nor I made CPAC11. His reasons are unknown to me, but this Tea Party was no sooner over than I was whisked off to a cornfieldgravel-strewn FOB in Afghanistan. And now Andrew stands promoted. Read more

Category: Andrew Breitbart, Blogging

Andrew Breitbart in CPAC Video:
‘This Is the Charles Johnson Special’

Posted on | March 2, 2012 | 72 Comments

Thanks to I Own the World for this memorable video moment in which Andrew Breitbart poses for a photo with Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, featuring a surprise cameo appearance:

People who get the joke are laughing their asses off. Everybody else is wondering, “Who is Charles Johnson?”

UPDATE: Professor Reynolds gets the joke. And Charles Johnson just called me a “racist piece of s–” on Twitter.

We must each do our own small part to carry on the legacy.

Category: Andrew Breitbart, Atlas Shrugs, Charles Johnson, CPAC, Jihad Watch

Started to Write a Long Post About This

Posted on | March 2, 2012 | 14 Comments

Sometimes you get to the 800-word mark and say to yourself, “Too much.” Instead, I’ll just link to Dan Collins’s post on the background of the falling-out between Andrew Breitbart and Glenn Beck.

UPDATE: Likewise, I’ll just link this article from The Hill about the falling-out between Mark Meckler and the Tea Party Patriots.

UPDATE II: Finally, I’m linking last week’s item from CNS News about Al Regnery’s depature as publisher of The American Spectator.

You can probably discern the common thread here without too much prompting from me. Civilized adults have disagreements which are settled without resort to fistfights or gunfire.

We should probably be happy for that, even if a bit of old-fashioned violence might do something to remedy the ill feelings that often linger as a result of such disputes. I hate it when my friends get into arguments, because I feel as if I must either choose sides or else try to mediate the fight.

Most of the time, I just ignore these feuds and hope they will blow over without any damage to me. But sometimes I become aware that conflicts like this cannot be safely ignored. Festering resentments among friends will occasionally lead to one of those situations where I unwittingly become targeted as an “enemy,” simply because I’ve befriended someone who has pissed off people in a dispute I wasn’t even aware of.

Minding your own business isn’t always easy, or safe.

UPDATE III: A typo has been corrected. Breitbart never had a falling-out with Jeff Beck, but wouldn’t it be awesome if he had?

Category: American Spectator, Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Beck, Tea Party

ObamaCare Was Never Other Than A Wrecking Ball

Posted on | March 2, 2012 | 6 Comments

by Smitty

One of the mistakes we frequently make with the Left is to give them the benefit of the doubt. To consider that they argue in good faith. ObamaCare was never intended to build anything useful. Which is why a diabolically evil person like Kathleen Sebelius can offer an economically nonsensical argument about paying for programs through cratering the tax base.

Americans United for Life has mis-underestimated the nature of the evil we face:
There is no point to ObamaCare other than to wipe out any functional remnant of American healthcare, and pave the way for single payer, which is, of course, antithetical to liberty.

This is why Obama probably doesn’t care about the results of the oral arguments at the SCOTUS this month. Crash it now, crash it later; the rotational velocity of the death spiral is merely a detail.

I get the feeling that we’ve under-estimated this Administration’s commitment to evil significantly. But don’t worry, conservatives: Romney’s got your six. -Foot deep final resting place prepared.

Thanks to Quinton on Twitter.

Category: Barack Obama, Health Care

Mitt Scratch Fever?

Posted on | March 2, 2012 | 9 Comments

by Smitty

Nuge:

after a long heart&soul conversation with MittRomney today I concluded this goodman will properly represent we the people & I endorsed him

This blog would like to point to a troubling item on Wikipedia:

Hearing loss
Nugent also suffers from hearing loss. A November 2005 Rolling Stone article noted Nugent, among others, has publicly acknowledged hearing problems. “The ear’s not too good, especially with background noise”, he said in a 2007 interview. “[But] that’s a small price to pay. Believe me the journey was worth it.”

The beauty of Romney as the consumate politician is that, as with Lord Dorwin (emphasis mine), the listener can hear whatever is desired:

In addition to his (possibly bogus) status as an aristocrat, Lord Dorwin possesses genuine skill as an intragalactic diplomat in his capacity of a leadership representative of the Empire during its declining years. He is responsible for negotiating the treaties that granted autonomy to Anacreon and the other three entities collectively known as the Four Kingdoms. Dorwin disputes the thesis that these territories are independent of the Empire, and his comments are taken by optimistic members of the Encyclopedia Board as proof that the Empire will protect Terminus from threats made by the neighboring Kingdom of Anacreon. However, Hardin’s analysis shows that all of his statements cancel out, meaning that he has spoken for five days without actually saying anything.

Maybe Mitt is just trying to set up a lunch date with Ann Coulter. Who knows?

via PJ Tatler

Category: Mitt Romney

Stickin’ It To The Mann Who’s Been Stickin’ It To You

Posted on | March 2, 2012 | 4 Comments

by Smitty

VA AG Ken Cuccinelli, seeking to shed a little light on the global warming hoax, sued UVA to obtain evidence about Michael “Hockey Stick” Mann’s “research”, and was accused of “harassment“.
The Virginia Supreme Court,

In a rebuke to the Attorney General, and to the writers of Virginia’s Fraud Against Taxpayers Act, the Virginia Supreme Court dismissed, “with prejudice,” the AG’s civil investigative demand against the University of Virginia.

But the truth will out. And, after all this Lefty whinging, will the Streisand Effect make Mann’s email trove all the more interesting?

Michael Mann’s emails are seeing the light of day thanks to a FOIA suit filed by the American Tradition Institute and Del. Bob Marshall at roughly the same time Cuccinelli filed his original CID. ATI won it’s case against UVA last May. Details of those documents are slowing coming forth, something Mann and the University fought tooth and nail.
It will now be up to the court of public opinion to decide whether Mann played fast or loose with his data. And in some ways, crowd-sourcing Mann’s emails — which, you will recall, the University at one time said had been erased, then admitted still existed, then went to court to keep out of public view — could lead to far more interesting discoveries than any CID could have hoped to find.

Yeah, given that level of cover-up, you figure there will be enough smoking guns in there to impress the NRA.

Alternately, Mann could be vindicated as a serious scientist of the highest ethical caliber, victimized in a warlock hunt by the Conservative Inquisition. Also, my name is Bugs Bunny, and you have actually been reading a blog called The World is My Carrot these years.

Category: Global Warming

What Do You Call a Woman Who Is So ‘Sexually Active’ That She Needs More Contraception Than She Can Afford? UPDATE: Is Sandra Fluke a Fraud?

Posted on | March 2, 2012 | 101 Comments

Apparently, the old-fashioned Anglo-Saxon word “slut” won’t do:

Speaker John Boehner on Friday denounced radio host Rush Limbaugh’s “slut” remarks aimed at Georgetown University student Sandra Fluke, but the Ohio Republican also jabbed at Democrats who have been fundraising off the fracas.
“The speaker obviously believes the use of those words was inappropriate, as is trying to raise money off the situation,” Boehner spokesman Michael Steel said in an e-mail Friday morning.

In a predictable MMFA-led tactic, the Left has gone after Limbaugh’s advertisers. Limbaugh is amazed by the ridiculous uproar:

What has happened to our country where law students have to buy their own contraceptives? What has happened to us, folks? What have we done with our hearts? How did we become so cruel?
How did we become so heartless? Require each other to pay for the contraceptives of the women law students at Georgetown? Sandra Fluke reported to Pelosi: “It costs a female student $3,000 to have protected sex over the course of her three-year stint in law school, according to her calculations. ‘Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school,’ Fluke told the hearing. …” That’s a thousand dollars a year of sex — and, she wants us to pay for it. Now, what does that make her? She wants us to buy her sex. She wants us to pay for her sex, and she went to a congressional committee to close the sale.

Michelle Malkin writes:

The language Rush used is completely unacceptable…except when it’s used against the likes of Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, myself, and every other prominent female conservative in public life, of course.

Let us be clear: Words have meanings. To call a woman a “slut” is to say that she is promiscuous — easy, a pushover, loose, “Runaround Sue” — whatever synonym you choose.

The pejorative intent of the word “slut” or any other such term is to express a disapproval of vice, because virtue loses some of its prestige if vice goes uncondemned. We praise and encourage honesty by our condemnation of liars, just as a high regard for courage requires us to scorn cowardice.

We cannot esteem loyalty without also denouncing two-faced backstabbing crapweasels. But why bring John McCain into this?

If we remove “slut” from our discourse, we thereby discard half the reward of chastity, namely the superiority of prestige that the virtuous woman should rightly enjoy in comparison to those who are less virtuous. And, I must hasten to add, we also degrade our discourse if we misuse “slut” as an ugly synonym for “woman I don’t like,” as the Left uses the word against conservative women who have never done anything to deserve a reputation for promiscuity.

The degradation of language is one of the weapons of totalitarianism. During the 1930s, epithets like “saboteur” and “parasite” were used by Stalin and his henchmen to vilify people in the Soviet Union whose only real crime was to have been suspected of posing a threat to Stalin’s supremacy. Nowadays, labels like “racist” and “homophobe” are applied with similar purpose by the Left in America, and this degradation of language in the age of Political Correctness (a phenomenon also known as Cultural Marxism) ought to alarm us, as a warning signal of an encroaching totalitarian ethos in our society.

The Left has substituted the clinical-sounding term “sexually active” for more value-laden terms used to describe promiscuity, because the Left is actively seeking to destroy the system of traditional moral values that condemns sex outside marriage. And while pretending that they have no such intent, the Democrats are exploiting the phony “War on Contraception” meme they’ve created for purely partisan political purposes.

We can laugh at the hysteria — “Republicans are coming to steal your ladyparts!” — but we cannot ignore the fact that the Left is engaged in a Culture War offensive with potentially serious consequences.

UPDATE: Jammie Wearing Fool finds evidence that Sandra Fluke, who was presented as a 23-year-old “coed,” is in fact 30 years old. She is an experienced left-wing activist, past president of “Law Students for Reproductive Justice” (!!!) and evidently enrolled at Georgetown University Law School with the specific purpose of challenging the Catholic university’s policy of denying insurance coverage for contraception.

So apparently, this was all a phony political stunt. It’s a good thing Sandra Fluke didn’t dress up like a hooker and use a hidden camera, or she might have been denounced by Rolling Stone.

UPDATE II: It is important to keep in mind that this controversy involves a genuine public policy dispute, namely the attempt by Democrats to use ObamaCare to impose universal, mandatory, no-deductible, no-co-pay contraceptive coverage on private insurers — and to demonize any opponent as a misogynistic theocrat who would ban contraception. We must keep this in mind, I say, as headlines indicate that “SlutGate” is rapidly becoming an idiotic media carnival sideshow:

Obama in personal phone call to Sandra Fluke:
Your parents should be proud
— Hot Air

Carly Fiorina: Limbaugh ‘insulting’
— Politico

Second Advertiser Pulls Out From Limbaugh 
— Think Progress

The purpose of the carnival sideshow is to distract you from what is really at issue, by focusing your attention on scapegoats and  inflammatory appeals to emotional triggers.

Category: Contraceptive Culture, Rush Limbaugh, Sex

Dear Lord . . .

Posted on | March 2, 2012 | 26 Comments

. . . please hear my sincere prayer: However badly I screw up, whoever I may offend, whatever public act of idiocy I may ever commit, please — O, merciful God! — never let me be guilty of such foolishness as to deserve the kind of mockery Ace of Spades laid down on David Frum.

Amen.

Category: Ace of Spades, Andrew Breitbart
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