UPDATED: “This is about the systematic dismantling of the progressive voice in this country,” and other demented moonbat reactions to the MSNBC-Olbermann divorce.
In Which Charles Johnson Belatedly Discovers We Can Fact Check Your A$$
The Diary of Daedalus guys caught the LGF Grand Wizard trying to disavow the term “St. Pancake” as a reference to anti-Israel protester Rachel Corrie, resulting in Patterico’s conclusion: “In short, Charles Johnson is a sanctimonious, lying hypocrite.”
This brings up two issues:
- Why disavow what was, in fact, a brilliant meme? I’m not sure which LGF commenter coined “St. Pancake,” but it was perfect. I used it last year in describing the Left’s “Rachel Corrie Death Cult.” People whose misguided idealism leads them to destruction deserve all the mockery we can heap on them. The purpose of that mockery is to discourage others from imitating their folly, to say to them, “Don’t be such a fool.” Conservatives naturally are averse to breaching the civilized custom that one should not speak ill of the dead. But what shall we say of amoral monsters who have devoted their lives to the destruction of civilization? If Ted Gold, Diana Oughton and Terry Robbins do not deserve respectful remembrance, neither does Rachel Corrie, whose “pacifism” made her a stooge of terrorists. She is forevermore “St. Pancake” and Charles Johnson is an idiot for attempting to disavow that.
- Will Patterico mend the breach with Jeff Goldstein? The blogosphere never forgets and, when I linked Patterico the other day, Joy McCann commented: “I’m amused at your linking Patterico, Stacy … but then, that’s me.” And I knew to what she referred. While I’m willing to let bygones be bygones, there is still the matter of Patterico’s past offenses against Jeff at Protein Wisdom. Patterico would no doubt deny that he was at fault, but each man is the the judge of his own honor. Jeff was my friend in the hour of need, and if Patterico offended Jeff, it is incumbent on me to insist that my friend must be made whole or there can be no rapprochement.
No blog is an island, as I say, and when you’re a Jet, you’re a Jet all the way. It would be dishonorable of me — a betrayal of Jeff — to make a separate peace with Patterico for my own convenience.
“You have to answer for Santino, Carlo.”
‘Coercive Bisexuality’?
“It is clear that discrimination on the part of individuals, but of course not the state, is part of our birthright of liberty.
“If not, coercive bisexuality would be the logical implication of the antidiscrimination movement. Why? Well, male heterosexuals despicably discriminate against half the human race as bed/sex/marriage partners: all other men. Nor can female heterosexuals plead innocence against this dread charge; they, too, abjure half of their fellow creatures in this regard. Can male homosexuals deflect this deadly indictment? No, they, too, refuse to have anything to do with all females in such a context. Similarly, female homosexuals, lesbians, rotten creatures that they are, also avoid entangling alliances of this sort with all men — again, half the human race.
“No, it is the bisexuals, and only the bisexuals, who are entirely innocent of discrimination of this sort. They are the only decent people in the entire sexual spectrum to refrain from this evil practice.”
— Walter Block, “Why Discriminate?”
Democrat Attacked After Vitriolic Rhetoric From Sarah Palin … No? Never Mind.
Actually, the attacker only intended to attack Gov. Jay Nixon (D-Missouri), but mistakenly slashed the throat of Penn Valley Community College Dean Albert Dimmitt:
That happened last September and the reason you never saw this story in the national news is because the attacker was a left-wing anarchist:
In September 2010 Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon was scheduled to speak at Penn Valley Community College in Kansas City.
At some point, wearing black clothes and a bullet-proof vest, 22 year-old Casey Brezik bolted out of a classroom, knife in hand, and slashed the throat of a dean. As he would later admit, he confused the dean with Nixon.
The story never left Kansas City. It is not hard to understand why. Knives lack the political sex appeal of guns, and even Keith Olbermann would have had a hard time turning Brezik into a Tea Partier.
Indeed, Brezik seems to have inhaled just about every noxious vapor in the left-wing miasma: environmental extremism, radical Islam, anti-capitalism, anti-Zionism and Christophobia, among others. . . .
Read the whole thing. Meanwhile, it seems that not everybody at MSNBC got the “tone down the rhetoric” memo.
Herman Cain Tops Santorum, Christie, Daniels, Pence, Huckabee in N.H.
OK, that’s not the headline on the Politico story, but the order of finish in the New Hampshire GOP straw poll was lots more interesting than the news that Mitt Romney beat Ron Paul:
Romney won with 35 percent, beating second-place finisher Ron Paul by 24 points in the WMUR-ABC News straw poll of members of the state Republican Party. In third place was former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, who won 8 percent — just one point ahead of Sarah Palin, who drew 7 percent. . . .
Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won 5 percent, pizza mogul Herman Cain took 4 percent, and Santorum won 3 percent — tied with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, Indiana Rep. Mike Pence and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
That puts Cain in the top six. I doubt Bachmann will actually run, and Christie has already said he won’t. If Ron Paul doesn’t run this year, where will his voter go? Certainly not to Romney, Pawlenty or Huckabee.
So leaping waaay ahead (which is what liberals are doing when they proclaim this poll a portent of Palin’s certain doom) what would happen if Herman Cain finishes a solid third in the Iowa caucuses? Wouldn’t that pretty much finish off whoever placed fourth and fifth?
And how would such a result affect the undecided GOP primary voters in New Hampshire? I’m just sayin’ . . .
(Via Memeorandum.)
‘Man Was Born Free, And He Is Everywhere In Chains. . .’
by Smitty
“. . .especially where the ideas of Rousseau are linked,” to paraphrase ol’ Jean Jacques.
If Kabul was a movie, it would be Groundhog Day. I can’t lay any claim to the big picture, but I hope all the blood and treasure invested here amounts to something.
The tempermental WiFi service was OK the other day, and I bought Pawlenty’s book after its mention on Insty. Continue reading ‘Man Was Born Free, And He Is Everywhere In Chains. . .’ →
Religious Left Infiltrates Catholic Agency?
According to a document revealed by Creative Minority Report (CMR), we now have definitive proof that the pro-abortion mindset dwells even at the highest levels of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. The document is a public campaign finance report for Planned Parenthood-endorsed pro-abortion candidate Wendy Davis listing Ralph McCloud as campaign treasurer during his first year as the Director of the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).
Davis is a Democrat who won a Texas state senate seat, previously held by a Republican, in the suburbs of Fort Worth during the Obama “wave” of 2008. So why would the USCCB appoint a pro-abortion politician’s campaign treasurer as head of a major Catholic agency?
Does the name George Soros ring a bell? Since 2005, Soros’ Open Society Foundations has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good:
John Podesta, who runs the Soros-funded organization, Center for American Progress, admits that he works closely with Catholics in Alliance and Catholics United.
This Soros-backed effort has been exposed in a documentary called Obama’s Counterfeit Catholics:
Michael Voris has compiled extensive documentation about this Soros-backed project. Like the oxymoronically named “Catholics for Choice,” the purpose of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good is to convey a simple message to ignorant people: “God wants you to vote Democrat.”
We Need to Tone Down the Rhetoric
Otherwise, all this extremist talk about “choice” and “women’s rights” might lead to mass murder:
A massacre perpetrated by a deranged man is not about the deranged man; it’s about “rhetoric.” But a massacre perpetrated by an abortion provider whose violations against laws of the nation and of humanity were overlooked for years is “not about abortion.” It’s about criminal behavior, and that’s all.
More civility from Ace of Spades and Ed Driscoll.