In the final days before the Illinois primary, Former President of Poland Lech Walesa came to Chicago to support Adam Andrzejewski as the GOP candidate for Governor.
“As you see I support Adam . . . I am convinced that he is right. But we live in times that people do not always listen to those that are right,” said Walesa speaking through a translator.
Despite the frigid weather, the Tea Partiers and other self-described “true” conservatives made their way to Federal Plaza Friday afternoon. There, they welcomed their newest hero, Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Andrzejewski.
“New ideas are required by new people. Real reform requires a new generation of leadership,” said Andrzejewski.
Andrzejewski, a Hinsdale businessman who made millions selling telephone books, vows not to raise taxes and to cut, cut, cut spending, as he says. His rhetoric has resonated with the Republican right.
“We need more people to step up to the plate for hard-working Americans who have the morals and can go in and get our country back,” said Kathy Hurst, Tea Party member.
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“Here’s a little secret, gathered, sadly, from witnessing it my whole life, even from some in my own family,” Olbermann said. “When racist white guys get together and they don’t want to be caught using any of the popular epithets in use every day in this country about black people – and there’s a chance one of them, or worse still a white guy who doesn’t get it, might wander in and hear the conversation, when there’s a risk even in saying “uppity” or “forgetting his place,” the racist white guys revert to euphemisms and code words.”
Euphemisms! Code words! Dark secrets of the white racist underworld that only Keith Olbermann was courageous enough to discover and tell the world about! But what’s strange is that, on Wednesday night, the racists were all (gasp!) conservative commentators:
[Olbermann] singled out Erick Erickson of RedState.com, John Stossel, host of the Fox Business Channel’s “Stossel”, Jay Nordlinger of National Review, former Bush speechwriter and Washington Post contributor Marc Thiessen, John Hood, also of National Review and Fox News host Glenn Beck as racist for criticizing the president’s demeanor during the Jan. 27 State of the Union address.
Isn’t it interesting that Olbermann, rather than noticing the guy on his own networkwho called attention to Obama’s race, instead takes to the air to denounce conservatives, who have a monopoly on euphemisms and code words?
OK, actually, it’s not interesting at all. Olbermann does this hysterical denunciation trip night after night. A Supreme Court decision on campaign-finance laws? It’s Dred Scott! You wonder if he carries this tendency over into his private life.
Waiter, I specifically ordered a merlot, and you’ve brought me burgundy instead. This is worse than McCarthyism. It’s worse than the Spanish Inquisition or the Jonestown Massacre. It’s . . . it’s Kristallnacht!
The astonishing thing is that he evidently expects these proclamations of his to be taken seriously.
Being a conservative, or even somehow anti-Left, means that you will be called a racist. Period. It’s written in stone. You get used to it — but not really. . . . I have never — never really and truly — gotten used to being called a racist. I suppose I never will, even if I live to 143.
Read the rest. What’s amazing is how casually Olbermann makes the accusation, as if it were a thing of no consequence. And indeed, there will be no consequences for Olbermann. Liberalism is like a free pass to ride the Irresponsibility Express.
The al-Qaida leader blamed the United States and other industrialized nations for climate change and said the only way to prevent disaster was to break the American economy, calling on the world to boycott U.S. goods and stop using the dollar.
“The effects of global warming have touched every continent. Drought and deserts are spreading, while from the other floods and hurricanes unseen before the previous decades have now become frequent,” bin Laden said in the audiotape, aired on the Arab TV network Al-Jazeera.
The terror leader noted Washington’s rejection of the Kyoto Protocol aimed at reducing greenhouse gases and painted the United States as in the thrall of major corporations that he said “are the true criminals against the global climate” and are to blame for the global economic crisis, driving “tens of millions into poverty and unemployment.”
In response, the U.S. Marine Corps is developing plans to reduce al-Qaeda’s carbon footprint by “blasting those terrorist bastards to smithereens,” according to Pentagon source.
I had no direct knowledge that pro-lifers would pitch a fit, I just knew no pro-life group anywhere would ever let [Planned Parenthood] into their community without raising the roof.
All politics is local and for six days I was based at Da Tech Guy’s home in Fitchburg while covering the Scott Brown Senate campaign. During that time, I visited Da Tech Guy’s parish church:
St. Anthony of Padua Church has traditionally served an Italian blue-collar congregation and the politicial views of those in the pews at 8 a.m. mass may not be indicative of all Catholics in Massachusetts. With that disclaimer, however, Martha Coakley may be on the verge of the most brutal Catholic backlash since the Inquisition.
The Democratic attorney general’s adamant support of late-term abortion obviously puts her at odds with faithful Catholics . . .
This was the context that made the story so striking. As I explained to someone at last night’s Brown victory celebration in D.C., Coakley won the Democratic primary on terms that ultimately doomed her in the general election. Coakley had declared that the health-care bill must include federal funding for abortion, including late-term abortion. This earned her support among Democratic primary voters, but it ceded the middle ground to Scott Brown.
Maybe you’re generally pro-choice and maybe you’re generally in favor of government health-care, but mandating federal funding for abortion? That’s certainly not a majoritarian position, and Scott Brown didn’t have to take a hard-core pro-life stance to put Coakley on the defensive on that issue. Blue-collar Catholics like the parishioners at St. Anthony’s lean toward Democrats on many issues, but Coakley had staked her candidacy on an issue that would cost her badly among such voters.
So in the immediate aftermath of Brown’s victory, Planned Parenthood announced it was going to open a clinic on Main Street in Fitchburg — heckuva coincidence, eh? The fact that this is funded by a reported $397,000 in federal stimulus money makes it a story of national consequence. Pro-lifers were fired up and ready for a fight, and despite a snowstorm yesterday, turnout was strong for their first protest:
A crowd of about 70 to 80 anti-abortion protesters waved signs and prayed Thursday on both sides of 391 Main St., where the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts plans to open an office this spring. . . .
Christine Hanley, who organized the protest as the chairwoman of the Fitchburg-Leominster Chapter of Mass Citizens for life, had hoped for a minimum of 20 protesters, so she was pleased to find the crowd exceeded her expectations.
“More people are coming all the time,” Hanley said during the protest on a snowy afternoon.
Father Robert Bruso, of St. Anthony de Padua Church in Fitchburg, participated in the protest.
“It’s really nothing the city of Fitchburg stands for,” said Bruso.
Expect many of Father Bruso’s flock to attend the City Council meeting in Fitchburg next week, and certainly you can expect to hear more about this battle in the near future. Da Tech Guy is on the story.
“In every society, there are two critical lists: acceptable conditions for having a baby, and acceptable conditions for having sex. . . . It was only with the widespread acceptance of contraception in the middle of the 20th century, creating an upheaval in the public psyche in which sex and babies no longer went hand-in-hand, that the two lists began to diverge.”
— Jennifer Fulwiler
“My message to these groups who are inexplicably offended by a pro-woman, pro-child, pro-life message airing during the Super Bowl: please concentrate on empowering women, help with efforts to prevent unexpected pregnancies, stay consistent with your message that for too long women have been made to feel like sex objects in our ‘modern’ culture and that we can expect better in 2010.”
The man-haters whine that they’ve been misunderstood:
NOW President Terry O’Neill said that Palin is “missing our point.”
“The goal of the Focus on the Family ad is not to empower women. It’s to create a climate in which Roe v. Wade can be overturned,” O’Neill said. “There are always going to be women who need abortions. In this country, one in three women will have an abortion.”
“Focus on the Family has cynically set it up so they can say anyone who disagrees with airing this ad is disrespecting one woman and her choice. NOW respects every woman’s right to plan her own family and insists our laws do the same,” said O’Neill.
Feminists against cynical manipulation of issues? That would be something new.
The ad in question shows Tim Tebow and his mother discussing the medical difficulties of her pregnancy, during which she was urged to abort the future University of Florida quarterback — a decision that would have spared her child the unbearable pain of losing the SEC title to Alabama.
OK, you knew I had to take that shot at Tebow. (Roll Tide!) But seriously, while the man-haters at NOW tried to prevent the Tebow ad from being shown during the Super Bowl, they haven’t mounted a similar protest against Budweiser ads featuring scantily-clad babes. Chris Stirewalt of the Washington Examiner explains:
In terms of Super Bowl ads, “sexist” is code for “anti-abortion.” But “sexist” does not apply to parading women around in their underpants to sell beer.
Got it?
Yeah, but real men don’t need women parading around in underpants to sell them beer. NTTAWWT.
UPDATE: Liberals have developed a brilliant new communication strategy: Twitter trolls. They lurk on the #TCOT (Top Conservatives On Twitter) feed, then post derogatory responses. After I Tweeted this post, one such creature responded by calling me “Bullshit artist” and “Douchebag,” before Tweeting this:
I triple dog dare you to print my comment on your blog, Mr. Dishonest Fuckwit. 🙂
The comment (submitted with a bogus e-mail address, of course) was approved:
As usual conservatives like yourself and Palin can’t even argue the issue at hand. You develop a strawman . . . and then present that to your ignorant followers as fact so that they never face the inherent nihilism of conservative “values.”
Exit question:Does feminism deprive people of a sense of humor, or are humorless people just naturally attracted to feminism?
UPDATE II: In the comments, Amanda Read links to her post on this subject, featuring video of Americans United for Life’s Charmaine Yoest debating Erin Matson of the National Organization for Women Parading Around in Their Underpants:
