Shout First, Ask Questions Later: Daily Round-Up 02-17

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Daily Round-Up 02-17

The Mount Vernon Statement Constitutional Conservatism: A Statement for the 21st Century Follow the link and you can sign the petition. AND Grover Norquist - Why I'm Signing the Mount Vernon Statement The truths we endorse once again have not changed since the American Revolution. They will not change in another 200 years.

Thomas Sowell - Politicians Taking Away Your Freedom

PJTV Video (National Security) - Score One For Us: Number Two Afghan Taliban Captured

Keeping the U.S. in the space race

Court's Campaign Finance Decision. I find it hard to believe that independent voters will be persuaded by direct advertising from either businesses or unions. It is only easy to believe if you consider the American voter to be a mindless idiot.

PJTV Video (The Hicks Files) - We Have Overcome: Race Hustlers Are Hung Up On The Past

GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR

American Red Cross must explain $175 million in unallocated Haiti donations

The Census and the Constitution

Since I believe that eugenics is inherently corrupt - Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a Question of Eugenics

Vermont Lawmakers May Apologize For Eugenics Program. State Sterilized 'Feeble-Minded' Citizens

Obama's cronies thrive at intersection of K and Wall

John Brennan's 20% Doctrine

Family Guy goaded Palin into a mistake Far be it from me to argue with The Anchoress but I will in Palin's defense say, as a mother, I can't think of a single thing I would not do to defend my children. If Palin was "goaded" into the mistake of defending her child - a very vulnerable child at that - then it was a profoundly understandable one

John Stossel - Education: Too Important for a Government Monopoly

The Battle of the Textbooks

TSA to swab airline passengers' hands in search for explosives

Napolitano Meets with Muslim Brotherhood Leaders. As part of a new "counter-radicalization" program, the Homeland Security secretary quietly met with individuals tied to the outlawed terror group. (This is Part One of a two-part article.)

MEDIA BIAS

Well, this is a good thing - TV Backlash: Sponsors Rebel Against Salacious Content, Create ‘Family Friendly’ Programming

Uncovering Left-Wing Contempt

The Incredible Shrinking Joe Scarborough

CNN Has Lowest Viewer Night in 4 Years; Lowest Demo Night in Nearly 9 Years

New York Times reporter accused of plagiarism resigns

Keith Olbermann's Plantation: 'Ask Yourself - Where Are the Black Faces?'

I'm really glad I happened to catch this video, c/o Bruce Miller at The Blue Voice and Blue Texan at Firedoglake. With every passing day I'm more and more convinced that President Barack Obama has worsened race relations in this country. It's something I've written about quite a bit, while rebutting the airheaded nihilists of the radical left. But Keith Olbermann, never failing to astound, really outdoes himself. A man with great power at MSNBC -- and thus the television media -- he hasn't the faintest inclination to responsibility. Anyway, it's a lengthy segment at the video, but worth a look. It illustrates the racist patronism of today's Democratic-left. After attacking citizen patriots as "teabagging racists," Olbermann implores tea partiers to ask themselves, "Where are the black faces" among you.

It's hard to be more racially offensive than this, for Olbermann's whole schtick essentially discounts America's achievement of the civil rights dream, one that culminated in the election of the nation's first black president in 2008. But it's more than that: After decades of Democratic Party policies that have systematically supressed black Americans (keeping them "in their place" through welfare policies of dependency, inner-city housing policies of ethnic warehousing, and voting rights policies of racial recrimination and ghettoization), Olbermann has the temerity to suggest that blacks just can't think for themselves. That's not to discount how the Democratic-left attempts to inculcate the young with the false consciousness of racial grievance and victimology. It's that on top of that Olby is asserting that black patriots need the "massa in de big house" to show them how to live.

The frightening truth for the left is that blacks and other minorities are extremely well represented in the tea party movement (and in fact, MSNBC has a history of trying to hide this). And of course it's leftist condescension in the extreme to suggest opposition to Obama is automatically racist AND that there aren't enough black faces in the crowd.

Janeane Garofalo and Rosie O'Donnell Attack Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Hume, Van Susteren and All That Listen to Them