Time to call in Orca
Is not the media invested in a sort of 60’s activist environmental politics, in which to assert rather than argue for global warming is part of a larger progressive agenda that makes one acceptable in particular circles—like a medieval cleric who mouths a list of ‘right’ positions on papal exegesis? (Here in California the lowly poor two-inch Delta smelt was losing his fight to cut off irrigation water to millions of acres, so suddenly “scientists” have super-sized him in our sympathies, and thus miraculously discovered that the real crises of the Pacific eco-system are big, Orca-like (and thus identifiable) “killer whales”. You see, they will starve without salmon, and a special sort of 19th-century salmon that used to go upriver in California’s rivers before the age of the pernicious dam and irrigation canal that brought all that cheap food to us.)
Many of the categories of Nobel Prizes have lost their once sterling reputations and have devolved into better-paying versions of the Pulitzer Prizes, predicated on ideology as much as achievement.
The Talented Mr. Gore
(In my lifetime I don’t think I ever witnessed anything like the career of one Al Gore, who, metamorphosized from disappointment over the 2000 election into a sort of religious zealot—part P.T. Barnum, part Deepak Chopra. And now he has ended up as globe-trotting Elmer Gantry, but a successful one. At break-neck speed he has labored to construct a world-wide environmental-shame empire, based on stifling debate, hawking films, videos, and study kits, selling penances called ‘carbon offsets’ evaluations for rich people, demonizing opponents of his views, and spreading the “Bush-did-it” religion. Was it about money all the time? Influence? Redemption? So he pulled it off and in a mere nine years ended up worth over $100 million and an energy-consuming lifestyle of the sort he once railed against?)
I no longer believe . . .
…that there will be much progress on race relations under Obama. Indeed, I fear the very opposite will occur.
Almost every major speech is predicated on his race, and his father’s always changing stance on religion. In 2011 will we still hear of his father and his family with Muslim connections?
Being non-racist is judging by race
We are told not to believe what Justice Sotomayor on several occasions said and published—this is now something called “misspeak”. What was fascinating about her Berkeley speech was not just her now serial avowal that race and gender make one a better or worse judge. Two equally frightening facts emerged. She published these views in a periodical called La Raza Law Journal (“The Race’s” Law Journal). In her text, she referenced herself as a Latina or invoked Latina/Latino, according to my count, some 38 times. (I once told a student that if she did not stop prefacing every classroom remark about classical literature with “As a Latina…” I would answer back with the preface “As a white guy…”).
A promised postracial President nominated a justice who seems not just to be race-obsessed, but race-obsessed to the degree it governs her judicial philosophy. Woe to be a member of what she called “the old boy network” when you go into her chambers against a “Latina”. By her own admission, the Latina is the wiser party, based on her superior ‘life experiences.”
No progress, no nothing?
In this new racialist world, no one would ever remember that we have not had a white male Secretary of State—the world’s most powerful diplomat—in thirteen years— since the rather mediocre Warren Christopher stepped down in January 1997. There is rarely appreciation of change and what has transpired, only more anger at what supposedly must happen in the future. To read Sotomayor’s speeches, and I have now read about 5 of them, is to be subjected to a litany of statistics—always the theme being “this many judges are Hispanic, this is our percentage of the population, presto, this is what we must have…”
We are all percentages points now
There is rarely either any complexity, or appreciation of the irony to race. With between 12-20 million illegal aliens now living in the United States—the vast majority recent arrivals from Third World countries—are we to be shamed that we do not have politicians, Supreme Court justices, and professors in the proper percentages to reflect these new populations? Think of it—someone crosses the border illegally, and immediately becomes a percentage-point argument that a distant elite with a Spanish-surname is entitled to preferential treatment? (I ignore the fact Sotomayor’s racial percentages were once used by white racialists to show that minorities were inordinately responsible for violent crime in numbers far above their presence in the general population. It is unwise to quantify every aspect of the United States by racial percentages.)
The President himself never pauses and examines the irony of a half-African, half-white prep schooled person, lecturing the world on the African-American civil rights experience—with which by heritage and chronology he has had no experience.
Instead, the world of American racial identity politics distills down to the ability to claim some sort of affinity, any sort actually, with the African-American, Native American, or Mexican-American experience.
Where there is a will, there is always a way
Sometimes, as in the case of Ward Churchill, this is done through simple fabrication and fantasy. Sometimes the rich Honduran immigrant trills his r’s and uses his Spanish surname to become an oppressed “Latino” or “Hispanic.” Sometimes a Barack Obama somehow piggy-backs onto the African-American writ of prior grievance.
Princeton—the New Guantanamo
If one steps aside, ignores the contemporary chatter, and examines the process in disinterested philosophical fashion, it is abjectly illogical. (Note Michelle Obama’s brief reentry into contemporary racial politics—her testimonial confirmation of Sotomayor’s expressed discomfort and unease with Princeton undergraduate life, and the lasting unfairness of receiving affirmative action and then feeling as if the resulting gain in prestige and topflight subsidized education were not worth the commensurate sense that “they” and “some” and “others” doubted one’s achievement. Well, her reentry was very short-lived indeed.)
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1. Genghis Kohn:It’s sort of like standing on the bow of the Titanic, watching the approaching iceberg, and knowing exactly what is going to happen.
Jun 8, 2009 - 8:05 am 2. smitty:Excellent piece.
Jun 8, 2009 - 8:22 am 3. Mike:Minor editorial attention needed here: “Is not the media is invested”.
So the absolutely post racial candidate becomes the racialist president, who still makes weak protests against such racialism, all the while putting its pernicious consequences into effect. Obama installs as Attorney General Eric Holder, a man whose appreciation for the rule of law is, at best, wanting, apparently to take care of the “brothers.” Thus do we see several black thugs (and local democrat party functionaries), on the verge of conviction for intimidating voters freed by the ethically challenged Mr. Holder who is showing a disturbing tendency not to prosecute actual criminals (Marc Rich comes to mind), but to free and celebrate them. In the voting intimidation case, even an honest civil rights pioneer, who happens to be black, thought the thug’s actions the most egregious example of voter intimidation he’d ever seen.
Thank God (isn’t that Obama himself, according to Newsweek and some of the French?) Mr. Holder will now ensure that Muslims in America are no longer persecuted for being Muslims. Oh wait, they aren’t being persecuted for being Muslims? Something about a “First Amendment” that exists nowhere else in the world?
And as to Ms. Sotomayor, aggrandizing oneself in public was once thought by decent, well-raised people, to be terribly bad manners, an indiction of weak character and insecurity, and race didn’t enter into that equation. So when Ms. Sotomayor proclaims herself a superior judge because she is: (1) wise; (2) Latino; (3) female, one is justified in wondering whether a truly wise (sane?) person of any gender or race would even think of such a self-aggrandizing statement, let alone say it.
But perhaps this is of a piece. As the supreme narcissist, would not Obama appreciate less exalted narcissism in others?
Jun 8, 2009 - 9:12 am 4. Ron Kean:In the days of the old LGF Dan Rather bust, Bernard Goldberg had his book BIAS vindicated. At that time Goldberg said that the media was in danger of becoming irrelevant. In truth they have. But he didn’t see the power of the media growing in an unusually in-your-face politically intrusive persuasive role where the truth itself has become relative, shaded, nuanced, hidden, or denied. And there’s no umpire or referee to blow the whistle or throw the flag on the play.
Waiting for the public to wake up to the President is like a watched pot never boiling. Maybe if we stand back we’ll hear the sound one day.
I think we should send the Urghers and their laptops to Princeton University.
Jun 8, 2009 - 10:20 am 5. Sibyl:This essay will generate 300 comments…
Jun 8, 2009 - 11:56 am 6. Charles Gordon:Having to abandon the undemanding beliefs you listed announces the beginning of government coercion of our minds.
Our freedom to tend to our private lives, guided by our private philosophies, without a care for what a limited government with limited powers might be up to in the shadows of its far off enclave has been taken away from us by the intrusive demands this government expansion has made on our lives.
In the place of concerning ourselves with our own daily routines, we now have to be weary of where government will disrupt our existing order next. Which century-old law will be squashed? Whose property will be seized? What industry will be ruled by a czar? Who among our enemies will be emboldened by the pusillanimous diplomacy, the prejudice against the West, and the fatuous posturing of our historic first Islamic apostate president?
This is how government insidiously takes over our lives, by preventing us from any possibility of ignoring it.
Jun 8, 2009 - 12:05 pm 7. Tcobb:Note Michelle Obama’s brief reentry into contemporary racial politics—her testimonial confirmation of Sotomayor’s expressed discomfort and unease with Princeton undergraduate life, and the lasting unfairness of receiving affirmative action and then feeling as if the resulting gain in prestige and topflight subsidized education were not worth the commensurate sense that “they” and “some” and “others” doubted one’s achievement.
Jun 8, 2009 - 12:57 pm 8. Greg R. Lawson:The guilty flee when none pursue. Is she perhaps one of the “they,” “some,” or “others?”
I agree with most of this post. I have often liked Mr. Hanson’s work and find him to be an astute observer of the contemporary morass our nation is waltzed right into with its postmodern educational system and politics.
Jun 8, 2009 - 2:23 pm 9. Dr. T:I cannot count how many times the “big lie” has been promulgated by politicians, the media, and interest groups over the past fifty years. However, the past six years have been saturatured with big lies. Lies about Bush and Cheney, lies about why we sent soldiers to Iraq, lies about climate change and melting ice caps, lies about government programs that have screwed-up our economy, lies about risks to our health that must be countered with new programs and agencies, lies about upholding the Constitution while plotting our conversion to an impoverished socialist and fascist nation, and lies about promoting harmony while sowing the seeds of racial discord and envy-driven class warfare.
I am sick to death of the big lies. Lies that cannot be countered with reason or logic or a few right-thinking blogs. Right now, the biggest lie is that the USA is the best place to live. I’m thinking it’s time to get out.
Jun 8, 2009 - 3:30 pm 10. proreason:“I expect it to be flat-out ahistorical, misleading, or contextualized by an aide over the next two months. So yes, I do not believe that any of this relatives liberated Auschwitz or knew those who freed Treblinka. I do not believe any of his numbers concerning, or analysis about, Muslims in America. I do not think he has a clue …”
Unbelievably, the president of the United States has predicated his whole life on a series of cartoonish lies.
And now the man-child rules our lives, and is hell-bent to destroy our economy and ruin our pre-eminent position in the world.
It’s hard to not think it’s deliberate.
Jun 8, 2009 - 7:10 pm 11. A.W. Murphy:For as long as most of us can remember, the national media has been a de facto arm of the Democratic Party. Both MSNBC and NBC, owned by global warming enthusiast General Electric, have become adjunct public relations tools of the Obama White House.
Our Republic (it isn’t a democracy people) cannot survive in its present form. The Founders gave us a blueprint for limited government and that has since morphed into a national nanny state with the federal government printing money it can’t back up. This is a level of stupid never imagined 200+ years ago.
We need a citizenry educated with a requisite understanding of what the Founders wrote and then begin the long, and painful, journey back to our roots. Design and build a political party that takes that mission seriously and you’ll attract a following.
If the republican’s continue to pander and promise then they will always be a minority party – they can’t sell socialism like the pros. Begin educating ordinary people with the truth about the Founder’s ideals, and how those ideas are timeless and invigorating, then you’ll attract legions of followers to your cause.
Jun 8, 2009 - 7:14 pm 12. Jack Marcotte:Essential vdh
America is now at war. It is a war being fought with lies and non facts or selected half truths but not the whole truth being used as weapons. An uncivil war between truth and lies.
Lies, skewed, spewed and lobbed at dumbed down Americans, legal and illegal.
Lies and half truths being told by the POTUS to claim achievements not earned nor even understood.
An Affirmative action Pawn. A willing player for power. Form will always trump substance. That is easy because–their is no substance. That is the problem.
All, “victims in the storied lies” All vote based on the lies and courtesy of Anti American groups like Acorn stuffing names into ballot boxes.
A never ending barrage of misstatements, untruths and outright lies coming from the MSM.
Seeded by those who would see America destroyed and taken over by communists /socialist/fascist. What is in a name the results are the same.
A MSM filled with the warped ignorance and non facts glued and sunk into their mush for brains when students.
Being brainwashed both by Affirmative action and by hold over hippies in the Academic world.
1960’s Hippies who were indoctrinated by the communists because they were those that could be. Those that did not know what America was or who they were but could not look inside themselves and see anything of worth.
Hippies who by the Utopian words of their communist mentors took meaning for their worthless lives–they are sill living that lie. Hippies who have always been out of step, with no place to go other than to hide in the “hollowed and musty” halls of “school”.
A connected and rich daddy for a bill Ayers. A leech left to infect future generations of Americans in a University who by his very presence is a subversive instrument in America today.
“The English Dept at the University of Chicago is somewhere I would not send a tick off my dog. It would be just another parasite in America.
An Alice in wonder land world. A bad dream but not– an America that will not wake up and find that it was just a bad dream. It is real. A world that could easily be lead by the Wizard of Oz. BHO, is not a wizard. What is he then.
The MSM cannot and would not know how to throw the curtain back to show and know the truth.
Who would believe and follow such, yes indeed who would admit to such ignorance. None such as they who are like fish in water. They will never discover water.
I believe it is time to drain the pond. Get to it.
Jun 8, 2009 - 7:26 pm 13. bruce:Where does one begin, and what does one say after hearing the editor from Newsweek call Obama a God amid the thousands of graves at Normandy? How does one even respond to a one time respected journalist inferring to Obama over the ashes at Buchenwald that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is akin to the premeditated slaughter of millions of Jews by Nazi Germany? What do you say to a President, drunk with power, determined to weaken America in search of some Utopian egalitarianism, who lies day in and day out to the gullible American people? What do you tell a Republican party, scared of it’s own shadow to stand on principle, and challenge the statists in government day in and day out, until they are thrown out of office?
We the people are the only ones who can effect change. There are millions and millions of Americans, of all races, of all religions, of many cultures who are sickened and devastated by the mess that we are in, with no end in sight to our troubles if Obama and is minions are left unchecked imposing their soft tyranny on this great nation. I have a vision of millions of Americans, marching on Washington demanding an end to the tyranny that is being forced on us.
Jun 8, 2009 - 8:43 pm 14. Dave the Kapampangan:Normal folks are hardworking people who produce quality and convenience for a decent price, and contribute to good communities and high academic standards. These hardworking people make life easier in every way for other people. But the largess of these good working class folks is not enough to satisfy the infinite greed of grievance mongers and the entitlement classes and their pocket politicians, who scheme to take money that rightfully belongs to hardworking others.
High earning workers and producers are lambasted as “greedy” by the REALLY GREEDY cult of people — secular priests whose only “industry” is to create faux economic bubbles and other money redistribution scams. They take hard earned tax money from the working class and redistribute it to the entitlement classes to 1) fund easy loans for unqualified borrowers and 2) fund pensions for union members, government workers, and publicly funded media who voted themselves undeservedly high lifestyles and 3) Use public money to pay off race mongers looking for easy entitlements.
The burden and drain of funding these monstrous entitlements (see GM’s healthcare fund, or California’s so called “education” fund, businesses that tax you to make up for others’ high theft, insurance companies that increase your premiums to pay for others’ bad behavior, and so on) makes it near impossible to make ends meet or operate without taking losses. Jobs are cut. Services are cut. Life gets hard for everyone. The new priests declare that the cause of the hardship is the “greed of the working class,” and that the new priests should be given increased powers to “regulate” the economy back to health.
In the new religion of entitlement, 40% of Americans pay no taxes; it’s because they’re too busy looking for politicians willing to give them the clout to legally take other people’s money, after the new priests made it hard for them to find jobs and gave them less incentives to even want productive jobs. (”You can have it all by riding the bubble or playing the grievance card in lawsuits.”)
In short, our elite priests– Hollywood, academia, the mainstream media, the uber rich and their politicians — have created a shell game “religion of entitlement” that strives to take money from hard workers and redistribute it to those who don’t wish to work or are too rich to need to work. And everything these elites do or say on TV or in the classroom is to obscure their shell game.
Our “elites” have lost credibility with much of the public because their “religion of entitlement” and “easy money for everybody” is increasingly and at the gut level being revealed as a bunch of baloney.
Jun 8, 2009 - 8:51 pm 15. Pete:Dr. T., by all means share with us your destination if you decide to depart the U.S. I, too, have been thinking alone the same lines. Australia, perhaps?
Jun 8, 2009 - 10:12 pm 16. bruce:# 4 Ron Kean
You are right on about LGF. For many years Charles Johnson wrote with a sense of purpose and moral clarity, clearly identifying the enemy within and without, and exposing the hypocrisy from the left. Unfortunately, Charles’ priorities have changed and his blog has been reduced to a shell of its former self dabbling in issues such as Creationism and Darwinism.
Jun 8, 2009 - 10:30 pm 17. SeanLA:“Who controls the past, controls the future; who controls the present, controls the past.”
The control of the present is in anothers hand, and being a teacher of history who speaks eloquently and knowledgeably of the past (I have several of your books) should see his coming demise. Soon it will be said that Victor Hanson is all wrong, and all you say now about Obama will be leveled at you in a much more powerful way. Maybe even future imprisonment?
Have you seen the open letter to obama from Lou Pritchett? at the end he says: “I will probably not feel safe writing a similar letter in 8 years”
http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/youscareme.asp
Today I overheard background conversation that matter of factly gave credit for oil paint to arabs. The past is here.
Will you just continue to casually observe the end of your world and history, or will you take a leadership role in its preservation before its too late?
Jun 9, 2009 - 2:30 am 18. MJCIV:“Things have reached such a state of affairs that it is the duty of all intelligent people to pay attention to the obvious.” -George Orwell
For the first time in my life (I just turned 40), I feel the need to purchase a firearm. Progressive thought is antithetical to my understanding of what liberty and freemdom and America mean. I will not live under tyranny, even if it’s a tryanny of good intentions. Lincoln said that we will nobley save or meanly lose this last, best hope of earth. He was right.
Jun 9, 2009 - 4:42 am 19. tinwizard:This too will pass: Main Street Media in America. They are in the process of putting themselves out of business. In the changing age of communication, they should be fighting for their piece of the action, but instead are chasing the readers they have left to the Internet. The young, by and large, do not consume the garbage of Main Street Media. And older Americans are giving it up because of the bias you speak of. All that Obama Nation is doing is hastening the process. His lies being published as news is the death knell. He too will pass, and if the people want to reverse course, it will be done.
Jun 9, 2009 - 4:44 am 20. Jack:I think that we can call it ObamaSpeak.
Jun 9, 2009 - 6:26 am 21. Jim:I know that this is going to sound perverse but the only way things are going to get better is for them to get much worse. The same holds true for Obama as well because it is his chance to further centralize his hold on power. However in our case we can “hope” that a myopic electorate begins to understand the destruction wrought by the false messiah’s policies and vote accordingly in November 2010.
Jun 9, 2009 - 7:06 am 22. J.E. Dyer:Genghis Kohn #1 — I was going to say a “slow-motion train wreck,” but OK. The Titanic heading for the iceberg works too.
But there is reason for hope in all this. Consider that 20 years ago, we might have been coming off the safe and victorious Reagan years, and hoping for the best with the elder Bush; and we were 20 years younger, and all the world was young with us. BUT — we couldn’t log on to our computers every day and read blog entries and and NRO columns by VDH!
Rush Limbaugh was only starting out. There was no Fox News yet. There was no such thing as “searching the Web” and finding the blogs of reporters like Michael Yon and Michael J. Totten. The conservative opinion journals had no websites or web video archives. There was no such thing as the stand-alone website with specialized content, whether avowedly partisan or deliberately non-partisan. To read George Will you had to get the newspaper on certain days each week, or subscribe to Newsweek for the back page.
Now when you want to find opinion from both the left and the right on something, what comes up in the first 5 pages of results from a well-crafted web search is exactly what you wanted.
Need that historical citation, or a quote you can’t remember perfectly? People used to have to subscribe to Lexis-Nexis to do what you can do with $9.95-a-month web access today.
The good news is that we DO have access to the truth, as best honest people can put it out. The in-the-tank, true-believing MSM don’t have a monopoly on the infosphere.
Raise your hand if you remember the Reagan years, when the same media were forever informing us that the homeless were wandering America in the millions, and children denied school lunches were always on the point of perishing — and the only counterweight you got to that reporting came in your National Review every other week.
In 2009, the MSM puke out the emperor’s nakedly invalid “facts,” and within hours — minutes — they are being corrected by someone on web, radio, or cable news.
Glory, Hallelujah! Don’t give up hope. The truth is marching on.
Jun 9, 2009 - 10:00 am 23. Ron Kean:16. Bruce
I believe Charles is fiercely independent and cannot be pegged to the far right although being a staunch defender of Israel, many will place him there. He ran an article sympathetic to the abortion doctor who was just killed and exposed those who condone that. Bona fide independent.
I bought a book and tried to understand creationism and couldn’t understand it outside of religious doctrine.
He does us a service by uncovering the european racist right but fighting with Spencer and Geller reminds me of listening to parents fight. What bothers me a little is ridiculing us who are curious about the birth certificate. Many of us stand down on that but…
If it weren’t for LGF I might not have learned about VDH. VDH and Tommy Emmanuel.
Jun 9, 2009 - 12:37 pm 24. Joseph:9:Dr.T
Jun 9, 2009 - 1:37 pm 25. TLM:If you want to cling to your guns and hate socialism I wouldn’t take 15:Pete’s suggestion and move to Australia. I am curious where in this great big world you could find as much freedom to be as angry at your fellow citizens as you are afforded here?
15:Pete
If you hate socialist America I think you will be really unhappy with Australia. Pick again.
18;MJTIV
I would be very careful quoting George Orwell, he believed in Democratic Socialism, fought in the Spanish Civil War for the Worker’s Party of Marxist Unification. He was later to add, in “Why I Write” (1946), “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.” BTW who do plan on shooting with your new gun?
19:tinwizard and 21:Jim are correct in thinking if Obama really is ruining our country, as most here believe, he will be voted out of office and maybe Victor can try his hand at running the country.
“…maybe Victor can try his hand at running the country.”
I would prefer to see VDH running the Department of Education, or dismantling it if he feels that’s necessary. Any fool can run the government, apparently.
VDH — Putting the MSM first on the list of what a thinking person can no longer believe in is like putting the horse before the cart. Or perhaps like putting the daemon horse before the god-like One’s golden chariot. With the rise of the internet the MSM felt the need for a new mission in life. They have opted for myth-making, and for this reason I cannot possibly despise them more. I say, let the MSM drag Obama’s sorry ass across the heavens in their combined quest for glory. The fate of both is foretold: No matter how many of Obama’s deluded followers prostrate themselves in supplication to this mythic vision, in the end he and his daemon-borne chariot are bound to crash and burn. The sooner, the better.
Jun 9, 2009 - 5:30 pm 26. Pajamas Media » I No Longer Quite Believe …:[...] Read the full article here. [...]
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:27 am 27. Ed Wallis:On the topic of racial hypocrisy, one poster wrote (under the “Playboy Hate F***” thread):
“The beauty of Affirmative Action is that in the long run, it is to everyone’s benefit. In the not too distant future, white males will be just another minority – and AA will be more clearly seen as the egalitarian tool it is designed to be”.
Get it, folks?!
The “beauty” of Affirmative Action” is that it will stop benefitting/protecting “minorities” as soon as “whites” become a minority.
Ahh…Leftist “justice.”
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:01 am 28. Don't Need A Gun:Doctor Hanson is right to mock Friedman and Zacharia’s shifting views on the Iraq war. He could even add “perennial embarrassment” Chris Matthews to that list. Matthews was a shameless vampire in the run-up to the invasion (as were most cable hosts). In fact, one memorable HARDBALL had Peace Corps volunteer Matthews and future VP Joe Biden screaming for Saddam’s head. What a couple of drunken, bloodthirsty cowards those men are and were.
Another quick thought in regards to all the comments: Doctor Hanson isn’t a nihilist, he doesn’t write to inspire fear or despair. He doesn’t necessarily want you to by a gun. He’d probably rather you went to the pound and rescued a good dog, to give your family safety and the added benefit of companionship.
The corrupt Media is collapsing, Obama is a ridiculous person and all of this will be obvious when the midterms get here.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:08 am 29. steve macdonald:Dr.T & Pete – call me hypocritical as I currently live in England and will retire in a few years to the Philippines……..but with all its problems and faults, there is nowhere on the planet as great as the USA. Were it not for personal reasons to live elsewhere, my choice would always be for the USA – affordable, easy lifestyle (most places), greater freedom vs almost anywhere – everything works. I’ve lived in 12 countires, 4 more than once (including OZ) and nowhere else comes close to the states.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:17 am 30. Ozzie:VDH – Depressing, true but curiously uplifting. With the slow motion death of the MSM we have a birth of a variety of alternatives that are constantly gaining ground – Pajamas Media being one of many. This affords a level of protection against biased misinformation we have never had before.
i believe/hope that the very speed of the destructive forces/policies we are currently seeing will create a backlash that will get us back on the right course. The growth of alternative media I think ensures against a repeat of an FDR like history of monumentaly failing policies continuing for a decade – as the MSM no longer formulates public opinion and in fact is increasingly discredited.
maybe it is wishful thinking but I am an optimist.
Some months ago a Russian “intellectual” predicted the US would split up into various regions, each with a special kind of linfluence from a foreign entity. He postulated Russia would get back Alaska. At the time, I thought OMG LOL. But you know, he was ten kinds of wrong about how and why but I no longer think it is completely out of the realm of possibility. With states like California and the little socialist city states of the east coast dragging the whole country off the cliff, I could see the rational, reasonable middle shrugging off the coastal city states before they destroy every good thing here. Realize they will not be happy until they drain off every penny to support their madness.
Recognizing the irrepairable corruption of the US meda and government is the first step to that end.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:33 am 31. Right Brain:I can’t quite figure out if Obama is a President or Skynet.
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:29 am 32. Cato:Another essay in which VDH distills what many of us feel and think, but cannot express half-so-well.
I am almost tiring of reading essays like this. All of what we see was crystal clear to those who had eyes to see and ears to hear before the election, and yet the nation has willing voted this dishonest racist statist (we can argue whether he is more a Marxist or a fascist, but the end result is the same — fundamentally Obama and his minions are totalitarians, the holistic social engineers against which Karl Popper (ironically loved by Soros) and Hayek warned against) into power. Using the economic crisis much as did FDR (until, unlike Obama he was stopped by the Supreme Court) and Hitler to dismantle our economic liberty. The unknowable amounts of fraud in the last few elections – ACORN and the like, elections stolen in Minnesota, Washington state, and other places, all by Democrats – make one suspicious that we even have our political liberty left.
But, all any of us do is sit here and rail. Perhaps we write on other blogs, or write or call our representatives (mine are all lefty Democrats, fat lot of good it does), but we feel helpless.
Is this really analogous to the mid-first century BC in Rome when the Republic ceased to function and led to the triumvirs, civil war, Caesar, and ultimately, the Empire? Or is the utter abandonment of the rule of law analogous to Charles I’s ship money and disregard of Parliament? James II’s desire to return England to Rome and absolutism? Is this a time analogous to the mid-18th century when far away rulers in London sought to tax and tax Americans without their having any say in the matter, and ruling by royal governators’ fiat disregarding the will of the people?
No one wants to contemplate this as a truly pivotal time, because the implications are staggering and potentially criminal even to discuss — in feudal Europe treason included even ‘imagining the death of the king’ and here, today, any serious discussion of, or expression of support for, armed resistance could be construed under Obama dominated courts as treason as well.
What is to be done?
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:34 am 33. Gary Ogletree:There is no where to flee to. Consider the Declaration and the Constitution. We stand on solid group here. The enemy is already sinking into quicksand. Obama’s partners in crime will come up with plenty of ways to hide the truth, use the state to subvert justice and rig the next elections. But their whole program will crumble. We are getting hit by too much too fast. People will believe their own lying eyes as the infatuation fades into anger. The media will share the blame and the consequences.
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:43 am 34. Gary Ogletree:Solid ground, so much for my proof reading.
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:45 am 35. wadosy:mr hanson whines about the media… but when the media was lying us into iraq, the media was fine.
go figure.
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:55 am 36. Gary Ogletree:I wonder if we should start thinking about what the Obama crime syndicate will resort to as His public support caves. Will our Mussolini wannabe suspend elections? Will the Obama Youth be set loose to terrorize opponents? It feels like tornadoes are lurking behind the thick clouds, when the big wind dies and the bats begin darting about in broad daylight… Must be some good historical analogies, can you help me here, Prof. Vic?
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:03 am 37. jesse:very nice
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:19 am 38. Broadsword:OK, off track but here goes. “…plan on shooting…?” You are assuming she bought a firearm with plans to shoot someone. People with plans to “shoot someone” steal their firearms, or buy them in back alleys. They are probably neither posting nor reading VDH. Besides, isn’t the correct grammar, “Whom” do you plan on shooting…?
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:26 am 39. RandyChandler:“…if Obama really is ruining our country, as most here believe, he will be voted out of office and maybe Victor can try his hand at running the country.”
Really, Joseph? Didn’t work that way with FDR, did it? The New Deal was a Lousy Deal, but we weren’t taught that in school, were we? The way I see it, Obama can get reelected the same way he got elected — with the help of a co-opted media and by the votes bought (through nefarious federal programs) with taxpayer funds.
The only thing keeping me from despair is the hope that someone with VDH’s knowledge and character will rise up in opposition to the Obamapocalypse.
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:28 am 40. Kathy:I wish some media would interview Israeli-Americans on how they feel about Obama’s Muslin speech. So far,the media has ignored their voices.
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:34 am 41. Eme:Oh, it’s all going to be OK in the end, so don’t sweat the small stuff, yah?
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:37 am 42. CFB:1984 and Animal Farm are profoundly anti-statist works, in fact they are possibly the most successful anti-statist works of literature ever written.
That Orwell continued to describe himself as a ‘democratic socialist’ after his work had clearly revealed himself as a neo-conservative says more about his desire to maintain his reputation in an overwhelmingly left-leaning Europe than it does about his true beliefs.
By their works, ye shall know them.
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:57 am 43. Paul:I no longer beleive… in the Miss America pageant!
If you think Sotomayor is new, please refer to Senator Orrin Hatch’s questioning of Ruth Bader Ginsburg during her confimration process. Her “views” have already passed.
I just wish I could keep up with the hypocrisy…
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:10 am 44. Terry Gain:Had Bush listened to 90% of the pundits in those dark days of late 2006-mid 2007, there would be no democracy now for Obama to privilege as a cornerstone of US foreign policy. Or is that simple statement now also inoperative?
If their hero had succeeded in his mission to concede Iraq to al Qaeda and Iran, Iraq would now be an inferno. But that would be okay as they could all blame it all on Bush.
I doubt what follows is empirical discussion of what is causing global warming and whether it is a natural, temporary phenomenon or a long-term permanent threat.
Or more accurately whether Global Warming ended in 2007 and we have since entered a period of Global Cooling. Or how is it possible for carbon dioxide, a trace elemnt which comprises 0.0384% of the earth’s atmosphere, to control temperature?
It’s about as ridiculous as the notion that electing a weakling is going to stem the rising tide of Islamism.
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:13 am 45. cfbleachers:Anyone who believes that the entrenched media in this nation is acting as an umpire rather than a vigorous and uniformed participant in our political landscape…is a damned fool.
We are no longer fed facts upon which to base conclusions, we are fed pre-polemikos…ground into bite size pap for the mass consumption of those too busy or too lazy to dig for truth.
In fact, truth is an irrelevancy in post-modern America. Facts travel into an eddy and the swirl itself is more important because it draws attention to the eye and keeps it flitting and distracted.
For many (not all) at this site, the truth is just as unwelcome because it brings harsh news. Conservatives are whistling past the graveyard these days. The entrenched media, Hollywood and the leftist wing of academia have successfully marginalized them into deep background.
They see burglars now under every bed. They have cast aside centrists and moderates and have dug deep into bunker mentality.
Gleefully, the entrenched media and fellow traveling leftists…do cartwheels at the divide and conquer self-immolation of the what was remaining of the landscape.
Jobless reports are now free to be “interpreted”…with the precise same statistics meanng polar opposite things…depending upon whether a left leaning politician is in office. And the fools cheer the “good” news and hiss at the “bad”.
We, as a nation…are basically a giant liar’s lair. A receptacle of half-truths, deceptions, false attributions, and leftist propaganda.
I no longer “quite believe” either. Our information stream is rotten to the core and corrupted like a computer virus. We are being torn asunder from within…and we can’t even rely on our own communications to help us find a way out. Those opposed to leftism won’t and can’t band together to fight a common enemy…and unless and until we do…that eddy will swallow us whole.
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:17 am 46. Fragmentarian:What is there left to do? Those of us, cunning enough, realize we are all Ward Churchills now.
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:21 am 47. submandave:re Pres. Obama’s bone fides concerning the Civil Rights movement:
My tracable, registered 1/32 Muskogee ancestry makes me more personally affected by the past transgressions of the U.S. government. As I previously observed, given the President’s mixed heritage, it is entirely possible that half his ancestors were catching slaves in Africa and selling them to the traders while the other half were buying them once they reached this shore.
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:36 am 48. Random Thoughts About Stuff | DEEP BRAIN DIARY:[...] — how it went too far without going far enough and stuff. And PJ “columnist” Victor Davis Hanson doesn’t like the non-inquisitive media during the Obama era NEARLY as much as he liked the [...]
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:38 am 49. Butterfly Mornings and Wildflower Afternoons:They know Dr. Hanson.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31170724/
Where are the large herds, which direction do they travel every year?
They know.
Most are near the Sudan.
We are in so much trouble with God. This is my belief. We cannot go against Israel, it is in the old and new prophecies. We cannot, it is end times when all turn on Israel.
http://www.jnewswire.com/topic/nations_united
We are so close.
http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/
All of those reporters and the words they say are in the prophecies of end times.
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:39 am 50. scott:Secession.
It must be. We can save a third or so of what was once a great nation and a large part of the decent folk left. Or we can all go down in infamy.
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:47 am 51. AThinkingPerson:I’m still amazed that our first black POTUS is going to be the one to take race relations back 100 years. In his haste to prove himself, he not only instilled in his radical followers the notion that any disagreement with his positions is racist, but then uttered the oft repeated remark “we won and are in charge now”. Those not reading between his teleprompter lines might (and often do) hear the “we” as meaning blacks not the Democratic party (I hope and pray that he DID mean the Democratic party btw).
So for every liberal throwing the term “racist” around with abandon, there are countless Americans getting very “disenchanted” with our current POTUS and his willingness to allow party/racial lines to determine his policy. I’d suggest he remember he’s President of the entire US and not just the urban areas that got him elected.
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:48 am 52. AThinkingPerson:Re #40 Kathy: You asked about the media interviewing Israeli-Americans on their thoughts about Obama. Couldn’t find any but I DID find where The Jerusalem Post interviewed some of the Israel youth on their thoughts on Obama. Very interesting….
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371044168&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:02 am 53. Free Hat:wadosy: “mr hanson whines about the media… but when the media was lying us into iraq, the media was fine.
go figure.”
Glad somebody said it. When every major network was simply repeating Bush’s illegitimate pro-Iraq war talking points from 2002-2006, without questioning a single one, not a single soul from the right wing spoke up about how this lapdog mentality in the press could be detrimental. And why? Because a Republican administration was benefiting from the lapdog mentality. And those few who did challenge the administration’s mistruths were branded by the right wing as traitors and being against the troops, and were told that they should “watch what they say.”
So apparently it’s not the case that Republicans give a crap about journalistic integrity or ethics; rather they just get mad when it seems to them that the press is rolling over for a Democratic administration the same way it did for the Republicans.
And that’s called hypocrisy. And lunacy.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:02 am 54. maurice:Me neither.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:06 am 55. AThinkingPerson:Re #53 Free Lunch: I’d like to see links to the “Republican administration was benefiting from the lapdog mentality” you so earnestly represented in your post. Thank you.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:18 am 56. The Shadow:Wow – I am stunned that Hanson would no longer believe. Here I thought he was a wingnut shill who long ago abanndoned any pretense at objectivety.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:20 am 57. Butterfly Mornings and Wildflower Afternoons:I tell you all we will not have time to have bad teeth like many of the Socialist countries if we go against Israel. Why in the world are these people wishing to be Socialists? Look at the Socialist countries teeth.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:24 am 58. Roger Godby:We will not be here long enough to have bad dental hygiene if we are in end times. We will not be here long enough to wait on long lists for Doctors and Dentists like the Socialists if we are living in end times.
Haven’t made 300 yet.
Good luck to the Briton heading to the Philippines! Might not be too bad if your income is good and stable enough.
My guess is a slow downward decay as inflation accelerates but causes state and smaller governments to begin asserting their rights and ignoring Washington’s–pun coming–fiats Depending on fuel supplies/costs, people might “go local,” because it’s too costly to truck oranges from FL. Distrbuted power generation instead of centralized grids. The return of privately funded interurban rail. It might be the return of the small town with little to know crime where you can smoke dope or be gay and be talked about and known but nothing happens because you’re a local “and that’s just how some people are,” as long as you don’t cause trouble. Through “creative destruction” might lie the way to the return of America’s founding ideals: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Lies, diversity, and the pursuit of forgiveness might yet fail as a national policy but adherents will always exist.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:26 am 59. Free Hat:42. CFB: “1984 and Animal Farm are profoundly anti-statist works, in fact they are possibly the most successful anti-statist works of literature ever written.
That Orwell continued to describe himself as a ‘democratic socialist’ after his work had clearly revealed himself as a neo-conservative says more about his desire to maintain his reputation in an overwhelmingly left-leaning Europe than it does about his true beliefs.
By their works, ye shall know them.”
How can you possibly profess to know more about Orwell’s political leanings than Orwell himself does? He consistently described himself as a Socialist, and that’s what he was. Anyone who actually read Animal Farm or his accounts of soldiering in India can clearly see a commitment to social justice and equality that is consistent with a Socialist viewpoint.
The reason that simple people think that Animal Farm is a simple anti-Communist screed is that they don’t have the capacity to think critically about the text. The real meaning of Animal Farm is about human nature; that all political systems, from Democracy to Totalitarianism, and every shade of political system in between, inevitably fail as greed and power inevitably corrupt those who have their hand on the tiller.
The animals in Animal Farm could have adopted literally any system for their farm, and the ending of the book would have been exactly the same. That Orwell chose Socialism, a philosophy for which he was a proponent, simply illustrates that in addition to championing social justice, Orwell was also a cynical realist who understood the dark aspects of human nature – i.e., that even if you could free men of the shackles of servitude and give them the opportunity to live in an egalitarian society, such a proposition is always doomed to failure by the efforts of sociopaths like Napoleon who view politics and the republic as nothing more than stepping stones to absolute power, decadent privilege and oppressive brutality.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:26 am 60. JED:The bottom line in this turbulent era of American history is that the American voters elected, bought into, and will pay for this grand upheaval of standards. The blame game stops and starts at the polls.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:34 am 61. Jack Okie:Somewhere in the educational values of generation X, critical thinking was not overly valued. The inquisitive American media may have traded their professional ethics for popularity.
#9 Dr. T:
You go ahead and bug out. I will stay and fight.
“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.”
These words are as true now as they ever were. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.
#50 Scott
Not secesssion – Nullification:
http://tinyurl.com/mv5spj
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:38 am 62. Terry Gain:wadosy:
mr hanson whines about the media… but when the media was lying us into iraq, the media was fine.
—-
Have you seen an explanation for those convoys of trucks headed from Iraq into Syria in the fall of 2002.
Given that even Duelfer was unable to say that Saddam had not shipped his WMD to Syria and concluded that Saddam retained the capacity to restart his weapons programs when sanctions ended your comment is dumber than dumb. Not to mention that the media simple reported what everyone believed. They didn’t start making things up until that sand storm in the first week of the liberation.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:38 am 63. Martin Owens:When I consider the future, I thank God I have reached the age where I can honorably take refuge in drink.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:46 am 64. Sebastian Shaw:The State Run Media might as well just stab itself in the back & try to run while taking its own money from the left hand to the right hand; President Obama hero or God worship will only be a catalyst for their own demise due to ratings or consecutively lower magazine or paper sales.
Let them bask in Obama’s heavenly glow. The glow is a false light of promise & nothing but barbed lies. Roses are beautiful, but they also have thorns. The media is ignoring Obama’s thorns while their hands bleed–mistaking their own self-inflicted wound for the Blood of the Obama-Christ Thing.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:49 am 65. Free Hat:AThinkingPerson: Re #53 Free Lunch: I’d like to see links to the “Republican administration was benefiting from the lapdog mentality” you so earnestly represented in your post. Thank you.
Here you go:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060327/thomas
“Despite the apologies of the mainstream press for not having vigilantly questioned evidence of WMD and links to terrorists in the early stages of the war, the newspapers dropped the ball again by ignoring for days a damaging report in the London Times on May 1, 2005. That report revealed the so-called Downing Street memo, the minutes of a high-powered confidential meeting that British Prime Minister Tony Blair held with his top advisers on Bush’s forthcoming plans to attack Iraq. At the secret session Richard Dearlove, former head of British intelligence, told Blair that Bush “wanted to remove Saddam Hussein through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.”
“The Downing Street memo was a bombshell when discussed by the bloggers, but the mainstream print media ignored it until it became too embarrassing to suppress any longer. The Post discounted the memo as old news and pointed to reports it had many months before on the buildup to the war. Los Angeles Times editorial page editor Michael Kinsley decided that the classified minutes of the Blair meeting were not a “smoking gun.” The New York Times touched on the memo in a dispatch during the last days leading up to the British elections, but put it in the tenth paragraph.”
“All this took me back to the days immediately following the unraveling of the Watergate scandal. The White House press corps realized it had fallen asleep at the switch–not that all the investigative reporting could have been done by those on the so-called “body watch,” which travels everywhere with the President and has no time to dig for facts. But looking back, they knew they had missed many clues on the Watergate scandal and were determined to become much more skeptical of what was being dished out to them at the daily briefings. And, indeed, they were. The White House press room became a lion’s den.”
“By contrast, after the White House lost its credibility in rationalizing the pre-emptive assault on Iraq, the correspondents began to come out of their coma, yet they were still too timid to challenge Administration officials, who were trying to put a good face on a bad situation.”
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:01 am 66. wadosy:to Terry Gain
the media reported what that little office in tel aviv wanted them to report…
remember that little office of sharon’s…? the one that manufactured reports of iraq’s wmds, the reports that were so slimy that the mossad wouldnt touch them?
…which explains why a special office had to be set up in tel aviv, and a special office had to be set up in the pentagon to process the israeli reports and stovepipe them past the CIA to the neocon top dogs in the israeli american administration.
…and all the while, the israeli american media was being fed this bullshit, from tel aviv, from chalabi, and from the israeli american think tanks… and it was duly drummed into the america publics brains.
VDH was a handmaiden to the whole effort, including the current crop of lies about iran, and he is committed to preserving israel, even though israel was founded in lies, terror and injustice, and has preserved itself to this day with lies, terror and injustice, and has parlayed its control of the american media into control of america politics and military.
the bedrock moral philosophy of israel, israeli americans and their fellow travelers is “might makes right”… and you can keep lying til the cows come home, but the lies and the violence and the stupidity are becoming too obvious to deny.
you guys have blown it.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:06 am 67. Frank Logan:Bruce #13: I have a vision of millions of Americans, marching on Washington demanding an end to the tyranny that is being forced on us.
You are not alone. Our problems all stem from the 535 members of the US Congress. 1st the Tea Parties need support from all freedom loving Americans. If that doesn’t get the attention of the Congress. Then an unarmed march on Washington is next. Meanwhile, many patriots are stocking up on guns and ammunition.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:09 am 68. steve macdonald:58. Roger – I’m an American who is in England to turn a dying company around before heading to the sunset years. Philippines is because my wife is a Filipina & our two year old son can get a great grounding educationally and values wise at a fraction of the cost elsewhere.
VDH – I think it time for pieces on how to get out of the current wilderness. 99% of us understand the ills but apparently none of us see what can be done by us to remedy the dilema.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:11 am 69. Mark Eichenlaub:Great piece Mr. Hanson.
Wadosy, I don’t think the media was lying about invading Iraq. I think they were just telling the story as they knew it at the time, as was the administration. Though they weren’t all cheerleaders for the war.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:20 am 70. wadosy:you guys are over a barrel.
you have to decide what your priorities are.
if your number one priority is saving israel, then you have to do more of mr ledeen’s “creative destruction”, preferably a nuke false flag on america, blamed on iran, that will mobilize america into a total war footing.
the consolation prize is revert to your default mode —looting— as the israeli american empire collapses…
thank your lucky stars that we’ve got a black president —which should defuse urban unrest somewhat— thank your stars there’s such a furor over that hispanic lady on the supreme court —she ought to defuse hispanic unrest… not to mention the fact that haim saban (”i’m a one-issue guy, and that issue is israel”) owns the biggest spanish-language television network in america…
…all of which should lend itself to an orderly deconstruction of america, which will prolong your opportunities to loot.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:21 am 71. C. Siegel:“smitty:
Excellent piece.
Minor editorial attention needed here: “Is not the media is invested”.”
smitty–Dr Hanson spent years studying classic Greek and Roman literature, which includes a not insubstantial dose of rhetoric, a subject regrettably no longer much studied.
Personally, I find this preferable to the modern style of blurbs and sound bites.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:22 am 72. Claude Hopper:BAsed on Ms. Sotomayor’s racial statement, I ocnclude she is simply immature; that is lacking complete growth, differentiation, or development (along with being badly overweight).
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:25 am 73. wadosy:the deconstruction and looting of the soviet union was practice for what’s in store for america, if you’re a hardcore member of the looter faction.
the “israel first” faction will have to do another 9/11, hoping the resulting expansion of the wars will secure israel before its protector falls apart.
there are probably a few shakers and movers who still believe in the possibility of america surviving, despite peak oil and global warming… but they’re a minority.
and we’re now in a cold civil war between these factions, who are attempting to decide who’s gonna suprervise the destruction of america.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:27 am 74. Conservative1:It is quite depressing what has happened to this once great country. Sometimes I think that it is pointless and just let the ship steer itself. Voting is a joke. Our elected officials don’t give a shit. All the while people that voted for Obama are so invested in his success that they would likely cut their nose off to spite their face. I am really upset that blacks are becoming more racist due to tis guy. I am really upset that whites have developed even more white guilt, which is racist. I am basically upset that this country is being destroyed and all we do is applaud.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:31 am 75. Jason:Great blog !
its obvious to those of us with some perspective on the media that they have been getting even more liberal and more radicalized since 9/11. They are anti conservative, and whatever fits that agenda is in the news. The fact that the media are not vilifying President Obama (the “anti war” president) for HIS WARs in ‘Iraqistan’ shows the truth. Obama is killing just as many Iraqis and Afganis as Bush did (maybe even more afganis) , just as many Killer Drone Missions (targeted killings) and just as many civilian deaths. ASK: where is the media when the US military are killing innocent civilians from Predator drone Missile attacks? I am shocked at how passive the leftist media has become, now that its their guy in the white house…
True Sell out – fascist media
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:32 am 76. Self-hating Boomer:Stone the unbeliever!
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:42 am 77. Self-hating Boomer:I also no longer believe that entrance into/graduation from an ivy university means three digits in the IQ. The (valid) criticism used to be that the offspring of rich, privileged whites would be let in and pushed along regardless of merit. While that still goes on, it’s now pretty evident that poor minorities on scholarships are also let in and pushed along regardless of merit. It’s also evident that this has been going on for decades.
Meanwhile, anybody with anything on the ball (i.e. Lubos Motl) get pushed to the side.
The institutional train wreck in America (and many international institutions, as well) goes from media to academe to the automotive industry, and beyond. This is what eventually has to happen when the second law of thermodynamics meets the informational cascade.
I’m not looking forward to cleaning up after this train wreck, but I’m certain that there’s no escaping it.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:51 am 78. David W. Lincoln:It makes me wonder. Where is the coverage by
any media as to the endangering of US exports, other than an editorial in the New York Times.
None here, or at wnd.com, or any reference by media that would be offended at being called MSM.
This the editorial I refer to:
U.S. Democrats’ Buy America campaign backfires Ally cities respond to protectionism by taking their business elsewhere
An editorial in the New York Times:
It’s not surprising that Democrats in Congress could not resist adding a “Buy American” provision to the fiscal stimulus bill earlier this year. It might seem sensible (or at least politically useful) to ensure that taxpayer dollars would be used exclusively to support American jobs.
But as states and municipalities start spending stimulus money, the idea is starting to look as counterproductive as it should have looked from the beginning. It is sparking conflict with American allies and, rather than supporting employment at home, the Buy American effort could ultimately cost American jobs.
Foreign and domestic companies that employ hundreds of workers in this country cannot bid for government projects because they cannot guarantee the American provenance of all the steel, iron and manufactured goods in their supply chain, as the provision requires. Others are scrambling to figure out whether American-made alternatives exist to replace their foreign inputs.
The steel company Duferco Farrell, for example, might have to lay off 600 workers in Pennsylvania after it lost orders from its biggest customer because some of its goods are partly produced abroad, according to news reports. Westlake Chemicals of Houston has lost sales to a Canadian vinyl pipe maker that is cutting back production because it can’t bid for some American jobs.
America’s trading partners expected more of President Barack Obama, who signed a declaration against protectionism at the summit of the biggest nations in April. He convinced Congress to add a clause to its Buy American effort promising Washington would meet its international obligations. But cities, and some states, are not bound by the rules of the World Trade Organization and NAFTA.
Some allies, and many American companies, expected the president would seek to persuade local governments to abide by federal rules, but in April the Office of Management and Budget issued interim guidelines that offered no such guidance.
In the absence of leadership from the president, the temptation to turn to protectionism is growing. Hundreds of municipalities and some state legislatures have signed on to a Buy America resolution pushed by the United Steelworkers Union. And the House of Representatives stuck provisions requiring the use of American materials into bills about water-quality improvement and new school facilities.
Meanwhile, representatives of Australia, Brazil, Canada, the European Union, Japan and Mexico have been consulting about how to respond to the United States’ protectionist drive. After Canadian companies were barred from bidding for American business, news reports say that some 12 Canadian cities passed ordinances against buying American. And the Federation of Canadian Municipalities will discuss a possible co-ordinated response at its meeting this month.
Industries like water and wastewater treatment are highly integrated with their Canadian counterparts, with exports to Canada worth $6.2 billion and imports worth $4 billion in 2008. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, retaliation by Canadian cities could cost American water equipment companies $3 billion in lost business.
An analysis earlier this year by Jeffrey Schott and Gary Clyde Hufbauer of the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington estimated that the Buy American provisions could “save” 9,000 American jobs — a tiny number compared with the 650,000 jobs supported by foreign government procurement of American exports.
Indeed, whether it is from the point of view of diplomacy or of job creation, Buy America is a terrible idea. It is an idea that could make the global recession worse.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:52 am 79. RJ:“…maybe Victor can try his hand at running the country.”
You know, it’s not the President’s job to run the country. I can understand your confusion, however, as it is obviously shared by the man currently in office.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:53 am 80. Ms. Attitude:53. Free Hat:
Your post shows that it goes both ways. The Dems are saying nothing now. And that’s called hypocrisy. And lunacy. And your HYPOCRISY!!!
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:53 am 81. KR:The media generally never supported the Iraq war. In 2002 they were parroting over-inflated “anti-war” protest numbers, writing editorials decrying the invasion, and so on. This meme that the media lined up behind the government came out later, and it’s sad that people just accept it.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:10 am 82. El Mattador:Dr. Hanson,
As a Latina, I have to say, with regard to your last three posts, you are “en fuego,” sir. Thanks to you, I’m now the guy who’s constantly forwarding stuff to friends and family.
I guess the pendulum has swung and we’re going through another Romantic phase as our spoiled, narcissistic libertines play make-believe Miltonian Satan and attempt to destroy the classical values responsible for the splendor they take for granted. (Goodness, people, isn’t that routine a bit played out by now?) Like the Fall of Rome, or Napoleon, or WWI, I shudder to think what awaits us when Thucydidean reality strikes back, forcing us to learn all the same lessons over again…and again…and again…
All the best,
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:27 am 83. Ed Wallis:Matt
Ms Attitude #80,
Don’t too riled up about the TROLLS you refer to (and others wasting time) here.
They tend to forget all the muslim attacks which occurred under the Clinton Administration…and how the then-Democrat-lapdog-Media also “looked the other way.”
It’s just too “inconvenient” a truth for them to acknowledge.
It seems they think that being a whiny traitor is SO much easier, based on their posts.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:31 am 84. Penny:Pam Geller at Atlas Shrugs blog says truth if you can bear it. She is posting Islamist torture/porn videos on her blog to protest the US “torture” photos the democrats want released. Leiberman and Lindsay Graham are not going to allow these photos to be released if they can stop them. Atlas will post 10 Islamist torture videos for every US “torture” picture released to the ACLU terrorists. You’ll be sick for days if you dare to watch the muslims torture those poor folks.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:39 am 85. Tex Taylor:Dr. Hanson,
Not too long ago, I thought it would be impossible to beat the brilliance of the typical commentary of Thomas Sowell and Charles Krauthammer.
You sir have joined their ranks in my book. Therefore, you have joined the ranks of an “American Jewel”.
Thank you for your insights (which I have parroted often).
Excellent article…
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:43 am 86. Terry Gain:66. wadosy:
You purported to respond to my post @62 but you evaded my question. All you did was establish your credentials as anti-Jewish. So are you a leftard or a muzzie or both? Take it back to Kos or Huffington.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:51 am 87. Don:In regards to the MSM…
Where is Maureen (it’s all Bush and Cheneys fault) Dowd from the NY Times been lately?
I also noticed there is the beginning of a movement to re-write history by the likes of Paul Krugman, attempting to blame Ronald Reagan for the excesses of 2004-2006..
Look for more revisionism to try and blunt the most successful, and most popular President in 100 years, that of Mr Reagan.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:52 am 88. Войска ПВО:Dr Hanson writes:
“I no longer believe . . “
..welcome to the dance, sir, albeit somewhat late.
Many of us “never believed” this hyper-bloviating empty suit with no discernable credentials, no previous practical experience, no depth, no gravitas.
Long ago, we stopped believing the leg-tingling commentators, the legions of his worshippers blinded by his light, the swooning, enraptured followers proclaiming that The Boy King will heal them, pay their mortgages, “stop the war ‘n stuff”, and bring renewed HopenChange to their pathetic, Bush-burdened existences.
..long, long ago.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:56 am 89. Sherab Zangpo:Dear Professor,
wouldn’t it be time to call “dictatorship” a dictatorship, although in its first steps ?
There are certainly specific differences that must be highlighted with reference to other dictatorships in other parts of the world and in other times, but the fact that the truth is daily and continuously violated by the media, by the schools, by the universities, by Congress, by appointed judges, by activists and by scientists turned into social-scientists is the single element that must be used to define the identity of the genus (”dictatorship”).
The violation of the truth CERTAINLY implies also that the electoral results are bogus and in line of principle it implies also that violence will be used against dissent, and these two elements can be added to the classification of the genus (”dictatorship”).
And all this brings us to the old question: what to do when the democratic process elects a totalitarian would-be regime ?
An old question.
Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:06 am 90. Ron Kean:wadosy
You’re making up stories. I hope your anti-semitic views will continue to be marginalized and contained in the USA at least.
We have a free country so say what you want. Only, be better informed.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:09 am 91. Free Hat:80. Ms. Attitude: “Your post shows that it goes both ways. The Dems are saying nothing now. And that’s called hypocrisy. And lunacy. And your HYPOCRISY!!!”
Apparently you don’t understand what hypocrisy is.
When you claim that the mainstream press is in Obama’s pocket but deny that the mainstream press acted exactly the same when Bush was in office, like the authors is, you are a hypocrite.
When you acknowledge that the mainstream press is corrupt in general, always has been, and will roll over for whatever president is in office, which is what I am arguing, that is not hypocritical, that’s just speaking the truth.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:23 am 92. RebeccaH:Re Obama’s speech concerning Muslims and Islam: The Greeks gave us democracy and political discourse. The Romans gave us technology. And the British put it all together and gave us civilization. These things developed centuries before Islam was a gleam in Mohammed’s eye. Therefore, Islam had zero to do with any of it (unless, as VDH says, it was by driving the thinkers and doers into the West to escape Muslim oppression).
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:24 am 93. syn:“thank your lucky stars that we’ve got a black president —which should defuse urban unrest somewhat— thank your stars there’s such a furor over that hispanic lady on the supreme court —she ought to defuse hispanic unrest… not to mention the fact that haim saban (”i’m a one-issue guy, and that issue is israel”) owns the biggest spanish-language television network in america…”
Wadosy
I get that you, like Rev Wright, does not like “them Jews” however I cannot help but note that when Dr Rice was mocked as an ‘Aunt Jemima’, when Gen Powell mocked as ‘lackey for the white man’, when Mr Steele was ‘black-faced’ or when Supreme Court Clarence Thomas, Janice Rogers Brown and Miguel Estrada were laid to waste, did you notice how the urban-rested celebrated the destruction of blacks and hispanics of both genders?
You want to defuse your urban unrest?
Get yourself off the Democrat Slave Plantation which has kept you poor, stupid, hapless and dependent upon the slaveholders to come bail out out of your unrest.
Conservative want to free you from the Democrat ties that bind you and keep you trapped in hell; come join Liberty, we welcome you with open arms and free hearts full of love and respect.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:25 am 94. Well Educated Cad:“He who shall not be Middle named” should fire the Secret Service- after all, it’s the MSM who protects him now. They are posed to attact and ridicule anyone on the Republican side who might pose a threat to Obama. Just look at all the anti-Palin stories lately, yet dead silence on the dropping of charges against the Black Panthers. Should we all put on uniforms and stand outside all voting places next election? The Obama government says it’s okay!
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:28 am 95. J Milam:Don’t worry- when the MSM crashes, Obama will just bail them out with our taxes- he needs them too much to let them sink.
As far as Sotomayor goes, it’s my understanding that 60% of her decisions have been overturned (I’m not a lawyer so forgive me if I use the wrong terms). When she sits on the highest court in the land, who is going to overturn her?
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:28 am 96. Rick Tack:Thank you for the good article.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:32 am 97. Mike:Regarding the comments of #66–Wadosy–”might makes right” regarding Israel. Let’s review the historical record. Has Israel attacked its neighbors? Quite the opposite. Israel’s neighbors have waged no less than two wars of extinction against Israel, killing thousands. Israel has considerable military strength, but how does it use it? If Israel was truly the evil entity its detractors claim, would it have returned land seized in war to those who attacked it? Would not Israel use its military power to obliterate those who rain rockets on its cities? Why doesn’t Israel merely wipe out all Palestinians instead of providing them food water, electricity and medical services, often healing those who tried to kill Israelis? Perhaps Israel fears the mighty United Nations who might adopt another of thousands of resolutions proclaiming Israel to be naughty?
The situation can be easily summed up thus: What would happen if Israel unilaterally disarmed? Holocaust. What would happen if Israel’s enemies disarmed? Peace.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:34 am 98. George Best:One thing I think is hilarious is that six months after my subscription expired(it was a gift and I didnt buy it), Time and Newsweek are still sending me a weekly copy. No one wants to read these left leaning rags, but so they give it away hoping to fool companies into advertising. Even as a kid when i picked it up, it had real news etc in it and had much more relevant content. The world has certainly changed and print media is dying a slow death. Atleast the left has to be happy that less trees are getting used for paper.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:34 am 99. Rick Tack:60. JED:
“The bottom line in this turbulent era of American history is that the American voters elected, bought into, and will pay for this grand upheaval of standards. The blame game stops and starts at the polls.”
The media, too, played an important role in ‘educating’ the voters. If people are too ignorant to look at what they are fed by the media more critically…well I suppose the media calculates that into the equation. Just as in war, elections are heavily influenced by what the media conveys. Like hell, media objectivity.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:39 am 100. Stephen Brady:To Wadosy:
Do I take it that you don’t much care for Israel?
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:39 am 101. Anonymous:65. Free Hat:
Yeah, right, we should look to The Nation, the spokespropaganda mill for Marxism, in an article written by Helen Thomas, the far left hag, to find proof that the media sucked up to BusHitler. Why didn’t up you just link up directly to Das Kapital and cut out the middleman?
Of course, if your whole point of view is far to the left of left, then, looking back, perhaps something only far left would look far right to you.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:45 am 102. ChuckB:Victor, you seem to have forgotten the early 60’s. JFK was treated the same as Obama is today. I don’t think journalist have ever been anything but deeply biased muckrakers.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:46 am 103. RJ:waydosi wrote: the media reported what that little office in tel aviv wanted them to report…
Almost predictable how the hate bubbles out.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:47 am 104. The Unbearable Lightness of Barak:Must reading: “The Closing of the American Mind” by the prescient Prof. Allan Bloom. Much becomes clear, and painfully depressing, after digesting the instruction therein.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:49 am 105. Sherab Zangpo:OFF TOPIC
Shooting at the Holocaust Museum.
The islamic terrorists are getting more and more enthusiastic.
And evidently we are unable to stop them.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:53 am 106. Bill45:As Obama was puffing up his WWII bona fides via his uncle, did any reporter think to take Great-Uncle Charlie Payne aside and ask, Charlie, just how often did the family there in Iowa ever see young Barack growing up?
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:56 am 107. TLM:“The reason that simple people think that Animal Farm is a simple anti-Communist screed is that they don’t have the capacity to think critically about the text.”
What follows this statement — which sounds like it was copied down verbatim from FH’s freshman (ie,remedial) English prof — is a classic example of postmodern deconstructionist pablum.
The reason people interpret Orwell’s novels as “anti-communist” is because that’s how they were written. Orwell, like many other socialist leaning intellectuals in the West, was appalled at the excesses of Josef Stalin’s version of communism. (The degree of Stalin’s perfidy in the 30’s did not become apparent until the 40’s and later.) Those of us who read Orwell’s books during the Cold War 60’s-70’s understood what he was talking about. Deconstruct them all you want, leftist intellectuals and writers from that era felt betrayed by the example set by the USSR, and it is obvious in their writings.
Jun 10, 2009 - 10:57 am 108. Trouble:Good God… that “Bush lied people died” Kool-aid is powerful stuff. Five years on, the intoxication still hasn’t worn off.
I’ve revised my thinking on the GWB presidency. Fifty years from now, I think he will be viewed as a Truman-like figure – he had a lot on his plate, and didn’t do a bad job all things considered.
Face facts, Obamaniacs – your guy is a supercilious schmoe who has never run so much as a popsicle stand.
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:00 am 109. wadosy:where’s the beef, mr hanson?
nearly everybody believes, huh? …so you’re entitled to kill a few million more people on the basis of “nearly everybody believes” because everybody’s had your bullshit pounded into their heads by the media you’re whining about.
if you got the proof, give it to elbaradei so his inspectors can bust iran for violation of the NPT.
…but you dont have any proof, do you? …just like you had no proof of iraq’s wmds… and you expect us to believe the same lies from the same people who lied us into iraq?
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:03 am 110. Ms. Attitude:91. Free Hat:
Proof please?
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:06 am 111. Ms. Attitude:109. wadosy:
Evidently you didn’t read your links.
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:31 am 112. Ms. Attitude:109. wadosy:
Do you really think the public knows everything that the Department of Defense knows? Please! Did you look at Obama’s face after his first security briefing after he was elected? Have you ever questioned why after that he decided not to pull our troops out by his deadline?
Wadosy, have you ever thought?
Some things aren’t public knowledge for a reason. In time, when the issues are resolved the public will know.
Obama is facing the same issues Bush did with the ME. He’s just going about it by kissing up to the enemy instead of showing strength. It gives the appearance that he is the enemy.
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:38 am 113. The Shadow:J Milam – You realize, of course, that 100% of Alito’s opionions were overturned
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:46 am 114. AThinkingPerson:Re Free Hat: You’ve yet to provide one link to the MSM referring to Bush during his Presidency as “God” like they do Obama. Heck, I’ll take God-like, or God-esque. Also, anything where a journalist, during Bush’s Presidency, refers to any body part tingling.
I’ll wait patiently for your upcoming links….
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:51 am 115. skipkent:“When you claim that the mainstream press is in Obama’s pocket but deny that the mainstream press acted exactly the same when Bush was in office, like the authors is, you are a hypocrite.
When you acknowledge that the mainstream press is corrupt in general, always has been, and will roll over for whatever president is in office, which is what I am arguing, that is not hypocritical, that’s just speaking the truth.”
‘Exactly the same’?!
Who had shivers on the legs when Bush was elected? Who commented fervently on the tone of Laura’s arms? Who ignored all the controversial Bush stories to linger on dinner dates, burger stands and cute puppy stories instead?
True, you’re not a hypocrite. You’re just off your f*cking rocker.
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:51 am 116. wadosy:i went to vietnam secure in the belief that the government had better information than i did.
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:51 am 117. wadosy:of course, israel’s security was not at stake in the vietnam war.
but now there’s a problem: if israel is not secured before america disintegrates…
…but there’s always the possibility of turning the demise of israel into a persecution myth to replace the holocaust, which seems to be wearing thin at the edges.
Jun 10, 2009 - 11:58 am 118. black campbell:No! The media is untrustworthy? They are blindly following a pair of political parties that are loaded with self-serving, lying idiots that couldn’t get hired with ARCA?
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:01 pm 119. Dave:wadosy: You are ALMOST correct. The little office that I helped start is not in Tel Aviv.
It is between Midland and Odessa. It is the only top secret synagogue ever to be disguised
as a Confederate Air Force, thanks to that
notorious Mossad spy Lloyd Nolan and his kosher P51.
Success has been so great that branch offices have been added. The overt one is the Petroleum Museum and the covert one (where the real WMD stories are concocted) is in the Anne Hathaway Cottage next to the Globe Theater. The invisible yarmulkas (now called Netanyahus) are cached in the Meteor Crater. The Sharon Commandos operate out of
two areas, the Horsehead Crossing/Castle Gap region and the Monahans Sandhiils region. The latter is funded by tourists imported from
the Lost Tribe and the former courtesy of
Saint Rita and her oil well.
I LOVE IT WHEN A PLAN COMES TOGETHER!
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:03 pm 120. Ed Driscoll » Now There’s A Team With A Depth Chart!:[...] Related: Victor Davis Hanson writes, “I am afraid I no longer believe . . .:” [...]
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:07 pm 121. wadosy:the most interesting thing about vietnam was the timing: american oil production had just peaked, with global implications.
if you are, by nature, a looter, you had to be anticipating the collapse of america because america was built from the ground up on cheap oil, and america was the biggest producer of oil.
but when oil production peaked, it became clear that america’s days as world savior were limited… but still, america, from inertia alone, would continue to dominate the world for the next few decades… the most important thing to do would be to demoralize americans, which vietnam did.
unfortunately, israel was unable to exterminate palestinians while simultaneously exploiting the “moral high ground” gained from the holocaust, and, as time wore on, it became obvious that something would have to be done to mobilize america in israel’s support before america collapsed from oil shortages.
…which is why bibi thought 9/11 was such a good deal.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:09 pm 122. JamesJ:Journalists and reporters used to ask “what, why, and how.” When it comes to Obama, all they ask are, “Isn’t he wonderful?”
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:11 pm 123. Free Hat:105. Sherab Zangpo: “OFF TOPIC
Shooting at the Holocaust Museum.
The islamic terrorists are getting more and more enthusiastic.
And evidently we are unable to stop them.”
Yeah, except that the shooter was a right wing white supremacist.
At what point are you folks going to have a serious conversation amongst yourselves about why it is that losing the presidency drives you to commit acts of violence and murder?
At what point does the party take responsiblity for the hateful rhetoric it’s been spewing that leads to this violence?
At what point do the grown-ups step in and make it clear that in a Democracy, you don’t just murder the people you disagree with?
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:11 pm 124. Oscar the Grump:Report form the American Central Committee:
Subject: Going Green
Obama recently attended the latest conference on global warming. Being this is the second of an ongoing discussion it is known as Kyoto Two Too. Alarmingly, the destruction of forests for American toilet paper was the prime subject. Each American was said to be responsible for the loss of one tree annually or 300 million trees per year, which is a huge amount.
Obama officially apologized to the world for the number of trees we use fro such a purpose. He stated, “We are sorry for the size of American assholes and want to officially apologize for that fact. We will do our best to minimize the amount of toilet paper consumption in the future.” This brought a stirring applause from those delegates present.
Since Obama’s return to the US he has turned this matter over to the American Central Committee Chaired by Rohm Emanuel, and Vice-Chaired by Samantha Powers. Here-in is the report of their considerations, findings, and prescribed new program.
Considerations included cutting the American diet from three meals per dayt to two meals per day. The resulting savings would be approximately 33% of all toilet paper used. Samantha Powers further suggested that, “If that was the case, why not cut the American diet to one meal per day since that would result in a savings of 67%. Another benefit would be that we could now give our excess food to those overseas who are really hungry.” Another suggestion was the use of “reusable” toilet paper. You would only have to buy it once. Nome Chomsky, who is a seated member of the committee, suggested recycling used toilet paper. “It could come back in the form of paper plates, cups, tissues, etc.”
Findings of the committee are that the average American overuses toilet paper by at least 1/3. Reduction by 1/3 would be a good achievable goal.
The prescribed new program was to reduce the size of toilet paper by 1/3, not in length but in width, a 33% savings. Jumping into the spirit of this, two-ply paper would be made illegal for another 25% savings. The subject turned to the fact that single ply paper is not as strong, known as finger popper paper. It was decided to increase the fiberousness of the single ply paper to increase its strength. It was pointed out that6 increasing the fiberousness of the paper would lead to a few splinters. However, this was shrugged off as a necessary evil. The resulting toilet paper or “New American Central Committee Paper” will be 1/3 smaller in width, one ply and more fiberous, resulting in an annual savings of 58% .
That G-d that we have our new President Obama and his new American Central Committee. Please look forward to more reports coming from this committee.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:11 pm 125. wadosy:it always boils down to the same thing: israel must be secured before america runs out of gas.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:12 pm 126. Kelvin:wadosy’s comment pretty much sums it up. Carry on.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:15 pm 127. AThinkingPerson:So since The One has taken office and promised us all a “new day” full of HOPE and CHANGE we’ve been suject to a Muslim extremist killing a US soldier outside of a recruitment center, a nutjob shooting at the Holocaust Museum, North Korea now threatening us with nuclear war, NoKorea holding 2 Americans as pawns, the Iraq war CONTINUING and now moving more troops into Afghanistan, terrorists on US soil getting read their Miranda rights (which Obama said he would refuse to do during the campaign),rewriting contractual law and continuing to spend away whatever fiscal future we’ll be left with after he hands over US companies to the unions.
Yep, I can surely see how the MSM thinks he’s the second coming of Christ can’t you?
I have a feeling we’ve only seen the beginning of the crazy extremists coming out of the woodwork to vent their frustrations. Obama has taken away any hope of a bright future for many generations to come. Thank your local liberal loonie and remember to hit the floor the next time you hear gunfire. It looks like we’ve only had a taste of what’s unfortunately in store. God Help Us All.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:38 pm 128. blotto:Free Hat: You cite and quote a second reference that being a “liberal” rage The Nation. To be more accurate, you need to cite a first-hand reference like newspaper article(s) like NYT, WaPo, etc. So like Ms. Attitude, references please…
Additionally, perhaps for balance you could cite some articles by the NYT that excoriated Pres. Bush for his Iraq campaign… Like the thousands that were written over his eight years.
Geez, you have got to be kidding that the MSM was in Bush’s back pocket is like saying I have the ability to marry Penelope Cruz. True they did not immediately criticize him because that would mean they would have to criticize the Dems who overwhelmingly voted in favor of going into Iraq, but you conveniently overlook that troubling fact. And they would have had to criticize a black Sect’y of State whom they adore… And Sen. Clinton, Kerry et al.
I will concede that the MSM is corrupt.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:39 pm 129. Art Vandalay:Shadow,
I have heard that figure, based upon reportedly two cases reviewed from the third circuit while Alito was on the court, but I have never seen it outside of mediamatters. Can you give me any more information on this? Are you saying that in 13 years, he had two cases reversed?
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:40 pm 130. Mike:“… but rather a more incremental new groupspeak in which basic words and ideas—from terrorism to war itself—have been reformulated according to political dictates.”
I find myself spending more and more time asking why the media are that way. I think one plausible explanation is that conservative members of the media abandoned ship when they realized that media was becoming a not for profit industry. Sensing that the internet would destroy media as we know it, conservatively principled reporters came to a practical conclusion that their time was better spent elsewhere. Liberals are riding out the storm, and are holding on for dear life. Thus the media has slowly been distilled into an essence of liberalism.
The lack of curiousity (and to some extent creativity) in the liberal media is rooted in an appreciation of form rather than substance. Mesmerized by subjective and abstract principles such as theatrical performance, intent, and form, liberals rarely focus on the real consequences of actions. When faced with real failures, such as the inability of the stimulus to generate jobs or the prospect of unsustainable deficits, they instinctively turn the cheek to find theater and form again and again, rather than substance and accountability. The deification of Gore and Obama are only two examples of the importance of theater in liberal media.
Whether they like it or not, the liberal media’s motto has now become: “No regrets”.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:41 pm 131. AThinkingPerson:Free Hat: Remember on another article when you blamed all of the 9/11 deaths on Bush because he was President, well, chalk up any deaths today to Dear Leader Obama, not to mention the soldier who died in Arkansas after being shot by a Muslim nutbag.
Yep, it works both ways Free Hat. Welcome to the new reality. Liberals being forced to take responsibility. You’ll get used to it. You don’t have a choice.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:41 pm 132. Rachel Peepers:The good, erudite Dr. Hanson presented us with an enlightening treatise relative to things he can no longer believe.
Yet, sort of stops short of saying, ” I’m afraid (what’s there to be afraid of?) I can no longer believe Obama”.
It’s like a verbal mine field he’s afraid to step on.
Gosh, Democrats in Congress and the media never had a problem disbelieving President Bush when we found no WMD’s in Iraq.
In fact, they went a step further, calling our President a liar.
As if any misstatement by Bush must be assumed to in intentional.
Reminds me of a story about Al Franken, a leader of the “Bush lied, People died” mantra.
Ever hear this Al Franken classic written by his best friend? They grew up together in St. Louis Park?
Anyway, little Al is batting in a Little League game and the umpire calls him out on strikes. At which point, Al turns to the umpire and screams, “You’re a liar. You’re a liar.”
The point being, even back then, Al thought every statement he disagreed with a lie.
Once Al was disappointed because it rained and he couldn’t go to the amusement park. That evening when Al saw the same weatherman on TV who had predicted sunshine, in front of the family, little Al called the weatherguy a liar.
So the rush to- judgment-lying accusation goes pretty far back in Al’s pretty feeble mind.
When Barack misspoke and said they’re were 57 states why wasn’t Al on the news that evening calling Barack a liar?
Getting back to Barack, though. How can you hear him say, “no earmarks in my administration” and then put more millions of dollars worth of earmarks in his first piece of legislation and not come to the conclusion that the brown eyed handsome man is a bold faced liar?
How can you believe Obama pewed in Wright’s house of demogoguery for twenty some years and never heard anything attacking the United States in the most loathesome tones?
How can you believe him when Obama says he’ll have the most ethical administration in history, and then fill high posts with tax cheats? (I’m not even counting Tom Daschle.
Dr. Hanson, you don’t believe we still have the inquisitive mainstream media we once knew? Where have you been for the last ten years?
Dr. Hanson, you remind me of a person so naive and gullible as to always be the last one to know.
Would you take a nice spring walk in Harlem and then be surprised to be mugged?
Maybe growing up in New York gives me a special sense that if I see lightning, I’ll probably hear thunder. That if Sotomayor is elected, she’ll set her sights on the first, second and 14th amendment faster than I can say, Dr. Hanson, move, you’re standing on the tracks and the Socialist Limited is barreling into the station.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:43 pm 133. JCL:The American MSM has morphed into “Dr. Goebbels’ Children.” What Brian Williams of NBC has recently produced with his Obama-love piece(s) is Leni Riefenstahl redux. His aim, as was hers, was to exalt and propagandize his/her political idol of worship.
A journalist is supposed to compare what a politician says vs what s/he does. Brian Williams, Katie Couric, Charlie Gibson et al in the MSM do not feature this key ingredient that would make them journalists. It’s doubtful they ever had it.
These “anchors” and the news networks they represent are no longer on the side of the public. Instead, they support the machinations of the state, and if propagandizing their beloved President produces ratings and enhances the power of the state, so be it. After all, “anchors” don’t have to be concerned about the common good, merely the narrow interests of their news organizations’ share holders and a high stock price.
Why should I in the fashion of the 1940s & 50s sit down at 6:30PM and view “news” that has been pre-selected, pre-edited and biased toward a preconceived agenda? There is a simple remedy to this malaise: Turn off network/cable TV and cease subscribing to MSM newspapers. There is an alternative media market and culture in place that supplies anybody’s need for news and information. At least this way there is a choice in what one wants to know.
JCL
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:43 pm 134. tom swift:This is all true enough. However, it is not as new as it appears. The American press has always been shrill, superficial, and to all appearances run by six-year-olds. Today I don’t think we have anything approaching the puerility, or the sheer malevolence, of the press of, say, the period between the Civil War and the Spanish-American War. We survived then and we’ll survive now. A Republic, especially one afflicted with universal suffrage, needs an independent press. It does not strictly need an honest and competent press. Now the press at the moment is not particularly independent. (Obama a “sort of god”?!) But that could change at any moment. They can switch from abject sycophants to sharks in the blink of an eye. Obama has no magic talisman to protect him from a Press Gone Wild. I doubt that being half black will be anywhere near enough. When convenient the press will notice that he’s half white, and that will be the fatal chink in his armor. We shall see.
Obama himself remains a puzzle. It’s still unclear whether he has a deliberate plan to take America down the socialist toilet and reduce us all to third-world status, or is he’s just a narcissistic moron. But it may not be important. As a dictator, he’s a non-starter. Like any good megalomaniac, he’d love to be dictator, but we’ve survived those sorts of presidents before; Wilson (definitely), FDR (probably), Nixon (definitely). To take the country in that direction would require a leader, albeit a malevolent one. Obama is definitely not a leadership personality. (Neither was Bush, who was more of a manager personality than a leader; Obama is neither.) Obama is even more of an egotist than Clinton was, but, like Clinton, basically timorous. Part of Obama’s game is the lifelong avoidance of failures which risk the danger of revealing that he’s nothing more than an empty suit. This program of avoidance is probably unconscious, but nevertheless real. It is why he has no history of fighting for anything against determined opponents. What we will see is similar to the Clinton years – a presidency indistinguishable from an endless election campaign, lots of noise, little concerted action. Obama ain’t no Julius Cæsar. Shoot, he ain’t no Benito Mussolini either.
Of course Obama & Friends can still cause us serious damage, mainly economic. Like most people, I doubt that Obama has the slightest idea where money comes from, and has never really grasped the concept that eventually everything must be paid for. This is a common failing of the modern Left – the idea that all human choices and actions involve costs as well as benefits. Public policy is not a piñata filled with treats; it is more like a pile of bills which somebody has to pay. If the wild spending continues, at the worst the US will turn into another England. I don’t see it turning into another Rwanda, but perhaps I’m too much of an optimist.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:49 pm 135. Jim Nagle:A lttle eschatological advice, for those who are willing to take it: When Jesus begins His glorious descent back to earth, be sure you’re not standing anywhere near Wadosy.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:50 pm 136. Jim Nagle:Or near Kelvin, either.
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:52 pm 137. lefroy:The Orwellian tendency of the MSM to go easy on figures on the left – no matter how loathesome, corrupt depraved or brutal. Have you noticed how often the epithet “eccentric” is applied by the MSM to Kim Jong-Il? Google his name with “eccentric” and you will get hundreds of MSM hits eg:
“The eccentric leader has three known sons by two women.” (ABC News 5/29)
Eccentric? Try wicked, try depraved. Or if that’s too embarrassing for the MSM, try brutal, tyrannical, repressive, dictatorial. But he’s on the left, and you have this squeamishness in the MSM.
Can you imagine a right wing dictator, a tenth as brutal as Kim Jong-Il, being routinely described in the MSM as “eccentric”
Jun 10, 2009 - 12:58 pm 138. wadosy:the deathwish christians will settle for any nuke war, anywhere, so long as they get sucked up out of their socks to go play frisbee with jesus.
so, if we’re talking about radical religious fundamentalists, maybe we oughta start looking at deathwish christians.
and the thing we must not do is think about the deathwish christian end times, in which only 144,000 jews will survive, and only after having converted to christianity.
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:05 pm 139. Barry:“…maybe Victor can try his hand at running the country.”
Faster, please.
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:05 pm 140. Ratatosk:Dear Gods, are you just now figuring this out? The Media has been out to lunch since the Clinton Era at least, I’d almost say as far back as GHWB…
Plenty of stuff happened during the Clinton and Bush II years that SHOULD have fired the Media up and had all sorts of investigative reporting and hard hitting questions… but it hasn’t materialized.
What do you expect? Big Corporations are now allowed to own huge chunks of media. Big Corporations are Risk Adverse. Big Corporations partner with politicians.
Add it up and you’ll see where the American Media has been for two decades now… come on Victor, its the 21st century catch up!
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:08 pm 141. The Historian:THERE IS SOME REAL HOPE FOR A CHANGE
Moderates aren’t buying Obama’s act!
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/06/americas-political-reformation-is.html
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:12 pm 142. Joseph:38:Broadsword
You are right about my grammar, but the question remains who is MJCIV think is coming through her/his door? Which fellow American is the target, the police, the army or the neighbor?
39:RandyChandler
Your argument is with the electorate isn’t it?
If you want more ammunition for your argument against FDR I would suggest “The New Dealers’ War” by Thomas Fleming. As one review stated “Thomas Fleming has…entered the Roosevelt Wing of the American Pantheon with a sledgehammer and reduced it to shambles.”
Peter Schiff, who like a voice in the wilderness predicted the economic mess we find ourselves in, was on the Daily Show last night and much to the discomfort of most of the audience including me suggested that Obama is making Bush’s over spending much much worst.
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:13 pm 143. wadosy:Maybe Obama is making it worst by saving these large financial institutions and car companies. He may have some of the best and the brightest running things but as David Halberstam explained so many years ago it is no guarantee for success.
I’m sorry I no longer believe (to paraphrase Victor) either the right or the left. If Peter Schiff is correct we all are on our own.
you’ve got to ask yourself… why are israelis pandering to deathwish christians when deathwish christians are planning the extermination of jews?
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:16 pm 144. tedders:Yeah Wadosy, I remember when Israel attacked all those Arab nations in:
1948, Arab forces from Egypt, Syria, Transjordan (later Jordan), Lebanon, and Iraq invaded Israel. Protracted peace talks resulted in armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt, Syria, and Jordan by July, but no formal peace.
1973, the Jewish holy day Yom Kippur, a two-pronged assault on Israel was launched. Egyptian forces struck eastward across the Suez Canal and pushed the Israelis back, while the Syrians advanced from the north. Iraqi forces joined the war and, in addition, Syria received some support from Jordan, Libya, and the smaller Arab states. The attacks caught Israel off guard, and it was several days before the country was fully mobilized; Israel then forced the Syrians and Egyptians back and, in the last hours of the war, established a salient on the west bank of the Suez Canal, but these advances were achieved at a high cost in soldiers and equipment.
1978 Palestinian guerrillas, from their base in Lebanon, launched an air raid on Israel; in retaliation, Israel sent troops into S Lebanon to occupy a strip 4–6 mi (6–10 km) deep and thus protect Israel’s border. Eventually a UN peacekeeping force was set up there, but occasional fighting continued. In 1982 Israel launched a massive attack to destroy all military bases of the Palestine Liberation Organization in S Lebanon and, after a 10-week siege of the Muslim sector of West Beirut, a PLO stronghold, forced the Palestinians to accept a U.S.-sponsored plan whereby the PLO guerrillas would evacuate Beirut and go to several Arab countries that had agreed to accept them. Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 1985 but continues to maintain a Lebanese-Christian–policed buffer zone north of its border.
Those nasty militant aggressive Israelis really can’t be trusted can they? How dare they? It’s like a liberal democracy with complete freedom of speech and human rights promote imperialism, ignorance and intolerance but closed society dictatorships with government controlled press, no freedom of speech or human rights promotes truth, tolerance, butterflies and unicorns. Yeah, that’s the ticket!!!!!!!!
Wadosy you’re quite the tool, get some psychiatric help before you implode, don’t blow up anyone you don’t know! K?
Excellent Ms. Attitude #112,
“Did you look at Obama’s face after his first security briefing after he was elected?”
Wouldn’t you like to have been a fly on the wall at that meeting!! It was easy to condemn evil stupid ol’ Bush before he had those meetings and while campaigning. It’s a bit different now that he has the same responsibility as Bush had. I’d say that first security meeting was shocking eye opener for our new President.
The left never thinks, their ideology is already planned, written and digested.
“Wadosy, have you ever thought?”
Wadosy doesn’t think, he follows the liberal agenda without question, sort of like a lemming. It’s all the Jews fault!! Laughable!! : D
“It gives the appearance that he is the enemy.”
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:17 pm 145. Dan Hamilton:Worse than that it gives the appearance that we are weak, that emboldens our enemies.
It is a pity that we are at the point where there is nothing that can be done to stop what is happening but it is still far far to early to start a revolution.
The general public still doesn’t see who the bad guys are. Until things get much much worse doing anything violent would have no effect and in fact help give the bad guys more power.
The Tea Partys might help but the MSM is trashing them. They have far to go and must find a leader.
The MSM and Libs don’t even question why guns, ammo, reloading supplies and such have been racing off the shelves since Obama got elected. They laugh at all the stupid people. I pray that something will happen and change the course that Obama and the Libs have set. But they are to ignorant and stupid to allow anything to change what they are going to do.
So I wait, hope, pray and try to do anything I can think of to help.
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:19 pm 146. Anonymous:Don’t engage with Wadosy, people. he’s a troll.
Or a friend of Mr Van Brun.
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:21 pm 147. tedders:119. Dave: Pure genius my son!!
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:24 pm 148. The Shadow:DopeyPerson:
“One thing we’ve learned about James von Brunn is that he was apparentely a ‘birther’, one of these folks who claims that Barack Obama is not the legitimate president of the United States because he is not a natural born US citizen (this is all the ‘where’s the birth certificate’ nonsense).”
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:27 pm 149. Dave:Tom Swift your #134: Good analysis that you make.
What the Obamaroids remind me of more than anything else is the Empire of Japan.
The Japs had a complete incoherence of strategy. That is what made them so unpredictable.
They just kept making one blunderful and quagmire-creating decision after the other.
Finally they had no rational courses of action left and we know what they did next.
Fortunately we do have electoral and other resources at our disposal. Things Japanese society lacked. Let us hope and pray they are enough.
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:32 pm 150. Ed Wallis:Rachel Peepers,
DOWN Girl, DOWN.
You write,
“Dr. Hanson, you don’t believe we still have the inquisitive mainstream media we once knew? Where have you been for the last ten years?
Dr. Hanson, you remind me of a person so naive and gullible as to always be the last one to know.
Would you take a nice spring walk in Harlem and then be surprised to be mugged?
Maybe growing up in New York gives me a special sense that if I see lightning, I’ll probably hear thunder.”
But – please understand that, although I wince every time someone bows and makes kissy kissy with an article of this author, I DO find his writings sincere, intelligent and on target.
He seems to write in an UNDERSTATED manner. YOU write in a pompous, bloated, overly-self-assured manner…as I do (heh). I’m so ashamed…NOT!
We “get you”, kiddo, but lay off the “VDH is naive” stuff; you discredit much of what you have written and thereby “earned”.
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:35 pm 151. Main Stream Media is Missing in Action:Where’s the Birth Certificate?
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:44 pm 152. wadosy:What is obama hiding? Why? Who’s in on the cover-up?
The Constitution is Non-Partisan!
deathwish christians support israel in anticipation of jews being exterminated.
israel, the jewish nation, panders to deathwish christians.
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:46 pm 153. wadosy:who’s a bigger threat to israel? …christian extremists or iran?
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:49 pm 154. Mirandizing Enemy Combatants and Other Stuff « maladaptivecognition:[...] From Victor Davis Hanson, I am afraid I no longer believe [...]
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:53 pm 155. wadosy:are we to suppose that israel’s pandering to deathwish christians is nothing more than israelis’ abandonment of morals?
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:53 pm 156. TLM:tom swift:
You’re right. We’ll survive the decline of the MSM. They won’t though, at least not in current format. The internet sounds their death knell.
The Yellow Journalism of the past that you describe was different than today’s press. They didn’t pretend to be objective.
Your depiction of Obama closely mirrors my own.
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:54 pm 157. poetcomic1:As for Michelle Obama’s grievances, I find it interesting that no one has yet been hired to replace her previous $300,000+ position. I hope that doesn’t affect her self-esteem.
Jun 10, 2009 - 1:54 pm 158. wadosy:jesus told me to kill jews until only 144,000 jews were left in the world, and then those jews converted to christianity, so there were no jews left at all.
meanwhile, we are killing millions of people in anticipation of the rapture, which will surely suck me up to heaven… because i am, after all, nothing more than the hand of god.
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:09 pm 159. JED:#99 Rick Tack
Sometimes when I think about the intelligence of the American voter, I have to think of Jay Leno’s Jaywalking characters. Like certain writers on this page, if they don’t have the correct answer they use the first thing that pops into their heads. Truth is then defined as what one can say in a whole breath.
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:17 pm 160. The Anchoress — A First Things Blog:I am not sure that the education of Americans should be the responsibility of the free wheeling press. Maybe the voters have had too much of the MSM info-mercials and therefore elected a hypnotic voiced rock star to promise them free stuff. One would think that a 5th grader could separate fact from opinion.
[...] sort – is beginning to wonder why it is our president has no paper trail at all, (thank you, intellectually incurious pressi) and why the man who campaigned on “transparency” never makes anything public. [...]
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:24 pm 161. Marc Malone:#112 Ms. Attitude – Thanks for that reminder. I laughed then. I laugh now. He was truly shaken, like he’d seen a ghost. It was hilarious. He’d discovered that being President is a REALLY big job. Suddenly, the weight of the world was upon his shoulders, and he was slumping.
He still pursues his domestic agenda. Internationally, he’s trying his Jimmy Carter peacemaker stuff. However, he is still not pulling out of anywhere. He’s still looking for German help in Afghanistan.
Right after the election, we heard all this nonsense about accelerating the removal of forces from Iraq. I haven’t heard a word in a couple months. Dead silence from the Left.
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:26 pm 162. Sirius:Hey Rachel Peepers
Thanks for making VDH’s point about the press and it’s selective interest in topics. You mention the absence of WMDs in Iraq, yet somehow the “inquisitive” press that never ran out of sticks to pound President Bush neglected to give the discovery of 500+ tons of yellow cake uranium more than trifling mention:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/07/iraq.uranium/
That story was almost completely ignored because it didn’t fit the narrative which consisted of a largely unbroken 8 years criticizing President Bush at the expense of any objectivity. Today the press is guilty of the same but in reverse – criticism of President Obama does not fit the narrative and is verboten despite the long term damage he is inflicting upon this country.
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:31 pm 163. myth buster:wadosy, if you’re going to quote the Bible, do it right. Those 144,000 are not the only Jews who will survive the Tribulation; they’re just the Jews charged with preaching the Gospel to the world and granted immunity to all plagues in the process.
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:31 pm 164. wadosy:jesus told me to kill jews.
that’s all you need to know.
deal with it.
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:38 pm 165. Karllafong:Outstanding piece that sums up perfectly the reality behind the headlines.
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:39 pm 166. Roderick Reilly:“”"”"”"Dr. T., by all means share with us your destination if you decide to depart the U.S. I, too, have been thinking alone the same lines. Australia, perhaps?”"”"”"”
Australia? Think again. The once macho Aussies banned guns when some crazy went on a rampage in Tasmania. When criminals started using knives because of a paucity of guns, KNIVES were banned!
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:43 pm 167. wadosy:once we kill enough jews to get the jewish population down to 144,000, we’re in good shape, dont you think?
jesus would certainly appove, seeing as how he was killed by jews in the first place.
meanwhile, i’m certainly not gonna worry about it, since i’m such a sterling character that i’m sure to go to heaven before it gets too uncomfortable, not to mention the fact that i’m the hand of god.
none of this is my problem, is it?
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:45 pm 168. ricpic:Those of us who are old enough remember the orgasm the MSM had over JFK, a man with far less experience or gravitas (sometimes the word is appropriate) than his opponent, RMN, who had been vice president for 8 years and was already viewed as a foreign policy heavyweight. The run-up to the 1960 election was all about Camelot glamour on the one hand and Nixonian dark villainy on the other. The tilt in coverage towards Kennedy was palpable. The media was already in the tank for left-liberals 50 years ago. Very little has changed.
Jun 10, 2009 - 2:47 pm 169. wadosy:nixon was antisemitic, which explains why the media got such traction on watergate.
“antisemitic”, in this case, to desribe a realistic appraisal of israeli control of american media and politics.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:01 pm 170. wadosy:…and the last thing we need to remember is JFK’s insistence on inspections of dimona.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:03 pm 171. wadosy:maybe, on the other hand, the last thing we need to remember is JFK’s assassination, which established israel’s immunity from reality.
it’s no coincidence that, after JFK’s assassination, LBJ turned a blind eye towards israel’s nuke weapons program.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:07 pm 172. ricpic:Relax, wadosy. Christians are nice folks who, at worst, are planning to invite Jews to a potluck picnic where the Jews will have to endure cole slaw and that vinegary German potato salad. I happen to love German potato salad but for many Jews it would be a trial.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:09 pm 173. Jim Nagle:Is your name wadosy or wahabi?
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:09 pm 174. lefroy:Ignore Wadosy. He’s a troll, or one of Van Brunn’s mates.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:12 pm 175. wadosy:the psychological mechanism is easy to understand: the israelis established exemption from criticism by exploiting the holocaust.
so the israelis and israeli americans were given a free hand, like kids let loose, without supervison, in a candy store.
they’ve been given enough rope, and they’ve hung themselves, keeping in mind the probabilty that many of the big players dont care about anything but loot.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:14 pm 176. Oscar the Grump:This just in from the CHEAP ECONOMIST: There is a 58% lay off of workers in the toilet paper mills and industry. There is also a 58% lay off of workers in the nonlumber logging industry. Administration officials credit this to a hick-up in the economy.
In a totally unrelated subject, emergency rooms are hiring personnel because of a sharp increase in rectal splinters.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:14 pm 177. BC:Hah — while it’s quite true we haven’t had a truly inquisitive, truly journalistic free press for some time, trying to tie this in with the, I have to admit, somewhat butt-kissing coverage Obama is getting completely off base and nonsensical. Human-caused global warming is real and hasn’t been legitimately questioned in the applicable sciences for quite some time, but p*ss poor “coverage” of it in the mainstream media over the years confused more people than not, and the press’s confused attempt at “balanced” coverage of the topic left the door open for nutcases and deliberate disinformation by oil-connected industries.
Likewise, if the press had done its homework on the Iraq invasion instead of just still freaking out over 9/11, Bush would have been impeached before the 2004 election. And if CBS hadn’t botched its me-too story on Bush’s service record, he may well have not gotten re-elected (people conveniently forget that earlier research and FOIA lawsuits by the AP, the Boston Globe and others had already shown lots of red flags and inconsistencies in Bush service record long before Mapes and Company made their noisy, half-ass late entry that only ended up drawing attention away from the much better researched stuff.)
Speaking of the Boston Globe, its parent company, The New York Times, has just put it up for sale. You guys moan and bitch about the “MSM” and act overjoyed that supposedly liberal newspapers like the Boston Globe are being killed financially, but what is going to that the place of a Boston Globe, a NY Times or whatever? Blog sites? Cable news? The TV networks? Late last year the Boston Globe did a long series of investigations into apparent probable price fixing in the Massachusetts healthcare industry. It was classic bit of investigative, methodical journalism that would never, ever be even attempted by a blog site, even a big one like the Huffington Post. Whether you like it or not, journalism is a liberal arts pursuit, and inherently means questioning and watchdogging authority and those in power in general, and striving to make complex issues digestible to the often clueless man and woman on the street. You take that away and there is nothing currently to replace it, and this Tower of Babel called the Internet has so far mostly mostly proven to be a place for like minded people to gather and reinforce their beliefs, however disconnected from fact and logic.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:15 pm 178. Oscar the Grump:wadosy
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:17 pm 179. TurfMonster:Hey waddy, you sick son of a b, quit twisting history. Your brand of cause and effect anti-Semetism is so transparent that at best its ludicrus.
Very well done, as usual, Dr. Hanson.
But one thing we can all bet the farm on: The State-run media will rediscover its inquisitorial nature once Republicans threaten to take over power again.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:18 pm 180. Oscar the Grump:el waddy
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:20 pm 181. wadosy:What Arab country are you from? Your slanders are as old as written history. Be a good Arab and blow yourself up or something like it.
…the basic problem being: israel was a bad idea in the first place.
now, defense of israel corrupts jewish morals to the point that prominent israelis are saying that jews should abandon their morals in defense of israel.
losers.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:21 pm 182. Oscar the Grump:el waddy
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:31 pm 183. Ms. Attitude:Read your history. During the Vietnam war, Russia got Egypt and Syria to attack Israel. This was in 1973, the Yom Kippur War. It was a blatant attempt to create a second front and get America involved in another war. Instead Nixon sent all kinds of war material to Israel which defeated the Arab armies by itself. Nixon might have been an anti-Semite; but, he saved the Jewish nation. Now waddy go f*** yourself.
Party at wadosy’s house!! We better hurry, it appears he started drinking without us! Boy, his parents are gonna be pissed when they notice all of their liquor is gone!
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:33 pm 184. Oscar the Grump:el waddy
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:34 pm 185. Ms. Attitude:Do you just hate Jews or does that include Blacks, Mexicans, Asians, Italians, etc. Please let us know.
I went to HuffPo today, I know, I trolled…I was bored. They have pics of Michelle and the girls in London for one of the girls birthday. They also had pics of Mr. and Mrs. Obama being lovey dovey. Except for the fact that the US economy is sinking fast and they are vacationing in London, I see nothing wrong with the pictures. What was shocking was the posts!! Those Obamites are freaky…I’ve never seen that many people fawning over the first family…those folks will never see what Obama is really about.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:40 pm 186. sheesh:I no longer quite believe . . . in Carrie Prejean.
Trump fired her today saying, “To me she was the sweetest thing. Everyone else — she treated like shit.”
wyhyaminotsurprised
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:59 pm 187. Paul M Hupf:The President is utterly lacking in his knowldge of history. In the eighth century militant Islam extended its rule over all of Asia Minor and North Africa. Christian communities and churches, which had prospered and grown since the first century ceased to exist in that area. Alexandria, a great center of learning, wherein Jewish, Greek and Christian scholars exchanged ideas, became a backwater. The Jewish diaspora extended into Europe on a large scale. Anyone not of the Muslim faith fled to Europe unless he wished to be ostracized or unless he changed his beliefs. The emphasis of the President on his Muslim heritage has all the aspects of political expediency. When added to all the other assertions he has made, which appear hollow at the best, one must conclude that we have elected a President who provides grave reason to fear that he is lacking in the knowledge, experience and determinaton required of the holder of that office and worse, that he believes himself to be superior to anyone with whom he disagrees.
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:59 pm 188. ZZMike:“When world leaders and Nobel Prize winners meet to decry global warming,…”
Decry (verb): To condemn openly
I think he meant “praise”.
Other than that, bull’s eye!
Jun 10, 2009 - 3:59 pm 189. Jim Nagle:B.C.- News Flash: the earth hasn’t warmed since 1998, and has been cooling since 2001. Now the hoaxers have changed the name of the fraud from “Global Warming” to “Climate Change” to cover their Gore-d behinds.
More than 3000 years ago, Moses wrote this: “While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and heat and cold, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.” (Gensis 8:22) Pretty prescient, don’t you think?
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:01 pm 190. steveg:To the MSM: “You all voted for me”
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:03 pm 191. Jim Nagle:Wadosy- Why haven’t you answered my question?
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:06 pm 192. Ed Wallis:Are “wadosy’s” posts #158, 163, 166
enough for PJM
to refer him
to Homeland Security?
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:07 pm 193. Rashputin:Very well written indeed. I quit believing when the Congress reverted to democrat hands, so I understand the sense of disappointment one can have after trying so hard to see the silver lining in years of this sort of theatre of the absurd. I look forward to the day when the incumbent has finished paying his African Hyphen friends he is 6% related and the Hispanic pandering is all done. Then he can focus on his own personal hyphen and start building quotas for Muslims based on their percentage not in the US, but the world. It will be a glorious day when even the news anchors and media hangers on are replaced by a new Hyphen.
Regards
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:08 pm 194. More on the propaganda campaign « Whispers:[...] Victor Davis Hanson has a take on the media problem, too. Now comes a more insidious, brave new self-imposed censorship of the Orwellian mode. It is not just the perennial embarrassment Chris Matthews describing his Obama ecstasy on camera, or even Newsweek’s Evan Thomas comparing his President to God, or even CNN execs being exposed trashing the US abroad at Davos, or whitewashing Saddam, but rather a more incremental new groupspeak in which basic words and ideas—from terrorism to war itself—have been reformulated according to political dictates. [...]
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:10 pm 195. Jim Nagle:sheesh: Donald Trump is one of the real mutts in this world. A man who uses bankruptcy as a business plan. How does he have any credibility? Question: Is he Al Davis’ love child?
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:11 pm 196. Yehuda:Wadoozy,
You’ve been drinking since this morning, haven’t you?
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:15 pm 197. Oscar the Grump:Ms Attititude
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:18 pm 198. AThinkingPerson:They fawned over Hitler the same way in Germany. Be aware of the daily propaganda being offered us by the MSM, its totally like Germany.
The Shadow That Pales in Comparison to Others: So you’re basically saying that Bush can be held accountable for all of the 9/11 deaths but Obama is immune? WRONG. All deaths be it from wackos on a religious mission or nutbags on a personal vendetta are all now the responsibility of the one in charge due to his penchant for enacting oppressive policies.
Sorry bub. It’s all on his plate now. Let me reiterate my point once again. You won and now you must take responsibility for your administration and all that it incurs or inflames or enrages. Obama is The One fanning the flames of hate at the moment. I say give credit where credit is due. He has a great opportunity to be the President of all Americans. I still can’t figure out why he keeps forgetting that fact.
Why are you turning your back on Dear Leader now Shadow?
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:21 pm 199. sheesh:184. Ms. Attitude:
You complain about Obama spending a few days in London while on an official trip?
Bush spent 487 day at Camp David. And he made 77 visits to his ranch in Crawford during his presidency, and spent all or part of 490 days there. While we were at war! Two wars! Not ot mention eating birthday cake with John McCain in Texas while Hurricane Katrina destroyed the Gulf Coast.
I think you might want to wait a few hundred more days of Obama vacations before you start searching for something to whimper about.
Yeah, but, but, but . . . MUSTARD!
Jun 10, 2009 - 4:58 pm 200. D Foster:I believe we are starting to see a change in the Political Climate, already.
His position toward Israel will not sit well with Conservatives and Business. This will be the start of his problems.Foreign Policy. The Terrorist will be back. Then, no one will care about the Terrorist “Rights” or Waterboarding. Both subjects are only Political Fodder for the Left and MSM.
It is really quite clear that we cannot continue to spend Trillions of Dollars without Inflation becoming a major problem.
Arthur Laffer details the problem in June 10, Wall Street Journal.
Obama and his followers will be in trouble within the next few months. America cannot afford their Health Care, Cap and Trade, Trillion Dollar Budget. Sooner rather than later.
Government cannot grow without growth of business and individual wealth.
France has a GDP of less than 1% per year.
No one works there.
The more Obama reads from his Tele Prompter, the more we know that he does not have any real knowledge about Business and Personal Freedom.
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:00 pm 201. Self-hating Boomer:Whether or not this is a real issue or trutherism, there remains a legitimate gedankenexperiment, to wit: Imagine the Republicans select an opaque candidate of nebulous background; say there was some question about Bobby Jindal being a citizen. One thing you an take to the bank is that the Kos Kiddies and the Huffpo crowd would be banging their spoons on their highchairs demanding “Where’s the Birth Certificate?”.
The question is, what would CBSMSNBCCNNABCPBSETC do? Does anyone believe for a minute that they’d be silent about it? They’d be banging their highchairs so loudly you could hear it on Mars.
Of course, this could never happen, because Jindal would come clean.
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:00 pm 202. AThinkingPerson:Re #184 Ms. Attitude: I’ve peeked at the HuffPo myself and have to agree that they need to have a warning posted that a diabetic coma might ensue after reading all of the icky sweet Obama fawning over there. Yikes. I don’t know how they seriously can print all of that crap with a straight face. They actually had a pic of Michelle in London in the most heinous smock top that had rows of rick-rack and 3D flowers and wanted readers to rate it. Can you guess how fabulous they thought it was? Hilarious. She could come out with a KFC bucket on her head and it would be the height of fashion. Just goes to show how deeply entrenched in group-think they are over there in what I like to refer to as the BrainDeadZone.
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:07 pm 203. whistler:Wow!!! I justed looked at the time wadassy logged on. So far he has been commenting from 4:55 AM to 3:21PM. This is his life. He probably doesn’t eat, go to the W.C, have sex, clean up his house, do his laundry, shop, take a shower or work. His job is spewing out anti-semitic crapola. wad-head go get help
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:25 pm 204. Dave:Is “wadosy” codespeak for Agent Provacateur?
Look at all that hate speak on pjm! Obviously, time for the Prophet Obama to
control the internet.
(I know folks, All this is a stretch. But
Jun 10, 2009 - 5:41 pm 205. Ron Kean:his style is reminiscent of how some leftists
were going to bring about THE REVOLUTION.)
I’m beginning to think wadosi has crossed the line.
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:06 pm 206. Ms. Attitude:176. BC:
So, why isn’t your beloved MSM looking into the background of our new president?
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:09 pm 207. Dutch1949:Nice article again Mr. Hanson,
I don’t like what is approaching any more than you do, but nothing will stop this slide until a major catastrophe strikes us. The best learned lessons, both individually and in society at large, are learned when disaster strikes – one need only recall the mood of the country at 9/11 and a few days later. This mood didn’t last long – soon petty politics raised its ugly head. The next disaster will be much larger in scope, last longer, and cost many more lives. I wouldn’t rule out a global war involving WMDs. Obama is the perfect choice to lead us into the abyss. I know that humans are also capable of the greatest outpouring of love and care which will happen after this necessary cleansing.
You are the historian Mr. Hanson. Do you see any comparison to “Roaring Twenties,” the “Great Depression,” the “Great War,” and our eras of the affluent nineties, the current recession, and ?????.
Jim Nagle, Moses didn’t write it, but He did author it. It is now widely believed there were many writers of the first five books of The Bible. The next question would be how did Moses tell all these individuals what to write? Only one way – you figure it out, and when you understand I believe you will say “wow.”
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:19 pm 208. Banned by Huffpo:What is so sad is that there are so many people out there just shaking their heads in collective disbelief over what this once great country is turning into.
Did anyone read or see as much of a mention of the anniversary of D-Day? I guess the sacrifice of thousands on one day is now just a statistic.
The tens of millions who voted against our next Messiah are stunned at the speed with which we are turning into a third world nation.
What is it? Why is Obama doing this to us? Is it some sort of rage against people who actually produce things? Capitalism?
Why are we just sitting around?
Madness, this is the new reality.
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:28 pm 209. ajacksonian:The objective media was a relatively short-lived marketing scheme, one which PT Barnum pointed out when the NY Times was started up to offer something different from ‘yellow journalism’. Turns out that the Times just did its own variety of yellow.
Then the post-Murrowites claimed ever so much for themselves and their education, forgetting the roots of Murrow, himself. Soon they disdained the very heart of what was said and decided their own words would suffice, so that reporting news became passe.
Who will replace the NYT, BG, WaPo and others?
How have we survived without troubadors, town criers, bards, and all of those who were shoved aside when the printing press came about? Missing those hand illuminated manuscripts or glad that for a mere penny a page a book or newspaper can be massed produced (mind the mark-up on marketing)? What will replace them? Strange to say that Wash. DC now has a new start-up paper, the Examiner, which exists online and offline, digital and print, and doesn’t expect that the print will uphold the digital side… in fact that is just extra income based on circulation. Turns out that papers live on circulation, so even if you give it away free, if the circulation is high enough you generate income. Thus you put quality content in print and online, so readers can always get to it, and you make money. A lot? Not so far. Enough? We shall see.
That continues the fine tradition of Baen Books giving out the texts to works a couple of years after printing the first run of hardcover and paperback… a strange thing happens… they sell more books giving the content away for free. That is something the authors see in larger monthly royalty checks. Free makes money. Amazing.
You have the right to speech and the press as individuals.
No one guarantees a business plan, however.
What will replace the MSM? It is happening… you may find it confusing, but so did folks who had to learn how to read to get their news. That took awhile. This will happen much, much faster. And as we grow disenchanted with the press and speak our minds we are reminded that we, the people, as individuals, HOLD the right to be free and speak and create our own press. Most of it will be junk, we aren’t that good at transmitting information in a coherent fashion. Some will do well, others will do not at all… and the right will remain for everyone. Until some twit thinks they can dictate what you think, read and say to you. That is why we have Amendment II.
Jun 10, 2009 - 6:35 pm 210. cubedweller:It’s really dismaying to see almost all of our institutions fail. Truth, however, will always be victorious, and is not relative.
I wish I could believe that the mid-term elections will change things. It’s a nice thought, but I think unrealistic given the brainwashing of the populace. People SERIOUSLY think Obama’s doing a great job, the media is the source of objective news reporting (except for icky Fox News), and that the government is there to take care of us. As long as that continues, I’m reluctant to expect big changes for the positive in the upcoming elections.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:04 pm 211. cubedweller:BC — your quote: “journalism is a liberal arts pursuit, and inherently means questioning and watchdogging authority and those in power in general”
The trouble is the mainstream journalists aren’t doing that with the Obama administration, and rarely do it with Democrats. They will, however, do all it can to dissect Republicans, and even echo unsupported/unresearched statements as truth to slam them (e.g. Sarah Palin wants to ban books). I would say the Boston Globe story you mentioned probably would fit the template: business bad, government good, socialized medicine better. I don’t see a lot of journalism looking into Acorn voter fraud or Medicare/Medicaid waste/fraud.
I would also argue that journalism isn’t supposed to be a crusade against the “powerful”– it’s supposed to be about reporting what happens in a factual and as dispassionate a way as possible, wherever that leads, and putting out all the facts and not just cherry-picking the ones that support the ideology. We definitely do NOT see that in abundance in today’s media.
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:19 pm 212. Rachel Peepers:Ed, 150
(About Dr. Hanson)
“I DO find his writings sincere, intelligent and on target.”
(Rachel agrees and has stated so many times).
Ed continues…
“He seems to write in an UNDERSTATED manner. YOU (rachel) write in a pompous, bloated, overly-self-assured manner…as I do (heh). I’m so ashamed…NOT!
We “get you”, kiddo, but lay off the “VDH is naive” stuff; you discredit much of what you have written and thereby “earned”.
Rachel’s reply:
Ed, you’re a good guy, and I love reading your words.
However, while I appreciate your desire to keep my stuff creditable, (and I don’t knee jerk disagee with your characterization of my writings)I see an inconsistency in the thrust of your concern.
On the one hand, Obama as President, lies, deceives, nuances, misrepresents, uses ideas like, “jobs saved” that mean nothing to anyone who knows anything, virtually is bankrupting the country, yet his credibility seems to stay intact.
On the other hand, Rachel goes off on a rant or two, calls the good Doctor naive, and her creditiblity, maybe even her virtue is sullied.
Here’s the thing, Ed, Rachel is a developing entity. I have plans for her that you can’t be aware of. Even Delia and
(88.) Войска ПВО,
who I confide in aren’t aware of everything Rachel has up her sleeve.
I don’t want to write in the same tone that
AThinkingPerson (127) does because he does it so well.
I just think Dr. Hanson needs a nudge now and then so he can focus in on Barack’s real intent. The real threat. You see, Barack’s not making mistakes. He and his lawyers know exactly what they’re doing. And what it is, is ruinous for the country.
AThinkingPerson said above, “God help us all.” It’s time Hanson’s writings reflected the clear and present danger to the ideals this country was founded upon that Obama represents.
Be aware that I have a lot more experience in politics than Dr. Hanson. I can smell a snake oil salesman three counties away. In August of 2003, Paul Hoffman and I decided it was time to respond to some clowns who thought they’d win the Presidency. So I’m saying this isn’t my first rodeo.
However, if you, ATP, Delia and Войска ПВО think I need to tone it down, so be it. I will. I await your reply. Best Regards, Rachel
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:40 pm 213. Marie Claude:Oscar you rock LMAO
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:51 pm 214. kitchener:Global warming is inexplicable except as a neo pagan religion !…the human mind is hardwired to believe in God and now that traditional religion has been undermined by science young people are searching for a substitute….and like any cult it has it’s vision of the apocalypse and end of days
Jun 10, 2009 - 7:54 pm 215. tom swift:Enter the guru Algore with his bogus predictions of global warning !!!
The first serious enviromentalists of the 20th century were the NAZIS who loved nature and animals but not people !!… social Darwinism and scientific racism led to Aushwitz !!
“Climate change” is an inadequate substitute for “global warming” because it doesn’t justify all the hysteria about our carbon footprints.
Should “global warming” turn out to be real, one of the many causes might be greenhouse effect, and one of the many causes of greenhouse effect might be carbon dioxide levels, and one of the many determinants of carbon dioxide levels might be carbon compound emissions by human activity. Therefore to the more scientifically primitive, carbon emissions cause global warming. This is then the excuse for “cap and trade” or carbon taxes or whatever; the specifics don’t matter so long as government can extend its claws into yet more human activities and get gobs of tax revenue as well. However, should the “climate change” be “global cooling” rather than “global warming”, then the whole logical progression evaporates, and there is no justification, and no possible excuse, for regulation of carbon emissions.
I expect that the press will eventually realize this, and “climate change” will disappear from the headlines to make room for the grand re-entrance of “global warming”.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:04 pm 216. Jim Nagle:Dutch1949- I don’t know in what circles it “widely believed” that there were many writers of the Pentateuch. That’s not the case in the circles in which I travel. I’m a straight Moses guy on this. I additionally espouse plenary inspiration, that is, the belief that God infallibly inspired the Bible writers, and that the texts are inerrant in the original languages. The one exception: obviously, someone else (likely Joshua) wrote Deuteronomy 34, the last chapter of the Pentateuch, which describes the death of Moses and its immediate aftermath.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:37 pm 217. TLM:Dave:
“Is “wadosy” codespeak for Agent Provacateur?”
I would assume so. Either way he’s a nut case.
D Foster:
“I believe we are starting to see a change in the Political Climate, already. His position toward Israel will not sit well with Conservatives…”
Nor with others, including some Democrats. His position toward Israel — and toward the terrorists — is downright dangerous. The political climate is shifting a bit, but as Jim Morrison said, “the future’s uncertain and the end is always near.” Let’s just hope it’s the end of Obama’s administration, not of the state of Israel.
Jun 10, 2009 - 8:55 pm 218. Meryl:33.Gary Ogletree
“We are getting hit by too much too fast”
This is something I’ve thought about often over the past few weeks: the White House staff and operatives seem to be making it their business to have about 5 or 6 MAJOR, UGLY things happen every week–power plays, power grabs, punitive pushbacks, public declarations, international (often shameful) displays and lectures, new violations of the Constitution, new czars announced…along with the increasing invisibility and irrelevance of Cabinet level officers.
There is simply too much to absorb, understand and respond to. One of Saul Alinsky’s recommendations being fulfilled here, I expect.
We are going to have get angry, get accustomed to being angry, and stay angry until we have turned things back to Constitutional ground.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:06 pm 219. G. Clarke:The Main Stream Media of this country is bought and paid for.
For a long time the culture of this country has been under attack by an immensely wealthy, very smart and incredibly powerful cabal of elites, who do not like the international hegemony we have wielded since WWII. And many of these people are foreigners.
Put those two thoughts together and you will not like what you see.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:14 pm 220. California Native:To: Charles Gordon who says, “this is how government insidiously takes over our lives, by preventing us from any possibility of ignoring it”.
Charles, I’m afraid you are so right. I find that if I don’t check up on the latest plan to derail this country on a daily basis, I feel that I will wake up Leningrad the next morning. It’s a recurring nightmare.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:14 pm 221. Delia:Wish I could post more but bad voojoo on the home front and we are trying to hold our caca together.
Another great post, VDH.
Rachel, I’m pretty hard core sometimes. You certainly have never judged me for my rants so I sure as hades am not ever going to judge you for yours.
I keep praying people will see the light and turn the ship around and stop with the blind insanity. Something has got to give and hopefully it won’t be our souls and lives and beloved country to CHINA.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:20 pm 222. DailySnooze:The thought that it can’t get worse has passed. THIS IS IT.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:22 pm 223. Delia:I’m hoping for some hope. The change makes me feel sick in my tummy.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:23 pm 224. Joseph:213:kitchener
Do you believe “…traditional religion has been undermined by science…” and if so do you wish to rid ourselves of science?
Hitler also liked dogs I guess we should paint all dog lovers with that same broad brush as Nazis.
176:BC
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:32 pm 225. CoCo:I agree with you about the lost to society of newspapers but I doubt there is anyway to save them.
Victor Davis Hanson,
We get it, have gotten it and understand it and understood it before others did. If only the rest of the United States would get the message.
And, nobody better ban Rachel, Ms. Attitude, A thinking Person, Marc Malone, Delia, Bilgeman, Chuck P., Peter Bubblehead et al for speaking their minds or people will be convinced these PJM blogs have become another dhimmi ruled nutter site. Please, say it ain-not so.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:40 pm 226. Douglas Goodwin III:is there a name for your particular brand of political thought? Because I’d like to adopt it as my own. You are perhaps the only writer with who — though I aim not to blindly consume the wisdom you offer — I can’t recall ever disagreeing.
Jun 10, 2009 - 9:46 pm 227. Linda Mae:Friedman has been an Obama supporter since Chicago. We should not be surprised that he has blinders on.
Jun 11, 2009 - 12:19 am 228. AThinkingPerson:Re #212 Rachel Peepers: Temper your posts? NEVER! I, for one, enjoy strong, intelligent conversation and ideas and I’m guessing the authors of the articles we comment on would agree. Once we water down our replies and resort to reigning in our thoughts to conform to what the prescribed “norm” for a Conservative or an Independent “should be”, we sink to the level of the group-think currently manifest in our liberal counterparts. Not a pretty picture.
I have a feeling it’s the namby-pamby, hand-wringing, temper our enthusiasm or risk losing voters on the fence sort of mentality that got us Obama and all he entails in the first place.
Jun 11, 2009 - 5:40 am 229. Ms. Attitude:199. Sheesh, good morning, please do everyone a favor and read a post before you comment on it. The president was NOT in London it was his wife and daughters. On our tax dollars!! So Bush was away a lot, was I defending him, do two wrongs make a right? Was he sending Laura and the girls to London for a birthday party with our tax dollars after he just wrecked the economy (tip: Obama has done more damage to our economy since he’s been in office than ALL previous presidents combined!)?
My statement was over the posters there and their Obama worship. It’s disgusting and weird. Huffpo could post a picture of Obama on the toilet and the posters over there would talk about how wonderful it must be to be his poop! One says it and the rest fall in line with their ahhhs and oooos!
Jun 11, 2009 - 6:02 am 230. Butterfly Mornings and Wildflower Afternoons:Wadosy- Matthew 16:23 — “But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan; thou art an offense unto me; for thou savorest not the things that be of God, but those that be of man.”
Satan has a strategy to make evil seem good and to confuse our reality.
Jun 11, 2009 - 6:46 am 231. David W. Lincoln:I think Get thee behind me, Satan when I hear the Media for well over a year now.
Jesus is of Jews. Most if not all of his disciples were of Jews. Many of his disciples called Jesus Rabi (our teacher).
Who owns a big chunk of the media? I think the ones of Satan do.
The writing in red (Jesus words) in my bibles he describes the Jewish people as his people, and he puts them first.
The greatest man who walked this earth is of Jews, I love him, and I love his words.
I guess the only way to get the attention of
those who wave the Stars and Stripes is for job losses to mount that were in the US export
field.
The Oval Office, both chambers on Capital Hill, Governers, State Legislatures and local
governments are inviting reciprocity.
Right now there are Canadian based firms on the outside looking in, when before they were
active participants in the US economy.
So, when October roles around, and US based firms wind up on the outside looking when, when before they were active participants in the Canadian economy (amongst others) – you can say that the non traditional media was asleep.
Jun 11, 2009 - 9:20 am 232. Rose Ann:Regarding the main stream news media: Already (they) have become irrelavant. I’m an old gal and remember when all our country had was network news and the daily newspaper. I don’t even bother with that now. I go to the internet and read as much as I can from all sites. I believe that some Americans are lazy and ready to accept the curent politicalcondition; it’s so easy to just go with the flow….however I believe that many more of us will continue to search and think for ourselves….we are the quite Americans and we are just now beginning to simmer. At some point we will become a rolling howling active storm…we just haven’t found the voice to represent us. I can’t put my faith in the Republicans or the Democrats… There has to be a place for people who are somewhere in the middle and incredibly proud of American hardwork and endless capacity for compassion.
Jun 11, 2009 - 10:04 am 233. The Shadow:DopeyPerson – It is amazing how you twisted you logic is. You admit you are a birther. You think that Sotomayor is a racist. You believe somehow Obama caused some deaths. You atribute beliefs to me an others based not on what we say, but on your own paranoa. You live in a fantasy land inhabited by wingnuts where black is white and white is black. The lies and inconsistencies are why the wingnuts will remain a small minoity even within the conservative movement
Jun 11, 2009 - 10:26 am 234. BC:To Jim Nagle: Ummm….no. Sorry, but at least you conveniently demonstrated, however unintentionally, the effects of the fall in a good, heads-up journalism.
Jun 11, 2009 - 10:54 am 235. bruce:#228 A thinking person
My feelings exactly, lest we all turn into a banal PBS forum.
Jun 11, 2009 - 11:15 am 236. Rachel Peepers:Atp, Delia, I get your message loud and clear.
Incidentally, the media should attack like a pack of wolves when Obama and his henchmen rant about “Jobs saved/created.” The only thing I can think of more meaningless are sheeshs’ dumbments. I mean, comments.
If Obama continues unchecked by the tickle up the leg media, I’m going to have to put a hex on all media pukes in the tank for Bamabits by slipping the new dogfood I invented, “Bamabits”, in their lunches.
Incidentally II, Baghdad Bob now has more creditiblity than our mainstream media along with David, “I think America is crap” Lettermen. Incidentally III, if you watch Letterman’s cheerleader’s for Obama show (including Saturday Night Jive, an Obama presentation), I also just may put a hex on you.
When I’m in charge, (I plan upon passing law school to run for President)all media people sucking up to me will have to wear cheerleaders outfits and have mastered the “I back Obama” backflip. Regards, Rachel
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Jun 11, 2009 - 12:58 pm 238. A Different Scott:So Free Hat you believe that it would have been better for the Iraqi people to have left a despot like Saddam and his sons in power in Iraq and that absolutely no good whatsoever has come from his removal from power?
You also seem to ignore the yellow cake uranium that was discovered at an Iraqi weapons site and quietly shipped to Canada for disposal…
You’re trying the old Liberal trick of equivocation, “see the media failed to report this thing here this one time and it benefited a Republican, therefore your claim of gross favoritism of the Left by the media is void”, it won’t work here.
Jun 11, 2009 - 1:32 pm 239. Oscar the Grump:More News from the Central Committee:
For the past three weeks there has been a heated debate on what the name of the Central Committee should really be. The debated was started when Samantha Powers suggested a name change to the Central Committee Council Review, which would have the acronym CCCR. After a heated debate, that name was turned down. Nome Chomsky offered an entirely different approach and suggested the United States Security Review, with the acronym USSR. That was narrowly defeated by one vote. A compromise agreement was reached by all concerned groups when the Central Committee of the United States was offered, with its acronym CCUS. After agreeing on the new name, the Committee or CCUS was able to turn its attention on the Middle East. That half hour of serious discussion brought up a consensus that under current conditions the land of Israel/Palestine could not be shared by both groups. It was necessary to change the underlying conditions to come to a working solution. A brilliant idea was formulated to shrink the population of both sides so that the land would accommodate both warring parties. The decision was to employ germ warfare and introduce a virus to both sides.
The DNA of this virus is so engineered to shrink people (literally). With a shrunken population the land would no longer be an issue. With everybody smaller, there would be room for everyone. Both sides would no longer need to have warfare, this would eliminate the need for weapons. Also given enough time, all participants would be too small to operate their weapons. As this report is being given, plans for reproducing this virus and disseminating it are being drawn up.
God bless the President of the United States, Barrak Obama, our worldly leader, champion of justice, defender of the faith, and answer to our prayers. And to all of you interested readers, may Obama bless you.
Jun 11, 2009 - 1:41 pm 240. Oscar the Grump:#199 sheesh
Damn that Bush eating birthday cake with McCain. How could he do such a thing?
Thank God we have a new President, you know he would never eat birthday with McCain. Some things are just sacred.
Jun 11, 2009 - 1:50 pm 241. Oscar the Grump:xcuse my typo in 233.
Jun 11, 2009 - 1:53 pm 242. The Historian:Its supposed to read “he would never eat birthday cake with…”
BRIBE PALAU TO IMPROVE OUR MORAL STANDING?
That’s Obama’s Chicago mob style thinking. Anyone vote for that?
http://greensrealworld.blogspot.com/2009/06/international-bribery-obamas-way-to.html
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Jun 11, 2009 - 7:26 pm 244. scott:Buttterfly,
You can’t go wrong with those sentiments. ‘To the Jew first and then to the gentiles.’
Did you get any of those links I sent you in the other articles comments?
Jun 11, 2009 - 7:53 pm 245. sheesh:229 Ms Attitude . . . “(tip: Obama has done more damage to our economy since he’s been in office than ALL previous presidents combined!)”
You don’t QUITE have the talking point down pat. It’s not “damage”, it’s “spending.” And yes, Bush spent more than all previous presidents combined. Oh, so did Reagan. So what’s your point?
Finally . . . “Huffpo could post a picture of Obama on the toilet and the posters over there would talk about how wonderful it must be to be his poop!”
What is it with conservatives and scat? It’s amazingly consistent. Please, educate me.
Jun 11, 2009 - 8:21 pm 246. Someone75:Wow. Just because you don’t like what the media is telling you, it doesn’t mean anything has changed.
When Fox News starts to question the views of their right-wing extremist viewers, well, that’s something, isn’t it?
Jun 11, 2009 - 10:09 pm 247. Rowdyy:When are you stupid people going to get it. some have, but for the sad but true stupid people, sorry to say for America. You’ve been flim-flam’ed from the git-go.
To start an end with, this guy obama is the first Mulatto to be. NOT the first Black…
Look it up in ANY dictionary the half white half black, go ahead ya gutless, that’s if you can Read. Why not call him white then?
Get a grip……
You poor stupid people. wake up, your being
scammed like no tomorrow…
He an his admin is the evil like you’ve never dreamed before.
So true
RR…
Jun 11, 2009 - 10:38 pm 248. TheMightyMonarch:“…but there’s always the possibility of turning the demise of israel into a persecution myth to replace the holocaust, which seems to be wearing thin at the edges.”
I suppose sixty years is sufficient time to turn six million dead Jews into a myth. You and Ahmadinejad should have lunch sometime.
Jun 11, 2009 - 11:15 pm 249. jan stewart:OK folks- Now that we have established that we are, sheep being led to slaughter, What do we do. I have been saying we have to wake up to what is happening to our nation, we have now what, teaparties? rallys? vote the bums out? arm ourselves? demonstrate? (the news media won’t cover this) Just how do we go about reversing our misfortune. At least FOX is listening, someone got to Glenn Beck- He is toning down his call to arms. Lets now hear from all of you as to a solution! There are too many of us who holler from the rooftops but don’t know what else to do. I am sick of e-mailing my reps. all I get in return is a request for a donation. BY THE TIME THE NEXT MEANINGFUL ELECTION COMES WE WILL BE SO FAR GONE IT WON’T MATTER WHO WE VOTE IN. WHAT THE HECK DO WE DO???????????????
Jun 12, 2009 - 4:05 am 250. Justin Credible:Excellent article, and, distressingly, right on target.
Mr. Obama pledged to “..preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of The United States.”
So far, he is zero for three.
Jun 12, 2009 - 8:17 am 251. wadosy:“I suppose sixty years is sufficient time to turn six million dead Jews into a myth. You and Ahmadinejad should have lunch sometime.”
if people really believed in the holocaust story, they’d be agitating like crazy for a real investigation instead of trying to criminalize discussion.
meanwhile, there’s the inconvenience of auschwitz lowering its death toll by two and a half million in 1990, and the absence of mass graves at treblinka, where another 700,000 jews were supposedly killed.
there’s only one way to clear up this controversy about the holocaust, but you cant afford an investigation because you have no faith in the story.
given the fact that america has been lied into one war by israeli americans and israelis, is in the process of being lied into another, and the primary suspects for 9/11 are israeli americans and fellow travelers who baldly stated, a year before 9/11, that they needed “a new pearl harbor”, it’s kinda hard to accept the holocaust story on faith alone… especially in view of the fact that a real investigation is unthinkable and even discussion is outlawed in some countries.
of course, it makes no difference whether or not six million died… two wrongs dont make a right, and might doesnt make right… but you’ve managed to exploit the holocaust until you’re exempt from critism, which is exactly what’s got you into such hot water in the first place.
kids turned loose in a candy store.
Jun 12, 2009 - 10:24 am 252. wadosy:once you’ve abandoned your morals, as mr dror is urging all jews —not just israelis, but all jews— to do, in defense of israel, it’s kinda hard to have any faith… especially seeing as how the founders of israel had already abandoned their morals when they moved to palestine years before the holocaust, terrorized hundreds of thousands of people from their land, and needed some kind of cover for the operation.
lucky thing the holocaust happened, isnt it? …because that’s what you’ve used to justify zionist atrocities ever since, completely disregarding the fact that two wrongs dont make a right.
you cant have your cake and eat it, too… it’s as simple as that.
people might have more respect for the israel project if you just flat out admitted that you believe might makes right, and be done with it… but no sirree, we got israelis claiming the moral high ground on one hand while committing atrocities and advocating a complete abandonment of morals, on the other.
weird
Jun 12, 2009 - 10:40 am 253. Ms. Attitude:245. sheesh…MUSTARD! DUH
Jun 12, 2009 - 12:27 pm 254. Oscar the Grump:el waddy
Jun 12, 2009 - 12:45 pm 255. Oscar the Grump:or have no morals at all?
el waddy
Jun 12, 2009 - 12:47 pm 256. wadosy:Do you keep pictures of Adolf Hitler on your wall?
it just looks like israel is gonna be hung out to dry, as the big shakers and movers realize that israel’s a lost cause, and besides that, they can loot billions, stash them in the gulfstream and take off for paraguay to hunker down until the peak oil dust settles.
it always the same story: the believers get sucked into being cannon fodder, and the kingpins who manipulated them, skate.
Jun 12, 2009 - 3:00 pm 257. wadosy:VDH is a third-tier manipulator… he’ll have to fly away in a cessna.
Jun 12, 2009 - 3:02 pm 258. wadosy:…or maybe a van, loaded with the ones, fives, tens and twenties the big guys stuffed in the dumpster.
Jun 12, 2009 - 3:06 pm 259. wadosy:well, that’s the advantage, isnt it?
if you’re big enough, the loot can be carried in a laptop.
if you’re second rate, you gotta deal with the paper.
Jun 12, 2009 - 3:15 pm 260. wadosy:sooner or later, it’s comedy or insanity.
Jun 12, 2009 - 3:20 pm 261. Oscar the Grump:Its so great to have wadosy ( el waddy) defending those poor helpless Arabs of Palestine. The massacre of the Jewish population of Safat in the 1890s was just a reaction against Jewish (Western) colonialism.
The Hebron massacre of Jews in the 1930’s was just an expressiion of their displeasure. The truck bombing of the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem in 1946 was just a peaceful expression of Arab outrage. History records that 96% of the land that was the 1948 borders was legally purchased from Arab landowners. The lands first settled were coastal or the Jezreel valley. The Arabs didn’t want that land at all because of the endemic malaria. Once swamps were drained and the malaria gone, Arab raids and murders started. Of course they just wanted to liberate the land from those filthy Jews. 1948 the Grand Mufti ordered the Arab population out of Palestine so that the Arab invading armies would not mistakenly kill other Arabs. There was one ugly incident where the Stern gang and Irgune attacked and massacred an Arab village. Jewish settlements that were overrun by the Arab armies lay forgotten. Jewish settlers massacred by those armies aren’t even mentioned.
Yet a piece of filth like wadosy has the balls to twist history and tell us that black is white and that white is black.
wadosy you need to see a shrink. You are a very very sick person. If you don’t get help you’ll wind up being another Van Brun. Rot in hell wadosy.
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Jun 12, 2009 - 4:19 pm 263. wadosy:if the zionists own the land, why do they have to continue terrorizing people?
why was it necessary to destroy over 400 villages, kill thousands of people, and terrorize hundreds of thousands more from their land?
is the check still in the mail?
Jun 12, 2009 - 8:50 pm 264. wadosy:…but the real question remains: how can anyone in their right mind trust the word of people who’ve abandoned their morals?
Jun 12, 2009 - 9:00 pm 265. wadosy:it’s okay for europeans to move to palestine, kill tens of thousands of people, terrorize hundreds of thousands more from their land, and continue stealing land to this day.
so terrorism must be a good thing… why, then, are we fighting a “war on terror”?
if terrorism is a good thing, and we’re fighing against a good thing, is our war against terror just more evidence that we’ve abandoned our morals?
Jun 12, 2009 - 9:21 pm 266. wadosy:we’re supposed to ask ourselves, when thinking about an action, or thinking about something that’s happened, “is it good for the jews?” and “is it good for israel?”
the real question is: “is israel good for the jews, seeing as how jews must abandon moral behavior in defense of israel?”
do you think morals were handed down by god?
isnt it more likely that morals evolved, over hundreds of thousands of years, as a survival mechanism?
isnt it likely that the biggest threat to jews is their abandonment of that survival mechanism?
Jun 12, 2009 - 9:28 pm 267. wadosy:if you’re convinced that jews are superior to the rest of humanity, and the rest of humanity is subhuman… well, then, everything’s okay.
…because it’s impossible to violate the human rights of creatures who are not human.
problem solved.
all you have to do is admit that you are a racial supremacist, and the problem goes away.
Jun 12, 2009 - 9:40 pm 268. wadosy:but i guess the scariest thing, for you true believers, is the growing probability that you’ve been fooled again, as the kingpins flit off in their gulfstreams and leave you holding the bag.
Jun 12, 2009 - 9:44 pm 269. Oscar the Grump:Look at who is leading the discussion on morals el waddy. That’s like putting Jack the Ripper in charge of a church choir.
Jun 13, 2009 - 4:25 pm 270. Oscar the Grump:el waddy
You obviously believe any and all anti-Semetic lies put out. Let me help you on Aushwitz and Treblinka. There are captured German documents, captured by the US army at the end or WWII, that document what happened right down to names of victims. I don’t know about your little numbers games; but places like Treblinka didn’t have mass graves. They had ovens to burn their evidence. In addition the charred bones of the murdered were ground into powder and used a fertilizer on German farm fields. That was the largest source of calcium and phosphate fertilizer they had.
Go looking for the graves of the of the thousands killed by the Israelis, you’ll find another myth. “Jenin, thousands killed” The International Red Cross documents less than 200, mostly fighters.
“Gaza, thousands indescriminately killed” The International Red Cross comes up with less than 1500 with 80 to 90% being Hamas.
You seriously have a screw loose and need help. How can you even look yourself in the mirror every day? Get help, we are not asking you to become a saint, just human.
Jun 13, 2009 - 4:44 pm 271. californiataxslave:I have been trying to educate friends and neighbors about many of the things we discuss here on pajamasmedia, but I feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone, all I get from people, even really educated, intelligent people, are blank, zombie like stares. Like they have no clue what I’m talking about and would much rather get back to remodeling their house or running their errands. Those of us who understand what is going on probably number less than 1%, for sure less than 5%, judging by Ron Paul’s election results. Please, anyone have some good news?
Jun 13, 2009 - 9:57 pm 272. Meryl:144Tedders
“Yeah Wadosy, I remember when Israel attacked all those Arab nations in:
“1948, Arab forces from Egypt, Syria, Transjordan (later Jordan), Lebanon, and Iraq invaded Israel. Protracted peace talks resulted in armistice agreements between Israel and Egypt, Syria, and Jordan by July, but no formal peace.”
Tedders, even earlier as well….(again from the book “1939:In The Shadow Of War”)
The following lines are lifted from a report published in the New York Times on January 7, 1939, by a woman correspondent, Anne O’Hare McCormick, assessing the situation in Palestine:
“in the first days of 1939….between five and six thousand Jews had been armed and enrolled in a supernumerary police force to patrol the roads and protect their ‘colonies’… Armed as they are, THE RESTRAINT OF THESE PEOPLE IN THE FACE OF INCESSANT ATTACKS IS TRULY EXTRAORDINARY.”
(caps mine)
Jun 13, 2009 - 11:38 pm 273. Joe Toboni:YOu were the only person I know who wasn’t working for the Whitehouse that stuck by the war in 2006 and on. Congratulations on know wisdom over opinion.
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Jun 15, 2009 - 4:36 pm 276. val:We use to be blessed to be born in this nation, not any more. Freedom and risk takers made this nation prosper, now government will be the only one receiving a paycheck at the end of your labor as our well being is ignored. Power and politics are the new slave masters emerging in this nation. Civil unrest is growing and soon we will see states in session to protect their people govenment abuse.
Jun 25, 2009 - 11:02 am 277. Sharon Rykhoek:Dear Sir,
I 100% agree with you re. The Media.
And feel this is a great shame.
HOW,WHEN & WHERE did this previously
honorable profession get it’s current dirty name?
Personally, I feel let down. My family & I watched
the local & network news, religiously, every night…and grew up to be
“news hounds”.
However, we have ALL now (even our children) become cynical, jaded.
WHERE DOES THIS COME FROM? BIG BUSINESS??!!
Thank you for your ANTICIPATED RESPONSE!!
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