Category: Awards

"I proudly stood behind James O’Keefe on his groundbreaking ACORN investigation. I also defended him when the media, including CNN — during a previous regime, “the Rick Sanchez era” – falsely reported the Sen. Mary Landrieu story as a “wiretapping” plot gone wrong.

In all these cases the left-leaning media exposed its obvious bias against James because of his contrarian point of view and because the targets of his investigations are protected institutions of the Democrat Media Complex. However, in my dealings with Ms. Boudreau, she and her producer, Scott Zamost, conducted themselves professionally, and I believe James owes them a candid and public explanation. From what I’ve read about this script, though not executed, it is patently gross and offensive. It’s not his detractors to whom he also owes this public airing. It’s to his legion of supporters," – Andrew Breitbart.

"I tell ya, we’ve got some new problems in Washington. Big problems. Just today, Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said people in America are not eating enough fruits and vegetables. They want to give all the power to the federal government to force you to eat more fruits and vegetables. This is what the federal, CDC, they gonna be calling you to make sure you eat fruits and vegetables, every day. This is socialism of the highest order!" – Congressman Paul Broun (R-GA).

09-29 BABES OF THE DNC CALENDAR by HumanEvents

"Certain conservative women are under attack. Why is that, you ask? … It's not simply the fact that they are accomplished campaigners. Oh, no; in many cases, these women are despised JUST because they are HOT. And let’s face it: liberal women tend to be a bunch of hideous chuds. Now, [The Fox and Rice Experience radio show] doesn’t have many friends…at least, not people who would say so aloud.

But who would YOU rather communicate with: Monica Crowley, Andrea Tantaros, and Amanda Carpenter (three beautiful and accomplished conservative women), or Rachel Maddow (who looks like a carny that should be running the ‘Dime Pitch’ or ‘Duck Pond’ game at the traveling fair)?" – Human Events, keeping it classy.

Newt Gingrich serves up a cornucopia of right-wing ressentiment:

Money quote:

You know, I don’t remember any time in American history where we had such a threat to our basic way of life: A genuinely radical, secular socialist machine ramming things through with no regard for American values or the beliefs of the American people.

In a post lamenting "the lunacy that is poisoning much conservative discourse," Heather Mac Donald eviscerates Dinesh D'Souza and the "hackneyed psychological theory" he published in Forbes. Even if you've read other dissections of that much derided article, this is a takedown to behold. It builds toward this core point:

…there is not a single policy that Obama has pursued since taking office that does not grow out of  the American tradition of left-wing liberalism or more immediately out of the Bush Administration, the latter including bailouts of Detroit and Wall Street, drone strikes in Pakistan, continuation of the doomed Freedom Agenda in Afghanistan, and invocations of the state secrets act to protect anti-terror actions from judicial scrutiny. But D’Souza is determined to present Obama as an alien within the body politic.

So what's wrong with the folks on the right who traffic in this nonsense?

D’Souza’s screed is just the latest manifestation of the rebirth of the conservative hysteria that marked the Clinton era.  The fact that both Clinton and Obama’s critics became obsessed with the person rather than his policies suggests that those critics have no faith in the public’s ability to grapple with abstract issues, rather than alleged personal failings.  The shrillness of the hysteria around the last two Democratic presidents also suggests a conservative sense of entitlement towards holding power.

She seems appropriately skeptical of the Tea Party too.

A reader writes:

I'm from the 10th Congressional District of Massachusetts (the Cape, Islands, and South Shore of Boston), where Jeff Perry is running on the GOP ticket, and despite this district being a relatively Republican place by Massachusetts standards, Sarah Palin is not popular here. To say the least. Indeed, it is full of precisely the middle-class suburbanites who found her wholly unqualified in 2008 and broke for Obama (my moderate Republican home town voted Obama by a few hundred votes out of ten thousand cast); they may be unhappy with the Democrats today, and many are Chamber of Commerce GOP types anyway, but they like their public officials minimally competent and to at least feign sanity. That precludes Palin.

So, in short, it doesn't take much political courage for Perry to call Palin out; indeed, his electoral viability relies on keeping her out of sight and out of mind.

"No I don’t. I don’t want [Palin] to come down [to campaign for me]. She’s represents — she’s an entertainer," – Jeff Perry, a Tea Party-backed GOP congressional nominee in Massachusetts.

"Well, those [countries] that do [allow gays to serve openly], they're the ones that participate in parades, they don't fight wars to keep the nation and the world free," – Tony Perkins, at the Value Voters Summit.

Tell that to Israel, Great Britain, Australia, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, and France, nearly all of whom fought alongside the US in Afghanistan or Iraq.