comes from LisaInDallas.
This is why I don’t take the outrage of the left or the media seriously on the Sherrod matter.
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Tweet of the Day Sherrod vs Duke
Posted: July 21, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speechTags: duke, I wish I said that, irony, media bias, naacp, shirley sherrod, still angry left
Sarah Palin: The Truth Spoken aloud drives liberals nuts
Posted: July 19, 2010 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/newsTags: conservatism fights back, ground zero mosque, islam, profile in courage, profiles in cowardice, sarah palin, still angry left
The reason why this memeorandum thread has so much action is the absolute apoplexy.
Sarah Palin has the courage to bluntly say what everyone knows, but the left wants to pretend isn’t true.
A Mosque could be built anywhere on the subway line to have easy access, building it near ground zero is a deliberate attempt of Islam to assert power. Every radical Islamist worldwide will see it as a sign of submission, particularly when the towers have not been rebuilt. Pretending otherwise is a delusion of the type we’ve talked about before.
Yet Sarah Palin comes right out and says it. Not only is the uncomfortable truth expressed but it is expressed by the one the left hates most of all. That is why it has driven this “Patrick” and others totally nuts.
Tell you what guys. Let’s take a national poll of Americans and see if they think a Mosque at or near Ground Zero is a good idea. If you want your guys to run on that be my guest. You might manage to win Berkley, SF and Cambridge and I stress the “might”.
I wonder if Bloomberg’s aide would be willing to call the Saudi’s racist since they will not allow a Christian Church in their country. I wonder if that aide would call the Palestinians racist because they insist on an Judenrein Gaza? I think not. This is an example of the “courage” of cowards.
The days when the denial of reality pays off are rapidly dying.
Update: An update via Atlas on Islam in general. A must read.
“I don’t need to make a case to you”
Posted: July 16, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news, tea partiesTags: bad form, reality, still angry left, tea parties, washington monument tea party
Are these people running for president of the NAACP?
Via glenn who is on fire today.
Foster Kamer as Vizzini
Posted: June 28, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/newsTags: dave weigel, foster kamer, helen thomas, journolist, reality, still angry left
Foster Kamer has a post up at the village voice about who smeared Dave Weigel, a gem from the piece:
I’m of the idea that Journolist was a bad idea in practice — because there is always a rat, always — but think that writers should be allowed to be sentient human beings with, you know, opinions about things. Otherwise, hold them in for seven presidential administrations, and the next thing you know, you’re Helen Thomas and your incredible legacy is now marred because you expressed an opinion about your job for the first time in your life that you’ve held in for way too long, that ends up being a “shocker” to people, and costs you your rep.
Take a look at that paragraph and the willful blindness it contains and it tells you a lot about the author. Poor Helen Thomas if only nobody knew what she really thought, we could have admired her in ignorance, just like Alger Hiss.
What annoys me is the title and the premise, Who smeared Dave Weigel? Smeared?
You might say who betrayed Dave Weigel, who outed Dave Weigel, who exposed Dave Weigel who embarrassed Dave Weigel but not smeared.
Smeared implies a falsehood, there is no falsehood here, Weigel wrote what he wrote of his own free will and said what he said.
Calling tea party activists racists, that is a smear. Exposing Weigel’s and Thomas’ true feelings in their own words to the light of day can be called many things but smear is not one of them.
So in the words of Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
If Foster wants to defend Weigel he should take a page out of Stacy McCain’s book:
Ali Akbar called me to discuss WeigelGate and pointed out something: Weigel hung out with us in NY-23, in Boston during the Brown campaign, at CPAC and at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference.
During all that time, Ali remarked, not once did Weigel do a “gotcha” by disseminating reports of the off-the-record stuff he saw and heard. Whatever vicious snark and gossip Weigel dished out via his blog, or e-mails or Twitter, he did not abuse his journalistic privilege by burning the people who gave him access.
That is the defense of a friend rather than of an ideologue. Weigel is really lucky that he has Stacy McCain as a friend. Stacy will fight for his friends till hell freezes over and then will fight on the ice.
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