The American Spectator

drudge ette obama| 11.3.09 @ 7:14AM

There are no Joan of Arcs in "So We Might See."
Nothing but cowards dressed in vestments with a truly holier than thou view of their role.

This explains the decline in membership in religious groups.

Excellent job on the reporting. This will require some re-reading. So much to know. So very little time.

Alice Moore| 11.3.09 @ 7:30PM

I've been reading too many comments from you good posters. Quit feeding the trolls! A certain porcine named troll probably gets a commission from Soros for every reply. It's probably his/her only source of validation in his/her sad sorry life. Probably an overage overweight virgin. So have pity...but, scroll past.

BTW with George Soros wasn't he born in Hungary? Why didn't he stay behind after WWII when Hungary was made into a Workers paradise by the USSR? Those Allied troops that were repatriating East Europeans should have repatriated George Soros.

S.L. Toddard| 11.3.09 @ 7:33AM

Somewhat relatedly, here's an excellent piece on the rise of the conservative celebrity best seller (think Mark Levin's, Glenn Beck's and Ann Coulter's books) and what they say about the general state of Conservative literature:

Even in lean economic times, conservative books are a booming business. Once right-wing publishing was the province of profitless true believers. Now conservative imprints are ensconced in most of New York’s major publishing houses. The liberals who dominate the scene hold their noses while their hired-hand conservatives bid big dollars for contracts with the Right’s marquee names.

On one level, it is tempting to greet the rise of the conservative bestseller with elation. Our long exile from the world of letters has ended. We’re on the New York Times bestseller list. We have arrived. But where?

The triumph of conservative book sales has not coincided with great gains for conservative ideas in politics or the broader culture. Conservatives hold little sway in the Republican Party, and the Republican Party holds little sway in the nation’s capital. We’re the backbench of a minority. More importantly, there’s not much intellectual rigor in the Right’s bestsellers. For all the pages printed, the movement runs short on real ideas.

Before Regnery Publishing launched a million anti-Clinton tracts—the first signal to mainstream houses that a certain kind of conservative book could power up the charts—it dealt in short runs of weighty tomes and took a kind of pride in the purity of its niche. Founder Henry Regnery observed in his Memoirs of a Dissident Publisher, “In matters of excellence the market is a poor judge. The books that are most needed are often precisely those that will have only a modest sale.” He lived by those words—early Regnery books included such highbrow, less-than-stellar sellers as Catholic existentialist Gabriel Marcel’s Man Against Mass Society and Martin Heidegger’s What Is a Thing? “A remark my father made to me sticks in my memory,” he recalled, “‘If you ever begin to make any money in that business you are going into, you can be pretty sure that you are publishing the wrong kind of books.’”

Regnery made bold choices, also bringing to market works by untested authors—a young Yale student, one William F. Buckley Jr., taking aim at his godless university, and an eccentric Michigan State history instructor whose Conservative Mind would become the movement’s catechism. Back then criticism of liberalism was subject to the standards of good literature and the demands of logic, with stalwarts like Albert J. Nock, T.S. Eliot, and Richard M. Weaver at the helm. They built a canon that has endured for generations.

Now conservative offerings come with diagrams of farting cows—bless Glenn Beck. No one is likely to have his worldview rocked by Sean Hannity’s Deliver Us From Evil or his political eyes opened by Michelle Malkin’s Unhinged. Laura Ingraham’s Shut Up and Sing slides easily down the memory hole. But permanence isn’t their intent. Conservatism has shifted from a modest cast of mind to a playground contest of insults. Millions can play along.

This isn’t to say that bestselling conservative authors don’t manage to pack arguments into their books or buttress those arguments with facts and footnotes. But they do not aim to challenge the faithful or change the minds of their opponents—to turn moderates into conservatives or shake liberals from their delusions. Conservative readers are looking for how-to manuals—an easy way to beat that liberal sister-in-law in a dinner-table debate. Thus Beck’s latest blockbuster offers “the secret formula to winning arguments against people with big mouths but small minds.”

But it may be too generous to say that book buyers are only looking for ammunition: many conservative bestsellers aren’t purchased to be read so much as to be owned. In the bully’s game that talk-radio conservatism has become, if you can’t keep Barack Obama out of the Oval Office, there’s at least some satisfaction in forcing the New York Times to put Obamanation at the top of its list. Besides, stocking up on conservative kitsch yields a rush of inclusion, like wearing the jersey of a favorite football team. Being on the Right is no longer a lonely struggle standing athwart history; it can be more like standing in a stadium doing the wave.

Of course, fan clubs need stars, and the conservative galaxy has its own leading lights. Look at the right-wingers scaling the lists—Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin, Bill O’Reilly, Laura Ingraham, Joe Scarborough. All were autographs long before they stretched their literary limbs. Then look at a few of the other luminaries sharing space with them on the NYT list: actor Patrick Swayze, comedienne Kathy Griffin, late-night talk-show host Craig Ferguson. New York publishers are not interested in advancing the conservative case, and apologetics aren’t the product for sale. Celebrity is merely exerting its endless fascination, and the Right has adopted a blueprint long ago perfected by the Hollywood Left.

No surprise then that conservative books feature prominent pictures of the authors on their covers—complete with flowing blonde mane and low-cut dress for those who can pull it off. Who they are is at least as important as what they are saying, and the texts are written the way a talk-radio show is produced—centered around a charismatic host. These authors are no more expected to be masters of the writer’s craft than Chelsea Handler, whose dizzy Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea recently spent 47 weeks in the top 15. Their job isn’t to enlighten but to entertain. The minds grow dimmer as the stars shine brighter.

The conservatives who sell by the hundreds of thousands belong in the same category—of intellectual depth as well as sales—as professional wrestlers, sit-com stars, and self-help gurus. Radio and TV talker Glenn Beck didn’t extract $3 million from Simon & Schuster for his next two books by virtue of his expertise on climate change but by sheer force of personality. His breakout bestseller, An Inconvenient Book, debuted at the top of the charts and sold over half a million copies. In it, he dishes on everything from tipping in restaurants (15 percent is too much) to dating (decide in the first two minutes whether it will work) to what America can do about oil dependence (nothing—we’re screwed). This is part of his mass appeal: his opinions are unbounded.

Where once conservatives revered Russell Kirk for his historical analysis of the roots of American order or the discovery of a conservative strain in Anglo-American thought, now the Right finds its heroes living, breathing, crying, and laughing. Beck is famous for shedding tears then breaking into mirth on air. He is not limited by the need to gain expertise before confidently concluding that he’s right—the more rashly, the better.

Then there’s the other equation conservatives have solved: controversy sells. Witness the success of Mackenzie Phillips’s celebrity incest tell-all, now in its third week on the New York Times list. On the cover of Beck’s newest number one, the indelicately titled Arguing With Idiots, he poses in an East German military uniform. Inside, he predictably races through the familiar stops—Chappaquiddick, gun grabbing, socialist creep. Not without calculation did he recently declare, on one of those Sunday morning shows watched by people who don’t go to church anymore, “The Manchurian candidate couldn’t destroy us faster than Barack Obama. If you were planning a sleeper to come in and become president of the United States, this is how he would do it.” Persuasion isn’t the point. Beck is fighting his way to the next million. The more liberals hate him, the more his fans will love him—and the more books he’ll sell.

Mark Levin, whose Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto has sold over one million copies and spent 12 weeks in the top spot of the NYT list, is less campy than Beck but no less combative. Intellectual conservatives may find his angry style off-putting, but there are too few of them to guarantee a million-dollar deal. Levin is playing to an easier crowd: what is most striking about Liberty and Tyranny is how familiar much of it would be to anyone who has even a glancing acquaintance with the major works of conservative literature. Yet his book is hailed as groundbreaking by those who can fit their creed on a bumper sticker.

With the rise of right-wing radio and cable talk, conservatives have found a way to hawk their wares. While Regnery books may rank on the New York Times bestseller list, they’re still quarantined from its review pages. But a spin round the radio dial and a spot on “Fox & Friends” can vault a book to top-ten status. The author only gets a six-minute segment, so his sell needs to be simple, catchy, familiar.

When it began publishing conservative books in the late ’80s, Free Press brought out serious thinkers like Robert Bork, Francis Fukuyama, and Charles Murray. In 1994, it was gobbled up by Simon & Schuster, which two years earlier had seen Rush Limbaugh’s The Way Things Ought to Be—considered a minor acquisition at the time—rocket up the NYT list to hold the top spot for 24 weeks. The formula was simple: find a conservative star able to stir up a right-wing audience. These books weren’t plotted to reach the general reading public but to engage a new customer: the radio fan willing to buy books. Far from signaling a broadening of the conservative appeal in return for conceding some depth, bestseller status merely indicates migration from one medium of conservative talk to another. All the morning zoo tricks transfer easily to text.

“We published some good books, several, unquestionably, of outstanding quality, which were also well produced,” Henry Regnery wrote of his work in early conservative publishing. “We confronted conventional opinion with some questions it could not evade and found difficult if not impossible to answer. … We did not make any money, but that was not my primary objective.” It may be that conservatives can’t have it both ways. They can either write thoughtful books that sell a few thousand copies. Or they can move millions by the same scheme the Left uses to break onto the bestseller lists then fill the remainder bins—celebrity, controversy, mass appeal.

The poet and sometime senator Gene McCarthy once described bad signs one could come across in his home state of Minnesota. “We Serve All Faiths” was perhaps the worst—the slogan of a mortician. When New York publishers got into the conservative book business, they might have hung out a similar shingle. For while a few rich people have gotten richer by leaping into the publishing mainstream, the movement has lost its conservative mind.

http://amconmag.com/article/2009/dec/01/00008/

ds80| 11.3.09 @ 12:00PM

Thanks for the exercise I get working the scroll wheel past your blather. Much appreciated.

Alan Brooks| 11.3.09 @ 7:48PM

Todd's comment was longer than the AS piece.
Notice: "Regnery made bold choices, also bringing to market works by untested authors—a young Yale student, one William F. Buckley Jr., taking aim at his godless university,".
This is the WFB Todd criticized for his 'totalist' efforts in bringing down the Soviet Union (yes, he did play a big role).
Well, good for WFB. If Todd owned NR we'd be eating black bread, and singing the Internationale.

Alan Brooks| 11.3.09 @ 9:28PM

not that WFB owned NR, he was the senior editor.

Alan Brooks| 11.4.09 @ 10:29AM

Alyeska, you dope. Justin Raimando/Todd has rejected Buckley many times for being totalitarian in the Cold War prosecution.

It's Justin's hot Latin blood-- he tries so hard to hold it in it warps his mind.

alyeska| 11.4.09 @ 2:03AM

as usual, you missed the point! todd is simply contrasting yesterday's intelligent conservative authors, authors of substance, to today's peewee herman imitaters.

todd: pearls before swine...!

alyeska| 11.4.09 @ 2:07AM

...wait a minute -- i like peewee herman -- make that andrew dice clay imitaters.

alyeska| 11.4.09 @ 2:10AM

ps: i'll take a porn perv over a closet republican "family values hypocrite" perv any day!

are you listening larry craig?

Alan Brooks| 11.4.09 @ 10:23AM

Larry Craig is someone I don't approve of, that queer-- not that it's wrong to be queer, but Craig just rubs my fur the wrong way, in a manner of speaking of course. Not that there's anything wrong with it, of course. But Craig did the Tinker Bell Two Step in a public lavatory, and that's silly. But not Ted. Ted is, was, normal, he did have a few problems, but don't we all. Look, Ted was just a sensitive Vulnerable Human Being just like the rest of us. We're all human. We have to be reminded again and again we are Human Beings so we don't get to thinking we're praying mantises or roosters.
Or caterpillars.
So what if we have differences? I accept you, just as long as you don't look sideways at me when I lecture you.
I will defend to your death the right for you to say anything that I agree with.
Ted Kennedy was a decent guy who was much better than you, you right wing flyover resident. Who in the Hell do you think you're dealing with? My attorney paid twice as much to go to law school as your punk lawyer did!

Just the link, please!| 11.3.09 @ 12:36PM

SLT, I would have thought that an article mentioning...drum roll please...ACORN, would have solicited your usual "monomania definition" post. Instead an ENTIRE, overly-long post on something related to conservative authors (didn't read the rest, did scrolling exercise as ds80 mentions). Next time, JUST THE LINK, PLEASE!!

Dai Alanye| 11.3.09 @ 12:52PM

After a rapid review of Strunk & White I am prepared to distill SLT's rant to its essential message:

"It's so *unfair* that pop-conservatives sell all those books."

I might have missed something, of course; I kept slipping into a trance while attempting to read the thing.

Too long, Toddard| 11.3.09 @ 1:26PM

Too long to read, Mr. Toddard. Start your own blog and post it there.

Son Of Sam| 11.3.09 @ 1:49PM

Oddly enough, I wasn't nearly as irritated by this post of yours mr. stoddard as i have been by others, where you were clearly getting radio messages from Neptune through your dental work. Just to answer one quick question of yours: conservative ideas don't have to reach the culture, because America has CREATED those ideas in the first place. If by "culture" you're referring to the "Jon and Kate makes 8" genre, understand that its A) not culture and B)its a lot more like that parasite from the Aliens movies. We just need to remove and destroy it

stand strong until freedom dawns
Son Of Sam
http://www.samadamssos.bravehost.com/

Ken MacAlister Jr.| 11.3.09 @ 2:58PM

SLT, reading your post I remembered why I took up a mechanical trade instead of going to college. If you're not a pompous know-it-all liberal college indoctrinator you should be. The verbal diarrhea you post here on a daily basis would gain you tenure at any large University nowadays. Your post could have easily been shortened to, "I hate conservatives!" & gotten your point across much faster, saving you from getting carpal tunnel. Next time I will take ds80"s advice & scroll right on past.

Stephanie| 11.3.09 @ 3:03PM

Hey Stoddard, I be you have Sarah's book on advanced order, huh? Can't wait to tear into that one too. You should be charged with a "hate speech" crime. ;-)

Alan Brooks| 11.3.09 @ 9:32PM

Toddard ought to ow is own small college.
Better for him, better for us.

Now, it might not be better for the students, but someone has to suffer; it might as well be them. All lambs go to the slaughter, eventually.

Alan Brooks| 11.3.09 @ 9:34PM

sorry, OWN his own college:

The Toddard International Nonglobalist University Of Hardknocks.

Pam| 11.3.09 @ 10:43PM

You must be one of the intelligencia you seem to be blathering on about. Are you kidding? Who is paying you to write all of this boring drivel?

Somewhere a liberal is crying tears of joy after reading your sonnet.

Pam| 11.3.09 @ 10:50PM

Oh, and if you're so effing smart, why are we in the situation we now find outselves in. Something tells me that perhaps these so called intellects should have removed their head from their a$$ long enough to ensure that our republic was not taken over by marxist boneheads.

AMERICAN SPECTATOR, thanks for the great article and for shinning the light on the cockroaches. I'm going to find the donate button right now.

WarGunFan| 11.4.09 @ 12:45PM

There is pithy commentary and then there is mental diarrhrea.

Timothy L. Pennell| 11.3.09 @ 7:40AM

Why isn't Soros dead? Follow the money. Every one of these ANTI-AMERICAN, ANTI-CAPITALISM, PRO-MARXIST Outfits, is financed by George Soros. Every fringe Psycho Freak Show, in this country, is financed by George Soros. Every Group that is determined to DESTROY OUR WAY OF LIFE, is funded by George Soros.
So why isn't he dead, yet?
I'm just asking.

Speedbump| 11.3.09 @ 8:08AM

Tim, you beat me to it...I have wondered the same thing...of all the people in the world, this man deserves to be put in the ground...the man is a criminal who has made his money destroying the lives of those people whose currencies he destroyed in his abject greed; he is the poster child of everything the left hates about the capitalist system, though of course they will never see him that way, and obvious symptom of their mental derangement...he's tops on my list of those-who-will-be-the-first-ones-up-against-the-wall-when-the-revolution-comes...

darcy| 11.4.09 @ 1:14AM

Great reporting, Mr. Lord.

As for the puppetmaster here, Mr. Soros, I highly recommend The Shadow Party: How George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Sixties Radicals Seized Control of the Democratic Party, by David Horowitz and Richard Poe (2006).

"This book describes forces at work behind the surface of political events, which seek to remake America as a radical utopia. They are driven by the belief that American "hegemony" (as they like to describe it) is harmful and its purposes oppressive. In the name of globalism, they would deny America its nationhood, character and culture. Theirs is a party -- a Shadow Party -- that is subversive of the American idea itself." pg.xv.

Oh, yes, and there's lots of info in there about SEIU, ACORN, and the Working Families Party.

Here's a little tidbit for you: "My goal is to become the conscience of the world," so says George Soros to his biographer Michael Kaufman. pg. 76.

The man's tentacles reach far and wide; it's best we learn what we can about him so as to alert others to the danger he (and his associates) poses to our freedoms.

afdsewqt| 11.3.09 @ 8:04AM

We published some good books, several, unquestionably, of outstanding quality, which were also well producedRoll forming machine

Ryan| 11.3.09 @ 8:25AM

This is what we see when churches get away from what SHOULD be their core mission - spreading the message of the Gospel to the world.

Louis Jenkins| 11.3.09 @ 8:33AM

Ever wonder why conservative talk shows/publications do so well and liberal publications/talk shows die a slow death unless propped up by public funding (your tax dollars)? Hmmmm.......
An attempt at an answer: because the target liberal audience is listening to Sting, Bono, Rap, Madonna. They're also a product of our wonderful public education system and parents who didn't give a rat's pattutie if they could or couldn't read.

Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 11.3.09 @ 8:40AM

MR Lord: Wow!! What a web of deceit these Commie Left Wing Progressive’s bastards spin!! It’s like that old movie game, the “Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon”, everything that’s going on today that smells like sh*t, can be traced back to this George Soros character.

So we need to find out everything we can about this guy, and he needs to be exposed for what he is, the reincarnation of Lucifer on Earth (or at least for the moment)? Because when you start using unsuspecting Church’s in you War against America, well then, I think you’ve crossed over that invisible line, from being a really big pain in the ass to everybody, to becoming an enemy combatant of this Nation. So the rules of engagement should apply to him from now on, and to every foundation he’s started, or supports, to every company he runs, to the media outlets who support him, and have branded him as some sort of Liberal hero, to everybody who associates with him, or who works for him too.

This is War!! It’s time to put a bounty on this Rat's head, and start hunting him down, until he’s brought down for good. So please keep up the great reporting on him; the cracks in the glass are starting to show in his shroud, so don't let up with the pressure on him. It’s only a matter of time before it all comes crashing down, and he is exposed to the public, and captured.

P.S. Only one game to go,.. So,.. Let’s Go Yankees!! (Sorry, but it pisses the Toad off. You see, he’s a Red Sox fan)

Georgie's Girl| 11.3.09 @ 8:55AM

To S L : you write such long and ranting replys that I for one, don't even bother to read. You're wasting your time..... and space!!

Anthony| 11.3.09 @ 9:54AM

You're right about ole Toddard, Georgie's Girl. This boy has way too much time on his hands, has an overly inflated opinion of his intellect and I suspect, his P.Js could use laundering.

Berl Goetz| 11.3.09 @ 12:30PM

I scroll past the zingers to get to and read the rants. Rants are the real contributions that make forums like this worth reading.

Papa Ray| 11.3.09 @ 8:57AM

What is very scary (and should be) is that this is just one investigation that has shown Soros backing. There are others through the years, but never fully realized or understood in the big picture. Soros also has his own backers that still remain hidden and will remain so-- and they are not all Americans.

Many Americans still think that Obama is the ringleader and Chief Thug, which is not true. Obama is just a mouthpiece that was picked years ago and groomed to become the President of the United States by a group and/or individuals dedicated to the downfall of America as our Founders intended. To "change" America into what they want for their own purposes.

Until everyone from the ignorant and unaware man on the street to those in our Government (that are still faithful to our Constitution) understand and realize the dark forces that are arrayed against America we will have no chance of defeating them.

Papa Ray
Central Texas

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
2009 Judge Alex Kozinski

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.3.09 @ 9:02AM

Mr. Lord
Thank you.
This splendid report is almost an answer to a prayer I made yesterday in print to you folks.
(Pardon the copy-paste)
Quin
Tomorrow, (Tuesday), is a big day.
Tomorrow may very well determine the shape of our entire future here in the US...thus the world.
We at Team America have made our effort, along with a lot of others.
Now we shall get a preview of 2010.
Will the fake ballots carry the day, or will decent elections... and accurate vote counts be the rule?
For the "minority victims groups" I sincerely pray for the latter.
If and when the vast majority of Americans begin to decide that elections are rigged, oh my.......
Personally, I do not hold much hope for the New Jersey races. The corruption is so widespread, and of such long standing there; decent people are crushed and too discouraged to even vote.
Most of the country is not New Jersey yet, thank goodness.
But what if? What if the idea takes root across the country that Acorn and SEIU are falsifying elections across the country?
What happens if the Democrats continue to stick their despicable labels on us and our neighbors for refusing to kneel?
In 1860 it was supposedly about slavery, but you and I both know that it was Industrial vs. agricultural, and slavery became the rally cry and the "unintended straw on the camel".
Well, slavery is no longer an issue.
Instead, it is communism versus freedom. Many of us equate communism to slavery as you might recall.
The vast majority of Americans will not accept slavery, even if the ballot boxes lie.
So.
I do hope the Spectator will do more than "spectate".
I hope you guys have the courage to make a "footprint" before you are shut down by the communists.
They cannot afford you guys, you know. You guys and many of we guys...are simply "terrorists" in their eyes.
...Can't happen here?
Sir, it IS happening....right before our eyes. The real question is whether or not you folks cringe or stand tall for liberty.
It will be fascinating to watch, but you know, I believe if our vast majority begins to despair of clean elections...God help us all.
(End copy-paste)

Mr Lord, you made a splendid foot-print here. We eagerly await more to follow.

Richard Baker| 11.3.09 @ 9:16AM

The same people who, in the Sixties, demanded more media access and outlets, can't stand it now when someone else has a message opposed to theirs. What a hoot!

Papa Ray| 11.3.09 @ 9:39AM

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.3.09 @ 9:02AM
"Sir, it IS happening....right before our eyes. The real question is whether or not you folks cringe or stand tall for liberty."

Yep, you got the questions right. I know where millions stand. They stand in the South and Southwest of America and they will stand tall. But will it be enough against the millions upon millions in the liberal states, the states where color, class and being a victim collecting the governments money is more important than Liberty.

Papa Ray
Central Texas

The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed - where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once.
2009 Judge Alex Kozinski

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:11AM

You remember the last time the south and southwest stood tall. THey got beat down by the union. lmao. Slack jawed yokels.

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:20AM

Won't happen this time. Liberals are cowardly pussies who'd sell-out their own mothers for more guv'ment cheese.

A modern-day Civil War in this country would last about 10 minutes. You a-holes are afraid of your own shadows...You'll run away and piss your pants at the first sign of trouble.

See you at the re-education camp!

Nick| 11.3.09 @ 1:51PM

Not all of them, Dr. Right.

Some, like Bill Ayers, like to set IEDs to kill police officers.

Ken (Old Texican)| 11.3.09 @ 9:49AM

Holy moly, Folks
If each of you do not read this National Education Asc. web site you have missed something crucial.
They are openly pushing Saul Alinsky.

http://www.nea.org/tools/17231.htm

Deborah D| 11.3.09 @ 10:11AM

Good grief! Everyday I think, "Surely there can't be anymore these lefties can do to our country." Then I read Mr. Lord's piece and see the link to the NEA site that Ken posts, and I shiver in my boots even more. My God. These slimeballs are everywhere. They are termites quietly destroying the foundation of our country.

I've tried my best to wake people up, many have and many will, but will it be too late? Cling to your guns and buy ammo. If the politicians in D.C. don't do something for the country and soon, I fear what the future holds. The anti-Americans are worming their way into everything. They must be stopped.

Connie| 11.3.09 @ 10:22AM

Thank you for all the work in getting to the heart of the smear conservative radio talk show hosts and Fox commentators.

I am scared for my country right now. I have 14 grandchildren and am very worried what our beloved country will be like when they are adults trying to live a decent life with their families.

Al Adab| 11.3.09 @ 10:40AM

Ken, Deborah:
Interesting is it not, that the once left touted First Amendment is under attack from- The Left?
As a wise man once said of D. C.,"If hypocricy were oil, this town would be Saudi Arabia."

We need to be very aware as our attention is focused on one issue, that the Statists continue to pursue their agenda elsewhere. Witness the "hate crimes bill" passed and signed last week while we watched "health care". Liberties foes never rest and neither can we.

Papa Ray,
The South and West combine with enough votes. It is simply a matter of being on the same page. Texas (proudly) and Montana show the way. Arizona and Wyoming will likely follow. Who else will come and stand for Liberty even against our own government?

Deborah D| 11.3.09 @ 12:31PM

First Amendment under attack is so correct, Al Adab. Have you read this by Ralph Peters? Simply excellent and, as with everything with this administration and this Congress, frightening:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/o.....G3Hc3xaCHM

Al Adab| 11.3.09 @ 1:26PM

Thanks for the link Deb. This rush to statism is indeed frightening. How we defend our Constitution against our own government will make or break the Liberty of mankind into the far future.

cindy| 11.3.09 @ 10:45AM

We need to stay on Congress and make sure no more funding makes it to ACORN. There is a bill making it's way through Congress to allow ACORN a regulatory role for consumer products. http://www.washingtonexaminer......N-66727072
Make no mistake, ACORN are the foot soldiers for Sorro/Obama agenda. If we can stop them financially we can cripple the agenda.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:05AM

People still watch Beck? That's unbelievable. Wow I'm shocked.

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:15AM

Yup. Millions watch him, and millions more lsiten to him every day. And his audience is growing.

So is Rush's! His audience is exploding. He's got more listeners now than during the Clinton hey-days of the 90's.

And Mark Levin's book has sold over a million copies, and was on the NYT Best Seller list (at number 1!) for more than 3 months straight! And his radio show is growing rapidly, too...Millions tune in.

And Sarah Palin's book has already pre-sold more than a million copies!

Obama and Pelosi have been exposed as liars and socialist scum. Conservatism is on the rise...But this time, we're not just angry. We're pissed. We're more pissed than we've ever been. Obama has energized us. We will make the 60's look like the 50's...And you panty-waist left-wingers, who were riding soooooo high just 9 months ago, will NEVER know what hit you.

We're coming. We're coming to restore this country to it's rightful place. On the way, we're purging our Party of RINOs, pussies, and weak-kneed libutard Repubics. The Republican Party that will emerge and take back this country will be hardcore...And it will take NO prisoners.

With Pelosi as the precedent, we will ram our own agenda through the Congress, and we won't give a damn about the bleating on the left, or in the media.

That funny feeling you're getting is your sphincter puckering and unpuckering with fear. When we're done, you'll long for the good old days of George W. Bush.

Better be ready...

Heidi| 11.3.09 @ 11:59AM

Your name suits you....

Saw some stupid dem on Fox this morning trying to marginilize Palin... Ain't working Dem's...

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:41PM

Palin marginilized herself. Just listen to her speak and laguh. Mccain should have used a better gimmick to strengthen his chances at winning the whitehouse.

Nick| 11.3.09 @ 1:55PM

Yes, I'm sure you LAGUH all the time, moron.

stephanie| 11.3.09 @ 3:18PM

Pig, are you kidding me?! Millions watch and listen to him everyday. I stay away some days because hearing it all scares me and gets me down.
But then other days I can't get enough of him.
Thank goodness for his investigative nature in finding out about ACORN and all the other illegal shenannigans these dirty liberals are up to.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:07AM

Apparently when Limbaugh isn't buying football teams, he's buying oxy contin and hot dogs to satisfy the empty pit in his soul.

ds80| 11.3.09 @ 12:03PM

Do you serve your ad hominem with mustard?

That noise you hear is us laughing at you.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:42PM

I serve all my fallacies with relish.

Helen Donnelly| 11.3.09 @ 2:52PM

The crudeness of your comments says alot about who and what you are.

no to obama| 11.3.09 @ 3:21PM

He is anything but an empty pit. The libs are sooooooo jealous that conservatives have talk radio and it is SUCCESSFUL, where the libs couldn't keep a station going with all the contributions from Soros and god knows where else. Thank God for Rush who has the jewels to tell like it is.

Northern Rebel| 11.3.09 @ 11:10AM

L,L,&L:

You are so right about SOROS! It is time to do to him, what he's been attempting to do to conservatives: DESTROY HIM!

This guy is as evil as Obama, oops, Osama, and, any tin-horn fascist dictator, on the planet.

By selling the pound, and the dollar short in vast quantities, he has tried to destroy free market economies, for as long as anyone can remember.

If China attempted to undermine, our stock markets, and perform the electronic espionage Soros has been engaging in forever, we would be warning them that we have 100 times the nuclear weapons they do, and they would be pointing at Biejing!

This man should be treated like the enemy to America that he is, we should be preparing for a little wet work, at Foggy Bottom.

How many people have died due to his financial terrorism?

He should be hung like Saddam, and left out for days, as a warning to America's other enemies.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:15AM

Acorn is evil. Just look at this: "All children deserve a quality education. The better their education is the more likely they will be able to enjoy a great quality of life. Parents' hard earned tax dollars are used to finance the public school system so their offspring should reap the benefits. ACORN members have been working to implement a platform to improve the quality of public schools".

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:27AM

Not my resposnibility to fund the education of millions of illegitimate "urban" children...Let's their mothers and fathers (if they can find them!) take care of that.

Milo| 11.3.09 @ 10:39PM

Sorry, Pig, Dr. Right is Right.

Your quote is straight from The Manifesto. It's frosting to cover the rat poison.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:17AM

They should be ashamed of themselves. Trying to overturn what Bush harbored for eight years. Those bastards:

"Predatory lenders target low-income and minority homebuyers, capitalizing on buyers� lack of understanding of the complicated transactions or use outright deception to close loans that inevitably lead to a loss of equity or foreclosure.

ACORN strives to end abuses by actively putting pressure on predatory lending offenders and advocating for legislation, regulation, education and research to end abusive lending practices".

Ryan| 11.3.09 @ 11:27AM

ACORN is as responsible for the lending practices as are the predatory lending places. Their rabid pressure for the CRA pushes banks and agencies to lend to ACORN constituencies...who cannot afford to make the payments.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:18AM

George Bush vowed to spend our money on Iraqi welfare but those evil doers at ACorn wanted to help out Americans. How dare them!

"Hurricane Katrina's winds had hardly subsided before ACORN began organizing New Orleaneans to rebuild their beloved city on their own terms. Today, ACORN's national headquarters in New Orleans houses more staffers than ever and ACORN members are fighting to ensure the city's recovery. Though thousands of Katrina survivors are still displaced, the last year has seen a series of significant wins for ACORN in New Orleans and the struggle continues to fully resurrect the Crescent City"

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:24AM

I love it when libutards try and blame Katrina on George W. Bush!

New Orleans is a 3rd-world city in a rural, low-income state that, up until recently, was run completely by Democrats.

So yeah, sure...It's Bush's fault that the people of New Orleans haven't got the sense to get out of Dodge when trouble hits...They can't wipe their asses without government assistance.

Oh...And ACORN..? They'll be in jail soon.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:26AM

In jail with Dick Cheney and GW the chimpster. OH btw I'm blaming the hurricane on katrina, the aftermath on the commander in chimp.

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:28AM

Cheney and Bush are in jail..? Do tell! This should be interesting...

...Dummy...

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:31AM

THey should but going down as the worst president and vice president in US history is probably going to be the extent of their punishment.

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:37AM

Hey Dummy! You said they were in jail.

...And more talking points! WOW! You are sooooo original.

Heidi| 11.3.09 @ 12:00PM

Isn't it time for little piggy to head back to Dailykos??

Berl Goetz| 11.3.09 @ 12:33PM

Quite the contrary, the chimpster and darth were the best executive leaders since Reagen.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 1:04PM

Reagan jackass.

Helen Donnelly| 11.3.09 @ 2:57PM

DP: You couldn't even scratch the surface of Reagan's vast intellect and fortitude. Don't even start on that. He is so far beyond your small, petty, government dependent world. Try standing on your own two feet.

stephanie| 11.3.09 @ 3:23PM

How old are you? 12?

Ryan| 11.3.09 @ 11:29AM

Someone doesn't live in Louisiana. Failures ranged from local government all the way to the top in Katrina.

If it wasn't for the welfare culture in traditionally democrat New Orleans, people would have been able to take care and take responsibility for themselves. There weren't half the issues in just-as-hard hit Mississippi.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:36AM

Mississippi is a tiny speck. New Orleans has more people than all the Mississippi cities involved in Katrina. Mississippi is essentially the poorest state in the nation and wouldn't need much money to rebuild the whole state. Jackass

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:40AM

Like the fool you are, you completely missed his point.

Lousiana, run by Democrats, was devastated by Katrina, and because the Dems were in charge (until recently), and because the citizens (beat-down by socialism) lack education, common sense, and initiative, the situation is still bad.

Mississippi, meanwhile, run by Republicans, has been able to recover from Katrina.

Accident? Hardly.

Did ya' get that...Dummy?

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:43AM

Mississippi is a speck. NOthing to damage there. Get the picture. Maybe drive through it before you credit the REpublicans for saving nothing.

Ryan| 11.3.09 @ 11:59AM

So, what about Dem rule in New Orleans and the welfare culture there?

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 1:07PM

Every big city has welfare issues. NY, San Francisco, Houston, Chicago, etc. They all have a welfre culture. When SF was hit with an earthquake, no one complained about a lack of a response. Bush dropped the ball man it is well documented. I respect your loyalty towards him but he f'ed up. Plain and simple.

Ryan| 11.3.09 @ 1:51PM

I said as much, but to lay the entire blame on his shoulders ignores everything else. Local and state governments failed as well, and the lack of personal responsibility of the poor in New Orleans came long before the outcry for the government to "do something."

stephanie| 11.3.09 @ 3:27PM

Documented by whom? The liberal media?

They couldn't tell the truth to save
New Orleans. The liv government loves for it's citizens to be on the doal. they love the down and out and love to keep them there. They don't want to ask people to get up and help themselves. It was a disaster started by LBJ and continues to this day.

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 12:00PM

"When you have no intelligent contribution to add to the discussion, change the topic."

- LIBUTARD PLAYBOOK, pg. 53, Para. 3.

Hypocrisy Buster| 11.3.09 @ 12:07PM

GW the Chimpster? Commander in chimp? Seems to me I heard, not too long ago, linking a US President to "Chimp", "Ape", in any way was racist. Interesting.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 1:09PM

I think it is funny that the dumb white guy was labeled the chimp but not just because of his looks. Whites traditionally call blacks chimps when they want to feel better about themselves but you know your a dumb ass if your white and called a chimp.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:33AM

ummm last time I checked you don't spend money on dead people. Rebuilding the city does cost money though. jackass.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:22AM

And this is the big shocker. Those evil doers want to help out the uninsured and underinsured. Not in my country they won't. Everyone should have to pay an arm and a leg for health care. This makes me sick. Death to the uninsured:

"Some 45 million people across the U.S. have no health insurance, with many more lacking adequate coverage. ACORN members are working to achieve affordable health care for all. Work is currently underway to get more hospitals to institute �charity care," or free care, programs and discounts. These policies can eliminate or reduce, hospital bills for families with low-and-moderate incomes. They often suffer from being uninsured or underinsured"

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:25AM

Wrong again, dummy!

That figure is false. It includes 15 millionn illegals, who aren't entitled to shit, and >20 million people who choose not to purchase health insurance.

Way to recite the talking points, you useless drone.

Ryan| 11.3.09 @ 11:30AM

How many people does health care work FOR in America?

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:29AM

Doctor panties in a bunch. It is what it is. Keep paying for people bailing on their doctor bills knucklehead. You must have a phd in communications or special ed.

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:33AM

Can you explain your last statement?

Seriously. I'm convinced you haven't a clue about what you're discussing.

Go ahead. Educate us on the problems in the US Healthcare system.

You've been challenged, Dummy. You're being called-out. A failure to respond will reveal you to be the libutard drone we all know you are.

We're waiting....

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:38AM

I'm taking this bait like you took the bait that Sadamm had wmd's.

Healthcare is all good for the insured, for those non insured, they pay $50 bucks for one aspirin. You do the math Einstein.

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:42AM

$5o for aspirin? A generic drug available in grocery stores? That's...interesting...

Again...WHAT are you talking about? And be specific. Don't speak in simple, meaningless platitudes like...Well, like the uneducated idiot who currently lives in the White House...

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:46AM

Have you ever been to the doctor? I had to get a ct scan and some morphine and stayed overnight. THe cost was 20k without insurance, 300 bucks with. Who doesn't have insurance? People who can't afford something that costs 20k that should have cost 300. Vets give animals ct scans for $50 bucks. hmmmm. Insurance companies are padding their pocketbooks so don't blame it on illegals and etc. They make a good scapegoat for conservatives though.

Doctor Right| 11.3.09 @ 11:57AM

Nice (made-up) story.

Been to the Doctor many times. When I have insurance, I'm covered. When I don't, I pay out-of-pocket. That's life.

Hospitals know they'll never collect $20,000 from an uninsured patient. In fact, it's illegal to turn the uninsured away from hospitals and doctor's offices, but you seem blissfully unaware of this...Surprise.

And you also seem blissfully unaware of how procdures are billed. Your portion of the cost was $300; the "evil" insurance companies paid the rest.

Hate the insurance companies? Don't think they treat you fairly? Then you'll LOVE dealing with the Federal Government, dummy!

LOL!

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:06PM

THe only reason it was 20k was because the insurance companies who make record profits are being charged top dollar. So ultimately you can say the hospital is in this with the insurance companies to make maximum profits and to re cooperate the money from people who laugh at a 20k bill. And that was a true story doctor dumbass.

Ryan| 11.3.09 @ 11:58AM

Someone doesn't read the news. Insurance companies are posting VERY low profits, and have low margins.

If you want costs to drop, why not let everyone go anywhere to buy health insurance? Why foist on those of us for whom the insurance industry mostly works a solution that breaks it?

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:04PM

UnitedHealth Group had reported its earnings for the second quarter of 2009, which beat analysts’ expectations with profit of $859 million. Health Net logged a $40 million profit in the spring quarter, CIGNA’s balance sheet showed second quarter profit of $435 million.

These are just a few companies that have earned over a billion dollars in profit.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:08PM

combined they earned over a billion. I'm all for people making a buck but it is out of control just like housing crisis.

stephanie| 11.3.09 @ 3:30PM

2% in profits, I just read.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:52AM

I bet Obama could beat George Bush in a debate after being ran over by a truck. Bush was the chimpster. Mccain got poked with a stick for 4 years and was dumb enough to pick Palin as his running mate. Focus on the dunder heads on your side.

Dede| 11.3.09 @ 12:04PM

Using a teleprompter or not??? Head swiveling?

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:09PM

THey all use teleprompters. Bush probably writes his own speeches. OR else whoever does is the real dumb ass.

milo| 11.3.09 @ 11:07PM

Bill Clinton said Sadam had wmd so it must have been true.

Al Adab| 11.3.09 @ 11:34AM

Real intelligent, enlightening conversation guys. Can we get back on point please?

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:41AM

If you want intelligent conversations, you should probably vacate American Spectator.

Heidi| 11.3.09 @ 12:02PM

Yes, head back over to Dailykos....

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:11PM

What's DAilykos?

Al Adab| 11.3.09 @ 12:32PM

Me or Pig?

What did the President say about lipstick and pigs?

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:44PM

He basically said you can't turn a retard into Vice President. Mccain would have been better off running with TRig.

Texdad| 11.3.09 @ 2:55PM

Pig-boy, you say that you can't turn a "retard" into a VP. Then how do you explain Joe "The Human Gaffe Machine" Biden? That moron has ridden the short bus his whole life.

stephanie| 11.3.09 @ 3:33PM

You wish Sarah was a dummy. You libs are sooooo scared of her and the she is going to run in 2012 that you result to ugly name calling and bringing her kids into it all. Shame on you filthy dimocrats.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:40AM

what's a libutard? Is it like Larry Craig taking a wide stance in the bathroom?

stephanie| 11.3.09 @ 3:35PM

No, it's like Barney Frank's boytoy running a brothel in his townhouse and "not knowing about it".

Cervantes| 11.3.09 @ 7:02PM

Libturd:
The fecal excretion from Michael Moores anal cavity that miraculously takes a life of its own, It is suspected that the evil orginization ACORN is somehow splicing illegal immigrants into Fecal-Bots, using the H1N1 virus, climate change dvds, and brain-washing techniques learned from the their overlords J. Carter. and Bertha Lewis.

Libturds are very disgusting and extremely smelly. Scent is similar to cow dung however, also has been recalled to having a faint odor similar to 3 week old "dumpster juice" Use a mask if interaction is nessecary! Be careful of a large gathering of libturds. can be very scary as they will melt your brain due to the amount of stupidity that eminates of their bodies. Use Extreme Caution!

POSITIVE IDENT OF LIBTURDS< Can either take the form of Rahm Emanual or Dave Axlerod. Has been known to masquerade as Jeanene Garifolo Anita Dunn or Rosie O'Donnel and can be seen taking the shape and sound of John Kerry, Harry Reid, Al Franken, Nancy Pelosi, & sometimes Joe Lieberman.
Use aggresive techniques to deal with libturds in this form.
Libturds have been known to infect otherwise healthy and normal people with an insidious disease called RINOism. Deal with any person with RINOism with judicial caution and sensitivity. Infected subject may turn ridiculously stupid at any point in time! A good dose of healthy Reaganomics is advised to deal with this form of Libturd

Spiritual affiliation: See Rev. Jeremiah Wright

MPLCOA: Libturd will most likely react very haughtly and attempt tp play upon sympathetic feelings or emotions if confronted directly. Bring dictionary to hit libturds with over the head with. Always effective!
"Very Dangerous" but not too intelligent. Treat with caution but usually dealt with by some good hand sanitizer and women from Alaska. A good Blackrifle 5.56 or 7.62 will always work but is only recommended as a last resort! Contact various right wing extremist veterans groups for assistance. (AG Napolitano directive)

Libturds: Have strong financial backing in the form of a mysterious figure known only in the mainstream as "George Soros". Sources indicate this figure is a strange mysterious being who somehow has been tied to stories of defeated pigs, Homosexuals in nature movies and Tom Cruise eating peanut butter. Needs more investigation!

For more information and examples seek reliable sources such as CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and most importantly CNN. Wolf Blitzer is very knowledgible in providing dialogue with Libturds.

Suggested Course Of Action: Eliminate from public discourse at all odds with extreme prejudice. make them feel like a defeated pigs, or crushed tomatoes!

This Message will self destruct if any Libturds reply to it!

Tom| 11.3.09 @ 11:46AM

Obama is bought and paid for by Soros and doing his bidding. Good will out. 2010 is coming. Fight until then to stop legislation to kill us.

Soros is interesting. America made him rich. Now he wants to be the only rich person so he sacrifices his vehicle.

Thanks for this great article.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 11:54AM

Doctor dumb ass. Soros is a jew and that's why you don't like him. admit it.

Cervantes| 11.3.09 @ 7:11PM

What does your name mean? Defeated pigs?

Are you implying that you are a dominator of swine? or that you have BEEN dominated by swine?

Are you attempting to accuse your idealogical enemy of being porcine? Or are you saying that your enemies have characteristcs of porcine creatures?

Maybe you perhaps are sympathetic?
Maybe you have a odd fascination with swine that have been defeated?

I am curious because of the ambivilance of your name? Defeated Pigs.

I know! That is the name of your silly little alternative rock band and you are doing some self promotion? Ok, Makes sense now!

What do you play?
The Skin Flute?

Heidi| 11.3.09 @ 12:03PM

Was a jew, now he hates jews... You didn't get that talking point from DK??

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:10PM

I think he just hates god. He's still cool with jews but not the god part. He's a kind atheist.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:15PM

Can we get a moment of silence?

ARIS – The Academie Francaise says that Claude Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, has died. He was 100.

Levi-Strauss was widely regarded as having reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts concerning common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies.

During his 6-decade-long career, he authored many literary and anthropological classics, including "Tristes Tropiques" (1955), "The Savage Mind" (1963) and "The Raw and the Cooked" (1964).

The Academie Francaise said Tuesday that it plans a tribute later in the week.

It did not give the cause of death or say when Levi-Strauss had died.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:30PM

thank you

Nick| 11.3.09 @ 2:09PM

He used to make good jeans 20 years ago. I buy Wranglers now. And his tv commercials have stunk for a long time.

Texdad| 11.3.09 @ 2:58PM

Hmm, Mr. Blue Jeans introduced "new concepts concerning common patterns of behavior and thought, especially myths, in primitive and modern societies." So what your saying is he was an expert on Democraps?

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:30PM

Wendell Potter, a former vice president for corporate communications at CIGNA, returned to the Insurance City Monday to politely bite the hand that once rewarded him.

After 20 years in the business, Potter had a revelation in 2007 that he likens to a "a bolt of lightning" striking him.

That year he watched CIGNA initially deny coverage to a woman needing a liver transplant. Then, while visiting relatives, he went to a health exposition in Virginia, where he saw thousands of people, many with insurance, lining up for charity health care, waiting for treatment like cattle in a barn. He left CIGNA within a year.
Potter spent years with CIGNA, where it was his job to convince the public that insurance reform with government-sponsored health care amounted to a "government takeover."

"That's a phrase I used to write. That's a lie," Potter told me during a whirlwind visit sponsored by the health care reform group Citizens for Economic Opportunity. Instead, he said "it will give people an additional choice."

How does a man spend years at the top, who wrote the phony speeches and who dined on fine china in the corporate jet, finally realize the truth?

"You get caught up in the system for one thing, but you also have obligations to your family," Potter replied. "You want to do a good job. You want to get a salary increase. You want to get that bonus.

"I had a terrific career. What happened to me is I got to see things in a different perspective the longer I stayed in the industry. It took me a long time to understand how the insurance industry worked."

Potter said dozens of executives, including those right here in Hartford, know what is going on. His job now is to call these people out — for the sake of the country and the insurance industry.

"There are a lot of people in positions of responsibility and they know what they are doing is not in the public's good. I'd like to tell them it's possible to step out and do the right thing," he said. "You sure sleep better when you do."

Ray| 11.3.09 @ 12:31PM

"Can we get a moment of silence? "

Well, based upon the number of posts you've made here in a transparent attempt to hijack this tread, I guess the answer is NO!

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:35PM

Dude it is too late. I already got 15 minutes. A pig defeated once again.

Helen Donnelly| 11.3.09 @ 3:16PM

Dude???? Real intelligent conversation there, buddy.

Cervantes| 11.4.09 @ 1:47AM

Yes! You played its skin flute expertly! I am impressed!

Defeated pigs the monster skin flute player!
MMMM MMMM MMMMM!

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 12:46PM

Where's doctor dumb ass at? Is it nap time at the old folks home. I'm surprised he knows how to use the internet.

no to obama| 11.3.09 @ 3:38PM

You must be an employee of obama, ie. government worker. And I use the word worker loosely. You seem to be able to sit and pound out ugly things on this site that you obviously hate. Why don't you go over to the daily kos or better yet the HufPo? You'd fit right in there.
Buh Bye Troll!!!!!

shoey| 11.3.09 @ 12:56PM

more poof that our Churches are under attack from Marxist radicals.

the sad part?

some of them are more than willing to go a long.

defeated pigs| 11.3.09 @ 1:00PM

Save our churches. But not the non christian ones.

tj| 11.3.09 @ 1:47PM

defeated pigs is a 2 years old why are you people even responding to his NEGATIVE INSANITY...They are really scared today..Maybe the elections have something to do with it...seems all the trolls are out in force... keep an eye on Acorn and the now 3,000 sham absentee ballots?? They didn't have this many during the Prez Elections. One lady called in to a show this morning and said she was on an absentee ballot, wondered why since she was voting in person today.. Keep an eye on ACORN...By the way I heard Soro's was wanted in France for some ugly dealing. Can we please send him back maybe for a visit and they can arrest him like they did the child ra-ist Roman Polanski?

tj| 11.3.09 @ 1:57PM

Keep and Eye on ACORN.... Also can we find someone to make Geo Soros life miserable.. like getting him some Obamacare... picketing his house,wouldn't that be social justice... this man needs to be brought down to the level he thinks everybody else should be. Keep following the M""""""""ONEY? Federal Reserve... lets bring em down people. Keep up the fight!

Nick| 11.3.09 @ 2:14PM

I've never read a 9 page report on AS before, Mr. Lord.

Thank you for shinning the disinfecting light on this anti-free speech conspiracy.

Why didn't you mention the work of Mr. Vadum in exposing ACORN?

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Al Adab| 11.3.09 @ 2:42PM

Reports are there were over 10,000 at the Houston Tea arty event yesterday. Great work Texas. Perhaps the rest of us will wise up and follow suit.

As an honorary citizen of the Republic of Texas, I feel free (interesting choice of words) to add,"Hook 'em Horns".

stephanie| 11.3.09 @ 3:44PM

Old Tex,
We are going with hundreds and thousands on Thursday to meet with Michelle Bauchman (sp)
to walk the hall of congress and talk, face to face with these idiots who represent, (loosely said) and tell them how we feel about the 2000 page monstrosity of a "healthcare bill". I will close my business for the day to do this and my husband will do the same. I'm getting into this traveling to DC thing! We were there on 9/12 as well.

Al Adab| 11.3.09 @ 4:06PM

That was reported too, Stephanie. We will all be watching to see how it goes. One of these days they will notice what the public, the taxpayers, think. Good luck on thursday.

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This idiom is used to say that where there is conflict, people can be expected to behave in a more vicious way.
All's well that ends well
If the end result is good, then everything is good.

All-singing, all-dancing| 11.26.10 @ 9:18PM

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Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
(USA) Used in response to someone saying "almost" in a win/lose situation. The full expression is "Almost only roll forming machine counts in horseshoes and hand grenades." An alternate form puts "and flinging shit from a shovel" at the end.
Alter ego
An alter ego is a very close and intimate friend. It is a Latin phrase that literally means 'other self'.
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride
If someone is always a bridesmaid, never a bride, they never manage to fulfill their ambition- they get close, but never manage the recognition, etc, they crave.
Ambulance chaser
A lawyer who encourages people who have been in accidents or become ill to sue for compensation is an ambulance chaser.
Amen
Some use 'Amen' or 'Amen to that' as a way of agreeing with something that has just been said.
An apple a day keeps the doctor away
Eating healthy food keeps you healthy.

An old flame| 11.26.10 @ 9:21PM

An old flame is a person that somebody has had an emotional, usually passionate, relationship with, who is still looked on fondly and with affection.
An ounce roll forming of prevention is worth a pound of cure
This expression means that is is better to try to avoid problems in the first place, rather than trying to fix them once they arise.
And all that jazz
This idiom means that everything related or similar is included.
Angry as a bear
If someone is as angry as a bear, they are very angry.('Angry as a bear with a sore foot' is also used.)

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