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Poisoned Pens, Poisoned Lenses
The Establishment media’s sickness unto death.
From the establishment media, the raw and sickening hate just keeps on coming. Vicious, vile, despicable, and deranged, the media minions demonstrate their appalling lack not just of class but of basic humanity.
Such is the obvious conclusion from participating again as one of the judges in the Media Research Center’s “Best Notable Quotables of 2012,” the indispensable organization’s 25th annual awards for the year’s worst reporting and commentary.
Consider this gem, actually begrudging somebody the success of near-miraculous, life-saving surgery:
Newsweek/Daily Beast assignment editor Allison Yarrow: “Can you imagine being that organ donor? I mean, it’s such a difficult decision to say “I want to give my body to someone else after I’m dead.’”
Newsweek senior writer Ramin Setoodeh: “To Dick Cheney? I would never give my heart to Dick Cheney. It would freeze over.”
Yarrow: “I would never do it. I’d say ‘give my heart back.’ Exactly….”
Host/columnist John Avlon: “Seriously, the ill will toward Dick Cheney getting a heart transplant is stunning.”
Yarrow: “He may be one of the most evil people in the world.”
Then there was David Chalian, former political director for ABC News and then Washington Bureau Chief for Yahoo! News, caught on an open microphone talking over a picture of Ann and Mitt Romney: “They are happy to have a party with black people drowning.”
On MSNBC Live, anchor Thomas Roberts had this to say on Dec. 14, 2011 (too late for last year’s MRC contest):
Plus, what Mitt Romney has in common with the KKK. Details on a rare Romney campaign blunder ahead…. So you might not hear Mitt Romney say ‘keep America American’ anymore. That’s because it was a central theme of the KKK in the 1920s. It was a rallying cry for the group’s campaign of violence and intimidation against blacks, gays and Jews. The progressive blog Americablog was the first to catch onto that.
Former CNN correspondent Bob Franken weighed in on MSNBC a few weeks later:
These seem to be appeals to the extreme white wing of the Republican Party. That is to say that there continues to be among many conservatives a real resentment against blacks…. I think this is very intentional, it is pandering, there’s sort of a wink-wink that this base should be reminded that Barack Obama, President of the United States, is one of them, an African-American. Yes, I think this is very intentional. I think this is part of a hateful campaign that is being very methodically run in the hope it’s going to appeal to voters who would love to see us return to the good old days of Jim Crow.
Well, Franken sure has us pegged, at least partially. I bet every conservative in America does have a real resentment against at least one black — by the name of Barack Obama. But that’s okay: We resent his white half as much as his black half.
Of course we all know about MSNBC’s Touré complaining about Romney’s “niggerization” of Obama by using the word “anger” twice. Never mind that Touré’s use of that word makes us angry, twice over. I wonder if our own anger means we are secretly black?
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Quin Hillyer is a senior editor of The American Spectator and a senior fellow at the Center for Individual Freedom. Follow him on Twitter @QuinHillyer.
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Appleby| 12.4.12 @ 6:28AM
Why do you even listen to or watch these people? I quit bothering with them years ago. I have enough to worry about without getting heckled by the same people I despised in college 45 years ago.
TLP| 12.4.12 @ 1:44PM
Exactly.
And, while we're on the subject?
Is "Franken" German, or something, for Ccksckr?
Cause I'm thinking that it is.
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MelvinNC| 12.4.12 @ 7:22AM
The media is filled with vile and disgusting Bolsheviks.
C. Vernon Crisler | 12.4.12 @ 9:43AM
Too true....
Jim Adcox| 12.4.12 @ 7:48AM
The media are full of pure Bolshevik.
Nancy in NC| 12.4.12 @ 8:09AM
The irony is the right is called mean, cold and heartless. It would be funny if it weren't so ridiculous.
pogybait| 12.4.12 @ 8:12AM
Enough of this sniveling, we just won't have to worry about these people's comments anymore, as there will be a boot in every pot....for everyone
The Big E| 12.4.12 @ 8:17AM
So, how much of a leap is it, really, to go from demonizing us in this manner to rounding us up and "re-educating" us, or "eliminating" us if we resist re-education?
That's what Obama's mentor, Bill Ayers, wanted to do to us in 1960's, and history shows that if you're going to engage in mass-murder, its easier to justify if you first publicly de-humanize those you plan to kill.
This summer, I went with my daughter's girl scout troop to the Girl Scout's Singing on the Mall anniversary celebration. We spent three days in DC, and in addition to the "singing," went to several museums - including the Holocaust museum, which was having a special exhibit on Nazi propoganda of the 1930's. The girls in this troop are 12 and 13 years old, and it being an election year, were, for the first time, paying attention to politics. More than one noticed the remarkable similarity between the messages in Nazi propoganda of the 1930's and what they saw on the news day in and day out. Indeed, with some of the exhibits you could substitute the words "rich" or "wealthy" or "1%" for "Jew" and feel like you were reading a news report from the previous day.
It was terrifying.
Appleby| 12.4.12 @ 9:31AM
Time to get out your old copy of "Lord of the Flies" and do a quick review. Then reflect on the fact that in the modern world, unlike the one the author inhabited, THERE ARE NO ADULTS TO SAVE US.
TLP| 12.4.12 @ 1:45PM
Or, at least "The Beach Scene".
Jim Adcox| 12.4.12 @ 3:28PM
As Golding wrote: "It's no go." And when O'care is in full swing, it will be "Sucks to your ass-mar, Piggy!"
Pecos Pete| 12.4.12 @ 9:34AM
E: First, I'm guessing you served in the U.S. Navy on-board the USS Enterprise. A great name for a great ship. If not, you've chosen a great handle. Thank you.
Second: Listen to the early speeches of the Nazi leadership at the Nuremberg Nazi Party Rallies. It is impossible not to hear similarities to King O, Reid, Pelosi, Carney, etc.
The Big E| 12.4.12 @ 1:16PM
My handle is a long time nick-name because of my size, 6'4", currently about 340, but I'm a few pounds recently. And I served in the Army, 1/64th Armor, 3rd ID, Kitzingen Germany. I have read some of the speeches you mention, and I agree, the similarity is chilling. Also, check out Albert Speer's book on the third Reich, particularly the chapter on how Hitler used the media.
TLP| 12.4.12 @ 2:07PM
Like "Meat" in Porky's.
As far as what The Marxist Muslim might do?
His Mentor - Karl Marx - thought that Eliminating 300,000,000 might be just what was needed, to speed through his Political System.
There was an Irish Poet (whose name escapes me) who thought that Poison Gas would be a good idea, to Cull the Herds of the "Less Desirables" among us.
Abortion, to keep down the number of Negros, was Championed by the Progressive Icon - Margeret Sanger.
Lenin and Stalin liked to Starve the people, into Submission, use Gulags, and The Work Camps.
Mao and Pol Pot preferred the Reeducation Camp, and the Single Bullet to the back of the head, accompanied by the Bill for the price of the Bullet, being sent to the Victim's Family.
Hitler liked the Concentration Camps, and Poisoned Gas. While Mugabe was Partial to the Rape Gangs, and the Machete.
There are plenty of examples of Obama's Way, all over the 20th Century History Books.
It's just a matter of LEARNING FROM HISTORY.
Something we Humans, refuse to do.
And then, Everybody Dies.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.4.12 @ 8:25AM
While they claim that they want to advance fairness, so many on the Left reveal by their words and actions when challenged that they believe in a world in which discrimination is practiced, service is denied and petty vengefulness rule the day. They just wish to be in charge of who gets what, and punish those with whom they disagree, or don’t find useful in spreading their compassion.
TLP| 12.4.12 @ 2:10PM
He does want "Fairness".
And, when he "Finishes what he Started" we'll all have the same.
We'll all have NOTHING.
Joellen| 12.4.12 @ 8:54AM
Albert, "they" claim to advance fairness, but as you noted it is only in words. Just think of all the vile things they said of Governor Palin, and by the way still do. They speak vilely of anyone who poses a threat to them. You notice, those who wobble, never get trashed. I say to all those, like Palin, West, Ryan, Santorum, etc. wear the badge of honor well. You've certainly earned it - and hopefully, others will emulate you.
TLP| 12.4.12 @ 2:11PM
I'm giving you an A, for Spelling.
Well done.
Occam's Tool| 12.4.12 @ 3:53PM
I have thought journalists are vile scum since I wrote Op-ed columns for my college newspaper. I have watched them try to kill a colleague of mine and completely screw up the reporting of a major international newstory I was part of.
Appleby| 12.4.12 @ 9:34AM
"God blesses you when people mock you and persecute you and lie about you and say all sorts of evil things against you because you are my followers." Matthew 5:11.
Anthony| 12.4.12 @ 9:48AM
When we say Leftism is a mental disorder, the present day MSM are emblematic of this sickness.
The entire left-wing media are so corrupt and vile, it's no wonder our culture is disintergrating before our eyes. They are part of the pillars of corruption that have finally brought America to its knees.
Bob Costas' rant on Sunday about firearms was just another example of how truly warped these people are, and how politically distorted their thinking has become.
Blame the guns, but not the game of football that Costas is making $millions off of as the cause of this player's behavior. Discuss not this player's life style or other behavorial problems.
If guns cause us all to become lethal, as this clown cited by Costas has opined, how is it that millions of us who have owned firearms for decades have managed not to go on killing sprees? How is it this player thanked his coach, rather than shooting him before taking his own life?
If the logic of Costas and crowd is carried to its logical conclusion America should be experiencing 10,000 murders every week.
This is the same MSM that wreaks havoc with AGW. Facts and logic are irrelevant, the science is settled. And America is cooked.
Louis Jenkins| 12.4.12 @ 10:16AM
Costas finally went on a freak, expressing his opinion on guns, that all owners are indeed nuts, and the 2nd Amendment shoud be (in Costas's underlying message) be done away with. I turned the tv off when he began his rave. Why it was on I don't know, but no game is worth watching when you have a sports commentator delving into politics, and bad politics at that. I have had guns fired at me. Do I blame the gun(s)? No, I go beyond the gun game and blame the person, their political persuation, and who used it.
Is my body willed to organ donation? No. I will keep and die with my organs. So what if Romney has a watch for a heart, at least he is on time for his meetings. The liberals will keep an appointment waiting and will always be fashionably late.
Advancing fairness? There's nothing fair in their words. They are quick with their tongues, but will be found wanting with their actions, unless it's mandating the action of others.
Bill8472| 12.4.12 @ 11:22AM
I get a kick out of the most mouthy liberals talking about how the right intends to do harm to people.
No doubt they'll say nothing about harm when the Obama admininstration's willingness to allow us to go into sequestration, with the result that nearly all taxpayers will see an increase of at least 5% in their income taxes beginning in 2013. That's OK, though, because Obama means well.
But what about him talking about keeping taxes from increasing on the middle class? Don't befog the matter with details, please.
TLP| 12.4.12 @ 2:14PM
It's called: Projection.
Think: Bill Clinton, who, after being CAUGHT taking Illegal Campaign Contributions from the Chinese Red Army, went out and CHAMPIONED Campaign Finance Control.
Who Knows?| 12.4.12 @ 11:46AM
Why, only last night I was looking forward to seeing a movie about the Clinton years, “The Hunting of the President”, thinking it was to be a sort of “2016”-like expose. And, what do you know? As soon as I saw it was from a book by Joe Conason, I almost turned it off, because I knew it would be full of lies.
But, I stayed the course, and endured the pain of seeing most of the bad old suspects, AGAIN, like David Brock, Carville, Begula, on down the line. I psyched myself into pretending it was a comedy, and really got into reliving my own time spent following the Whitewater-and-on national soap opera.
What a trip! What a bevy of con artists!
If I imagine myself in 1959, just hanging out with my parents, and tell them that by 1992 we’d have all things Clinton and in 2012 all things Obama, they’d have said that we would be over, as a free country. That is, they’d have to say that by 1992 America would be PAST the tipping point.
Well, here we are, almost into 2013—is we make it past December 21st, 2012---and I’d say we should start looking ahead for what comes AFTER the tipping.
First, you tip OVER, and start rolling down, down, down---
My recommendation---watch the cult classic movie, “The Vanishing Point”.
THAT’S my point!
A whole lot of vanishing is ALREADY going on. That’s the key conclusion I make when I combine all the words from Quin AND the implication of the Conason flick.
Adios, America.
Who Knows?| 12.4.12 @ 11:47AM
Oh, yes, what made the Conason movie a comedy was seeing Carville, Begula, et al complaining that the MSM was out to get Clinton!
2Anglico| 12.4.12 @ 12:03PM
Did the film show Hillary claiming on TV that the stain on Monica's dress was all a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy? Look into the future, she is the donkey front runner for 2016!
Bill8472| 12.4.12 @ 11:57AM
"Vanishing Point," good flick. They copied it when they made "Dirty Mary and Crazy Larry." Who played the driver in "Vanishing Point?" Barry something, I think.
Speaking of bevies of con men, I had to turn off "Fox News Sunday" this past Sunday when they had Timothy Geithner on. He lied and ducked and weaved so much it actually turned my stomach. A short while later I turned it back on. They had Boehner on by that time, and he did some bobbing and weaving too, but he was marginally better than Geithner.
Bill8472| 12.4.12 @ 11:58AM
Barry Newman. Great lost stars from the past.
TLP| 12.4.12 @ 2:17PM
Ya know, we have a Contest every Friday for just the kinds of things that you just wrote.
Contest, Friday.
Look for The Clues.
Tom Kyba| 12.4.12 @ 11:53AM
There is also the sickness of liberalism's need to feel young and cool at all times. Witness the little brat in the picture. Has this twerp even reached puberty? And spoiled silly no-nothings like this are on tv expounding their philosophies to the public? Children(or very young adults) should be seen and not heard until they have some life experience to call on. Absolutely moronic.
Bill8472| 12.4.12 @ 12:16PM
Read Thomas Sowell's "A Conflict of Visions," in which he points out that people who have a "unconstrained" vision of human nature believe that children are best equipped to tell society how to behave itself, since they are not weighted down by the fetters of experience. I see the worship of youth all the time; it's very dismaying. Once you hit 30 or so, what's left to life if experience isn't respected? Might as well commit suicide, nothing's left. If we worship youth, aren't we doomed to keep on doing the same things over and over again?
Seek| 12.4.12 @ 12:02PM
Regarding one of the quoted individuals who spoke of the need to "keep America American" -- Why should Quin Hillyer find such a statement to be any more controversial than, say, "keep France French" or "keep Poland Polish?" A nation should have, and fight to retain, characteristics that are unique to it. The fact that the Klan coined the phrase doesn't detract from its essential soundness. And I'm anything but a "Leftist."
Quin Hillyer| 12.4.12 @ 4:34PM
You missed the point. I was citing a lefty who claimed that for ROMNEY to say "keep America American" was akin to Romney being a Klansman. There is NOTHING wrong with saying that phrase at all, even IF the Klan said it 90 years ago (which almost nobody remembers anyway). If the Devil once said "I love America" that wouldn't keep me from saying "I love America." Bad people can't steal good phrases and sentiments from good people just because the bad people once said them.
Albert Constantine Jr.| 12.4.12 @ 12:29PM
"Why should Quin Hillyer find such a statement to be any more controversial than, say, 'keep France French' or 'keep Poland Polish?' "
Among the problems those countries experienced in the recent past was how not to keep themselves German (and in the latter case, Russian).
Of course, France is experiencing the demographic change now, and those of European ancestry who did not wish to spawn progeny in order to have more money (their own and their taxpayers') to spend on themselves, and are now finding themselves outreproduced by those of muslim North African heritage (and spending what is left of their money on them).
TLP| 12.4.12 @ 2:25PM
Let's face it. He's not the Sharpest Knife in the Drawer.
Just look at his Makeup.
That Lipstick isn't even close to going with his Mascara.
Oldefarte| 12.4.12 @ 1:12PM
The problem is not so much that these domestic terrorists verbalize or write this trash, but rather that the dumbazzes of this nation read and listen to same. That is why 11/6/12 and 11/4/08 occurred, because we are a nation of STUPIDS!!!!
TLP| 12.4.12 @ 2:26PM
We missed you on Friday, ya Oldefarte,
Oldefarte| 12.4.12 @ 8:02PM
We had a recent death in the family and I've had the flu bug crawl up my FART-machine [and am spending considerable time on the THRONE these days]. I'll try and catch the next go round of the "flying horses" [Cresent City-ese for Merry-Go-round]!!!!!
spike59| 12.5.12 @ 6:15AM
my condolences, and wishes for a speedy recovery
Hardcard| 12.4.12 @ 3:55PM
The Irish poet was George Bernard Shaw, atheist and uber socialist, just like our moslem leader and chief. Another win !!!
TLP| 12.4.12 @ 4:33PM
Another Win, indeed.
Thanks, Hardcard.
Ralph Novy| 12.4.12 @ 11:51PM
What utter lack of self-awareness.
Here's what a truthful version of the first paragraph might like look like:
"From The American Spectator, the raw and sickening hate just keeps on coming. Vicious, vile, despicable and deranged, the Spectator, its smug stable of contributors and legions of rabid commenters demonstrate their appalling lack not just of class but of basic humanity."
spike59| 12.5.12 @ 5:39AM
"From The Huffington Post (or Daily Kos, take yer pick), the raw and sickening hate just keeps on coming. Vicious, vile, despicable and deranged, the PuffHo, its smug stable of contributors and legions of rabid commenters demonstrate their appalling lack not just of class but of basic humanity."
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there, fixed it for ya, ralphiepurp
seriously, if you DESPISE AmSpec as much as you seem to, might i suggest you take your sophomoric 'wit' and Progtard 'insight' to one of the above-mentioned sites and leave us adults out of the way of your drool-spewing? they ADORE ignorant fecal nuggets over there
Oldefarte| 12.5.12 @ 11:07AM
Ditto that, but these liberal morons just cannot help themselves from demonstration of their destructive agendas on sites such as this. They're nothing, worthless, imbicilic, stupid, immoral and vile. Beyond that, they mostly have two arms, two legs, eyes, ears, a tongue etc [but no soul] like the rest of us no doubt. Oh they will decend into/through the firery gates of hades upon their demise also!!!!!
Oldefarte| 12.5.12 @ 11:10AM
PS: Forgot to mention the probably known fact that they are paid [by the USJD no doubt] bloggers to infiltrate sites such as this and to facilitate their destructive agendas [much like MAYHEM of the recent Allstate Insurance TV commercials]. It's known as Cloward & Pivenism or maybe Rules For Radicals, and it's practiced by most Chicago community organizers past and present!!!!!!!!
Oldefarte| 12.5.12 @ 11:13AM
RN: Again, if you desire "self awareness", please gaze down upon the contents of your toilet bowl upon exiting same, okay???????
Ralph Novy| 12.5.12 @ 3:14PM
Spike and Oldefarte:
Thanks.
You splendidly proved my point.