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The Spectacle Blog
So here they come. Again.
Yawn.
The Left Wing Media Machinus Maximus once more trundles the old rusty guns into place and starts firing…sort of. These old cannons date back to at least the late 1940s. Let’s run the list.
1948: Congressman Richard Nixon becomes famous as the man who helped Time magazine editor Whittaker Chambers reveal Alger Hiss, a Harvard Law grad and ex-aide to FDR and Truman, was in fact a Soviet spy. The accusation turns out to be true and Hiss goes to jail.
RESPONSE: Media smears both Nixon and Chambers. Nixon, nominated for VP on Eisenhower’s ticket in 1952, is accused of unethical behavior in a “scandal” that involves a fund in which wealthy supporters pay for travel expenses. Nixon is forced to defend himself on television. Opponent Adlai Stevenson has same kind of fund, media doesn’t care.
1951: William F. Buckley, Jr.’s first book, God and Man at Yale, is published.
RESPONSE: Among a list of of charges, Buckley is accused of being a Nazi, a Fascist, a Stalinist and…oh yes…simply obnoxious.
1964: Barry Goldwater is nominated for president by the GOP, beginning of the modern conservative movement success in presidential politics.
RESPONSE: Goldwater is accused of wanting to drop nuclear weapons on Vietnam, racism, mental instability, in need of a psychiatrist, supporting violence, and being a Nazi sympathizer.
1966: Ronald Reagan runs for Governor of California.
RESPONSE: Reagan is accused of being an extremist, a nut, a member of the John Birch Society, an idiot, stupid, dumb a Fascist and a racist.
1988: Dan Quayle is nominated for vice president by the GOP.
RESPONSE: Quayle is accused of being not very bright, dumb, an air-head, a fool, a draft-dodger.
2000: George W. Bush is nominated for president to run against Al Gore.
RESPONSE: Bush is accused of being dumb, stupid, a hopeless drunk, a fascist, a fundamentalist Christian extremist.
2004: Dick Cheney is re-nominated for vice-president.
RESPONSE: Cheney is accused of being a right-wing fanatic who wants to blow up the world, evil, a habitual liar, a Fascist, a Nazi and a racist.
2008: Sarah Palin is nominated for vice president.
RESPONSE: Palin is accused of being dumb, stupid, a right-wing crazy, and idiot and a fool.
2010: Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Joe Miller, and now Christine O’Donnell are all nominated in upsets of conservatives over the GOP Establishment.
RESPONSE: All are accused of being wackos, idiots, extremists, dumb, crazy and more.
Today, the New York Times runs a hit piece on Christine O’Donnell painting her as a “perennial protest candidate” and “provocateur,” and slams her for not catering to the national media (hmmm.) Newsweek discusses her “notoriety.”
This after a campaign in which Ms. O’Donnell has been pictured as…you guessed it…a nut, a slut, an idiot, dumb, a witch, a fool, crazy as a bedbug etc.
And…oh yes… Bill Maher openly tries to blackmail O’Donnell with a threat to run old clips from a failed TV show unless she does what he wants — come on his show.
Does anyone notice something peculiar here?
When did this kind of thing begin?
That’s right — the late 1940s. Just as the Cold War began with what proved to be a fifty-year-plus death struggle between the Communist Soviet Union and the United States. And what has been the compelling issue in American political life from that time to this very day?
Let’s let William F. Buckley sum it up: “I believe that the duel between Christianity and atheism is the most important in the world. I further believe that the struggle between individualism and collectivism is the same struggle reproduced on another level.”
Today the collectivist media crowd swipes yet again. From Nixon to Chambers to Buckley, Goldwater, Reagan, Quayle, Bush. Palin and today’s O’Donnell, Angle, Miller, Paul, Lee and Rubio — and conservative media from Fox News to talk radio — the song is always the same. Only the verse is different.
And the opponents? The liberal in-crowd? The liberal media Double-Standard is always, always in play. From Alger Hiss to Chris Coons they have gotten press that makes them everything from demi-Gods to just swell happy-go-lucky Joe averages. The Times presents Coons today as “happy to tick off events” he’s attended, just a determined hard-worker busily engaged in “retail politics.” And so forth. Nary a word about Coons stonewalling on controversial Yale Divinity School courses from which he says he draws his values that he will take to Washington. Zero on Coons bringing his social justice theories to New Castle, Delaware public policy. Less than zero on his devotion to liberation theology. Nothing. Nada. Zip.
Everybody gets the game. And the game is over.
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Tim*| 9.30.10 @ 1:51PM
We Are In A Media War with The Liberal Mainstream Media .
Coons Is A Serial Taxer .
Jeffrey Lord , "........ after promising in his 2004 election campaign that he wouldn't raise taxes Coons raised property taxes by 5% in 2006, then again by 17.5% in 2007, and again by 25% in 2009. Coons has proposed to raise hotel taxes, paramedic taxes, and, in a hilariously stereotypical move reported by the Washington Examiner's Byron York -- even taxes on 911 calls!"
Delawareans Want Jobs , Not Taxes .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .
We Remember On November 2nd .
JanelleA| 9.30.10 @ 3:01PM
Next on the congressional table is to treat employer health plans as taxable income. Will congress exempt themselves again? Of course. Vote the majority in and out on a regular basis.
SIRJASON | 9.30.10 @ 4:36PM
Right on, Tim! This is all Christine O'Donnell needs in a permanent VIDEO AD:
Coons Is A Serial Taxer. Coons Is A Serial Taxer .
Jeffrey Lord , "........ after promising in his 2004 election campaign that he wouldn't raise taxes Coons raised property taxes by 5% in 2006, then again by 17.5% in 2007, and again by 25% in 2009. Coons has proposed to raise hotel taxes, paramedic taxes, and, in a hilariously stereotypical move reported by the Washington Examiner's Byron York -- even taxes on 911 calls!"
SoCon| 9.30.10 @ 1:55PM
Now, if we can just get Ruling Class Republicans to stop eviscerating Republican Conservatives, we'll be in good shape!
sre| 9.30.10 @ 2:16PM
I didn't (and won't) read the article, but if it did paint her " as a 'perennial protest candidate' and 'provocateur,' and slams her for not catering to the national media," I don't know that's such a bad thing in the current environment.
I do agree it would be nice if the "bearded Marxist" self-description got a bit more play, however. That omission really shows the bias.
MikeN| 9.30.10 @ 2:39PM
YOu forgot Quayle's drug use
Jeremiah| 9.30.10 @ 3:09PM
We haven't forgotten that Obama was a crackhead--have you?
Nate| 9.30.10 @ 3:33PM
Jer --
Stop and think. Ask yourself, "Am I a stupid cunt?"
When you figure out the answer to that question, you will have taken one step toward acquiring the strength to be a man.
Jeremiah| 9.30.10 @ 3:59PM
Nice language, useless ahole. Obama admitted he was a cokehead in his youth, why try to deny it?
All the magic mushrooms in the world won't change the facts, boy.
Nate| 9.30.10 @ 4:17PM
Hey cunt.
W used cocaine; Obama used cocaine. This happened in both instances DECADES ago. To say Obama is a crackhead is a stupid thing to say even for a stupid cunt like you. Be a man, Jeremiah. Face the TRUTH and stop whining like a bitch.
Jeremiah| 9.30.10 @ 4:36PM
Go stick your stupid head back up your ass where it belongs, dumbtard.
Obama was a crack-ho and you know it. Grow some stones, loser, and deal with it.
Warrior | 9.30.10 @ 5:09PM
Hey Nate you putz. In his memoirs, he stated the only reason he did not try heroine was because he didn't like the dealer who was trying to sell it. I guess "just say no" wasn't in his venacular. He admitted to cocaine use. What exactly is crack? So now we can have tools like you argue how much better it was that he only used cocaine and marijuana and would have used heroine if he had a better feeling for the pusher. Of course, you can now tell me, at least he didn't ADMIT to using crack. You can't be this stupid.
Jeremiah| 9.30.10 @ 5:19PM
Nate's not stupid, he's just a total whore for the Crack-ho-in-Chief.
He wore out his Obama knee-pads a long time ago.
Tim*| 9.30.10 @ 3:25PM
Apparently , NYTimes Pinch Sultzberger & Bill Maher Liberal Agenda Boys got ongoing problems with Conservative Women like Sarah Palin & Christine O'Donnell & Condi Rice .
The Tea Party Rebellion Escalates .
Rise Up !
Nate| 9.30.10 @ 3:31PM
Mr Lord,
Why do you think O'Donnell lied about attending Oxford University?
We all know that conservatives have contempt for prestigious universities.
Why didn't she -- for example -- lie about being a Phoenix grad instead?
Jeremiah| 9.30.10 @ 3:51PM
Prove O'Donnell lied, Liar.
Oldefarte| 9.30.10 @ 4:21PM
Everyone here should read BIAS and ARROGANCE by Bernard Goldberg, whose CBS career provided witnessed proof of the war-tacticed newroom mechanisms to propagandize and slant liberally the news. Everyone at CBS kissed Rahter's backside; and eventually he was exposed [by the Fabricated Bush report that he pushed] for the charletan that he was [and was fired by CBS]. Also, Goldberg reports that all major news stories of the liberal MSM are initiated from the writers at the NYT. Everyone should realize that what they daily see/hear/read from their local newspapaers and TV is liberally slanted [and sometimes fabricated]!!!!!!!!!!
Tim*| 9.30.10 @ 4:40PM
Christine O'Donnell's Campaign Message :
" LESS GOVERNMENT , LESS TAXES FOR DELAWAREANS "
Jeffrey Lord| 9.30.10 @ 5:51PM
Tim...
Exactly. Focus, focus, focus.
Tim*| 9.30.10 @ 6:05PM
Thank You For Your Yeoman Duty Jeffrey Lord .
Handy| 9.30.10 @ 7:11PM
I am so sick of William FBuckly(Lili Tomlin) worship, and that idiot Chambers.
I read "Witness," and I found no transformation from Chamber's ideology of communism. Rather, I thought he sold out his old pals for dental care.
As far as WFB goes, well he is to clever by half. He knew that there are no arguments that can be made on faith, so those were the ones he advanced.
Both of these pukes denigrated our way of life; our Constitutional way of life.
albert constantine jr.| 9.30.10 @ 10:32PM
Actually, Coons does have a record of less government. While raising property taxes, he cut the actual services that county government provides (e.g. try going to the Brandywine Library some Thursday). While making government more expensive and intrusive, it did less, I expect that that's a formula that he can take to the US Senate (higher income taxes, less border enforcement, more money for the USDOJ to sue Arizona for doing the job that the Obama DHS won't do).
Jeffrey Schrembs | 10.1.10 @ 7:10PM
excellent article!
J.T.| 10.4.10 @ 10:11AM
I remember when O'Donnell drove her car off a bridge with her lover inside and left him to die, no wait that was Ted Kennedy. But I do remember when she ran a homosexual prostitution ring from her apartment in DC, gosh darn that was Barney Frank. Well I most certainly do remember when she threw her Vietnam medals over the White HOuse wall after lying in front of the cameras about war atrocities, shoot wasn't that John Kerry. Oh I know, she was accused of sexual harassment by a massuse in a fancy hotel in Washington state somewhere, right? Or was that Al Gore? But she did harass a new political volunteer after his wife died and she comforted him and hugged him and then groped him and demanded he provide sex or he would be fired, or was that Bill Clinton.
But O'donnell is a kook, right?