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Category: Liberals suck

  • Felonious Mike Dickinson

    So there’s this typical (by Nick Searcy’s standards) fat and bald liberal running for Congress by the name of Mike Dickinson and being typical, fat, bald and liberal, he hates the Tea Party. He sent out this Tweet yesterday;

    Dickinson for Congress photo

    His intention of course is to intimidate people, so he asks for someone to run the plate that is blacked out on the truck so he can begin his random intimidation of a person with the history of the US flag on his tailgate, because, you know, that’s dangerous information.

    So later, he claims that he got a cop to run the plate number for him;

    One of our readers, caught the Tweet and informed the Virginia DMV about it. Here’s their response;

    You can see DICKinson’s intent to harass and threaten folks who are on the other end of the political spectrum from him at Twitchy.

    I thought the Liberals were supposed to be the Guardians of Free Speech and Free Thought. But here’s this one who, on his website says “Mike believes Congress needs to get back to finding solutions to our nation’s problems rather than being stuck in a loop of partisan bickering….” Yet, here he is using intimidation and stalking techniques to silence free speech.

    Yeah, Virginia, you need to run away from this guy. If he gets a modicum of power, he’s going to run right over you.

  • If You Still Wondered Whether the NYT Actually Reports News . . .

    . . . I think you can stop wondering.

    Remember Cliven Bundy – that dipstick in Nevada who got local militias to side with him after he refused to pay his legally-obligated grazing fees for 20 years and was being kicked off his Federal leased land?   The media – specifically, the NYT – dragged up some quotes from an interview with Bundy that made him look damn near like a KKK Kleagle.

    Well, I’m shocked, shocked.  Seems like what Bundy said was actually very selectively quoted.  Large portions of the interview were omitted.

    The complete pertinent portion of the interview transcript is quoted here.  It tells a very different story.  Bundy’s actual remarks clearly indicate he’s not a blatant racist – and that he neither advocates nor wants to return to the “bad old days” of institutional racism.

    In short, the NYT spun the hell out of the story to make Bundy appear to be a blatant racist. In reality, he doesn’t appear to be a racist at all.

    Look, I think Bundy is a fool; IMO, he’s just trying to take something to which he no longer has any legal right.  He’s also IMO conned a huge number of other fools into buying his BS and supporting him.  He doesn’t deserve support; he needs to pay what he owes and comply with the law – whether he agrees with it or not.

    And he certainly could have phrased his comments in that interview better.  Some of the language is today offensive.

    But the full text hardly shows what the NYT claims.  The man is 67 years old, is naïve, and didn’t realize the mainstream media’s inherent bias and agenda.  He assumed that the person to whom he was talking could be trusted, so he spoke honestly using plain language.  The NYT took full advantage of that to make him look like a racist bastard virtually advocating a return to the “bad old days” via selective quotation, omission, and innuendo. The full transcript clearly shows that’s not the case.

    In short:  the NYT used a grain of truth and a ton of spin to send a message very different from reality.  In effect, they lied in the most effective way possible:  by selectively using tiny bits of the truth taken out of context to send an overall message that is false.

    I think we all know precisely why the NYT did this.  I won’t bother to restate the obvious.

    Significantly, most of the rest of the media bought the NYT’s lie – hook, line, and sinker.  Fact check, anyone?

    Sheesh.  Maybe the NYT should change their masthead motto from “All the news that’s fit to print” to “All the spin that helps our cause.”  Afterwards, at least that much of what they print would be true.

    They won’t, of course.   But IMO they damn well should.

  • One More Tone-Deaf Dem Who Needs Dumping

    There’s a handful of incumbent Democrat senators facing some very tight races this coming November. Keeping them in the national news is the political tap-dancing they are being required to perform to put distance between themselves and their increasingly unpopular president, who is leading their party determinedly and destructively left. These senators are particularly vulnerable for their support of Obamacare which they all irresponsibly voted for without having a clue as to what they were inflicting on their constituents. Facing tough re-election contests, you’d think they might attune their political sensitivities to the decidedly dyspeptic mood of their constituents. Well, not so much with our tone deaf Democrat senator here in Arkansas, Mark Pryor.

    I recently received an email from Pryor’s Republican opponent, Congressman Tom Cotton, informing me that Pryor had recently been a guest of honor at a $10,400 per plate fundraiser in Hollywood. I admit to being a Cotton supporter ( he served in the same regiment, the 506th Infantry of the 101st Airborne that I once did) but even so, I thought to myself this had to be political hyperbole. I simply could not believe that Pryor could be so politically dense as to hand his opponent such a risky advantage in such a tough fight. So I went on line and sure enough, there was ol’ Mark, supping with socialist swells (don’t expect to find any mention in the Democrat media) out there on the Left Coast, at a dinner sponsored by Alan Horn, Chairman of Walt Disney Studios, a noted lefty fundraiser, gathering in boodles of ultra-lib California cash to bring back to Arkansas to spend pounding on a down-home, good ole boy, Army war veteran.

    Folks, this is Arkansas, a place where the term carpet bagging still leaves a bad taste in the mouth; and while there is still a solid contingent of the Old South Democrat party here, it is not even close to being in tune with those Chablis-sipping, Left Coast, limousine-liberal Democrats underwriting Pryor’s campaign. Most folks here in this graceful, thriving example of the Old South, embrace the reality (and what we consider an absolute blessing) that we are in flyover country. Down here, California, particularly Hollywood, is perceived as poorly here as all those Yankee blue enclaves up north, like Sheecago, Deetroit and Noo Yawk City. Pryor may be home-grown and from an old Democrat dynasty, but injecting flaming, decadent, Hollywood liberals and their ill-gained wealth into this Arkansas campaign is begging for the response that Cotton’s campaign is more than happy to hand him.

    Right now there must be a whole bunch of Arkansas Democrat movers and shakers out there shaking their heads and wondering just what the hell that boy thought he was doing going out there for crying out loud. My first thought in that regard was: Desperation. As for the ever expanding Republican Party in Arkansas, they’ve just been handed proof positive and endlessly reproducible that their main line of attack is rock-solid: Mark Pryor has become a liberal, elitist, bi-coastal, socialist, more attuned to the politically correct and lib-looney interests on both coasts than those of the down home folks here in Arkansas. The Natural State just went through its coldest winter in years, but I’d bet big bucks Mark Pryor is in lock step with the hysterical, Chicken Little, global warming policies of his party. Know that saying that, “You can take the boy out of the country but you can’t take the country out of the boy?”

    Mark Pryor, one more tone deaf Democrat is living proof that you can do that indeed.

    An edited version is crossposted at American Thinker.

  • CBS News correspondent leaves

    Sharyl Attkisson left her job as a CBS News correspondent the other day, apparently because the news agency wouldn’t run her articles which were critical of the Obama presidency. According to our buddy Eric Wemple, a media critic at the Washington Post;

    Rumors of Attkisson’s stormy relations with her superiors at CBS News have made the rounds for months and months. In conversations from last year, CBS News sources told the Erik Wemple Blog that Attkisson, who came to the network from CNN two decades ago, was frustrated that more of her reporting on Benghazi and other investigative pieces didn’t make “The CBS Evening News” with greater frequency.

    Attkisson herself didn’t help matters when she said on a Philadelphia radio show last May that her computers had been hacked, and she even went so far as to suggest that the intrusions could have had something to do with her work investigating the government. CBS News later confirmed breaches of her computer, though it never disclosed who had been responsible for them.

    I suppose that being a reporter for a news organization who won’t run your work is like being a plumber who no one allows to fix the plumbing. CBS did put her product on their webpages, but it hardly ever made it to Americans’ television screens. But CBS news never makes it to my TV screen anyway.

    In the comments, Washington Post readers are glad that she left because Koch Brothers, Faux News, etc… I suppose that they’re unaware that the things they believe are wrong because they can’t stomach criticism of “their guy”, that no real information will penetrate their tiny, closed minds. They’re feelings are more important than facts.

  • American Humanist Association; the easily shocked

    cross - offensive

    Fox News reports that the American Humanist Association is urging government leaders to remove a World War One memorial from a park in Prince George’s County in Maryland because the memorial is in the shape of a cross. The memorial has been there since 1925.

    Steven Lowe, a plaintiff from Washington, said was “shocked” when he first saw the cross and is “upset” whenever he passes it, according to the complaint obtained by the newspaper.

    “He believes that the Bladensburg Cross associates a Christian religious symbol with the state and gives the impression that the state supports and approves of Christianity, as opposed to other religions, and that the state may even prefer Christians and Christianity over other religions,” the complaint reads.

    What a grown up – he’s shocked and upset by the sight of a memorial. I’m shocked and upset that people like this are able to live among us without being publicly shamed. I’m not a religious person, it’s been a decade or so since I’ve been in a church, yet seeing a cross in public space doesn’t compel me to attend a Christian gathering, or make me change my mind about religion or religious institutions. Lowe must be a fairly weak person if he’s so ashamed of his own life choices. If he’s so upset, maybe he could try not passing the memorial.

    Next thing you know, these weak-minded busy-bodies will have us removing the tens of thousands of crosses on graves of US troops around the world, since those cemeteries are technically US government property, too.

    For a bunch of people so worried about people’s rights, they sure like to trample on our heritage while ignoring our rights.

  • Those American Olympians and their “Alternative Lifestyles” . . . .

    David Wise’s alternative lifestyle leads to Olympic gold

    The story is from NBC’s coverage of the Olympics.  And yeah – that’s the title they actually used for the article.

    Want to know what NBC apparently considers an “alternative lifestyle”?   Well, let’s see:

    • Being married and a good father at age 23;
    • Spending quality time with his family vice constant partying with friends;
    • Attending church regularly; and
    • Having thoughts about becoming a Pastor one day in the future.

    Sheesh.  “Alternative lifestyle” my azz.  Sounds more to me like what’s generally called a “fine young man”.

    But remember:  the mainstream media isn’t biased or pushing an agenda.  No, not at all.

  • Colorado Democrats stand firm on magazine ban

    According to the Washington Times, Colorado Republicans gave their majority party Democrat colleagues the opportunity to save their jobs in the next election by introducing a bill to walk back the bill that banned normal capacity magazines in the State. Democrats didn’t care that they had cost the State about 800 private sector jobs by forcing magazine manufacturer Magpul to leave the state.

    “I understand the folks that voted for [the magazine limit] may not like Magpul or what it stands for or its products; however, I do ask that you consider the folks that are losing their jobs as a result of last year’s bill,” said Republican state Rep. Lori Saine.

    Republicans knew going into the hearing that they didn’t have the votes, and ultimately they failed to persuade any of the panel’s Democrats to break ranks.

    “I know this is not going to end all the gun violence, but we have to start somewhere,” said Democratic state Rep. Jeanne Labuda. “If we’re the ninth state or the tenth state to do this, it might take a while, but maybe in another 10 years, all 50 states will have some kind of magazine limit, and that’s when the true results will be seen.”

    “Maybe”. 800 people didn’t “maybe” lose their jobs, but Democrats, as usual, are banking on a “maybe” to save their own jobs. Just like their “maybe” excuse for allowing fuel prices to rise so “maybe” we’ll find an alternate energy source. Just like their Obamacare “maybes” and their global warming maybes and all of the other maybes that they use as their political platforms.

    Meanwhile, with no maybes, thousands of Coloradans were made criminals overnight with the passage of new draconian gun laws. Maybe they shouldn’t have those jobs. Maybe voters should tell them so at the polls. Maybe the world would be a better place with no Democrats at all.

  • Legacy NY Governor; Conservatives not welcomed

    The legacy governor, Andrew Cuomo, whose father destroyed a thriving economy in the state a few decades ago, told conservatives that they’re not welcomed in the state these days, according to the Washington Times. Apparently, according to the far-left governor, only RINOs need to stay;

    “It’s more about extreme Republicans versus moderate Republicans,” he said in a radio interview Friday, National Review Online reported. “You’re seeing that play out in New York. … The Republican Party candidates are running against the SAFE Act — it was voted for by moderate Republicans who run the Senate.

    “Their problem is not me and the Democrats; their problem is themselves. Who are they? Are they these extreme conservatives who are right-to-life, pro-assault-weapon, anti-gay? Is that who they are? Because if that’s who they are and they’re the extreme conservatives, they have no place in the state of New York, because that’s not who New Yorkers are.”

    “If they’re moderate Republicans like in the Senate right now, who control the Senate — moderate Republicans have a place in their state,” he continued.

    Well, that’s why I left 15 years ago when Little Chucky Schumer beat Al D’Amato and there was talk that Hillary Clinton would run. I didn’t want to live among the morons who would elect her. Cuomo is mad because of the backlash from his dead-of-the-night passage of the SAFE Act from the western counties, but he should learn to lie in the bed he made. Of course, New Yorkers will reelect him, that’s why I don’t entertain any thoughts of moving back there.

    But, you know, so much for the politics of big tents and bi-partisanship.