There are many more similarities in policy; broadband, greening homes, education, unions, healthcare, etc. And all of them have dubious cost benefit and incredible waste and fraud. I would like to know who from the Apollo Alliance is so in with the Aussies. Plus, if we look to the past, Gillard was a member of a socialist party as well as Obama in his early Chicago daze. But the most striking story of the whole election is how the 2 independents went against the will of their constituents (Liberal = conservative) and chose to form a government with Gillard (Labor = progressives). Their campaign rhetoric all but ignored for a promise of 3 years in office and one gets a cabinet out of it. Classic RINOs. Voter beware.

Ms. Ali speaks of the true "Big Tent" that Conservatives should be seeking; those immigrants or around the world who want to and find meaning in individual liberty and free markets. Her honesty is painful.

And while I'm thinking of Celtic and media uniformity, let me take this opportunity with more than 140 characters to suggest Ms. Shaidle that your new blog focus on the One World Government assault on Celtics. Please don't get me twisted as I don't mean to imply or think that Celtic heritage is superior in any way. However, I do find it newsworthy that Cash For Clunkers started in the U.K., then America, and now is proposed for Australia. There are other examples, with not so familiar names in minutia, when one looks into the policies of the Obama administration; broadband, school building, internet, etc. It is as if the Apollo Alliance is writing legislation for the keepers of Western civilization around the world -- to bring them down, naturally. Indeed, with that Obama self-professed Mao lover, Anita Dunn, in PM Cameron's government, one hardly doubts it.

I, for one, would find it illuminating to read a collection of the policies and regulations that are being passed off as novel around the world that are indeed manufactured Marxist government. Just a mind mapping thought.

Which brings me to another recent Daily Mail Femail hit piece on Southerners: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1289793/Dont-mention-mockingbird-Meet-Harper-Lee-reclusive-novelist-wrote-classic-novel-mesmerised-40-million-readers.html

Of course, my comment below was not published:

This article betrays not just the disdain felt by a member of the self-anointed elite for what was once called the “lower classes”, it also betrays the fact that Sharon Churcher doesn't live in America. Consider the staleness of her stereotypes. You want to incorporate everything but the last 40 years of equal justice history but there is no intellectual basis for that reasoning doesn't involve an African-American in the White House who won the Southern vote.

You identify a contemporary of Ms. Lee's using the word "coloured" and take it as prejudice, however, for those in their 80s that was the p.c. term. Or was it that the man called his maids "wonderful" for it could not be that he employed 2 people who would otherwise be out of a job in these hard economic times? Or is your class envy showing from the term "mansion"?

With all of the Diane Abbott exposure on West Indian moms vs. other, what gives you authority to use in quotes "segregation academies"? You sound another champion of public school for thee but not for me.

Ms. Lee built a narrative for her life that helped her cope in the world. How difficult it must be to be celebrated as if you hate those people and places you love. Again and again.

P.S. Regarding Ms. Abbott: "You didn’t want your son to go to a school full of kids who have been brought up by West Indian mums?" asked Andrew Neill and Ms. Abbott (of West Indian heritage) refused to reply.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1289868/Diane-Abbott-fumes-branded-racist-TV-This-Week-host-Andrew-Neill.html#ixzz0sFGXpRzz

It seems to me, many who disdain Ms. Palin consider her Southern. Even Katie Couric's distrust that Palin reads begs the inference to the negative Hollywood stereotype. As rural life recedes to industrialization or migration, it seems the Heartland, by virtue of being isolated in terms of N.Y.C. 82nd Street culture, is lumped into this caricature too.

There is a decided Easterner slant to Journolist, and to those who could easily belong as this author, Jane Fryer, does. They have a pathological need to manufacture social activities with people who they believe will not tell tales of themselves but rejoice in their gossip for journalism of "others". Indeed, what I think first and mostly upset Dave "now famous for being famous" Weigel was the leak or gossip as news of his attendance, date, and dancing at a wedding.

So often I find lamestream media targets of derision are Celtic, and one wonders if it is from fear should tales be told? Yes! If we really knew what these so called journalists were like growing up or the judgments they made along the way, would a reader give them the time of day let alone purchase their book to read the news they held out on their employer while reporting? No!

The crisp writer Harper Lee says it best in her March 1964 interview. Do read the whole thing. http://web.archive.org/web/20020602224844/http://mockingbird.chebucto.org/roy.html

The Truman Capote "reportage" that Ms. Lee refers to I do not know. It could be In Cold Blood as it was 4 years in the making with research before publishing in 1965. Rather telling that Mr. Capote needed Ms. Lee "...who made it possible for Capote to get the research he needed for his book (Lee knowing how to warm up town folks in Holcomb, Kansas, where the Cutter murders took place [Nov. 15, 1959, killers caught Jan. 1960]), yet going largely unthanked for her efforts." http://blaine.org/sevenimpossiblethings/?p=1161

Correction: "...in what it says about American GOODwill."

What is ultimately the failure of the ACMs and CMAs is who are hired to produce these shows. It seems these "insiders," or not, are more concerned with getting an Emmy nomination by following the failed Oscar productions. These producers and directors neither showcase the country talent and genre in an honest light to the fans who have actually seen these performers in concert nor to the multicultural crowd they hype they can attract as viewers who watch something that represents a show about nothing.

The industry does itself a disservice by not presenting, and embracing, the face of country that is new to someone, and families, assaulted with violent rap and sexualized children Disney Radio marketed as mainstream.

My sister hates the Lay Antebellum song that won. "It's early in the morning and I'm drunk an want to have sex. I need you now." I agree, it was not deserving of a songwriting award.

There has been a steady flow these 10 years past of country artists becoming vocal liberals. Compared with early artist packaging and comments, one could say they turn liberal. But you see, they know the game (drip, drip, drip). If you want to "make it big" then you need the liberal media machine. Every pr person knows, and tells, just what they need to change to get those bookings on morning tv shows, afternoon chat shows, magazine articles, photo glossies, etc. leading to the elusive cross-over (if you play their rules). US media hype will get you headlining and world tours, and US media are liberal.

You want a job in media? Well daughter of Sen. Scott Brown (D-Mass.), welcome aboard and don't think we wont ply you with our drip, drip, drip reporting you are subject to every day and the way your piece is edited. Liberals find a way to influence that dinner table discussion! http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2010/04...

How can a performer in a perceived conservative genre compete with the lamestream media time and attention when they are busy pushing Eliot Spitzer's comeback? http://newsbusters.org/blogs/p-j-gladnick/2010/04...

Go rogue! Get a tattoo! Pose nude. Become a conservative basher and win a Pulitzer.

On this last episode of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice, the two teams were tasked with making over and producing a media kit for two country music artists. Not surprisingly, the men went with the male and the women with the female. It was most illuminating watching Bret Michaels try and "sex up" the man's bio and look but receive push back. He is married after all so "laying pipe" is only fodder for DJs. Contrast that with the ladies team who took a lovely young woman and Cindi Lauper called for Bridget Bardot glossies stat! With all due defrence paid to those in charge, she eagerly awaited the fan blowing her hair so naturally.

While the men put out a better media kit substantially, the women won on their ability to mold, shape, and change the young female artist's interaction with interviewers. It isn't who you are but what they want you to be. It tied in rather nicely with Lauper's charity that won money to fight for the "civil rights denied" the glbt community in America. It isn't who you are but what they want you to acquiesce.

I long ago turned off Radio Disney, and the Disney Channel and Nick. Our family picked up a book, and discovered all those forgotten classics on DVD I grew up with and some I missed. It was affirming to see the reduced stress on my tweens and teens in not having to keep up with the sexualizing of America's children. No longer carpool chatter filled with TMZ like fodder. No more dreams and imagination employed with stardom but on building a log cabin and a talking horse. Science projects are all the rage for their imagination now.

Miss Cyrus has lost the bid for attention in our home. There were no telephone chats about her moving into her own home at the age of 17 with an adult boyfriend in tow. No purchase of glossy mags reporting the latest pr releases as news with so-called celebrities on every other page pushing weight loss or consumerism. In fact, when Myley gets her boob job, I'm making sure all the kids I know will see the marketing for what it is, "not who you are but what they want you to be."

I never imagined Canadians -- even Davey Crockett never dared tame the Great North -- would allow their children to grow up to self identify as victims, much less celebrate it, and pay for the humiliation to boot.