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14 years ago @ Big Journalism - Romney Camp Blames Blu... · 1 reply · +6 points

Heath's question also illustrates your column from yesterday on media narratives.

"He’s brought contraception into this campaign."

No he hasn't. The Obama administration has, through George Stephanopoulos.

"It deals with banning or allowing employers to ban providing female contraception."

Banning .... "ban" ... hmmm. Where have I heard it referred to that way before?

Oh yeah. In that weird question Georgey asked. Oh, and it seems Romney is aware of the situation as well.
http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/22/does-romney-bel...

So yeah, Romney's answer is a bit perplexing. I could see Romney being confused (not that I'm a fan) because the question was phrased as a "ban" rather than the freedom of employers to follow their consciences. On the other hand, since he said he believes this narrative is being staged by a cooperative media.... a bit inconsistent, eh?

15 years ago @ Big Government - Is UMSL Attempting to ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Wonder how much money we could collect to get him into Hillsdale :-)

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Ad Hominem Alert: "Jew... · 0 replies · +11 points

Dana. Isn't it interesting, and useful, that Alinsky's rules work on the Alinskyites quite well, too. As long as we're honest, I don't mind turning their own cannon on them.

#4 Make them live up to their own book of rules.

Good job!

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Ad Hominem Alert: "Jew... · 0 replies · +6 points

@jgibson ... get a dictionary. Look up ad hominem. Come back to this article, and show us all how it applies.

We'll wait.

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - BREAKING: Conservative... · 0 replies · +5 points

Incidentally, Dana has become a great spokeswoman for us, and has developed a lot of poise and polish. She will represent our general point of view well.

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - BREAKING: Conservative... · 8 replies · +5 points

You're absolutely right, Dana. Preaching to the choir can't change any minds, and minds need to be changed.

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Leftists Go Texas-Chee... · 1 reply · +7 points

What this really boils down to is the "religious right" they keep bringing up. They label conservatism thus to marginalize it. But I'd be willing to bet that those voting for Miss Palin here are no more religious than a random cross-section of America. To the fire-breathing left, anything resembling organized religion is a bad thing except where it can be exploited in community organizing groups (especially if it's Christian flavored). To them, it represents backward, ignorant, knuckle-dragging.

And the reason is it gets in the way of lefties forcing their progressive religion down everybody's throats.

The Palins have values that they, like the rest of us, don't always succeed in living up to, but they have them and they think them important. To the left, this represents unprincipled, blind adherence to cold dogma that was pulled out of thin air to oppress. It's quite a cynical view of the world. There is no room in their worldview for the possibility that one can hold well-thought-out, principled positions counter to their own. So they can't stand the thought of someone who holds those principles being in charge of things, or even simply being accepted ... or worse, popular.

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Media Canonizes Paid S... · 0 replies · +5 points

Tea Partiers and Tea Party supporters ... do not, EVER be goaded in to this crap by their provocateurs.

They got what they wanted - a video to put on TV and make the rounds on the net. This can only hurt our cause. They know it. We need to know it, too.

Dana is right. Let 'em scream and hold their stupid signs. They only look like idiots in the end if everyone around them just looks at them funny.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Astroturf? Thousands G... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well, it's their approach to government, too. Publicly fund activities deemed "good" (by them). Make it so the recipient has no stake in it at all, except what immediate gratification is in it for them.

15 years ago @ NewsReal Blog - Glenn Beck to Tea Part... · 0 replies · 0 points

Glenn Beck has evolved into quite the Liberterian, and he does understand the line between Church and State better, I think, than even perhaps a lot of his listeners do, and he talks about it. In other words, he is harnessing the religious right while teaching them about our founding principles. He's telling them why their values matter, and where and how it is appropriate to apply them in matters of public policy within the limits of our Constitution.

Frankly, I'd like to dress up in Revolutionary War Period garb at these things ... I think it would be fun. But I do see what he's getting at.

Don't be afraid of Christians. I think they're the most tolerant bunch, as a group, on Earth -- indeed, they largely wrote the Constitution to begin with.

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