Category Archives: Scribbles

Suck-ups

"Sucking up to a black politician does not mean that you are colorblind," says the subhead on this delightful analysis at National Review Online, a conservative publication the Dems’ proposed assault on conservative talk radio will not affect, unless they try to repeal the First Amendment.

Indeed, we’ve been through this before. In the 1980s when Jesse Jackson ran for the Dem nomination, and again about ten years later when Gen. Colin Powell was touted by insiders for the Rep nomination. Jackson lost, Powell declined to run (and now we know why, he wasn’t a conservative).

Not to mention the Rep appointment of two black secretaries of state, though only Powell was celebrated. Condoleeza Rice was villified even by some American Africans (my preferred locution).

It’s touching to see some American Africans get emotional at Barry’s election. But Big Media’s claim that only now could a black man have been elected is the usual liberal blather. I wish that Barry was descended from American Africans, as Jackson, Powell and Rice are. Instead he’s the first Kenyan-American elected president (his Kenyan father never became a citizen). That’s not nearly the same thing as an election finally resolving America’s racial past and continuing combustion, as Barry’s cult would have us believe. It’s also sad that the first black man elected president is a dishonest radical more skilled at speechifying, breaking campaign finance laws, and promoting vote fraud than anything else.

Double standard

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If Barry was a white Republican, this would be obvious and the subject of much Big Media complaint. Instead, silence is the rule, and on to the gala inauguration. So much for campaign finance reform.

Via NewsMax. 

Heh

Ann Coulter nails it, as usual:

"We have a new president-elect. In the spirit of reaching across the aisle, we owe it to the Democrats to show their president the exact same kind of respect and loyalty that they have shown our recent Republican president."

Don’t all get in line at once, now. Take your turns. We’ve got  four years, after all.

Via Sonia-Belle

What rough beast…

Miriam, a librarian, after all, summons William Butler Yeats for a poetic reaction to Barry’s ascendence:

"…what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?"

Ouch.  

The ‘death of journalism’

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Well, maybe they did back in the days of green eyeshades. I can remember a lot of uncorrected mistakes in the ’80s and ’90s. They certainly don’t hasten to balance their obvious bias anymore. Like most of the nation’s newsrooms, AP is staffed by liberals who vote Democrat. How could they not be when the journalism schools are liberal and a journalism degree has become the entry requirement?

Fox’s Hannity says Big Media’s obvious Barry-bias in the campaign just departed signified "the death of journalism," as in its credibility. But did it ever have any? Journalists have long been even less popular than lawyers. My old colleague Pantrypuff defends such partisan reporting as natural emotional involvement, but adds that newsrooms do not encourage innovation. They certainly don’t encourage political balance, either, despite pretending to be objective.

Via Lileks.

UPDATE: MSNBC, still in Barry’s bag. They can’t help themselves. It just comes bubbling out. And that’s why this media analyst thinks Big Media’s influence over presidential elections is over.

Touching moment

Take a minute, if your Web connection can play videos, to hear what Condi Rice has to say about the election results. It’s a touching moment, well expressed.
 
 
It works best, of course, if you know her personal history
 
Via Instapundit. 

Stock market reaction

The biggest post-election drop in history. Investors ain’t too thrilled with Barry, either. Must be racists.

UPDATE: Another historic decline Thursday, this one blamed on poor retail sales. Still post-election, however, and if investors were part of Barry’s cult, why wouldn’t they be more positive?