Category Archives: Political Commentary

Media Criticism, Political Commentary

MSM Sheep

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…ignoring the scandal of the century:

The Gunwalker conspiracy is the kind of story that journalists dream of breaking their entire careers. It is now in the palms of their hands: a story in which they can make a difference, take down the evil and corrupt, and ensure justice is served.

Instead of reporting, however, they are complicit. They have chosen to acquiesce to a clear and obvious evil, an aberration of our most basic values. They are no longer watchdogs, but docile sheep.

When it’s a Republican scandal, they’re watch dogs. When it’s a Democrat scandal, they’re lap dogs.

Humor, Political Commentary

Maybe This Is Why She Wants To Suspend Elections

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Beverly Perdue is having some campaign finance oopsies:

While none of this implicates Perdue at this time, the investigation apparently is zeroing in on someone inside her campaign, which could prove quite damaging when she’s up for election next year, assuming we still have them at that time. To no surprise, other North Carolina Democrats could soon be lining up to face Perdue in a primary.

Meanwhile, pathetic defenses of her that she was just kidding around have been shown to be nonsense.

And Iowahawk has been unrelenting in the mockery:

#BevPerdueSurefireOneLiners “What this country needs is a huge mass grave for counterrevolutionaries. [chirp chirp] I mean, NOT!”

#BevPerdueSurefireOneLiners “Don’t you just want to torture my opponent with battery electrodes? No? Um, I was only joking. Ha ha! Ha.”

#BevPerdueSurefireOneLiners “What North Carolina needs is concentration camps. Who’s with me?”

#BevPerdueSurefireOneLiners “I once shot a dissident in my pajamas. What he was doing in my pajamas, I’ll never know.”

To which I add: #BevPerdueSurefireOneLiners “Hey, those eggs we need for the omelettes aren’t going to break themselves.”

Political Commentary

Disquieting Heroic Fantasies

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Thoughts on Barack Obama’s delusions about himself:

I have written before about Obama’s deep, almost desperate, need to portray himself as the opposite of what he is, to conceive of himself in a way that is at odds with reality. We have seen it in all sorts of areas, including claiming himself to be a voice of civility, portraying himself as a champion of bi-partisanship, lecturing others about profligate spending, and saying he is the only responsible “adult” in Washington. Now we see this habit in a new arena – this time, the president as Obama the Stoic, a man so committed to “pressing on” for the cause of social justice he just doesn’t have time to feel sorry for himself. Indeed, he has now decided to sermonize to others not to complain, not to grumble, and to “stop crying.”

This is akin to John Edwards hosting a weekend seminar on the importance of marital fidelity.

The question is: does he believe it himself, or is he just trying to fool us? Either way it is, as he says, disquieting.