Al Sharpton

Once again we get to examine at close range the techniques the left use when they pull out all of the stops on one of their signature issues. We’d have had to fight this fight anyhow, but Arizona brought the stinking boil to the surface. Look at the videos coming out of Arizona and it’s pretty easy to tell that the people doing the rioting are the sames ones you’d be likely to see in front of Home Depot… and yeah, that’s profiling.

Calling these mini-riots ‘protest marches’ is almost laughable and the LSM is having a lot of trouble selling this one to an America who has had it right up to our eyebrows with the illegal alien issue, along with crooked, corrupt politicians and bureaucracies and Barack Obama’s anti-economy.

The activists, race lawyers and all of the other bottom feeders that follow this wedge of the leftist movement all descended on Arizona at first word of the Illegal Alien Bill being signed into law. Let us not overlook that race baiter extraordinaire, the blowhard himself Al Sharpton, who never overlooks an opportunity to stir racial tension. He blew into town on an ill wind like a vulture sensing corruption. He’s just never figured out how to tell the truth about anything and we’re still trying to figure out what an African American race baiter has to offer to the latino community. The answer is not much!

These ‘protests’ by illegals (under the tutelage of professional immigrant advocates-agitators and groups) are for illegals, and have very little in common with the greater hispanic/latino community in America. I’ve been struck recently by the number of calls and emails from American latinos, including many legal immigrants, sounding off loud and clear on the issue of illegal immigration, and without exception they say they are outraged that Barack Obama and the Democrats would give away to people who were criminals by definition what they and their relatives and ancestors had to work so hard for.

We have May Day coming up, which is actually the left’s secular high-holy day, the birthday of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. What a surprise. The left, once again, is overreaching. The more they throw these illegals out in the public eye, the tougher the resistance to any kind of an amnesty becomes. It instead becomes another unifier for Republicans, Independents, the Patriot movement and American latinos. Setting themselves opposite an already outraged electorate isn’t the smartest move, but that’s just what Barack Hussein Obama has done, entered into an unholy alliance with the illegal aliens by virtue of his attack on the Arizona law. Ok Barack, go for it.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

While the nation seethes and counts the days until November, the Marxi-Socialists of the Democratic party and the statists of their stooley press are attempting the badly used-up tactic of manufacturing incidents calculated to bring shadows down on the Republicans, and most particularly the Conservative Patriot movement, or ‘Tea Party’ movement, as they so disparagingly term us.

Starting with the ’supposed’ incident of two black Representatives being spat upon and called racial epitaphs, it’s really difficult to understand how in this day, with almost every cell phone video-capable and with some thousands of people around, no one obtained a single picture of anything that allegedly transpired. It wouldn’t be the first time the left has tried to gin up sympathy by using the race card to play the race card.

Guess what guys? That one ain’t playing so well again either. Does anyone out there remember Tawana Brawley and that epitome of truth and probity Al (Race Bait) Sharpton?

Brawley and Sharpton

It’s not just that such tactics are not beneath the Congressional Democrats and their Marxist radical allies, they are part and parcel of the playbook that statists use on a daily basis. We hear stories of threats made against Representatives’ lives and bricks thrown through windows. So many times in the past we’ve heard claims like this exploded in the light of truth, the instigators found to be either Democrat operatives or fringe nut-cakes from their own side, of which they have many. Like the one who trashed a Democrat campaign office during the last election.

It’s not that we don’t have some bad eggs on our own side, because we do. But they are quickly marginalized and their actions strongly disavowed. We of the Patriot Movement are not taken to encouraging violent or dishonorable behavior. If it ever comes to a fight, God willing it never does, they will wish to hell they’d never started it. That’s not what we want, we believe in the rule of law and the principles of the Constitution and the founders.

What we will not permit this time is the left to control the message as they have so many times in the past, through deceit, lies, deception and prevarication. Thanks to the wonder of the phenomenon known as the new media, which has left the old, lying statist media in the dust, the truth about their lies reaches millions almost instantaneously. They will no longer be permitted to shape arguments to their perverted will.

This country has learned a very hard truth from which it will never turn again. That lesson is that elections have consequences… voting has consequences and can never be taken for granted. We are a much sadder but wiser nation, one which is rapidly returning to its conservative roots and values.

Semper Vigilans, Semper Fidelis

© Skip MacLure 2010

Sometimes, it’s hard to tell what the American right is for. However, it’s always easy to tell what the American right is against. 

One of conservatism’s lingering problems—a problem that forestalls the expansion of the conservative philosophical franchise—is the right’s image as an entity excessively hostile to every social change that has taken place in this country since the 1950s. Too often, it seems to outsiders that the right is forever attempting to move the country back to a time before “activist” Supreme Courts, widespread racial and religious diversity and political outspokenness by younger Americans.

The left has often accused Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan of making appeals to a mythical past, but if you look closely at their speeches, both Nixon and Reagan embraced the past and the future. In their rhetoric, the 37th and 40th Presidents made clear that we should not reject every element of America’s past, but that the days ahead could be even better than the days before. The controversies of Vietnam and Watergate have allowed progressives to overlook the hopefulness of Nixon’s rhetoric in his 1968 and 1972 Presidential campaigns; in both battles, Nixon emphasized that he would both preserve what was great about our history and ensure as many Americans as possible enjoyed the country’s blessings going forward.

While Reagan clearly had a traditionalist take on cultural affairs, he was careful not to come across as a slouching-towards-Gomorrah culture-war curmudgeon; his speeches were profound in their patriotism and overt in their optimism, routinely communicating the point that America was born great and would only become greater over time. Reagan made Americans feel that they should never lose faith in their country, despite the tremendous cultural upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s; in his view, America had certainly changed, but it had never declined.

Now, decline seems to be the central theme of conservative rhetoric. It’s as though too many folks on the right have taken their cues from a figure connected to the Nixon and Reagan administrations: Pat Buchanan.

I’ve never understood Buchanan’s appeal: from the time I first started paying serious attention to politics, he always struck me as someone who wanted to be an Al Sharpton figure for working-class whites, as opposed to someone who wanted to be a champion of conservative philosophy. The adulation Buchanan used to receive from some segments of the right always seemed strange; in my view, he was too obnoxious to warrant anything other than fringe support.

The left has long claimed that Buchanan’s infamous “culture war” speech at the 1992 Republican National Convention doomed President George H. W. Bush’s chances for re-election. I profoundly disagree—because the speech was simply too boring to have any real effect on anybody. It was a compendium of gripes: all Buchanan did in the speech was whine and moan about liberal judges, feminists, gay activists, environmentalists and every other putative predator of conservative principles. There was virtually nothing in the speech about what President Bush would do to turn around the economy or, God forbid, actually limit the size, scope and power of the federal government. It was nothing more than the lamentation of a loser in the culture war. (The speech also featured this explicit lie: “George Bush is a defender of right-to-life, and lifelong champion of the Judeo-Christian values and beliefs upon which this nation was built.” Evidently, the Bush that was a pro-choice, rhetorically secular Rockefeller Republican never existed.)

The spirit of Buchanan-style grievance-based conservatism—the spirit of negativity, of pessimism, of resentment towards anything that can be construed as being borne of the “elites”—seems to have possessed a fair number of bodies on the right these days. Can you recall the last time a prominent figure on right-leaning radio or television expressed the view that America will remain great despite the current activities of President Obama and the Democratic Party? Can you recall the last time a Republican House or Senate member communicated the same optimism about this country’s future that Reagan and Nixon used to express? Do you remember the last time anyone affiliated with the right declared that America’s best days are yet to come?

There is a cult of grievance on the American right today. Members of this cult have a raging anger against legal, journalistic, academic and entertainment-based progressivism, coupled with a strong sense of pessimism that anything can be done about the left’s political and cultural gains. Somebody had better leave this cult and find some optimism somewhere—preferably, in ideas and proposals that represent a positive, conservative alternative to the Obama vision.  Those who don’t leave this cult of grievance will inevitably find themselves in a political Jonestown—right before the Flavor-Aid is passed around.

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In what has to be one of the most shameful capitulations to the forces of political correctness I've ever seen, Rupert Murdoch has apologized for this hilarious cartoon:

As the Chairman of the New York Post, I am ultimately responsible for what is printed in its pages. The buck stops with me.

Last week, we made a mistake. We ran a cartoon that offended many people. Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted.

Over the past couple of days, I have spoken to a number of people and I now better understand the hurt this cartoon has caused. At the same time, I have had conversations with Post editors about the situation and I can assure you - without a doubt - that the only intent of that cartoon was to mock a badly written piece of legislation. It was not meant to be racist, but unfortunately, it was interpreted by many as such.

We all hold the readers of the New York Post in high regard and I promise you that we will seek to be more attuned to the sensitivities of our community.

This is so disapointing on so many levels.

1) In Context, this cartoon was obviously about Economic Policy, not Race -- Much like Ronald Reagan's speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, this cartoon was about economic policy, not race.  The monkey referered to the intellectual content, or lack thereof, in the bill.

2) This will embolden Rupert Murdoch's Enemies -- Does anyone think this craven act of appeasement will endear Rupert Murdoch to the left?  Of course it won't.  The left will always hate Rupert Murdoch because (along with Rush), he broke up their monopoly on public information.  Rupert Murdoch's cravenly callow capitulation is blood in the water to those who already want to destroy him.

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3) This gives the Race Industry New Life -- I can't remember the last time these people scored a victory this big.  They just humiliated one of the most successful businessmen in human history.  How can this possibly help?

4) The First Amendement -- While, technically, there aren't any first amendment issues here, let's not kid ourselves.  THIS was the perfect issue on which to make a stand on principle.  The New York Post didn't do anything wrong; why should they apologize?  Shouldn't the liberals apologize for wasting our money?

Shameful...absoluely shameful.

That is all.

Cahnman out.