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Representative Allen West (R-FL) invites you to be part of a dynamic discussion:

The Conservative Black Forum will discuss issues regarding unemployment in the black community, conservative values, and the social disparity in urban communities. The forum will be an intimate and in-depth dialogue on the black conservative voice in the United States.

What: Conservative Black Forum
When: Monday, January 23, 2012
Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Where: United States Capitol, House Small Business Committee, Rayburn 2360

“The conservative voice in the black community remains mostly unacknowledged by politicians and the public alike,” West said. “While the conservative black voice has always existed, it is more important than ever that it be recognized and encouraged. More than 95 percent of black voters voted Democrat in the last election. I am hoping this forum will begin to shed light on how we can change this status quo.”

In addition to Rep. West, distinguished members of the panel include:

• Tim Scott (Congressman, South Carolina)
• Jim Jordan (Congressman, Ohio)
• Michael Steele (Former RNC Chairman, Maryland)
• J.C. Watts (Former Congressman, Oklahoma)
• Emanuel Cleaver (Congressman and Chairman, Congressional Black Caucus, Missouri)
• Octavia Johnson (Sherriff, Roanoke, Virginia)
• William Cleveland (City Councilman, Virginia)
• Gow B. Fields (Mayor, Lakeland, Florida)
• Fred Solomon (Community Activist, Alabama)
• Cleon Bryant (Pastor, Louisiana)
• Dr. Christine Brooks (Community Activist, Washington, D.C.)
• K. Carl Smith (Founder, Fredrick Douglas Republicans, Alabama)
• Dr. Karnie C. Smith, Sr. (Fredrick Douglas Republicans, Alabama)
• David Clarke, Jr. (Sheriff, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin)

Topics include:

Perception vs. reality when it comes to Black Conservatism
Urban issues in the 21st Century
The black church and state
The true history of civil rights
Conservative principles in the black community
GOP outreach

Media interested in attending this event, please contact Communications Director Angela Melvin at 202-226-2149.

Washington Examiner: Conservative silence and the leftist agenda

By Stella Morabito

Occupy Wall Street aims to sway public opinion by projecting the false illusion of a “collective belief” against free markets. Likewise, most leftwing agendas depend on building a fake sense of public opinion support, especially when the agenda cannot withstand prolonged scrutiny or debate.

But the success of leftist activism depends to a great degree on the everyday silence of millions of conservative individuals. The matrix of political correctness built by leftist elites is probably most effective in applying widespread social pressure on conservatives as individuals.

It thereby isolates and discourages many conservatives from exposing their views to co-workers, neighbors, clients, classmates, and anyone else who might be effectively engaged in day-to-day life.

Consider this scenario: The phone rings while Rush Limbaugh is audible in the background. The covert conservative turns off the radio out of dread of being exposed as a listener.

Or this scene: A conservative nods politely while a neighbor pontificates leftist views. He does not correct his neighbor’s mistaken assumption that he shares such views.

Or this: A co-worker expresses disgust for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Without even questioning the premise, the conservative simply changes the subject.

Such reticence to engage contributes to a dangerous reverse bandwagon effect. To understand the mechanics, we might look up the theory of “preference falsification,” a term coined by the scholar Timur Kuran in his 1995 book Private Truths, Public Lies. He defines it as “the act of misrepresenting one’s wants under perceived social pressures.” [emphasis added]

Public opinion is actually “a determinant of people’s willingness to reveal their innermost selves,” observes Kuran.

When we falsify our core beliefs in our daily lives the effect is “the regulation of others’ perceptions.”

This happens in many ways, but when you avoid speaking up truthfully or at all, as the occasion presents itself, you deprive others of your knowledge and lose the opportunity to influence how others think.

The opposing view then takes root more deeply because you’ve also made it harder for those who might agree with you to speak up. [emphasis added]

According to Kuran, individuals’ preference falsification has an extremely powerful ripple effect that influences both the shape of public opinion and the political process.

An interesting sidelight is that President Obama’s current regulatory czar Cass Sunstein has studied this phenomenon in some depth. Sunstein and Kuran co-authored a 1999 Stanford Law Review article on a related theory, the “availability cascade” which they define as “a self-reinforcing process of collective belief formation whereby an expressed perception triggers reactions that make that perception seem increasingly plausible through its rising availability in public discourse.”

It involves two mechanisms: “information cascades” in which uninformed people “base their own beliefs on the apparent beliefs of others;” and “reputational cascades,” in which earning social approval or avoiding social disapproval affect how personal opinions are expressed or withheld. Sound familiar?

The process can be very fragile, according to the authors. But it can trigger huge and unpredicted shifts in public opinion. What this means is that no conservative can afford to sit back and expect talk radio or conservative think tanks to save the day.

A more positive shift in public opinion will gain enduring traction only when thousands more conservatives — and, following their lead, millions more — refuse to falsify their preferences to those they meet in day to day life. [emphasis added]

By being friendly, engaging first with those who like and trust them, many conservatives who take the risk of defying political correctness report the pleasant surprise of discovering like thinkers waiting to be emboldened.

Even if this doesn’t happen, breaking out of isolation is essential to discrediting the leftist caricature of conservatives and presenting more and more people with the human face of conservatism.
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Read more at the Washington Examiner.

What’s this all about in plain English? Simple. There are a lot of “closet conservatives” out there. They have been misled by leftist propaganda into believing that “normal people” don’t agree with them, so they’d better keep their opinions to themselves or face social ostracism, job loss, and maybe outright violence. They WILL come out of the closet if, and only if, they see YOU being truthful about your opinions. That’s why it’s time for all of us to step up to the plate and go to bat for the truth, not only in the blogosphere and in letters to elected officials, but also in our real-life, face-to-face encounters.

PJM: In Defense of Starting an Argument in Public for Humanity’s Greater Good

By Megan Fox
A few days ago, I took my kids to one of those places with giant inflatable slides that sane people avoid. My best friend was in town for her once-a-year visit home and in order to show the kids a “good time” took them to inflatable kid heaven, otherwise known as The Jump Zone.
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There were many other mothers there that day but oddly enough, they weren’t doing any of the things we were. In fact, they were happily parked on benches yapping with each other like they were at Starbucks with a nanny at home. In the meantime, their children were terrorizing ours in ways that would have gotten them arrested if they were a few years older. My girlfriend’s three-year-old made it all the way to the top of a very precarious perch just to have some overanxious boy shove her off. She fell about 10 feet to the inflated surface below, unharmed but scared and screaming. The boy, about 6, never even looked back, his mother an invisible mystery. No adult came forward to claim the vicious little brat or to reprimand him and demand an apology for this anti-social behavior. My 5-year-old made a beeline for him and told him off in her babyish way. “That wasn’t nice!” she said in her best Mommy voice. He shoved past her and went on with his reign of terror.

Two minutes later, my 2-year-old was happily standing on top of a plastic baby slide just watching the chaos in front of her when another little boy, old enough to know better (7?) came charging up to the slide, grabbed the whole thing and started rocking it and tipping it over. Something snapped inside my brain as I watched my baby’s face shrink in terror as this monster tried to topple her tower with her in it. I was on him in less than four seconds. I dug my fingers into his ribs and shouted at him, “NO!” in the exact same voice I reserve for the dog when he’s got my shoes.

He dropped the playset and turned to me, shocked, and I continued to scold him uncaring of who was watching. I’m not sure what I said, something about manners and ending up in jail, but I hope he’ll remember it the next time he tries to harm a baby. I looked up, expecting to face his either sheepish or angry parent and to my surprise, no one came. He disappeared into the melee and that was that.

These are only two of the episodes that occurred in that hour. Other, equally disturbing acts of torment continued for our time there and in no instance did any parent but my friend or me intervene. This parenting trend to outright ignore one’s children is puzzling but everywhere. I’m no Parent of the Year here. I mean — I ignore my kids plenty when we’re at home and they’re safe and I have stuff to do. But to take them out somewhere were they could hurt themselves or others and ignore them is an outrage. But I have a solution that I’ve decided can reverse this problem but it will require your help: We’re going to engage in verbal fisticuffs.

The current wisdom says don’t make a fuss because you never know who has a gun or a knife or who’s crazy and will cut you. It’s always a possibility. But have we become so scared by the minute possibility of a random act of violence that we will just watch society degenerate into a place where chaos reigns because parents can’t take responsibility? This is the kind of environment, the Lord-of-the-Flies syndrome, that creates more thugs. Unchecked childish violence becomes unrestrained adult carnage and all of us will pay for it one day. I say, no more! I will not be silent when I witness juveniles acting badly in public. Instead of saying something just to them, the way I did with the little bulldozer boy, I will also seek out their mom or dad, take the offender to them and make my case for that parent to do his or her job better. Sounds dangerous doesn’t it? What can I say? I like to live on the edge.

The point is, we all live here. The world is like a big house. There are rules of the house and if the sheriff isn’t doing his job, I’m appointing myself deputy. It’s time to step up if you want to save America. We have a nation full of takers out there. Takers who would trample their neighbor for a $3 waffle iron, and it’s embarrassing. It’s embarrassing that a mother should have to be told to watch her child. Maybe embarrassment needs to make a come-back.

…We live with a very thin veil between order and chaos. Has it ever occurred to you that it might be your responsibility to push back against the madness? Popular theory says you can save the world through recycling but what will it matter if the world falls into the hands of bullies and pigs?

We fear that the worst will happen if we say something about someone’s bad behavior — and that’s always a possibility — but probability lies on the side of the idiot backing down. When a bully faces no opposition, the bullying only gets worse. It takes a brave soul to stand up, draw the line in the sand and declare “No further!” It’s the reason the Iron Curtain tore and the Berlin Wall crumbled. It’s the medicine for the national crisis we are in both financially and morally and it starts at home in your community. Personal responsibility, a phrase conservatives have been hawking for years, along with courage is the remedy for all of it.

The American people (mostly conservatives) began standing up to their representatives at town-hall meetings a few years ago and started demanding their government stop spending money it doesn’t have. Their involvement sparked a movement that changed the face of local governments across this nation.

The fight for the moral compass of this country is on and it won’t be won without push-back. The OWS protests are the antithesis of personal responsibility. They are the ones whose parents abdicated their responsibility and allowed them to cut in line and push babies down on the playground. They are the ones who feel entitled to have the first turn, your toys, free college courses in queer studies or anything else they want simply because they weren’t properly socialized. (And yet they consider themselves “socialists” or something. )

Chances are they went to public school where, I am informed, all children go to get “socialized.” I was in a room full of publicly socialized children at the Jump Zone and if that’s as good as it gets I’ll pass and continue my home-socialization experiment. (I home-school.). After all, my kids aren’t the ones knocking over babies and cutting in line.
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This kind of parenting creates non-Americans. It strips the American spirit right out of American children by denying them the chance to understand what it is we do here and who we are. We are good people, we are giving people, we care for each other and that’s why we need to stand up and refuse to allow coming generations to become looting parasites. They need someone to call them on their idiocy and that someone is you.
Read it all.

PJM: Yard Signs Tell the Tale in New Hampshire

Drive through New Hampshire in the next week, and you will see a staggering number of Republican yard signs. They’re everywhere: It seems like every third house has a sign up. They’re on front yards and in the windows of businesses. They’re in every neighborhood representing every demographic. They’re in front of homes along rural roadways, in front of suburban homes in the big southern towns, and in the conservative blue-collar neighborhoods of Manchester.

And there are even Republican yard signs all over the capital city of Concord — a largely Democratic-leaning town in this swing state.

Barack Obama is in big trouble next November.

In elections, yard signs provide the essential “social proof” to back up the television ads, debate performances, and stump speeches — especially when it comes time to close the deal with relatively apolitical or undecided voters.

But this is a Republican primary. What do January yard signs have to do with Barack Obama?

Here is a secret: If you want to predict a general election, count the number of Republican yard signs in “purple” neighborhoods.

Take a drive through an upper-middle class community in a swing state. Find the subdivision where there’s a coffee shop on the corner and an organic grocery store not too far away, ideally where the Priuses outnumber the SUV’s… but not by much. Find the block where the adults are academics, professionals, or government employees and where every household has a couple of kids in the public schools. The voter breakdown in the ideal “purple” neighborhood is about a third Republican, a third Democrat, and a third independent.

Welcome to Concord, New Hampshire. Or Fort Collins, Colorado. Or northern Virginia. Or Raleigh, North Carolina. Or the suburbs and exurbs and small cities in swing states around the country.

Now count the Republican yard signs. Signs are not polling data, and they are certainly not election returns, but a yard sign is a definitive measure of three things: Support (obviously); intensity; and – most importantly — a voter’s willingness to make his political opinions known to his neighbors. A yard sign — especially in a “hostile” environment — is a symbol of political courage, a sign of an impending shift in public opinion. [emphasis added]

The early returns from the yard sign tallies are in: Voters in New Hampshire want their neighbors to know that they are voting Republican this year.

That is a big deal. If you live in a conservative community in a Republican state, it is hard to understand the open hostility towards Republicans in “purple” neighborhoods. Put up a sign in your yard and prepare to have your neighbors approach (or accost) you at the grocery store. Prepare to have them bring your kids into the discussion. Prepare to have your business boycotted. There is no separation between the personal and the political on the left, so in a swing state a sign in your yard marks you as a target.
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More here.

Welcome to the First Annual Zilla Awards for Awesomeness in the Dextrosphere!

…Conservative Bloggers may be the Chopped Liver of the Right, but in my eyes they are the finest cuts of the very best red meat, and now it is time to recognize the bestiest of that best. Here are your winners of the Zilla Awards for Awesomeness in the Dextrosphere who kicked ass all over the interwebz in 2011:
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See the rest of the 2011 Zilla Awards here!

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Also see: How David Axelrod and the Chicago Machine Smeared Herman Cain – With the help of the MSM and the GOP establishment

It is not about the women

The female(s) who are allegedly leaking this story are not acting on their own. Even though they have been paid in some way, they are not prostitutes in the most literal sense. Yes, demanding money in return for consensual sex is prostitution, and yes, that activity is legal or decriminalized in some jurisdictions. But demanding money after LYING about sexual acts is something entirely different: it is extortion. Extortion has also been effectively decriminalized in the US, provided that the perp is savvy enough to use our corrupt legal and regulatory system as a tool to extract money from whomever has the deepest pockets.

It is all about the “establishment Republicans”

There is no dirty trick that these RINOs won’t pull, and no lie that they won’t tell, in their quest to foist a “moderate” (actually leftist) Republican on an unwilling electorate.

If the Republican establishment truly had no part in this, then why have they not condemned this shoddy attack upon a fellow GOP candidate?

Cast of Characters in the Lynching of Herman Cain

By Donna Garner

11.3.11

Chris Wilson of Wilson Research Strategies has said publicly that while he was working for Herman Cain at the National Restaurant Association (NRA) in the late 1990′s that he personally saw Cain sexually harass a woman at a restaurant in Virginia although Wilson has not said exactly what he believes constituted his claim of “harassment.”

WHO IS CHRIS WILSON?

Chris Wilson was the Executive Director of the Republican Party of Texas under then-governor George W. Bush. Chris Wilson worked very closely with Karl Rove. Rove was known to us in Texas as the “master of dirty political tricks. ” I suspect that Rove taught Chris Wilson the art of deception.

KARL ROVE

Karl Rove has been accused of being the source behind countless dirty tricks, whisper campaigns, smear tactics, and character assassinations.

I have dealt personally with Karl Rove. I well remember in 1997 when we classroom teachers in Texas had written our own state curriculum standards document (Texas Alternative Document) and were gaining wide support in the national press because no classroom teachers (before or since) had ever written their own standards document. We classroom teachers did not believe the standards being steamrolled by the Texas Education Agency and the Governor’s office were good for Texas students.

In the spring of 1997, Karl Rove was brought in by Gov. George W. Bush’s staff to quiet down the controversy because Bush was on his way to the White House and was being touted as the “education President.” Karl Rove believed that Bush could not afford any bad publicity, and evidently Rove’s task was “to make it go away.”

Suddenly those State Board of Education (SBOE) members who had supported our TAD document began getting phone calls from their largest campaign contributors threatening to withdraw their support unless they backed the Governor’s document.

One of our main SBOE supporters who made his living as a healthcare provider suddenly had his office visited by both state and federal auditing agencies simultaneously. They managed to tie up his total attention for weeks during the exact time that the SBOE members needed to be focusing their attention on the all-consuming work of adopting new curriculum standards for the state of Texas. The auditors found nothing illegal.

At one particular SBOE meeting, several of the SBOE members were told by the hotel management that their room assignments had suddenly been changed. The next day the information they had exchanged in a highly confidential phone call was made known publicly and neither of them had been the ones to leak it.

Back to the Herman Cain “lynching” –

MIKE TOOMEY

Chris Wilson was hired by Mike Toomey to do Gov. Rick Perry’s polling. Mike Toomey was Gov. Perry’s chief of staff who was behind the HPV Merck/Gardasil scandal. Mike Toomey turned out to be a lobbyist for Merck.

CHRIS WILSON TIED TO TONY FABRIZIO

In 1995 Chris Wilson left the Republican Party of Texas (and Karl Rove) and went to work for pollster Tony Fabrizio.

NEW CAMPAIGN TEAM FOR RICK PERRY

Because Gov. Perry’s Presidential campaign was losing steam, several weeks ago (10.24.11) his team decided to hire Curt Anderson, Tony Fabrizio, et al. “Coincidentally,” it appears that Politico began working on its 10.30.11 sexual harassment hit piece against Herman Cain at about that very same time.

WHO IS CURT ANDERSON?

Who is Curt Anderson? Herman Cain told Forbes that he recalled personally telling Curt Anderson in 2003 about the sexual harassment charges at the NRA but that they were baseless. Cain felt Curt Anderson as a pollster for the NRA needed to know about the allegations.

HALEY BARBOUR

Another big coincidence? Curt Anderson was the political director at the Republican National Committee under Haley Barbour. Haley Barbour was a member of the ad team for Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2007/2008.

On 11.2.11 two days after the Politico story broke on 10.30.11, Haley Barbour went on nationwide TV and began to pressure Cain to get the NRA to release its confidentiality agreement, thus giving the “woman” a chance to grab the national microphone.

MY SUMMATION

I am not the brightest bulb in the lamp, but I can connect the dots. So can most thinking Americans.

The Republican candidates are in a heated campaign leading up to the primaries. Out of nowhere has stepped Herman Cain as the frontrunner. He is not an “establishment” sort of guy.

Chris Wilson, the “witness” (Karl Rove’s understudy, recommended to Rick Perry by unscrupulous Mike Toomey) is now working with Curt Anderson (newly hired by Perry) and Tony Fabrizio (newly hired by Perry). Fabrizio is connected to Haley Barbour (worked on Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2007/2008). Barbour is the one who is trying to pressure the Cain campaign to release the “woman accuser” so that the Politico story will grow legs and eventually “lynch” Herman Cain.

COMMENTS FROM ATTORNEYS

Yesterday an attorney friend who has broad experience in such cases told me that if these “women” actually had grounds for sexual harassment charges, they would have gone after Herman Cain for millions of dollars; however, but they did not.

Another good friend sent the following to me, and I believe this piece also should help those of us who are trying to look at this situation logically:

11.2.11

Donna —

A few years ago I met an attorney who specialized in sexual harassment cases and had represented several women who had filed sexual harassment charges against a male co-employee (often a supervisor). We talked for quite a while about that and I learned a couple of interesting things:

1. Pre-Clarence Thomas, [before the Anita Hill "lynching" of Clarence Thomas in 1991] the attorney felt that the sexual harassment laws made sense and she gladly represented a number of female clients.

Post-Clarence Thomas, she refused to represent most women that came to her because the charges were what she called “frivolous and ridiculous” — that “hostile environment” could represent something as benign as an argument and/or several other nonsexual behaviors.

2. I asked her if she ever represented any men pre- or post-Clarence Thomas. She said no — that men were generally laughed out of the courtroom regardless of the validity of the charges.

WHO DID IT?

To my way of thinking either the Perry campaign, the Romney campaign, or both may be behind this “lynching” of Herman Cain.

I will also add that it is possible neither Rick Perry nor Mitt Romney may know what dirty tricks (if any) their campaigners may be doing once hired and working behind closed doors in various parts of the country. Therefore, Perry/Romney are not lying when they say they know nothing about this story. However, some of the campaigners working for them may know quite a bit about it.

Resource for parts of my article:

11.2.11 “Former Texas GOP operative says he knows about Cain harassment but wasn’t source for story” by Wayne Slater, Dallas Morning News: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/perry-watch/headlines/20111102-former-texas-gop-operative-says-he-knows-about-cain-harassment-but-wasnt-source-for-story.ece

Donna Garner
Wgarner1@hot.rr.com

We must NEVER let the leftists tell us who we can vote for!

Oh, and by the way, “establishment Republicans” hate being called what they are.

Rush Limbaugh: Establishment Republicans Want to Redefine the Term “Conservative”

September 21, 2011

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Folks, this is a little Inside Baseball, but it’s important because he who controls the language ends up winning the debate, and it might seem like a small thing, but I have learned and I have been given to understand that the “establishment Republicans” hate the term. They don’t like being called “establishment Republicans,” and they are trying to change the term to “establishment conservatives” and in the process co-opt the definition of “conservative” and conservatism. It’s not something that you’ll notice if you watch cable news or even read. You have to be able to see the stitches on the fastball, you have to be able to read between the lines, and you have to know some stuff going on behind the scenes (and, of course, I am in a position to know these kinds of things).

So don’t doubt me on this. The establishment Republicans are the establishment Republicans. The Republican leadership is the Republican establishment, meaning the elites. They hate it and they are in the process of trying to redefine who conservatives are and what it is — and if they succeed, the conservatism that you and I hold dear will no longer be the definition of conservatism. If they succeed, the current thinking of the Republican establishment will be what is called modern day conservatism. Don’t doubt me on this. It sounds like a small thing, but in a daily ebb and flow you’ll not even see any news about this, but it’s in important because it’s crucial who controls the language, who controls the way words are defined.

You and I know that the establishment Republicans don’t like conservatives. They didn’t like Reagan. They were embarrassed of Reagan. They were embarrassed of us. They didn’t like the Moral Majority, they didn’t like the Christian right, they don’t like the pro-lifers. They don’t like the social conservatives at all. They’re embarrassed by us, in many ways, with their other buddies, the establishment Democrats — which combined gives us the Washington establishment, and they very much prefer to be members of that club than ours. But they know that it doesn’t help them to be called “establishment Republicans.” So they’re trying to take the term “conservative” and co-opt it and define it as they behave, write, speak, and even vote on matters of politics.

END TRANSCRIPT

My conclusion? It was a setup from the get-go, with phony “witnesses” recruited well in advance and brought out as soon as Herman Cain pulled ahead in the polls.

And considering the Chicago connection, Rahm Emanuel and David Axelrod undoubtedly had something to do with it also. (See links below.) That’s bipartisanship, Chicago style.

LINKS:

• DAVID AXELROD’S PATTERN OF SEXUAL MISBEHAVIOR
  (h/t: waldensianspirit)
• What the amounts in severance agreements reveal about problem employees
• Kraushaar a DNC Contributor
  (h/t: Bumr50)
• MacsMind: Cain accuser Bialek fired for making false accusations of sexual harassment
• Herman Cain Denies Sexual Harassment Allegations
• Herman Cain’s powerful attorney: L. Lin Wood
• Cain Accuser Lived in Same Building as David Axelrod
• Sharon Bialek’s History at CBS
  (h/t: Rancher)
• AP Exclusive: Accuser filed complaint in next job
• PJM: Conservatives: Don’t play into Alinsky’s hands!
• Chuck Goudie: Who is Cain accuser Sharon Bialek?
• Chicago TEA Party Lead Activist on Sharon Bialek: I did not recognize her and I was there all weekend – UPDATED!
• SunTimes: Amy Jacobson claims Sharon Bialek hugged Herman Cain during Tea Party meeting a month ago
  (h/t: Bumr50)
• More on the scandal-ridden “witness” Amy Jacobson (see above)
  (h/t: Bumr50)
• GOP: Reject Mitt Romney or Lose EVERYTHING!
• Alarming News: His name is Cain
• Statement from the National Restaurant Association
  (h/t: NoThreat2U)

From Hank Jr.’s official YouTube channel:

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Special version of “Keep The Change” by Bocephus himself! Download it for FREE here [for the next 48 hours only]: http://bit.ly/pebVTA

Hank Jr. writes song about ‘Fox & Friends,’ ESPN

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Hank Williams Jr. is about to have his say.

Williams’ has cut a new song, “Keep the Change,” calling out “Fox & Friends” and ESPN after an interview last week on the Fox News talk show led to the end of his association with the sports network and “Monday Night Football,” long home to his “Are you ready for some football?” theme.

“I’ve been recording for five decades, and I knew that old over-the-fence feeling on this one,” Williams said in an interview Monday afternoon.

He’s also scheduled to appear on “The View” and “Hannity” on Tuesday to discuss the uproar that sprung up after he made an analogy that President Barack Obama and House Speaker Rep. John Boehner golfing together was like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu playing a round.

ESPN decided to pull Williams’ intro from last week’s “MNF” telecast after the comments, and the move became permanent Thursday when both sides said they’d decided to pull the spot.

Williams wrote the topical third verse of “Keep the Change” when he woke up around 4 a.m. Friday. He borrowed a guitar once owned by George Jones to write the melody and was in a studio with a group of musicians by 4 p.m. The song was done by 5:30 and was being mastered Monday morning.

“It’s got to be one of the fastest (I’ve recorded),” Williams said.

It’s now available for free for 48 hours at Williams’ website. There also are new “Hank Jr. for President” T-shirts for sale.

In the song, Williams, son of country music icon Hank Williams, says “Fox & Friends” hosts twisted his words: “So Fox `n Friends wanna put me down/Ask for my opinion/Twist it all around.” He finishes the verse: “Well two can play that gotcha game you’ll see.”

Early in the song, he says the U.S. is “going down the drain” and says it’s becoming “The United Socialist States of America.” He mentions keeping “Fox & Friends” and ESPN out of your home toward the end of the song.

Asked to elaborate on how he felt about “Fox & Friends,” Williams said: “All you gotta do is listen to the song, folks.”
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Williams’ theme song has been part of “MNF” since 1989. The song was a version of his hit “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Tonight” that he altered to match each week’s game. He owns the song and all the rights to it, so ESPN will not be able to use it in any way.

Instead, the network says it will use an intro featuring Hall of Fame running back Barry Sanders and soul singer Jimmy Scott prior to the Chicago Bears at Detroit Lions game Monday night. The introduction will change each week.

Williams has already moved on. The quickness with which the new song came together has him itching to put out a new album and he’s in the early stages of planning a tour for next year. If he can find the time.

“Believe it or not, I have another 212 call,” he said in ending the interview, referring to the area code for New York City.

More here.

Hank Jr.’s official website

The Blaze has the story:

Meet The 53%. Who are they? The term 53% refers to the people who are actually paying taxes for themselves and the rest of the country.

The 53% is a group of responsible young people organizing across the country. However, this group is not camping out in parks around the country and demanding the entire capitalist system be destroyed. These men and women have jobs (most of them work at more than one job in order to make ends meet), but they are talking about attending the Minneapolis Occupy Wall St. protest scheduled for today – Friday, October 7th.

Here’s a statement from their web page:

So, like, when you’re, like, community organizing for solidarity and stuff, it’s totally cool to have this little hashtaggy thingy when you’re on twitter, so other people, like, totally know what you’re talking about and stuff. So if you’re, like, totally gonna spread the word about being one of the 53% of people who actually, like, pay taxes in America and don’t just, like, hang out protesting stuff all day… like, here’s the hashtaggy thingy. See you at the protest! #iamthe53

[…]
Mike Wilson told us the group was in the very early stages of organizing, but it is happening online – mostly because they have jobs, families, and a sense of personal responsibility. And the 53% have responded to the people alleging to represent 99% of the country. Based on these photo messages, the 99% is patently wrong in their claim.
[…]
The history of the hashtag for this movement has been tracked to the Twitter account of Kevin Keder and this tweet from early October.

@keder
Kevin
Here’s an idea: Use the hashtag #iamthe53 if you are among the 53% of working people who pay federal income taxes.

To get your picture and story on the page of The 53%, all you need to do is post it with the hashtag #iamthe53 and Mike Wilson will find it and post it on the site.

Much more at “The Blaze”.

Austrian Independent: “Anger as WWII ‘killer’ dies in Austria”

(h/t: Sparta)

Austria has been branded as a “paradise for Nazis” after it emerged that an alleged war criminal deceased in a care home in Carinthia.

A spokesman for a Caritas retirement centre in Klagenfurt confirmed newspaper reports claiming that Milivoj Asner passed away today (Mon). He said the Croat perished aged 98 in the institution last week.

Asner is suspected of being behind the deportation of hundreds of Serbs, Roma and members of the Jewish community in Croatia’s Ustasa movement during World War Two (WWII). Asner changed his name to Georg Aschner after fleeing to Austria when the Communists took over his homeland in 1945. He received the Austrian citizenship the next year.

Asner lived in Carinthian capital Klagenfurt to his death. Austrian prosecutors opened a case against him due to occurrences in WWII in 2004 before Croatia demanded his extradition one year later. However, Asner was spared a trial due to his mental condition.

Juridical decision-makers in Austria asked a German expert to examine the suspected war criminal in 2009 after they were accused of having acted biased as several expert opinions established by Austrian doctors suggested Asner was not fit for legal procedures.

The debate over how to handle the issue intensified in 2008 when British journalists claimed Asner – who allegedly suffered from dementia – must be strong enough to go to court after spotting him at a fan zone in Klagenfurt during the European Football Championship.

Now Efraim Zuroff, the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s office in Jerusalem, Israel, has claimed Austria was a “paradise for Nazis.”

“His decisive role in the killing of hundreds of Jewish people, Serbians and Roma in the Slavonian city of Prozega is evident,” the historian said today (Mon) after being informed that Asner has died.

More here.

Who are the REAL Nazis?

Journalists these days stretch a very long way to confront conservative and counterjihadist European politicians with far-fetched accusations of somehow being soft on Nazism (e.g., see Strache – Le Pen meeting hit by Hitler controversy).

Left-wing bloggers do the same. To put it bluntly, they go out and look for some flimsy excuse to call anybody a “Nazi” who doesn’t agree with them. In the blogosphere, this type of logical fallacy has been given its own name: Reductio ad Hitlerum. As a reaction to the tiresome frequency of such arguments, Godwin’s Law holds that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1 (100%).”

The now-infamous Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs used that technique to backstab the entire counterjihad movement, which he once pretended to support, and he still uses it against conservative politicians and commentators, counterjihadists, and Tea Party spokesmen in the US. (See Charles Johnson hits bottom, digs, Charles Johnson hits bottom, digs (Part 2), and The Return of the Vlaams Belang.)

…and who were their victims?

But what have those journalists and bloggers to say when an actual Nazi comes to light – a Nazi from the days when the Third Reich made common cause with Muslims in persecuting and slaughtering Jews, Roma, and Christian Serbs?

From those Europeans who live nearby, or who could safely visit places where I cannot: How about a retrospective on the victims? How about showing the places where they once lived, and telling us whatever is still known about their lives that were so tragically interrupted?

Just askin’.

Herman Cain’s 2012 Presidential Candidacy Announcement Speech

(h/t: Flyovercountry at 2.0: The Blogmocracy)

Herman Cain: You Mess With Israel, You Mess With the U.S.

Uploaded by FoxNewsInsider on May 20, 2011

GOP presidential hopeful Herman Cain shares with Neil what the “Cain Doctrine” would be if he became the president of the United States. Plus, Herman will be making a “major” announcement tomorrow at 12p ET in Atlanta, Georgia … and Neil thinks it could have something to do with running for president in 2012.

Herman Cain Would Offer Palestinians “Nothing” In Peace Deal

Herman Cain on what he would offer Palestinians for peace: “Nothing. Because I’m not convinced that the Palestinians are really interested in peace. If the Palestinians come to the table with Israel, with a genuine offer that the two of them can sit down and negotiate the United States would, in fact, try to facilitate that discussion.”

What Herman Cain brings to the table in 2012

• He’s an actual conservative, not a RINO.
• He supports Israel.
• He worked to defeat the 1993/1994 Clinton health care plan, and he wants to repeal Obamacare.
• He’s strongly pro-life.
• He has many years of experience as a successful businessman.
• With his track record as a successful radio talk show host and columnist, he can explain conservative views and policies so that they make sense to the voters and taxpayers.

I am not claiming that Herman Cain is perfect – none of us are, and none of us can be. But among the current group of US Presidential hopefuls, Herman Cain makes the most sense.

Also see:

• Herman Cain President 2012
• Wikipedia: Herman Cain

CPAC: Rep. Allen West Keynote Speech (1)

CPAC: Rep. Allen West Keynote Speech (2)

CPAC: Rep. Allen West Keynote Speech (3)

(h/t: chickadee)

Denying the Heckler’s Veto

I had not planned to blog anything about the shootings in Tucson, because I am primarily a counterjihad blogger, and because I generally focus on issues and events that have received too little attention elsewhere. The shooter in Tucson was not a jihadi, his victims had no known association with the counterjihad, and the story has already been covered in intensive detail in many other places.

This horrific event has nonetheless become relevant to the counterjihad blogosphere because it has been misused as a tool for attacking freedom of speech, which is another of our legitimate concerns.

As Rahm Emanuel infamously said, “Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.” True to form, leftist politicians and media pundits have attempted to exploit this “opportunity” for political gain in a truly shameless manner. They have attempting to shift the blame from one malevolent, deranged individual with no coherent belief system to their political opponents on the right.

One of their ploys is to attempt to muzzle freedom of speech by imposing a heckler’s veto on opposing political speech that they choose to label as too inflammatory.

A heckler’s veto occurs when an acting party’s right to freedom of speech is curtailed or restricted by the government in order to prevent a reacting party’s behavior. The common example is that of demonstrators (reacting party) causing a speech (given by the acting party) to be terminated in order to preserve the peace.

I call your attention to the newly-elected US Representative from Florida, LTC Allen West, who is having none of this. He is also one of the few people on the political scene who truly understands the counterjihad:

Rep. Allen West decries ‘opportunism’ in wake of Arizona shooting; has no plans to change rhetoric

(h/t: Weasel Zippers, vagabond trader)

by George Bennett | January 11th, 2011

U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, this morning criticized “political opportunism” in the wake of Saturday’s shooting of U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and said he has no plans to tone down his own “stronger language.”

Within hours of the shooting that killed six and critically injured Giffords, some commentators placed the massacre in the context of the nation’s heated political climate and blamed the tea party movement, Sarah Palin and other conservatives although no public evidence has suggested accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner was associated with or sympathetic to any of them. Some critics pointed to West’s own words — such as saying citizens must be “well-informed and well-armed because this government that we have now is a tyrannical government” — as contributing to that climate.

West has rejected such criticism and accused those making it of trying to score political points.

“One of the concerns I do have is the political opportunism that has come out of this. That’s kind of deplorable and unconscionable what some people are doing. This is not the time to start looking for grandstanding and things of that nature,” West said on his way into a West Boca Chamber of Commerce breakfast at Boca Lago Country Club.

Asked if he had any regrets about his choice of words in the past, West said, “No I don’t, because I think when you look at the president saying don’t bring a knife to a gun fight and the fact that the president talked about if the Republicans were to win in the midterms we’re going to have hand-to-hand combat.”

He also said a blogger in Broward County had once said West should be skinned alive, so “I think there are some things that both sides need to be concerned about.”

West, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, has said his references to “bayonets” and military imagery are metaphorical — and he has no plans to stop using them…

Read the rest.

Gates of Vienna: The Challenge That We Have

(Reprinted with permission)

Rep. Allen West (R-FL) — oh, how satisfying to type those words! — gave a memorable speech last month in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, when he was still the congressman-elect.

When Col. West speaks out about Islam, he sounds exactly like one of the contributors to this blog. To have him in the halls of Congress is a real boost for the Counterjihad.

Many thanks to Kitman for YouTubing this video:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Allen West : “A Man Must Stand for Something or He Will Fall For Anything!”

Originally published on 2.0: The Blogmocracy

I was quite a fan of Rush Limbaugh toward the end of the Clinton administration, during the Kosovo War and its aftermath. Rush was one of the very few public figures who dared to point out that the war was not only pointless but wrong.

Later on, during the George W. Bush administration, I came to believe that Rush Limbaugh cut GWB way too much slack. Rush had been friends with the Bush family since his sportscaster days, and was, in my opinion, too willing to give GWB and his advisers the benefit of the doubt. Later in GWB’s term, after I began traveling around and working on unpredictable schedules where I ordinarily could not listen to the radio on any regular basis, I no longer kept track of Rush Limbaugh.

But now, I happened to see this transcript of one of Rush’s speeches, and I think he can offer us not only some funny anecdotes, but also some valuable perspectives.

Rush Speaks at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia

…RUSH: But… (chuckles) For these 23 years I’ve thought that a whole bunch of people were on our team who really aren’t, and it’s become crystal clear. And we talked about this piece that was in the American Spectator by Angelo Codevilla called “America’s Ruling Class,” which is just a brilliant, brilliant piece and it codified and it established exactly what’s going on in the country today. It’s not Republican versus Democrat. And by the way, this is not to say that there’s no difference between the two because there clearly is. But we’re in the midst here of a crossroads that I don’t think any of us have ever faced in the country. I was thinking back the other day in my review of the 23 years: Make fun of liberals, talk about the things that they do and their policies. But we never, ever really thought that they would succeed to the point that the country as founded would be threatened.
…
RUSH: You know, when you hear people talk about what was here before America was founded in a positive way, that’s right out of the multicultural curriculum that has invaded public education in this country for the last 25 years. Now, to translate Obama, what he really means is: “Back in the good old days. Back before white Europeans arrived and brought syphilis, racism, sexism, bigotry, homophobia, and environmental destruction. Back in the good old days when the Indians were at one with the country, with the nation, with nature and so forth — and back when everybody was hunky dory getting along.” It’s hard for people to get their arms around the fact that the country has elected somebody who has a grudge against the country.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: People still don’t want to believe it. And I am as serious about this as I have ever been about anything. I have no doubt that for whatever reason — and we can go through the list of what it is that Obama doesn’t like about the country. I know he’s been educated, informed and raised to not like this country from his father who didn’t like colonialism. His grandfather was run out of Kenya, the Mau Mau revolution, the Great British revolution at the time and that’s why Obama got rid of the bust of Winston Churchill first thing in the Oval Office. He didn’t just put it in the basement. He sent it back to the British embassy. He has a genuine animus. It’s not an accident that when it comes time to give a gift, he picks 25 DVDs at random from Amazon and doesn’t even send the correct country codes so the Prime Minister can watch them.

He’s got an axe to grind with the country. He doesn’t like it. He has been raised that this country as founded was unjust and immoral and he is hell bent on a course to change it, to cause us to have to pay the price for this. Now, you say this — and you’ve heard me say it on the radio daily — and if you’re immersed in this stuff daily and if you’re honest, if you’re honest with yourself about what you see and what you read; you can’t conclude anything other than that. But a lot of people, even who voted for him who are not happy now, they just can’t get their arms around the fact that we’ve elected somebody who has that view of the country. Sadly a lot of people on what I call “our side” of the aisle, the so called conservative media intelligencia inside the Beltway, they just think that he’s misguided, wrong, doesn’t understand economics, and is a little like a doofus.

And he may be all of that, but he’s much more. He has a plan. He’s the architect of reforming this country in a way that we wouldn’t recognize it as founded. There’s no way — folks, there’s no way — anybody that has the ability to be honest with themselves can look at his economic policies after a year and a half of utter, from our perspective, failure. Job destruction. I mean, the unemployment rate continues to climb. People have stopped looking for work. It is a disaster out there — and nobody in their right mind, after a year and a half of this, would say we need more of it. People would say, “This isn’t working!” This is his fault. We’ve had a year and a half of debt that has accrued, in his year and a half, that is more than all the debt from George Washington to Ronald Reagan. Yet he blames George W. Bush for it and he blames us! He blames the American people. He says, “No, the days of the American people, the days of America leading the world economically are over.” The hell they are! They are not over.…

Imam Obama?

…RUSH: They think, the media thinks that 20% of the American people believe Obama’s a Muslim because I began calling him “Imam Obama.”

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: The problem is, they took this poll on how many people think he’s a Muslim long before I started calling him Imam Obama. Why would anybody think Obama’s a Muslim? He only wants to bring Khalid Sheik Mohammed to trial in New York City and he wants to build a mosque at Ground Zero

AUDIENCE: (booing)

RUSH: Now, you stop and think of that for a second. This is somebody who either doesn’t understand why that’s a bad idea, or does understand it’s a bad idea and wants to just ram it down everybody’s throats. Which? It’s the latter, right? You think it’s the latter?

AUDIENCE: (applause)

RUSH: It’s perfectly understandable. Here’s a guy and his absolutely insane attorney general, Eric Holder, who wants to bring a guy, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed — who said, “Please kill me. Martyr me! I want to meet the 72 virgins. Kill me at Club Gitmo. Kill me.” “No, no! We’re going to bring you to New York and we’re going to put you on trial. We’re going to give you a three year forum to tell the world how rotten the United States is.” That’s what that trial’s for, and it’s going to cost $200 million a year that we don’t have, unfunded security, for this trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and a couple other of his henchmen? And everybody says, “Rush, don’t worry about it. They’ll never find a jury that will acquit.” (chuckles) Oh, really? In New York?

AUDIENCE: (laughter)…

Discomfiting America’s self-anointed ‘elite’

…RUSH: Do you know Joy Behar? If there’s anybody ever inappropriately named, it’s Joy Behar. There’s somebody who’s never happy. I used to work next door to her at WABC in New York. I mean, there’s not a happy day in the woman’s life.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: She’s still — her butt’s so tightly scrunched up because Elton John sang at my wedding. She just can’t believe it!

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: I remember the New York Post gossip columnist Cindy Adams, a couple of years ago, invited me to go out on the town with her on a January night in New York. You know, I just love going into liberal enclaves and just blowing the places up. It’s like this. This is an electronic cigarette. Pull this baby out in an elevator and watch the liberals panic.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: I was over playing golf in Hawaii at a bar and whipped one of these things out. It’s water vapor. There’s no tobacco; there’s no flame. And the manager comes up, “Mr. Limbaugh, really, I’m sure you know we don’t allow smoking here in the bar.” I said, “I’m not smoking. This is an electronic cigarette,” and I unscrewed the filter, the cartridge to explain it to him he says, “Oh, oh, okay.” He walks away fine. I keep puffing away at it. He comes back in five minutes: “Mr. Limbaugh, ummm, uhhh, people say you are setting a bad example. One woman said you’re really enjoying it too much. Could you…?”

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: So when Cindy Adams calls and says, “Would you like to go to an HBO private screening?” I say, “Yes.”

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: It was a movie starring Susan Sarandon —

AUDIENCE: (groans)

RUSH: — who was playing the character Doris Duke, the tobacco queen, and the screening was at the Time Warner Center… Well, it’s Columbus Circle somewhere. So we go in there and, folks, it is the ruling class. I mean, these people we talk about, these self-defined elites. But when we call them “elites,” they are not better than us. That’s not what we mean. They think they are better than everybody else, but they aren’t. They are a minority. We’re being governed, we’re being ruled by a minority, and that’s going to change starting in November. But more on that in just a second.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: So… So I walk in with Cindy Adams, and you could just see. Tina Brown and her husband Harry what’s his face, Harry Evans. Harry Evans. Short little guy. Tina’s about here. You see that and you wonder: How does it work?

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: And their eyes bug out. They look at me. They just can’t believe it. They look at Cindy: “Why did you drag him in here?” So guess who I see taking off her coat and checking it? Joy Behar.

AUDIENCE: (groans and laughter)

RUSH: And she doesn’t see me. Now, we literally worked together at WABC in New York for, I guess two or three years, and I was very helpful to her. ABC was trying to get her a television talk show for years, and I went up to New Haven, Connecticut, to do a pilot with her and I flew out to Hollywood to do a pilot. I helped her every time she asked me to appear on her television pilots, and still she hates me!

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: So I see her and she’s with this guy that has been her boyfriend for 15 years. I mean, this guy, believe me, is so henpecked, the only thing he does behind her back is zip her up.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: If it weren’t for his varicose veins, the guy would be totally colorless. So I see Joy over there and I walk up and I just give her a big hug: “Joy, how are you?” and she acts like she’s being raped! She panicked. She freaked! “Oh, my God!” She sees me. “YOU! How did YOU get in here?” She really said that: “How did YOU get in here?” I said, “Cindy Adams brought me.” I mean, it was the last place I was supposed to be. I love just tweaking these people — and they sat me right behind Susan Sarandon in the screening

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: And right next to her daughter. And Susan Sarandon, of course, comes in late because she’s the star. And she goes to the stage to explain this brilliant, moving role that she played, and comes down and takes her seat and sees that it’s right in front of me — and Cindy Adams is seated to my left. She turns to Cindy and she says, “This is one heck of a photo op.” So I love it. I just love tweaking these people. You can do it each and every day because the truth of the matter is that they live in their little enclaves and they are insecure. At the end of the day they’re all very insecure, and this is why they band together. But their insecurity has led to a pompous arrogance in the way they deal with everybody, and it has infected people on our side in Washington, DC. You know, the liberals do run that town. They run it politically, they run it socially, and everybody wants to be part of it. In your neighborhood you want to matter, you want to live and be friends. You don’t want to be antagonistic with people. So too many of our people have gone out of their way to try to say, “We’re not like those Limbaugh wackos.” Some of them, like National Review magazine. It used to be Bill Buckley’s magazine: “Stand to thwart history and say, ‘Stop!’” And now they’re in this chorus that says Christine O’Donnell can’t get elected. It’s silly. I look at it: Here’s a magazine founded by a man, William F. Buckley, whose intention was to have the countryside strewn with the carcasses of liberals everywhere.

AUDIENCE: (applause)

RUSH: And now they’re invoking “the Buckley Rule,” the Buckley Rule which means “support the most electable conservative.” Well, I don’t know how you support Mike Castle. He’s not a conservative. He’s a RINO. Harry Reid couldn’t wait! Harry Reid couldn’t wait for Mike Castle to get there and join him in voting on cap and trade. So one of the points that I want to make about all of this and the Tea Party is that I still run into people. Despite the successes of the Tea Party and the overwhelming polling data that suggest a really successful November, people are still in some cases depressed and insecure because they don’t see their values, their success stories represented in traditional media. Traditional media still impugns, laughs at, and makes fun of us all — and they’re not media folks. They really never have been. This is one of the things. I used to think they were not objective reporters. I knew there were liberals, but now they’re activists and they are making no pretense. They don’t report news. They are just activists now. They are out trying to further an agenda. It’s Obama’s agenda. It’s the Democrat Party’s agenda. So anybody who is expecting them to be fair or honest in recognizing things we succeed at, you’re always going to be disappointed. Take solace in the fact that last week the three nightly newscast shows — Brian Williams, Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric — lost 700,000 more viewers.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: That’s big. Here’s the difference. This, of course, will never happen, but if the radio ratings came out and I had lost 700,000 listeners, the last thing I would do is say, “Those stupid people.” I’d say, “What am I not doing here? How have I failed to connect? How have I let the audience down?” They don’t. The news business is the only business where the customer is not only wrong, he’s an idiot!

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: You call and complain and they say, “Well, I’m sure you can’t understand the way we do our jobs. You can’t understand the process by which we put together the news. It’s really, really beneath our ability to explain it to you.” So they lose viewers, and they’re happy about it because they think they’re getting rid of the rubes. I watch. I have the news on during my show every day just because you never know. Some car chase might happen and you have to comment on it, some big news story.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: And I happen to see Andrea Mitchell (NBC News-Washington) and she’ll have… did I say something wrong? Or it’s potty time? Oh, good. Whew! (chuckles) The future of the country right there and I come this close to blowing it.

AUDIENCE: (laughter and applause)

RUSH: So I watch these shows, folks. I watch and I realize — like let’s say she will have as her guest F. Chuck Todd.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: F. Chuck is the — what is he? — White House correspondent, NBC News political director. He’s a journalist in good standing. And I see him talking to Andrea and Andrea talking, and they’re not talking to an audience. They’re talking to themselves and they’re talking to other news people watching. F. Chuck is hoping Bob Schieffer’s watching and is impressed. F. Chuck hopes Walter Cronkite’s watching from the Great Newsroom Up There and is impressed. F. Chuck hopes that other news people are watching. He hopes the New York Times editors are watching. They do it for each other. They write their articles, their columns, news stories for each other. They don’t connect with their audience. We in the new media present to them a giant question mark. They do not understand how it is that our enterprises are successful and growing. They have to say that you are my robots. They have to insult you. It can’t be that you and I share the same values. It can’t be that what I really do is simply validate what you already think. You know, I don’t teach you anything.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: The secret… The secret to my success is I happened to come along in 1988. Back then look at what there was. There was ABC, CBS, NBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, US News, local rag newspapers, and CNN. That was it. And I came along and there was no national conservative voice in the media. So I fill the void — and our business plan did not say, “We’re going to fill a void. We’re going to be the only conservative voice.” I just said, “I’m going to do a good show. I’m going to try to attract an audience. I’m going to be honest about the things I believe and roll the dice and see if it works,” and it did. To this day people, even in talk radio on competing stations or on the leftist side, do not understand the recipe for success. It’s so simple. It’s right out in front. You be honest, you have a connection with the audience, you have credibility, and they believe you. You never, you never steer them wrong as a host. You build the loyalty. And we haven’t lost any dollars, we haven’t lost any audience in 23 years. We’re growing while they’re all plunging and falling apart.

AUDIENCE: (whistling and applause)

RUSH: Now… this is obviously a testament to my superior talent and skill.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: But in truth, in truth what it is is a very…almost humbling thing for me to have this large an audience. I mean, they put out 15 million listeners. It’s more like 23 to 25 million in a week. To have people like you show up here, I’m in awe of it every day. I don’t… When I say, “I have to meet and surpass audience expectations every day,” I do. I do not take you being here or listening on the radio for granted for even a moment.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: It’s not just that I love you all knowing what you believe and what you want for the country. It’s I respect your intelligence. I don’t talk down to you, I don’t assume that you’re ignorant or a novice, and a lot of people in the conservative media are the same way. We’re just real people. We have a genuine connection, and it drives them nuts — and when they have to resort to impugning you, me, all it does is strengthen us, and it makes us more committed than ever to oppose them and defeat them. They have created this monster themselves.

AUDIENCE: (applause)…

Rush on Michael Vick

…RUSH: And then I’m watching the opening weekend of the NFL. By the way, a shout-out to Kevin Kolb. Did you see the headline in the Philadelphia paper today? “Michael Vick, Top Dog”? Whoa! I saw that, I said, “What does Vick think of that?” I mean, I came out dressed in black today in honor of Andy Reid.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

Holding liberals accountable

…RUSH: It’s like anything else in liberalism. It has as its purpose to control our lives, to have power over us, and it plays on the common human emotion of guilt: I’m going to make them feel guilty for destroying the climate, but I’m going to also tell them they can save it. All they’ve got to do is drive around piece of crap cars and pay higher taxes. All they’ve got to do is move into smaller houses. All they’ve got to do is buy one sheet of toilet paper like Sheryl Crow. These people are idiots! These people are stupid and we have to sit here and listen to Christine O’Donnell and Sarah Palin be insulted, and these people are absolute nimrods. So I go back and forth: How in the world did this guy get elected? Then I see the Nissan commercial and I realize we have a battle here, and some of us look at the objective: Okay, we’ve got to go out and change people’s minds and get them to join us. I looked at the Obama CNBC thing and I saw these people ostensibly expressing problems with his policy say, “Now, there’s somebody. We can go get that person.” This Velma Hart was her name. This woman is ripe for the taking if we somehow get to Velma. “Yes, your answer, this is your new reality. On purpose. No future. No economic future. Yes, and you were looking right at the man, the president of the United States who’s giving it to you. Yes.” I wonder, “Could we convert the woman?” Then I say, “Do we have time?” The first objective is to just vote against anybody with a Democrat behind their name.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: That’s what has to be done. It’s time to stop being defensive and think we need to explain ourselves to them.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)

RUSH: They’re the ones at some point who we are going to call upon and we’re going to demand an accounting for the damage they have caused the country and the future.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)…

No more RINOs; no more ‘reaching across the aisle’

…RUSH: Time to stop thinking of ourselves defensively. We don’t need to seek validation from people who are never going to acknowledge who we are in the first place, the media or Democrats. We don’t need Mike Castles and John McCains to cross the aisle. We don’t need it. When you admit it, when you say, (imitating McCain) “That’s right, Limbaugh, I can reach across the aisle! I’m the only one who can do it!” That means that you are inherently saying you’re not good enough, McCain. You’re only going to be good enough if you get those people to join us. Well, those people are destroying us. Why do you want to join them? I had a big dinner party in New York at Roger Ailes’ house. I haven’t hid this on the radio. Karl Rove was there. Christine O’Donnell’s name came up. He didn’t say a word. Mike Castle’s name came up and Judge Napolitano was there and Neil Cavuto.

AUDIENCE: (cheers and applause)
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RUSH: So anyway, the trashing of the Tea Party, the criticism of people like Christine O’Donnell from our side is going to continue. And the reason it’s going to happen — you know, people have asked me, “Why is Rove doing what he’s doing?” I really don’t know. I mean, I can understand before an election, but after she’s won? Why give the Democrats fodder for their own TV commercial? I don’t understand it. We’re told that when these RINOs win like Specter and these people –

AUDIENCE: (booing)

RUSH: We’re told, “Come on now. We have to join forces and be unified.” Fine, okay. And we always do, don’t we? We grit our teeth, we mutter some obscenities, but we do it. Okay. So here now the terribly sophisticated, brilliant, erudite Mike Castle won’t dane to even call Christine O’Donnell and congratulate her. (audience interruption) He did call? He did call? Wait a minute now. One voice at a time. Did he call and tell her to go to hell or did he call and congratulate her? Did he say he’s going to endorse her? What we found out was that Obama and Biden called Castle to commiserate after all this. Now, see, I’m just some hick from Missouri but that kind of tells me something.

AUDIENCE: (laughter)

RUSH: We have people on our side who want to be thought of as reasonable. We’ve been painted as racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe, extremists, so forth, and I’ve said on the radio a number of times that the Republican Party has its own rift. We’ve got northeastern liberal Republicans who do not like social issues, the pro-lifers being in the party, don’t like going to the convention with them. They are embarrassed to be seen with them. Their liberal buddies in New York make fun of them for being in the same party as a bunch of Billy Bobs with gun racks in the back of a Ford 150. Plus, their wives give them hell like you wouldn’t believe.

I told this story on the radio. I was in the Hamptons back in the early nineties. One of the few times I’ve been there. It was a dinner party at some famous people’s house you would know. And after the dinner party one of them came up to me, jabbed me in the chest and said, “What are you going to do about the Christians?” I said, “What do you mean what am I going to do about the Christians?” “Well, yeah, yeah, they listen to you. What are you going to do about it?” I said, “What are you talking about?” “Abortion, man, it’s killing the party. It’s going to kill the party. You’re going to have to tell these Christians –” “Why am I going to have to tell the Christians? Why don’t you?” And this guy actually said, “My wife won’t leave me alone. She’s bugging me about this. You’ve got to do something because they listen to you.”

So the people who are not with us are something that I’ve grown to despise, people concerned about what others think of them, people who try to be what they are based on what they think others want them to be. You know, we’ve all done that. We’ve all done that in high school. The problem is some people still haven’t gotten out of high school and still live in that clique world and they’re still concerned, and too many people on our side are still concerned about what those people, the left and the liberals and the people that run the show in Washington think of them. And they don’t want to be thought of as unreasonable or racist or sexist. So they’ll criticize us. And they’ll jump in Christine O’Donnell’s chili. They’re afraid of being associated with her because they hear what the liberals are saying and they don’t want to be laughed at like they’re laughing at Christine O’Donnell. So we have two challenges. We have to prevent a third party from forming because that’s going to elect Democrats from here to kingdom come.

AUDIENCE: (applause)

RUSH: At the same time we have to succeed in Reaganizing the Republican Party once again.

AUDIENCE: (applause)

RUSH: And that’s what the Tea Party is. As for me, people ask, “Why do you still do this? I mean, could work 30 weeks a year, four days a week.” Some people say, “Yeah, he already does.” But I don’t. “What do you have left to prove?” I said, “I’m not trying to prove anything. The way I look at what I do, I still feel blessed to have the opportunity I have. And I wish everybody had the opportunity to find in life their passion and get paid for it.” I mean, I got fired a whole bunch of times and I did jobs that I was not really meant for, but had to eat. I’ve been fired all these times but finally found what I was born to do. And I’m doing it, and I have no desire to stop doing it, especially now because it matters so much.…

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