Victor Davis Hanson: The Factory of Selective Moral Outrage

Townhall  "Last week, President Obama quietly signed a renewal of the once-hated Patriot Act -- rather nonchalantly from the United Kingdom via mechanical autopen. There was no media outrage, there were no hyperbolic campus protests, no juvenile outbursts from a Hollywood celebrity about shredding the Constitution. Most even forgot that senatorial candidate Barack Obama had once promised to help repeal the Patriot Act.
"But then such moral outrage belongs to the now fossilized age of George W. Bush's presidency, when the exalted goal of stopping a conservative Texan justified any means of opposition necessary. We may continue almost all of his antiterrorism protocols, but they can no longer earn elite outrage."
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"So either the retirement age must be upped, benefits cut, high payroll taxes further increased, or portions of the entitlements privatized to spur competition and efficiency.
"And the progressive response to proposed remedies? Instead of a detailed plan of salvation, we see ads portraying a Rep. Paul Ryan look-alike, who is not just throwing an elderly woman out of her wheelchair, but sending her over a cliff as well. "

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/bobgorrell

Obama's abandonment of America

Caroline Glick  May 20, 2011  "While this sounds fair, it is anything but fair. The fact is that if you don't distinguish between your allies and your enemies then you betray your allies and side with your enemies. Bahrain and Yemen need US support to survive. Iran and Syria do not. So when he removes US support from the former, his action redounds to the direct benefit of the latter.

"I hope the US Navy's 5th Fleet has found alternate digs because Obama just opened the door for Iran to take over Bahrain. He also invited al Qaeda - which he falsely claimed is a spent force - to take over Yemen."
"Beyond his abandonment of Bahrain and Yemen, in claiming that the US mustn't distinguish between its allies and its foes, Obama made clear that he has renounced the US's right to have and pursue national interests. If you can't favor your allies against your enemies then you cannot defend your national interests. And if you cannot defend your national interests then you renounce your right to have them."

Israel: Well done, Mr. Obama; U.S. to Boycott Durban III Racism Conference

Atlas Shrugs " I applaud the Obama administration's decision to boycott the racist, antisemitic Islamic conference sponsored by the UN."....
"...The U.S. has announced it won't attend the 10-year commemoration of the UN Durban conference on combating racism on Sep. 21 in New York. Acting Assistant Secretary of State Joseph Macmanus said that the U.S. voted against the UN resolution establishing the 2011 event because the so-called Durban process "included ugly displays of intolerance and anti-Semitism and we did not want to see that commemorated."....

 Conference of Presidents Lauds Administration Decision Not to Participate in "Durban III" Conference  "Senator [Kirsten] Gillibrand led a bipartisan effort urging the U.S. not to participate in the conference. She noted that it is “an insult to America that the United Nations has decided to hold the Durban III conference in New York City just days from the tenth anniversary of the September 11th attacks. We all witnessed how extreme anti-Semitic and anti-American voices took over Durban I and Durban II and we should expect the same thing to happen with Durban III.”
"“The global campaign of delegitimization against Israel was launched at Durban I. It has remained a lasting scar on the reputation of the UN and ought not to be commemorated or celebrated. "
It's always a pleasant surprise when Democrats exceed my expectations.
 

Pat Condell on Jew hatred (Video) Though an atheist who rejects Israel's Scriptural claims to the land, Mr Condell offers articulate, solid, and slightly profane arguments for the existence of Israel and the Jews.  Caroline Glick

Photo: Pat Condell

TV Executives Admit That Hollywood Pushes a Liberal Agenda

Hollywood Reporter.com  "In the book, subtitled "The true Hollywood story of how the left took over your TV," Shapiro also tells anecdotes of bias against conservatives. One example is Dwight Schultz, best known for his roles as Murdock in The A-Team and Barclay in Star Trek: The Next Generation.
"The late Bruce Paltrow knew that Schultz was a fan of President Ronald Reagan. When Schultz showed up to audition for St. Elsewhere, a show Paltrow produced, to read for the part of Fiscus, Paltrow told him: "There's not going to be a Reagan a--hole on this show!" The part went to Howie Mandel."
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"...and president of MTV Networks Entertainment Group Doug Herzog talking about his network having “superpowers” when it comes to its influence over young people."
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"Another video has Leonard Goldberg — who executive produces Blue Bloods for CBS and a few decades ago exec produced such hits as Fantasy Island, Charlie’s Angels and Starsky and Hutch — saying that liberalism in the TV industry is “100 percent dominant, and anyone who denies it is kidding, or not telling the truth.”
"Shapiro asks if politics are a barrier to entry. “Absolutely,” Goldberg says."   Emphasis added.

This is related to our topic: NBC News to Hire Embattled Former NPR Chief Vivian Schiller   Firing  Fox News commentator Juan Williams has been a resume enhancement.

Photo of Schiller from Politics, Family and Religion

His saving grace is not being a Republican

Tunnel Wall is primarily interested in the difference in how a Republican is treated by the media and how they treat a Democrat. If this were a "Law and Order" episode, Mr. Weiner would be portrayed as a conservative who was a public champion of morals and family values.

*If Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) were a Republican MSM would have already forced his resignation

*Unlike ABC and CBS, NBC's Williams Spikes Weinergate Yet Has Time for Christie's Helicopter 'PR Problem'  More here.

*Anderson Cooper Asks Paul Begala: If Weiner Were Republican Would You Think This Was Nothing?

*Lawrence O'Donnell on Weiner: 'Voters Need to Realize Sex Doesn't Matter'  You get my point by now. For more on this go to Newsbusters.

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/stevebreen

Weinergate  By Neal Boortz  "Looks like Weiner needs to start looking for a new profession.  But wait a minute.  I’[m(sic) forgetting something here.  The Weiner is a Democrat."

Freudian Slip of The Day: Reuters Headline Claims Rep. Weiner a ‘Republican’

Weinergate: Now the Democrats Are circling the wagons "The Democrats are taking oaths of fealty to Weiner’s veracity, one by one. Now we’re getting somewhere."

Thomas Sowell: Seductive Beliefs

Thomas Sowell

Townhall  "False theories are not just an intellectual problem to be discussed around a seminar table in some ivy-covered building. When millions of people believe those theories, including people in high places, with the fate of nations in their hands, that is a serious and potentially disastrous fact of life.

"Despite a carefully choreographed image of affability and cool, Barack Obama's decisions and appointments as President betray an alienation from the values and the people of this country that are too disturbing to be answered by showing his birth certificate.

"Too many of his appointees exhibit a similar alienation, including Attorney General Eric Holder, under whom the Dept. of Justice could more accurately be described as the Dept. of Payback."

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and author of The Housing Boom and Bust.

Obama’s Commerce nominee comes with green past

Daily Caller  "President Obama’s nominee for Commerce secretary, John Bryson, is good news for the environmental community and his nomination could foreshadow a renewed White House push for cap and trade.

"Bryson has a long history in the environmental community. He was one of the original co-founders of the Natural Resources Defense Council."...

Obama introduces Bryson (video)  "Notice the first-person references, including one Mr. Obama almost left out at the last, but corrected himself in time."

The Palin Bus tour

Chasing Sarah: The Boys Behind the Bus

"Palin is rubbing the media mob’s sense of entitlement right back in its face." Michelle Malkin

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/garyvarvel



http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/lisabenson



Exploring the Hollywood Propaganda Machine

This is a follow-up piece to the article the TW ran yesterday: Primetime Propaganda’: Help Us Expose Hollywood’s Conservative Blacklist  (Below)

Exploring the Hollywood Propaganda Machine..."We think it has no impact on us.
"But it does. Television made Barack Obama. Television it supported bigger and bigger government, from Welfare to health care; pushed abortion-on-demand and the radical gay agenda into the mainstream; it stumped against war and for meaningless buzzwords like diversity and dangerous buzzwords like multiculturalism. Television has done more to change the politics of our nation than simple politics has.

"Television has manipulated us. And those who create television have done it purposefully, and elegantly. They have weeded out conservatives in the industry wholesale. They have worked hand-in-glove with liberals in government to forward the leftist agenda. They have turned pure entertainment into a vehicle for propaganda."  Emphasis added.

"The number one tool in the left’s arsenal is the television industry. Let’s take that weapon out of their hands."

Related: Declaration Entertainment ;

From Newsbusters:  New Book 'Primetime Propaganda' Documents How Left Controls Hollywood
"...not only will they readily admit that Hollywood has a strict anti-conservative agenda, but further, that many of their TV shows have underlying political messages meant to influence the way their audiences think."

Pajamas Media: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Subtext  "This is where conservatives go wrong. Conservatives want to think politically instead of thinking entertainment wise. Liberals always understood that the key here is to make something really entertaining that happens to also be incredibly liberal — whereas conservatives, they take precisely the opposite approach."

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A Politically Incorrect Look at President Obama’s Approach to Border Security

Big Government "Around the world, Western nations that wish to remain culturally in tact or, in some cases, simply to survive, are currently bolstering their borders and revamping their immigration policies."

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"So it should come as no surprise that far from pursuing more border control, in the spirit of Italy and France, Obama is pitching a new amnesty plan to the House and Senate just in time for the 2012 elections. No wonder Israel is held up as an example: a nation whose policies are light years ahead of us when it comes to preserving a border in such a way as to be certain it remains what it ought to be in the first place: a divider between “us” and “them, between “ours” and “theirs.”

"Note to Obama: a nation without borders isn’t a nation at all – it’s just a bigger sidewalk."Emphasis added, with relish.

From Heritage: The Debt Is Not a Game, Mr. President

The Foundry  "Well, President Obama asked for it. And last night he got it in grand fashion—a “clean vote” on raising the nation’s debt limit, free of any of the desperately needed spending cuts that Americans are demanding, conservatives support, but liberals abhor. And by a 318–97 margin, the House of Representatives shot down the President’s effort to authorize $2.4 trillion in additional borrowing by the federal government without condition.
"The vote was introduced by the House Republican majority to send a message to the President in advance of their meeting today at the White House: There cannot be more borrowing and spending without significant spending cuts and reforms."   More on this topic here.  And here.

Primetime Propaganda’: Help Us Expose Hollywood’s Conservative Blacklist

Big Hollywood  "Because there are no codified standards, the reason for one’s employment or lack thereof are simply left to the whims of those in charge.

"And those in charge are Liberals. And Liberals, as we know, despise Conservatives.

"That is why Conservatives in Hollywood live in even greater fear than any other employee. In Hollywood, anyone can perform their job perfectly and still get fired. However, if one Liberal and one Conservative each performs their job perfectly, and one must be fired, the Conservative is the one who will be shown the door.

"It’s time to expose the discrimination that exists in Hollywood, and shine the cold light of reality on the Liberals who pay lip service to tolerating all points of view."

EXCLUSIVE AUDIO: Former Network Exec Agrees It’s Difficult for Conservatives to Break Into TV Industry

Sesame Street's pinko puppets brainwash our kids  "Among Shapiro's most revelatory interviewees is Marta Kauffman, the co-creator of Friends, who recalls how she hired a "bunch of liberals" to run the programme to "put out there what we believe". In 1999, she admitted casting the actress sister of Newt Gingrich, the prominent Republican, to play a preacher at a lesbian wedding because she wanted to annoy conservatives."

Goodbye to 'Law [and] Order:' 20 Years of Attacking Businesses, Conservative Ideals  from May 26, 2010, but the show still does it in reruns.
"Cop/courtroom drama frequently puts corporate-types on trial, attacks traditional values and conservative views."....
"The Business & Media Institute examined the portrayal of businessmen in TV dramas in 2005 and found that a person was 21 times more likely to be kidnapped or murdered at the hands of a businessman than the mob. Businessmen also committed crimes five times more often than terrorists and four times more often than gangs."....
"Often the bias is written into a character’s dialogue, revealing the driving agenda. That’s what happened in late 2009, when one “Law & Order: SVU” character slammed conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly.

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"“Limbaugh, Beck, O’Reilly, all of ‘em, they are like a cancer spreading ignorance and hate … They’ve convinced folks that immigrants are the problem, not corporations that fail to pay a living wage or a broken health care system …” the character (played by John Larroquette) said."....

"Original cast member Michael Moriarty condemned the “unconscionable” liberalism of “Law [and] Order” in Dec. 2009, saying, “I hardly expected my old television series to be the clown act that leads the American viewing audience into an increasingly predictable pile of hard left propaganda.”" (emphasis added)