Bent Notes

I’d like to say a litle more about “well-duh” punditry.  What amazes me is that this drivel is coming from our supposedly sharpest minds.  Even a perusal of the venues that have been my lifeline for years in post-modern America - NRO, Townhall, Real Clear Politics - yields these offerings of a tepid brew of cautious congratulation, nerdy examination of demographic and voting trends going back to 1912, vapid portrayals of America’s essence, and the invevitable mentions of the need for a new generation of conservative leaders.  Talk about blah blah blah.

The fact is that what all you chin-rubbing, number-crunching broadly American beacons of eruditon were fearing mortally in your hearts three days ago has come to pass.

“Maybe Obama will govern more from the center, in keeping with his rhetoric after the primaries were over.   After all, he will be hemmed in by economic challenges.”  My ass.

Get a clue.  Not only has he been chomping at the bit for this moment for decades, so have Reid, Pelosi, Barney Frank, Barbara Boxer, Chuck Schumer, Jim Moran, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, John Murtha, and a fired-up FHer base whose organizations will now be more financially and psychologically empowered than ever.

That’s what makes me cringe when I read these columns and blog posts by the main spokespeople for my side that spend the first paragraph spewing that “historic moment” dog vomit.  Let Katie Couric handle that obligatory observation.  Yeah, yeah, the guy’s black.  Well, dig this: I don’t give a flip about his color, except insofar as he does, and on that score I’m not too encouraged.  But more importantly I’m concerned about his power to turn a recession into an economic train wreck, the mortal danger he will put this country in with his patty-cake approach to foreign policy, and the effect his own narcissism will have on a postmodern American culture already way too driven by that adolescent character trait.

So count me out of the group hug.  I’m still interested in what I’ve always been interested in: our freedom.

. . . no longer stands for “mainstream,” but rather “Marxist Suck-up.”

Exhibit A is Douglass Daniel’s AP “analysis” of Sarah Palin’s remarks referenced in the last post.  In the first paragraph, he used the term “racially tinged,” and I thought, Huh?  So I read down a few more graphs, to where he says that, Palin and the McCain campaign run the risk of her “not the way we see America” comment being perceived as racist, “whether it was meant that way or not.”

Well, s—!  No one was going to see it that way UNTIL YOU ENGAGED IN THIS VULGAR RACE-BAITING, YOU STINKING TOTALITARIAN CHUNK OF DOG VOMIT!

Then there’s Tom Brokaw’s characterization of Bill Ayers as having evolved from a “radical” into an “educational reformer.”

When I first heard Sean Hannity declare that 2008 marked the death of the profession of journalism, I thought it was a bit overheated, a purple moment of talk-show hyperbole.

No, he is spot-on.