The Slippery Eel

Merry Christmas

In the spirit of Christmas, I found this funny great video above on a blog that I just discovered, from Nevada, Sunni Kay's RANTINGS, RAMBLINGS, AND OTHER MISCELLANEOUS STUFF. I think you'll enjoy the blog as much as I, and you might get a laugh from the video.

Try Getting a Straight Answer from the Slippery Eel

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Part of the reason that John Bolton was never confirmed as ambassador to the United Nations, and was roundly criticized, was that he spoke the truth. He was not a diplomat, some say. For example, he was not averse to criticizing the United Nations for its corruption.

Contrast this style with the new Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, who is called the Slippery Eel. I saw him on some of the morning talk shows this morning, and he deserves this sobriquet. He basically says nothing. He sounds like a Miss America contestant when she pronounces she is "for world peace."

Blunt versus Diplomatic

It appears to me that there is a difference at this time in history between these two styles within the two major parties. Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, speaks bluntly, a style I like, but of course I don't enjoy the things he says. Barack Obama, U.S. Senator from Illinois, the fifth African American Senator in U.S. history, is the diplomat, barely saying anything, but of course paying heed to the almighty liberal mantras. Senator Hillary Clinton from New York, kind of sways back and forth between being diplomatic and being blunt; again, a style I like, but I don't like her agenda.

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On the conservative side, Bush is the diplomat, barely communicating anything when he speaks, but sticking to his agenda always, which is one-eighth conservative and seven-eighth's liberal. (I do have to give him credit for holding the line on taxes and being resolute in Iraq.) The really blunt guy on the conservative side is Representative Tom Tancredo, from Denver, who is our champion against illegal immigration. Tancredo keeps getting re-elected, but he commands no national power base.

Pundits versus Politicians

This whole situation is interesting to me, as I see the outcomes for bluntness with politicians versus the outcomes with pundits are different. Politicians like Bolton and Tancredo don't seem to get rewarded much for being blunt. Pundits, though, like radio talk-show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage on the right, and media counterparts Al Franken and Keith Olberman on the left, seem to enjoy great popularity and to reap great wealth from their decisive stands.

I think that politicians don't benefit from their bluntness because they need a majority of voters to elect them. Bolton needed American support and world cooperation to be effective. He couldn't even get confirmed. Tancredo needs national support for his immigration policies, not just local interest.

The pundits don't need majorities in order to "win." They do perfectly well with niche markets. Rush and Savage get the hard-core conservatives, and Franken and Olberman the hard-core liberals.

As a result, I wind up liking Limbaugh, Savage, Franken and Olberman much more than I like the average politician. Rush, Michael, Al and Keith speak their minds, which is what I want in America.

I don't have a solution for this state of affairs, except I think you get what you deserve. I believe we ought to support more politicians who do speak their minds.

Crazy for Obama

I was all excited recently, like the rest of America, with Barack Obama. I am happy to see a black man seriously contend for the presidency. After all, he does not carry the same baggage as Democratic one-time black candidates Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton, two guys who do speak their minds, but unfortunately who are also demagogues.

Yet, as I hear more and more of what Barack says, I realize he is saying nothing. He is a diplomat. What's worse, he is a liberal diplomat—which means he will ultimately appease his base. He does not appear to have any great ideas, and continues to say zilch. How long can the excitement last? Is this still better than Sharpton? Yes, but not very inspiring.

Solution

My solution is this. I want politicians to be blunt enough to be real leaders. I want them to firmly believe in their political philosophies and take their chances with the voters. I favor Tancredo's solution. Say what you think and then let the voters decide. Yes, this means that Tancredo will forfeit any national stage for his ideas, and the Bolton's of the world will never get confirmed—but I prefer knowing where people stand than having them appease me but then later betray me when the voting on issues starts.

So, I prefer Howard Dean over Barack Obama; John Bolton over anyone they will appoint next; and Tom Tancredo over California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (another diplomat and appeaser to boot).

The Payoff for Bluntness

Yet, again, what is the payoff for bluntness? I won't vote for any Dean-like character, no matter how much I like their bluntness. I won't vote for any rabid liberal, nor for a demagogue of any party.

The only payoff for bluntness from me, then, is if you are a blunt conservative. Then, I will respect, admire, love and vote for you. I will be passionate about you. I am passionate about Tancredo. I am not passionate about Schwarzenegger. I am passionate about Dean, too. I passionately abhor the man.

Passion, that's the payoff for bluntness. Passion can get you elected, and move your agenda. It can also keep you from being confirmed. It's a double-edged sword.

The Leaderless U.N.

I'm glad the reign of the corrupt U.N. apologist Kofi Annan is over, but I'm sad we now have a diplomat taking his place, instead of a leader. And I'm sad to see John Bolton go.

Ho, Ho, Ho!

God bless you all and Merry Christmas.

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Letters From Iwo Jima

Has William Munny forgotten Dirty Harry?

The Dangerous Liberal Impulse to Humanize Our Enemies

An American Master

Clint Eastwood is one of America's finest actors and directors; a master, an American treasure, and a favorite of mine. He has given us some of our best movies, and greatest characters on film, ranging from the High Plains Drifter to Dirty Harry; and directing masterpieces like The Unforgiven, Mystic River, and Million Dollar Baby.

Eastwood's Political Landscape

His gems have ranged the political landscape. He has portrayed iconic conservative characters, like Dirty Harry, but also ranged to portrayals that question the heroism of the manly values we used to cherish, as with his William Munny role in The Unforgiven.

Humanizing the Other Side

Letters From Iwo Jima is Clint Eastwood's companion piece to his masterpiece, Flags of Our Fathers. In Iwo Eastwood tells the story from the perspective of the Japanese, while in Flags he told it from the American point of view. In Letters From Iwo Jima, as in The Unforgiven and other films of his, Eastwood blurs our vision of good guys and bad guys. He does the very liberal thing of sympathetically getting inside the minds of our former enemies.



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I haven't seen the film, so I'm not here to praise nor criticize it. The reviews are mostly glowing. Even the reviews that are not effusive are still gushing with admiration that finally both sides of a WWII story are being told by an American. This includes, according to the reviews, that Eastwood ignores and never shows Japanese atrocities committed in that war, which were legend; but does depict on screen American atrocities, which were rare.

Leftist America-Hating

This makes me a bit uncomfortable. It is too close to the present American leftist myths that America is the bad guy, while all our enemies are good; in fact, according to the left, everyone on the planet are human and deserving of sympathy, except Americans and conservatives. Al-Queda have families too, but American soldiers are war criminals. Castro and Chavez deserve admiration, but Bush merits ridicule and scorn.

Our Enemies Have Families Too

Since I haven't seen the film, I don’t know if Eastwood promotes the myths I discussed above, but it appears that he may, at least on some level. I have no objection to portraying the truth, as you might guess. All of our enemies in all of our wars were human beings, with wives, children, cats and dogs. They all cared about their friends. Some of them were religious. They worried about taxes and mortgages. They honored their parents. Yes, they were human.

Good and Evil

Yet, they weren't saints either. They weren't the good guys while the Americans were the bad guys. There were whole segments of Germans and Japanese who did commit atrocities on a regular basis. Plus, the governments they were fighting for were perpetrating abominations on a daily basis. All this is part of the truth.

Fine, let's always understand that all the peoples on the face of the earth are human. They have their side of the story to tell too.

Yet, there still is good and evil, something the left cannot grasp. Dirty Harry knew this.

There are people on this earth who are scum. They don't have a human side to them.

Probably, most of the Japanese people, even in WWII, were good, honest, decent folks. Yet, some of them were not. Persons like Hitler and his gang, Mussolini, Stalin, and the Japanese leaders who ordered torture and death marches, were not very human. Nor were the followers who enthusiastically carried out their orders.

The same is true now about radical Muslims who behead, bomb babies, and fly airplanes into skyscrapers in the name of Allah and 72 virgins. There is no humanization for characters like this. There are not two sides to the story. America did not deserve this kind of inhumanity.

Perverted Liberal Impulses

I don't care if the terrorist has a wife and children, takes good care of his dog and cat, and sends money to his mother. If he kills in the name of Allah, and hates infidels to the point of wanting to exterminate them, he is an evil man. I don't want to hear his side of the story. I can guess it anyway. He grew up in a home that preached hatred; went to madrasahs that shouted that America is the great Satan; and read books written by the left, by Americans like Noam Chomsky.

The liberal impulse to humanize our enemies in war, demonize our own war efforts, and dehumanize our own leaders is perverted and upside down.

We Need You, Dirty Harry

Still, and again, and always, I don't mind hearing and seeing the truth. Mr. Eastwood's film may portray one essence of the truth in humanizing this group of Japanese soldiers on the island of Iwo Jima, who were stuck fighting what for them they knew was going to be a losing battle; that would end in their own deaths. Nothing can arouse our sympathies, mine included, more than this.

Yet, all I ask is, don't abandon your Dirty Harry entirely, Mr. Eastwood. Good and evil do exist, and there really is black and white in some cases. There truly are scum on the face of this planet, and they do deserve Magnum Force.

It's all right to question your gun slinging from time to time, otherwise you will be Unforgiven; yet there will be moments when you can do great good for your loved ones and the world, and be on the side of the good guys and God, when you look evil in the eye and say, "Go ahead, punk. Make my day."

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Sean Gets an "F" in Pennmanship

Republicans, Take the Gloves Off

Sean Penn, Hollywood Nitwit

Hollywood brilliance.

This is Part Two of my responses to Sean Penn's acceptance speech for the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award. Here is more of what Penn said, and my reactions:

And should we speak truth, we stand against government efforts to intimidate or legislate in the service of censorship. Whether under the guise of a Patriot Act or any other benevolent-sounding rationale for the age-old game of shutting down dissent by discouraging independent thinking and preventing progressive social change.

Obviously, Mr. Penn, no one has shut you up. Plus, your progressive social change you seek is already here, with your brand of political correctness, your fascist hatred of America, your anti-military, anti-capitalism, pro-multiculturalism that promotes dictators and tyrants all over the globe—who suppress minorities, gays, and women, and bring poverty to the world's children.



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But, as a practical matter, most of the limits on creative expression and other forms of free speech come from self-censorship, where the mechanism of corporate clout offers carrots and brandishes sticks. We avoid a conflict before the conflict materializes. We reach for the carrots and stay out of range of sticks.

Decades ago, Fred Friendly called it a "positive veto" - corporations putting big money behind shows that they want to establish and perpetuate. Whether in journalism or drama, creative efforts that don't gain a financial "positive veto" are dismissible, then dismissed. We may not call that "censorship." But whatever we call it, the effects of a "positive veto" system are severe. They impose practical limits on efforts to bring the most important realities to public attention sooner rather than later...

I suppose, Mr. Penn, that government ought to force corporations to financially support these shows you say they are censoring? Have you noticed that many of the news outlets and programs actually have been biased towards your side anyway for years—including now, Mr. Penn? We are forced to accept the liberal bias you and your cohorts in Hollywood impose on our country.

We're beginning to see more revealing images of this war. But it's later now, isn't it? What we have to pay attention to are the results of these "practical limits." One, is that wars become much easier to launch than to halt.

Yes, all human political endeavors become much easier to launch than to halt. One reason is that your side practices "gotcha" politics where any leader of a war is damned if he does and damned if she doesn't. If he "stays the course," you label him a warmonger. If she adjusts, changes tactics, or ends the war, you say "See, she was a war criminal after all, and just admitted it."

Instead of hatred, try offering positive solutions to the world's problems.

Men and women stationed in Iraq at this moment, under orders of a Commander-in-Chief so sufficiently practiced in the art of deception, that he got vast numbers of American journalists and the most esteemed media outlets of this country, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and PBS to eagerly serve his agenda-building for war.

Which is it, Mr. Penn? Is George W. Bush an idiot, or is he a genius—"so sufficiently practiced in the art of deception" that he can bamboozle a whole nation?

And the process also induced vast numbers of artists and performers (probably even some in this room tonight) to keep quiet and facilitate the push for an invasion in Iraq.

Yes, there are some in Hollywood who are real heroes, not America-haters like you.

And, where is the accountability on behalf of the American dead and wounded, their families, their friends, and the people of the United States who have seen their country become a world pariah. These events have been enabled by people named Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rumsfeld, and Rice, as they continue to perpetuate a massive fraud on American democracy and decency.

You are the one who is perpetuating a massive fraud. Our dead and wounded did something positive for the world. Unlike you, they have acted in the name of honor and decency. You and your cronies are the ones who enable the world to promote a distorted vision of America. Though we are alone at this time in our history, this is often the position of real heroes. Those who stand with or encourage angry mobs, like you, are villains.

Would they have believed Rush Limbaugh if they'd known he was high as a kite on OxyContin? Would they have believed the factually impaired Bill O'Reilly if they knew he was massaging his rectum with a loofah while telephonically harassing a staffer? Hannity, had they known he was simply a whore to the cause of his pimps - Murdoch and Ailes?

This is what a pacifist sounds like, Ladies and Gentlemen. A man of peace.

Or the little bow-tie putz, if they knew all he was seeking was a good laugh from Jon Stewart?

Note that Sean Penn is not even smart enough to know that Steven Colbert is a parody. The man is on your side Mr. Penn. I know this level of humor is above your ability to grasp.

Maybe our countrymen and women were listening to Ted Haggert while he was whiffing meth and boning a muscle-headed gigolo? Or Mark Foley seeking junior weenies? Joe Lieberman, sitting Shiva? And Toby Keith, singing about how big his boots are?

Racist, mean, and stupid. Don't stop talking now, Mr. Penn.

So...look, if we attempt to impeach for lying about a blowjob,

Mr. Penn, stop perpetuating this fraud. Clinton was impeached for lying under oath. The Chief Executive of the laws of the United States of America took an oath in a courtroom and lied. He should have been impeached for this, and convicted.

yet accept these almost certain abuses without challenge, we become a cum-stain on the flag we wave.

Again, you have raised the level of discourse in America. Thank you, Mr. Penn.

You know, I was listening to Frank Rich this morning, speaking on a book tour. He said he thought impeachment proceedings would amount to a "decadent" sidetrack, while our soldiers were still being killed. I admire Frank Rich. And of course he would be right if impeachment is all we do. But we're Americans. We can do two things at the same time. Yes, let's move forward and swiftly get out of this war in Iraq AND impeach these bastards.

I've got a better idea. Let's impeach you as an actor. Let's just stay away from your movies.

Conclusion

Let's not censor this kind of talk from liberal America-haters like Sean Penn. Let them speak. This is a free country. Then, when they have spewn their venom, let's decide how we feel about them. Do we want to allow them to spread lies without challenge? Should we permit their negative view of America, our President, the war in Iraq, and even about the capitalism that gave them their fortune and podium, to poison the atmosphere without a rebuttal?

I speak in kind to them. They lie about Bush. I challenge their lies. They spew hatred. I show them how some Americans feel about them. They are vicious. I return their viciousness.

One thing I have always disliked about Republicans is that they are too nice. Guys like Bush just smile and take it. They praise their enemies, like Edward Kennedy, and get scorn and hatred for their trouble. Stop trying to be nice guys, Republicans. Politics is a dirty game, and you've got to stand up to bullies like Sean Penn. Take your gloves off. God will approve, believe me. In fact, you have to fight just as hard as the Democrats if you are to get the truth out there. Lives are at stake.

You are still good and decent people when you do this. You are weak if you don't.

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Hollywood Bravery

Mean and Stupid

Liberals are mean-spirited people without brains (except for the ones that read and comment on this blog!). They spew their anti-Republican, anti-conservative, anti-American rhetoric, slandering some of the best people on earth based on their own miserable inadequacies, without proof, without logic.

The Bravest Man in the World

Sean Penn, the king of the Hollywood Nitwits, just got an award for sputtering his inanities.






He won the 2006 Christopher Reeve First Amendment Award.





This is a slap in the face to America, and shows once again that Hollywood is the first to give itself another award, and the last to embrace rationality and responsible citizenship. America ought to boycott all of Hollywood until they grow up and act like the caring people they pretend to be.

Again, for all you liberals who are a few brain cells short, I am not stifling free speech. I don't want you locked up for spouting your nonsense. Free speech, though, does not imply, my challenged friends, that there will be no reaction to what you say. I am free too, get it?, to respond to your free speech. I am "permitted" to call you the names that you call George Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.

I've read the full text of Sean Penn's acceptance speech for the award, and am willing to admit that the guy finally put together sentences that are actually readable. I think it's so Hollywood of him, though, to behave as if he is some great hero, speaking truth to power, by spouting his liberal drivel to an adoring Hollywood crowd. What courage it must take to say such revolutionary things to his choir of Bush-haters. Yes, this man has cajones! He is willing to risk his career by criticizing conservatives. What a man!

The truth is, anyone who goes against the grain in Hollywood, and speaks the truth; who defends conservative values—this would be heroism. You are not a hero by preaching to the KKK how bad blacks are. You are not courageous by standing up for women's rights at a NOW convention. And you are not brave by bashing Bush at an event populated by mindless liberals.

This will be a two-part post, one today, and one tomorrow. Since Mr. Penn has finally put together some coherent sentences on his beliefs, I feel he deserves a point-by-point response. Here are my reactions.

Mr. Penn states that the real areas of concern for the world ought to be:

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Sean Penn's Mantras

Global warming

The truth is, Mr. Penn, that there is still disagreement among reputable scientists whether global warming is man-made or a result of natural periodic processes. The other thing that mindless environmentalists miss is that Ice Ages happen too. If we are on the verge of an Ice Age, then we'll need all the global warming we can get—as an Ice Age is much more devastating to humanity than any warming period.

Massive pollution

The United States is, relatively speaking, one of the cleaner nations on the face of the earth now. China is the biggest polluter at this time—with one particular factory spewing more greenhouse gasses in a year than all the automobiles in the United States together.

Non-stop U.S. war in Iraq

If you, Mr. Penn, had supported the war against the monster Saddam Hussein, and added to the dialogue about how to fight the war effectively, then perhaps we'd have a different outcome now.

Attacks on civil liberties under the banner of war on terror

I don't see your civil liberties being violated, Mr. Penn. Nobody is locking you up, as they would do in one of your favorite dictatorships, Cuba, for saying exactly how you feel.

Military spending

We're not spending enough on the military, Mr. Penn. This is why our fighting forces are stretched so thin and we're having trouble maintaining enough troops to win the war in Iraq.

You and I, U.S. taxpayers, spend 1 1/2 billion dollars on an Iraq-war-'focused' military everyday, while social needs cry out.

We are in a War on Terror, Mr. Penn. I know you don't care about the 3,000 people that died on 9/11, but it will happen again if we follow your policies. We spend plenty on social needs, Mr. Penn. If we didn't have so many illegals in this country, then we'd have no shortage of medical care, welfare, and housing.

Health care

Yes, I know you want to make us into Britain, where you have to wait 6 months to get treated properly for a broken arm, and where taxes rise so high that the government takes most of what you earn.

Education

You want all our children to continue to be educated in our failing public schools instead of having the freedom to choose where to go. You'd like the schools to continue brainwashing our children so they grow up to be mindless liberals like you.

Public transit

Surprise! Here we agree. We need subways like in Europe. Good idea, even and especially for Los Angeles. How do you get stuff like this done? Privatize, Mr. Penn. Just like the first subways in New York City.

Environmental protections

Fine, but don't go sparing your home and land from windmills while you impose them on the rest of the country. Don't lecture us for driving our relatively gas-saving Hummers when you gallivant the globe in your fuel-guzzling private jets.

Affordable housing

Yeah, that's a great idea. More projects and rent control that drive down the supply of housing and raise rents for everyone.

Job training

Yes, I agree. On the other hand, I see so many job training programs around I wonder how many more we need.

Public investment

Fine, again. Except, I know where you're going to get the money for this—exorbitant taxes. Why don't you just give 95% of your earnings to public investment, and put your money where your mouth is.

And, levy building

Yes, I agree. Government really sucks at stuff like this, doesn't it, Mr. Penn? Privatize things like this and you'll get your levies built, and built properly.

Sean Penn's Brilliance, Part One

You've just read the usual Hollywood/liberal mantras, and my response to them. I don't go into depth, because liberals wouldn't understand the arguments anyway. I just, as usual, want a voice out here that speaks the truth, opposing the leftist Hollywood propaganda machine.

Tomorrow, part two of my responses to Mr. Penn's perspicacity.

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Media Does Matter

Hit Piece

Media bias.

If you are against bias in the media, then don't read this "article." This is a hit piece, a totally biased "drive-by" shot at liberals and liberal media. You won't find proof in this particular post, just opinion. The opinion expressed runs counter to those commonly held by the liberal media, including their drive-by websites.

Rush Limbaugh explains the term drive by media.

They are exactly like drive-by shooters, they pull up to a congested area, they spray a hail of bullets into the crowd. It causes mass hysteria, confusion, mistakes, and misinterpretation, sometimes people and their careers actually die, and then the drive-by media smirks and they ride away, unnoticed in the excitement. They're never blamed, they're never held accountable.

Bias in the Media that Matters

As I've said before, I don't mind bias in the media as long as it's bias in favor of truth.



Since conservatism is much more in line with truth these days, then I never mind bias in favor of conservatism. I do mind, though, when people are unaware of biases, liberal or conservative. In this blog, I fight untruth, stupidity, ignorance, and demagoguery, all of which are found chiefly on the left.

It is ironic that most of the left accuses our President of being ignorant and even stupid, and yet they are the ignorant and stupid ones.

One example is all the liberal websites. I don't have the stomach to do the actual research to give you these sites, but I will mention Media Matters, one major site which constantly reports everything bad about conservatism. What's wrong with the site? First, they're attacking the wrong side, if they want to be on the side of truth. Second, they are biased, while purporting to be fair and objective. Third, liberals take what they report as gospel.

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This is where ignorance and stupidity come in. I don't mind there being a watchdog group for conservatism. This is the purpose of democracies. Each side watches the other. The same purpose is served on the right with sites such as Rush Limbaugh, Michelle Malkin, and Ann Coulter.

Biased towards Truth

The difference is that I, as a conservative, know that Rush, Michelle, and Ann are biased. Again, I don't care that they are biased, because their bias is in favor of truth. Still, I realize they are biased, and I take this into account when I read or listen to them. One reason I listen to them even though they are biased is that even when they are egregious, they hit on elements of truth. For example, when Rush lambastes liberals all day long, every day, you know he is looking for these things to say about liberals. Yet, when he says something, he generally is correct. Liberals really are that bad. He is not exaggerating. He is just honestly reporting what is really true.

Does Media Matter?

Media Matters, though, and other liberal sites like it, do exaggerate, and without any connection to the truth. Their theory is the mirror opposite of Rush, Michelle, and Ann. They believe that conservatives are all that bad, and they do their best to prove it. The whole site is dedicated to "gotcha" politics, catching conservatives saying dumb or contradictory things, promoting conspiracy theories, showing how evil our government is, and how bad America is.

Conservatives are the Thinkers

Again, this is one of those posts where I'm not out to prove anything, just to express an opinion. The opposite opinion is out there every day on all the liberal-controlled media, that conservatives are mindless automatons, brainwashed by religion, blindly following Rush as Dittoheads, and so on. I believe the opposite is true. Conservatives are the thinkers. Liberals are the mindless automatons. They have one theory—America and the conservatives who run it are evil. That's the sum of their life. They devote every passion to it, and make themselves feel morally superior by embracing it.

I can tell you this. I know every word that is going to come out of a liberal's mouth, before he/she speaks. I know every theory they have, every side of every issue they espouse; who they are going to vote for and why; how they feel about the major news topics of the day, and so on.

I can't say this for conservatives. Conservatives have a brain. Conservatives surprise me all the time.

Who are the automatons?

Know Your Enemy and Open Your Mind

Anyway, I don't blindly follow Rush, Michelle, or Ann, even though they are right much of the time. I will read Media Matters and other such liberal hate sites, to see what the enemy is doing, and to keep my mind open to any truths they might stumble upon once in a blue moon.

Bias on Both Sides

How do I know if a site is biased? Easy. Whether it's a liberal or conservative site, I know it's biased if it presents, always, only one side of issues. Media Matters reports only anti-conservative stuff; Rush, Michelle, and Ann report only anti-liberal things. These sites are biased. CNN is biased liberal; FOX is biased right. Again, this is okay with me. I just want folks to be aware of it. To get the TRUTH, you need to read and listen to both spectrums, and also to find unbiased sources, rare as they may be; for example, The Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Plus, it is my opinion that, again, conservative bias places you closer to truth than liberal bias.

Advice to Liberals

My egregious, biased, unwanted, and unwelcome advice to liberals is:

It's fine to be liberal; it's a legitimate political philosophy.

If you're going to be liberal, though, be liberal; don't veer off into hatred, blind bias, communism, totalitarianism or anarchism; don't blindly stand up for criminals, dictators and thugs; don't be reverse racists; and don't think that mouthing liberal mantras makes you a good person.

Plus, just because something is printed in a newspaper or on a website, doesn't mean it's true. Learn to be discriminating. If you base your hatred of conservatives on "facts" you read on liberal drive by sites, you are hating not due to reality, but because you, Sir or Madam, have a need to hate. You are projecting.

It is your problem.

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