November 14, 2008
Sanctimonious Stone Throwers
Printer FriendlyBy: David Limbaugh
God bless Sarah Palin, and shame on elitists from both sides of the aisle who have denigrated, demonized and dissed her. I don't care how many "smartest people in the room" types offer pseudo-sophisticated analyses to prove she was a drag on the GOP presidential ticket. They are all manifestly and embarrassingly wrong -- and woefully out of touch -- which is par for the course for elitists.
Speaking of elitists, it's time to address their contempt for rural and southern America, particularly their ongoing smear of the South (and, truth be told, rank-and-file conservative Republicans) as racist.
For all the accolades Barack Obama is receiving, he should acknowledge a bit of egg on his face for invoking race with his failed prediction that his opponents would play the race card. "They're going to try to ... make you scared of me," he said. "You know, 'He's not patriotic enough; he's got a funny name.' You know, 'He doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills."
Then there was Newsweek's poster boy for liberal smugness, Jonathan Alter, hypothecating a scenario in which Obama could lose because of racism. Alter said the following factors would have contributed:
--"Erosion in the critical I-4 corridor near Tampa and in the Panhandle, where the astonishing Republican margins among whites could be attributed only to race."
--"The transformation of the northern part of (Virginia) couldn't overcome a huge McCain margin among whites farther south. They weren't the racists of their parents' generation, but they weren't quite ready to vote for the unthinkable, either."
Alter then cited an earlier Newsweek story, which asked, "Is America Ready (for a black president)?" "The answer: only if Obama proved close to a flawless candidate, and even then, we won't know for sure until Election Day. That doesn't mean Obama lost because all, or even most, McCain voters allowed race to be a factor. But enough did to change the outcome."
While Alter said he didn't think his scenario would play out, it doesn't excuse his presumptuous, unfair and erroneous assessment of people he doesn't know.
But Alter's piece was no more offensive than a postelection story by The New York Times' Adam Nossiter, in which Nossiter echoed Obama's comments about rural America and some people's discomfort with his looks and name (read: race).
Nossiter wrote: "Fear of the politician with the unusual name and look did not end with last Tuesday's vote in this rural red swatch where buck heads and rifles hang on the wall. This corner of the Deep South still resonates with negative feelings about the race of President-elect Barack Obama."
But the South, gloated Nossiter, is no longer going to be a major factor in presidential politics because parts of the "'suburban South' … have experienced an influx of better educated and more prosperous voters in recent years." Southern counties voting more Republican this year, he said, "tended to be poorer, less educated and whiter," as they have been "rural and isolated (and) less exposed to diversity, educational achievement and economic progress." According to the omniscient Nossiter, "Mr. Obama's race appears to have been the critical deciding factor in pushing ever greater numbers of white Southerners away from the Democrats."
Nossiter cited one political analyst saying "there's no other explanation than race" for Obama receiving a smaller percentage of the Alabama white vote than John Kerry did in 2004.
Oh? How about reasonable anxiety about Obama's alliances and gaps in his biography, not to mention that he made the mistake of revealing his socialism and contempt for rural, Bible- and gun-toting Americans when away from his teleprompter?
One might think the liberals' persistent demagoguery on race mostly for partisan gain would subside with the election of Barack Obama, but one would be wrong.
Prescient commentators predicted that if Obama won, there would be no letting up. They speculated that charges of racism might even escalate, as an emboldened left would begin an all-out war against conservative talk radio.
Lo and behold, before the Electoral College has even convened to formalize Obama's victory, the slanderous group e-mails have begun. I personally received a number of them today, one of which said conservative talk radio is "'All Hate All The Time' -- racist, homophobic, sexist."
Don't think they aren't methodically laying a foundation to strip conservative America of its most powerful First Amendment outlet, talk radio, so they can restore their coveted liberal media monopoly.
There's apparently no limit to the shameless tactics of those willing to use false and divisive charges of racism to vilify an entire group of people (which, ironically, is the pernicious thought process inherent in racism) who are probably truer to racial colorblindness than their sanctimonious accusers.
Posted by redguy at November 14, 2008 05:35 AM
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David Limbaugh - again "Right" on! I refuse to call liberals Liberals - they are Now Leftist - in this new world order!. . I say whatever the elites print or say - just turn it around. . memick their words back to them with our intentions in mind! We need to read their "play books", the Bill Aires, Burnideen Dorn Manifestos - & realize this is Their "Game"!!!!!!! But America is Red because "fly over Country" is the REAL America - - & we have Christian Values That matter!!! And we Stand with Sarah Palin - Sound & Resolved to Take this Country Back in 2012 or sooner!!!!!!! God Willing!
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at November 14, 2008 06:25 AM
David Limbaugh - as always. . . "Right" on it! I, personally have refused to call liberals - liberals, they are Now Leftists - this this. . new world order!. . . I say whatever these leftists elitists say or print - we just turn it around and use "Conservative Speak" right back at them - mirroring our intentions full blast - with a smile, of course! And Everyone of us -especially
those in Leadership - should read their "Play Books" . . ie . . Bills Aires & Bernidene Dorn, Obama's Manifestos - to know Just What they are up to!We must relize This is Their "Game Plan"!Yet, I know America is still a Red Nation (see map on Rush's website) - this is the Real America ---& we have Christian Values That matter!My friends & I stand with Sarah Palin - Soundly Resovled to Take this Country Back in 2012 or SOONER!. . God Willing!!!!!!
Posted by: S.A.Lewis at November 14, 2008 03:51 PM
God spoke to my heart immediately following the 2004 election, saying, "Unless all Conservative Reporters begin immediately identifying those who call themselves "Democrats" (Socialists who have integrated and entirely overtaken what formerly was the Democratic Party) by their real political agenda for America--Socialism--Republicans will not only lose the 2008 Presidential Election, but will lose the majority of the political races at the Federal level of Government, but also State, County, and City Governments!"
Only a month or so before the election, after it
became evident McCain was likely going to lose the election, McCain and Conservative reporters unfortunately began waking up to this fact too late, and began identifying Barack Obama by his real political agenda for America: Socialism.
Have you noticed they deliberately use positive nicknames, misnomers, for themselves and also to help disguise their real political agendas, i.e., the "Fairness Doctrine", which is instead totally unfair to Conservatives as it takes away their freedom of speech! These Socialists, themselves, created the nicknames "liberals", "progressives", and "left wingers" and "leftists", because they consider them complimentary. Therefore, S.A. Lewis, above, is naively helping their cause if he identifies them as "leftists", rather than as Socialists, their real political agenda! These nicknames they have chosen go over the heads of the uneducated, apathetic masses in our Nation; those who refuse to educate themselves to the truth about these Socialists and/or Communists! It never dawns on them the home Governments of most of the uneducated immigrants who come here are normally Socialist and/or Communist, which is exactly why Socialists Democrats always encourage immigration and illegal immigration and will do nothing to stop it! They have discovered if they give "freebie" services to the uneducated poor from Third World Nations (services they've never given us native born US citizens who have always paid our taxes since we began working), it makes it easier for them to buy votes from all these grateful immigrants. As I said, Socialism and/or Communism is something poor, uneducated masses relate to because that's what most of them had back in their own home Nations. They feel that the Government is responsible for meeting all of their needs, and Socialists realize that keeping these people uneducated helps them not only get elected to office, it helps keep them in their positions of political power.
Posted by: BJ1949 at November 15, 2008 02:55 AM
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