Category Archives: Republicans

Liberals Look Down At The Little People*

Democrats, Elections, Left-Liberalism And Progressivisim, Republicans

The contempt shown by the condescending, none too bright Joan Walsh, Salon editor-in-chief, for Americans who like Donald Trump is the kind evinced by countless reporters and commentators like her. With one exception. Walsh was put in her place by former RNC chairman Michael Steele. Although a toady of the left, even Steel could not longer stomach the sneering smugness of the gasbag class:

Mediate:

During a somewhat heated exchange on Thursday evening’s Hardball, MSNBC contributor and former RNC chairman Michael Steele told Salon editor-in-chief Joan Walsh that her condescending attitude towards possible Donald Trump supporters is the exact reason those supporters flock to the celebrity billionaire in the first place.

After reviewing a brief video of a middle-class voter focus group raving about a potential Trump presidency, Walsh said, “I look at those people and I feel sad. That is really such a low common denominator. They’re all Republicans, they’re not all going to vote for him.”

Asked by Chris Matthews to explain what she meant by “low common denominator,” Walsh elaborated, “They’re really, they really don’t have a firm grasp on reality, on what it’s going to take to solve the country’s problems.” She later exclaimed that she would be “fine” with Trump using her quotes to bash “elite” media.

“I’m not fine with it,” Steele shot back, in the clip first flagged by NewsBusters reporter Ken Shepherd. “You want to know why Trump is doing what Trump is doing and the way he’s doing it? It’s because of comments like that. Because of attitudes like that.”

And then the key back-and-forth:

WALSH: Oh, sure!

STEELE: Your highbrow is looking down on my lowbrow. You are somehow better than me.

WALSH: No, I don’t think I’m better than them. No, I don’t. But they’re not thinking; they want to be entertained.

STEELE: But whether you said it or not, your comments relate that way and that’s the problem. And so — when people hear that, whether it’s from the media or Republicans in the party — they go, “This guy,” as the woman said, “he’s speaking to me. I may not agree with everything he’s saying, but he’s one of us. He’s a billionaire, but he’s one of us.”

Your comment, Joan, does not come off as, you’re one of us. And as long as they hear that, they’re not going to blame him.

WALSH: I’m so much more one of them than he is. I was not born to wealth, for God’s sake, Michael Steele.

*Little people by which is meant not the vulgar, badly bred dwarfs of reality TV (I saw one little woman kick off her panties and crawl bare bottom up onto a doc’s examination table, before opening a foul mouth to discuss her exposed anatomy), but the common or ordinary people of this country.

MORE Mediaite .

UPDATE II: Big-Game Plunderer (& Progressive) Theodore Roosevelt

Environmentalism & Animal Rights, Ethics, History, Republicans, The State

The reverence for authority and status, especially presidential, obscures the ability to distill the actions of The Revered One to their ethical essence. Last night, Fox News’ Sean Hannity’s moral assessment of the “sport” of hunting Africa’s big game amounted to: The [Progressive] Theodore Roosevelt (TR) did it. Do you condemn him, too?

You bet we do (and not only for plundering Africa’s wild life with cruel abandon).

Back from safari in Africa, the TR procession “through New York in June 1910,” featured “a fourteen-carriage parade from Battery to 59th Street, with luggage containing horns, heads, and skins from 13,000 specimens, ranging from elephant and rhinos to the rare dikdik, and antelope smaller than a jack-rabbit.”

(A History of The American People by Paul Johnson, p. 623.)

More about Teddy’s other proclivities.
https://www.ilanamercer.com/2011/12/who-s-it-to-be-teddy-no-1-or-teddy-no-2/

UPDATE I: To be clear, I am here making a moral argument, not a legal one. It’s true that big- game hunting is often a boon to the parks in these poor, backward countries. It’s true, too, that Zimbabwe has zero animal-conservation ethos; those are all western; as is it true that their leader is chief poacher of man and animal alike—and it’s still true that big-game hunters who derive pleasure from the rigged canned killing of an animal are MOTHER F-CKERS.
https://www.ilanamercer.com/2013/11/just-girl-gun-not-gratuitous-killer/ (Correct link)

UPDATE II: Via Myron Pauli:

Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to Sir Edward Grey, 22 January 1915

A Study In Contrasts

Ethics, Media, Morality, Politics, Republicans

The political class is immoral by its very nature and in the way it operates. Witness Ted Cruz’s ego-centered battle with the New York Times, because of “the Gray Lady’s refusal to put his book on its bestseller list.” A book written and promoted on the taxpayer’s dime, as are all books peddled by politicians in office. (Fox News’ Megyn Kelly promised to hype this vanity duel from her vanity perch.)

Contrast this with a man who doesn’t need the political process to increase his riches; the obverse. Donald Trump filed his financial disclosure with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). With much snickering and snide smirks, CNN bobbing heads reported and wrote that Trump was “boasting” his worth was upwards of $10 billion.

What’s there to be humble about?

UPDATE II: The GOP’s ‘Winning’ Strategy: Oppose Donald Trump (Jamiel Shaw)

Crime, Elections, IMMIGRATION, Republicans

How collectively dumb is the crop of Republicans vying for the throne, in 2016? So dumb as to think that differentiating itself from Donald Trump is a good strategy. Openly and vigorously awakening to the toll of Third-World immigration on ordinary Americans is Fox New, although Sean Hannity has been on the case, sporadically, for sometime, as has Bill O’Reilly:

… according to the Center of Immigration Studies, in 2013, ICE released just over 36,000 convicted illegal immigrants from its custody. Now, of those, 193 had homicide convictions, 426 were convicted for sexual assault, 303 had kidnapping convictions. And ICE has estimated that about 50 percent of illegal immigrants who are rearrested, then freed, reoffend after their release.

Now, the Federation of Immigration Reform estimates that illegal immigration costs you, the American taxpayers — get this — about $113 billion annually, including $15 billion on medical services, $39 billion on education for illegal immigrants and their U.S.-born children respectively. And we also spend over $12 billion on border security. …

In terms of “crimes committed against Texans alone since 2008”:

Criminal aliens have been responsible for about 642,000 offenses, criminal offenses. [As to] sexual assault, there’s close to 8,000 victims out there. … over 200,000 individuals with a criminal history reflects that they were committing over 642,000 crimes. …

… 23.4 percent of federal prisoners are non-citizens. … [Of] the 36,007 people that we let loose, … 426 were convicted of assault, 193 for homicide convictions after we let them out of prison! …

The putrid Rick Perry’s response.

UPDATE I: “Black lives matter only when a life is taken by a white …”—Jamiel Shaw Sr. Steve Ronnebeck tells the story of his son Grant, too:

“Illegal immigrants and crime.”

UPDATE II: Breitbart: “More Than 347,000 Convicted Criminal Immigrants At Large In U.S.”