The last of the open minded liberals....a Dittohead?

I give you: Camille Paglia. Dittohead: NOT! Salient points from an article this weekend in the American Thinker from Danny Huddleston:

What would you call an acknowledged member of the intellectual elite who is skeptical of global warming, likes to listen to Rush Limbaugh, has an ongoing battle with the feminist establishment and is a fan of Sarah Palin? I would call her the last of the open minded liberals. Don't get the wrong idea, she's no dittohead. And she has some controversial and disturbing ideas that would be right at home in the far left universe. But what she doesn't do is blindly follow today's liberal orthodoxy.



Today's liberals consist of two groups. One group includes the far left ideologues who believe that government is the answer to all our problems. Obama, Reid and Pelosi fit into this group. Also included in this group are those liberal politicians who may be uneasy with what those three are up to but are too afraid to speak out. The other smaller and shrinking group is made up of open minded liberals who are not afraid to speak out when they see corruption and incompetence in today's leaders.

A good example of her disdain for those around Obama can be found in this excerpt from a column she wrote in March of this year:

Yes, free the president from his flacks, fixers and goons -- his posse of smirky smart alecks and provincial rubes, who were shrewd enough to beat the slow, pompous Clintons in the mano-a-mano primaries but who seem like dazed lost lambs in the brave new world of federal legislation and global statesmanship.Heads should be rolling at the White House for the embarrassing series of flubs that have overshadowed President Obama's first seven weeks in office and given the scattered, demoralized Republicans a huge boost toward regrouping and resurrection. (Michelle, please use those fabulous toned arms to butt some heads!)

As the Democratic Party continues to ignore the advice of open-minded liberals like Camille Paglia and heads down the self-destructive path of radicalism there is a valuable lesson here for conservatives. We should always vote for the most conservative candidate we can find because once he or she gets to Washington . . .

Well, you know what happens. Surrounded by the trappings of seemingly unlimited federal power politicians from both parties seem to be inexorably pulled to the left. Even Reagan couldn't get rid of the Department of Energy.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/camille_paglia_last_of_the_ope.html#

Obama's War on Fox News (and talk radio) video montage

In leau of Rush having the day off, let us review a few recent events concerning Obama's war on conservative thinkers....

Barack Obama and football!

Interesting today from http://brilliantatbreakfast.blogspot.com/2009/10/barack-obama-and-football.html
Even before the Rush Limbaugh foofarah, football always seemed like a Republican game, what with its war war metaphors and its barely-suppressed homoeroticism masquerading as a caricature of macho and its bizarre elitist ticketing structure. Baseball, the friendly game that resembles a neighborhood game of tag more than Touch War, always seemed like the liberals' game, despite the relentless parade of guys pointing to the heavens every time they hit a home run. George Carlin explained this dichotomy repeatedly over the years in one of his best recurring routines:
"It's sad for those of us that put money on this game, and felt Obama was the best quarterback this country had for taking back our rights and leading us forward in popularity in the eyes of the world. Instead, he has failed to follow the calls made from the sideline, lost yardage and was sacked when he made audibles, and now is forced to punt because the team is not sure they can complete a fourth and ten on the fifty yard line with their true health care reform play."

Non-Rush but worth 5 minutes: George Carlin compares baseball with football...

Very funny, Dr. Jones!

Rush Limbaugh was NOT Duped! (See, I told you so!)

Hope you all had a great weekend!
From Conservative American today:

As a continuing education student at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies, I can pretty much guarantee you that Rush Limbaugh was NOT duped! In fact, I’m going to go out alone on a limb and suggest that Rush Limbaugh created this hoax and the only ones being duped are those who have written that Rush was a fool for falling for a fake college paper from Barack Obama. Allow me, ladies and gentlemen, to explain as I sit alone on this limb…..Rush Limbaugh is going to have fun on his radio show today. Folks, the only ones that have been duped are the gullible media reporters that have gleefully run stories about how the Great Conservative, the “Leader of the GOP,” was duped.... So, as I hope my tree limb doesn’t break under the weight of my theory…I sit here wondering. Did Rush know this was a hoax all along? Did he simply use the absurd to demonstrate the absurdity he had gone through with the NFL? “Sort of like Dan Rather said, “I don’t care if these documents are forged. I know that Bush did what he did at the National Guard. I don’t care if the documents are forged.” I don’t care if the Limbaugh quotes are made up. So, I can say, “I don’t care if these quotes are made up. I know Obama thinks it….So we’ve got a supposed piece from his college thesis at Columbia where he complains that the Constitution didn’t talk about the distribution of wealth. So we know that it’s on his mind. So even if he didn’t say it, I know he thinks it. That’s how it works now in the media…I’m also told that the blog containing the passage on Obama’s thesis is a satire blog. So it’s one of these sites like ScrappleFace or The Onion or some such thing. So I shout from the mountaintops: “It was satire!” But we know he thinks it. Good comedy, to be comedy, must contain an element of truth, and we know how he feels about distribution of wealth. He’s mad at the courts for not going far enough on it. So we stand by the fabricated quote because we know Obama thinks it anyway. That’s how it works in the media today.”
http://conservativeamerican.org/conservatives/rush-limbaugh-conservatives/rush-limbaugh-was-not-duped/

In a nutshell, Rush is not stupid folks! He knows what he's doing and today's show is gonna be yet another compelling installment into broadcast excellence! I'll post the details as they unfold!