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Fox and Foes
· Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Whenever I hear people outside the administration prattle on about how evil and biased Fox News is, I know I am listening to a flock of parrots who have never even tuned in. As a conservative, I, myself, have a number of problems with the network. For one thing, I resent Bill O’Reilly’s ridiculing those who merely ask for documentation that their president was born in the United States, and I also wish he’d stop defending Obama against charges that he’s a Socialist or worse. If it walks, swims and quacks like a duck, Bill, it’s a safe bet that you can pop it in the oven and serve it at Christmastime.
I’d also appreciate it if Sean Hannity would wake up to the fact that a lot of us change the channel the second that Bob Beckel shows up on the not so Great American Panel.
On the other hand, I wish that merely as an experiment a dozen or so liberals could be forced to watch Glenn Beck for an entire week. I would be dying to know how they would react, what they would say, after watching videos of Obama, Rahm Emanuel, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunn, Andy Stern and John Holdren, spouting off when they think nobody outside the room will hear about their plans to transform America in ways that would have made Dr. Frankenstein blanch, but put a smile on Karl Marx’s ugly mug.
Back in 1990, the police raided Barney Frank’s home because his gay lover, Steve Gobie, was running a male prostitution ring out of his condo. In 2007, the police raided the home of James Ready and arrested him for possession of marijuana. Ready, who is Barney’s main squeeze these days, didn’t just smoke the weed, Farmer Ready was growing the stuff. The congressman was there at the time of the raid, but denied he had any idea that those plants in the backyard weren’t rhododendrons. I believe he told the police that he was perfectly clueless when it came to plant life. I guess, like Clinton, he never inhaled, either.
Because I am always prepared to grant a liberal politician the benefit of the doubt, I’m sure it’s only a coincidence that Barney has long led the fight to decriminalize the use and sale of the narcotic.
On the other hand, considering his sorry track record when it comes to romance, don’t you think it’s high time that Rep. Frank, who’ll be 70 years old in a few months, should start using a reputable dating service and stop phoning every number he finds scrawled on bathroom walls?
Finally, I understand why so many folks are eager to impeach the president. But that obviously isn’t going to happen. Unfortunately, being a Red and despising America isn’t an impeachable offense. However, there’s nothing to prevent people from gathering signatures in order to recall their arrogant representatives.
I suggest we begin with every single one of those ACORN-loving crumbs who voted for the stimulus bill, cash for clunkers and Obamacare.
If their voting against the best interests of present-day American taxpayers, not to mention future generations, isn’t reason enough to throw the bums out, I can’t imagine what would be.
As with the weather, or at least the way it used to be with the weather prior to Al Gore’s turning it into his personal ATM, everyone complains about incumbents, but nobody does anything about them.
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Jimmy D
Burt, are those awful Obamians making you cranky today? Me too, brother.
But actually there's a couple things "to prevent people from gathering signatures in order to recall their arrogant representatives."
History might pipe up and object, for one, as in "When did that ever happen?"
I'm cranky too, but also pretty ignorant, so I could be wrong. If someone has a real historical example I'd like to hear about it.
The other preventative to re-calling these mopes is called elections. The stupidity that came into play in electing them the first time wants no more exposure than waiting for the next time allows.
So I'd guess that short of an insurrection we will wait till 2010, but then what.
I share you complaints about both Sean and Bill and think we'd have to re-label a week's worth of Glenn as a Melting Polar Bears Documentary and send it to all the schools to get away with your wonderful plan.
What watching Glenn Beck has done for me is to unglue me from the sorry excuse for conservatism that is the Republican Party as a whole.
In the next election I don't really care what the GOP vs Dem count comes out to.
The real numbers that matter are the true Conservative Counts vs the Communist and Commie Enabler Counts. Many of the latter are Republicans. Check out Red State and follow what our friend Mitch McConnell has (not) been doing to thwart Stalinized Health Care coming soon to the vitality and mortality nearest to you!
Posted December 29, 2009 at 3:01:54 PM
MichaelSSEC
Actually, Governor Arnold got elected after the then-governor of California was recalled due to gross incompetence. And I believe there was a governor of New Mexico (I think) recently recalled after some sort of scandal. It has happened.
Then again, some states actually love their representatives to be criminals. Massachusetts just re-elected a state legislator named Chuck Turner even though he was under indictment for bribery and other charges DURING the election. So sometimes you can lead a horse to water but that doesn't mean he'll be smart enough to drink.
Frankly, after the unbelievable arrogance and Socialist anti-American deceptions of the current administration and Congress, every single voter should vote against every single incumbent. We could have potted meat or a pot of daffodils running against the incumbent and we'd be better off voting for the challenger. Even a brainless flower could not possibly do a worse job than the current crop of outright thieves and liars screwing us in Washington.
VOTE EM ALL OUT. This is the only way we will ever teach politicians that we actually expect them to do the jobs we elected them to do. Vote them out and maybe the incoming crop will get the lesson that if you don't do what's best for America, out you go. Fail to vote them out and we'll be telling them sure we know you're the most crooked bunch that ever banged a gavel in the history of this country, but that's okay with us. We LIKE being ripped off. We LIKE giving foreign police forces unlimited power on American soil. We LIKE paying outrageous taxes for less and less services. Keep screwing us. We'll vote you back in!
Posted December 29, 2009 at 8:27:40 PM
g.wegmann
Burt you hit the nail on the head with your comments about O'reilly, Hannity and Beck. Too much 'fair and Balance" does not balance the leftist bias of the rest of the TV media. Are the Fox people feelig pressure from the White House, or do they miss the Christmas parties?
Happy New Year and keep up your great articles and comments!
Posted December 30, 2009 at 9:25:34 AM
RiverKing
Gee, Burt, I thought my remote was the only one with a button labeled 'Beck'. Seriously though, my disgust at each appearance of Beck is matched by my disappointment in Hannity not challenging the most obvious lies.
Posted December 30, 2009 at 9:53:48 AM