Spoken like a true white man. Nice little blog you got going here. Too bad nobody cares about your inept drivel.

Great debate, Rudy! Let's sum it up in simple terms.

Burt: Liberals are wrong on almost every issue.

Rudy: You're white and stupid.

Ad hominem attacks I guess when logic, reason, facts, and truth aren't on your side ... way to represent the left!

Rudy, take your drivel to many of the liberal sites on the web or just go away! Mr. Perelutsky has a brilliant mind who comments succinctly on the left there hypocracy!

Sorry for the mis-spelled words. I meant to write Mr"P"reveals the lefts duplicity on a daily basis, as illustrated by their reaction to the shooting in Tucson!

Ruby, It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Or better yet Rudy, respond to Burt's comments with factual evidence to the contrary. You'd find an open audience here if you did so.

I understand the next time the police receive a report of a robbery committed by two tall black men in their 20's driving a pickup, the police will stop 80 year old grandmothers going to a garden club meeting and driving a Honda Civic. Any truth to the rumor the Israeli security at airports will stop profiling?

Bert it appears you've awakened the ier of one rudy f.You true white man you! Rudy seems to think.No sorry!Seems to "feel"I don't think libs and pro's have thought genes.He seems to "feel" you've been unfair when speaking about those who try to pawn themselves off as journalist.All those (non white folks) you took to task in your article.Plus you picked on a girl.Bert shame on you! I wonder if rudy f.would've used spoken like a true "blackman" if Dr.Thomas Sowell or Dr.Walter E.Williams had written this article instead of you. I doubt it.I also doubt whether ole rudy f. even knows who either of these two gentlemen are. P.S.Bert please try to fit that (Noble Prize Winner) of economics and resident genius of the left.paul krugman in some of your future articles if you can.I think his name should be at the top of just about anything written about the editorial crowd.An what now passes for our print media.Semper Paratus.

GaryP, one of my favorite sayings, and perfectly applied!

If far left liberals didn't have a double standard, they wouldn't have any.

gwegmann: You misspelled "misspelled."

Rudy F: If you don't like Mr. Prelutsky's articles and opinions, don't read them. Please join a liberal blog where your delusions will be welcomed.

To All: Please go easy on Rudy F as he is stressed out 'cause he knows we're on to his liberal, incremental agenda that enslaves the productive to provide for the apathetic. Rudy F is burdened with the fact his kind has no valid arguments and thereby resorts to name calling. Rudy F, please feel free to move to another country that supports your ideals. There are plenty of them beyond our borders, and ironically enough for you liberals, their people would love to have the opportunities this country presents. So Rudy F, should you prefer to stay here (we certainly hope you don't) please don't try to change this country and read the US Constitution from the "Origination" point of view and not your "interpretive-chock-full-of-gray-area" point of view.

Dear Readers: After reading Rudy F's remarks, I was ready to do battle, but I see he has already been driven from the field. Well done, troops.

Mr. Bones: Thank you for coming to my defense. And I promise to keep Paul Krugman in mind for future articles, but only if you promise to keep in mind that I spell my name B-u-r-t.

Regards, Burt

With apologies to GaryP and Miss Kitty, I have to disagree about the utility of the adage "It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt."

Where would we have been in November if Nancy Pelosi and her minions had heeded such advice?

Rudy and you other liberals: shout your idiocy from the rooftops! The more liberalism and stupidity become linked in peoples' minds, the better off our nation will be.

Better to illuminate than merely

to shine, to deliver to others

contemplated truths than merely

to contemplate.---Thomas Aquinas

(1225-1274)

Karl-

Judging from your presence here, and the usual bent of your posts, I assume you are of a like mind with the general conservative tone. And none of us who frequent these columns would deny that you make excellent use of "Bartlett's Quotation's." Certainly, the very word "conservatism" implies that "conserving" the wisdom of the past, as expressed by great men, is a key to dealing with the present.

But do you ever express an original thought? Someone as widely read as you seem to be might have much to add to the conversation.

Let me add one comment about the Islamics currently held in Guantanamo. The Geneva Conventions specify that individuals taken on the battlefield who are without uniforms or an identifiable rank structure are liable for execution. Why are these people still alive?

Burt, your thoughts and "blog" are perfectly OK and, despite the vacuous opinions of some, are understood and appreciated by us who think. I happened upon one of their liberal blogs once (by mistake) and every one of their bloggers gave no valid reasons behind their thoughts although they continually lamblasted those held as conservative usually in the vile four-letter modern vernacular of the ignorant. Those who criticize you have no mental ability to respond logically except to engage in the same liberal method of impugning your character rather than your words.

Mr. Prelutsky,

Once again I applaud your brilliant tongue-in-cheek exposee' of leftist "doublespeak." I have but one minor criticism to suggest. Although I see the double meaning of your title,"Liberalism is a Progressive Disease," is it not also redundant, like "genuine sterling," or "true fact?"

And on your blog today I read another brilliant piece, except that you mentioned, "religious psychopaths." Sounds like a contradiction in terms to me. How about "psychopathic zealouts" instead?

Thank you, and please keep up the good work. You lend some much needed comic relief to a very serious national problem among us called "hate." How sad it is that so many have nothng better to do than hate those with differing world and spiritual views.

2WarVet-

These barbarians do not represent any government that was a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, therefore their status cannot be strictly determined by them, particularly fine points such as the requirements for uniforms. You and I see the need for such restrictions, but many in the public (or the left side of the aisle in Congress) will not even decry the Islamists use of hospitals and civilians for cover (another violation of the Laws of Armed Conflict.)

We are left then with the more nebulous area of "commonly accepted standards" to guide our treatment of enemy combatants. So far, the treatment they have received has been determined mostly by our own values of mercy and human dignity, even though they do not share those same values, and turn them against us at every opportunity.

The uncertain status of the terrorists is the best reason for us to maintain Guantanamo, and why it would be so dangerous to move the prisoners to American soil. It is not that we fear reprisals or escape attempts, but that the fact that their mere presence on American soil would endow them with a measure of Constitutional rights. As non-citizens on foreign soil in Cuba, they are entitled only to the level of treatment we are gracious enough to grant them.

But as George W. Bush warned his successor, the world has a certain reality that must be addressed, beyond mere slogans and electioneering. Other countries know this, which is why their protests of Guantanamo have been only lip service. Until we can determine how best to deal with the unfortunate fact of the terrosists' existence, we should make no policy moves that will only further bind our hands.

Hi Burt,

I enjoy your column and your appearences on Communist News Network (CNN). You tell it like it is and won't back down or back off those liberal air heads. I despise the teacher's Union for what they have done to our students. Would you like to destroy the TU?! I have patented an all encompassing computer workstation that will do the trick. If you would like to see the prototype I would be very happy to send a portfolio for your review. (but if I do , please send it back) This devise will UNemploy about 80% of all teachers. I'm not blowing smoke, asking for funds or trying to sell something. Just want you to see a viable solution to a criticle U.S. problem, and have you offer your opinion as to the practicality of this new concept. Please drop an e-mail to the above address if you are interested. Keep the heat on those empty headed liberal Bastards. Thanks.

Bob

Burt,

Had I read your column earlier I might have taken much pleasure in calling Rudy nine kinds of idiot, however, you seem to be pretty well defended lately by your growing ranks of faithful readers. Too bad, really. I have a toothache today and was feeling pretty mean. Oh, well, the early bird gets first crack at beating up the liberal worm.

Has anyone heard from Dan?

Bob Stogner: I would not suggest you send me anything of a technical nature. I can barely use a computer. I don't know whom you've seen on CNN, but it is not me. I wonder with what charming, witty, good-looking bloke, you have me confused. A bigger mystery--to me, at least--is why you've never had the opportunity to see me on Fox.

Judetheobscure: The title can be read as redundant, but it liberalism is a progressive disease. Once it takes root, people become dumber and dumber.

Regards, Burt

Hi, Burt, you ask why liberals think the way they do. Speaking as a reformed knee jerk liberal, my folks, who I dearly loved, were scared, cold & hungry during the depression. They thought Roosevelt saved them and liberalism was practically a religion in their house. Seems to me now that many liberals confuse their religion with their politics. That way they don't have to think.

Norge: You shouldn't allow tardiness to interfere with your fun. Always feel free to pile on leftists. I haven't heard from Dan lately. It could be that Rudy F. is his new pseudonym.

Bubbie: Sounds as if we were raised in very similar homes. Like you, it took me a while to get over the early indoctrination. But better late than never when it's a matter of coming to one's political senses.

Regards, Burt

What "JC" said. In triplicate.

Thanks, Burt, for the open invitation. I do so enjoy a good game of "Whack-a-Lib". I read a great many columnists regularly, but I notice that you in particular have a singular talent for inciting spittle-laced responses from the leftist lemmings. Perhaps that has something to do with your habit of speaking the unvarnished truth without regard to their fragile, easily bruised feelings. Whatever the reason, I find it invigorating and fun. So please, my friend, keep doing what you do so well. And I'll keep chiming in like the smart-ass I am.

Norge--Oh, oh..."Whack-a-Lib"? The MSM will add you to their bad guys list for inciting violence.

But you keep chiming in.

Burt

Burt,

If I'm not on the list by now I'd be disappointed.

Hey, Burt! You didn't pretend to be "Rudy" just to get a reaction, did you? We are all your fans and I think that was an interesting way to test our mettle!

Norge: You and I, both.

Stoney: You must think I'm even sneakier I am. Proof that I am not Rudy is that he posted his insult at 8:53 a.m. Do you really think I get up that early when I rarely go to sleep before 2 a.m.? I really don't start getting sneaky before 10.

Regards, Burt

I agree with just about everything Mr. Prelutsky says EXCEPT: Muslim is not a RACE. To continue to call this RACIAL PROFILING is a misnomer at best. The FBI callS it CRIMINAL PROFILING. This would include giving special and deeper investigation and surveillance of MALES of the MUSLIM/ISLAMIC RELIGION/CULT. It should also include every person from MIDDLE EASTERN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES. Race has nothing to do with it: Arabs are Semites,as are Israeli Jews, but that is not a RACE. Using 'RACE' only gives the LEFTIES amunition and propaganda benefits.

Sorry to be late to the party but I'm in Austin for two days as a wild-eyed, radical Conservative activist.

JC's response to Rudy was first and best. Rudy's post represents the left so well that it's hard to add more. In Rudy's defense, however, I would like to point out that he did not call Burt 'stupid'; 'inept' and 'drivel' were the words he used. Give him credit for a little originality even though he still couldn't rise above two syllables.

re: Bob Beckel I bought a new TV recently and, of course, got a new remote. I was surprised to learn that it has a Mute button; I've always thought that was the Beckel button. The word 'Mute' was worn off my remote's button.

Randall: I don't disagree with you, but I use the nomenclature in common usage. Logically, it would make no sense to use "anti-Semitism" as a reference to Jew-hatred inasmuch as the people who best fit that description--Arabs and Muslims--also happen to be Semites. But Hitler called the Jews Semites, and the term stuck.

RiverKing: My problem was that I was using that same button every time that Hannity opened his yap.

Burt

I don't believe there really was a Rudy on this blog. I think Burt made him up just to stir us up a bit. After all, the one place you'd think you could get away from the diseased ranting of the left is here. And, why do we call them the "left"? That insinuates they are the other half, the other side, another like group, etc. They aren't. They're actually just Rudys. Evil, dispicable, scumbag socialists who one of their idols, Stalin I believe, called "useful idiots"

bj: I think it was Lenin who coined the term, but it was Stalin who got to take full advantage of those morons for 30 years.

Regards, Burt

Norge, the early bird may get the worm but it is the second mouse who gets the cheese! Fire at will! :)

TO RudyF:

Where is my red pen when I need it?

"Spoken like a true white man. Nice little blog you got going here. Too bad nobody cares about your inept drivel."

Shouldn't that be "...Nice little blog YOU'VE got going here..." ?

Tsk, tsk. These liberals. They get so careless in the heat of passion. And if "nobody cares" then why did he bother to post? Inconsistency, thy name is liberal!

Keep up the wonderful work, Burt! Mwah, mwah!

so y'all(this is typed from SC where we cling to our guns and Bibles-hence the grammar) think that ol' Arianna Huffington has assigned her minions to invade the Patriot Post??Sure have been seein' lots of libtard posts around here-not that I don't enjoy watching the carnage but really why post here?-just wonderin'if I should go over to the huffy po and drop a few lines??-

Good one, MoeLarryCurly, You correctly termed it the “liberal, incremental agenda that enslaves the productive to provide for the apathetic” My mind, wild thing that it is, automatically read it as, “liberal, excremental agenda”.

A kissy-face love-fest.

Just found a blog of an MD, Lyle Rossiter, who (I guess because I just found it) explores this phenomenon of diagonal liberal deviltry. M. Savage may have preceded, or succeeded, him (whichever), but you, Burt, certainly do it justice.

The libs' sarcastic comments about the Constitution's status as "sacred scriptures" unwittingly aren't so far off. I consider our Constitution as sacred secular scripture. Since it is secular, the Framers made it amendable. The libs would like to bend it to fit their skewed mindset. But, like a slab of granite, you can't bend it without breaking it. The original intent has got to be maintained to be understood, and vice versa.

Thank goodness someone sprayed some lysol...

I just wish to comment on the julian assange and bill maher look alike comment. bill maher looks like a opossum, if you don't believe me google op

ossum and then bill maher and compare. ole bills mom or dad was a op

ossum. and rudley can take another toke and stay in the world of delusional stupor.

I keep reading the word "evil" used by pundits and bloggers from all areas of the political spectrum. If one were to seek out the definition of the word 'sinister,' one would immediately become informed as to which part of the spectrum can truly be called 'evil.' And this from a leftie...correction: Southpaw (that was the obligatory contextual clue).

You make a lot of sence, a nice change from the liberal rantings. Funny how the left claim to be so tolerant and concerned for the good of all, when in reality they are hateful, violent, egomaniacs with inferiority complexes.

If anybody is formenting armed revolt in America.it it is the amorphous communist mass of animated non-homogenous and biodegradable terminal ballistic test medium known as ''liberal/progressive/green/social democrat/communitarian''et.al. What these feckless Marxist hoodlums cannot seem to understand is the self evident fact that in the highly unlikely event that they should(temporarily)succeed,their conclusive and epic failure will follow as surely as day follows night.They are condemned by their own nihilism.