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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (126393)	3/14/2012 5:24:35 PM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Mattera’s extensive research pulls back the curtain on Obama’s celebrity supporters and fundraisers, making it abundantly clear that Hollywood elites are some of the most hypocritical creatures on earth. Mattera does his legworkand reveals: Paul McCartney had his new Lexis 600h flown into England from Japan instead of transported by ship, which had the environmental impact of driving the car 300 times around the globe. Barbara Streisand harps about a “Global Warming Emergency” as she spends $22,000 a year watering her lawn and gardens. Robert Redford, whom Time magazine called an environmental “superhero” cited environmental concerns when recently lobbying against a home development near his Napa Valley estate. Yet at the same time he was pocketing millions by selling luxury home lots to developers in pristine wilderness area near his Sundance, Utah resort. Harrison Ford is the chairman of a global conservation group, yet owns 7 airplanes and has stated, “I often fly up the coast for a cheeseburger.” In 2008, Michael Moore assaulted Hollywood for taking subsidies from poor states to attract in-state filming stating, “Why do they [large corporate movie studios] need our money from Michigan, from our taxpayers?” Then, in 2010, Moore took over $1 million from Michigan for the privilege filming some of, Capitalism: A Love Story in the State. The movie grossed Moore over $17 million. Bruce Springsteen has publicly opposed tax cuts for the rich saying that they would increase “the division of wealth that threatens to destroy our social contract…” However, when it comes to paying taxes himself, he claims the acreage next his sprawling New Jersey estate is a farm in order to avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in property tax. Jon Bon Jovi, another self-acclaimed defender of the downtrodden, raises bees to fit into the same tax loophole in New Jersey, a law designed to preserve farmland in the Garden State. I particularly liked Mattera's reminder that the Democratic Party was the home of the nation's biggest racists, and the Republican Party was formed in the middle of the 19th Century to abolish slavery. Even in the 1960s, the biggest backers of civil rights legislation came from the GOP ranks, while former Ku Klux Klan members like West Virginia's sainted Sen. Robert Byrd, a Democrat, voted against such legislation. Most of the opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Bill came from southern Democrats, with Republicans and northern Democrats overwhelmingly favoring it. Illinois Republican Senator Everett M. Dirksen was instrumental in getting the bill adopted by the Senate. For a revealing article on Dirksen's role in getting the bill through the senate, click: http://www.lib.niu.edu/1996/iht319648.html And, of course, that liberal icon, Woodrow Wilson, comes in for observation by Mattera, a 28-year-old New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent. Wilson, infamous for re-segregating the Federal government when he took office in March 1913 and firing all the nation's black postmasters -- Republicans to a man -- screened D.W. Griffiths' racist silent movie about the Klan, "The Birth of a Nation" in the White House! With the recent incident of Rush Limbaugh (does anyone listen to him anymore?) calling Congressional testifier and 30-year-old Georgetown University law student Sandra Fluke a "slut," we're reminded of a double standard, with the Left getting a free pass to say the nastiest things about conservatives, but not vice versa. Or as Mattera phrases it: "Progressives are allowed to use violent rhetoric against conservatives, but not the other way around." One example (on Page 195) cited by Mattera is of "liberal comedienne Sandra Bernhard warning Sarah Palin (did anyone watch the awful movie "Game Change" on HBO this past weekend?) not to enter Manhattan lest she be gang-raped "by my big black brothers." An actual "big black brother" -- Montel Williams (who listens to him? I've zoned out his Money Mutual loan shark commercials on TV) advocated the killing (also page 195) of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann: "So, Michele slit your wrist! Go ahead! I mean, you know. why not?" Mattera provides chapter and verse documentation for his quotes. I wish the publisher had been equally diligent about providing an index! And yes, there are quite a few conservative celebrities to offset the lefties, including Alec Baldwin's brother Stephen, musician Ted Nugent, and actress Patricia Heaton. I'd like to suggest a book for Mattera: Hollywood Conservatives! For a list of hollywood/celebrity conservatives: http://usconservatives.about.com/od/hollywoodconservatives/a/HollywoodCons.htm About the Author Jason Mattera is a New York Times bestselling author and the youngest editor of a national periodical, Human Events, at the age of twenty-seven. Mattera has appeared on virtually every major talk radio and television program, including: The O’Reilly Factor, Hannity, Fox & Friends, Imus, The Mark Levin Show, The Laura Ingraham Show, and scores more. He also hosts The Jason Mattera Show on News Talk Radio 77 WABC. When he’s not busy editing Human Events or punking liberals, Jason enjoys eating organic foods, recycling his trash, and devising ways to convert Angelina Jolie to conservatism. His website: www.jasonmattera.com

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (126393)	3/14/2012 10:29:51 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224749

Obama's Legal Mentor Shows Affirmative Action Limits By THOMAS SOWELL Many years ago, I learned of an episode in the life of a promising young black man that is relevant to things happening now. He had been educated at a good school, and went on to receive degrees at good colleges and universities. Then he went for a Ph.D. in mathematics at one of the leading departments in that field. When he encountered difficulties, his professors essentially wrote his doctoral thesis for him. No doubt they felt good about doing something to help a promising young black man, and perhaps took pride in doing so. But what about his pride? This young man ended up joining an extremist group that hated white people. Would it have been worse if he had not gotten a Ph.D. in math? Probably 99% of the people in this country, regardless of race, could not get a Ph.D. in math — and yet they can still live happy and fulfilling lives. Young Barack And Prof. Bell What recalled this episode from long ago was the current flurry of interest in a video of a young Barack Obama at the Harvard law school praising Derrick Bell, a black professor there, whose writings on "critical race theory" promoted an extremist hostility to white people. Bell was for years a civil rights lawyer, but not an academic legal scholar of the sort who gets appointed as a full professor at one of the leading law schools. Yet he became a visiting professor at the Stanford law school and was a full professor at the Harvard law school. It was transparently obvious in both cases that his appointment was because he was black, not because he had the qualifications that got other people appointed to these faculties. At Stanford, his students complained that his course on constitutional law was not up to the standards of the other courses they were taking. Stanford at that time had one of the leading scholars in constitutional law, Professor Gerald Gunther — and Derrick Bell was no Gerald Gunther. A hastily created program of study of constitutional law was then used to teach that subject to students who were not getting what they needed in Professor Bell's course. When this clever finessing of the problem came to light, the administration apologized — to Derrick Bell for the embarrassment this caused him. They should have apologized to the law students for short-changing them with a professor who was not up to the job — and to those who donated money to the university to advance the cause of education, not to allow administrators to play racial-quota politics on campus. Out Of His League As a full professor at the Harvard law school, Bell was also surrounded by colleagues who were out of his league as academic scholars. What were his options at this point? If he played it straight, he could not expect to command the respect of either faculty or students at the Harvard law school — or, more important, his own self-respect. Bell himself admitted that he did not have the scholarly credentials that most full professors at the Harvard law school have. There were no doubt other law schools where he would have been a respected colleague, but these were not Stanford or Harvard. Yet it is worth remembering that millions of people have led happy and fulfilling lives without ever being at Harvard or Stanford. Bell's options were to be a nobody, living in the shadow of more accomplished legal scholars — or to go off on some wild tangent of his own and appeal to a radical racial constituency on campus and beyond. His writings showed clearly that the latter was the path he chose. His previous writings had been those of a sensible man saying sensible things about civil rights issues that he understood from his years of experience as an attorney. But now he wrote all sorts of incoherent speculations and pronouncements, the main drift of which was that white people were the cause of black people's problems. Bell even said that he took it as his mission to say things to annoy white people. Perhaps he thought that was better than being insignificant in his academic setting. But it was in fact far worse, because the real damage was to impressionable young blacks who took him seriously, including one who went on to become president of the United States.