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To: FJB who wrote (758654)	12/19/2013 2:09:33 PM
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That's really a good article, and the best line was the beginning -- ""Why is our go-to political strategy for beating our opponents to silence them? Why do we dismiss, rather than engage them?"" The answer to this question is important IMO, as it helps to explain the division in the country today. Rather than engaging the opposition, the Democrats in the Senate chose to silence them. Rather than engaging the opposition, the Left wants to do away with Hannity, Limbaugh, and the Hated Fox News. Silence the opposition. It is a funny thing, though, that efforts to silence the opposition are often met with twice the resistance. So, you get Media Matters, after an extended war against Fox News, having been met with an absolute defeat. You get angry voters who decide a Convention of States will allow them to take their country back from the out-of-control Left. It is, in some sense, justice.

To: FJB who wrote (758654)	12/19/2013 2:57:03 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Recommended By FJB Respond to of 1589796

Lefty Fey Outrage About PajamaBoy and Duck Dynasty Posted by V the K at 6:01 pm - December 18, 2013. Filed under: Gay PC Silliness, Gay Victimization, Identity Politics, Liberal Intolerance Ace takes note of a lefty setzpinkler who thinks he’s figured out why Conservatives have been making fun of Obamacare spokesmodel PajamaBoy. It’s because Conservatives hate gays. I had no idea that left-wing pundits had Professor Charles Xavier-level telepathic abilities and were able to read the minds of all Conservatives everywhere all the time! Also, GLAAD is throwing a hissy-fit because one of the stars of Duck Dynasty expressed an opinion about gay people that hurt their feelers. GLAAD has condemned “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson in the wake of inflammatory remarks about gay people. In January’s issue of GQ, Robertson said that “homosexual offenders” will not “inherit the Kingdom of God” and unfavorably compared “a man’s anus” to the vagina. The gay rights group was quick to denounce his comments. In a statement, GLAAD spokesman Wilson Cruz slammed the Robertson family patriarch: “Phil and his family claim to be Christian, but Phil’s lies about an entire community fly in the face of what true Christians believe. He clearly knows nothing about gay people or the majority of Louisianans — and Americans — who support legal recognition for loving and committed gay and lesbian couples. Phil’s decision to push vile and extreme stereotypes is a stain on A&E and his sponsors who now need to reexamine their ties to someone with such public disdain for LGBT people and families.” On one level, I don’t get the mindset that says you can’t be happy if someone, somewhere doesn’t approve of your lifestyle. What’s the Big Deal if a guy on a cable TV show doesn’t like you? Obsession that someone, somewhere might disapprove of you seems like a cripplingly neurotic way to go through life. (We’ll leave aside, for the moment, the obsession secular leftists have with judging what “true Christians” should and should not believe.) On another level, I understand it completely. Faux outrage generates publicity. Publicity generates donations. Donations ensure that Wilson Cruz can keep his cushy job as an outraged spokesperson for GLAAD and not have to get a real job in the miserable Obamaconomy. Such generosity is what earned Alec Baldwin a pass from GLAAD for his repeated use of anti-gay slurs. Update: A&E caves to intolerant bigots. gaypatriot.net