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Gurgling up from the Cesspool of the Grubby Left erupts a stinky bubble of false indignation. Witness Robert Schlesinger, regular believer reader of the fringe left site ThinkProgress, masquerade as the Righteous Defender of Retards Everywhere.

So, what’s the real story? You see, Schlesinger, a fanboy of Rahm’s, is angry, very angry, that Sarah Palin called for his hero’s resignation as Obama’s Chief of Staff. What’s scorned fanboy to do? Hold on to the wrath and unleash it a just the right moment, of course!

Enter Rush Limbaugh, determined to stir the puddin’:

LIMBAUGH: Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult’s taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards. I mean these people, these liberal activists are kooks. They are looney tunes. And I’m not going to apologize for it, I’m just quoting Emanuel. It’s in the news. I think their big news is he’s out there calling Obama’s number one supporters f’ing retards. So now there’s going to be a meeting. There’s going to be a retard summit at the White House. Much like the beer summit between Obama and Gates and that cop in Cambridge.

Yeah, OK, Rush is being an insensitive ass, as usual. He wrong to compare liberal activists to retards – it’s an indignity to retards. Seriously. “Retards” are usually loving, innocent people. Members of the hard left are usually bitter, nasty, hateful, crude, creepy, and generally extremely unpleasant to be around.

Sarah’s response to Rahm’s comments was vehement and personal, but why – what’s behind it all? 

How can anyone forget how Palin was treated by the “professional” press after she was announced as John McCain’s running mate? It was a mob mentality, Palin was outright abused by the press. Did Obama’s campaign do anything to dissuade the press from the hideous smears and maltreatment? Emanuel was Obama’s chief strategist and, considering his bully temperament, I suspect he actively encouraged the press to be horrible to Palin. We know that Emanuel, Time’s 2009 Person of the Year, has had an all-too-cozy relationship with the press. Remember Begala, Carville, and Stephanopoulos’ daily chats with Emanuel back in January 2009? Is there any question that he still “chats” with them on a regular basis?

We all know what’s going on. Emanuel is an ugly, blind partisan filled with Chicago-style ball-busting vulgarity. Is this really who the Democratic Party wants to be one office away from the President? Given Emanuel’s severe lack of grace on every front and on nearly every issue, selecting Emanuel for Chief of Staff not only shows poor judgment on Obama’s part; it shows political naiveté. Even lefty pundits have major reservations about Obama selecting him. It’s past time for Emanuel to go.

I totally agree that Palin should call out Limbaugh on his insensitivity – Limbaugh should apologize to the special needs community. But, Limbaugh isn’t a hyper-partisan public official with a history of inappropriate-for-a-public-officials vulgarity. Should he be fired? No. The now-defunct Air America radio hosts said much worse than Limbaugh, which probably lost them listeners and ultimately their jobs. The audience will ultimately judge whether Limbaugh is still worth listening to.

As for Schlesinger, the newly self-appointed Righteous Defender of Retards Everywhere, he’s a hypocrite. I see no blog entry of his condemning Emanuel’s private-made-public comments. Fanboy Schlesinger is just as bitterly partisan as his hero, Rahm Emanuel. He’s interested in helping his side maintain power, not doing what’s right for special needs people.

In a Politico post about Democrat’s mounting anger (which is really fear), Obama demonstrates how tenuous their grasp on reality is:

“Believe me, I know how big a lift this has been,” Obama said. “I see the polls. … I catch the occasional blog poster, cable clip that breathlessly declares what something means for a political party, without really talking about what it means for a country. 

“But I also know what happens once we get this done, once we sign this … bill into law: The American people will suddenly learn that this bill does things they like and doesn’t do things people have been trying to say it does. The worst fears will prove groundless.”

That man is such an snake-tongued politician. He’s telling them exactly what they want to hear. Obama knows the public will flip out and the Democrats will be slaughtered in the next election if this travesty passes. He’s hoping the heinous legislation will ’stick’ and the constitution will ultimately be subverted. Even an unqualified political blogger like me knows that.

Mr. Messiah-Complex sees himself has Our Savior and he’s therefore willing to sacrifice himself in the next election, if necessary. Since he’s their Dear Leader, he’s also willing to sacrifice individual Democrats for the “greater good.”  They sense their impending doom, but, like good little groupthinkers, they’re still committed to their suicide mission. This situation produced Rep. Earl Pomeroy’s statement that “he might as well retire if [the health care debate] drags on much longer.” Pomeroy isn’t even entertaining the option of NOT voting for the corrupt bill. For Democrats like Pomeroy, Obama is purposely perpetuating the strange myth that the public fury will ease off once the bill is passed.

The public does N-O-T take kindly to having it’s will thwarted on Health care. Recall the Clinton decision to govern from the left, with gays in the military, HillaryCare, and a tie vote tax increase in the face of a Bush-Perot vote of 57% to 43% for Clinton followed by Republican revolution of 1994? The public will only become further enraged when they find out what’s really in this DeathCare bill. It will make health care much worse, no socio-economic group will truly benefit from it, save one.

Make no mistake – this “health care” legislation is a major power grab for the Power Elite Class. They’re pushing the constitution to the limits, hoping it will break in their favor. It’s important to note this class crosses party lines. From Gallup:

20% of Republicans support this legislation? This legislation is so nakedly anti-liberty, so hostile to individual freedom that nobody who cares even a little about our constitutional democracy’s survival would ever support it. But, one out of every five Republicans do support it? 

I’d wager most of these are Colin Powell Republicans, members of the Power Elite Class. These are the weak-minded Machiavellian Princes interested in giving themselves more power over those unruly common citizens by suppressing bothersome inalienable rights under the auspices of “‘helping’ those less fortunate.” These are the people that want to take away your right not to buy something you don’t want.

I actually laughed out loud when I read this:

This is only the second time in its nearly ten-year history that the Dish has gone silent. The reason now is the same as the reason then. When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Sarah Palin, it takes time to absorb and make sense of the various competing narratives that she tells about her life. There are so many fabrications and delusions in the book, mixed in with facts, that just making sense of it – and comparing it with objective reality as we know it, and the subjective reality she has previously provided – is a bewildering task. She is a deeply disturbed person which makes this work of fiction and fact all the more challenging to read. And the fact that she is now the leader of the Republican party and a potential presidential candidate, makes this process of deconstruction an important civil responsibility. We take this seriously as we always have. We want to be fair to her, and to her family, and to the innocent people she has brought into the spotlight. And we are not reporters. We are merely analysts trying to make sense of evidence already in the public domain, evidence that points in all sorts of directions, only one of which can be true.

My God, the pot smoking/gay sex seeking Andew Sullivan went SILENT!  OMG - gasp! -  Stop the presses!

It’s just so…. shockingly childish. True to his narcissistic nature, Sullivan waxes dramatic that he is the Heroic (!) Stalwart against the Big Bad Evil Sarah Palin as though she’s some kind of grave threat to humanity’s existence. Though, I suppose many liberals do view her that way – they don’t cope well with the fact that she exists. She threatens their dark worldview.

Anyway, how amazing is it that Sullivan can say “we want to be fair to her, and to her family” and call her a “delusional fantasist” in the same paragraph? Excuse me for not believing Sullivan, he’s consistently been pretty horrible to Palin. 

I have no doubt who is suffering from mental instability.

Oy, Obama is turning out to be pretty rotten.

Here comes news that Bill Ayers ADMITS writing The One’s autobiography, “The Dreams of My Father.” This means that Our Savior has likely committed literary FRAUD in the tradition of JFK, who disgracefully accepted a Pulitzer for a book he didn’t write.

Jack Cashill was RIGHT, and Sarah Palin was correct, too. I hope they thoroughly enjoy their vindication.

Here’s Obama Downplaying his Ayers connection, which reveals that Obama is truly a corrupt, smooth-talking politician who took advantage of the Democrat’s and the Lamestream Media’s blind adoration:

You were duped, America. Now we’ll know what it’s like to have a hard-left radical thug who pals around with terrorists as President.

UPDATE: Ayers was jerking chains:

Here’s what I’m going to say. This is my quote. Be sure to write it down: ‘Yes, I wrote Dreams From My Father. I ghostwrote the whole thing. I met with the president three or four times, and then I wrote the entire book.’” He released National Journal’s arm, and beamed in Marxist triumph. “And now I would like the royalties.”

Please keep the quotes coming, Terrorist Bill, I’ll be happy to oblige. I’m sure Obama’s feelin’ the warm fuzzies about now.

UPDATE II: Of course everyone strongly suspects he was really telling the truth, knowing the Lamestream Media doesn’t care:

SCOTT adds: Duncan Jaenicke observes in the comments:

I am a professional ghostwriter; of my 12 books, 8 of them were ghosted. I see you are being very careful to not make a hard-and-fast conclusion, based on Cashill alone, about who wrote Dreams.

Give it up. The question of writing style is not a speculative one; any person’s writing style involved choice of vocabulary, grammar, style and even worldview. These things are even more individualized than, say, a speaker’s voice. When faced w/ the blank screen, the mind reaches into its inner resources and works in almost a miraculous way to produce prose, copy, text.

Put another way, when you telephone your best friend, there is a chance that someone else will pick up the phone (if your pal is in the shower, say), but when your friend answers, you “know” immediately it is him. Apply this way of knowing to one’s writing style, carefully studied. It’s a sure thing. Forget nuancing the question of who wrote Dreams, why not write about something more important re: Obama?

The Ayers encounter at the book show by Englund/NR was, I think, authentic–Ayers was telling the truth, and then decided to put in that twinkle in his ey eat the end (the remark about him deserving the royalties) just to confuse the journalists, whom he hates.

BTW I have signed book deals where I, as the ghostwriter, DO get SOME of the royalties, so Ayers is not so far off base as he confessed to the truth.

Wow, isn’t it amazing how compassionate Britain is?

Compassion for terrorists AND for Britain’s Big Oil company!

officials admit the prisoner transfer agreement was part of a wider set of negotiations aimed at bringing Libya in from the international cold, and improving British trade prospects with the oil-rich nation.

How fascinating is it to see liberals (Labor party) and Big Oil (British Petroleum) working together?

And, be sure to praise the Obama Administration’s compassion for going along with all this!

Brain-dead deficit spending has damaged the US economy so severely that we are now, according to the latest survey, the world’s second most competitive economy. Keynesians everywhere are suprised and saddened; suprised because they expected no immediate consequences to their short-sightedness and saddened because the current generation will pay for their own mistakes instead delaying the penalties for future generations.

How moronically stupid is non-emergency deficit spending?

Just ask David Walker, former head of the Government Accountability Office – and my fiscal hero.

Our off balance sheet obligations associated with Social Security and Medicare put us in a $56 trillion financial hole—and that’s before the recession was officially declared last year. America now owes more than Americans are worth—and the gap is growing!

Things are so bad, Mr. Walker left “last year with a third of his 15-year term left because “there are practical limits on what one can—and cannot—do in that job.”" Yeah… that means he wasn’t able to speak candidly as GAO head because of pressure from corrupt politicians like, say, Barney Frank.

Our $56 trillion in unfunded obligations amount to $483,000 per household. That’s 10 times the median household income—so it’s as if everyone had a second or third mortgage on a house equal to 10 times their income but no house they can lay claim to.” As for this year’s likely deficit of $1.8 trillion, Mr. Walker suggests its size be conveyed thusly: “A deficit that large is $3.4 million a minute, $200 million an hour, $5 billion a day

For those of you that gloss over when hearing numbers:

Says Mr. Walker, “If we don’t get our fiscal house in order, but create new obligations we’ll have a Thelma and Louise moment where we go over the cliff.”

Those “new obligations” would be the free-enterprise-destroying Waxman Cap & Trade bill and the Socialist takeover of our health care system.

Taking a disrespectful snipe at his former Atlantic colleague, Andrew Sullivan manages to show the world what a petty, disgraceful man he is:

Douthat’s Nixonian Delusions

Some helpful factual testing of Ross’s wishful thinking that Sarah Palin is the Evita for the right, ushering in a new era of criminalized abortion, closeted gays, federally subsidized churches, and lots of subsidies for “real Americans”. Mark Blumenthal analyzes herChristianist base here; Charles Franklin shows why everyone else is slack-jawed.

He didn’t even bother to cite his subject: Douthat’s original article, Palin & Her Enemies.

Douthat never claimed “Palin is the Evita for the right,” nor does Douthat advocate “criminalized abortion, closeted gays, federally subsidized churches, and lots of subsidies for “real Americans.” This really makes no sense because Douthat is clearly not Palin’s cheerleader:

But last Friday’s bizarre, rambling resignation speech should take her off the political map for the duration of the Obama era.

I suspect Sullivan is carrying a grudge against Douthat for this little gem:

If Palin were exactly what her critics believe she is — the distillation of every right-wing pathology, from anti-intellectualism to apocalyptic Christianity — then she wouldn’t be a terribly interesting figure. But this caricature has always missed the point of the Alaska governor’s appeal — one that extends well outside the Republican Party’s shrinking base…

…Male commentators will attack you for parading your children. Female commentators will attack you for not staying home with them. You’ll be sneered at for how you talk and how many colleges you attended. You’ll endure gibes about your “slutty” looks and your “white trash concupiscence,” while a prominent female academic declares that your “greatest hypocrisy” is the “pretense” that you’re a woman. And eight months after the election, the professionals who pressed you into the service of a gimmicky, dreary, idea-free campaign will still be blaming you for their defeat.

Ouch. These words must have burned bouncing around Sullivan’s tiny mind.

Maybe, too, Sullivan is just jealous that Douthat got the coveted NYT columnist slot and HE didn’t.

It wouldn’t suprise me. Really, it wouldn’t.

I don’t normally cover straight news on my blog, but this instance of bias is so outrageous that I am moved to say something.

Drudge is, at the time of this writing, headlining that ABCNews with Charlie Gibson will be doing a special on June 24 called “Prescription for America,” broadcasting directly from the East Room of the White House.

It’s bad enough that ABC is actually broadcasting from the White House, symbolizing a cooperative relationship with the Obama Administration, but the special also excludes those who are opposed to to Socialist/Universal Health Care.

Also, in case you had any dobuts, ABC also hired long-time Universal Health Care advocate Dr. Tim Johnson, to play a role in the special. Just astounding.

I don’t get how ABCNews can justify such blatant heavy-handed one-sidedness to themselves. They can no longer honestly consider themselves professional journalists. Just sick.

ABC is undermining democracy with their idiotic antics. It’s just stupid and outrageous that American journalists would engage is such an act. I guess Obama really is their Dear Leader. Just damn.

Goes without saying that Jonathan Addler needs some better manners:

Oprah Winfrey has decided to promote the career — and by extension, the dangerous and lunatic ravings — of professional-bimbo-turned-anti-vaccine-activist Jenny McCarthy.

Why Addler thinks it couth to call McCarthy a bimbo is beyond me and beneath respect. This is the kind of snark that gives the right a bad name.

Get a clue Addler, please stop this kind of behavior.