Showing posts with label Jon Meacham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jon Meacham. Show all posts

Friday, April 15, 2011

Blogger Just Slapped TMR With A Warning Label (When It's The Safe Bets Who Are Dangerous)

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Yes, yes, yes - I'm going to get to the cult article (I've been meeting with my "presidential advisors" over chicken wings) - but I have to deal with this issue:

First, Jon Meacham is a chump, so who gives a fuck what he thinks ("I don't know about you but, after 200 years, I'm willing to roll the dice on a Prussian takeover")? Has this man been paying attention to what's been happening in this country? The whole point of the Tea Party is that we've been getting too far away from what the Founders intended, not that we need to find new ways to stretch the distance further.

Even worse, though, is Hot Air's Allahpundit agreeing with him. Allah says:
I agree with him about the natural-born requirement, incidentally: It’s one of the most antiquated and unnecessary parts of the Constitution, especially in light of the original intent he describes.
To which I say, after 200 years, FUCK THE ORIGINAL INTENT HE DESCRIBES! He's a chump! Here's a simple fucking concept I'm describing - this is "our" country - and one of the checks in place to make sure that's so is the president must be a born-and-raised American.

I've pointed out before that it was living in France that sparked my conservatism. Listening to the frogs discuss the United States, and knowing they didn't understand the first thing about it, could only have happened because I did understand it - inside and out - the vitals of this country being in the marrow of my bones. Whether Barack Obama was born in Hawaii or not, if there's one thing the other citizens of this country see, it's the threat of someone in the highest office in the land who can't say that - and these putzs want to make it possible for the situation to be worse? (Isn't it bad enough "The Situation" has a shot under the present arrangement?) These people talk madness.

I was just reading The New York Times's article on our local internet brain trust and - while I know they're all fine individuals - I'm sorry but they're elites and (like many others who rule the roost of blogging) are not the kind of thinkers I want to see making the big decisions for the rest of us, because - honestly - they're NOT the rest of us! They're every Human Resources Dept. I've ever had to engage with and, frankly, I feel like I'm surrounded by too many so-called "smart" people who get The Big Questions dead wrong. (For instance, Ann Althouse voted for Barack Obama and Glenn Reynolds supported Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State. 'Nuff said.) Now, I guess, I'll have to add Allahpundit to the list as well.

And that's a shame, because it's a pathetically lonnng fucking list already.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

We're Just Saving This To Rub It In Joe's Face



Jesus, some of the people who think they're worthy of being in front of us every morning, as though they're educating us, are about as dumb as they come. How these numbskulls can't see this particular assertion is going to backfire on them - BIG TIME - revealing them all to be fools, is amazing. It's already been proven wrong:



Oh well, we've got the tape. Now all we've got to do is wait,...

Thursday, November 6, 2008

The Cult Of Obama: It's Creepy


TMR has made every point in this video ("We have seen this before,..") to the dismay of many of my readers, but now comes Newsweek's Evan Thomas and Jon Meacham after the election is over - great. Only Rush Limbaugh (whose show we're listening to here) gets it. Well, now we've got America's first cult-inspired presidency, boosted by followers too "in the tank" to understand what they're swimming in. I won't say what it is but, man, something sure does stink about this election:

THOMAS: There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all of this. I mean, he is such an admirable --

ROSE: ‘Slightly creepy cult of personality’?

THOMAS: Yes.

ROSE: What’s ‘slightly creepy’ about it?

THOMAS: It just makes me a little uneasy that he’s so singular. He’s clearly managing his own spectacle. He knows how to do it. He’s a -- I think, a deeply manipulative guy -- you know, this could be a useful thing in a leader --

ROSE: How so is he ‘deeply manipulative’?

THOMAS: I think he's always in control, you know -- he controls events, events don't control him. He's a pretty calm guy. He seem to be able to get people to do pretty much what he wants.


No matter who you voted for, folks, this is a dangerous moment of shame for America.


Why is this shameful? On top of Evan Thomas and Jon Meacham knowing they helped elect a cultist, these are white liberals calling the first black president "creepy" and a "creature" - on The Charlie Rose Show - an attitude that ain't worth a dime at:

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Obama: The NewAge Mole Of Communism

"That is not a mole in my yard. That is not a mole in my yard. That..."

-- Steve Salerno, author of SHAM: How The Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, on his much-missed SHAMblog

"Obama’s victory was more than a progressive move; it was a dialectical leap ushering in a qualitatively new era of struggle. Marx once compared revolutionary struggle with the work of the mole, who sometimes burrows so far beneath the ground that he leaves no trace of his movement on the surface. This is the old revolutionary 'mole,' not only showing his traces on the surface but also breaking through."

-- Frank Chapman, a Communist Party USA supporter, in a e-mail message to People's Weekly World.org

"In Hawaii was an African-American poet and journalist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis, who was certainly in the orbit of the [Communist Party] – if not a member – and who was born in Kansas and spent a good deal of his adult life in Chicago, before decamping to Honolulu in 1948 at the suggestion of his good friend Paul Robeson. Eventually, he befriended another family – a Euro-American family – that had migrated to Honolulu from Kansas and a young woman from this family eventually had a child with a young student from Kenya East Africa who goes by the name of Barack Obama, who retracing the steps of Davis eventually decamped to Chicago. In his best selling memoir ‘Dreams of my Father’, the author speaks warmly of an older black poet, he identifies simply as "Frank" as being a decisive influence in helping him to find his present identity as an African-American, a people who have been the least anticommunist and the most left-leaning of any constituency in this nation – though you would never know it from reading so-called left journals of opinion. At some point in the future, a teacher will add to her syllabus Barack’s memoir and instruct her students to read it alongside Frank Marshall Davis’ equally affecting memoir, "Living the Blues" and when that day comes, I’m sure a future student will not only examine critically the Frankenstein monsters that US imperialism created in order to subdue Communist parties but will also be moved to come to this historic and wonderful archive in order to gain insight on what has befallen this complex and intriguing planet on which we reside."

-- Gerald Horne, in a speech titled "Rethinking the History and Future of the Communist Party," on Political Affairs.net - the site of "Marxist Thought Online"

"'It's not pessimism,' Obama said. 'One of the things I am always trying to reject is a false choice between blind optimism and despair and cynicism.'"

-- Jon Meacham, in his essay "The Stories We Tell Ourselves," from Newsweek magazine [underlined emphasis TMR's]

"Bill Clinton cast himself as a champion of the “Third Way,” a grandiose political phrase with disturbing intellectual roots. For Bill, it mostly meant that he could split the difference between any two positions. Any hard choice was a “false choice.” When asked how he’d have voted on the first Persian Gulf War, he said he agreed with the minority but would have voted with the majority. He smoked pot but didn’t inhale. Monica Lewinsky had sex with him, but he could swear under oath he didn’t have sex with her."

-- Jonah Goldberg, conservative columnist and author of Liberal Fascism, writing for the National Review

"Sometimes the Dalai Lama states that non-violence is the most important thing. Sometimes he offers broad justifications for violence — such as national defense against Communist imperialism, or individual self-defense against deadly attack. Sometimes he allows only an extremely narrow justification for violence — namely, saving his own life. To puzzle over the contradictions is to miss the non-binary spirit of Tibetan Buddhism."

- From Dave Kopel's article, The Dali Lama's Army

What is the New Age? In one sense, the New Age is not really new. It arose gradually and almost imperceptibly out of the hippie movement spawned during the turbulent decade of the '60s. Building on the foundation of the '50s' beatniks, who were into Zen and other forms of Eastern spirituality, the hippies eventually grew up to enter the corporate world, often taking with them their mystical spiritual and philosophical worldview. During the '70s the so-called "Human Potential Movement" came to the fore, led by Erhard and EST (and its later incarnation, the Forum, marketed through Transformational Technologies). Erhard has acknowledged that EST was most heavily influenced by Zen, Mind Dynamics, and Scientology. Other influences were the German atheist philosopher Nietzsche, the Indonesian occult movement Subud, and the Hindu gurus Swami Muktananda and Satya Sai Baba.{11} Other similar human potential programs and training firms established about the same time or since are Lifespring (John Hanley), Insight (John- Roger Hinkins: Movement for Spiritual Inner Awareness), Actualizations, Krone Training, PSI World, Pecos River Institute, Sportsmind, and the Pacific Institute (Louis Tice).

Underlying all of these programs, to one degree or another, are the following concepts: All of reality is part of one essence. This is the Eastern philosophical view known as monism which teaches that 'all is one.' In other words, there is no ultimate distinction between God and creation, or between one individual and another. The distinctions we see are unreal or illusionary. This means (among other things) that God and man are the same-'If you don't see me God, it's because you don't see yourself as God,' Shirley MacLaine told an attendee at a seminar in the New York Hilton. If man is God, then man has unlimited potential, able to accomplish anything he desires and is able to visualize-an attractive idea, no doubt, to many corporate managers, and illustrated in such immensely popular films as "The Karate Kid" and the "Star Wars" trilogy. Further, if "all is one," then there are not only no distinctions between God and man, there are also no distinctions between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, good and evil. In fact, all distinctions are mere illusion. To quote Erhard, 'What is, is, and what isn't, isn't.' Or, as the EST graduation booklet put it, 'Obviously the truth is what's so. Not so obviously, it's also so what.' Thus, the problem of humanity, as MacLaine said above, is that we have forgotten our own divinity. This lapse of memory must be overcome by undergoing what is called a "paradigm shift," a drastic change in the way we view the world around us. As New Age populist Marilyn Ferguson wrote, "A paradigm shift is a distinctly new way of thinking about old problems... A new paradigm involves a principle that was present all along but unknown to us. It includes the old as a partial truth, one aspect of How Things Work, while allowing for things to work in other ways as well. By its larger perspective, it transforms traditional knowledge and the stubborn new observations, reconciling their apparent contradictions..."


-- Lawrence A. Pile, in his essay on cultism, The Siren Call of the Pied Pipers

Goddamnit - that's a fucking mole!