The Clown Show II: Hitting Them With Confetti

Oh, look - it's Mary Katharine Ham again! Twice in one week! And she's back with another video expose' that promises to be as enlightening, and important to the conservative cause, as the last one she did! Yea! This time she's taking on the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore!

Now you may ask yourself, why is Mary Katharine Ham taking on the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore?

And I'd say "I don't know."

Is anyone who's serious about politics taking the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore seriously?

"Nope."

Is there a chance in hell that the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore would lead to anything happening that he envisions?

"Uh-uh."

Then why is Mary Katharine Ham taking on the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore?

"Because there's a camera and, golly, she shure is purdy."

Let me break this down for you, real straight-talk conservative style:

While liberals are out there saying really stupid things, occasionally they'll say something we conservatives can capitalize on - like what was revealed in James O'Keefe's ACORN videos, or his latest ones that prompted this mind-bending statement from an NPR board member:

After working in many parts of public radio — both deep inside it and now with one foot inside and one foot outside — I believe there's an elephant in the room. There is something that I'm very conscious of as we consider this crisis that I'd like to speak to.

We have built an extraordinary franchise. It didn't happen by accident. It happened because we used a very specific methodology to cultivate and build an audience. For years, in boardrooms, at conferences, with funders, we have talked about our highly educated, influential audience. We pursued David Giovannoni's methodologies. We all participated. It was his research, his undaunted, clear strategy that we pursued to build the successful news journalism franchise we have today.

What happened as a result is that we unwittingly cultivated a core audience that is predominately white, liberal, highly educated, elite. "Super-serve the core" — that was the mantra, for many, many years. This focus has, in large part, brought us to our success today. It was never anyone's intention to exclude anyone.

But we have to accept — unapologetically — that this is the franchise we've built.

We have to look at this because the criticisms that are coming at us — whether they're couched in other things — do have some legitimacy. We must, as a starting point, take on board some of this criticism. Before we can set a path, we have to own this.

Now that's news. It's especially news because I've been reading a lot about how important it is for we conservatives to shake off the image of us as the racists and get minorities to break away from considering liberals as their partners. Well, there's the proof we're looking for! They're admitting it! They can claim it happened "unwittingly" all they want, but an in-depth examination of their elitist programming, coupled with an expose' on the way they fired Juan Williams, would put the lie to that claim in a heartbeat - and any black person would recognize it immediately.

There's only one problem. "I believe there's an elephant in the room" and I'm not talking about the Republican symbol:

Conservatives have "unwittingly" built a similar franchise to NPR's.

Mostly white, it too is "an extraordinary franchise" that uses "a very specific methodology to cultivate" a "highly educated, influential audience" with no "intention to exclude anyone." But exclude it does, based on religion, color, even what kind of music you listen to (like Rap) and a bunch of other nonsensical criteria - like whether or not you're perceived to be "nice" when no one has even met you personally. Criteria that have nothing to do with what it means to be a conservative.

[I did not use that picture of Ann Althouse to imply anything about her - she's different. The picture just "worked" artistically.]

Conservatism today is predominantly elitist, scared to death of anyone who doesn't exactly share their inward-looking views, and I don't just mean RINOs being scared of Sarah Palin. Hell, many who call themselves Tea Partiers are scared of Sarah Palin! Can you imagine what a whole bunch of black conservatives would do to their world?

And if I, a street-wise flag-waving hardcore black conservative, don't give a fig about Mary Katharine Ham taking on the near-imbecilic socialist ravings of Michael Moore, what do you think more like me would think - the people conservatives are supposedly trying to attract? I'll tell you:

Not a goddamned thing.

The kinds of things conservative organizations could be doing are just the kinds of things they don't seem to have either the balls, or the credibility, to do because they, too, are too busy trying to "Super-serve the core" - and playing favorites,...to the likes of Mary Katharine Ham.

Over the last few days, the dribble from Mary Katharine Ham has gotten front page status on Hot Air, and major placement on Instapundit, when her pieces don't contain any meaningful content, don't cause a ripple in the political firmament, and don't do outreach. They're just,...there.

But, boy, she shure is purdy!

Well, I'm sorry, but looks aren't the qualification that either Barry Goldwater, or Ronald Reagan, ran on. And no conservative said they weren't behaving when Goldwater gave his angry "Defense of Liberty" speech or Reagan bellowed "I paid for this microphone!" Miraculously, despite those well-known outbursts (that scared the beejeezus out of many) both were known as nice guys.

And, though she was beautiful to me, Jean Kirkpatrick wasn't a "looker" - but, damn it, she had ideas! And convictions that were unmistakably solid as a rock. And so do I.

As much as I like all the conservative players I've read, and interacted with online, I have to say conservatism cannot stay locked up amongst people like Mary Katharine Ham, Glenn Reynolds, and Ed Morrisey. (Glenn Beck's political accomplishments never would have happened if it was left up to the likes of them.) I know - "It was never anyone's intention to exclude anyone" - but exclude they do, to the detriment of the movement.

Or have I just missed all the black output - every day?

Nobody's asking for apologies, but there must be someone - someone - amongst you that has the guts to reach out and say "Let's meet and see what you've got to offer" rather than sitting on your online thrones and declaring "That guy seems weird and aggressive, let's let him twist in the wind." There are too many, like me, waiting to get in.

Supposedly you want us. Really? Prove it.

Very few saw the Tea Party Movement coming, or knew what it was going to be about, but one thing it is about is outsiders coming in and changing the direction of conservatism to something embraced by the nation. Well, despite recent candidates like Allen West and Herman Cain (or even Alphonzo Rachel) it's too easy, still, for the opposition to accurately frame the Tea Party as a lilly-white phenomena that doesn't attract a whole hell of a lot of blacks. I say that's because of the outdated, and elitist, attitudes I've seen from many of the current movers and shakers that are leading it, catering to each other, and the likes of political milquetoasts like Mary Katharine Ham instead. We could be stronger.

I, for one, am not afraid of - and look forward to - a powerful President Palin.

It's about time so-called conservatives stopped being afraid of someone like me.

This Videographer Should Be Up For An Award

We looove the reaction of the ACORN guy when the interviewer can see through his deception, but - even better - is the white teacher from Arianna's cult hangout, The Huffington Post, who says, "Excuse me, but your tea bag is showing." The way she gets "ghetto", bobbing and weaving, when the interviewer asks her if she's in the teacher's union is hilarious!

This entire video is proof of how much we're up against if we're ever going to get this country back on track. But it's also proof it's not hopeless:

The guy in the yellow jacket who begins the video, threatening to hit the interviewer in his head, ends up declaring he's not with the protesters, so something (his conscience?) obviously got through to him.

We know Americans are good people - they know right from wrong - but this society has been engulfed by the wrong influences, for so long, they can't tell which is which just yet. But they will. We're positive they will.

That guy in the yellow jacket proves it.

Good job.

Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit

Alice Is Supposed To Escape From Wonderland

"Imagine that as a young and desperately poor Mexican man, you had made the dangerous and illegal journey to California to work in the fields with other migrants. There, you performed stoop labor, picking lettuce and bell peppers and table grapes; what made such an existence bearable was the dream of a better life. You met a woman and had a child with her, and because that child was born in the U.S., he was made a citizen of this great country. He will lead a life entirely different from yours; he will be educated. Now that child is about to begin middle school in the American city whose name is synonymous with higher learning, as it is the home of one of the greatest universities in the world: Berkeley. On the first day of sixth grade, the boy walks though the imposing double doors of his new school, stows his backpack, and then heads out to the field, where he stoops under a hot sun and begins to pick lettuce.

It’s rare for an immigrant experience to go the whole 360 in a single generation—one imagines the novel of assimilation, The White Man Calls It Romaine. The cruel trick has been pulled on this benighted child by an agglomeration of foodies and educational reformers who are propelled by a vacuous if well-meaning ideology that is responsible for robbing an increasing number of American schoolchildren of hours they might other wise have spent reading important books or learning higher math (attaining the cultural achievements, in other words, that have lifted uncounted generations of human beings out of the desperate daily scrabble to wrest sustenance from dirt). The galvanizing force behind this ideology is Alice Waters, the dowager queen of the grown-locally movement. Her goal is that children might become 'eco-gastronomes' and discover 'how food grows'—a lesson, if ever there was one, that our farm worker’s son might have learned at his father’s knee—leaving the Emerson and Euclid to the professionals over at the schoolhouse. Waters’s enormous celebrity, combined with her decision in the 1990s to expand her horizons into the field of public-school education, has helped thrust thousands of schoolchildren into the grip of a giant experiment, one that is predicated on a set of assumptions that are largely unproved, even unexamined. That no one is calling foul on this is only one manifestation of the way the new Food Hysteria has come to dominate and diminish our shared cultural life, and to make an educational reformer out of someone whose brilliant cookery and laudable goals may not be the best qualifications for designing academic curricula for the public schools.

Waters, described by her biographer, Thomas McNamee, as 'arguably the most famous restaurateur in the United States,' is, of course, the founder of Chez Panisse, in Berkeley, an eatery where the right-on, 'yes we can,' ACORN-loving, public-option-supporting man or woman of the people can tuck into a nice table d’hôte menu of scallops, guinea hen, and tarte tatin for a modest 95 clams—wine, tax, and oppressively sanctimonious and relentlessly conversation-busting service not included. (I’ve had major surgeries in which I was less scrupulously informed about what was about to happen to me, what was happening to me, and what had just happened to me than I’ve been during a dinner there.) It was at Chez Panisse that Waters worked out her new American gastronomic credo, which is built on the concept of using ingredients that are 'fresh, local, seasonal, and where possible organic.' Fair enough, and perfectly delicious, but the scope of her operation—which is fueled not only by the skill of its founder, but also by the weird, almost erotic power she wields over a certain kind of educated, professional-class, middle-aged woman (the same kind of woman who tends to light, midway through life’s journey, on school voluntarism as a locus of her fathomless energies)—has widened so far beyond the simple cooking and serving of food that it can hardly be quantified."

-- Caitlin Flanagan, kicking Alice Waters and her NewAge food freaks for depriving kids of an education - in favor of their whacked-out environmental/health/vegan bullshit - and who, one day, the Tea Partiers will throw into The Atlantic.

Famous Last Words: I'm Not Going To Judge You

I Don't Believe It: Someone With Integrity

Honesty Is The Best Policy - Even "Undercover"

"We knew we were gonna put in Obama."

Click the link and read, people: we got another live one,...

They'll Diss Everyone With An Answer (And Play Stupid Whenever Someone Calls Out It's Name)

"I keep hearing that Glenn Beck is just a blowhard opinionist, contributing nothing but hot air. If that is true, why do we keep learning news from him? About Van Jones, about ACORN, about Anita Dunn . . . I mean, isn’t that the New York Times’s job? No? What a strange era we’re living in."

-- Jay Nordlinger, probably left out of the loop - this is the NewAge, not a NewEra - but still correctly identifying the details, for The National Review.

Scalps, Scalps, Everywhere,...

"They will only admit to what they get caught at."

-- Publius, on the news that former ACORN President Wade Rathke may have embezzled $5 million dollars from the organization - and then ACORN covered it up - probably so no one could tell how much was lost, from Big Government.

AFTERTHOUGHT:

This only makes ACORN the equal of Oprah, Obama, Letterman, and almost every other Leftist out there I can see. Following the example of a bunch of liars and losers has only produced a nation of liars and losers. Can't you see that? Or do you think all this current bad news is just an accident?

Get it together, people: We ain't France.

The Gods Must Be Crazy

"We're in a period of neo-McCarthyism. Everybody is running for cover, it's everyman for himself and somebody turn out the light. How you can go from the Obama moment less than a year ago to a period now where a hardscrabble Taliban-in-the-cave, right-wing Republican movement is able to intimidate people to cut and run is beyond me. I have no friends, until this McCarthyist moment dies down. If you're walking down the street and see me, cross the street and keep walking. I understand."

-- Wade Rathke, the former chief organizer of ACORN, after telling reporter Jonathan Tilove "he expects large and well-rooted chapters, such as the one in New Orleans, to survive" - but before discovering the New Orleans chapter will be uprooted - which will probably isolate him further, from NOLA.com.

And What Exactly Were Those Cultish Leftists Compelled To Do To Those People Who Said It?

"ACORN, as it turns out, is an ugly, corrupt organization. It is just as bad, just as evil, as people said it was. If you don't believe me, ask Elizabeth Kingsley."

-- Matthew Vadum, on a newly-released 2008 legal memo to ACORN - from their attorney, Elizabeth Kingsley, of Harmon, Curran, Spielberg Eisenberg LLP - warning ACORN it was a shithole of corruption (that would eventually be found out) to The American Spectator.

They Won't Stop 'Til The Air's Kicked Out Of 'Em

"Scott Harshbarger, the former Massachusetts attorney general and head of Common Cause, has been appointed by ACORN to investigate lapses in the organization that lead to its recent scandals. Harshbarger was responsible for one of the most outrageous ‘Satanic ritual abuse’ prosecutions when he was AG, sending three innocent members of the Amirault family to jail. He has never repudiated the prosecution. It’s sickening that someone who so abused his power would be appointed to investigate or reform anything. (I also see that Harshbarger was a big John Edwards’ supporter, so his ability as a judge of character remains atrocious.)"

-- Emily Yoffe, giving us the latest ACORN/Obama/Democratic Party-inspired nonsense with both barrels - because she knows we can take it - while hitting Scott Harshbarger's crazy ass with the Double X.

Graphic Art - No, I Mean REALLY Graphic!!!

Whoa - somebody tagged the studio of Shepard Fairey, that guy who designed the Obama/Hope poster. Talk about "going down with the shit".

Oh well, I told those guys they were going to regret this,...some people just don't know who their friends are.

Hat Tip: Big Government

Real Liberals Only Want To Help

"This is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career."

-- Barack Obama

Just What "60 Minutes" Needs: A Make-Over

This is James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, the two conservative kids who set about testing ACORN's propensity for corruption by playing a pimp and a prostitute. Good grief.

Sometimes it's just waaay too easy,...

Whores

This is what it's all about:

Two ACORN workers in Baltimore - and, let it not be lost on anyone, two black women - encourage (what they think are) a pimp and a prostitute to evade the law, and common decency, in multiple ways. There are so many points these videos can make it's crazy:

ACORN was one of President Obama's main support groups during the election, and, just like then, they're still operating on a ruthless "ends justifies the means" basis.

These women don't give a damn about the sexual exploitation of women, whether here or anywhere else.

These are blacks who are more-than-willing to work with two white people - as long as it's in a criminal enterprise that opposes the government and the law.

These ACORN workers are cynically attempting to assist a criminal in getting into government (the "pimp" is supposed to be using the prostitution money to fund a run for public office).

Incredible:



One more thing - and this is the best of it:

The "pimp" decided to try this after reading Saul Alinsky's "Rules For Radicals" - the subject of Hillary Clinton's college thesis and Barack Obama's working model for "community organizing" - especially the part about making your opponent live by their own values. It's just too much. It's a microcosm of everything I've said about these people, and more, because even I never thought they'd be so stupidly blatant about it that they can be exposed in this manner. I saw the same thing happening during California's first push for "medical" marijuana, which was as cynical an operation as I thought I'd ever personally witness, but this is even more open, obvious, deceitful and, yes, evil. These liberals know no shame.

Needless to say, I think it's long past time we teach them what that word means, again. Get to it.

Faking The News To Look Good (And Printing It)

"Times reporters would certainly not have high-fived the colleague who’d cost Obama the election."

-- Mickey Kaus, on the ACORN story - and the general dishonesty of The New York Times - during the last election, on Slate.

Whether It's The New York Times, ACORN, The Democrats, Or The Obama Administration, We Told You: It's All A Bunch Of Self-Serving Lies

How much did Barack know about ACORN's activities?

He knew everything,...

Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't Out To Get You (And - Whoa Nelly! - They Are Most Certainly Out To Get All Of You)

"I just stopped listing them because I grew weary -- so weary,..."

-- Doug Ross, who found 200 headlines in the mainstream media - all erroneous "facts" planted by Families USA (a member of the "Progressive States Network" working with ACORN and the SEIU) - on Doug Ross@Journal.

We Hear Pravda Is Well-Written Too,..

"During her testimony, Ms. Heidelbaugh said Ms. Moncrief had told her The New York Times articles stopped when she revealed that the Obama presidential campaign had sent its maxed-out donor list to ACORN’s Washington, D.C. office. … 'Upon learning this information and receiving the list of donors from the Obama campaign, Ms. Strom reported to Ms. Moncrief that her editors at The New York Times wanted her to kill the story because, and I quote, 'it was a game changer.'"

-- Michael P. Tremoglie, with the startling news (kidding) that The New York Times could not (and cannot) be trusted to tell the public the truth about political corruption - because they're part of it - that's why (since we now need news on The New York Times) we rely on The Bulletin.

The Sting: They're Stealing "Back" The Election

This is totally fake - a sting operation, calling itself "WALNUT" instead of ACORN - but it's brilliant for revealing what's motivating the Democrats to do all the lying and other un-American shit (yea, I said it) that they're doing this election. Ladies and Gentlemen, these are not nice boys and girls.

Hat Tip: Hot Air