Jon Stewart & Mocking the Middle

Most of us are tired of the elites and "intellectuals" (including our own representatives) and their constant distain for their fellow Americans. Generally how it goes is that if you aren't liberal, don't vote Democratic, and don't still worship at the altar of Obama, you are somehow intellectually inferior or even defective. This is, of course, hogwash, but the fact that actual verbal attacks on Americans are continuing makes me wonder just what kind of morons we have in Washington. Seriously, they think calling their fellow Americans "backwards" (John Hickenlooper, CO gubernatorial candidate and mayor of Denver) and "enemies" (President Obama) will somehow increase their voter turn out? In a way this is true, voters WILL turn out in records numbers, but not for the reasons these politicians might want.

In the same train of thought, this came from Hugh Hewitt today .....

The Washington Post's Anne Applebaum is worried that Jon Stewart's "rally" in D.C. will turn out badly:

I don't know about you, but my heart sank when I read about Jon Stewart's Million Moderate March, planned for the Mall next weekend. My heart sank further when I learned that liberal groups, lacking any better ideas, have decided to take this endeavor seriously. It's bad enough that the only way to drum up enthusiasm for a "Rally to Restore Sanity" is to make it into a television comedian's joke. But it's far worse that the "moderates" in attendance will have been bused in by Arianna Huffington and organized by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Stewart's gathering, like Stephen Colbert's "testimony" to Congress last month, is another exercise in mocking middle America --the middle of the country geographically, the middle when it comes to income, the middle when it comes to politics.

It is specifically targeted at the Tea Party, at the hundreds of thousands who turned out at the Beck-Palin rally in September, and at the millions who sympathized with those marching then.

The middle this year is decidely anti-Democratic where it was pro-Obama two years ago. The center of the political spectrum has shifted, and the left now doesn't much like its allies of two years ago, and the result is the venom of some and the condescension of others. Hollywood is divided between the two reactions, but Stewart's overt mocking will go a long way to motivating the center-right's turnout on 11/2.

There is nothing like the contempt of elites to energize anti-elites. The Tea Party owed its creation to Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. It owes thanks for a last push towards next week's victories to all the members of the chattering class who have been so open in their scorn and so thorough in their disdain for ordinary Americans holding traditional opinions on the size and scope of government.

Sincerely,

Hugh Hewitt

Juan Williams, the Muslim Issue, and Political Correctness

This is America, the land of free speech and freedom of religion. Sadly, as indicated by NPR's firing of Juan Williams this week, we are a country who has lost its way in the murky swamp of political correctness. We've all watched it happen over the last three decades, we've all cringed inside at the ridiculousness of it. Yet we've allowed it ... until this week, when our country exploded in indignation over the firing of a good & decent political analyst who told the truth about how so many of us feel every time we are at the airport, or in crowds, or notice something that feels a little off in Times Square. The scars of 9/11 still exist no matter how much we've put a happy face on the event and squash the understandable skittishness we feel about this focused effort to murder us.

The Ground Zero mosque tweaked people. It's simply too close to the target zone, too close to a something which could be used as a victory monument ... not by peaceful Muslims, but by those who wish us all harm. Our mainstream media never pointed out during this controversy that Muslims build a mosque at or near EVERY point of victory. Oh let's not look at that, let's not examine that, it might OFFEND those who want to murder us. Give me a break.

Are all Muslims part of a murdering hoard? Of course not. Then again, neither were all Germans nazis, yet their inaction, their unwillingness to recognize what was going on in their culture, much less call attention to it, contributed to the murder of millions of innocents. When it comes to fluffy, peaceful Muslims, we hear very little from them about what it happening in our world at the hand of their violent brothers.

America has been falsely accused of targeting those fluffy, peaceful Muslims beginning the day after 9/11. But it's a lie. No mosques were burned, no Muslims murdered, and very few harassed in the ten years since 9/11, yet there is this eery fear that any mention that it's Muslims, and only Muslims, murdering people through terrorist attacks in the U.S. and the world will somehow explode into Muslim oppression. Really? I just don't see the evidence. What I do see is a very long list of Muslim extremists blowing us up and very few actually willing to point this out.

Think not? Take this simple quiz:

1. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by:

a. Superman

b. Jay Leno

c. Harry Potter

d. Muslim male between the ages of 17 and 40

2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by:

a. Olga Corbett

b. Sitting Bull

c. Arnold Schwarzenegger

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

3. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by:

a. Lost Norwegians

b. Elvis

c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

4. During the 1980′s a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by:

a. John Dillinger

b. The King of Sweden

c. The Boy Scouts

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

5. On May 13th, 1981, Pope John Paul II was shot and critically wounded by:

a. A fish called Wanda

b. Calvin Klein underwear model Markus Shankenberg

c. Juice Newton

d. Muslim male between the ages of 17 and 40

6. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by:

a. A pizza delivery boy

b. Pee Wee Herman

c. Geraldo Rivera

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

7. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by:

a. The Smurfs

b. Davey Jones

c. The Little Mermaid

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

8. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens, and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by:

a. Captain Kidd

b. Charles Lindberg

c. Mother Teresa

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

9. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by:

a. Scooby Doo

b. The Tooth Fairy

c. The Sundance Kid

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

10. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by:

a. Richard Simmons

b. Grandma Moses

c. Michael Jordan

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

11. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by:

a. Mr. Rogers

b. Jasmine Guy

c. The World Wrestling Federation

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

12. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by:

a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd

b. The Supreme Court of Florida

c. Mr. Bean

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

13. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against:

a. Enron

b. The Lutheran Church

c. The NFL

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40

14. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by:

a. Bonnie and Clyde

b. Captain Kangaroo

c. Billy Graham

d. Muslim males mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.

15. In 2009, 31 people wounded and 13 American Soldiers murdered on base at Fort Hood by:

a. The last surviving male Solid Gold dancer

b. Dr. Girlfriend

c. Willow Rosenberg

d. Muslim male between the ages of 17 and 4015.

16. On May 1st 2010, a crude car bomb made from gasoline, propane, fireworks, and alarm clocks was rigged to explode in Times Square by:

a. Sigmund the Sea Monster

b. Fran Eaton, Editor of the Illinois Review

c. Mumm-Ra the Everliving

d. Muslim male between the ages of 17 and 40

Nope, no pattern here! Just misunderstood Muslims ... don't dare look at those who believe in this "religion of peace" with any kind of suspicion or doubt. That would be RAAAAAACIST.

So, to ensure we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport security screeners can’t profile Muslims — even though Muslims are the ones mass murdering people using America’s PC-obsession against us. In airports, TSA must conduct random searches of 80-year-old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, secret agents who are members of the President’s security detail, 85-year old Congressmen with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim Males between the ages 17 and 40 alone lest they be guilty of profiling.

Political correctness is killing us, and we are too worried about offending someone to protect ourselves or even talk about it.

Thank you Juan Williams and Bill O'Reilly for pulling back the curtain in Oz and making us look at who is hiding back there.