Calvin Freiburger
Hailing from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Calvin Freiburger is a political science major at Hillsdale College. He also writes for the Hillsdale Forum and his personal website, Calvin Freiburger Online.
Hyperbolic Hypocrite Andrew Sullivan Outraged by Rush Limbaugh’s “Bald Racism”
Looking at modern-day Andrew Sullivan, it’s hard to believe that he was ever considered a sane, respectable member of the Right. Today he’s infamous for bizarre rantings on everything from Sarah Palin’s children and Catholicism to domestic politics and that scheming Israel, and to the extent that he retains any conservative views, they’re easily eclipsed by his left-wing agitating.
This week’s example is an old standby—“The Bald Racism of Rush Limbaugh.” Sullivan’s outrageously outraged that Limbaugh’s website recently featured an image of Barack Obama’s face added to Mt. Rushmore in graffiti, with the accompanying text:
LIMBAUGH: This guy is an utter wrecking ball all by himself on the world stage to the point now of getting embarrassing. This presidency of Obama’s, it doesn’t take much to irritate the left. Try this: “Barack Obama’s presidency is graffiti on the walls of American history.” That’s what his administration is. No more than graffiti on the walls of American history. We have a juvenile delinquent for a president who has ruined so much public and private property, not even his gang is making much of an effort here to protect him. It’s an utter disaster. read more…
Republicans can attribute their success in taking back the House of Representatives to numerous factors: the Tea Party movement, unemployment, the people’s sense that the federal government’s overreaching Democrat leaders weren’t listening to them, and…Sean Hannity?
There’s no doubt that talk radio generally is a potent force for promoting conservative politics, but the American Spectator’s Jeffrey Lord thinks the Fox News superstar’s efforts merit special attention, going so far as to call the GOP’s new home “The House That Hannity Built.” Lord starts with an example of how the Hannity brand’s formidable fundraising power helped jump-start pessimistic Republican campaigns in early 2010, then dives into his main argument—that Hannity’s insistence on holding the party to its principles made all the difference, both on issues… read more…
After their big electoral victory at the beginning of the month, the next question for Republicans is, how do they maintain and expand their control of Congress? An obvious component to that question is what to do with beleaguered Republican National Committee Chair Michael Steele, who’s managed to lose the confidence of just about everyone with his support for the leftist in NY-23, his abandonment of the mission in Afghanistan, his chronic foot-in-mouth disease, and lots, lots more. But if not Steele, then who? Radio host John Batchelor thinks he’s got the answer. After recapping Steele’s thrilling tenure at the reins of the RNC, he writes on the Daily Beast that Michigan Republican Committeeman Saul Anuzis is the man for the job: read more…
This popular post was first published on November 11 here.
You haven’t really made it as a conservative until leftists start calling you either a raging bigot or functionally illiterate. Ideally both. It has nothing to do with whether or not you’ve actually done anything bigoted, and everything to do with whether or not they feel you pose a threat to their agenda. But once the slanderous arrows start flying, you know you’re doing it right.
Glenn Beck has been doing it right for years, and the intensity of the Left’s hatred for him can be felt in the vileness of their newest attack. Beck’s latest project has been exposing the radical activism of leftist financier George Soros, but because Soros is of Jewish descent (never mind the fact that he’s irreligious and his agenda is anti-religious), there can be only one explanation: Glenn Beck is an anti-Semite. So says Michelle Goldberg in the Daily Beast: read more…
Can you spot the bad guys in this picture? It’s not who you think anymore…
Anti-American, anti-military propaganda aimed at the United States’ actions in the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars, not to mention scores of lesser conflicts and issues involving our armed forces, is nothing new. But all but the craziest of the anti-war types usually take pains to acknowledge that using force isn’t always wrong, with World War II being the ultimate consensus example of a just, necessary war on the Allies’ part.
Sickeningly, the National Endowment for the Humanities apparently thinks differently, according to one of Sean Hannity’s latest reports. It seems the agency sponsored a summer conference in Hawaii called “History and Commemoration: The Legacies of the Pacific War,” which was really nothing more than an “anti-American pep rally that targeted our US military”—funded by your tax dollars.
You haven’t really made it as a conservative until leftists start calling you either a raging bigot or functionally illiterate. Ideally both. It has nothing to do with whether or not you’ve actually done anything bigoted, and everything to do with whether or not they feel you pose a threat to their agenda. But once the slanderous arrows start flying, you know you’re doing it right.
Glenn Beck has been doing it right for years, and the intensity of the Left’s hatred for him can be felt in the vileness of their newest attack. Beck’s latest project has been exposing the radical activism of leftist financier George Soros, but because Soros is of Jewish descent (never mind the fact that he’s irreligious and his agenda is anti-religious), there can be only one explanation: Glenn Beck is an anti-Semite. So says Michelle Goldberg in the Daily Beast: read more…
Last month, I wrote a post summarizing the case against Ron Paul. A Paul disciple named Wesley Messamore attempted to refute it at the Young Americans for Liberty blog. I responded here, demonstrating that Wesley’s screed consisted almost entirely of dishonesty, misdirection, and simply ignoring information that was too inconvenient.
Curious about how our apologist friend might reaction, I gave him the link a couple weeks ago. No reply. Several days later, I wondered aloud if Wes was unwilling or unable to defend his conduct, to which he politely responded:
I’m a little jammed up presently with the election (timed perfectly to coincide with some other heavy lifting I’m doing for my non-political, commercial enterprises)… give me some time and I’ll respond. Or if you’re up for it, I propose we set up a debate to stream live.
Fair enough; we all have real lives beyond the blogosphere. I’d be happy to give him some time, but I wasn’t terribly interested in a live debate, given a) that my schedule is fairly “jammed up” as well, and b) the caliber of his arguments thus far made me doubt such a debate would be worth the time and effort. For politeness’s sake, I replied with the former explanation, and told him to take his time on a blog response. Simple, right?
Wrong. read more…
Blazing Exciting New Trails for Partisanship: Media Matters Blasts Hannity for NOT Being a Hypocrite
Media Matters: this aggressive, but far less effective
Whenever a leftist gets in hot water, you can count on Media Matters to find a way to steer the conversation toward alleged conservative misconduct. Yesterday, they dug past the headlines about Keith Olbermann getting (briefly) suspended for donating to Democrat candidates, and posed the question on everyone’s (and by “everyone’s” I mean “nobody’s”) mind: yeah, but what about Sean Hannity?
Last Friday, Fox News’ Sean Hannity refrained from discussing MSNBC’s decision earlier that day to suspend host Keith Olbermann for having contributed to political candidates. Hannity’s silence on Olbermann’s suspension speaks volumes about his own actions.
After all, Hannity has personally contributed to GOP candidates and regularly promotes and allows GOP candidates to use his show as a fundraising platform. Thus, it isn’t surprising that the Fox superstar would remain silent. read more…
“Tax-Cutter Obama” Revisited: Daily Beast Blogger Sets a New Standard in Leftist Duplicity
The most amazing thing liberals have done is create the myth of a compliant right-wing media with Republicans badgering baffled reporters into attacking Democrats. It’s so mad, it’s brilliant. It’s one kind of lie to say the Holocaust occurred when the Swedes killed the Jews. But it’s another kind of lie entirely to say the Holocaust occurred when the Jews killed the Nazis.
Today we have a positively exquisite example of such a leftist lie. Pseudo-victimhood, boldly claiming the moral high ground, projecting one side’s sins onto the other side…this one’s got it all.
The author of today’s opus is Rick Perlstein, who took to the Daily Beast this weekend to bemoan the fact that Rush Limbaugh brazenly lied about Barack Obama’s record on taxes, and that our poor tax-lowering president is too polite and civil to stand up for himself: read more…
With the Republican Party winning big in Congress, governorships and state legislatures this week, you just knew the left-wing media would have to find some way to spin the results. In what character assassin David Frum (of course) hails as an “important column,” the Daily Beast’s John Avlon claims to “prove the wingnuts”—that is, the Tea Party movement—“spoiled a larger conservative victory.”
Avlon cites as his evidence the defeats of Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, Linda McMahon, and Ken Buck, and the closeness of Pat Toomey and Joe Miller’s races: read more…
Sure, unemployment is expected to rise again and Catholics are getting murdered in Iraq, but forget about all that for now. You see, we’ve got a real problem to deal with: rotten conservatives are making too much money. Newsweek’s latest Power 50 list, which identifies the most financially-successful (and therefore influential) political figures of the year, is out. Topping the list are Rush Limbaugh ($58.7 million), Glenn Beck ($33 million), Sean Hannity ($22 million), and Bill O’Reilly ($20 million).
AlterNet’s Lauren Kelley doesn’t like this one bit, asking “in what sick, twisted world are a bunch of conservative talk show hosts more powerful than the president of the United States?” read more…
As voters headed to the polls yesterday to decide how many allies the current president will have in Congress come January, some have started to contemplate the reputation of his predecessor. Former President George W. Bush’s memoir Decision Points will be released next week, leading the Daily Beast’s Bryan Curtis to take a look at ex-Bush personnel’s efforts to rehabilitate their boss:
[T]o hear Bushies tell it, a number of things have changed since then that might sway America. One, Barack Obama is now the one with the slumping ratings. “People respect the fact that [Bush has] stayed off the radar screen and out of President Obama’s business,” said Mark McKinnon, a former advisor. “They have also watched Obama come down to earth and know that even Superman would have a tough time being president these days.” An October CNN poll found Obama and Bush nearly tied—47 percent to 45 percent, respectively—on the question of who has been a better president. read more…
