Nichole Hungerford
Young, enormously privileged college students are yet again exercising their latest favored entitlement: Fomenting mass unrest and destroying property because they just don’t feel they should have to pay for the generous benefits rightfully afforded to them by their welfare state utopia.
The Berkeley “struggle” is comical. Students, undoubtedly stoked by their increasingly irrelevant, dried-up leftist faculty mentors, invoke language of a bygone era to elevate what is little more than a puerile fit over tuition hikes to something like protesting war or racial segregation. In reality, there could be no better display of bourgeois selfishness, as the Wall Street Journal notes,
“We have here the vocabulary of the peace movement, of the struggle for decent conditions for migrants and other exploited workers, and of the civil-rights movement. Yet what did the protesters demand? Peace? Human rights? No. Money. And for whom? For the downtrodden and oppressed? No. For themselves.” read more…
Dylan Ratigan savages the Tea Party Express’ Mark Williams on live television. Ratigan walks off stage after accusing Tea Party of accepting people who want to “kill blacks, jew, women, or whatever it may be.”
Hey Maher! How D’ya Like These Dumb Animals? Luntz Focus Group Shows Voters Engaged, Informed, Upset
So long, death panels. Meet the new Healthcare-embattled American populace — captive to political theatre for the better part of a year and increasingly fluent on the issues at stake.
Frank Luntz, pollster and author of “What the American People Really Want…Really,” appeared on Fox News’ Hannity with a focus group of reportedly half Democrat, half Republican voters to gauge opinions on the recent bipartisan health care summit. Most of them thought very little of the outcomes of the event, and littler still of the health care legislation itself.
Far from being brutish troglodytes as characterized by several commentators (and misanthropic zealots), these voters are notably informed and opinionated. They have been following the debate and are frustrated by recalcitrant governing. And — gasp! — they still disagree with Bill Maher! read more…
Sarah Palin will do one better than merely endorse Dr. Rand Paul for U.S. Senate. Paul announced on his website today that she will, in fact, campaign for him.
As NRB has puzzled over before — why would someone like Sarah Palin, with such a glowing view of America’s presence abroad, stump for someone who, frankly, believes we bring terrorist attacks on ourselves? read more…
Following Evan Bayh’s (D-IN) abrupt retirement, comedian Bill Maher appeared on Anderson Cooper 360° to discuss Congressional inertia. His first response to the moderate Democrat’s departure?
He wasn’t working. He’s the problem with Congress.
Maher immediately admonished Cooper for referring to Bayh as a “centrist” when, in fact, there’s a perfectly good ad hominem to hurl. “He’s a corporatist, okay?” That is to say, the man who initiated the Moderate Democratic Working Group comprised of 15 fiscally concerned Democratic senators (and Joe Lieberman) is little more than a corporate shill. read more…
