David Horowitz
David Horowitz is the editor-in-chief of NewsReal Blog and FrontPage Magazine. He is the President and CEO of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. His most recent book is Reforming Our Universities
Communist fabricator Keith Olbermann opened his show decrying “Republican mob rule,” but then showed clips of perfectly normal citizens at townhall meetings where the so-called “mobsters” raised their hands and waited to be recognized before speaking.
(See a video of this clip here.)
Olbermann should spend some time on a college campus when a Republican shows up to speak. For a decade now, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, Robert Spencer, I and numerous other conservatives have had to take bodyguards to these campuses because of the violent, bigoted, intolerant, and simply vicious behavior that is normal to the political left.
Or try crossing a picket line during a strike. Or mentioning at a dinner party with liberal friends that maybe Obama doesn’t walk on water. Or read Harry Stein’s funny and fearless new book I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next to a Republican, which recounts his adventures among the liberal fascists who run our media and our country, and will put us all under lock and key if we let them.
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Fox reporter Mike Tobin had a Freudian slip on camera referring to Israeli settlements as taking land that Palestinians “need” to establish a Palestinian state. Then referred to Israeli settlements as a land “grab.” What Tobin obviously meant to say was that the Palestinians need to make the West Bank Judenfrei in order to establish their Islamic Nazi state. Otherwise why are Jewish settlements a problem at all? There are more than a million Arabs settled in Israel — a territory that has not been ruled by Arabs for almost 500 years. (The Ottoman Turks controlled both sides of the Jordan and the area that includes Syria, Iraq and Lebanaon from the 16th Century to 1920 and the British and French until the present states were created between 1922 and 1948.) But there are no Jews anywhere — or anywhere allowed — in the Arab Muslim Middle East. That is because the Arab Muslims have the same attitude towards Jews that Hitler did.
I will be on the Glenn Beck show this evening (afternoon on the coast) talking about the Henry Louis Gates case. It must be said at that outset that Gates is no Michael Eric Dyson, an intellectual airhead and compulsive race baiter. He’s a smart sophisticated and usually quite balanced and modulated commentator on racial matters. Which makes this incident all the more interesting and illuminating. The first thing to be said is that it’s obvious that Gates is lying about what happened. There were three officers present — a black, a Hispanic and the arresting officer who was white but who had been teaching other officers how not to racial profile for a ten years, a position he was selected for by a black superior. To believe Gates you have to believe that when officer Crowley arrived on the scene, Gates was cooperative with officer and maintained his calm and that the officer arrested him out of racial spite. This is utterly ridiculous on its face. The officer’s story is all too credible: A neighbor reported to men breaking into the house. In fact there were two men breaking into the house — Gates and his driver, since Gates had forgot his tree. The officer asked for Gates’ id and Gates basically said piss off. You don’t know who you’re dealing with here, and the fact that you would ask for my id in my own house is just instance of how black men are treated by cops in America. When the officer did not back off, Gates panicked and began calling him a racist and it descended from there. In other words it was Gates’ arrogance not his race that got him in trouble. The cop didn’t recognize him — friend of the president, millionaire Harvard professor, host of a PBS TV series etc. That was sin.
Lying about the embarrassing details of one’s own arrest is understandable. Pouring gasoline on racial tinder is not. “This is the way black men are treated in America,” Gates said. In fact a black man in America can slit his wife’s throat from ear to ear and be acquitted. A racial arsonist, convicted liar and lynch mob agitator responsible for 8 racial deaths — I’m referring to Reverend Al — can if black revive himself as an elder civil rights statesmen and be treated respectfully not only on MSNBC but Fox. Perhaps the lowest point in Gates effort to pin his rap on the Cambridge police is his invocation of the canard that a black man with a PhD in America is still a nig—r. (Look at that — it’s 2009 and it would still be a risk for me to spell the word out.) This big raciall lie (with his PhD Gates as a black man is world famous and rich) originated with Malcolm X,. himself a anti-American racist. It libels all other Americans and sends a disgusting message to African American kids that America is rigged so they can’t succeed. Shame on the professor.
But none of this would be possible without the soft racism of American liberals which takes this racial garbage coming from Gates and uncountable others seriously.
Heidi Collins runs CNN’s morning news show. Covering the unemployment statistics this morning, she demonstrated the soft racism that pervades the universe of American liberalism. Reporting the unemployment situation, she broke down the statistics by, guess what? Answer: by percentages that reflected the “racial gap” between — guess who? — blacks and whites. They came up 8.7% for whites and 14.7% for blacks.
Not a shred of intelligent analysis followed these statistics, examining, for example, what industries the unemployed blacks and whites were in, how long they had been working at their respective jobs, or what their skill levels were. The statistics were treated by Heidi as though hiring and firing were based on race.
For commentary, Heidi interviewed three successful African Americans: a chemical engineer who had been laid off in February and rehired a month later, a magazine editor, and the head of “Global Diversity” for a major bank.
To each of them, Heidi repeated the question, what specifically affects blacks in the current economic situation more than whites? The first two black commentators said the key factor was self-confidence. The diversity counselor identified both confidence and access as the major factors. His reference to “access” seemed, at first, to be a suggestion that blacks were barred from hiring — which is of course illegal under American laws — a fact that didn’t prevent Heidi from insinuating as much. (Nor, for that matter, has that fact prevented university professors on every campus in the country from teaching that America is “institutionally racist.”)
But as the diversity counselor elaborated, it became clear that he meant that African Americans were not familiar enough with networking systems such as Linked-In, and not as familiar with job opportunities as they should be.
These answers showed that Heidi’s fishing expedition was misguided if not malicious (why single out blacks — are there no other unemployment disaparities between racial and/or ethnic groups?). It’s time to bury this kind of race mongering, to stop suggesting that racial discrimination is a big problem for African Americans as though they are still living back in the era of segregation. By now it is obvious to everyone – though it still can’t be said without risk — that blacks do get special treatment.
Imagine, for example, a major American city such as Los Angeles, forking over millions of taxpayer dollars to provide a hero’s funeral for a crotch-grabbing, drug-addicted, child-molesting singer who was white, and a national news media fawning over him 24/7 as though he had been a prince among men.
Imagine a white Al Sharpton — a convicted liar, a racial extortionist, the inciter of racially motivated uprisings, one of which resulted in the deaths of eight victims — reinventing himself as a statesman and being received as such by the nation’s anchors.
Sharpton absurdly, ludicrously, insultingly compared the late Michael Jackson to Martin Luther King for breaking racial barriers in achieving his success. What barriers? Michael Jackson was rich and famous when he was five years old. And that was forty-five years ago.
The Michael Jackson orgy reached its bizarre climax today with a memorial at the Staples Center in Los Angeles that attained a pinnacle of hypocrisy which will not be surpassed in our lifetimes. Jackson was a talented but ultimately sick and pathetic human being who spent half a billion dollars on clothes, toys and drugs for himself in a futile attempt to fill the hole in his soul that had been torn open by a father who molested and tormented him but also while turned him into an icon worshipped by millions in countries all ovr the world. The anthem of his memorial was Jackson’s song “Heal the World” a piece of black humor coming from a man who couldn’t heal himself. Hopefully, this is the end of a week where we had to have our noses rubbed in such monumental malarkey on every news show and by virtually every news commentator (with a few honorable exceptions) that it would take a year of showers to feel clean again — and maybe not even then.
It was interesing to see how CNN’s Anderson Cooper handled the Palin announcement. He assembled a panel consisting of David (I’m embarrassed by Republicans) Gergen, Candy (liberal stalwart) Crowley and Ed Rollins who just happens to be Mike Huckabee’s chief strategist — Huckabee is already Palin’s chief potential presidential rival for the Republican base. Rollins thought her resignation made her a “kook.” Gergen described her as a quitter. Crowley thought she was a timorous female who couldn’t take the heat. And Cooper kept wondering how she could be a leader doing what she did.
Well, she explained a piece of it with a basketball analogy. A point guard draws the fire and dishes off to the open man (in this case her lieutenant governor). Anderson’s response: “I don’t know anything about sports” (and hence haven’t the foggiest idea of what she was talking about.
Let me say right here, that I can’t say where Palin is going with this. Obviously in politics all the cards are never put on the table. But let’s say she’s stepping down so she can devote herself full time to leading a political movement against tsunami of socialist schemes that the Obama team is cooking up along with the appeasement strategies it is pursuing towards our many international foes. The basketball metaphor works for Alaska. With her gone, Alaska can focus on its own problems and the ones the vast leftwing conspiracy has created for her. What Gergen and Cooper and Crowley don’t understand, and what Rollins is trying to derail is this: Palin is an electrifying national figure who can rouse the passions of the Republican base as no other can, and most pointedly (for Rollins) not Huckabee.
I don’t know what Palin has in mind, but if she starts her presidential run now, and raises money for Republican candidates in the 2010 cycle, in which victory is crucial for stopping the Obama-Pelosi-Frank juggernaut, she can very well be the Republican standard-bearer in 2012,
Keith Olberman was off last night so David Schuster attempted an impersonation. In a segment called “Let’s GOP Crazy” Schuster and his guest portrayed the Republican Party as hypocritical, insinuated it was racist and advised it to move left. The guest was the communication strategist for John Edwards. Need we say more? I was sorry that Olbermann took the day off because yesterday Obama launched a new offensive in Afghanistan. It’s his war now, and so is Iraq where he is committed to an indefinite stay or “military occupation,” as the left has been fond of saying. Even the Washington Post recognizes this. So obviously the GOP would be foolish to move left on the war and repeat the lies of the Democrats including the (hypocritical?) Obama saying that Iraq is an unnecessary and illegal occupation which should be folded up immediately — thought some deranged elements in the GOP grouped around Ron Paul will undoubtedly be doing just that. Personally I think that Republicans would be better advised to start counting the billions — or is it trillions? you never know these days — of new taxes that Obama is imposing on the 95% of Americans he promised he woud never tax. And I’m not sure about this, perhaps Schuster will enlighten me, but is this hypocrisy or just plain lying?
Is there anyone more self-righteous and also more sophomoric on TV than MSNBC’s resident ranter Keith Olbermann? Who can watch this guy for more than two minutes? Today he disgorged this hysterical fit against Dick Cheney. He regurgitated it again on air with the treacherous, self-serving Richard Clarke who first agreed with Olbermann that everything Dick Cheney says absurdly and obviously a lie, and then said what we have to do is get all 130,000 troops out of Iraq now. Which raises the interesting but unasked (by these two) question: why hasn’t Obama done that? He promised to. In fact it was the heart of his campaign, the promise that got him elected (rather than say Hillary who was pilloried for not joining the bring the troops home now bandwagon). Of course if there actually is a war — and not just an unnecessary, unwarranted excursion of American troops bent on occupying a foreign land and harassing its inhabitants — if you bring the troops home now, you essentially throw in the towel, surrender to the enemy. For five years in Iraq the Democratic Party was the party of surrender (there aren’t actually two ways about this). Then Obama became president and lo and behold he is pursuing policies identical to the ever hated, ever despised, ever ranted about George Bush. How is he doing this? My friend Ron Radosh has just counted the ways. But you don’t have to do that. Just ask yourself why has Obama committed to keeping 130,000 troops in Iraq? There’s only one possible answer: Bush and Cheney were right, and Pelosi and Reid and Kennedy and Kerry and too many to number were wrong. Including the Olbermann clown. And are still wrong. We are there because there is a real war and if we leave now we lose and the next war will kill more people and be even worse than this one has been.
