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Friday, March 20, 2009
Dan Gainor :: Townhall.com Columnist
Attack Dogs? No, Democrats Walk the Dinosaur
by Dan Gainor
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Republicans are derided as the party in disarray and, with Michael Steele at the helm, there is little wonder. GOP stalwarts are often depicted as dinosaurs by a disparaging press or by faux conservatives who are hired by the disparaging press. (See: Parker, Kathleen and Brooks, David for more information.)

But you have to look to the Democratic camp to find the true dinosaurs. Not the kindly vegetarian Brontosaurus-like creatures they pretend to be. No more pretense of Barney’s “I love you, you love me.” The Democrats have become like the “Jurassic Park” version of the Velociraptor – working as a team to tear their enemies limb from limb. Maybe even a friend or two. Certainly a vice president.

When asked on March 16 about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama economic record, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs mocked him, saying that Rush Limbaugh must have been too busy. “So, they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal.” A “cabal?” The only group plotting anything is made up of Democrats – and they are far from secret about it.

The Obama administration is very publicly in full-on attack mode, romping through press rooms and the hallways of Congress looking to feed. It doesn’t just roar against talk radio any more. They and the liberals who follow them are looking to take a bite out of anyone who disagrees with their economic performance – from Limbaugh to money mad man Jim Cramer.

The “change”-d Democratic Party doesn’t tolerate criticism. Oppose them and the White House or one of its supporters starts ringing the dinner bell. Hungry Obama supporters rush in, eager for a piece of any who criticize their master. Bloggers, think tankers, pundits and journalists all swarm in at the smell of blood.

That was the Obama campaign strategy. When distribution of wealth came up during the race, Obama flunky Bill Burton complained about “a fake news controversy drummed up by the all too common alliance of Fox News, the Drudge Report and John McCain.” That same strategy was deployed to go after Fox host Sean Hannity.

Now, it’s a sick government policy that looks like liberals’ worst imaginings of the Nixon administration – complete with an enemies list. Jim Cramer was only one recent victim of this Obama feeding frenzy. Gibbs couldn’t help gloating after always-liberal, sometime-comedian Jon Stewart chewed up Cramer last week. "I enjoyed it thoroughly,” Gibbs told a happy press corps.

Cramer had supported Obama and bashed the Bush White House repeatedly. None of that mattered. He had committed an unpardonable sin – he went against Obama. For that, he was the main course at a national buffet. And so-called progressive groups are now targeting CNBC in its entirety. Continued...

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Dan Gainor is The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow and director of the Media Research Center’s Business & Media Institute.
 
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Repetition is not an argument
Crowsquat knows squat and is a typical leftist bot droning his talking points on a conservative site where they have been debunked a thousand times. In this case two other commenters had the patience to refute pure bilge yet again but what we really need is a numbered list of lefty slogans and the rebuttals so you can just direct them to #1, #14 and #76 instead of wasting time and space on them.

Leftbots will repeat the same foolish disproved things hundreds of times. It's their second most popular strategy right after calling an opponent names. They have no facts, and certainly no ability to string them together logically so this is what you get, a broken record repeating crap. It is impossible to embarrass or re-educate a liberal. Their indoctrination is so complete that facts just bounce off them.

Any conservative can write out the leftbot's list for them. No lefty can write out conservatives' arguments.

Dems are all red dogs now
This stifling all opposition is straight out of Obama's red playbook, "Rules for Radicals" by his mentor Saul Alinsky.

One can almost feel sorry for libs who strayed off the plantation even for a moment, like Cramer. "Apostates" to the liberal faith are whipped unmercifully until they recant. Most do.

What is depressing is how many useful idiots are found among the media who should be independent critics of any administration, case in point Jon Stewart, professional clown. They foisted an unvetted ingenue onto the American public to preen about their non-racist bona fides and are now rabid in defense of their own bad judgment.

It's weird, since Democrats are the party of the rich and most media types have enough property and investments that are seeing the same drop in value as non-believers in the Messiah. The markets are impartial and they are speaking loudly and clearly that the American left has elected a raging bull in the china shop. Guess they had more money than they knew what to do with, and are fine with losing a quarter to a half of their net worth straight off the top with more to come in return for the socialist "utopia" for which Obama is aiming. Most of them will be found not pure enough as it sinks in that their glorious destination is a permanently lower standard of living shared with idlers and deadbeats and they baulk.

Liberalism is a mental disease.

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