NPR Uses Jon Stewart to Try to Make Fox Into the Villain in Juan Williams 'Knife Fight'
NPR and other liberals are trying to convert the firing of Juan Williams into another episode of bullying conservatism. NPR deployed Jon Stewart in self-defense on Tuesday’s Morning Edition. Anchor Steve Inskeep noted Stewart’s arrival in Washington, DC marked his first show since the Williams purge, and they ran this joke:
STEWART [From the Daily Show]: Are you kidding me, NPR? Are you picking a fight with Fox News? They gave Juan Williams a $2 million contract just for you firing him. NPR, you just brought a tote bag full of David Sedaris books to a knife fight.
NPR suggested that this came in the spirit of "sanity" and that Stewart's rally is designed to "take it down a notch." But wasn’t NPR the network who took a knife to Juan's career, and Fox the ones with a tote bag full of goodies? In The New York Times, Newsweek’s Jonathan Alter also explained that liberalism is losing because it’s not doltishly simple, it’s too complex for the average American:
Simple ideology routinely trounces nuanced pragmatism, just as emotion so often beats reason and the varsity fullback will most likely deck the captain of the debate team in a fistfight.
For four decades, conservatives have used the word "liberal" as an epithet, while liberals have used "conservative" defensively ("I'm a little conservative on . . ."). And Fox fans range out of factual bounds ("death panels") more than their NPR-listening counterparts in the liberal "-reality-based community" (a term attributed to a Bush White House aide by the author Ron Suskind).
This is liberal arrogance on stilts: conservatives are so much more willing to exaggerate and lie than we are, the guardians of reality. This, from Jonathan Alter, the man who wrote in 2005 that "We're seeing clearly now that Bush thought that 9/11 gave him a license to act like a dictator." Wasn't that "ranging out of factual bounds"? Alter added that liberals are at a disadvantage because they are just so much more complex and sophisticated than the grade-school GOP:
As Senator Al Franken says of the Republicans: "Their bumper sticker . . . it's one word: `No.' . . . Our bumper sticker has - it's just way too many words. And it says, `Continued on next bumper -sticker.' "
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"Jonathon Alter also
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:17pm.
"Jonathon Alter also explained that liberalism is losing because it's not doltshly simple, it's too complex for the average American..."
Ah, that old crappy defense. It's like the guy who says that his broken down rust bucket of a '71 Pinto is actually "a priceless American vintage heirloom" - it's just that others don't appreciate it's "classic beauty".
Two more observations:" Liberalism is losing because it never, ever works - not this time and not in the past. Even if it did - even if on one occasion - who would know that it was liiberalism? Liberals always deny that they are liberals, what they are espousing are even liberal proposals, or that their liberal policies are liberal. They deny and obfuscate their ideology everytime they are called on it.
Right, Jonathon. It's that everybody else is too dumb.
Submitted by samhermanmd on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 8:05pm.
How dare we poor souls prefer to think for ourselves, reach our own conclusions and exercise our freedom to choose. Sounds an awful lot like the excuses that are given by my psychiatric patients when they try to explain some miscreant behavior.
I wonder if he really believes all of that garbage or his doses need increased?!
Its not that the ideas of
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:15pm.
Its not that the ideas of liberalism is too complex and conservatism is too simple, its that liberals have to disquise their true intentions while conservatives do not.
As an example the canditate obama telling Joe the Plumber he has to sacrifice for the others. What obama is doing is the truth of liberals.
Don't forget Mario Cuomo
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:16pm.
Don't forget Mario Cuomo saying that conservatives make their point with crayons, whereas liberals use fine-point quills.
Yes, that's right; he said "quills."
Gee, if liberals are so
Submitted by Chris Norman on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:21pm.
Gee, if liberals are so smart, you'd think they would use those new fangled - so much easier to write with - ball point pens, huh? :)
BTW, Mario Cuomo must have been the last liberal who identified himself as such.
Liberalism is losing because
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:17pm.
Liberalism is losing because Americans know that it is a failed and false ideology and that every country that has tried it has come out on the bottom.
And speaking of Senator Smalley
Submitted by motherbelt on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:27pm.
And speaking of Senator Smalley,
here's his latest attempt at "comedy"...
Liberalism always loses
Submitted by talkradio55 on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:33pm.
As Rush always says, "When it is clear cut conservatism vs. liberalism, conservatism always wins." And like I always say, "Liberalism is a lie by definition."
Liberals are losing because they always lose when they are exposed. The only way liberals win is by pretending to not be liberal. They always have to disguise themselves as "pragmatic centrists" and "moderates" to win elections. Think of it, when was the last time a person was elected to anything because they were honest enough to even tell people they were a liberal?
Look at Comrade Obamachev. The only reason that he is President today is because he rewrote his entire life story in order to be a viable contender. The fact the media propped him up as the "first Black president" (I always thought that was Clinton) didn't hurt. Because if a white man had Obamachev's resume, he wouldn't have had a snowball's chance in hell. He had to lie, cheat, and slander people to get elected. It's now scorched earth time. He and his party are imploding because their success is now their downfall and undoing.
He is losing because truth always wins out in the end, which means liberals have to lose, because they lie as an impluse.
Obams told us all he was a
Submitted by hoosherdaddy137 on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 10:00am.
Obams told us all he was a socialist while campaigning, Beck has pointed out on many occasions where comrad presidente' points it out clearly. Joe the plumber was a perfect example.
I do not disagree that the left simply must lie, you are spot on. 2 questions I want answered are. Do they lie because genuinely they think their system can work and make us all equal (well, make us equal, they of course not so much, hey some one's gotta be the ruler right?)? Or if they are just twisted megalomaniacs who will do anything to gain power? Of course there are both everywhere I only mean our government officials specifically.
Jonathan 'Bowing At The'
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:33pm.
Jonathan 'Bowing At The' Alter makes NO sense in every sentance that he speaks!!! Liberalism is NOT too 'complex', it's too convoluted, conniving, condascending, and de-constructive..................
'Nuanced pragmatism' is a complete oxymoron!!! The two words have NOTHING to do with each other!!! And I'm waiting to have somebody tell me what is so 'pragmatic' about anything these guys do!!! I keep hearing that Boy Blunder is a 'pragmatist'..........but no evidence is ever shown, other than it seems to be more pragmatic for him to go on vacation than to actually deal with something..............
I guess 'emotion regualarly beats reason' is the closest thing to the truth that he said.........because everytime the libs win, emotion wins and reason loses...........
As far as the fullback and the debate team captain goes, that would be the kind of analogy that could only come from a dweeb like Alter, who probably has never had to deal with the 'real' world.........
Al Frankenstein got half of his dumb quote right - the bla bla bla part.
The Lie That Liberals Tell Themselves...
Submitted by Tenebrous on Wed, 10/27/2010 - 11:55pm.
It is that they are smarter than other people, and only they can grasp the complexities of liberal thought. However, if this is true, it leads to some interesting conclusions.
If liberalism is so complex that only a few can understand it, then why would the poor, uneducated masses ever vote for liberalism? They can't possibly understand it! It takes at least one degree and years of sophisticated mental training to be able to think like a liberal, right? But liberals depend on having masses of people voting their people into power. So what do they tell these people to motivate them? It can't be the plain truth, because they'll never get it. And liberalism cannot be simplified; the only thing that remains is the lie: they tell people "vote liberal and you'll get stuff". Thus, because that can be understood by most people, it cannot be liberalism, and thus liberals can only be elected when they purposefully deceive others. So if their belief is true, then they are all liars.
Liberalism, however, can be understood by most people, and they understand it to be a smiling face that disguises racism, genocide (of the pre-born and born), jealousy, and division. But liberals keep thinking that only they understand and that implicit hubris blinds them to the horrible reality of power slipping away until it has completely left them, and they are like castaways upon an unknown beach.
Either way, liberalism appeals only to the small of mind and the vengeful of heart and the stingy of spirit.
Visions and Principles blog
Jon Stewart
Submitted by Vonu on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 12:16am.
Should stick to what he does best, lead the Teabaggee Parade and be the Queen of the Teabaggee's Ball during this weekend's Million Mouth March.
Yeah, their idea of "taking
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 12:40am.
Yeah, their idea of "taking it down a notch" is to snidely and smugly mock and denigrate millions of good and honest people who are rightly outraged by a government gone amok. What they are doing is, once again, engaging in their self deluded notion of intellectual superiority over others. This pretense is no longer working because no one outside their little group is buying it anymore.
Liberalism: Every dictators creed.
Submitted by P. Aaron on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 1:43am.
...because it works against human nature on every level it tries to govern humanity on. Liberalsim is not a natural state of being. It's every dictators creed.
liberalism's one word is....
Submitted by holeinthehull on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 9:09am.
SPEND- and now they have acquired a new word in the last 2 years and they are feverishly practicing the correct pronounciation....
BLAME.
There you go..
Spend and Blame, Spend and Blame, Spend and Blame,
We conservatives have 1 new word
VOTEMOUT!!!
The reason liberalism is so
Submitted by mattm on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 10:37am.
The reason liberalism is so complicated is because it's a lie, and it takes alot more complicated verbosity to make a lie sound like the truth than it does to simply tell the truth.
Refuting liberalism is very complicated, however, because it's very difficult to unravel all the twisted and tangled illogic liberals use to peddle their bullcrap. Which is why, in direct contradiction to what Al FRANKENFRAUD says, most liberal ideas do fit on bumper-stickers: "Pro Child-Pro Choice" "No War For Oil" "=" etc.
They are the simpletons, but they're very good at disguising it.
liberalism gene found?
Submitted by jon_torlin on Thu, 10/28/2010 - 1:04pm.
Looks like there is a liberal gene after all.
http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/weird/Scientists-May-Have-IDd-Liberal-Ge...
Who'da thunk it?
-Jon