By Kelly O'Connell —— Bio and Archives October 3, 2011
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African-Americans have been brainwashed into not being open minded, not even considering a conservative point of view...I have received some of that same vitriol simply because I am running for the Republican nomination as a conservative. So it's just brainwashing and people not being open minded, pure and simple.Garofalo's response was a predictably shocking expose of her intellectually stunted mind (video):
Herman Cain is probably well liked by some of the Republicans because it hides the racist elements of the Republican party. Conservative movement and tea party movement, one in the same. People like Karl Rove, liked to keep the racism very covert. And so Herman Cain provides this great opportunity to say you can say 'Look, this is not a racist, anti-immigrant, anti-female, anti-gay movement. Look we have a black man.'So the question of whether American Blacks are unduly beholden to the Democrat Party is completely irrelevant as compared to the hidden motivations of racism--of course! Despite the fact Garofalo offered not the tiniest shred of evidence for her thesis, she was applauded by the host as dutifully as a windup clapping monkey. But must we conclude that liberals have no obligation to make fair, ie provable claims that are then supported by evidence?
Bachmann is a religious zealot whose brain is a raging electrical storm of divine visions and paranoid delusions..exactly the right kind of completely batshit crazy. Not medically crazy, not talking-to-herself-on-the-subway crazy, but grandiose crazy, late-stage Kim Jong-Il crazy.The New York Time's former editor Bill Keller claims Christians believe in space aliens. Oliver Stone opines: George W. Bush 'stupid.'(how original!) Slate: The Misunderestimated Man: How Bush chose stupidity. But Conservatives today shouldn't take it personally--before George W Bush was called an idiot, the greatest president of the last half century (at least) was also called an "amiable dunce." Writes Charles Krauthhammer:
The establishment considered Reagan a simplistic primitive--whose simplistic primitivism was endangering the world. These were the twin themes: Reagan was stupid, and his stupidity made him dangerous. Those too young to remember the 1980s would be astonished to know how common the notion was of Reagan as a warmonger.Christopher Hitchens: Not Even a Hedgehog: The stupidity of Ronald Reagan. The bottom line is that literally all modern liberals soothe themselves to sleep at night with the knowledge that Conservatives are just a few IQ points and a degree away from understanding and accepting the truth.
After deciding to leave Vadim (her husband), she'd cast around for a worthy cause. It was Marlon Brando who pointed her towards the American Native Indians, who were complaining of discrimination. He also told her to check out the Black Panthers, who believed in combating police persecution with violence and revolutionary fervour. Jane was immediately eager to speak out for both. Fired with zeal, she flew to San Francisco to support the takeover of Alcatraz, a former federal prison that the American Native Indians wanted to turn into a cultural centre.Fonda was a famous know-nothing child of a superstar who fell in with anti-American Vietnam War protestors in a struggle to achieve something meaningful in her life. This inevitably led her to the door of premier 1960s Marxist rebel, Tom Hayden. The article continues:
By mid 1971, her tour of Left-wing politics, with its endless marches & violent arguments, had left her drained. Then Tom Hayden appeared backstage after she'd delivered an anti-war speech, she felt an 'electric charge'. She raced home to tell a friend she'd met the man with whom she was going to spend the rest of her life. A week later Hayden lambasted the 'superficial' sexiness Jane exemplified in the film Barbarella. Agreeing, she began to cry. Within days, they were lovers...For Jane, following Hayden gave her a sense of renewed purpose. 'She sat at Tom's feet, literally,' remembers fellow pacifist David Dellinger. 'She looked up to him like he was a god.'One need not read the entire article to understand how vapid and unthinking was Fonda's conversion to Marxism. Sadly, instead of being the exception to the rule, such mindless capitulations to socialism are the rule. Why? Because modern liberalism is itself an illogical, anti-scientific set of ideas, best digested whole without a second-thought. Further, this example merely illustrates the manner in which virtually all Hollywood socialists discover the "truth" of leftism. How else could a high-school dropout who earns a living pretending to be other people lecture the whole world on science--"Beware Global Warming!"--economics--"We need more Stimulus!"--international relations--"Israel is evil, Palestine good!" etc III. Question Du Jure: Is Modern Liberalism a Religion? In several previous articles it was argued that Liberalism gets it distinctive outline from medieval Christian sources. In it's present formulation it presents a kind of bastardized Christianity. It features sins, penance, sacred writ, priests and a heaven and hell. In the interest of avoiding a long, redundant analysis, suffice it to say that the individuals least likely to adopt progressive ideas, socialist economics and Marxist politics are traditional Bible believers. And vice verse. So we can argue that modern liberalism takes the place of traditional religious beliefs. Therefore, it either acts as kind of humanistic religion, or--at minimum--blocks the formation as such. So, it takes on the essence of religion, and so is often accepted by instinct instead of mere intellectual assent.
Two faiths were on trial. Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies...At issue was the question whether, in the desperately divided society, there still remained the will to recognize the issues in time to offset the immense rally of public power to distort and pervert the facts. At heart, the Great Case was this critical conflict of faiths; that is why it was a great case....
Kelly O’Connell is an author and attorney. He was born on the West Coast, raised in Las Vegas, and matriculated from the University of Oregon. After laboring for the Reformed Church in Galway, Ireland, he returned to America and attended law school in Virginia, where he earned a JD and a Master’s degree in Government. He spent a stint working as a researcher and writer of academic articles at a Miami law school, focusing on ancient law and society. He has also been employed as a university Speech & Debate professor. He then returned West and worked as an assistant district attorney. Kelly is now is a private practitioner with a small law practice in New Mexico.