"If you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison’ it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.”
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
December 5, 2012
By: Linda Case Gibbons
Fear. It’s everywhere.
Fear. It’s everywhere.
The Republicans are afraid they’ll get the blame if we go over the fiscal cliff.
Christians are afraid atheists in their town won’t like them anymore if little kids in a Little Rock, Arkansas elementary school are allowed to go see a showing of "A Charlie Brown Christmas.” The reason? Because the play has explicit scenes -- Linus retelling the story of the birth of the Baby Jesus.
When attending the Jack Kemp Leadership Dinner the other night, Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan were afraid to mention the "47 percent” Romney comment. After all, maybe that was what made America hate Republicans and caused them to lose the election.
Speaker of the House John Boehner is afraid of insulting the Democrats and the president, but not Conservatives. In fact he is so willing to help save time that he gives up before negotiations begin every time.
He is so cooperative that this week he helped Obama’s uncompromising position along by thinning out the House Budget Committee to make it easier for its members to strike a deal with Democrats to cut fiscal deficits.
Yup. Tea Party, anti-tax favorites Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp and Michigan Rep. Justin Amash are out of the committee headed by Paul Ryan, hand-picked by Boehner and the Republican establishment.
Huelskamp and Amash should have been afraid of carrying out the wishes of their constituents by voting against raising the federal debt limit last year and declaring they will oppose any tax increases.
They weren’t afraid. But still, no cookies for them.
Yet there are cookies to be had.
Letterman got his Kennedy Center Award.
You remember Dave. He’s the comedian who made crude jokes about Gov. Sarah Palin’s teen-aged daughter. "One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game,” Letterman said, "during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.”
At the Kennedy Center, Tina Fey praised Letterman as a "national treasure” and applauded his "honesty and intelligence” which she said "heralded us through national crises.” And I agree. There’s nothing more intelligent or honest than a 60-year-old beating up on a teenager.
Anna Wintour will become ambassador to either the UK or France, Sandra Fluke is on the Time Magazine nominee list for Person of the Year 2012, Ambassador Rice will be promoted to Secretary of State and Katie Couric was rewarded for being a good foot soldier receiving the Walter Cronkite award for journalism.
The name Wintour doesn’t ring a bell? Did you see "The Devil Wears Prada? Anna Wintour, editor-in-chief of Vogue, was the inspiration for the rude fashion editor in the movie. And now Wintour will have the chance to bring that interesting personality to an ambassadorship. She will represent America abroad because Obama is grateful for the great little soiree she and Sarah Jessica threw for him during the campaign.
Fluke joins other candidates on Time Magazine’s list because she stumped for Obama and has become the face of American contraception, especially in Catholic colleges. She is in good and appropriate company for what she has accomplished among the other nominees and what they have accomplished: President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
If you do your research and go to Wikipedia you will not be surprised to see that at one time U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice "dreamed of becoming the first U.S. Senator from the District of Columbia,” but you might be surprised that as a young girl, her parents taught her to "never use race as an excuse or advantage.”
And Katie Couric as a representative of all things that are the mainstream media, was rewarded by the left for her "extraordinary, persistent and detailed multi-part interviews with Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin,” which judges called a "defining moment in the 2008 presidential campaign.”
She was given the Special Achievement for National Impact on the 2008 Campaign award, I guess by structuring the interview in such a way that the governor of Alaska was shown to be "stupid.” Incisive, objective journalism?
Rush Limbaugh is right. Republicans lick their wounds and cry, "Why don’t you like me?” while Democrats, when they make huge mistakes, parade their mistakes out front, in your face and give them awards.
Did you really believe, for instance, when it was reported that Hillary Clinton was the most admired woman in the world? But say it enough in the press and it will be so. So much so that her below-standard handling of Benghazi as secretary of state moved New York Mayor Bloomberg to call her up and urge her to run for mayor of his city. That’s the way it works, friends. To the compliant go the spoils.
Nowadays when reviewing the daily news the only question you find yourself asking is, "What did he/she get for voting that way, doing that, saying that?” Politics. The Emmy Awards. The Media. There really is no area of life that is not dominated by the particular brand of hutzpah possessed by the radical left.
But we can’t blame it all on Obama. It isn’t his fault. In reality, he’s really a victim. Comedian Evan Sayet says do not blame it on Obama, especially not in jest. He admits fellow comics have gone easy on Obama, but he explains why.
"Liberals don’t want to make fun of Obama because they feel that it will weaken him if they honestly point out his foibles and his shortcomings. The narrative is that Obama is sort of a god. Gods don’t have any flaws. Thus, if they point out a single flaw, they are entirely destroying the narrative.”
It’s okay to bash any and all conservatives, though, he reasoned. "Conservatives don’t think of their leaders as ‘messiahs’ and thus poking fun at them is not sacrilegious.”
Conservatives are not as sensitive as Obama is. Obama is like the modern liberal’s parent; "Making fun of him is simply beyond them,” Sayet said.
Heck, I get it. And I think Sayet didn’t go far enough. Obama’s not just the father figure, his White House staff think he’s the "Black Jesus,” and just a couple of weeks ago, Jamie Foxx sealed the deal in Las Vegas at the Soul Train Awards when he said, "First of all, give an honor to God and our lord and savior Barack Obama.”
But what is distressing is that even though Obama followers "get their stuff” to which they feel entitled, it is upsetting the manner in which these often undeserving recipients receive their awards. They are so angry.
Julianne Moore got an Emmy for the HBO movie "Game Change,” the movie mocking Gov. Sarah Palin and then took the opportunity at the awards to mock Palin again, saying "I feel so validated because Sarah Palin gave me a big thumbs down.”
And Tina Fey, receiving the Mark Twain Prize award on PBS decided, like Moore, it wasn’t an honor just to win, but it was more important to knock Palin with nasty, vindictive comments about conservative women.
Obama’s kids. You never know what they’ll say.
Maybe next time each of these sharp-tongued women will choose to imitate someone other than Sarah Palin and that will take care of that. But then again, that’s their only claim to fame, isn’t it, imitating Sarah. I’d hate that, too.
To get the drift on how things are going since Obama took office, one has only to look at the people who award the awarded: the Emmys, Mark Twain awards, Kennedy Center, Walter Cronkite awards, CBS, HBO and the administration.
Alas, the deck is loaded against you, conservatives. No, there will be no cookies for you. There’s a reason why there is a term called "kangaroo court,” and it has nothing to do with kangaroos.
But while it may look like incompetence is being rewarded, that evil is winning, take heart.
In "The Usual Suspects,” Keyzer Soze stated it well:
"Who is Keyser Soze? He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody ever believed he was real. Nobody ever knew him or saw anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.”
But he does exist. Luckily there are people who keep fighting against a seemingly unfair tide, so all is not lost. We still have the Peter Kings and the Allen Wests, though the left does its best to neutralize them.
And if you find yourself worrying, don’t. You may see Obama golfing with Bill Clinton, not at his desk doing his job, but do not despair. If you read about him anticipating a month-long Hawaiian vacation, don’t worry, he’s on the job.
Just this week he showed us he is serious, he knows the score, he is going to pull America back from the fiscal cliff, and trim the national debt.
He went where any sensible president would go to gain insight about the financial health of our nation. He met with MSNBC’s "influential progressives” Rachel Maddow, Al Sharpton, Lawrence O’Donnell and Ed Shultz at the White House to consult with them on tax rates and have them spread his good news.
Don’t worry. You’re in good hands.
Hold the line, America.