Fringe bytes
Wacky quotes from the far right
August 7, 2005
And the winners are...
With the recent bombings in London, most concerns about terrorist strikes on the US focus on the jihadist movement. But the next major terrorist strike in the US could come from an unexpected direction -- the extremist animal rights and environmental movements.
-- Aaron Mannes, “'There is a Use for Violence in Our Movement'”, www.techcentralstation.com, 08/02/05
We mused on how the politics of Swingin’ Sandra’s retirement demanded a woman replacement, and so that meant Bush would probably want to pick the first Hispanic-American female, and then the legal experts aboard airily threw around likely candidates whose jurisprudence the rest of us pretended to be familiar with: Conchita Rosalita Alcantara Cortez, Carmelita Juanita Suarez Angarita, etc. (I quote from memory.) After a couple of days of being berated by NR readers furious about illegal immigration, it occurred to me the president might want to start the amnesty with a splash and nominate the first Undocumented-American to serve on the Supreme Court.
-- Mark Steyn, “Merit Badge”, National Review, 08/08/05 issue
Note, I googled these women and they don’t exist. He only made up their names because he is a racist. Jeez, the racist, bonehead can't even spell "Stein".
Feminists don't want women in politics. They want liberal women in politics.
Michelle Easton, president of the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute, spoke to more than 200 college students at the Young America's Foundation conference in Washington, D.C., about the modern liberal feminist movement and its left-leaning agenda.
--Mary Ellen Burke, “Liberals Have Double Standard for Feminism,” Human Events Online, 8/2/05
Modest hubris
How many nations could genuinely say that they had the real potential to conquer the world or destroy it? How many nations had an arsenal capable of obliterating any other nation without risking retaliation? How many nations, with an army and navy superior to any others, an industry and economy capable of producing more weapons and material than any other, with forces already deployed for conquest, how many nations would try to conquer the world while they had such advantages?
--Michael P. Tremoglie, “America Was Always the Best Hope for Peace,” Human Events Online, 8/2/05
Les valeurs du famille
In the meantime, Krugman rationalizes it away as a matter of "family values" — deliberately mocking the slogan of some American conservatives. He says members of the typical "French family are compensated for their lower income with much more time together," and that France is "extremely supportive of the family as an institution."
The war formerly known as the Global War on Terror
But no, the former Republican Speaker of the House (Newt) was telling me about the danger from immigrant aliens coming across our open borders illegally. He talked about the threat this poses to our national security in an era of terrorism, the high costs to U.S. taxpayers, the follies of multiculturalism, and the urgent need for everyone in our country to be able to speak English.
-- Phyllis Schafly, “"What's Behind a Phone Call From Newt Gingrich?", Town Hall, 8/1/05
Thankfully, military watchdogs on guard against Islamist terrorists with rocket launchers know better than to stop Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan look-a-likes with Louis Vuitton pet carriers strapped around their shoulders.
-- Michelle Malkin, “"Beware of Strange Men with Rocket Launchers," Town Hall, 7/27/05
One trap… quite a few Democrats fell into was the idea that the war in Iraq was somehow separate from the war on terror. The American people never really believed that, as polls showed in the run up to the war that many believed Saddam Hussein had something to do with the Sept. 11 attacks. President Bush never made that direct of a connection. Instead the reason for the war in Iraq has long been to transform the politics in the Middle East in our favor.
-- BRENDAN MINITER, “The Cut-and-Run Caucus”, www.opinionjournal.com, 08/02/05
Note the irony of Miniter using the American public’s false belief in a connection between 9/11 as justification for anything.
On the left
Today, however, liberalism describes the viewpoint of those who espouse "progressive" social and economic change through "democratic" means (that is, through collectivism enforced by the police power of government)--with the eventual goal to create some sort of Hegelian or Marxist utopia, thoroughgoing socialist society, or one-world government. . .
But those who are entrenched in a self-destructive lifestyle --and who are irrationally defensive of that lifestyle--are the least inclined to abandon their behavior, as any conversion to truth would require of them. We shouldn't be discouraged, therefore, or surprised, if they react with extreme anger or shocking intransigence--or with vehement opposition--to our efforts to reclaim them, or to preserve America.
What about re-education camps? That might help.
Now there does not seem to be a great deal of intelligence on the left, only anger and name-calling. In part this is because the so-called liberal is immersed in identity politics often solely to pursue power.
-- R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr., “ No Secret Handshakes”, The American Spectator, 07/28/2005
The problem with the Carlson show is the format, which places too much emphasis on his guests, including a regular named Rachel Maddow, a radio host on Air America who is described as the first out-of-the-closet lesbian to be named a Rhodes Scholar. She is a lesbian with hair so short that she looks like a man…. homosexual conservative-turned-liberal David Brock, urged Kaplan to "allow some progressive voices to be heard" on Carlson's show. This is apparently how Maddow got to be a regular.
-- Cliff Kincaid, “MSNBC's Poor Treatment Of Conservatives”, Accuracy In Media, 08/01/05
Note the gratuitous mentions of liberals’ sexuality. The writer is a obviously a self-hating gay drug addict.
Labor, civil rights groups, and feminist groups all turn to the Democrats as the reliable purveyor of their ideals. How those views come together in harmony is something to wonder about, given the disconnect that should exist between the dandy Ivy League queer theorist and the machinist with an associates degree.
-- Peter Freire, Democrats of the World: Untie!, American Spectator, 08/02/05
