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A good week for America is a bad week for liberals. |
A good week, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ollienorth/welcome.shtml
February 27, 2004
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It's been a tough week for the radical zealots of
America's political left. Liberal ideologues were stunned by a
presidential call for a constitutional amendment to protect the
institution of marriage. Long lines waiting to see Mel Gibson's "Passion
of The Christ" shocked those who despise the Judeo-Christian values on
which America was founded. Anti-Bush partisans took a hit when Federal
Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan called on Congress to cut spending
and make the president's tax cuts permanent.
And -- as if to add insult to injury -- Ralph Nader threw his hat in the
ring as an independent presidential candidate. The only question now is
whether the counter-cultural revolutionaries running the national
Democrat Party and much of the so-called mainstream media are paying
attention to anything but the end of "Sex in the City."
For much of the last 12 months, political militants and social
extremists have had a free-for-all. They have a presidential target for
spewing their hatred. They had U.S. troops in the field and a war to
protest. The Patriot Act offered them an opportunity to dust off old
conspiracy theories about the CIA and the FBI. In Massachusetts, New
Mexico and San Francisco, judges and legislators bent to the will of
homosexual activists on redefining the meaning of marriage -- and more
than 3,000 same-sex marriages have taken place in direct defiance of
California law.
Howard Dean found a way to harness all that anger and anti-Americanism
in a presidential campaign that, until recently, offered Woodstock-era
hippies a chance to relive their salad days in conspiracy-laden Internet
chat rooms. And when Dean self-destructed, John Kerry was there to pick
up the pieces and give Vietnam-era, anti-America protesters a chance to
participate in something more substantial than burning their bras and
draft cards -- his campaign to become commander in chief.
All that came to a screeching halt this week. First, President Bush
endorsed a constitutional amendment to protect the institution of
marriage, saying that "activist courts" have left the people with this
only recourse. Leftists were bitter at the news. The New York Times
claimed the measure would "inject mean-spiritedness and exclusion" into
the Constitution and accused the president, not the courts and mayors
who are doing an end-run around the law, of trying to "create a sense of
crisis."
The Washington Post complained in a front-page headline that the
constitutional endorsement was nothing more than a "move to satisfy
(his) conservative base." It was no such thing. The president clearly
arrived at his decision reluctantly, but resolutely -- and rightly so.
Decisions to amend the Constitution should not be taken lightly. But
what alternative is left when liberal activists simply defy the laws
enacted by the peoples' representatives?
This week's defense of God and Country continued when, on Ash Wednesday,
Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" opened at over 3,000 locations
on 4,600 screens nationwide. Theaters everywhere are reporting sellouts
-- even at their matinee showings -- highly unusual for a midweek
premiere. Industry experts estimate "The Passion" will gross $20 million
to $25 million on its first day.
But again, America's "elite" class has no tolerance for wholesome fare
demanded by the public. Their disdain was illustrated by CBS' Andy
Rooney, who told radio host Don Imus that "The Passion of the Christ"
was only good "for a few laughs," and called Mel Gibson a "whacko."
In Tinseltown, several of Hollywood's most influential studio executives
are vowing not to work with Mel Gibson again, according to The New York
Times. In point of fact, Gibson had little help at all on "The Passion."
Hollywood distributors wanted nothing to do with a movie about Jesus
Christ -- let alone one that was spoken in Latin and Aramaic. Actor
Russell Crowe summed up Hollywood sentiment by saying that Gibson's "got
to get off the glue."
But what Hollywood and news and entertainment elites need to understand
is that the American public has had enough. This week, Clear Channel
Radio pulled radio shock jock Howard Stern from six of its stations
citing his "vulgar, offensive and insulting" remarks in an earlier
broadcast. Clear Channel management deemed Stern's remarks to be
insulting "to anyone with a sense of common decency." Millions of
Americans with "common decency" only wonder, "what took so long?"
But the left will not give up without a fight. Rosie O'Donnell, who is
involved in a homosexual relationship, called the proposed
constitutional amendment to protect marriage "immoral" and vowed to
ignore California law by "wedding" her mate in San Francisco. "Stunned
and horrified," poor Rosie was caught off guard by the president's
support for a constitutional amendment and claims she found it "very
shocking."
When the media flock to San Francisco's City Hall to broadcast Rosie's
"nuptials," radical leftists will congregate in front of their
televisions to celebrate. That is, unless the FCC bans homosexual
weddings from the airwaves because they offend those with a sense of
common decency.
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04 Mar 2004 05:02:30 AM |
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"GOP-USA" <gopusa@gopusa.com> wrote in message
news:40470ACF.3020604@gopusa.com...
A good week, http://www.townhall.com/columnists/ollienorth/welcome.shtml
February 27, 2004
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From http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues98/jan98/aclu.html
The ACLU Defends Everybody
Its clients have ranged from Muhammad Ali to Oliver North, but its real
allegiance is to the Bill of Rights
On paper, an organization that supports the Bill of Rights seems harmless
enough, but for eight decades the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has
enraged liberals and conservatives alike. Admirers say it is a
Constitutional watchdog that defends persecuted minorities and preserves
freedom of speech and dissent. Detractors insist it has a warped view of
what the Constitution says. No matter what you think of the ACLU, it is
probably the most potent legal organization in America, with 275,000
members, taking some 6,000 cases annually.
In the early years, it was a pro-labor group that joined protesters in the
field but seldom got involved in court battles. Roger Baldwin, the ACLU's
founder, and its director for more than 30 years, thought of it as a small,
elite, fast-moving gadfly, but over the years the ACLU developed offices all
over the country and greatly expanded its membership. Recently the ACLU has
been active on a wide range of issues, from affirmative action to the rights
of gays, immigrants and Internet users. Its story is virtually a highlight
reel of 20th-century legal history.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It's been a tough week for the radical zealots of
America's political left. Liberal ideologues were stunned by a
presidential call for a constitutional amendment to protect the
institution of marriage. Long lines waiting to see Mel Gibson's "Passion
of The Christ" shocked those who despise the Judeo-Christian values on
which America was founded. Anti-Bush partisans took a hit when Federal
Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan called on Congress to cut spending
and make the president's tax cuts permanent.
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| User: "SmirkS" |
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| Title: Re: A good week for America is a bad week for liberals. |
04 Mar 2004 10:28:04 AM |
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GOP-USA wrote:
The only question now is
whether the counter-cultural revolutionaries running the national
Democrat Party and much of the so-called mainstream media are paying
attention to anything but the end of "Sex in the City."
i noticed this:
Challenger Gray and Christmas says layoff announcements so far this year
are 156% higher than last year; Gateway cutting over 2000 jobs, Warner
Music cutting 20% of staff.
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TheTruthHurts.
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