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Thomas Frank’s Glenn Beck Ignorance
Thomas Frank has an odious piece in the Wall Street Journal today slamming Glenn Beck as an ignorant “panic peddling host”. He attacks Beck for his red phone hotline to the White House and for bringing attention to the long list of radicals in the Obama administration.
Thomas doesn’t see any radical in The White House — he only sees a nutty TV host.
Here’s what Thomas says about frequent Beck target Robert McChesney:
On Monday I wrote to an old friend, Robert McChesney, a professor of communications at the University of Illinois who has been a frequent target of Mr. Beck in recent weeks for his left-wing views and also for co-founding Free Press, an advocacy group on media policy. Did Mr. McChesney get a chance to respond on the red phone or any other way? No. "He never asked me or Free Press to call the red phone," Mr. McChesney wrote me.
What he didn’t mention about his “old friend” is that Robert McChesney is the former editor and current board member of the Marxist magazine Monthly Review. I think being associated with a publication that has a 50 year history of supporting Communism and Communist regimes qualifies as radical. I don’t think I have any Communist friends — but I could be wrong.
It’s also amusing that Thomas refers to Free Press — the organization McChesney co-founded — as simply an “advocacy group on media policy”. What he left out was that “Free Press” (a laughable name) is a big supporter of Hugo Chavez and been supportive of his media crackdown in Venezuela.
Again, sounds pretty damn radical to me.
Thomas Frank would like to gloss over the big picture Beck paints on his show, but he simply can’t.
The current administration is the most radical in American history. The people the president has surrounded himself with are the most radical in American history.
It’s only thanks to Glenn Beck that the American people are aware of the extremists who are trying to remake our country.
Video: Read The Top Conservative Blogs At Conurls.com
I told you a couple of weeks ago about the new website I launched called Conurls. It’s a conservative blog aggregator featuring the best of the right-wing blogosphere.
Here’s my video pitch:
One last time — CONURLS.COM
My Take On CNN Fact Checking SNL Skit
(hat tip WSJ)
Conurls Update: Four Sites Added And One Taken Away
Just wanted to let everyone know that my recently launched conservative blog aggregator called Conurls was updated this morning.
Three blog feeds and one video feed were added — one blog feed was taken away.
The removal of a blog from Conurls will likely be extremely rare, but sometimes it must be done.
Any bloggers out there who like Conurls please link to it so that others may find it!
Added:
Pat Dollard
AmSpecBlog
Big Government
Pajamas TV
Removed:
Little Green Footballs (removed from The Hot Joints as well)
Conurls: The Conservative Blog Aggregator
See the latest headlines from top conservative blogs all on one website — Conurls.
Conurls is a conservative blog aggregator I launched this week. It’s still in beta so be patient while I work out all the kinks. Look for more blogs to be added in the coming days and weeks.
Be sure to check out the controls on the upper right-side of the page. You can change the background color of the site for easier reading, adjust font size, and bookmark/share.
-Chris Jones
Predictable: Meghan McCain Attacks Michelle Malkin
She has attacked Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Karl Rove, and most other conservatives, so it was only a matter of time before Meghan McCain spewed her RINO (Republican In Name Only) venom at Michelle Malkin.
McCain complains of an effort by “extreme female conservatives” to bully her into leaving the party, which is of course phony.
The two main problems with Meghan McCain are that she’s a willing pawn of the left, and worse, doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about.
Take this paragraph from her Malkin hit piece for example: (emphasis mine)
I don’t know exactly what about me threatens them so much, other than that people are listening to me. Malkin has the No. 1 book on The New York Times bestseller hardcover nonfiction list, but I have nearly twice as many Twitter followers as she does. And trust me, Twitter is more of an indication of where young people are than books published by the hyper-conservative publisher Regnery—which will be bringing you Carrie Prejean’s new book and published one of Ann Coulter’s.
How can someone who makes such asinine claims be taken seriously? Why would the republican party want such an ignorant person on the talk show circuit bloviating about what the GOP should do?
People like Rove, Coulter, and Malkin who’ve spent decades advancing the conservative agenda (usually with great success) should be ignored.
Instead, a 25-year old former Kerry supporter who’s been a republican for a whole year should be the new face of the GOP?
Yeah, right.
Meghan McCain may indeed have a lot of Twitter followers, but she’s not too bright.
If you want to read someone who is bright, pick-up Michelle Malkin’s new book Culture Of Corruption.
-Chris Jones
I’ll Show You A Stimulus Plan
What we should have done instead of passing that ridiculous Obama stimulus plan that was nothing but $787 billion in pork, is pass something real and tangible.
If the Dems want to go the socialist route, then let’s do that. How about we give every single man and woman in America that’s 21 years of age or older a check for $1 million.
If you’re 21 years of age or older and in the country legally, you get $1 million bucks — tax free.
Think about that. It would cost a fraction of what the phony stimulus plan cost and would put real money in people’s pockets.
I just wonder what the implications long-term of something like that would be? It would cost the government little, but I wonder what the long-term societal impact of something like that would be.
Would it end up being a net positive for the country? Would there be unforeseen consequences?
Before you jerks start emailing me about this, I’m not trying to claim this as my idea. I’ve heard it suggested before, but I really gave it some thought today.
Instead of pissing money away on phony global warming and porky special interests, imagine if we just gave a bunch of money back to the people.
-Chris Jones
Audio: My Interview On Taking Back America
Here’s my interview from the other night on Blog Talk Radio. The program is called Taking Back America and the topic was media spin:
-Chris Jones
Listen To Me Tonight On Taking Back America
Tonight at 6:30 EST I will be a guest on the Taking Back America radio program on Blog Talk Radio.
I will be talking about the state of the media today and how media corruption and liberal bias has led to the need for blogs like this one.
With the entire government now in the hands of radical far-left zealots, conservative radio programs like Taking Back America are more important than ever.
Tune-in tonight!!!!
-Chris Jones
Video: Chris Jones Comments On The Stewart-Cramer Showdown
I decided to finally give this video thing a try and post a comment. Here’s my take on the never ending Stewart-Cramer feud and last night’s showdown. If you like this video, I’ll probably start doing a few every week.
Also, I want to thank everybody who reads The Hot Joints everyday for your continued support!
Yemeni Man Says He Was Imprisoned At CIA Black Sites
Read my latest column in BlogCritic Magazine. It’s in response to an article on The Huffington Post by a Yemeni man who says he was kidnapped by the CIA and held without trial. He was released after 19 months and is now being represented by all the usual human rights groups. He wants the people responsible for his detainment to be identified and prosecuted. Obviously, I don’t share that sentiment.
-Chris Jones
Familes Of 9/11 Victims: Keep Guantánamo Open
The Pentagon finally got some much needed backup today in their seven year battle against far-left human rights cowards desperate to close Guantanamo Bay.
Families of 9/11 victims spoke out passionately today after being invited to witness the military tribunal of a terrorist. Ever since 9/11, the ACLU and other left-wing organizations have conducted a despicable smear campaign against the Bush administration over Gitmo, enhanced interrogation, and the war on terror in general.
Family members of those killed on 9/11 however, aren’t buying into the hype.
“Guantánamo Bay has gotten a bad rap,” said Alice Hoagland, whose son was killed in the 2001 attack.
Hamilton Peterson, whose father was killed that day, said the procedures of the much-criticized military commission tribunal seemed plenty fair. “The entire day,” he said, “was giving these defendants their due.”
The very notion that we should extend the same rights to foreign terrorists captured overseas that American citizens enjoy is more than absurd — it’s dangerous.
All this crap about restoring America’s standing in the world or keeping the moral high ground is a bunch of theoretical nonsense. Sadly, this was demonstrated once again in Mumbai, when a highly trained terrorist group went on a bloody rampage that left 179 people dead.
The reason we haven’t been attacked since 9/11 is not just blind luck. The Bush administration correctly recognized that this is not like any war we’ve ever been involved in. We face an enemy that doesn’t know the first thing about human rights or the Geneva Conventions. The terrorists we face don’t recognize even the most basic rules of war.
There’s no such thing as POW’s or prisoner exchanges. In the War on Terror, if a U.S. soldier is captured by the enemy he’s a dead man pure and simple. The free world has never faced a more unscrupulous and savage enemy as the one we face today.
But human rights organizations and left-wing lawyers can’t seem to get it through their thick skull’s what a serious situation this is. They want the U.S. to fight this war with our hands tied behind our back. The far left has done everything possible to damage the U.S. and hurt the war effort.
The only thing that should matter is getting the information out of the people who have it — by any means necessary.
The cowards on the left who continue to crow about human rights don’t give a damn about keeping this country safe. In their eyes it’s America that is the bad guy and the terrorists freedom fighters are just defending themselves.
People who believe that are idiots and deserve to be marginalized. If you care more about the treatment of the terrorists than you do about saving the lives of your fellow countrymen then you’re a bad American.
-Chris Jones
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