RFC Radio’s own Fingers Malloy was quoted in the New York Times, as was one of the new and fast rising stars of the conservative blogosphere, Smart Girl Politics. Our legitimate grassroots efforts are paying off folks, keep spreading the good word!
Here’s a brief clip from Malloy’s interview with Michelle Malkin:
If you are reading this you were probably referred here by a link I tweeted in response to something you tweeted that was negative toward Glenn Beck. If that is the case, I hope you stick around long enough to consider my opinion.
For starters, let me see if I know what you think about Glenn Beck:
Glenn Beck is not, as so many uninformed liberals say, a mouthpiece for the Republican party. He is frustrated with and tired of both parties. Forget what Olbermann, Stewart or Matthews have to say about Glenn: they are passionately biased and woefully misinformed, they are incapable of judging Beck objectively. And they are miffed that Beck is destroying them in the ratings. But that is not important.
As far as the Mormon thing goes, if you can’t take that he is Mormon, you are a religious bigot. Senators Harry Reid and Orrin Hatch are also Mormon. So is Barack Obama’s Ambassador to China, Jon Huntsman, Jr. Get over the Mormon thing, if you can’t you probably aren’t mature enough to deserve the privilege of voting in America.
And quit with the “crying” complaints. Beck cries. So what? Does this invalidate any of what he has to say, or are you too shallow to get past his passion and deep-seeded care for what he believes? It is so easy to focus on his delivery instead of his content. I think part of the reason America is so screwed up right now is that he general public has a misguided focus on appearance, it is concerned more about flash over substance. Perhaps the seriousness of our increasing national debt and diminishing national security will provide enough caffeine to snap America out of its politically castrated, uneducated stupor. If not, it may take another 9/11 (or worse) to smack American minds back into the proper mindset.
So, instead of making fun of Glenn’s crying, why not listen to him as he criticizes George Bush for his errors? (Yes, Beck has repeatedly slammed Republicans when needed.) Instead of getting defensive, try listening to why Beck is criticizing the current administration, instead of getting stuck on the fact that he is daring to question the unquestioned Obama in the first place?
At some point Obama voters will have to get over the fact that the voted for change, that they voted for “anyone but Bush,” and lo and behold they got exactly what they asked for. However, I think we can all agree that this change is far more severe than anything MSNBC or Katie Couric could ever imagine. What will it take to get liberals to open their eyes to the facts that are being legislated before our very eyes? If you understand basic math, if you can read, you have what it takes to become an informed citizen. Voting is a privilege that should be respected. An uninformed vote is a dangerous thing.
I am repeatedly stunned at the audacity Obama possesses (pun not intended), his ability to lie with a straight face to America is truly impressive. There are umpteen examples of Barack Obama’s flip flops and flat out lies. Yet, America still trusts him and the press refuses to do anything close to resembling investigative journalism.
Beck is the rising star of the talk sow circuit for a reason: he speaks the truth. And, he’s been doing so as a political commentator for almost a decade. He passionately believes in the greatness of America. He repeatedly encourages those that disagree with him to call or appear on his show. And that’s an important thing: If you truly believe what you say, wouldn’t you welcome and encourage as much debate as possible to prove your point and educate the masses? Of course you would. He’s not like Al Gore who refuses to allow debate on a topic he thinks is closed. Keith Olbermann refuses to engage anyone in meaningful discussion (I don’t think he’s capable of doing so), and Chris Matthews is only capable of cutting off and yelling over those that he disagrees with. That isn’t debate, it’s entertainment. Glenn Beck actually offers substantive conversation with people on both sides of the issues.
If you are still reading I thank you for your open mind. I welcome all opinions at this blog and approve all posts unless they are offensive or crude (try to keep it PG-13). Let me know your thoughts, and please consider watching an episode or two of Glenn’s show on FoxNews. You might find out that his points are quite valid and backed up by facts. He also welcomes opposing viewpoints and lets them speak (unlike many other hosts). Is Glenn a goofball? Of course he is… he repeatedly admits to that. Just try to get past the casual nature and his unique humor and consider the content, not the delivery. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. As we have seen in Barack Obama, it is important not to judge a book by its cover.
Al Gore is poised to make billions in the cap & trade business, one that he has helped create thanks to hype, lies and bad science.
I you are not up to speed: Under a cap and trade system the government sets a nationwide limit on emissions. This is the “cap.” The goal is to reduce the pollution that companies generate by fining companies that exceed the government-defined limit. Over time the cap is lowered to reduce the amount of pollutants released into the atmosphere. (think of it as a magical pollution limbo bar) The “trade” part is a so-called market for carbon allowances or credits. Companies that produce less than their limit can sell credits to companies that are over their own limit. Supporters claim that this provides an economic incentive to pollute less. Companies that pollute can pay other companies to be clean.
Analogy: Billy gets a 96/100 on his test. Benny gets a 56/100. In order to pass you need a 60. So, Billy can sell four points from his test score to Benny so that Benny can pass with a 60. Billy still has a 92 and gets to keep his ‘A’, and Benny gets his passing ‘D.’ Take this a step further: If Billy is the shining star in a classroom full of idiots, he can dole out as many points as he wants to the kids that fail regularly and can decide what he wants his grade to be. Potentially, everyone in his class passes and the world is a better place full of “educated” students.
Based on this stellar Gore-inspired logic I’ve decided to create my own business that is similar to his cap/trade carbon credits ventures. We have heard rumblings from Team Obama that people need to eat better and exercise more. The potential exists in a nationalized health care system for coverage to depend on the health of the patient. What do you eat? Do you smoke? How much do you exercise? Well, I’ve got the answer: Calorie Credits!
I can continue to be a big fat-ass and frequent the many lunch buffets that I love as long as I pay someone else to exercise for me. The more exercise they do, the more I can eat. If I only partake in the occasional doughnut perhaps a small donation to the high school football team will suffice. At my side of the spectrum, I’m looking at sponsoring a Kenyan marathon runner.
You may be laughing, but you can’t debate my logic. Calorie credits make as much sense as carbon credits and cap/trade.
God bless Twitter for helping me find this graphic by Cory Doctorow at BoingBoing. As he says, when you start talking about our budget in trillions, people fail to comprehend the sizes we are talking about. Pictures help people like me put the current administration’s drunken spending into a proper frame of reference. At this point I don’t give a crap how much Bush spent… Obama has taken spending to an entirely new level, one that we as a country CANNOT sustain. If Barack-O inherited a single crap sandwich from Bush (a common lefty claim), Barack is currently preparing a fecal cruise ship buffet for the Republican president that WILL be elected in 2012. (more credit due here and here.)
[note: A woman in Arizona wrote the letter below and sent it to Glenn Beck. Read it and tell me if you find any fault with it. Liberals specifically are encouraged to respond.]
[source] I’m a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you’re willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?
Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:
Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let’s just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I’m busy. I’m busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.
I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.
From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don’t want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we’re morons.
We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we’re so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn’t ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when hewill rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.
Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don’t care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.
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