She just e-mailed me to say, “I am NOT converted.”

AP, I’ve been thinking back to my own conversion, and I distinctly remember telling a Dem co-worker who had accused me “I may be many things, but I NOT a Republican!”

You could almost count the days before I was a full-throated conservative, calling for Clinton’s impeachment, and head.

Clearly, Kristin is turning. Next comes the estrangement from her previous comrades, who have already thrown her under the bus. Then comes the isolation, and the resulting curiosity and intellectual honesty — “wait, maybe I’ve been looking at this the wrong way.”

Ah…and then the embrace. There’s no zealot like a convert, AP, and she’ll be great fun when she’s ours. The O’Reilly carnival will finally be worth watching: instead of Left, Right, and Brainless, we’ll have Right (wow!), Right (wow!), and Left (ugh).

Last week, I posted this piece on examples of Censorship coming from the Left.I had been blogging pretty heavily, and I think it might have gotten missed in all of my ranting.Coupled with the YouTube/Google fiasco on the Clinton Administration ad, i…

Allahpundit on October 10, 2006 at 2:14 PM

But she watches what you say and responds to what you think. Dude, she is smitten. At least with your mind. (And all that all knowing, all-seeing omnipotence stuff). Even if the Mission isn’t totally Accomplished, I’m sure someone with your patience (you know the whole world in 7 days, which actually took 7 billion years, kind of stuff) only views this as a challenge.

And no matter what, KP is destined for the dark side. She just has too much in the way of brains and booty, …… I mean beauty, to do otherwise. Allah, keep after it. Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

KP, Give us a chance. We think you are one smart lady, but you just don’t recognize genius when you see it…. yet.

Subsunk

Don’t know who he is? Read here. Shoebat, a former terrorist who has renounced jihad, will be speaking tonight at 7:30pm in the same auditorium where Minuteman co-founder Jim Gilchrist was mobbed last week. Also speaking at the event: former……

I think the McVeigh comparison was inaccurate, but that does not make one a dopey talking head.

I thought we wanted open honest intellectual debate, not liberal name calling.

I know Michelle is overstretched with family & career but the fact is that she should be the host of her own show on Fox.

Careful what you wish for.. You don’t want Fox to scoop up HotAir the way Google just did YouTube do ya?

She’s a liberal, man, face it!

Alex K on October 9, 2006 at 10:05 PM

I agree. I don’t think she’s a convert…yet. We just witnessed a rare and wonderful phenomenon: someone who’s a professed liberal “got it right.”

Maybe someday she’ll depart from the dark side of the force. But for me to believe, it will most likely have to be a public confession.

We are talking about free speech, discourse and debate not acts of war and destruction (McVeigh, PETA, ELF, terrorists).

The truly sad thing is that rarely do I hear that Bill Clinton and Janet Reno (a pair of commies) killed kids in Waco, Texas on April 19th 1993.

And she’s wearing boots, too!!

Hot Fox Anchor and Pundit Grrlllzzz.

Okay. . .hormonal surge over. Time to get down to business.

Here’s a good (and lenghy) article at TCs Daily by Edward Feser (h/t: the valuable Arts & Letters Daily) that attempts to explain why 9/11 Truthers are so insistent they are right and that the rest of us are blind, dupes, or just plain stupid. And the reasons the article gives can also be applied to the progressives, Kos Kool-Aid Drinkers, DUmmies, 1968 Protest Holdovers, BDSers, and anyone else whose vocabulary nowadays is limited to the words “fascist,” “brownshirt,” and “racist,” sometimes all three at once in different combinations.

To sum: O’R claims the progressives’ hatred is driven by the fact they are “losing.” I think that is only part of the reason. Just as the article asserts about 9/11 Truthers, they are very elitist and arrogant in their belief that they are “enlightened” while the rest of us are obviously firmly implanted in the dark ages. Hence, by default, because they are enlightened, they are smart and right. Any they will use any means to justify just how smart and right they think they are.

FWIW, is anybody else perturbed by O’Reilly’s creation of this salt & pepper twin thing he’s got going with our Michelle and KP? There’s just something patronizing & condescending about it.

thegreatbeast on October 10, 2006 at 12:10 PM

Yes, I did notice. And no, it doesn’t perturb me. This is probably the only reason I watch O’Reilly.

Is it patronizing? Of course.

Is it condescending? It depends on what you mean. It doesn’t matter what mix of races, colors, or sexes Bill chose to have on the show, someone would take offense that they where not equally represented.

Bill gives them both equal time to speak. These episodes with O’Reilly can only help both of their careers.

I say good for them. And good for us, because MM and KP are so incredibly attractive to watch and listen to.

You know, Allah, as I was watching the segment tonight, I was thinking to myself…KP sounds more and more like a conservative. KP, welcome.

d1carter on October 9, 2006 at 10:09 PM

I would like to think you are right on this one. However, I don’t believe KP has changed her party line. Just that on this one, KP and MM share a common enemy.

As we can clearly see, the only fascism going on in this video is coming from the students who are trying to force their utopian ideology on all the rest of us.

Barbra Streisand shows her class. It was an evening that elicited tears, standing ovations, raucous laughter and shouts of joy from the audience _ and was just in the first few minutes. Yes, Barbra Streisand’s return to touring after a……

How’s this for a red-blooded American male fantasy:

Instead of Hannity & Colmes….. Malkin & Powers

*swoon*

infidel4life on October 9, 2006 at 10:27 PM

Indeed.

I think the answer is fairly simple. The leftists are Platonists. They believe they are superior beings–priest kings, as Plato would say. (Think Leopold and Loeb.) They believe you should not speak, only shut up and listen. And if you disagree with them, you are obviously wrong, stupid, fascist, and/or suffering from false consciousness. In fact, since they are obviously right, they don’t have to listen to you, and they are justified in using any means necessary to ban, exclude or keep you quiet.

I remember fifteen years ago, for example, the Maine Literary Arts Commission, which to this day has no objective criteria for admission, rejecting Bill Forstchen for membership despite the fact he had five published novels at the time. (It frankly turned out better for Bill–he left the state, got his doctorate in history, became a professor in North Carolina, and co-authored two Civil War bestsellers with Newt Gingrich.) When Bill appealed the decision, the chairman of the Arts Commission, a woman with a hyphenated last name that could have been Lenin-Stalin, first took a vote to reject his appeal, and only then, after it was useless, opened up the floor for public comment and discussion.

I, on the other hand, was trained in speech and debate, so I take the alternate Aristotelian approach–that truth is most likely to emerge from free and open debate. But campus Platonists reject such a view. The only way to stop their outrageous actions, I believe, is by kicking them out of school. Otherwise you will just get more bad behavior because you have reinforced (rewarded) it. Since, however, academia has become infested with leftists (and I ought to know, I’ve been a college teacher for 42 years), that will not happen under current circumstances.

About the only hope I can see is for affirmative action to be applied to campus staff as well, so that 30% or so of professors and administrators have to have been registered Republicans for X number of years. If nothing else, this would so enrage and engage professors, that it would seriously hamper their ability to do damage elsewhere.

I had to watch the clip twice; those little ankle biters at the beginning of the clip made me so mad I couldn’t concentrate on teh rest of the interview.

You don’t know the half of it. One of those little, I’m sorry, bitches, was on H&C with her friend the other night, plus she was on Heartland the following night. It’s one of the most angry I’ve ever been because the debate never got away from the free speech part even though she kept interrupting throwing in the most insane accusations at the Minutemen. Aside from calling the KKK, racists, violent, etc. etc. She implied on Heartland that they are killing illegals!!! WTF is going on in these universities!?

And I’m with everyone else on the Right’s behavior. If Bill wants to count acts of terrorism as political unhinging, then I suppose we get to throw in all the eco-terrorists and Peta activists.

The truth is, our ideas don’t generally fit nicely into little chants and bumper stickers. So instead, we formulate full sentences and attempt meaningful debate.

As usual Michelle is right about the Libs on campus in the

US..they are basically facist who will not tolerate free

speech but their own…. these folks must be countered at

every turn with calm and cool strategy, and expose them

for the PC tyrants that they are…..