Rick Santelli Beats The MSM In A Debate About First Principles

This actually enjoyed two days worth of modest coverage, mostly as a snickering look-at-one-of-our-own-being-crazy news segment. Rick gets it, manages to say it in soundbite-length, and should be treated as saying something that ALL of our media needs to remember, but doesn't.

It's called First Principles.

In this case with the hysterical loudmouth Chris Matthews, Rick highlights the notion of "a card laid is a card played". Those who haven't played poker won't understand this axiom, but it essentially means that if you lay down your cards to show the two pair that you said you had [contracted], then when another player beats you with their three of a kind hand, you can't suddenly see a higher three of a kind you had missed in your original call of "two pair" when you laid it down.

But watch how Chris, typical of the MSM, brushes aside this chance to discuss founding principles of America because it gets in the way. "In the way of what" you may ask.

In the way of undoing our American Way. There's no better way to put it. If you aren't skilled in knowing our birth as a nation, this blog will confound you. You'll operate from a position close to that of Chris Matthews if you have depended on your high school and college professors to do the hard work of educating you on what it is to be an American.

The typical liberal hears a Rick Santelli enunciate the clear-headed, common-sense maxims of our constitution and national creed, and tries to find an exception to the rule by dreaming up a possible scenario which never happens in this country, yet serves as an actual debate against what we all know as the best possible way to exist with each other.

Watch as Matthews tries one of these sophistries with Rick:

Chimp Cartoon Produces The Same Reaction As The Mohammed Cartoon

Remember this Danish cartoon a few years ago that caused so much stir?


Well, it looks like we're seeing a devolution from the same kind of lunacy from none other than our own Al Sharpton. That's right, the same Al Sharpton that began life as a racial huckster with a megaphone in the Tawana Brawley case and has tried to take over as President once or twice (it's hard to keep up with how many times a black person has ran for President, lately. There are voting age adults in America who have grown up with at least Jessee, Al, Alan, and now Barry running for President every cycle.), is now, 25 years later, a racial huckster with a microphone.

Then:


Now:


Isn't it completely delirious of Keith to start the conversation with a Curious George reference, while forgetting the 8 years we've seen the exact same chimp image used for President Bush:
I guess these aren't a problem because the Left produced them:
Is it because President Bush is white that liberal nincompoops (redundant?) find absolutely nothing hypocritical in this latest Obama-as-chimp episode? Who knows. Trying to understand the petulant mind of a liberal is like trying to think as a child.

I guess in their tweaker mind anything makes sense.

Hell, there's even been a website called Bush Or Chimp since 2000, and they have been putting amateur shots like this up for years:


And in case you've been living under a rock, this is the cartoon that's causing Al to lead a protest today at 5pm in front of the NY Post's hq building. He didn't like that it took the Post 24 hours in order to cave in to something they and the cartoonist himself said they didn't do.


This thing is getting really stupid under Obama's reign, so far. Lots of racism, race-baiting, and now demonstrations in his name over perceived injustices.

How much longer can we keep doing this kind of thing before it all gets away from us? A riot here, a riot there. The next thing you know you have an armed insurrection.

While scanning youtube for Al's appearance on the UberHam show, I found this guy. His name in SkitzShow, and he's pretty funny. And right:

The Bill Press Show: Silencing The Opposition

Sen Stabenow is married to a big executive behind Democracy Radio and Air America--Tom Athans--yet the conflict of interest doesn't phase her a bit when she makes this declaration to Bill Press about bringing back the fairness doctrine for talk radio.

Her idiocy is palpable in this interview, along with the ninny Bill Press, as usual. These people are admitting that the reason liberal whine radio doesn't succeed is because owners can't make money off of that programming, yet talk earnestly about legislating a different result! How can congress MAKE us like the format enough to make the radio owners realize a profit from it for the first time?

Indeed, even the nationally-syndicated liberal answer to Rush Limbaugh-Air America-has even failed, filing bankruptcy papers a couple of years ago. Seems that no one likes the message they're selling. On the other hand, Rush has been making great radio profits for 21 years now, and enjoys the fruits of his success: he just completed 10 years straight of making 10 million dollars a year in salary alone!

But that's where the rub is. They can't make a program to even compete against Rush, Tammy Bruce, Ingraham, Levin, Beck, Boortz, (the late) David Brudnoy, Hannity, Savage, Bill Bennet, or most of the other political talk hosts, so what do they do? They SABOTAGE the entire format, making the Rush's have to go underground to deliver their goods anymore.

How will the Fairness Doctrine and Stabenow accomplish this sabotage? By making a law that all radio station owners must play equal hourly amounts of any political program from its competing party, the owner will try to fill equal hours in a day for which he ran Rush & Hannity, only to find that not only will no local businesses want to hang their name on that nasty program of the Left's, but that the station is beginning to loose popularity among the community.

The result will be that the station owner says, "Screw it, I'll play music on my radio station." The conservative radio format dies, due to the Fairness Doctrine.

Even before I sold radio for a living, I knew the truth of what I've just said. Selling radio only confirmed it. Too bad that Senators like Stabenow can't figure that out. Maybe then the Left wouldn't have to resort to Stalinistic approaches to free speech anymore.