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October 23, 2006
"Elite" Media All But Already Called Result Of November Elections Even Before The Votes Are Casted: They Claim Democrats As Winners!
Topics: Political News and commentariesInherent in the mindset of most Democratic "Elitists" is the concept that those of us that live in the so called "Red States that lie between those two thin fringes of "Blue" on either coasts, are nothing but a bunch of uncouth oafs, "clodhoppers," and that our "conservative" outlook is a result of our lack of intelligence and or education.
This condescending attitude is so pervasive amongst leftists, Democrats, and liberals in general, that it is truly appalling, and to illustrate the offensive nature of such disingenuous "patronizing," as expressed in their "liberal" views by many, and how it is "coloring" the way the upcoming elections are being "sold" by the media to the American voters, I would like to quote a commentary by one of these "Elitists" made on a thread posted on Patterico.
In his post, Patterico discusses the recent admission by the New York Times' public editor Byron Calame (via Michelle Malkin), that the paper made a mistake when it decided to run the Swift terrorist finance tracking story, and that he had been wrong in having previously defended the paper's fateful decision to do so, in a column that, he now concedes, gave insufficient weight to the arguments against publication.
Calame said that two factors ultimately persuaded him that running the story had been a mistake, quote: "the apparent legality of the program in the United States, and the absence of any evidence that anyone's private data had actually been misused." He went on to add that the only reason he supported the paper's decision, was because the paper had been harshly criticized by the Bush Administration:
"What kept me from seeing these matters more clearly earlier in what admittedly was a close call? I fear I allowed the vicious criticism of The Times by the Bush administration to trigger my instinctive affinity for the underdog and enduring faith in a free press -- two traits that I warned readers about in my first column."To the above post, many heated commentaries were made, but the one that I want to stress here as representative of this condescending attitude held by leftist, Democrat, "Elitists" - take a look at #54 on the thread by one M. Dean:
"Re: Mr. Calame's comments on the "Swift" program - I guess this isn't the kind of group that would take kindly to the idea that most relatively sophisticated people assumed that the government had been long engaged in this kind of financial oversight program and that the Times article 1) only confirmed the obvious; 2) had no impact on methods of terrorist financing. Its impact seemed to be mostly on domestic politics, in that it allowed the Bush admininistration to try once again to discredit the national press, which is making a valiant effort to provide objective reporting about how effectively, legally, and fairly OUR government is using OUR military, OUR intelligence services, and OUR taxes. I say, more power to the NYTimes, the Washington Post, the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the broadcast media for providing an extremely important public service. "This in turn was very appropriately answered by another reader, Stashiu3, who replied:
"You're correct, I certainly don't take kindly to lies and spin, moral relativism, or apologists for traitors. By "most sophisticated people" you mean the ones who hate the administration I assume, and include yourself in the sophisticated group. (That's not a question in case you missed it.) Where's your link or source to back up that nonsense? In case you missed it, the "sophisticated people" are outnumbered as well as clueless. I am rapidly becoming certain that the people you consider "unsophisticate" are getting ticked off and will be out to vote, despite what those skewed polls show. They've been completely wrong since Nixon, at least they're consistent."Much can be discerned from the opposing attitudes so prevalent in the interchange, so indicative of the split we have in America, but what I really would like to address and challenge, is this egregious, warped, "notion" by these "Elitist" Democrats that look down on the rest of America with nothing short of contempt, and believe their failed ideology makes them "superior" in some intangible "intellectual plane" not accessible to the common folks; something which is offensively fallacious.
Stashiu3's very excellent observations, drive the point perfectly home: " In case you missed it, the 'sophisticated people' are outnumbered as well as clueless. I am rapidly becoming certain that the people you consider "unsophisticate" are getting ticked off and will be out to vote, despite what those skewed polls show. They've been completely wrong since Nixon, at least they're consistent." Again, how very true! Their attitudes of barely disguised "superiority complex" are highly offensive to the rest of America, and could very well be compared to those held in past centuries by those who considered others "inferior" due to their ethnicity or the color of their skins, in this case inferior in the view of these Democratic "Elitists," because of their "ideology" or "conservative outlook," which, of course, they find "illogical".
But what I personally find most reprehensible about the conceited, patronizing, arrogance of these leftist "Elitist" Democrats, who presume to "know better" than the rest of their fellow Americans during these elections, is that weeks yet away from the elections, they and their allies are all shrilly claiming victory in a majority of local races that are too close to call, in what appears to be an excercise in mass self-delusion, and that for all intents and purposes their friends at the "Elite" liberal media are already claiming victory on their behalf to the distraught rest of the nation, even though the votes have not even been cast yet.
Are they taking us for granted? Do they really think that just because the NYT, the LA Times, the WaPo et al, and Ted Turner's CNN, the MSN and the biased Alphabet networks are already declaring "victory" for the Democrats as "inevitable," that we are just going to roll over and croak, and let them take our elections and our votes away from us?
Do they really think America's "Silent Moral Majority" is going to be so discouraged about some sleezy pubescent-like e-mails by a Gay Republican Representative to stay home all disconsolate on election day, and grant victory to the "Boisterous Immoral Minority" by default, so that they can then push their leftist secular agenda of cut-and-run, Jihadist loving, tax raising, abortionist, gay promoting "alternate lifestyles," unfettered open borders, moral ralativism, and godlessness in the Public Square, and the rest of their morally bankrupt "politically correct" socialist agenda down our collective throats once again? Are they so "conceited" as to think that conservative voters would be so "morally" upset with Republicans on account of that degenerate ex-Congressman Foley, as to turn around and vote for the Democrats - "The Party of All Things Immoral"? How asinine is that!
They really must take us for the "Yokels" they so "quaintly" equate us with in their "sophisticated" hubris! That, my friends, is nothing less than insolence.
Every conservative ought to march en masse on November 7th and swamp those polls and put the media "Elite" and their fawning "pollsters," and all these "sophisticated" Democratic asses (how apropriate: "Democratic Donkeys"!) and put them all in their place once and for all.
Isn't it ironic? If only they would be so "confident" of our ultimate success in Iraq as they are of their own "political comeback" in November and of taking back Congress and the Senate, it would fare much better for the U.S. in Iraq...rather than the relentless barrage of vitriol, negativity, and cut-and-run defeatism they have been spewing since the beginning of the conflict to the delight of our enemies.
Don't be discouraged Middle America. Your vote still counts. Don't let the Democrats convince you otherwise by prematurely proclaimimg a victory that is not theirs to have. Be heard on November 7th - they simply want you to stay home.
Posted by Althor at October 23, 2006 3:46 AM
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