Wednesday -- January 26, 2005
 THE
LAST RHETORICAL REFUGE
You've heard it in the hate-emails I love to read to you on my program.
Leftists who can't cogently argue for their policy positions, or against those
of conservatives or liberals, will resort to the "N" word.
"N" for Nazi. In my 36 years of talk radio I have never heard
one single person, prominent politician or regular citizen, use the
"Nazi" word if they had any real ability to express their
philosophical beliefs and differences in an understandable way.
Just yesterday I read to you some emails from listeners and Nuze readers who
don't appreciate my position on employers being free to either refuse to hire or
to fire drug addicts --- addicts addicted to the drug nicotine.
Here's an email I received from one Steve Benton, who, by the way, has an
aol.com email address.
"That's it. You're a complete idiot. You are using the same
arguments that the Third Reich used when they banned smoking. So, it's
OK to fire a smoker because they're 'stupid'. And they hate
themselves. You are no Libertarian -- you are a closet nazi."
Steve wasn't done. Steve went on to make some rather negative
observations about my romantic relationship with my wife, and to tell me that I
was "effiminate" (sic) and had "girl lips." Yowie!
Girl lips!
Now .. go back to the archives and read
yesterday's Nuze. What I said was that an employer should have the
right to refuse to hire someone who will drive up health care costs for the rest
of his employees. I also said that an employer has every right and reason
not to hire someone whom he has reason to expect might not make an ideal
employee. Common sense would tell you that a person who continuously
engages in self-destructive behavior just might not make the best possible
employee. Oops ... there I go sounding like a Nazi again!
 Then
there's Ted Turner. Ted Turner is not what you might called thrilled with
the surge of Fox News Channel in the cable television ratings. After all,
CNN is Ted's baby. I can remember many, many moons ago sitting with Ted
Turner at a private lunch at the Commerce Club in downtown Atlanta. At
that time, the early 70's I think, I was hosting a television show on Turner's
WTBS. Turner sat there at lunch and told me of his plans for a cable
television news service. I nodded politely and tried to keep my elbows off
the table. Little did I know the level of success that Turner would
achieve with his dream. Now that success is sullied by the growing
popularity of Fox News Channel ... and Ted is torqued, and Ted felt the need to
go on the attack against Fox News. So, attack Ted did ... at the National
Association for Television Programming Executives meeting in Las Vegas.
In attacking Fox News I suspect Ted is faced with the same problem that my
more liberal listeners have faced for the entirety of 2004. In January of
2004 I challenged my listeners to watch Fox News carefully and to call my show
with any evidence of any right-wing bias in the presentation of news stories on
any Fox News program. Obviously you will find bias on the opinion
programs, that's to be expected. But my challenge dealt with the
presentation of actual news stories. Well, the entire year went by with
repeated goading from me, and not one listener ever made one phone call or sent
one email which illustrated even one instance of right wing bias in the
presentation of news stories on the Fox News Channel. Not one.
Turner faces a similar dilemma. He has no examples either, so what does he
do? He does exactly what our friend Steve did! He goes the
"Nazi" route! Yesterday Ted Turner was out there in front of God
and all those people comparing the Fox News Channel, and it's superior ratings,
to Hitler! Yeah, Ted says, Hitler was popular with the people too!
So, Ted Turner is comparing people who watch Fox News Channel instead of CNN to
the people who put Hitler in power in Germany! I particularly like the
response to Ted's tirade from the Fox News Channel spokesman: "Ted
Turner is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network and now his
mind. We wish him well."
So do I, Ted. Enjoyed the lunch.
Oh .. one more thing. "Nazi" is actually an acronym for the
National Socialist German Workers' Party. Ted Turner has publicly stated
that he is a socialist. Hmmmmmm. Nazis were socialists ... Ted
Turner is a socialist ....... Oh well, never mind.
PARANOIA
REIGNS
Oregon State University and the Rand Corporation have conducted a study on
blacks and AIDS. Get this: Fifty-three percent of black Americans
think that a cure for the AIDS virus has been found, but that it is being
deliberately withheld from the poor. What's more, 48% of blacks think that
the virus is man-made. Of that 48% who believe the AIDS virus is man-made,
27% think it was created in a government laboratory; 16% believe the virus was
created to control the black population; 15% think it's a form of black
genocide, and 12% think it was created and spread by the CIA.
BOYCOTTING
MCGRAW HILL
You have heard this one, haven't you? We have more than 100 professors
at colleges and universities across the country who are boycotting
McGraw Hill textbooks. They have an online petition somewhere. Yes,
I'm looking for it, but haven't found it just yet. Petition.
So, what has these professor's beards in a knot? They say that McGraw
Hill has been "demonstrating a willingness to sacrifice the well-being of
youth for profit and further ingraining oppressive beliefs."
Well now. That seems pretty serious, doesn't it? I wonder what
the evil textbook writers at McGraw Hill have done to create such a
reaction? It seems that the McGraw Hill textbooks have made the grievous
error of defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
I don't really think I need to say any more here either. Just remember
... these are the people who are preparing your children for their careers.
ANOTHER
BLACK EYE
Maggie Gallagher |
Remember the Armstrong Williams flap earlier this month? In simple terms,
we learned that the Bush Administration paid a company controlled by Armstrong
Williams about $250,000 so that Williams would promote Bush's No Child Left
Behind Act in his columns and on his television show. Not good.
Williams has apologized .. and has lost his syndicated column. Well ...
it's happened again. Drudge is reporting this morning that syndicated
columnist Maggie Gallagher signed a $21,500 contract with the Department of
Health and Human Services to promote Bush's $300 million initiative encouraging
marriage as a way of strengthening families. (Do we really need to spend
$300 million to promote this?) Gallagher says that it never occurred to
her that she should disclose the payment when she wrote in favor of Bush's
policy objective. Sad ... really sad. We'll let you know when
Gallagher regains her credibility.
RECORD
DEFICIT? HARDLY
The mainstream media and the Democrats have now set into motion their latest
cause: the rising budget deficit. Their position, either implied or stated
outright, is that President George W. Bush has personally led the United
States into fiscal ruin. Apparently they believe, had Al Gore won in 2000,
we wouldn't have such a large deficit.
Wrong on both counts. First of all, while the president does propose budgets,
Congress authorizes and spends every penny. Second, George Bush is not
responsible for the recession he inherited, nor is he responsible for the
Islamic terror attack on 9/11 that started the war on terror. In both
cases, those situations developed on Bill Clinton's watch. So it's
important to put the blame where it lies.
It's also important to note that as a percentage of GDP, the deficit is still
not as large as it has been in the past. It is not the "largest
deficit ever," as the media wants you to believe. By the way, for the
benefit of those of you educated in government schools, GDP means gross domestic
product, or the total value of goods and services produced in the United States
in a given year. In 1946 the deficit was 7.2% of GDP, while today's
deficit is about half that. Hardly a record. Not even close.
So do the president and the Congress bear responsibility for the overspending
that leads to budget deficits? Absolutely. But here's where the
difference lies. Democrats will jump up and down and scream about the
deficit, but they never say what they'll do to reduce government spending.
Their one and only solution to deficit spending is to raise taxes.
Democrats worship at the alter of high taxes. Nothing has changed
there. Whenever you hear a politician talking about the problems of the
deficit, grab your wallet and run. Because it means one thing and one
thing only: they want to raise your taxes to "pay for" their
overspending, rather than reign it in. Of course, the media never calls
them on it.
They're too busy Bush-bashing to bring up any facts. Anyway, now you know
the skinny on this deficit business.
ISLAMIC
MURDERERS THREATEN HOSTAGE
So you've been sitting in front of your TV for the past 2 years since the United
States invaded Iraq and you may be having second thoughts. You might think
things aren't going so well. Perhaps this war wasn't worth fighting. Maybe
it's time to cut and run. Just pull the plug and take a walk.
The latest hostage video should give you pause. Fifty-six-year-old Roy Hallums
was shown in a video released yesterday with the barrel of a gun pointed at his
head. He was pleading for his life. On the other end of that gun was
an Islamic terrorist, our sworn enemy in the War on Terror. Unfortunately,
if recent history is any guide, Mr. Hallums won't make it.
One of these thugs will tie him up, thrown him to the ground, hold him down with
their foot and cut his head off. All of this will happen while the camera
rolls and Mr. Hallums screams.
Now think about what we're fighting over there and realize that we have no
choice but to defeat the evil that Islamic terrorism represents. There is no
other choice. Retreat will be seen as weakness ... and weakness will bring a
reign of death at the hands of these Islamic goons.
WHAT
WE NEED IS MORE BLACK ADVISORY BOARDS
Lee County, Florida has a Black Advisory Board. I haven't checked, but
I'll wager that there is no White Advisory Board in Lee County. The Black
Advisory Board had a meeting, and have now come up with a nifty little idea that
will make life better for blacks in Lee County. Just change Lee County's
name to something else. Lee County, you see, was named after Robert E.
Lee. That particular Lee was a Confederate General. The Lee County
Black Advisory Board probably believes, as most Americans incorrectly believe,
that the war between the states was fought to free slaves. So .. if you
can just get Robert E. Lee's name off the county letterhead life will improve
for Lee County blacks almost instantly.
As soon as the Lee County Black Advisory Board gets the name changed, they
can concentrate on looking for anything else in Lee County that was named after
a Confederate officer or a slave holder. Ft. Myers is in Lee County.
Was Ft. Myers used by Confederate troops? If so .. maybe another name
change there.
READING ASSIGNMENTS
I love bringing you stories like this ... so it's the lead in our reading
assignments. Two teenagers walk into a grocery store. They pulled
out a gun to rob the store. Both
of these teenagers have been removed from the gene pool. The
perfect ending.
The remembrance of the Holocaust at the UN this week strikes
columnist Mark Steyn as a bit disingenuous. He calls the whole thing
an act.
Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales is supremely qualified for the
position, but
unfortunately, says Senator John Cornyn, the Bush-haters on the left are
choosing the play politics.
Some may think the administration is back-pedaling on President Bush's freedom
inaugural speech, but
James Pinkerton says don't believe any of it. Bush is going full-speed
ahead.
There have been two big breakthroughs leading up to the elections in
Iraq. Ralph
Peters tells us what they are, and explains their significance.
A columnist with the London Times wrote that "America's might is
draining away." Nonsense,
says Victor Davis Hanson who explains that we've heard it all before.
In speaking about freedom and democracy, was George Bush proposing that the
United States invade every non-free country?
Not at all, says John O'Sullivan, who explains that the speech wasn't any
sort of threat of force.
The media continues to ignore the successes of the United States in Iraq.
First up, ABC. The
Media Research Center reports.
You often hear politicians talk about creating and saving jobs. But
Walter Williams describes how doing any such thing is a recipe for disaster.
A little economics lesson coming your way from the good Dr.
Liberals love to say that Islamic terrorists hate us because of our foreign
policy.
Jonah Goldberg has a better idea: how about taking Musab Al-Zarqawi at his
word when he says it's because he hates democracy?
Think the Department of Homeland Security has improved its immigration policies
since 9/11? Not a chance, as
Michelle Malkin recounts another recent blunder. | 
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