by John Nolte Uncharacteristically, Jon Stewart is pretty late with his latest intellectually dishonest attempt to dehumanize Sarah Palin into a punchline. This phony Sputnik kerfuffle was settled last week. For those of you who only get your news from The Daily Show, I’ll set the stage and try to keep the words below three syllables: As is always the case, whenever Palin says a word, the left-wing media loses their collective minds and then proceeds to make fools of themselves looking for some way to further the dishonest narrative that the former governor is dumb or mean or crazy or all three. Stewart is a main player in this nasty business of character assassination but again, this entire matter was settled last week by our own Peter Schweizer, the Editor-In-Chief of Big Peace and a man who knows of what he speaks. First, let’s go to Stewart’s left-wing spin:
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Now, let’s look at the facts. Last week, immediately after Palin’s appearance on Greta, Steve Stromberg at the Washington Post used the same dishonest arguments as Stewart to ridicule Palin. This is when Peter Schweizer, someone whose knowledge base, unlike Stromberg’s, extends beyond Wikipedia, stepped in.
Here’s his main point, but you’ll want to read the whole thing:
Palin’s other point is that Sputnik was the sort of government bureaucratic program that got the Soviet Union in trouble; it’s an example of what eventually did them in. Citing Wikipedia (what journalistic ingenuity!), Stromberg argues that actually the Soviet Union didn’t have a debt problem until some “thirty years after” Sputnik. Perhaps instead of relying on Wikipedia, Stromberg might have consulted Robert Gates’ book From the Shadows which chronicles, in part, his career as a Soviet analyst at the CIA. (Just in case they are unaware at the Post, this is the same Robert Gates who is now the Secretary of Defense.) On page 173, he accurately points out that the CIA knew early on of the “Soviet economic crisis. From the late 1950s, CIA had clearly described the chronic weaknesses as well as the formidable military power of the Soviet Union.” Hmmm. Do you think this “chronic weaknesses might have had something to do with excessive bureaucracies and the size of government? Note to Stromberg: you will have to close Wikipedia and actually crack a book for this one.Note to Jon Stewart: you will want to close the Washington Post and actually crack a book for this one.
Maybe Palin can lend you whatever she’s reading.
Now I want to back up a bit and use this to once again hammer home a point I made last week about this insidious relationship with left-wing character assassins disguised as satirists like Stewart and the so-called objective media. Because he disguises himself as a comedian, Stewart can pretty much say whatever he wants without having to worry about any kind of accountability. This is extremely useful to the left-wing media’s darkly twisted and craven need to personally destroy Republican women. What Stewart does is allow them to wash their hands of the dishonesty they’re about to unleash, and once again our left-wing friends over at Mediaite (aka The Publicity Outlet For Anyone Who Puts A Hate On Conservative Women) have been kind enough to make that point for us. If you read their piece, this so-called objective media outlet doesn’t even bother to present the other side of the argument:
Palin’s analysis quickly went rogue with reality, claiming that the Soviet’s somehow won the that space race but that led to the fall of the Soviet Union.In other words, what Jon Stewart said is simply a fact.
Again, this is all about 2012. This is all about how a dishonest left-wing media is gearing up to use the likes of SNL, Colbert, Stewart, Maher, and the rest to dehumanize our side into punchlines and, most importantly, to keep the focus off of Obama and his failed record. It’s not an accident that after the State of the Union, Mediaite, MSNBC and the rest of the HeManConservativeWomanHater’s Club only wanted to talk about which camera Michele Bachmann looked into and launch willfully dishonest attacks on her speech about the Founding Fathers. Five days on destroying Bachmann means no one’s talking about Obama.
In “Nineteen Eighty-Four,” Orwell appropriately called this political tactic “Two Minutes Hate,” the idea being to artificially stoke the rage of the populace against the opposition in order to take the focus off of those currently in power. Stewart, Colbert, Mediaite, MSNBC and the rest are doing exactly this. The fact that their targets are almost consistently attractive, independent-minded women is for students of Freud to figure out, but the game-plan is as obvious as it is perverse.
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