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WHY LIBERALS WRITE COLUMNS AND EDITORIALS ....

.... and basically suck at talk radio.

In Somebody's Gotta Say It, I spend some time in one chapter detailing why liberals are so over-represented in the print media, but just can't seem to do well at all at the talk radio game. In short -- it's easy to sit back and write a mindless left-wing editorial or column when you know you won't have to confront detractors hear on.

I went into yesterday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution yesterday looking for columns and editorials to prove my point .. and found two. One was a column bemoaning private ownership of guns; the other was yet another editorial on the gap between the rich and the poor.

OK .. time to have some fun. I'm going to take these items separately, and show you why the people who wrote them would soon be reduced to mipping and mupping as the callers played them like cheap drums. I'll first present the statement the liberal "journalist" made. That part will be in bold italics. Then we'll create some likely dialogue as if they were saying these things while hosting a talk radio show:

Ready:

OK .. first out of the block is the editorial page editor of The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Cynthia Tuckers. Cynthia appears to be very much against the private ownership of guns. Several years ago when the Georgia legislature was considering a law that would ease some of the restrictions on a law-abiding private citizen getting a concealed-carry permit, Ms. Tucker wrote that the change in the law would leave police officers dying in the streets. The fact that at that time there had not been one single documented incident anywhere in the country where a shooter with a concealed weapons permit shot a police officer in the line of duty had no affect on Cynthia Tucker at all ... she continued with her absurd predictions.

Cynthia's Sunday column was entitled "Slayings sting --- still love affair with guns lasts." Let's play talk radio with Cynthia:

OK .. enough fun with Cynthia Tucker as a talk show host spouting her anti-Second Amendment nonsense. Obviously she doesn't have much of a future in talk radio; but, then, what liberal does?

We move on now to the editorial in yesterday's AJC entitled "Nation's wealth concentrated in a few hands; government and business fuel the crisis." This is another one of those whiney pieces about the gap between the rich and the poor.

Just why do leftists love to play up this "gap" so much? Well, it's because they believe that income is "distributed," not earned. That's where they get the phrase "income redistribution". Wealth distribution is a function of government. Earning wealth is an individual pursuit. The Democrat Party is the party of big government, not the party of individualism. Democrats like to play up how much more money the rich have than the poor because it forms a basis for their drive to redistribute that wealth by taxing the rich more and more to pay for vote-buying government programs for the poor, poor pitiful poor.

One thing you will never .. and I mean NEVER ... see in a leftist-inspired piece on the gap between the evil rich and the sainted poor is the fact that there is a great deal of mobility between these groups. Every single year people who were once listed as poor move into the realm of the rich, while those once-rich find themselves scratching to pay the bills. In other words, the opportunities to become rich are out there, and people take advantage of those opportunities every day. The opportunities to make poor choices are also out there, and that's one reason why people slip into the lower income brackets. Thus it has always been, and thus it shall always be.

This particular editorial was written by David McNaughton for the AJC editorial board. Let's play a little talk radio with Mr. McNaughton:

OK .. enough. There are other things to cover in the Nuze. I just had a little extra time on my hands so I thought it might be fun to give you a little object lesson in why liberals like to hide behind the written word or spout their nonsense in venues where they don't have to fear rebuttal. And that, my friends, is why they suck so badly at talk radio.

FAIRTAX FAXES

It's April 9th. This is the last week before your taxes are due. April 15th arrives on a Sunday this year -- so the magnanimous IRS is giving you an extra few days to get your taxes in. The deadline is April 17th.

Americans for Fair Taxation are trying hard to get 100,000 faxes sent to Washington by next week. Don't worry, we've already sent 960,000. We just need 40,000 more. Bit by bit we're making headway. There is not one member of Congress who hasn't heard of the FairTax, and if they tell you they aren't familiar with it, they're lying. They know what it is, and they know how much power they would lose if it were implemented. Now is the time to show them the level of support out there. Here's you link .... it's all very easy. Just click, fill out the forms and get your FairTax Fax on the way!

CALLING ALL RACE PIMPS

Calling all race pimps...Don Imus called some Rutgers women's basketball players "nappy-headed hos" [video] on the air last week on MSNBC and the rent-a-mobs are on the prowl. No amount of apologizing on Imus' part is going to quench the desire for publicity from Al Sharpton and The Sloganmaster. So was Imus wrong to say what he did? Who knows...it certainly wasn't nice, but it's his radio show and that's for him and his employers to work out.

So here comes Sharpton, who has decided that this sort of hate speech just ought not be allowed. Says Sharpton: "Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media. We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this." And more than anything he's ever said publicly, this shows the arrogance of Al Sharpton. Since when is it up to him to decide who is allowed to offend someone and who is not? Who decides where the line is going to be drawn, Al? What about free speech?

Oh .. .and need we even say it? What about rap music? If Imus can show that he didn't say anything that isn't said day after day on urban radio stations .. .then he gets a pass.

And so now Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are doing their best to cash in the only way they can, by manufacturing outrage and calling out their roving band of race hustlers. For his part, Imus is employing the Michael Richards strategy. That is, handing his head to his enemies and hoping they'll go away. The problem is that when you pay blackmail, the price always goes up.

Which goes to show this "controversy" has nothing to do with the original remarks and everything to do with certain people lining their pockets.

I FEEL A REAL BOUT OF INSENSITIVITY COMING ON ... AND SOME PAINFUL TRUTH

I guess I spent too much time with the Sunday paper. There's another article I want to rant about today, and Lord help me I do believe that I am going to step on a few toes.

Georgia has a welfare health care program for children called "PeachCare." Most of it is funded by the federal government -- that means the American taxpayers.

Here ... read the story for yourself. Then could someone please tell me why we are continually asked to feel sorry for people who continue to have children they simply cannot afford to raise!

THE BOOMING ECONOMY OF 2007

The Bush Administration is correctly saying that the current economy we're in is stronger than it was during the Clinton Administration. This has brought the Clinton cronies out of the woodwork who say that just isn't so. Don't expect the media to side with Bush on this one. And of course, any time anything that took place during the Clinton Administration is remotely criticized, the Clinton thugs step out of the shadows to run interference. Just ask Sandy Berger, who got arrested for stuffing documents critical of his old boss down his pants and trying to smuggle them out of the National Archives.

Let's look at unemployment. Right now the unemployment rate is 4.4%....a full point below where we were during the Clinton Administration. And yet the media called the Clinton years a boom, while times now are supposed to be a bust. Both were good economic times...just these days are better. It is one of the most underreported successes of the Bush Administration. And for some reason, the Republicans have been unable to capitalize on it.

Aside from ineffective communication, the media doesn't want the successes of the Bush Administration to be reported. They'd rather focus on Iraq and gas prices instead of the booming stock market and low unemployment. Media bias at work. 

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Just damn. Another global warming denier! This one from MIT! MIT, by the way, is a pretty good school. I'm mean, it's no Texas A&M, but it's not bad. Quick, let's burn this denier at the stake!

Argentina is reasserting its claims over the Falkland Islands. The last time they pulled this stunt the Brits sent warships. This time? Well, my guess is that Argentina smells weakness. Weakness begets aggression. If the Democrats get their way we'll be learning that lesson again very soon.

Here's a liberal attack on capitalism. Read it and you might agree that it just has to be one of the biggest loads of idiotic leftist horse squeeze you've ever read in your entire life. I ought to have this character on the air just to play with him.

So Disney is going to open their Fairy Tale weddings to gays. First of all, they won't be "weddings" because there will be no marriage licences. There merely ceremonies. Secondly .... come on, give me a break. What do they call these weddings again? Thirdly ... perhaps it will lead to another Baptist boycott. Yeah, like the last one had such a huge impact.

The Atlanta newspaper ran a nice little sob story about a family who relies on charity - a system called "Peach Care - for medical care for their children. Children? Yeah .. .They have three, and one more is on the way. Oh, and don't forget the $327 a month for a nice fancy pickup and $50 a month for cell phones. Yet in the entire story there is not one sentence that suggests these people might have caused their own problems.

This just in.....Senate Democrats now say they won't cut funding for the troops. But that's just today...perhaps tomorrow they'll change their minds. So now Harry Reid is twisting in the wind, since he says he will cut the funding. I thought things were going to change when these guys took over, I guess not.

President Bush is finally going to do something about illegal immigration. Today he will give a speech in Arizona that will push border security, enforcement of immigration laws, a guest worker program and amnesty for the 12 million illegals already here. So far he's batting .500.

Alberto Gonzales continues to lose support in the Republican party. This time its former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich that says he has to go. It won't be long before the Attorney General quietly skates out the back door and goes back to Texas.

Turns out the Iranians weren't very nice to the 15 British sailors kidnapped at sea. It turns out they were kept in solitary confinement for much of the two weeks. They even threatened the female hostage with death. This is what appeasement gets you...a whole lot of nothing. But there won't be any repercussions for Iran.

And just why were the hostages in Iran released? We simply made a trade. We handed over some Iranians that were captured in Iraq in exchange for the British soldiers. A nice deal for the Iranians. Nothing like rewarding hostage-takers.

A top hurricane forecaster says Al Gore is an alarmist, is doing the world a great disservice and has no idea what he's talking about. This guy isn't some sort of fringe scientist with an agenda, he's probably the most famous hurricane forecaster there is.

John McCain filed this op-ed with the Washington Post after his most recent visit to Baghdad. He says things are actually better than what's being reported...you can actually move around the city without fear of being shot. McCain continues to support the war.

Robert Novak is in Israel to report on the situation there between the Palestinians and the Jewish state. Are things really as bad as Jimmy Carter says they are in his latest book? Novak says a two-state solution may not even be possible anymore.

The six flying Imams...the suspected Islamic terrorists that US Airways kicked off a flight in Minneapolis, are suing not only the airline but the passengers that complained about them. In response, Congressman Peter King has introduced a bill to protect the passengers. Debra Saunders takes a look at the whole controversy.

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