Today's Nuze: January 12, 2007

Friday - January 12, 2007

MY GOD! THE ARROGANCE!

Yesterday I opened my show -- a portion of my show that most of you don't hear -- with a bit of a rant about a story in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It seems that a British historian was arrested for jaywalking in Atlanta. To make matters worse, he wasn't detained and "taken down," as it were, by a uniformed Atlanta police officer, but by an off-duty cop who was working as a security guard at a nearby hotel. At first my sympathies were with the Brit. After all, it's hard to forget the Atlanta woman who was body-slammed by a cop at the airport a few years ago. Now, after reading this column written by the historian, I'm ready to buy that cop/security guard some lunch.

The professor has this to say about our his experience as it relates to our country and our president:

"I have long known, as any reasonable person must, that the courts are the citizen's only protection against a rogue executive and rationally uncontrolled security forces. Though my own misadventure was trivial - and in perspective laughable - it resembles what is happening to the world in the era of George W. Bush. The planet is policed by a violent, arbitrary, stupid and dangerous force. Within the USA, the courts struggle to maintain individual rights under the bludgeons of the "war on terror," defending Guantanamo victims and striving to curb the excesses of the system. We need global institutions of justice, and judges of Judge Jackson's level of humanity and wisdom, to help protect the world."

So .. there you are. "The planet is policed by a violent, arbitrary, stupid and dangerous force." And what would that force be? Why, the United States, of course! No mention of the threat of Islamic fascism. No mention of the violent, arbitrary and dangerous nature of flying airplanes into office buildings. In fact, Professor Frail puts scare quotes around his reference to the war on terror, so as to say that he doesn't really believe that there is any terrorism to be fought! Then he goes on to say that what we really need is some sort of an international court to protect the world from the United States.

Some historian. Perhaps he doesn't remember the role of the United States in saving his precious Europe from Hitler and Soviet expansionism.

Now none of Professor Historian's arrogance and seeming hatred of the United States .. and most certainly of George Bush .. would be a sufficient excuse for an Atlanta cop to throw him to the ground and arrest him for jaywalking; but you are left wondering just what this man said to the cop to provoke such an action. I think that we all know that a simple "I'm sorry, officer, I'll be more careful the next time" would have been more than sufficient. Clearly it escalated beyond that. Is it possible that the good professor used some of his "George Bush is Stupid, America is violent, dangerous and arbitrary" nonsense on the cop?

Yesterday I had to chose sides .. between a member of European academia and an Atlanta Cop. I chose the wrong side. For that I apologize. I should have known better.

SOMEBODY'S GOTTA SAY IT

Well .. the galleys are in hand. I'm going through them right now to look for errors, missing references, etc. My editor tells me to have these back to him by the end of the day ... or else.

I also have the copy for the front flap of the cover of Somebody's Gotta Say It. I guess it's OK to share it with you here:

I've come to the conclusion that roughly 50 percent of the adults in this country are simply too ignorant and functionally incompetent to be living in a free society.You might think I'm off base, but every day around half the people in this country go out of their way to prove me right
From Somebody's Gotta Say It

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Full of irresistible wisecracks and irrefutable libertarian wisdom, Somebody's Gotta Say It is one man's response to America at a time when the government overreaches, the people underperform--and the truth hurts.

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MINIMUM WAGE DOUBLE STANDARD

As part of their first 100 hours plan, Democrats are pushing a hike in the minimum wage. It's going to happen, with several Republicans and even President Bush prepared to go along with it. But did you know that American Samoa...a Democrat stronghold...is being exempted from the minimum wage increase?

And just what are the reasons being given for this? According to the chairman of the House, Education and Labor Committee, Democrat George Miller of California, the economy of American Samoa doesn't have the ability to handle the United States' minimum wage and should be exempt. Nice try...want to know the real reason? The answer is the tuna industry and like the product itself, this one stinks to high heaven.

The average wage for tuna workers in American Samoa is $3.60 an hour. One of the biggest employers there is Starkist Tuna...which is headquartered in San Francisco...Nancy Pelosi land. Anybody care to take a closer look at the campaign contributions of Democrats in the last election? One thing is for sure, the delegate from American Samoa, a Democrat, is loaded down with campaign cash from the tuna industry.

So there you have it...a double standard. On the one hand, we're told you can't raise a family on $5.15 an hour and the minimum wage must be raised to $7.25 an hour. But for the right price in campaign contributions, the tuna industry in American Samoa can avoid the minimum wage altogether...they just have to stuff the pockets of the right Democrats. Where is the media on this one?

Will the press be taking a closer look at Nancy Pelosi's campaign finance disclosures? Probably not. But somebody will.

SENATE UNHAPPY WITH THE SURGE

The calls for Islamic terrorist appeasement are coming fast and furious on Capitol Hill. Upset that we might actually do something to bring Iran in line, Joe Biden warned the administration to stay out of Iran. And of course closet Leftist Chuck Hagel was there as well..comparing the whole thing to Vietnam. Al-Qaeda must have some really good lobbyists in Washington these days.

It's unprecedented, really. Members of the United States Senate telling our Commander-In-Chief not to protect and defend the United States. We're supposed to stay out of Iran. Why should we? If Iran is sending foreign fighters and is supplying the enemy in Iraq, why shouldn't we cut them off? Joe Biden says George W. Bush needs congressional authorization to conduct cross-border raids. Just whose side is he on, anyway?

RINO Chuck Hagel is right there, too. He compared doing anything about Iran to the cross-border raids into Cambodia during the Vietnam War. Boy, the Left sure can't let go of the Vietnam comparisons, can they? Vietnam this, Vietnam that. It really is astonishing. On the one hand, you have Democrats whining about how we're not winning the war in Iraq.

Then, in the same breath, they do everything they possibly can to keep it from happening. You can only come to one conclusion: they don't want to win the war at all. And just why all the rush to protect Iran? It never ends.

REDNECK SCRAP BOOK

Maybe this bus is for the lardasses. Need that extra power to pull them down the road. More in the Redneck Scrap Book.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Neal on TV

1/13 Cavuto on Business Fox News Channel 10:30AM
1/14 Hannity's America Fox News Channel 9PM

Officials of the New York Fire Department are backpedaling as fast as they can over the assertion that they banned the American flag from firefighters' lockers. They're now saying flags and mass cards are allowed. No word yet on pictures.

President Bush's new plan for Iraq has gotten Tony Blair's stamp of approval. Of course you won't find that anywhere in the mainstream media's coverage of the war this morning. Why? Because it makes the administration look good. Imagine if Blair had come out against the plan. It would be the top story.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee went nuts on Condoleezza Rice, with one Senator, Barbara Boxer of California, attacking her personally. She used the line that because Secretary Rice didn't have any family at risk in Iraq, she had no standing to support the new policy. Nice.

A number of Republicans are speaking out against President Bush's troop surge...echoing the Democrats and saying they don't think the plan will work. Of course just like the Democrats they a.) have no plan of their own to offer and b.) will vote for the money for the surge anyway.

Charles Krauthammer looks at both sides in the federal funding for stem cell research debate and says proponents of the research are overpromising and underdelivering. Remember when John Edwards said Christopher Reeve would walk again if John Kerry became president?

The Democrats in Congress should let President Bush work his last chance effort in Iraq, according to Mort Kondracke. He says the new majority in Congress should ignore the anti-war Left on this one, because the stakes are so high. Fat chance.

John Podhoretz is even more blunt about the situation in Iraq: if President Bush's latest plan doesn't work, then we have lost the war in Iraq. The entire thing would've been a failure and terrorists would have a new, permanent base to launch further attacks.

For years, Democrats have whined that President Bush never admits any mistakes. Now that he has on Iraq, they're still not happy. David Limbaugh also says the media is focusing just on the troop surge plan and ignoring the rest.

Mona Charen questions whether or not the 20,000 or so troops are going to be enough. She also wonders if we're doing enough to win in Iraq. One thing is for sure: losing would be a total catastrophe. Did you know we have 119,000 troops in Europe? We could send some of those to Iraq.

Most people are coming down on one of two sides in the war in Iraq, says Jonah Goldberg. Either they want to win the war in Iraq or they want it to be over and done with. Goldberg says at least George W. Bush is in the group that wants to win.

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