Americans for Prosperity were there and confronted the liberal hypocrisy.  Or is it the Hypocrite Liberals?

We’re back from Al Gore’s big global warming speech, and boy did we have a great time! We had a dedicated band of taxpayer advocates out in force, pointing out the high economic cost of global warming alarmism - starting with $8 a gallon gasoline.

Of course, we saw plenty of hypocrisy — especially the fact that Gore didn’t ride his bike or take public transporation to the event.  He didn’t even take his Prius! Instead, he brought a fleet of two Lincoln Town Cars and a Chevy Suburban SUV!  Even worse, the driver of the Town Car that eventually whisked away Gore’s wife and daughter left the engine idling and the AC cranking for 20 minutes before they finally left!

Hey, if you think the car-idling is the best part of the video — WRONG!   The AFP folks peacefully confront Gore supporters and his limo driver and — well, you HAVE to watch it! I LOVE the woman who thinks a taxi cab is “public transportation”! ROFLMAO!!!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

It sure seems so.  Especially since Google has a history of active censorship.

Some bloggers opposed to Barack Obama say they suspect Obama’s supporters — with the assistance of Google — may have tried to censor them when the Internet giant froze their Web sites for five days last month.

Seven blogs run by Democrats who oppose Obama’s nomination for the presidency were incorrectly flagged as spam sites by Blogger, the hosting service Google has owned since 2003. Google says it was an automated response from a spam filter.

But the bloggers believe that Web surfers who support Obama took advantage of a loophole in Blogger’s system that allows readers to report spam blogs, the artificial Web sites that abound on the Internet and are used to promote other sites.

“It appears that [Blogger's] policy can be manipulated by people determined to shut down the free exchange of ideas,” said Carissa Snedeker, whose blog, BlueLyon, was among those that were frozen.

“It’s unusual — I’ve never heard of similar blogs of the same nature being shut down like that,” said Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of the tech site SearchEngineLand.com.

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“The conclusion that many of us came to was that we were specifically targeted by some over-enthusiastic Obama supporters,” Snedeker said.

The bloggers believe it’s part of a larger campaign to evict them from left-wing sites like the Huffington Post and DailyKos.

(For you younger folk that aren’t allowed to be taught these things in your public schools, here’s a refresher on the Gestapo so you can follow the allusion.)

And can someone remind me again…. what side of the political spectrum will you find the roots of fascism?  Let me help you out — read this book:  Liberal Fascism.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

From the President of Iran, the same man the American Left embraced when he spoke at Columbia University: (h/t - The Corner)

“I must announce that the Zionist regime (Israel), with a 60-year record of genocide, plunder, invasion and betrayal is about to die and will soon be erased from the geographical scene,” he said.

“Today, the time for the fall of the satanic power of the United States has come and the countdown to the annihilation of the emperor of power and wealth has started.”

Since taking the presidency in August 2005, Ahmadinejad has repeatedly provoked international outrage by predicting Israel is doomed to disappear.

“I tell you that with the unity and awareness of all the Islamic countries all the satanic powers will soon be destroyed,” he said to a group of foreign visitors ahead of the 19th anniversary of the death of revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

What exactly would a President Obama talk to this guy about??  Oh, its okay.  No need to worry….. Let’s just get the child-raping, money-stealing, dictator-propping, resolution ignoring, Isreal-hating  United Nations on the case!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Dear Gay Patriot readers:

As you may recall, just about one year ago, we awarded Dan Rather the first James Earl Carter Bitter Old Man Award, an honor bestowed on those “men over 70 who, in their dotage, by the very bitterness of their manner, follow in the footsteps of the nation’s worst president.”

In several statements in the past few days, Carter has demonstrated the very bitterness which defines the award. Having long since forgotten the tradition of U.S. presidents never criticizing their successors while abroad, this unhappy octogenarian faulted the incumbent administration for drafting a Middle East policy which has become “one of the greatest human rights crimes on Earth” as he suggests the current president is a “war criminal.” And even after being rejected overwhelmingly by the American people, he has tried to engage in diplomacy on behalf of the United States.

And we haven’t even gotten to his criticism of the Administration’s Iraq policy, offering such criticisms Memorial Day weekend.

Just moments ago, I received an e-mail from a reader, alerting me to a post highlighting the former president’s follies. But, he wasn’t referencing the comments I made above. This time, Carter was musing about Iran acquiring a nuclear bomb:

I’m not sure that is going to happen, but if it does, what do we do? They are rational people like all of us in this room. Do they want to commit suicide? I would guess not. So what we have to do is talk with them now and say to them we want to be their friends . . .

Um, Jimmy, do you recall what happened in those dark days when you were president and the Iranian mullahs violated international law and took our allowed our diplomats to be taken hostage? Do you want to be friends with those people?

Calling them rational!?!?!? Guessing that they don’t want to commit suicide!?!?!? Have you been paying any attention to Islamofascism over the past quarter-century or so? These are not rational people. They believe in committing suicide to advance their goals. Not just believe in it, practice and promote it — and train for it.

So, the question is, is this an example of Jimmy’s bitterness? Or just his stupidity or his support of anything which opposes the interests of the country he once led?

If stupidity, then we probably can’t offer him his own award. If bitterness, then the question is, should he be awarded an eponymous honor?

Please use the comments section to share your thoughts.

Sincerely,

B. Daniel Blatt
(AKA GayPatriotWest)

As Jonah Goldberg observed in his book, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, we conservatives are often subject to the epithets, “Nazi” or “fascist,” merely for expressing our political point of view. Rarely do the labels even come close to representing our ideology or opinions, indeed are usually at odds with our commitment to freedom and opposition to government programs, serving primarily as a mean for those who so label us to dismiss our ideas.

Well, earlier this week, I read a column by a man who calls himself a conservative, while the ideas he expresses there makes one wonder if Pat Buchanan is, as some have described him, a Nazi sympathizer. Buchanan has long since abandoned the principles which have defined American conservatism (if he ever supported them).

As I’ve noted before, he showed so little regard for the leader of American conservatism, Ronald Reagan, that he chose to speak for far longer than the time allotted him at the 1992 Republican National Convention, bumping the Gipper’s subsequent speech out of prime time.

No one who would show such disrespect for the Gipper should consider himself a conservative. And no paper which seeks to promote serious conservatism would print (or offer pixels to) his columns.

This ex-conservative now claims that President Bush “made a hash of history” when he referenced the Nazi invasion of Poland in 1939 as an example of the danger of appeasement.

Actually, it’s Buchanan who’s making a hash of history, as he’s pretty much made a hash of every serious idea he’s tried to consider for the past sixteen years or so. He contends that British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain’s September 1938 Munich “deal with Hitler averted a European war — at the expense of the Czech nation.” Well, at least he acknowledges the abandonment of the Czechs.

“German tanks,” Buchanan observes “did not roll into Poland until a year later, Sept. 1, 1939.” And why? Oh, not because they thought the West was weak, having offered up Czechoslovakia to the Nazis, but because Poland “refused to negotiate over Danzig,” then an ethnically German city under Polish sovereignty (but officially a “free city” administered by the League of Nations).

“Hitler,” Buchanan claims, “had not wanted war with Poland.” He did try to negotiate. But, the meanies in the Polish government forced his hand because they were intransigent. The Nazis, you see, just had to invade. They were forced into it because how else could the Nazis include this German-speaking territory in their pan-Germanic Reich?

Does he really believe that Hitler would not have sought to dominate Europe had Poland sat down to negotiate the status of Danzig?

Buchanan takes it as a given the the Nazi idea of uniting all German territories under one regime is a good thing. That he was only driven to evil because the West prevented him from achieving this goal.

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Glenn Reynolds reports that “Red Ken” Livingstone, the leftist Mayor of London, has lost his job, with Londoners voting this lover of all things anti-American out of office.

Oh Happy Day! Oh Happy, happy!

UPDATE: It seems London’s Telegraph pulled this article declaring Tory Mayoral candidate Boris Johnson the winner, but running this piece on the count dragging on.

ADDENDUM TO UPDATE: This google search shows the headline announcing Johnson’s victory.

UP-UPDATE: This London Times blog helps explain why we don’t yet have an official verdict on the election.

UP-UP-UPDATE: SkyNews reports that Boris Johnson has won. Red Ken is out. Breitbart confirms.

DATELINE, Denver CO — August 28, 2008.  This is the unedited transcript of the acceptance speech given this evening by Democratic Party Presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama (D-IL).

My fellow proper-thinking Americans and oppressed people of this nation — thank you.  You have spoken for change and we have delivered together.  For without change, we cannot have hope.  Without hope, there is no change.  When we get change we can lift up those bitter folks among us and rise to the promise of America.  The America that I observed from afar.

As we embrace this change together we must remember that we cannot challenge change for it is good.  Unity is most important for without unity, there is no hope; without hope, there is no change.  Without change there is no future.

So now I call on all Americans to ignore the past, ignore my past, ignore this nation’s history, ignore what has made this nation full of bitter and shallow people.   And rise up with me to the new Promised Land — the Federal Government.  Washington will be reclaimed by those of us who know better, who think better, who know you better than you know yourselves because we know that you know that you want change and change is hope.

Thank you for your nomination and I look forward to a spirited debate with Senator McCain so long as he doesn’t question my voting record, ethics, integrity, philosophy of governing, or the folks who have supported me and I grew up with.  Because if he does, it will be clear that the Republicans are devolving back to the policies of Jim Crow and all that it stands for.

Good night, and God Bless my campaign.

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Reactions to Senator Obama’s speech:

“That is the best political speech I have ever heard.  This man is a born leader.  He was specific, yet sweeping in his rhetoric.  America should be proud tonight.”  — Chris Matthews, MSNBC

“It was hard to watch this speech without being moved to tears.  I now fully understand why all those women fainted throughout the primary campaign.  I can’t go on.”  — Anderson Cooper, CNN

“How he could stand up there and accept the Democratic nomination and not call for Bush’s impeachment is beyond me.  This guy is a joke.  This country is a joke.  I’m a joke.” — Keith Olbermann, MSNBC

“Does anyone know what the hell Obama was talking about?” — Brit Hume, FOX News Channel

Sometimes the naiveté of Jimmy Carter is breathtaking, indeed, beyond breathtaking.

First, I was delighted (and somewhat surprised to read) that when the failed former president met with leaders of the Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, he “proposed Hamas unilaterally stop rocket fire on Israel and release [kidnapped Israeli solider Gilad] Shalit in exchange for no more targeted assassinations of its leaders and the release of 400 prisoners.“

Yet, did it ever dawn on this Democrat that the activities he was asking Hamas to stop doing defined the organization? That they would cross sovereign territory and kidnap one soldier, that its forces fire rockets indiscriminately on sovereign Israeli territory? And that they demand the release 400 prisoners, many who have attempted to kill Israeli soldiers and civilians in exchange for just one Israeli soldier.

Can’t he see the distinction between a nation that would release 400 individuals, many of whom when freed, would take up arms against it for just one, just one of its soldiers?

No, such distinctions seem beyond this bitter old man.

Read carefully what he said about Hamas that they “would accept a Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, if approved by Palestinians.” Hamas also told Carter they were “willing to accept the Jewish state as a ‘neighbor next door’.”

Yet, despite these promises, before that Democrat had even left the Middle East, Hamas continued its past practics, carrying out “twin suicide bombings on the Gaza border” and firing “seven rockets were fired on Israel.”

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First they take the gay books….(h/t - VtheK) … then they hang the gays… then they behead the gays….

Two primary schools have withdrawn storybooks about same-sex relationships after objections from Muslim parents. Up to 90 gathered at the schools to complain about the books which are aimed at pupils as young as five. One story, titled King & King, is a fairytale about a prince who turns down three princesses before marrying one of their brothers.

The decision was made to enable the schools to “operate safely” after parents voiced their concerns at meetings.

Around 40 are said to have gathered at Easton to speak to staff and another 50 at Bannerman Road.

Members of the Bristol Muslim Cultural Society said parents were upset at the lack of consultation over the use of the materials.

“Operate safely?” How very Germany, 1935!

As VtheK wrote to me: This is what happens in societies where there are no basic rights, only competing grievance groups. The biggest, most intimidating, most “aggrieved” group will always win.

Round 547:

• Islamists -547
• Gays - Countless Dead throughout the Islamic World

Biggest Losers: American Gay Leftists Who Praise Insurgents, Palestianians and Iranian Dictators… While Denegrating the Freest Nation On Earth.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

*Cue sinister music*

*Global Warming, with dark cape flowing behind, enters from the left*

“DAMN THAT TED TURNER!”, exclaims Global Warming as the birds shriek and thunder rolls over the dark skies behind him.

We’ll be eight degrees hotter in ten, not ten but 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow. Most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals. — Ted Turner, April 1, 2008 on PBS’ “Charlie Rose Show.”

Global Warming continues to rant violently: “How the hell am I supposed to destroy Earth and all of mankind in 10 years when these frikkin morons like Al Gore and Ted Turner keep giving away my playbook? For crying out loud, the cannibalism thing was my Secret Weapon.”

“Damn Ted Turner…. Damn him to the Future Earth which will be worse than Hell!”

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Whew, you don’t want to get on the bad side of Global Warming, do you?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

While reading Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning, I thought yet again about the question which serves as the title to this post.

The question first occurred to me last June when I read Maggie Gallagher’s column on Al Gore’s religious obsession with global warming. There, she wrote that, among other things Al Gore’s obsession “transforms the United States, as the world’s most successful economy, into the chief evildoer in the world.”

Transforming the US into the world’s “chief evildoer” at a time when Islamofascism threatens our very civilization. Many on the left seems to dismiss that threat in order to make global warming as the most pressing issue facing the world.

Then, as now, I wondered if Gore (and others on the left) found it easier to blame our own nation rather than see evils in the world as something not engendered by the West or capitalism, but instead by ideologies at odds with our civilization and values.

The very nature of the global warming hysteria does seem a piece with the longstanding liberal criticism of Western society while the Islamofascist threat proves false the notion that the West in general and America in particular is responsible for all the world’s ill.

Perhaps, I’ll flesh this out in a future post, but for now, will put the idea out there and invite y’all to weigh in with your own thoughts.

Now that we are back on-line…. I think there is no better way to kick off the return of GayPatriot with a statement supporting freedom of speech.  (h/t- Michelle Malkin)

We are proud to reprint the Mohammed Cartoon as a show of solidarity with Denmark and the cartoonist who faces death by Islamists.

The reported target of the alleged plot was Kurt Westergaard, one of 12 cartoonists commissioned by the Jyllands-Posten newspaper to produce caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed two years ago.

Westergaard’s cartoon, which was reprinted by Jyllands-Posten today, was seen at the time as the most controversial, as it depicted the prophet with a bomb in his turban. “The security service has not wanted to run any risks and chose to act at a very early stage,” Jacob Scharf, Denmark’s police intelligence service chief, said. “Tonight’s operation has been a preventive measure.”

Police raided several addresses at 5am this morning, detaining five men - three Danish nationals and two foreigners.

I shall not submit.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Please tell me that our yoot aren’t going to fall for this scam-o-rama.…

Planes generate tons of CO₂, carbon dioxide emissions, which experts agree are a leading cause of global warming. StudentUniverse.com wants to help students see the world, but also wants to do its part to help protect it. In addition to being a 100% Carbonfree business, the company will introduce ECO₂llege Class as an option in fall 2007. By choosing to fly ECO₂llege Class, students can help offset the global warming impact of their flights by purchasing renewable energy credits (RECs) that fund renewable energy projects around the U.S.A.

Give me a break. This “carbon free” stuff is a bunch of hooey. And these carbon offsets crap have become the biggest Ponzi scheme ever created.� I defy someone to actually bring me some of the carbon that has been saved… bring me a bottle of it.�� Or a tree that didn’t die because of “carbon offsets”.� Or an ozone molecule that wasn’t destroyed because of the magic of “carbon offsets”.

Al Gore:� Snake Oil Salesman Extraordinaire.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Familiar with the case of Ezra Levant?� Of course not… CNNABCNBCNYTIMES won’t bother to highlight this case of Canadian political correctness gone bad.

In February of 2006, the Western Standard magazine, of which I was publisher, reprinted the Danish cartoons of Mohammed.� We were immediately hit with two “human rights complaints”.� These are a strange species of lawsuit, inimicable to Western liberal traditions of rule of law and freedom of speech.� A real court would have thrown these complaints out as baseless, but Alberta’s human rights commission has proceeded. �Friday was the day of my interrogation. I videotaped it.

Suppression of freedom of speech and criminalizing different points of view.� Right out of the handbook of Pelosi, Reid & Clinton, I’d say.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

I just added this book to my “in the mail” list.�

I’ve been eyeing it for a few weeks anyway, but now it has hit the #1 spot on Amazon.com.

Liberal Fascism offers a startling new perspective on the theories and practices that define fascist politics. Replacing conveniently manufactured myths with surprising and enlightening research, Jonah Goldberg reminds us that the original fascists were really on the left, and that liberals from Woodrow Wilson to FDR to Hillary Clinton have advocated policies and principles remarkably similar to those of Hitler’s National Socialism and Mussolini’s Fascism.

Contrary to what most people think, the Nazis were ardent socialists (hence the term �National socialism�). They believed in free health care and guaranteed jobs. They confiscated inherited wealth and spent vast sums on public education. They purged the church from public policy, promoted a new form of pagan spirituality, and inserted the authority of the state into every nook and cranny of daily life.� The Nazis declared war on smoking, supported abortion, euthanasia, and gun control.� They loathed the free market, provided generous pensions for the elderly, and maintained a strict racial quota system in their universities�where campus speech codes were all the rage.� The Nazis led the world in organic farming and alternative medicine.� Hitler was a strict vegetarian, and Himmler was an animal rights activist.

Do these striking parallels mean that today�s liberals are genocidal maniacs, intent on conquering the world and imposing a new racial order?� Not at all.� Yet it is hard to deny that modern progressivism and classical fascism shared the same intellectual roots. We often forget, for example, that Mussolini and Hitler had many admirers in the United States. W.E.B. Du Bois was inspired by Hitler’s Germany, and Irving Berlin praised Mussolini in song.

Many of today’s progressives would probably be better categorized as “closet fascists” — they don’t openly praise the global Islamic fascism movement; but they certainly denounce efforts to combat it, and create moral equivalency with Islamic terrorists and Western governments.

I’m glad this must-read is on its way to me now!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

UPDATE (from Dan): I was pleased to see the book prominently displayed at the Borders in the Greater Cincinnati Airport. I bought a conservative book not so prominently displayed, Laura Ingraham’s Power to the People. But, I just ordered Jonah’s book from Amazon. I look forward to reading it.

I love these. Hat tip goes to Dan (GPW) and VdaK for sending me this posting.

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