THIS IS YOUR COUNTRY ON THUGS

Doc Zero again:

…“Rush is rich, powerful, intelligent, and articulate, so he can take care of himself, and he’ll be just fine.”

I don’t mean to disparage the authors of these sentiments, but I must disagree. …We have become much too relaxed about laughing off vile slander, because the target can nurse his wounded soul from the plush accommodations of a West Palm Beach mansion. Honor is as valuable to the millionaire as to the pauper. …

Perhaps the President could direct one of his many czars to prepare a list of certified “divisive” positions, and which aspects of society are closed to offenders. It would save people like David Checketts, the investor seeking to purchase the Rams, the time he wasted inviting Limbaugh to join his consortium. Imagine how much more convenient it would have been for Checketts, if he could have pulled up a handy whitehouse.gov web page and learned Rush was too divisive to be minority owner of a football team! The Homeland Security spectrum of terrorist alert levels could be used to measure divisiveness ratings.

Limbaugh’s accusers want him burned at the stake for the crime of effective conservatism, not the racism they were so eager to lie about last week. The American public should think long and hard about which side of this ideological struggle should be on trial.

As I have consistently said (heh), if a guy has been talking on the radio for hours everyday for over twenty years and you still have to invent quotes to make him look bad, maybe it’s because you’re a damn liar.

Rush was told that he was too “divisive” to sit at the NFL’s Politically-Segregated Lunch Counter, even though soda- and all-round jerk Keith Olbermann is allowed to work the Sunday night-shift there. The Legendary Olbermann Inclusiveness:

“thanks to the total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.” …”I’d spit on her if I saw her.”

So this is The Unifying Face Of The NFL?

Do we want a country where you have to produce a Democrat Party Membership Card to get a job? Or invest in a business? That’s what this is coming to. Democrat politicians denounced Rush in such harsh Soviet terms that I was waiting for one of them to command grocery clerks to refuse to sell him food.

Of course we defend Rush. He’s earned it a thousand times over. But even if he hadn’t, to defend Rush is to defend ourselves.

Yes, he’s wealthy and powerful–but conversely, if they can do this character assassination to him, what about ordinary people? What chance do they stand? What if you get in their way and you’re just a plumber? Oh, wait–we already saw that with Joe the Plumber. They ransacked his files in violation of every known privacy law. But what if his elevated profile hadn’t protected him?

When they call Rush a “racist”, they’re really calling you and me racists. When they say he should be banned from business, they’re saying you and I should be banned from business. Business, and every other aspect of American life–all shall bow to the State just because these Chicago grifters won an election.

Benjamin Zycher:

With the arrival of The One and absolute Democratic control of Congress, the groups that provide actual health care and insurance services — the doctors, the hospitals, the producers of drugs and devices, the insurers — knew that the thieves would view them, Willie Sutton–style, as the places where the money is to be found. And so they began to run around in circles like a guy whose mistress was in the bathroom when his wife came home a day early from a visit to her mother.

First they started cutting “deals” with the Beltway thieves, arrangements that from the very beginning were obviously unenforceable and that powerful interests had every incentive to violate. …

Will PhRMA’s “partnership” with Families USA induce Henry Waxman to back off his demands for far more than a mere $80 billion in “contributions” from the drug producers? In precisely what sense is Families USA “with” PhRMA? …

At some point the private sector is going to have to learn how to do ideological battle; it really is not that difficult, but it is a skill very different from those characterizing most businessmen and their “communications” offices. With that knowledge will come the larger wisdom that the Left cannot be mollified, it cannot be bought off, and that its ultimate goal is political power rather than protecting consumers or any of the other rhetorical props used in its endless masquerade.

Not to mention the assault on Fox. Why Fox?

In the Old Days(tm), government would send out operatives on risky missions with no written orders. “The Secretary will disavow any knowledge” went the ‘Mission: Impossible’ tape. The president didn’t want to know. It was called “plausible deniability”.

Today, the Forgery Free-for-All Press doesn’t want to know what this president is doing. They won’t investigate Van Jones’ communism. Or the Dragon Lady’s Mao fetish. Or ACORN. Or foreign contributions to Obama’s campaign. Or…

If you want to know about those things, you have to watch a real reporter: Glenn Beck. Or Andrew Breitbart. Sure; they’re doing opinion–but only because they first went out and dug up the facts themselves. The Lap Dog Press won’t. They want “plausible deniability”–and for themselves, not the president. THEY DON’T WANT TO KNOW. Think about it. Reporters who flee from facts, lest they be forced to share them with the likes of you.

Like everything else in Thugknuckle, USA, it’s upside down.

Except Al Capone. He rolled over in his grave, and he liked what he saw.

Welcome home, Al, welcome home. Cicero’s missed you. Cicero-on-the-Potomac.