As we gallop toward the date of the Democratic
apocalypse, Democrats are pulling more tricks
out of their bag to bamboozle (as Barack Obama
would say) voters into pulling the lever for
them come November 2. "How low will they go?" is
the question.
Let's take another tour of the political
landscape to see what these geniuses have
cooked up to deliver to us through their
friends in the media world.
Well, we've got your puppy-killing
Republican running for Governor in
Illinois. Here is the ad the hapless
Democratic incumbent Pat Quinn
(successor to the recently convicted Rod
Blagojevich) has been running:
"Bill Brady's first priority was to
sponsor a bill that would mass-euthanize
sheltered dogs and cats in gas
chambers," the narrator of a web video
for incumbent Pat Quinn says,
indignantly, in reference to the
Democratic governor's Republican
opponent.
Cut to a woman holding a little fluffy
dog.
"Shame on
Bill Brady,"
she says. "I am a Republican, but I
don't support him for the mass
euthanization of animals." Then she
turns to kiss the dog. Another woman,
holding a dog on a leash, also says
she's a Republican, but "that's sick and
wrong."
As the ad fades to black, the dog barks.
Boy, you know it is pretty bad when Fido is
brought into the battle. In reality, Brady
was just proposing as a state senator that
Illinois -- one of the worst fiscal basket
cases in the nation -- to try to save some
taxpayer dollars by having cash-starved
shelters euthanize animals in groups rather
than one at a time. Human vets were to be
consulted and consideration given to the
"most humane practices." But those facts
were left on the cutting room floor.
The Democrats have also been peddling
xenophobia when spreading conspiracy tales
regarding Chamber of Commerce ads -- enough
ink has been spilled on this topic to spare
you any more exposure except to make a
couple of points. The Democrats have their
own history of taking foreign money (Google
"Gore, Clinton, donations"), and I do find
it rather hypocritical for Obama to be
slamming foreigners. Maybe he is just a
bitter Democratic clinging to agitprop and
resorting to xenophobia to salve his wounded
pride. In any case, the Democrats have been
touting this malarkey in local races around
the country -- to little success other than
breeding cynicism.
But the tactic had a broader purpose. The
idea has been to use it as a wedge to pry
into names of donors from the groups
spending money on political ads against
Democrats and their policies. Once these
names are made public, the real "fun" begins
as the Democratic "dogs of war" are
unleashed. Target had a
target on its back
when it donated to a group that, in turn,
donated a small amount of their total funds
to a candidate who had views that offended
gay groups. Then the mobocracy went into
action, threatening boycotts, protesting,
and the like against Target -- all with the
help of plenty of newspaper reporting.
Result? Target has pulled its support with
its tail between its legs. All corporations
are now on notice to obey or get a newspaper
whack.
Lest one think that faceless corporations
are the only ones threatened, think again.
El Coyote Café
-- a legendary Los Angeles restaurant -- got
slapped with a boycott by the gay and
lesbian community because the daughter of
the owner had the temerity to support
Proposition 8, a ballot initiative to affirm
marriage as an bond between a man and a
woman in California.
But it gets worse; California was not an
isolated case, but part of a pattern.
In August 2008, a former director of the
George Soros-sponsored MoveOn.org proudly
declared in the New York Times a witch hunt
against anyone donating to Republicans --
the bigger the target, the better the
aiming. Tom Mattzie
declared
he would send "warning" letters to the top
10,000 GOP givers "hoping to create a
chilling effect that will dry up
contributions" that are, of course, the
lifeblood of the GOP since most of the media
is in liberal hands. "Take no prisoners"
seems to be the modus operandi at work.
Then we have five Democratic congressmen who
claim in ads that they voted against the
bank "bailout" when not a single one of them
was even in Congress when the bill setting
up the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
was enacted. The nonpartisan FactCheck.org
noted
this gang of five:
At least five freshman Democratic House
members are running ads claiming they
voted against the bank "bailout," when
in fact none was in Congress when the
bill setting up the Troubled Asset
Relief Program, or TARP, was enacted.
Mary Jo Kilroy says she "voted against
the bank bailout."
Kathy Dahlkemper says she voted "against
a bailout that helped Wall Street."
Frank Kratovil claims to have cast his
vote in opposition to "the big bank
bailout."
Dina Titus' ad maintains she "even voted
against the bank bailout."
Glenn Nye's ad tells viewers he went
"against his own party" and "voted
against the Wall Street bailout."
The final House vote on the
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of
2008
took place on Oct. 3, 2008. The bill
passed, 263-171. None of the five
lawmakers who are running these ads is
listed in the
roll call
vote. That's because none of them had
taken office yet -- in fact, none of
them would even be elected for another
month.
What's a little fibbing when the ends
eclipse the means -- when politics takes
precedence over principles?
Fabricating history is no problem for none
other than Democratic Senator Russ Feingold
-- father, with John McCain, of the federal
finance regime that was supposed to
encourage honesty and transparency. Feingold
is in the fight for his political life in
Wisconsin against Republican businessman Ron
Johnson. Feingold has been running radio ads
claiming that Johnson is soft on gun rights;
Feingold also said to reporters that he had
been among the "true leaders in fighting for
a greater right to bear arms." That would be
a surprise to the National Rifle
Association, which has given him a big fat
"F" and "D" during the last two reelection
efforts (this year, the NRA endorsed
Johnson). The prospects must be very bad
indeed for Feingold, one of the more liberal
members of the Senate, to be trolling among
gun-owners for votes.
The scorched earth practices of the
Democrats are in full gear in the final
stretch towards their being taken to the
woodshed. The National Review took note of
the sordid nature of the attacks in a column
Five Foul Lies
that began memorably:
Domestic violence. Promoting
prostitution. Impoverishment of the
elderly. Higher unemployment. Drug
dealing. These are the values that
inspire and drive Republican
politicians -- at least according to
the barrage of Democratic attack ads
airing this election season.
Faced with voters unenthusiastic about
(or downright hostile to) legislation
passed by the Democratic majority in the
past two years -- notably, President
Obama's health-care plan and the
stimulus bill -- Democratic politicians
are resorting to ads that paint
Republican opponents as out-of-touch
lunatics.
In one example cited, Washington Democratic
Senator Patty Murray ran an ad regarding a
tanker competition between foreign-owned
Airbus and local employer Boeing, featuring
the question "Should Boeing workers have a
level playing field?" The ad cut to a clip
of Republican challenger Dino Rossi,
answering, "No. Not as far as I am
concerned."
What was the problem? Rossi was answering a
different question, and Murray's
machinations led to some creative cutting
and pasting that constituted blatant
dishonesty.
Another example picked up by National Review
concerned the wild western battle of wills
between Democrat Senate Majority Leader
Harry Reid and his feisty Republican
challenger Sharron Angle. Reid's ad accused
Angle of "siding with the abuser, not the
abused." Angle, as a state legislator, voted
against a 2001 bill that would have required
Nevada to honor out-of-state restraining
orders. But her opposition was based on
concerns over a legal technicality in the
bill and not over its purpose.
The Democrats know these are baseless lies.
But where is the media? Apparently, the
dollar-starved media will run any amount of
tripe as long as it pays the bills. Has any
ombudsman written a column regarding greedy
media purveying propaganda? Has any dean of
journalism or journalist who touts the
sacred First Amendment ever covered the
instances of Obama supporters threatening
talk show hosts, including the legendary
Milt Rosenberg, when they dared to host
critics of Barack Obama on their shows? Or
complained about a
barrage of phone calls
orchestrated by the Obama campaign that tied
up phone lines so others could not call in
with questions? The ACLU was AWOL.
The outrageous sound bites will be
carpet-bombing us for the next two weeks.
Democratic Governor Ed Rendell from the
politically potent state of Pennsylvania
warns us to vote like your life depends on
it...because it just might (as one wag
wrote,
"Vote Democrat or Die" -- perfect for a
bumper sticker). The claim that abortions
will revitalize back alleys has again
emerged as a theme, as has the canard that
Social Security will be killed by
Republicans.
The latest trick of the Democrats is to tap
the internet to spread misinformation; these
are the same folks who decried the internet
when it was being used by critics of Barack
Obama. Wikipedia depends on reader
contributions sent in on internet streams to
fill its pages, making it a fertile source
for planting misinformation (though
Wikipedia supposedly has filtering that
cleanses the sites every once in a while).
The Democrats are picking up the game --
they were always leaders in tapping the net
to power ahead of the GOP. The latest step
is to send out Democratic drones to
GoogleBomb. The goal is to try to influence
undecided voters by
skewing search-engine results
with negative news articles regarding
Republicans. The higher the number of people
clicking on links to these articles, the
higher they are ranked in Google searches
and the more likely they will be read by
voters. The left-wing Daily Kos has done
this type of "campaigning" before for
liberal candidates. This time around, Kos
has given followers a guide to how finagle
Google search results and has also given
them a list of 98 candidates to target.
We can expect more of the same and worse to
come in the next two weeks.
Americans want to hit the reset button, and
Democrats will do anything to stop the
button from being plunged.
Democrats will be pulling all the tricks
they can from their Pandora's Box: slimy
character attacks, the fabricating of
history, Orwellian use of language,
cut-and-paste hit jobs, extremist claims.
The climate will change -- hot and heavy
with a lot of mudslinging to come.
Ed Lasky is news editor of American Thinker.
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