Thursday, September 29, 2005 -- Senior Oregon flaming liberal "journalist," Paul Linnman, was talking to somebody named Lauderdale, if that's how you spell it.  Perhaps it is "Louderdale."  If I heard correctly, he heads up a local band called Pink Martini, which produces songs about vegetables.  He was saying how fortunate he felt to be popular in Europe, so he could go there and represent an alternate portrait of America.

He fumbled and stumbled over these last words, which is what caught my attention.  Why was he so afraid, so cautious?  Has he heard what happened to the Dixie Chicks?  Or is it that he was speaking but a few minutes before Rush Limbaugh, the station's money-player, was due to go on?  Anyway, Europe is a festering stinkhole of socialism.  Very similar to certain urban portions of Oregon -- particularly those areas where local news teams gather. The early shift on KEX (1190 AM) is Old Marxist-Progressive home week for most musicians and our local Lefties like Linnman, who leads the Monday through Friday morning "news" team, by comment and guest list valiantly squeaking out ideological counter arguments to the man who follows him on the air. 

Linnman, for example, is unaware that we haven't built a new gasoline refinery in America for three decades.  If somebody informed him about that, his ideological bias would block him from realizing that this fact is directly connected to the reason why storm damage to the old plants we do have can affect the price at the pump.  This willful ignorance generated by slavish loyalty to the tenets of liberalism is why he supports his pal, Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) in his attempts to hide his own direct part in driving gas to three bucks a gallon.  Wyden's CYA comes from bloviating about corporate price gouging.  (Furthermore, Ron Wyden, has consistently voted to block every serious attempt to develop America's home petroleum reserves, and this throttling back of raw product for domestic refineries forces us to depend on foreign oil -- a condition Wyden has condemned and hypocritically blamed on President Bush.)

Now, that fellow to follow Linnman and his predominently liberal guest interviews is the four time winner of the Marconi Award and the number one radio talk host in the history of the profession on this planet -- a solid sentinal for the political Right in America whose conservative message  strangely generates a gigantic audience in Portland, Oregon.  I was half-listening while noodling some ideas for a piece about the Tom Delay indictment, when Rush came on and described the situation as another example of modern Democrats finding a lone sack of bovine excrement on an otherwise vast and empty plain and managing to step square in the middle of it.

So, I thought, Rush thinks this will boomerang back to bite the libs in the butt.

Last night, and on the early shows this morning, I heard numerous and identical BLM (Big Left Media) references to a "Republican culture of corruption."  The phrase, obviously a VLWMDPC (Vast Left Wing Media/Democrat Party Conspiracy) talking point was used early on by Howard Dean (the head of the Democrat National Committee, and a New England Leftist lunatic) and some female Dem luminary.  Nancy Pelosi, perhaps.  Being totally irrational, she stands up as a real possibility for the kind of idiot who would say something like that.  A culture of corruption?  And the evidence is?  The names of the Republicans convicted of corruption are?  The high crimes and misdemeanors of the President, as confirmed by the Senate presided over by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, are?

You can't answer any of these questions Mr. and Miss Liberal?  Whence then cometh the phrase?  A culture of corruption?.  Doesn't that requre a culture festering with corruption? 

Well, to a modern liberal Democrat, it doesn't.  To them and their propaganda organization, our BLM, the charge is a conviction in this case.  That's logical.  I will never forget how I felt when forty years back I learned that people charged with a crime in Communist China were not allowed to present a defense at their trial.  Talk about efficiency!  The second the government prosecutor made the charge, the judge had the evidence to convict, incarcerate and even execute! 

For those who don't already know what wasn't said in all the BLM outlets since this erupted, here it is: the Travis County, Texas prosecutor, Ron Earle, who is behind the Delay indictment, six weeks ago stood up before a local audience at a Democrat fund raising event and said he would be the one to "get Tom Delay."  (Dan Rather's daughter has appeared at such fund raisers in that county -- and that county is where Rather's attempt to hang the president with fraudulent military records began.)  Here's the famous red/blue county map from the last presidential election.  Since Mr. Prosecutor Earle holds an elective office, see if you can guess which part of Texas contains Travis County.

For some additional background, the present Delay indictment text claims criminal conspiracy, and offers not one single fact in support of the charge.  Such indictments often lack specificity, which explains the bizarre legal maxim that I heard a BLM flack utter yesterday: you can indict a cup of coffee.  Rush says that the reason for this attack is Delay's effectiveness in Congress.  He is very good at accomplishing the tasks he was sent there to do.  In addition, Democrats blame Delay for their loss of control of the Texas legislature.  They charge Delay with complicity in a gerrymandering (election district reshaping) plot.  No mention is made of the southern Democrat-shaped district that in places consists of the painted stripe in the middle of the road to the next location where liberal voters are in the majority.

The BLM, famous for a total lack of factual accuracy while reporting the recent Hurricane in New Orleans, is jumping on this with the enthusiasm of a kid with a Christmas trampoline.  The legendary leftist, Gloria Borger, was screen banner listed as a "national political correspondent" during her early morning broacast network commentary on the subject. She agrees with the general BLM buzz that this signifies the end to Republican power in America, and the return of the White House, the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, all state legislatures, all state governors and all mayorships in America to Democrat control.

This, of course, means that the decline of union membership will be reversed, all religious and charter schools will be closed and the utterance of the word "God" in public will be a capital offense which results in hanging.  All corporations will be nationalized, all profit banned, all property confiscated by the federal government, all conservative media closed and physically demolished and all conservatives sent to re-education camps.  And, since the American public has for years elected the wrong people, in the future there will be one political party and only its candidates will be allowed to run for office.  To study this more efficient system, review the old Soviet Union, plus modern day Cuba and North Korea.

Well, perhaps.

What this fuss could also represent is the death throes of the Left in America.

We shall probably find out which it is in the fall of 2006.

   (An earlier piece on this subject should give you some idea what has been going on.  They want him gone, gone gone, and if they can't whip him in an election, they'll get him any way they can. Democrats are good at the politics of personal destruction game.  The big media give them a a pass on it.  http://oregonmag.com/TomDelay505.html )

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