I was wondering what had happened to the left’s über sensitivity to words following the Tucson tragedy. After raising such hysterics to increase threats to Sarah Palin and gift Trent Humphries a death threat on national television, the left got quiet when they headed to Wisconsin.

There was no mention of the threats against GOP lawmakers, Ann Althouse, no comments when progressives called for violent revolution, nothing.

Mike Huckabee says this:

“I just wish that every single young person in America would be able to be under his [Barton's] tutelage and understand something about who we really are as a nation. I almost wish that there would be like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced — at gunpoint no less — to listen to every David Barton message. And I think our country would be better for it. I wish it’d happen.”

and all hell breaks loose.

Ignore that you heard laughter at the precise point in the video when Huckabee delivers the ‘gun point’ line, exactly the response expected from a joke.When did the left become so stodgy? About the time they became the antithesis of punk rock? That seems about right.

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In Ray Bradbury’s classic novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” about a book burning dystopia, Captain Beatty sums up his philosophy of “people control” to “fireman” Guy Montag in this way:

Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change. Don’t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy.

And with that bit of philosophical fluff, Montag goes about his happy way, charged with his book burning mission to suppress political thought, action, and other “slippery stuff.” Well, the fictional Captain Beatty would also be proud of his real-life fireman New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller.

Recently, Keller announced a suspicious change in the liberal rag’s longtime policy for some political books on its influential hardcover nonfiction best-sellers list. Now, as Dick Morris noted, for the first time since 1942, some political hardcover books currently on the list will be reclassified for the paper’s lesser known “advice” and “how to” and “miscellaneous” list. What books could those possibly be?

The current Big Three, of course: Mike Huckabee’s “A Simple Government,” Dick Morris and Eileen McGann’s Revolt!, and Frank Luntz’ “Win.” All three authors are Fox News contributors. Morris has had nine previous best sellers – all on the Times hardcover list. Now, instead of the hardcover list, the “A Simple Government,” “Revolt!” and “Win” ranked #2, #3, and #6, respectively, were dumped into the Times advice and how-to classification.

Why?

According to Morris, this change is an attempt by Keller to negatively impact conservative book sales. “The ghettoization of the Fox News books inside the How To list has an important impact on sales. It means that many stores won’t put “Revolt!,” “Simple Government,” and “Win” up front with the best sellers but will assign them shelf space back with cookbooks, marital advice, and diet books,” said Morris in his blog.

Keller’s prejudice against all things Fox News is well-known. In a speech before the New York Press Club Keller said, “I think if you’re a regular viewer of Fox News, you’re among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think of a more cynical slogan than ‘Fair & Balanced.’”

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From British paper The Metro, which took care to mention the right-wing a lot in its write-up on the Wikileaks fallout:

The internet giant took action after coming under pressure from right-wingers in the US to stop hosting the site, which this week published tens of thousands of confidential diplomatic e-mails.

The paper acts as though the left has been silent on the issue of Julian Assange. Their in damage control, seeing how the leaked cables implicate their administration as bumbling gossips. Perhaps the Metro was truly uninformed on this issue, as they clearly have no idea who Mike Huckabee is if you look at the last graph.

The right-wing was not silenced either with outspoken Republican Mick Huckabee calling for its founder Julian Assange to be executed for treason.

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*** Updated: Pamela Geller will be speaking at our event.. We are very happy and pleased that she will be attending! The TNTPC believes (CAIR) to be a hate group. We will not follow any request from them. Anthony Shreeve, convention organizer

I am one of the featured speakers at the Inaugural statewide Tea Party Convention in Tennessee’s beautiful Smoky Mountains this weekend. But look at this: the unindicted co-conspirator, terror-tied Muslim Brotherhood front group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is trying to get the good, decent Americans of the Tennessee Tea Party to crush free speech by dropping me from the Tea Party convention this weekend.

Why is CAIR starting this campaign now? This is all about the mosque that Muslims are planning to build near Ground Zero. I spoke the truth about this supremacist initiative on the Sean Hannity radio show last week, in a debate with Islamic apologist Michael Ghouse. Who won the debate? Well, you be the judge:

The next day I was scheduled to be on the Mike Huckabee Show on Fox News along with a representative from the mosque, but at the last minute they decided not to send anyone. They sent Huckabee a written statement, which he read to me on the air. And now CAIR sends around this press release full of lies and distortions, trying to intimidate the Tennessee Tea Partiers into canceling me. The CAIR press release starts this way:

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on the organizers of the inaugural Tennessee Tea Party Convention to be held this weekend in Gatlinburg to drop an anti-Islam speaker who claims that ‘Hitler and the Nazis were inspired by Islam’ and that Islam ‘mandates’ lies and deception.

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What happens when a conservative politician makes a reasonable and legally sound argument challenging the push for same-sex marriage?  His words are twisted to make him look like a hateful bigot, thus setting off a media ruckus.  That’s the case in this article from AP with the headline:

Huckabee likens gay marriage to incest, polygamy

Did Huckabee really make that connection?

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee appeared at the College of New Jersey to speak to the Student Government Association.  While there he granted an interview to the student newspaper, The Perspective.  The student reporter challenged Huckabee on his position on same-sex marriage,  and according to the AP:

Huckabee told the interviewer that not every group’s interests deserve to be accommodated, if their lifestyle is outside of what he called “the ideal.”

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When the news broke yesterday that Sarah Palin had signed on as a Fox News contributor an awful shrinking feeling in the groin must have hit the execs at the network’s competitors. While the old media continues to try to paint her as a crazed redneck, the fact of her ascendancy as a serious power player is now an inescapable fact. Her autobiography, Going Rogue is a publishing phenomenon, having sold 2.7 million copies as of December 1 of 2009.  It’s one of  just four political memoirs to sell more than a million copies.

This from — as the left frames the narrative — a failed vice-presidential candidate who didn’t even finish her first term in office as governor of Alaska.  The old media and its enablers have tried in vain to discredit, demonize and disenfranchise the woman only to make her stronger. Yet still they hammer away at her relentlessly.

In the new book that has evey tongue in Washington wagging, Game Change, by political writers John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, it’s claimed that some McCain staffers who worked directly with Palin began to worry that she could be “mentally unstable.” This claim has been trumpeted by left-wing bloggers and the usual suspects in the press, desperate to keep up the Palin-bashing so they can ignore Obama’s increasingly evident failures. (more…)