Progressives are in a state of panic. Their world view is crumbling before their
very eyes as one policy after another is being exposed as a fraud and
failure. Newspaper editors are lashing
out in ways that are sad and comical at best.
Taylor Batten, at the Charlotte Observer, inked an
editorial that is amusing and replete with ad hominem attacks on anyone who has
the audacity to question his mythical beliefs.
I am no fan of Rep. Robert Pittenger, but I will defend his assertions. Here is an excerpt from Mr. Batten’s rant:
I’m
excited to announce that this month’s winner is U.S. Rep. Robert Pittenger,
R-N.C., of Charlotte. Many of you know Robert, as he is a long-time member of
our Know Nothing caucus. He earned this month’s citation with his comments last
week on WBT radio. I quote them to you now.
“The mind of the eastern
liberals who are educated in these northeastern schools is, you know,
government is the most important element. They believe in centralized
planning.”
Shortly before that,
Pittenger told the station’s listeners: “(President Obama’s) only solution is
wealth redistribution and more government programs. He’s tried it, you know,
the last six years, the typical, you know, progressive, liberal, socialist – however
you want to define it – policies.”
Brother Pittenger sets a
fine example for us all. In just a few short sentences, he dismisses an entire
region of the country and puts the lie to the idea that those diploma mills
like Harvard, Princeton and MIT have been among the world’s leading educational
institutions for centuries. You know and I know that Ivy League schools are not
rigorous universities preparing young adults in all areas of endeavor, but
rather a thinly disguised cabal designed to push centralized planning on
America. Thank you, Brother Pittenger, for pointing that out.
This month’s honoree
also marvelously articulates for the world what we’ve long believed: That there
is no difference between progressive policies and socialist ones. Does anyone
still believe that socialism is an economic system in which the government
controls the means of production and distribution? Of course not! We encourage
all our members to use “progressive” and “socialist” interchangeably, as
Brother Pittenger does
I would say the Know Nothing
Award goes to Taylor Batten.
Administrative Studies was advocated by Woodrow Wilson, a leading
progressive of his time and president of Princeton University. Wilson wrote extensively about his contempt
for the Constitution and our founding principles. He desired an elite corps of bureaucrats to
run “the government” without interference from a “meddlesome” populace. And what better place to train these pencil
pushers than universities? Besides, don’t
most of these D.C. creatures hail from Ivy League schools?
And yes, we can use
progressive and socialism interchangeably, because progressives/socialists are
trying to control the means of production and distribution through
taxation and regulations. Maybe Mr. Batten,
the head socialist at the Charlotte Observer, should read some of his past
editorials.
And of course, what is a
libtard without global warming hysteria?
Here is a beauty. Keep in mind
the sarcastic tone in which he writes:
Some of you may have
seen the latest fiction being perpetrated by the world’s so-called scientists.
NASA scientists, based on readings from 3,000 weather stations around the
globe, reported last week that 2014 was the hottest year on record. This is
damn inconvenient for us and we must refute it immediately. Our campaign
contributors insist.
Toward that end, some of
our members have already helpfully pointed out that while 2014 may have been
hot as blazes, it was only a tiny bit hotter than 2010, an amount within the
margin of error. It’s true that the underlying scientific report made that
clear, but the NASA press release didn’t, which gives us an opening. Most
importantly, Margin-Of-Error-Gate helpfully distracts from the other
inconvenient finding by the world’s leading scientists: that the three hottest
years on record are 2005, 2010 and 2014
The hottest on record you say? And it’s based on 3,000 weather stations around the world? And when were these datasets operable? Did you say the LATE 1970’S! Of course you didn’t, Mr. Batten. That would require honesty. It would probably be helpful if you told the reader that these 3,000 weather stations aren’t distributed evenly across the planet, too.
And of course, Mr.
Batten forgot to include that an array of scientist are claiming NASA/NOAA
misled, deceived, and outright lied about 2014 being the hottest year on
record. Also, he left out the fact that
satellites have recorded an 18 year global pause in temperature.
So what are we to
believe? I know who I don’t believe:
Taylor Batten, Charlotte Observer’s editorial page editor.
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