A Still Small Voice Comes From Bowels of Hollywood
Can that be a conservative voice making a new, fresh, albeit small noise from the radical left hills of Hollywood?
Andrew Breitbart, that phenomenal website creator who created Drudge and the Huffington Post for their owners, today debuts his latest creation, Big Hollywood. He’ll be joined by conservative actors such as Jon Voight and Gary Sinese as they step out from the shadows and show that conservatives do indeed exist in Hollywood.
Will it make a difference? Maybe not, but maybe it will give a platform for others in Show Business to express their views without fear of being black listed.
What Would Reagan Say About Chicago Politics?
One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it. ~ Ronald Reagan
Bill Richardson Not Up to Obama’s Ethics Standards
New Mexico governor Bill Richardson has withdrawn his name for consideration of the Secretary of Commerce post in Obama’s cabinet. He cites a pending investigation of business dealings- which means he can’t pass the vetting process (the one Obama never had).
According to NBC News, Richardson says he’s just gonna keep on being the corrupt governor of New Mexico.
And so it begins, even before it begins.
Sarah Tops Caroline in, You Know, Every Way
God love the National Review’s Victor Davis Hansen for pointing out the differences between the experience of Governor Sarah Palin and dilatante Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg. He writes:
The putative Caroline Kennedy candidacy for senator has had the odd effect of reopening the media can of worms treatment of Gov. Palin. Compared to Sarah Palin’s almost immediate immersion into crowds and public speaking, Kennedy seems like a deer in the headlights before the media that is either ignored or asked to submit written questions. Palin was a natural; Kennedy can’t finish a single sentence without “You know” or “I mean.” Palin’s family saga and daily grind were populist to the core; Kennedy is a creature of a few blocks’ radius in Manhattan and Martha’s Vineyard.
Outsider and lower-middle-class Palin toughed it out in Wasilla for years of politicking on a 16-year slog through Alaskan old-boy politics; Caroline Kennedy in regal fashion apparently skipped voting in about half of New York elections, and has never run for anything.
Reporters swarmed over Palin’s pregnancies, and her wardrobe, but apparently took on face value that Caroline’s fluff books were really a sign of either erudition or scholarship.
Conservative Palin endured liberal Charlie Gibson’s glasses0on-the nose pretentiousness, and Katie Couric’s attack-dog questions; insider Kennedy I doubt will meet with either, much less sit down with a hostile questioner like a Glenn Beck or Bill O’Reilly. Her friendly New York Times “interview” proved an embarrassment—rarely have so many words been spoken with so little content.
But, no, the real embarrassment proves to be the media itself that apparently can’t see this weird unfolding self-incriminating morality tale: It is not just that Palin is conservative, Kennedy politically-correct (e.g., pro-abortion, gun control, gay marriage, etc), or Palin a newcomer to public attention, Kennedy a celebrity since childhood. Rather it is the aristocratic value system of most NY-DC journalists themselves who apparently still assume that old money, status, and an Ivy-League pedigree are reliable barometers of talent and sobriety, suggesting that the upper-East Side Kennedy’s public ineptness is an aberration, a bad day, a minor distraction, while Palin’s charisma and ease are superficial and a natural reflection of her Idaho sports journalism degree.
A few generations ago, Democrats would have opposed Palin but appreciated her blue-collar story, and applauded a working mom who out-politicked entrenched and richer male elites. But now the new aristocratic liberalism has adopted the values of the old silk-stocking Republicans of the 1950s—and so zombie-like worship rather than question entitlement.
