Saturday, March 12, 2011

How the Right Wing Uses Liberal Guilt to Defeat the Left

Again? Have we learned nothing?


First James O’Keefe went after ACORN. Even though the video used to defund the organization was later determined to be a fraud, liberals buckled under the pressure. The Congressional vote, even under Democratic control, voted to ban ACORN from receiving federal funding. The right wing plan worked and ACORN went out of business across the country.

Earlier, Laila Rose had begun her “undercover investigations” of an even more popular brand: Planned Parenthood. These edited clips, along with false and misleading information about abortion rates for women of color are being used in an attempt to defund Planned Parenthood. The right-wing controlled House of Representatives wasted no time in voting to ban Planned Parenthood from receiving federal funding as one of their first acts of 2011.

Now Mr. O’Keefe is back. This time, posing as a Muslim donor to National Public Radio (NPR) recording the director of fundraising making disparaging remarks about conservatives and the Tea Party. In this case, a fundraiser, not a reporter was forced to resign for making a biased statement. Shortly thereafter NPR’s chief executive also resigned. No doubt, NPR will be next on the budget chopping block. Oh, wait, it was already defunded by the House along with Planned Parenthood.

And for some reason, the general public has not noticed this organized effort to attack and dismantle popular and vital programs that benefit our communities. Shame on the media for not making these connections for us and shame on progressives for cowering in response. Lawmakers are eating it up as an opportunity to finally get rid of these things they hate so much.

Enough is enough.

How is it that one afternoon a perfectly competent employee can be doing good work and the next moment he or she is thrown into turmoil, and unemployment. Why are progressives so caught up in their liberal guilt that they cannot just admit to a mistake and move on without allowing for the destruction of a perfectly good organization?


Fortunately, Planned Parenthood is fighting back. If you haven’t seen the pink bus "Truth Tour", you really should take a look. They are following the lying anti-choice zealots around the country with their truth bus, debunking lies and spreading the word about Planned Parenthood’s important work.

I hope that NPR does not fall victim to these attacks and fights back too. It is time for progressives to release themselves from the liberal guilt that allows them to agree to the punishments of the right wing because of deceptions and mistakes. And it is time for us to say “hell no!” to our members of Congress if they dare defund these vital community programs.

2 comments:

  1. Well I couldnt help but notice you blocked me on facebook... I can only guess that it has something to dop with the mentality displayed in this blog. first of all Liberal media consists of 90% of the mainstream media and is colluding with the DNC and Hillary Clintons campaign.. If there is not laws against this, there should be. Then you have superpacs hiring scum to incite violence at rallies. I can see from this article that you discredit O'Keefe automatically. However in the undercover video the reporter said almost nothing and the scum known to be the vigilant arm of the DNC not only had a bad case of diarrhea of the mouth, they also got fired because of the "secret" info and connection they foolishly exposed. You kept asking me for proof.. Well why dont you spend a few days reading Wikileaks podesta email release. Start there, but there is soooo much more. Im sorry i can see you are infactuated with the DNC, but they are an organized group of criminals who abused their power while on top... They have no place to go now but down. Liberals now and days have no original thought. They simply regurgitate bullshit responses fed to them by snopes, politico, checktherecord.. etc All known to pander heavily to Liberal views that is if they arent actually just Liberal sources built specifically to protect HRC. I know you are a good person. I really can not understand how you can be so blind. The information leaked this year is indisputable. The majority of your leaders are crooks and i for one am fully aligning with Republicans. If not for the simple sake of redistributing power. The DNC must be taken down at any cost, even if that is Donald Trump. Happy Holidays.

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    1. Liberals feel guilt??? Maybe at one point... Now they are a group of hypocritically pathological sycophants. The right doesnt have to use any tactics to defeat the left.. The left has become an organized crime group. Fortunately in the attempt to look like a pro-minority party, they appointed a bunch of airheads as figureheads. Half of the Lefts representatives of congress would be better off if they simply stfu.. Ill leave this with Rep Conyers.. He is senile and his wife is probably the best example of a Liberal figurehead to date.. Disgusting...

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