2010 Political Hubris Winners

I go away for a week and all hell breaks loose. Of course, it’s the silly political season…but c’mon. Here I go:

1) I was literally driving past NPR in Washington when I heard about the Juan Williams/NPR firing scandal on the radio. I can’t believe that they are getting away with this. Everyone knows that NPR is a liberal bastion funded by public money, but was quiet about it. Now, it is front and center.

I predict that public funding for NPR will be terminated within a year. The initial justification for public radio and television is rooted back in the day when the three major networks gave short shrift to intellectual and cultural programming. The argument was that type of programming was inherently unprofitable and needed government assistance. Not the case anymore!!! Cable and satellite television is loaded with it…all making money…and all doing it better. You can turn on the Discovery Channel, the History Channel, A & E, Oxygen, the Learning Channel…and for liberal news commentary, watch MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, and NBC. If the programming is now available to anyone who wants it, why is 430 million dollars needed to fund public broadcasting? Advice to NPR and PBS….get some balance in your news coverage. As a closet fan of both NPR and PBS (especially WQED in Pittsburgh), please cleanse thyself.

2) President Obama is looking more and more like President Nixon. On the campaign trail, he called people like me the “enemy”. He said he was going to take us out. And get this… he said Republicans should go to the back of the bus. In addition, his administration is now gathering information from the Pentagon as to requests for information from potential Republican opponents in 2012. Shades of the Nixon enemies list!! I wrote when he was elected that he had the potential to be the liberal Nixon equivalent. I think I was closer to the truth than I thought.

3) Just when you think it couldn’t do any worse, the View and Joy Behar have reached a new low. It’s one thing to gin up controversy to generate publicity. But to call Sharron Angle a “bitch” on national television is disgusting. The hate of the liberal left never ceases to amaze me. Can you imagine any Republican or conservative commentator making that kind of a statement over the airwaves? Shame on ABC, The View, and Barbara Walters, the producer of the show! I thought she had more class than that.

4) Speaking of hate…how about Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown’s campaign operative calling Meg Whitman a whore. And then the National Organization for Women endorsed him? Really? Only goes to show that NOW must be an offshoot of NPR, no conservative women need apply. Afterall, so what if their accomplishments include CEO of Ebay, CEO of Hewlett Packard, CEO of the WWE, or was elected Governor of Alaska and then was nominated for VP of the United States. Not only are these over achiever examples of feminist movement success derided…they are portrayed as something less than human.

Each of the above examples of political hubris is despicable. Don’t you think we deserve better?

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