Bolling Is Right, Rice Firing Is The Wussification Of Sports

April 6, 2013 5 Comments

Former Rutgers basketball coach Mike Rice was fired earlier in the week after footage appeared of him yelling , throwing balls and otherwise “abusing” players. This prompted pats on the back for Rutgers from most of the media. The exception is Fox News’ Eric Bolling who claims it’s an example of the “wussification” of sports. Bolling couldn’t be more spot on. We’ve reached the point in American culture where anything masculine and manly is degraded, criticized and removed from society. Whether it’s football trying to remove violence from the game or basketball spending inordinate amounts of time reviewing replays to determine whether fouls are “flagrant” masculinity is under attack in sports.

Mike Rice is perhaps an easy target because his teams haven’t performed well and odds are he was on his way out anyway. But what he did in practice isn’t that big of a deal. He’s charged with coaching this team and doing so requires more than teaching x’s and o’s. In many ways these coaches are like Army drill sargents, they ultimately have to tear someone down so they can build them up again in a stronger, more foundational way. The timid souls in the media might not like what Rice did, but make no mistake he had a purpose behind what he was doing. He was trying to build these kids up again by tearing them down during an early season practice.

This is hardly an uncommon tactic. We here in Michigan get to watch Tom Izzo attack and question his team every November only to watch them perform well at the end of the season. While Izzo has never been accused of the sort of things we saw out of Rice, we’ve seen him get physical with players during games. It isn’t a big deal, most of us figure Izzo knows what he’s doing. We can all think of a few football coaches who we could easily imagine throwing footballs and kicking players. (read: Nick Saban) These coaches are taking a bunch of young boys and building them into men. only in the liberal world is this viewed as a negative.

Unfortunately the left controls the media, including ESPN. That network spends an inordinate amount of time fretting over concussions to the point that football is fundamentally changing for the worse. In a decade, the football Americans love won’t exist anymore. This is what Bolling is getting at. We’re wussifying American culture by getting rid of masculinity. We’re creating a generation of sissy’s who are afraid to hit in football and who are so entitled as to think no one can criticize them during practice. We aren’t creating men, we’re creating the sort of boy men that live in their parents basement until they’re 35, expect an executive job right out of college and who don’t really want to work. Dare criticize the precious little souls and they fall to pieces.

Men and masculinity have been downgraded in culture for years. Fashion is run by a cabal of women and sissy homosexuals. Hollywood is more interested in boyish men than masculine men. Feminism has corrupted education to the point where manliness is taught as a negative rather than a positive. What happened to Mike Rice is ridiculous. He should have been fired because his teams stunk, not because he yelled at players and threw a couple of balls. That media outcry is what led to his firing shows us a lot about the intentions of the sports media. They won’t be satisfied until manliness is truly eliminated from sports.

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Obama Doubles Down On Socialism

January 28, 2013 17 Comments

Obama is doubling down on his socialist rhetoric. Not content to leave his socialist rhetoric to his inaugural address, Obama took to the airwaves over the weekend to attack “irresponsible behavior.” The President said:

Here in America, we know the free market is the greatest force for economic progress the world has ever known.  But we also know the free market works best for everyone when we have smart, commonsense rules in place to prevent irresponsible behavior.

This is basically the rhetoric of a state capitalist, fascist or run of the will Euro-socialist. Free markets are great, except when government deems their behavior “irresponsible.” Obama makes clear in the second sentence that the first is nothing but irrelevant window dressing. He doesn’t really believe a free market is the “greatest force for economic progress.” He believes government must control and regulate the free market so as to protect it from whatever the government arbitrarily decides is irresponsible.

Obama is running around blaming the GOP for all the problems of the world. He so much as said so in a recent New Republic interview. The interview is instructive because not only does he feel the need to weigh in on his “enemies” in the GOP, he also feels the need to pontificate on the safety of football. He’s doubling down on socialism, there isn’t a single area of American life that Obama doesn’t believe his opinion is relevant and necessary. We can’t even have our circus without the opinion of the President. Of course, ESPN spent the entire weekend touting Obama’s declaration. There is no escaping this man or politics, not even on a sports network.

Obama is back to attacking Fox News and Rush Limbaugh, pretending that if only those two problems were out of the way the GOP would be willing to compromise on gun control. He goes so far as to whine about gerrymandering, as though Democrats have never gerrymander Congressional districts. It’s his comments about Fox News and Limbaugh that are the most interesting. It’s clear that Obama believes conservatives are the problem and if only the GOP could get rid of those nasty conservatives a gun control bill could pass the House. He sounds a lot like the Republican DC establishment that generally feels the same way though relies on our votes to maintain their power.

Obama is not simply declaring war on the GOP, he’s declaring war on conservatives. He’ll get his war what he won’t be is victorious. By singling out John Boehner, claiming he would get a gun control deal done if it wasn’t for Limbaugh and Fox News (as though the NRA somehow doesn’t control the GOP and half the Democrats on this issue), Obama is guaranteeing that no deal will take place. Fox News is a liberal strawman but Limbaugh and other radio conservatives together have quite a bit of power in the Republican Party. Obama has now ensured that the people who listen to talk radio will double down in their efforts to pressure the GOP on this issue. Boehner now has ability to compromise, talk radio will rally the Tea Party faithful to challenge gun controlling Republicans in primaries now.

Obama is going to spend the next year waging outright war against conservatives and the Republican Party. He’s a lame duck, which both works against us and works in our favor. He no longer has to pretend he isn’t a socialist who is hellbent on eliminating conservative opinion from society. He so much as said so in his inaugural address when he declared the debate over and settled, which of course it is not. So we’ll be subjected to more of these attacks. The bright side is that after this year Obama’s power and relevance will diminish. After the midterms, which are only 21 months away, Obama will be completely irrelevant as his party begins to look for a new nominee. Until then, we must hit back against Obama’s socialism and we need to pressure the House not to succumb to his pressure.

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Michigan’s Quaint, Old Fashioned Union Protest

December 12, 2012 Leave a comment

Michigan became the 24th right to work state yesterday as Gov. Rick Snyder signed into law two workplace freedom bills. Depending on which media outlet you believe between 7,500 and 12,500 people protested at the Capitol in Lansing. To put that in perspective, it’s smaller than the student sections at Michigan State and Michigan’s football stadiums and is less than half of the number of kids unable to go to school because their teachers called in sick to protest. In a state where 17.5% of the workforce is unionized, the number of protesters was pitifully small. Unions just don’t have the emotional connection with people in Michigan that they once had.

One of the things that struck me about the protests yesterday is how old fashioned it was. We had people whining that the young people just don’t understand as they wax poetic telling romantic stories about union battles of the past. These battles are little more than tales of union thuggery (think Battle of the Overpass in 1937). On some level the unions tried their hand at thuggery yesterday. There was one union thug who punched a Fox News journalist and a group of union thugs tore down a tent. The big talker who punched the journalist claimed to have a gun and further claimed to have murdered in the past. Big talk, limited action. I’ll bet this wasn’t the “blood” the Democrat House leader had in mind.

The Michigan Education Association (the Michigan version of the NEA) brought in a bunch of inflatable rats who they named after various Republican politicians. The highlight was perhaps the sign which badly misspelled Gov. Snyder’s last name. One wonders how many people want their kids educated by teachers who spell Snyder ‘Synder’. Beyond that the inflatable rats are just childish and outdated. Calling people a rat or scab doesn’t hurt anyone, the general public couldn’t care less about such declarations anymore. The unions are stuck in the 30′s when calling someone a rat had a deeper meaning. Ask anyone under 50 what that deeper meaning is and you’re likely to get a blank stare.

The House Democrats spent most of yesterday offering bogus amendments  and yelling ‘shame’ at Republicans. It’s particularly amusing to hear Democrats shout ‘shame on you’ at anyone, much less Republicans. The Democrat Party is the party of no shame. In the Democrats world there is no shame getting copious amounts of welfare, there’s no shame committing sexual perversion, there’s no shame in getting an abortion or three. But passing a right to work bill? Shame on you say the Democrats! Yet another example of outdated union techniques that just don’t resonate with people anymore.

Union membership is down across the country, it’s down to 17.5% in Michigan half of whom are public sector employees. In the last 12 years Michigan has gone from middle of the pack in unemployment to the bottom, we’ve gone from 16th in income to 39th. All of this while not being a right to work state. In right to work states the unemployment rate is lower and 70% of the new jobs created in the last four years have been in those states. Being a union state hasn’t exactly worked out well for Michigan as the country rapidly shifts from manufacturing. The difference in wages between union and non-union states is minimal while the headaches for business are clearly less in right to work states.

The left wants to romanticized unions and pretend like they’re more important to workers than they really are. The fact that in a supposedly big union state like Michigan the unions could only pull 12,500 at most to the Capitol suggests that this state just doesn’t care about unions anymore. The state defeated two pro-union ballot proposals in a heavy Democrat year. While the unions are yelling shame and calling people rats, young folks don’t even know what they’re talking about. Like the right has lost the young on morality the left has lost them on unions. Unions are from a bygone era of manufacturing that just don’t resonate with people anymore. Couple that with public sector unions that no one is found of and you get what we saw in Lansing yesterday: A bunch of aging union members shouting out slogans that don’t mean anything to people under 50.

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September 22nd Republican Debate Review

September 23, 2011 Leave a comment

The GOP held yet another debate last night. This time it was hosted by Fox News and Google. Having watched debates on all of the cable networks it is clear Fox has the best production. Having said that, the annoying Google ads with that blonde woman telling us all about meaningless Google searches was unnecessary. On to the review!

Let’s start this review with the big loser of last night’s debate: Rick Perry. Perry destroyed his chance of winning the nomination last night. He sounded like a liberal Democrat when he declared that those who oppose providing free education to illegal immigrants had no heart. That line alone will turn off many conservatives who may like him compared to Romney. Perry looked stiff last night as well. He had a good line planned concerning Romney’s flip flops but he flubbed it up and looked like a moron on the process. Perry clearly is trying to memorize statements and it just doesn’t come off well. Also, did anyone else notice that when he attacks Romney he never looks him in the eye? Perry did a horrible job last night and in the next week or so his poll numbers will drop as a result.

Mitt Romney comes off as the big winner last night, largely because he handled all of Perry’s attacks. It takes someone like Rick Perry to make Mitt Romney look like a reasonable, even principled conservative. Romney is still weak on Romneycare but he has a clear jobs plan and opposes illegal immigration. His social security plan is more of the same but Romney was never in this race to change social security. Another solid, albeit boring, night for Romney.

Of the conservatives Herman Cain had the best night. Cain was strong once again in explaining his 999 plan. He has a plan on social security and had a solid defense of why Americans should support Israel. Most of all he talked about leading America back to the top of the hill. Cain has solid plans and a positive vision for America. It’s a shame he can’t gain more traction in the polls.

Rick Santorum did a solid job last night. He attacked Rick Perry when need be and he came off very strong on foreign policy. He seemed to be chummy with Mitt Romney after the debate, one wonders if he isn’t angling for Secretary of State. At the end of the day, Santorum isn’t going to win the GOP nomination but he did a good job last night.

Michele Bachmann, what can we say about her? She looked like a tomato with big mega church lady hair. Yes, it isn’t fair to attack how she looks but she didn’t look Presidential wearing a sweater. From there she was practically ignored through most of the debate. She only spoke once or twice through the first 75 minutes. At one point she had to request an oppertunity to speak. She was clearly being shut out. But even when she spoke, we’ve heard her answers before. Yes, we know she has 5 kids and 23 foster kids. Yes, we know she’ll repeal Obamacare. Can’t she tell us something else? Mrs. Bachmann peaked to soon. Her coming drop in the polls opens the door for, gasp, Sarah Palin.

Newt Gingrich was masterful as usual when he was given the chance to speak. There’s no one on that stage who has a better grasp of conservative principles than Newt. It ought to be interesting to see what his new Contract With America will be like. He can vault himself to the top of the conservative race with a solid plan. Otherwise, he did a very good job last night.

Ron Paul might as well not have existed last night. He was hardly called on and when he was he gave the same old tired arguments on the same old tired issues that don’t matter much. It’s clear he couldn’t care less about winning the nomination, he’s in this for ideological reasons only. Unfortunately I don’t think many of his supporters get that.

Jon Huntsman is a Democrat and needs to go away.

Last night we saw the return of Gary Johnson. Where has he been the last few debates? Johnson has no shot at the nomination and came off as a bit of a nervous nut. He did however provide the zinger of the night when he declared that his next door neighbors dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than President Obama. It was a great line and the highlight of his Presidential campaign. He won’t get the nomination and one wonders if he’ll even be at the next debate.

Win: Romney because he maintained his frontrunner status and successfully fended off Perry

Place: Cain because he moved to the front of the conservative race to battle Romney for the nomination

Show: Santorum had a very solid night. Gingrich is right behind.

Big Loser: Perry lost big last night. He’s unsteady on stage and outraged conservatives on immigration. Perry isn’t ready for primetime

Small Loser: Bachmann is fading fast. Her performance last night didn’t help at all.

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Fox News Anti-Tea Party Bias Exposed

July 25, 2011 Leave a comment

I have just returned from a lovely trip to Northern Michigan with my family, which explains my absence during the last 10 days. I was without internet access up north, largely by choice. I wanted to enjoy my vacation, I did not want to spend the entire time reading articles about the debt ceiling debate. I know this may be shocking to some of you but there comes a point in life where one needs a break from debt ceiling negotiation watching.

While I did not have internet access, I did have cable television. I admit, I’m a glutton for punishment so about once a day I would pop on to see what Fox News was reporting. Much to my dismay, it appeared the Republicans were losing on all fronts. Public opinion was turning against the GOP, Obama was gaining momentum. Meanwhile John Boehner and Senate Republicans were caving in on all sides. The Gang of Six had some grand plan to cut spending and raise taxes, which Obama supposedly supported. This is all on Fox News, I never turned to CNN or MSNBC.

I return home to find President Obama’s poll numbers lower than they were prior to the Osama bin Laden killing. Gallup had the President at 42 yesterday and Rasmussen had him at 45. Even the Fox News poll shows Obama at 45, yet their reporting and commentary would have led one to believe that Obama was winning the PR battle over the debt ceiling. So much for right-wing bias on Fox News. If anything, their reporting tended to bolster Obama at the expense of whatever the Republicans are trying to do.

So why have Obama’s poll numbers dropped? While I don’t think Speaker John Boehner is the best attack dog against the President, he and his Republican caucus have made one point that has resounded with the American people. President Obama has never offered a plan. The American people have seen this and it doesn’t instill confidence in the White House. If the President doesn’t have a plan of his own, he has a lot of nerve endlessly attacking every Republican plan. The end result is that his numbers have dropped.

In fact, not only has President Obama not offered a debt ceiling plan of his own, he’s never offered much of anything on his own. He never offered his own Stimulus or Obamacare plans, he relied on Congress to create the plans which he latched onto. He’s never offered his own budget plan. In fact, since Obama took office the Democrats have never offered a budget of their own. The Pelosi Congress went two years without passing a budget and the Senate Democrats still haven’t offered or passed a budget. That isn’t lost on the American people.

After spending a week away from the news it is clear that Fox News isn’t as conservative as the left wishes to make them out to be. They roundly attacked the GOP last week and suggested that Obama was winning the hearts of America again. He was doing no such thing. If Fox News is anything, it’s a supporter of RINO moderate Republicans who  have spent the last month in a panic over the Tea Party’s grip on the House GOP. The Tea Party is winning right now and perhaps that’s caused the RINO’s at Fox to panic. Either way, Fox isn’t the conservative network the left wants to paint it as.

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George Soros Funded Media Matters Plans To Sabotage Fox News

March 28, 2011 4 Comments

George Soros funded Media Matters is planning a campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” against Fox News. Apparently Media Matters didn’t get the memo that only conservatives used violent imagery in speech, which interestingly enough is a memo that other Soros organizations put out. Oh wait, it was just left-wing propaganda. I forgot. Another piece of the left-wing chaos campaign is coming together. While Stephen Lerner and SEIU organizes the take down of banks and the stock market, Soros is funding the end game at his economics conference while his left-wing media propaganda arm sabotages the supposedly right-wing media opposition.

According to Media Matters leader David Brock:

Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.
Let’s see, who does that sound like? Oh yes, President Obama who just a year ago accused Fox of not being a news organization. It is White House Communications director who declared that the White House was going to treat Fox like an opponent. It just so happens that George Soros is a fairly regular visitor to the White House and leaders of various Soros funded leftist outfits are to be found at the White House almost daily. But of course, it can’t possibly be a coordinated effort.
 
Media Matters isn’t just focused on the news presented on Fox or personalities such as Bill O’Reilly and Glenn Beck. Media Matters is apparently going to use some of their staff of 90 to dig up dirt on both executives and mid level employees. In other words, they’re going to dig into the lives of people who aren’t on the air in order to smear Fox News. They’re also going to target Fox’s business model, presumably by attacking Fox advertisers.
 
Mark Tapscott of the Washington Examiner wonders whether Media Matters attack on Fox News violates their 501(c)(3) tax exempt status. This tax exempt status requires non-profits to not engage in partisan politics. There is little doubt that Media Matters is engaging in partisan politics as their claim is that Fox is the nerve center of the Republican Party. I’m not well versed in Federal tax law to comment on this issue. What I wonder is whether Media Matters attacks on Fox’s business model, including their attacks on Fox advertisers doesn’t amount to interference in a contractual relationship.
 
I don’t care if Media Matters wants to critique the content on Fox News. There are right-wing organizations such as Newsbusters.org that do that sort of thing with the mainstream press. Where Media Matters crosses the line is when they declare they’re going to single out Fox for “guerrilla warfare and sabotage.” George Soros isn’t just interested in presenting an alternate viewpoint to what is presented on Fox News, he’s interested in the destruction of Fox News. In other words, he doesn’t want you to have the choice to watch an alternative news viewpoint, he wants you to only have access to the left-wing mainstream press.
 
None of this should come as a surprise. Glenn Beck exposed George Soros on Fox News last year and other Fox hosts have presented Soros in an unflattering light recently. Soros doesn’t want you to have a view of him that isn’t created by his organizations and therefore he wants to take out Fox. He doesn’t want you to know the truth about his socialist plan for an “open society.” He is therefore going to attempt to take out the voices of dissent, illegally if necessary.
 
The left has exposed themselves in the past few months as the violent, anti-free speech socialists that they are. Between the events in Madison, the lefts support for radical Islamic socialists and Soros attacks on Fox News, it is clear the left is the opposite of what they claim they are. They aren’t peace loving, unions used violence and intimidation at rallies. They don’t love free speech, they want to silence the opposition. They support economic terrorism and they use speech that is dripping in violence. The do as I say, not as I do liberals are out in force. We must get the word out about these people.

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Glenn Beck Highlights Politically Correct Three Little Pigs

March 17, 2011 Leave a comment

Yesterday Glenn Beck made waves for his telling of the Three Little Pigs. The telling included graphic pictures of Nancy Pelosi as Goat Woman and AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka as a donkey. The original three little pigs story contains many good lessons for children. In the original, the pigs who built houses of straw and sticks were lazy and frivolous. They ended up being eaten by the wolf. The third pig was prepared and creative and ends up eating the wolf. The lessons in the story are quite clear.

There appears to be a new version of the three little pigs. It’s contained in something called Story Town, which seems to be a collection of politically correct fairly tales and stories. An electronic version is available here, just select theme two lesson eight. These stories are unintentionally funny for those of us who have been amused by James Finn Garner’s Politically Correct Bedtime Stories. Unfortunately, Story Town is all to serious. In their version of the three little pigs there is a housing shortage, the wolf has a heart attack and houses are made of recycled products. Of course, everyone is friends in the end.

The lesson of the Story Town version of the three little pigs is quite clear. It’s pushing collectivism, it pushes various PC issues such as recycling. It doesn’t teach children to be creative, it doesn’t teach them that laziness has consequences. In the end, no one is eaten and everyone is a friend. That’s hardly the sort of life lesson I want taught to my children. It just isn’t reality. Fairy tales have always taught valuable life lessons through fantasy situations. Story Town does the opposite, it teaches no valuable lessons and it’s fantasy situation is filled with little more than modern PC nonsense.

But here’s the real kicker about Story Town. Put the PC nonsense aside for a moment, it’s only half the problem. This story is for fourth graders. That’s right, fourth graders. No wonder kids can’t read, write or think at their grade level. The government schools are to busy filling them with propaganda via stories that are meant for much younger children. Fourth graders should be reading much more difficult material, with more difficult language and more complex story lines. Furthermore fourth graders should be reading books with considerably less pictures than the three little pigs.

This Story Time book may not be part of every school curriculum but make no mistake books like this are in every government school classroom in the country. The left controls the government schools and if you think they aren’t pushing this sort of propaganda on children you’ve got another thing coming. Just 21 years ago in 5th grade I was told in school that the entire Amazon rainforest would be destroyed in 5 to 10 years. I was told we were all going to die of acid rain and that spray bottles were going to give us all cancer. The propaganda has only gotten worse and more intensive.

If you have your children in the government schools, I urge you to remove them. Between the schools monitoring your kids at home when they’re online and this sort of propaganda, I don’t understand how anyone can keep their children in the government schools. The left seeks to change the next generation via government schools, that has been their goal since Charles Mann and John Dewey. Don’t be fooled into thinking your school is ok, none of them are.

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