Leftists Are The Children They Never Had
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by Ari Kaufman
Some of my perceptive friends often muse that the reason our left-leaning acquaintances are so petulant is they never really grew up or matured. Many “came of age” in 60s (which really means they never truly did come of age), were in school “finding themselves” until they were 30, then had their one and only child at about the same age their parents (often from “The Greatest Generation”) were too old to appreciate the grandchild. A bit selfish? Surely. But they could care less. And those who never in fact had offspring often act like “the children they never had.”
The folks in mainstream media are prime examples. Not only do they loathe large middle-American style families, but nowadays, within an increasing fear of their readership and viewership reaching lower and lower proportions, they’re demeaning bloggers again, calling them names and so on. Just like children.
Early last week, some cranky retired Washington Post reporter and a liberal Boston Globe reporter were on MSNBC (the lowest rated cable news network on earth) ripping blogs, calling bloggers, “‘Nitwits Who Think They’re Part of News Media,” among much else.
This has been a constant claim from the mainstream (liberal) media, especially veteran reporters, the past few years since blogging emerged as a welcome alternative to the drive-by media. They’re scared and jealous.
But yet, veteran conservative journalists and commentators rarely fulminate in the same way. I have never heard George Will, Thomas Sowell or William Kristol slam blogs. Why is that?
You don’t need a doctorate in psychology to understand the same lazy, fraudulent, left-leaning journalists who have dominated Washington for decades, and loathe blogs, also loathe pro-American networks like Fox News as well as most of those on talk radio.
The reasons overlap:
Since the end of the Second World War, and surely since the Vietnam era, the left has had fascist-like control of the means of communication: TV media, film, newspapers/magazines and academia. And while academia and film will seemingly remain a monopoly of the left, talk radio, Fox News and, apparently, blogs, now are either dominated by conservatives or simply allow an alternate viewpoint. And the Democratic (capital “D” as they are surely not democrats anymore) powers-that-be will not accept that.
While history is conservative in nature, the media offsets that by controlling the minds of 80-90% of Americans, altering events or ignoring others. Put a USA Today, Newsweek or NY Times farcical tale in their faces and you’re all set.
But blogs, which most conservatives I know peruse daily, and surely look at instead of following the MSM, lean right, overall. They’ve done great work exposing the macabre forces of the political left over the years, and likely helped President Bush win the 2004 election.
Bloggers are not 40 year old single guys in their parents’ basement or 16 year old girls writing about their latest boyfriend; most I know have full-time jobs and love their country so they blog after work, on the side, often for little or no pay. And somehow they still get the stories quicker and more accurately than Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann.
The left cannot tolerate this, so they censor, call names and try to reinstitute the “Fairness Doctrine.” Free speech be damned, it seems. Some “liberals” they are, huh?
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Must be awful to begin to realize that your life has been a fraud. “The children they never had” rings so true. Talking to them after a while I have often wanted to say, “get away kid, you bother me”.
June 1st, 2008 at 10:05 amRight on, brother. REAL power to the people. Down with liberal fascists.
June 1st, 2008 at 10:07 amIn a world of universal deceit, the truth is revolutionary.
So what else is new? The Dhims are still singing Kumbaya and playing and replaying John Lennon. I have no doubt that the vast majority of them are so filled with themselves and 60’s me-myself-and-I zeal, that they have to get high in order to supress their own consciences.
Then again, waddling like a duck is more their style. Gotta go along to get along…
Quack, quack…
June 1st, 2008 at 10:10 am“Must be awful to begin to realize that your life has been a fraud. “The children they never had” rings so true. Talking to them after a while I have often wanted to say, “get away kid, you bother me”.”
Get away kid you bother me!
So true. I wish I could use that line on some of the folks I work with but I would “get in trouble” so I just have to walk away before anything gets ugly. 
“In a world of universal deceit, the truth is revolutionary.”
“So what else is new? The Dhims are still singing Kumbaya and playing and replaying John Lennon. I have no doubt that the vast majority of them are so filled with themselves and 60’s me-myself-and-I zeal, that they have to get high in order to supress their own consciences.”
Dan, you really hit the nail on the head
June 1st, 2008 at 10:41 amMaybe 20% of my professors throughout my college career, have children. I can’t think of anything more selfish than not having children, particularly in a married couple! Then again, their social values would probably turn the kids into hellions. When I was a camp counselor, I could always tell the bad apples, and many of them had parents who were prominent liberal lawyers. They were the biggest whiners you ever heard, never doing their part of the chores!
On the upside, years down the road, the libs’ voice will only get softer, and while ours gets louder. Hilary Clinton be damned, it takes a family to raise a child, not a village! Why else do you think there exists good people, even under the worst regimes in history (i.e. the Nazis)–just think of those who sheltered Jews during the Holocaust.
June 1st, 2008 at 1:46 pm
A. S. Wise- VA (George S. Patton Conservative) When we had our first daughter (she turns 21 this week) and she was starting to actup My dad offered this advice to us ” there’s nothing like another sibling to knock the first one off the throne”. We have 4 total all 2 years apart, most of my friends chided me for being a breeder and others said we were delivering our way into the poor house. I hope their money keeps them company when they are old. Our kids are
June 1st, 2008 at 6:51 pmconservative voices in the liberal schools here, two love to debate, all are musicians to the max, two are in acting, all have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Dad was so right.