Could you tell the difference between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney during the last election debates? To many people, they sounded more or less the same. If you’re wondering why this was the case, it’s not because they agree. During elections, political party platforms move to the middle, to attract what is called the “median voter,” essentially, the Independents and the voters closest to the middle. H/T Learn Liberty
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Joe Dan Gorman, the sneaky weasel, extols the virtues of Chinese vegetarian ham, the tube steak we’ll all be eating in the future if we keep borrowing billions of dollars from China. On a more serious note, Joe Dan demonstrates how the Republicans and Democrats have morphed into two branches of the same party. One branch openly declares its intentions to screw the public. The other branch bends over and permits the massacre. Watch Intellectual Froglegs and learn.
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PJTV pundit Bill Whittle accepts the Virtual Presidency, sharing some words of wisdom more profound than anything our actual president said in his 2013 inaugural address. The focus of Whittle’s talk: The pursuit of happiness in modern America.
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Joe Dan Gorman, freelance genius and salsa dancer, says half of our political elite should be in jail and the other half awaiting trial. He asks what has happened to the rule of law? Why has our media fallen asleep? Democracy, as we know it, is fading fast, and now we’re returning to an older form of government in which a clear demarcation exists between rulers and peasants. Hear Joe Dan’s astute assessment of the situation in this Intellectual Froglegs.
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Killer Fawn offers some straight talk to the GOP’s conservative leadership: Nut up or shut up.
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Mary Matalin and James Carver aren’t the only couple who’ve learned how to sleep with the political enemy. Watch several “purple” couples who filmed themselves in the lead-up to the 2012 elections. Presented by the Wall Street Journal Digital Network.
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Not only politicians, but also the media, often use euphemisms to soften the truth and camouflage hard realities. Civilians killed in wars are called “collateral damage.” No one’s rich or poor, anymore. Soldiers don’t suffer shellshock, but post-traumatic stress disorder.
This report from RT Anerica, Russian TV, examines the bureaucratic “newspeak,” invoking George Carlin in the process. Of course, Russian politicians and media are just as adept as their American counterparts in lying to the public.
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The Democrats have played the Race Card. Now they’re intending to play the Sex Card by electing Hillary Clinton as the first female President in 2016. Alfonzo Rachel says Republicans should short-circuit the trumped-up War on Women by electing the first female President themselves. He makes his case in this ZoNation. H/T PJTV
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“The first thing [children] think about of government is that it is like a super parent,” says author and Reason Magazine contributor James Payne. Payne points out that seeing government as having the virtues of a parent — wisdom, responsibility, money, unlimited funds for whatever you need — has led to illusions about what role the government should be playing in our lives.
Payne sat down to talk with Reason TV at Libertopia 2012 in San Diego, Calif. to discuss his book Six Political Illusions: A Primer on Government for Idealists Fed Up with History Repeating Itself.
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Judas sold out Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. “Jamie Foxx sold out Jesus for 30 seconds of sacrilege.” So says Alfonzo Rachel in his latest ZoNation, touching upon what it will take for Republicans to begin to win the cultural wars and appeal to black voters.
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