I think that's the take-away from the article I just received a tip about via
Just Karl's twitter feed (@justkarl).

But I have kind of a love-hate relationship with literacy, so I'm going to let y'all decide for yourselves.

According to the new survey out Wednesday, nearly 70 percent of all Americans oppose the controversial plan to build the mosque just blocks away from the solemn site in lower Manhattan while just 29 percent favor the construction.

Yeah, that's kinda an important point, I guess. But here's what the lede in Stephen Spruiell's article should have been.

No word on how many support “Outfidels!” over “Suspicious Packages” as a name for Greg Gutfeld’s new Muslim-themed gay bar to be opened next door to the mosque. I prefer the former. (emphasis added)

By way of background, "Outfidels!" (and the exclamation point is key...it's kinda like the "jazz hands" of punctuation) was my humble twitter suggestion for the name of Greg Gutfeld's Islamic Themed Gay Bar. Should Greg Gutfeld choose it, it will be the crowning acheivement of my life, surpassing even the day Suzanne Sena went on Red Eye to describe our relationship in intimate detail.

Stephen Spruiell's writings reveal that he not only gets the importance of providing Gutfeld's bar with the perfect name, but that he is also a man of discernment and insight whose opinion should be carried more frequently on radio, television, print media, new media, books, newsletters, text messages, carrier pigeons, and each and every other form of communication known to man.

Sure, he could use a little more help with the structure and paragraph placement of his entries, but, you know, there is potential there. Y'all might want to keep an eye on him, is what I'm saying.

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Above The Original Post Update: Deadlocked.

Ah. Jury nullification and/or sweet sweet Chicago culture of corruption.

Plus those stupid reality tv shows.

Deadlocked On Only Some of the 24 Counts? Asking judge for clarification on a jury instruction/point of law. I imagine the first clarification they need is "Is it a crime if it's a Democrat, and is it a defense that conviction would hurt Obama?"

So, they may have reached verdicts on many of the charges.

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Seems like it:

Crowd-control barricades are being set up outside the Dirksen Federal Building, preparing for the arrival of Rod Blagojevich.

ItÂ’s unclear whatÂ’s going on, but reporters have been waiting all morning to learn the results of a note from jurors now in their 11th day of deliberations in the former governorÂ’s corruption trial.

Drew says based on a WSJ tweet that it might be a hung jury.

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A bookend to Tony Blankley's rant -- same rousing music, different lyrics.

Read the whole thing, again.

The contempt for ordinary Americans displayed by the ruling class is reaching critical mass. There may never have been a time in American history when the governing, academic, cultural, and media elites have been more manifestly disdainful of the countryÂ’s values, traditions, principles, and people.

Individuals who express sincere concerns that the polices and practices of the elites are imperiling the nationÂ’s economy and security are branded as racists and xenophobes by the anointed: A diminutive mayor who appears to conflate a talent for acquiring wealth with omniscience lectures that anyone who opposes the erection of a mosque on the site where 2,700 Americans were slaughtered by radical-Islamic terrorists must be motivated by religious intolerance; tea-party activists who protest the federal governmentÂ’s insane spending spree are motivated not by horror at a $13,300,000,000,000 debt but by racial animus toward the chief fiscal incontinent residing in the White House; those who voted to maintain the central institution of civilization were actually voting for bigotry and oppression.

The same elites who lecture incessantly refuse to listen to the racist rabble populating flyover country. They have no problem listening, apologizing, and bowing obsequiously to our declared enemies, but insist on acting imperiously toward their fellow Americans.

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They’ll do this because they’re smart. They went to the best schools. And they agree with Rep. Pete Stark that “the federal government can do anything.”

Perhaps in the recent past, with a compliant, JournoList-infected media providing cover, they could do anything. Not anymore. Americans have had enough.

Belated Hat-Tip: Thanks to ArthurK.

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So far, not the racial Holy Grail I had hoped for; but plenty of nasty stuff directed at Hillary, as I suspected.

Now, of course, just because Avarosis is saying this stuff doesn't mean this is the "dirty work" he was asked to do by Obama's people (and did, by his admission).

This could just be stuff he wanted to say himself. Successful bloggers tend to be angry and specialize in below-the-belt cheap shots. (Yup: check and check for me.) So we have no evidence this is the "dirty work" he was asked to do.

But, certainly, this is dirty work, and he was doing this dirty work at about the same time as the dirty work he was doing for Obama, Inc.

more...

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Pocono Joe sent this along, calling it one of the best he'd read in ages.

I agree. For pure cathartic rhetoric, this is rabble rousing in all the right ways. As a member of the targeted rabble, I am indeed roused.

It's a read-the-whole-thing thing but here's some (but not all) of the fire.

[I]f the upcoming election results fail for any reason (including GOP campaign incompetence) to empower the public's overwhelming desire to stop and reverse the "fundamental transformation" of the United States -- I suspect the country will be rocked to its core within the following months and few years.

A foul and dangerous brew is heating up that is composed of: (1) The economic collapse that started in 2008; (2) the radical, "fundamentally transforming" left-wing agenda of the government; and, (3) the thwarting of the public will -- with glee -- by the entrenched, non-elected powers (in the courts, media, colleges and government bureaucracies) as they get into the face and under the skin of the cultural and political majority.

It is insufferable (and will not long be suffered) to be lectured to and imposed upon by a ruling class that loathes our nation's history, values and accomplishments; by those who are not, in fact, our genuine betters. They are neither better educated nor more profoundly morally versed.

In fact, they are our intellectual and moral inferiors -- not superiors. Constantly grinning Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan didn't think the Declaration of Independence's proclamation that human beings "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights" should in any way affect her understanding of our constitutional rights -- presumably, if any.

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In 1856, Frenchman Alexis de Tocqueville, in analyzing the causes of his country's revolution, observed, "Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable when once the idea of escape from them is suggested."

I guess that last bit doesn't follow the excerpted parts above, but I wanted to keep it, as it gets at one of my pet obsessions, introduced to me by Instapundit: preference cascades.

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JWF catches the NYT pitifully spinning for the Great Recession's silver lining yet again.

But since this recent recession began in December 2007, real average hourly pay has risen nearly 5 percent. Some employers, especially state and local governments, have cut wages. But many more employers have continued to increase pay.

Something similar happened during the Great Depression, notes Bruce Judson of the Yale School of Management. Falling prices meant that workers who held their jobs received a surprisingly strong effective pay raise.

Um, hello? This is true of every single depression or recession. Those who have jobs of course actually see their buying power increase, not decrease, because prices get slashed as goods go wanting for buyers.

I am really trying to note a basic economic point here: This is always true, and always has been true, since the beginning of anything resembling an "economy."

In college, my economics-major friend noted this when I mentioned a recession, saying that a recession helped some people: In his inartful, blunt words, "A recession is great, if you have a job."

So this has been true since the dawn of time. Of course it must be true. But we never say a recession is a good thing, because those with jobs (most of the population, even during a depression) may experience greater real buying power. We say it's a bad thing, because a significant fraction of our workers are out of work and in economic crisis and may soon see their homes taken away and all other calamities.

Yes, it's true, even in a bad recession, 80% of the workforce is still working, and for them, the recession's not really all that horrible, except for the stress and worry that they'll be the next laid off, and their concern for friends and family who are out of money.

But while they have their job, it's not too bad for them.

But again, what makes a recession a recession is the economic pain borne by the 20% out of work, or working part-time when they want full-time work.

Until now. Until Obama needed a silver lining to an economic crisis. And at the moment of his need, the New York Times suddenly discovers that a recession can be totally awesome for those few who retain their jobs.

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Funny deadpan as Beck and Gutfeld discuss their support of moderation and outreach and other gay shit of this nature.

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I know people complain about these media posts -- some people have just tuned out entirely and don't even want to acknowledge Hollywood exists -- but Jimmy Caan is a big get.

On gay marriage:

“I don’t want to comment on that. I’ll let those other geniuses do that – all those actors who like to find a stage to push their agendas,” he said. “They don’t have political science degrees… I certainly don’t. I’ll leave it to Sean Penn or Barbara Streisand to comment on that.”

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Well... that wasn't unexpected.

Still a hot piece of ass, though. There ain't no hoaxing that.

(I hope. If she's a dude then I did something last night which will throw my sexual identity into tumult.)

Thanks to Dr. Spank again.

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A little context for this. It has long been the complaint and the contention of Hillary supporters that while Prince Barry rose majestically above the political scrum, watching from on high as if unto a god, healing the nation with his post-racial Love, that his supporters were meanwhile knifing Hillary with racial daggers at every turn and slashing her hamstrings with racial switchblades.

Well, that's not really a contention: That actually happened. That was the story of the 2008 primary. The contention of course is that this was done at the behest and coordination of Obama's campaign itself, and it wasn't just a bunch of independently-activating partisans deciding to slip Hillary some racial poison on their own.

This disclosure doesn't say what "dirty work" was done; it doesn't confirm that suspicion of Hillary partisans. But is very interesting.

Americablog is one of the biggest leftwing sites in the world. This isn't just a little start-up. So when the founding blogger there says he was asked to do "dirty work" for Obama, and did so, it's worth following up on.

Joe and I are upset with Obama, and we, for example, raised nearly $43,000 for the man, According to the White House, our money now doesnÂ’t count. Great, would they like to give it back? I for one, would love the $1000 back that I personally donated to the Obama campaign. Joe gave even more. I suspect a lot of our readers wouldnÂ’t mind their contributions back too, since apparently theyÂ’re not appreciated.

Then there’s all that work we did for the campaign, all the dirty work they asked us to do – and we did it, gladly, and quietly – none of that counted either, apparently.

Note that word "quietly." That's why my mind flies to Hillary Clinton. One doesn't have to be quiet about attacking Republicans, if one is a liberal. It's when dirty work needs to be done inside the family -- when a beloved sister has to be gutted -- that it needs to be done "quietly."

What was this dirty work? Does anyone at all care?

I have a little bit of hope. Only liberals can animate the media to look into a story, so Hillary's supporters might be able to get a closer look here. She may have become a dishonorary Republican for purposes of the media's treatment of her, but she's still a liberal Democrat in good standing. And her supporters are still angry.

More: The story was first reported in 2009, but a correspondent on FoxNews is talking it up again -- GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, with no authority for news decisions except what the corporate chain of command gives him, scolded CNBC reporters and hosts for being too tough on Barack "Glass Joe" Obama.

Thanks to Dr. Spank.

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