Posts Tagged ‘July 4th’
Fab 4th forecast…
ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC all announced their refusal -and broadcast boycott- of any July 4th celebrations. CNN was especially horrified. However, RSBN, Fox10 and OANN carried it all, as did Newsmax TV and some others. I taped it to watch today because I was not at home most of the day,
Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe thought it looked like the beginnings of Tiananmen Square, the commentator herd at MSNBC thought the military display was aimed at American citizens to intimidate them. Having all branches of the military represented will only add to the intimidation, the pundits claimed. NPR came up with some truly ridiculous lies about trump’s Salute to America. Tanks seem to be objects of terror, not interest. Even the President didn’t realize how little damage the heavy tanks and other equipment would actually cause to D.C. streets.
Geraldo Rivera for once gets it right — Democrats hate the celebration because it’s done by Trump. Former Navy SEAL Robert O’Neill makes the perfect observation,
The campus social justice warrior, not to be confused with the real warrior cited above who shot bin Laden, should just not celebrate Independence Day. Or they could at least quote that noted scholar Colin Kaepernick while he quotes those long dead to justify his position and actions, except he apparently the speech was after the Civil War and that Douglass was anti-slavery, not anti-American. Or you could join up with Code Pink and its charmless displays of juvenile behavior. Perhaps you could read the New York Times which had an op-ed tantrum on the event because America was never great, and is actually barely OK.
MSNBC host Chris Matthews oddly claimed Trump had violated the Declaration of Independence with the celebration. I’m not sure how that works, but it’s on par with Hollywood claiming this is what dictators do. Suffering from a temporary dearth of vitriol, the WaPo must bemoan the awfulness of fireworks. No one mentions that politicians like them as much as they do the tanks the D.C. City Council so loathes.
Pete Buttigieg declared the event would make America look smaller, which was rather ironic considering the presidential candidate’s own diminutive stature, and his very overweight dog.
PBS discovers…
…that not all of its viewers are stupid and unaware, as many managed to notice that the 4th of July fireworks PBS ran showed clear skies, not the cloudy ones which existed on the day. PBS is now claiming it ran a compilation of past events to offer a better experience for its viewers. Horse feathers!
July 4th, 2015…Part I
We are not so united this Independence Day, courtesy of the Supreme Court and the Administration of His Oneness, among other things mentioned in this piece by Andrew Malcolm.
Dylan Matthews of Vox thinks the American Revolution was a mistake, a viewpoint handily demolished by Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey here. Jonah Goldberg debated this some years ago, and it still holds up. Of course, our public schools don’t teach American history any more, as this video proves beyond question. Callista Gingrich offers a quick history lesson here, and David French declares this is the right time to be a patriot. He is an Iraq war veteran, so he understands the vital role the military played in obtaining our independence.
ISIS thinks this holiday important enough that it republished the map of special FBI command posts set up across the country, presumably to warn the lone wolves and groups of would-be terrorists. Will it take another 9/11 for us to be proud of being Americans again?
Americans are more dependent on government than ever before under the destructive reign of His Oneness. In counterpoint, pastors across the nation are calling for a Declaration of Dependence to remind us that our rights come from God, not government.
What was the vision of our founders? Myron Magnet offers some clues here. Despite what Mr. Obama believes, exceptionalism is part of the civic DNA of many Americans. You can choose to eat and drink like a president, or ignore the government’s entreaties to grill fruit instead of burgers and hot dogs and ribs. My crowd will be eating and drinking more like the ancient Romans, thank you.
I’ll post Part II either late tonight, or in the morning, depending on what time I get home and whether the satellite stays up.
Happy birthday, America!
One could do far worse than read the 1926 Calvin Coolidge speech celebrating America’s birth. H/t to Jonah Goldberg for linking to it in his Goldberg File.
Read this to remind yourself how we got started.
I’m off to watch young children play in the water and eat a lot of food which appears nowhere on the approved list of Our Lady of Perpetual Dissatisfaction.
Time for Thorns 