Not only did Sarah Palin wow gun rights defenders at the NRA Convention — She put herself front and center on left wing and main stream media radar screens with another mockery of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his Nanny-state proposals
— Craig Eaton once tried to have Sarah Palin at a Brooklyn GOP Lincoln Dinner, but that never happened and instead he gave us Nanny Bloomberg — Well, as Brooklynites and Republicans, we are used to saying, “WAIT ’TIL NEXT YEAR !”
Palin was met with roaring applause at the NRA Convention in Houston on Friday as she used a tin of smokeless tobacco as a prop to attack Bloomberg's tobacco-hiding proposals. Then without missing a beat, she cleverly used Bloomberg as a prop to take a swipe at Bloomberg and other supporters of stricter gun legislation like President Obama. She followed by saying, "It's the opposite of leadership. It's the manipulation of the people by the politicians for their own political ends. It's not just self-serving. It's destructive and it must stop."It was all too much for America’s nanny-statist, liberal establishment to take; and media and interest groups as varied as the LA Times and the Medical Daily just had to take the 2008 GOP Vice Presidential candidate to task
Writing in the LA Times, an obviously scornful Robin Abcarian pronounced that, “Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who once sipped on a Big Gulp during a speech to tweak soda-averse New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, delighted the NRA crowd when she threatened to open a can of chewing tobacco to protest Bloomberg’s attempts to limit cigarette displays in stores.... ‘The politics of emotion,’ Palin said, are governing current attempts to enact common-sense gun restrictions. ‘It’s not just self-serving, it’s destructive,’ she said. ‘And it must stop’.” Clearly Abcarian intended that who and what really needed stopping was Sarah Palin and what she had to show and tell at the NRA (See “Sarah Palin, NRA's backward view of guns, 'politics of emotion' ” by Robin Abcarian, 5/4/13, LA Times [http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-sarah-palin-nras-backward-view-of-guns-politics-of-emotions-20130504,0,168998.story]).
Meanwhile the Medical Daily put it this way, “Mayor Bloomberg proposes regulating tobacco products in hopes of helping New Yorkers make healthier choices, while Sarah Palin pokes fun.” (See “Sarah Palin Mocks Bloomberg’s Proposed Tobacco Ban In NRA Speech” by Nadia-Elysse Harris, 5/4/13 [http://www.medicaldaily.com/articles/15173/20130504/sarah-palin-mocks-bloomberg-s-proposed-tobacco.htm]).
All of this put me in mind of a long time ago in a kingdom by the sea. It was a time when the Brooklyn GOP Chairman Craig Eaton was telling his Executive Committee and the top Brooklyn GOP operators gathered at the Lai Yuen Chinese Restaurant in January 2009 that he wanted to bring Sarah Palin in for the next Lincoln Dinner, and that he had reached out on that. That didn’t quite pan out, but we did get Bloomberg that year.
For the record, Palin hasn’t made one appearance for the Brooklyn Republican Party anytime since either; and it looks like she isn’t coming again this year. As we are used to sayin’ in Brooklyn, “Wait 'til next year...”
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UPDATE & Backfill: Mayor Michael Bloomberg keeps revealing and re-revealing his true belief system and all-encompassing agenda. On John Gambling’s WOR radio show, the mayor “RAILED” against the courts and the people who keep bringing lawsuits to defend their rights. See “Mayor Bloomberg Wants the Law to Stop Interfering With His Plans” by Jill Colvin, 5/3/13, NY Observer/Politicker
[http://politicker.com/2013/05/mayor-bloomberg-mad-that-courts-steep-delaying-his-plans/]
When John Gambling said, “Everything gets stopped–everything the city does.” Bloomberg responded, “Every single thing.... You just can’t run a railroad this way.” In case his point wasn’t clear, the mayor then said that, the courts are now being used “as a process to stop things rather than a process to really find out what the law is. And that’s unfortunately the direction we’ve gone. And they’re just gonna delay and delay and delay.... These people are crazy.... All they do is go to court.”
Somebody needs to tell this autocratic mayor that this is one of the ways the will of the people is expressed. He obviously needs a basic civics lesson as to what, where, how and why a free people can come forward to redress grievances in an open and orderly society. The courts are also part of a long-standing and well-tested system of internal checks and balances of government in this country that operates on a federal, state and local level.
When Mayor Bloomberg mentions the way he governs in connection with "the way to run a railroad” — why do I think of a shorter "Benito Mussolini" with a better haircut and suit ?
UPDATE: GLENN BECK TURNED UP THE HEAT AT THE NRA — Like Sarah Palin, Beck took on Mayor Bloomberg’s anti-gun initiatives and other proposals — and suggested that they were more than a little Nazi-like — predictably the left-wing was not amused
Glenn Beck told an audience of thousands Saturday evening at NRA convention's Stand and Fight Rally in Houston, Texas, "They feel they must regulate us until we comply, but I will not comply." Beck also raised the debate to a levels higher than just the NRA and its members by re-declaring the constitutional admonition that the "right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." and even that the "freedom of all mankind is at stake." In a more narrative fashion, he also conveyed his message by telling stories of law-abiding citizens defending themselves with firearms that are often ignored by the mainstream media.(See “Glenn Beck Delivers Keynote At NRA Convention: ‘Freedom Of All Mankind Is At Stake’.” [with video link of speech] 5/5/13, Real Clear Politics [http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/05/05/glenn_beck_delivers_keynote_at_nra_convention_freedom_of_all_mankind_is_at_stake.html ]).
Glenn Beck’s keynote speech also re-asserted the cold, hard facts behind the gun control debate that have been and continue to be denied by the political elites with ringing rhetoric and flourish like this, "So what is this gun, good or evil? — It is nothing! A gun is only a reflection of the people that use it." And this: "They want to fundamentally transform our country and they've just about finished the project."
The far-left Media Matters flipped at Beck‘s portrayal of Bloomberg that strongly spoofed the mayor as a Nazi-like totalitarian figure in a parody that was part of Beck’s presentation to the NRA crowd on Saturday night. Beck mocked the New York City mayor’s tyrannical behavior by introducing a new ad for New York City, complete with the slogan: “You will love New York.” With a special emphasis on “YOU VILL” — Beck satirically implied that as far as Bloomberg is concerned, you really have no choice.
Eaton and his circle of sycophantic supporters live in a cloud of deluded self-importance. They actually believe national GOP figures care about them and what they think.
UPDATE & BACKFILL:
LAST WORD LAWRENCE O’DONNELL was bleating like a sheep caught on barbed wire tonight, “It was a weekend of lies and paranoia ... lies... lies... lies ... by LaPierre ... Palin ... Beck ...[and] newly elected NRA President James Porter at the NRA Convention ... a culture war that the NRA would like to wage... etc., etc., etc.” ( “New Hope for Background Checks Bill” by Lawrence O’Donnell, 5/6/13, MSNBC [http://www.nbcnews.com/id/45755883/]). In the segment Senate Majority Leader Reed said that Senator Joe Manchin thinks he has a couple more votes for background checks, bringing the numbers in the U.S. Senate up to 56 needing 60. ....
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MIKE LUPICA and his printed rant about Sarah Palin’s appearance at the NRA Convention was the almost perfect expression of the venomous main stream media whose serpentine jaws remain ready to snap at the heel of the most beloved and most noteworthy woman of right-thinking Americans (See “Lupica: Sarah Palin's appearance at the National Rifle Association convention is perfect for phony 'patriots' ” by Mike Lupica, 5/5/13, NY Daily News [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lupica-sarah-palin-appearance-national-rifle-association-convention-perfect-phony-patriots-article-1.1335927#ixzz2SaJvdvJU]).
Here’s some of what the The Daily News’ “columnist” Lupica had to say:
“Sarah Palin showed up at the NRA convention the other day, which was merely perfect. She belonged there as much as anybody in the hall just because from the start, from the time John McCain picked her out of the chorus, Palin has most appealed to mean, dumb, angry crowds exactly like the one she found in Houston. *** Palin should have worn a prom dress, but on this occasion wore a T-shirt that read “Women Hunt.” In her case, that means hunting for attention. *** Or relevance.”
Lupica’s column was a pitch-perfect pitch — FOR PALIN AND FOR THE NRA — that he felt compelled to make his comments only showed that the NRA chose Palin wisely, and that Palin wisely chose her venue and material. It’s clear that when it comes to guns and gun rights, and speaking to freedom loving Americans of all types, Sarah Palin is relevant and does get attention.
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