Not Just an “Imus Thing”

The recent Don Imus flap I think is going to be the rallying point to try and oust many talk-show hosts for the Liberal Left. I think back to books I have read on the politically-correct nature of the Left and boos that have influenced my thinking on this matter:

• Tammy Bruce, who is a pro-choice lesbian, wrote and interesting book entitled The New Thought Police: Inside the Left's Assault on Free Speech and Free Mind; and her The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values.

• Another book entitled Muzzled: From T-Ball to Terrorism--True Stories That Should Be Fiction, by Michael Smerconish.

• Diane Ravitch wrote the book The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn.

• Another good read, and of course what was one of the first books to look at the “thought police” was that of Dinesh D’Souza, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus.

• There are other honorable mentions, like one of my first reads by Dale Berryhill, his two books made my mouth hit the floor: The Assault: Liberalism's Attack on Religion, Freedom, and Democracy; and The Liberal Contradiction: How Contemporary Liberalism Violates Its Own Principles and Endangers Its Own Goals.

• Beyond Political Correctness: Are There Limits to This Lunacy?; and Political Correctness: The Cloning of the American Mind, by David Thibodaux

• Cloning of the American Mind: Eradicating Morality through Education, by B. K. Eakman

• The Ten Things You Can't Say In America, by Larry Elder

• Hating Whitey and Other Progressive Causes, by David Horowitz

• America's Thirty Years War, by Balint Vazsonyi. He was a concert pianist and conservative commentator. He was born in Budapest, Hungary, and fled to the United States during the 1956 Hungarian revolution. After becoming an American citizen, he ran for mayor of Bloomington Indiana, and headed the Center for the American Founding… He was a professor of Music at Indiana University (Wikipedia).

• America's Real War, by Rabbi Daniel Lapin

All these books make me wonder about the political nature of all these Left leaning “leaders of the black community,” that are really purveyors of Liberation Theology. According to a World Net Daily Article that quotes a Media Matters article by David Brock, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, John Gibson, and Michael Smerconish are all mentioned as the next to be targeted.

Here other books come to mind, one by Richard J. Ellis called The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America, Ellis was “a lifelong Democrat, a ‘card-carrying member’ of the ACLU, an environmentalist, a supporter of women's rights and a federalist. If it seems rather defensive, that is, in some way, the point of his book…. Ellis offers a provocative critique of left-wing movements from 19th-century utopians to abolitionists to the old left of the inter-war era, to the New Left of the Vietnam era and, finally, to contemporary radical feminists like Catharine MacKinnon and certain environmental activists. Through an examination of speeches, books and articles, Ellis tries to document how varied ideologues abandoned their egalitarian principles in favor of rigid political correctness, sometimes slipping into violence and elitism.” He would make the point that just as Brock envisions, the Left of today does not want dissent.

Another book that sparks my interest in believing Rush and Laura Ingraham and others are next on the PC totem poll, is a book I read a few years back entitled The Betrayal of Liberalism: How the Disciples of Freedom and Equality Helped Foster the Illiberal Politics of Coercion and Control, by Hilton Kramer.

Mark my words, just as in Canada where pastors are being fined and threatened with jail for preaching from Romans and other verses in the Bible against homosexuality… so to is our PC culture dawning on us.

Mark my words.

PapaG