Running Rebels Run Into CNN...a report from the Dhimmie's Debate

The American Spectator ^ | 11/16/2007 | Shawn Macomber

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LAS VEGAS, Nevada -- "Bulls -- t."

This was the answer editorial staff of the Rebel Yell, University of Nevada, Las Vegas's student paper, shot back at the following self-posed rhetorical question in an angry piece: "This debate is obviously for the greater good of exposing UNLV to the nation, right?"

"Bulls -- t," they insist.

It would no doubt surprise the average viewer of last night's Democratic debate to learn that even a college newspaper editorial writer could actually believe seven Democratic presidential candidates would come to argue politics, risking their entire careers with every pressure-cooked answer, primarily as an excuse to introduce the country to the wonders of University of Nevada, Las Vegas. It's a nice campus, but¦

Yet, the Powers That Be at CNN must nevertheless be wondering how, exactly, they became the enemy; or, in the Rebel Yell editorialist's words, how the network had gone from a "once unstoppable force" to "an unstoppable farce," a corporate harbinger of a "disorganized mess of security crackdowns and dog-and-pony show style theatrics."

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This is a long article and worth reading a couple of times, becasue it's one of the best descriptions of the Dhimmie "base" that I've seen in a while.

I can't wait for the Convention...

[xtinct]

Absolutely hilarious!! CNN = Unstoppable farce!

Dog (Hillary) and pony show (Was Bubba on hand?)

Saddle up...

[milwguy]

Love the guy with the “bros before HOs’ t-shirts

[MNJohnnie]

So this is our future?

We are so screwed.

[huskerone]

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This is a long article and worth reading a couple of times, becasue it's one of the best descriptions of the Dhimmie "base" that I've seen in a while.
I can't wait for the Convention...

Unfortunately, the convention is here in Denver next August. We get to host the kooks. I am getting out of town.

[tiredoflaundry]

I can't wait for the Convention...

LOL! We will need tons of popcorn!

[MNJohnnie]

So this is our future?

We are so screwed.

[Miss Didi]

[rwa265]

I got a kick out of the young woman doing a little Christmas shopping for her Grandpa.

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Doesn’t altitude increase the effectivenss of tear gas??

Let’s hope so, and leaving Denver for the Convention is a great idea. I’m sure lots of Freepers would be glad to put yuo up fr the week as long as you bring your own popcorn, and keep your feet off of the coffee table...

[Biblebelter]

They say the cameras make you look ten pounds heavier than you actually are. Funny how it seems the cameras at CNN make Campbell Brown look ten pounds heavier than the cameras at NBC did.

[untenured]

The whole article is quite disturbing from a number of angles. The Dem base comes off looking bad, but so does CNN, which is trying in the article (in an unbelievably clumsy way) to make politics hip. CNN attempts to lecture students, in the course of promoting the CNN brand, that politics matters. Their attempts draw mostly scorn from young passers-by. Meanwhile there is this nutty activist fringe that has nothing to do with their lives but show up and angrily wave signs for the cameras at a canned debate that will be forgotten almost as soon as it is over.

I come away from it disenchanted in more ways than one about modern American democracy.

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“The whole article is quite disturbing from a number of angles. The Dem base comes off looking bad, but so does CNN, which is trying in the article (in an unbelievably clumsy way) to make politics hip. CNN attempts to lecture students, in the course of promoting the CNN brand, that politics matters. Their attempts draw mostly scorn from young passers-by. Meanwhile there is this nutty activist fringe that has nothing to do with their lives but show up and angrily wave signs for the cameras at a canned debate that will be forgotten almost as soon as it is over.

I come away from it disenchanted in more ways than one about modern American democracy.”

Thank you for opening that door. The reason I posted this article is becasue portions of it are quite disturbing, and I wanted to see if anyone else would bother reading the whole thing before they waded in.

It’s obvious to me at least, that CNN is attempting to play the Britney Spears/Paris Hilton fanbase, because they must think there is a vast untapped goldmine of Dhimmie voters in there someplace.

The only problem with that premise is, the entire group is so vapidly mindlessly stupid as to be completely incapable of the thoughtful consideration that I want and expect from a fellow voter on any issue. The best outcome we can hope for is that 99.9% of these people continue to consume enough illicit narcotics and lose themselves in IPod bliss, so as to ensure they forget there even is an election next year...

Even the Hildebeest should get the shivers from reading this one, and I’ll bet you a burger that Maha-Rushie is all over this account sometime today...

[SueRae]

A disturbing snapshot of that segment of the population. And the efforts of CNN to spark interest in the younger voter are at best, pathetic. Are the youth going to be any less apathetic when it comes to voting than they have been in previous years? How many ‘free’ *get out the vote* concerts will be held next year with little payoff?

[Billthedrill]

Great article. It should be pointed out that student politicians are the least hip people on campus, somewhere below computer geeks because at least the latter know where they stand. When student politicians graduate they become the sort of creatures who descended on UNLV enamored of their currency and determined to share their worldview with the less politically inclined. It is a consistent mystery to them why this is impossible, whether they work for CNN, the Edwards campaign, or the Kucinich clown posse.

In point of fact the number of young people who laugh at the Che t-shirts is considerably greater than the number wearing them. The latter, of course, get all the press largely due to the individuals in charge of giving it. The rest languish in obscurity, accused of being lumpenproletariat for the crime of insufficient political enthusiasm, doomed to paying jobs and becoming mommies and daddies and taxpayers. Normal people, in short.

Political enthusiasts aren't, and for all of their earnest intellectual pretensions are far more cattle-like than their less politicaly inspired counterparts. Given, for example, the choice between a t-shirt extolling the virtues of self-serving powermongers such as Obama, Clinton, or Edwards, and one extolling the parental virtues of one's grandparents, no sane individual could possibly opt for the former. This appears to be a deep mystery to the political class, and I thank God for it.

In short, they aren't cool, they aren't hip, they're plastic people imbued with an unaccountable sense of worth and an equally unaccountable contempt for their constituents. Were it not for the artifice of government no normal person would follow these creatures as far as the nearest crosswalk.