My first exposure to Governor Rick Perry of the Great State of Texas was listening to an interview when he was visiting the Left State of Pennsylvania a few years ago. Gov. Perry and the correspondent (sorry, but I can neither remember nor find references to this interview) were discussing the Texas Legislature and their activity. This is of great interest to Pennsylvanians as we have one of the largest (and costliest) legislatures in the country.
As I listened to his program last week, Glenn and Stu were discussing, Glenn Beck’s Common Sense
Vitriol is defined as:
“Bitterly abusive feeling or expression, language expressing bitterness and hatred.”
Synonyms: insult, revilement, invective, vilification, or abuse
Quotable:
“Abuse a man unjustly, and you will make friends for him..”
Edgar Watson Howe
Can you use it in a sentence?
The frequent vitriol displayed by many liberals must indicate a basic insecurity in their beliefs, intelligence, policies, and positions.
Can you give me an example?
Unlike everybody else today, my thoughts on the first 100 days of the new administration are all about me. It has been an interesting and enlightening period in my personal history. These lessons are in no particular order of importance or chronology.
The mainstream media (“MSM”) showed their true stripes again during their coverage of the hundreds of Tea Parties held yesterday. When confronted with a true grass-roots effort to protest excessive taxation and what is turning into an ever intrusive federal government, the MSM fell back on their typical, tired playbook. They tried to diminish the efforts of the planners and attendees like the elitists they are.
Over the years, Anderson Cooper had seemed to be different, but we probably saw the real Cooper yesterday. During his coverage of the tea parties and in response to a statement from David Gergen about the Republicans needing to “find their voice,” Cooper made the smug, off-color statement:
Update March 27, 2009: Rich Santelli started a firestorm (in a great way) across the United States with his comments a month ago. Tea parties have been been held across the country attracting up to 15,000 at an event in California. Glenn Beck has championed the tea party movement and has provided a link to planned events. April 15 seems to be THE big day for tea parties with an estimated 150 planned.
In a recent posting on the Investor’s Business Daily Editorials page, they questioned the lack of coverage by the mainstream media. I think that many of us who no longer get their news from traditional sources know why.
