Morning Briefing
For September 19, 2012
1. Mitt Romney’s Remarks are Another Chick-Fil-A Moment
Just a few months ago, Dan Cathy of Chick-Fil-A, gave an interview to a Christian publication that asked him about the Chick-Fil-A Foundation’s support of marriage. Cathy defending his position and spoke about his family’s faith. CNN.com picked it up and ran a story that Cathy had come out against gay marriage.
In fact, Cathy hadn’t been asked directly about gay marriage, but it was implicit in what he said. The CNN.com story swirled around the internet. Leftwingers and media mouthpieces across the country condemned Chick-Fil-A for serving bigotry on a bun. Suddenly the most controversial thing in America was two buttered buns and a pickle. Mayors were demanding Chick-Fil-A not come to their cities. Liberals were screaming about intolerance and bigotry.
Then Mike Huckabee and others declared a Chick-Fil-A Day. On the appointed day, lines of cars stretched around city blocks. Lines of people stretched across parking lots. Turns out a lot of people agreed with Dan Cathy. But it also turned out a lot of people who did not agree, but were not offended and showed up to support Chick-Fil-A.
A counter protest was held — a so called “kiss in.” Few people showed up.
The Chick-Fil-A controversy animated a whole lot of people. It just turned out that the people it most animated were the people who agreed with Dan Cathy.
So it is, I think, with Mitt Romney’s comments. I think the media and the left have badly misread the . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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2. Obama Negotiating Release of Omar Abdel-Rahman
For those of you who don’t know, Omar Abdel-Rahman, aka “the blind sheik”, is serving a life sentence in a federal prison for his role in planning the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. He is also viewed, unsurprisingly, as a religious leader in most of the Arab world.
Thomas Jocelyn of the Weekly Standard does a great job of connecting the dots and makes . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. College Voters for Obama Agree: Free Stuff is Awesome (Video)
Like wildfire across the internet, the debate over the great secret video of 2012 has conquered the media. Many are taking great offense at the notion that 47% of voters are either dependent on the government or support policies of dependency.
So what do the youth of America think? They don’t know. They’re too busy . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. What Cordell Hull Could Tell Hillary Clinton About Free Speech
The internet film sensation that no one has ever seen, The Innocence of Muslims, has set off a valuable discussion on the outlines of the First Amendment and why it is inherently dangerous and improper for our government to be involved in the business of classifying speech as acceptable or unacceptable. It has has the amusing side effect . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
5. Administration Quits In Afghanistan. Blames Internet Video For Defeat.
The one talent this Administration has, in spades, is the ability to completely corrupt anyone or anything it comes into contact with. Sadly, the US military is not immune from this talent.
I’ve posted twice (here | here) about chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Martin Dempsey, wading into election year politics to aid the Administration.
Today we have another shameful episode. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
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