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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Had enough?

NPR and Fox News commentator Juan Williams is a certified liberal — so liberal some have called him the black Alan Colmes, the liberal half of Fox’s Hannity and Colmes. When he writes a book you’d expect the liberal media to fall all over each other to be the first to review his book and have him as a guest on network radio and TV.

That hasn’t happened, however, because his book “Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure That Are Undermining Black America — and What We Can Do About It,” has crossed the boundary of what is — and what is not — permitted by the high priests of liberal orthodoxy.

For this grievous offense he has been cast into the outer darkness reserved for conservatives and other patriotic Americans.


Michael Reagan

I guess the outer darkness also includes the likes of Thomas Sowell, Clarence Thomas, Janice Rogers Brown, and Walter Williams.

I'm not much of a Juan Williams fan (surprise, surprise), but it will be interesting to see how he reacts to this. Cosby always was and always will be a "certified liberal" as well, so now I guess he'll have some company in Juan. I wonder when one of them is going to go ahead and tell it like it is: Jackson and Sharpton are race pimps, and all a pimp ever sells is death.

On the score one for Williams front, though, I watched him on Fox the other night while Krauthammer and Barnes were going into histrionics about the aftermath of a Lieberman defeat this evening. I thought the two of them were going to wet their pants. They were both barking about how a loss by Lieberman would toss the Democrats back to the stone(d) age of the 60s, allowing the looney left to assert their will over the Democrats (as if that wasn't already the case). Williams was incredulous, as was I. Of the three, Williams was the only one who didn't look like a frothing lunatic at the end of the broadcast.

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