Let's face it ... the "popular" Republicans are fraidy-cats when it comes to an actual fight.
The following post is from the daisies at Little Green Footballs:
Video: Napolitano with Alex Jones, Ron Paul, Lew Rockwell, Etc
Wow. Racists, 9/11 truthers, and conspiracy theorists, all brought to you by Fox News.
What the hell is wrong with Fox News?
To properly understand why the above post is so pathetic, let's take a quick look at the growing Tea Party phenomenon. It's no secret that the mainstream media refuses to give these protests coverage. As Now Hampshire reports:
The national mainstream media is refusing to cover the so-called "Taxpayer Tea Parties" because they are unsympathetic to the organizers' cause and are only interested in covering liberal protests, argues a growing chorus of conservative critics.
Since March 1st, Fox News Channel has mentioned the Tea Party phenomenon twenty-nine times. But that's essentially the end of the road for event organizers in terms of media attention. CNN has mentioned the Tea Parties only four times and MSNBC only twice.
Now here's where it gets interesting ...
In an article by Jack Hunter in Taki's Magazine about the state's rights movement, he notes the following (emphasis added):
1) The sovereignty resolution resistance is coming almost entirely from the Right.
2) They have virtually nothing to do with-and seems entirely divorced from-the national GOP establishment and mainstream conservative movement.
Oklahoma State Rep. Charles Key, sponsor of the "Tenth Amendment Resolution" told colleagues of his legislation, "It's a notice, like an eviction note from a landlord given to a tenant." Keys made his case on popular, yet still under-the-radar, national radio programs like Coast to Coast AM with George Noory (broadcast from Oklahoma City) and The Alex Jones Show, as well as popular local program Radio Free Oklahoma (both The Alex Jones Show and Radio Free Oklahoma are broadcast on the same commercial FM station in Oklahoma). While such programs are often ridiculed for their focus on conspiracy theories, or in the case of Coast to Coast-the supernatural-their audiences are full of Right-leaning or libertarian-minded folks concerned about the loss of civil liberties ...
That the rise in state sovereignty challenges has been mostly ignored by the national news media isn't surprising. That it has been ignored by the mainstream conservative movement isn't surprising either, and speaks volumes about the "official" Right's tolerance for populist uprisings not of their own making.
With the lone exception of Glenn Beck, conservative talk radio has ignored this new Obama-resistance-an opposition with a constitutional framework that could bear teeth if state legislators felt they had enough support ... Nationally syndicated talk hosts, like their liberal, alleged enemies, concentrate on the Washington, DC, power structure, because they, too, view it as the place where all power resides. And states rights' aren't on the mainstream conservative movement's map because individual state efforts ... don't include the mainstream conservative movement.
Exactly. The Republican "popular kids" are so enamored with the DC power structure, they too ignore the heritage of both this country and the conservative movement. Liberty just doesn't fit the mainstream agenda.
Lew Rockwell, President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, is an original thinker who's certainly a friend and ally of any Old Right or Taft conservative, but he's more commonly known as a paleolibertarian.
Paleolibertarianism holds with Lord Acton that liberty is the highest political end of man, and that all forms of government intervention - economic, cultural, social, international - amount to an attack on prosperity, morals, and bourgeois civilization itself, and thus must be opposed at all levels and without compromise. It is 'paleo' because of its genesis in the work of Murray N. Rothbard and his predecessors, including Ludwig von Mises, Albert Jay Nock, Garet Garrett, and the entire interwar Old Right that opposed the New Deal and favored the Old Republic of property rights, freedom of association, and radical political decentralization. Just as important, paleolibertarianism predates the politicization of libertarianism that began in the 1980s, when large institutions moved to Washington and began to use the language of liberty as part of a grab bag of 'policy options.' Instead of principle, the neo-libertarians give us political alliances; instead of intellectually robust ideas, they give us marketable platitudes. What's more, paleolibertarianism distinguishes itself from left-libertarianism because it has made its peace with religion as the bedrock of liberty, property, and the natural order. - Lew Rockwell
As you can see, just like Ron Paul, any serious conservative would realize that guys like Rockwell are on their side. A serious conservative would champion the message of freedom anywhere it would be heard! The only sad thing here, is that nobody else will broadcast their message, not that they do a show with Alex Jones.
The problem of course, is simple ... he's an original thinker who doesn't parrot the party-line ... while the "popular kids" DO parrot the party-line.
Sure, Alex Jones is a little off the wall (to say the least), but would it be better if the liberty-minded folks had no voice at all? It seems the folks at Little Green Daisies thinks so.
Maybe we're all Statists now.
