THE ROBERT W. WHITAKER ARCHIVE

WHEN A LIBERAL GETS MUGGED, I CHEER | 2003-06-21

I can't be a good pro-lifer because there are lot of things that are more important to me than life. For example, I would much rather go down shooting than stand helplessly while thugs trashed my house and abused my family

Britain bans weapons for every honest citizen. British burglars no longer wait for people to leave their houses. Almost half the burglars go in and trash the place while the family is there and the father is cowering in a corner. The Brits don't mind that, because it is truly pro-life: no criminal gets killed and all life is precious.

Leftists object to the New Hampshire state motto, "Live Free or Die" that is on the state's license plates. They would "rather be Red than dead." A lot of pro-lifers on the right are finding common cause with a lot of liberals because of this myth that life is infinitely precious.

When the left and the respectable right get together, you are really in trouble. The left and the respectable right are getting together for Martha Stewart. The left and the respectable right got together to defend Bill Gates, Junior when he faced anti-trust charges.

When Bill Gates, Junior got prosecuted, conservatives were outraged. Please see May 7, 2000 - MICROSOFT CASE: A LIBERAL GETS MUGGED. Conservatives told each other that Bill Gates was a poor boy who made good. They said Microsoft was started on nothing in a garage.

Recently Bush proposed an end to the inheritance tax. A group of fabulously wealthy liberals came out against him. Leading the list was the fabulously wealthy Bill Gates, SENIOR. He was rich when Bill Junior was born, and Gates' limousine liberal mother was a high-ranking executives who made the contacts he needed to get Microsoft going.

But all conservatives could say was, "Him Rich, Him GOOD."

When government mugs liberals, I cheer. They want everybody else mugged. They can have guards with guns, so they want us arrested for having guns to defend ourselves.

That's the kind of logic we are enforcing in Iraq. Nobody thinks it will work. But liberalism never works.

The liberal media is pleased with the gun law in Iraq, and that is all that matters to the Bush Administration. It looks respectable and New Yorkish.

That kind of wimpy nonsense could make Iraq a graveyard for Republican politics.

5/14/05 INSIDER LETTER | 2005-05-14

(Reprinted to Blog from email list of 5/14/05)

*** Bob's Insider's Message ***

I will be on Saturday at 6 PM, EDT, for the second edition of my weekly Internet radio show. I am getting lots of listeners. *

You go to WhitakerOnline Townhall Archive: "THE UNTRAINED EYE" and listen in.

This huge WOL list is, as one of my team said, "the deadest list I have ever heard of" - which means you don't respond. Let me tell you one of the No-Nos of "working" any list, be it direct mail or this one. You NEVER tell the people on the list anything bad about themselves.

But my list consists of people who want to hear it like I see it, or you don't belong here. This is no place for touchy people.

We required you to sign up again for the list some time ago, and those I am writing to now did that. So you want to hear what I have to say, and that is more than enough for my needs.

My ideas keep coming up on cable networks, though they have no idea where they came from and wouldn't credit me if they did. Considering how effective the other side is in suppressing dissident thought, anyone who makes his living or depends for his influence on a "live" list is going to be stopped or watered down to nothing.

My enemies DO realize how dangerous I am, but there is nothing they can do about it. I write what you are thinking, I make you say, "So THAT is what occurred to me!" Then you have it to use in conversations and to make your own points more clearly, and it goes out.

A good, entertaining set of ideas is a deadly weapon.

That's the way I'm doing my radio show. Everybody in radio likes to talk about how informal they are, but they are surrounded by the sword of Damocles on every side. The radio station and the company that owns it is responsible for everything they say.

I truly, sincerely, and with all my heart don't give a damn. There is no money here. There is no FCC license here. I don't LIKE offending people, but if it is a choice between telling the truth or somebody taking offense, I have no dog in this fight.

I get no money. I get no credit. I am in this to say what seems obvious to me in plain English. That is ALL this whole enterprise is for.

For any other kind of communications besides the Internet, everybody else needs some kind of sponsor. On the radio or TV or cable, you have to sell a religious creed or some other program some rich guy wants pushed, even if you are doing it free.

Nobody even SUGGESTS what I should talk about.

If you truly want to listen to somebody say what he is thinking, no holds barred, listen to my show.

And if you like the ideas, use them.

READBOB.COM

Bob

THE SOUTHERN CRAWL DOESN'T WORK | 2000-09-23

Morris Dees' heavily financed "anti-hate" group, The Southern Poverty Law Center, has declared the League of the South, the Heritage Preservation Association, and even the Sons of Confederate Veterans, to be "hate" organizations. I understand he has even included the UDC!

First, let's get over the idea that this condemnation could have been avoided by the Southern Crawl. There are those who insist that, if we grovel and declare that the South was always wrong about everything in the past, leftists won't condemn us.

To anyone who has ever had anything to do with real world power politics, there are two obvious fatal defects in the Southern Crawl. First of all, if you were always wrong, why should I believe that you have a point now? You were so wrong you are groveling and sobbing about every position you took until last week. You will be sobbing and groveling next week about whatever you're objecting to now, so it would be absurd to take you seriously.

The second reason the Southern Crawl is fatal can be seen by the simple fact that Dees could now condemn the UDC as a hate group and be taken seriously. First, leftists say that all of the Old South's racial views must be denounced by anybody who wants to be a good Southern Crawler, so Crawlers denounce them. The next hoop a good Crawler has to jump through is to say no one has any right to doubt that integration turned out to be a wonderful thing.

Next, the Crawlers have to denounce all anti-busing movements, then anyone who criticizes homosexuality. And soon Crawlers find that there is no bottom to this slippery slope.

Now it's the League. I would have expected the libs to condemn the League and then wait a while before going after the SCV and the UDC. But the Crawlers have been so vocal lately that they didn't even have to wait this time.

Almost every time I see a so-called "Christian" conservative debating a liberal, he is going for liberal brownie points by praising Saint Martin Luther King, and condemning anyone who ever dared disagree with him.

These self-styled "Christians (and a "Christian" is NOT a Christian) denounce everybody the left wants denounced. Then they go into a state of shock when THEIR organizations are denounced by the left as "hate groups," and their former allies join in the attack on them.

The left doesn't Crawl, only the right does. Liberals defend the legitimacy -- "They have something to say" -- of every single leftist group, no matter how extreme. Meanwhile, respectable conservatives ask their liberal masters for nothing more than the right to lead the lynch mob against critics of Saint King or any group leftists condemn as a "hate group."

To Crawl or not to Crawl? Here is the bottom line: In Boston, the SHAMROCK has been declared a "hate symbol," and the BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA are being moved into the "hate group" category.

Meanwhile, nobody, but nobody, calls the Communist Party of America a "hate group."

MATURITY WITHOUT SENILITY | 2006-05-22

At first I was hurt that Peter had taken me wrong about my joking that he was a Pain.

In fact, I thought that when he took Pain as his new name, he was in on the joke. So I thought he would find another jab entertaining. So when he told me he thought I was insulting him, I was stunned.

The something finally occurred to me.

Here is a senstive young man fighting the same battle alone that I did. If I had found someone like Ole Bob, I would have been very happy.

But what would I have done if Ole Bob turned around and insulted the hell out of me, not once but twice?

My reaction would probably have been to go ape.

Peter's reaction was to be deeply disappointed and say so.

Peter is definitely not the sort of person who takes abuse lying down.

The simple fact is that Peter considered Ole Bob too damned valuable to dump.

It took me two days to realize that I have been handed one hell of a compliment.

It took me two days to realize this after fifty years of experience. Half a century ago I would never have caught on.

Another hundred years or so and I could be really SMART.