Lefty Outrage at ‘Conservative’ Article Misses Key Fact, Writer Isn’t Conservative

Written By : Warner Todd Huston

The left is in an uproar today. They got their panties in a bunch over a piece that ran on the conservative newsblog NewsMax.com where it was suggested that Obama’s irresponsible actions as president could result in a military coup that would “restore” the Constitution.

Not completely without reason, many lefty blogs have lost their tiny little minds over this article. The piece was written by NewsMax blog contributor John L. Perry and talked of a “bloodless coup” where “Skilled, military-trained, nation-builders would replace accountability-challenged, radical-left commissars.” Perry wondered if some “patriotic general” might confront the president (or a president of the future) and demand that he allow the military a shared power in government or face a military overthrow.

It was all speculation and phrased as a question, not asserted as fact or presented as imminent, of course. But this sort of over-the-top foolishness really does not add to the national debate, I have to agree. So, the lefty sites that railed against this NewsMax.com piece were right on that base level.

NewsMax.com has since removed the article and issued a statement that Perry is an unpaid member of NewsMax.

But there is one tiny, little, bitty fact about this story and its author that every single one of these lefty sites that are railing about this story have left out.

The fact of the matter is that John L. Perry is not a conservative. In fact his bio page says that he’s worked for Jimmy Carter, a Democrat governor of Florida and other Democrat Party institutions.

Perry also has had a distinguished career in public policy. He served President Lyndon B. Johnson as deputy under secretary of commerce and was a White House speech writer and race-relations trouble-shooter for President Johnson.

In the Jimmy Carter administration, he was executive assistant to the under secretary of Housing and Urban Development and was interim director of public information for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Perry served as press aide to Gov. LeRoy Collins of Florida and executive assistant to the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives.

Perry was also assistant to the president of the National Association of Broadcasters, a member of the top-management team and director of public relations for the 1982 World’s Fair in Knoxville, Tenn., and an academic fellow at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif.

With all that background as a liberal democrat, Perry does not fit the normal image of a “right wing conservative.” Yet not on eof the lefty sites going nuts on this story have mentioned this.

The profane and unserious Wonkette.com that the lefties love so missed it. So did Crooks & Liars, a popular site for lefty extremists. The far left talking point site conveniently called TalkingPointsMemo.com has several updates about this tale and not one of them mentions Perry’s liberal background. FiresDogLake.com also touts the story without all the relevant facts. Finally, no one at Media Matters was able to ferret out the truth, either.

One has to wonder what sort of standards these lefty sites have? I mean, if they are claiming to inform their readers why leave off the fact that the writer they are upset at has a long history of liberal activism?

Curiouser and curiouser.

(Confederate Yankee has the full text of the pulled Perry piece.)

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Markus

If true about Perry's political support, I'm guessing that one of the RWN columnists (william, I'm looking at you) needs to go back and recheck his own column, cause he got in an uproar over it as well,and bit hook, line, and sinker in referring to "Wackos on both sides of the aisle".

Teach's own columno on RWN
D-Vega

Only when its something offensive from a conservative is it "panties" getting in a bunch.

You got some gall, considering we are in fact talking about advocating violent rebellion. Of course he has plausible deniability, because he doesn't have the balls to just come out and say it. Just like Glenn Beck doesn't. And Michael Savage doesn't. Just like Fox News thinks if it poses something as a question (Will there be a coup if Obama's policies pass?) then its okay.

Remember that when the next faux bandwagon outrage non-event happens and the conservos are foaming at the mouth.
http://www.2008news.com jimg

Posted by D-Vega

2009-09-30 15:59:56

I notice you completely ignore the point that this guy is one of yours.
D-Vega

That's cause he ain't. At least, there is no proof of such.

Working in a Democrat admin is not proof of liberal standing.

He also had lower and lower positions in said admins, even though it was his second time in a Presidential admin.

The only proof of his political affiliation is what he said and where he said it. And that adds up to conservative.
Markus

The only proof of his political affiliation is what he said and where he said it. And that adds up to conservative.

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Again, PROVE What he said about a military coup is Conservative.. you refuse to do so everytime you've been challenged to do that D..

So apparently you're pulling "conservative ideals' from imaginary places that none of us have heard about.
http://www.superdickery.com mightysamurai

The only proof of his political affiliation is what he said and where he said it. And that adds up to conservative.

Yeah, I mean, it's not like the left was saying stuff like that over the last EIGHT GODDAMN YEARS or anything.

Your STAGGERING hypocrisy is, as always, truly a thing to behold, D-Vega.
tblrk2006

Your STAGGERING hypocrisy is, as always, truly a thing to behold, D-Vega.

Posted by mightysamurai

2009-09-30 18:54:14

Remember, he has put ALL his eggs in the obama basket. Vega is beginning to realize what he has to live with now….thus the hypocrisy and blatant ignorance in the name of self preservation.
GDR

All conservatives need wake up now or we will lose the HC battle by falling for a fake compromise and accept an Individual Mandate.

The left's new push amonts to a staight up emotional apppeal to people's worst insticts.

Its pure appeal to envy and arrogance based on false information.

Here is supposed "moderate" Ben Nelson out pushing new poll-tested Democrat talking points:

“Nelson said his primary concern is that any health care bill control

soaring costs. Without action, he said, costs will rise 9 percent next

year. The average Nebraska family insurance premium rose 69 percent from

2000 to 2007, he said. Wages rose 21 percent during that time, he said.

The result is that 225,000 Nebraskans, or nearly 13 percent of the

population, don’t have health coverage, and Nebraska businesses and

families shoulder a hidden tax of $1,000 per year on premiums to pay for

the uninsured."

The information is of course false – the so-called "free rider" cost cite is not $1000 but $200 per family less the 1% of there premiums annually!

Snowe and Bennett from the Republican party have already fallen in line to support the individual mandate.

And I have read many blog comments and heard many calls on talk radio from supposedly conservative people supporting the mandate because they believe the bogus numbers and react emotionally.

Don’t fall for it – don’t let RINOs sell you out on this.

Don’t let this talking point go unchallenged.
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