“Posterizing” is a word in the basketball lexicon, and it is when someone elevates himself (let’s face it, women rarely do a lot of dunking) to an almost nose bleed level of the stratosphere to make a slam dunk while some poor sap stands under him with his arms up trying to block the dunker’s efforts to not only grab 2 points for his team, but to also get some momentum going for his team.  That added energy, the sidelines getting on their feet, the crowd cheering, a positive up-tick in the soul of that team that cannot be quantitatively defined or measured (this KILLS our economist, statistician, left-brained friends).

This is what Bill Kristol did to Juan Williams on Fox News Sunday.  Plain and simple (I will try and find a clip when it comes out).  They were discussing the new financial reforms the Obama Administration is pushing, and I am going to paraphrase the exchange as best as I can:

Juan: …if you are at work, your boss has the right to look at the e-mails you send from your work e-mail…

Bill: The US Senate IS NOT OUR BOSS, they are not the boss of the US and they are not the boss of Goldman-Sachs.  Can you imagine, everyone having to answer to Carl Levin as their boss?

Following that, Juan tried to deflect in his typical way: stammering and becoming louder and more incensed!  Nevertheless, Bill Kristol was right, there “is something very telling” by Juan’s statement, and the thoughts and goals of the new Democratic Party.

-rj

“Question Authority” is a popular slogan often pasted on bumper stickers that came out of the late 1970′s famous protests around the United States. The phrase is a statement refuting the logical fallacy of “because I said so.” In other words, statements made by “authority figures” are not necessarily factual just because the individual making the statements have rank over others.

“You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on…” -Oliver Goldsmith

From Vietnam to George W. Bush, questioning authority has been the policy of the left, especially when Republicans have been in office. And to be fair, there has always been an assumption that it is the duty of citizenry not to blindly accept what they are being told by a government. Especially when that government was appointment by the very people it assumes it has authority over.

“It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.” -Benjamin Franklin

But for the Left, this mantra of sorts has quickly come to a close with the election of a Progressive administration. Questioning authority is unacceptable. And it is confusing to the Left why conservatives would ever question the policies of the administration. Furthermore, the generation that invented the “Question Authority” movement, now the authorities themselves, have entered into numerous double standards.

Mark Lloyd was brought into the administration as the Chief Diversity Officer. A position that is designed to verify that a strategy of diversity and inclusion policy is taking place across the nation. Yet the administration has attempted to shut down and shut out Fox News as of late. A very diverse move.

I for one was never taught in school that asking questions was a thing of ignorance.

-nick