Lefty Outrage at ‘Conservative’ Article Misses Key Fact, Writer Isn’t Conservative
-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 one of 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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Posted by Warner Todd Huston on September 30, 2009 3:15 pm
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Why can’t conservatives, liberals, radicals and reactionaries all just die together?
OH WAIT!!!! They dooooooooooo, see?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LubuSAgB5s
Interesting post.
Have you seen what else John L Perry has written for Newsmax? It’s definitely a conservative site, and he’s taken a pretty conservative-looking line in his articles for them.
But I take your point – Perry has worked for numerous past Democratic administrations.
Do you agree with Perry? Is Obama so bad that a military coup is a reasonable possibility? Would such a coup be bloodless?
ptet,
All your questions were answered in the piece above. Do read it. Thanks
Hi. I’ve taken the time to read the post again carefully.
Perry may have a liberal democrat background, but he doesn’t appear to have taken that position – on Newsmax at east – for quite some time.
I agree it’s remarkable that none of the news sites you list mention his background with Democrat administrations. I would have thought that was quite notable.
But I think it’s fair to call him a conservative now. (I’m sure we’ll all find out lots more about him ;>)
And sorry for missing your point that this does no good at all for the national debate.
ptet,
Glad we are in pretty close agreement, then.
If Perry isn’t conservative, why does he call his column “Right Angles”?
I get it. If you don’t agree with Obama, you shouldn’t be allowed to publish your thoughts?
Obama is a the complete f@%*-up, he has taken incompetence to a new level.
Obama’s 2 biggest problems are.
1) He has ZERO CHARACTER.
2) He is doesn’t know, what he doesn’t know.
In other words, everyone who has patted little Barry on the head, has gotten Barry to believe that he is special. He isn’t.
He is a dumb-f@#% with bad cigarette breathe and very little knowledge of anything, except on how to CON people.
A coup of Obama may not be as theoretical as might at first appear. In 2006 Mr. Obama joined a federal lawsuit to declare he, as a member of Congress, had the right to veto the Constitution. His own attorney of record admitted this was a criminal violation of oath of office. Under the terms of the federal law Mr. Obama was forbidden to “accept or hold” federal office. Therefore when Mr. Obama ran for president in 2008, he did so under terms of fraud.
The federal lawsuit involved the calling of an Article V Convention. Under the Constitution, if 34 states apply for a convention call, Congress must do so. The public record shows all 50 states have submitted 750 applications for a convention some 20 times the number required. Thus, as a member of Congress, Mr. Obama has participated in the overthrow of our constitutional form of government.
If Mr. Perry was aware of these public record facts, then his speculation may much more serious than appears. The applications can be read at http://www.foavc.org. The lawsuit can be read at FAQ 9.1 of that web site.
“I get it. If you don’t agree with Obama, you shouldn’t be allowed to publish your thoughts?”
Nobody is saying or has said anything like that, and if u genuinely think people *are* saying that then there is something seriously wrong with you.
“Obama is a the complete f@%*-up, he has taken incompetence to a new level.”
So the american folk-conservative rubes keep telling themselves…
Just to be clear, there are plenty of reasons to criticize obama, and there are plenty of conservatives who have plenty worth while to say…
But something is going on with the american populist right which is simply absurd…