Political class sets giant double standard over threats of Quran burning

Updated on Friday, September 10, 2010 at 11:27PM by Kay B. Day, Editor

The preacher over in Dover has agreed to cancel the Quran bonfire. He announced his decision Thursday. The preacher was under the impression that the imam would move the Ground Zero mosque. “He has agreed to move it,” the preacher said of the globetrotting (at US taxpayer expense) imam.

Not so fast, Preacher.

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Olbermann freaks out over Massachusetts--political class hissy fit

Commentary by Kay B. Day

The political class reaction to Scott Brown’s strong showing in Massachusetts (“Teddy Kennedy’s seat”) is well represented by Keith Olbermann’s freakout on MSNBC. Newsbusters recounts the level of Olbermann’s emotional breakdown with the talking head’s remarks on Monday: “In Scott Brown we have an irresponsible, homophobic, racist, reactionary, ex-nude model, teabagging supporter of violence against woman and against politicians with whom he disagrees."

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Political class shows lack of class over Obama’s surgeon general pick

This screen capture from BitsBlog shows the chair of the US Senate committee overseeing health. The political class has never investigated the senator's health habits.The political class exhibited typical lack of class after President Barack Obama announced his pick for Surgeon General at the Dept. of Health and Human Services. Dr. Regina M. Benjamin, MD, MBA, Founder and CEO of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Alabama, has an impressive resume by anyone’s standards. Her education and accomplishments include being the first African American woman to be president of a State Medical Society in the United States.

The “progressive” [actually “regressive”] ABC News network reported: “Critics and supporters across the blogosphere have commented on photos of Benjamin's round cheeks, saying she sends the wrong message as the public face of America's health initiatives.”

In other words, some perceive Dr. Benjamin as fat.

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Tea party poll shows great divide between ‘Political Class’ and ‘Mainstream’

A new Rasmussen poll said 51 percent of Americans have a favorable view of the tea parties held nationwide last week, including 32% who say their view of the events is very favorable. The poll said 33 percent view the tea parties unfavorably and 15 percent weren’t sure. But when respondents were categorized by class, the figures were more startling. Rasmussen said, “While half the nation has a favorable opinion of last Wednesday’s events, the nation’s Political Class has a much dimmer view—just 13% of the political elite offered even a somewhat favorable assessment while 81% said the opposite. Among the Political Class, not a single survey respondent said they had a very favorable opinion of the events while 60% shared a very unfavorable assessment.” There is in fact a wide gap between the Political Class and Mainstream on a number of issues.
 
Rasmussen says Mainstream and Political Class respondents are established for polling purposes by answering a set of questions—who the respondent trusts more (the people or political leaders), whether the federal government is a special interest group, and whether government and big business work together in ways that hurt consumers and investors. A score is assigned for each answer. The Political Class falls in a range of scores of -2 or less while Mainstream respondents are defined by agreeing with mainstream view on at least 2 of 3 questions and not agreeing with the political class on any questions.

Some leftwing extremist celebs, presumably Political Class types, called tea party goers “racist” and a few like one comedian on MSNBC had a field day making adolescent jokes about the term ‘teabagging.’

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