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by Mark
3-2-06
Dr. Mike Adams will be visiting Auburn University on Tuesday, March 7th to speak with the College Republicans. Mike Adams was the conservative columnist who got word of Auburn’s inability to name a Christmas tree and turned what should have been a quick in-house fix into a national spectacle which unfairly depicted Auburn. Mike Adams commonly dishes out cheap shots like this in his columns despite the fact that liberals in powerful positions are doing dumb things that need to be brought to the people’s attention all the time. But no, Dr. Adams would rather publish hate mail from dumb feminist from junior colleges and then point out their grammar mistakes, you know, to rile up the base.
At the end of the day he’s just another pundit who’s only half the man Ann Coulter is.
A couple years ago, Jacob and I were sitting in our living room watching watching TV when we heard some people yelling outside. We stepped out to see what was going on and we saw two guys yelling at each other across the street. One guy then lunged at the other and they began fighting, but the fight didn’t last long, or at least not long enough for Jacob and I to enjoy watching it or feel bad for not doing anything. One guy went back into his duplex and the other guy got back into his truck and left. With nothing else to see, we went back inside. About 20 minutes later, we began hearing multiple cars being parked in our driveway and a lot of people talking.
We went outside to see cars being parked all along the street and a large group of people forming where the two guys were fighting earlier. Jacob and I crossed the street to get a better view. I saw a girl I knew from my English class and asked her what was going on.
“There’s about to be a brawl between (two fraternities – I forgot which ones).”
Was
this true? Were we really about to witness two fraternities go at it? Were
we so lucky? I looked around, and sure enough, two large groups of guys were
forming with a group of onlookers encircling them. It reminded me of the play
“Westside Story”, since it also had fighting between groups of
guys wearing pastel clothing.
I counted around twelve guys total who were involved, the sides were pretty evenly divided. Jacob and I were ecstatic that we were going to be lucky enough to witness this.
They had been yelling at each other for a few minutes, until someone got enough nerve to shove someone. Everyone then lunged forward.
Everyone from frat A went directly after the smallest guy from Frat B and started wailing on the poor kid. Instead of helping out the little guy, the guys in Frat B targeted the smallest guy in Frat A and proceeded to beat the snot out of the guy.
This lasted all of maybe 30 seconds before some girl yelled “Police are on the way!” and everyone scrambled to their cars (I never saw police).
What a pathetic fight. With two exceptions, everyone involved seemed to leave feeling victorious since they were all able to throw some punches without getting hurt. However, in the end, nothing was accomplished, nobody knew who had the ‘baddest-frat-of-em-all’, and the bystanders were left very disappointed.
This little event was a perfect metaphor of what political punditry in media has become… or I guess it has always been this way. I don’t know. I haven’t been paying attention long.
Anyways… political pundits – James Carville, Mike Adams, Ann Coulter, Susan Estrich, Nancy Grace, Bill O’Reilly, Geraldo Rivera (Did you know he’s advertising his show on Facebook?) - They’re all frat boys in this metaphor. Pundits from the left and right think they’re different and thus need to fight, but at the end of the day, all pundits are arrogant and mostly useless, much in the same way fraternity members claim to be different when they all uphold the same stereotypes.
What happens when these pundits decide to fight an issue? They go after the weakest- and usually most irreverent member on the other side. This is why Nancy Grace and Bill Maher go to great lengths to have incredibly stupid people to come onto their shows to debate the other side- it’s easier to rip them apart, falsely allowing them to affirm their own beliefs. This is why columnists like Mike Adams go after the dumb feminists who e-mail him- he looks good after easily ripping apart their arguments but they’re just dumb kids so they can’t really fight back. His other technique is to take random shots at non-issues like Auburn’s Christmas tree situation.
I’m picking on the Republican Party here more so than the democrats, but that’s because as a republican, I mostly read republican stuff- meaning I’m more bothered when I see republicans say arrogant things. I don’t care as much when James Carville talks garbage on CNN… he’s wrong to begin with.
I do agree with almost all views of the Republican Party, but its guys like Mike Adams who are giving republicans a bad name by not representing the base. Many of his Townhall.com colleagues had a knee-jerk reaction to the recent Mohammad cartoons and the riots that followed.
Basically, their reaction was this (link to one example):
“Hey, no fair!!!! The New York Times won’t publish the cartoons but they don’t have a problem with showing art exhibits which ridicule Christianity!!! They must show the cartoons!”
This isn’t how the rest of America - people who don’t have columns or TV shows – thinks. Christians in particular, for the most part, realize we shouldn’t get nearly as angry at offensive images of Christ as we should be saddened by them. We’re sad that people don’t understand why they shouldn’t do such things. It seems it’s the columnist’s job to get angry at things, without proving insight or solutions. This is ironic, since the riots across the Atlantic prove; it’s worthless to get angry in that fashion.
Dr. Adams and friends are all about upholding a smug and elitist image – not a tough one, like what Ronald Regan used to portray, or in the pundit arena, Thomas Sowell and Jonah Goldberg.
I’m not really helping the situation though, since I read Adam’s column every single week. I thought about going to hear him speak on Tuesday and maybe even ask him a tough question, but it turns out I’m a coward and I can only talk tough while safely behind a computer.
Football season
needs to hurry back… I feel like I’m writing a freakin' blog these
days… who am I kidding????… this is a blog :(
mood – depressed, (cuz this is a blog)
currently listening to -dashboard confessional, (cuz this is a blog)
War Eagle!
Did I miss anything?
Let me know at mark@theauburner.com
