Front page Archive Why Arlen? Arlen is the TV home of "King of the Hill." It's a small conservative town that is threatened with ruination on a regular basis by twig boys, enviro wackos, diversity nuts, "PC" police and other ivory tower liberals. I like to think of Arlen as a metaphor for this here great nation of ours.

Monday, November 24, 2003 Posted 5:51 AM by Hank A TALE OF TWO “HATE CRIMES” Here are news accounts of two alleged “hate crimes” in Ithaca, the City of Evil. See if you can guess the difference between the two (no fair clicking on the links until you're done): 2002: A young woman was walking down the street when she heard racial slurs about her. Thereafter, a group of people of a another race attacked her, hitting her in the face and body, while continuing to make racial comments. She suffered physical injuries. Once arrested, the defendants were charged with third-degree assault as a hate crime (two counts), first-degree unlawful imprisonment, second-degree assault, and second-degree aggravated harassment. Some of the crimes charged are felonies. The story received front page treatment in the local paper. The community was outraged, holding several meetings and marches to demand that justice be served. Eventually, the assailants went to trial and were sentenced for their parts in the attack. 2003: A young woman was walking out of a concert when she heard racial slurs about her. Thereafter, a group of people of a another race attacked her, hitting her in the face and body, while continuing to make racial comments. She suffered physical injuries. Once arrested, the defendants were charged with assault third degree, a misdemeanor, and harassment in the second degree, a violation. The police determined that no hate crime occurred. The story received little attention from the local paper. The community barely reacted. It is unknown whether the assailants will ever go to trial and, in fact, were charged as juveniles. Can you guess the difference between the two cases? That’s right. In the first case, the victim was black and the assailants were white. In the second case, the victim was white and the assailants were black. I think you can draw any other necessary conclusions for yourself. Thursday, November 20, 2003 Posted 11:13 AM by Hank ARE McKINNEY'S FIFTEEN MINUTES UP? Disgraced former congresswoman and conspiracy theorist Cynthia McKinney made her debut as a visiting professor at Cornell University this week. Based on press reports, it did not go well for the woman who became (in)famous by spouting "iconspiracy theories about Jews and whites plotting to murder people and prevent her re-election [and] claims was that the Bush administration had prior knowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." According to the Cornell Daily Sun, not only was there a poor turnout for her widely publicized lecture on U.S. politics, but students attending called her "incoherent" and said she "did an absolutely dreadful job in answering the questions." Perhaps most shocking about McKinney's failure to connect with her audience is the location: an Ivy League school that is normally considered a hot bed of liberalism. Given this dreadful performance, and apathetic (and sometimes hostile) turnout from what should have been her core constituency, one has to wonder if McKinney has finally risen to her level of incompetence and might soon (but not soon enough) exit the public stage once and for all. Wednesday, November 19, 2003 Posted 9:36 AM by Hank WHY DON'T YOU ASK HILLARY, PROFESSOR? The Auburn, NY Citizen reports that "Dr. Riffat Hassan, Wells College's guest speaker for 'Women in Islam: Beyond the Images,'" recently attacked First Lady Laura Bush for caring about--yes, caring about, the plight of Muslim women: "All this is very good, but where were you five years ago?" she said. "Women are not worth what oil is." Where was she five years ago, professor? In Texas. She was not yet First Lady, you feminist twit. Attacking a Republican for not doing something before she was in a position to do anything and giving the Democrats a free pass...and people wonder why they call them the "angry" left... Saturday, November 01, 2003 Posted 5:22 AM by Hank YES, IT'S A LIBERAL MEDIA... One good thing has come out of the upcoming CBS movie about Ronald Reagan, the one that even its screenwriter admits is full of historical inaccuracies: more irrefutable proof that the mainstream media is liberal. As part of the attention given to the Reagan movie, which fabricates quotes to make the President out to hate AIDS sufferers and ignores the good economic times of the 1980s, more and more news storys are pointing out that the Chairman of CBS is a known liberal. As the Wall St. Journal noted: The man who green-lighted the Reagan project, CBS Chairman Les Moonves, is already somewhat exposed on the issue of liberal bias. He allowed himself to be seen sitting next to Hillary Clinton at the 2000 Democratic convention in Los Angeles. Last year, he was ridiculed by David Letterman on his own network for a four-day junket to Cuba with other media moguls. During the trip he hobnobbed with Fidel Castro and he returned with the dictator's autograph on a cigar box.. I wonder how liberals, who claim that the mainstream media cannot be liberal because it's owned by millionaires (and who apparently assume all millionaires are Republicans), will explain Moonves...not to mention Ted "CNN" Turner, Michael "Disney/ABC/ESPN" Eisner and all the other wealthy Hollywood democrats. Home