Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Few things present the delightful hypocrisy of the limousine liberal set better than this image of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. -- having taken his private jet into town no-doubt -- abusing his title as an "environmentalist" to campaign against a clean energy project for no better reason, let's face it, than the windmills will appear in (not even obscure) Uncle Teddy's view. These super-rich brats support every program imaginable as long as it affects someone else -- affirmative action when they know their own kids will never need to compete against its recipients for school placement, a job or aid, welfare when they don't live anywhere near the neighborhoods destroyed by it, tax increases when another few grand a year is a drop in the bucket in their incomes. 
But along comes something that affects them -- and not even them, but just their view...their VIEW, and it's a whole other story. They'll dig so deep for justifications they'll strike oil before they come up with anything of substance.
Cape Wind is like shining a portable x-ray on the Kennedy Clan and fellow travellers. The film results are not pretty.
Cape Cod Today: Strange Boatfellows Clash in Nantucket Sound:
And of course, don't miss Jonah Goldberg on this issue. A mighty wind:
...When a reporter for The New York Times Magazine called Walter Cronkite, a windmill opponent, and asked him about the proposal, the retired newsman bristled at the suggestion that this was all about selfishness. But, he had to confess, that's exactly what it is.
"The problem really is Nimbyism," he conceded by telephone, "and it bothers me a great deal that I find myself in this position. I'm all for these (windmills), but there must be areas that are far less valuable than this place is." The reporter prodded, and he said maybe the California desert would work. Isn't that a bit far away to supply Cape Cod? Well, he added, "Inland New England would substitute just as well." In fact, any place but here would do just fine.
Is seemed to dawn on Cronkite that such honesty wasn't serving his cause or himself, he interrupted his train of thought and implored the reporter, "Be kind to an old man." I'm all for kindness to old men, but let's not hear fossilizing liberals like him, Kennedy and Huffington talk about the need for the wealthy to make sacrifices anymore. And they better not get caught with one of those "Think globally, act locally" bumper stickers on their SUVs, either.
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Hoo boy you hit the nail on the head there..very good description...much like the "a gun-control liberal is some one who has not been mugged yet"