“There had to be something shocking enough to bring them around to seeing it,” Bryant says of the film’s intended audience, black liberals unwilling to consider another ideological viewpoint.

“Runaway Slave,” which recently had its sold out world premiere Jan. 13 at the Landmark Regent Theater in Los Angeles, features Bryant’s attempts to free his fellow black Americans from the shackles of liberalism. The film finds Bryant trying to win over stubborn converts, deploring how black conservatives are treated and interviewing prominent black conservatives like Herman Cain and Thomas Sowell.

Bryant is a former man of the left who switched sides in the early 1990s thanks in large part to radio talk show titan Rush Limbaugh.

“I was driving down the street looking for a client and looking for Jim Hightower,” he recalls. Bryant’s car radio happened on Limbaugh’s afternoon broadcast, and he found himself unable to change the dial. “The things he was saying about the Clintons that was totally alien to my ears, but it was captivating. And the reasons he was saying them were more captivating.”

“I discovered there was an entirely different world out there, trying to tell others how precious freedom was,” he says.

Bryant, a former pastor and ex-head of the Garland, Texas branch of the NAACP, says appearing on screen – he appears frequently as the heart and soul of the narrative – wasn’t a new experience for him.

“Being a pastor for 26 years every Sunday you create an atmosphere, a story. That part of it was in place. I needed someone to help me write the story and move it toward film,” he says.

Cain caused some consternation during his run for the White House when he contended many black Americans were “brainwashed” into voting for the Democrat party. Bryant doesn’t dodge that allegation. He embraces it.

“There’s a phenomenon in this country where 95 percent of blacks vote for one particular party,” he says. “Very few of us feel there’s something wrong with that.”

When Cain made the accusation it caused an uproar. Bryant suggests it simply hit a nerve, comparing the reaction to what he used to see as a pastoral counselor dealing with abusive scenarios.

“Many times the victim will turn upon the person trying to liberate them, like a Stockholm Syndrome,” he says. “They identify with their captors.”

Bryant suggests some film studios wouldn’t mind scooping up the distribution rights to “Runaway Slave” and letting it languish on the proverbial shelf.

“There is an element of this country that doesn’t want this particular message to be heard,” he says, refusing to name any names but comparing his film’s situation to that of the long-delayed conservative feature “Atlas Shrugged.” “They will actually offer you money for it so they can put it on the shelf so it won’t be heard.”

Political films by Michael Moore rarely make an effort to change hearts and minds. Moore plays to the choir and rarely massages a note that might woo the undecided. That wasn’t Bryant’s goal with “Runaway Slave,” which will next be screened Feb. 9 at the CPAC 2012 event in Washington, D.C. before a national theatrical launch at the end of February – Black History Month.

“I particularly want to reach people who do not see it my way. The greatest desire that I have for this film someone will have an epiphany like I did,” he says.

The Politico-inspired loud-mouthing about Herman Cain’s apparent indiscretion – or perhaps his avuncular bonhomie toward a malevolently ambitious female – the accusations hurled at the presidential candidate have backfired!

It highlights the beauty of freedom of speech.

Yes, we in America also have the freedom to lie and to maliciously exaggerate. However, the court of public opinion in American democracy will decide whether or not accusations are justified or merely the product of greedy but increasingly frightened political ambitions.

Justice Clarence Thomas was the first-such target of left-wing, railroading, character-assassinating, Beltway connivances. It didn’t work then, and it won’t work now.

In fact, American freedom of speech may have handed our next President, Herman Cain, the American liberty which Marxist ideologues will forever be choking on. They, the American progressive useful idiots, have patronized their own dwindling constituency, “liberated” them into the Occupy Wall Street self-indulgences, leaving these spoiled, perennial sophomores doing real sexual damage to one another.

It’s Woodstock Redux without the star-studded performances.

The image I see is an orgy of lemmings, willing victims traipsing behind their Pied Piper, President Obama, right off the cliff of common sense. Whether it is economic common sense or sexual common sense, the American left prove themselves the “useful idiots” of a very alive Communist New World Order.

The greatest of useful idiots has been William Clinton. He himself faced the repercussions of his own White House taste of Woodstock
Redux with Monica Lewinsky. No, those two weren’t lying on the grass of a farm in New York, but the attitude that couple had was obviously Woodstock in the White House.

Oh, no question Clinton and his repeatedly embarrassed wife have been heavily paid off by a Democrat Party that gave them the White House for eight years. However, now that a more hard-line Barack Obama has usurped the Democrat Party’s throne, we see what “useful idiots” the Clintons have been all along.

When an African-American Conservative, Herman Cain, is within reach of the White House, the Democrats are forced to reach into the bottom of their barrel for political dirty tricks. The American Democrat Party is, in and of itself, an orgy of lemmings.

How would I know?

I used to be a Democrat–a New York Democrat, of all things. No greater “useful idiot” exists now than Manhattan’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg who continues to allow OWS Lemmings into Zuccotti Park until, of course, his “useful idiocy” becomes self-evident to the entire world.

The informed call it “enabling an addiction.” What is this orgy of lemmings addicted to? Both the economic and sexual delusions which the American left has fed them. The delusions: a bottomless supply of money and bottomless sexual freedom.

Who are most susceptible to believing these fantasies?

The idealistic young, the Woodstock hippies, and the Zuccotti lemmings. American youth are increasingly wed to the growing popularity of anarchy as the political philosophy of a so-called Inevitable Future.

A former friend of mine, one of England’s intellectual elite, claims he is an “Anarchic Syndicalist!” How multi-layered of him! How in touch with the times of both London and New York! Meanwhile, the leaders of World Communism, who are not Anarchic Syndicalists, see the Anarchizing of America as a major first step to communizing the entire human race. A tyrant cannot “clench his fist” nor “put his foot down” in a democracy until a nation is in a state of “anarchy”!

Meanwhile, Cain is here to “bring American home again!” That he is a black American conservative is precisely the heart of God’s Plan.

That Jon Stewart and other leftist comedians should be piling ridicule on the back of Herman Cain is the obligatory trek up a symbolic Mt. Calvary. Many “Progressives” and Perryistas are already planning humiliating wakes for the presidential candidate’s hopes.

There is, however, “Resurrection.” The assaults on Cain have only solidified his support and possibly added many admirers from the independent corners of America.

All know that every President in history has faced trying times in their own, private White Houses. Cain’s composure and grace throughout these challenging days in his campaign will be solid evidence for his strength and endurance.

I personally believe he can’t be stopped, not after his appearance at the National Press Club. Cain is, in my opinion, an American black conservative with a much finer, more natural singing voice than the black American Communist Paul Robeson. There is nothing the least bit pretentious about his undeniable talents.

The black conservative movement in the United States, with the likes of Cain, Allen West and Thomas Sowell, is a trinity of power that will not only lead America out of her very white, self-indulgent, Woodstock/Zuccotti Park enable-ings – greatly inspired by the African-American President, Barack Obama – but will create a life-adoring, rainbow family of indomitably American, individually free, world leaders.

Because of eloquently conservative black Americans, the Third World is much less an easy target for World Communism.

Our black Ronald Reagan is here and will be hitting home runs to end the Marxist New World Order vs. American Common Sense World Series. Such a universally important World Series will never be played again. Karl Marx will at last be seen for the intellectual disease he and his tyrannical admirers have virulently spread throughout the free world.

God sent us the antibody for Communism’s Third World: Cain. It is, indeed, Cain vs. Marx. President Cain will gently but firmly, clearly but eloquently, charmingly but inevitably send Marx home–home to the very godless hell from which Marx came.

In the Wall Street Journal, film writer Anthony Kaufman did a fairly straight-forward interview with “The Undefeated” writer/director Steve Bannon. Fine. Good. Proper. Afterwards, though, Kaufman then took to his usual perch at indieWIRE to let his true feelings be known. Mostly, his indieWIRE piece reflects the usual nonsense-complaints coming from the Left over why a documentary specifically produced to tell the story of Governor Palin the MSM refused to tell doesn’t rehash everything the MSM has already rehashed ad nauseum for the last three years.

Blah-blah-blah. Whine-whine-whine. Boo-hoo-hoo. Heaven forbid the public learns the full truth and context about a potential presidential candidate minus everything they’ve already had tattooed on their brain. Then, however, Kaufman gets to this unbelievably offensive and revealing sentence:

For me, the most shocking moment in “The Undefeated,” however, comes with the appearance of a black person about two-thirds of the way through.

No matter how many times I read this (and there’s more), I’m left almost speechless.

Almost.

This “black person” Kaufman references does have a name … and it’s Sonnie Johnson. She’s a person, not a symbol, and she has a mind of her own.  A very good mind.

Before I let Ms. Johnson speak for herself, I’m going to go ahead and call Anthony Kaufman an elitist bigot. You see, the reason the arrival of a black face likely shocked him is probably due to the fact that he’s never bothered to attend a real Tea Party … or maybe Kaufman simply can’t bring himself to recognize Thomas Sowell, Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Lloyd Marcus, Sonja Schmidt, Herman Cain, JC Watts, Alan Keyes, Michael Steele, Frances Rice, Jennifer Carroll, Allen West, Martin Luther King, Jackie Robinson, Tim Scott (need I go on…?) as “real black people” due to their awful, sell-out, Uncle Tomming Republican-ness.

Maybe if Mr. Kaufman would take a cue from Ms. Johnson and start to think for himself, he wouldn’t find the onscreen arrival of a black face in support of Sarah Palin and the Tea Party so gosh-darned ”shocking.” Obviously, all Kaufman saw in Ms. Johnson was the color of her skin, which betrays something about him, no?

Kaufman’s issues with non-white conservatives truly rears its ugly head in his next sentence:

I’m not sure if it’s what Bannon had in mind when he wanted to seize the audience’s attention, but the arrival of black conservative female activist Sonnie Johnson made me realize just how white everyone appears to be, in both Palin’s Alaska and Bannon’s Tea Party.

He’s “not sure what Bannon had in mind when he wanted to seize the audience’s attention”?

Wow.

Next time, Kaufman should save himself all that typing and simply write: T-O-K-E-N.

And now — at the risk of further shocking Kaufman — I’ll let Sonnie Johnson speak for herself:

Anthony Kaufman published a little blog piece on IndieWire.  In it he takes shots at Stephen Bannon, Writer and Director of ”The Undefeated”.  Bannon is a grown man and he can speak for himself.  But I will tell you what I tell everyone else that asks how I got involved in the the film; Not only is Bannon a genius, he also has good taste.  In case you didn’t check your facts, Bannon also included two blacks in “Fire from the Heartland”.  And after that interview he gave me the best advice I’ve received. “They will try to change you.  People will tell you what you could be, what you should be, or what they can make you.  Don’t let them take away that which makes you great.”

And I haven’t. …

I was able to meet Gov. Palin in Pella, IA for the premiere of “The Undefeated”.  One of the first things she said to me was, “are you ready for all the hate that will come your way for being associated with me”.  I told her, “I’ve got Palin in my blood”.  I wish you would’ve known that little fact before you would downgrade me to the token black in your limited view of the Tea Party.  I am no one’s token.  Nor am I a punchline of what you think is a bad joke.  If seeing me in the film was such a shock to your cerebral, then why didn’t you grow a sack and interview me yourself?  Or is Breitbart right and your lack of a set is shown in your need to hide behind a blogpost. Are you a Enuch? …

If you want to know how Black I am, I dare you interview me yourself.  Just tell me when and where.   I’ll come to you.  It would be my pleasure.  Until then be grateful that, temporarily, you still have Obamacare.  If my appearance was a shock to you, then just wait until our voices are really heard. 

You’ll want to read the whole thing.

In many popular narratives of the period, it was the Baby Boomers (born 1943-1960) who “ruined” the movies. Here’s the pretentious film snob summary of the death of Hollywood’s alleged second Golden Age, as popularized by Peter Biskind. The seventies were filled with bold, dark art and transgressive intellectualism. Then the greedy Baby Boomers – like Steven Spielberg and George Lucas – made “Jaws,” “Star Wars,” “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” and “E.T.” All of a sudden Hollywood did not want to make serious, grown-up pictures. Now it was the age of blockbusters so simple that 3-year-olds can summarize them.

It was the 1980s when Boomer Blockbuster filmmaking would arrive in the event pictures of Jerry Bruckheimer and Don Simpson. We see this tendency further in the films of arch-Boomers Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. For a definition of Boomer cinema just look at the output of their company Imagine Entertainment. These aren’t the New Wave-influenced pictures of Roger L. Simon’s generation.

It was the Boomers who also gave us our most strident and simpleminded cinematic leftists: Spike Lee, Oliver Stone, and Michael Moore. Think about these three careers. Over the past 30 years have any of them shifted an inch in their political thinking? Of course not and neither have most Boomers who are still arguing over sex, race, and the Vietnam War as though it were still 1975.

If I speak with some hostility about the Boomers’ failings and excesses it’s partially because that’s my nature as a Millennial/Gen Yer. According to William Strauss and Neil Howe’s books each generation acts as a check on the excesses of its parent generation. As young adults in the ‘60s and ‘70s the Baby Boomers declared war on the cultural institutions of their GI Generation parents. The GIs (born 1900-1924) are what Howe and Strauss describe as a “civic” generation; they were driven toward creating social harmony. The Boomers (an “idealist” generation) were a check on that, fomenting greater individualism in the 1970s and culture wars in the 1990s. That our electoral maps are so split today is their fault. When the Civic GI President Ronald Reagan won in 1984 it was almost a solid red map. My generation – also a Civic generation – is a reaction against Baby Boomer extremes and will seek to create greater social harmony. This will become much more apparent as the younger Gen Yers in junior high and high school now start to make waves in 10 years.

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet (born 1957) has been emblematic of the divisive Boomer paradigm for his whole career. His plays and films are famous for the “Mamet style” of short bursts of memorable dialogue and the mainstreaming of casual profanity.

And so in his book detailing his rightward shift away from a “Brain-Dead” Hollywood leftist, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, the reader finds this same mindset applied to the political essay. The need to divide the world into clear cut categories of Liberalism and Conservatism pervades the text. Mamet even capitalizes them to Emphasize the Great Importance of the Political War between Boomer Liberalism and Boomer Conservatism. Gone is Simon’s sense of skepticism in Turning Right at Hollywood and Vine.

The Secret Knowledge is a collection of 39 short essays. Mamet has crafted an experience like the signature Boomer film “Forrest Gump.” Life is like a box of chocolates – and devouring the delicious morsels of Mamet’s book is an addictive treat, filled with surprises. Who cares if it’s just a political sugar rush? Most conservatives are familiar with the bibliography Mamet cribs his ideas from: Sowell, Hayek, VDH, Friedman, etc. Thus they won’t learn anything life-changing but will still enjoy the thrill of Mr. Mamet’s Wild Ride. And if that sentiment doesn’t summarize the Boomer cinema of Lucas-Spielberg-Bruckheimer-Moore-Stone then what does?

The endowment of the Baby Boomer Hollywood Apostates is the call to fight, the drive to confront with big special effects, and the need to divide ourselves from the intolerable. This makes for satisfying blockbuster popcorn films and effective (James Carville-Karl Rove style) political warfare. While there is plenty to critique in the failings of the Boomer presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush credit must be given: the Boomer political strategists were masters. Too bad they wasted their brains on winning the electoral fights while ignoring (and sometimes exacerbating) the more vital policy fights.

In Part 4 of the Hollywood Revolt, we’ll see how the Gen X leader Andrew Breitbart is reinventing this confrontational spirit – what he calls Righteous Indignation — and redirecting it in a more pragmatic, effective way than the Boomers ever could.

‘Race hustlers’ are commonly known as shakedown artists and/or smear merchants who expertly deploy the “R-word”, and it has somehow garnered them credibility to preach the gospel of social justice — and reap the ill-gotten gains of equality-of-outcome Statism — to the intellectual wreckage left below them. 

Tragically, such rhetorical abuse damages the appropriate use of the term – and leaves actual victims of “traditional” racism with a neutered descriptor that is quickly beginning to make the accuser sound like a whining name-caller. The sad irony is that abusers harm the very people they claim to be defending, most often for selfish political and financial profit. 

Of course, follow the money… 

Thomas Sowell:

Being a race hustler is a very lucrative business for people like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. But such people can extort money and power from white business and political leaders precisely because it is easier to pay off a relative handful of noise makers than to be bothered fighting them. But tens of millions of blacks cannot duplicate what a small band of extortionists do. 

Chasing a will o’ the wisp like reparations cannot produce what blacks most want — respect, including the self-respect that comes ultimately from one’s own achievements. This is something that whites could not give blacks if they wanted to. 

That fading race-business model is likely depressing its intolerant participants’ financial outlook. 

Time-out to play Spot the ‘Racists!’ (*NSFW*): 

A true classic, no? 

Moral-crusaders on self-congratulatory, highly profitable missions exploit and perpetuate the ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’. They are now desperate to keep their minority mascots in political servitude to one political party’s destructive ideology, i.e., dependence. 

Ironically, Candidate Obama’s denunciation and public divorce from his long-time racist pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, played a pivotal role in accelerating the loss of race-hustler credibility in the current American zeitgeist; this cultural good fortune – secured for now by new/alternative media success — is likely to continue its progressive course into the foreseeable future. 

Addressing his former pastor’s failures and “mistake” in his famous March, 2008 campaign ‘Race Speech,’ President Obama characterized our nation’s “racial divisions” as being in a “stalemate.” He asserted a firm conviction “rooted in [his] faith in God and [his] faith in the American people – that working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds.”   

Later, elected president, Mr. Obama acknowledged his careless rush to judgment – which some deemed as reflexive reverse racism — that the Cambridge, MA Police “acted stupidly.” The president manned up and provided leadership at a healing “Beer Summit.” Ben Franklin, no stranger to beer, would’ve likely approved this gesture. 

Rhetorically speaking, thank God that from now on when thought-terminating clichés such as “racist!,” “sexist!,” “bigot!,” “xenophobe!,” “homophobe!,” “hypocrite!,” “chicken-hawk!,” “Uncle Tom!,” “white supremacist!” etc. are hastily concocted (Max Blumenthal call your office), Americans are no longer intimidated by these divisive, intellectually-stifling smears. 

Fearless rhetorical engagement in the modern cultural/political arena of ideas is a good and necessary component of our vigorous and successful Republic. 

With principled firmness, a solid rejoinder to race-hustler-ridiculousness: “What hard evidence do you have other than clumsy guilt-by-association character assassination, and/or sins-of-the-father attacks and innuendo?” 

Too often Modern Liberal arguments amount to nothing more than self-anointed moral rulings that certain people don’t at all have standing on various issues, especially race. These rulings are never ideologically neutral but, rather, are the notorious political weaponry of Saul Alinsky. 

Once exclusively reserved for very effective use against unarmed conservatives, Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” is now self-defeating his radical ideological progeny. Now those are ‘chickens come home to roost’ that can benefit America! 

Ridicule is, according to Alinsky, man’s most potent weapon. 

Highly effective also is Andrew Breitbart’s approach of keeping the pressure on by freezing the target and making them live up to their own book of rules:

It’s time to hit back at these people — that these people keep calling you a racist… Instead of slinking into the corner and crying or saying ‘I don’t like that,’ you walk straight towards them and confront them; and they’re bullies, they’re just bullies and bullies crumble when you hit them back. 

Unity is overrated… Saddle up. Let’s Roll!

Thomas Sowell

I mention this because not too long ago I started reading A CONFLICT OF VISIONS by Thomas Sowell, and as I did, I started to get the sense that Sowell may have developed a Grand Unified Theory of politics, because he went (as usual) right to the core of the issue: beyond Republican / Democrat, beyond Conservative / Liberal… all the way down to the brass tacks of why people believe what they believe. — VIDEO BELOW THE FOLD… 

Sowell argues that when it comes to the culture wars, each of us will be drawn to a specific trench not because of policies or parties but rather because of the vision we may hold of human beings and how they are constructed. He names these the Constrained and Unconstrained visions of humanity; Mankind either as constrained by his biology to moral weakness and self-interest, or, on the other hand, a creature unconstrained by his biology and therefore perfectible. 

The kind of society you would construct for each model of the human heart is vastly different; opposite, even. And so I decided to test his theory against history and look for examples. The results are here:

Thomas Sowell is uplifting. He is also terribly depressing, at least to me. Because only when I read a mind like Thomas Sowell’s do I fully realize just what a second-rate thinker I really am.  Still, he gives us something to aim at… no matter how far from the mark we may fall.

Wal-Mart has a longstanding policy about not selling CDs that would require a parental advisory sticker, but that doesn’t stop the navel-gazing band from kvetching about what they seem to perceive as censorship:

“They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there,” he said. “We just said no. We’ve never done it before. You feel like you’re in 1953 or something.”

Newsflash to the boys in the band: that’s what’s called making a business decision. Wal-Mart’s business decision is to ask bands to create “clean” versions of their albums for sale in Wal-Mart stores. Some bands comply while others, like Green Day, do not – in turn making their own business decision (something that Obama has yet to take away from businesses other than some in the auto industry).

Will Wal-Mart come to regret not putting the album, which has sold some 250,000 copies already and is at the top of the charts, on its shelves? Perhaps, but that’s their problem if they end up losing money. Likewise, it’s Green Day’s problem if they end up losing money because they prefer to stay true to their art and not comply with Wal-Mart’s request.

I’m surprised that they didn’t come out and say that Wal-Mart was violating their First Amendment rights (which would be incorrect, BTW), but reading between the lines, one can guess that this is what they’re thinking.  Yet like most libs, they want to have their cake and eat it too:

But bassist Mike Dirnt said: “As the biggest record store in America, they should probably have an obligation to sell people the correct art.”

Translation: Wal-Mart should be forced to sell their CD, even if it violates the code of ethics to which Wal-Mart adheres.

This is the kind of thinking that ended up with eHarmony.com, a Christian-based online dating service and private business, being sued by a lesbian for discrimination because the site didn’t cater to gays and lesbians. No matter that gays and lesbians had other dating sites they could join; one site was not available and therefore discrimination must be taking place. (eHarmony ended up buckling under pressure.)

No matter that consumers have a number of outlets where they can purchase 21st Century Breakdown in all its unedited, crass glory. The meanies at Wal-Mart won’t carry it, and suddenly budding musicians might become discouraged!

“If you think about bands that are struggling or smaller than Green Day … to think that to get your record out in places like that, but they won’t carry it because of the content and you have to censor yourself,” he said. “I mean, what does that say to a young kid who’s trying to speak his mind making a record for the first time? It’s like a game that you have to play. You have to refuse to play it.”

Here’s a suggestion, boys: take a civics class and read Thomas Sowell’s Basic Economics: A Commonsense Guide to the Economy. You might learn something.

Dennis Miller started out on the political left and, as he matured (helped along considerably by the shock of 9/11), he migrated to the political right.

In this wayward sojourn, he is in fine intellectual company: To name but a few, David Horowitz (former campus radical), Irving Kristol (one time Trotskyite), and Ronald Reagan (early FDR-New Dealer).  And as is usually the case with someone who has viewed the world through both left and right prisms, Miller possesses exceptional insight into the relative strengths and weaknesses of both ideologies. 

On a recent broadcast of his syndicated West Wood One radio show, taped live at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, California (to commemorate the imminent release of the unabridged Reagan Diaries), Miller reflected on the terrible spiritual toll taken by socialism’s attempt to take the fight out of life.  Noting that comfortable social democracies like Sweden nonetheless have high suicide rates, Miller professes not to be surprised:

“I like fighting….I don’t know about you, when your cat heels are hanging over the abyss, isn’t that when the game is on?  Isn’t that part of being a human being?  I mean, if somebody comes in behind you and stuccos the abyss over and you can’t fall anywhere, I think that eats into your head somewhere down the road.  It’s about the challenge….”

Somehow in this wonderful, seemingly off-the-cuff remark to a live audience, Miller crystallizes the best arguments of Ayn Rand, Alexis de Tocquevile, and Thomas Sowell–and gets a laugh doing it.

But he wasn’t through.  Only a few minutes later he mock-accepts the coming Obama socialist revolution. He won’t leave the country, he informs his listeners, as so may conservatives have threatened.  Instead:

“You know, you get to a point if they’re [the government] taking too much money, I’d quit working.  Wouldn’t you?  There’s two lines:  Here’s the line where you get your money for working, and here’s the line where you get it for not working.  If this line…the stacks about as big as this line, I’m jumping lines.”

Here Miller distills the issue outside of ideology and into the realm of nuts and bolts practicality–socialism does not work, because sooner or later, everyone is on the public doll, with predicable and horrifying consequences for the spiritual and economic productivity of society.  A brutal analogy which, again, got a laugh.

Dennis Miller’s radio program is often a great listen–politicos, comedians, and authors all rub elbows with equal ease in his gentile and eminently courteous broadcast.  And Miller himself has lost none of his devastatingly precise comedic chops.

But occasionally, and here is where Miller often stands heads and shoulders over his talk radio peers, he provides something more–sober, sane assessment, and (shock) a little perspective.

Thank God he’s–finally–on our side.

Matt Patterson is a columnist and commentator whose work has appeared in the Washington Examiner, The Baltimore Sun, Town Hall, and Pajamas Media.  He is the author of “Union of Hearts: The Abraham Lincoln & Ann Rutledge Story.  His email is mpatterson.column@gmail.com.