Cassie posted this in the Open Thread section and we believe it deserves a far wider audience than might see it in the comments section….a few Liberals might see the light….and come over to the Dark Side.
http://ricochet.com/main-feed/Conservatives-Have-All-the-Best-Stories
“Conservatives Have All the Best Stories”
Biased BBC contributor Alan adds….
“It is low key but somehow extraordinary and mouth opening stuff. The speaker being a freelance journalist who once a Liberal, now, after her eyes were opened by the appallingly unfair and almost inhumane decisions of EU ‘Green’ commissars, is now a fully fledged normal person…who loves America and capitalism and the benefits such as vastly improved living standards and modern medicine that only it brings.
She tells us that she suspects the romanticism of the Liberals for non white European ‘cultures’ leads them into making almost racist decisions…ones that deny the benefits that the developed nations have….she says Africans don’t want to live in mud huts….I suspect she is right.
However she is also right about the cultural cringe, the aversion to ‘imposing’ anything Western upon other nations or cultures.
John Humphrys illustrated this for us on his first report from Liberia on the Today programme….
….’it’s a mismatched country and it just needs somebody to get it by the scruff of the neck and shake it, but that’s a European attitude.’
He tells us of the poverty and lack of amenities like electricity and water and sanitation….sewage polluting everything….but recoils at the thought that the solution might be some organisation and energy directed at improving things…..we can’t impose a European mindset on these people.
Really? What exactly is a European mindset? I would bet my bottom dollar that they would love to have an electric grid system or piped water and a sewage system and a transport system that works in all weathers. Hardly a European aspiration.
Just how do the Japanese cope? The Japanese industrialised and prospered because a Scottish engineer went there and put there economy on the right track. I don’t hear them complaining it’s all a European Imperial plot to colonise them by subterfuge and ideas.
Of course Humphrys and co would all be up in arms about a MacDonalds or Tescos moving into Primrose Hill. At least they’re consistent in depriving the less well off, or less highbrow, of their pleasures and life improving amenities.”
This too deserves a wide audience in this country.
Ricochet is a great site. The podcasts are fantastic, and worth the members’ fee alone.
“A recovering European” – I LOVE this woman. Everything she says is true. “C02 is the new DDT”. Brilliant!
Brilliant post! I’d never heard of Ann McElhinney before. She’s a star – we need a thousand more like her.
Anne and her other half Phelim McAleer are the ones behind the ‘Hypocrite’ videos I posted on the previous open thread.
Anne really is a force to be reckoned with. Here she is dealing with a typically bolshie female leftie student who has swallowed all of the self-loathing anti-capitalist BS fed to her by her so-called professors. You could have picked her out of the audience by appearance alone. The moment Anne begins her slap down, the student starts with the shrieking ad homs we’ve all become accustomed to from the brainwashed youth wing of the left.
Don’t f*ck with Anne, she’ll f*ck you back even harder.
These two from CPAC are worth a watch, but there are many of her clips on youtube worth giving a go – jut scan the side-bar.
By the way – be sure to watch the full exchange with the student in the first link. Despite claiming to have been in college for a long time, she displays a remarkable amount of ignorance of current affairs and the world around her.
Great to see that they managed to succeed in their funding drive for their new film ‘FrackNation’.
I like the cut of that womans jib!
Cut from the right cloth with real passion, all she needs to do is measure the pause between points made, count to five between points to allow the audience to catch up and she would be a blindingly good public speaker. Public speaking is about bring that public along for the ride instead of running to catch up.
A small point obviously, has to be said though and lets hope an experienced debater will put the girl right. Given that small correction she could wow the greater audience.
Pity it was empty. That girl is among many it is such a shame and brainwashing is the right word.
Found this thoughtful.
Her love of the USA is one I share completely.
What I got out of it was her “testimony”-and her need to tell it.
Reminds me very much of new Christians who go around churches telling people of how they got to see the light.
I`m trying to think now about MY conversion to the anti-Socialist that I am now…mine may well have been meeting Beverley Hughes in 1984 as a would-be Manchester Councillor…until then I had truly believed that Ken, Blunkett, Kinnock and Harman were worth working for.
Proud to say that I`ve not voted Labour since 1989…Euro Elections…but will certainly work on my “testimony”, as Anne says…we all need to get out and tell everyone the first time we saw the light with Thatcher…her eulogy to Reagan in 2004 was mine. A widow showing love and patriotism in equal order-and her treatment by the BBC ever since!
And yours?…a website and movement here surely!