His name is Bob Carson and you've never heard of him.
Mr. Carson is the host of what he describes, perhaps somewhat whimsically, as "New Jersey's only FM progressive radio show." Claiming that "some have compared Bob to Ed Schultz" (although the only person I've yet identified making this comparison is Bob himself), Mr. Carson is an example of the type of pundit empowered by the Internet. If not for the network of networks we call the World Wide Web, I would never have heard of Bob, nor would I know what he thinks about a given political issue. This is, despite the revolting and insulting nature of Mr. Carson's rhetoric, a good thing.
Carson describes what he does as an "independent radio show ... as a grass-roots, low-budget radio show. We're proud of that. I am." To call "Carson's Corner" – the name applied to Bob's political commentary and to the show he does in which he gives his news and views on the sport of mixed martial arts – a "radio show" might perhaps be a bit too generous for someone who is primarily a podcaster; Bob is heard once a week on the college radio station of Rider University. Bob nonetheless describes himself as "a warrior in the fight against right-wing/corporate propaganda."
Carson blames a culture of "individual achievement" for the lack of "society" – which, when spoken by an avowed progressive, is a communist's way of saying that individuals' insistence on their individual rights and sovereignty are bad, while community appeals to government authority in the name of the common good are, well, good. Bob says a lack of society has caused economic hardship, and this hardship has caused someone to rifle through his mailbox. The Republicans, he believes, are to blame. On Dec. 28, he said:
That's what it's going to come down to. If you don't pay a premium to the fire department or a premium to the police department, they're going to let your house burn down, or they're going to let you die in the streets due to a gunshot wound or whatever. … This is what corporate America, this is what the right wing has instilled upon us.
Carson derides journalists and members of the media as having no objectivity. He blames "right-wing editors" for the failure of modern journalists to get to "the truth." That's why, he says, "it's so important to support guys like myself, you know, independent media guys. … The corporations are cracking down on independent media sites."
It gets better. Carson's a believer in the "Shock Doctrine," an absurd "documentary" that exists primarily to vilify capitalism. (Its author ignores Obama's use of contrived crises to further his totalitarian agenda. She continues to defend her absurdly paranoid, outrageously off-base analysis, as explained by Johan Norberg – who termed it "hopelessly flawed at virtually every level.") According to Carson:
The United States of America, whenever we've had a country that does not subscribe to our economic policies, we have staged a coup and overthrown that democratically elected government ... we've tried to do it all over the globe to expand these countries and make them suitable for American business interests.
"They," in this case, is you right-wingers.
And what of President Obama? It turns out our most radically left-wing president simply isn't progressive enough for Bob:
Obama has totally been captured by the interests that have ruled this country for 30 years: the Chamber of Commerce, big business. ... We are being controlled by the select few. ... We basically have a fascist government right now.
As you can imagine, Bob was quick to take to his Twitter account to proclaim that "Jared Loughner may have had ties to right-wing hate group" and that "Sarah Palin leaves Facebook comment praising the death of a 9-year-old girl up, while erasing those that attack her." He thanked Glenn Beck for Jared Loughner (as if the radio host were responsible for the assassin's actions) and wondered if Sean Hannity "still thinks Democrats in Congress should be tortured and killed at Guantanamo Bay."
The worldview Bob Carson espouses tell us much about the mentality of someone who would be so desperate to connect the Arizona shooter – a deranged and disturbed left-winger – to the tea party, Sarah Palin, talk radio and everyone else liberals hate. I've written extensively on this subject before. To a liberal, even to disagree is an act of violence.
This is why I affirm and applaud Bob Carson's existence. I am grateful for his vile rhetoric. I am pleased to hear his weekly vomit of progressive talking points and liberal aphorisms so insulting to one's intelligence they make a reasonable man's flesh crawl.
Technology makes it possible to give a Bob Carson – or a Phil Elmore – a platform from which to speak to a wide audience. As long as he exists, I exist ... and you may read and hear us both. The horrible irony, the wry paradox here, is that Bob, if he had his way, would cut his own throat. He would cease to be in his ardent desire to see Fox News, Big Evil Corporations and Technocracy silenced. If the libs succeed in using events like the Arizona shooting to their advantage, they will eventually destroy both sides. It is a fact of the peculiar self-destructive nature of leftists that they do not see this and cannot think it through.
If the liberals can mischaracterize dissent as threats and opposition as hostile action, they can silence all debate in the name of keeping peace – even as they abuse you with politically correct power. They'll go on ramming their filthy ideology down our throats while ignoring the will of the American people – and they'll do it all while remaining blithely, blissfully unaware of what they've wrought. The progressives' would-be journalists and free thinkers will be the second group put against the wall by a totalitarian regime. It will be cold comfort to them then that you and I were stood there first.