Why Some of Us Can't Dine in Peace

Fifteen years ago, when I still lived in the D.C. swamp, I took my elementary school-daughter and toddler son out for one of our regular weekend breakfasts at IHOP. But we couldn’t be left alone to enjoy our meal. As my kids dug into their funny-face pancakes, a fuming-faced liberal marched to our booth and started ranting about my anti-open-borders commentaries on Fox News. The incident occurred not long after Geraldo Rivera told a Boston Globe reporter that I was the “most vile, hateful commentator I’ve ever met in my life” and that “it’s good she’s in D.C. and I’m in New York” because “I’d spit on her if I saw her.”

Fifteen years later, I’m blacklisted by the “fair and balanced” network, while fork-tongued cable news reptile Geraldo Rivera remains a heavily promoted Fox News contributor who regularly attacks everyone else (including his former friend Donald Trump) for inciting violence. File under “chutzpah.” Fifteen years later, organized mobs in the nation’s capital are targeting Supreme Court justices in their homes.

Fifteen years later, the goons of ShutDownDC, leading instigators of “direct action” (translation: domestic terrorism) against the far left’s political enemies, have now offered bounties of up to $200 on Twitter to stalk and harass Justices Brett Kavanaugh, Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and John Roberts. In a Twitter post that brazenly violates the social media giant’s own rules against targeted harassment and incitements to violence, ShutDownDC called on D.C.-area service industry workers to expose the whereabouts of the conservative justices who overturned Roe v. Wade. The call to arms came after Kavanaugh was hounded out of Morton’s steakhouse in D.C.

In a rare display of business defiance of the mob, Morton’s responded in a statement that Kavanaugh and other patrons “were unduly harassed by unruly protestors” and that politics “should not trample … the right to congregate and eat dinner.” Or to eat an IHOP breakfast with children!

One outlet characterized the latest intimidation campaign against the SCOTUS judges as a “troubling escalation.” But I know from both professional and up-close-and-personal experience that all this ugliness is a continuation of years and years of abuse of, and violence against, conservative public figures in both public and private spaces. See, for example, my 2006 encyclopedia of left-wing loons, “Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild.”

Naturally, militant abortion zealots cheered the Morton’s ambush and mocked the justices who are under siege—even as Kavanaugh’s would-be assassin faces attempted murder charges after flying from California to the judge’s home in the D.C. area to kill him. On cue, the Biden administration defended and encouraged more such protest for abortion on demand. But ShutDownDC’s summer of staged rage isn’t about any sincerely held despair over the right to murder unborn babies, just as the attacks on Trump officials at their homes and in restaurants in 2018 weren’t really, in the end, merely about Trump or America First populism or borders.

Remember: ShutDownDC is a full-time, deep-pocketed front group for wealthy woke heiresses like Aileen Getty and Rory Kennedy who hop from “progressive” cause celebre to cause celebre. As I’ve reported previously, their compadres in the invasive Sunrise Movement are a parallel disruption outfit backed by the Sierra Club that agitated for the Green New Deal, Black Lives Matter, and the Defund the Police movement before mobilizing to attack the private homes of Senate Republicans who confirmed Trump’s judges. Even more alarming: the presence of ShutDownDC subversives embedded in federal government agencies including Takoma Park Mobilization, Alt U.S. National Park Service, Alt Ed, Alt FDA, Alt NOAA, Alt U.S. Forest Service, Alt EPA, and BadHombreLands National Park Service.

Reminder: The Sierra Club (annual budget: $100 million; top donors: Michael Bloomberg, George Soros) provided five-figure initial seed grants to Sunrise’s educational arm, as well as Beltway office space. Other original funders of Sunrise: The Rockefeller Foundation and Wallace Global Fund (which also contributed to the George Soros-subsidized Tides Center, Color of Change cancel culture guerilla warriors, and far-left legal policy groups Alliance for Justice and the Brennan Center for Justice). The Sunrise Movement’s co-founder, Evan Weber, is a former Occupy Wall Street organizer. Two others, Sara Blazevic and Varshini Prakash, are Green New Deal zealots and Sen. Bernie Sanders activists. Prakash serves as an advisory board member of Climate Power 2020 along with Soros-funded Center for American Progress head John Podesta, former Obama administration environmental czar Carol Browner, former Obama administration science czar John Holdren, former Obama administration Secretary of State John Kerry, former Obama administration EPA head Gina McCarthy, and former Obama administration U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power.

Some of us can’t dine in peace because our simple existence is a threat to the “liberal world order.” If you can’t be controlled, you must be de-personed. “Tolerance” is only for the intolerant. The rules of civility don’t apply to the self-righteous monsters sporting “empathy” bumper stickers on their cars and “love is love” banners in the windows of their homes and businesses that will always be safe from pot-bangers, Molotov cocktail-hurlers and billionaire-funded dissent-crushers.

Bon appetit, end-stage America.

Image: Brett Kavanaugh – Caricature (DonkeyHotey via Flickr Commons, CC BY 2.0)

Comments (7)

Today free speech is only ,if you agree with me! Tolerance and merit have been lost in the “woke” attack on our core values. Where is the DOJ enforcing the law? Only go after what they don’t like.

July 13, 2022 lynn savits Reply

How in God’s name Geraldo somehow was morphed into a purportedly respectable commentator is testament to America and to a lesser extent Fox. For much of my younger years Geraldo was, literally, something you laughed at the existence of. He was THE laughingstock. Furthermore, how Fox has been granted by the market a monopoly on conservative television is puzzling. Fox trumps its ratings but, as indicated, it has no real competition. If you put its ratings up against CNN and MSNBC combined Fox simply then reflects, more or less, the fairly even societal split. Sometimes I imagine, really, the millions with no other choice simply glued to Fox not even realizing they are just tools of Neil Cavuto and a few others.

July 14, 2022 Michael Kaiser Reply

This escalation in harassment of the political opposition within the borders of the dung heap called DC is in no way random or spur of the moment but is openly encouraged by Democrat Party leadership whom on many an occasion have given the clarion call to their paid agitators to target specific persons by dropping names of prominent conservative individuals at highly publicized events who are then openly demonized while at the same time certain subtle euphemisms are used as a call for harassment and in some cases violence. We all remember Chuck Schumer’s veiled threats against certain SCOTUS justices, the targeted harassment of Sen. Ted Cruz on more than one occasion, and the blatant assault on Sen. Rand Paul with very little and in some instances no police or justice department investigation or offers of protection, and all with deliberate intent. We see completely different behavior when the victims of anything even remotely approaching similar levels of harassment or violence are the dominant party within DC, then the authorities seem to spring into action committed to bringing any and all culprits to justice no matter how many civil rights have to be violated in the process. We don’t have equal protection under the law, we don’t have a functional justice system, we don’t have the respect of our elected leadership. What we do have is rule by a bunch of privileged oligarchs who have nothing but disdain for those they are supposed to represent, are filled with the most abject hatred for those political opponents who have displayed courage in defending conservative policies, and who will resort to any means (up to and including incitement to violent behavior) to retain their grip on power.

July 14, 2022 chowfun Reply

What you are talking about are current examples of the Leftist tenet, Repressive Tolerance. It is way older than 15 years too. It is a concept created by NeoMarxist founder Herbert Marcuse in a pamphlet written in 1965. It was quickly taken up by the New Left movement and has been standard fare for Leftists ever since.

Repressive Tolerance means that Leftist movements should always be tolerated and Rightist movements should always be opposed including by violence. Every Left group in existence is simply carrying out this NeoMarxist concept. It has become a part of the Left’s common playbook.

Oh and the government and elite institutions like the Rockefeller Foundation have been funding Communism, Far Left movements in the US since at least the 1930s. It’s high time the Right finds successful ways to fight this civil war.

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July 14, 2022 RMB Reply

Frankly, I don’t know why Hannity allows Geraldo Rivera on his show anymore. We like Sean but he loves to talk over other peoples’ lines and his shouting matches with Geraldo became a bore. For us Jesse Waters prime Time and Tucker Carlson make a great combination . I doubt either would let Geraldo on their show and I hope they never do.

July 15, 2022 JWSPOONERMD Reply

I do not think there ever has been, really, a tv personality more in love with his own voice than Hannity. I would LOVE for someone on his show sometime who he starts talking over to say, “SHUT UP.”

July 16, 2022 Michael Kaiser Reply

Conservatives cannot dine in peace because conservatives put up with it. The Left do mob rule and the Right behave politely when the time comes for political retribution. When all three branches were Republican 6 years ago, dragging one’s feet on Trump’s agenda in the effort to help neuter him was more important than ensuring Democrats understood the gloves are now finally off for Republicans, too, after only several millennia being whipping boys, despite literally being demonized as Hitler-spawn and being harassed in public without Democrats pulling back on the reins of their mob. Doesn’t anybody get it? Once you’re the same as Hitler it’s the same as declaring anything can be done to you and all it is is “justice.” Pre-emptive justice, perhaps, but justice. Sadly, we’re about to repeat the cycle once the “red wave” that’s supposed to be inevitable results in probably not very much in the way of protecting citizens from those who would see their politics backed with violence. If the Democrats aren’t made to say the violence THEY tacitly support can be no part of this republic it will only ever get worse. THAT’s half the reason behind the Jan. 6 nonsense–making Trump the supposed aggressor not 2 years after their minions were burning American cities and now threatening supreme court justices. Remind me which one of you isn’t supposed to make me sick.

July 25, 2022 Douglass Pinkard Reply

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