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Left-Wing Frog-Stickers John L. Perry It's increasingly apparent that the leftists never took high school biology, or they wouldn't keep on applying electric shock to Americans' leg-jerk nerve. With no program of public policies to cure whatever it is they are convinced is wrong with everything and everybody in this country but themselves, they persist in exhausting the nation's refractory reflex. That's the interval of time between the instant a muscle is stimulated and when the neurological system recovers its capacity to make a second response. The more often a stimulus is applied, the longer it takes a muscle to respond again, and again, and again. For readers whose lives were not ennobled by frogs' legs in biology class, here's how nature's refractory response works: Pin a specimen frog flat on its back on the lab table, hook up a battery to a copper wire, touch one end to the frog's leg and give it a little shock. The hapless frog kicks like, well, like it had been shocked.
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Not Even a Twitch Keep repeating the process. With each successive shock, the interval between leg kicks grows longer. Finally, when you've absolutely worn out the nerve's refractory response, the poor frog just lies there. This is what's happening to the American people. The loony lefties have kept up such a frenzied assault upon the character of President Bush and, now, Vice President Cheney that about the only response from the electorate is a resigned, "There they go again." Every time the Democratic Party strategists send Rep. Nancy Pelosi out in front of the cameras in her expensive, garish fire-engine outfit, everyone knows what she'll have to say. She's poked the collective refractory nerve so often, the response ranges from negligible to non-existent. Leftists have become the cocktail-party bore who has only one story to tell and insists on inflicting it upon everyone at the punch bowl, over and over. Bartenders used to toss drunks out onto the street for less than that, lest they drove away business.
Customers Are Never Right And that's what the clueless lefties are doing – driving away voters not already besotted with their neo-Marxist nonsense. More power to them. Hey, Nancy, tell us that one again. You know, the whopper about how sinister and stupid the president of the United States is. Folks of more conservative than liberal bent should take heart: At this rate Democrats will by the 2008 presidential election be about as eagerly awaited as a pair of Jehovah's Witnesses on the front steps. Ah, but that's giving those suffering from advanced Pelosi-itis too much credit. They have help, big help. Indeed, where would they be if not for all the compulsive amplification by the masscomm left? It's been some time now since reporters actually reported, news papers were actually interested in news and television personalities were actually journalists. Who Elected Them to Anything? Witness recent amateur-hour performances by the White House "press" corps. In the instance of Dick Cheney's hunting accident, those worthies weren't interested in reporting events. They were beyond torquing and distorting the news. They were hell bent on making the news be what they wanted it to be – that is to say, mostly about themselves. It's an architectural miracle these poseurs of the Fourth Estate manage to squeeze their insatiable, swelling egos into that one, little White House briefing room. An indolent lot they are, too. No bloodhounds, they. If they'd turn the soles of their shoes up for the cameras to zoom in on, it's a safe bet you'd see very little scuffed leather. These are definitely not the sidewalk-pounding, door-knocking, fact-seeking reporters of ancient lore. Lost Their Hustle They want everything served to them right there where they slouch and slump. In a surge of non-competitiveness, they insist upon all of them being spoon-fed the identical news release at the identical moment. No wonder they had such a communal hissy when the non-elite Corpus Christi Caller-Times scooped them on Cheney's hunting accident. (Come to think of it, why didn't the major newspapers and telecasters have at least a pool reporter right there on the quail shoot with Cheney? Perhaps they fear the veep is a better shot than they portray him.) Aside from the painfully obvious fact that their parents neglected to raise them with some manners, this bag of lazy-bones don't really want to be where the action is. They want to be the action. Inside the Innermost In Jack Kennedy knew how to co-opt the pack. He and Pierre Salinger would con them shamelessly, and they'd come groveling for more. JFK let them think they were right there in Camelot with him, occupants of the most envied chairs at the Round Table. It would stun you to know how many White House press corps boys and girls strutted all over Washington in those days, throwing around like confetti at a parade the magical words we and us – meaning the Kennedys and themselves. They want Camelot back, and Bush – God bless him – gives them Crawford. If those arrogant incompetents only knew what scant attention the American people really pay to them. And it's less and less with each repetitive stimulus. All you leg-jerk pseudo-journalists may now go stick that stimulus up your own refractory reflex. John L. Perry, a prize-winning newspaper editor and writer who served on White House staffs of two presidents, is a regular columnist for NewsMax.com. Read John Perry's columns here.
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