Sipsey Street Irregulars: WaPo Reporter: "Help! I'm trapped in my Weltanschauung and I can't get out!"

Friday, February 4, 2011

WaPo Reporter: "Help! I'm trapped in my Weltanschauung and I can't get out!"

Weltanschauung, noun. From the German. (plural weltanschauungs or weltanschauungen)

1. a person's or a group's conception, philosophy or view of the world; a worldview

So, a funny thing happened this evening. I opened my email to find this story forwarded by WaPo reporter James Grimaldi: "White House delays gun reporting requirement along Mexican border."

Readers may remember that that Grimaldi and his sidekick Sari Horwitz took their initial plunge into the turbulent water of the Project Gunwalker scandal with this piece on Tuesday: "ATF gunrunning probe strategy scrutinized after death of Border Patrol agent," and that I cruelly and disrespectfully posted the link as "Late to the story, Pravda (WaPo) Parrots Kremlin Cover Up Line." You may also remember that in response I sent Horwitz and Grimaldi an instant masterpiece of counseling, a letter entitled: "Heer there be Dragones." My letter to the Pravda reporters. "Welcome to the Project Gunwalker Scandal story."

To these I had nary a word back from Grimaldi and Horwitz, yet I put them on my regular email forwarding list of Sipsey Street posts regarding the scandal anyway.

Now, Herr Grimaldi favors me with a personal forward of his latest article, which indicates that:

White House budget officials dealt federal firearms investigators a setback Friday when officials rejected an emergency request for a rule meant to help catch gunrunners to Mexico.

The decision delays for at least two months a proposed requirement that gun dealers along the Mexican border report anyone who buys two or more assault weapons in five days. White House officials said the delay will give the public more time - until Feb. 14 - to comment on the proposal.

Meg Reilly, spokeswoman for the Office of Management and Budget, said the decision follows President Obama's directive to curb excessive regulation and "is consistent with the president's call for more transparency and opportunities for public participation in his recent executive order."

The delay marks the second time that the rule, which is strongly opposed by the gun industry and the National Rifle Association, has been put on hold. The idea was shelved by then-White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel last year and was not reconsidered until after the midterm congressional elections.

The rest of the article is the usual WaPo boilerplate of civilian disarmament worldview about the "gun lobby" and American gunshops and gunshows arming cartel gunmen.

Yet I can't help but wonder if Grimaldi's deigning to send me a copy of his article in person isn't some quiet cry of "Help! I'm trapped in my Weltanschauung and I can't get out!"

We shall continue to try to bring the fellow around to see the universe as it is, not as Paul Helmke says it is. Why not? It's going to be a long, cold war anyway, and there are worse things than taking a few minutes to pass the time by wrestling the collectivist Devil for a poor unfortunate reporter's soul.

Illustration from 'The Devil and Daniel Webster'

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: Mike,
You are having way too much fun with this. But I guess you deserve it, given how much work went into get the Authorized Journalists to actually earn some of their pay.

:-); February 4, 2011 at 11:37 PM
Defender said...: I hope it IS a distorted internal ideology and not MODD -- Media Oppositional Defiant Disorder. My former news colleagues say progressivism at all costs -- cost to others, of course. Research takes effort, the truth is almost always inconvenient, so they rarely touch the stuff.; February 5, 2011 at 12:11 AM
Anonymous said...: Yes, we need a regulation requiring dealers to report these purchases so that the ATF can either ignore them or allow them to be walked into the hands of the cartels, or "lost" during surveillance.

But according to sources of the LA Times, its because the poor thugs at the ATF just don't have enough funding to track the guns they let go south of the border

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-atf-guns-20110203,0,6169639.story; February 5, 2011 at 1:11 AM
Anonymous said...: In order to defeat the truth, one must tell lies. In order to tell effective lies, one must know what the truth actually is. Not doing so, unmasks the liar as such because the truth once heard, always defeats a lie. Therefore lies cannot withstand truth and fact, once heard, and therefore truth and fact must not be heard, only the lies. if one is to win the argument and defeat truth.

Welcome to the news and entertainment media Marxists cabal as we know it today in America. Further study can be made by viewing foreign presentations, for comparison.; February 5, 2011 at 1:34 PM

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"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

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WaPo Reporter: "Help! I'm trapped in my Weltanschauung and I can't get out!"

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