Archive for Erik Rush
Born in New York City in 1961, from 1975 to 1985 columnist and author Erik Rush was a club, stage and studio musician. He's also been involved in biomedical research, sales, marketing and management, and a few things he doesn't talk about. Erik has appeared on FOX News' Hannity and Colmes, CNN's Paula Zahn Now, and is a veteran of numerous radio appearances and speaking engagements.
Joy Behar is a Fat, Stupid Commie By Erik Rush
The irresponsible, inflammatory and, to be blunt, brainless remarks Joy Behar makes on a regular basis underscore what The View co-host is: An archetype of the insular, ignorant, supercilious far Left elite. As an escapee from the Fetid Apple, I find the phenomenon of folks who may be widely traveled but who never leave New York fascinating. The typical “Ugly American,” so to speak, their small-minded, narrow views remain with them no matter where they go.
No Shame, No Blame By Erik Rush
If my checking account goes into overdraft to a dramatic degree, obviously my bank would hear nothing of coming to the rescue with funds not only to ameliorate the overdraft, but to get me on my feet again.
Black White Trash By Erik Rush
Two weeks ago, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation published a piece by Toronto writer Heather Mallick that sprayed far Left elitism like blood from a cleanly-severed carotid artery. In it, she described supporters of Republican vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin as “white trash” and ascribed more insulting terminology to the Alaska governor and her family.
Obama and the Trinity United murders By Erik Rush
Members of Chicago’s Trinity United Church (the house of worship attended by Democrat presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama for 20 years) already had their Christmas trees up when members of the Chicago press circulated through the city, interviewing many of them as they mourned Donald Young, their 47-year-old choir master who has been found shot dead in his South Side Chicago home on December 3, 2007.
Already a Hero By Erik Rush
And indeed she might be. Around 40 million folks tuned in to the festivities at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul on Wednesday, September 3, according to Nielsen Media Research. That’s about a 28 million more than those who watched the Democrats’ hyper-boganza (”bogus extravaganza”) on any given night of the previous week.
Obama: Unfortunate Words? By Erik Rush
I try to avoid making commentary out of commentaries of news items. I also try to avoid using the word “I” in my columns overmuch, but the reader shall see how that worked out. This is actually a commentary on a commentary of a commentary on a news item, if that makes any sense at [...]
16Jul2008 | Erik Rush | 1 comment | ContinuedUpchuck City By Erik Rush
No, this is not a review of an upcoming Spike Lee film; rather, the title of this offering is a reference to what the town of Unity, N.H. became on Friday June 27, when Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Company descended upon the microscopic New England town in an effort [...]
1Jul2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedSo Stuck on Stupid By Erik Rush
Whether one attributes the success of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama to savvy maneuvering on the part of the Democratic National Committee and the Obama campaign, Republican ineptitude, a biased press or the influence of shadow governments, in the end the November election’s outcome is going to come down to Americans’ capacity – or lack [...]
19Jun2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedWhere No Enemy Has Gone Before By Erik Rush
There’s an axiom in Recovery (as in from addiction) circles which asserts that addictions are but symptoms of deeper emotional or psychological problems. Leaving aside the debate as to whether this holds water, I submit that the tremendous success of Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama is but a symptom of the broader disease: The establishment [...]
11Jun2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedPsycho Pastor or Killer Clown? By Erik Rush
It’s official: The “pastor issue” as regards the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is old hat. Why? Because it’s not about radical pastors anyway, and never was; it’s an issue of whether or not it is plausible that Obama sat in a church which teaches the racist, Marxist, anti-American doctrine of Black Liberation [...]
4Jun2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedObama and the Religion of Race War By Erik Rush
“Unless God is participating in this holy activity, we must reject his love. Either God is for black people in their fight for liberation and against the white oppressors, or he is not.”
Black Theology and Black Power, Dr. James Cone, 1969
Barack Obama must be called to renounce Black Liberation Theology. Can an American be compelled [...]
Right to Religious Expression Depends on Color By Erik Rush
As if the Reverend Wright issue and double standard of Democrat presidential just-about nominee Senator Barack Obama’s seeming imperviousness as far as the press and likely voters go weren’t odious enough, the candidate is now employing campaign materials focusing on his alleged Christian faith.
Fliers on the topic of Obama’s alleged conversion experience began appearing [...]
21May2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedBlack Liberation Theology: The Enemy Within By Erik Rush
Sincere apologies from this columnist to those sufficiently sick of the Barack Obama/Rev. Jeremiah Wright story that they are a hair’s breadth from an uncontrollable fit of projectile vomiting.
On March 1, 2007, when Rev. Wright blasted me, Sean Hannity and Alan Colmes for being too ignorant to even presume to speak on theology because [...]
Always Something There to Remind Me By Erik Rush
Lest we forget, there are good reasons why some have been committed to training quartz halogen floodlamps on every bit of spume found beneath the rock that is Barack Obama’s campaign for the Democratic nomination, why they shall continue to do so, and why they will focus (or re-focus) attention on whomever comes out as [...]
8May2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedSymbiosis: Rev. Wright and the Subversive Media By Erik Rush
There’s not much point left to arguing whether the provocative vitriol purveyed by Trinity United Church’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright in his sermons was warranted, understandable, excusable or in any way accurate. This columnist and an increasing number of Americans believe Wright’s tirades were wholly inexcusable and thus by nature cannot be explained away, [...]
30Apr2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedCults of Personalities By Erik Rush
I had to jump on this one. As a teenager, I attended summer camp with actor Jason Beghe, and we were members of a loosely-knit camp clique for a time thereafter. I actually made some lifelong friends through that experience, but as moviegoers know, Jason headed for Hollywood and made his mark there. I must [...]
24Apr2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedJimmy Carter: Citizen Traitor By Erik Rush
The political left in America is like a deranged passenger on a jetliner who repeatedly attempts to storm the flight deck and crash the plane, but who the crew and other travelers are limited in their ability to restrain due to obscure regulations (whose full implications were unforeseen when they were implemented) which give the [...]
16Apr2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedPut a Shine on This, Madam Speaker By Erik Rush
Our inimical lich of a House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was at it again last week, subtly sabotaging our military’s efforts in Iraq, potentially demoralizing and compromising our troops in a transparent election year political ploy. On April 4, Pelosi admonished General David Petraeus not to “put a shine” on developments in Iraq when he and [...]
9Apr2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedWhat a Tangled Web We Weave By Erik Rush
Last Friday, on the ABC talk show “The View” - about as softball a venue as one can get - presidential hopeful Barack Obama indicated that he would have left Chicago’s Trinity United church had the militant, anti-American pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright not recently retired.
I don’t know if I’ve ever heard a bigger insult to [...]
Is it Because He’s Black? By Erik Rush
Just how much – if such a thing can be reliably quantified – relating to the presidential campaign of Barack Obama can be traced to his ethnicity?
Some might assert that everything – or nearly everything – apropos the Obama campaign, save for the careful manner in which he has employed his rhetoric has to do [...]
A Castrated Nation By Erik Rush
If there was ever an election cycle in which the issues (at this juncture, really weighty ones) took a back seat to pomp and circumstance – or, if you prefer, hype and flatulence – this one is definitely it.
With the exception of half a handful of worthwhile individuals who were destined to be ignored by [...]
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know By Erik Rush
“About the capitalist states, it doesn’t depend on you whether or not we exist… Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!”
- Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, 1956
I considered titling this column “Where Are We Going and How Did I Get in This Handbasket?” but decided it would have been [...]
The Lesser of Two Weevils By Erik Rush
First, I suppose I ought to explain the irony of the analogy I propose: Weevils, of the insect family Curculionidae, include approximately 40,000 species (Encyclopædia Britannica), but the most common association relates to those species which typically feed on grain.
Biblically, stored grain was literally the lifeblood of society, and anything which threatened it – drought, [...]
Obam-O-Vision: My Race, Right or Wrong By Erik Rush
I broke this story last February (with help from a Chicago area journalist whom I did credit because I’m extraordinarily noble), and as I said two weeks ago in this space, it had its fifteen minutes and fizzled, which was somewhat expected given the mindset of the establishment media.
The story of presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s [...]
Doing The Mideast Peace Shuffle By Erik Rush
“There should be an end to the occupation that began in 1967. The agreement must establish a Palestine as a homeland for the Palestinian people just as Israel is a homeland for the Jewish people.”
- President George W. Bush, January 10, 2008
Geopolitics is such a complicated subject, you see, far beyond the comprehension of the [...]
16Jan2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedObama Gets Gold in Skating By Erik Rush
A rather timely occurrence transpired just the other day: Apparently, since the Iowa caucuses people are trying to secure everything on one Barack Hussein Obama that they can get their hands on. A gentleman who had stumbled upon my column “Obamination” (The New Media Journal, February 20, 2007) wrote to me claiming that he couldn’t find much about [the issue the column addressed] in the news. He actually did quite a bit of digging before writing to me, I surmise to determine that I hadn’t just made the whole thing up. He finished with the question: “Has anybody ever asked Obama about it?”
9Jan2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedCultural Cavemen and the Wimps of the West By Erik Rush
“We terminated the most precious American asset which vowed to defeat [the] mujahedeen.”
Al-Qaeda commander and spokesperson Mustafa Abu Al-Yazid, referencing the assassination of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto; Adnkronos International News Service (AKI), December 27, 2007.
Lest I wind up standing back-to-back with actor Will Smith tomorrow morning defending myself against flying produce (Smith is [...]
2Jan2008 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedIt’s a Grinch Thing By Erik Rush
Two thousand years ago, a man was born in Judea (a region of modern-day Israel). During three years of His adult life He preached a social philosophy similar to what many might call “The Golden Rule.” He gained a large following and thus was considered a heretic and a threat to the ruling powers. As a result of this, He died to prove the point of his teachings.
26Dec2007 | Erik Rush | 0 comments | ContinuedYou Say You Want a Res-o-lution… By Erik Rush
You say you want a revolution, well you know
We all want to change the world…
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The Beatles, Revolution
Ironic, if one reads all of the lyrics to The Beatles Revolution: Despite being left-leaners for their time, the tune almost sounds like something a conservative music artist might write today.
Snapshot of America:
For the moment, we [...]
Open Season on Christians has Begun By Erik Rush
“All I want to do is kill as many of you as I can, especially Christians.”
- Matthew Murray, Colorado mission school and church gunman.
I had already decided upon this subject matter for my column (the “imaginary” war on Christians eventually promoting violence against Christians, specifically the missionary group dormitory shooting an hour’s drive from my [...]
You Scratch My Black, I’ll Scratch Yours By Erik Rush
This just might be an alliteration maven’s wildest dream…
“Oprah to Join Obama on Campaign Trail in Early Primary States,” was the title of the Associated Press article of November 26.
“Des Moines, Iowa – Oprah Winfrey will join Democrat Barack Obama again on the campaign trail, this time visiting the early contest states of Iowa, New [...]
Shades of Things to Come? By Erik Rush
In December of 2003, the U.S.-based Home School Legal Defense Association (http://www.hslda.org) released an article entitled “German Homeschoolers Under Attack” which addressed difficulties German families were having with their government in attempting to home school their children.
In 2001, HSLDA helped German homeschoolers start their own legal advocacy group, Schulunterricht zu Hause. In 2003, Schulunterricht zu [...]
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