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... Who knew that the Democrats' war on a chain restaurant would move quickly through the new media into the awareness of most Americans on the center-right, mostly skipping the clueless mainstream media?
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is quickly walking back his bullying of the Chick-fil-A franchisee in the Windy City, but he is still identified with the attempt by the government to muscle down on the "Eat Mor Chikin" cows because the company's president, Dan Cathy, dared express support for traditional marriage in America, joining 30 states that have since 1998 adopted amendments to their state constitutions defining marriage as between one woman and one man, and the voters of North Carolina, who recently voted overwhelmingly to define marriage the old fashioned way.
Boston Mayor Tom Menino also went all Joe McCarthy on Cathy last week, telling the chicken sandwich purveyor that "[t]here is no place for discrimination on Boston's Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it." That is classic viewpoint discrimination by the government, and obviously as unconstitutional as it is stupid politically, but Menino did the great service of showing every supporter of traditional marriage how the game will work if the president is re-elected and his cronies across the country feel energized.
Incredibly, the mainstream media are finding it hard to get a comment out of President Obama on Chick-fil-A, so busy are they trying to turn Mitt Romney's "disconcerting" statement into a major campaign story, even as the president's "You didn't build that!" metastacizes into the soundbite that ate the president's re-election. Romney is off to Israel and Poland and his lead in the Rasmussen tracking poll is growing despite the best efforts of the Manhattan-Beltway media elite to block for Obama with a two-day assist from Fleet Street. The reason Romney has the momentum is that the country's voters are very good at discerning meaningful moments and data from manufactured ones, even if the elite media Bigfoots are not.
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I suspect the same store sales figures for Chick-fil-A are up significantly last week. The left can make fun of Sarah Palin for supporting the business, but the rest of the world gets its and the stores have been crowded with those who don't want to see a business bullied because of the owners belief in traditional marriage.
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