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Kevin Fischer is a veteran broadcaster, the recipient of over 150 major journalism awards from the Milwaukee Press Club, the Wisconsin Associated Press, the Northwest Broadcast News Association, the Wisconsin Bar Association, and others. He has been seen and heard on Milwaukee TV and radio stations for over three decades. A longtime aide to state Senate Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature, Kevin can be seen offering his views on the news on the public affairs program, "InterCHANGE," on Milwaukee Public Television Channel 10, and heard filling in on Newstalk 1130 WISN. He lives with his wife, Jennifer, and their lovely baby daughter, Kyla Audrey, in Franklin.
The Kevin Fischer "Whippersnapper Hall of Fame"- Inductee #14
She is Keli Carender who gets credit for founding the massive Tea Party movement that has swept the country.
The New York Times recently published a profile of Carender:
“I basically thought to myself: ‘I have two courses. I can give up, go home, crawl into bed and be really depressed and let it happen. Or I can do something different, and I can find a new avenue to have my voice get out.’
The daughter of Democrats who became disaffected in the
Reading about the stimulus, she said, ‘it didn’t make any sense to me to be spending all this money when we don’t have it. It seems more logical to me that we create an atmosphere where private industry can start to grow again and create jobs,’ she said.
Her fiancé, Conor McNassar, urged her to channel her complaints into a blog, which she called Liberty Belle.
It was not enough.”
So she organized a porkulus protest, and the fever spread into a nationwide phenomenon.
At her blog, Carender writes she has received, guess what? You got it.....many angry comments from the warm, fuzzy, compassionate left:
“Most of the attacks consisted of the usual hyperbole and empty, hateful rhetoric of people who presume themselves to be intellectually and morally superior to anyone who does not share a liberal, progressive or left-wing ideology. They demonstrate a proclivity for ad hominem attacks, appealing to prejudice, emotion and irrationality, rather than intellect or reason.
This inability to discuss principles without personal insults is on full display in the comment wishing that I ‘or somebody very close to [me] gets a serious long-term illness and [I] get to see real close what happens to them in our crappy disjointed medical system.’ During the heat and drama of the left’s protests against the Iraq war, I do not recall ever reading a comment by a conservative wishing a terrorist attack on a progressive or their family so that they would better comprehend the need to fight terrorism. This propensity to engage in personal attacks is also seen in the liberals’ efforts to denigrate the Tea Party movement with juvenile name-calling. However, at the end of the day, ad hominem attacks can be ignored.”
Stay strong, passionate, and committed, Ms. Carender!
THE KEVIN FISCHER "WHIPPERSNAPPER HALL OF FAME"
1) The Conservative Casanova
2) American Sweetheart
3) Eva Lorraine Molina
4) Matt Kallerud
5) Hannah Giles
6) Jillian Bandes
7) Jonathan McCoy
8) James O’Keefe
9) Jackie Seal
10) Jill Metzler
11) Ron Fournier
12) Jake Shafer
13) Bree McMahon
14) Keli Carender
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