Conservative Stylings of Evan Sayet: MSM ‘Diametrically Opposed to Truth’

Katie Couric is an idiot—and too stupid to be an ideologue.  Anderson Cooper, too.  

And the mainstream media—led by CBS, CNN, NPR, The New York Times and Washington Post—are failures as “personal intelligence agencies” because they couldn’t predict the fall of the Soviet empire, the Japanese economic collapse and other major events.

Moreover, they are “diametrically opposed to the truth.” And like their liberal leaders and college training, they are against “all that is good, right and successful.”

Those and other observations by political satirist Evan Sayet gave Navajo Canyon Republican Women Federated members their luncheon money’s worth.

They met Tuesday at the Brigantine restaurant across Interstate 8 from Grossmont High School.

Sayet, a former stand-up comic and Hollywood writer whose star rose when he gave a famous 2007 speech at the Heritage Foundation, served up laughs along with red meat after the club elected new officers, including President Phyllis Hinshaw of Del Cerro.

He said his 2007 talk, in which he laid out a “unified theory of liberalism,” was judged by Andrew Breitbart “one of the five most important conservative speeches ever given.”

Sayet, 51, said that was pretty good, given the many speeches of Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, Margaret Thatcher and others.

“Now you see why I don’t have to comb my hair—that speech is just that good.”

After giving a truncated version of his critique of modern liberalism, he offered an example of how it plays out.

If the New York Jets beat the Cincinnati Bengals 87-3, liberals would look for conspiracies and unfairness rather than acknowledge that one team is simply superior, he said.

“They’re not allowed to admit that the better is better. … How do you explain America’s success and Sudan’s failure? America must have cheated,” he said liberals think. “We must have been the biggest cheater in history.”

Citing Alan Bloom’s 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind, Sayet said liberal university teachers spawned a generation who “vehemently, virulently and sometimes violently denied the existence of  ‘The Better.’ ”

Bloom, who lives in the San Fernando Valley, said students were raised to believe that indiscriminateness is a moral imperative, “because its opposite is discrimination,” Sayet recounted in his hour-long talk.

“The children of the children of the Sixties were raised to believe that thinking is an act of evil,” Sayet said. “Thinking was outlawed as an act of bigotry.”

Such a mind-set, Sayet said, leads “invariably, inevitably to siding with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success.”

Why? he asked.

“If no religion, no form of government, no ideology—if nothing is better than anything else—than success is unjust,” he said. “Why should anything succeed if it’s not better than anything else?”

He checked on his audience of 70 women (including a few men): “You guys with me? Now it all makes sense, doesn’t it?”

He applied his theory to mainstream media, which isn’t just always wrong, “but as wrong as wrong can be.”

He said Bret Stephens, a Wall Street Journal editorial writer, once concluded that someone looking for clues to the major events of recent years would find that the reporting before them would be “mostly useless.”

He said if he asked the greatest journalists of all time—those whose stories most helped their followers—what the single greatest trait in accurate reporting was, they’d say objectivity.

But he said liberal historian Howard Zinn and his disciples in academia taught that “objectivity is impossible.”

Sayet went on to skewer some of his fellow Jews, who he said don’t have to believe in anything—“you just have to plop out of a Jew.”

But liberals hate the Jews, he said to laughter, “because they gave us the Bible—with an entire book spelled J-0-B.”

Liberals flock to certain occupations—teaching, journalism, entertainment, government—because they don’t have to do anything,  “and when you don’t do anything, what could go wrong?”

“I believe [liberals] to be Rain Man stupid. … But at least Rain Man could count.”

The smartest liberal, he said, is stupider than the stupidest conservative.

Afterward, Sayet sold CDs of his prime speech for $20 apiece.

Incoming President Hinshaw, succeeding Waskah Whelan, takes leadership of the group decades after being president of the predecessor College Gardens Republican Women's Club in the late 1960s.

Hinshaw said other new officers include first vice president Gloria Harpenau (for programs), second vice president Lois Gubitosi (for membership) and third vice president Kat Culkin (for ways and means).

The Navajo Canyon club's main goal, Hinshaw said, is to “educate women in the community on the issues.”