On Monday, far-left BSNBC MSNBC talking head Rachel Maddow mocked and dismissed the Mount Vernon Statement, saying it was “a grandiose fake-parchmenty-looking thing that conservatives signed onto as their statement of Constitutional conservatism for the 21st century, endorsing things like the rule of law, and individual liberty, and opposing tyranny in the world, and defense of family, neighborhood, community and faith.”

Maddow took exception to one paragraph in particular, but wouldn’t explain which one … perhaps it was the one about “limited government” or “market solutions,” both of which are taboo subjects in liberal media-land.

In case you’re wondering what the Mount Vernon Statement is all about, read below:

We recommit ourselves to the ideas of the American Founding. Through the Constitution, the Founders created an enduring framework of limited government based on the rule of law. They sought to secure national independence, provide for economic opportunity, establish true religious liberty and maintain a flourishing society of republican self-government.

            These principles define us as a country and inspire us as a people. They are responsible for a prosperous, just nation unlike any other in the world. They are our highest achievements, serving not only as powerful beacons to all who strive for freedom and seek self-government, but as warnings to tyrants and despots everywhere.

            Each one of these founding ideas is presently under sustained attack. In recent decades, America’s principles have been undermined and redefined in our culture, our universities and our politics.  The self-evident truths of 1776 have been supplanted by the notion that no such truths exist. The federal government today ignores the limits of the Constitution, which is increasingly dismissed as obsolete and irrelevant.

            Some insist that America must change, cast off the old and put on the new.  But where would this lead — forward or backward, up or down? Isn’t this idea of change an empty promise or even a dangerous deception? 

            The change we urgently need, a change consistent with the American ideal, is not movement away from but toward our founding principles. At this important time, we need a restatement of Constitutional conservatism grounded in the priceless principle of ordered liberty articulated in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

            The conservatism of the Declaration asserts self-evident truths based on the laws of nature and nature’s God. It defends life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It traces authority to the consent of the governed. It recognizes man’s self-interest but also his capacity for virtue.

            The conservatism of the Constitution limits government’s powers but ensures that government performs its proper job effectively. It refines popular will through the filter of representation. It provides checks and balances through the several branches of government and a federal republic.

            A Constitutional conservatism unites all conservatives through the natural fusion provided by American principles. It reminds economic conservatives that morality is essential to limited government, social conservatives that unlimited government is a threat to moral self-government, and national security conservatives that energetic but responsible government is the key to America’s safety and leadership role in the world.

            A Constitutional conservatism based on first principles provides the framework for a consistent and meaningful policy agenda.

• It applies the principle of limited government based on the rule of law to every proposal.  
• It honors the central place of individual liberty in American politics and life.
• It encourages free enterprise, the individual entrepreneur, and economic reforms grounded in market solutions.
• It supports America’s national interest in advancing freedom and opposing tyranny in the world and prudently considers what we can and should do to that end.
• It informs conservatism’s firm defense of family, neighborhood, community, and faith.

If we are to succeed in the critical political and policy battles ahead, we must be certain of our purpose. We must begin by retaking and resolutely defending the high ground of America’s founding principles.

H/T to Brent Bozell, Media Research Center

Some good news for those who do not watch MSM news or read the MSM rag sheets, also known as toilet paper:

According to NEWSMAX:

Larry King’s CNN show has plunged so drastically in the ratings that it now lags behind even Rachel Maddow’s 9 p.m. program on MSNBC.

“Larry King Live” has lost half of its audience since the last presidential election, to an average of just 725,000 viewers a night.

Maddow drew around 1 million viewers a night during the first quarter of the year, while Sean Hannity’s 9 p.m. show on Fox News leads with 2.8 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.

Joy Behar’s new talk show on CNN’s sister network HLN, is closing in on King, with 530,000 viewers, and it sometimes beats King’s show, The New York Times reports.

The Times also reports that “CNN executives will not say whether they will renew Mr. King’s contract when it ends next year.”

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President Obama “scares” MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews.

Matthews was such a staunch Obama supporter during the campaign that he admitted that one of the candidate’s speeches sent a thrill up his leg. But during a recent appearance on Jay Leno’s NBC show, the “Hardball” host discussed the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and declared: “The president scares me. When is he actually going to do something?

“And I worry. I know he doesn’t want to take ownership of it. I know politics. He said the minute he says, ‘I’m in charge,’ he takes the blame, but somebody has to. It’s in our interest.”

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Readership of The Wall Street Journal has risen 20 percent since Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. acquired the paper in 2007, according to a new study by The Media Audit research firm.

The Journal is now read by more than 4.3 million adults in the 80-plus markets the firm monitors. That amounts to 3 percent of all adults in those markets.

Media Audit attributes the gain to the Journal’s increased coverage of politics and general news, Editor & Publisher reported.

The New York Times’ readership has remained flat during the same three-year period — 4.4 percent of U.S. adults read The Times, the same as in 2007.

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Poor Rachel Maddow. I’m not sure if it’s for shock value or the fact that she still doen’t get it, but she spouted off on her TV program on BSNBC MSNBC, once again slamming the tea partiers. Memo to Rachel – despite what you think, we are not the dumb hicks that you potray us to be.

H/T: Matt Lewis at Townhall.