Category Archives: Politics

Keith Oberman Comic Relief

It’s not that I don’t have a sense of humor, but this is the kind of humor I’d expect from a George Carlin routine, not a MSNBC cable news program. The topic of the last segment of tonight’s show was concerning the Ellen DeGeneres pet adoption debacle. His guest, Joel Mchale of “The Soup,” expressed frustration with the significance of the story said “who would want to watch an animal that can lick its own privates anyway?” To which Oberman says, “well we could always go to the White House for that. Ah, no I’m sorry.”

I’m not calling for him to lose his job over this. He is good right where he is, where people can see how the wacko left thinks and what they say. Oberman is the man. The comedy begins at 4:20 into the video.

Democrats Pull Armenian Genocide Resolution

Being generous in calling it the ‘genocide vote,’ the Christian Science Monitor reports the House resolution condemning Armenian genocide is being shelved because its passage “has stumbled on pragmatic concerns.” Pragmatic to what? A war maybe?

The sudden misgivings about a popular House resolution condemning as “genocide” the large-scale killings of Armenians more than nine decades ago illustrate a recurring tug of war in US foreign policy: when to take the moral high ground and when to heed the pragmatic realities of national interests.

And the idea of this vote being ‘popular’ says more about these democrats than it does about something that had already been done twice before.  To suggest that Congressional democrat leaders are only now, after the fact, considering the pragmatic realities of such a move demonstrates just how incompetent they are to run this country.

This legislative mischief, seemingly righteous and a long way from anyone’s congressional district, has the same echo of the cultural and political ignorance that followed the U.S. invasion into Iraq: good intentions brought down by hard realities no one ever thought about or expected.  A throwaway vote on a feel-good resolution has deeply insulted a steady ally, with grim consequences for the U.S. presence in Iraq. Access to an invaluable airfield could be yanked away.

Big lesson here is everybody sees just how far they would go for a political goal. It is what we could expect from another Clinton, or name your democrat, administration, because it’s what we are getting now.

Hillary Understands ‘War For Oil’

Have you seen this much in the newspapers?  On TV?  She said it last week in a little town meeting to an audience of about 300 people.  That’s 300 people in South Carolina.  Speaking to the threat of Tehran interfering with oil supplies she said . . .

“I will make it very clear to the Iranians that there are very serious consequences attached to their actions,” Clinton said. The presidential candidate spoke at a town hall meeting with 300 people at a high school in a Democratic stronghold in early voting South Carolina.

The New York senator, responding to a question, said blocking oil shipments “would be devastating to the world economy.”

If the U.S. took military action as a result, she said, “I would hope that the world would see that was an action of last resort, not first resort. Because we need the world to agree with us about the threat that Iran poses to everyone.”

Forgetting the fact on how this issue is demagogued by the rabid left, who say it is about taking their oil for ourselves, it is good to see she is coming around to making sense.  I’m sure much to the chagrin of the Soros wing of her party.  Then again, it remains to be seen if she would utter the same words in California.

United States Responsible For Darfur Genocide?

That ridiculous statement came from Muslim Brotherhood Leader in Sudan Sheikh Sadeq Abdallah bin Al-Majed during an interview on Al-Jazeera TV dealing with Darfur. That’s not all he said. There’s this gem from him, “Islam does not permit a non-Muslim to rule over Muslims.”

Any questions?

Here’s one. If Islam wants to control the world both physically and spiritually, and blow up people trying to accomplish that goal, does defending yourself against that constitute a War on Islam? Isn’t a War for Islam more correct?

Link to transcript and video.

Why The Attack On Talk Radio?

One of my favorite professors in real-life and on talk radio, is Dr. Walter E. Williams. “Black by popular demand” is a slogan he uses when guest-hosting for Rush. Regardless of your opinion of talk radio and the many and varied radio personalities, Dr. Williams puts the whole phony controversy into perspective which is something the mainstream media cannot be accused of doing.

Over the span of some 20 years, Rush has been attacked from just about every leftist corner, as would anyone who tirelessly espoused the founding principles of our nation — private property, rule of law and limited government. What has made Rush so effective with this message has been his ability to put things, and ask questions, in a manner that the average citizen can understand and relate to, and do so with a bit of humor. Humor creates madness among leftists who want their interventionist agenda taken seriously.

Link to post: Attacking Talk Radio

Newspaper Defends Outing Of Anonymous Forum Poster

The Pensacola News Journal became their own version of ‘deep throat’ last week when they outed a poster on one of their forums. Now a week later they still find themselves defending that action. The nut of the PNJ’s position is this:

Not only did Godzilla support Bergosh’s positions, he even praised him(self) by name. Does anyone, Bergosh included, not understand the deception involved? But he was outraged to be exposed.

Who’s “deception” tramples freedom of speech? Bergosh’s, or the newspaper’s? It wasn’t that long ago that a President of the United States was given kudos by the media for how well he could lie. He was called clever for that. Now, a forum poster gives his real identity a pat on the back and its like he cut off some one’s leg.

I couldn’t let this pass, my response in their forum follows.

UPDATE 10/15/07 (below)

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MSM Ignores Gen. Sanchez’s Comments, About Them

The so-called mainstream media (MSM) was all over Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez speech, or so you may have thought. We heard his criticism of the Bush administration for inadequate strategy and prosecution of the war. But these so-called journalists couldn’t bring themselves to tell you what else Sanchez had to say in the same Q&A session at the Military Reporters & Editors convention last week.

For starters . . .

Sanchez opened by criticizing the U.S. news media, saying he was unfairly labeled “a liar” and “a torturer” because of the Abu Ghraib scandal, and he alleged that the media have lost their sense of ethics. He said that members of the media blow stories out of proportion and are unwilling to correct mistakes, and that the “media environment is doing a great disservice to the nation.”

Democracy Project link

Democrats Flunk Foreign Relations 101, On Purpose

Unable to secure defeat fast enough, house Democrats decide to vote on a resolution to condemn Turkey for genocide from a hundred years ago. Turkey is also our ally, a key ally in the war on terror. Key is an understatement. Turkey is supporting the war effort by allowing transit to Afghanistan and Iraq through Turkey allowing a re-supply line to northern Iraq and west.

About 70 percent of U.S. air cargo headed for Iraq goes through Turkey as does about one-third of the fuel used by the U.S. military there. U.S. bases also get water and other supplies carried in overland by Turkish truckers who cross into Iraq’s northern Kurdish region. In addition, C-17 cargo planes fly military supplies to U.S. soldiers in remote areas of Iraq from Incirlik, avoiding the use of Iraqi roads vulnerable to bomb attacks. U.S. officials say the arrangement helps reduce American casualties.

Now, why do this now? Now that the surge seems to be working, now as we are seeing opposing Iraqi factions beginning to work together and get along? Could that be why it is NOW?

Meanwhile, Turkey has recalled their Ambassador to the U.S., Ambassador Nabi Sensoy. Last year France’s national assembly voted to condemn the Armenian deaths and Turkey responded by canceling contracts with the French military. These Democrats have learned from history, and in this case, wish to repeat it. It will surely put a stick in the spokes of supporting our troops in Iraq and the war effort. Oh that’s right. They support the troops.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says . . .

Why do it now? Because there’s never a good time and all of us in the Democratic leadership have supported it.

President Bush says . . .

Its passage would do great harm to our relations with a key ally in NATO and in the global war on terror.

Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul was right on . . .

Unfortunately, some politicians in the United States have once again sacrificed important matters to petty domestic politics despite all calls to common sense. This unacceptable decision by the committee, like its predecessors, has no validity or respectability for the Turkish nation.

Is this their idea of how wartime allies should be treated? With them in the White House, it is questionable if we would ever have a wartime ally again, should we need one, or several, or many.

AP: White House raps lawmakers on Armenia

Ambassador Sensoy’s ‘Exit Interview by John Gizzi

Google Gets Political

They refuse to run an ad that points out Moveon.org’s participation in campaigning against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME). Oh really? Suddenly, Google is more than a platform. I don’t like what I’m seeing. Here’s the ad. What’s the problem? Wouldn’t have anything to do with their tax status as a non-political 501c would it? Well it should.  More at Michelle Malkin.


MoveOn.org has made Susan Collins their #1 target.

Senator Susan Collins has a long record of success, based on her ability to work across party lines to do what is right for this country. From healthcare to national defense, Susan Collins has taken a measured and moderate approach that has yielded an admirable record of bipartisan accomplishment.

Senator Collins has worked hard for the people of Maine, but now extreme contributors from the Far Left have decided to attack her. MoveOn.org has contributed more money to her opponent than all of the presidential candidates combined, $250,000 already, more than a year before the 2008 election. They have run 9 attack ads against her, almost $1 million worth, including one featuring children dressed in military fatigues, forced to crawl under barbed wire.

General PetraeusWe’ve seen the destructive effect of MoveOn.org’s dirty politics many times, including their recent outrageous attack on U.S. General David Petraeus in the New York Times.

Now MoveOn.org and other extremists have focused on Susan Collins, and they are using the same ruthless methods they’ve always used.

MoveOn.org has decided that Susan Collins is their number one target for 2008. Your contribution of any size will help send a message to MoveOn.org that their extreme, destructive political tactics will not be accepted.

Belly up to the counter. Politics are on the menu and Ross is on the grill.