Is it me or does there seem to be more positive news being reported on lately? Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri, the kidnapper of CSM reporter Jill Carroll assumed room temperature.
Cairo – The US military said it killed a senior figure in Al Qaeda’s Iraq operation, one who also played a role in the murder of the American Tom Fox, the murder of former Monitor interpreter Alan Enwiya, and the kidnapping of Monitor reporter Jill Carroll.
The Seattle Times titles the story “Limbaugh draws fire on Obama parody.”  He may be drawing fire, but not from anyone who counts.  It’s only the Soros financed Media Matters and their far-left ilk who are making something out of it.  Them and some callers to Al Sharpton’s talk radio show. As for Obama, he thinks it’s not to be taken seriously.Â
Obama’s campaign called the song “dumb,” although a spokesman said the campaign doesn’t think anyone is taking the song seriously.
“It’s not the first dumb thing said during the course of this campaign and it likely won’t be the last,” Obama spokesman Bill Burton said. “But, frankly, I don’t think anyone takes this too seriously.”
It’s a hilarious parody that correctly characterizes the Sharpton / Obama dynamic.  Â
Limbaugh predicted the lefts’ reaction, including the ones who will bring it up. And viola, here it is. The Limbaugh Institute does know how to push the left’s buttons.  It was also educational to watch.
Here’s 3 more iterations of the same story by By Christi Parsons at the Chicago Tribune: Limbaugh under fire for Obama parody – Memphis Commercial Appeal, Limbaugh’s ‘Negro’ parody stirs racial concerns – Houston Chronicle, and Parody targets role of race in Obama candidacy – The Honolulu Advertiser
Good news trickles in from Anbar Province. Tribes in Iraq are joining the U.S. forces to fight against al Qaeda. CSM was the only media I could find that has this story, complete with pictures.
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Like dominoes, tribes reeling from a campaign of killing and intimidation by Al Qaeda have been joining, one by one, the US-led fight against Al Qaeda in Iraq in this Sunni Arab province. Last month, US Gen. David Petraeus told Congress that violence was down significantly here and that the tribes were key to the transformation.
 And this . . .
But winning over the Bu-Fahed tribe was a coup. It had been one of Al Qaeda’s staunchest supporters, and traces its lineage to the birthplace of the puritan form of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism in the Saudi Arabian province of Najd. It formally threw its lot behind Sheikh Abdel-Sattar Abu Risha.
and to the democrats in Washington who just want to leave Iraq . . .
Anbar’s provincial seat, Ramadi, which Al Qaeda declared in October to be the capital of its so-called Islamic state in Iraq, is now firmly in the grips of US and Iraqi forces.
US Capt. Jay McGee, intelligence officer with the 3rd Battalion, 69th Armor Regiment from Fort Worth, Texas, says that the motivation for the tribes to join the council is largely self-serving.
“Everyone is convinced Coalition forces are going to leave and they are saying, ‘We do not want Al Qaeda to take control of the area when that happens.’ For them, Al Qaeda is a greater threat long term.”
You have to listen real fast when the network news comes on the radio. At the top-of-the-hour news broadcast, this ABC story was about an al-Qaida double truck bomb attack on a U.S. patrol base in Diyala, a city northeast of Baghdad. They didn’t report the big news in this story. The big news in this story is the fact that the surge in Baghdad is working, in as much as it is being credited with “the efforts to halt violence there.”
This quote below, seems to be the blurb that I heard on the radio. You have to imagine listening to this in the 10 second blurbs you get on the network radio news. So you have to listen fast.
The Islamic State of Iraq, an umbrella group of Sunni militants that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, said it was behind Monday’s double attack on a U.S. patrol base in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad — an area that has seen violence spike since American troops surged into the capital to halt violence there.
The rest of the article recounts various truck bombs and suicide bombers. The usual. No further mention of the surge.
Wonder how long it will take the MSM to report any progress from the surge? As long as it is working, they won’t.
related: when good news is bad
We know all about Nancy Pelosi’s admonition and promise to be an open government. Well today, House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) decided this morning to pull television cameras out of today’s Iraq Supplemental Appropriations conference meeting.
Ultimately Obey relented and C-Span was back in. The fact that he would attempt such a move is one of those red flags. We should pay attention to red flags and take them for what they are. Gross incompetence or power-drunk. Is Obey the best they could do to chair this committee?
>UPDATE 2:15PM: From a source, “it is official…they’re letting c-span provide pool coverage of the whole meeting….”
>UPDATE 2:12 PM: FishbowlDC has learned that Obey has relented and will allow cameras…developing…
One red flag.
ref: FishbowlDC, Radio-TV Correspondents’ Association Warns Of “Troubling Situation”
Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to squash freedom, yearning for those good old communist days. This time it is the press and he gives them his template. Portray the United States as an enemy.
MOSCOW, April 21 At their first meeting with journalists since taking over Russia’s largest independent radio news network, the managers had startling news of their own: from now on, they said, at least 50 percent of the reports about Russia must be positive.
In addition, opposition leaders could not be mentioned on the air and the United States was to be portrayed as an enemy, journalists employed by the network, Russian News Service, say they were told by the new managers, who are allies of the Kremlin.
Suspects v. Christians, What? More evidence that the so-called religion of peace extends its influence into the media, this CNN article (buried in the World section) can’t seem to identify the religion of the murderers. They call them suspects. However, the three people who had their throats slit were properly identified as Christians.   This PC crap is masking terrorism and the scope and scale of it. Don’t you think it is time to quit ignoring the elephant in the room?Â
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Eleven suspects in the slayings of three Christians at a publishing house in eastern Turkey were charged with murder Sunday, court officials said.
The three victims — one German and two Turkish men — were tied up and had their throats slit on Wednesday at a publishing house in the town of Malatya that was at the center of protests by some nationalists because it distributed Bibles.
Have you noticed all TV networks merged to become the Car Bomb Network? Â
The media itself is right up there in credibility as say, oh, Howard K. Stern or Don Imus. While they ALL are consumed with Anna Nichole Smith and who nailed her, and Don Imus and the race baiters nailing him, and how can we possibly forget American Idol, the war on terror continues to chug along and new problems with Iran are developing, but you’ll have to look elsewhere to learn about it.
While all that is going on, Australia has doubled its troop size in Afghanistan, to (argh) win the War. Our general in Iraq is reaching out to Iraqis for their help, and, they are increasingly getting it. There are signs that the new plan in Iraq is working. And conditions in Iran are coming to the point that many of the same reasons that we went into Iraq (support of terrorism with training and hardware, development of WMD’s, defying international community with respect to nuclear development, and more), are present in Iran now.  I think I know where all those holes in the sand came from.
Now to the rest of you formerly potential fathers out there, go get tested. Well that and, I don’t want to hear another second of Anna Nichole Smith et.al. on every damn channel. They’ve all become the Anna/Imus channel.