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Media, Politics

Obama Supporters On Killing Spree

‘What’ you say? And in Washington D.C.’s suburb. How could this happen and not be reported? That’s a trick question. It assumes there is no political bias to news reporting. But to illustrate absurdity by being absurd, check this out.

Prince George’s County in Maryland borders Washington, DC. Democrats dominate the county and 88.87% of the residents voted for Obama. What you did not hear in the news was that there were 13 shootings in the first 13 days of this year in PG County. Why not? While the press is eager to paint Jared Loughner, the Arizona gunman, as the face of conservative talk radio and associate him to Republicans they completely ignored the murder spree in an area dominated by Democrats. Why isn’t the press painting the picture of this overwhelmingly Democratic county as the face of today’s Democrat – violent and out of control? Can we assume that if 90% of the people vote Democrat that there is the highest probability that those responsible for this killing spree are Obama supporters? What would the mainstream media say if this occurred in a county that was overwhelmingly Republican? They would say it was fueled by Republican hate. I guess the murder mess in a Democratic stronghold that borders our Nation’s Capital needs to be ignored.

h/t Mike Piccione, Editor of In The Crosshairs

Politics

S.O.T.U Preview

President Obama gives this preview to his State of the Union speech next Tuesday. With comment.

Wait a sec. You said ‘I won’t rest until every American who? wants a job can find one.” That was two years ago.

So the SOTU is just going to be more of the same. That’s disappointing.

Private sector jobs is what the economy needs. Not to be confused with union jobs. Unions can grow, or not, on their own. And tell the American people that the government has no interest or responsibility to help labor unions grow.

Some free advice Mr. President. Eliminate the FUD FACTOR, or you’ll be able to use the same speech next year.

Media, Pensacola, Politics

Keith Olbermann Off The Air

Well, at least as far as pMSNBC is concerned. Friday’s show was his last. This makes half of a Libectomy for the cable network.

A statement from NBC Universal revealed the move late Friday.

“MSNBC and Keith Olbermann have ended their contract,” it read. “The last broadcast of ‘Countdown with Keith Olbermann’ will be this evening. MSNBC thanks Keith for his integral role in MSNBC’s success and we wish him well in his future endeavors.”

It is apparent how much MSNBC appreciates Olbermanns role in the network’s success. Dang, another American in the unemployment line.

Here’s an idea. The Ring of Fire can’t get enough of you Keith. Maybe you could get a job there? Glad I could be of some help.

I’m not gloating. Am I gloating?

Link: Keith Olbermann leaving MSNBC

China, MRIOTD, Politics

Hu News That China Won’t Hear

The talks between Chinese President Hu Jintao and President Obama had some give and take on the economic front. The ‘human rights’ front was another issue. Hu pretty much excused his human rights atrocities as nothing more than growing pains.

Hu said China is a developing country with an enormous population facing challenges in economic and social developments. He said human rights must be viewed under those circumstances.

Pains like his communist government can not handle, manage, or feed its huge population. So some executions here, forced abortions and sterilization there, and other population control measures, imprisoning political dissidents and Nobel Peace Prize winners is just something they have to do while working to, get this, ‘improve the lives of our people and promote democracy and rule of law.’ {emphasis added}

At the risk of jumping the gun on this one, The Lunch Counter is holding back awarding President Hu Jintao the Most Ridiculous Item Of The Day award. The clincher will be when it is learned that no one in China will hear or see those words. You can bet the ranch that Hu’s statement was for U.S. consumption only. It was the bone President Obama wanted to make the visit look ‘productive.’

Politics

Rep. Steve Cohen Scraps Civility

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn) likened the GOP to Nazis today in the floor debate over repealing the government-run Democrat Health Care plan.

“They don’t like the truth so they summarily dismiss it,” said Cohen, who is Jewish. “They say it’s a government takeover of health care, a big lie just like [Nazi propagandist Joseph] Goebbels. You say it enough, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, you repeat the lie, and eventually, people believe it. Like blood libel. That’s the same kind of thing.”

Funny he would draw such a comparison. A student of history would note that Hitler was popular in Germany too before he became the monster that he did. He began his solidification of power by nationalizing health care.

I support his ignoring his Democrat soul mates’ call for ‘civility.’ You go Steve! The call for civility is nothing more than the hope that opposition to practically everything this administration has done will go away. It is another censor like ‘political correctness.’ Ain’t gonna happen.

Link: Dem Rep. Steve Cohen Likens GOP Health Care Attacks to Nazi Germany

Economy, Fair Tax, Florida, Politics

Majority Of States Join Suit Against Obamacare

Oh Happy Day! Twenty-six states have joined Florida in suing the federal government over Obamacare. That makes 27 states total.

The only answer to our debt problem, well there are more but this government-run health care is priority number one that has to go. To repeal and replace it is the road out of the economic ruin and the decimation of quality health care for our citizens.

Repeal it, the alternative already exists.

Continue reading Majority Of States Join Suit Against Obamacare →

Media, Politics

Tucson Memorial Service And Pep Rally

Most people I’ve heard comment about President Obama’s speech at what was supposed to be a memorial service thought that what the President said was fitting and appropriate. The only thing that turned off people, including myself, about the event was that the crowd there treated it more like an event than a solemn memorial service.

Speaking to that popular reaction, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs commented . . .

“I will say that I read the speech several times and thought that there wouldn’t be a lot of applause if any. I think many of us thought that. But I think there was a celebration, again, of the lives of those who had been impacted. Not just at that grocery store but throughout the country. And I think that, if that is part of the healing process, then that’s a good thing.”

There is a reason too why the audience got pumped up like it did. What I don’t see a reason for is why anyone in the administration, including Robert Gibbs was surprised? What is even more amazing is how the [APPLAUSE] sign on the jumbotron went totally unreported if not unnoticed by the media.

The jumbotron had the President’s text of the speech on it. OK. Including an [APPLAUSE] prompt. What? Here’s the picture of that, and the story that goes with it.

In the least reported story with the largest audience possible, try this. As to why the service happened when it did you have to consider the time it takes to get the t-shirts printed. You know, the ones that were put on the seat-backs. The message ‘Together We Thrive’ came from Obama’s Organizing for America website. The ‘event’ was planned more as a political rally for Obama than a memorial service for the victims, survivors, and their families. The motivation? Let’s just say, like his former chief of staff said, you don’t want to let a crisis go to waste to advance your political agenda. Or in this case, your ratings in the polls.

For argument’s sake, everyone who thinks that the media would have turned their heads if an R were president raise your hand.

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Media, Politics

SOTU Seating, Just Fine The Way It Is

Have you heard the latest game playing out in some Democratic circles?  Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) is suggesting that our representatives break with over 200 years of tradition of sitting within their own political party to listen to the State Of The Union address by the President and instead, mix up the seating without regard of political party.

Responding to Sen. Udall’s idea, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) said . . .

“I appreciate Senator Udall’s thoughtful suggestion and believe it is worth serious consideration. We need to look for more ways to be bipartisan. This morning I spoke with Democratic Whip Hoyer and Senator McConnell about the proposal and we will discuss it further next week. After this tragedy, it’s important for our country to see that we all stand together as Americans and this could be one way to demonstrate that.”

Well, I don’t see a need to be bi-partisan. That’s why there are elections. If the minority party sees the light, or has a change of heart, then they can show their support by supporting legislation proposed by the majority party. And if they don’t, they can count on their boss, the American people, to re-hire or fire them at the ballot box. That’s the way it works.

Faking ‘bi-partisanship’ creates legislative mud instead of solving problems. The location of where they will sit has nothing whatsoever to do with bipartisanship and everything to do with theatrics.

Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD5) has another take on it.

“a gesture like this won’t make partisanship disappear, nor should it — democracy is built on strong disagreements between the parties.” But he added that it would “help end the political theater of repeatedly seeing one side of the aisle rise in applause, as the other sits still.”

An observation is in order. It is Democrats that are proposing this idea. Where is the pressing need to veer from tradition, and for such a nonsensical reason? And why now?

The media, as represented by New York Times writer Michael D. Shear, has another angle on this seating change.

In the wake of the shootings in Tucson and calls for greater civility in political discourse, the symbolic move could minimize the imagery of one side of the chamber’s standing en masse to applaud, while the other side sits on their hands.

Another observation. It is apparent that the purpose of this charade is to mask from the American people the results of the November election. The American people deserve to see the changes they made at the ballot box and not mix it up into some sort of political soup. Remember what the President said at his first meeting with Republican leaders after his election? He said ‘elections have consequences.’ Actually, a lot of people have said that, but coming from President Obama himself gives him all the motivation he needs to start showing what he calls bi-partisanship, by actually doing the will of the American people. Because since the election, President Obama has denied that his party’s shellacking had anything to do with his policies.

In his letter, Udall added . . .

“The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room — while the other side sits — is unbecoming of a serious institution,” he wrote. “And the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two.”

What this statement and his idea says to me is that he and his party have no intention of doing the will of the people. The SOTU is the President’s platform to set the stage for the coming year. The power to do the will of the American people is in his hands, regardless of where our representatives sit. And the American people deserve to see it in black and white. Or if you will, left and right. And that is what these Democrats don’t want the American people to see.

Fairness Doctrine, Media, Politics

Fairness Doctrine Is Out Of Wind

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For those who believe that reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, or anything like it, will reduce violence, consider this.

The Fairness Doctrine was in place from 1949 to 1987. In the “era” of the Fairness Doctrine we saw the following:

  • 1950 – An assassination attempt on U.S. President Harry S. Truman occurred on November 1, 1950. It was perpetrated by two Puerto Rican pro-independence activists, Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola.
  • Nov. 22, 1963 – President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald, a communist.
  • February 21, 1965 – Malcolm X assassinated in Manhattan’s Audubon Ballroom by three members of the Nation Of Islam. Radical Islamists.
  • April 4, 1968 – Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray.
  • June 4, 1968 – Robert F. Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, another Islamic extremist, in Los Angeles.
  • September 5, 1975 – An assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, a follower of Charles Manson, who pointed a Colt .45-caliber handgun at Ford. Larry Buendorf,[118] a Secret Service agent, grabbed the gun and managed to insert the webbing of his thumb under the hammer, preventing the gun from firing.
  • September 22, 1975 – An Assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore, while standing in a crowd of onlookers across the street, pointed her .38-caliber revolver at him.[120] Just before she fired, former Marine Oliver Sipple grabbed at the gun and deflected her shot.
  • December 8, 1980 – John Lennon was assassinated outside Lennon’s Dakota apartments by Mark David Chapman.
  • March 30, 1981 – Assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan by John Hinkley outside the Hilton Washington hotel.
  • Post Fairness Doctrine 1987 – 2011:
    January 8, 2011 – Assassination attempt on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords In Tuscon, Arizona by Jared Loughner. An insane anarchist.
Graphic graciously lifted from rushlimbaugh.com.

Not one of these murders or attempted murders were connected in any way to everything that the Left would like to attach to right-wing talk radio.

Where ‘hate talk’ is concerned, Air America Radio and its derivatives wrote the book on it. They believed that the more vulgar and hateful they would get, towards their political opponents, would build an audience. Spewing hate like they did merely drove them out of business.

Not that they have mellowed (Mike Malloy), but the popular tactic now on the Left is to just do whatever they can to discredit, call names, and make personal attacks to conservatives whose ideas they cannot deal with. Doing that spares them from debating in the arena of ideas, where they lose every time.

The fact that they just got a ‘shellacking’ in the mid-term elections just infuriates them, causing them to go all out to attack those whom they fear most. It also distracts the public from the dismal shape the economy is in after all this so-called stimulus.

Link: Will Reviving The Fairness Doctrine Reduce Violence?