This is What Happens When Children Play Without Proper Supervision

So, Spencer Ackerman really is a nasty SOB. Who knew?

Most of us on the Right spent the run-up to the 2008 election wondering where the hell the main stream media was. It seemed that when they weren’t fawning over the Mighty O they were ignoring, and covering up, every Obama flaw. It seemed that way because they were:

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

Nice. Well at least now we know where the idea to accuse everybody who doesn’t bow at the Obama altar of racism started.

Reading the various exchanges outlined in The Daily Caller conjures up visions of seventh grade study hall. Ackerman, Michael Tomasky, and others come off as peevish little dweebs twittering away at the clever (so they thought) quips written in the latest “slam” book being passed about. Meanness of the worst sort-self righteous and small.

Ackerman:

I do not endorse a Popular Front, nor do I think you need to. It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.

Obviously.

Ackerman strikes me as the kind of person who shouldn’t be left unsupervised with animals or young children.

The Moderate Voice Might Want to Rethink the Analogy

Jerry K. Remmers, writing in The Moderate Voice, sounded anything but when he came up with this nonsense:

CBS News anchor Bob Schieffer, in the fertile mind of Fox’s Megyn Kelly, destroyed journalism as we know it for not asking Atty. Gen. Eric Holder about the New Black Panther scandal intimidating voters at a Philadelphia precinct in November 2008.

Schieffer said he was on vacation the week Kelly and Fox unloaded on the Panthers as viciously as police turned fire hoses on civil rights demonstrators during the 1960s.

Judging from Remmers picture he is certainly old enough, though obviously not bright enough, to know what a dumb ass analogy that is. There is a fine line between cleaver and hack and comparing the telling of new story to a negative historical event crosses that line.

I can’t tell if Remmers believes that reporters shouldn’t report or if he would simply prefer that all news stories get prior approval from a central source located in, oh, I don’t know-the Obama Administration. The left wing media has been playing the Black Panther story off like it is some silly distraction concocted by the Right and that voter intimidation is really just no big deal. Funny, I seem to remember a few years ago that perceived voter “disenfranchisement” in Florida during a different Presidential election was a real big deal. What has changed?

What has changed is that people like Remmers don’t believe in equal rights or equal protection on the law unless it suits them. It is safe to assume that it will suit them once again as soon as the Republicans take back the reins.

Misleading Title of the Day

The following title at Bloomberg.com seems pretty clear:

Tea Party Advocates Who Scorn Socialism Want a Government Job

As a Tea Party advocate myself, it came as news to me that my fellow "partyers" are pining for a government job.  I don't want a government job and nor have I ever heard anyone at any of the several Tea Party events I've attended say I'm here angling for a government job.  Yet, if Bloomberg says it, it must be true.

Here is what they have to support that title:

Tea Party activists, who are becoming a force in U.S. politics, want the federal government out of their lives except when it comes to creating jobs.

More than 90 percent of Tea Party backers interviewed in a new Bloomberg National Poll say the U.S. is verging more toward socialism than capitalism, the federal government is trying to control too many aspects of private life and more decisions should be made at the state level.

A.  The US is becoming a socialist country  CHECK
B.  Our government is interfering in private decisions  CHECK
C.  Important decisions should be made on the state level  CHECK

I following so far but I'm still not seeing how the title relates to the post. 

At the same time, 70 percent of those who sympathize with the Tea Party, which organized protests this week against President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul, want a federal government that fosters job creation.

I am not a spokesperson for the Tea Party but I think I can analyze this poll with a little more credibility than the writer from Bloomberg.  First, the only jobs that government creates are government jobs.  It is the private sector that is the driver of employment in this country (for the time being).  What members of the Tea Party want is for government to get the Hell out of the way and let the private sector do what it does best.  So, if a pollster asked me if I wanted government to "foster" job creation, I would answer in the affirmative because I think government "fosters" job creation by chucking unnecessary regulations and lowering taxes.  To interpret that as "wanting a government job" is simply a leap too far and incredibly, and given the post's tone, intentionally, misleading.

I am not accusing the writer, Heidi Przybyla, of having an agenda but throughout the article she couched the polls results in such a way that it isn't surprising that the article led to this reaction at firedoglake:

Bloomberg is the latest polling outfit to discover that the Teabaggers are deeply confused, ignorant people.

Again, I'm not looking for a government job but if Bloomberg needs someone can objectively report poll results...

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Can We Cut the Racist Crap?

What is with the Left and this racist crap? Honestly, I'm over it. It seems that no matter what any Conservative does or says everything boils down to race as far as the Moonbats are concerned.

Well here we go again. Sarah Palin is a racist because her co-author Lynn Vincent is a racist because she co-wrote a book with Stacy McCain who everybody knows is a racist. Thursday night I hugged Stacy McCain so I'm a racist. Done deal.

Not so much. Ben Smith concludes that, well actually, Lynn Vincent isn't a racist but he left the accusation against Stacy hang out there. Why? Is it too difficult for a reporter of Smith's stature to investigate accusations prior to printing them?

Stacy had this to say about this tripe:

One of the things I have sought to avoid over the years is the "some of my best friends" defense. If my friends are aware of these attacks, they will defend me. If they are unaware of the attacks, it would be wrong to involve them in a dispute that is not of their concern. My enemies are my enemies, and I would do my friends no favors by siccing my enemies on them, so as to expose my friends to these guilt-by-association attacks.

Stacy treated me like a friend long before we met Thursday night so I'm going to put this in real simple terms: jump off.

Anybody who has a problem with Conservative values man up and debate those values. I defy anyone to show anything about our values that are racist in anyway. But I'll tell you this, there is plenty that is racist about "progressive" values. So stop the projecting.

Incidentally, Smith wrote this:

*UPDATE: Edited for clarity. And McCain disputes his critics' characterization of his views on race.

Mighty white of him.

h/t Memeorandum

I Guess it All Depends on Who Says It

Have you heard about the government's plans to kill millions of us with the H1N1 vaccine? No? Well, maybe if Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh were making the claim it would be news, but the claim comes from Louis Farrakhan leader of the Nation of Islam, so our friends at the MSM are having another one of their "move along, nothing to see here" moments.

As reported by UPI, this is what Farrakhan said:

Nation of Islam leader Minister Louis Farrakhan told an
audience in Memphis he believes the H1N1 flu vaccine was developed to kill
people, a witness said.

Farrakhan, 76, spoke for nearly three hours Sunday at a gathering to
observe the religious group's Holy Day of Atonement, which also marked the 14th
anniversary of the Million Man March in Washington, the (Memphis) Commercial
Appeal reported, citing a source who attended the speech.

"The Earth can't take 6.5 billion people. We just can't feed that many.
So what are you going to do? Kill as many as you can. We have to develop a
science that kills them and makes it look as though they died from some
disease," Farrakhan said, adding that many wise people won't take the
vaccine.

"The black community has become toxic and must cleanse and restore
peace from within," Farrakhan said.

Actually, Farrakhan's rant isn't all that original, John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar has advocated secretly introducing chemicals into the food and water supply to control the population. Not hard to see where Farrakhan might get the idea that this particular administration is capable of killing its own citizens, but his "no biggie" attitude towards it is troubling.

In any case, had this claim been made by someone on the right side of the spectrum, the kids at the HoPo and the Daily Kool Aid would be wetting their pants. Guess it all depends on who says it.

The Un-Serious Administration-Updated

The ongoing White House war on Fox News is summed up perfectly by Pat at And So it Goes in Shreveport:


The continuing White House battle against Fox News is just silly and resembles nothing so much as childhood kindergarten politics.

Yes, so much silliness, so little time. Certainly not enough time to get American workers back to work when there are meanies at Fox News to be dealt with! The Taliban? Al-Qaeda? Right after they've dispatched with Glen Beck and Sean Hannity. Sheesh!


I have the same question as Pat, what is the point? The White House certainly isn't negatively impacting Fox's ratings. Just the opposite. So why is the White House wasting its time?


Campaigns engage in foolishness but once the campaign is over it is time for leadership. This administration excelled at the former and sucks at the latter. I can understand the desire to cling to the gamesmanship but surely there is at least one grownup somewhere in the administration that can explain that the object to any game is to score the most points. Right now, they are scoring points for the other team.

UPDATED:

From Instapundit:

“IF YOU STRIKE ME DOWN I SHALL–” Oh, hell, you know the rest. New York Times declares Fox News winner in fight with Obama. Best bit: “People who work in political communications have pointed out that it is a principle of power dynamics to ‘punch up’ – that is, to take on bigger foes, not smaller ones. A blog on the White House Web site that uses a ‘truth-o-meter’ against a particular cable news network would not seem to qualify. As it is, Reality Check sounds a bit like the blog of some unemployed guy living in his parents’ basement, not an official communiqué from Pennsylvania Avenue.”

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Obama's Latest Award: Thinnest Skinned President Ever

From Cynthia Yockey:

Obama has finally found a war he is determined to win and a foe for whom he has
preconditions before he will negotiate — Fox News

You know how Gov. Sarah Palin keeps pointing out that Obama is allergic to the words “victory” and “win” when it comes to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Or any conflict where democracy and capitalism are threatened? And you remember how Obama has declared he will negotiate with terrorist and totalitarian regimes without pre-conditions? But he would not talk to anyone on Fox News when he spoke to every other Sunday news show to push Obamacare? Not even with
pre-conditions?

Cynthia couldn’t be more spot on. Obama certainly gives the impression that he is more concerned about Fox News than he is all the actual threats to our country combined. That our president is so thin skinned that he has to avoid anyone who doesn’t slather him with praise makes him appear small and unserious.

A more confident man would welcome the opportunity to present his policies in an open forum. Not only will Obama not deal with anyone who doesn’t experience leg tingles at the mention of his name, he mistakenly believes that belittling Fox News for the entertainment of his base is somehow “presidential.” Actually, it is silly.

Those who allowed Obama to rise to the level of President of the United States without ever experiencing any serious challenge or criticism did him no favor. Fox News, unlike their ’competitors’ are simply doing their job. Obama would do well to learn how to deal with it.

So Rachel Maddow is a LGF Fan-UPDATED

Go figure.

Pat, at And so it goes in Shreveport:

Rachel Maddow on Meet the Press this morning, called Robert Stacy McCain a white supremacist. I'm thinking she's been listening to Charles Johnson a little too much.

The panel was discussing the Sarah Palin book, Going
Rogue, when Maddow offers her criticism of Lynn Vincent, Palin's
ghostwriter. Maddow explains that Lynn Vincent "co-authored a book with a guy
who is widely believed to be , and I believe him to be, a white supremacist. So
she's [Palin] chosen Lynn Vincent who has written a book with a white
supremacist to write her book." Robert Stacy McCain and Lynn Vincent co-authored Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party in 2006.

So, is Maddow implying that Sarah Palin is guilty by association by associating with someone who associated with someone who is guilty by association? Maddow is free to "believe" whatever she likes but you would think that prior to smearing someone on national television she would make sure that she is standing on firm ground.

Cheap shots are easy. As Maddow has shown, anyone with only half a brain cell can throw an "I believe..." out there. I believe that Maddow is a small minded, whiny hack. I could be wrong, but prove it.

Pat has the video.

Remember what Stacy says, "Being Notorious Is Not the Same as Being Famous, But It's Better Than Being Anonymous."

Update:

American Power:

I've already testified with all my strength to Robert Stacy McCain's
goodness, fairness, and racial evenhandedness. I know this is not a racist man.
But for whatever statements he's made, or that have falsely been attributed to
him, the radical left is using Robert Stacy McCain to score libelously cheap
political points.

I've noted as well that Charles Johnson's turned his entire blogging
platform into destroying the reputations of others. You can check his page right
now on a cached Google copy. I don't see the Maddow video up yet, but
he's got running headlines including fabulist tales such as "Sarah Palin's Book
Ghostwritten by Associate of White Supremacist McCain."

If Johnson has any friends left one of them should take him aside and explain that he's making himself look very small right now. On the other hand, Maddow, as a journalist of sorts, really should consider her sources.

Update II:

Stacy:

How many times have I said that it's a long story, and that I'm not going
to tell the whole thing until somebody pays me for the story? There are very
good reasons I've kept calm, and resisted the temptation to confirm or deny
this, that or the other specific point in their "Ransom Note Method" indictment. In such a situation, it's important to keep in mind your rights under Miranda
v. Arizona. I don't have to explain myself or prove a negative.

That deserves an Amen. It takes a lot of self confidence to hold one's tongue when being wrongly attacked. It also takes a lot of class. Stacy is showing that he has both qualities. Neither will be found in people who take part in drive-bys.

Newsweek Jumps on the Census Worker Killed by Right Wing Crazies Bandwagon

Via Memeorandum:

Newsweek starts out well enough:

A 1955 cartoon depicts bare-chested, bearded country boys, wearing overalls and pointing their guns at a diminutive, bespectacled census taker. "It's OK Boys. You can tell him everything … He's the Census Man!" one of them tells the others, in what is part of a decennial phenomenon that is beginning again—the massive advertising and manpower effort to persuade Americans to take part in the U.S. Census. The old ad assures readers that census takers have no connections to the "revenooers," a reference to the Prohibition-era feds who cracked down on illegal production of alcohol. Back then, as now, there is hesitation and distrust of the census among the public.

Back then, as now, there is hesitation and distrust of the census among the public. True enough. There is a decades long sentiment that the government uses the census to stick its nose in where it doesn't belong. It is nothing new and it is neither "right" or "left" wing. Our Constitution requires that our population be counted at a regular interval for apportioning purposes. Politicians being busybodies at heart expanded the census beyond its constitutional mandate and thus we have the "long form."

Sample questions from the 2000 census long form:

What are the annual costs of utilities and fuels for
this house, apartment, or mobile home? If you have
lived here less than 1 year, estimate
the annual cost.
a. Electricity
Annual cost — Dollars
$ , .00


What were the real estate taxes on THIS property
last
year?

Yearly amount — Dollars
$ .00


Answer ONLY if this is a MOBILE HOME —
a. Do you have an installment
loan or contract
on THIS mobile home?

Reading the questions, one can't help but wonder if the census is being conducted by the IRS. In other words, much of it is simply none of the government's damn business. Combine this with the fact that up until recent events ACORN was involved. Let's face it, most people don't want someone from a criminal enterprise knocking on their door.

So a man who happens to be a census worker is killed and the Left and their puppet scribes start screaming "Right wingers!" Newsweek is smart enough to use qualifying words like "may" and "might" but their message is obvious.

I think Stacy McCain, who took the time to go to Kentucky, sums it up best in quoting a journalist he met on his road trip, "We don't know anything. Hell, we don't even know what we don't know." Neither does Newsweek but they know what they hope turns out to be true.

Newsweek is on the bandwagon and like everyone else on the Left, they are in such a rush to get their point across their reporting is at best, sloppy. Jimmie Bise at The Sundries Shack:

Well, here’s something I didn’t notice until I was reviewing my post just
now. Conant writes that the conservative blogosphere has been questioning the
census, but she doesn’t bother to cite any conservative bloggers. Surely, a
crack reporter (that is to say, a good one, not one whose writing makes it seem
like she’s on crack) could Google up a few wild blogger quotes. It’s not like
notable violent maniac Michelle Malkin hasn’t written a column about the census. And here’s a *gasp* black conservative with reservations, too! And even the Simian-American population was ready to grab their…whatever
monkeys grab…to combat the monstrous census threat! Heck, we all know those Newsbusters bloggers are all about the head-cracking. Why
the word “bust” is built right into the site’s name!

I would suggest that Conant go to Kentucky to investigate but I guess that isn't necessary if you've already made up your mind.

The Dumbest "Gotcha" Ever!

Via Memeorandum:

Are there editors at Media Matters who read the posts before they're put out there for the world to see? Exhibit A: EXCLUSIVE: Media Matters confirms student at center of Fox fueled Jennings controversy was of legal age

Right-wing media have claimed that 21 years ago, when Jennings was a 24-year-old
teacher at ConFor several days now conservatives in the media have been on a witch-hunt for Kevin Jennings, the U.S. Department of Education's director of the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Led by Fox News, the cord Academy in Massachusetts, he "cover[ed] up statutory rape" by not reporting to authorities a conversation he had with a student who told him about being involved with an "older man."

They have attacked Jennings with homophobic, anti-gay rhetoric,
falsely accused him of covering up or encouraging "statutory rape" and asked for his
resignation or firing.

Media Matters for America has exclusively obtained the Massachusetts drivers' license of the student confirming that at the time of the incident, he was at least
sixteen years of age -- the legal age of consent in Massachusetts.

Gotcha! He was sixteen! Ha! Except..

Wasn't it Jennings himself who said that the boy was fifteen? Sooooo? Let's take the boy's age out of it and look at the review of Jennings from Nice Deb:

•Jennings failed to report a case of statutory rape of a *15 year old who confided in him that he had had sex with a much older man at a train station. Jennings’ did express concern that the boy use a condom.
•Jennings wrote the forward to a book called “Queering Elementary Education”. Bonus: Another familiar face wrote one of the endorsements on the book jacket—Bill Ayers. Ayers, of course, is the former Weather Underground bomber, an Obama pal, and ghostwriter, who worked with him on school related boards in Chicago during the nineties.
•Jennings and his organization, GLSEN sponsored conferences where homosexual activists instructed children age 14 and up on how to perform homosexual acts. How bad was it? When a recording from one of these conferences became public, the firestorm that ensued became known as “fistgate”.
•Jennings in 1997 reportedly praised Harry Hay of the North American Association for Man-Boy Love Association (NAMBLA), which promotes the legalization of sexual abuse of young boys by older men. You can read the transcript of Jennings asserting that “one of the people that’s always inspired me is Harry Hay”, here.
•Jennings has a history of ridiculing and demeaning Christians: Reportedly said of Christians—“ F___ ‘em” while speaking at Marble Collegiate Church in March of 2000.

So, when Media Matters can debunk the above I'll give Jennings another look. For now, he doesn't belong anywhere near schoolchildren.

For the Left it is 'story first, facts later'

Via Memeorandum:

Seen over at The Other McCain:

My brief report for The American Spectator:

"Yes, we are concerned about what people are saying on the blogs," a
Kentucky law enforcement official said Saturday night, speaking on condition of
anonymity.The murder of Bill Sparkman in Clay County, Ky., has caused bloggers to engage in widespread speculation about the motive for the killing. Sparkman was employed part-time conducting a Census Bureau survey. . . .The Kentucky State Police are coordinating the investigation of Sparkman's death. Trooper First Class Don Trosfer, based in the agency's London, Ky., Post 11 is the official spokesman for the investigation, but was unavailable for comment late Saturday.Another law-enforcement source, not authorized to speak about the case, said state and local officials are working closely with the FBI on the investigation. Internet gossip is a source of concern, he said."You'd be surprised what some of these morons write on the Internet . . . that they wouldn't say to somebody's face," the official said in a brief telephone interview. . . .

So, Stacy is off to my old stomping ground, I was raised in Pulaski County Kentucky, to check the story out for himself. Good for him. Too many have jumped to there own conclusions with no real knowledge of the facts based on their own flimsy ideology. Left wing bloggers are gleefully crying "gotcha", is new low. They couldn't care less about Bill Sparkman. They simply hope with all their tiny blackened souls that some crazy right winger killed him.

Do they know anything about the people in Clay County Kentucky or, cue up the dueling banjos, do they just assume that Sparkman was targeted by some backwood, inbred, government hating knuckle dragger? It has been two and a half decades since I've been home but I remember an incredibly kind and generous people who would no more target someone because he works for the government than they would target their own family.

So far we know that Bill Sparkman was murdered. We do not know anything else. Is it too much to ask the Left to withhold judgement until the local police have done their job and the facts are known?

The NY Times Isn't "Tuned In?" Surely You Jest.

Via Memeorandum:

The New York Times has decided that they may have tuned in a bit late to the ACORN story. Reading Hoyt's piece I couldn't help wondering if the Times had actually had a moment of clarity and self awareness or if they had been bombarded by angry readers and decided to engage in a little CYA.

The giggle line came in the form of this:

Despite what the critics think, Abramson said the problem was not liberal bias.

Noooooo, of course not. They just have "...a particular problem with conservatives...". But never fear, the Times has assigned an editor to monitor it's "tuned-in-ness" but the person will a) remain anonymous and b) can't be contacted. Huh?

I have after an intense study the anonymous editor will pronounce that the Times is doing a bang up job.

Business as usual.


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Did Media Matters Even Watch Andrew Breitbart On Fox Before They Started Whining?

Via Memeorandum:

Media Matters has a hit piece on Andrew Breitbart's Fox appeareance with Megyn Kelly. During the appearence, Breitbart didn't mince words about the coverage the various "ACORN videos" at CNN. Media Matters accused Breitbart of "whining." Problem is, Breitbart wasn't "whining" as Media Matters claims, he was making a statement of facts. CNN has slanted its coverage in favor of ACORN. CNN rather than reporting the story, has basically regurgitated the ACORN talking points.

I seem to remember from a long ago journalism class that news reporting consists of who, what, where and why. If CNN wants present an opinion piece on the ACORN story then the should label it as such. Media Matters can't be taken seriously when it defends a lack of basic journalism.

ACCORN: The Left Shrugs and Spins

Via Memeorandum:

How has the Left responded to the ACORN scandal?

The Daily Kos uses the story to attack Sen. David Vitter.
Think Progress uses the story to attack Sen. David Vitter.
The Political Carnival uses the story to attack Sen. David Vitter

No outrage that an organization is committing fraud on the taxpayer’s dime. Child prostitution? Not worth mentioning. Has the entire Left taken complete leave of their morals as well as their minds? Are we to understand that the Left is okay with the numerous instances of lawlessness depicted on the tapes?

Apparently the Left has ‘evolved’ beyond the lowly concepts of right and wrong. In Progressiveville, has shame become passé.

Those of us who still exists on a more earthly plain are shocked by the behavior we’ve seen on the ACCORN tapes. In our little corner, crime and punishment still exists. So, let the Left ignore or spin the ACCORN story. We won’t and I promise you, we will push this story wherever it leads.

TWAS ACCOUNTABILITTY THAT KILLED THE MSM. Who Knew?

Via Instapundit:

Ed Driscoll says "T'was Accountabilty That Killed The MSM." That's kind of like saying "watching paint dry is boring", even if you've never done it, intuitively you know it's true. I stopped watching the MSM newscasts when anchors decided that a smirk was essential when reporting on anything even vaguely conservative. I dropped my local Tampa Tribune when they decided that local Tea Party events weren't worth their time to report (although Steve Otto did have a really snotty opinion piece on our Tax Day Tea Party). Hasta la vista, baby, we just no longer "relate."

Ed quotes John Nolte at Big Hollywood:

Mainstream news outlets have been caught off guard before, but they used to
play catch up. Today they play “hide the ball.” For as long as I’ve been
politically aware the media’s been biased, but willfully ignoring a major
national news story at great cost to their credibility and relevance is a new
low. So what changed?

Ironically enough, scrutiny and accountability is the cause of much of
the media’s increasingly disgraceful behavior.

Once trailblazer media watchdogs like talk radio, The Media Research Center and Bernard Goldberg were joined with the awesome power of the Internet and Fox News, the media’s sins of omission and commission could no longer be hidden from the general public, or denied. This gave the Fourth Estate two options. They could
either: A) Clean up their act and do their jobs honorably … or B) Surrender
their fig leafs of objectivity and run amok as the ideologues they really are.

Doing their jobs honorably would mean a setback for the Leftist cause,
and so they chose B.

The good news is that this appears to be a suicide run.

In other words, they've chosen ideology over sanity. It happens. The labor unions have done the same thing. Th union bosses may be liberal but the average worker trends toward conservative. Still, they follow the Democratic Party like sheep to the slaughter and now while the workers are "sitting on the bench" and losing everything they own while unemployed, the bosses are still collecting their paychecks like clockwork. Only the SEIU, who has done a marvelous job of recruiting illegal aliens and prostitutes has a growing membership.

But back to the MSM:

The rise of those who watch the Watchmen forced smart, savvy individuals to
consciously choose between being tenacious, curious journalists who will hold
the powerful accountable, or to finally come out of the closet and declare
themselves the ideological warriors they really are. They have chosen to
become the Palace Guards.

They are also cornered, scared and armed with the mighty weapons of the
unethical: lies and the inability to feel shame.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, we must continue to do our best as they let loose their worst.

Ed concludes:

Count on them doing just that, as the vote for healthcare “reform” and (especially) the midterms get closer. As we wrote below, at the moment, they have but one card they seem determined to pile drive into the ground, to Cuisinart metaphors.

Who You Gonna Believe, Your Own Two Eyes Or ABC's Lying Lips?

Memeorandum is all afire with the "numbers" stories from yesterday's March on Washington. A few of the headlines are Size Matters, So Do Lies, ABC News Was Misquoted on Crowd Size and the obligatory left wing slap at Michelle Malkin, UPDATED: Malkin's 2 million protester claim; its like the blind leading the blind (a prime example of why main stream media no longer matters).


It seems like everyone the Left has come down with a severe case of tunnel vision to go along with their long standing bout of rabies complicated extreme rigour mortise. Anyone with a brain, which I realize immediately rules out the MSM and the rest of their Leftists me-too doper friends in the blogosphere, can clearly see the size of the crowds:

By denying the obvious they only show themselves to be delusional half-wits.

In addition to the photos at Michelle's, The Daley Gator has an impressive roundup as well. All I know is the word "SHEESH" was invented strictly for the morons on the Left.

Joe Wilson Simply Said What We All Were Thinking

I can't count how during Obama's speech last night I looked at my television and shouted, "liar!" When Rep. Joe Wilson said his now infamous, "You lie!" I gave him a rousing, cheering, standing ovation. The look on Nancy Pelosi's face was the icing on the cake.



Democrats are aghast! Apparently the election of Barack Obama was such a momentous event that all knowledge of any event prior to January 20, 2009 was excised from the brains of the party faithful who are claiming with straight faces that no other president has been ill-treated during a speech before Congress. Wrong, so wrong. But what can you expect from a party who claims that no other president has been subjected to Hitler/swastika symbolism prior to The One? So, are Democrats suffering from extreme memory loss or has the Democratic Party become the party of liars? Both.



Michelle Malkin has it right when she calls the Democrat's reaction to Wilson "manufactured outrage." The outrage was manufactured out of thin air and Wilson's charge was absolutely correct.



The president's speech was one huge smear of Conservatives laced with half truths and outright lies. Every Conservative should call him out on it.


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That Was Then and This Is Now

Robert Gibbs, Obama's silver tongued press secretary on the 'school speech' controversy:



Oopsy! Well, I said "silver tongued" not "well informed." Turns out silly now was down right serious a few years back when it was President George H.W. Bush talked to school children.

Democrats, then the majority party in Congress, not only denounced Bush's
speech -- they also ordered the General Accounting Office to investigate its
production and later summoned top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill
for an extensive hearing on the issue. ...

The day after Bush spoke, the Washington Post published a front-page
story suggesting the speech was carefully staged for the president's political
benefit. "The White House turned a Northwest Washington junior high classroom
into a television studio and its students into props," the Post reported.

With the Post article in hand, Democrats pounced. "The Department of
Education should not be producing paid political advertising for the president,
it should be helping us to produce smarter students," said Richard Gephardt,
then the House Majority Leader. "And the president should be doing more about
education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'"

Democrats did not stop with words. Rep. William Ford, then chairman of
the House Education and Labor Committee, ordered the General Accounting Office
to investigate the cost and legality of Bush's appearance. On October 17, 1991,
Ford summoned then-Education Secretary Lamar Alexander and other top Bush
administration officials to testify at a hearing devoted to the
speech.

So, when it was a Republican president, Democrats made a federal case out of it. You would think a smart guy like Robert Gibbs would know about that.

More Hypocrisy By Michael Moore-Updated

Tripping around the web this morning I came across an interesting post a Babalu:

Who is keeping the profits from his films?

"Capitalism is an evil, and you cannot regulate evil," the two-hour movie
concludes.

"You have to eliminate it and replace it with something
that is good for all people and that something is democracy."

It's so easy to preach socialism/liberalism/progressivism/stupidism/moronism when you are rich. It's so easy to bash the system that provides your own wherewithal, all for the sake of appearing saintly and compassionate.

Folks, these are truly evil bastards we are fighting against...

Moore’s movie, Capitalism: A Love Story is premiering at The Venice Film Festival. From there it will move on to The Toronto Film Festival and then on to openings in New York and Los Angeles. I won’t be attending either of the film festivals or the openings, will you? No.

The attendees will “the beautiful” people. The people who capitalism has been very, very good to. How good has capitalism been to Moore? His net worth is estimated at more the 50 million evil US dollars.

Well, it should be fun. People Magazine will show the actresses in their finery as they wax away on what a powerful movie that Moore has given us, all the time completely unaware that the dress they are wearing (and wouldn’t be caught dead wearing again) cost more than the average family spends in a month or two on all of their expenses combined.

I won’t be seeing Moore’s movie at a festival, opening or otherwise. It strikes me as a movie for hypocritical, unserious, unaware people who apply different standards to “the little people.” They don’t need my money.

Update:

Smitty calls Moore a corpulent capitalist. True enough, but I prefer "lard ass."

A Teachable Moment

Pat, a teacher, writes at And So it Goes in Shreveport that she is passing on the Obama speech on Tuesday and instead, will be using the class time to teach. That is an incredible concept and think for a moment how our public schools would improve if all our teachers were to follow Pat's lead.

For the record, most teacher in my experience have been like Pat. Many teachers dip in to their own pockets to provide supplies for their classrooms. They dedicate their "off time" to develop lesson plans that will keep their students engaged in the learning process. Sadly, these days we all know a teacher who uses their class time to preach their pet issues rather than sticking to their subject matter.

The Left is stunned that any parent would object to the President would give a short speech extolling the virtues of staying in school and working hard. In all the posts claiming shock that racist wingnuts are children of this wonderful "teachable moment", none so much refer in passing to the materials that will accompany the President's speech:

"What do you think the President wants us to do?"
"Does the speech make you want to do anything?"
"Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?"

You don't have to be a "racist wingnut" to recognize that those questions can easily be used in a way that amounts to indoctrination. If a teacher must use class time for a "civics" lesson, let is be that our elected officials serve us and not the other way around.