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Palin: Congress, it’s time to stop lining your pockets

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Sarah Palin’s recent article came to mind this morning.  I’d been watching more coverage and reading more about the evil, extreme left-wing dictator Kim Jung Il’s belated death (about which I’m very pleased, by the way, and that is not something I say very often).

But it got me thinking about western government and politicians who are in it for themselves, and for their their own enrichment, or gratification, and/or their self-aggrandizement.  Or those who don’t hesitate putting their nation and their countrymen (or segments therein) in “the back of the bus” (to use an infamous President Barack Obama quote which he actually used in a speech, as a part of his increasing class war rhetoric), to advance their big government, “progressive” world view and agenda on America.

Most politicians, even in the west, are to one degree or another, in it for themselves, and/or their progressive political agenda, rather than their nation as a whole.

But I recalled how I really don’t feel that way about Sarah Palin.  I think she actually puts her country first, and I trust her instincts more than most other politicians, on nearly every important matter.  And I can assure you, I don’t say that about many people either.

So I thought I’d go back to one of her latest writings, this one from USA Today about a week ago.  Lo and behold, it’s about politicians lining their pockets.

Congress, it’s time to stop lining your pockets

Thanks to the solid new research and recent revelations in Peter Schweizer‘s book Throw Them All Out and the subsequent coverage on 60 Minutes, we have concrete proof to explain how members of Congress accumulate wealth at a rate astonishingly faster than the rest of Americans and have stock portfolios that outperform even the best hedge-fund managers’. (Full disclosure: Schweizer is employed by my political action committee as a foreign policy adviser.)

From sweetheart land deals to initial public offering (IPO) stock gifts to insider trading with non-public government information, the methods of unethical wealth accumulation for our permanent political class are endless. The reaction from the Beltway establishment to the revelations concerning insider trading among members of Congress was predictable. First they denied it, then they dismissed the problem as much ado about nothing. Some said there was no need for new laws or action because the Securities and Exchange Commission could prosecute members of Congress under existing laws against insider trading.

But under current law, there is no way the SEC will ever go after a powerful congressman or senator. The SEC never has, even though insider trading prohibitions have existed since the 1930s. Here’s why: Congress sets the SEC’s budget, and senators approve the head of the SEC. Congress uses its power of the purse strings to threaten federal agencies that get in their way.

For example, in 2006 the FBI got a search warrant from a federal judge to comb former congressman William Jefferson‘s office. The FBI already had evidence that Jefferson was taking bribes. Congress was furious that the FBI would dare search a fellow member’s office. Members claimed the search was unconstitutional. They even threatened to cut the Justice Department‘s budget in retaliation. All this despite the fact that 86% of Americans supported the FBI raid. …

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I’ll post her writings more often. If I forget, please nudge me. I aim to help keep her and her style of politics at the forefront.  Meantime, here’s a couple links to her books.  Buy them or any other books through these links, and BoldColors.net gets an infinitesimally small kickback.  And in this case, yes, it’s OK to line our pockets with kickbacks.  Thanks.

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Rex Murphy: “The media’s love affair with a disastrous president”.

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Required reading for all voters  –  and for journalists interested in truth, telling the real story, and not becoming subject Rex Murphyto the group-think, left-wing, “progressive” political or ideological mentality replete in mainstream news organizations throughout North America and most of the world.

Rex Murphy, a columnist –  one of the best on the continent  –  writes today about the mainstream media’s reporting on…  no sorry let’s just dispense with the word  “reporting”.  Their constantly massaging the story in favor of their man Barack Obama, and genuflecting with regard Barack Obama, while gratuitously bashing his opponents  –  during the last campaign for the U.S. presidency.  Sorry about that whole “reporting” thing.

But, as Murphy wrote in his opening, it hasn’t gotten better.  “In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign — and it hasn’t reclaimed them since.”  And the truth just goes on from there.

Rex Murphy: The media’s love affair with a disastrous president

…Every doubt they hid from themselves about Obama, every potential embarrassment they tucked under the blanket of their superior sensibilities, they furiously over-compensated for by their remorseless hounding of Palin — from utterly trivial e-mails, to blogger Andrew Sullivan’s weird speculations about Palin’s womb, musings that put the Obama “Birther” fantasies into a realm near sanity. (We are now seeing an echo of that — with a new book promoting all sorts of unconfirmed gossip about Palin, including her alleged sexual dalliance with a basketball star.)

As a result, the press gave the great American republic an untried, unknown and, it is becoming more and more frighteningly clear, incompetent figure as President. Under Obama, America’s foreign policies are a mixture of confusion and costly impotence. It is increasingly bypassed or derided; the great approach to the Muslim world, symbolized by the Cairo speech, is in tatters. Its debt and deficits are a weight on the entire global economy. And the office of presidency is less and less a symbol of strength. …

National Post with another hateful anti-Palin bash-fest

National Post with another hateful anti-Palin bash-fest, in which they call her an "idiot" and imploring their readers to just "ignore her." Advise which, mercifully for us and embarrassingly for them, even they can't do, as they, like almost all media, hang on every word she utters.

Not to detract from this excellent piece and hijack it to embark on my own tangent, but well actually that’s exactly what I will do since I own this site and I’ve been shouting exactly this sort of thing from all the rooftops I’ve been a part of, from day one:  Interestingly, Rex Murphy writes his column in a newspaper, Toronto, Canada’s National Post, which I constantly criticized during that presidential campaign, as one of the biggest offenders of exactly the kind of “reporting” (see above for the more accurate words) Murphy is exposing here.  It’s a newspaper which constantly promoted Obama as a savior not just for America, but for its neighbor Canada and the entire world.  And gratuitously bashing Palin too, at one point advising its readers that Palin is a “idiot”  –  no sorry a “complete idiot”  –  and to “ignore her” in the hopes (their weird journalistic hopes) that she just “goes away.”  For no particular reason ever given, except that the agenda being advanced, which was obvious to us on the right, was to simply clear the political path for their man, Obama.  That goes back years, now.  And it goes on, as Murphy explains.  At that very newspaper.

Furthermore, Murphy also makes his living partly by making regular commentary on Canada’s state-owned, taxpayer-funded, very left-wing and anti-conservative CBC network  –  which similarly boosted Obama at every turn, while bashing or at the very least smirking at Sarah Palin (and most every other conservative in North America), all day long. It still does, as Murphy alludes.

Luckily, Murphy has the kind quasi tenure afforded those whose following is so great that any media organization he works for cannot fire him for risk of losing all its readers and even more of its remaining credibility. Or they most assuredly would.



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National Post continues its “Palin is an idiot” meme today

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June 10, 2011  •1 Comment
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Amidst the release, today, of emails transacted by her during her time as Governor of Alaska, the National Post, which once cast Sarah Palin as “a complete idiot,” today digs deep and finds an archival photo of a genius leftist activist holding a sign reading “IDIOT QUEEN” to accompany an item not about the emails, but rather yet another opinion piece about how we should ignore her.  Note that the opinion piece says nothing of her being an “idiot.”  The National Post just thought that was the prefect picture of Sarah Palin to express their vastly superior intellectual state, I’m guessing.

The fact that the story  –  being covered to death by all the lamestream media  –   about the release of her emails arrived on the very same day they decided to post another opinion piece telling us to ignore her, is sheer coinkidink.  The fact that it makes them look like idiots is sheer serendipity.

National Post today -- once again "ignoring" Sarah Palin. But don't worry, the National Post is not replete with "idiots."

It’s interesting because the National Post implored us to ignore her long ago.  Presumably because she is the aforementioned “complete idiot.”

National Post found the goofiest photo of Palin that exists on Planet Earth, then called her a "complete idiot" while instructing us to "ignore her," some time ago.

But of course try as they might, or wish as they do, they can’t ignore her, witness their latest opinion piece imploring us to ignore her, and the articles all over the news about her emails  –  including their news.  To say nothing of her recent bus tour.  They hang on every word she utters and writes.  And it drives them batty.  They can’t come to terms with the fact that she wields far more power in her words and deeds than they do, and alas, they detest her words and deeds.  She’s a true conservative  –  anathema to the likes of the National Post –  and a woman to boot.  And boot her they do, figuratively speaking.  Kick her ass, to be more clear.  Gratuitously.  All day long.  This is how they “ignore” her.

By way of comparison, the manly Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner… is not an idiot.   Again, Weiner is NOT an idiot.  Just so we’re clear.  And he’s certainly not a “complete idiot.”

See? Now you’re thinking like an idiot.  Or at least they hope so.

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Is this what newspapers are for now?

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Mass-market mass-media weapon of an anti-conservative, anti-Palin political war? Or “all the news that’s fit to print?”

Embarking on another not-at-all malicious bit of “investigative journalism” possibly?  No.  Couldn’t be.  No nefarious intent here at all.  Nope. They’re reporting the news.  Uh huh. So that readers can help them find something “newsworthy,” as their article says.  Sure, that’s ass-backward, and that’s purposeful muck-raking, and it’s an unfair hit-job on one (now) quasi-politician, but what the hey.  She’s a damn conservative!  And a woman.

We know that their intentions are honorable because the media have been COMPLETELY fair with Sarah Palin and her family up to now, and have not engaged in an ongoing character assassination attempt, whatsoever.  And this of course proves once again that the liberal-left mainstream media (or more accurately, “lamestream” media, as Palin calls it) has no political or social agenda. At all.  Nope.

I guess with the layoffs of so many staff at the NYT, which are a direct result of their abject failure as an objective news organization, they now require the freebie help of their faithful anti-Palin followers  — to continue their ever so noble efforts at finding some “dirt”  –  not about al Qaeda or drug dealers or Mexican warlords or rapists, but rather a more insipid enemy to the left and far left:  Sarah Palin.  This reminds me of the Coulterism which says something like this: show a liberal a photo of Saddam Hussein and one of George Bush (or, say, Sarah Palin), and ask them to point to the bad guy.  The liberal will point to Bush (or Palin).

But at least we know everything will be put in its proper context and everything.  Oh yeah fer sure. And we know they’ll be examining the emails of all the Democratic Governors and Senators and Congress men and women at the same time or immediately after this.  Because THAT would be ALL the news.

 



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Libyan woman fronts panel of five U.N. “human rights” cops

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IT'S LIKE A SKIT ON SNL -- Libya's Najat Al-Hajjaji, a former President of the UN's "human rights" council, is now on the UN's "human rights" committee especially devoted to eradicating nations' use of mercenaries to kill their own people -- like they're doing in Libya.

Maybe if Saturday Night Live did a skit, the media would pay attention? Live from New York, it’s United Nations! Trouble is, it’d be when D-lister Kathy Griffin was guest-hosting so the media would end up being conflicted about it.

The article on this latest egregious abrogation of common sense and sanity (which is the United Nations) is particularly well-written because like the group which brought it up, UN Watch, and the news org that reported on it, FoxNews.com, has the audacity (as I and all people of sound mind always do) to deal with the pertinent question: why is nobody even asking the right questions?

I would add the question: Where on Earth is the mainstream media on this? I mean besides smearing Sarah Palin and hyperanalyzing and demanding answers for (whatever) comments she might have made in her latest (almost always excellent) interview on Fox News Channel, or hyperventilating over her latest (usually spot-on) Twitter tweet.

Group Calls for Libyan Envoy’s Removal From Post as U.N. Investigator of Human Rights Violations

A watchdog group is asking the U.N. to immediately remove a Libyan envoy from her post as an investigator on human rights violations by mercenaries, saying that as a mouthpiece for a regime that’s “deploying hired guns to massacre its own people” it’s “outrageous” to have her in that position.

Najat Al-Hajjaji has been one of five members of “The Working Group on the use of mercenaries as a means of violating human rights and impeding the exercise of the rights of peoples to self-determination” since its inception in 2005.

Among other things, the group was established to monitor mercenaries and mercenary-related activities around the world, study their impact on human rights, create proposals to further the protection of human rights against threats posed by mercenaries and draft international principles to encourage respect for human rights by companies offering mercenary services, according to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights website.

But U.N. Watch, an organization that monitors the performance of the United Nations, says Al-Hajjaji should be the “last person” charged with any of those duties – especially now.

“At a time when [Libyan leader Muammar] Qaddafi is using mercenaries to kill his own people, it is outrageous that one of his long-time representatives would sit on the world’s highest human rights body as a supposed defender of human rights — and, of all things, as a defender of victims of mercenaries,” U.N. Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer told FoxNews.com.

But it’s not the first time Al-Hajjaji’s been in a controversial post.
In 2003 she was elected president of the Human Rights Commission against objections from human rights groups and the U.S.

“Everybody knew she was sitting on this mercenary group and no one said a thing…and the question is why not?” …

I’m used to the United Nations being the center of excellence for idiocy, but I’ve never quite figured out the pass given — by everybody — for the lack of demand for solid answers on matters of total insanity like the one depicted above (on FoxNews.com alone) — or moreover, the lack of demand that the United Nations and its top dogs explain themselves as a general matter before the world. They seem to answer to nobody. Then again so do the liberal mainstream media which always seem to be the defenders-in-chief of the UN. I only hope Glenn Beck brings up this obvious perfidy because then the left would pay attention, even if it only results in their habitual liberal media- guide-book response: reflexively bashing him over it (thus confirming it as credible and as something we should actually be concerned about).

UN Secretary-General and Ban Ki-moon with member in good standing, the murderous dictator Muammar Gadaffi

Hey all you world government advocates: What the heck is going on in a world where nobody demands an answer to not just the obvious question of why on Earth this Libyan woman, who was appointed by the crazed nutbar socialist Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, is on this U.N. “human rights” panel; but also why nobody — except an quasi citizens group — is even asking these questions.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon? Where is he on this? And no I don’t mean on the subject of Kathy Griffin’s position on Sarah Palin, I mean on the Libya thing. I demand to know. Don’t you? I would love to haul him before a group of world citizens comprised of me and, say, a group of fifth-graders who would all instinctively ask these questions (having yet to be tarnished and inculcated by left-wing UN and world government-loving teachers).

Paging U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and EU Foreign Minister Catherine Ashton: You’re up with Griffin in two!

Here's former Canadian Prime Minister and United Nations apologist Paul Martin (Liberal) happily posing with Libyan nutbar Muammar Gadhaffi, in 2004. Martin appointed Irwin Cotler Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.

(For its smug, UN-loving part, Canadians can take some solace in the fact that the Liberal Canadian former minister of justice and attorney general, Irwin Cotler, has — lately at least, now that he’s a sitting member of the UN Watch group rather than in the Liberal government that fawned over and posited Canada as virtually subservient to the rule of the UN — been a vocal opponent of Libya’s membership in the UN at all, to say nothing of their current membership and leadership of their “human rights” committees. But he still fails to question the motives of a UN which allows a nutbar human rights disgrace, and dictator, to appoint anyone to a “human rights” committee of the UN.)

The U.N. seems to be, in and of themselves, another creepy, closed-door, opaque, authoritarian, totalitarian, dictatorship of sorts. And just as in the case of member-in-good-standing Libya, and countless other UN members and membership in their various hideous “human rights” politburos, nobody questions the additional danger here — the real danger that has been incubated by the media’s — and others — silence here.

Can’t a liberal comedian like Jon Stewart do a bit on this instead of incessantly and boringly bashing Fox News Channel every, single, night — the very channel that reliably reports on this stuff? Maybe then the mainstream media would defensively act on it, and report on it, and start asking some pertinent questions about the world outside of Sarah Palin’s Twitter account.

 



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US WEEKLY slams Sarah Palin for… FAKE remarks from a SATIRE web site

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Possibly the stupidest anti-conservative/anti-Palin mainstream media gaffe of the week (so far  — it’s only Wednesday!), as caught by a Web site called “Gossip Cop”, and later also written-up by the related site Mediaite.com:

US WEEKLY wrote another hateful drive-by character assassination attempt  hit-piece  –  sorry an “article”  –  today about Sarah Palin and an interview with Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, quoting Palin as saying horrible things about singer Christine Aguilera and her botched Super Bowl National Anthem performance.  Let’s be clear:  they quote Palin.  They hold this out as a factual story.  They really believe it is.  For example:

“Unemployment is at nine percent, yet we have to suffer through a performance by a foreigner with a poor grasp of the English language”

They also claim Palin said (and they quote her) “spicy Latin princesses” like her should be “deported,” and that they (“spicy Latin princesses”) “shouldn’t be allowed to sing at the Super Bowl.”

Trouble is, it’s based on a completely phony source  –  a source which even admits it’s phony.  It’s a satire site.

After massive research lasting 1.7-seconds, I found this from their source.  It’s the satire site’s “About Us” page, which the US WEEKLY reporters and editors somehow missed despite their obvious smarts and objectivity and tolerance and compassion and Pulitzer-Prize-worthy professionalism and..:

About Us

Super Tuesday News is a satirical news site launched in January 2011 to lampoon the events, circumstances and players of the 2012 United States Presidential election.  We are based in Los Angeles, California.

Irony abounds –  The man behind GossipCop.com, Michael Lewittes, is the former news director for… Us Weekly. The GossipCop.com co-founder is Dan Abrams, who is also in charge at Mediaite.com, a legal commentator often seen on TV.  He’s also the Chief Legal Analyst for NBC News …and MSNBC (read on!).  US WEEKLY was founded by… the New York Times.  My my.

I wanted to give you a link to the idiotic US WEEKLY story, but they seemed to have lost the entire article.  Just…. disappeared.  Weird.  And very professional.  No apology could be found.  But not to worry:  here’s the US WEEKLY story before they scrubbed it:

US WEEKLY idiocy

And you don’t have to do a lot of research to figure out how the mainstream media hate/idiocy meme surrounding Sarah Palin and other conservatives gets spread around, and how it is that so many people end up thinking   –  “knowing!”  –  Sarah Palin or the tea party folks, or any conservative is, oh, “stupid,” or “racist,” or “homophobic,” for example.  A quick Google search for the exact US WEEKLY headline produces well over 400 links to the many (no doubt mostly liberal) web sites which posted that US WEEKLY (false) story, also as fact, showing that they are as easily fooled by the foolish, in effect.  They have all been made to look stupid, by stupid people, who all think they’re smarter than Sarah Palin, but who clearly are vastly more stupid, unfair, blinkered, and gullible. (And if that doesn’t teach you something about what Palin  –  clearly credibly –  calls the lamestream media, then you’re more stupid than even them!)

Here’s a snapshot of page one of that search, but it goes on for dozens of pages of sites which posted that US WEEKLY article:

Go to those sites to which Google provides handy links, and some of them have dozens or hundreds of comments on the story they posted, from folks who, each in their turn, has been similarly led by fools before them into thinking this actually is true.  That it’s actually based in fact.  Like the phony “I can see Alaska from my house” canard which was actually coined by a Saturday Night Live comedian.

One example amongst the Google search: after the US WEEKLY listing itself, Google lists a blog operated by YAHOO.COM called “OMG.YAHOO.COM”.  Here’s the link.  Their version of the story has dozens and dozens of comments — from the subsequently fooled.  That’s YAHOO.COM  — a purveyor of news and information!

Just last week or so, MSNBC’s star anti-conservative drive-by smear show (sorry  — “news analysis!”)  –  hostess Rachel Maddow got caught in almost the exact same thing, quoting, on air, as fact, a story about Palin that was written up by another fake news/satire site.   The next day she had to admit on-air she’d been duped, but rather than “man-up” about it, she opted to blame it on… conservatives, because, well, the stupid things conservatives always say, made it all so believable.  See hows that logic works?



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MUD LIBEL

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The same people who had blamed Sarah Palin for the massacre at the Tucson Safeway and then taunted her for her “silence” were enraged when she responded.

Last Tuesday, the night before Palin responded, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann mocked Palin’s silence throughout his show:

– “And why is the ever self-promoting Miss Palin so quiet?”

– “And it’s quiet, isn’t it?”

– “It’s too quiet.”

– “The silence is deafening from the great Northwest.”

It was deemed an admission of guilt that she hadn’t spoken about the Tucson shooting or denied the accusations that she had inspired the shooter.

The next day, Palin posted a video response, and Keith immediately attacked her for “the worst timed political statement ever.” It’s almost as if liberals would attack Palin whatever she did.

Olbermann sneered about Palin’s use of the phrase “blood libel,” scoffing, “This, to Sarah Palin, is analogous to what is happening to her.” No, not only happening to her, but to all right-wingers, tea partiers, Republican politicians, and conservative radio and TV hosts — all of whom have been accused of complicity in murder.

On the day of the Arizona massacre, Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva blamed the “Palin express.” The father of Gabrielle Giffords, one of the victims, blamed “the whole Tea Party.” The sheriff of Pima County, Clarence Dupnik, who had failed to lock Loughner up despite repeated arrests and other contacts, blamed “the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business.” (Dumbnik also said: “We’re not convinced that he acted alone.”)

A comment on Gawker the day of the attack said: “Palin … you now have more than just elk blood on your hands.”

The next day, New York Daily News columnist Michael Daly wrote, with stunning originality: “Palin may have the blood of more than some poor caribou on her hands.” (See — he changed “elk” to “caribou.”)

In an especially prissy “Special Comment” the night of the shooting, Olbermann said that if Sarah Palin “does not repudiate her own part in amplifying violence and violent imagery in politics, she must be dismissed from politics.” Ditto for Rep. Allen West, ex-candidate Sharron Angle, Rep. Giffords’ opponent Jesse Kelly and “the Tea Party leaders.”

In response to the Arizona shooting, the governor of Rhode Island, Lincoln Chafee, banned state employees from going on talk radio, telling reporters he had been a victim of rhetorical violence himself, citing the title of one of my columns from four years ago: “They Shot the Wrong Lincoln.”

In that four-year-old column, I supported Chafee’s opponent in the Republican primary by pointing out that “the only person who hasn’t figured out that Lincoln Chafee is a Democrat is Lincoln Chafee. As the expression goes, if Chafee switched parties, the average IQ on both sides of the aisle would go up.”

My column got results: Chafee is no longer a Republican.

But the column did not produce my secret goal, which the governor has now exposed: That John Wilkes Booth return from the dead to stalk people named “Lincoln.”

Yes, the governor of Rhode Island is afraid of 19th-century assassins. Whatever you do, Lincoln, don’t look under the bed!

After it came out that the Tucson shooter, Jared Loughner, was a liberal pothead who hated Christianity, laughed about aborted babies, never listened to talk radio, hated George Bush and cited “Mein Kampf” as one of his favorite books to annoy his Jewish mother, liberals suspended blaming “political rhetoric” for about two days. Then they went right back to blaming conservatives for the shooting.

The media continue to avoid giving any details and simply announce that Loughner was “anti-government,” implying that he’s your standard George Will conservative who believes Congress has offended the principles of federalism by encroaching on the states’ authority under the Constitution.

In fact, Loughner’s “anti-government” beliefs consist of: burning the American flag on video; denouncing our currency with the exclamation, “No! I won’t trust in God!”; and wanting to kill cops.

His other big anti-government position is that he believes the government was behind 9/11 — just like well-known tea partiers Rosie O’Donnell, Obama’s “green jobs” czar Van Jones, Rehab habitue Charlie Sheen and left-wing historian Howard Zinn.

If we’re looking for a rationale other than “Loughner was nuts,” I think the more relevant facts about him are that he was an atheist who detested religion and religious people, made lots of references to satanic New Age “conscience dreaming” (sic) and was involved in the occult.

When a fellow participant on a UFO website wrote a lengthy response to Loughner’s question about “what is wrong or right with the current date?” which included the subordinate clause, “a day in Christ is as a thousand years,” Loughner fixated on that one line, railing, “I won’t listen to that fictitious crap without the author. This is laughable to notice a gospel or writing related to Christ.”

Shouldn’t we at least bring Bill Maher in for questioning? 



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CABLE NEWS MEDIA: Fox’s Hannity beats new Piers Morgan/Oprah, MSNBC Maddow/Michael Moore

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Even though it was the premier show, and the interview with superstar Oprah had been hyped beyond even the hyperventilating media’s recent accusations or insinuations that Sarah Palin or Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity (…) was to blame for the Arizona madman shooting, CNN’s new replacement for Larry King, Piers Morgan, failed to beat the viewership numbers of Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity last night. Coincidentally, Hannity had Sarah Palin as a guest.

Fox News Channel and Hannity won the time slot with 2.365 million viewers. CNN’s Piers Morgan scored with 2.099 million viewers.

The far-left MSNBC channel’s lame competition against these two shows was Rachel Maddow’s nightly hour-long effort to bash the right, last night starring their hero, the far-leftist Michael Moore. That show placed a distant third with 1.112 million viewers.



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Left-wing progressive Twitter users in extreme hate-filled death-wish festival against Sarah Palin

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UPDATE: I’m told YouTube has already moved to take down this video within 24 hours over “privacy concerns”. Just how “privacy concerns” could legitimately be cited is remarkable when we’re talking about Twitter feeds. Methinks it has more to do with “Left-wingers’ PR spin-machine concerns”. Another excuse is apparently “inflamed rhetoric”. Well yes. But shouldn’t these haters be exposed? I’ve made a local copy of it in any case.

UPDATE TWO (Jan 13 9 AM) – I see where it’s now been removed. I have a copy of it on my hard drive, but I also took screen captures of each Tweet. Since it appears the “removal” matter revolves around “privacy”, I could post each picture with the author of the Tweets blurred, but this would take me a long time as there are about 50 captures (and I have a life!). I’ll post at least a couple later today.

UPDATE THREE (Jan 13 10 AM) — OK I’ve blurred-out the names of some of them — I left out the ones using extreme, vulgar language like the “C”-word and the “F-bomb”, which the Left repeatedly seem to use when expressing that famous liberal-left “tolerance” and “compassion” and “nuance”, like when saying or writing the name Sarah Palin. See the pictures below.

WARNING: EXTREME LANGUAGE and sentiment.

But don’t worry, it’s not “harsh rhetoric” because it’s from the left and progressives.

CAPTURES:


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Left-wing progressive Twitter users in extreme hate-filled death-wish festival against Sarah Palin

By (links to archive) • Twitter link or Web site: Joel Johannesen
January 11, 2011  •Leave a Comment
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UPDATE: I’m told YouTube has already moved to take down this video within 24 hours over “privacy concerns”.  Just how “privacy concerns” could legitimately be cited is remarkable when we’re talking about Twitter feeds.  Methinks it has more to do with “Left-wingers’ PR spin-machine concerns”.  Another excuse is apparently “inflamed rhetoric”.  Well yes.  But shouldn’t these haters be exposed?  I’ve made a local copy of it in any case.

UPDATE TWO (Jan 13 9 AM) – I see where it’s now been removed. I have a copy of it on my hard drive, but I also took screen captures of each Tweet. Since it appears the “removal” matter revolves around “privacy”, I could post each picture with the author of the Tweets blurred, but this would take me a long time as there are about 50 captures (and I have a life!). I’ll post at least a couple later today.

UPDATE THREE (Jan 13 10 AM) — OK I’ve blurred-out the names of some of them — I left out the ones using extreme, vulgar language like the “C”-word and the “F-bomb”, which the Left repeatedly seem to use when expressing that famous liberal-left “tolerance” and “compassion” and “nuance”, like when saying or writing the name Sarah Palin. See the pictures below.

WARNING: EXTREME LANGUAGE and sentiment.

But don’t worry, it’s not “harsh rhetoric” because it’s from the left and progressives.

CAPTURES:


Possibly related posts:

 

• By (links to archive) • Twitter link or Web site: Joel Johannesen
January 11, 2011 •Leave a Comment
Tagged With: , ,
Filed Under: Bold Blog
• Also follow Joel Johannesen on Twitter -- @JoelJohannesen