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Slowly, but surely – thanks to the Internet and talk-radio that continues to give the “silent majority” a voice and means of communication independent of the liberal dominated national media – the truth is coming out about the actual size, collective character, and motivating concerns of more than a million patriotic citizens who gathered in Washington D.C. on Saturday, September 12th. Try as they might to suppress the size and demeanor of this massive, spontaneous gathering, the national left-wing media and the Obama Administration have been unable to suppress the success of this grass-roots movement that has quickly become the...

What do these issues have in common: ACORN, ex-presidential adviser Van Jones, last weekend's protest in Washington, claims that President Barack Obama's opponents are racist, and illegal immigrants getting health care?

A freelance cameraman's appendix ruptured and by the time he was admitted to surgery, it was too late. A self-employed mother of two is found dead in bed from undiagnosed heart disease. A 26-year-old aspiring fashion designer collapsed in her bathroom after feeling unusually fatigued for days.

Here are some confirmed events for October 17th, 2009 SAN DIEGO, CA - NBC Studios 225 Broadway - 3:00PM see page 5 ATLANTA, GA - CNN Center corner of Marietta St. and Centennial Olympic Park Drive - time TBA see page 3 ASHEVILLE, NC - ABC aff. WLOS see website for location and time see page 5

After all, that's what they're telling us we should conclude when mostly white people show up: One usually has to attend an albino Osmond reunion that's being held in a blizzard to find something this infused with whiteness. It's a serious Caucasian Occasion when you have to point to a Polack in your ranks to claim some diversity cred. (Relax, I'm a Polack, I'm allowed to use the word.)

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=110010 "...We, as conservatives, as libertarians, as the possible "third-party voters," and even "single-issue voters" that the Department of Homeland Security wants to redefine as domestic terrorists, must continue to stand up and fight for what we believe. We must not be cowed, frightened, or dissuaded by attempts to mischaracterize and vilify our opinions as "hatred," as "racism," as "unhinged," or as otherwise illegitimate. We have nothing to hide. We have nothing for which to apologize. We have no reason to allow our technologically motivated, operated and facilitated society to broadcast in every possible venue the dictate and dictum that...

The tide is turning… “On health care, forget the rage set off by private citizen Sarah Palin tweeting about “death panels.” Forget the misleading talk about whether there will be a “public option.” (The ever-evolving plan is one giant public option, folks.) Forget the angry voters who crowded into the town halls during the August recess. Forget that a number of Democratic senators and Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) are still not willing to sign on to a bill. Right now, even after Obama’s address to the joint session of Congress last week, its possible Democrats don’t even have the votes...

Overwhelming responses want this on a Saturday - OKAY, then let it be written... Saturday it is!!! Obviously, the "main stream" media are hard of hearing and seeing. About 2 million mad-as-hell taxpayers assembling in Washington, D.C. for the largest-ever (most well-behaved ever, most respectful ever) protest did not make it onto their radar screens (or our TV screens). They need our help... surely those who longed to go and couldn't would love to be a part of Operation "Can You Hear Us Now?" Well my friends, HAVE I GOT A PLAN FOR YOU...

Obviously, the "main stream" media are hard of hearing and seeing. About 2 million mad-as-hell taxpayers assembling in Washington, D.C. for the largest-ever (most well-behaved ever, most respectful ever) protest did not make it onto their radar screens (or our TV screens). They need our help. Maybe we cannot repeat an assembly of 2 million mad-as-hell taxpaying patriots in one place, but surely those who longed to go and couldn't would love to be a part of Operation "Can You Hear Us Now?" I'll bet for every one patriot who went to D.C. there are 10-20 more who wished they...

The following is an e mail that was send to me and others by Marsha Baxter, a citizen of Charleston SC. She travelled to Washington for the event on a Charleston Tea Party bus and participated in the march. Her letter says it all. Editor of Charlestonwatch

The demonstrators were mostly against Big Government, but many banners and signs on display during the 9-12 march and rally in Washington, D.C. expressed disgust with liberal media bias. One of the harshest was, "Mainstream media: communists or puppets?" Another said, "Why are the watchdogs White House lapdogs?" One of the most direct, equating liberal news outlets to state-run media, was "AP, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC=Pravda." Still another said simply, "Shame on Mainstream Media!" On the other hand, television and radio talk-show host Glenn Beck was a hero, as the "Glenn Beck for President" sign illustrated. Several signs declared "Thank...

Liberals have an amazing ability to commit almost any foible and come out unscathed. The corruption is usually deemed a lapse in judgment by the Watch Dogs of Democracy (more accurately known to Conservatives as The State Controlled Media) The guilty Democrat usually goes on to bigger and better things. Take Charlie Rangel, who has admitted to incorrectly filing his taxes by forgetting to mention hundreds of thousands in revenue. Instead of being reprimanded, Mr. Rangel gets a promotion to Head of the House Ways and Means Committee (the group of house members that actually write the tax code) Mr....

Glenn Beck, the hottest right-wing voice on the air, worried aloud to his listeners the other day that powerful, sinister forces trying to destroy America might soon "shoot me in the head." But there's fear among his critics, including calmer conservatives, that the victim more likely will be one of Beck's many broadcast targets. After a summer of mob anger at town hall meetings on health care - some of which featured gun-toting protesters - and a burst of Beck-fanned hysteria over President Obama's back-to-school speech last week, the former top 40 deejay has emerged as a goofy dark...

Guess we're not the most trusted name in news after all... In the hours following the President's address to a joint session of Congress CNN reported that the President had scored a 14% increase in his public polling on the issue. This seemingly miraculous narrative no doubt was generated to support the administration in it's last, still flailing efforts to attempt to jump start a repeatedly killed, choked, mangled, killed, dead, dead, dead version of the take over of a federally nationalized health care system. But it turns out CNN was full of "Misinformation," "bogus claims," "scare tactics," "such a...

You have to forgive Joe Wilson, he's probably gotten used to shouting "You lie!" every time he has to deal with the governor from his home state. He was just doing what came naturally when he decided to be the one person in the room who admitted that the emperor wasn't wearing any clothes. At the very least, he is no longer under the radar. Wilson is all over the place now. Naturally, to the MSM he is the embodiment of all the crazies who can't see that the president just want so make everything perfect. The worst of it,...

Politburico dredges up old news on Republican with tonight's response to the Obamanation speech. 3 malpractice claims in 20 years. Maybe 2000 successful to 3 unsuccessful. Sign me up for surgery with this guy. Latest claim 03 what in the world? How is this news? Just more communist attacking the non coms.

CNN actually spoke of Obama losing support. Granted it was among whites - so it fits their template. But it's a start.

Columnist and former Clinton Adviser David Sirota and David Frum debate Van Jones' resignation as on CNN's "American Morning." Sirota is mostly critical of the Obama Administration, but saves his harshest words for Glenn Beck. SIROTA: "They're basically putting Van Jones out to pasture because of something that Van Jones said was a mistake," Sirota said. "And what I think is going on here is that the White House is listening to the right-wing's political terrorists, people like Glenn Beck... because Van Jones is an African-American with progressive movement background..." FRUM: "Denying the proof of 9/11 is not an intellectual...

The pushback after the resignation of Racist, Radical Marxist Van Jones is beginning... Kieth Olberman posted a diary on Daily KOS at 1PM today asking KOS'rs to send him EVERYTHING THEY HAVE on Glenn Beck,, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes. QUOTE: Tuesday we will expand this to the television audience and have a dedicated email address to accept leads, tips, contacts, on Beck, his radio producer Burguiere, and the chief of his tv enablers, Ailes (even though Ailes' power was desperately undercut when he failed to pull off his phony "truce" push). This becomes necessary after this in order to...

Once again, one of the masters of the universe trotted out on MSNBC has discovered the cure to one of society's ills - more Obama. Daily Voice editor and CNBC contributor Keith Boykin waved off the reservations of some parents about President Barack Obama addressing their children in the classroom. Boykin appeared on MSNBC on Sept. 3 in a segment about the classroom controversy and added his insightful commentary on the matter.

Should we greatly expand the federal government's role in regulating and providing health care for all Americans? As his fading poll numbers show, President Obama is having trouble getting us to yes on that question. He seems to be backpedaling from the so-called public option by the minute. And now he's facing a potential foe even more powerful and unpredictable than Congress: swine flu.

While ABC was more than willing to provide President Barack Obama with an infomercial from inside the White House a few months ago, we now learn that ABC (All Barack Channel) and NBC (Nothing but Barack Channel) have refused to run a national ad that highlights critical “holes” in the president’s attempt to take over the health care industry.

Aides to President Barack Obama are putting the final touches on a new strategy to help Democrats recover from a brutal August recess by specifying what Obama wants to see in a compromise health care deal and directly confronting other trouble spots, West Wing officials tell POLITICO. Obama is considering detailing his health-care demands in a major speech as soon as next week...

At age 34, two years before his first election and two decades before he would run for governor of Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell submitted a master's thesis to the evangelical school he was attending in Virginia Beach in which he described working women and feminists as "detrimental" to the family. He said government policy should favor married couples over "cohabitators, homosexuals or fornicators." He described as "illogical" a 1972 Supreme Court decision legalizing the use of contraception by unmarried couples. The 93-page document, which is publicly available at the Regent University library, culminates with a 15-point action plan that McDonnell...

Friday, August 28 Dorinda Bordlee, executive director of the Bioethics Defense Fund on the finer points of the Health Care Reform Bill being debated in Congress. Fr. Robert Sirico, president of the Acton Institute, on the ethical concerns of the health care debate and the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy. Brent Bozell, founder & president of the Media Research Center, on media bias and the often toxic media culture.

The refusal by ABC and NBC to run a national ad critical of President Obama's health care reform plan is raising questions from the group behind the spot -- particularly in light of ABC's health care special aired in prime time last June and hosted at the White House. The 33-second ad by the League of American Voters, which features a neurosurgeon who warns that a government-run health care system will lead to the rationing of procedures and medicine, began airing two weeks ago on local affiliates of ABC, NBC, FOX and CBS. On a national level, however, ABC and...

ABC News’ Charles Gibson said he was confident that he was speaking for all Americans when he suggested that long-time anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan “give it a rest.” “Look, as far we are concerned, Sheehan’s antics have served their purpose,” Gibson declared. “Bush is gone. We have a new president. We should all be supporting him in the difficult job of managing the country’s war effort. We should not be tearing him down and aiding the nation’s enemies.” Gibson insisted he meant no disrespect for Ms. Sheehan. “She did a marvelous job when it was needed,” Gibson said. “Her time...

Great video, why not to pass Obamacare.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The $787 billion stimulus package passed in February will fuel a recovery in the moribund U.S. economy this year, Congress' non-partisan budget watchdog said on Tuesday. "Economic activity will begin to rebound in the second half of 2009, largely the result of fiscal stimulus," the Congressional Budget Office said in its assessment of the federal budget and U.S. economy

At 10:45 AM, on the morning of Tuesday, August 18, 2009, Contessa Brewer, Dylan Ratigan, and something calling itself “Toure” made it official: MSNBC has shamelessly dropped all pretense of functioning as a legitimate purveyor of serious broadcast/cable news. It is now a vomitorium. It was at the above time on said date that the Three Raceketeers issued some of the vilest, most repellant, and repugnant vomitous ever spewed upon the American people. And if NBC president Steven Capus had one ounce of integrity, he would have fired the offenders on the spot. Here’s the story … Showing a carefully...

"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" - Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826). That was before TV, of course. I think today Jefferson would add TV in there with the newspapers. Maybe there are serious, rational news programs on TV. I wouldn't know because I don't watch it much. I get my information through my eyes more than my ears. I wish I really knew Thomas Jefferson through and through, but I don't. If I can ever get to that stage of retirement where the leisure time is supposed...

The opinion of the Los Angeles Times is that Americans are volatile and dangerous. As an American, my opinion is that anti-liberty-nuts are defamatory and ignorant, abusing their first amendment rights. The Friday, August 21, 2009 edition of the Los Angeles Times has the editorial Gunning for trouble. The mistaken idea (ignorance) is that the subject of the armed citizen is even open to debate. Newspapers depend entirely on an amendment to the constitution which is far from absolute, and apply (abuse) their right to attack another’s right which is absolute. The First Amendment has reasonable restrictions – you may...

Last week, there were several instances of protesters showing up outside of town hall meetings openly carrying firearms. Anti-gun activists and the media were flabbergasted not only at the audacity of the protesters, but that the carrying of firearms happened to be perfectly legal where it occurred. (Eleven states allow unlicensed open carry, with 12 more requiring a permit.) MSNBC, not content to simply say, “Golly, guns are scary!” decided that there must be something racist going on. After showing close-cropped video footage of a protester with an AR-15 semi-automatic rifle slung over his shoulder, MSNBC host Contessa Brewer went...

Media bias has reached a new low, according to Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation, courtesy of MSNBC’s “Morning Meeting” program and reporter Contessa Brewer, and he is righteously furious. During a segment of “Morning Meeting,” Brewer – appearing with host Dylan Ratigan and MSNBC culture critic Toure – launched an attack on armed American citizens who have appeared at rallies protesting taxes and the Obama health care plan. During her comments, MSNBC showed video of a man who had carried semiautomatic rifle at an event in Phoenix, AZ earlier this week. That video,...

Maybe I'm reading too deeply into things as usual, but at least someone here is bound to find this as interesting and mildly irritating as I do. Look at the nature of the synonyms Thesaurus.com gives for "conservative" versus those it gives for "liberal." LIBERAL Main Entry: liberal Part of Speech: adjective Definition: progressive Synonyms: advanced, avant-garde, broad, broad-minded, catholic, enlightened, flexible, free, general, high-minded, humanistic, humanitarian, indulgent, intelligent, interested, latitudinarian, left, lenient, libertarian, loose, magnanimous, permissive, radical, rational, reasonable, receiving, receptive, reformist, tolerant, unbiased, unbigoted, unconventional, understanding, unorthodox, unprejudiced Antonyms: conservative, narrow, narrow-minded CONSERVATIVE Main Entry: conservative Part of...

A candidate for lieutenant governor of the great state of Vermont may be under criminal investigation for lewd acts in public. Oh, and by the way, he’s a Democrat. One might miss that fact by reading the NBC affiliate’s report too quickly (snip)

The International NGO, Human Rights Watch (HRW) is once again proving once again why its top banana Ken Roth is a perennial nominee for the Self Hating Jew Awards. They have a simple strategy, Skew the Story and Advocate Terrorism, HRW is famous for inventing and/or twisting facts to slander Israel. They tend to only rely on Palestinian sources and never bother to verify. HRW refuses to recognize terrorist attacks against Israel as provocative. For example, in Jan 2008, Joe Stork of HRW wrote a 34 paragraph long letter bashing Israel (the length of one of my wife's weekend Honey-do...

A special spot in hell is reserved for the media whose shameless hypocrisy has sunk to new lows with their feigned indignation over health care town hall protests. Even as they currently bluster about 'astroturf' and shout down guests about shouting people down, these same Obama sycophants refused to condemn orchestrated disruptions aimed at the Bush administration, and, in some cases, may actually have conspired to execute them. According to Dante, the eighth circle of hell holds those who have committed conscious fraud or treachery -- such as the Media wing of the Democratic Party has been perpetrating. Perhaps most...

Plot Synopsis: Julie Powell (Amy Adams) plays a 29-year old Queens woman who works in some redevelopment corporation for remediation of 9/11 issues, who's bored with the job, and depressed with the stories she has to deal with. Her husband suggests she write a blog, but the only blog-worthy thing in her life is her work, which would defeat the purpose of blogging. She realizes she enjoys cooking and does start the blog with the intention of working through a Julia Child cookbook with about 500 recipes in one year. She posts the number of days and recipes remaining on...

"Lyndon LaRouche and his organization have declared war against Obama's so-called health care reform because it is a direct copy of the policy Hitler declared in October 1939, when Hitler issued the order for euthanasia against those determined, by a board of medical experts, to have 'lives unworthy to be lived,' " Ms. Spannaus says.

WASHINGTON – Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says the health care overhaul bill would set up a "death panel." Federal bureaucrats would play God, ruling on whether ailing seniors are worth enough to society to deserve life-sustaining medical care. Palin and other critics are wrong. Nothing in the legislation would carry out such a bleak vision. The provision that has caused the uproar would instead authorize Medicare to pay doctors for counseling patients about end-of-life care, if the patient wishes.

Philadelphia Newspapers, the company that publishes the Philadelphia Inquirer, admitted in court filings last week that if it does not get a proposed loan, it would have to cease publication. "Absent the proposed DIP facility and the use of the cash collateral, the debtors likely will be unable to pay their ordinary business expenses, including employee wages," said the filing. "In that event, all operations will cease -- employees will be terminated, the Philadelphia Inquirer will no longer be published, and all assets on which the prepetition senior lenders assert a lien will be liquidated." The filing did not give...

Although presented subtly, Chris Matthews treated us to another anti-Sarah Palin, anti-Second Amendment exclusive, via the “Sideshow” video blog segment of his program Hardball last evening. What caught Matthews’ ire this time was that Palin had received an award from the NRA (National Rifle Association) for gun collecting, as well as accolades for her strong support of a citizen’s constitutional right to bear arms. It was only last month, Matthews reminds us, that Palin made the following “rallying cry” during her farewell speech as Governor of Alaska, which launched the opening salvo of her pro-gun “crusade”: You are going to...

Just as Bing is gaining popularity, some disturbingly pro-Microsoft and anti-Apple search results rear their ugly heads. Oh Microsoft, just when we were starting to believe in this thing called Bing, you go messing with the search results. Case in point: a search on Bing for the phrase, "Why is Windows so expensive?" returned this as the top link.... "Why are Macs so expensive." That's right. You're not hallucinating. That was the top response on Bing to a question about the price of Windows.

I have become increasingly infuriated over the condescending and outright insulting reporting of the "Birther" issue in the news media. As such, I thought it would be an interesting exercise to locate a news article describing the concerns about John McCain's eligibility that existed back before the primaries and compare the tone of the reporting to a more recent article that describes the current concerns about Barack Obama's eligibility. As I am publicly decrying bias, I should take a moment to describe where my own bias lies. It is important to note that I really believe the birth certificate issue...

[...]So what do you think the MSM would do about this? Ignore it maybe? I mean Team Sarah put the rumor down quickly right? No, they blame Sarah for answering these false charges. By having her spokeswoman repeat the charges to rebut them in a public form, Palin effectively guaranteed coverage from the mainstream media that otherwise would not report claims attributed to unnamed sources on an anonymous blog. OK, Sarah, listen to me. You ignored my very nice open letter, but this is important. You have to fire Meg Stapleton, or give her something easier to do. There are...

Mabye it was because the interview was with the Dubai based Al-Aribiya instead of Western media, and Martin Day, British government spokesman, was more than candid of his governments "anti-Israel political activities" inside the State of Israel: There is this report today in JPost that the rest of the MSM, at the time of this post, has not bothered to cover: "British spokesman Martin Day said in an interview in Dubai with Al-Arabiya television last week that the British government was "taking practical steps towards freezing settlement activities." "For instance," Day said, "we finance projects aimed at halting settlement activities....

Today on the conservative blog, Hot Air, had this story about initial weekly jobless claims. The story's thesis: this new report is further evidence that Obama's employment strategy is failing. The story points out that jobs report was up 25 thousand jobs from the previous week. The story does mention that jobless claims are down but dismisses that as inconsequential.

Former CBS News anchor Dan Rather called on President Barack Obama to form a White House commission to help save the press Tuesday night in an impassioned speech at the Aspen Institute. “I personally encourage the president to establish a White House commission on public media,” the legendary newsman said. Such a commission on media reform, Rather said, ought to make recommendations on saving journalism jobs and creating new business models to keep news organizations alive. “A truly free and independent press is the red beating heart of democracy and freedom,” Rather said in an interview yesterday afternoon. “This is...

Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather issued a call for the government to intervene to save the media. From the Aspen Times Former CBS anchorman Dan Rather told an Aspen audience Tuesday that journalism has declined to such a point that it is time for the government to intervene. Appearing at the Greenwald Pavilion as part of the Aspen Institute's McCloskey Speaker Series, Rather said “traditional journalism is under siege” and called for media reform to become an “immediate national priority.”