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harles Lester “Les” Kinsolving, a retired WCBM-AM conservative talk radio personality and political gadfly who hosted the show “Uninhibited Radio” for 28 years, died of heart disease and dementia Dec. 4 at his home in Vienna, Va. He was 90. Mr. Kinsolving, whose bright-red blazer and outrageous talk show earned him national renown, was a “throwback to radio yesteryear [who] tries to shock, outrage and prod the world around him with his commentary,” according to a 1998 profile in The Sun.

(2-8-11) Robert Gibbs (White House Press Secretary) was asked by Lester Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House Press briefing the following question: "What does the President think of the move of 20% of the states to require presidential candidates to prove with documentation their natural born citizenship status in order to be on the president in those states?" During this question some male (reporter?) got up and left the room as in disgust with WND's question. Who was this moron? And who are the rest of these buffoons in the room? I'll bet most Americans cannot name more than...

Spokesman belittles WND reporter, asks 'what reporting' has been done White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today refused to confirm that a letter posted by the Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu – purportedly from President Obama claiming the facility as his birthplace – is, in fact, real. The issue arose today when Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House, asked Gibbs about the letter, which the hospital also used in a magazine fundraising article. However, when WND reported on the posted images and questioned their authenticity, the hospital concealed the Internet image it had posted,...

Who’s Victor Davis Hanson and what does he know? President’s spokesman puts money on Obama speechwriters © 2009 WorldNetDaily Robert Gibbs, the spokesman for President Barack Obama, today questioned who is Victor Davis Hanson and what does he know, when WND correspondent Les Kinsolving asked Gibbs about “mistakes” Hanson has pointed out in Obama’s speeches. Hanson, a nationally syndicated columnist and historian, wrote just one day earlier about “Our Historically Challenged President.” He noted Obama’s reference during the presidential campaign to when his great-uncle “helped liberate Auschwitz, and that his grandfather knew fellow American troops that had entered Auschwitz and...

Obama mouthpiece laughs off birth certificate request CSPAN http://repubx.com/ ***Question comes at around 44 minute mark on the video below (very end of video)*** WASHINGTON – Somebody finally asked Barack Obama's White House press secretary about the president's elusive birth certificate. When asked by WND White House correspondent Les Kinsolving why the president, who has pledged transparency in his administration, would not release his long-form birth certificate to establish his constitutional eligibility for office, spokesman Robert Gibbs guffawed in unison with members of the Washington press corps about the concerns of 400,000 petitioners who have demanded it. "Are you looking...

WASHINGTON – Somebody finally asked Barack Obama's White House press secretary about the president's elusive birth certificate. When asked by WND White House correspondent Les Kinsolving why the president, who has pledged transparency in his administration, would not release his long-form birth certificate to establish his constitutional eligibility for office, spokesman Robert Gibbs guffawed in unison with members of the Washington press corps about the concerns of 400,000 petitioners who have demanded it.

I cannot recall anybody who ever categorized Hugh Downs as either an extremist or even a mild right-winger. And this is why this now-retired American broadcaster, renowned TV host-producer and author of an electrifying column headlined "Obama will lose" should have received – but did not – front-page and prime-time coverage all over the U.S. The following are highlights from a three and one-half page article: * "Barack Obama will be defeated. Seriously and convincingly defeated. Not due to racism, not due to the forces of reaction, not even due to Karl Rove sending out mind rays over the national...

The spokeswoman for President Bush says the United States will continue "to take steps" to deal with global warming, even though a conference in New York assembled hundreds of scientists and experts from Australia, Canada, England, France, Hungary, New Zealand, Poland, Russian, Sweden and the U.S. to warn the "alarmism" over the issue is a greater danger than the natural cycles of heating and cooling on Earth. "The president's position on climate change is well-known. He's long said that human beings are contributing in some ways to climate change. And that's why we're taking steps to deal with it, and...

Reporters for WorldNetDaily.com, TASS, USA Radio, Reuters TV and several other members of the media initially were denied an opportunity to participate in a White House briefing with presidential spokesman Tony Snow when Terence Hunt of The Associated Press ended the conference before the questions were finished.

Attempts by cities or other governments to sidestep federal policy and make their own provisions for illegal aliens won't get any attention from the White House, spokesman Tony Snow says. He said such efforts are not under the president's "purview." Snow was responding today to a question from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House. He asked about the president's reaction to local governments making their own decisions regarding immigration policy. "Reuters reports that New Haven, Conn., will begin issuing to illegal aliens city ID cards to allow them access to city programs and to open bank accounts. My...

WND AT THE WHITE HOUSE Bush: 'Immigration laws should be followed' Spokeswoman says no room for rebel 'sanctuary' cities The president expects that federal laws – including immigration laws – will be enforced, leaving the implication there is no room for rebel cities that decide to provide "sanctuary" for illegal aliens, according to a White House spokeswoman. Dana Perino was responding to a question from Les Kinsolving, WND's correspondent at the White House. "How will the United States ever develop, adopt and enforce any sort of immigration policy when individual leaders such as San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom have vowed...

While most of the nation is wondering why there has been no Department of Justice action regarding the March 29 assault of a federal officer by Georgia's Democrat congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, she has demanded a retraction from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. In a July 30 editorial, that newspaper noted that McKinney ''slugged (McKenna) with her cell phone.'' Capitol Hill police officer Paul McKenna stopped McKinney on March 29 when she tried to bypass a metal detector without wearing the pin identifying her as a member of Congress. According to the police report, she struck the officer ''in his chest with a...

The assistant to President Bush for homeland security and counterterrorism today said the United Arab Emirates "has changed" and is no longer the same nation that once gave aide to the Taliban. Instead of presidential press secretary Scott McClellan, Frances Fragos Townsend took questions from reporters today, addressing the controversy surrounding an administration-approved deal that would put the operations of six major U.S. ports in the hands of a state-sponsored company from the United Arab Emirates. WND asked Townsend about the UAE: "On page 11 of the 9-11 commission's report that you're undoubtedly familiar with, it says, 'From 1999 through...

The Associated Press reported on Valentine's Day afternoon from Concord, New Hampshire: "The Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson, says he is being treated for alcoholism. "'I am writing to you from an alcohol treatment center where on Feb. 1, with the encouragement and support of my partner, daughters and colleagues, I checked myself in to deal with my increasing dependence on alcohol,' Robinson wrote in an e-mail dated Monday. "Robinson's assistant at the Diocese of New Hampshire, the Rev. Tim Rich, said Tuesday that a growing awareness of his problem, rather than a crisis, led to...

Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan today refused to acknowledge the fact that then-Vice President Al Gore led a Clinton administration program that potentially could have bugged every phone in the country, this after the Democrat hammered President Bush Monday for allowing wiretaps of suspected terrorists. The "Clipper Chip" project would have placed a chip on new phones, allowing the federal government the means to eavesdrop. "Isn't that worth pointing out to the American people, after [Gore] accused President Bush of breaking the law and violating the Constitution?" asked WND. "I think you just did," responded McClellan. "This is an administration...

Presidential press secretary Scott McClellan today agreed that the American Civil Liberties Union has been irresponsible in its comments about the president and that Democrats are appeasing the left-wing legal group vis-à-vis the Patriot Act. WND pointed out in today's White House briefing that the ACLU ran a full-page ad in the New York Times criticizing President Bush over warrantless wiretapping, claiming he "lied to the American people and broke the law." "The ACLU – this is one of the special interest groups that Democrats in the Senate are trying to appease because they want to weaken and undermine the...

In one of the most deadly phenomena of our time – or any time – Hollywood has produced a film called "Brokeback Mountain," which glorifies and glamorizes that male sodomy which remains the cause of so many thousands of deaths by AIDS – and now by syphilis. The Washington Post's Style section reports (with more than apparent approval) that this latest sodomy-acceptance propaganda has lead the year's films with seven Golden Globe nominations. And in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco (those three leading AIDS-distribution points) this new movie "opened in five sold-out theaters." But the Post also reports:...

In last Wednesday's Page 1 story headlined "Rome is to Ban Gays as Priests," New York Times reporters Ian Fisher and Laurie Goldstein reported the following: "Experts have noted that it is incorrect to equate pedophilia with homosexuality." These Times writers do not mention the names or arguments of a single one of these "experts" – suggesting that classic definition of experts: "X the unknown quality, followed by 'spert' – a short drip." Does the New York Times believe that this nation's largest and best-known pedophilia organization, the North American Man/Boy Love Association is comprised of heterosexuals? Do these Times...

Whatever did happen to Kweisi Mfume? You remember Kweisi, that one-time Baltimore youth hell-raiser who sired five children out of wedlock – but who reformed himself enough to get elected to Congress and then president of the NAACP. He is currently running for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator from Maryland. So what did Kweisi do on Saturday, Oct. 15? Well, he enlisted as one of the speakers at Louis Farrakhan's "Millions More Movement" event – the 10th anniversary of the (alleged) "Million Man March," which never reached anywhere near that number, then or on the 15th. The Washington Post...

Who at Northern Virginia's George Mason University is being held responsible for that institution's former associate director of Equity and Diversity Services? His name is Ronald Sinacore, age 56. He has been sentenced to only 8 years in prison by Circuit Court Judge Jane Roush, who reduced a recommended 14 years. Sinacore told the court he was "deeply ashamed" of videotaping himself having sex with several young men in his home and campus office – and then trying to blackmail them. A Fairfax, Va., jury found him guilty of manufacturing and possessing child pornography and extortion. Fairfax police became aware...