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Damn people, Reporting 101, you would think they would be camped outside of his home. If Ayers’ wife had disappeared wouldn’t Fox News and Greta/Geraldo be pitching a tent in his backyard. I mean Fox News is supposed to be conservative leaning, get someone over there and get Ayers on the record right now. What is your current relationship with Obama? What was your role in Obama getting on the Annenberg project board? How closely did you work together in the use of the 50 million dollars that Annenberg gave you? Did you know Obama when he was at Columbia...

For the last few days various groups like MoveOn.org, and the folks at Huffington Post, DailyKos and DemocraticUnderground have been beating the drum of a new theme to attempt to undermine the McCain campaign among the media. The newest claim from the extreme left is that McCain's focus on the Obama/Ayers connection is responsible for fostering "threats" and "violence" to be ginned up among Republicans at McCain rallies. The left is pushing the idea that McCain is inciting riots and "hate" among GOP voters and they are pushing this theme in an email campaign to the main Old Media outlets....

I hate to blast you, because I know you don’t know what you are doing, but you think nothing of blindsiding me, so here goes. Sorry Jason, but I can’t let you get away with spouting the leftist dogma to me. Lets see, why do you think Farrakhan, Chavez, Ahmadinejad, Castro, Ayers, Rev. Wright, Odinga (why don’t YOU try looking into the facts about Odinga a little more deeply) all like this guy and why do they support him? Do you think it is coincidence? Or do you think there could something bigger going on, that whether you want to...

Ok..so I just took every article we have here about ACORN and posted them on my facebook. Under each I put where ACORN was committing fraud and how if the MSM was not going to report this I would. I suggest everyone does the same. I have already had responses from people who say that they had no idea and find it scary.

I consider myself a loyal conservative. I give money. I make an extra effort for the cause. I try to convert liberals. I argue with them on the major points. Heck, I even answered Rush Limbaugh’s call back in March and voted for Hillary here in the Texas Two-Step! But I’m telling you, they may find me passed out in the bathtub with an empty bottle of Hershey’s chocolate syrup come 7:00 pm, November 4th. My spouse has these two employees with whom we occasionally socialize outside of work. They’re hard-core liberals. They know I’m a conservative. We take every...

Over at the L.A. Times' The Dish Rag blog, Elizabeth Snead wonders how Newsweek got Governor Sarah Palin to pose "with a rifle" for the cover of its next issue? Snead then reveals that it was not a new photo but an old one, that the Governor did not pose for the cover at all, and wonders if it is right for the magazine to use the photo as they did? I suppose Snead wasn't really too worried about the photo, but she did just prove that she has no idea what a "rifle" is because Palin is holding a...

Sarah Palin is going to be on Laura's radio show TODAY if anyone is interested. List of streaming sites here:http://radiotime.com/options/p_43476/Laura_Ingraham_Show.aspx

Dear Friends and Sparring partners, Just wanted to let any of you who might remember me, that I am back! Couldn't remember my password for a while, that was after three computer deaths and a whole bunch of other stuff. There's no place like FR, and I've missed a great many of you. Kind regards, little jeremiah

I have seen an email circulation about three Obama insiders being past Fannie Mae looters (my term).

It's clear that, despite our best efforts, our messages are being blocked and lied about by the Protitute Press. I had believed that the power of the net and the few balanced TV outlets would help McCain in this election. Clearly, they have not. Simple question: what media outlsets do we have with which to counter the Marxist/Stalinist press? Be specific. I'm watching Palin at a rally right now. How can she be so good on the stump and have no measurable effect upon the campaign?

After helping his good buddy Mike Huckabee almost take the Republican nomination in 2008, rumors are that Chuck Norris is prepping himself for a 2012 run. Today, we take a look at Norris’ record and credentials.

In the post debate "analysis" tonight after the second presidential debate, Chris Matthews of MSNBC proved once again that he is in such rapture about Barack Obama that it cannot be believed. Tonight, Matthews cast McCain in the role of Snidely Whiplash or some such thing thing because of his "menacing smile." Yet, according to the sycophantic Matthews, Obama's is "debonair." Mary Katharine Ham reports what Matthews said tonight: Barack Obama is gifted in birth by a wonderful smile... John McCain, when he smiles, has a somewhat menacing quality. It may not be purposeful, but when he smiles, you wonder...

Let me say with utmost sincerity thank you very, very much for the positive response from my prior vanity on watching the first debate from the 10th Circle of Hell; tonight, dear readers, I was again subject to the abuse and logic-refuting Liberal movement that permeates Los Angeles like stale cigar smoke and white guilt. When I logged in post-debate to check the live thread breakdown, I thought FReep was hijacked by the KOS Party People's Republic. The "revelation" of McCain being bi-partisan and annoying is about as fresh & exciting as parachute pants. The real issue here is that...

There have been quite a lot of stories of late proving that Barack Obama is getting millions of dollars in illegal donations from foreign sources. A fellow I know that posts on one of the websites I am connected with decided to experiment to see if he, as a Briton, could donate to the Obama campaign via the Internet and credit card. We'll call him Jack for the purposes of this piece. Of course, it is illegal for a foreigner to donate money to an American political candidate. But there have been many violations of this restriction by the Obama...

Speaking to reporters in Washington, US State Department spokesman Robert Wood said that “recent terrorist attacks that took place in Tripoli (Lebanon) and Damascus should not serve as a pretext for…further Syrian military engagement or…to interfere in Lebanese internal affairs.”

As the Iranians move closer to obtaining nuclear weapons, we need to begin thinking about what this could mean for our civilization. With only approximately one percent of shipping containers entering the country being inspected; with our borders as porous as ever; and, with terrorist cells around the world waiting to be activated, the United States, itself, could be held hostage by the Iranians or even be subject to an attack from which it would be almost impossible to recover.

As the fountainhead of global Islamic terrorism, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has long had a public-relations problem. For years the Brotherhood has struggled to veil its reputation as a violent and reactionary religious movement without moderating the substance of its politics, which continue to include support for terror attacks and the institution of hard-line Sharia law. At the University of California at Irvine (UCI), the Brotherhood has now found an audience receptive to its efforts.

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Devastating video: Obama talks about job Ayers gave him The McCain campaign ought to be using this video. It ties it all together. Let's go to the videotape (Hat Tip: NY Nana). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-45A6I-N5I Ouch!

The Obama campaign has come out saying that Barack Obama was unaware of former Weather Underground member William Ayer's past when the two met more than a decade ago (when Obama kicked off his Illinois political carrer in Ayer's living room). When Rev. Wright went on a tirade before the National Press Club, Barack Obama came out and said "This is not the man I knew." When Tony Rezko was being exposed as a crook, Barack Obama came out and said "This is not the Tony Rezko I knew." Is America dumb enough to believe that Barack Obama was clueless...

Has anyone been paying attention to the bogus polls that are intentionally adding in blacks to the tally of surveved voters to apparently increase Obama's percentage in said polls? 1.) Here's one such poll: From The ABC News/Washington Post poll: "This ABC News/Washington Post poll was conducted by telephone Sept. 27-29, 2008, among a randon sample of 1,271 adults, including an oversample of African Americans weighted to their correct share of the national population, for a total of 165 black respondents." There is no need to increase the number of blacks into this poll or any poll, because over time...

There's an untranslatable word in German, weltschmerz, which describes many primitives to a tee; not all of them, but primitives such as Doug's ex-wife, Pedro Picasso, Oscar Wilde (the "Cyrano" primitive), the grazing primitive (the "jgraz" primitive), the Bostonian Drunkard, the packing mama primitive (the "Pachamama" primitive), the skumbag primitive, the kaput primitive (the "kpete" primitive), the Swanson's TV dinner primitive (the "DavidSwanson" primitive), the carpetbagging maternal ancestress (the "Raven" primitive), &c., &c., &c. The closest one can come to weltschmerz is "a gloomy, romanticized world-weary sadness, experienced most often by privileged youth." Of course, youth left these primitives some...

The U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General David McKiernan, stated this week more troops and economic aid were needed “as quickly as possible” for the seven-year-old counterinsurgency battle. The core of McKiernan’s military aid request is four more combat brigades and helicopters, indicating Afghanistan will have a “surge” of its own.

Well, here we are, October 6, 2008. Less than a month before the most important election of our lifetime. For months now we've been hearing about, fearing, and even predicting a host of various October surprises. Well, it looks like we couldn't even wait till October. For in the past two weeks we have witnessed the "mortgage meltdown", "the Wall Street bailout", the first-ever deployment of a regular Army unit to respond to civil unrest, and arrogant mocking of the US by Putin, Chavez and Achmadinejad, complete with Russian wargames coming within a few miles of the Alaskan border. Meanwhile...

Well, maybe you're not a commie per se, but definitely a socialist. Not just a social fellow, either, but an outright socialist. OK, maybe you aren't even aware of why, maybe you haven't translated your FaceBook and MySpace, your Twitter and your Tagged into that outright socialism yet you are headed that way nonetheless. It is pushing you down the road to socialism. It is. No I mean it. I was born in the last years of the Baby Boomer generation -- believe me, I don't admit that proudly. The Baby Boomers have made one of the biggest messes in...

So, instead of merely reporting the news, now reporters are the news? Apparently Charlie Gibson thinks he is, anyway. He gave an interview to the Toledo Blade on October 5 as if his opinions of the race for the White House are somehow more important than the news of the candidates. You remember the candidates, don't you Chuck? You know, those guys who are actually going to be elected, the ones that you are supposed to be reporting on? Gibson spoke to the Toledo Blade's TV beat reporter Kirk Baird about an upcoming visit to Ohio's Bowling Green State University...

Government workers from Montgomery County, Pennsylvania have been finding unwelcome visitors at the doorsteps since mid-August. Union organizers from the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) mysteriously found themselves in possession of the home addresses of every government worker in the county. This is, of course, illegal... yet, magically, the SEIU has the contact info anyway. Naturally, every department head in the county is saying their agency is innocent of leaking the information. But, regardless who which inside operative of the union was helping them, it is not legal for the union to accept such information. The law states that only...

Freepers, not sure if this is important but I believe this is the only pic of them together at a protest, found it with some archives, if it is important, please save in case the website takes it down

I see it so often that someone logs onto a thread and proclaims it to be a waste of time that it begs the question: Why log onto the thread at all? Isn't it by definition a waste of time? We saw that a lot on Duncan Hunter threads, now on the certifigate threads. I'm sure there are some religion threads that would qualify. So I offer this thread where Freepers can log on and let other freepers which ones they consider to be a waste of time. Maybe at some point in time we'll have the capability to filter...

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I like Liz Trotta on Fox News. I think she generally has some fairly objective and insightful things to say about the media, so I usually delay heading off to Mass until she wraps her just-before-9 a.m. segment. Liz definitely is not in the tank for Sarah Palin, and I was disturbed by her final observations about her view of Palin's perceived lack of depth by reporting that "some people" found it distasteful that Palin was bringing "that handicapped child and dragging it around the stage." It??? Distasteful???? Sad, really, and you have to think that if it was a...

Talk about an idiotic assertion, but the Associated Press just claimed that Governor Sarah Palin is a racist for saying that Obama used to "pal around with terrorists." According to the AP's Douglass K. Daniel, Palin is a racist because the word "terrorist" is construed now-a-days to mean a "dark-skinned radical Muslim" so that makes her a "racist" in his blinkered view. See, it isn't overt, according to Daniel, but there is a "subtext," don't you know? And, yes, he's serious with this absurd claim, sadly. This Olympics award winning back stretch has to be seen to be believed. Read...

Just ran into this and thought, my, how it contrasts with Obama's moonbat songs.

http://experimentumcrucis.blogspot.com/2008/10/al-qaeda-weighs-in-on-our-policies-in.html

This might be an exercise in what the French call "shooting at the ambulance", or kicking someone when they are down. But here's a look at the French reaction to Sarah Palin. Like the Gallic adoration of Barack Obama, the French view of John McCain's vice-presidential choice has been simplified by the cultural filter. The personnage of Palin and the initial enthusiasm she generated were puzzling for a country that disdains displays of faith and moral certainty. Her convention joke about hockey moms being pitbulls with lipstick took a lot of explanation. In le Monde, the elegant Dominique Dhombres explained...

Media vultures are now poring over Sarah and Todd Palin's tax returns. The Associated Press article insinuates that it's possible the Palins may have underpaid the IRS by $2,000. Yet while they zealously seek to manufacture another fake scandal for the Palins, mainstream media outlets are ignoring, perhaps conveniently, the fact that Joe Biden, wealthy in his own right, has given less than pennies on the dollar to charity over the last decade.

“Keep them stoned. Keep them drunk. Keep them happy. Make them think you are their friend, and you will squeeze every last drop from them; you will use them dry. You will make them yours, and you will further be a benefit to society.” Smiles lit up the speaker’s face and the conference room, where thousands of older men and women sat cross-leggedly in fashionable suits that spoke of upper middle-class finances. The speaker continued: “They have used you, now you will use them. You will teach them to revel in liberal amorality, to fight rebelliously and ravenously for causes...

A Time Magazine article citing Israeli military officials suggests a sophisticated long-range American radar system about to be deployed in Israel may be less about providing early warning of an Iranian missile attack, and more about hemming in Russia. The radar base will be the first permanent deployment of foreign troops on Israeli soil in the country’s short 60-year modern history.

The Washington Post: "In 2006, John McCain pushed for Fannie and Freddie Regulation while Obama was notably silent. In 2006, he pushed for stronger regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - while Mr. Obama was notably silent. 'If Congress does not act, American taxpayers will continue to be exposed to the enormous risk that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac pose to the housing market, the overall financial system, and the economy as a whole,' Mr. McCain warned at the time." Washington Post, "Always For Less Regulation?" The Washington Post, 9/19/08

When Bill O'Reilly interviewed Barack Obama, Obama said that he wanted to return the top tax rate to the CLINTON years, which was 39.5%. Now, Joe Biden and Obama say that Obama wants to return the top tax rate to the REAGAN yeras, which was 28%. He says one thing to one group, another thing to another group. He initially said that he wanted to give a tax cut to 95% of Americans, and increase federal income taxes for those making over $250,000 a year. But when this was exposed as being a lie - since over 40% of Americans...

<p>There is not a doubt in my old head that demonic powers are loose in our land, that satanic brilliance is at work on Barack Obama's behalf. How can I be so sure? ... Mesmerized crowds are not enough to be sure, but Obama's past behaviors tell us what we need to know.</p>

Confessions of a criminal... well, that is what this new memoir should be titled, but it isn't. The Bellingham Herald (Washington State) is reporting on the publication of a new memoir by Joe Miller who was once a lobbyist for various unions and Democratic Party candidates. In it he admits that he broke the law "all the time" in pursuit of legislative/financial wins for the left. In "The Wicked Wine of Democracy," Miller records his 40 years as a lobbyist, starting as a political operative for Henry "Scoop" Jackson in the 1960s, and the tales he gives us shows how...

A senior Hizballah leader told a Lebanese newspaper on Friday that his group will “soon liberate” areas it claims are Lebanese territory under Israeli occupation. Speaking to Lebanon’s Daily Star, Hizballah’s operational chief for all southern Lebanon, Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, said that the northern half of the border town of Ghajar and the hotly disputed Shebaa Farms would shortly be under Lebanese control.

Tonight, as we prepare for our Debate Party tonight at Trocadero’s, one of the listeners for our radio station AM 1280 The Patriot has to prepare for some hard work cleaning his work van and personal car. He made the mistake of thinking that he could have a bumper sticker showing his support of the station without thugs vandalizing his vehicles. At least he remains in high spirits, as he e-mailed the station with the subject heading, “The Power of a Patriot Bumper Sticker”: I thought you might find these photos interesting. I’ve attached photos of the way I found...

Vandals broke into the McCain-Palin Campaign headquarters in Independence Missouri on Thursday before a speech by John McCain at the Independence Truman Library. KMOV reported on the latest crime against a GOP office. The Republican Party is tightening security at four Missouri phone banks after a break-in and theft of a laptop at one of the offices. Police in the Kansas City suburb of Independence said Thursday that a rock was thrown through a window to gain entry to the McCain/Victory Office. A campaign staffer's laptop and satchel were taken between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 6 a.m. Wednesday. The theft...

A common feminist/domestic violence establishment claim goes something like this--"a third of all women who are murdered are murdered by an intimate partner, whereas only 3% of men are murdered by an intimate partner." From this one would think that men are 11 times more likely to kill their wives as vice versa, or something along those lines. In reality, official statistics put the rate at around 2.5 to 1, not 11 to 1. Moreover, there are various reasons to believe that the rates are actually far more equal than that--to learn more, click here. Leaving that aside, there's another...

seperated at birth?

“From the first day, Palin presented herself as shooting a bear in the morning, field dressing it, cooking up the breakfast, diapering the babies, passing legislation in the afternoon, cleaning the house, satisfying her husband, etc., etc., etc. And it’s just not true,” she wrote in an e-mail interview. “It’s hard to be an average working mom, really hard. And when women who are privileged present as though they have it all together, it’s offensive to black women.” She said, “black women are not easily confused by false claims to feminism. When women like Palin lay claims to ‘representing’ average...

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday said that the recent peace offer made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is enough to get a final status agreement signed, but recognized that the outgoing Israeli leader does not have the ability to implement the proposal. “We could have peace in two days” if Olmert’s offer could be implemented, Abbas told a group of Muslim clerics at the tail end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.