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DUBOB 11- more tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast...
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| 01-31-03
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 01/31/2003 5:07:21 PM PST by backhoe
At the request of members, I am restarting those "Tales from the Dark UnderBelly Of the Beast"-- the stories and issues that the press and media either ignore, won't even talk about, or will mention once and forevermore claim "it's old news..."
Naturally, some will be stories which interest me, or things I think we all need to be aware of.
I am experimenting with a minor change in presentation- when I can, I will cut to
-GoogleNewsBeta--
with a keyword or two and see what kind of links to "mainstream" stories I can find in contrast to what we see here and on other sites.
May I remind you of a couple of points to bear in mind?
Each link usually has many other links within- follow them all to get "the rest of the story."
Don't forget the "open multiple browsers" trick with control-n -- this allows you to hold your place with one, and use the others to follow links, run searches, etc.
Rather than go back and rehash old links, I'll give you links to the original posts here:
-DUBOB 10- the *best of* the Dark Underbelly Series--
-DUBOB 9-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast..... --
DUBOB 8-- still *more* tales from the Underbelly***
DUBOB 7-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 6-- yet *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB 5-- even *more* tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast.....
DUBOB IV- yet more Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast-
DUBOB III -- "Tales from the Dark Underbelly of the Beast"
DUBOB 2-- more tales from The Dark Underbelly of the Beast-- thread II
-The Dark Underbelly of the Beast- Stories the Media won't Discuss...--
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Is Sarah Palin dangerous to your mental health?
UPDATE: From Cruseturner's comments: "The Obama camp erected a set of rules around him where any criticism -- about his experience, about his record, about his gaffes (bitter religious gun-clingers, etc.), about his association with terrorists, racists and felons, about his celebrity status -- is automatically defined as racist. Now the GOP has turned the tables, using the charge of sexism for any slight -- real or perceived -- by him and his campaign. Nothing could be fairer -- they're simply using his own rules against him."
MAIMON SCHWARZSCHILD: A "reflex spasm of hatred." They can't help themselves. See below.
UPDATE: Howard Kurtz: "The media are getting mad." I think it's because they don't matter as much as they once did.
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NEWS IN THE ROSENBERG CASE:
Ever since he was tried and convicted with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg on espionage charges in 1951, Morton Sobell has maintained his innocence.
Until now. In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Sobell, who served nearly 19 years in Alcatraz and other federal prisons, admitted for the first time that he had been a Soviet spy. And he implicated his fellow defendant, Julius Rosenberg, in a conspiracy that delivered to the Soviets vital classified military information and what the American government claimed was the secret to the atomic bomb.
Before my time, but I believe that all right-thinking people believed the Rosenbergs innocent back then. I wonder what other beliefs, widely shared among right-thinking people today, will turn out to be similarly wrong in 50 years?
Every hurricane that passes further illustrates
our current national vulnerability to a steady
and continuous delivery of petroleum resources.
Drill here drill now.
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09/11/2008 4:07:48 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
posted on 02/09/2007
This is what happens when the powder monkey is allowed to drive the truck...
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09/12/2008 3:08:16 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
SARAH PALIN WAS ON CHARLIE GIBSON -- I was busy with PJTV, but Hot Air has coverage. Gibson apparently made the mistake of relying on the AP, always risky . . . .
UPDATE: More here and here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Still more. Also here.
Plus, much more from Tom Maguire. "I'll score one for Palin's briefers and smite the ABC News prep team. Geez, maybe Palin is ready to be Vice President and maybe she's not, but is ABC qualified to interview Vice Presidents?" Plus, looking back on Lincoln and God: "John Edwards actually nailed the Lincoln connection. So there you go - on this topic anyway, Sarah Palin is at least as prepared for the Vice-Presidency as John Edwards." Not sure you're helping her there, Tom, but point taken.
MORE: POLITICO: Final score: McCain wins the day. "Sarah Palin confronted a major obstacle in her interview with Charlie Gibson - her first one-on-one as a vice presidential candidate - and appears to have held her own."
STILL MORE: TalkLeft: "Indeed, her eventual answer to the question is extremely sensible (unlike Bush and McCain's actual policies) and smart politics. She did not accept the premise of Gibson's question and then gave a sensible answer to the question." Also, a suggestion that fellow lefty blogs aren't helping the side by engaging in over-the-top responses, a piece of excellent advice that is sure to be ignored.
Plus, McCain's blog guy, Patrick Hynes, comments on the press coverage. "Later, many conservative blogs called out Charlie Gibson for demanding Gov. Palin answer for something she did not say regarding the War in Iraq being a task from God. However, I was struck by the number of journalists who, despite the Googles at their fingertips, framed her remark as a change in her position, even though it was Gibson who had his facts wrong." They're really running with this rapid-response thing. They'll probably have a YouTube response by the time I get up tomorrow.
Plus, more bad reviews for Gibson. I guess he was underprepared.
And Jim Treacher offers a sneak peek at Part 2.
FINALLY: Reminding Josh Marshall of Obama's position. "Hmm, speaking of policies learned in the past week - in March of this year Obama supported NATO membership for Georgia and the Ukraine. And did he back down during the scuffling in Georgia this August? He did not . . . Too funny. I think we can count on Dr.M to simply move on (what, you expect a correction or clarification?) but the real fun will be in seeing how many other Attack Drones follow his lead. . . . Time does not permit me to wallow in Marshall's embarrassment or to see how many sheep have followed him out to pasture. But do enjoy the barrel-fishing." Marshall has really embarrassed himself these past two weeks. But there's safety in numbers there since, as noted at TalkLeft, he's not alone.
And if it's Obama's position, it must be progressive!
Also, did ABC edit out its mistakes for the West Coast?
Taylor Marsh: "But what she's saying is that honoring our responsibility as a NATO ally we would be obliged to come to the aid of any country under serious threat, as would others in NATO. Can anyone prove she's wrong? ... .. I didn't think so. Right, we don't have the troops, which Putin knows all too well. However, that's not the issue in this interview. Sounds to me like we're at the water's edge on this one. Review? Lowered expectations going in. Quick study. Holds her own. Point to Palin. Deadly outcome for Democrats. Palin just might be the gift that keeps on giving... to the Republicans."
And reader C.J. Burch writes: "When talk left is giving a Republican candidate a fair run on the Bush doctrine that's news. Maybe we should all spend less time lsitening to reporters and more time listening to people, hunh?"
The Panic Spreads...
...to Capitol Hill:
Democratic jitters about the US presidential race have spread to Capitol Hill, where some members of Congress are worried that Barack Obama’s faltering campaign could hurt their chances of re-election. ... “There is a growing sense of doom among Democrats I have spoken to . . . People are going crazy, telling the campaign ‘you’ve got to do something’.”
The generic Congressional ballot is, indeed, getting closer. Likewise, the gap in party identification is narrowing. In general, the tide is flowing in the Republicans' direction. Of course, the Republicans are starting from a very bad point. Still, it appears that by November the Republican Party will be in better shape, broadly speaking, than has been the case for the last few years.
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September 12th, 2008
[This is a reprise of an article we posted back on May 11th, 2008.]
Barack Obama’s Trinity Church remembered the five year anniversary of 9/11 with this poem in the September 17, 2006 edition of their newsletter, The Trumpet (pdf file):
Sept 11 — A Moment of Silence… for all those others
by Emmanuel Ortiz
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Before I start this poem,
I’d like to ask you to join me in
a moment of silence
in honour of those who died
in the World Trade Centre
and the Pentagon
last September 11th. I would also like to ask you
a moment of silence
for all of those who have been
harassed, imprisoned, disappeared,
tortured, raped, or killed
in retaliation for those strikes,
for the victims in both
Afghanistan and the U.S. And if I could just add one more thing…
A full day of silence
for the tens of thousands of Palestinians
who have died at the hands of
U.S.-backed Israeli forces
over decades of occupation. Six months of silence
for the million and-a-half Iraqi people,
mostly children, who have died of
malnourishment or starvation
as a result of an 11-year U.S. embargo
against the country. Before I begin this poem:
two months of silence
for the Blacks under Apartheid
in South Africa,
where homeland security
made them aliens
in their own country.Nine months of silence for the dead in Hiroshima
and Nagasaki, where death rained
down and peeled back
every layer of concrete, steel, earth and skin
and the survivors went on as if alive. A year of silence
for the millions of dead
in Vietnam–a people, not a warfor
those who know a thing or two
about the scent of burning fuel,
their relatives’ bones buried in it,
their babies born of it. A year of silence
for the dead in Cambodia and Laos,
victims of a secret war … ssssshhhhh ….
Say nothing .. we don’t want them to
learn that they are dead. Two months of silence
for the decades of dead
in Colombia, whose names,
like the corpses they once represented,
have piled up and slipped off
our tongues. Before I begin this poem,
An hour of silence
for El Salvador …
An afternoon of silence
for Nicaragua …
Two days of silence
for the Guatemaltecos …
None of whom ever knew
a moment of peace 45 seconds of silence
for the 45 dead
at Acteal, Chiapas
25 years of silence
for the hundred million Africans
who found their graves
far deeper in the ocean
than any building could
poke into the sky.
There will be no DNA testing
or dental records
to identify their remains.
And for those who were
strung and swung
from the heights of
sycamore trees
in the south, the north,
the east, and the west… 100 years of silence…
For the hundreds of millions of
indigenous peoples
from this half of right here,
Whose land and lives were stolen,
In postcard-perfect plots
like Pine Ridge,
Wounded Knee,
Sand Creek, Fallen Timbers,
or the Trail of Tears. Names now reduced
to innocuous magnetic poetry
on the refrigerator
of our consciousness …
So you want a moment of silence? |
Because this is not a 9-1-1 poem
This is a 9/10 poem,
It is a 9/9 poem,
A 9/8 poem,
A 9/7 poem
This is a 1492 poem.
This is a poem about
what causes poems like this
to be written And if this is a 9/11 poem, then
This is a September 11th poem
for Chile, 1971
This is a September 12th poem
for Steven Biko in South Africa, 1977 This is a September 13th poem
for the brothers at Attica Prison,
New York, 1971.
This is a September 14th poem
for Somalia, 1992.This is a poem
for every date that falls
to the ground in ashes
This is a poem for the 110 stories
that were never told
The 110 stories that history
chose not to write in textbooks
The 110 stories that CNN, BBC,
The New York Times,
and Newsweek ignored This is a poem
for interrupting this program.
And still you want
a moment of silence
for your dead?
We could give you
lifetimes of empty: The unmarked graves
The lost languages
The uprooted trees and histories
The dead stares on the faces
of nameless children
Before I start this poem
We could be silent forever
Or just long enough to hunger,
For the dust to bury us
And you would still ask us
For more of our silence. If you want a moment of silence
Then stop the oil pumps
Turn off the engines and the televisions
Sink the cruise ships
Crash the stock markets
Unplug the marquee lights,
Delete the instant messages,
Derail the trains, the light rail transit If you want a moment of silence,
put a brick through
the window of Taco Bell,
And pay the workers for wages lost
Tear down the liquor stores,
The townhouses, the White Houses,
the jailhouses, the Penthouses and
the Playboys. If you want a moment of silence,
Then take it
On Super Bowl Sunday,
The Fourth of July
During Dayton’s 13 hour sale
Or the next time white guilt
fills the room where my beautiful
people have gathered You want a moment of silence
Then take it
Now,
Before this poem begins. Here, in the echo of my voice,
In the pause between goosesteps of the
second hand
In the space
between bodies in embrace, Here is your silence.
Take it.
But take it all
Don’t cut in line.
Let your silence begin
at the beginning of crime.
But we,
Tonight we will keep right on singing
For our dead. |
Emmanuel Ortiz works with the Minnesota Alliance for the Indigenous Zapatistas (MAIZ) and Estación Libre. He is a staff member of the Resource Centre of the Americas, the non-profit publisher of americas.org
Granted this (poem?) is not by Mr. Obama’s “spiritual mentor” Jeremiah Wright. But it does appear in Trinity’s newsletter on the “Pastor’s Page,” presumably with his blessing.
In fact, this randomly punctuated list of imagined grievances was actually “circulated on the internet” back in September 2002, on the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
(Hilariously, the obviously self-scribed entry for Emmanuel Ortiz at Wikipedia informs us that he is a “Chicano/Puerto Rican/Irish-American activist” and “spoken-word poet.”)
In any case, this piece appears to have made quite an impression on the learned Reverend Doctor Wright.
But of course it would, as these are surely some of the self-same chickens that the America-hating Mr. Wright imagines came home to roost on 9/11.
And this is exactly the kind of twisted American history and world view Mr. Wright teaches his unfortunate parishioners.
Can’t you just feel that Christian love?
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...author is a literature professor at Florida State University...She’s a commentator for NPR. I’m sure her comments are always fair and balanced.
That Obama tax to fight world poverty, to be administered by our pals at the UN, would cost each and every American, man, woman, and child, $2500 per annum. Out of his mind. Americans already give more charity and aid to the third world than the rest of the world combined.
Palin would go to war with Russia if they "attacked another country"-DEBUNKED
Palin did not know the "Bush Doctrine"-DEBUNKED
You can't see Russia from Alaska-DEBUNKED
Why doesn’t Mr. Obama articulate in detail what he plans on doing for this country (aside from the robbing from the rich to pander to folks)? All temper-tantrum boy has is attacks these days. Gobama away!
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"Here's ultimately what we expect," Mathew Staver, founder of
Liberty Counsel and dean of the Liberty University School of Law, told WND today. "The hate crimes plan is to be offered as an amendment to the Fiscal Year 2009 Department of Defense reauthorization bill. That's what the word is, that it's going to be offered as an amendment."
Struck Down by Twenty “Youths”
by Baron Bodissey
This is
breaking news from Sweden. The headline reads “She was struck down — by 20 guys”. It’s the story of a young girl who was set upon by twenty “youths” in a pedestrian tunnel in Södertälje.
I haven’t received an English translation yet, but I ran the Swedish version by Fjordman, and here’s what he had to say about the article:
I don’t have time to translate everything now, but I can give you a summary: This girl in the Swedish town of Södertälje was, along with her friend, brutally assaulted and beaten unconscious (they apparently continued beating her even after she was unconscious) by a group of more than twenty armed young men dressed in black. The attackers were of immigrant background (which the newspaper article actually states; they usually don’t mention this if it’s you-know-who) and screamed “f***ing Swedish whore!” while they beat the girl and her friend and kicked her while she was lying down.
The good part of the story is that another group of six young men (presumably native Swedes) intervened. That took real courage since they were badly outnumbered. They got badly beaten up, but probably saved the girl’s life.
This is all a part of the increasingly extreme sexual and physical violence targeting native white Swedes by immigrant gangs. This is way beyond just “crime,” it can hardly be labeled anything other than ethnic warfare. Södertälje has been in the spotlight several times before:
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PM Reinfeldt stated that the original Swedish culture was merely barbarism. “It can sometimes be good to humbly remind of the fact that a great deal of what constitutes Sweden has been created in [a process of] evolution, exactly because we have been open to accept other people and experiences.”
Reinfeldt said this following a visit to an area called Ronna in Södertälje, near Stockholm. One year ago a police station in Södertälje was hit by shots from an automatic weapon following a major confrontation between immigrant youths and police. Apart from police staff, two civilian women were in the police station. They were being questioned about a reported harassment earlier in the day. Three young men who had been identified by the women were suspected of making illegal threats. The three men were released in the evening, but the arrests provoked strong reactions. A group of immigrants advanced on the police and attacked them with stones.
The trouble in Ronna started after a Swedish girl had been called a “whore” and she reacted to this. Ethnologist Maria Bäckman, in her study “Whiteness and gender,” has followed a group of Swedish girls in the suburb of Rinkeby outside Stockholm, where native Swedes have been turned into a tiny minority of the inhabitants due to rapid immigration. The subjects “may encounter prejudices such as the idea that Swedish girls act and dress in a sexually provocative way or that blonde girls are easy.” Bäckman relates that several of the Swedish girls she interviewed stated that they had dyed their hair to avoid sexual harassment. They experienced that being blonde involves old men staring at you, cars honking their horns and boys calling you “whore.” The number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in a generation, with men from Muslim countries clearly overrepresented in the statistics.
If I get a full translation of the Aftonbladet article, I’ll post it.
Hat tip: Ted Eckeroth.
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"You'll note that the modern version of Muslim "warrior" is a snivelling cowardly sort who either bombs innocents or hunts in packs and attacks isolated individuals, taking no risk of fighting an equal number of men."
"Well done to those men. Any man that will not stand up for a woman is not a man."
MORE ON IKE FROM
BRENDAN LOY, including this: "Ike will probably remain Cat. 2 — but storm surge will be huge." His advice: "Get the Hell out. . .
Don’t underestimate the storm surge from this hurricane. Tampa is several hundred miles from Ike but we’ve had a 3-5’ storm surge for a few days now. It’s matching the storm surge prediction chart which also calls for a 20’ surge when Ike makes landfall. When Ike comes up against the coastline it’ll probably be just what they say, a 15 - 20’ surge and there’s not much to stop it. I believe the media is downplaying the threat in the hopes of a Katrina political redux.
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posted on
09/12/2008 4:55:34 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
The National Weather Service posted dire storm surge predictions of 20-25 ft storm surge along the coast and bay heads. Hurricane warnings covered a 400 mile swath of the Gulf of Mexico.
Wholesale gasoline prices spiked 30 percent Thursday, or nearly $1 a gallon, out of fear of what Ike might do.
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posted on
09/12/2008 5:14:28 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
This ad may have greater effect than you think. A lot of suburban women will be very turned off by this ad and if they connect Sarah with it as hoped they will be turned off by her also. I am thinking of my two sisters and a some friends here in the neighborhood. They are all anti-gun, one even works with an anti gun group, and love their little dogs. They have all had nice things to say about Sarah and were leaning to voting Republican. This may get them leaning the other way.
Great comment from the paper's opinion board regarding the article:
Wasila Alaska scares you? I suggest you visit the community Obama organized. Bring lots of clean Kevlar underwear.
...when Obama was running around Indonesia in diapers, McCain was mastering this slightly technical piece of machinery...
Meanwhile, more useless, self-obsessed Follywood Loons bray:
START getting personal? You can’t get more personal than the campaign insults about her own pregnancy and her unmarried daughters’ and all the trash talk these righteous liberals managed to get spewed on the media.
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posted on
09/12/2008 12:05:06 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
Picking from where I left off last night…this is kind of refreshing: Palin “governed from the center” and went after big oil. I understand she was good with judges, too.
The many wars of Sarah Palin.
Okie has a great mag cover.
The funniest comment I’ve read yet on the Palin/Gibson interview came in an email from Kim Priestap at Wizbang, who wrote: “Am I the only one who thought ABC hired Ed Wood to edit the interview?”
Oh, SNAP!
I’m rather impressed but not terribly surprised, to see how fairly Kirsten Powers reviews the interview, and she comes out in Palin’s favor - more, I think, because Gibson was both so badly prepared and deplorably rude - but is it possible that Gibson’s obvious loathing and disrespect for Palin (and that “hubris” question which he would never ask Obama) has ticked off even the center-left women? Alessandra Stanley even managed to be fair.
When does Glenn Reynolds sleep? He’s already got a definitive round up posted with reactions from left and right. Talk Left gave thumbs up to Palin which is interesting. Do they really mean it, or are they just trying to balance out the whackadoo excesses of the past two weeks? Perhaps both? In either case, it’s a decent move, I think.
As I said earlier, earlier, I think Palin was reasonable to ask “in what respect.” There is some disagreement (or differing perspectives) as to what policies comprise the Bush Doctrine; is it pre-emption? Is it identification of terrorist-harboring nations as partners in terrorism? Palin was smart to ask Gibson to clarify. I think she was being leery of being trapped. Nothing wrong with being a little pre-emptive herself, in that case; she might have said - “in what respect, Charlie, do you mean in this respect or in that respect,” and turned it on him, a little. Hopefully she’ll get more comfortable with these “big time serious journalists” soon and be a little flippant with them. What bothered me more than anything last night was the unrelenting grimness of it. A little humor, either way, would have been good.
Bill Kristol says the WaPo is engaging in an egregious smear of Palin on its front page. Egregious is a strong word, but you know, I think it is warranted this time. Ace is also doing a rundown of egregious front pages. Seems like the press is making a concerted effort, here. Anecdotally, they’re having an impact. If they have to destroy themselves to win this thing, they’ll do it.
Neo-neocon is making vague, careful, Joan d’Arc noises
Gibson is also taking a few licks.
I got pretty offended when he took that condescending attitude and asked her if her belief that she is “ready to lead” wasn’t hubris. Excuse me? Aside from the fact that anyone who DOESN’T believe he or she is ready to lead ought to get the hell out of the way, is it HUBRIS for Obama to believe this of himself, with less experience than Palin? That really fried my banana.
Taylor Marsh also says Palin held her own:
Review? Lowered expectations going in. Quick study. Holds her own. Point to Palin.
Deadly outcome for Democrats. Palin just might be the gift that keeps on giving… to the Republicans.
I don’t know if that’s exactly right. The Dems may have had lowered expectations, but I think mos conservatives had very high expectations, which is why so many of them seemed (like Allah) to be holding their breaths. Hey, not to worry; every pol eventually falls flat on his or her face. I just hope that when Palin makes a verbal gaffe like the ones Obama makes and the press ignores, she’s given the same leeway he’s gotten. I don’t know that either of them deserve the excruciating thumping that Dubya got for every malapropism.
The fellas at Powerline, who were initially not too keen on Palin say on paper, thumbs up
Tom Maguire: Also seems like a happy dude
Meanwhile, I don’t know why the McCain camp is going the victim route with this new ad. It’s pretty clear to me that this woman is no one’s victim. Perhaps they figure it will give her a little breathing room? It’s a bad move. Humor is always better than victimhood, as Palin herself proved in her convention speech.
Matt Damon and MoDo are like the new Muldar and Scully: They want to believe!
Bob Owens on purposeful media distortion
Steve Shippert at Wizbang did not much like Gibson.
Slightly O/T: Pajamas has a good piece on Where Palin really stands on Sex Ed. Hint: it’s not in the extreme spot most think.
Jonah Goldberg on the incredibly bitchy women writing about Palin. Note the punny headline.
On another subject: Did you know team Clinton is still blocking the release of ABC’s The Path to 9/11?
Liberals are attacking Palin to cover the implosion of the Democrat Party's campaign. The bloom is off the Obama rose. He can't run on his record, or "get tough" on his agenda of raising taxes and increasing government. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
» NYT: Obama Plans Sharper Tone, Party Frets » ToL: Record Doesn't Match Words
» AT: Lipstick on Community Organizing Pig » AT: Obama & S. Chicago Slumlords
Pearl of Wisdom: "When liberals lose, it's always somebody else's fault -- and when they lose, they get even angrier and even more radical. It's happening in the news media. It's happening in the Democrat Party. They're not rational, folks."
A seminal moment in conservatism: the Media and Democrats will try everything to destroy Sarah Palin, because she threatens their party's Big Lie. Just remember what Obama did to his opponent for the Senate, Jack Ryan. It'll get dirty, and it'll backfire.
» Dumping All Pretense of Objectivity: CNN's Roberts Refers to Democrats as "We"
Pearl of Wisdom: "One of my favorite lines in Charlie Gibson's Sarah Palin interview was her reply on 'experience.' She said there are lots of people in Washington with big, fat old resumes who have plenty of experience in doing the wrong things. What kind of qualification is being wrong all the time?" (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
» Palin Power: GOP w/i 3 in Generic Poll » Mark Penn Decries Media's Palin Bashing
Millions of Americans are offended by left-wing, anti-Christian, separation-of-church-and-state Democrats declaring, "Jesus (Obama) was a community organizer; Pontius Pilate (Palin) was a governor." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
Obama's "community organizing" mentor was Hillary Clinton's pal Saul Alinsky, who dedicated the left-wing bible "Rules for Radicals" to "the first radical...Lucifer."
Don't argue with fools, because it's hard for people to tell the difference between you and the fool. Example: Sen. McCain on The View. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
» NB: Whoopi Goldberg Asks John McCain "Do You Want Me to Be a Slave?"
Obama reveals a new bumper sticker slogan: "I'll Make Government Cool Again."
This is new and change and hope? New Obama ad attacks McCain as...old.
Keep These Pro-Obama Hollywood Liberals Talking!
» Eva Longoria compares Sarah Palin to the chicks on "Desperate Housewives."
» Pamela Anderson Says Sarah Palin should "Suck it."
» Susan Sarandon reads the Obama is Jesus; Sarah is Pilate line from her script.
Obama and McCain both took a question on American exceptionalism. Rush played their responses, and then answered the question as he would have at the forum.
Caller praise for the ad by an Iraq war vet backing McCain: Dear Mr. Obama.
Evelyn compares Rush to bigoted propagandist Michael Moore, and says people like her should be ashamed of themselves for listening. Uh, your radio has an OFF switch.
A community organizer, Jesus, calls to say we need McCain to be tough with communists like Putin, Chavez, and Castro linking up in the Caribbean.
From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:
» Consumer Confidence Hits 8-Month High » Hurricane "Certain Death" Warning
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posted on
09/12/2008 3:27:32 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
"The Great Snarl that has arisen and is directed at Sarah Palin has registered at a very deep level outside of the coastal elites"
I talk with people in the midwest and south every day, as well as in the suburbs of Atlanta, near the Rockies, in the smaller towns of Minnesota. They love Sarah Palin, and now they are increasingly angry with the MSM and especially with Obama and his campaign operatives.
"Manhattan-Beltway media elites are
very slow to recognize anything completely new. This is why prior to 9/11 they were in the dark about Islamist extremism. It is why prior to $4 a gallon gas, they had never anticipated a huge majority of Americans would demand offshore drilling.
And it is why they still don't understand the Palin Breakout. "
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: "The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong. . . . In doing so, he captured perfectly the establishment snobbery and intellectual condescension that has characterized the chattering classes' reaction to the mother of five who presumes to play on their stage."
MARK PENN:
I think the people themselves saw unfair media coverage of Senator Clinton. I think if you go back, the polls reflected very clearly what "Saturday Night Live" crystallized in one of their mock debates about what was happening with the press.
I think here the media is on very dangerous ground. I think that when you see them going through every single expense report that Governor Palin ever filed, if they don't do that for all four of the candidates, they're on very dangerous ground. I think the media so far has been the biggest loser in this race. And they continue to have growing credibility problems.
And I think that that's a real problem growing out of this election. The media now, all of the media — not just Fox News, that was perceived as highly partisan — but all of the media is now being viewed as partisan in one way or another. And that is an unfortunate development.
CBSNews.com: So you think the media is being uniquely tough on Palin now?
Mark Penn: Well, I think that the media is doing the kinds of stories on Palin that they're not doing on the other candidates. And that's going to subject them to people concluding that they're giving her a tougher time.
Because, you know, they are.
OKAY, I THOUGHT THE OBAMA COMMERCIAL MOCKING MCCAIN for not using a computer was dumb because it would alienate older voters. But it turns out it's a lot dumber than that:
The reason he doesn't send email is that he can't use a keyboard because of the relentless beatings he received from the Viet Cong in service to our country. . . . McCain's severe war injuries prevent him from combing his hair, typing on a keyboard, or tying his shoes.
Oops. Another unforced error from the Obama campaign, which seems to have had a lot of those lately. The above is from 2000 -- don't these people know how to use Google? Or NEXIS? Or something?
UPDATE: Ouch:
MORE: Epic Fail: "This whole Obama thing has *got* to be a put-on by the DNC. Any minute Allen Funt will pop out and they’ll announce the real ticket is Hillary Clinton and Phil Bredesen (or Mark Warner) or something, right?"
"I guess now we'll find out whether Barack Obama is capable of shame."
Picking from where I left off last night…this is kind of refreshing: Palin “governed from the center” and went after big oil. I understand she was good with judges, too.
The many wars of Sarah Palin.
Okie has a great mag cover.
The funniest comment I’ve read yet on the Palin/Gibson interview came in an email from Kim Priestap at Wizbang, who wrote: “Am I the only one who thought ABC hired Ed Wood to edit the interview?”
Oh, SNAP!
I’m rather impressed but not terribly surprised, to see how fairly Kirsten Powers reviews the interview, and she comes out in Palin’s favor - more, I think, because Gibson was both so badly prepared and deplorably rude - but is it possible that Gibson’s obvious loathing and disrespect for Palin (and that “hubris” question which he would never ask Obama) has ticked off even the center-left women? Alessandra Stanley even managed to be fair.
When does Glenn Reynolds sleep? He’s already got a definitive round up posted with reactions from left and right. Talk Left gave thumbs up to Palin which is interesting. Do they really mean it, or are they just trying to balance out the whackadoo excesses of the past two weeks? Perhaps both? In either case, it’s a decent move, I think.
As I said earlier, earlier, I think Palin was reasonable to ask “in what respect.” There is some disagreement (or differing perspectives) as to what policies comprise the Bush Doctrine; is it pre-emption? Is it identification of terrorist-harboring nations as partners in terrorism? Palin was smart to ask Gibson to clarify. I think she was being leery of being trapped. Nothing wrong with being a little pre-emptive herself, in that case; she might have said - “in what respect, Charlie, do you mean in this respect or in that respect,” and turned it on him, a little. Hopefully she’ll get more comfortable with these “big time serious journalists” soon and be a little flippant with them. What bothered me more than anything last night was the unrelenting grimness of it. A little humor, either way, would have been good.
Bill Kristol says the WaPo is engaging in an egregious smear of Palin on its front page. Egregious is a strong word, but you know, I think it is warranted this time. Ace is also doing a rundown of egregious front pages. Seems like the press is making a concerted effort, here. Anecdotally, they’re having an impact. If they have to destroy themselves to win this thing, they’ll do it.
Neo-neocon is making vague, careful, Joan d’Arc noises
Gibson is also taking a few licks.
I got pretty offended when he took that condescending attitude and asked her if her belief that she is “ready to lead” wasn’t hubris. Excuse me? Aside from the fact that anyone who DOESN’T believe he or she is ready to lead ought to get the hell out of the way, is it HUBRIS for Obama to believe this of himself, with less experience than Palin? That really fried my banana.
Taylor Marsh also says Palin held her own:
Review? Lowered expectations going in. Quick study. Holds her own. Point to Palin.
Deadly outcome for Democrats. Palin just might be the gift that keeps on giving… to the Republicans.
I don’t know if that’s exactly right. The Dems may have had lowered expectations, but I think mos conservatives had very high expectations, which is why so many of them seemed (like Allah) to be holding their breaths. Hey, not to worry; every pol eventually falls flat on his or her face. I just hope that when Palin makes a verbal gaffe like the ones Obama makes and the press ignores, she’s given the same leeway he’s gotten. I don’t know that either of them deserve the excruciating thumping that Dubya got for every malapropism.
The fellas at Powerline, who were initially not too keen on Palin say on paper, thumbs up
Tom Maguire: Also seems like a happy dude
Meanwhile, I don’t know why the McCain camp is going the victim route with this new ad. It’s pretty clear to me that this woman is no one’s victim. Perhaps they figure it will give her a little breathing room? It’s a bad move. Humor is always better than victimhood, as Palin herself proved in her convention speech.
Matt Damon and MoDo are like the new Muldar and Scully: They want to believe!
Bob Owens on purposeful media distortion
Steve Shippert at Wizbang did not much like Gibson.
Slightly O/T: Pajamas has a good piece on Where Palin really stands on Sex Ed. Hint: it’s not in the extreme spot most think.
Jonah Goldberg on the incredibly bitchy women writing about Palin. Note the punny headline.
On another subject: Did you know team Clinton is still blocking the release of ABC’s The Path to 9/11?
The Weekly Standard dusted off this archived piece from 1996 due to the commotion over Trig Palin:
Tucker Carlson, Eugenics, American Style
Testifying before Congress in the spring of 1990, Arkansas state health director Joycelyn Elders took an unusual tack in her defense of legal abortion. "Abortion," she said, "has had an important, and positive, public- health effect,"
"Choice" in the abortion fight only belongs to elitist lefties. The trick is convincing the masses to do as they say and keep them ignorant of what they're actually doing. Whitewash it all by letting them think they actually have a choice.
That's why you can watch a cesarean section, hip replacement or open heart surgical procedure on The Learning Channel but never an abortion. They deliberately keep it sanitized so nobody has to think about what it's really about...that is the ending of a life.
Liberals are attacking Palin to cover the implosion of the Democrat Party's campaign. The bloom is off the Obama rose. He can't run on his record, or "get tough" on his agenda of raising taxes and increasing government. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
» NYT: Obama Plans Sharper Tone, Party Frets » ToL: Record Doesn't Match Words
» AT: Lipstick on Community Organizing Pig » AT: Obama & S. Chicago Slumlords
Pearl of Wisdom: "When liberals lose, it's always somebody else's fault -- and when they lose, they get even angrier and even more radical. It's happening in the news media. It's happening in the Democrat Party. They're not rational, folks."
A seminal moment in conservatism: the Media and Democrats will try everything to destroy Sarah Palin, because she threatens their party's Big Lie. Just remember what Obama did to his opponent for the Senate, Jack Ryan. It'll get dirty, and it'll backfire.
» Dumping All Pretense of Objectivity: CNN's Roberts Refers to Democrats as "We"
Pearl of Wisdom: "One of my favorite lines in Charlie Gibson's Sarah Palin interview was her reply on 'experience.' She said there are lots of people in Washington with big, fat old resumes who have plenty of experience in doing the wrong things. What kind of qualification is being wrong all the time?" (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
» Palin Power: GOP w/i 3 in Generic Poll » Mark Penn Decries Media's Palin Bashing
Millions of Americans are offended by left-wing, anti-Christian, separation-of-church-and-state Democrats declaring, "Jesus (Obama) was a community organizer; Pontius Pilate (Palin) was a governor." (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
Obama's "community organizing" mentor was Hillary Clinton's pal Saul Alinsky, who dedicated the left-wing bible "Rules for Radicals" to "the first radical...Lucifer."
Don't argue with fools, because it's hard for people to tell the difference between you and the fool. Example: Sen. McCain on The View. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)
» NB: Whoopi Goldberg Asks John McCain "Do You Want Me to Be a Slave?"
Obama reveals a new bumper sticker slogan: "I'll Make Government Cool Again."
This is new and change and hope? New Obama ad attacks McCain as...old.
Keep These Pro-Obama Hollywood Liberals Talking!
» Eva Longoria compares Sarah Palin to the chicks on "Desperate Housewives."
» Pamela Anderson Says Sarah Palin should "Suck it."
» Susan Sarandon reads the Obama is Jesus; Sarah is Pilate line from her script.
Obama and McCain both took a question on American exceptionalism. Rush played their responses, and then answered the question as he would have at the forum.
Caller praise for the ad by an Iraq war vet backing McCain: Dear Mr. Obama.
Evelyn compares Rush to bigoted propagandist Michael Moore, and says people like her should be ashamed of themselves for listening. Uh, your radio has an OFF switch.
A community organizer, Jesus, calls to say we need McCain to be tough with communists like Putin, Chavez, and Castro linking up in the Caribbean.
From Rush's Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:
» Consumer Confidence Hits 8-Month High » Hurricane "Certain Death" Warning
She isn’t a whining girl like Obambi.
So, is the World still dangerous?
Is Death still permanent?
At first I thought that Russia had sent some of the elderly Tupolev "Bear" turbo prop bombers to Venezuela, but these aircraft are the equivalent of our B1s. This is a highly provocative act as the Soviets used to say. It most certainly is in violation of the spirit if not the letter of previous American/Soviet agreements. Most certainly, I believe that it violates the Khrushchev-Kennedy accords of 1962 involving the placement and removal of strategic systems from Cuba and the Western Hemisphere.
Like $5 a gallon gas?
How about $7 a gallon heating oil this winter?
Steve Gilbert of Sweetness & Light noticed what appears to be a more explicit case of Obama mocking McCain's war injuries. In
Did Obama Mock McCain's Arm Disability, he writes:
Notice Mr. Obama’s body language starting at about 12:15, when he talks about John McCain: Perhaps we are seeing things. But to our newly body language calibrated eyes it reads this way.
Obama starts talking about the McCain ad. He sets the scene. He says McCain is looking into the distance. Then he, Obama, looks into the distance.
And then Obama does the arm thing — and it gets a laugh from the audience. Even though the line itself isn’t particularly funny.
Obama's Impression of McCain.
O.K., so we have an email dig, lipstick on a pig, questions on the maternity of Trig, a disabled arm imitation thing, ... and all from an arrogant prig.
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Don't think it's not coming to America... not already happening. The attacks didn't begin or end on 9/11 I beat on this subject until I was blue in the face- some get it, most, don't want to-- it's too scary. Or, they are afraid of being called "racist." ( Yes, I know it's a religion, not a race- do they? )
For Islam, a Religion of Peace®? The Most Damning links-- click the picture:
Watch the videos, read the links, ponder the quotes.
Wake up... or snooze your life away...
Hurricane Ike
I've been following the more technical blogs on Hurricane Ike for the last few days. While Ike is only a category 2, maybe low 3, in wind strength, its huge diameter and slow progress through the gulf gives it a higher total Integrated Kinetic Energy (last reported to be over 120 terajoules) than Katrina. The storm surge in the north-east (most dangerous) quadrant is predicted, worst case, to be over 30 feet, also in part because Ike is arriving on a rising tide, and it's a full-moon tide too.
It is my understanding, at the time I write this, that Galveston island is under water. Worst case, it may be stripped bare. Unfortunately, it appears that tens of thousands of people did not evacuate. There may be thousands dead. Houston is starting to be inundated, parts of the Louisiana coastal areas are already inundated, and it will get worse over the next few hours.
The maximum storm surge is plowing smack into the highest density petrochemical refinery area in North America, from the central Texas coast to the central Louisiana coast. Texas City and Port Arthur will likely be severely inundated. The refineries are all shut down, at best they will take a week to restart. Prices will rise across North America.
Needless to say, the idiots in the main-stream media were standing out in the approaching storm, in Houston, late Friday, pontificating on the low winds, completely oblivious to proper reporting on the scientifically incontrovertible evidence about the storm surge. They should be charged with criminal negligence.
Anyway, as much as I eschew predictions, that's how I see at this point, roughly 02:30 Central Time. The worst will be happening over the next six hours. I sincerely hope I'm wrong about this, yet I suspect you will find this thread to be a useful place for discussion of this probably major natural disaster later today.
To my many colleagues and customers in Ike's path: my sincere best wishes to you for your safety. For SDA's further reading, my best recommendation for a starting point for status reports, logical (not main-stream media) information, and numerous important links to other sites on this matter is Brendan Loy.
Posted by Vitruvius at
3:30 AM
By Michelle Malkin • September 12, 2008 11:35 PM
Scroll for updates and breaking news…
Map via Wunderground
Thoughts and prayers go out to the residents of Houston, Galveston, and other parts of Texas getting slammed by Hurricane Ike. The Weather Nerd is calling it the “Great Galveston Hurricane of 2008.” He’s also got a live Storm Surge page.
The adjective everyone is using: “Monstrous.”
The Houston Chronicle is liveblogging and report power outages spreading.
Galveston Daily News is on the scene.
So is blogger Dr. Melissa Clouthier, who I met in Texas at the Americans For Prosperity summit. Stay safe, Melissa! Also in that pic is blogger Robbie Cooper, who has family in Houston, and blogger Rightwingsparkle, who is north of Houston and starting to feel winds. You take care, too, girl.
Blogger Jason Smith is also liveblogging as he rides out the storm.
And so is the staff of the Lone Star Times, with folks stations all around the Houston area.
Troy Burwell has an excellent Flickr photostream.
Shelters are filling up in Tyler.
Another good resource: Stormlook.
And Glenn Reynolds has a huge link round-up.
PJTV is running a Disaster Watch initiative.
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This is not good:
GALVESTON — Despite a mandatory evacuation and ominous forecasts of a killer storm, police, firefighters and the Galveston Beach Patrol rescued dozens of residents Friday from the rising tides brought on by Hurricane Ike as it bears down on Galveston Island.
Many had stayed on the island through numerous other hurricanes and were surprised by the height of the tidal surge. Others were mentally impaired, homeless or decrepit.
Police used a boat to rescue Ken Rygaard, 65, and his wife Jesse, 52, after the tide flooded the second story of the house on 67th Street near Stewart Road.
Rygaard said he has ridden out every storm over the last 43 years. “During (1983 Hurricane) Alicia, we only had a little bit of water,” Rygaard said “but nothing up to the second level.”
The Rygaards and others were taken to Ball High School on 43rd Street, which became a shelter of last resort. The city warned residents that there would be no shelters because all residents were expected to leave the island.
But city officials estimated that as many as 40 percent of the island’s about 60,000 residents remained in their homes.
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Watch the refineries. Melissa spells it out: “We have many friends and contacts within the oil industry and they feed me information every so often. I think people need to understand how profoundly the refining being down is going to affect the nation. Even if the refineries could get back going the minute the storm passes, it will take at least a week to get going again. And, it should be noted, the refineries will not get going the minute the storm passes. America needs to build more.”
Update: More than 1.3 million are now without power.
Piers destroyed, bay flooding almost all the way to the seawall, basement of convention center presently filing with water, several fires reported across the area, masonry walls have been knocked over by the winds and shattered. Several hotels report the loss of roof integrity, emergency mangers are not planning on meeting until noon today to even begin to assess the damage. All of the emergency vehicles are presently stored in the convention center floor and will likely not be leaving until daybreak at the soonest - the back half of the eyewall should be impacting Galveston in about an hour and a half, maybe a bit sooner, as the radar profiles indicate a northward motion right now - which could keep Galveston in high winds far longer than expected. Further flooding from the bay is expected as the backhalf of the eyewall impacts them, likely resulting in as much damage as the high winds that are expected.
96 posted on Saturday, September 13, 2008 3:14:28 AM by kingu
MORE ON IKE, FROM BRENDAN LOY. It's getting worse. Also, a look at its energy impact as refineries are shut down or damaged.
Plus, testing a new web-based disaster reporting system aimed at Ike. Follow the link, especially if you're somewhere near the Texas coast. Er, unless you're on the Texas coast, in which case you should really be leaving, like, now.
UPDATE: Watching TV a bit earlier, the Insta-Wife commented that politicians aren't making a big deal about Ike the way they did about Gustav. That's true.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Riding out the storm on a disabled ship. That wouldn't be my choice, but then I'm sure it wasn't theirs, either.
Meanwhile, lots of people refused to evacuate. Lou Minatti is worried about them. Personally, if Brendan Loy says to get out, I'd get out.
Loy himself can't believe how many people stayed on Galveston Island: "Why the hell didn’t these people leave? I’m speaking of Galveston specifically — the other places, I understand a bit more, but 40% of people on Galveston Island refusing to evacuate?? It makes me angry. Scared for them, yes, but also, angry. Honestly."
Meanwhile, John Little is blogging from Houston, and Dr. Melissa Clouthier is blogging from The Woodlands.
More: Hurricane Ike could be 'catastrophe' for Texas.
More here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Looking on the bright side: "Firedoglake predicts Ike will be worse than Katrina. This is good news for Texas, because Firedoglake is always wrong about everything." Let's hope that record holds . . .
And Brendan Loy is still updating.
Also, a big roundup from Lawhawk.
And as I watch Geraldo out there in the wind, I note what one of Brendan Loy's commenters says about people who won't evacuate:
Part of it might be seeing Geraldo on the sea wall. Heck, if the media is going to stay, along with the firemen, why not?
I’m all for folks making up their own minds. I’d like a big concrete structure to get in though, if I decided to ride it out. And plenty of water, batteries, food…et.
But nobody likes to be shown up by some chick in a windbreaker with a microphone.
These dumb standups by the press don't do anything useful, and they set a bad example.
Lots more at Stormpulse.com.
Texas Rainmaker: "Looks like we picked the wrong one to try and ride out."
Plus, more from Dr. Melissa Clouthier: "I think people need to understand how profoundly the refining being down is going to affect the nation. Even if the refineries could get back going the minute the storm passes, it will take at least a week to get going again. And, it should be noted, the refineries will not get going the minute the storm passes. America needs to build more."
And here's John Little's Twitter feed.
Plus the Disaster Watch Twitter feed.
Hurricane Ike: Storm chaser's blog
"A Galveston, Texas, marina goes up in flames Sept. 12, 2008."
About 4.5 million Texans without power.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-ike-power-outages,0,1098566.story
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09/13/2008 2:39:18 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
A transcript of the unedited interview of Sarah Palin by Charles Gibson clearly shows that ABC News edited out crucial portions of the interview that showed Palin as knowledgeable or presented her answers out of context. This unedited transcript of the first of the Gibson interviews with Palin is available on radio host Mark Levin's website. The sections edited out by ABC News are in bold. The first edit shows Palin responding about meeting with foreign leaders but this was actually in response to a question Gibson asked several questions earlier:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
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Coming soon to your town...
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09/13/2008 7:13:24 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
A transcript of the unedited interview of Sarah Palin by Charles Gibson clearly shows that ABC News edited out crucial portions of the interview that showed Palin as knowledgeable or presented her answers out of context. This unedited transcript of the first of the Gibson interviews with Palin is available on radio host Mark Levin's website. The sections edited out by ABC News are in bold. The first edit shows Palin responding about meeting with foreign leaders but this was actually in response to a question Gibson asked several questions earlier:
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
BRING YOUR OWN CAMERA: I've got an oped in the New York Post on why candidates should take their own cameras to interviews. And reader John Moran emails: "I also don't understand why politicians like Palin don't take a pda with video of their alleged controversial comments and challenge interviewers to view and publish the actual comments when they are misrepresented. Such a tactic along with recording of the entire interview should keep the press honest." If anything will . . . .
Here's a description of the Simpsons episode I mention in the column. I looked for that scene on YouTube but couldn't find it. If you have a link, please send it!
UPDATE: Illustrating my point: ABC News Edited Out Key Parts of Sarah Palin Interview.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Courtesy of reader Steve Barns, here's the Homer interview clip.
The Smears Continue
We're all getting an education in what the Democrats consider to be political argument. The latest comes from radio talk show host Randi Rhodes, who suggests that Sarah Palin likes to sleep with teenage boys:
It's just another day in the campaign to put a "progressive" in the White House.
Courtesy of Radio Equalizer.
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Is Sarah Palin a natural aristocrat?
My friend Steve Hayward is well known as the historian of Ronald Reagan and the Reagan era. He brings his learning to bear in "Give 'em hell, Sarah" in the new issue of the Weekly Standard. He notes that "Palin's ascent revives issues and arguments about self-government that raged at the time of the American founding and before. Indeed, the basic problems of the few and the many, and the sources of wisdom and virtue in politics, stretch back to antiquity." Steve finds that "[i]n her first innings, Palin has offered a unique display of the capacity that John Adams described as the essence of a 'natural aristocrat' in America." Steve's short article makes a genuine contribution to the intelligent discussion of Sarah Palin.
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The answer is simple: she's a woman, mother and wife, and they're still searching for their identities.
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In the Land of Make Believe - Stephen J. Gray
--What would a visitor see in the Land of Make Believe? The visitor would see many-millions of taxpayers dollars going to a rich conglomerate’s family for a “dream” of a “Human Rights Museum.” ( One would think wealthy people should pay for their own dreams. But I digress.) Meanwhile, taxpaying people are dragged before so-called “Human Rights Commissions (HRCs) for daring to voice their opinions in a supposed “democracy.“ Oh well, at least there is going to be a “human rights museum” even though there is no “human right” to free speech, noted, the visitor.
The visitor might also see men marrying men, and women marrying women on display in this museum, after all, this is surely a “human right!?”
Coming soon to your town...
BRENDAN LOY is continuing to round up reports on Hurricane Ike and its aftermath.
As I mentioned below, updates will be limited for the rest of the day. For full coverage of Ike’s aftermath — which, I hasten to say, is plenty destructive, notwithstanding all the “could have been worse” talk below — I recommend the various blogs and local media outlets listed in my sidebar at right. Local sites like the Houston Chronicle staff blog and the CBS 11 and ABC 13 blogs have more and better coverage of the storm’s impact than I would in any case, from my distant perch in East Tennessee.
Anyway… Dr. Jeff Masters says that, notwithstanding the miscalculations of the storm-surge computer models, Ike was almost far worse for Galveston:
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09/13/2008 1:47:41 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
This is what I have been wanting to see. Sarah Palin wins the battle with the oil industry, not by artificial windfall profits tax, but by simply striking a hard bargain, setting her feet to enforce the bargain, and collecting the hard-won results.
This from Electoral Vote from a guy who claims to be "unbiased" and libertarian but who tends to lean left.
Electoral Vote Predictions today:
Obama 268 - McCain 270
Click on the link This date in 2004
They don't realize that they are attacking the real women of this country - real wives and mothers. These, by an overwhelming majority, are the women who saved their miserable asses during World War II to trek daily to build the bombers, tanks and warships that, with the help of our soldiers, freed their sorry asses.
These are the same women who later grew their sons and daughters, again, to be strong and true to fight the fight against Islamic Terrorism, the battle they again refuse to fight and carp at and criticize daily, yet steadfastly, these women still perservere.
Sarah Palin is one of these women. And, I have no doubt, when Europe is in shambles from years of neglect to Islamic infiltration and culture encroachment, that this Lady will still do the right thing and help them. So, until they have US Citizen voter registration cards, their words will be as empty as they have been for the last 100 years.
“FactCheck”.org is an affiliate of the Annenberg, Chicago Annenberg Challenge, which Ayers and Obama were on their board.
But, gosh, I thought this was the kind of man—husband—partner—the Libs were demanding FOREVER!!!I thought they preferred to have no man around at all. They want the government to provide daycare, money, gay marriages, and everything else EXCEPT a "normal" family when raising kids.
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09/13/2008 3:59:19 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/
RASMUSSEN: "The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Saturday shows John McCain with 49% of the vote while Barack Obama attracts support from 46%. That is unchanged from yesterday and a complete reversal over the past week."
UPDATE: Florida, Pennsylvania breaking for McCain?
ANOTHER UPDATE: Panic.
JIM WOOTEN: Panic sets in for Obama, Democrats. "Barack Obama knows it. The election he had in the bag is slipping away." He could still win it, but the fact that he's acting panicky, with wild swings, isn't helping him. Plus, it suggests that he can't handle pressure, which has been a rap on him from the beginning.
Those molestation claims from Randi Rhodes aren't helping, either. Jeez. Plus this report: "Barack Obama and his senior advisers are under fire for ignoring the advice of Democratic senators and governors who are concerned that they do not know how to beat John McCain. . . . A senior Democratic strategist, who has played a prominent role in two presidential campaigns, told The Sunday Telegraph: 'These guys are on the verge of blowing the greatest gimme in the history of American politics. They're the most arrogant bunch Ive ever seen. They won't accept that they are losing and they won't listen.'" Yes, as I said earlier, hubris coupled with poor execution is not a recipe for success. Nice to see that the Democratic leadership agrees with my analysis.
UPDATE: Barry Dauphin thinks it's psychological: "One thing I have noticed. No matter who McCain is up against (be it Republicans or Democrats), he has an uncanny ability to get under the skin of his opponents. Most of his opponents become virtually apoplectic at some point. They make mistakes. And he simply smiles."
TOM SMITH: The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse:
All this, taken together, goes far beyond Maureen Dowd's searing revelation that Sarah Palin wears shoes that are really intended for much younger women. Now we know that far from a pit bull with lipstick, Governor Palin is a merely human politician who rewards friends, punishes enemies and plays "hardball" just like one of the guys. Who does she think she is? And, she's ambitious. She confided to a friend that she wants to be president someday. Should such a person be allowed inside the White House?
But, seriously now, if the NY Times wants to bring down their favorite hockey mom, they are going to have to do a lot better than this. Forget about sending anybody to Chicago to go through Sen. Obama's record with a similarly fine toothed comb. Or more like a manure fork. I know that's not going to happen. Politics in Alaska is a lot like everywhere else, with friends, enemies, grudges, favors made and repaid, and those who get ahead often have sharp elbows. If Palin does become VP she will need every bit of those skills she may have.
What? They won't investigate Obama as carefully?
IN RESPONSE TO MY EARLIER THOUGHTS ON TAKING A CAMERA TO THE INTERVIEW, reader John Barnes writes:
Glenn: Bravo for your column on the need for politicians to make their own record of interviews. I am a corporate communications consultant and I routinely advise my clients not to agree to taped interviews. If a taped interview is unavoidable, I tell them that when the news crew arrives and starts setting up its cameras and microphones, the interview subject should set up his own cameras and microphones. A few have taken my advice, but many do not, thinking it will tick off the media even more. I tell them the media is not your friend under any circumstances and you are foolish to trust it.
I must say, though, on the few occasions when my advice was heeded, I wished I had a camera of my own to record the priceless expressions on the reporters' faces as we set up our own cameras. "What are those for?" one asked nervously. "Oh, we just have a policy of making our own record," I said nonchalantly. He seemed a bit perturbed, but went ahead with the interview, which turned out tough, but reasonably fair. I can't help but think that having our own record made at least some difference.
It couldn't hurt. Meanwhile, more questions about ABC's editing. And it's not just politicians who should take this precaution.
UPDATE: Related thoughts here.
UPDATE: Welcome Instapundit readers. You may enjoy
this.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means.
Inigo Montoya to Vizzini in The Princess Bride
That line from the movie is so apropos of many of the things in the Media. Take, for example “Swiftboating.” To the Media it means to tell lies about a candidate for public office. To people who actually read the Swiftboat Vets books and saw their ads it refers to Kerry's fellow Swift Boat vets telling the truth about John Kerry’s actions in Viet Nam and his activities to smear his fellow vets when he got back.
So now we have what appears to be a controversy about the “Bush Doctrine.” Let’s be clear about this: George Bush did not say in either a speech or in written form anything with the title “Bush Doctrine.” The reference to the existence of a Bush Doctrine was a literary invention of Charles Krauthammer; at the very least he claims to be the first to have used the term. So anyone who wished to define the term Bush Doctrine should show some deference to Krauthammer’s opinion of what Bush Doctrine means.
John Neish writes;
I'm stuck here in the States for the time being, and my usual rounds of errands take me through several towns in the area. One to the north and another to the east are those kinds of towns where one would go to hunt lefties, were there ever a government enlightened enough to add them to the 'varmint' category. The towns are insanely wealthy -- Doctors, lawyers, professionals of all stripes -- and both towns have a very solidly-entrenched population of 'country-club Liberals'. In the last Presidential election both towns fairly bristled with Kerry placards, but this time around. I've been looking for, but so far I have not seen a single Obama poster in either town. There are posters for other Democratic candidates -- no shortage of those -- but none for Obama: not a single one. Prior to the Primaries, Hillary was considered by many to be one of the most-disliked woman in the US. Negative polls -- those that ask you 'who do you *dislike* the most' (as opposed to 'who do you *like* the most') -- had her in the upper numbers. Even so, Obama had to really work hard to beat her. Now, of course, she's a figure of pity because of the shabby way that the little twerp has treated her. He even announced his choice of Biden in a text message sent out at three in the morning: anyone who doesn't think that that was a dig at her for her 'phone call at three a.m.' advert deserves to be sold the Brooklyn Bridge (or maybe even the 'Bridge to Nowhere').
So, you heard it here first: being barely able to beat a person who at that time was not very regarded, and now being absent from the thickets of Democrat placards in these upscale towns with a well-establish Democrat presence, I predict that he's going to get whomped in a big way come election day.
It couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
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Randi Rhodes suggests Governor Palin gets her freak on with teenaged boys
– Which, to be fair to Ms Rhodes, them lonely days and nights in a winterproofed doublewide can be really trying on oversexed reindeer groomers and ice fishing aficionados. At least, that’s what her friends in Manhattan say. Besides, Alaska is barely even a part of the US. Like Mississippi or West Virginia or places like that. Hillbilly outre, as it were.
In fact, it’s total anarchy up there, is what I hear. So strange. So full of Otherness (which, sure, typically that’s the kind of exotic demographic championed by leftists, but in this case, it appears these strange creatures actually believe in guns and Jesus and individual rights — and almost none of them own the complete box set of “Sex in the City”. So really: can duelling banjos and inbreeding be far behind?).
Hell, I’m not even sure these “citizens” can get DirecTV. Or have ever once heard Jose Feliciano play an acoustic set in a small Greenwich Village cafe.
I mean, Jesus! Who are these…people…?
Read It all:
...have you had a chance to read some of the full transcript of Sarah Palin’s interview with Charlie Gibson? Go read the stuff they edited out. Clearly, she was smarter than they wanted her to appear. Our modern professional journalists. The “gatekeepers” and “mediating intelligences,” who seem increasingly dependent upon memory holes. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?.
Glenn Reynolds says you gotta bring your own camera, Sarah!: Do you know, Archbishop Chaput, of Denver always records his interviews, now, because something he said in an interview was misrepresented a while back, and he learned his lesson...Ace wonders why the press, so enamored of NUANCE in both Kerry and now Obama, seems so reluctant to allow Palin to exhibit her own nuance. It’s only pretending to wonder, you understand.
Sierra Faith tracked back with Well, Well, Well — Look What is on ABC Cutting Room Floor...
Democrats have spent weeks accusing Gov. Sarah Palin of lying about her pregnancy and accusing her daughter of lying about her pregnancy and attacking Sarah as a bad mother and comparing her to Pontius Pilate, Islamic radicals, a whip-wielding dominatrix and to "lipstick" on a pig. Now, Democrats say, they're ready to take the gloves off...
We've rounded up The Usual Suspects from week 1 of "Get Sarah Palin!".
Quite a few familiar faces that defended Democrat power to the last blot of ink during the impeachment wars.
I realized while I was working on this that unlike during the impeachment wars, there are a LOT fewer journalists out there these days.
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ERIC S. RAYMOND:
Timing the Entitlements Crash. "The fundamental problem is that income-transfer programs (and the interest service on the debt purchased to keep them running) are spending wealth in higher volumes than the economy can actually generate, and demand for that spending is rising faster than the economy is growing. Thus, raising tax rates is no longer a way out, if it ever was." Remember, if something can't go on forever, then it won't.
I really did love that “I’ve been banned at LGF - have you ?” bumper sticker.
I said this after the PURGE 1 & 2 Cheerleading AtS and it is still True ---
-- “GUESS WHAT THEY’LL BE SAYING ABOUT YOU WHEN YOU’RE GONE”
...all he has left. An echo chamber full of sycophants...
JESSE WALKER: "There's a popular stereotype, fed by films and other media, that says that natural disasters are almost invariably followed by looting. But in the real U.S., theft and violence are extremely rare in such situations. In Texas right now, as Hurricane Ike moves northwards, you'll find reports of people fretting about looters as they refuse to leave their homes. Yet when you look at how neighbors in the storm's path are actually behaving, you see cooperation instead."
Yes, and as I've written before, that kind of response is common. More here.
RAND SIMBERG ON ECONOMIC ILLITERACY AND TALK OF "PRICE GOUGING:" "Every time we have a natural disaster like this, this idiotic topic comes up, and we once again have to explain Econ 101 to the products of our public school system, probably in futility. This time, it's Rich Hailey's turn." Yeah, if only big TV networks with high-paid staffs could do the kind of reporting and analysis that we see from lone amateur bloggers. UPDATE: More thoughts from Shannon Love: "I’ll say it one more time for those who can’t be bothered to actually ask someone who owns a gas station. Gas stations set prices for the gas they sell today based on the wholesale price of the gas they will have to buy to replace it. Get it? The price you pay for a gallon today is the cost of the gallon the station will have buy to replace the one you just bought. Gas stations sell gas at or near cost, so if they did not use replacement pricing any sudden spike in gas prices would shut them down and you couldn’t get any gas. I simply do not know why our public and private talking heads cannot understand and communicate this simple fact." ANOTHER UPDATE: More here:
Watch the refineries. Melissa spells it out: “We have many friends and contacts within the oil industry and they feed me information every so often. I think people need to understand how profoundly the refining being down is going to affect the nation. Even if the refineries could get back going the minute the storm passes, it will take at least a week to get going again. And, it should be noted, the refineries will not get going the minute the storm passes. America needs to build more.”
Update: More than 1.3 million are now without power.
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Darn, we just lost the spoiled, drugged out teenage vote.
How old is this guy? Twelve?
Government is not a party, it's not a bunch of elites hanging out doing beer and pizza.
One of the MAIN problems with our government is for the last 50 years it's went the way of a sitcom. Elections are held like "American Idol" and wars are planned on a "Gameboy".
Shirley Eberle of Sunnyside didn't know it at the time, but as she plucked roe from kelp at an Alaskan fishery 20 years ago she was working next to future vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
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“POLITICAL PORNOGRAPHY:” Gerard van der Leun, himself a magazine editor of note, comments: “To say Ms. Greenberg’s use of this material in this way is ‘unprofessional’ and does the subject (John McCain) and the client (The Atlantic Monthly) a disservice is to vastly understate the case. Not only has Ms. Greenberg exposed The Atlantic to charges of bias it may well have not intended, it turns out she was engaged in dealing with Senator McCain falsely as well. She has, indeed, bragged about it to PDNPulse, a professional photographers’ journal.”
DON’T TRUST THE MEDIA (CONT’D): “Controversial celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg, a self-professed ‘hard-core Dem,’ deliberately took a series of unflattering shots of Republican nominee John McCain for the current cover of The Atlantic - and then bragged about it on a blog.” The Atlantic has a brand that most magazines envy. But recent behavior is putting it at risk. I guess it’s gone from bring your own camera, to bring your own photographer. The Atlantic’s editor, James Bennet, — who I know somewhat and think is an honest guy — says they don’t vet photographers for their politics, and they shouldn’t. But this kind of pettiness and unprofessionalism is absolutely beyond the pale. Sadly, it’s marked much of the media this election cycle.
As Andrew Breitbart said on PJTV the other night, you can hardly overstate the extent to which Big Media and the Democratic Party are one and the same these days.
OFFSHORE DRILLING COMING TO A VOTE: “Congressional Democrats, balancing political reality against a policy they have long opposed, are on the cusp of approving legislation that would open the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to oil drilling as close as 50 miles offshore.” Seems like one thing we want to do is to avoid having too much of our drilling concentrated in the Gulf of Mexico, where one hurricane can disrupt a big fraction of the production. Also, 50 miles seems pretty far offshore to me.
THINGS YOU MIGHT WANT TO PRINT OUT, OR AT LEAST ABSORB, when you have power:
Survival Guide: Living Without Power.
Some Tips to Make Your Life Bearable After the Storm.
Here’s another blackout survival guide. And here’s some advice on home generator safety.
Hurricane Ike wreaks havoc; up to 4.5 million face power outages
By Michelle Malkin • September 12, 2008 11:35 PM
Scroll for updates and breaking news…
Map via Wunderground
Thoughts and prayers go out to the residents of Houston, Galveston, and other parts of Texas getting slammed by Hurricane Ike. The Weather Nerd is calling it the “Great Galveston Hurricane of 2008.” He’s also got a live Storm Surge page.
The adjective everyone is using: “Monstrous.”
The Houston Chronicle is liveblogging and reports power outages spreading.
Galveston Daily News is on the scene.
So is blogger Dr. Melissa Clouthier, who I met in Texas at the Americans For Prosperity summit. Stay safe, Melissa! Also in that pic is blogger Robbie Cooper, who has family in Houston, and blogger Rightwingsparkle, who is north of Houston and starting to feel winds. You take care, too, girl.
Blogger Jason Smith is also liveblogging as he rides out the storm.
And so is the staff of the Lone Star Times, with folks stationed all around the Houston area.
Troy Burwell has an excellent Flickr photostream.
Shelters are filling up in Tyler.
Another good resource: Stormlook.
And Glenn Reynolds has a huge link round-up.
PJTV is running a Disaster Watch initiative.
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This is not good:
GALVESTON — Despite a mandatory evacuation and ominous forecasts of a killer storm, police, firefighters and the Galveston Beach Patrol rescued dozens of residents Friday from the rising tides brought on by Hurricane Ike as it bears down on Galveston Island.
Many had stayed on the island through numerous other hurricanes and were surprised by the height of the tidal surge. Others were mentally impaired, homeless or decrepit.
Police used a boat to rescue Ken Rygaard, 65, and his wife Jesse, 52, after the tide flooded the second story of the house on 67th Street near Stewart Road.
Rygaard said he has ridden out every storm over the last 43 years. “During (1983 Hurricane) Alicia, we only had a little bit of water,” Rygaard said “but nothing up to the second level.”
The Rygaards and others were taken to Ball High School on 43rd Street, which became a shelter of last resort. The city warned residents that there would be no shelters because all residents were expected to leave the island.
But city officials estimated that as many as 40 percent of the island’s about 60,000 residents remained in their homes.
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Watch the refineries. Melissa spells it out: “We have many friends and contacts within the oil industry and they feed me information every so often. I think people need to understand how profoundly the refining being down is going to affect the nation. Even if the refineries could get back going the minute the storm passes, it will take at least a week to get going again. And, it should be noted, the refineries will not get going the minute the storm passes. America needs to build more.”
Update: More than 1.3 million are now without power.
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A Coast Guard HU-25 Falcon jet crew flew over Galveston Island near Bolivar Point.
Post # 1774 aerial views of Bolivar. Tragic.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/livenow?id=6384042
Pictures of Hurricane Ike’s Devastation in Houston - 09/14
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MORE VOTER FRAUD PROBLEMS. I wonder why this doesn't get more press? ACORN is doing what it does best: handing in phony voter registrations and facilitating election fraud. From L.L. Brasier of the Detroit Free Press:
The long history of ACORN's role in vote fraud and the inexplicable federal funding of this organization are detailed here.
A DEMOCRAT SWITCHES TO MCCAIN: "If Democratic women wait for the perfect woman to come along, we will never elect a woman. I will vote for McCain-Palin. I urge other women to do the same. I promise to be the first person knocking on her door if Roe v. Wade or any other legislation that goes against the rights of women is threatened. But in Governor Palin, I find a woman of integrity, who not only talks the talk but walks the walk. I can work with that. I will work with that."
MCCAIN VS. OBAMA: Hot or Not? Depends on whether you hire Jill Greenberg as your photographer, I guess . . .MORE ON THE ATLANTIC'S PHOTO SCANDAL from Jeffrey Goldberg, who wrote the cover story that has been unfairly, but inevitably, tainted by Jill Greenberg's duplicitous and unprofessional behavior. "Greenberg is quite obviously an indecent person who should not be working in magazine journalism." UPDATE: More thoughts from Shannon Love: "The important thing here is not that Greenberg took and altered the pictures. The important thing is that she felt comfortable bragging about what she did! She expected to receive accolades and approval." As I wrote in the case of Obama’s relationship to Bill Ayers [here and here], the importance of this incident arises less from what it reveals about Greenberg as a person and more for what it reveals about political subculture of the far Left.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Some people are having fun.
By Michelle Malkin • September 14, 2008 11:03 PM
I don’t feel sorry for The Atlantic magazine.
They are quite upset after discovering that Jill Greenberg, the left-wing photographer they hired to take photos of John McCain, is a deranged lunatic who manipulated pictures of the candidate to put him in a bad light — and then posted hateful photoshops of the images on her personal website and gloated about it to the Photo District News website...A simple Google search would have turned up my post and posts by many professional photographers disgusted by what she did in 2004 and put on exhibit in 2006. This woman deliberately terrorized children, stripped them, ordered parents to “step out of the studio for a couple minutes” in concerted attempts to make children cry who were not cooperating, and then captioned the photos of the children with anti-Bush slogans.
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By Michelle Malkin • September 14, 2008 11:03 PM
I don’t feel sorry for The Atlantic magazine.
They are quite upset after discovering that Jill Greenberg, the left-wing photographer they hired to take photos of John McCain, is a deranged lunatic who manipulated pictures of the candidate to put him in a bad light — and then posted hateful photoshops of the images on her personal website and gloated about it to the Photo District News website.
Sample of her unhinged defacing of McCain’s pics, which looks like something straight out of a Democratic Underground thread:
Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg, whose cover story was tainted by Greenberg’s work, writes: “Greenberg doctored photographs of McCain she took during her Atlantic-arranged shoot, which took place last month in Las Vegas. She has posted these doctored photographs on her website, which you can go find yourself, if you must. Suffice it to say that her ‘art’ is juvenile, and on occasion repulsive. This is not the issue, of course; the issue is that she betrayed this magazine, and disgraced her profession.”
Jill Greenberg disgraced her profession well before The Atlantic hired her.
A simple Google search would have turned up my post and posts by many professional photographers disgusted by what she did in 2004 and put on exhibit in 2006. This woman deliberately terrorized children, stripped them, ordered parents to “step out of the studio for a couple minutes” in concerted attempts to make children cry who were not cooperating, and then captioned the photos of the children with anti-Bush slogans.
Let me refresh your memories:
This is unbelievably sick. A left-wing photographer, Jill Greenberg, deliberately makes toddlers cry and turns the pictures into a Los Angeles art exhibit called “End Times” to indulge her Bush Derangement Syndrome. She slaps titles like “Grand Old Party,” “Four More Years,” and “Apocalypse Now” onto photos of the poor children she manipulated and goaded.
The Guardian covers the exhibit here with links to the children’s photos and reports how Greenberg deliberately provoked the children to tears:
When photographer Jill Greenberg decided to take a lollipop away from a small child, she had a broader purpose in mind.
“The first little boy I shot, Liam, suddenly became hysterically upset,” the Los Angeles-based photographer said. “It reminded me of helplessness and anger I feel about our current political and social situation.”
As the 27 two- and three-year-olds featured in her exhibition, End Times, cried and screamed, demanding the return of the lollipop given to them just moments before, Greenberg snapped away.
Someone at YouTube posted the gallery:
PopPhoto magazine published an interview with Greenberg, who used her own daughter in the anti-Bush exhibit as well, and speaks of the merits of children vs. monkeys as photo subjects:
comments (63) "Bush will be out of office soon, so now the scum have
two new targets in McCain and Palin to focus their hatred and anger toward."
A couple of days ago, John McCain appeared on the always-execrable morning program, The View. During his visit he had to endure Whoopi Goldberg asking him if she - under a McCain presidency - would have to “worry about being a slave again?”, he also had to deal with Joy Behar declaring that McCain was “lying” in campaign ads that suggested Barack Obama voted in favor of legislation to approve sex ed in Kindergarten.
Behar didn’t ask him, in mannerly fashion, if he had a basis for making that claim; she clearly could not trust his answer. Instead, she simply told McCain that he was “lying.” And in the manner of that program, the overtalking was continuous and loud, so his answer was drowned out. McCain’s answer was, “it’s not a lie.”
Curious about it, Amy Proctor went to the McCain/Palin website and rather quickly found a wealth of links concerning Obama and Education, including this:
The SEICUS Guidelines For Children Between The Ages Of 5 And 8.
* The Full Text Of S.B. 99 Included Changes That Would Offer Sex Education To Children Beginning In Kindergarten. “Each class or course in comprehensive sex education offered in any of grades K through 12 shall include instruction on the prevention of sexually transmitted infections, including the prevention, transmission and spread of HIV.” (S.B. 99: Illinois Senate Health And Human Services Committee, Passed, 7-4-0, 3/6/03, Obama Voted Yea) -[emphasis mine-admin]
My question, and perhaps the answer is in front of me, but it’s late and I’m not seeing it: Are these guidelines in the pdf. the exact guidelines that Obama voted for in 2003? If they are then McCain’s camp certainly is not lying. But they may want to re-do their ad to make the truth plain.
The Obama camp claims that the curriculum Obama voted on limited Kindergarden sex ed to concepts of “good touching” and “bad touching” - things that will help them recognise sexual predators. If this pdf represents Obama’s vote, it goes far beyond that. Read the guidelines for Level 1 (Kindergarten through 3rd grade).
We hear often from educators that “children learn differently” and that every child cannot learn the same material in the same way, and one of my problems with sex ed is that the “different learners” theory is tossed out the window when it comes to that subject. Suddenly every child is “ready” to learn a very delicate curriculum in precisely the same way, at the same point in their growth and maturity. I ask which is it, do they all learn differently, or do they all learn the same way? It can’t be both.
Moreover, it seems that this curriculum goes far beyond protecting children from predators. Most of what it covers is not so much “objectionable” as seeming - to me at least - to be the stuff a parent can best judge when to discuss with their child. In our family, one of my sons wanted lots of detail, and I answered him simply and honestly, until his questions ran out. The other son didn’t want details, and was satisfied with age-appropriate, minimal information expanded on over time. My knowledge of my kids helped me to discern what they were ready to hear about, and capable of processing, at any given time. No teacher - no matter how gifted - would be able to tailor a delicate curriculum to the appropriate sensibilities of each student.
In some public school districts, it is difficult for parent to even learn what their children will be taught in sex ed. A few years ago a parent I knew was livid to learn that students were not allowed to bring home material from the sex ed classes. The school seemed to think the parents could not be helpful to them.
And perhaps this is the real problem with sex ed in the schools; parents are not included or consulted about the curriculum. They’re simply told what it is and denigrated if they request participation in the formulation of lessons, or opt their kids out of the classes. Perhaps if schools involved a cross-section of parents in the planning, there would be less overall contention on the issue.
I’m not against a comprehensive and sensible sex ed program in schools; I think some sort of program is necessary, but that they’re not particularly effective in their current forms (and those participating in my utterly unscientific and random poll seem to agree with that). And too, I will always believe that the best place for children to learn predator awareness and healthy attitudes about their bodies and sex, is at home. This isn’t 1950 anymore, and I simply don’t believe that most parents are cringing in anticipation of having “the talk” with a child (and in truth, it’s never “a talk” it’s an ongoing dialogue), or flailing about stupidly trying to use euphemisms…but then again, I’m not the most social of creatures; I could be wrong.
In any case, if this guideline linked to at the McCain/Palin site is representative of what Obama consented to, then Joy Behar was wrong, and so are all of the pundits and talking heads repeating her claim. I won’t hold my breath waiting for any of them to admit it.
O/T but interesting: Clarice Feldman on Obama’s lost years. He doesn’t get questioned on this stuff, so we may as well learn as much as we can without the MSM, right?
JONAH GOLDBERG: Life of the Party. "The tectonic plates are definitely rumbling. Partisan Democrats may not believe it, but independents and dispirited Republicans now see the McCain-Palin pick as a sharp break with Bush (McCain now has a double-digit lead over the 'post-partisan' Obama among independents)." Hmm. They're not dead yet. In fact, they're getting better! "I feel happy! I feel happy! . . . I think I'll go for a walk!"
The World is a dangerous place:
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HOW WASHINGTON FAILED TO REIN IN FANNIE & FREDDIE: Basically, it was bought off. "Blessed with the advantages of a government agency and a private company at the same time, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac used their windfall profits to co-opt the politicians who were supposed to control them. . .UPDATE: Reader C.J. Burch writes: "I'm looking at the article. Does it mention which politicos took the cash?" That rock won't be turned over until after the election, if they have anything to say about it. But here's a place to start. Also here. Plus, the ubiquity of Jamie Gorelick, who seems to be on the scene for many Washington debacles.
Anyone who really wants to follow the global jihad and other articles of interest from September 11, 2001 to now, you can start here:
http://www.truthusa.com/911.html
9,077
posted on
09/15/2008 4:07:47 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
Obama at fund-raiser at Steven and Judy Gluckstern's home, April 9, 2007. George Soros is seated to the right of the stairs. (Photo: Michael Edwards, NY Magazine)
6,868 posted on Saturday, May 05, 2007
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9,078
posted on
09/15/2008 5:08:39 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
As always--
Read the Anchoress!
Hothouse plants, flipflops, and vote fraud-
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That question seems anti-intuitive, doesn’t it? Barack Obama has been consistent about nothing, if not his call to “bring the troops home,” for the past two years.
And yet, this piece by Amir Taheri accuses Obama of trying - during his “Now I Have Foreign Policy Experience World Tour” in July - to get in the way of troop withdrawals, to hold them off until after the November elections.
WHILE campaigning in public for a speedy withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Sen. Barack Obama has tried in private to persuade Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement on a draw-down of the American military presence.
According to Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, Obama made his demand for delay a key theme of his discussions with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad in July.
“He asked why we were not prepared to delay an agreement until after the US elections and the formation of a new administration in Washington,” Zebari said in an interview.
Obama insisted that Congress should be involved in negotiations on the status of US troops - and that it was in the interests of both sides not to have an agreement negotiated by the Bush administration in its “state of weakness and political confusion.”
“However, as an Iraqi, I prefer to have a security agreement that regulates the activities of foreign troops, rather than keeping the matter open.” Zebari says.
Though Obama claims the US presence is “illegal,” he suddenly remembered that Americans troops were in Iraq within the legal framework of a UN mandate. His advice was that, rather than reach an accord with the “weakened Bush administration,” Iraq should seek an extension of the UN mandate.
The press, of course, will yawn over this. After all, it’s not like Obama paraphrased a Lincolnian prayer or did not ban books in a local library. As with any story touching negatively on Obama, the press will display a spectacular indifference to this question.
Someone needs to ask Obama about this charge. It is a “serious” one, so it’s game for questioning, don’t you think?
Ed Morrissey, noting that Taheri can sometimes need doublechecking writes:
Hypocrisy isn’t the issue here; it’s the interference of Obama in military and diplomatic affairs. Just on diplomacy, interfering with the United States in its diplomatic efforts is a Logan Act violation. Interfering with war policy treads on even more serious ground, especially since the primary motivation appears to be winning an election without regard to whether it damages our ability to fight the enemy or drives wedges between us and our ally, the elected, representative government in Baghdad.
Taheri has had some credibility problems in the past…
This looks different, if for no other reason than Taheri’s main source goes on the record. Hoshyar Zebari didn’t hide behind a “high-level source in Baghdad” tag for this story. Zebari’s testimony puts the onus on Obama to explain why he attempted to interfere with the Bush administration’s negotiations despite his having absolutely no authority to do so. If Obama wants to negotiate a defeat for America, he needs to wait until Americans elect him to the White House before betraying our allies and our troops in the field. - [emphasis mine - admin]
As Ronald Reagan finished his inaugural address, the American hostages who had been held in Iran for 444 days were released; we watched the live pictures of their plane leaving the tarmac in Tehran. One can’t help wondering of Obama wanted to begin his presidency with that Reaganesque bit of drama, with the press intercutting live video of the weary troops “coming home” as he was finishing his speech. The press, we know, would do it artfully, for him.
Logan Act aside - and that is a serious aside - it feels like one more example of the halo of inauthenticity that seems, to me, to surround Sen. Obama lately.
At Wizbang, Kim Priestap also wonders if the press could muster up a little curiosity on this.
We won’t hold our breath, I guess. The media is too heavily invested in the hagiography of Barack Obama; they can’t ask him a serious question, anymore.
Jim Geraghty is calling Obama a hothouse flower. Yes. Created by a caretaking press; place him outside optimal conditions and he wilts.
Instapundit: a “praiseworthy shift in position.” Heh.
Also, I mentioned it the other day, but Glenn puts the head on it. Palin did not ban books in Wasilla, but Bill Clinton is still banning ABC’s The Path to 9/11. No word on how the press feels about that.
People should start worrying about voter fraud in ‘08. I’ve been saying that since ‘04, and the GOP needed to address it. They did not.
More:
Rick at Brutally Honest
Brown writes a weekly column for the San Francisco Chronicle. Knowing how newspaper deadlines go, he wrote his Aug. 31 column within hours of her announcement.
While liberals chortled, Brown wrote:
That Willie Brown say this immediately while the national; press did not shows why people — left and right and in the middle — are so contemptuous of the mainstream media. Just why are Doinna Brazile and Peggy Noonan on TV anyway? Hobos have better insight.
Palin has a way to go. A lot can happen in 50 days.
Look what has happened in the last 15.
FRIENDS OF LEHMAN.
UPDATE: More on Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the political class. More stuff rounded up here.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Whoops! "So it would appear that this is precisely what Obama has been railing against: Washington insiders lining the pockets of other Washington insiders while the taxpayers ultimately have to foot the bill. The Agent of Change, it seems, didn’t exactly walk the walk on this one."
AN EMERGING PATTERN with John McCain and gays. "When John McCain learns a friend is gay, he says it doesn’t make any difference."
1) Energy Independence
2) Reforming Government
3) Helping families with special needs children
4) Finding cures for diseases
It's even worse for the Democrats.
Joe Biden has turned into Joe Biden.
“Come on folks, we are not voting for the next American Idol!”
Unfortunately, about 25-30% of the voting electorate thinks that we ARE.
Obama will garner a minimum of 40-45% of the total votes cast. Guaranteed.
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Bizarre doesn’t describe it from what I’ve seen at Zombietime’s website. Open nudity, masturbation, and sex on the streets. Men peeing in another man’s cup and the latter drinking it. Just your normal everyday stuff.
9,079
posted on
09/15/2008 12:08:20 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
To: All
On a more important note:
And the unknown governor of two weeks before is now the most popular Republican politician in the country.
The real reason for Palin Panic. Even if, God forbid, Obama wins in Nov. We still have a future with folks like Sarah Palin around.
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Gun-control advocates frequently toss around alarmist numbers such as this one: One-third of vendors at gun shows do not have a federal firearms license. They don't bother to mention that many of those vendors do not sell guns -- they sell T-shirts, bumper stickers, books, backpacks, military insignia, and so on.
9,080
posted on
09/15/2008 3:48:48 PM PDT
by
backhoe
(For a Real Change, Vote Palin)
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