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MSNBC Liberal Panel Calls Romney Racist For Giving Cash To A Black Woman Asking For Help

Maybe I'm missing something, but since when is it a racist act to help out someone in need? A financially struggling African American woman sought out Mitt Romney's bus as it was passing through, looking for help, she approached Mitt Romney and he gladly handed her $50. On the surface this would seem like the right thing to do and be nothing more than an act of generosity, but no, that is considered an example of racism according to a panel of liberal commentators on MSNBC. I guess if you happen to be a white, conservative Republican, giving charity is akin to being racist because you somehow want to use that simple act as an example of a "dependent black person". The race card game is getting old!

From Real Clear Politics

 

Political Ideology...How Do You Compare To The Rest Of America?

In case you ever wondered how your political ideology stacks up against other Americans, this poll should interest you. The results are not a surprise to a political junkie like myself, but for most Americans I think it'll be an eye opener. Before you look at the results, think about how the TV Media, Hollywood, the Newspapers and Academics lean in terms of political ideology. You would think that the entire country is overwhelmingly liberal, but that's not the case. Quite the contrary my friends! Conservatives continue to represent the largest ideological group at 40%, Moderates at 35% and Liberals at just 21%.

From Gallup.com

Must Watch: “Daily Show” Destroys Liberal Columnist Over “Civility” Hypocrisy

Classic Hypocrisy! This is a must watch from Jon Stewart's The Daily Show. This woman was clueless about the irony of her hypocrisy. Enjoy!

From Hot Air

An instant classic, possibly even superior to their interview with that imbecile in San Francisco who wants to ban Happy Meals. Let me tweak the headline, though, since it’s not quite accurate. Better version: “Liberal columnist destroys herself as ‘Daily Show’ cameras roll.” It’s Froma Harrop, whom you’ll remember from her column in August comparing tea partiers — unfavorably — to terrorists who want to blow up the power grid. How they managed to pull off this goof without her wising up, I simply can’t imagine. She must have wised up but, for reasons known only to her, decided to play along with the humiliation. (Being a “good sport,” maybe?) Either that or what we’re seeing here is actually a tour de force of editing that turned what was a routine interview into a surreal expose of oblivious hypocrisy. No one be this clueless for real. Can they?

Besides, people like Harrop and the DNC’s current talking-points robot typically don’t do what they do because they’re blind to their own demagoguery, I think. To believe that is to let them off the hook for the cynical choice they’ve consciously made to smear their opponents for political advantage. There’s plenty of paranoia involved, no doubt, but it’s all in service to an agenda. If Harrop was genuinely this myopic, you could almost forgive her for it. Almost.

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Occupy Mayhem Around The United States

Just take a moment to think about how the main stream media would have reacted had these crimes taken place during the Tea Party rallies. Last year, they had us believe that the Tea Party was a dangerous, right wing movement that was fueled by hate and racism. We were bombarded with images of concerned Americans showing up at Town Hall meetings and have the gull to question their elected officials about spending and taxes. For this they were deemed violent and dangerous, but yet we're now supposed to believe that the Occupy Wall Street movement is a genuinely peaceful movement with just a handful of anarchists causing some trouble. Yeah right! Take a look at the following compilation put together by some bloggers who have taken the time to document the many crimes committed by the Occupy protesters.

From Verum Serum:

Updated as of November 16, 2011 at 7:04 pm

Rather than just an unordered list, I was thinking it might be helpful to categorize the mayhem by type.

Arson

• Occupy Fort Collins – Member arrested, $10 million in damage
• Occupy Portland -  Member arrested for throwing Molotov Cocktail
• Occupy Seattle – Suspicious fire at Bank of America 2.7 miles from camp
• Occupy Portland – Three men arrested with homemade grenades

Assault/Threats

• Occupy SF – 12 assaults in 24 hours
• Occupy LA – 4 assaults including two with knives
• Occupy Philly – Man punches woman in the face
• Occupy LA – Two assaults including setting someone on fire
• Occupy Berkeley – Police respond to three assault calls per night
• Occupy Wall Street – Three men threaten the life of a sexual assault victim
• Occupy Lawrence – Punch thrown
• Occupy Orlando – Knife fight sends man to hospital
• Occupy Portland – Multiple assaults within a 24 hr. period
• Occupy Toledo – Man assaults police officer after arrest
• Occupy San Diego – Woman assaults cameraman
• Occupy Victoria – Man dumps urine on city worker
• Occupy Vancouver – Two police officers bitten during near riot
• Occupy Oakland – Death threats
• Occupy Austin – Man in Joker make-up arrested for brandishing knife
• Occupy Oakland – Man sets his dog on reporter
• Occupy Oakland – Man pulls a knife in camp
• Occupy Wall Street – Photographer assaulted

Drugs/Dealing

• Occupy Boston – Two drug busts in a week
• Occupy Boston – Another drug arrest
• Occupy Boston – Heroin dealers busted were living with 6 year old boy directly behind welcome tent
• Occupy Portland – First hand account “Drugs. Selling…Heroin. Meth.”
• Occupy Portland – Video of open drug use in the camp
• Occupy Portland – “I get high“

Fraud

• National Lawyer’s Guild member Ari Douglas pretends to be run over by a police scooter

Illness/Death

• Occupy Santa Cruz – Ringworm outbreak
• Occupy Atlanta – TB outbreak
• Occupy Wall Street – Zuccotti lung outbreak
• Occupy New Orleans – Man discovered in tent had been dead 2 days
• Occupy Portland – Body lice outbreak

Murder

• Occupy Oakland – Fatal shooting

Public disturbance

• Occupy Dallas – Protesters block bank entrance, 23 arrested
• Occupy Vancouver – Mob with bullhorn enters bank
• Occupy Wall Street – Protesters block bank entrance, four arrested
• Occupier takes a bathroom break in the street
• Occupy Vancouver – Occupiers disrupt debate, threaten riot when asked to leave
• Occupy Long Beach – Group disrupts city council meeting
• Occupy Boston – Three arrested for occupying Burger King
• Occupy Oakland – Yelling and nonsense at Burger King
• Occupy DC – Group storms AFP event, traps attendees inside

Rape/Sexual Assault

• Occupy Philly – Man arrested for alleged rape
• Occupy Wall Street – Two sexual assaults unreported to police
• Occupy Wall Street – Man arrested for sexual assault, suspect in rape
• Occupy Dallas – Sex offender allegedly rapes 14 year old
• Occupy Ottawa – Sexual assaults go unreported to police
• Occupy Lawrence – Sexual assault reported
• Occupy Toronto – Foot sniffer arrested
• Occupy Seattle – Man exposes himself to young girls
• Occupy Portland – Sexual assault
• Occupy Wall Street – Drunk gropes women in Zuccotti Park
• Occupy Cleveland – Rape reported after an overnight stay
• Occupy Glasgow – Possible gang rape
• Occupy Baltimore – Multiple reports of harassment
• Occupy Chicago – Man arrested for child porn
• Occupy LA – Man charged with exposing himself to a child

Sedition

• Occupy DC – Let’s have a coup by taking over the military
• Ted Rall wants occupiers to choose the path of violence
• Occupy DC – Mike Malloy incites crowd to cheer for President Bush’s execution

Suicide/Overdose

• Occupy Burlington – Man kills himself with handgun
• Occupy Salt Lake City – Man found dead with syringe in his tent
• Occupy Vancouver – Young woman dies of cocaine and heroine overdose
• Occupy OKC – Young man with history of drug abuse found dead

Theft

• Occupy Portland – Theft is ongoing
• Occupy Boston – Store owner suffers 4 break-ins since camp began

Vandalism

• Occupy Eureka – Protesters use local bank as a toilet
• Occupy Portland – Two banks vandalized, promises of more to come
• Occupy Oakland – Bank windows broken, Whole Foods vandalized, broken windows
• Occupy Boston – Banks vandalized with anarchist, OWS graffiti
• Occupy Portland – Spike in vandalism near camp
• Occupy SF: ATMs being smeared with feces
• Occupy Santa Fe: Banks vandalized with OWS-themed graffiti
• Occupy San Diego – Vendors cart vandalized with bodily fluids
• Occupy graffiti found on PA governor’s mansion

I’m leaving some out, but these are the ones we’ve covered on the blog so far.

Spain Rebukes European Socialism

Spain is the latest European country  to rebuke the failed European Socialist model. In a stunning turnaround for Conservatives, Spain elected Mario Rajoy and his conservative People's Party to take over control of parliament. This brings an end to the Socialists rule in Spain. The outgoing Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero took control in 2004 in a controversial election marred by a terrorist attack on a Madrid train station. This tragedy cause fear to spread throughout Spain and many voters elected the Socialists in hopes that it would prevent further attacks. The incumbent at the time was Jose Maria Aznar who along with Tony Blair served as George W. Bush's strongest European ally.

Spaniards have become fed up with policies that have nearly bankrupted their country. The far left Socialists are so unpopular that the current Prime Minister Zapatero decided not to run for reelection. The Socialists have spent like there is no tomorrow and taxed their way into an economic meltdown. In many ways, the Obama Administration has adopted the policies of Spain and it is for this reason that President Obama and his Democratic Party is headed for a landslide defeat in 2012. In this defeat, President Obama loses one of his strongest supporters in Europe.

From the Reuters article describing Spain's election:

Ana Maria Lopez, a 53-year-old chiropodist, poured scorn on the Socialists and said she intended to vote on Sunday.

"This government is the worst, everything it touches it destroys. I want a change, I'm fed up with this," she said.

"I'm self-employed, this government has never given anything to the self-employed they only want our money and our taxes."

I hope the White House and the Democrats pay close attention to the developments in Europe because this is indicative of what they can expect to see from the American people next year. Socialism has NEVER worked. The European Socialist model has failed and the love affair the the radical left and main stream media have with this utopian dream is finished.

 

Tea Party vs OWS As Seen By The Media

I found these cartoons and thought they accurately captured the differences between the Tea Partiers and the Occupy Wall Street crowd as reported by the main stream media. There's nothing wrong with introducing a little humor into the debate. LOL

From The Political Jungle:

 

From The New York Times:

 

Another Example of Mainstream Media Double Standards

We're now in week two of the Herman Cain sexual harassment scandal and the media is not letting up on their quest to derail his campaign. I'm not sure what happened fifteen years ago during his tenure at the National Restaurant Association, but even if the allegations are true, should we even care? After all, weren't we led to believe after the Bill Clinton episodes that someones private life shouldn't have any bearing on their ability to govern? Not that I want to revisit the Clinton scandals, but he did settle for $850,000 with Paula Jones, one of his accusers. Not to mention the other claims of sexual assault while he was Governor of Arkansas. Need I mention the infamous Lewinsky scandal in which he preyed upon a young White House intern while he was a sitting President? He was protected by the media, the National Organization of Women and every other liberal organization. The tolerance bar was set so low after he left office that no other politician would ever have to live to such a high standard, unless he was a Republican. Ladies and Gentlemen, that is the problem with Herman Cain. He is a Conservative Republican who happens to be an African American. That is a trifecta with the mainstream media and thus they are hellbent on destroying this man's quest for the White House. Just for the record, I continue to be a registered Independent and I have yet to decide who I will support in the primary or general elections.

 From the Boston Herald:

What is all the fuss about Herman Cain, possibly having sexually harassed a couple of women? He is not a sitting president, just one of the many contenders in the GOP primary. There isn’t even a blue dress.

Didn’t the mainstream media and liberals enlighten us during President Bill Clinton’s era of indiscretions that this is private behavior and doesn’t affect governing abilities? Even the National Organization for Women buried their collective heads in the sand and never said boo about the $850,000 Paula Jones settlement.

So haven’t we matured like the Europeans?

The problem is that Cain is a Republican. That’s why Politico has written 90 stories in one week about the pizza mogul. Twelve-plus stories per day seems excessive even for the left-leaning site, but it does prove the point that Republicans are held to a much higher ideal than Democrats by both the media and voters.

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The Libya Quagmire

So here we go again! The US has initiated another Middle East war in the name of democracy and national self interest. The stench of hypocrisy stinks to high heaven! It's been a week since we launched attacks against Libya and I'm still waiting for the mainstream media and liberals to rise up against this Administration. I know, excuse my english, but it ain't going to happen! This Administration and its media allies have ben selling this as a military conflict needed to support freedom fighters and that unlike the Iraq War, this war has broad international support with the backing of the UN and Arab League. What a crock! Let's begin with President Obama's justification for taking action.

President Obama on Libya:

Now, here’s why this matters to us. Left unchecked, we have every reason to believe that Qadhafi would commit atrocities against his people. Many thousands could die. A humanitarian crisis would ensue.
The entire region could be destabilized, endangering many of our allies and partners.
The calls of the Libyan people for help would go unanswered. The democratic values that we stand for would be overrun.
Moreover, the words of the international community would be rendered hollow.

President Bush on Iraq:

Earlier today, I ordered Americas armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraqs nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors.
Their purpose is to protect the national interest of the United States, and indeed the interests of people throughout the Middle East and around the world.
Saddam Hussein must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons.
Other countries possess weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. With Saddam, there is one big difference He has used them. Not once, but repeatedly. Unleashing chemical weapons against Iranian troops during a decade long war. Not only against soldiers, but against civilians, firing Scud missiles at the citizens of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Iran. And not only against a foreign enemy, but even against his own people, gassing Kurdish civilians in Northern Iraq.
The international community had little doubt then, and I have no doubt today, that left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will use these terrible weapons again.

Sound familiar? The fact is we have no national interest in Libya other than oil. Muammar Qaddafi poses no threat to the United States. Unlike Saddam Hussein, he actually welcomed the UN and the US into his country to oversee the dismantling of his WMD program several years ago. This led President Bush to restore official diplomatic relations with the Libyan government.

So now that we've started this war we need to ask ourselves some important questions.

Why did we wait almost 30 days to offer military support to the rebels? Was this done to gain the support of the UN, Arab League and Europeans? Great, we go their support after one month of trying, but in the meantime, the rebels have lost their momentum and will not succeed without our help in providing ground troops.

Why does the President feel that he didn't need the support of Congress? He waited on the UN and Arab League, but yet he has refused to go to Congress to get their approval. It wasn't long ago that VP Biden, while a Senator, suggested that President Bush could be impeached if he launched an attack against Iran without Congressional approval.

Why is it okay to bomb Libya, but not Iran? We have a much more compelling vested interest to help the opposition forces in Iran.

What is the mission? Are we looking to remove Qaddafi? Are we trying to help protect the civilians or help the rebel ground forces? Who are the rebels? Are they pro-US? Are there any Al-Qaeda influences within their ranks? Are we prepared to impose a no fly zone for the next 12 years like Iraq? What's the end game?

Who is in charge?The UN, NATO, French or British? Where are the coalition forces that have been promised? We 122 of the 124 Cruise Missiles during the opening night of the war. The British fired 2. We have supplied almost all of the aircraft thus far. For all of the criticism of President Bush's coalition during the Iraq War, this effort looks much more unilateral than anything we saw during the Iraq War.

 

The Wisconsin Vote Is A Game Changer

This afternoon the Wisconsin State Assembly passed the hotly contested anti-union bill which stripped the collective bargaining rights of state public employees. This vote captured the attention of the national media for very good reasons. This vote was akin to President Reagan taking action against the striking air traffic controllers union in 1981. The far left, pro-union forces and mainstream media allies knew that if this passed it would lead to a domino effect around the country. This is good news for all taxpayers. We now live in an era where local, state and federal governments are essentially bankrupt. Americans have had to tighten the purse strings and become more efficient. This sacrifice has been shared by all except for the powerful public employee unions. It's important to understand the significance of today's events by grasping the fundamental purpose of a Union. From The Foundry:

Government unions are inherently different from private-sector unions. The purpose of private-sector unions is to get workers a larger share of the profits they helped create. But government is a monopoly and earns no profits. All government unions do is redistribute more tax dollars from taxpayers to unions.

Answer this question... What do the Airline, Automobile and Government Industries have in common? They are all bankrupt, and either destroy competitiveness or redistribute wealth from taxpayers to public workers. They have failed miserably compared to other sectors of our economy. This may be a little harsh and I hope my mom doesn't read this post. I am the son of a 40+ year government worker who happens to be a member of the grandaddy union of them all, the SEIU. Ok, enough with the disclaimer and back to my rant.

The great Thomas Sowell put it best in a recent article on Real Clear Politics:

The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians.[Private]Workers have also learned that there is no free lunch, which is why they have, over the years, increasingly voted against being represented by unions in secret ballot elections.One set of workers, however, remained largely immune to such repercussions. These are government workers represented by public sector unions.

While oil could replace coal, while U.S. Steel dropped from number one in the world to number ten, and Toyota could replace General Motors as the world's leading producer of cars, government is a monopoly. Nobody is likely to replace the federal or state bureaucracies, no matter how much money the unions drain from the taxpayers.

That is why government unions continue to thrive while private sector unions decline. Taxpayers provide their free lunch.

 

 

 

 

The Media's Silence In Pittsburgh Is Deafening

From Accuracy In Media:

For months, the liberal media have been warning America that "right-wing extremists" and "tea partiers" are whipping the country into an anti-government frenzy that inevitably will result in violence, but their at best irrational and at worst manufactured fears have not been warranted.

Hundreds of thousands of government critics marched on Washington on Sept. 12 and caused not one bit of trouble. Rest assured that any incidents would have been plastered all over the media if they had occurred.

Contrast that with what happened Thursday at the G20 meeting of economic leaders in Pittsburgh. Police had to fire pepper spray and smoke at left-wing anarchists who haven't a clue how to conduct a peaceful protest, but the trouble has barely made the news. The Huffington Post celebrated the protests with a vote-on-your-favorite photo contest that included shots of the street thugs.

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