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Jan 17

The Media’s Simplification of World Issues

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Jan 14

Tucson Shootings Further Confirm The Death Of Responsible Journalism

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The Political Left Will Reflexly Blame Palin and Conservatives For Any Untoward Events

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A Brilliant Death Blow to Outrageous and Unfounded Accusations By Liberals and Progressives Against Conservatives Regarding the Tucson Massacre

In the following editorial, conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer, a psychiatrist by training, delivers a succinct but thorough and trenchant analysis and refutation of the charges made by liberals against conservatives as to their influential role in the committing of the Tucson massacre. This is the coup de grace to wildly unfounded and politically motivated accusations made by liberal and Progressives against the Tea Parties and higher profile conservatives like Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

He also brilliantly trivializes and emasculates the intellectually and morally corrupt and uncontrollably partisan Progressive Paul Krugman along with the NY Times in addition to highlighting their hypocrisy.

Massacre, followed by libel
Charles Krauthammer    January 12, 2011;

The charge: The Tucson massacre is a consequence of the "climate of hate" created by Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Obamacare The Tucson massacre is a consequence of the "climate of hate" created by Sarah Palin, the Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Obamacare.

The verdict: Rarely in American political discourse has there been a charge so reckless, so scurrilous and so unsupported by evidence.

As killers go, Jared Loughner is not reticent. Yet among all his writings, postings, videos and other ravings - and in all the testimony from all the people who knew him - there is not a single reference to any of these supposed accessories to murder.

Not only is there no evidence that Loughner was impelled to violence by any of those upon whom Paul Krugman, Keith Olbermann, the New York Times, the Tucson sheriff and other rabid partisans are fixated. There is no evidence that he was responding to anything, political or otherwise, outside of his own head.

A climate of hate? This man lived within his very own private climate. "His thoughts were unrelated to anything in our world," said the teacher of Loughner's philosophy class at Pima Community College. "He was very disconnected from reality," said classmate Lydian Ali. "You know how it is when you talk to someone who's mentally ill and they're just not there?" said neighbor Jason Johnson. "It was like he was in his own world."

His ravings, said one high school classmate, were interspersed with "unnerving, long stupors of silence" during which he would "stare fixedly at his buddies," reported the Wall Street Journal. His own writings are confused, incoherent, punctuated with private numerology and inscrutable taxonomy. He warns of government brainwashing and thought control through "grammar." He was obsessed with "conscious dreaming," a fairly good synonym for hallucinations.

This is not political behavior. These are the signs of a clinical thought disorder - ideas disconnected from each other, incoherent, delusional, detached from reality.

These are all the hallmarks of a paranoid schizophrenic. And a dangerous one. A classmate found him so terrifyingly mentally disturbed that, she e-mailed friends and family, she expected to find his picture on TV after his perpetrating a mass murder. This was no idle speculation: In class "I sit by the door with my purse handy" so that she could get out fast when the shooting began.

Furthermore, the available evidence dates Loughner's fixation on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to at least 2007, when he attended a town hall of hers and felt slighted by her response. In 2007, no one had heard of Sarah Palin.

Glenn Beck was still toiling on Headline News. There was no Tea Party or health-care reform. The only climate of hate was the pervasive post-Iraq campaign of vilification of George W. Bush, nicely captured by a New Republic editor who had begun an article thus: "I hate President George W. Bush. There, I said it."

Finally, the charge that the metaphors used by Palin and others were inciting violence is ridiculous. Everyone uses warlike metaphors in describing politics. When Barack Obama said at a 2008 fundraiser in Philadelphia, "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun," he was hardly inciting violence.

Why? Because fighting and warfare are the most routine of political metaphors. And for obvious reasons. Historically speaking, all democratic politics is a sublimation of the ancient route to power - military conquest.

That's why the language persists. That's why we say without any self-consciousness such things as "battleground states" or "targeting" opponents. Indeed, the very word for an electoral contest - "campaign" - is an appropriation from warfare.

When profiles of Obama's first chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, noted that he once sent a dead fish to a pollster who displeased him, a characteristically subtle statement carrying more than a whiff of malice and murder, it was considered a charming example of excessive - and creative - political enthusiasm. When Senate candidate Joe Manchin dispensed with metaphor and simply fired a bullet through the cap-and-trade bill - while intoning, "I'll take dead aim at [it]" - he was hardly assailed with complaints about violations of civil discourse or invitations to murder.

Did Manchin push Loughner over the top? Did Emanuel's little Mafia imitation create a climate for political violence? The very questions are absurd - unless you're the New York Times and you substitute the name Sarah Palin.

The origins of Loughner's delusions are clear: mental illness. What are the origins of Krugman's?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/11/AR2011011106068.html

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Jan 13

A Media Guide On The Tucson Murderer For The Journalistically Challenged

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The O’Reilly Factor Talking Points Commentary on the Tucson Shootings

Though many people on both side of the aisle have strong feelings one way or another about Bill O’Reilly, the following video taken from his show, The O'Reilly Factor, is nevertheless quite enlightening and informative. We do disagree, though, on his assessment of Obama who has been somewhat partisan on this tragedy. His support of the “rogue” and unprofessional Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik is inexcusable and unwarranted.

Talking Points Commentary from the O'Reilly Factor

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Jan 1

A Letter From The Evil One’s (Obama) Sponsor (the Devil)

The following creative factitious letter to “president” Obama from Mephistopheles (the devil or other evil person’s name associated with this letter) sardonically lauds him for his brilliance in implementing his policies in whatever illegal, shady or unconstitutional way possible and doing so by circumventing the electorate and Congress.

For us to successfully reclaim our country we must neutralize, exorcise and remove the “devil” (Obama) from power ... as well as his cronies.

New Year's Advice From Your Sponsor
From the desk of D. Mephistopheles, Attorney-at-Law:

Dear President Obama,

I must say, I am quite impressed.  Following the unfortunate turn of events in your country's mid-term elections, many of the lower downs to whom I answer in this Great Firm were fully convinced that we had "bet on the weak horse", so to speak.  There was a growing sense that you were out of time and out of ideas.  But lo and behold, you had aces up both sleeves!  Your mastery at mustering your forces through the "lame duck" session of Congress was simply brilliant to behold.  Truly, our side was amazed, having not seen such tactical brilliance since our man from Austria launched his lightning campaign seven decades ago.  In just a few short weeks you gained enormous swaths of territory from our common enemy, simultaneously weakening the resolve of your country's fighting forces and legitimizing the previously stigmatized wretches who dare not speak their love's name.  Likewise, your ability to convince your own domestic opposition to lie down before the threat of a renewed menace from Comrade Putin was simply brilliant.

What has struck me as even more brilliant, however, is your determination to accomplish our mutual goals without regard to the outcomes of these ever-so-annoying elections.  We saw the Republicans manage to block net neutrality, cap and trade, and death panels being enacted into law.  Yet you brilliantly retorted "so what" and simply instituted all of these policies through executive direct action, proving once again that you are just the man we've been looking for.  Even Bill Clinton didn't have the chutzpah to pull that kind of thing off!  Truly, to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat as quickly and deftly as you have these last few weeks is breathtaking.

That being said, I think there are some lessons to be learned here.  First of all, don't put too much stock in the outcomes of elections.  Let's face it, our people lost the vote big time in November.  Yet you simply stood your ground and took it to the enemy! And what did you learn?  That you don't need to pay any attention to election outcomes or Congressional votes.  You don't have to worry about the petty legalists who want to see policies enacted into law before you put them in place.  All you need to do is take direct regulatory action and leave Congress out of it altogether.  You did it, and what price have you paid?  None at all, that's what.  So why not keep it up?

Just think of it.  You know the old saying "the devil is in the details"?  Well I can tell you for a fact that is absolutely true.  And who knows more about details than your vast army of Washington bureaucrats?  What you need to do is simply enact every piece of our agenda that you can think of immediately through executive directives and agency regulation.  After all, even if the Republicans try to block you, how many hearings can they hold at one time?  You have thousands upon thousands of bureaucrats at your command for every Republican Congressman.  They may try to take out a few of our initiatives, but there is no way they can even begin to address all of them.  Truly our name is Legion!

Now about this "election" business.  Here's a thought:  You lost the election, but you still enacted your agenda.  So why bother with this ridiculous election business to begin with?  You know Chavez, Castro, the Royal House of Saud and so many other heroes of yours don't worry about this sort of thing.  Are you less of a man than any of them?  Certainly not!  So why worry about the outcome in 2012?  Just take command and cancel the whole thing.  I know our mutual friend Bill Ayers has already spoken with you about this.  The New York Times is ready to support you on this, along with the rest of your traditional media giants.  The people need a Leader, someone who isn't afraid to do what has to be done, regardless of who stands in his way!  You can be this Leader!  All you have to do is take the full reigns of power.  They are yours for the taking, just do it!

Okay, that's enough for now.  Tell Michelle I said hi, and give my best to the kids.  By the way, I'd really like to talk to you later about a book deal.  Something about your goals and how you'll get there, maybe "My Struggle" or something like that.  I'll have my people get with your people.

Your friend and admirer,

D. Mephistopheles, Attorney-at-Law


http://beautifulletters-bls.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-years-advice-from-your-sponsor.html

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Dec 18

Progressively Determined Political Correctness is Abridging Our “Guaranteed” Free Speech

The noteworthy incidents of speech, writing or thought that have met with publicized censure, humiliation or termination of employment because they transgressed some arbitrarily determined political correctness continues unabated. This has in effect resulted in a contraction of our rights of freedom of speech as guaranteed by the Constitution.

Unfortunately, it only seems to work in one direction and that is ideologically determined. Progressives and liberals get free passes on virtually all that they say (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Michael Moore, etc.) but the converse doesn’t hold true. Much of this asymmetry can be attributed to a news media that is overwhelmingly far left and intolerant of conservative and even moderate positions.

The following case is just one more example of this absurdity.

State Legislative Staffer Suspended Over ‘Non-Racist’, Anti-Obama Chain Email

A Louisiana State Senate employee has reportedly been reprimanded and suspended without pay for sending an e-mail to hundreds of government workers with a picture that appeared to show President Barack Obama as a Caucasian. The email asked, “Do you like him any better now? No? Me neither. … Then you’re not a racist.”

Senate President Joel Chaisson announced the punishment Tuesday for Tammy Crain-Waldrop after a number of black lawmakers complained the email was offensive. “It is clear that the nature of the e-mail in question was highly inappropriate. Such actions will not be tolerated,” Chaisson, D-Destrehan, said in a statement that described Crain-Waldrop’s e-mail a violation of Senate personnel policy.

After she sent the e-mail, Crain-Waldrop immediately sent another message, apologizing for forwarding the message to the Capitol e-mail post office box by mistake.

The Associated Press reports that Crain-Waldrop can return to work Jan. 3 but for her punishment, she must send a written apology to Senate and House staffers and attend diversity training.

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh assessed the story Wednesday during his broadcast, outlining Ms. Crain-Waldrop’s “real crimes.”

“Ms. Crain-Waldrop‘s real crimes were opposing Obama’s policy and, two, defending her opposition as nonracist. Now, of course such thinking can’t be allowed,” Limbaugh noted. “It’s hate speech to deny that you can oppose Obama and not be a racist.”

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/state-legislative-staffer-suspended-over-non-racist-anti-obama-chain-email/

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Oct 11

A Threat To Our Freedoms: Socialist and Far Left Radical Groups

The following video documents the far Left's answer to Glenn Beck's 9/28/10 "Restoring Honor" rally on the Capitol Mall. Approximately 400 various special interest groups including La Raza radicals, SEIU union thugs and just proud socialist gathered to let their feelings known.

Their total numbers were only a small fraction of those seen for Glenn Beck’s rally. However, we must not be complacent as there will be an intense struggle to recapture the principles of hard work and earning one’s living (and keeping it), righteousness and integrity along with a limited government.

We must all vote on November 2nd to save our country and continue spreading this information to those who are not informed or disinformed.

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Sep 26

L. Brent Bozell III Is On A Mission to Have the News Media “Tell the Truth”

L. Brent Bozell III, the founder and President of Media Research Center, is focusing massive efforts to expose lies, distortions of the truth and overall bias in the media which played a crucial role in the election of Obama. By attempting to expose their far left biases and de facto functioning as a PR and marketing arm of the Democratic Party, he hopes to educated the public to this news sham.

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