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Obama’s Chicago Anger

2:57 pm in Chicago values, Elections, liberal anger, msnbc, Obama's anger, Race Card, Romney speech, Toure Neblett by mrcurmudgeon

By Mr. Curmudgeon:

Some are angry that GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has noticed a decidedly angry tone in President Obama’s “spread the wealth around” re-election rhetoric. “His campaign and his surrogates have made wild and reckless accusations that disgrace the office of the presidency,” said Romney at a recent political rally, “This is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like … Mr. President, take your campaign of anger and division and hate back to Chicago.”

Touré Neblett, an African-American author and MSNBC contributor, was outraged that Romney noticed Obama’s desperate anger. “That really bothered me,” said Neblett on the MSNBC show “The Cycle,” You notice he [Romney] says ‘anger’ twice. He’s really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is part of the playbook against Obama – the otherization – ‘he’s not like us.’ I know it’s a heavy thing to say, I don’t say it lightly, but this is niggerization – you are not one of us. You are like the scary black man who we have been trained to fear.”

Many on the right consider this “playing the race card.” They miss the point entirely. Political correctness is designed to question the motives, decency, integrity, intelligence, and sanity of opponents of Progressive-movement authoritarianism. It is that authoritarian streak in Obama, Pelosi, Reid and Neblett that forms the core of their “otherness.” That otherness seeks to redefine the relationship between a free people and their government, to replace centuries-old Judeo-Christian morality for its own … down to the definition of marriage, that otherness is anti-freedom and anti-American. And Progressivism’s otherness has never been under threat as it is today.

Progressive-movement otherness received a swift kick in the teeth in the midterm elections of 2010. That otherness lost its ability to govern unopposed thanks to the Tea Party. That otherness may lose its chief White House champion if Obama is defeated this November.

Progressive otherness has bitten off more than it can chew. Its attempt to radically transform America into a thing not in keeping with our history of liberty under the law only helps to underscore its deformed and angry otherness.

Obama’s Chicago anger is a palpable thing. In the South Deering district of Chicago, NeighborhoodScout.com calculates that 666 crimes occur for every mile. For the nation at large, the figure is 39.3. This is a remarkable accomplishment when you consider that crime rates are dropping in places like New York City.

Last week, a man angry with the Family Research Council attempted to gain access to the offices of the family-values organization. The Washington Post noted that the man “made statements regarding their policies, and then opened fire with a gun …” Floyd Lee Corkins, a volunteer at a lesbian, gay transgender center in the nation’s capital, is charged with shooting a security guard as part of a failed rampage in defense of his otherness.

Race had nothing to do with the incident. Progressive otherness is simply manifesting its Obama-like anger and taking its more violent “Chicago values” show on the road.

Deep Concerns about the Media Should Romney Win

9:00 am in campaign features, disenfranchisement, economic problems, Elections, gop has blocked the president’s initiatives, mainstream media, mainstream media’s bias for obama, money machine, msnbc, policy differences, predicting a romney victory, romney campaign, romney campaign is outspending obama’s, voter suppression, winning this presidential election by TPTsubmissions

Mitt Romney Victory 2012

Being superstitious about such things, I am not predicting a Romney victory. As we have seen in the last couple of weeks, nothing is beyond Obama and his team when it comes to winning this election. Therefore, this is merely a ‘what if’ exercise in speculation.

First, a quick review of what we’re seeing prior to the election. The mainstream media’s templates are firming up, and they’re no surprise: ‘it’s Bush’s fault;’ ‘those against Obama are racists;’ ‘the GOP has blocked the president’s initiatives;’ ‘the Romney campaign is outspending Obama’s;’ ‘Europe is the cause of the economic problems;’ ‘ Romney is an insensitive, rich, white elitist;’ ‘Romney is a Mormon;’ ‘Obama needs more time;’ and, ‘Romney’s policies will hurt the common man.’

And, of course, the more extremist leftist bloggers and MSNBC conjure up even more outrageous, baseless and ugly attacks.

With over four months remaining until the election it’s difficult to imagine how the MSM’s bias and attacks could intensify, but I’m sure they’ll come up with something. Therefore, by Election Day, the progressive voter base will be whipped into a frenzy. Then, as now, the frenzy more emotional than based in policy differences.

If the election is close (or maybe if it’s not), the MSM will trot out their tried and true disenfranchisement/voter suppression narrative. And, between the election and inauguration, the MSM will undoubtedly wax eloquent on the Obama years…lamenting the lost opportunity for our nation to grow beyond its racist past, the tragedy of circumstances beyond Obama’s control and the noxious impact of the massive conservative money machine.

The 2012 campaign features a clash of diametrically opposite governing philosophies and an accompanying voter polarization not seen in recent American politics. Will the election’s outcome diminish the hostility? What direction will the MSM take after the inauguration of a Republican president?

Historically, the hyperbole of the campaign faded rather quickly. With a new president, the hostile press has new and more entertaining targets to attack…legislation, policy changes. But, will that be the case in 2013?

Therein is the source of my concern. I fear the MSM will not accept a Romney victory and will offer coverage that will be a combination of its pre-election mantra and its vicious attacks of George Bush in the last years of his presidency. In short, the MSM’s collective ego will not be capable of accepting that the candidate they essentially created in 2008 and to whom they shamelessly provided cover…lost.

If my fears are proven correct, what are the implications? No one expects fair coverage of a Romney administration; that comes with the territory. But, what about the impact on the country? The scenario described in the previous paragraph, at best, will lead to continued polarization, and the hostile environment of the campaign lingers.

But, more troubling, what would be the cumulative impact on our nation of more months and years of class warfare rhetoric and divisive media coverage? How long would it take for before one group of Americans becomes convinced it is threatened by another group of Americans?

I believe all well-intentioned Americans should pray the MSM grasp the implications of irresponsible and potentially inciting language.

 

Rodney Page

Author, “Powers Not Delegated”…a conservative political thriller

…What Could Have Been and Might Still Be

Available November 2012

 

Source: http://www.powersnotdelegated.com

SCOTUS strikes down Stolen Valor Act

9:25 am in congressional medal of honor, Featured, Legislation, military honor, msnbc, municipal water district, pomona california, retired marine, speech source, spotlight, three valleys, united states armed forces, Verdict, xavier alvarez by PinkTeaPatriot

Michael Patrick McManus was arrested in Houston and charged with violating the Stolen Valor Act. (Credit: ABC News)

Michael Patrick McManus was arrested in Houston and charged with violating the Stolen Valor Act. (Credit: ABC News)

By: Tom Curry

The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a federal law called the Stolen Valor Act which prohibits a person from falsely claiming that he has been awarded a military honor.

The case involved Xavier Alvarez who was an elected member of the Three Valleys Municipal Water District Board in Pomona, California. In 2007 Alvarez said at a public water district board meeting that he was a retired Marine, had been “wounded many times,” and had been “awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor” in 1987.

In fact, he had never served in the United States armed forces.

He pleaded guilty to violating the Stolen Valor Act, but claimed that his false statements were protected by the First Amendment right of free speech.

Source/Read More: NBCPolitics.msnbc.msn.com

As Campaign Heats Up, Democrats Focus on Racism

10:03 am in al sharpton, border patrol agent, contempt charge, Eric Holder, excited utterance, marc morial, minority votes, msnbc, Nancy Pelosi, racism, unrelated case by PinkTeaPatriot

“I’m not saying that this is because Holder is black, and I’m not calling [Republicans] racists. I’m saying what they’re doing has a racial effect, and that’s what we’re going to talk about.”

By: Chris Stirewalt

Posted: June 26th, 2012

– MSNBC host and racial activist Al Sharpton in an interview with The Hill, previewing an event today in which black leaders will denounce the pending House resolution to find Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt for failing to turn over documents.

When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi last week said that a Republican desire to keep minorities from voting was the reason lawmakers were dogging Attorney General Eric Holder over secret documents related to the murder of a Border Patrol agent with weapons lost in a botched gunrunning sting, it was a bit puzzling.

The former speaker of the House is sometimes guilty of excited utterance, and certainly accusing one’s colleagues in Congress of trumping up a contempt charge in order to allow states to disenfranchise minority votes was a charge so monstrous that Power Play expected to see it walked back in subsequent days.

But it has not been walked back, and today it will be run forward by a trio of prominent Democrats: Al Sharpton, Ben Jealous, the head of the NAACP, and Marc Morial, the head of the Urban League.

While Sharpton is trying to say that the House Republicans are not intentionally violating the civil rights of black voters by ensnaring Holder in the unrelated case, Pelosi was very straightforward.

Read more: FoxNews.com

 

 

Desperately Seeking Eric Sevareid

9:07 am in american renaissance, Andrea Mitchell, campaign speech, eric sevareid, Featured, fellow travelers, flaming wreckage, good heavens, learning curve, msnbc, spotlight by Bill Colley

Eric Sevareid

Desperately Seeking Eric Sevareid

By: Bill Colley

MSDNC is again selectively editing news tape.  The latest offense follows a Mitt Romney campaign speech.  The web publication Politico has the full story:

MSNBC mischaracterizes Romney remarks

Politico is the organization 4 years ago gleefully in the tank for Barack Obama.  When its three top editors were repeatedly accused of bias (the mother of one member of the triumvirate among the accusers) they responded with an editorial.  “So what?” was the response as best as I can recall it 4 years later.  In other words they were proud of openly working for Obama.  So you can see if these people are alarmed by their co-religionists and fellow travelers at MSDNC then I’ll suggest a line has been crossed.  After gifting America the disaster known as “transformational change” a few in media are skulking away from the flaming wreckage.

They aren’t skulking at MSDNC.  Andrea Mitchell and Chris Cillizza giggle like schoolgirls after watching the doctored video.  Cillizza is employed mainly by the Washington Post.  Can we assume Pravda-on-the-Potomac also endorses the lie?  Friends, Election Day is still nearly 5 months away.  Can you imagine the destruction these people can visit on this republic before we arrive in November?  And if they gift another four more years of Obama do these people expect some sort of American renaissance?  Good heavens, they are as much a threat to our future as the current President.  They can’t be trusted; they should be shunned and even perhaps jailed for treason!

How steep is the learning curve at MSDNC and parent network NBC?  Nearly 20 years have passed since the parent organization attached explosives to a pickup truck in order to make the claim the truck was dangerous.  Now they’re trying to blow up another election before the people get an opportunity to make a decision clear of clutter.

Mitchell and Cillizza aren’t labeled as “Opinion” during the recent segment.  In the old days the cantankerous drunks offering us their own views were confined to the Op-Ed pages of newspapers.  When a Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley or Howard K. Smith offered their opinions the network news divisions clearly labeled the message as “Commentary” and it was set apart from the remainder of the broadcast.

I keep harboring an old belief members of these media organizations must be ashamed when caught red-handed.  You would think the opprobrium would modify behavior but it doesn’t.  The simple answer is because they believe they’re doing us a favor.  It’s the delusion of liberalism.  We can’t possibly know what’s best and they insist they must step in and save the day.  The result is blatant manufacturing of lies.  Perhaps there was a day when I would’ve accepted the argument but Eric Sevareid is long dead and I’m witness to his successors.  Luke Russert?  “Daddy died,” appears to be the only rationale for the boy’s gig at MSDNC.  Media is very much today hereditary nobility.

Look, I know a great many people at today’s TV news divisions both behind and in front of cameras.  Many of them are people I worked with while at local TV many years ago.  Some are very nice and many have no personal interests beyond the tips of their own noses.  Sevareid they aren’t.  They’re a microcosm of a civilized culture slowly fading and unraveling.  Romney certainly was forewarned.  If he can run the gauntlet I may finally have some appreciation for the man.

The Homeless, The Hungry, The Horror

12:15 am in business channel, compassion fatigue, fellow conspirators, foot in mouth, foot in mouth disease, Fox News, gruel, msnbc, residency requirements, usa today by Bill Colley

The Homeless, The Hungry, The Horror

By Bill Colley

America’s homeless are going to be stuffed into closets until after Election Day.  Some of you may have seen this link from USA Today:

Cities’ homeless crackdown: Could it be compassion fatigue?

MSNBC – Chuck Todd

The liberal-socialist establishments of the country’s largest cities don’t want the growing legions of homeless, hungry and jobless humiliating the President.  On Friday the Mad Hatter-in-Chief praised business and industry as healthy and now his fellow conspirators in media are also being pressed to paper over the damage.  Monday morning MSNBC’s Chuck Todd assured his minimalist audience it’s just part of the Dear Leader’s quick wit.  “An attempt to be upbeat,” is how the MSNBC lackey describes the President’s foot-in-mouth disease.

What’s clear is there are fears the growing army of homeless, hungry and hopeless pose a danger to civic order.  How do you nullify the threat?  Maybe you put them aboard trains and ship them to camps where they’ll be well cared for behind barbed wire.  Plenty of gruel and roofs over their heads and pipe in cable TV and you could describe it as a modern version of bread and circuses.  Will these people be allowed to vote?  They won’t likely meet residency requirements but if they’re happy with the channel selection then perhaps they’re a solid Obama voting block.  After all, elections are also entertainment.  Does this scenario appear far-fetched?  What do you think the government would do if thousands of people in our major cities started an orgy of desperate looting?  Where would you put the survivors of the shootout?

Friday I watched a man named Peter Schiff making an appearance on the Fox Business Network.  For the record the business channel isn’t Fox News and the business channel doesn’t have a large audience.  Schiff may as well have been talking to the walls considering the paltry few of us who stumbled across this:

Things are worse in the United States than in Europe.  It’s what the man said.  So far the closets and wallpaper have disguised the rot.  Monday morning as Europe teetered MSNBC’s Morning Joe frittered away the time with Tony Award winners.  What’s the percentage of Americans who’ve attended a Broadway musical (I have but only when these shows were touring)?  We’re dealing with the, “Then let them eat cake,” crowd (by the way, there is no evidence Marie Antoinette ever made such a statement).

This morning a serious investor I know reacted to a link I emailed his way:

 Can Germany come to the euro zone’s rescue?

My friend says in coming days some well-connected insiders are going to make a fortune.  Ultimately he predicts creation of a European state with strict controls and he says it sounds a lot like the totalitarian unit in the novel 1984.  How do you get Greeks, Italians and Spaniards to accept the new strictures?  Ask the American homeless!  Does anyone anymore believe any government can meet its obligations and promises?  Do you have faith in any political party or candidate?  The feeling is an unsettling one for anyone with a good head on his or her shoulders (which excludes any self-identified liberals).  The really sad thing is so many people are plainly in denial about reality and buy the simple slogans of politicians and mainstream media.  Maybe it’s because we’ve never given much thought to going it alone.  What would you do if faced with man-made horror?

Mainstream Media Losing Its Monopoly

3:53 pm in billionaires, Citizens United vs. FEC, election 2012, GOP super PACs, mainstream media, Mark Halperin, msnbc, Obama loss, Rachel Maddow, scott walker, supreme court, time magazine by mrcurmudgeon

Until last Tuesday, the president’s media personality cult felt certain that Obama’s re-election was in the bag. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s triumph over media and union forces received scant notice compared to manufactured exit polls claiming that Wisconsinites favored Obama over the GOP’s Mitt Romney by 51-44 percent. However, it is clear that Walker’s victory foreshadows major problems for the president, his party and big labor.

It turns out that 38 percent of Wisconsin’s private-sector union households voted in support of Walker. This caused some in the media to let go of their post-recall denial and face an uncomfortable truth, “Barack Obama faces a grim new reality: Republicans now believe Mitt Romney can win, and Democrats believe Obama can lose…” writes Time magazine’s Mark Halperin.

The New York Times’ Michael Shear observed, “Although Mr. Obama kept his distance from the state in the final weeks of the union-led recall effort, his party, his campaign team and his labor allies exerted an enormous joint effort there that proved to be mismatched for the organized and well-financed Republican apparatus.

“The corporate interests and billionaires who are pouring cash into Mr. Romney’s ‘super PACs’ gave millions to Mr. Walker. To combat those resources, Mr. Obama’s campaign, aided by union allies, constructed a turnout machine in Wisconsin that they said will be a model for other battleground states.”

Needless to say, Mr. Romney certainly hopes so.

If you are among the majority of Americans who welcomed the Walker victory and see a bright post-Obama future (sooner rather than later), you can thank the U.S. Supreme Court and its ruling in Citizens United vs. FEC. By declaring the suppression of political advertising by advocacy groups a violation of First Amendment free speech, the high court leveled the playing field in the marketplace of ideas.

However, President Obama didn’t quite see it that way. The president attacked the court in his 2010 State of the Union Address for opening “the floodgates for special interests … to spend without limit in our elections. Well, I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests …,” said the president.

What Obama meant, of course, is that he feared the information monopoly held by America’s most powerful interests – the mainstream media and Hollywood’s purveyors of popular culture – would be broken, giving outside forces (Tea Party, conservative and libertarian) an opportunity to present counter views – at least around election time.

The Tea Party midterm “shellacking” of 2010 proved Obama right. Gov. Scott Walker’s shellacking of the news media, Hollywood, union and Democratic Party axis served to underscore this seismic shift.

This shift becomes more remarkable when one stops to consider that the Progressive propaganda machine broadcasts its message through site and sound on a 24-hour basis. Conservative talk radio (and Fox News on occasion) provides temporary relief from the Progressive/leftist misinformation onslaught. Conservative leaning super PACs is an election season rapid-response rebuttal to the Progressive information monopoly.

American Progressivism is on the ropes and the welling fear of its proponents is palpable.

Last Tuesday evening, MSNBC’s perpetual smirk, Rachel Maddow, relayed to her scant viewership the hope that waiting for Wisconsin’s recall-election results would be a “possible all-nighter. Maybe even the Today Show, tomorrow morning, wouldn’t be able to help you out with the results.”

She composed herself and let the reality of the situation sink in, “Forty-nine minutes after the polls closed in Wisconsin, NBC News declared Scott Walker the projected winner in the Wisconsin governor recall. It did not even take an hour.”

In the end, a mountain of lies was reduced to a molehill by bold and truthful arguments. And, as the president will soon discover, the left has lost its treasured monopoly on the definition of truth.

Like Rachel Maddow, it should take President Obama less than an hour to figure that out.

President Obama, Citizen Julia and other Fictitiously Enlightened People.

2:03 pm in divorce records, Editorials, ennui, fluff, illinois senate, investigative reporting, minions, msnbc, presidential candidate obama, principal media, republican opponent, robert frost, roger kimball, The President, unpleasant consequences, unreality by danmillerinpanama

Reality can be unpleasant.
Unreality can bring temporary happiness.
Fluff masquerading as news can bring
longer lasting ennui.

If during the 2008 presidential campaign the media had “vetted” Candidate Obama even tepidly, they might have exposed realities that many would have found disturbing. That could have had unpleasant consequences for some and didn’t happen. Instead, we were treated to refreshing showers of warm fluff mixed with unreality sufficiently encouraging to cause us to hope that it was real. Perhaps Global Warming Smarming had something to do with it. Or maybe ideology prevailed. As Roger Kimball notes,

During the 2008 campaign, many of us asked the question: “Who is Barack Obama?” It wasn’t a question that Obama’s official PR firms—The New York Times, CNN, MSNBC, etc.–were interested in, no sirree, but it was a question that some of us pajamas-wearing-bitter-enders asked ourselves when we weren’t snake handling or nuzzling our firearms.

During Mr. Obama’s campaign for the Illinois Senate, his Republican opponent’s sealed divorce records were unsealed and resulted in the withdrawal of that opponent from the race; Mr. Obama won handily. Many records pertaining to Presidential Candidate Obama have also been sealed. Due to the persistent efforts of President Obama’s minions and to deficiencies in investigative reporting that are strangely absent when other candidates are vetted, most remain sealed and unavailable for review.

There cannot and will not be trust without verification and we are becoming a nation where trust is in short supply. Yet the forecast is for deluges of continued fluff mixed with unreality as the 2012 election nears. Hence, President Obama will probably remain a secret, like Robert Frost’s secret who sits in the middle and knows while we dance around in a ring and suppose. Unfortunately, the principal media seem not to have noticed that President sits in the middle or even that the circle of secrecy exists; fortunately, the principal media seem to be in a bit of a decline as the internet becomes more widely relied upon by those interested in learning about facts and diverse opinions; unfortunately, there are not enough of them.

So little time, so much to conceal.

Has any other president or candidate tried with such success to do that? It may be President Obama’s true signature accomplishment

Who is President Obama now and what does that augur for a second term? Is it racist to ask? Might answers damage him or even his sons who, he tells us, would look a lot like Trayvon? Who was Herman Cain and why wasn’t it racist to ask about him? Was his conservative stance too objectionable despite, or because of, his race? How about Congressman West? Is there fear that a reporter can be arrested, as a school teacher told a high school student in North Carolina that he could be, for disrespecting President Obama but not anyone who opposes or even questions him?

“let me tell you something, you will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom.” She yells over the student repeatedly, and yells at him that it’s disrespect for him to even debate about Romney and Obama.

Might that have been the case even before Candidate Obama became President Obama? It seems to have been. What about the Reverend Mr. Wrong Wright? I don’t know. Did he along with President Obama’s exotic heritage enhance Candidate Obama’s appeal? Do they still? Certainly nothing must be allowed to diminish his exotic aura even now.

If President Obama is reelected and has more flexibility, will he accelerate the pace at which he slouches leftward, as many on the right fear and for which many on the left, albeit less enthusiastically and with less confidence than in 2008, hope? My guess is that if he has another four years in office some even on the left may become slightly better educated and that the unpleasant truth will dawn that their own indoctrination education on his behalf is becoming too expensive even for them; probably not those already completely in thrall to the conviction that whatever they may desire should, and therefore must, be provided at no cost.

President Obama has invented many composite people; his New York girl friend for example, unnoticed by the principal media (and apparently by everyone else) until recently:

What stands out from the composite story isn’t that Obama amalgamated characters, it’s that the press hadn’t noticed until now. As with the dog story, this confirms the suspicion that the mainstream media gave Obama a free pass in 2008 and declined to check too deeply into his background. Even The Atlantic’s Graham admits that he’s never read Dreams From My Father, and neither, it would seem, has anyone else in the press corps.

Composite beings like his beloved Julia, who receive Federal assistance during every phase of their happily dependent existences (blessings be upon them), are useful because their admirers are unlikely to change their perceptions; fellow members of the Julia Fan Club might then shun them.

Probably not a member of the Julia Fan Club

President Obama is also a composite, but more sophisticated than dependent little Julia. He is our very own first Jewish President,


our very own first Hoodie President


and our very own first Gay President.


I nearly forgot to mention that he is also our very own first really green president. Not green in the sense of Kermit the Frog but in the sense of being grossly inexperienced (he was and remains so). He is also true blue green in the sense of subsidizing green energy, not green in the sense of leaving more green stuff in our pockets but in the sense of trying at great cost to reduce the use of abundant and economical energy sources that produce poisonous carbon dioxide. Pardon me; I need to relight my pipe.

For composite serfs like Julia, everything may continue to seem to be peaches and cream with another four years of President Obama and accelerating Federal engorgement. They can still hope that fluff, unreality and the ignorance they breed will continue to provide perpetual happiness at least until the horrors of a possible non-Obama presidency raise their ugly heads. How many votes does each composite voter deserves? Is merely one vote for each enough? How about several for each component of the composite so that we may atone affirmatively for the deprivations they or their kin may have suffered under prior administrations?

Media reports on the presidential candidates are generally proceeding apace. Here’s one news scenario.

Pic Of The Day: Seattle Reporter Mocks Mitt Romney By Arriving On Red Carpet In Dog Kennel Strapped To Top Of Car…

Unclear if she will attempt to mock Obama by feasting on a dog’s flesh.

 

First Dog Bo should be worried; so should the rest of us for different reasons. If the “news” focus continues to be on who may long ago have been inadequately appreciative of the welfare of pups, who may in the even more distant past have “bullied” whom and how nicely the First Lady’s vegetable garden grows instead of on who really is the guy we call President Obama and what that means for us, we had better plant our very own survival gardens.

First published at Dan Miller’s Blog.

Michael Eric Dyson Calls Out Religious ‘Bigots’: Don’t Be ‘Sexual Rednecks’

12:39 am in Ed Shultz, marriage equality, michael eric dyson, msnbc, pastor jamal bryant, racism, religious bigots, religious stance, roland martin, savali, The President by PinkTeaPatriot

Source: NewsOne.com

By: Kirsten West Savali

Posted: May 12th, 2012

Calling out author Sophia A. Nelson, Roland Martin and Pastor Jamal Bryant, who in an exclusive for Newsone said that he felt “jilted” by President Barack Obama‘s decision to show his support for marriage equality, Professor Michael Eric Dyson, filling in for host Ed Shultz on MSNBC’s “The Ed Show,” said that religion often cloaks bigotry and was the equivalent of being a “sexual redneck.” In the wake of his provocative appearance, we find out that “Twitter beef” isn’t just for kids as Dyson and Nelson get swept away in the phenomenon over Nelson’s religious stance on marriage equality.

Dyson, as he predicted in his Twitter timeline yesterday, went ”HARD on black homophobia and the moral hypocrisy of the black church.” Calling Nelson, Martin and Bryant out by name, he said, “Come on, Sophia, Roland and Jamal, don’t use God to co-sign your bigotry.” He then exposes the hypocrisy of the Black church at large by saying, ” I ain’t never been to a Black church that turns down a gay tithe.”

You have to see it to believe it:

Read More: NewsOne.com

Gabrielle Giffords AZ Seat up for Grabs

10:44 pm in AZ News, Breaking News, congressional race, congresswoman, eighth congressional district, Elections, grabs, msnbc, news world, republican candidate by PinkTeaPatriot

Arizona’s Eighth Congressional district’s special primary race taking place. Tuesday’s primary is to determine who the Republican candidate will be for the final congressional race in June to fill the seat formerly served by Congresswoman Gabielle Giffords

Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

First Thoughts: Romney’s immigration challenge

1:20 pm in AZ News, beth myers, Elections, franklin institute in philadelphia, governor of massachusetts, immigration law, kansas secretary of state, market manipulation, meg whitman, msnbc, republican presidential candidate, tim shaffer by PinkTeaPatriot

Source: FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com

By: By NBC’s Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Brooke Brower

Posted: April 17th, 2012

Romney’s immigration challenge… What Beth Myers heading up Romney’s VP search means…. Three very different polls in the Obama-Romney race… Romney to Obama: “Start packing”… Buffett Rule, as expected, goes down to defeat… Obama to make statement about market manipulation of oil prices at 11:10 am ET… Lugar mailer hits Mourdock… And GOP primary for Giffords’ seat in AZ takes place today.

Tim Shaffer / Reuters Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney speaks during the Independence Hall Tea Party Association's Tax Day Tea Summit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 16, 2012.

*** Romney’s immigration challenge: Lost in the other statements Romney made at that Sunday fundraiser in Florida was his admission that he needs to move to the center to win over Latinos. “We have to get Hispanic voters to vote for our party,” Romney said, observing that polls show Latinos breaking in huge percentages for President Obama “spells doom for us.” Romney even said the GOP should offer something like a “Republican DREAM Act” to help woo Latinos. But there’s a challenge here for Romney, and it’s the same one Meg Whitman faced in 2010: How do you move back to center on immigration after running so hard to the right during the primary? Indeed, unlike other issues where he simply adopted conservative/Tea Party rhetoric (on health care, taxes, the deficit), Romney often used immigration as a weapon, particularly against Rick Perry. In addition, Romney said he would veto the DREAM Act, called Arizona’s immigration law “a model”, and proudly accepted the endorsement of the man considered the architect of that Arizona law, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach.

*** Is fixing his female problem easier than his Latino problem? Romney has the potential to fix his problem with female voters; after all, it’s not really his problem but rather the GOP’s. And he does have a story to tell here (wife Ann, the women he appointed in Massachusetts). But when it comes to immigration, this is an issue where he’s been consistent over the past five years as a way to prove his conservative bona fides (first against McCain, then against Perry and Gingrich).

Read More: FirstRead.msnbc.msn.com

Leaked Olbermann-Gore Email Exchange

1:29 pm in email exchange, golden scepter, joel hyatt, Martin Luther King Jr., msnbc, Olbermann-Gore Email, samuel clemens by TPTsubmissions

Dan Rather must be working at The Daily Caller now. Leaked emails from the conflict that led to Keith Olbermann getting the boot from Al Gore’s lowly Current TV have his fake but accurate fingerprints all over them. A sample email, from Queef to the Goracle:

Dear Albert,

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”

Those words come from Samuel Clemens, perhaps better known to you as literary colossus Mark Twain.

I need not tell you, Al, that I am that scarce man who refuses to remain silent when he sees injustice, that patriot who stands tall and strong and brave, even when hated and scorned. And I do see injustice — even here at Current TV.

I tried to remedy my current morass without coming to you, Al, but with no remedy forthcoming, I feel compelled to bring to your attention my roadblock, which you shall note is something far more severe than a mere speed bump.

In the new studio for my show, I find no golden scepter despite my explicit request to Joel Hyatt for one. This will be an indispensable part of my new show and I see no reason why I have to justify its expense.

Also, the Current proletariat seem to have no inhibitions about walking up to me and freely engaging me in conversation, as if I have time for their verbal meanderings. For all their faults, my employers at MSNBC made it explicitly clear that if someone wanted to communicate with me, they could do so — but only through letters written in calligraphy that were deposited in a receptacle outside my office between 2:30 a.m. and 3:00 a.m.

Why has this same policy not yet been communicated at Current?

In a letter written in his jail cell in Birmingham, Alabama at a time of great tumult, Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote prophetically: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

Will you fix my injustices, Al?

Yours Truly,

Keith Theodore Olbermann
Cornell University, Class of 1979

p.s. We also have to replace stinky my car driver — pronto!!!

Some may doubt the authenticity of this email. But it’s at least as believable as a certain birth certificate.

Source: Moon Battery.com

Obama Pastor Wright Attacks Justice Thomas, Tea Party

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Rev. Jeremiah Wright

Source: NewsMax.com

By: Martin Gould

Posted: April 9th, 2012

President Barack Obama’s former preacher, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, targeted Southern Baptists, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, the tea party and Theodore Roosevelt during a three-day revival meeting in West Virginia.

He even attacked founding father Thomas Jefferson as “a pedophile” during his sermons at the Metropolitan Baptist Church in Charleston, W.Va.

And picking up on comments that he is a “divisive” figure, Wright insisted it’s the media, not him, that is responsible for divisions in the country.

“CBS, ABC, MSNBC and Fox News spent $4,000 each buying 20 years of my sermons so they could hear what Barack Obama had heard for 20 years,” he said in seven minutes of his sermons spliced together and posted on Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze.

“Then they took an 8-year-old sermon and a 5-year-old sermon and took two clauses out of context to try to scare white voters away from Barack Obama. I ain’t dividing, they dividing.”

Wright became a controversial figure during the 2008 election as Obama’s pastor. His statements that the 9/11 attacks were “chickens coming home to roost,” and that the saying should not be “God Bless America but God Damn America” led to Obama quitting his church in the run-up to the election.

The 70-year-old preacher showed he had lost none of his talent for controversy during his West Virginia sermons, The Blaze reported. “Let me tell you who’s going to get into heaven, Santorum,” he said referring to Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

Al Sharpton: Appointed To Keep Black Voters Angry and Ill-informed.

11:14 am in barabbas, despicable man, extreme anger, inspiring story, life of jesus, mainstream media, msnbc, national career, racial slurs, tawana brawley hoax, The Tea Party, Views by Lloyd Marcus

The Rev. Al Sharpton was known for his activist, racially polarizing views. Recently, he has become a key ally for President Obama, pictured in an Oval Office meeting last year.

Al Sharpton: Appointed To Keep Black Voters Angry and Ill-informed.

Written by: Lloyd Marcus

You can imagine the justifiable extreme anger and outrage of black America in1987. Six white men including police officers and a New York prosecutor kidnapped, raped and smeared feces over the body of a fifteen year old black girl. Tawana Brawley was found unconscious and unresponsive lying in a garbage bag, her clothes torn and burned. In the emergency room, racial slurs and epithets were discovered written on Brawley’s torso with charcoal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley_rape_allegations

Al Sharpton, eager to launch his national career, ran to the microphones and cameras as Tawana Brawley’s adviser. The problem was, it was all a hoax.

Fearful of getting into trouble for staying away from home for four days, Brawley made up the whole horrific racial-hate-inspiring story. After hearing the evidence, or lack of, a grand jury concluded Brawley was lying.

The New York prosecutor whom Brawley accused of being one of her rapists sued Brawley and Sharpton for defamation and won. And yet, Sharpton still says the Brawley incident happened.

The Tawana Brawley Hoax confirms that truth and fair play are irrelevant in Sharpton’s continuing quest to stir the pot-of-racial-hate to bludgeon white America and instill anger in black America for political gain. Sickeningly evil.

I remember Anthony Quinn as Barabbas in the biblical movie, “Barabbas”. Barabbas was a criminal sentenced to death. For Passover, the governor could commute the death sentence of a prisoner selected by popular demand. The multitude could save the life of Jesus or Barabbas. They yelled, “Give us Barabbas”. Barabbas was freed. Jesus was crucified.

Arrogantly usurping authority to speak on behalf of black America, the left has yelled, Give us Al Sharpton! Why has MSNBC, the mainstream media and president Obama appointed this despicable man spokesperson for black America? There are numerous honorable blacks in the national arena.

Sharpton was selected by the left as black America’s mouthpiece because his political agenda is in solidarity with their hate America Progressive movement. They are committed to government controlling our behavior and every aspect of life in America. Loyalty to their cause trumps race and even the faith of those who claim to be Christians. How else can you explain Sharpton demanding the removal of a billboard in the black community which exposed the genocide of blacks via abortion?

Rev. Al Sharpton has turned his back on the Bible’s anti-abortion teachings while supporting Planned Parenthood founder’s vow to exterminate blacks; in loyalty to the left’s progressive agenda. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_MijL7q9eo&feature=player_embedded#!

The left appointing Sharpton a spokesperson for black America is a perfect example of their moral bankruptcy and willingness to employ the devil to further their agenda. Sharpton still stands behind Tawana Brawley’s absurd over-the-top evil lie that six white men including police and a New York prosecutor raped her. In a decent world, Sharpton would be disqualified for the role of national spokesperson of anything. And yet, the left has crowned Sharpton chief of black America.

As an American who happens to be black, I am outraged. The left’s selection of Sharpton as our spokesperson confirms their low opinion of black America; our sense of morality, honor and decency. The left, (democrats, mainstream media and Obama) continue to tell black America, by their actions, how little they think of us. They ignore or demonize highly successful, articulate America loving black conservatives, while elevating lying America hating race-baiters.

In 2010, President Obama asked Sharpton to be his ambassador to the black community. Obama instructed Sharpton to tell black leaders to chill-out and stop saying his economic policy failed to help black communities hit hard by the downturn. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704588404575123404191464126.html

The foundation of democrat politics is dealing with Americans as monolithic voting blocs. I take offense with Obama acting as if black America were a huge tribe, taking marching orders from Chief Sharpton. I am an American who happens to be black. I think for myself.

Obama and his buddies on the left promote “group think”. Their tactic for winning elections is to divide Americans into groups or voting blocs. Then they convince each group; women, minorities, gays, the poor, and etc that they are being victimized by evil republicans. Vote for us and we’ll keep the evil republicans at bay!

Case in point: The democrat’s latest lie claims republicans have launched a “War on Women”. The truth is Obama, against the Constitution, is trying to force churches and taxpayers to fund abortion against their religious faith. America said, H– no! Democrats are trying to spin America’s rebuke of Obama’s overreach of authority by saying republicans wish to ban contraception. This is a lie. Republicans do not wish to ban birth control in any way.

Note the tried and true democrat trick. They lie to rally women by claiming republicans hate them. Then democrats say vote for us to protect you.

Sharpton was appointed to lie to blacks, keep them fired up hating republicans, the rich, conservatives and the tea party. The left says “conservative” is code for racist whites. Such rhetoric promotes racial hatred.

A prolific liar, Sharpton attempts to rally black America – republicans are hogging it all and dissing the first black president. Keep in mind, Sharpton still claims six white men including police officers and a New York prosecutor kidnapped, raped and smeared feces over the body of a fifteen year old black girl.

Good Lord, Black America, is this the man you want representing you? Al Sharpton does not speak for me!

Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American

Chairman – www.CampaignToDefeatObama.com

www.LloydMarcus.com

Court signals entire health care law might need to be struck down

6:02 pm in Breaking News, constitutionality, health-care law, Issues, Legislation, msnbc, national affairs writer, oral argument, tom curry by PinkTeaPatriot

Source:Social.PatriotActionNetwork.com

By: By Tom Curry, msnbc.com National Affairs Writer

Posted: March 28th, 2012

In the Supreme Court’s final day of arguments on the constitutionality of the 2010 health care law, the justices wrestled Wednesday with what happens to the law if they strike down the provision that requires the uninsured to buy insurance.

“I think a majority of the court believes that if it rules that individual mandate is unconstitutional, then the rest of the health care law probably cannot be saved,” reported NBC’s Pete Williams after hearing the 90 minutes of oral argument.

Source:Social.PatriotActionNetwork.com