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Category: Media

  • Wallace; Obama Administration “childish and petty”

    You might have heard that President Obama is going on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Univision morning shows tomorrow and he’s skipping Fox News Sunday. Chris Wallace explains why he thinks the Obama Administration is avoiding the biggest and fastest growing cable news network;

    Just like Chavez wouldn’t go on Globovision.

    With nearly half of the country voting against him, you’d think Obama would want to reach out to those who don’t agree with him, rather than preaching to the choir. I guess that reaching across the aisle shit only gets mentioned before the election.

  • Racial undertones?

    CNN is trying to make the very blunt point that the HUGE protest yesterday and Joe Wilson’s outburst last week has racial undertones. Both of these doofuses make it “clear” that for “not everybody…some of them…but, a lot of them…” have racial undertones in their opposition to Obama. The CNN doofus even asks if we’re just ignorant (in nicer terms).

    Apparently Wilson only lost control because President Obama is not a white man. But I wonder why Congress booed President Bush during his 2005 State of the Union Address.

    I’m not sure I like being pigeon-holed.

    Taken on a cue from DaleyGator and Gateway Pundit.

  • Post predicts nutballs at today’s rally

    Yeah, the Washington Post finally noticed the thousands of folks decending on Washington today.

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    So I suppose the Post will be searching for the one swastika sign that slips through. The emailed instructions I got told me not to bring any Nazi imagery. That’ll probably break the Post’s tiny, shrivelled heart.

    From what I’ve seen so far, these folks all had their inspiration from the Gathering of Eagles rally which came to town in 2007 to protect the Vietnam Wall from vandalism.

    Well, I’m headed out for the rally – if you’re there, you’ll see me tooling around on my bicycle so I can be every where at once. I’ll also have my laptop with me, so stay tuned for video and pictures straight from the rally. See ya there!

  • ACORN’s pimp tax advisors fired

    You’ve probably already seen the videos on BigGovernment.com of the Baltimore ACORN workers who gave tax advice to two folks who they they thought were a pimp and a prostitute and future slave traders.

    Well, ACORN announced that they fired those two workers today according to Fox News.

    The community organizing group ACORN has fired two employees at its Baltimore office who were seen on hidden-camera video giving advice to a man posing as a pimp and a woman pretending to be a prostitute, as some legal experts raise questions over whether the employees broke the law.

    So I guess the problem is solved. Those were the only two workers out of the thousands of ACORN-affiliated workers who were giving tax advice like “don’t file, then”, promoting the importation of under-aged sex slaves and suggesting the pimp claim some of them as dependents.

    Wonder when the story will show up in the New York Times or Washington Post.

    ADDED: Oh, look…AP finally noticed.

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  • BBC Podcast

    Here’s the Podcast of the debate Uncle Jimbo and I had with some fellows from across the pond. Podcast We come in about 25 minutes into the broadcast.

    I’ll have you know I wasted the whole morning reading Kipling aloud to work on my accent.

    I guess what really made me angry was when Jimbo made the point that AP had proven themselves a dishonest broker in the information business when they released the picture of LCPL Joshua Bernard against his family’s wishes. The interviewer declared Jimbo’s point moot by proclaiming that they’d already talked about that on Monday. WTF?

    And one of the bangers and mash aficionados said that Farrell didn’t expect to be rescued so that somehow made him better than the military who hadn’t bothered to tell leaky-ass New York Times they were going to rescue him. Another WTF?

    But I had a good time – I’m glad Jimbo was there and we sure could have used Alex in there, too. Thanks for listening. Now back to the paying job.

  • TAH on the airwaves

    I got a call this morning from the BBC asking for an interview on the New York Times journalist who was rescued by British commandos this morning. So if you’re listening to their World Have Your Say radio program at about 1:30 Eastern Time, I’ll be locked in a debate with a chap from The Guardian on the subject Should soldiers risk their lives for journalists?

    Guess which side I’m on.

    Added: I guess Uncle Jimbo will be on the program, too. Listen here live at about 1:30 Eastern.

  • New York Times reporter rescued

    There is news this morning that New York Times reporter, Stephen Farrell, a British-Irish citizen has been rescued by British troops. From the New York Times;

    Armed gunmen seized Mr. Farrell and his interpreter, Sultan Munadi, four days ago while they were working in a village south of Kunduz.

    An Afghan journalist who spoke to villagers in the area said that civilians were also killed in the firefight to free the journalists. That report could not be independently verified, and details of the operation itself were sketchy.

    A British commando was killed in the raid, The Associated Press quoted a military official as saying.

    Apparently the pair had gone to investigate an incident in which German troops called for a US airstrike on two fuel tankers which resulted in 70 Afghan deaths (AP Link);

    Police warned reporters who had traveled to the capital of Kunduz to cover the tanker airstrike that the village in question was controlled by the Taliban and it would be dangerous to go there.

    According to the BBC, this isn’t the first time Ferrell has been snatched by terrorists;

    In April 2004, while on assignment for the London Times newspaper, he was kidnapped along with a colleague while covering the siege of Falluja, in Iraq. The pair were released the same day.

    It’s a cryin’ ass shame that brave soldiers have to lose their lives for careless journalists who can’t heed warnings.

  • England; “We did what we was told to do”

    Just A Grunt sent us a link to this video of an interview BBC did with Lynndie England.

    Clearly, the only remorse she has is that she was caught and has become a national pariah. England blames her behavior on her boyfriend, Charles Graner, and her schoolgirl crush on him. She says she did the things she did to please him and keep him. She says Graner would say “If you love me, you’ll do this”. I guess, not once, did it run through her mind that maybe she didn’t want a long term relationship with a pervert;

    I guess the most disgusting part of the interview is when the interviewer asks England why she’s smiling in one of the pictures and England tries to explain that she’s not really smiling – just keeping the cigarette smoke out of her eyes (at about 4:20). The whole interview is just like that moment – she explains why what we see in the photos isn’t what’s there in front of our lyin’ eyes.

    It’s a blessing for the rest of us that she doesn’t like to go out in public. The interviewer says she’s “one of the most notorious women in America”. England laments that she’s considered a “villain, a monster because I appeared in a photo for a split second in time”. She depends on manipulating the press to rehabilitate her image (ala Squeaky Fromme) and although BBC does seem to hold her feet to the fire in this interview, they can’t hide their sympathy for her.