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Category: Media

  • Ted Kennedy dead at 77

    Mary Jo Kopechne is still dead eight days short of her 29th birthday.

    I was taught to not speak ill of the dead, so…..

    Why, nine hours after his death is CNN is still running the “BREAKING” headline?

  • WaPo ignores real news

    Washington Post‘s Michael D. Shear and Anne E. Kornblut wrote this wonderful article about the joyful time President Obama had in Montana today. Apparently, the townhall meeting that they saw was all candy and rainbows for the President.

    The recounted all of the questions the President was asked. Well, they missed reporting on one – one that was pretty important. I watched the townhall meeting and wondered where was the guy who asked Obama how he planned to pay for all of this happy-joy healthcare stuff without raising our taxes. I had to go to Fox News to find a report about that;

    President Obama on Friday finally had to face a challenge at a town-hall-style meeting about the bottom line of his health care plan.

    A Montana man asserted that Obama would have to raise Americans’ taxes to pay for his plan to overhaul the health care system.

    I also remember the deer-in-the-headlights look Obama had when the man asked the question. In response, Obama made up some shit about cutting subsidies to the insurance industry to pay for our health care.

    Now granted, I’ve seen some news outlets ignore civility at the townhall meetings and only discuss the dramatic outbursts. I guess Washington Post decided that they’d just skip over Obama finally getting a tough question.

  • Scott’s office vandalized

    I linked to this video Sunday wherein Congressman David Scott melted down because he didn’t believe there were any white doctors in his district;

    The local news reports this morning that someone spray painted a swastika on a sign in front of his office;

    Employees discovered a Swastika allegedly spray-painted on a sign by vandals at Rep. Scott’s office in Smyrna.

    The motivation of the vandals is still under investigation.

    He claims there’s some hate mail involved, too;

    Scott held up a sheet of paper to Watson that had a picture of President Obama on it, his face made to look like the joker in Batman, a swastika on his forehead. Then he read what it said.

    “They address it to n—– David Scott, ‘You were, you are, and you shall forever be, a n—–‘,” Scott said, reading from the letter. “I got this in the mail today. Somewhere underneath this, bubbling up, is the ugly viscissitudes of racism.

    Yeah, so we’re all racists because ONE racist sent him some mail and possible ONE OTHER person painted a swastika on his sign. That’s the simple answer.

    David Scott was on Fox News this morning. He claims that the video from channel 11 was re-edited somehow. “Judge me right”. Since the video wasn’t a news camera, it isn’t true;Because the news isn’t coming from the media, somehow we can’t trust our lyin’ eyes.

    Photo of the sign below the fold thanks to CRaisi;
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  • Uncle Jimbo goes to the source

    There was a lot of chatter yesterday about a Wall Street Journal article that quoted General McChrystal as saying that the “Taliban Now Winning“

    Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive didn’t believe it and went to the Army for the answer. The results of his diligence is at the link.

  • Ackerman; Too bad Agosto wasn’t a birther

    Spencer Ackerman, who has been fired from nearly every Leftist rag on the East Coast, takes up for Victor Agosto at his latest employment venture, the Washington Independent;

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    Ackerman probably doesn’t understand the difference between a Reserve Officer who volunteered for duty, then changed his mind and a Regular Army soldier who was ordered and then refused to report for duty. Of course Ackerman sees political expediency as the reason that Cook didn’t go to jail and ignores the rules that govern personnel issues of military members.

    Yeah, Ackerman put a partial explanation in parenthesis, but it’s all secondary to the point he wanted to make that birthers get a pass with Obama administration pulling strings to hide their boss’ deep dark secret.

    That’s probably why Ackerman can’t keep a job.

  • Agosto is just like Ali – only completely different

    I know it’s rough for a journalist to write something that everyone else has written about and give it a new twist – I try to do that every day here – but this is just poor research. Todd Wright at the NBC bureau in Miami wrote this yesterday; Miami Soldier Headed to Jail for Ali Stance;

    Spc. Victor Agosto might not be the greatest but he appears to have the same views as Muhammad Ali when it comes to war. And now he will serve jail time just like the former heavyweight champ.

    That was his whole point – Agosto is like Muhammed Ali. Yeah, well that’s not exactly true – in fact it’s not even broadly true. For starters, Agosto isn’t a famous 6’3″ black boxer.

    Muhammad Ali was sentenced to five years in prison, but he never served a day. On the other hand, Victor Agosto will do his whole thirty days in prison. Muhammad Ali didn’t refuse to go to war – he refused to be drafted. He probably would not have gone to Vietnam if he’d joined because of his fame and ability to draw a crowd. He would have been more valuable as a recruiting tool than a fighting soldier in the jungle.

    Muhammad Ali declared himself a conscientious objector, Victor Agosto has declared that he’s NOT a conscientious objector. Muhammad Ali refused the draft because of his religious beliefs, Victor Agosto refused to be sent to war because he thinks somehow the war in Afghanistan is illegal.

    So how is Victor Agosto like Muhammed Ali? Well, they both went to court once – so he’s just exactly like Muhammed Ali – only completely different.

    Below the fold is a screenshot of the article in case it gets yanked.
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  • How’s the economy doin’?

    You tell me;

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    Or;

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  • Beer Summit; flat, flavorless

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    So there ya go – that’s the extent of our Big Discussion On Race. The media was held at bay forty feet from the four guys at a table with some pale-looking beverage. More feel good window-dressing. What did it cure? What discussion have we had as a result?

    The Washington Post reports that there was no tension at the meeting, but there were no apologies either;

    After the meeting, Crowley and a lawyer speaking for Gates said the two men were satisfied with the tone of the discussion. Speaking to reporters at a brief news conference, Crowley said that while there was “no tension” at the meeting, no apologies were offered either. “Two gentlemen agreed to disagree on a particular issue,” he said.

    “Agreed to disagree”. About what? Either a cop arrested a Black man for being Black, or a professor was race baiting officers. There’s no middle ground there. None. Did the media gather around because they thought someone would start tossing chairs? Or were they all there to take totally useless pictures of a non-event.

    Another Washington Post article announces that Obama’s injecting himself into the whole incident has hurt him;

    The percentage of whites who “like” the kind of person he is fell by six points.

    In a callback survey Monday evening, more than twice as many whites disapproved than approved of how Obama was dealing with the matter (45 percent disapproved, 22 approved and 33 percent said they did not know).

    It should – just like all of the other stuff he comments on, he is woefully uninformed yet shoots off his mouth anyway. Iran, Honduras, Venezuela, Iraq, healthcare, the economy – he just says stuff thinking every one will agree with him no matter how stupid he sounds.

    Oh, and bringing Joe Biden was a wonderful idea. What could his pale ass contribute to…well…anything.
    Really boring video below the fold;
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