Even a broken clock is right twice a day…

…and on occasion so is uber-leftie Bill Maher.

However, that prompted Maher to say the media are anti-Israel, pro-Palestine. And he offered a reason why. “I think most of them do because I think the media, to take up your point, mostly – is way too stupid to understand the issues,” Maher said. “So what they do is they go toward, ‘Oh, who’s a victim?’ And yes, their situation in Gaza is tragic. But partly it is tragic of their own making.”

 

Is Obama black enough?

I thought when we elected a black president, we were going to get a black president. You know, this [BP oil spill] is where I want a real black president. I want him in a meeting with the BP CEOs, you know, where he lifts up his shirt where you can see the gun in his pants. That’s — (in black man voice) we’ve got a ‘motherfu**ing problem here?’ Shoot somebody in the foot.”

And just when did Bill Maher join the Tea Party

My affair with Nikki Haley

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Yes, it is true.  I had a torrid love affair with South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley.

My evidence?  Well, I lived in South Carolina at one time.  And I’m a blogger.  And during my recent trip home I was invited to visit the Statehouse grounds to witness Sarah Palin’s endorsement of Ms. Haley (although due to jetlag I didn’t attend).  In fact, since Nikki Haley is not an insomniac, I can irrefutably assert that while I was in the Palmetto state, Nikki and I definitely slept together.

So, I would say my proof is at least as strong as the claims made by “douche bag” Will Folks.  Who, based on this account, is nothing but a man-slut anyway.

A logical inference?

Two news items caught my eye this morning:

The new poll finds 61 percent of voters nationally think Arizona was right to take action instead of waiting for the federal government to do something on immigration. That’s more than twice as many as the 27 percent who think securing the border is a federal responsibility and Arizona should have waited for Washington to act. 

And:

Only 39% of voters said they would vote to re-elect Pres. Obama if the election were held today, while 50% say they would vote for someone else. A quarter of voters would definitely vote to re-elect Obama, while 37% would definitely vote for someone else. 

Not saying there is correlation between the items, but folks are beginning to notice…

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via: PowerLine

Bizzaro world

Well, it seems I woke up today in an alternative universe.  Specifically, Bizzaro World.

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You see, on Bizzaro world everything is basically the opposite of what it would be on a normal, rational planet.

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I guess you get the idea.  Now, how did I figure out I’d somehow been transported through some kind of time-space continuum to wake up on this bizarre planet?  Here’s some evidence:

In California, a group of high school students were sent home under threat of discipline for the crime of wearing t-shirts depicting, wait for it, the American flag!  I know it is shameful behavior for these kids to wear such a hateful symbol in a public school.  But it gets worse!  They had the audacity to wear the flag on Cinco de Mayo!  Of course, the Chicano students were wearing their Mexican flags but the in your face intrusion of Old Glory was so culturally insensitive.  Hard to believe this outrage happened in the good ol’ USA.

Meanwhile, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the specter of racial segregation in a public school raised it’s ugly head.  It seems a group of white children went on a field trip and the black kids were not allowed to participate.  Or something like that.  I’m colorblind, so maybe I got it backwards.  But still.

Of course, we are all happy that the would-be Times Square bomber was captured.  In an odd twist, it turns out he was an Islamic fanatic from Pakistan.  Because as we all must surely know by now, it is Tea Party adherents who pose the real threat of terrorism.

Speaking of terrorism, there has been some concern that maybe the boys from TSA let their guard down.  But no worries, our airport security is the capable hands of true professionals like these.  They have a BIG job to do, so let’s not be DICKS about it, ok?

Hmm, I do so miss planet Earth.

Double standards

In the news today a couple of more examples of the double standards of the media I’ve been talking a lot about.

I mentioned in a recent post that it was odd that critics found fault with the Tea Party because it allegedly consists primarily of angry white men while the President got a pass for saying “It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.” I was taken to task by a commenter for playing the race card myself.  But what I was trying to point out is that the left sees a racial motive for any dissent to Obama’s policies, while liberals are given a free hand to play racial politics without criticism.  I find this hypocrisy disgusting.

Now comes this opinion piece in the Washington Examiner noting the same thing:

Two front-page lead headlines appeared in Washington newspapers this week bearing on race and politics. One passed without notice, the other inspired a minor outpouring of the usual overheated commentary that is typically aimed at journalistic critics of political correctness. The unnoticed headline appeared in Express, the commuter tabloid published by the Washington Post. It said civil rights leaders wonder if Arizona’s new law aimed at stopping the flood of illegal immigration into the state is “borderline racist?” The other headline appeared in the Washington Examiner atop a story reporting President Obama’s partisan appeal to the groups that “powered” his 2008 presidential victory, namely “young people, African-Americans, Latinos and women” for their support in the 2010 elections. The Examiner head said “Obama disses white guys.”

The reaction to “Borderline racist?” was silence. The reaction to “Obama disses white guys” was typified by the hyperventilating Keith Olbermann of MSNBC, who called the Examiner “reactionary,” then nodded in agreement as his guest, “political analyst” Richard Wolffe described our headline as “a sad and pathetic attempt to distort, with this toxic mix of malice and ignorance.” Strangely, Olbermann didn’t bother to tell his audience that Wolffe, a former Newsweek reporter, is now Obama’s pet propagandist and is granted exclusive access as he writes adulatory campaign tracts like his recently published “Renegade: The making of a president.”

Which headline was more accurate? Express insinuated racist motives for Arizona officials because they approved a law that directs local police to do something that is already legal, which is to stop somebody on reasonable suspicion that they may have broken a law. Whether the law is racist is a matter of hotly contested debate, yet the Express headline can be read as declaring it definitely so. By contrast, the Examiner headline simply stated a truth made clear by the 2008 election returns. Exit polls show that about 47 percent, or 32 million of Obama’s 69 million votes for president were cast by men, 18 million of whom were white males. Thus, about one fourth of Obama’s total vote came from white males. Yet in seeking to re-energize for the 2010 campaign the voters who “powered” his 2008 victory, Obama ignored this constituency. Does Obama consider white men a drag on his coalition, or has he given up on them because of their declining support for his policies in opinion polls? Either way, “disses” is exactly the right term to describe it. The double standard is clear: Those on the left who routinely describe voters primarily by their racial and ethnic identities have no problem when their favored candidates do so. But they get bent out of shape whenever someone else reports the rest of the story.

The other example is the media’s portrayal of Tea Party participants as potentially dangerous anti-government terrorists encouraging violence against political opponents.  Of course, not one example of actual violence has been offered up in this demonization campaign.  Now, when might we expect the headlines and hand wringing over stuff like this:

Three people were attacked and at least two others were arrested. The people assaulted were part of the Minutemen demonstration, a group in favor of Arizona’s new immigration law.

They said a large group of immigrants’ rights supporters followed them to the BART station on Market Street and started punching and kicking them, and calling them names.

“They said we were racists, and we were against them, and against their town, and against San Francisco,” said Parker Wilson with the Bay Area National Anarchists. “What they were saying, they said we need to get out and called us racists, and that we need to go home. And then they just attacked my friends and me.”

I rail against the double standard because it is dangerous to ignore what is happening here.  It is a blatant attempt to stifle legitimate dissent  and debate.

How could this be?

This can’t be right, can it?  I mean, that would mean everything the Dems said about Obamacare was a lie.

Say it ain’t so, O.

President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law will increase the nation’s health care tab instead of bringing costs down, government economic forecasters concluded Thursday in a sobering assessment of the sweeping legislation.

And there is also this:

In particular, concerns about Medicare could become a major political liability in the midterm elections. The report projected that Medicare cuts could drive about 15 percent of hospitals and other institutional providers into the red, “possibly jeopardizing access” to care for seniors.

Hmm, “jeopardizing access” = rationing = death panels.

Someone owes Sarah Palin an apology.

Party On!

I guess this goes in the category of a broken clock being right twice a day.  CNN offers a first hand account of a reporter embedded with The Tea Party Express.   

When it comes to the Tea Party movement, the stereotypes don’t tell the whole story.

Here’s what you often see in the coverage of Tea Party rallies: offensive posters blasting President Obama and Democratic leaders; racist rhetoric spewed from what seems to be a largely white, male audience; and angry protesters rallying around the Constitution.

But here’s what you don’t often see in the coverage of Tea Party rallies: Patriotic signs professing a love for country; mothers and fathers with their children; African-Americans proudly participating; and senior citizens bopping to a hip-hop rapper.

Last week, I saw all of this during a five-city Western swing as the Tea Party Express national tour made its way across the country. CNN was along for the ride, and I was charged with planning CNN’s coverage for five stops in two states: St. George, Provo and Salt Lake City, Utah; and Grand Junction and Denver, Colorado.

Together, we beamed out images of the anger and the optimism, profiled African-Americans who are proud to be in the Tea Party’s minority and showed activists stirred by “God Bless America” or amused by a young rapper who strung together rhymes against the president and Democrats.

The CNN Express traveled with the Tea Party Express buses for hundreds of miles, from rally to rally to rally.

Being at a Tea Party rally is not quite like seeing it on TV, in newspapers or online. That’s the reason CNN is covering this political movement — and doing so in ways few others can or choose to do.

It is important to show the colorful anger Americans might have against elected leaders and Washington. But people should also see the orange-vested Tea Party hospitality handlers who welcome you with colorful smiles.

There were a few signs that could be seen as offensive to African-Americans. But by and large, no one I spoke with or I heard from on stage said anything that was approaching racist.

Almost everyone I met was welcoming to this African-American television news producer.

And though speakers railed against the “lame-stream media,” activists and their leaders praised CNN, especially for being the only national media outlet riding along for the post-weekend stops. Some of them e-mailed me after my trip, thanking our crew for fairly giving them a voice.

Meanwhile, in another universe:

On March 20, there was an “anti-war” demonstration in Lafayette Square Park, across the street from the White House. AIM went there to see what sort of activity was occurring, and as we show in this video, which was all shot at the scene of the demonstration, it was a mix of 9/11 Truthers, Code Pinkers, socialists, anarchists, and a large contingency of pro-Hamas, anti-Israel zealots.

The Washington Post covered it, but never mentioned the name Obama, though he was clearly a target of the protesters. The group that organized the protest, International ANSWER, claims there were 10,000 people there. Our estimate: 2 – 3 thousand tops, at least prior to the marching part of the demonstration. We didn’t stick around for that part.

One thing for sure, no one burned an American flag at any Tea Party gatherings, but they sure did here. Did you see any reporting about the hate-speech and flag burning? I guess MSNBC was too busy that day.

It makes me sad that so many are filled with a mixture of hate, fear and loathing for their fellow Americans.  But it is encouraging that an ever growing majority of Americans are rejecting the leftist dogma and embracing the freedoms this country was founded upon.

Searchlight or L.A.?

This is a serious question I’m putting out to my readers.  Read this post from Zombie and let me know in the comments which group would you choose.  And yes, I’m making this an “either/or” proposition.  Picking the group you would be “least embarrassed” to be photographed with does not mean you have to accept either groups ideology.  So, if you had to be in either Searchlight or L.A. and attend the rally, where would you go?

Bonus question–do you believe the press covers these these two groups in an equal, “fair and balanced” way?