Steve Wynn on Fox News Sunday

I don't own a TV so I listen to Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace online. If it's a really good show, I'll watch later on Fox News Sunday's Hulu channel. This was a really good show.

Steve Wynn, the CEO of Wynn Resorts, was on discussing jobs with Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm...

Wynn: Government has never increased the standard of living of one single human being in civilization's history. For some reason that simple truth has evaded everybody. The only thing that creates an increased standard of living is giving someone a job, the demand for their labor -- whether it's you and I, Chris, or anybody else. The people that are paying the price for this juggernaut of federal spending are the middle class and the working class of America.

…soaring rhetoric and great speeches with or without a teleprompter aren't going to change the truth, and the truth is the biggest enemy, the biggest obstacle that working middle-class America has is government spending.

Granholm: It's just so simplistic to say that! With all due respect, I mean, to say that government has never created a job or increased the standard of living. You know, I mean there -- there are a lot of people who are grateful that in this country we have a minimum wage. There are a lot of people who are grateful that they have access to Medicare and Medicaid. And I hope that we get access further to additional health care for those who are uninsured. I mean, there is a balance here. To say that government is all evil... This is a democracy. It's the greatest country in the world.

Wynn: I didn't say that at all. I'm saying that the source of government revenue, the source of well-being in this country is employment. That allows companies to pay taxes, employees to pay taxes. That's the source here and it's gotten out of focus.

Granholm: I agree with you.

Wynn: Okay. That's my point, Governor. I'm not making any other point. And, believe me, ma'am, I've got 20,000 employees. I've had as many as 150,000 families that I've been self-insuring. There's nothing "simplistic" about my approach to this problem.

Wow, he really handed it to her -- nothing against governor Granholm; if any other statist had been in that chair the results would have been the same.

Steve Wynn is my new hero and, I think, radio listeners everywhere will agree that he has a great voice. If you missed it, catch it. If you saw it, it's worth seeing again.

Watch: Hulu - FOX News Sunday
Rush Limbaugh: Wynn Schools Granholm on Jobs

Obama's Doctored Photo-op

As long as I'm dredging up old news, I can't help but take a jab at this one. I heard the story when it came out last week but it wasn't until I saw the photos this weekend that I realized just how truly ridiculous the whole thing was.

I can just hear the old folks back home...

Sonny: Hey Maw, come see! The President is given' ah speech on the Tee-Vee about how good Obamacare is, and he's got doctors with him! They got on their doctor coats and everything.

Maw: Well I'll be doggone, them doctors do got on their doctor coats, they must be real doctors.

Sonny: That's right Maw. And them doctors think Obamacare is real good too, just like I told-ja.

Maw: Well I'll be doggone, it must be true then, if them doctors in their doctor coats think Obama care is good too.

Sonny: That's right Maw, they must be real doctors if'n they got on them doctor coats.

Maw: Well I'll be doggone... I wonder why I got all this mail from the Hemlock Society today?

Sonny: I signed you up with them Maw, they'rah senior citizen organization, you know, like the Aye Aye Are-ah Pee.

Give me a break. How stupid does the 'Ego in Chief' think we are? It would be insulting... if it weren't so damned laughable.

Related: Anti-Healthcare Hooligans
Michelle Malkin: Spin Doctors for Obamacare

LaRouche is a Left Wing Nut Job

Everyone should know by now that Lyndon LaRouche, the man behind the 'Obama as Hitler' posters, is a left wing nut job; not a right wing nut job. Many consider him a communist. It seems that some of you in the Obamedia and nutroots blogosphere are still confused.

According to Wikipedia, every lefty's favorite encyclopedia, he's run for President of the United States eight times since 1976, once as a U.S. Labor Party candidate and seven times as a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. He declared his support for John Kerry, pledged to mobilize his organization to help defeat George W. Bush, and he supported Hillary Clinton in 2008.

So get it straight CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and all the rest of you left wing lapdog sycophants.

Actually, Mr. LaRouche appears to be a Liberal Fascist, which means, that's right, Lyndon LaRouche is a Nazi... another kumbaya moment. You're Welcome.

Wikipedia: Lyndon LaRouche
Related: We're All Nazis Now

Obama's Creepy Smile

More creepy Obama stuff - Barack Obama's amazingly consistent smile from Eric Spiegelman on Vimeo.



As Eric says, "Ladies and gentlemen, your President is a robot. Or a wax sculpture. Maybe a cardboard cutout. All I know is no human being has a photo smile this amazingly consistent.

On Wednesday, the Obamas hosted a reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, during which they stood for 130 photographs with visiting foreign dignitaries in town for the UN meeting. The President has exactly the same smile in every single shot. See for yourself -- the pictures are up on the State Department’s flickr. And, of course, compressed into 20 seconds for your viewing pleasure."

130 Photos - Same Obama. That takes a lot of practice in front of a mirror. Love me -- like I love me, please... creepy.

The Source: Creepy Obama Photos
Related: Children Taught To Praise Obama
Related: UN Speech Summaries

Jon Stewart Breaks The ACORN Scandal

Actually, Jon Stewart, the most trusted name in news these days, breaks the ACORN scandal for the Main Stream Obamedia. This story is about a week old and MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and NPR just can't ignore it any longer, so I guess Jon has the "scoop."

"Where were the real reporters on this story? Where the the hell were you?"

Watch: Comedy Central - The Audacity of Hos
Related: ACORN Prostitution Videos

Charlie Rangel's Congressional Sclerosis

One year ago, The New York Times called for the resignation of the corrupt NY Democrat Representative and Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Charlie Rangel.

Richard Cohen of the Washington Post writes...

[Charles Rangel] suffers from the degenerative disease called Congressional Sclerosis. Its symptom is the belief that the rules, especially the petty ones, no longer apply to you. This happens over time. It comes with seniority and a sense of victimization that combine to produce the onset of entitlement for goodies to which, in the course of things, you are not entitled. All this is abetted by the righteous belief that everyone else is making money and taking private planes and dipping their tootsies in the balmy Caribbean on a given February Friday -- and so why can't you? You have the power and the staff -- just look at all those people! -- and flunkies who will hold the elevator for you, pick you up at Reagan National Airport and on the other end at LaGuardia -- and you ought to have some commensurate luxuries. This is only right.

That's damned good stuff. I wish I could write like Mr. Cohen.

"Politics is the business of gaining power and privilege without possessing merit." - P.J. O'Rourke

Read More: RealClearPolitics - Charles Rangel: Above the Law?
Related: Michelle Malkin - Unhappy Anniversary, Charlie Rangel

Millions March On D.C.

Millions of conservatives marched on Washington D.C. - yes, millions. Don't believe what you're hearing from the left-wing propagandists and sycophants in the Obamedia. Preliminary estimates range from one to two million.

Here's proof...
9/12 DC Time Lapse Video
9/12 Protest Was Over One Million
Media Credibility Plunges; Aerial Views Shows Millions
NYT Reports Thousands, Daily Mail Reports Millions

That's not counting the millions that marched in other parts of this great country. True Americans are tired of, and angry about big government's takeover of America. It's not racism and we're not the fringe.

We want to pass on the greatness that America is to our future generations, that's true compassion. We don't want to hand our children a third world, debt ridden, socialist state.

It ends here big government republicans and democrats. Heed the call or be swept aside. Can you hear us now?

Boycotting Beck

Glenn Beck called President Obama a racist... shocking! Everyone knows African Americans can't be racist - only white folks can be racists. Some American universities openly and proudly teach that simply being white is to be racist; and, if not all whites, then surely all white conservatives.

This outburst by Mr. Beck, one that he has (so far) refused to apologize for, lead to a boycott by some of the advertisers on his daily radio and television programs. I find it funny, and yes, I do mean humorous-funny, that one of the boycotters is Progressive Auto Insurance, not only because of the name "progressive" but also because they happen to be the second largest contributor to moveon.org right after George Soros. What the hell where they doing advertising on Glenn Beck's programs to begin with?

Ratings, my friends, ratings - Glenn Beck's radio and television shows are consistently the highest rated programs in their time slots.

Some say Glenn Beck's vacation last week from Fox News was to let some of the heat surrounding him die down. He's scheduled to return today and although I'm not a regular viewer (I like my politics dull, slow and boring - CSPAN) I'll be checking his Nielsen ratings, should be interesting.

Good luck Glenn, I'm glad you're back, I may even tune in today.

Glenn Beck is the author of Glenn Beck's Common Sense: The Case Against an Out-of-Control Government.

By the way, why don't we ever hear about African Canadians, African Asians, African Mexicans or African Europeans? They must exist... right? Am I a racist for asking?

Related: Hot Air - Is There Really a Boycott of Glenn Beck?
Related: FoxNews - Beck Takes Obama at His Word

We're All Nazis Now

A Bushitler Retrospective. Now we can all get along just fine - Kumbaya.

"I have often been called a Nazi, and, although it is unfair, I don’t let it bother me. I don’t let it bother me for one simple reason. No one has ever had a fantasy about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by someone dressed as a liberal."

- P.J. O’Rourke



Related: Anti-Healthcare Hooligans

RIP Walter Cronkite

Rest In Peace Mr. Cronkite, and Mary Jo.

World Record Radio Interviews

TJ Walker and Jess Todtfeld are on their way to setting a new Guinness World Record for doing the most radio interviews in 24 hours. The old record is 72 and they're shooting for 120. They started a 6 a.m. eastern time today and they won't quit until 6 a.m tomorrow. They're promoting their new book "TJ Walker's Secret to Foolproof Presentations" by doing a presentation marathon - genius.

You can watch live at the FOXNews.com Strategy Room and, for 24 hours only, download a free PDF of the new book at TJWalker.com.

I've been watching all morning and it's been fun and quite an education, not only in public speaking, but also in talk radio and grace under pressure. TJ and Jess are both pretty entertaining fellows with very different styles. Jess was a stand up comedian and TJ is an ex-radio talk show host. This could get very interesting... I'd say around 3 a.m. or so. They're getting better and funnier as the day wears on. You really should check them out.

Good Luck Guys. I'm rootin' for ya.

Update: Record Broken at about 4.02 p.m. eastern time with well over 13 hours to spare! How long will they keep going? Will Jess change into his shorts? Will TJ take off his tie? Stay tuned to find out.

The Case Against Sotomayor

On May 4th Jeffrey Rosen wrote an article for the left leaning publication The New Republic entitled "The Case Against Sotomayor." The article didn't get much attention until President Obama nominated Sotomayor for the Supreme Court and conservatives started using the article to, well, make the case against Sotomayor. Mr. Rosen came under so much fire from his friends on the left that he's vowed to never blog again.

Read More: The Case Against Sotomayor
Read More: Blog Entry Sparks Furor Over Sotomayor
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David Broder's Dark History

From Redstate

Obama, to his credit, has ended one of the darkest chapters of American history, when certain terrorist suspects were whisked off to secret prisons and subjected to waterboarding and other forms of painful coercion in hopes of extracting information about threats to the United States.

I like history - and turtles.

Read More: David Broder has a problem with history

Liz Cheney on Waterboarding

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Liz Cheney (Dick Cheney's eldest daughter), educates (journalist?) Norah O’Donnell.

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President Obama's decision to release the interrogation memos has created a firestorm that could end any chance of bi-partisanship and seriously hamper advancing his political agenda - and make no mistake - it was the Presidents decision. He could have let the ACLU's law suit for the release of these top secret documents go to court.

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used Obama's openness to prosecute the Bush administration to say, "It gives further impetus among members to have some kind of truth commission as to what happened. I do not think immunity should be granted to everyone in a blanket way,"

Pelosi denied knowing U.S. officials used water boarding, but here's a 2007 Washington Post story which describes a 2002 briefing in which Pelosi, among others, were told about enhanced interrogation techniques in graphic detail.

This reminds me of the guy that decided to burn a few leaves in his backyard… in Myrtle Beach.

Update: Obama and Reid back-off
Related: 58% Say Release of CIA Memos Endangers National Security

SPJ Opposes Fairness Doctrine

From NewsBusters.org

The Society of Professional Journalists, celebrating 100 years of journalism and free speech advocacy, opposes reintroduction of the Fairness Doctrine, which would allow the government to control broadcast editorial content.

Although no bill has been formally introduced in Congress to mandate the doctrine or otherwise change Federal Communications Commission rules, its reinstatement after a 22-year hiatus has been discussed frequently in recent months. Some members of Congress, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have indicated support for the Fairness Doctrine.

Read More: SPJ opposes reinstatement of Fairness Doctrine
Related: Shocker - Journalists on Our Side For a Change

Why's the Left so Angry?

By Byron York From The WashingtonExaminer.com

These should be happy times for liberals and the Democratic party as a whole. They control the White House and both houses of Congress, while opposition Republicans are leaderless and lost. So why do some Democrats, particularly those farther to the left, appear so angry?

If you doubt it, just watch a few minutes of MSNBC, where the recent nationwide series of "tea parties" to protest federal spending and taxes set off an angry, almost manic response. The most telling came on Keith Olbermann's program, during which the actress Janeane Garofalo, who plays an FBI computer geek on “24,” denounced the tea parties as "racism straight up."

"Let's be very honest about what this is about," Garofalo said. "It's not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes…This is about hating a black man in the White House."

[...]

I asked William Anderson, a friend who is a political conservative, a medical doctor, and a lecturer in psychiatry at Harvard. "They are angry, but I think they are also scared, and I think it's because they have a sense that their triumph is a precarious one," Anderson told me. Democrats won in 2008 in some part because of the cycles of American politics; Republicans were exhausted and it was the other party's turn. Now, having won, they are unsure of how long victory will last.

"They see that they have a very small window of opportunity to do all the things they want," Anderson continued. "They see the window of opportunity as small because they know in their deepest hearts that the vast majority of the American people wouldn't go for all of the things they want to do." So they are frantic to do as much as possible before the opposition coalesces. And the tea parties might be the beginning of that coalescence.

Then there is the question of self-image. Watching Garofalo and Olbermann discuss the tea parties, it was impossible to avoid the sense that they saw themselves as two good people talking about many bad people. "One of the things about narcissism is that it looks like people who are just proud of themselves and smug, but in fact narcissism is a very brittle and unstable state," Anderson told me. "People who are deeply invested in narcissism spend an awful lot of energy trying to maintain the illusion they have of themselves as being powerful and good, and they are exquisitely sensitive to anything that might prick that balloon."

Again, the tea parties could represent a threat. What if the protesters weren't racists, weren't violent, weren't mentally defective? What if their point was legitimate, or even partly legitimate? Those are questions better batted down than answered.

My apologies to Byron York for quoting far more of his article than I should have. My excuses are simply that I really liked the article, and I wanted to capture all of Dr. Anderson’s comments.

Read More: In A Time Of Victory, Why Is The Left So Angry?

Tea Parties Racist and Stupid

Pink Elephant Pundit has a video round-up of liberal media reaction to the April 15th Tax Protest Tea Parties. If you're too busy to watch I've summed them up in the title to the this post.

Read More: Stay Classy Liberal America
Media Bistro's TVNewser: CNN Reporter Takes a Break
Related: Memo to Susan Roesgen

Take The News IQ Quiz

Found at Patterico's Pontifications

Here's a quick, 12 question, News Quiz from the Pew Research Center.

My Score: You correctly answered 11 out of the 12 possible questions, which means you did better on the quiz than 82% of the general public. I missed the Iraq War death toll. I think they're counting from 1991.

Not surprisingly: Republicans are More Knowledgeable

Memo to Susan Roesgen

Conservatives and Capitalism existed long before FOXNews.

Where do you think that money came from? The Government only has the money it takes from the American Tax Payer. It's was our money to begin with! Get a clue girl.

Related: Who Pays Corporate Taxes?

American Guns in Mexico

From NewsBusters.org

It's been widely reported that 90% of the weapons used in the Mexican drug cartel wars come from America. As it turns out, that statistic is simply not true. According to the figures obtained from ICE and ATF officials only about 17% of the weapons recovered from cartel-related crime scenes in Mexico actually originate in the United States.

According to the Mexican Attorney General, in the last two years, they've recovered about thirty thousand weapons in Mexico. They have submitted about only one-third of those to the United States for tracing. And according to testimony that we have from the special agent in charge, in Phoenix, of the ATF, only about six thousand of those were successfully traced, and about 90% of those came from the U.S. But basically, the bottom line here is that according to our figures, which we got from them, 83% of the guns that have been recovered in Mexico at these crime scenes are not from the United States.

How did Secretary of State Clinton make such an error in her math?

Well one reason is, it's basically the sampling issue. Number one, Mexico is finding guns at the crime scene which may have no markings at all. They may be clearly Chinese or Russian weapons, and so they are not submitting those to the United States for tracing. A U.S. weapon has a serial number on it, a manufacturer on it, it says where it is made. So clearly, Mexico is not going to give over weapons to the U.S. for tracing which clearly don't come from here. We had an ICE official, special agent in charge here in Phoenix tell us, and I'm quoting from him, “Not every weapon seized in Mexico has a serial number. Those are not submitted. Only we trace weapons with U.S. markings.

To summarize, 90% of the traced weapons that Mexico decides to give back to us come from the United States – a sample which doesn’t include the vast majority of the weapons found. 73% outside the mark is very selective truth-telling by the mainstream media.

Read More: Mexican Cartel Weapons Don't Come From U.S.

Sacrifice Chuck Todd

Chuck Todd is the Chief White House Correspondent for NBC News. Here's his one and only question for President Obama during last nights, prime-time news conference...

Why, given this new era of responsibility that you're asking for, why haven't you asked for something specific that the public should be sacrificing to participate in this economic recovery?

What?... Sacrifice?!

Mr. Todd lives in an elitist media bubble. He's obviously, completely unaware that Americans are sacrificing - homes, jobs, savings. What do you want Chuck, blood? Sit down, shut up, and be grateful you have a job, one you appear to be unqualified for.

Related: Socialism's Shared Sacrifice

Racial Cowardice

On February 18th the nation's first black attorney general declared that America is a nation of cowards when it comes to matters of race. Link

Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial, we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards. - Eric Holder

That same day the New York Post publishes a cartoon that sparks crys of racism. Link

The cartoon in today's New York Post is troubling at best given the historic racist attacks of African-Americans as being synonymous with monkeys. One has to question whether the cartoonist is making a less than casual reference to this when in the cartoon they have police saying after shooting a chimpanzee that "Now they will have to find someone else to write the stimulus bill. - The Reverend Al Sharpton

A headline at The Huffington Post states: John Gibson Compares Eric Holder To Monkey With Bright Blue Scrotum.

At the end of a long and pointless conversation between two Fox News reporters covering a zoo escape, John Gibson compared Attorney General Eric Holder to a monkey, they toss to John Gibson who complains that he can't get away with saying "bright blue scrotum" on the radio then follows that up by saying, "We were talking about Eric Holder today on the radio and his bright blue scrotum."

We soon discover that the Huffington Post's smear of Gibson uses a doctored video. Link

Racial cowards? I don't think so; I think many Americans have simply learned that no good can come from interacting with a perpetually, and sometimes professionally, aggrieved class of citizens.

Watching The Debates Online

I'm in Korea without a TV so I watched the first presidential debates online via the FOX News Live Stream. Bret Baier hosted The Strategy Room with a panel of three commentators Mystery Science Theater 3000 style (I wonder how many people actually know what MST3K is considering it went off the air about 10 years ago). It was great. I applaud what FOXNews is doing online and I wish they would do more of it.

Oh... the debate, it was good and McCain won.

Media Campaigns for Obama

From RealClearPolitics - Tony Blankley (and found at Powerline)

While they have been liberal and blinkered in their worldview for decades, in 2007-08, for the first time, the major media consciously are covering for one candidate for president and consciously are knifing the other. This is no longer journalism; it is simply propaganda.

[...]

But worse than all the unfair and distorted reporting and image projecting are the shocking gaps in Obama's life that are not reported at all. The major media simply have not reported on Obama's two years at New York's Columbia University, where, among other things, he lived a mere quarter-mile from former terrorist Bill Ayers. Later, they both ended up as neighbors and associates in Chicago. Obama denies more than a passing relationship with Ayers. Should the media be curious? In only two weeks, the media have focused on all the colleges Gov. Palin has attended, her husband's driving habits 20 years ago, and the close criticism of the political opponents Gov. Palin had when she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

Read the full article here...

Facts on the Financial Crisis

From News Busters

Since the current financial crisis is taking place under a Republican administration it is easy for people to automatically blame Republicans. The media have happily pushed this misconception too. Facts the media ignore are things such as the very groundwork for today’s problems being rooted in legislation created by Jimmy Carter , or that in 2003 President Bush proposed “the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis" that was blocked by Democrats on party lines. However, the media don’t report these very important and significant facts and so it is no wonder that the GOP takes the brunt of the blame in this recent CNN poll.

Read More: Facts on the Financial Crisis
Related: Fannie and Freddie Meltdown
Related: The Housing Crisis Blame Game

Charles on Charlie

Charles Krauthammer on Charlie Gibson's interpretation of the Bush Doctrine during the Sarah Palin interview.

Actually, because I found this over at Little Green Footballs, the title should be, "Charles on Charlie from Charles."

Charlie Gibson's Gaffe
By Charles Krauthammer

"At times visibly nervous . . . Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of 'anticipatory self-defense.' "

-- New York Times, Sept. 12

Informed her? Rubbish.

The New York Times got it wrong. And Charlie Gibson got it wrong.

There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different.

You can read the rest here.

Charles Krauthammer should know something about the Bush Doctrine, he is credited with having coined the term.

On a somewhat related note Ace of Spades has exclusive video of the DNC War Room after the interview. Warning, extreme foul language (it is Ace of Spades after all). This is the funniest thing I've seen in awhile.

Sliming Sarah

From The Annenberg Public Policy Center's FactCheck.org

We’ve been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McCain’s running mate, Gov. Palin. We find that many are completely false, or misleading.

Palin did not cut funding for special needs education in Alaska by 62 percent. She didn’t cut it at all. In fact, she tripled per-pupil funding over just three years.

She did not demand that books be banned from the Wasilla library. Some of the books on a widely circulated list were not even in print at the time. The librarian has said Palin asked a "What if?" question, but the librarian continued in her job through most of Palin's first term.

She was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She’s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

Palin never endorsed or supported Pat Buchanan for president. She once wore a Buchanan button as a "courtesy" when he visited Wasilla, but shortly afterward she was appointed to co-chair of the campaign of Steve Forbes in the state.

Palin has not pushed for teaching creationism in Alaska's schools. She has said that students should be allowed to "debate both sides" of the evolution question, but she also said creationism "doesn't have to be part of the curriculum."

You can read the entire article here.

Saddam Hussein's Nukes

By Investors's Business Daily

Hear about the 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium found in Iraq? No? Why should you? It doesn't fit the media's neat story line that Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed no nuclear threat when we invaded in 2003.

It's a little known fact that, after invading Iraq in 2003, the U.S. found massive amounts of uranium yellowcake, the stuff that can be refined into nuclear weapons or nuclear fuel, at a facility in Tuwaitha outside of Baghdad.

In recent weeks, the U.S. secretly has helped the Iraqi government ship it all to Canada, where it was bought by a Canadian company for further processing into nuclear fuel - thus keeping it from potential use by terrorists or unsavory regimes in the region.

This has been virtually ignored by the mainstream media. Yet, as the AP reported, this marks a "significant step toward closing the books on Saddam's nuclear legacy."

Seems to us this should be big news.

Seems like. Read the full story here.

The Unilateral Bush War

From The Gates of Vienna

The Baron over at Gates of Vienna has published two articles highlighting the sacrifices of America's allies in Afghanistan and Iraq, a subject that our own socialist American media absolutely refuse to report. To do so would reveal that this is not just "Bush’s War."

Casualties in Afghanistan
The Danes Won’t Quit

The graphs tell the true story that the Democrats and their piss boys in the Mainstream Media don’t want you to know.

Don't Forget Our Troops

From The Conservative Oasis

Here's an excellent post with a simple, straight forward analogy (that even liberals can understand) which pretty much sums up my own opinion about the abysmal job the Media is doing reporting on Iraq.

Right now the silence is deafening. Iraq and the news about our troops seems to not even exist, compared to what it has been, over the last few years. And I don't think that the reasons WHY it is quiet make me very happy.

It is quiet because we have no CRAP for the media to peddle.

We have no GITMO news. We have no Fallujah news. We have no Abu Ghraib. We have no more stories about rape or shooting innocent people.

So- I guess… we just don't have news about Iraq. At least, it appears that way…

Let me jump around a bit, to make a point.

In my house, I don't pay much attention to the plumbing. Or the electrical. Pretty boring stuff, really. It just does what it is supposed to do. So, there is no "news" about my plumbing to report.

What we have seen over and over in Iraq is a news media that, as a group, and in general, was incredibly willing to report what was WRONG about our 'plumbing' in Iraq- now they are amazingly silent when it comes to our 'plumbing' in Iraq working well and properly.

The thing is though, our troops deserve to be treated better than plumbing. They are not a simple "utility" that we complain about when it does not work, and ignore when it does work.

Read more about the media and Iraq here...

Bashing Little Green Footballs

St. Louis Newspaper Shills for Islamic Group

When it comes to Islam, the approach of too many media outlets seems to be to avoid questioning authority. Whether this attitude stems from fear (as in the case of Lawrence O'Donnell), ignorance, or plain old-fashioned political correctness doesn't really matter because the end result is the same: when extremist Islamic groups like the Council on Islamic Relations say "jump," far too many news organizations say "how high."

It's not asking for much, really. When, for instance, other religious groups (be they Catholic, Mormon, Jewish, etc.) make complaints, the usual procedure is to talk to the person or group being accused and allow them to tell there side of the story. It's basic journalism. It appears, however, that St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Tim Townsend doesn't believe that, at least when the complaint involves CAIR making allegations against the conservative blog Little Green Footballs.

Read More: Newspaper Shills for Islamic Group

'Redacted' Bombs

From the New York Post

It's hard for Hollywood pacifists like Brian De Palma to capture the hearts and minds of America if Americans won't see their movies.

While the public is staying away in droves from “Rendition," “Lions for Lambs" and “In the Valley of Elah," audiences are really avoiding “Redacted," De Palma's picture about US soldiers who rape a 14-year-old Iraqi girl, then kill her and her family.

The message movie was produced by NBA Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who insisted on deleting grisly images of Iraqi war casualties from the montage at the film's end. Cuban offered to sell the film back to De Palma at cost, but the director was too smart to go for that deal.

“Redacted" - which “could be the worst movie I've ever seen," said critic Michael Medved - took in just $25,628 in its opening weekend in 15 theaters, which means roughly 3,000 people saw it in the entire country. “This, despite an A-list director, a huge wave of publicity, high praise in the New York Times, The New Yorker and left-leaning sites like Salon.

General Sanchez Blasts Biased Media

Media Ignores Most Of The Speech
But eagerly report what supports their biased agenda.

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,
Some of you may not believe this but I am glad to be here. When Sig asked me if I would consider addressing you there was no doubt that I should come into the lion's den. This was important because I have firmly believed since Desert Shield that it is necessary for the strength of our democracy that the military and the press corps maintain a strong, mutually respectful and enabling relationship. This continues to be problematic for our country, especially during times of war. One of the greatest military correspondents of our time, Joe Galloway, made me a believer when he joined the 24th infantry division during desert storm.

Today, I will attempt to do two things - first I will give you my assessment of the military and press relationship and then I will provide you some thoughts on the current state of our war effort. As all of you know I have a wide range of relationships and experiences with our nations military writers and editors. There are some in your ranks who I consider to be the epitome of journalistic professionalism - Joe Galloway, Thom Shanker, Sig Christensen, and John Burns immediately come to mind. They exemplify what America should demand of our journalists - tough reporting that relies upon integrity, objectivity and fairness to give accurate and thorough accounts that strengthen our freedom of the press and in turn our democracy. On the other hand, unfortunately, I have issued ultimatums to some of you for unscrupulous reporting that was solely focused on supporting your agenda and preconcieved notions of what our military had done. I also refused to talk to the European Stars and Stripes for the last two years of my command in Germany for their extreme bias and single minded focus on Abu Gharaib.

Let me review some of the descriptive phrases that have been used by some of you that have made my personal interfaces with the press corps difficult:

"dictatorial and somewhat dense"

"not a strategic thought"

"Liar"

"does not get it"

"The most inexperienced LTG"

In some cases I have never even met you, yet you feel qualified to make character judgments that are communicated to the world. My experience is not unique and we can find other examples such as the treatment of Secretary Brown during Katrina. This is the worst display of journalism imaginable by those of us that are bound by a strict value system of selfless service, honor and integrity. Almost invariably, my perception is that the sensationalistic value of these assessments is what provided the edge that you seek for self agrandizement or to advance your individual quest for getting on the front page with your stories! As I understand it, your measure of worth is how many front page stories you have written and unfortunately some of you will compromise your integrity and display questionable ethics as you seek to keep America informed. This is much like the intelligence analysts whose effectiveness was measured by the number of intelligence reports he produced. For some, it seems that as long as you get a front page story there is little or no regard for the "collateral damage" you will cause. Personal reputations have no value and you report with total impunity and are rarely held accountable for unethical conduct.

Given the near instantaneous ability to report actions on the ground, the responsibility to accurately and truthfully report takes on an unprecedented importance. The speculative and often uninformed initial reporting that characterizes our media appears to be rapidly becoming the standard of the industry. An Arab proverb states - "four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity." once reported, your assessments become conventional wisdom and nearly impossible to change. Other major challenges are your willingness to be manipulated by "high level officials" who leak stories and by lawyers who use hyperbole to strengthen their arguments. Your unwillingness to accurately and prominently correct your mistakes and your agenda driven biases contribute to this corrosive environment. All of these challenges combined create a media environment that does a tremendous disservice to America. Over the course of this war tactically insignificant events have become strategic defeats for America because of the tremendous power and impact of the media and by extension you the journalist. In many cases the media has unjustly destroyed the individual reputations and careers of those involved. We realize that because of the near real time reporting environment that you face it is difficult to report accurately. In my business one of our fundamental truths is that "the first report is always wrong." Unfortunately, in your business "the first report" gives Americans who rely on the snippets of CNN, if you will, their "truths" and perspectives on an issue. As a corollary to this deadline driven need to publish "initial impressions or observations" versus objective facts there is an additional challenge for us who are the subject of your reporting. When you assume that you are correct and on the moral high ground on a story because we have not respond to questions you provided is the ultimate arrogance and distortion of ethics. One of your highly respected fellow journalists once told me that there are some amongst you who "feed from a pig's trough." If that is who I am dealing with then I will never respond; otherwise, we will both get dirty and the pig will love it. This does not mean that your story is accurate.

I do not believe that this is what our forefathers intended. The code of ethics for the society of professional journalists states:
...public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues. Conscientious journalists from all media and specialties strive to serve the public with thoroughness and honesty. Professional integrity is the cornerstone of a journalist's credibility

The basic ethics of a journalist that calls for:

1. Seeking truth,

2. Providing fair and comprehensive account of events and issues

3. Thoroughness and honesty

All are victims of the massive agenda driven competition for economic or political supremacy. The death knell of your ethics has been enabled by your parent organizations who have chosen to align themselves with political agendas. What is clear to me is that you are perpetuating the corrosive partisan politics that is destroying our country and killing our servicemembers who are at war.

My assessment is that your profession, to some extent, has strayed from these ethical standards and allowed external agendas to manipulate what the American public sees on tv, what they read in our newspapers and what they see on the web. For some of you, just like some of our politicians, the truth is of little to no value if it does not fit your own preconceived notions, biases and agendas.

It is astounding to me when I hear the vehement disagreement with the military's forays into information operations that seek to disseminate the truth and inform the Iraqi people in order to counter our enemy's blatant propaganda. As I assess various media entities, some are unquestionably engaged in political propaganda that is uncontrolled. There is no question in my mind that the strength our democracy and our freedoms remain linked to your ability to exercise freedom of the press - I adamantly support this basic foundation of our democracy and completely supported the embedding of media into our formations up until my last day in uniform. The issue is one of maintaining professional ethics and standards from within your institution. Military leaders must accept that these injustices will happen and whether they like what you print or not they must deal with you and enable you, if you are an ethical journalist.

Finally, I will leave this subject with a question that we must ask ourselves--who is responsible for maintaining the ethical standards of the profession in order to ensure that our democracy does not continue to be threatened by this dangerous shift away from your sacred duty of public enlightenment?

The full speech is here

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