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SANTORUM SUPPORTS ROMNEY, LET THE HEALING BEGIN

Posted on April 27, 2012 | 2 Comments

Rick Santorum has given his full blessing to his campaign manager’s decision to work in the Romney campaign to bring Santorum’s constituency into Romney’s camp.  Santorum is expected to follow up with a full endorsement soon.

Mike Biundo’s decision to join the Romney campaign is a significant step in the healing process after the hotly contested primary race.  If the other Republican contenders also show support, as some surely will, Romney’s chances of ousting Barack Obama will be very good indeed.  Even hard core Democrats have lost a lot of their enthusiasm for the President.  They will not vote against Obama but many will not bother going to the polls.  Republicans, on the other hand, see the 2012 election as the most important vote they will cast in their lifetime and not succumb to the same lethargy.

Santorum’s support is the first pickle out of the jar.  The rest will come easy.  Obama has a little over six months to pull off a miracle on jobs and the economy.  What he could not do in 3 ½ years he is not going to do in 6 months.  Money is pouring in to fund the fight.  Mitt Romney is beginning to look like a winner.

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NBC FAILS TO APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT IT DID

Posted on April 8, 2012 | Leave a comment

Steve Capus,president of NBC News apologized for a mistake.  What mistake?  It would be the height of naivety to believe that such careful altering of the tape was a mistake and not a deliberate act.

A respectable news agency will have zero tolerance for dishonesty of this sort.  Steve Capus is the captain of the ship; he is the one who should go, not just some anonymous producer who got caught exposing the extent of bias that appears to exist throughout the network.  At an upright news outlet a producer would know he was risking his job if he doctored a tape in a way to give an allusion opposite to the truth.

NBC is becoming MSNBC lite.

An aside.  False apologies are common place.  When an apology takes the form “I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings” it is not an apology at all. It’s an expression of regret that the offended person doesn’t agree with the offender.  A: You are an ugly pig.  B: You owe me an apology. A: I apologize because you were offended when I pointed it out.

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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION DEALS WITH THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD

Posted on April 5, 2012 | Leave a comment

A rocket from Egypt hits Israel.

Obama administration officials are meeting with envoys from Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.

The White House – “We believe that it is in the interest of the United States to engage with all parties that are committed to democratic principles, especially nonviolence,” said National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor.

OK, but what does that have to do with meeting with the Muslim Brotherhood? Vietor’s statement qualifies as the non-sequitur of the week.

The Truth About the Muslim Brotherhood – Founded in Egypt in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood has been an immensely powerful force in Middle East politics.  Their Mission Statement is: “Allah is our objective; the Quran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations.”

The Brotherhood’s founder, Hassan al-Banna, stated that the group’s goal was to assert Islam’s manifest destiny and create an empire governed by Islamic religious law and unified in an autocratic caliphate. He claimed “It is in the nature of Islam to dominate, not to be dominated, to impose its law on all nations and to extend its power to the entire planet.”

Vietor again – “In all our conversations with these groups, we emphasize the importance of respect for minority rights, the full inclusion of women, and our regional security concerns.”

That would be all well and good if you knew who you are talking to, but it is obvious you don’t. And I am giving Obama the benefit of a doubt at that.

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NBC’S CONTRIBUTION TO RACISM

Posted on April 4, 2012 | Leave a comment

Bias on the part of the main stream media is one thing; deliberate distortion, make that lying because it’s more accurate, is another. I am referring to the doctoring of Zimmerman’s conversation with the 911 dispatcher on the Today Show that went as follows.

The conversation as NBC played the doctored recording:

Zimmerman: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”

If that were the recording it would indicate bias. But the actual conversation was:

Zimmerman: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.”
Dispatcher: “OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?”
Zimmerman: “He looks black.”

We have come to expect this type of dishonesty from the likes of Al Sharpton. The general public discounts it knowing the lack of credibility of the source. However, NBC is still a generally respected network.
Freedom of speech is and should remain broadly interpreted but it does not give you the right to falsely cry fire in a crowded theatre. What NBC has done is play into Al Sharpton’s incitement to riot. NBC’s license should be suspended. It will not be, of course. NBC has a history of deliberate dishonest reporting.  If you remember they rigged a bomb under the fender of a truck to explode on external impact and then crashed another vehicle into it to set off the bomb “proving” the trucks were dangerous and condemning the manufacturer. The truck episode was not as egregious because it had no potential for the loss of life and was not racist.
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However, NBC’s act fans the flames of insurrection which conceivably could cause personal injury and loss of life.  At the very least it is an act of inexcusable irresponsibility.

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RANDOM OBSERVATIONS – 3/30/12

Posted on March 30, 2012 | 1 Comment

A race baiting former Black Panther wears a hoodie on the floor of Congress in defiance of the rules of the House of Representatives.  He happened to be a Democratic Congressman.

Obama failed to respond in any form to any of three letters from parents of sons who were murdered in cold blood while visiting America.  It happens the victims were (1) British, (2) white and (3) their parents don’t vote in U.S. elections.  It also happens to be that the killer was black.

President Barack Obama’s budget proposal was rejected by the House.  It happens that not even one Democrat voted in favor of Barack Obama’s budget.

“IRS seeks 4,000 agents, $303 million for Obamacare.” says the headline in the Washington Examiner.  What is the IRS going to audit, pray tell?  Whether or not you smoke?

John Hinderaker, well known attorney and co-founder of the Power Line blog wonders how the federal government can “force you into a government-run health care system; force you to pay for your neighbor’s health care; make you contract with physicians and hospitals exclusively on terms dictated by the government; and, perhaps, make it a crime for you to procure health care for your family outside of the government’s system”.

These are just some random observations for just one day.

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MARCO RUBIO ENDORSES MITT ROMNEY – WHAT IT MEANS

Posted on March 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

Rubio’s endorsement is the final blow ending any chance Santorum still had of securing the nomination.  Rubio is highly regarded by members of the Tea Party faction making his endorsement a very significant one.  In fact, Rubio would be the ideal choice for Vice Presidential running mate.

Imagine Rubio on the campaign trail – young, Spanish speaking, popular, experienced in government but not part of the Washington establishment, from the South to balance Romney’s northern Massachusetts handicap.  And Rubio has fire in his delivery that Romney does not.  But would he run if asked?

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IS CARVILLE ADMITTING OBAMACARE IS AN ALBATROSS FOR THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY?

Posted on March 28, 2012 | Leave a comment

If the Supreme Court overturns Obamacare “I think this will be the best thing that has ever happened to the Democratic Party,” according to Democratic strategist James Carville.  Puzzled?  Here’s his reasoning,

“You know, what the Democrats are going to say, and it is completely justified, ‘We tried, we did something, go see a 5-4 Supreme Court majority’.”

Carville … predicted health care costs will only increase in the future, in which case Republicans will be to blame for leading the drive to expel a federal program designed to help Americans cover those costs. (CNN)

“Then the Republican Party will own the healthcare system for the foreseeable future. And I really believe that. That is not spin,” Carville said.

Pass a bad law and then root for it to be repealed so you can blame the other party for the mess you created.  Good plan, Mr. Democratic Strategist.

Comments coming from Supreme Court Justices in response to Obama’s Solicitor General have been a riot.  Watching the Court hasn’t been this much fun since the Justices overturned Roosevelt’s NRA (Google it).

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THE CALL FOR VIGILANTE JUSTICE IN FLORIDA

Posted on March 25, 2012 | Leave a comment

In the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack that was carried out by 19 Muslims, President George W. Bush took quick pre-emptive steps to prevent backlash from arising against Muslims in America.  In the aftermath of the killing of an unarmed Black youth, President Barack H. Obama has done little, some would say nothing to quell the backlash that is rising in the Black community against non-blacks in America.  What if the shooter had been plain vanilla white instead of someone from a Hispanic/Black family?

The New Black Panther Society has issued a $10,000 “reward for the capture” of George Zimmerman, the shooter.  Zimmerman is not on the loose and hiding.  So in this case capture means kidnap: every Panther member knows that.  When Panther leader Mikhail Muhammad announced the reward he called for 5,000 Black men to mobilize and bring Zimmerman in.  “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” Muhammad said, “If the government won’t do the job, we’ll do it,” followed by chants of “freedom or death” and “justice for Trayvon.”

It’s vigilante justice calling for a trial-less lynching.  In times like these a black President should take every possible measure to show he is race neutral.  When racism rears its ugly head, no one is in a better position to quell it than a black President who is willing, able and anxious to restore harmony.  Unfortunately, we don’t have one.

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GE MAKES THE SWITCH – FROM OBAMA TO ROMNEY

Posted on March 20, 2012 | Leave a comment

General Electric president Jeffry Immelt has privately switched his support from Barack Obama to Mitt Romney.  According to Charles Gasperino writing for the New York Post, Immelt, a Republican, thought he could moderate Obama’s anti-business views but has become very disenchanted with the President. A GE spokesman said the idea is ludicrous.  Evidence would say otherwise.

In Immelt’s annual letter to stockholders he wrote:

“We live in a tough era in which the public discourse, in general, is negative . . . American companies, particularly big companies, are vilified,” when “we need to work together to find a better way.”

GE executives contributed more than 300% more to Obama than to McCain in the 2008 campaign.  This time around those GE executives have contributed twice as much to Romney than they have to Obama.

There are things about manufacturing that the guy on the production line knows better than the president of the company.  There are things a well informed voter knows about a presidential candidate that a man who shakes hands with him does not.  If Jeffrey Immelt is disappointed it’s because he was too busy managing GE to see what was obvious from the start to Joe the Plumber.

If Gasperino is correct, it bodes well for the 2012 election.  For if GE, of all companies, has had a change of heart, certainly others have as well.

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SHOWDOWN by DAVID CORN

Posted on March 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

OBAMA'S EXECUTIVE JET

David Corn is the Washington Bureau Chief for the publication Mother Jones and author of the book The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception.  David Corn is no friend of the Right.  His latest book is Showdown: The Inside Story of How Obama Fought Back Against Boehner, Cantor, and the Tea Party  is to be released tomorrow.

The book covers a short but very interesting period in the presidency of Barack Obama, from the 2010 election until the beginning of this year.  The headline item is that Obama blamed Fox News for the 2010 results because, he says, Fox branded him as a Muslim 24/7 day and night.  If he believes that, and there is no reason to think that he doesn’t, the man is clueless.

Obama castigated corporate leaders ““I saved these guys when the economy was falling off a cliff,” Obama said, according to Corn. “Now I get nothing but their venom.”  Obama has said he doesn’t watch cable news programs like Fox.  Apparently he doesn’t watch CSPAN either.  And if he thinks the venom is coming from the corporate executives, he must not be listening to his own speeches either.

David Corn writes that the day after the 2010 elections, Obama told his confidants that he would,

“get a tax deal done, extend unemployment benefits, ratify the new START treaty, repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, and pass the DREAM Act and a children’s nutrition bill in the following two months. David Axelrod told Corn he remembered, “We all looked at each other quizzically, ‘What does he see that we don’t?’”

What Obama did not explain is that what he could not get through the Congress he would accomplish with regulatory change or an Executive Order.

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