News Media -vs- The American People

What's wrong with the media? They take sides
We've already seen them attacking ordinary Americans that show up at town hall meetings and TEA Party rallies. They go after someone for having a muddled message or for attacking big government while receiving social security.

Participating in a coerced system where you have no choice is hardly hypocritical. And just because that electrician from Wheeling doesn't have a perfectly crafted speech prepared doesn't mean he's ignorant or insincere.

Could you imagine if every one of those ordinary citizens had well-prepared talking points? Then the critics would claim they were too well-rehearsed, or merely regurgitating Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin or Glenn Beck.

We Learn, Then We Vote
The arrogant cognoscenti who make such "regurgitation" comments fail to see that they, and anyone who listens or reads, can be accused of the same charge. It's called "learning."

This would all be well and good if reporters and pontificators subjected liberals to the same critical analysis. But they don't. Here's a good example.

First, note Time Magazine's critical tone towards conservative protesters:

On Sept. 12, a large crowd gathered in Washington to protest ... what? The goals of Congress and the Obama Administration, mainly — the cost, the scale, the perceived leftist intent. The crowd's agenda was wide-ranging, so it's hard to be more specific. "End the Fed," a sign read. A schoolboy's placard denounced "Obama's Nazi Youth Militia." Another poster declared, "We the People for Capitalism Not Socialism." (Source: Time Magazine)

The clear implication is that these angry racists don't know what they're protesting, don't know what they're doing, don't know what they stand for... Nothing to see here but some fringe kooks...

Next, note how Politico reports on a liberal cause:

One of the country’s leading Hispanic organizations is launching a campaign designed to pressure CNN to rein in host Lou Dobbs.

The organization behind the campaign, Democracia Ahora, is kicking off the effort Friday with the release of a report based on interviews with 100 Hispanic leaders about the impact of Dobbs’ evening show.

The results of the report are not surprising – 90 percent of the interviewees believe Dobbs is helping create a negative image of Hispanics, with his frequent criticisms of illegal immigration. (Source: Politico)

A groundswell of millions of people who pay taxes and vote means nothing, and is reported on with smirky, snarky bites. But a little liberal activist group gets mad at Lou Dobbs for reporting the facts about illegal immigration and that's treated with the utmost of seriousness.


Is it any wonder Pew Research reports that the news media's credibility is completely shot?

More on the media's faulty logic...

Two Million March Against Obamismo

NY Slimes called it "Thousands...

WaPo called it Tens of Thousands...


... but it took a respected British paper to call it what it was: Millions!

Up to two million people marched to the U.S. Capitol today, carrying signs with slogans such as "Obamacare makes me sick" as they protested the president's health care plan and what they say is out-of-control spending.

The line of protesters spread across Pennsylvania Avenue for blocks, all the way to the capitol, according to the Washington Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency.

People were chanting "enough, enough" and "We the People." Others yelled "You lie, you lie!" and "Pelosi has to go," referring to California congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.

This quote was typical:

Like countless others at the rally, Joan Wright, 78, of Ocean Pines, Md., sounded angry. "I'm not taking this crap anymore," said Wright, who came by bus to Washington with 150 like-minded residents of Maryland's Eastern Shore.

"I don't like the health-care [plan]. I don't like the czars. And I don't like the elitists telling us what we should do or eat."(Source: Daily Mail)

Matt Welch, Editor in Chief of Reason Magazine was there and gives us his libertarian impressions:

Big crowd. Do not believe any description that says "thousands." If there weren't at least a healthy six figures there, I will permanently revoke my head-counting license.

Of the people I ended up talking to, the general vibe was that they were conservative, and then either Republican, formerly Republican, or independent.

Every single one had unkind words to say about George W. Bush's spending and governing record, though none had protested him. None expressed trust in Republicans, and most preferred a "throw-all-the-bums-out" strategy.

All but one did not care about Obama's birth certificate controversy, and those I asked thought it was foolish to bring guns to political gatherings.

How do we know everybody behaved themselves? Because if there had been one swastika or racist comment, it would be plastered wall-to-wall, 24/7 by Obama's state-run media lapdogs at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS and NBC...

What a fun loving crowd! Unlike the angry, drug addled rabble on the left that protests anything their agitation leaders with bullhorns tell them to.

Notice how the US state-controlled media has really played this down? I guess protest is not authentic when done by people with jobs who pay their own way, bathe regularly and don't throw feces or burn flags.

Here's a CNN report I found on Breitbart TV. The reporter lady can barely be heard over the crowd shouting "Tell the truth!" and "Glenn Beck!"

Bed Wetters Continue to Whine to CNN about Scary Guns

PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- A man toting an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying weapons while demonstrating outside President Obama's speech to veterans on Monday, but no laws were broken. It was the second instance in recent days in which weapons have been seen near presidential events.

Arizona law has nothing in the books regulating assault rifles, and only requires permits for carrying concealed weapons. So despite the man's proximity to the president, there were no charges or arrests to be made.

Hill said officers explained the law to some people who were upset about the presence of weapons at the protest.

Gun-toting protesters have demonstrated around the president before. Last week, a man protesting outside Obama's town hall meeting in New Hampshire had a gun strapped to his thigh. That state also doesn't require a license for open carry. (Source: CNN)

Lesson learned: Law abiding citizens carrying guns are not a threat.
If you piddle-down-your-leg, thumb-sucking liberals don't like our Out West gun laws, you can slink back to the liberal urban cesspools you crawled out of. Big Daddy will take care of you there by taking your rights away and ensuring only criminals have firearms, you constitutionally-ignorant morons.

Here's a quote you lefties love throwing around:

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

It's almost as pithy as "If guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns," which is proven true every day in the enlightened "gun free zones" all over the world.

Divide and Conquer

Elect a community organizer president and he will try to become a national organizer.

What President Obama and his activist-followers are engaged in is not community organizing. It is community dividing, creating chaos that splits neighborhoods, towns, cities, and eventually, a nation.

Bussing in rent-a-screamers constitutes an invasion that disrupts a community. Hot Air Pundit has a good example. HT to Can We Keep Our Republic?

Either way, it's not good. But what did we expect from the community organizer model?

Community organizing is not about reducing poverty and helping people. It is about milking more tax money in exchange for herding the underprivileged to the voting booth and protest rallies. Angry city dwellers are the foot soldiers in this liberal activist army. The last thing the poverty hustlers want is to thin their ranks by making productive, tax-paying citizens of these people.

To keep everybody on the Democratic plantation, people with useless college degrees legitimize societal dysfunction by calling it culture and refuse to be judgmental. They stoke historic grievances to keep everybody in that cage of despair.

So what's the alternative?
Defund acorn, americorps and all the other professional troublemakers. If their model is so good they should be able to get private funding for their activities.

Bring in extra cops and enforce a zero-tolerance policy. It worked for New York City under Mayor Giuliani.

Next, make every minor and every unemployed person go to school. Once they finish school make them get a job. We could facilitate this by enforcing immigration policy so entry-level jobs are no longer the exclusive domain of illegal aliens.

How do you motivate people to get a job? By cutting off food stamps and welfare. You don't work, you don't eat. A little piece of natural law that has worked since the dawn of time.

Rage Against The Machine

How's that post-partisan hope and change working out?

The Booblemann-Tardball Connection

10% unemployment, well-funded brownshirts from americorps and acorn pledging allegiance to The Supreme Leader, a toadie press that demonizes el presidente's opposition for him, a political class impervious to the inquiries of ordinary citizens. I've seen this before. I've lived it. This is not a third-world dictatorship. Far from it. But it has all the trappings.

Thank you President Obama for bringing the third-world to America. It started with the cult of personality and unwarranted hero worship formerly found only in Venezuela and obscure African countries. Now our third-worldization marches on with angry factions shouting each other down over politics, of all things. By the way, what part of The US Constitution authorizes the federal government to take over even one scintilla of the economy?

Divide and Conquer

It's the oldest strategy in the book, and progressives are experts at it. Divide everyone up into little grievance groups, tell them they're powerless, then convince them there is only power in the collective to fight against "THEM," who want to take it all away.

Mobilize the masses. The idealistic college students, the shiftless, the welfare bums, the union workers who get paid to skip work and participate in political agitprop. Ply them with booze and cigarettes and five dollar bills. Bus them in, give them their signs and turn them loose. Best of all, they fund it all by shaking down guilty rich liberals who wouldn't associate with such rabble in their worst nightmares.

Who is to blame for this wave of relatively benign violence we're seeing at town halls and other political gatherings?

A White House that says things like this is to blame:

“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard,”

The DNC is screaming that the "right-wing extremist base" is out to "destroy" Barack Obama, so it has unleashed "angry mobs . . . mob activity straight from the playbook of high-level Republican political operatives."

This is a scary instance of psychological projection; denying a key attribute of your self and projecting it onto your adversary. Liberals have always excelled at rent-a-crowd tactics and they don't like it when someone beats them at their own game, especially when THEM do it without the benefit of ACORN, ANSWER or bullhorn-wielding community organizers.

Paul Krugman is to blame
Here's the latest twaddle from this educated fool. All these people went to town hall meetings because their insurance company told them to. And he discovered a couple of conservative organizations. He could be the next Giraldo! What a jackass. He should stick to economics, where at least he can hide behind his Nobel.

Yes, well-heeled interest groups are helping to organize the town hall mobs. Key organizers include two Astroturf (fake grass-roots) organizations: FreedomWorks, run by the former House majority leader Dick Armey, and a new organization called Conservatives for Patients’ Rights.

All The World's A Stage
Remember the anti-war protests of '03? I was down in South America manning the radio room with nothing better to do so I watched the unedited farce on CSPAN. The demonstrations didn't just feature anti-war speakers. There were people speaking out for the gay, lesbian, transgendered, bestiality, Malthusian retro-environmentalism, disarmament, onearmament, man-hating feminists, Latinos, pedophiles, pot smoking, labor movements, indigenous movements, bowel movements, you name it.

Why bring all these groups in to an anti-war rally? In order to get a bigger crowd! All the different agitation groups got their two-minutes rant on a national stage in exchange for delivering their victim group to fill out the crowd. And that is how the Democratic party works.

My favorite speaker that day was a cute little Muslim college girl railing against the oppressive US, castigating us for oppressing women and Muslims. A Muslim woman on national TV claiming Muslim women had no voice in this country. That must have been the comedy relief. I wonder if she'd deliver the same lecture, face uncovered, in downtown Riyadh?

It's Racism!!!!

Anyway, Krugman sees something more sinister in the right-wing mobs: Racism stoked by clever and shadowy Republican operators. He's curiously unable to provide any proof beyond his own fevered imaginings:

Does this (racial fear tactics) sound familiar? It should: it’s a strategy that has played a central role in American politics ever since Richard Nixon realized that he could advance Republican fortunes by appealing to the racial fears of working-class whites.

Many people hoped that last year’s election would mark the end of the “angry white voter” era in America. Indeed, voters who can be swayed by appeals to cultural and racial fear are a declining share of the electorate.

So who has divided this country?

Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the Democratic party have divided this country with the most expensive and most liberal agenda in the history of the US, all in the face of unprecedented debt and a serious economic crisis. We're supposed to applaud this stupidity?

Who's dividing us? The unhinged left and their idiotic foam at the mouth rantings, with George Bush assassination fantasies, and Bushitler, Chimpie and a thousand other idiotic names and baseless charges these poop throwing monkey hurled at President Bush, VP Cheney and those of us who had the temerity to vote in such a Hitlerian regime.

The HuffKook-Oglemann-Tardball Axis, abetted by the Democrat Hopium smokers in the press and washed-up TV personalities are to blame. They can dish it out but they can't take it.

When lefties protest it's speaking truth to power sprung spontaneously from the heart of working class American. When the right gets pissed its all neo-nazi, racist astroturf. Someone gives Obama a Joker face and it must be hatefulRightwingHitlerRushLimbaughFoxNewsracism
HalliburtonBloodforOilEndlessWarConspiracy!!!!!!!

Yeah right. People aren't buying that crap anymore. Obama and the Social Democrats are trying their damnedest to flush America down a third-world toilet. But unlike in a rigged third-world system, we can still vote their asses out.

TBO - Protests
STL Today - 6 Arrested
Politico - Punch Back
NYT - Unmitigated Krugman Twaddle
WSJ - Noonan