Let freedom ring!

Writer Erik Sean Nelson at the Huffington Post, pictured at left, wrote this little classic today and the HuffPo published it at 6 pm. They have since pulled the article. We have the original copy thanks to posters at Free Republic.

Palin Will Run in ‘12 on More Retardation Platform

In Sarah Palin’s resignation announcement she complained about the treatment of her son Trig who always teaches her life lessons. She said that the “world needs more Trigs, not fewer.” That’s a presidential campaign promise we can all get behind. She will be the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people. To me, it’s kinda like saying the world needs more cancer patients because they teach us such personal lessons.

Her first act as President: To introduce a Pre-K lunch buffet that includes lead paint chips. Sort of a Large HEAD-START Program.

She will then encourage women to hold off on pregnancies until their 40’s just to mix up some chromosomes.

She now is in favor of abortion only in case of diploid birth.

Her policies will increase jobs because Wal-Mart is building new stores each day and someone has to be the greeter.

This will lead to smaller government because fewer Americans will have the cognitive ability to hold a government job.

Look, she says she’s resigning as governor because people are making attacks on her and Trig. If she ever did become president, all Osama bin Laden would have to do to defeat the United States is Photoshop a picture of Trig and she’d surrender the country that night. As she said, “That’s not politics as usual.” It isn’t. Politicians don’t usually quit for so stupid of reasons.

Nelson’s HuffPo bio: Erik Nelson has written for several comedy websites and published short fiction while living in the deep South. He has studied the local culture of his Red State and feels confident that they have accepted him as one of their own. Big mistake.

Join him behind enemy lines, deep in the Red Zone. Or email him at erikseannelson@gmail.com.

Classy!

Everyone knows, nothing is funnier than taking cheap shots at an infant with down syndrome.

Right? Right?

And Instapundit says C.J. Burch has already suggested Palin as a “Tea Party” candidate.

Hmmmm……

The left fears her. The RINOs fear her. Libertarians love her. I will continue to support her.

Run Sarah, run.

Enjoy.

Tammy Bruce. Pro-Choice, Lesbian, Pro-Guns, Conservative.

It’s 4th of July weekend and all the cable news shows are re-runs. Watch this timely and amazing video of Tammy Bruce at Florida State in 2004. Hour one is her speech, hour two is Q and A.

Listen as she touches on everything from individualism to group think, capitalism, liberal victimhood and the true meaning of personal empowerment.

Then discuss.

Hat tip to The Right Reasons.

We didn’t see this one coming. First, there was the “wise Latina” episode.

Then it became know that Sotomayor was part of a group that only allows women to join, a big no no for someone who wants to sit on the Supreme Court.

Now we find out that Judge Sotomayor was part of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund. Sounds innocent enough right? How about this…

“The new disclosures by PRLDEF catalog a wide range of discrimination lawsuits the group handled on behalf of Puerto Rican and other Hispanic minorities, including in the areas of voting, employment, housing and education.”

Beginning to sound familiar? Read on…

“The attorneys point to the organization’s opposition to Bork and its ties with the community organizing group ACORN _ embroiled in voter registration complaints _ as evidence that the group had a political agenda.”

“A summary of the group’s 1987 activities reflects that it worked with ACORN to represent low-income Puerto Rican families in East New York who were banding together to ensure affordable housing in their area.”

Remember when lefties were running around crying foul last fall and insisting that Obama had no ties to ACORN, something we now know was a load of BS?

I suppose it’s just a coincidence that Sotomayor has a link to ACORN. Just a big stinking coincidence.

Back in the 1970’s, Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein became world famous for their investigative reporting that broke the Watergate scandal which ultimately caused President Nixon to resign. How proud they must be of their paper today.

The Politico is reporting that the Washington Post was planning to offer a “salon” at which the newspaper would provide lobbyists and special interest groups access to Obama administration officials, members of congress and Washington Post editors for a fee of up to $250,000.

Today the Washington Post cancelled the plan completely. Why? Becuase they got caught.

“Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive “salon” at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to “those powerful few” – Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.”

“The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff.”

“With the Post newsroom in an uproar after POLITICO reported the solicitation, Weymouth said in an email to the staff that “a flier went out that was prepared by the Marketing department and was never vetted by me or by the newsroom. Had it been, the flier would have been immediately killed, because it completely misrepresented what we were trying to do.”

Be sure to read the entire astonishing report at POLITICO.

As if we, the American people, needed any more proof that the news media has become nothing more than a lap dog for the White House, this news goes beyond hypocrisy and enters the realm of incredulity.

Imagine if sometime in the last eight years, a conservative news outlet had done such a thing with the Bush administration? The shrieking of news outlets like the Washington Post would be deafening. There would be talk of investigations, calls for resignations, shouts of treason and more.

Erick Erickson, writing at Red State makes and excellent point that this is essentially more pay for play.

“This is disgusting, but not surprising. The media has become increasingly ideologically tilted in the past few years with the New York Times editorial page editors increasingly controlling the direction and slant of front page news stories.”

“Now the Washington Post is going to make you pay to play. You want access to reporters to cover your side of the story? Cough up the cash. More damning, the Obama administration appears to be playing along.”

“Do you think they would if the Washington Post stopped giving the administration favorable coverage? Probably not.”

The Washington Examiner is reporting that the White House had no idea…

“White House officials said privately Thursday that the administration had no idea that the Post was peddling access to its officials.”

“The first event, entitled “Health-Care Reform: Better or Worse for Americans” is scheduled for July 21, at the home of Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth.”

“Spirited? Yes. Confrontational? No,” the flier states. “The relaxed setting in the home of Katharine Weymouth assures it.”

As usual, Michelle Malkin is on the case. Be sure to read her entire report where she points out that Washington Post Editor Katharine Weymouth recently appeared on a panel on “How to Save Journalism.”

Hot Air has video of Michelle Malkin discussing the story on Cavuto’s Your World with guest host Stuart Varney.

Who would have thought thirty years ago that the Washington Post, the breaker of Watergate, would find itself on the wrong end of a political scandal every bit as damaging and corrupt.

Wow, what a shock.

The woman who was picked “randomly” from the audience to stand up and tell her sad story and ultimately get hugged by the president is one of his volunteers.

According to an AP report, the woman, named Debby Smith, is a volunteer of Organizing for America, Obama’s political racket in the DNC.

“Fighting back tears, Debby Smith, 53, told Obama of her kidney cancer and her inability to obtain health insurance or hold a job.”

“The president hugged her — she’s a volunteer for his political operation — and called her “exhibit A” in an unsustainable system that is too expensive and complex for millions of Americans.”

“We are going to try to find ways to help you immediately,” he told Smith as hundreds looked on at a community college forum — and countless others watched on television. But the nation’s long-term needs require a greater emphasis on preventive care and “cost-effective care,” he said.”

“Smith, of Appalachia, Va., is a volunteer for Organizing for America, Obama’s political operation within the Democratic National Committee. She obtained her ticket through the White House.”

NewsBusters has a great round-up of how this fake moment was covered by the news networks.

“Network reporters swooned over President Barack Obama hugging a woman, who has cancer and lacks insurance, at his Wednesday “town hall” on health care, as both CNN — where Suzanne Malveaux heralded the hug as “a bold display of presidential concern” — and NBC failed to point out how all the questions (just seven in total) were pre-selected or from members of pro-Obama groups.”

Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who supported Obama in the 2008 election, is now smelling a rat on Obama’s support of the Jewish people and Israel. Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, he said:

“Many American supporters of Israel who voted for Barack Obama now suspect they may have been victims of a bait and switch. Jewish Americans voted overwhelmingly for Mr. Obama over John McCain in part because the Obama campaign went to great lengths to assure these voters that a President Obama would be supportive of Israel. This despite his friendships with rabidly anti-Israel characters like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and historian Rashid Khalidi.”

“At the suggestion of Mr. Obama’s Jewish supporters — including me — the candidate visited the beleaguered town of Sderot, which had borne the brunt of thousands of rocket attacks by Hamas. Standing in front of the rocket shells, Mr. Obama declared: “If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I’m going to do everything in my power to stop that. And I would expect Israelis to do the same thing.” This heartfelt statement sealed the deal for many supporters of Israel.”

“Now, some of them apparently have voters’ remorse.”

Really professor? How could you have mistaken Obama’s stance on the importance of Israel?

Surely, you were comforted by the words of his spiritual mentor…

Maybe Alan Dershowitz read this recent report from Jerusalem…

“Barack Obama is taking what he and his administration refer to as “a more balanced approach to Middle East policy.”

“Let me explain what that literally means in real terms.”

“It means the U.S. government is now using its clout with Israel to insist Jews, not Israelis, mind you, but Jews, be disallowed from living in East Jerusalem and the historically Jewish lands of Judea and Samaria, often referred to as the West Bank.”

“I want you to try to imagine the outrage, the horror, the outcry, the clamoring, the gnashing of teeth that would ensue if Arabs or Muslims were told they could no longer live in certain parts of Israel – let alone their own country.”

And it doesn’t end there. American political leftists, who adore Obama, usually find the Jewish people to be a convenient scapegoat. (Hmmm… I think we’ve seen that before.)

AmericanPowerBlog points out the hypocritical anti-semitism of the Huffington Post:

HUFFPO: “When the mainstream American press chose to broadcast the graphic video — as moving as the footage is, it is difficult to watch — it made a commendable decision that nonetheless highlighted its hypocritical attitude towards Palestinians who resist Israeli occupation on a daily basis, and who often meet the same fate as Neda.”

APB: “This is nothing but lies. Leftists always blame Israel and the “Jewish controlled” media. The truth is that the media’s long been in open collusion with Israel’s enemies.”

Right on APB. The truth is that American Conservatives support the Jewish People and Israel. American liberals/progressives… not so much.

It’s surprising that a man as intelligent as Alan Dershowitz would just begin to figure this out now, months after Obama took office as president.

What’s the name of that movie again?

Oh yeah…

Reversal of Fortune.

How ironic.