I wasn’t sure until I read this bombshell from the Washington Examiner which exposes an email from Arne Duncan, the United States Secretary of Education to his staff, urging them to attend Al Sharpton’s counter event. Do you still think Obama was ignoring Beck’s event?
President Obama’s top education official urged government employees to attend a rally that the Rev. Al Sharpton organized to counter a larger conservative event on the Mall.
“ED staff are invited to join Secretary Arne Duncan, the Reverend Al Sharpton, and other leaders on Saturday, Aug. 28, for the ‘Reclaim the Dream’ rally and march,” began an internal e-mail sent to more than 4,000 employees of the Department of Education on Wednesday.
Sharpton created the event after Glenn Beck announced a massive Tea Party “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial, where King spoke in 1963.
The Washington Examiner learned of the e-mail from a Department of Education employee who felt uncomfortable with Duncan’s request.
I don’t blame the employee for feeling uncomfortable. Can you imagine if you were an MSNBC watching liberal and your boss sent you an email urging you to attend Glenn Beck’s event? How would you feel?
No depth of manipulation seems to be too low for Obama and the crowd of Chicago corruptocrats surrounding him.
They employ tactics which are much worse than anything their supporters railed loudly against under the George W. Bush administration.
Some G20 protesters decided to sing Canada’s national anthem to the riot police and apparently the cops didn’t think it was funny. This video almost looks like a scene from a movie.
About 24 hours ago, I uploaded a short video on YouTube of Massachusetts senate candidate Scott Brown, in which he declared to debate moderator David Gergen “With all due respect, it’s not the Kennedy’s seat, it’s not the Democrats’ seat, it’s the people’s seat.” At the time of this writing, just 24 hours later, that video has been viewed over 270,000 times.
Last night and today, the video was embedded or linked on countless blogs and was even featured on the Drudge Report. That moment of the debate was discussed by Rush Limbaugh on his radio show today and the video was embedded on his website.
Scott Brown was able to summarize a national zeitgeist in four simple words, “it’s the people’s seat.”
Those four words confirmed for many Americans, what they have felt for months. That our elected representatives have forgotten that their seats belong to us, not them. A mere 24 hours after Brown uttered these words, they have already become an auto-fill statement on Google.
That Scott Brown was able to articulate this so eloquently, proves that he has not forgotten what it means to serve the people and for that, he deserves the the trust of Massachusetts voters and Americans from every other state.
Scott Brown is what America needs more of in our elected officials. An understanding that they represent the will of the American people. As a libertarian and a resident of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I will cast my vote for Brown on January 19th for one simple reason.
Drudge has the flashing police light up at his site and the following text in the “above the headlines” spot:
“The President returned in a very high speed and dramatic motorcade to his vacation home. The pool bus got dropped at one stage. Now holding just inside secured residential zone on the bus. An ambulance just swept by with flashing lights. No further details available…”
“White House aides said the speedy departure and return to the president’s home was not a matter of national security or because of a threat to Obama’s safety.”
“Obama was playing golf when reporters who travel with him were quickly assembled for a return to the first family’s neighborhood.”
“Journalists saw an ambulance speed past with its lights on, heading toward the end of Obama’s street. The ambulance would have passed through a security checkpoint at the end of the street.”
Dear Editors of People Magazine: We'll be watching closely for your reaction when President Obama "FINALLY" has the stones to sit down with Chris Wallace of FOX News. Until then, you might want to start reading Drudge. I'm just sayin'...
Hang onto your hats, Sarah Palin fans. People Magazine is reporting that Governor Palin is “FINALLY” sitting down with Oprah Winfrey after “turning down” an opportunity to be on Oprah last fall. Why? Because she just wants to sell her book…
“Oh, what a difference a multimillion-dollar book deal makes.”
“About a year after Sarah Palin famously turned down a campaign season appearance with talk show host – and major Barack Obama supporter – Oprah Winfrey, the former GOP vice presidential candidate has agreed to take her turn on the couch.”
“Are you kidding me? The strongest and most popular voice for women in this country is refusing to interview the first woman nominated to be vice president in 24 years?”
Here’s a screen capture you can click to open, just in case the editors of People Magazine decide to scrub their site when they suddenly get over their collective amnesia…
Dear Editors of People Magazine: We’ll be watching closely for your reaction when President Obama “FINALLY” has the stones to sit down with Chris Wallace of FOX News.
Until then, you might want to start reading Drudge.
“NBC Universal executives have approached a large number of employees across its news divisions and bureaus, announcing that the company is looking for unspecified number of staffers to take voluntary buyouts. In a series of meetings with human resource managers, staffers at NBC News and MSNBC were told that if targets weren’t met voluntarily, employment challenges lurked ahead.”
Isn’t it obvious to anyone with a brain that FOX News is doing real news while NBC, MSDNC, ABC and CBS have become utterly obsolete?
Note to the aforementioned “media” outlets: Confidence is a tough thing to get back once you’ve lost it and by the way… you have.
What is the President trying to tell me? What is the President asking me to do?
The Dear Leader is scheduled to make a “special address” directly to America’s children on September 8th. Drudge Reportposted a document today that suggests “activities” for teachers before/during/after the Dear Leader’s address.
As noted by Michelle Malkin, the “activities” have a rather “activist” slant to them…
During the Speech:
As the President speaks, teachers can ask students to write down key ideas or phrases that are important or personally meaningful. Students could use a note-taking graphic organizer such as a Cluster Web, or students could record their thoughts on sticky notes. Younger children can draw pictures and write as appropriate. As students listen to the speech, they could think about the following:
What is the President trying to tell me?
What is the President asking me to do?
What new ideas and actions is the President challenging me to think about?
Students can record important parts of the speech where the President is asking them to do something. Students might think about: What specific job is he asking me to do? Is he asking anything of anyone else? Teachers? Principals? Parents? The American people?
Students can record any questions they have while he is speaking and then discuss them after the speech. Younger children may need to dictate their questions.
After the Speech:
Teachers could ask students to share the ideas they recorded, exchange sticky notes or stick notes on a butcher paper poster in the classroom to discuss main ideas from the speech, i.e. citizenship, personal responsibility, civic duty.
Students could discuss their responses to the following questions:
What do you think the President wants us to do?
Does the speech make you want to do anything?
Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?
“Why have my Mommy and Daddy started talking about home-schooling me this year?”
St. Louis Radio Talker Dana Loesch has suggested September 8th might be a good day to keep your kids home…
“Take a day of vacation. Go to the zoo. Anything that would save your offspring from what I will bluntly say is just the quasi-fellating the executive branch. That cackling over a bubbling cauldron you hear is the NEA rejoicing.”
“There is this mindset that those in Washington are the “elite,” that we should mind our Ps and Qs and blindly follow their directives. That’s not the manner of governance upon which this country was founded – it is quite the opposite; even the hobbyist Constitutional aficionado appreciates this.”
Of course, all of this reminds me of a really funny/creepy video put out last year by Iowahawk.
If you’ve never seen this, you’re missing out. Watch.
