American Glob

Your Freudian Slip is showing, Deval.

For those of you who don’t live in New England, let me fill you in.  96.9 WTKK is a mostly conservative talk radio station in Boston. Their current morning line-up starts at 7 am with liberal talk team Margery Egan and Jim Braude. They’re followed up by the 10 am to 2 pm show by conservative talker Michael Graham.

This morning as Michael Graham was preparing for his show, Egan and Braude were talking to Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick about the recent Glenn Beck rally in DC. In the video below, Graham and his producer talk about how they weren’t even listening to Egan and Braude’s show but they were forced to pay attention when their email accounts were flooded by listeners who took offense to a certain comment by Obama’s bestest buddy, Deval. Listen below…

Ed Morrissey of Hot Air weighs in here, saying Michael Graham makes a strong point toward the end…

Graham calls it a Kinsleyan gaffe, noting that if anyone asked Patrick if he liked that the US was a free country, he’d almost certainly say “Yes!”  But do Patrick’s policy choices and that of his party actually stand for freedom — or something else?

Oh, liberal Democrats stand for freedom, alright – freedom for those who agree with them.

Update: Linked at Weasel Zippers. Thanks ZIP!

Back on August 19th, the Democratic Governors Association said FOX News should come with a disclaimer because their parent company gave one million dollars to the Republican Governors Association.

Based on their criteria I have to wonder if every other news outlet in America should also come with a disclaimer….

Senior executives, on-air personalities, producers, reporters, editors, writers and other self-identifying employees of ABC, CBS and NBC contributed more than $1 million to Democratic candidates and campaign committees in 2008, according to an analysis by The Examiner of data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

The Democratic total of $1,020,816 was given by 1,160 employees of the three major broadcast television networks, with an average contribution of $880.

By contrast, only 193 of the employees contributed to Republican candidates and campaign committees, for a total of $142,863. The average Republican contribution was $744.

Disclosure of the heavily Democratic contributions by influential employees of the three major broadcast networks follows on the heels of controversy last week when it was learned that media baron Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. contributed $1 million to the Republican Governors Association.

Read more opinion on this story at Memeorandum.

Why? Because the billionaires in question are Libertarians who give money to conservative causes. Feast your eyes on their big exposé called “Covert Operations.”

The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower personal and corporate taxes, minimal social services for the needy, and much less oversight of industry—especially environmental regulation. These views dovetail with the brothers’ corporate interests. In a study released this spring, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst’s Political Economy Research Institute named Koch Industries one of the top ten air polluters in the United States. And Greenpeace issued a report identifying the company as a “kingpin of climate science denial.”

The report showed that, from 2005 to 2008, the Kochs vastly outdid ExxonMobil in giving money to organizations fighting legislation related to climate change, underwriting a huge network of foundations, think tanks, and political front groups. Indeed, the brothers have funded opposition campaigns against so many Obama Administration policies—from health-care reform to the economic-stimulus program—that, in political circles, their ideological network is known as the Kochtopus.

How does the New Yorker feel about far left billionaire George Soros who gives millions of dollars to far left causes? Just look at the headlines I dug up with a quick search…

The World According to Soros

Most of the instincts that Soros brings to his current incarnation–one in which he sometimes refers to himself as “a stateless statesman”–were developed in the course of his nearly 40-year career in the financial markets. He started Quantum in 1969. Today the fund and its diversified offshoots have assets of roughly $11 billion. Tells about the “open society” foundations he has established in Eastern Europe and elsewhere.

The Wisdom of Soros

As a rule, I do not put much store by the statements of billionaires and central-bank chairmen. The former are accorded undue respect because of their wealth, the latter because of the positions they hold. In my experience, neither great riches nor high office are strongly correlated with economic wisdom and common sense. For today, however, I am making an exception: first for George Soros, the veteran speculator and philanthropist, and, in my next post, for Mervyn King, the head of the Bank of England.

The Money Man

Can George Soros’s millions insure the defeat of President Bush? Five billionaires joined half a dozen liberal leaders in a lengthy conversation about the future of progressive politics in America. The billionaires were not especially close socially, nor were they in complete agreement about politics or strategy. Yet they shared a common goal: to use their fortunes to engineer the defeat of President George W. Bush in the 2004 election.

Gee. That almost seems like a double standard, doesn’t it? Funny that.

Read more on this at Memeorandum.

I summarized in my title but that’s the basic gist of Byron York’s newest column and as usual, he’s right. Recent polls show a growing number of Americans mistakenly think Obama is a Muslim. Here’s why…

A new poll by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life shows that 18 percent of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim. That is up from the 12 percent who believed that in October 2008, just before Obama was elected president.

At the same time, the number of Pew respondents who say Obama is a Christian — in Dreams From My Father, he describes his conversion to Christianity under the tutelage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright — has declined from 51 percent in October 2008 to 34 percent now. And the number of people who say they don’t know Obama’s religion is growing, from 32 percent back then to 43 percent today.

The White House blames the situation on a “misinformation campaign” from Obama’s opponents. But Obama and his aides might also blame themselves for the way they’ve handled the Muslim issue over the years.

The question did not come out of nowhere. As Obama said, his grandfather was a Muslim. His father was raised a Muslim before becoming, by Obama’s account, “a confirmed atheist.” Obama’s stepfather was a Muslim. His half-sister Maya told the New York Times that her “whole family was Muslim.”

Obama spent two years in a Muslim school in Indonesia and later, in a conversation with the Times’ Nicholas Kristof, described the Arabic call to prayer, the beginning of which he recited by heart, as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.” Given all that, it is entirely accurate and fair to describe Obama as having Muslim roots.

Yet during the campaign his aides shouted down even a measured discussion of the topic, and Obama’s critics could face ostracism simply for uttering the candidate’s middle name. In December 2007, with the Iowa caucuses approaching, former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey, a Hillary Clinton supporter, said of Obama, “I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim. There’s a billion people on the planet that are Muslims, and I think that experience is a big deal.” Kerrey’s remarks caused an uproar — one TV commentator wondered whether they were “poisoning the well” — and Kerrey later apologized.

Eighteen months later, when President Obama traveled to Cairo for a long-awaited speech to the Muslim world, the White House was saying, and the press was reporting, the same thing Kerrey had to apologize for. “President Obama is now embracing his Muslim roots,” ABC News’ “Nightline” announced. “President Obama’s speech … was laced with references to the Quran and his Muslim roots,” said USA Today. “Obama touched on his own Muslim roots,” reported the Associated Press.

Read it all.

For more analysis on this story, be sure to check Memeorandum.

The Democratic Governors Association has its panties in a bunch because Rupert Murdoch’s company News Corp. gave one million dollars to the Republican Governors Association. CNN reports…

With the knowledge that Fox News’ parent company recently cut a $1 million check to the Republican Governors Association, the leader of the Democratic Governors Association is calling on the cable news network to run a “formal disclaimer” when it covers gubernatorial races. “I request that you add a formal disclaimer to your news coverage any time any of your programs cover governors or gubernatorial races between now and Election Day,” DGA executive director Nathan Daschle wrote in the letter to Roger Ailes.

My reaction in two words: SO WHAT?

As I’m sure the Democratic Governors Association is aware, so called “objective journalists” donated more money to Barack Obama than John McCain in the 2008 presidential election by a ratio greater than 10 to 1…

An analysis of federal election records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a 15:1 margin over Republicans, with $225,563 going to Democrats, only $16,298 to Republicans .

235 journalists donated to Democrats, just 20 gave to Republicans — a margin greater than 10:1. An even greater disparity, 20:1, exists between the number of journalists who donated to Barack Obama and John McCain.

Searches for other newsroom categories (reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers) produces 311 donors to Democrats to 30 donors to Republicans, a ratio of just over 10:1. In terms of money, $279,266 went to Dems, $20,709 to Republicans, a 14:1 ratio.

By those standards, maybe the news network truly in need of a disclaimer is every single one except FOX News.

Talk about an inconvenient truth.

Read more at Memeorandum.

Probably not, but it’s a question worth asking.

Glenn Beck rented the Kennedy Center in New York for an event and was told by the center that prayer is not allowed. The Kennedy Center eventually relented but that doesn’t change their knee-jerk anti-Christian reaction.

In the video below, Glenn Beck explains what happened. Via The Right Scoop who notes…

This is unbelievable. Beck says that even though they rented the Kennedy Center for use on 8/27, they were told that they could not pray in the facility. That is beyond shocking. Apparently they finally relented, but I’m guessing that it’s only because of who he is. Had it been you or me, we’d probably be in handcuffs after we disobeyed and prayed anyway.

But I would like to remind you that the President can still have a Ramadan dinner at the White House.

I look forward to reading all the liberal blogs as they defend Glenn Beck’s rights to practice his religion despite the obvious bigotry and narrow mindedness of the Kennedy Center. You know, everything they’ve said about anyone who opposes the Ground Zero mosque.

Read more at Memeorandum.

Before you watch the video of Capt. Pete Hegseth below, there are a few things you should know.

Caleb Howe at Red State says of this testimony, “Devastating. There’s nothing to add.”

While I understand the point Caleb is making, I contend that there’s plenty to add in the name of clarity so that we’re all on the same page.

1. Elena Kagan justified her Harvard Law School activism against military recruiters on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” by calling it a “policy of the United States Military” when in fact, it was a policy of President Bill Clinton, a man for whom she would eventually work.

2. Harvard University receives big money from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

3. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia lashes and/or executes people for the “crime” of being gay.

In other words, in Elena Kagan’s world it’s OK to execute gay people as long as you’re from an Islamic country that gives gazillions of dollars to Harvard. However, if you want to encourage Harvard students to join the American military, you’ll be run out on a rail as a homophobe.

This is the America in which we currently live. A country where liberals, progressives or whatever they are now calling themselves, will partner with a culture that seeks to murder the very people Democrats claim to protect for nothing more than politics, money and the furtherance of their agenda.

With all that in mind, watch this video and ask yourself if you think Elena Kagan should sit on America’s highest court.

How desperate is CNN for ratings? This desperate….

Want your own TV news show? Just run for public office on a sanctimonious pro-law enforcement campaign and then get caught repeatedly cheating on your wife with a HOOKER!

Washington (CNN) – Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Kathleen Parker will co-host a new hour long CNN primetime news program starting in the fall as the nation prepares for the 2010 midterm election, the network announced Wednesday morning.

The yet-to-be-named “roundtable discussion” program will air at 8 p.m. ET replacing Campbell Brown.

Why Kathleen Parker agreed to this is beyond me.

NOTE: The formula described above only works if you’re a Democrat.

There isn’t much difference, really.

Both are bloggers, both claim to have had lurid sexual encounters with rising politicians and both want you to just take their word for it.

One difference between them is that Will Folks made his outrageous claim about a conservative Republican woman, while Larry Sinclair made his outrageous claim about a liberal Democrat man.

The other difference is that the media paid attention to one of them. Guess which one…

As noted HERE, HERE and HERE, the media didn’t ignore Will Folks at all, even as he tried to play the victim.

There was no credibility for the claims made by either of these men. Their stories should have been treated the same way. As in, the way one handles garbage.

Nikki Haley’s campaign stood strong and in the end she emerged the victor, but one has to wonder if she would have crossed the 50% mark and thus avoided a runoff were it not for Will Folks and his media aided smear campaign.

In the end, Nikki Haley will be the new governor of South Carolina.

Will Folks, like Larry Sinclair, will just be damaged goods.

This is fair reporting, right?

HuffPo then:

Dems on Bush’s Katrina Disaster

Congress’ top two Democrats furiously criticized the administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina on Wednesday, with Sen. Harry Reid demanding to know whether President Bush’s Texas vacation impeded relief efforts and Rep. Nancy Pelosi assailing the chief executive as “oblivious, in denial.”

HuffPo now:

America’s Pathetic Response

Shame on us.

A calamity is unfolding before our eyes – the greatest oil spill in history – and America’s response is little more than a big yawn.

No wonder Obama wants people to read the Huffington Post.

They don’t even seem to know President Obama spent yesterday playing golf.