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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Has it come to this... what's worse...Slut...Cu*t or Tw*t?
One a tip from Ed Kilbane
(From The Daily with a few enhancements)
CHICAGO -- While slamming Mitt Romney for not standing up to the "strident voices" on his side, a top Obama advisor is planning to spend some quality time with one on his own, The Daily has learned.
David Axelrod, President Obama's senior campaign strategist, is scheduled to appear on Bill Maher's late-night talk show within the next few weeks, according to Kelley Carville, an HBO spokesman.
As the controversy over Rush Limbaugh's comments about Sandra Fluke continued, a former Obama White House official today joined Republicans in pointing out that Maher, who recently donated $1 million to a pro-Obama super PAC, has a history of his misogynistic slurs.
Last year, he was rebuked by the National Organization for Women for calling Sarah Palin a "dumb tw*t." He has also addressed her as a cu*t. Somehow the excitement from the media boiled over for Limbaugh but they slid the pot to the back burner for Maher.
Limbaugh assailed Sandra Fluke on his radio show last week for testifying before Congress that insurance companies should fully cover birth control for all women, even if the institution or employer has religious objections.
Obama's response was this:
“I thought about Malia and Sasha,” the president told reporters of his decision to call Fluke last week to offer his personal support. “One of the things I want them to do as they get older is to engage in issues they care about, even ones I may not agree with them on. I want them to be able to speak their mind in a civil and thoughtful way, and I don’t want them attacked or called horrible names because they’re being good citizens, all decent folks can agree that the remarks that were made don’t have any place in the public discourse,” the president said.
"palin is right to point out that bill maher has said some pretty disgusting things about women, comedian or not. they are Rush like," Austan Goolsbee, the former chairman of President Obama's Council on Economic Advisors, and currently a professor at the University of Chicago, tweeted.
After Obama spoke with Fluke, the Georgetown University Law Student called a "slut" and "prostitute" by Limbaugh, Palin challenged Priorities USA to return Maher's donation.
"Pres. Obama says he called Sandra Fluke because of his daughters. For the sake of everyone's daughter, why doesn't his super PAC return the $1 million he got from a rabid misogynist?," Palin wrote Tuesday on her Facebook page.
(Which I suspect privately... Maher would be in agreement with. He misses that mil... he can't stop talking about it.)
(Which I suspect privately... Maher would be in agreement with. He misses that mil... he can't stop talking about it.)
In a conference call with reporters today, Axelrod invoked Limbaugh on several occasions.
"He's going to continue to lose independent voters when he walks away from issues like the one involving Rush Limbaugh last week, where he essentially refused to comment on what was a really egregious set of comments by Limbaugh," Axelrod said. "Why? Because he's afraid to challenge a guy who's the de-facto head of his party."
The number of advertisers to pull spots from the The Rush Limbaugh Show hit 43 yesterday -- and even the band Rush had bad news for the embattled talk show host.
The advertisers that ditched the show yesterday include: Freedom Debt Relief, Norway Savings Bank, Portland Ovations, Consolidated Credit, Constant Contact, RSVP Discount Beverage, Cunningham Security and Regal Assets, which said in a statement "Everyone at Regal Assets wants to let Sandra Fluke know that we stand by her side in full support."
Limbaugh brushed off the tally -- which he counts at 28 -- and said at least two advertisers plan to return.
"Everything is fine on the business side. Everything is cool," Limbaugh said on his show. "None of what's happening is out of the ordinary," he concluded. "It's just part of an onslaught to try to convince you that this show's history and our days are numbered. I'm happy to tell you nothing could be further from the truth."
Late Tuesday, the 1970s rock band Rush demanded Limbaugh stop playing their music before and after commercial breaks. A lawyer for the band accused Limbaugh of "using Rush's recorded music as part of what is essentially a political broadcast."
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Lost in the hoopla
Lost in the hoopla of Super Tuesday the Ohio electorate finally said goodbye to Dennis Kucinich. I must admit I was unaware this race was taking place. Thought I'd never see the day. What a fantastic Super Tuesday! A Romney win in Ohio, and the frosting on the cake, Kucinich gets the boot. I'm trying to think of something good to say about him now that he's leaving office. Well, I can come up with a couple of them. One, unlike Obama, he actually believed his own bullshit. The second is, I remember the time when he said he was voting no on Obamacare. When pressured by the Press why he took that position he said…"it doesn't go far enough." When Obama caught wind of it and needing support for his unconstitutional travesty he decided to give Denny a call and invited him for a little ride on Air Force One. By the time the plane touched down Kucinich had a complete change of heart and voted for it. So thats another one of his attributes... the strength of his convictions.
(True story)
(True story)
Oh...and his wife looks pretty nice too.
Rumor has it he may be moving to Washington (state).
Good... they deserve the little runt.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a liberal establishment in the House, conceded defeat Tuesday night in Ohio's 9th district Democratic primary to longtime Rep. Marcy Kaptur.
The Democratic primary was overshadowed Tuesday night by the competitive contest in Ohio's Republican presidential primary between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. The Democratic contest, however, was also hard-fought.
Kucinich made his concession speech just past midnight Wednesday, when Kaptur had a 24-point lead with 84 percent of precincts reporting, according to the Associated Press.
Both well-known Democrats, the 15-term Kaptur ended up competing against the eight-term Kucinich after Ohio lost two congressional districts because of the state's declining population. Kaptur started the race with an edge in the new 9th district, which retained more of her old district than Kucinich's.
Kucinich told Hotsheet in December that he would approach the race "in the spirit of friendship," but ultimately, the race became heated. In his concession speech, the AP reports, Kucinich charged his opponent "ran a campaign lacking in integrity, filled with false truths."
During the campaign, Kucinich -- an outspoken anti-war liberal -- attacked Kaptur for voting to fund "Bush's wars," voting for the Patriot Act, backing the Keystone XL pipeline and opposing gay marriage, among other things. Kaptur, meanwhile, slammed Kucinich for voting against bills that would have brought in funds for new manufacturing jobs and veterans' care.
Outside groups also jumped into the mix: For instance, the Texas-based political action committee Campaign for Primary Accountability ran an ad charging Kaptur of paying her taxes late.
After the results were in, Kaptur said on MSNBC that voters were interested in jobs and the economy.
"Our people are bread and butter people, they want to grow this economy," she said. "They expect the president and expect representatives in the Capitol to represent those interests strongly, and I think that's what they voted for tonight."
Now that she has the Democratic nomination, Kaptur will run in the 9th district against Samuel Wurzelbacher -- also known as "Joe the Plumber" from the 2008 presidential campaign -- who won the GOP nomination.
Amazingly Keith Richards is still alive
But maybe it's time to throw in the towel. The stone doesn't roll as well as it used to.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Worth more than all the super PACs put together
Introduction:
Two very interesting articles which should suggest I didn't write them. Although these articles do not mention Rush it is a testament of how the MSM can set a trap and and wait for someone to take the bait. That someone was Rush. They played him like a violin. By that I mean no one talks about why we should have to pay for Sandra Fluke's contraceptives which was the real issue, instead the MSM changed the discourse to…The GOP hates women because Rush called her a slut.
Then for the coup d'état Obama calls Fluke to apologize for that "cold-hearted" Limbaugh making Rush look like a heel forcing him to apologize and causing a few sponsors to terminate their contract with his popular radio show.
I got to give them credit. This is so artfully done, the slight of hand, the subtlety, it would make David Copperfield green with envy.
This is Rush's take on it.
Most Americans come home from work and turn on the nightly news and take everything they see and hear as the gospel truth.
Obama can't run on his record. In fact if he was a Republican he needn't worry about campaigning because he would be to busy defending himself in the impeachment hearings.
Obama can't run on his record. In fact if he was a Republican he needn't worry about campaigning because he would be to busy defending himself in the impeachment hearings.
Here are a couple of narratives on how the MSM really spins its web.
By Paul Lemmen
Part of the Marxist agenda is to allow the Cultural Marxists to define what the political dialog in our nation actually is. This allows them to twist reality and re-define the actual meanings and definitions of terms to fit their tactics of creating a false controversy and turning it into a crisis that must be addressed by their predetermined groups (utilizing their agents of change in the MSM as well as their useful fools in our public life) to a predefined consensus (always a consensus, never independent thought or dissenting opinion) that promotes their agenda.
How Network News Has Twisted Obama's War on Religion Into a Conservative War Against Women
By Rich Noyes
It's been nearly three weeks since President Obama faced a political backlash over his plan to force religious institutions to bow to government bureaucrats when it came to supplying birth control coverage to their employees. Since then, the liberal media — led by the broadcast networks — have helped re-script the story to suit the President's political needs. Instead of a story about the overreach of big government and violation of religious freedom, the networks are now spinning the birth control story as one about out-of-control conservatives, to the point of ignoring broad and continuing opposition — including a lawsuit by seven state attorneys general — to the President's power grab.
The MRC reviewed coverage from the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts starting with Obama's February 10 declaration of a unilateral "compromise" meant to end the controversy. Our analysis shows how the networks re-framed the story from one that was damaging to Obama into one that reporters thought would hurt his opponents:
■ Selling Obama's "Compromise." The networks characterized the President's February 10 statement as an "accommodation," a "change of course" and a "compromise with Catholic leaders" even though there was no substantive difference between the administration's old and new regulations other than a promise that religious institutions would not be separately charged for coverage for contraceptives, even though such insurance would continue to be mandatory — essentially, an accounting gimmick.
Obama's decision was "one part Solomon, one part semantics," CBS anchor Scott Pelley enthused on the February 10 Evening News. That night, CBS and NBC both ran soundbites from Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards applauding the President, which NBC matched with a quote from a liberal Democratic politician, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, representing NBC's conclusion that "many Catholic women were also cheering the news." For its part, ABC assured viewers that "both the Catholic Health Association and abortion rights groups approved" of the new rules.
That first night, all three broadcasts noted an early statement from New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan that Obama's move was "a first step in the right direction." But late that same day, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops rejected Obama's "compromise," a fact that was eventually disclosed on weekend editions of the CBS Evening News and ABC's World News — but never once mentioned on the NBC Nightly News.
"Roman Catholic bishops say President Obama's revised policy on contraception coverage for employees, quote, 'continues to involve needless government intrusion on the internal governance of religious institutions,'" CBS weekend anchor Elaine Quijano noted on February 11. "The bishops blasted the White House for needless government intrusion and threatening coercion of religious people," ABC's David Kerley noted the next night, February 12.
After that, the Church's continued opposition to Obama's insurance mandate was never given more than a passing mention on the evening newscasts, and network reporters no longer portrayed the matter as a political liability for Obama's re-election.
■ Lawsuits? What Lawsuits? Reaffirming the fact that the President's February 10 statement was more a PR stunt than an actual compromise, Nebraska and six other states filed suit last Thursday, February 23, saying that the HHS regulations violated the First Amendment and were an "interference with religious liberty." CNN and the Fox News Channel quickly reported the development, with CNN's Wolf Blitzer interrupting The Situation Room for a "Just In" bulletin.
Yet in the five days since, ABC, CBS and NBC have yet to inform their viewers about the lawsuit, which was joined by Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. Private Catholic organizations are also going to court, including Ave Maria University, Belmont Abbey College, Colorado Christian University and the Eternal Word Television Network.
Ave Maria University is led by Jim Towey, who led the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in George W. Bush's White House, a fact which would seem to raise the news value of his lawsuit. Towey blasted Obama in a February 21 conference call with reporters: "It is a sad day when an American citizen or organization has no choice but to sue its own government in order to exercise religious liberty rights guaranteed by our nation's Constitution."
But just as they have ignored the states' lawsuit, the broadcast networks have failed to acknowledge any of the private lawsuits against the Obama administration's attempt to impose its will on private religious institutions.
■ Beware of Conservative Extremists.
While the broadcast networks quickly moved on from Obama's use of government power to dictate birth control policy, the issue of contraception was still much in the news. Since mid-February, network reporters have pounced on statements from conservative candidate Rick Santorum talking about his own personal beliefs about birth control, falsely implying that a President Santorum would use his power to convert those beliefs into policy.
Pivoting off of a joke by one of Santorum's financial supporters, ABC's Jon Karl on February 16 cast the Senator as an extremist: "Santorum's surge in the polls is also bringing fresh scrutiny to his own comments on contraception, which he has blamed for moral decline in America....That's consistent with Santorum's Catholic faith, but also a reminder of just how far to the right he is on social issues."
Then on February 20, Karl reiterated: "Santorum has spent a lot of time lately talking about what people ought and ought not to do."
"[Santorum] advocates abstinence over birth control," CBS's Dean Reynolds argued on the February 21 Evening News. But Reynolds undermined the notion Santorum would use government to meddle with those who disagreed, showing this exchange he had with the candidate: "As for secular organizations, do you have a problem with them covering contraception." Santorum's definitive answer: "No."
■ Elevating Democratic Gimmickry. While a Republican presidential candidate was being roasted for his personal beliefs, NBC's Nightly News twice elevated Democrats' political gimmickry to the level of national news. On February 16, NBC devoted most of a story to Democrats crying foul over a House hearing into the HHS mandate, something ABC and CBS both thought unworthy of coverage.
Reporter Kelly O'Donnell took Democrats' partisan claims at face value: "The politics of contraception provoked outrage today....
This picture set off anger, when only men had a seat at the witness table during a hearing related to contraception....
The Republican chairman invited only faith leaders, not advocates for women's health."
Her story incorporated soundbites from liberal Representatives Carolyn Maloney, Eleanor Holmes Norton and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, vs. just one clip from the Republican chairman, Darrell Issa.
A week later, on February 23 O'Donnell followed up with a piece on Democrats' staged hearing to keep hammering their side of the issue. This time, there were no clips from conservatives or religious leaders, just Pelosi and a Georgetown law student talking about "hardships for some women who don't have insurance that covers birth control."
Just as they bypassed the earlier claims of partisan outrage, neither CBS nor ABC thought this staged Democratic event warranted a spot on their evening newscasts.
The lesson from the past two weeks seems to be that journalists stand ready to extricate President Obama from the public relations damage created by his liberal policy decisions, while at the same time trying to punish conservatives for having personal religious beliefs that the media elite deem incorrect.
That's a huge advantage to liberals this election year — worth more than all the super PACs put together.
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