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January 25, 2008
Segregated Democratic South Rises Again
A Mason-Dixon poll indicates that only 10% of WHITE voters in South Carolina's DEMOCRATIC presidential primary are supporting the BLACK candidate. Details from McClatchy: Obama leads Clinton in S.C. as racial divide opens
Racism in the Democratic Party? Why is this not THE story today in the race-conscious Old Media?
Posted by jeffgannon at 10:52 AM
Old Media Pushing McCain
John McCain is the Old Media's candidate for the Republican nomination. The "maverick" Arizona Senator got an endorsement from The New York Times and MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell declared him the winner of Thursday night's GOP presidential debate. Kudos to Joe Scarborough for rebuking Mrs. Greenspan.
Truth be told, John McCain and the Old Media might think John McCain is a conservative, but he is not. The Old Media's affection for McCain demonstrates that he is not.
Posted by jeffgannon at 10:09 AM
Back To The Future With Bill And Hill
The Clintons audaciously attacked Barack Obama for having a relationship with a sleazy campaign contributor only to have a photo surface that shows they had one with him, too.
In typical Hillary Clinton fashion, the former First Lady told Matt Lauer, "I probably have taken hundreds of thousands of pictures. I don't know the man. I wouldn't know him if he walked in the door..."
When caught in a lie or pressed to explain a contradiction Mrs. Clinton resorts to the "faulty memory" defense. Political analyst Larry Sabato commented that incident like this remind Democrats of the "Clinton fatigue" they experienced in the 1990s.
Sabato also allowed that there is a great deal of baggage from the Clinton years that "has yet to be mined." Excuse me Larry, but at what point were you and the rest of the Old Media shills going to take a look at some of it? Recently, Mrs. Clinton declared that she is "the most vetted candidate" in the race. Why did you not challenge that statement since you believe that there is much more that hasn't been discussed?
As an aside, in the media environment that the Clintons operated in during the 1990s, the photo of the First Couple with Rezko would have never been made public. Rezko himself might have disappeared much like Craig Livingstone.
Take heart, America - it's a New Media day!
Posted by jeffgannon at 09:50 AM
January 24, 2008
Hillary Top Presidential Porker
If the story were only about Mrs. Clinton's Rubenesque figure or the "cankles" the former First Lady conceals with her mannish pantsuits, I wouldn't even bother to write about it. I don't take cheap shots in an environment so target-rich.
The porcine predilection of which I opine is that of the erstwhile New York Democrat's 261 "earmarks" , that is, taxpayer money doled out to aid electoral fortunes.
Mrs. Clinton recently admitted, "America can't afford all of my ideas..." perhaps the only honest statement she ever made.
Posted by jeffgannon at 06:39 PM
ESPN Anchor Hates Jesus
Each day brings another story about Muslims being offended at something harmless. Today, the source of the phony outrage is the childhood tale, "The Three Little Pigs".
However, it is still open season on Christians. The Old Media mostly skipped over ESPN anchor Dana Jacobson's drunken rant during an Atlantic City, NJ appearance during which she shouted, "F**k Jesus!"
Several groups are urging Christians to register their complaints to the unacceptable bigotry and hatred that has become all too commonplace among media and entertainment elites.
If you have time to read this, you have time to call or email ESPN:
E-mail ESPN: espn_inc@espn.com
Call ESPN: 860-766-2000
Posted by jeffgannon at 01:25 PM
Leftists Ramp Up Bush Smear Campaigns
Continuing progress in Iraq is forcing leftists to increase their efforts to smear President Bush. A non-profit "journalism" group funded by George Soros issued a report this week aimed at reiterating the liberal canard that "Bush lied us into war." The labor union funded group, Americans United for Change have announced an $8.5 million campaign to reinforce a negative media message about the President.
Of course, the biased Old Media will do its part, uncritically accepting as fact whatever claims these groups make and not disclosing the identities or motivations of those behind them. For the bias deniers out there, compare that to the media's defamation of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
Posted by jeffgannon at 11:10 AM
January 23, 2008
Stupid Political Statements
Chuck Norris, a celebrity campaigning for Gov. Mike Huckabee gets an award for making one of the dumbest non-issue related statements of the election cycle thus far:
"I didn't pick John (McCain) to support because I'm just afraid that the vice president would wind up taking over his job in that four-year presidency..."
The facts notwithstanding, it's just not politically astute to go to "God's waiting room" and invoke the specter of the Grim Reaper.
Posted by jeffgannon at 08:25 AM
January 18, 2008
Is Obama Bundler Terrorist Financier?
Earlier this week, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama tried to put some distance between himself and the radical anti-Semetic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. However, the Illinois Democrat has another relationship that may prove troublesome if the Old Media (or the Clintons) take notice.
Jodie Evans, co-founder of the antiwar (and anti-American) group Code Pink is fundraising for Obama. Public Citizen notes that Evans has already "bundled" $50,000 in political contributions to help B. Hussein Obama become Commander-in-Chief. That amount is only a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of dollars Evans and Code Pink supplied to "the other side" in Iraq.
Kristinn Taylor, co-leader of the D.C. Chapter of FreeRepublic.com issued a press release Thursday calling on Obama to renounce Evans' individual contribution of $2,300:
Barack Obama has a credible chance to be the next commander-in-chief of America's armed forces. The leader of our military must have the confidence of the American people that he is not in bed with America's enemies. It is therefore incumbent upon Sen. Obama that he immediately repudiate the $2300 terrorist supporter Jodie Evans has contributed to his presidential campaign. Rather than return her blood money to Ms. Evans, the money should be given to a troop support organization of Sen. Obama's choice.
Should Sen. Obama elect to keep Ms. Evans' contribution, it will tell the American people that he shares her support for the terrorist-led insurgency in Iraq.
What say you Sen. Obama?
Posted by jeffgannon at 10:27 AM
Chrissy Caves To Clinton Media Thugs
Journalists almost never apologize for anything. Speaking as someone who has been on the receiving end of the most sensational, biased and innacurate reporting of the 21st Century, imagine my surprise when MSNBC's "Hardball" host Chris Matthews apologized to Sen. Hillary Clinton for his allegedly "sexist" comments about her.
Clinton's thugs at Media Matters and their brownshirt minions prevailed upon the network to force Matthews to express remorse at his comments about the Mrs. Clinton and her dubious qualifications to be President of the United States.
The incident demonstrated a pathetic lack of testosterone on the part of Matthews which is not surprising for a liberal male, but the more disturbing aspect is how the Clintons brazenly beat the Old Media into submission.
Posted by jeffgannon at 10:12 AM
January 15, 2008
Racism Alive In Democratic Party
As the result of liberal historical revisionism, few Americans realize that Democrats ruled the segregated South until the 1960s. Democrats were the party of Jim Crow and Bull Connor. Senate Democrats, including former Ku Klux Klan recruiter Robert Byrd and Bill Clinton mentor William Fulbright and Al Gore, Sr. filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The stalemate was broken by Senate Republicans ensuring passage of the bill.
The racism that never left the Democratic Party has bubbled to the surface in the battle between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the presidential nomination. The Clintons went out and got BET founder Robert Johnson to put the smear on Obama - in order to avoid the backlash that took place after Bill Shaheen and Bob Kerrey each took shots at the uppity Illinois senator.
Even though Republican President George W. Bush appointed more blacks to positions of real power and authority, idiots like Kanye West blurt out on national television that "Bush doesn't like black people." African-Americans have consistently given an overwhelming majority of their votes to Democrats based on illusory promises that are never fulfilled.
However, the Clintons are going to have to take down the black guy if they are to achieve their own political ends. It would not be the first time, since the Clintons pushed Maynard Jackson aside to install Terry McAuliffe as chairman of the Democratic National Committee.
The lesson: Just because the Democratic Party doesn't make blacks sit in the back of the bus anymore doesn't mean it will ever let them get behind the steering wheel.
Posted by jeffgannon at 09:56 AM
The New York Times Slanders Troops; Aids Traitors
Now that the surge has worked and political progress is taking place in Iraq, the 1960s radicals that operate The New York Times have gone back to the well-worn liberal Democratic playbook to undermine the war effort. Mired in an ideological quagmire of defeatism and driven by a hatred of President George W. Bush, the “support the troops, not the war” crowd has turned its sights on the brave men and women who protect the American homeland and who liberated 50 million people from tyrants and Islamofascists.
During the Vietnam War, longhaired, barefoot cowards marched through the streets of the United States aiding and abetting the enemy and helping to secure the defeat of their own country. Today, some of those same people run the newsrooms of the Old Media and lead the Democratic Party. Together, they once again conspire against victory in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Democrats were unable to prevent the surge, stop funding for the war on terror or force President Bush to cut and run from the battlefield. The Old Media managed to turn only about two-thirds of the country against the war with its biased coverage before the situation improved to the point where progress and success could no longer be denied. As a result, public opinion about Iraq is turning in favor of Bush and the Republicans who remained steadfast on the war.
Liberal pundits wail that Iraq will not provide the political knockout punch in 2008 that would allow Democrats to keep control of Congress and win the White House. The situation is so much improved in Iraq that the Old Media has virtually stopped reporting about the war.
Not content to simply move on, The New York Times decided to slander the troops with a hit piece. The Old Media created the myth of the Vietnam War veteran being mentally unstable and prone to going on a murderous rampage with the least provocation. The updated version suggests that veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are returning from the battlefield to wreak mayhem, violence and murder. However, analysis shows veterans to be more law biding and stable than their civilian counterparts. The authors of the article attempted no such comparison.
The New York Times is laying the groundwork for sensational reporting of a media event staged by the Iraq Veterans Against the War. Like their fraudulent counterparts, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War of which John Kerry was a member, they are planning to accuse American soldiers of war crimes and other atrocities committed on the battlefield in "Winter Soldier" hearings. Not surprisingly, the group has already announced plans for a full-page advertisement in The New York Times.
I assume the IVAW will get the “MoveOn.org discount.”
Posted by jeffgannon at 09:01 AM
January 10, 2008
Dour Pelosi Sour On Surge
Democratic Leader Refuses To Acknowledge Surge Success
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is so invested in the defeat of the United States in Iraq that she finds it impossible to admit that the “troop surge” initiated last year has succeeded. Violence across the country has sharply declined along with American troop deaths, but that is not enough for the San Francisco Democrat. Pelosi suggests that because political progress has been slow in coming to fruition that America should abandon the fledgling democracy.
“One year ago, the President announced his plan to send thousands of additional U.S. troops to Iraq. Despite the bravery of our men and women in uniform, the primary purpose of the President's surge policy has not been achieved: the Iraqi government is nowhere near political reconciliation that would contribute to regional stability.”
Pelosi’s disparagement of every aspect of the war and denial of any positive developments is a political necessity. As leader of the Democrats’ “coward caucus”, Pelosi railed against the surge and now that it is working, stands to be proven wrong and unworthy of trust on national security and military issues. Nor can she share any credit for a successful conclusion in Iraq. Pelosi and her congressional allies are still blathering about a “new direction” in Iraq – which would be to turn away from the victory that appears achievable.
Even Pelosi’s counterpart, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid admitted recently that the surge was working, but the “grandmother with the gavel” insists that that cause is lost. The congressional elections in 2008 may be a referendum on her leadership. South Carolina Rep. James Clyburn told The Washington Post that a positive outcome in Iraq would be “a real big problem for us.” It certainly should be.
Posted by jeffgannon at 10:20 AM
January 09, 2008
Traitor, Valerie Plame Defender Dies
Philip Agee, a former CIA agent who betrayed the identities of scores of agency operatives in a 1975 book, recently died in disgrace in Cuba. Despite his own actions exposing intelligence assests, Agee criticized the Bush administration for the "outing" of CIA officer Valerie Plame. Ironically, the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act that Democrats and the Old Media claim was violated in the Valerie Plame Affair (it wasn't) by the release of Plame's name was passed into law as the result of Agee's treachery.
Posted by jeffgannon at 11:53 AM
Old Media Embarrassed (Or Not) In New Hampshire
According to the Old Media, Sen. Barack Obama was a lock to win New Hampshire’s Democratic presidential primary on Tuesday. However, when the returns started to come in, Sen. Hillary Clinton jumped into a lead she held onto until the last ballot was counted. The former First Lady won 39% percent of the votes cast in the Granite State.
How did the Old Media get it so wrong? Polls showed the Illinois Democrat winning in a landslide with no indication of the surge that carried Clinton to victory. The results of the Republican race closely matched predictions by the same pollsters, so what happened on the Democratic side?
Some have suggested that liberal Democrats told polltakers that they planned to vote for the black guy, not wanting to be thought of as racist. In today’s politically correct hierarchy, race trumps gender. However, the results show that once women got into the voting booth, gender allegiance prevailed. The fact that these two lightweights are the frontrunners to become the Democratic nominee for president of the United States as well as Commander in Chief indicates that experience and ability are irrelevant in the selection process based on identity politics.
The scenario was further complicated by Obama’s elevation to rock star status by fawning political reporters comparing him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and John F. Kennedy. Remember that many in the Old Media marched as rebellious youth during the 1960s for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. Nostalgia for the Woodstock era that shaped their worldview also influences their coverage of current events. Obama is Martin, Bobby and John all rolled into one.
The most ardent Obama booster might be MSNBC’s Chris Matthews. The former Peace Corps hippie and Jimmy Carter speechwriter gets all-starry eyed when talking about the object of his ideological man-crush. However, Matthews is not alone in getting caught up in the Obamamania. Plenty of others in the Old Media chatted with each other about Obama like fan club teenyboppers.
It is an amusing spectacle if one can forget that these same people still have a significant role in influencing public opinion through their presentation and interpretation of the news. They were wrong but unapologetically and unaccountably move on to the next media train wreck.
Posted by jeffgannon at 11:08 AM
January 07, 2008
Disgruntled Voters Punish Establishment Candidates
The results of the Iowa Caucuses proved what many pundits and political analysts had suggested (and feared) about the 2008 elections: Voters want change. National front-runners of both parties fared badly, as Iowans expressed dissatisfaction with both the substance and style of some who courted their voters.
Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama were the beneficiaries of what should be viewed as more of a protest vote than an endorsement of either candidate. Neither of the winners was selected on the basis of a clearly articulated message as Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas was a relative unknown and Obama, the junior senator from Illinois did little to distinguish himself policywise from the field of leading Democrats.
Sen. Hillary Clinton tried, in the last weeks before the caucuses to associate herself with “change.” However, more that any other candidate in the presidential sweepstakes, Clinton represents “business as usual.” Being the second Clinton in the potential Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton string of succession is particularly difficult to downplay.
Sen. John McCain, once considered a GOP favorite (if only by the Old Media) suffers a similarly from being perceived as a perennial Washington insider. McCain has a long record of unpopular legislation that bears his name, from the First Amendment encroaching McCain-Feingold campaign financing law to the failed Kennedy-McCain comprehensive (amnesty for illegal aliens) immigration reforms.
Incumbents and challengers across the country at all levels should understand the potential impact of the voters’ restive mood. The “right-track, wrong-track” polls reflect the disaffection of the electorate toward policies currently in place and those responsible for them. Thought the issues may be different depending on political party, for Democrats, health care and the Iraq War, and for Republicans, government spending and illegal immigration, the net result may be the same for an incumbent. So strong is the anti-Washington sentiment that the National Republican Congressional Committee is encouraging the challengers to incumbent Democrats to run against Congress.
The early start of the selection process exacerbated the unhappiness voters already expressed in the 2006 midterm elections. Since the primary process became front-loaded for 2008, it is possible that both parties will have decided upon their nominees by the middle of February. What is there to do until the conventions at the end of the summer and Election Day in November? That is a long time to keep folks interested and motivated enough to go to the polls.
Such a scenario also creates an environment for an independent or third party candidate to get into the race. Republican (if only in name) Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York City possesses the intoxicating combination of elevated levels of ego and personal wealth to make such a run. A John McCain-Joe Lieberman ticket is not outside the realm of possibility, either.
The volatile political landscape leaves pundits and political prognosticators in the same position as weather forecasters. The sunrise and sunset is certain, but what happens in between is anyone’s guess. Election Day will be November 4, however the names on the ballot are more of a mystery than at any time in the past 60 years.
So far, the only sage advice I have to offer: Incumbents beware!
Posted by jeffgannon at 09:36 AM
January 03, 2008
The New York Times’ America
The editorial board of The New York Times began the New Year by publishing a diatribe against the Bush administration, something that often occurs and came as no surprise. However, the tone of this particular editorial apparently inspired by the CIA’s destruction of terrorist interrogation tapes provided great insight into the reason for the Old Grey Lady’s increasing irrelevancy as a news source and a barometer of public opinion.
First of all, the editorial reads like the lunatic rantings from one of the left wing blogs that run the Democratic Party salted with a dash of the Times’ sneering liberal elitism. The familiar lament that, “There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country” reveals quite a bit about The New York Times’ America.
The editors and reporters of The New York Times probably do not recognize much of the country west of the Lincoln Tunnel on any given day. Places with names like Beatrice, Nebraska and Kalispell, Montana remain mysterious dots in the middle of a wide swath of red on a political map of America. The land is so unfamiliar to liberal journalism elites that following the 2004 election, The Washington Post dispatched two reporters to drive through “Red State America” to discover how President Bush could have possibly been re-elected.
The New York Times editorial decries the “lawlessness” of the Bush administration yet hides behind the First Amendment while committing treason on its own front page by exposing classified programs that have uncovered terrorist plots. When The New York Times is not providing America’s national security secrets to its enemies, the “newspaper of record” must amuse and delight even the most joyless jihadist. Reading about the liberal hand wringing over the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and the interception of terrorist communications surely gives the al Qaeda crowd a chuckle with their coffee at the start of another day of strapping suicide vests to children and lopping off the heads of infidels.
The editorial claims that “Out of panic and ideology, President Bush squandered America’s position of moral and political leadership” after September 11, 2001. It is doubtful the 9/11 victims’ families take any comfort in the knowledge that their loved ones died with America’s reputation intact. The newspaper fails to note Democrats' complicity in all of the enumerated "crimes."
In the minds of those at The New York Times and their elitist sycophants, George Bush and Dick Cheney pose more danger to America than Osama bin Laden, Mahmood Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong Il. Much of their current rage centers on the practice of “waterboarding.” The interrogation technique reportedly used sparingly – and successfully – has kindled the flames of moral outrage on the left about terrorists being “tortured.”
That high moral ground might be ceded to the liberals were it not for their own conduct. While Bush and his team might have pushed the envelope on what rational people consider humane, it was done in the name of protecting innocent life – and proves to do so. Compare that to an ideology that kills babies for political gain, innocuously describing support for infanticide as being “pro-choice.”
The New York Times reveals its crass political aims in the final paragraph of the piece stating, “We can only hope that this time, unlike 2004, American voters will have the wisdom to grant the awesome powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity, principle and decency to use them honorably.”
Considering that the newspaper believes no Republican embodies such qualities, it must be suggesting that Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton does. That speaks volumes about The New York Times’ America.
Posted by jeffgannon at 09:13 AM
January 01, 2008
Uncertain New Year!
Like most years, Americans ushered in 2008 with fireworks and frivolity. First-day festivities full of food, family and football serve as distractions from the cares and concerns of the everyday world. However, the scenes that played out across the country provide only a brief respite from what lies ahead.
Over 200 years ago, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” The Founder’s words are more apt today than ever before, as America appears to be entering an Age of Uncertainty, with an unsettling number of unpredictable outcomes to be ultimately decided in the coming year.
The next president of the United States will be chosen before the next ball drops in Times Square, yet the process has only become more muddled in an elongated election season. No clear leader exists in either party, let alone an odds-on favorite to win in November. The lack of an incumbent for the first time in a generation ensures a political free-for-all. The agenda that the eventual winner pursues is anyone’s guess.
Economic indicators seem to be pointing in two directions at once. Interest rates and unemployment are low while stock prices and productivity are high, yet a credit crunch and rising oil prices appear as dark clouds on the horizon. Few are uttering confident predictions about future economic conditions.
The war in Iraq, which many viewed as lost a year ago, now shows the possibility of success. Al Qaeda has been routed in Iraq, only to wreak havoc in Pakistan. Other trouble spots could erupt at any moment.
Al Gore leads a worldwide movement that believes mankind is responsible for global climate change, yet a significant number of scientists think the dire consequences suggested are nonsense and draconian remedies unnecessary.
Atheists stridently promote their godless gospel and sow the seeds of doubt among those whose foundation in faith is shaky.
So much uncertainty diminishes hope and amplifies despair. The challenge for the coming year may be to maintain a positive outlook in the face of that uncertainty.
Uncertain New Year!
Posted by jeffgannon at 03:31 PM