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(1) Walk the dog, (2) Sweep the floor, (3) Wash the dishes, (4) Take out the trash.
And most important of all, (4) Take out the trash.
We have a feeling you’ll be seeing this same image on a lot of sites today.
Reason.tv turned on their cameras and let the leftwing geniuses at the Stewart/Colbert rally demonstrate their intellectual and moral superiority. They smart.
Reason.tv turned on their cameras and let the leftwing geniuses at the Stewart/Colbert rally demonstrate their intellectual and moral superiority.
They smart.
Last week I witnessed the effects of media indoctrination, first hand, when I went to do some volunteer work at Sharron Angle’s campaign headquarters.
Guest post by Sonny Palermo
We all hate the media. We loathe their liberal bias. We detest their posturing of neutrality. We abhor their selective enforcement, pounding Republicans every chance they get, handing out free passes to Democrats for the same offenses and all the while hoping no one notices.
We notice. And we call BS on them. We make light of it here, we use humor and sarcasm to bring your attention to it, but we take their insidious agenda seriously, because we know their intent and the damage they cause. Last week I witnessed it, first hand, when I went to do some volunteer work at Sharron Angle’s campaign headquarters.
After filling out the requisite forms and showing them my ID, the office manager showed me a list of over a dozen areas that volunteers can participate in, including door knocking, putting up signs, and poll watching (Yes, poll watching. Voter fraud and abuse by Democrats is real, and the campaign has attorneys and supporters at every location watching out for and recording any shenanigans). Their research shows that phoning voters at home is the most effective use of volunteers so they asked if I would help man the phone banks and I complied.
The office was a beehive of activity, the cubicles filled with volunteers of all ages, with a slight lean towards seniors. I was given a script, with an opening, “Hi, I’m (your name here) and I’m calling on behalf of Sharron Angle for Senate” and two questions: “Will you be voting Republican in this election cycle?” and “Will you be participating in early voting?”
The objective was to reach out to as many voters as you can, remind them that early voting ends on Friday, October 9th, and answer any questions they may have regarding Sharron’s stance on the issues. Most phone calls I made were met with answering machines. I also got hung up on a lot, as can be expected when cold calling people at home. But all those misses were worth it when you get a “hit” – an undecided independent voter, providing the opportunity to discuss the issues.
I made six hundred phone calls that day, and am proud to say I believe I made more than a few converts. Unfortunately, as stated above, I also witnessed firsthand the damage that the liberal media can inflict. I spoke with a registered voter who said, “Angle? She’s with the Tea Party, right? They’re all just a bunch of racists!”
I was tempted to reply, “No, you’ve been misinformed. Why, Sharron’s husband is black!” but I doubted the campaign would share my sense of humor. I asked if she had ever been to a rally, and she said “No.”
“Then why do you think they’re racists?” I said.
“Because I saw it on TV.”
I pointed out the biased coverage of the networks, but there was no changing her mind – it was already perverted by the media. Sadly, she wasn’t the only voter I spoke with who had been indoctrinated. The mainstream media is attempting to shape the nation, not report on it. It’s our job to stop them. And we have to succeed, because the alternative is a government-run nanny state, exorbitant taxation and the loss of our personal freedom.
Success can be achieved. You just have to get involved. Now is not the time to sit on the sidelines – stand and be heard.
Vote.
Volunteer.
One person CAN make a difference, as I learned in my day at Sharron Angle’s headquarters. A hundred hangups and answering machines are well worth it when you reach that one undecided voter and get to point out the lies of the media, the lies in the campaign ads, when you’re able to educate a fellow citizen on the issues and convince him to listen to both sides of the debate and then make a well informed decision, knowing that when he does it will bring an end to the freedom-suffocating, tax-and-spend crazy, reckless regime of Obama, Reid, Pelosi and their ilk.
I made a difference in this campaign and I have never felt more patriotic in my life. It’s a feeling I highly recommend to you.
– Written by Sonny Palermo
Wasn’t it nice to see an American president who doesn’t throw like a girl? One who wears man pants instead of mom pants? One who can hear the word strike without thinking of SEIU?
It was actually a fast ball down the middle of the plate, but we couldn’t resist the Hope and Change-up headline. Our apologies.
Seriously, though, wasn’t it nice to see an American president who doesn’t throw like a girl? One who wears man pants instead of mom pants? One who can hear the word strike without thinking of SEIU? One who throws from the right side instead of the left side (tell us there isn’t some major league symbolism in that).
This photo is too strange to be true. Except that it’s true. It shows a man who has dropped to his knees to pray as a car carrying President Obama pulls away from the curb in Chicago.
This photo is too strange to be true. Except that it’s true.
It shows a man who has dropped to his knees to pray as a car carrying President Obama pulls away from the curb in Chicago.
Maybe we’re misinterpreting. Maybe he’s not praying to President Obama. Maybe he’s praying that Republicans pick up the House and the Senate on Tuesday.
Yeah, right.
Source: Reuters
Will you watch MSNBC just to see Olbermann’s, Matthews’ and Maddow’s heads explode? Will you try ABC because they’ve signed up Andrew Breitbart and Dana Loesch as contributors? Will you tune to CBS to watch Katie Couric’s final national election coverage?
Will you watch Fox News so you can support the home team as the results of the Democrats’ debacle roll in?
Will you watch MSNBC just to see Olbermann’s, Matthews’ and Maddow’s heads explode?
Will you try ABC because they’ve signed up Andrew Breitbart and Dana Loesch as contributors?
Will you tune to CBS to watch Katie Couric’s final national election coverage?
Or will you switch around to get the best (and worst) of all worlds?
It’s open for discussion. Let us know who you’ll watch and why.
Last week, while having lunch at a Chinese restaurant in Las Vegas, a woman walked in who looked like Sharron Angle. She was accompanied by only one person, and I thought, “Can’t be her, she would have more people around her.” Then…
Guest post by Sonny Palermo
In the past, I shrugged off my right to vote due to my disdain for politicians, joking that “It only encourages them to run.” To my way of thinking, it didn’t matter which party was in office – Republican or Democrat – my life would not be changed. At the end of the year I may have a few dollars more or less in my pockets, but overall my world was not greatly affected.
But I can no longer remain ambivalent about my right to vote. After spending most of 2008 and 2009 in Vancouver, BC, I returned to a country that I don’t even recognize. Too many of my friends and family are out of work. Too many of the principles that made America great are being eradicated by the current administration. The first two years of Obamanation have been a disaster. Two more years of this socialist takeover and the damage may be irreversible. So this year, I vote.
Last week, while having lunch at a Chinese restaurant in Las Vegas, a woman walked in who looked like Sharron Angle. She was accompanied by only one person, and I thought, “Can’t be her, she would have more people around her.” Then I saw her smile that Chesire Cat grin and I knew it was her. More people arrived and joined her party as the restaurant scrambled to put tables together to accommodate them. Other diners began to ask to have their pictures taken with her, and she obliged.
As I was getting ready to leave, her husband walked past my table and I motioned him to come over for a minute. I told him I had just driven across the country from NJ to vote for Sharron, and I wished them success in the campaign. He wanted to call Sharron over but I stopped him, saying I didn’t want to interrupt her lunch. He said, “No, please, she is going to want to hear this” and he asked me to wait while he brought her over. When they approached, he asked, “Tell her what you just told me.”
And here’s the weird part – completely unexpected, totally out of nowhere, I was hit with a wave of patriotism like I had never felt before, and my voice faltered for a second. I came here to help her campaign and suddenly here I was, face to face with the woman who may very well be in the most important race of the midterms, the woman who is poised to remove one head of the hydra that is Obama-Reid-Pelosi. I told her I came all the way here from NJ, to vote for the very first time in my life. To vote for her.
And . . . she hugged me.
After I got over the initial shock I realized – this is the woman the left has smeared as “extreme and dangerous?”
Yeah, sure. Extremely grandmotherly, maybe.
Sharron and Ted Angle stayed with me for about five minutes, discussing politics and policy. She said part of the reason she made the decision to run for the senate was the same reason I was going to become a first time voter – she found that our country was becoming unrecognizable, and much of the fault lay with Harry Reid, architect of the Cornhusker kickback and all the backroom deals contrived to pass the calamitous Obamacare, and purveyor of the failed two billion dollar stimulus plan.
The Angles were gracious and kind, and Sharron was passionate about the issues affecting our country at this most unique moment in history. Before parting, I vowed to volunteer some of my time to work at their campaign headquarters, and they offered heartfelt thanks.
They left, after expressing gratitude to me for having shared my story with them.
I left, grateful that I had the opportunity to meet and speak with the next Senator from the (sometimes) great state of Nevada.
– Written by Sonny Palermo
Sarah Palin had some choice words for the media in Alaska when she appeared on Fox News Sunday. Specifically, she was discussing the reporters who accidentally recorded themselves plotting smears against Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller when she called them “corrupt bastards.”
Sarah Palin had some choice words for the media in Alaska when she appeared on Fox News Sunday.
Specifically, she was discussing the reporters who accidentally recorded themselves plotting smears against Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller when she called them “corrupt bastards.”
We’re not sure that’s fair, Sarah. Their news may be illegitimate, but we’re not sure they are.
Alaska Republican Joe Miller has every right to hate the media. The state’s top TV station was stupid enough to leave a voicemail in which the news director and an unidentified reporter are clearly heard plotting to create last second smears against the Senate candidate.
Alaska Republican Joe Miller has every right to hate the media. The state’s top TV station was stupid enough to leave a voicemail in which the news director and an unidentified reporter are clearly heard plotting to create last second smears against the Senate candidate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftAylfUoogg
Here’s how BigGovernment.com tells the sordid tale:
The following voice mail message was inadvertently left on the cell phone of Joe Miller campaign spokesperson Randy DeSoto.
The voices are believed to be those of the news director for CBS Anchorage affiliate KTVA, along with assignment editor Nick McDermott, and other reporters, openly discussing creating, if not fabricating, two stories about Republican nominee for U.S. Senate, Joe Miller.
… It was later authenticated by McDermott, who sent a text to Randy DeSoto stating, “Damn iPhone… I left you a long message. I thought I hung up. Sorry.”
Clearly the reporters were conspiring to set up some type of smear of Joe Miller. With glee, they even cite a recent controversy over an incident involving the Rand Paul campaign, while discussing how they would spread the story via social media after whatever incident they had in mind came off.
The Miller campaign responded immediately:
Now the media has gone from trying to create stories to openly lying. The audio was pulled directly from the voicemail message. Nothing was altered. “Everything that was recorded on my phone is what we released without change,” said Randy Desoto.
Joe Miller hates the media. Welcome to the club, Joe.
Update: Sarah Palin responds to smear campaign against Joe Miller
H/T: BigGovernment.com
Who thought this was a good idea? Joe Sestak’s new commercial may qualify as not only the most tasteless campaign commercial of the year, but the stupidest.
The race for United States Senate in Pennsylvania has gone to the dogs. Literally.
Who thought this was a good idea? Joe Sestak’s new commercial may qualify as not only the most tasteless campaign commercial of the year, but the stupidest.
The United Nations wants to outlaw unmanned drones, weapons that only the United States possesses.
Based on the dictates of the United Nations, we may soon revert to jousting. Because apparently they consider hand-to-hand combat the only proper way to resolve a dispute.
Reuters has the somehow-not-too-surprising news:
A U.N. investigator called on the world body on Friday to set up a panel to study the ethics and legality of unmanned military weapons — an apparent reference to U.S. drones that strike suspected Islamist militants. In a report to the U.N. General Assembly human rights committee, Christof Heyns said such systems raised “serious concerns that have been almost entirely unexamined by human rights or humanitarian actors.”
“The international community urgently needs to address the legal, political, ethical and moral implications of the development of lethal robotic technologies,” said Heyns, U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions.
It was the second time this year U.N. experts tackled the issue. In June, Heyns’ predecessor, Philip Alston, called for a halt to CIA-directed drone strikes on al Qaeda and Taliban suspects in Afghanistan and Pakistan, saying killings ordered far from the battlefield could lead to a “Playstation” mentality.
A couple thoughts:
First, “a Playstation mentality?” Cool. How about if we call the game “Kill the Friggin’ Muslim Terrorists.” It would sell millions. Use the profits to build more drones.
Second, we didn’t know what the hell a “rapporteur” was, so we looked it up. According to Princeton.edu, a rapporteur is “a recorder appointed by a committee to prepare reports of the meetings.” In other words, a secretary. Nothing against secretaries, but go sit on your boss’s lap and shut the hell up, secretary boy.
Source: Reuters
Democrat Congressman and former NFL quarterback Heath Shuler says that he may run against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House. Uhhh, Heath, pal, we hate to be the bearers of bad news, but that won’t be an issue…
Democrat Congressman and former NFL quarterback Heath Shuler says that he may run against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House.
Uhhh, Heath, pal, we hate to be the bearers of bad news, but that won’t be an issue unless you switch to the Republican party very soon.
TheHill.com has Shuler’s oddly-timed announcement:
Conservative Democratic Rep. Heath Shuler (N.C.) said Wednesday he might run for Speaker if a “viable alternative” to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) does not emerge.
“If there is no viable alternative [to Pelosi], I will be running for Speaker of the House,” Shuler said during a debate with his Republican foe Jeff Miller on WWNC Radio, the Ashville Citizen-Times reported.
The statement from the second-term congressman, a former college football star who played as a pro with the NFL’s Washington Redskins, is another sign of Pelosi’s unpopularity among centrist and conservative Democrats, many of whom are facing tough reelection contests…
Throughout the campaign, Miller has attempted to tie Shuler to Pelosi, saying he votes with her a vast majority of the time.
Shuler’s comment sparked a testy exchange between the candidates.
“You’re saying you would not vote for Nancy Pelosi for speaker?” Miller said.
“If that’s the alternative, I will be voting for myself,” Shuler replied.
Opponents used to say that Gerald Ford had played too much football without a helmet. It would seem like a fair comment for Miller to make, too.
Source: TheHill.com
Has there ever been another Congressman you love to hate more than Alan Grayson? It’s almost like he’s a villain created for the WWE.
“Hey, this race is a damn dead heat and that poll that showed me seven points down was a big, fat fake.” Or words to that effect.
Has there ever been another Congressman you love to hate more than Alan Grayson? It’s almost like he’s a villain created for the WWE.
A French TV station France 24 is promoting its new Arabic broadcasts with footage that shows President Obama learning to speak Arabic.
This will not be welcome news in the White House. A French TV station France 24 is promoting its new Arabic broadcasts with footage that shows President Obama learning to speak Arabic.
Relax. It was all done with clever editing and special effects.
But as much as this guy likes to be on TV and considering the rumor that he may actually speak fluent Arabic, they could have saved themselves a lot of time, trouble and money by simply asking Obama to do the commercials.
H/T: iOwnTheWorld.com
Trick or treat, damn it
Opponents dug up a video clip of the Minnesota Congresswoman leading the Pledge of Allegiance in the House of Representatives. They say she omitted the words “under God.” She says she “took a breath.”
Minnesota Congresswoman Betty McCallum is not very happy. She’s also not very honest.
Opponents dug up a video clip of the Minnesota Congresswoman leading the Pledge of Allegiance in the House of Representatives. They say she omitted the words “under God.” She says she “took a breath.”
Here’s a press release posted on McCollum’s on Tuesday:
Congresswoman condemns radical right-wing agenda of hate, intolerance and racism
St. Paul, MN — Congresswoman Betty McCollum honors and respects the Pledge of Allegiance and believes the United States is one Nation under God. She has led the Pledge of Allegiance on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives numerous times as can be seen in these video links.
Conservatives are using an eight year old video clip to incite hate, racism, and intolerance among Tea Party Republicans. This right-wing effort to call into question Congresswoman McCollum’s Christian faith, her belief in God, and her patriotism is blatantly anti-American and all too similar to the extremists who earlier this year mailed a soiled American flag to her Congressional office and threatened the Congresswoman with violence.
Congresswoman McCollum rejects this radical agenda and condemns the extremist tactics behind this poisonous political exploitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.
There are three possibilities here:
(1) She took a breath. (2) She intentionally omitted the words “under God.” (3) She doesn’t know the words to the Pledge.
We think it’s probably number three, since she also incorrectly inserted the word “the” in front of “allegiance” at the beginning of Pledge.
And the third possibility is probably the worst of the three.
Source: McCollum.house.gov
Intriguingly, the Master of World Climate himself arrived in a rental car (with or without driver is unclear), from the airport, and subsequently left the engine running for the entire lecture.
It’s been several weeks since Al Gore was in the news and he must have read about James Cameron’s global warming hypocrisy and felt jealous.
ClimateDepot.com has the latest Gore hypocrisy update:
Recently, Nobel Peace Prize winner Al Gore toured again. Or maybe he does that all the time. This time, he turned up in Gothenburg (Sweden) for the usual alarmist talk. In advance, all distinguished guests were politely advised to – if possible – use any form of public transportation to go to the event, in order to minimize CO2 emissions.
Intriguingly, the Master of World Climate himself arrived in a rental car (with or without driver is unclear), from the airport, and subsequently left the engine running for the entire lecture. That is to say, about one hour. Incidentally, local legislation prohibits – for very good environmental reasons, i e pollution – any car engine running on empty for more than 60 seconds. Fines are severe. As far as I know, he was not fined.
Ahhhh, but if you thought Gore’s global warming hypocrisy was done for the day, you’d be wrong. He was just getting warmed up, so to speak.
After the ceremony in the Norwegian capital Oslo, it is customary that the laureate is invited to the Swedish capital Stockholm, for a cordial visit. The train ride, supposedly the environmental choice according to Mr. Gore, is approximately four hours. However, he opted for the cosier ride with one of the Swedish government aircrafts. As these can, according to the rules, only be used when a cabinet member is on board – and as the Swedish government after a short ceremonial visit – offered to fly him to Frankfurt (Germany) for his flight to the US, you can calculate both the manpower and the fuel used for this grand tour against man’s destruction of the planet.
Take that, James Cameron. Al Gore is still the king of global warming hypocrisy.
H/T: ClimateDepot.com
If someone wanted to bet that Al Franklin was the craziest politician from the Land of 10,000 Lakes we would have called it a safe bet, but that was before we saw this intellectually and bias challenged individual.
If someone wanted to bet that Al Franklin was the craziest politician from the Land of 10,000 Lakes we would have called it a safe bet, but that was before we saw this intellectually and bias challenged individual.
As difficult as it must be to be on the same show with Ed Schultz and yet state the most ridiculous person on the show, Rep Keith Ellison pulls it off.
Please note that we do not consider Keith Ellison an extreme Muslim. Just a rather predicable and somewhat boring one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gYe0J3pRK4
Teri Davis Newman is the Republican nominee for Congress in Illinois-12. She’s running against fat-and-happy, 12-term incumbent Democrat Jerry Costello, who hasn’t had a real challenge in god knows how long.
We love Teri Davis Newman. She’s been reading IHateTheMedia.com and leaving pithy comments since about day three.
Teri’s the Republican nominee for Congress in Illinois-12. She’s running against fat-and-happy, 12-term incumbent Democrat Jerry Costello, who hasn’t had a real challenge in god knows how long.
She’s smart, spunky, and not afraid to say what needs to be said even if it’s not the “smart” thing to say. For some unknown reason, she agreed to do IHateTheMedia.com’s first congressional candidate interview.
As you might expect, her answers are better than our questions.
1. If you were a witch, would you be Glenda the Good Witch from the Wizard of Oz, Samantha from Bewitched or Nancy Pelosi?
Nancy Pelosi isn’t qualified to be a witch. The only magic she’s ever performed is convincing the people of California-8 that she’s not a psychotic Botox-addicted knuckle-dragging vodka-swilling spotted owl-loving liberal. The rest of the country knows better.
2. On gay marriage, would you vote as a typical conservative and be against it, or would you be in favor of it because as a wedding planner it could increase your income?
I’m not one to sell my integrity for money.
3. You can invite any three people – living or dead- to dinner. How do you split the bill and under whose name is the reservation made?
I’ll make the reservation and pay the bill. They’re dead so it’s a cheap date.
4. Beatles or Stones? PC or Mac? Ninja or pirate? Hayak or Keynes?
Stones, PC, Ninja, Hayek
5. Celebrated movie The Graduate is left famously unresolved. In your estimation what happened to characters Benjamin and Elaine after they departed from the bus?
They get married, have 2.3 children. Subsequently they divorce and Elaine takes half of the money he made in “plastic.” Sadly, Benjamin is killed in a prison riot where he was doing time for insider trading.
Fred Thompson comments on the world in 140-characters or less. On a mostly unrelated note, we only need 11 characters to comment on Fred Thompson’s wife Jeri: Va-va-voom!
Fred Thompson comments on the world in 140-characters or less:
Obama to Dems: “we need you fired up”. Ya know, I say same thing to Dems in Congress all the time. Except without the “up” part.
Dem Rep Frank: I’m fighting “right-wing smears” from Tea Party “bigots”. What’s REALLY bugging him is that most of them are true
Another DADT ruling: yesterday, if you were in and you were out, you were in. Today, if you’re out and you’re in, you’re out.
Iran says it now has twice as much enriched uranium as it did in June. So THAT’S where Obama’s policies created/saved jobs.
Let’s get this straight – government doesn’t create jobs by waving its magical spending wand: http://bit.ly/dqmjmY
Dem Rep Frank loans $200K to own campaign. Um… has anyone told Barney that if he loses, he doesn’t get a bailout?
Reid: Obama “like the Chilean miners”. Why? Because Obama’s in over his head, or because he’s giving us the shaft?
SCOTUS: jailed felons do NOT have right to vote. Dems should be worried. Next they might rule dead people can’t vote, either.
Boeing to raise health plan prices b/c of Obamacare. I didn’t know Boeing paid so many of its workers over $250,000 a year.
Gibbs:”excitement about what president trying to do”. Yup. Like excitement when someone drives the wrong way down a 1-way street
Source: Fred Thompson on Twitter
Whaaaaa. We thought the Democrats had already exhausted their supply of weak reasons they’re going to lose Tuesday’s election. But they’ve come up with a new one.
Whaaaaa. We thought the Democrats had already exhausted their supply of weak reasons they’re going to lose Tuesday’s election. But they’ve come up with a new one.
TheHill.com has the inclement information:
In more bad news for Democrats, rain is in the forecast for much of the country on Election Day.
Weather tracking websites, including weather.com and The Old Farmer’s Almanac, are calling for rain in the Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast regions, with chances for precipitation in other parts of the country as well.
According to Laurel Harbridge, a Northwestern University political science professor, said GOP voters are not typically discouraged by rain. “Republicans are helped by bad weather…it does harm Democratic prospects.”
Wendy Schiller, a political science professor at Brown University, echoed Harbridge. “Bad weather almost always hurts Democrats,” she said. “The traditional Democratic base tends to include lower income people and the elderly. Both of those demographic groups have a hard time getting to the polls.”
Nonsense. Of course, Democrats are capable of voting in the rain. But sometimes, when it gets really wet, they only vote once.
Source: TheHill.com
We’re not all that interested in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. But we ran across this photo on the internet a few weeks ago and we’ve been looking for an excuse to run it.
To tell you the truth, we’re not all that interested in the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. But we ran across this photo on the internet a few weeks ago and we’ve been looking for an excuse to run it.
But in case you care, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the controversial regulation on Wednesday.
Fox News reports:
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday granted the Obama administration’s request for a temporary freeze of a California-based federal judge’s order telling the military to stop enforcing the policy…
Government lawyers sought to suspend the ruling while appeals were pending, arguing that it would pose a major problem for the military. They said it could encourage service members to reveal their sexual orientation before the issue is fully decided.
Seriously. The photo makes this whole story worthwhile, doesn’t it.
Source: Fox News
One can only hope that black voters are looking around at the current batch of exciting, young, black Republican candidates and saying, “Hmmmm. The Democrats haven’t really done much for me in the last 50 years….”
One can only hope that black voters are looking around at the current batch of exciting, young, black Republican candidates and saying, “Hmmmm. The Democrats haven’t really done much for me in the last 50 years….”
Keep your fingers crossed. Maybe a recent caller to Al Sharpton’s radio show is a sign of things to come.
The Radio Equalizer has the audio:
Caller: Reverend Al, I’ve been following you since the eighties ever since Tawana Brawley. Brother, you’ve had a place in my heart that is special.
But I’m from Chicago and the Democrats here can’t stand on their record, Reverend Al. That’s why the people are not coming out to vote, because they’ve been abused and misused. And I would just like to end with this that the Democratic Party has controlled the state government for at least ten or fifteen years.
The Democratic Party has controlled Chicago for at least 50 years and the blacks in Chicago and the blacks in the State of Illinois are worse off here, Reverend Al. You should come to Chicago so that you can see how bad they treat the people and now you gonna ask the people that you’ve been beaten down smacked up for ten or fifteen years to vote for me?
I’m not that ignorant, Reverend Al. I’m not going to keep expecting different results doing the same thing. Love you, brother. Out of here.
We assume this audio was cut off just before Reverend Al said, “Ah, crap. Looks like my scam is starting to unravel.”
H/T: RadioEqualizer
Prepare yourself for one of the most hostile TV interviews you’ll ever see. No, please allow us to make a correction. This isn’t an interview, it’s an attack.
Prepare yourself for one of the most hostile TV interviews you’ll ever see. No, please allow us to make a correction. This isn’t an interview, it’s an attack.
Philadelphia TV anchor Jeff Cole can’t even hold off on his disdain for James O’Keefe long enough to introduce the young citizen-journalist.
O’Keefe’s crime? Exposing the corruption in the New Jersey teacher’s union with another of his trademark undercover interviews.
H/T: Breitbart.tv
Pity CBS and the New York Times. They can see the Republican tidal wave coming, but their liberal bias is so strong that they can’t bring themselves to admit the size of what they see.
Pity CBS and the New York Times. They can see the Republican tidal wave coming, but their liberal bias is so strong that they can’t bring themselves to admit the size of what they see.
Take the results of the latest CBS/New York Times poll, for example:
With the midterm elections less than a week away, a new CBS News/New York Times poll finds that Republicans continue to hold an advantage over Democrats in the generic House ballot. Forty-six percent of likely voters say they plan to vote Republican, while 40 percent say they will vote Democrat.
Americans are divided in their views of the job President Obama is doing: 45% approve, while 47% disapprove.
If you scroll all the way down to the bottom of the poll, however, you’ll find the following paragraph:
This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,173 adults nationwide, interviewed by telephone October 22-26, 2010. An oversample of African Americans was interviewed, for a total of 273 interviews with African Americans.
What this means is that CBS and the New York Times have stacked the deck in this poll two different ways. And both of them lessen the impact of the aforementioned tidal wave.
First, they oversampled blacks, who are not just predominantly Democrat, but overwhelmingly Democrat. Blacks are approximately 13% of the population, yet in this poll they account for 23% of the respondents.
Obama’s not on the ballot and it is widely expected that black turn-out will decrease in this election, not increase. So what rationale could possibly justify oversampling by 77% (10/13) an ethnic group that voted 95% Democrat in the last election?
Based on this, we assume somewhere around 170% of blacks will vote Democrat in this election. Of course, this will necessarily require a major “get out the vote” effort in cemeteries across the country, but those are traditional Democrat strongholds.
Second, self-identified party breakdown (weighted) in this poll shows 28% Republicans, 38% Democrats and 45% Independents. Do CBS and the New York Times really think Democrats outnumber Republicans by 35% (10/28) in a year when Republicans are expected to dominate the balloting? For god’s sake, man, Obama only won by 7% in in 2008 in what was widely considered a runaway election.
To show just how distorted these figures are, on the same day this CBS/New York Times poll was released, Gallup released a poll on the composition of likely 2010 voters. It shows 55% Republican/Lean Republican, 40% Democrat/Lean Democrat and 4% Independent.
Of course, it’s always possible that Gallup oversampled racist, sexist, homophobic conservatives. But we doubt it.
Source: CBS News, Gallup
