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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Attacks on Republicans Continue

May 24, 2011

The number of people on Food Stamps has risen from 32 million in January of 2009 (when President Obama took office) to 40 million today. So, Newt Gingrich said Obama is the "Food Stamp" president. But, as predicted here: The MSM, Part III, the MSM is in attack mode. Every Republican is fair game. Every Democrat gets a pass. When were such aggressive questions last asked of a Democrat? 1992? On Meet the Press, on May 15, 2011, host David Gregory accused Newt Gingrich (R-GA) of racism for speaking about the rise in food stamp recipients. Racism? Gingrich didn't say anything racist, but the left sees any criticism of a black president as racist. The MSM reporter is the racist for implying - and perpetuating the lie - that all blacks are on food stamps.

Not convinced? The following Sunday, on Face the Nation, Bob Schieffer attacked the former U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives for having a rotating line of credit at a jewelry store. For those of you who might not know, lines of credit are a normal way of doing business for wealthier Americans. Schieffer: "... you owed between two hundred and fifty thousand, a half million dollars to a jewelry company. What was that about Mister Speaker?" Gingrich: "... We have a reasonably good income..." Schieffer: "Did you owe a half million dollars to a jewelry company at one point?" Gingrich: "We had a revolving fund." Schieffer: " I mean who buys a half million dollars worth of jewelry on credit?" (Remember, Schieffer is rich, too, but he is trying to show his audience that Gingrich is wealthy. Schieffer believes that this fact alone will convince his audience to dislike the former Speaker.) Gingrich: "... it’s--my private life." Schieffer: "... You’re going to be the guy in charge of the Treasury Department. And it just- it just sticks out--" Gingrich: "...I am debt-free. If the U.S. government was debt-free as I am, everybody in America would be celebrating. I think I have proven I can manage money." Did a single reporter (from the MSM) harass Barack Obama about his assets, what he owed, or where he spent his money in 2008? Didn't think so.

Read the entire and extraordinary transcript for yourself at: Newt on Face the Nation. The MSM came down on the Tea Party, calling them radical and dangerous, remember? Schieffer asked Gingrich about the president's recent speech, in which he called for a Palestinian State and a return to the 1967 borders (prior to the 6-day war, which began when Israel was attacked, BTW). Gingrich: "...I think it is a disaster. I think it is extraordinarily dangerous. I think that it-- defining the 1967 border would be an act of suicide for Israel..." Schieffer: "...I have to ask you though you’re using words like dangerous. I mean, the President was calling for peace. How-- why-- why can you characterize that as dangerous?" Gingrich: "...how do you have peace with a Hamas organization whose stated goal is the destruction of Israel and driving every Israeli out of the country? ...the President talks about peace when he ought to be insisting that we cut off all aid to Hamas and isolate Hamas as long as it is a terrorist organization trying to destroy an entire people."

Even though I used to think I was a liberal, I find their thinking amusing, hypocritical, illogical, and completely misguided today. Don't you?

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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

The MSM, Part I

Apr. 5, 17, 19, and 26, 2011

Did you ever notice how the mainstream media (MSM), that tireless team of left wing news reporting outlets, always tries to corner Republicans, make them look bad, and tries to get them to agree there's some kind of problem within the Republican Party? No? Then perhaps you've heard them try to insinuate that the GOP is crumbling to pieces. It's true, reporters in the mainstream media sure love to harass conservatives. On November 7, 2010, Christiane Amanpour interviewed Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), and continually tried to get him to agree that the Bush tax cuts would someday have to be repealed. On the same show she asked Rep. Mike Pence (R-SD) six times if he was running for office!

The MSM loves weak Republican candidates like Sen. John McCain. Watch, as they will appear to support one in 2012, and they will try to promote him (or her) as the GOP front-runner. This is a strategy we've seen before, one in which they push a good-guy moderate in hopes he'll lose to the Democrat. Obviously, it was successful for them in 2008. The MSM, on the other hand, will attack strong Republican candidates like Sarah Palin. Despite calls for tolerance and civility, liberals will back up the MSM's hateful rhetoric with something like, "she doesn't answer the questions put to her." Realize that they are only watching MSM news! (She didn't answer Bill O'Reilly's questions directly during a single interview, but isn't that fairly common for politicians?)

They'll say that the voters don't trust Mitt Romney because he's a Mormon. They always point out Newt Gingrich's affair while his first wife was ill, and consistently cite what Tina Fey has said on a comedy show, Saturday Night Live, in order to make Sarah Palin seem unintelligent to their audience. If a conservative candidate has a problem or makes a single mistake, the MSM will jump all over them while giving the Democratic Party candidates many passes. Don't think so? Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) implied, in 2011, that the Revolutionary War battle of Lexington and Concord was in New Hampshire, when it actually happened in Massachusetts. The story was everywhere. Yet, in 2008, when then Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) implied that the U.S. had 57 states, the MSM left it alone. Only FOX covered that story.

If you're tired of the senseless attacks on only Republicans, or wonder why the MSM doesn't attack Democrats, don't be afraid. This is a normal reaction. Please consider that conservatives aren't mean people, and remember, there are several rational ways to view each issue. If you find yourself looking in on FOX for only a few minutes - and only with skepticism - you just may need a new dose of open-mindedness. Please reconsider, we want you on our side!

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Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Another Look at Newt

Written : Sep. 21 and 28, Dec. 12, 2010, and Feb. 8, 2011

When you hear the name Newt Gingrich (R-GA), what do you think? Do you remember he was once the U.S. Speaker of the House? He co-authored the 1994 Contract With America. He showed he can reach across the aisle because he worked with President Bill Clinton (D-AR) to reform the U.S. welfare system in the 1990’s. Gingrich’s successful negotiations with President Clinton helped bring about reduced federal deficits and balanced budgets by 1999.

Mr. Gingrich may be close to announcing his candidacy for the office of the President of the United States. Recently he said, “We are at a point where our establishment is sliding into policies of such disastrous impact that they will in fact fundamentally challenge the survival of America as we know it… On the one front we have a secular socialist machine led by Obama, Pelosi, and Reid, and on the other front we have radical Islamists who would fundamentally change this country into a system none of us in this room would recognize…” He’s able to articulate a problem and usually has a solution. Mr. Gingrich is strong and forceful, and yet he’s neither hysterical nor radical.

If new ideas are what you’re looking for in a presidential candidate, then Newt’s your guy. Did you know that he is the author of twenty-three books? Or that there are at least three information-packed web sites for which he is responsible? These are: Newt.org, American Solutions, and Health Transformation. He does come with some baggage, but like him or not, you have to admit – after viewing these sites – that he’s not just a bag of wind. Listen to him speak on TV, and you'll understand the former Speaker is a deep thinker.

On Fox News Sunday, on Dec. 5, 2010, Mr. Gingrich said that the WikiLeaks web site founder, Julian Assange, is an agent of terrorism. [Assange] “should be treated as an enemy combatant.” He also pointed out that the WikiLeaks website should be shut down permanently. Newt Gingrich is good at revealing an issue’s hidden angle. He posed a rhetorical question, “How can we have a National Security system which allowed one person to download half a million classified documents? You’d think there’s be a software failsafe put in place which would raise a red flag...” I like a politician who finds political correctness distasteful and who is bold enough to stand up for America. Now, isn’t that refreshing?

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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A Clear Choice

Written : Oct. 11-12, 2010

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has an idea. On Oct. 6, 2010, she said she learned this at a hearing: The quickest way to create jobs is to provide more funding for food stamps and to provide unemployment insurance for those who need it. She said it, really! Newt Gingrich, a former Speaker, has a firm understanding that jobs are created when businesses are empowered by fewer restrictions and by lower taxes. This is why Gingrich cleverly coined the phrases “Party of Food Stamps” for Democrats, and “The Paycheck Party” for Republicans during this election cycle.

I’m not gloating here. I wish liberals understood the idea that businesses do not create jobs when they are profitless, but most can’t or won’t comprehend it. Democrats, including our president, are running with the idea that we have to take a good portion of the profits of businesses away and hand them over to the ‘people.’ But, this business model never works.

In an Oct. 5, 2010 debate with Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Linda McMahon (R-CT) boiled the essence of the upcoming midterm elections down to its barest bone. She asked him, "How do you create a job?" And he took the bait. Blumenthal looked befuddled. He used double-talk to zig and zag his way through, and most of the time he said nothing. Toward the end of his talk he mentioned that government programs were the way to create jobs through “creative” and “buy America” policies.

Like a breath of fresh air, McMahon’s answer stood out. “Government does not create jobs. It's very simple how you create jobs. An entrepreneur takes a risk. He or she believes that he creates goods or service that is sold for more than it costs to make it. If an entrepreneur believes he can do that, he creates a job.” There you go. On Election Day our choice could not be clearer, could it?

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