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Forget the Internet, Let the ‘Established’ Media Tell You About it

October 29, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

John Hollenhorst, reporter for KSL TV in Salt Lake City, Utah, wants you to forget about all those gosh darn Internet rumors. In fact, forget the Internet altogether and just rely on the “established news organizations” to tell you what is what. After all, it’s just too darn hard for the common folks to figure it all out. Alarmingly the “21st Century is putting a higher responsibility on voters to seek out the truth and ignore the ridiculous.” Imagine? Requiring citizens to go to all the trouble of actually seeking out the truth and learning about what a candidate really stands for? What a bother.

But, reporter Hollenhorst and his “expert” have the solution: Don’t bother and just make the Old Media your source for news. After all, the Old Media is the only one to be believed because they’ve got “the greatest credibility.” Right Dan Rather?

Hollenhorst’s report is a cornucopia of condescension. It appears to inform us that American citizens are just to stupid to separate the wheat from the chaff and to determine what are mere unsubstantiated rumors about Obama and McCain and what is real and to be trusted.

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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Media Bias - News - Race - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Philly Inquirer: All Whites are Racists, ‘Shouldn’t be Allowed to Vote’

October 27, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Did you know that all white people are so racist that they shouldn’t be allowed to vote? Did you know that people who are armed are stupid? Did you know that President Bush caused 9/11? Oh, and did you know that most of Pennsylvania is a “long dark chicken dance of the national soul”? Well, the Philadelphia Inquirer would like to school you in these “facts.” And, if you disagree? Well, who cares what you think anyway? You’re a gun loving, bitter racist, so who cares what you think? So proudly says PI columnist Jonathan Valania.

This is probably one of the most shocking, hate filled columns I’ve seen outside a KKK website, or the Communist Party Daily, for a long, long time. And that it comes from a leading national newspaper in one of our founding American cities, well, that makes it all the more outrageous. But right there in the Philly Inquirer we see it: “White people shouldn’t be allowed to vote.” And in case you are confused, the subhead brings it into sharper focus: “It’s for the good of the country and for those who’re bitter for a reason and armed because they’re scared.”

This unAmerican piece of elitist hectoring is brought to us in the name of “tolerance” and for the singular purpose to elect the most radically leftist candidate for president this nation has seen since Eugene Debbs and Norman Thomas.

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MSNBC/AP say Player Injury Palin’s Fault

October 27, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well, that mean ol’ Sarah Palin ruined everything for the St. Louis Blues hockey team, darn it all. That’s right the media’s newest Cheney replacement must have been planning this monstrous attack on the Blues’ goalie for weeks. Her next trick: world domination. At least this seems to be how MSNBC and the Associated Press feel about it all.

What am I talking about? Well, Palin visited the Blues’ arena to see a game on October 24 and it seems that Blues goalie Manny Legace tripped on the carpet that the team laid on the ice so that Palin and her family could walk safely out to address the crowd. Because of that injury, the AP and MSNBC both decided that this accident was all Palin’s fault. Really.

Right on the MSNBC homepage is a link to the story in the sports section and on that homepage the story is headlined “Goalie’s injury linked to Palin’s puck drop.” (see screen shot below) It’s as if Palin’s “puck drop” caused the injury. Though, one easily gets the feeling that the situation is closer to an outbreak of PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome).

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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - GOP - Media Bias - News - President - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Pew: McCain Gets Far More Negative Coverage From Media

October 26, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

As if we didn’t know already by the evidence of the left-wing media establishment’s work, Pew Research unveiled a new survey that showed that John McCain has been on the receiving end of “heavily unfavorable” coverage. In fact, according to Pew, McCain’s media coverage has become more negative over time with unfavorable stories about him outweighing favorable ones “by a factor of more than three-to-one.” Pew finds that McCain’s negative stories are the highest from among all four major candidates.

First of all, we should remember that the Pew survey was drawn from news coverage — opinion pieces were not included. So, if we were to add all the opinion editorials emanating from the Old Media, the unfavorables for McCain and Palin would soar to unprecedented heights. But, Op-Eds aside and with the fact that we are talking “news,” it is still amazing to note the highly negative tone leveled at McCain.

Pew found that, for McCain “nearly six-in-ten stories studied were decidedly negative in nature (57%), while fewer than two-in-ten (14%) were positive.”

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Boston Paper: John McCain Will be a Dictator?

October 25, 2008 by 1 Comment

By- Warner Todd Huston

Someone at The Phoenix, a small Boston weekly, is off his medication. It’s hard to believe sanity is a familiar state, at least, when reviewing the silliness passed off as serious political analysis, anyway. For the lead editorial in The Phoenix this week is a fantastic display of hyperbole filled with “truther” propensities. The editorial, you see, is all worried that John McCain will make himself a “dictator” if he wins the election next month. No, they are serious, so quit laughing.

And how is it that he will become a “dictator”? Why, it’s because he will be able to appoint a new Supreme Court Justice, you see. Yes, that is the only proof posited for this idiotic theory.

The “argument” this editorial pushes on an unsuspecting reader is that if McCain appoints another eeeevil conservative Justice, then the Courts will turn over all the power in the land to the president. After that, I suppose the writer of this schlock posing as analysis imagines that the rest of the government will just turn off the lights and go home, or something.

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Chgo Trib: ‘Higher’ Home Foreclosures Report Ignores Most Paying Mortgages Just Fine

October 25, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

This is the kind of sensationalistic reporting that just makes all “news” agencies look like scaremongers. A recent Chicago Tribune report on homes in foreclosure in Illinois focuses on “higher” rates and says alarming things like, “Illinois foreclosures were up 49.55 percent.” These numbers the Trib bandies about seem shocking. Up 49.55 percent? WOW! But this same report doesn’t quite report the whole truth. The fact is that 9 some percent of Illinois homeowners are paying their mortgages just fine and are not in foreclosure. With a 90 some percent success rate, these “higher” rates of foreclosures seems to be no story at all.

At least the headline is honest — for a change. The brief report is titled “1 in 510 Illinois homes in foreclosure.” One in five hundred is a drop in the bucket, it is sure. But, the story itself seems to try for sensationalistic, scare numbers instead of fully fleshing out the factual news here.

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Wendi C. Thomas Indulges Her Inner Racist

October 24, 2008 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Wendi C. Thomas, a black journalist that has written for such media outlets as the Charlotte Observer, the Indianapolis Star and the Nashville Tennessean, was recently asked by what she called a “white man in Memphis” if blacks would riot if Barack Obama should lose the upcoming general election. The question made her angry, and I can’t blame her for that anger. But, after a brief flash of sanity, Thomas turned the tables and went on to decide that it will be whites, rather, that will riot if Obama wins, not blacks if he loses.

At first Thomas had the absolute right answer for that “white man from Memphis.” She wrote at TheRoot.com that ascribing to “blacks” the actions of rioting from some blacks is not a logical exercise. Even if some blacks rioted after an Obama loss, it is illegitimate to decide that all 40 million blacks in America would agree with that lawlessness. Who could disagree with this sensible comment?

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00Publius Contributor - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Media Bias - News - President - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

AP Links Assault on Reporter to Appearance in Bush Movie… BDS Strikes Again

October 24, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

An Arkansas TV reporter that had a bit part in Oliver Stone’s movie “W” was found beaten unconscious in her Little Rock home on October 20 and in its report on the crime the Associated Press seemed to decide that she was beaten merely because she had appeared in the movie though this impression the AP seems to have is not supported by the police. One wonders why the AP decided to spend almost half its story focusing on her movie role when reporting this crime? Is the AP trying to say her connection with George W. Bush got her attacked? It sure seems like the AP is seized by another bout of Bush Derangement Syndrome with its unnecessary emphasis on this reporter’s film role.

The APs obsession with the victim’s movie role was odd, indeed. Even in its first few lines the AP ties KATV anchor Ann Pressly to her movie work saying in its first sentence that she “had a small part in the Bush biopic ‘W.'” The AP takes pains to point out that in the movie, Pressly “speaks favorably of President Bush’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ event on an aircraft carrier shortly after the start of the Iraq war.” The report speaks about how she won the role in the film and then adds this odd sentence:

Spokeswoman Kate Hubin for the film company Lionsgate confirmed Pressly’s role but declined to comment further.

Why did we need to have Pressly’s role “confirmed”? Why would the AP imagine that Lionsgate films had anything useful to add to a report on this crime?

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Entertainment Weekly: Stone’s ‘W’ Flick Disappoints… Because of ‘Tough’ Economy?

October 23, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Entertainment Weekly’s Joshua Rich reported on the weekend’s box office returns for the latest releases on October 19 to let us all in on Hollywood’s successes and failures, because, you know, Hollywood is important and all. We find that the Chihuahua movie is still going like gangbusters ($70 million in three weeks) and the horrid movie “Max Payne” led the weekend’s receipts with $18 million. Oliver Stone’s slamfest “W,” though, earned a disappointing fourth place on its debut weekend.

So, what was EW’s excuse for this disappointing finish? According to Rich, “W” is failing at the box office because of “tough economic times.” It’s curious, though, that people have spent $70 million on the Chihuahua movie in these same “tough economic times” — and let us not forget that the latest Batman movie has made over $300 million. Still, the excuse for the fourth place finish for Stone’s pseudo-biopic is “tough economic times,” just the same.

But, Rich’s excuse is a claim that even Entertainment Weekly itself has recently disputed, at least as far as the box office goes. Only a few weeks ago, the weekend that right-wing comedy “An American Carol” debuted, the same Box Office Report column said that the “economy may be tanking, but the box office remains healthy, with probably the only year-on-year metric that’s seen an uptick.”

Amazingly, but a few weeks later, EW’s Joshua Rich suddenly finds that these “tough economic times” are responsible for the failure of the movie that maligns nearly everyone in the Bush family?

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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Economy/Finances - Media Bias - News - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

NYTimes Admits Travel Writer Intentionally Lied About Economy in Article

October 22, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

On October 13, The New York Times gravely informed us that the economy was causing stress for travelers. Not just the economy in general, but specifically that the “crisis on Wall Street was the No. 1 cause of anxiety” for travelers. And, they had a survey to prove it, too. Or so NYT writer Paul Burnham Finney claimed. But, on October 21 the Times was forced to issue a little correction to Finney’s tall tale. You see, it turns out writer Finney outright lied about some of his claims and quotes.

In fact, it turns out that freelancer Finney made up quite a few “facts” for his story. Finney claimed the survey he was citing proved that travelers saw the Wall Street crisis as the “no. 1” worry and claimed that the survey participants felt vulnerable “in the office and on a business trip.” However, the survey did not ask such questions of participants, so Finney could not have gleaned any such thing from it. Finney also quoted Nancy Molitor, a psychologist in Wilmette, Ill., as saying that she had “never seen such anxiety” from among her “banking and business patients.” But, the paper discovered that Dr. Molitor never made such a statement to Finney.

In other words, it appears that Paul Burnham Finney simply made up these “facts” to fit the theme he wanted to push in his story. Real anxiety wasn’t enough for Finney. Instead, Finney massaged the story to fit the day’s headlines about Wall Street in order to make his story more sensational.

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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - GOP - Media Bias - News - President - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

After Attacks on Palin, Biden Given a Pass by Media for Not Holding Press Conferences

October 21, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The CBS News blog “From the Road” suddenly realized that Joe Biden was not giving the media any access and that he hasn’t held a press conference for well over a month. Even with this report, though, the media at large has been strangely quite on this disappearing act of Biden’s, especially in light of the drubbing they handed out to Sarah Palin when she was not so forthcoming with the press as they’d have liked after her debut on the national stage.

Remember all the pained cries from the media that Palin was “hiding” from them? Remember how they agonized over her distance from them in the month following her addition to the McCain ticket? Yet, Biden is not only refusing any interaction with the press, he is, for the most part, not even taking any questions from voters during his campaign stops.

Still, the media seems unconcerned with scolding Biden as much as they did Palin.

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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - GOP - Media Bias - News - President - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Late-Night Comics Attack Republicans By 7 to 1 Ratio

October 21, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Not that any of us here could possibly be surprised — I say that to head off the inevitable comments asking how we could be — but a new study from the Center for Media and Public Affairs finds that late-night comedians attack Republicans far more than they do Democrats. In fact, the CMPA found a lopsided 7 to 1 ratio of Republican compared to Democrat jokes. “The total: Republicans, 286. Democrats, 42.”

Fox News reported that the CMPA’s Donald Rieck found that this current election was “driving it off the charts” with the preponderance of jokes directed at Republicans on late-night TV.

“Generally the Republicans get targeted much more often than Democrats, but this election is driving it off the charts,” said CMPA Executive Director Donald Rieck.

The CMPA has a running total going on its website for those interested in the complete breakdown. There you’ll find the count from the late-night shows “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “Late Night with Conan O’Brien,” The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.”

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AP Again Calls Palin A Racist

October 20, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The Associated Press has once again called Governor Sarah Palin a racist. This time Rachel D’Oro for the AP bases her claim on the fact that Palin appointed minorities to her Alaska administration — but not enough of them to suit the AP — and because at an Alaska rally when she was running for governor one attendee once spoke to a black cameraman in an unkind manner. Yep, that’s a mountain of evidence the AP has there, isn’t it?

The AP also spoke to a few black ministers in Alaska and, shockingly, they announced that they felt she had no “sensitivity” to their political positions. Imagine that? A Republican that isn’t receptive to demands based on a race driven agenda? No one has ever heard of that before, right?

In fact, since there is no real direct proof that Palin is somehow a racist, the AP report relies on innuendo and the claims of her political enemies to constitute its “proof.”

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Protest the Media, October 21st

October 18, 2008 by

It all began on Thursday, October 9th, in Waukesha, Wisconsin with the words “I’m mad, I’m really mad.” I think this lone man spoke for us all. We are seeing our country being taken over by socialists and feel frustrated that we are not being heard. We all feel the media is at the root cause. They do not report the news, they report their agenda. They hide what doesn’t fit into that agenda and we as Americans are suffering for it. And we are MAD!

Well, now is our time to be heard. Join us at www.protestthemedia.com as we plan a nation-wide protest of all media outlets across the country to let them know that we understand what they are doing and that we will not be silent anymore.

We have seen the liberal side of this country protest and be heard. Well, it is time for our side to be heard and with this protest we will show this country that we do have a voice and it will no longer be silenced to the liberal media and government taking over our lives.

All who can, will go to a local media outlet in your city on October, 21st at 3:00 pm. We will stand with our signs and hand out our flyers until 7:00 pm. If it is not possible for you to go out, then you are asked to telephone, send emails and mail acorns to all National and Local newspapers, tv and radio stations, including their advertisers.

On this site you will find your state and local media outlets in your city (if you don’t see yours, please post it). Let’s try to get as many people at each site as possible. There will also be flyers, sign slogans and emails to help you in your protest.

We will be peaceful, we will not riot. We are dignified human beings that will not stoop to the liberal way of doing things. That is why we are great, that is why we are standing up, and that is why we are Americans who love this country with all of our hearts.

So, let’s rise and TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK!!

www.protestthemedia.com

00Publius Contributor - Anti-Americanism - Constitution - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - Media Bias - News - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Chgo Trib: Internet Makes Politics ‘Obnoxious’

October 17, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

The dead tree media, the dinosaur media, the Old Media has spoken. It’s officially worse than ever! The Chicago Tribune has pronounced political discourse worse than ever before and it’s all because of that “obnoxious” Internet. So, you folks reading this should know that the Trib blames these rancorous times on you. Of course, what the Trib and its “experts” suffer from is My-Lifeitis, that well known sickness that afflicts those that imagine that today is worse than it’s ever been, that only in their lifetimes have things become so bad. In other words, they are historically illiterate.

Now, before I get into the Trib’s somewhat blinkered analysis of today’s political climate — or as the Tribune prosaically says, the “more polarized political environment” — I have to ask one thing of the Trib: Are you guys just now noticing that the Internet tends to stir the pot? Where have you been the last ten years?

Now, that said, let’s dive into this silly story.

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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Media Bias - News - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

WaPo Blames Lack of Iraq Coverage on ‘Financial Strains’ Faced by Media, Story Too ‘Complex’ For Them

October 17, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Well, this is a new one. In an October 11 story, the Washington Post is saying that one of the biggest reasons that the Old Media in the west isn’t covering Iraq much these days is because they are facing tough financial times at home. I guess it couldn’t be because we are now winning the war and they’ve lost their favorite doom-and-gloom story line, could it?

The Post even quotes Alissa J. Rubin, The New York Times Iraq bureau chief, that there is “no clear narrative” over there anymore. Once again, this can easily be interpreted to mean that no clear losing narrative has left the media’s attention wandering. Even worse Rubin almost seems to admit that they can’t handle a “complex” story suddenly.

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WaPo Tries to Claim Cindy McCain Unethical for Erection of Cell Phone Tower

October 16, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Apparently the Washington Post thinks it has an ethics violation to hold against Cindy McCain, wife of GOP presidential candidate John McCain. The Post is trying to claim that Cindy McCain somehow illicitly got a portable cell tower delivered to her remote Arizona ranch so that their phones would work there. The truth is, however, the Secret Service ordered up the portable cell tower, not Cindy McCain.

Even the words the Post uses to report the story prove somewhat weasely because, as the Post can’t find any actual wrong doing, the story relies on vague ways of implying wrongdoing without actually saying it. In the end, there doesn’t seem to be much there, there, but I suppose the Post had to justify the money it spent by publishing this non-story anyway.

The story starts right in with the vague verbiage of implied wrong doing. After saying that Cindy McCain sought to improve the cell reception around her “remote 15-acre ranch near Sedona, Ariz” and that she did so “just as her husband launched his presidential bid,” the Post tried to imply that it was all at undue costs. (bold mine)

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00Publius Contributor - 2nd Amendment - Crime - Democrats/Leftists - Media Bias - News - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Orlando Sentinel Invents New Anti-Gun Attack: ‘Disposable AK-47s’

October 15, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

It isn’t every day that gun grabbers can invent a whole new catch phrase to use against our Constitutional rights under the Second Amendment, but the Orlando Sentinel is giving it the old college try just the same. Sentinel staff writer Henry Pierson Curtis extrapolates “an alarming trend” that he is calling “disposable AK-47s” out of the words of a Florida police officer. So, now we have a new worry that the gun grabbers can use to scare people into accepting the destruction of our Constitutional rights.

Using an incident in Orlando to drum up their newest gun grabbing meme, the Sentinel tells the tale of some criminals that perpetrated a double killing and then ran from the scene abandoning two AK-47s, two handguns and a shotgun behind them. The Sentinel warps a quote from an Orlando Detective into the new catch phrase.

“They just disposed of them like disposable cigarette lighters, I guess, because they’re so easy to get,” sheriff’s homicide Detective Dave Clark said Friday. “I mean, it’s really unusual for people to leave stuff like this behind.”

So, from the casually exclaimed term “disposable cigarette lighters” the Sentinel gets the new fear of “disposable AK-47s.” One pair of murderous scumbags leaving behind their arsenal as they flee from the scene and suddenly we have “disposable AK-47s.” Amazing leap, isn’t it?

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HORRORS! AP Says Bad Economy Makes Us Ugly!

October 12, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

It’s getting close to Halloween, so I hope this story doesn’t scare you too much. But the Associated Press has discovered that this bad economy is making us ugly. That’s right, ugly. Because of this downturn people just cannot afford to go to their friendly neighborhood plastic surgeon for those nips and tucks any more. So it is the AP’s sad duty to inform us that “As economy sags, faces do too, cosmetic docs say.” It’s a horrible, horrible world that we now are cursed to live in if we can’t afford our Botox and tummy tucks! Now, they are serious with this so quit your laughing this instant.

The economy isn’t the only thing that’s sagging — so are faces, breasts and bellies as would-be cosmetic surgery patients increasingly opt against costly nips and tucks because of tough financial times.

You know, I was complaining to my Mommy yesterday that I didn’t want my liposuction and she told me to do it anyway because kids in China could barely afford an eyelift these days. I know I should be grateful for what I have, though. Some people DO have it worse, ya know?

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Fake Palin SAT Scores Fool Left-O-Sphere

October 11, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Did you hear that Governor Palin is stupid? Well, if you watch TV, listen to the radio, or read any news outlet you can’t help but find the lefties there claiming in unison that she is the dumbest woman to appear on the scene since Goldie Hawn made her chops as the blonde ditz on 1960’s TV. And, heck it’s gotta be true. Why, even her SAT scores prove it! Except that the “proof” of that is an Internet hoax that fooled Wonkette, the DailyKos and a blue million nutrooter sites. But, who cares? As long as it makes Palin look bad, we’re golden, baby! Truth-schmooth, right?

On October 10, blogger Dawn Eden found that a posted image of hers had been stolen, then altered, and then posted everywhere as “proof” that Sarah Palin is stupid. Apparently, the biggest stir was created by the tabloid site Gawker.com on its “Assignment Desk” section.

Originally, Gawker wondered if the image presented as Palin’s SAT scores was real and posited that it was believable. Later in the day, however, one of their own site commentors effectively proved it an obvious fake. But not before it fooled Wonkette and the DailyKos and a score of other nutrooter sites.

Before the obviousness of the fakery was settled, the DailyKos site pronounced the SAT score card as “credible,” and the unprofessionally profane Wonkette said that the faked scores “sounds about right.”

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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Elections - GOP - Media Bias - President - Socialism - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

Time’s Beinart: Republicans Hate Obama For His Kenyan Father, it’s ‘Racism’

October 11, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

This furious beating of the racism drum by the left shows how worried they are that Barack Obama might lose this election. Time Magazine’s Peter Beinart once again charges “racism” against anyone that won’t support Barack Obama. But, Beinart adds a twist to his accusation. It isn’t just his race that is being held against him, in Beinart’s eyes it is the fact that Obama has “foreign roots” that causes “whites” to mistrust him. But, like everyone blinded by the flash of the race card he doesn’t see that it isn’t racism that causes moderates and conservatives to shy from Obama. No, it isn’t his relative blackness that people are against, it’s his redness. Beinart misunderstands the simple fact that it’s Obama’s unAmerican ideals makes him not “American enough” to get the support of millions of Americans.

As the Time headline asks “is he American enough,” Beinart delves into what he sees as the “Racist” claim that Barack’s foreign father is offputting to “white” Americans. He posits that this is the main reason why people cannot warm to Obama. Then Beinart claims that the strategy of the McCain campaign is one of “using race to make Obama seem anti-American.” Beinart says these “attacks” are hurting Obama in the polls with “working-class whites.” He also seems to say that the whole campaign is filled with code words such as questioning what “kind of person” he is. These all culminate into a racist attack that undermines Obama.

Beinart thinks he knows why it works so well against Obama, too.

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00Publius Contributor - Democrats/Leftists - Entertainment - Media Bias - News - Security/Safety - Society/Culture - Warner Todd Huston

An American Carol: Filmmakers are NOT Saying there is a Conspiracy

October 10, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Once again, we see the long knives sharpened against the right by employing innuendo and outright lies. This time it is against the movie An American Carol. On Tuesday, I reported that there was some concern that ticket sales for the movie were being diverted to other movies at certain theaters across the country. But, I never said there was a “conspiracy” to do so. The filmmakers also attempted to do some detective work to find out the veracity of the claims. But they didn’t call it a conspiracy either. Apparently simply asking the question, though, is too much for Wonkette and Huffington Post to handle. They had to gin it up as some wild-eyed claim of a “conspiracy” on our part.

In her inimitably profane and unprofessional style, Wonkette claimed the filmmakers are saying some great, leftist conspiracy is destroying the movie. The next day, an entry at the Huffington Post asserted the same thing. From there the lefty blogs took over to add to the din. Unfortunately for their hyperbole, the movie folks never asserted any such thing (for that matter, neither did I).

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Indiana: More Registered to Vote Than Eligible, Media Misses Story

October 9, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

If Barack Obama wins this election, there will be absolutely no doubt whatsoever that one of the things that will help push him over the top is massive Democrat vote fraud. It’ll make the Democrats that stole the 1960 JFK/Nixon election for Kennedy look like Pikers. One example of this massive vote fraud is in the amazing fact that there are now more registered voters in Indianapolis than are actually eligible to vote. News at 11? How about no news at all.

Oh, sure, there have been stories in the media in Indiana covering the vote fraud issue. But almost to a report they are covered as mere charge and counter charge and end up making the GOP look as if they are engaged in just the normal partisan bickering. But no one is reporting the true nature of this vote fraud.

WANE, TV 15 out of Fort Wayne, for instance, reported on a visit to that city by Indiana Secretary of State Todd Rokita (R) who was there to talk about voter fraud. In Lake County, IN, the GOP is accusing the Democrats of vote fraud, but the report does not reveal any further details.

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LATimes’ Snead: Palin With ‘Rifle’ on Newsweek Cover… is it ‘OK?’

October 9, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

Over at the L.A. Times’ The Dish Rag blog, Elizabeth Snead wonders how Newsweek got Governor Sarah Palin to pose “with a rifle” for the cover of its next issue? Snead then reveals that it was not a new photo but an old one, that the Governor did not pose for the cover at all, and wonders if it is right for the magazine to use the photo as they did? I suppose Snead wasn’t really too worried about the photo, but she did just prove that she has no idea what a “rifle” is because Palin is holding a shotgun, not a rifle, in the cover photo.

Snead tries to give a ribbing to Governor Palin for holding the “rifle” over her shoulder with the barrel pointing toward the ground and the breech open with the shoulder stock draped over her left shoulder. Showing she has no idea how a firearm works, Snead wonders if Palin could “shoot” her “foot off like that?”

Hey, is that even the right way to hold a rifle? Can’t you shoot your foot off like that?

What we have here is another denizen of Hollywood that knows zip about firearms. Palin is not holding a rifle. And even if it were a breechloading rifle, with the breech cracked open, draped over a shoulder, one cannot shoot one’s foot off regardless. A breech must be closed before any foot shooting can be in the offing.

Looks to me like the only self-inflicted foot shooting is being done by Elizabeth Snead as she reveals her ignorance of firearms.

As to Newsweek using the photo of a gun toting Palin, I don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s an old photo form 2002, but so what? They didn’t doctor it and it doesn’t show Palin in a bad light — unless you are a gun hater, of course. And, only someone in Hollywood could presume that a cover photo had to be “posed for,” after all.

It always makes me wonder what country these people in Hollywood are from, anyway?

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Newsweek: Palin Too Common, Too Stupid to be Vice President, She’s ‘Dangerous’

October 9, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston


Newsweek’s Jon Meacham thinks that Governor Sarah Palin is too much a commoner and too stupid to be allowed to become vice president of the United States of America and apparently his employer agrees with him. The October 13 cover of Newsweek features a close up photo of the Governor with the headline “She’s One of the Folks (And that’s the problem),” and Meacham writes the accompanying cover story. Be clear about what this means: This is a direct attack on Mr. and Mrs. America. We are all too stupid to be president in the elite opinion of Jon Meacham and Newsweek magazine.

Meacham finds Palin to be incurious, unprepared, and even finds it “dangerous” if she were to become our vice president but he offers us nothing but his opinion to judge by. And it’s all because she doesn’t measure up to his personal standards. Sadly for Meacham’s elitism, however, Palin easily satisfies the standards that the Founding Fathers set as criteria for stepping into the highest office in the land. Curiously, Meacham does not once mention the actual Constitutional requirements to run for office in his entire sarcastic attack on Sarah Palin. Like most of his ilk, the Constitution seems meaningless minutia to him.

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Democrats Are an Ass

October 8, 2008 by 1 Comment

-By Warner Todd Huston

Democrats have no class. They are low-class, ignorant, base, cretins. They are not suitable for decent society. I wouldn’t want my daughter to marry one. Unfortunately, we have an example to bear witness to my disgust with these sorts of people in the person of the guttural Claire McCaskill, Democrat Senator and vulgarian from Missouri.

Ben Smith of Politico reports the newest example from this low born creep:

McCaskill was stepping out of her chair at the end of an MSNBC interview, and Romney was up next. She and a staffer unplugged her various wires, and she handed Romney the earpiece the guests use to hear the host.

“I spit on this before I put it in,” she said to Romney, with a sweet smile.

I disagree with Smith’s characterization of McCaskill’s “sweet smile.” I would say it was more of an sinister sneer was at play, as is always with this ignoramus.

In any case, this sort of garbage just shows that Claire McCaskill is an uncivil creep.

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Chris Matthews: McCain has a ‘Menacing Smile,’ Obama’s ‘Debonair’

October 8, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

In the post debate “analysis” tonight after the second presidential debate, Chris Matthews of MSNBC proved once again that he is in such rapture about Barack Obama that it cannot be believed. Tonight, Matthews cast McCain in the role of Snidely Whiplash or some such thing thing because of his “menacing smile.” Yet, according to the sycophantic Matthews, Obama’s is “debonair.”

Mary Katharine Ham reports what Matthews said tonight:

Barack Obama is gifted in birth by a wonderful smile…

John McCain, when he smiles, has a somewhat menacing quality. It may not be purposeful, but when he smiles, you wonder what he’s really thinking.

Barack Obama, for whatever reason, comes off as debonaire, even under attack.

What does Matthews mean “it may not be purposeful”? Is Matthews leaving open the possibility that McCain is secretly wringing his hands in glee like Doctor Evil over an evil plan about to come together if only we Americans are foolish enough to vote for him?

Seriously, what is with this obsequiousness that Chris Matthews displays for Barack Obama? Worse, how is it that he thinks he should be taken seriously with this sort of groveling, boot-licking?

Far from McCain being Doctor Evil or Snidely Whiplash, I’d suggest that Matthews is turning into Renfield to Obama’s Dracula!

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Brian Williams: McCain/Palin Shunning Him Because of Olbermann/Matthews

October 7, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston

In the Actions have consequences department, Brian Williams recently told David Letterman that the McCain camp is punishing him by not allowing him to interview Sarah Palin because the McCain camp is mad at MSNBC’s extreme leftism as evinced by Chris "Thrill up my leg" Matthews and Keith Olbermann. Is Brian crying? There’s no crying in broadcasting!

During his visit on The Late Show with David Letterman, Brian Williams admitted that he is the only network anchor that has yet to be granted an interview with Governor Palin but that he “cannot wait” to interview her.

As to why he has yet to be granted that interview, Williams thinks it’s because the McCain camp is “unhappy” with the far left editorial leanings of NBC’s cable outlet MSNBC.

“I’ve put a general invite out to the campaign,” Williams told Letterman. “I’ve asked them about it. We think it’s because they’re unhappy with our cable programming. But I’m here. I’m waiting.”

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Newsweek: Obama Just like Lincoln?

October 7, 2008 by

-By Warner Todd Huston


Howard Fineman has no knowledge of history. In fact, it would not surprise me if we should find out some day that, in his original draft of this absurd comparison of Lincoln to Obama, he even spelled Lincoln’s name wrong. It is just that obvious that Fineman knows nothing of what he speaks. You see, Howard Fineman has decided that Barack Obama is somehow just like Abraham Lincoln. This is hero worship at its worst without being weighed down by any facts. It’s so bad that one wonders if Fineman had a Matthewsian “thrill up his leg” when writing this sycophantic slop?

In pondering if he should write a story about Obama’s connections to Chicago, Illinois, Fineman found his mind wandering to Abraham Lincoln — “the only president ‘from’ that city,” as Fineman says.

And right there we have the first stretch of reality to fit Fineman’s gauzy feelings. Lincoln was neither from nor “from” Chicago. Lincoln certainly visited the city during his lifetime but he never lived in Chicago and was never considered “from” there. His political machine was also not “from” there. His was very much a down state machine centered in Springfield, the State Capitol. So right off the top we have a tenuous connection between Lincoln and Obama whipped up to absurd proportions in Fineman’s mind.

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