tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post489411240292670454..comments2023-10-07T05:29:20.923-07:00Comments on McClatchy Watch: Thursday September 10 -- Got news or an update?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger61125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-29262234993096176042009-09-10T16:19:43.810-07:002009-09-10T16:19:43.810-07:00Glenn Beck's New McCarthyism?
Glenn Beck has ...Glenn Beck's New McCarthyism?<br /><br />Glenn Beck has revived one of the most shameful chapters in American political history. Sen. Joseph McCarthy spent years ruining the lives of patriotic Americans serving in the United States government and beyond. He did it through fearmongering and baseless, unproven accusations. He combed the past statements and associations of loyal U.S. citizens and then shamefully accused them of being traitors bent on the destruction of the American way of life. <br /><br />At a time when conservatives are unable to find new leadership or present new ideas to address the challenges facing our nation, it is perhaps fitting that their media leaders and spokespeople -- individuals like Glenn Beck -- have fallen back on a 60-year-old slander: communist. Beck's forum consists of his radio program, his nightly show on Fox News, and his books. The witnesses he calls at his hearings form the endless parade of political demagogues he hosts as guests. And one by one, he is targeting the president's advisers -- not based on their current actions or statements, not because of any actual policy initiatives they have proposed since President Obama took office, but rather through the use of guilt-by-association reasoning or because of cherry-picked comments from their past, often provided in a highly misleading context. It's just the kind of vitriolic irresponsibility that McCarthy specialized in, too. <br /><br />Beck's fixation on a sinister communist threat undermining America's capitalist democracy would be entirely laughable were it not revealing of something more fundamental. Beck and the Right have consistently portrayed Obama as a Manchurian candidate bearing Trojan Horse policies. Thus, the president isn't a uniter but a secret divider. He doesn't love the America we have, hoping to improve it. Rather, he seeks to destroy it. He doesn't represent a triumph on America's path toward genuine racial equality. Rather, he seeks little more than obtaining reparations and the radical redistribution of wealth and power on a racial basis. Such a philosophy plays to the most distrustful -- and often, dangerous -- elements of our society. <br /><br />Beck will not stop with Van Jones. Yesterday he dedicated much of his show to Cass Sunstein, Obama's regulatory czar, whom he portrayed as a crazed animal rights activist who believes that rats matter more than people. As was the case with McCarthy, his distortions will continue unabated until the public recognizes his campaign for what it is: a witch hunt. As journalist Edward R. Murrow said of McCarthy in 1954, "We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men." <br /><br />Such words could, and should, be spoken, too, of Beck. <br /><br />www.mediamatters.orgAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-36865034397208452272009-09-10T12:56:54.086-07:002009-09-10T12:56:54.086-07:00**GLENN BECK WINS AGAIN!**
NEA Communications Dire...**GLENN BECK WINS AGAIN!**<br />NEA Communications Director Resigns<br /><br />Politico ^ | 9-10-09 | Ben Smith<br />The communications director for the National Endowment for the Arts is no longer in his job amid a flap over suggestions he suggested artists work to further President Obama's legislative agenda. A conservative artist writing on the site Big Hollywood first complained that the official, later identified as Yosi Sargent, had been on a conference call with artists aimed at furthering President Obama's legislative agenda -- a bit of a no-no for the agency, which does its best to stay apolitical. [SNIP] Huffington Post's Ryan Grim reported that Sergant had been "asked to resign," and played it as another scalp...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-36800179115516021782009-09-10T12:43:44.971-07:002009-09-10T12:43:44.971-07:00Sarah Palin's Op/Ed Now Most Popular Article O...Sarah Palin's Op/Ed Now Most Popular Article On **Entire** Wall Street Journal WebsiteAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-90141889314720558002009-09-10T12:41:15.031-07:002009-09-10T12:41:15.031-07:00The only true statement in the snake oil salesman’...The only true statement in the snake oil salesman’s speech fest was said by another, "You lie." <br /><br />Now we have another Joe that tells the truth. So many people are trying to contribute to his campaign that it crashed his site. I am sending mine by mail. <br /><br />The average working stiff is called Joe Six-pack, and if you think about it, two men with enough backbone to tell the truth are both Joes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-69366632714556551302009-09-10T10:52:30.226-07:002009-09-10T10:52:30.226-07:00O'Reilly got back from vacation Tuesday night ...O'Reilly got back from vacation Tuesday night and drew a whopping 5.6 million viewers for his East and West coast feeds. Wednesday nights viewership just may exceed 6 million!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-89146497348431291572009-09-10T10:27:13.757-07:002009-09-10T10:27:13.757-07:00No ObamaCare no matter how he changes it
No matte...No ObamaCare no matter how he changes it<br /><br />No matter how Obama lies and says he's fixed his "Health Care Reform" abomination, it shouldn't be accepted under any circumstances. Because Obama is a radical left-wing racist it is a fact that the new health care system will be essentially staffed through extreme affirmative action both in the system itself and in the medical schools. That means that we will be "cared for" by low-IQ, third-world savages. Health care will be a huge social engineering and income redistribution program that will put quality health care as its last priority. The government would be incompetent the provide quality health care even if that was their purpose (which it is not). Two of the most important goals of "Health Care Reform" is confiscating guns and empowering the unions. Two horrible developments. <br /><br />And since our traitorous government, most specifically the thuggish IRS, will be the ones deciding who has proper insurance outside the system and who doesn't, most of us will be forced to enroll in Obama's horror show. There is no way that that lying tyrant will be content to allow private health insurance to exist at all. And it will not lower costs. The United States government is officially bankrupt and no amount of lying will change that. That means the taxpayer will suffer tremendously in much higher taxes, inflation, transfers to those who can't pay and any number of other economic distortions added to the ones government has already caused (the diversity housing bubble for instance and the total destruction of our currency and the industrial sector.) The health care obamination combined with cap and trade will complete the economic destruction of the United States. Of course that is one of Obama's primary goals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-43301602008138458352009-09-10T09:34:33.825-07:002009-09-10T09:34:33.825-07:00TIME'S MARXIST CHIMES IN. GUESS WHICH SIDE HE...TIME'S MARXIST CHIMES IN. GUESS WHICH SIDE HE COMES DOWN ON (SARC)<br /><br />Joe Klein: Joe Wilson 'Vile', Besides 'Why Shouldn't' Illegals Be Covered?<br /><br />After plugging his latest column in a September 10 post on the magazine's Swampland blog, Time's Joe Klein pegged Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.) as "vile" before defending taxpayer-funded health care for illegal immigrants:<br /><br />On this whole question of whether illegal immigrants will be included in the plan, which caused the vile Congressman from South Carolina to shout "You lie" when the President said they wouldn't be covered. <br /><br />Why shouldn't they be?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-83771358419347102432009-09-10T09:31:44.138-07:002009-09-10T09:31:44.138-07:00CNN LIES TOO
The sample of speech-watchers in thi...CNN LIES TOO<br /><br />The sample of speech-watchers in this poll was 45 percent Democratic and 18 percent Republican. <br /><br />CNN Poll: Double-digit post-speech jump for Obama plan<br /><br />WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two out of three Americans who watched President Barack Obama's health care reform speech Wednesday night favor his health care plans — a 14-point gain among speech-watchers, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll of people who tuned into Obama's address Wednesday night to a joint session of Congress.<br /><br />Sixty-seven percent of people questioned in the survey say the support Obama's health care reform proposals that the president outlined in his address, with 29 percent opposed. Those figures are almost identical to a poll conducted immediately after Bill Clinton's health care speech before Congress in September, 1993.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-7943060338069403202009-09-10T09:17:31.043-07:002009-09-10T09:17:31.043-07:00Read the Union Health-Care Label: Get ready for De...Read the Union Health-Care Label: Get ready for Detroit-style labor relations in our hospitals (WSJ)<br /><br />In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will dole out to unions—or to the provisions in the various bills in Congress that will help bring about the forced unionization of the health-care industry. <br /><br />Tucked away in thousands of pages of complex new rules, regulations and mandates are special privileges and giveaways that could have devastating consequences for the health-care sector and the American economy at large. <br /><br />The Senate version opens the door to implement forced unionization schemes pursued by former Govs. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois in 2005and Gray Davis of California in 1999. <br /><br />Both men repaid tremendous political debts to Andy Stern and his Service Employees International Union (SEIU) by reclassifying state-reimbursed in-home health-care (and child-care) contractors as state employees—and forcing them to pay union dues.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-17130269526731413982009-09-10T09:00:19.940-07:002009-09-10T09:00:19.940-07:00Senate Health Care Negotiations Hit Snag, as Top R...Senate Health Care Negotiations Hit Snag, as Top Republican Raises New Objections<br /><br />Sources tell FOX News that Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, has asked Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., to reconsider a plan to require almost all Americans to get health insurance and to fine them thousands if they don't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-30984524652132352042009-09-10T08:52:08.111-07:002009-09-10T08:52:08.111-07:00RINOs stood up and were counted! This surprises no...RINOs stood up and were counted! This surprises no one. <br />==<br />Four GOP senators stand, applaud<br />Obama's 'death panel' dismissal <br />The Hill, by Walter Alarkon <br /><br />Just a few Republicans joined Democrats in applauding President Obama's debunking of the "death panels" claim during his healthcare speech Wednesday, but which GOP members they were might be telling. GOP Sens. Olympia Snowe (Maine), Susan Collins (Maine), Robert Bennett (Utah) and Judd Gregg (N.H.) stood up and clapped when Obama dismissed the suggestion that Democratic healthcare reform would lead to "panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-86587378462379470492009-09-10T08:32:45.242-07:002009-09-10T08:32:45.242-07:00The lying Oboo-ma thinks better than continuing on...The lying Oboo-ma thinks better than continuing one particular LIE! Insuring illegal aliens does not play well in Peoria. <br />In reference to:<br />“17 million fewer uninsured -- in a month? [Yet Another Hussein Obama Lie] @ Politico”Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-57240945377894044742009-09-10T08:26:36.015-07:002009-09-10T08:26:36.015-07:00Why the nurses union backs national health care?
-...Why the nurses union backs national health care?<br />---<br />Read the Union Health-Care Label <br />Get ready for Detroit-style labor relations in our hospitals. <br /><br />By MARK MIX <br /><br />In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will dole out to unions—or to the provisions in the various bills in Congress that will help bring about the forced unionization of the health-care industry. <br /><br />Tucked away in thousands of pages of complex new rules, regulations and mandates are special privileges and giveaways that could have devastating consequences for the health-care sector and the American economy at large.<br /><br />Read more at : http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574400571702189240.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-56294211317665764982009-09-10T08:18:38.904-07:002009-09-10T08:18:38.904-07:00I can’t wait to see the McClatchy stick-people dra...I can’t wait to see the McClatchy stick-people drawers come up with a cartoon of Obama getting a verbal shoe thrown at him, while he reads his TOTUS/Soros bullshit aka speech. Joe Wilson only said what millions believe. I intend to send him a check today.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-21659945964927280242009-09-10T08:10:00.532-07:002009-09-10T08:10:00.532-07:00‘O Blue Lips’ - That probably is from smoking, and...‘O Blue Lips’ - That probably is from smoking, and Barry might be chain smoking as his credibility swirls the toilet bowl. Flush!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-16325731548078919172009-09-10T08:02:43.360-07:002009-09-10T08:02:43.360-07:00Another press conference? Obama ought to learn to ...Another press conference? Obama ought to learn to leave bad enough alone.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-19774300128566733832009-09-10T08:01:18.419-07:002009-09-10T08:01:18.419-07:00Obama has called yet another press conference this...Obama has called yet another press conference this morning. The liar is in panic mode. He will bring his nurses’ union thugs in again, to add to his fantasy team of disgusting characters. Watch for the ghost of Van Jones to appear behind Oboob waving his big severance check in taxpayers’ faces. Geez, this farce of a president is actually appearing to be unbalanced.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-5890177391362782992009-09-10T07:51:53.063-07:002009-09-10T07:51:53.063-07:00Video Flashback: Dems Shout And Boo At Bush During...Video Flashback: Dems Shout And Boo At Bush During 2005 SOTU [Video]<br /><br />"In fairness to the liberals currently wetting themselves over Joe Wilson's destruction of Congressional civility, maybe those shouts of "no" and "boo" were meant supportively. Like "No! Good God NO! Thank you so much for bringing this to our attention! Boo on reality!" Because otherwise this morning's histrionics seem kind of self-serving and hypocritical. And moronic."<br />http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275877.html<br /><br />Video:<br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxmEGG71PM&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Emererhetoric%2Ecom%2Farchives%2F11275877%2Ehtml&feature=player_embeddedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-8314184795481322522009-09-10T07:49:53.875-07:002009-09-10T07:49:53.875-07:00Joe is just like to kid who finally stood up and s...Joe is just like to kid who finally stood up and said, “The emperor has no clothes.” Good for him.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Would the traitor party have cheered and the editorials espoused his freedom of expression had he thrown a shoe at O' Blue Lips?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-78887029077506602262009-09-10T07:45:03.533-07:002009-09-10T07:45:03.533-07:0017 million fewer uninsured -- in a month? [Yet Ano...17 million fewer uninsured -- in a month? [Yet Another Hussein Obama Lie] Politico <br /><br />Obama's speech tonight: "There are now more than thirty million American citizens who cannot get coverage.” <br /><br />Obama presser, Guadalajara, Mexico, 8/10/09: <br /><br />“We've got 46-47 million people without health insurance in our countryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-47411818885088566502009-09-10T07:43:40.985-07:002009-09-10T07:43:40.985-07:00Joe is just like to kid who finally stood up and s...Joe is just like to kid who finally stood up and said, “The emperor has no clothes.” Good for him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-28202270313404649542009-09-10T07:43:08.602-07:002009-09-10T07:43:08.602-07:00Joe Wilson is Right, Obama is a Liar (The Woodward...Joe Wilson is Right, Obama is a Liar (The Woodward Report)<br /> <br />It may have been a breach of protocol, and it may have been inappropriate but Rep. Joe Wilson got his point across. W<br /><br />hen Obama claimed his health care proposal would not cover illegals, Rep. Joe Wilson twice shouted “you lie”. <br /><br />He is right. Not only is the President lying about not paying for illegal aliens health care, he has been caught lying before (<br /><br />Senator John McSHAME was quick to try to appease the President and said this on CNN, “There is no place for it in that setting, or any other, and he should apologize for it immediately." Why don’t we stop playing the political correctness game and come out and address the issue. <br /><br />McCain should have come out and said something like this – “Although Wilson expressed his concerns in a regrettable way, his assertion happens to be correct.” <br /><br />A current study by The Federation for American Immigration Reform approximates the annual cost of healthcare for illegal immigrants to be $10.7 billion and calls the estimate conservative.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-49327453620672146422009-09-10T07:29:29.262-07:002009-09-10T07:29:29.262-07:00Obama: 'If you misrepresent what's in the ...Obama: 'If you misrepresent what's in the plan, we will call you out'<br />CNN<br /><br /><br />=============================<br /><br />All while he misrepresents the plan, over and over again. <br /><br />Fact CheckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-60746799846941765462009-09-10T07:28:05.222-07:002009-09-10T07:28:05.222-07:00More from this very article:
The fact is that Jo...More from this very article: <br /><br />The fact is that Jones is a communist, an identity (which like "fascist") carries deep and authentic historical and moral opprobrium. Today's communists want to ignore the mass murders, the gulags, the ideological strait jackets, the sheer viciousness of their (sometimes subliminal) heroes. <br /><br />But they are vicious enough themselves...(Jones) does not wish America well, and all of his rhetoric points to a revolutionary stance. <br /><br />Which also demonstrates how stupid he is. If he thinks that the American people are eager, or even willing to take a revolutionary road to their future he might, for his own better sake, be placed in a funny farm.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4726844761468242273.post-60155466465395859592009-09-10T07:27:04.996-07:002009-09-10T07:27:04.996-07:00Cool... But, Yes, Communist (The New Republic)
He...Cool... But, Yes, Communist (The New Republic)<br /><br />He's tall, trim, with shaved head, a confident demeanor, wearing a dark turtleneck, kind 'a funny and Yale Law School. Cool. Co-o-o-l. Or maybe even wow! <br /><br />He's Van Jones, and he resigned on Saturday as what the White House called its "czar" for the environment. There are actually many czars at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in this administration, and I wonder why the historical resonance of the word doesn't just give the Obama crowd the creeps. Unless, of course, they want to govern like czars ... and czarinas. <br /><br />To be sure, Mr. Jones did not have an option even though Valerie Jarrett was his admiring pal. But my admired pal Rahm and his partner David Axelrod must have known from the get-go that Jones would have to move on. If they had seen a serious vetting of the professional agitator he wouldn't have been allowed to cross the threshold of the presidential palace. <br /><br />Now, the get-go began with Glenn Beck. I am not embarrassed to confess that until this ideological donnybrook broke out I'd never ever even heard of Glenn Beck. You see, I don't watch FOX. But, then, I don't watch any television.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com