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Howard Dean on Capitalism vs. Socialism: "We're Gonna Have Both"

Breitbart unearthed this video footage of former DNC chair Howard Dean speaking in Paris back in April. This clip will make you feel literally ill.

In this disturbing presentation, the good doctor confirms many conservative pundits' hunches that Barack Obama's presidency is essentially a perpetual campaign by stating it outright. He expounds that it's a campaign not just to win elections for the Democrat Party–why Dean is in a foreign country discussing strategies for only one party of the U.S. political system is beyond me–but to influence policy indefinitely into the future. 

But more importantly and despicably, Dean trashes American capitalism in front of his European audience. He ignorantly describes capitalism as a manifestation of human selfishness and, indirectly, linking it to the "racist America" of the 1950's. He labels the current generation as the first real multi-cultural generation (forgetting, apparently, the influx of millions of foreigners at the turn of the 20th century, specifically because of the prosperity and liberty granted by America's capitalistic system). Then, instead of disputing whether we should have capitalism or socialism, the good doctor concludes that the U.S. should have both, the balance between which would be determined by ... them (i.e., the ruling Democrat Party) of course.

This is going to sound controversial and hyperbolic to some, but I don't care because I firmly believe it to be the truth: Howard Dean is an enemy of this nation. So is Barack Obama and all the Marxist-socialist characters he has affiliated with and surrounded himself with. So is the entire leadership of the Democrat Party for that matter. As Mark Levin and other pundits have stated, the party really has been taken over by a treasonous fifth column. They hate America as much as any foreign enemy. They are as much of an enemy to this nation as the premiers of the former U.S.S.R., Adolf Hitler, Emperor Hirohito, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Saddam Hussein, Muammar el-Qaddafi, Yasser Arafat, or Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

Don't give me that crap about dissent being the highest form of patriotism. These people never have any nice to say about the United States. Whether talking in front of a crowd of millionaires in San Francisco or elitists in Paris, Democrats do nothing but trash this nation, its people, its values, its history, and its economic system. They only talk about how good America is going to be once they fix it. President Hope&Change has been doing ever since he was a no-name community organizer in Chicago, and he's still doing it now! 

In case the above was too subtle I'll reiterate: The current Democrat Party leadership are traitors. and they are dangerous. 

And they must be defeated. Every last one of them. As soon as possible.

How in God's name can a decent, humane, honest rank-and-file Democrat voter be remotely supportive of such a party???

2010: The Year We Make Comeback!

The Richard Nixon of the Climate Change Industry Resigns

Hot off the presses: This piece to be on the Environment section in tomorrow morning’s New York Times

December 2, 2009

Climatologist Leaves Post in Inquiry Over E-Mail Leaks
By JOHN M. BRODER

The head of the British research unit at the center of a controversy over the disclosure of thousands of e-mail messages among climate-change scientists has stepped down pending the outcome of an investigation.

Phil Jones, the director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England, said that he would leave his post while the university conducted a review of the release of the e-mail messages. The university has called the release and publication of the messages a “criminal breach” of the school’s computer systems.

The e-mail exchanges among several prominent American and British climate-change scientists appear to reveal efforts to keep the work of skeptical scientists out of major journals and the possible hoarding and manipulation of data to overstate the case for human-caused climate change.

In a related announcement, Pennsylvania State University said it would review the work of a faculty member who is cited prominently in the e-mail messages, Michael Mann, to assure that it meets proper academic standards.

This is huge, in my opinion. Phil Jones stepping down from the directorship of the CRU is like Richard Nixon resigning as president of the U.S. Jone is the head honcho. For him to step means the CRU is in big trouble.

And now they say pressure is being exerted on another head honcho, Michael Mann. This would be the same Michael Mann whose (in)famous “hockey stick” graph of supposedly spiking up global warming has been debunked and subsequently eradicated from the IPCC report on climate change. Shouldn’t Penn State have figured something was wrong with the academic standards of Mann then?

Listen & Learn: El Rushbo - Despite ClimateGate, the AGW Drumbeat Goes On! (11/30/09)

Among the gems of brilliancy from these 20 minutes are:

This is not a conspiracy, folks. This is a cabal! This is a cabal of thugs masquerading as scientists to advance a worldwide leftist agenda.

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It is an attack on capitalism, it is an attack on freedom, and it is ongoing -- and it's not just happening in the global warming movement. It's happening in the Obama health care movement. It's happening in the cap-and-trade movement. It's happening in the card check movement. It's happening in the amnesty-for-illegals movement. Everything the left does should be seen as an attack on freedom.

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I knew it was political because I know liberals. I know liberals hate capitalism and consider it an enemy. So how best to win if you’re a liberal? Destroy capitalism, ergo, man-made global warming. And look at the headlines just today: “Western Civilization, Western Lifestyles Unsustainable.” “Only 10% of the World’s Population will Survive Global Warming.” “Global Warming is Causing Conflict and War in Africa.” No, it’s not. It’s something called poverty. Get ‘em running water, get ‘em electricity, and get ‘em DDT. Get rid of dictators and Africa will join the league of First World nations in time. But if you’re going to deny Africa DDT, if you’re going to deny Africa the right to develop, if you’re going to deny Africa running water and electricity, then you’re always going to have a Third World country with a few exceptions on the continent. It’s called poverty. Poverty results from liberalism. Poverty results from socialism. The problem with poverty around the world is there hasn’t been enough distribution of capitalism.

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You cannot say, “Rush, that sounds a little extreme. I just don’t want to think that there are people living in this country that would do this.” You’re voting for them. It happens. It’s happening right under your nose. It’s called Obamacare. It’s called health insurance reform. It’s called cap and trade. It’s called TARP. It’s called the stimulus bill. This president has spent three-and-a-half trillion dollars in his first year in office and it ain’t over. That is a record. It’s three-and-a-half trillion dollars we do not have. It is designed to bankrupt this country and to allow Obama to join the rest of the leftists around the world and raise taxes on everybody in this country, income taxes and every other kind of tax, the purpose of which is twofold: to fund an ever-growing government, but more importantly, to prevent the creation of wealth, to provide a roadblock to the creation of wealth.

The more that is taxed from you, the less disposable income you have to invest and to live on the less likely you are to assume and acquire wealth. That’s for the elitists to have and they’re going to get their wealth by taking yours and mine and everybody else’s. And they’re going to do it under the guise of saving the planet or creating jobs or reforming health care or reducing greenhouse gases or saving the financial institutions or saving the banks or making sure nobody defaults on their mortgage or making sure nobody has to pay on their mortgage. Whatever it is, everything going on right now is an assault on you and your family, your children, and their grandchildren, your grandchildren and their effort to acquire individual wealth. When that happens, fewer and fewer people own property, and the ownership of private property is as fundamental to freedom as is the First Amendment to our Constitution. All ten amendments are under assault. The people of this country got hoodwinked and bamboozled and have elected an international socialist who has no particular desire or love or appreciation for American exceptionalism, and he’s marching through with all the weapons at his disposal: ACORN, a Democrat majority in Congress, a compliant media, and science. The Four Corners of Deceit: Academia, government, science and media.

No wonder El Rushbo is one of the most feared and loathed person by the Left.

[Edited for long silences, commercial breaks, and any other extraneous talking]

(Download Rush2009-11-30_pt1.mp3 here)

(Download Rush2009-11-30_pt2.mp3 here)

Liberal Lie #15: The Right Is Against Science; The Left Promotes It

Don’t think anyone is surprised by this:

Gibbs: Despite research dispute, ‘climate change is happening’
By Tony Romm - 11/30/09 03:21 PM ET

The White House on Monday made exceptionally clear that it wants nothing to do with the furor over documents that global warming skeptics say prove the phenomenon is not a threat. Despite the incident, which rocked international headlines last week, climate science is sound, Press Secretary Robert Gibbs stressed this afternoon, and the White House nonetheless believes “climate change is happening.”

“I don’t think that’s anything that is, quite frankly, among most people, in dispute anymore,” he said during Monday’s press briefing.

Climate change skeptics have asserted over the past week that the publication of more than 1,000 private e-mails and documents once housed in the University of East Anglia’s computer system refutes most modern global warming evidence.

Like your boss, Robert Gibbs, you lie! Either that or you’re completely delusional.

And to author Tony Romm: It’s not a dispute; it’s a bust. The decades-long multi-billion-dollar scam called Man-made global warming climate change has been blown wide open. All we’re seeing now is the left - from the White House to the media to the IPCC scurry around like rats on a sinking ship trying to figure out a way to survive. As James Inhofe recently said to Barbara “Call me Senator” Boxer: “We won. You lost. Get a life.”

The climate “scientists” who had direct control of the data seen by the rest of the scientific and political world have just been caught manipulating and omitting data that refutes their ideologically preconceived notions. They fixed the data in order to get their billions of funding. They fixed the data in order to push their leftist anti-capitalist agenda.

Not one thing predicted by Michael Mann, Phil Jones, Al Gore, etc., etc. has borne out: 

The Earth is not getting warmer; it’s in fact just the opposite. 

Polar bears are not going extinct; it’s in fact just the opposite. 

Hurricanes are not increasing in frequency or intensity; it’s in fact just the opposite.

Man-made global warming climate change is a hoax. And the “scientists” who manufactured the hoax have been caught red-handed.

And so what does our own government do? Ignore the scam in order to push their own leftist anti-capitalist agenda.

Barack Obama and his administration have to ignore that man-made global warming climate change is a hoax. For once they acknowledge the truth, they lose one of the biggest motivations for bringing down this great nation, whose capitalism-based prosperity and whose Judeo-Christian values they despise with a hate hotter than the several-million-degree Earth’s core. (Right, Al Gore?) 

The fascists which are the Left will do anything to cling to their power. Their desperate attempt to still legitimize what has been deemed utterly illegitimate is one of the most egregious examples of this.

But remember: It’s the right that politicizes science. It’s the Republican Party that has been waging war on it.

Give me a freaking break.

P.S. Awesome climate science website: ILoveCarbonDioxide.com.

My Post (Finally) on "Climate Gate"

Oh, you don’t know about “Climate Gate,” the biggest science swindle in history? That’s because the lib mainstream media has hardly done squat on it. It’s not like it’s huge news like a fraternity-style naked pyramid at Abu Ghraib which the MSM treated us to front and center for weeks on end.

Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters documented the shoddy reporting on November 24—a full week after the discovery of the emails. Instead of making it top priority, the news channels filled the airwaves with everything but:

… [H]ere are some of the stories news organizations apparently favored by the Obama adminstration have covered since ClimateGate broke:

ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” Friday did a very lengthy piece about Oprah Winfrey ending her syndicated daytime talk show

ABC’s “World News with Charles Gibson” Monday did a lengthy piece on new revelations involving the marital affair of Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.)

CBS “Evening News” Saturday reported a ten-year-old pianist playing at Carnegie Hall

CBS “Evening News” Sunday did lengthy pieces on the website FreeCreditReport.com not being free and the movie “New Moon”

CBS “Evening News” Monday did lengthy pieces about defective drywall and a man who makes money wearing t-shirts

NBC “Nightly News” Friday reported on Switzerland’s supercollider being turned back on

NBC “Nightly News” Saturday did a somewhat lengthy report on food carts

NBC “Nightly News” Sunday reported the release of British singer Susan Boyle’s CD, and then followed it up with another report Monday on her promoting it.

It’s not that these aren’t valid news stories, but should they ALL be of greater importance than a scandal involving scientists from around the world including some employed by NASA and American colleges?

I disagree. Very few of these stories should have made the roster. Switzerland’s supercollinder (what is that?)? Food carts? defective drywall? A non-substantive follow-up on the months-old story of a Republican Senator’s marital affair??? Every one of these anchors should be fired and have their journalism degrees revoked.

Also consider that the news divisions of ABC, CBS, and NBC broadcast many hours during the day besides their evening programs, and LexisNexis identified no ClimateGate reports in those either (through Monday).

As for CNN, it has been broadcasting for almost 100 straight hours since this story broke, and it appears the so-called “Most Respected Name In News” has yet to devote one second to this scandal.

By contrast, Fox News did at least four reports on this subject on Monday alone. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has also done multiple stories on this matter, as has BBC.com.

Yet, despite the seriousness of this issue, as well as a prominent Senator calling for hearingsto investigate it, America’s television news organizations appear to be actively boycotting this growing controversy.

Is this a replay of how they ignored September’s ACORN scandal for many days until they were basically forced to cover what had gone viral across the Internet, talk radio, and Fox News?

What is it going to take for these so-called news outlets to begin sharing this subject with their viewers?

On a humorous related note, ABC might not be interested in ClimateGate, but it still is devoted to spreading climate fear.

On Tuesday, ABCNews.com’s top story was, “Worse Than the Worst: Climate Report Says Even Most Dire Predictions Too Tame“

There’s even less time for humanity to try to curb global warming than recently thought, according to a new in-depth scientific assessment by 26 scientists from eight countries. …

This is unbelievable!

And just when you think the lib media it can’t get any worse, Andy Revkin at the NY Times refused to reveal any of the emails because they were “never intended for the public eye.”

Are you kidding me? This is the same newspaper who printed loads of classified CIA documents that hurt the efforts of the Bush White House to fight the war on “terror”?

Now that it’s over two weeks since the email story broke, the NY Times and the rest of the lib media are finally reporting on it, but with the perspective that the news is sure to gladden climate skeptics. In other words, the MSM is not focusing on the scam that’s just been exposed; they’re focusing all the uneducated corporate-bought climate deniers who must be dancing in the streets like a bunch of Arabs on September 11, 2001. Some have also mentioned a movement growing to sue these Bernie Madoffs of the climate change industry. But, again, without telling the whole story of the hoax, the media (deliberately, in my humble opinion) makes the suers look simply stupid, partisan, and spiteful.

So, you need to learn any more about Climate Gate? Here’s a YouTube video illustrating the Who’s Who of the biggest scam of modern times [h/t What Bubba Knows]:

Despite all this evidence that the science has been cooked for years, President Golden Calf still plans on going to Copenhagen with the intention of having the U.S. "lead the world" in signing into global law what can arguably be considered the most liberty-suppressing, prosperity-stifling, and life-threatening act in human history. Why should scientific facts or the exposure of this multi-trillion-dollar scam dissuade the Marxist-in-Chief? Climate change legislation was never about saving the planet; it's always was and still is about knocking the U.S. down as many notches as possible from its unfairly attained pedestal and saving the world from the evils of capitalism.

You wanted change? You got it.

Welcome to the future, suckers!

Liberal Media Bias: Kristof's Latest NYT Piece on Health Care - All Emotion, No Balance

There's a reason Michelle Malkin is one of the most feared and loathed women by the left. She comes at them with truth like a vampire slayer with a silver stake. Go get 'em, Michelle!

Nick Kristof is the recipient of not one, but two Pulitzer Prizes for journalism. He has traveled the world, writes critically acclaimed books, and counts Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie among his glamorous friends. He is also the author of what may quite possibly be the crappiest New York Times column for Obamacare ever.

It is subtly titled, “Are We Going to Let John Die?” and is dripping with the emotional and policy intelligence of your average Democratic Underground commenter. Kristof tells the sad story of John Brodniak, 23, a sawmill worker from Yamhill County, Oregon. Kristof reports that Brodniak has been diagnosed with cavernous hemangioma.

Read the rest here.

Liberal Ignorance, Hate, and Intolerance: George Lopez Attacks Todd Palin

About one-third the way through Sarah Palin’s informative memoir, I’ve learned not only about her, but her husband Todd as well.

For you libs who prefer to bash Sarah’s book rather than actually read it, Todd is part Yupik Eskimo and worked on the icy shores of northern Alaska since childhood, where he learned to be self-sufficient and self-reliant. By the time he moved with his family to Wasilla, he had been one of the only teens in town to have earned enough to purchase his own car. After he and Sarah were married, he was so dedicated earning income for his family, he spent days away from Sarah and young Track and Bristol to work in the oil fields, and even missed Willow’s birth because of it.

In short, Todd Palin is in no way a “bum,” and was never destined to be.

Why do I bring this all up? Because last week (the 20th) the ignorant, hateful, and intolerant liberal “comedian” Joy Behar had on as guest the ignorant, hateful, and intolerant liberal “comedian” George Lopez. An agreeing Behar played clips from Lopez’s most recent HBO special, which included such gems as …

There are a lot of politicians that would be Latinos and a lot now who are Latino. Sarah Palin, Latina. Believe me. She’s got all the signs. She works and her husband don’t.

To add insult to injury, Lopez and Behar discussed Mr. Palin’s role as a stay-at-home dad.

LOPEZ: I mean, the concept of Todd Palin being a stay-at-home dad-listen Joy, when I was a kid, those guys were called bums.

BEHAR: Uh-huh. They’re still called bums.

I’m confused. For decades the left has worked incessantly to completely redefine the roles of men and women in the home and in the workplace. Isn’t that what libs wanted: for women to unabashedly take on traditional male roles and vice versa? That why was Sarah Palin slammed by the left during the ’08 campaign for “shafting her children” because she chose to work the tough long hours of political office?

Easy: Because only liberal women are to be praised for “doing it all.” Conservative women, on the other, are not “real women” according to many self-proclaimed feminists, so when they break the so-called glass ceiling, it doesn’t count.

And so it seems to be with Todd Palin. If a liberal/Democrat man played stay-at-home dad so the wife could have her career, he would most likely be make Time Magazine’s Man of the Year. But when a conservative/Republican does it, he’s a bum.

This is what passes for tolerant, civil, open-minded conversation for the left. But remember, it’s the Rush Limbaugh’s and Glenn Beck’s of the world who are poisoning the airwaves and TV.

Isn’t it easy to be a liberal? No equally applied set of rules, no principles, no decency. Just your own lies to spew inside the comfortable little bubble, dutifully echoed by other liberals until the lies are repeated often enough that they become truth.

“We put too much faith in conventional wisdom; Insist on the truth or you will never be free.”

Colleen Raezler at NewsBusters caught this excuse for a talk show and noted that Mr. Palin was described in the Washington Post—hardly a right-wing publication—very much like he is in his wife’s memoir:

Funny that even the liberal Washington Post admitted that Todd Palin was anything but a bum in a hit piece on him last year.

… But Todd Palin, 44, the ruggedly handsome four-time winner of the 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmobile race, was already an Alaska star before his wife’s election in 2006. Along with his family duties, he held two jobs, working occasional 85-hour weeks as an oil production operator for BP and, for a month each summer, as a commercial salmon fisherman in Bristol Bay.

Lopez didn’t simply insult the Palins’ division of labor, but opened fire on her looks and other situations regarding her family after Behar asked him, “What other signs are there that Palin is Latino?”

“She has a child and a grandchild the same age, and the tell-tale sign is she needs to get her roots done,” Lopez replied.

Speaking of employment, the other day Rasmussen released a report regarding our ever-increasing unemployment rate: Of those Americans jobless and looking, 15% are Democrats, yet only 9.9% are Republican. (Those with no major party affiliation make up 15.6%.)

Eowyn, who blogs at Giovanni’s World, asks:

Anyone interested in providing an explanation for why more Democrats and Independents than Republicans are unemployed? Is it because Republicans are more likely to be self-employed businessmen/women?

That could be, but I think these statistics make perfect sense. I’d bet that in general more Dems are unemployed than Republicans, given the behavior and expectations of each (not every single person of course, but generally): Republicans don’t look for handouts from big government. They don’t care who’s president. They just work. Period.

Dems on the other hand have an ingrained entitlement mentality. They and the party they support have been weaned on “the government owes me.” Look at all the footage from Obamaniacs during and after the ‘08 campaign—they were just waiting for Obama to become president in order to hold their hand out and for nanny gov’t to give them something they didn’t earn—pay for their house, their food, their health care, etc.. Not long ago in Detroit thousands of poor people (mostly minorities) stood on line waiting to get, as one local news interviewee called it, “Obama money.” Why work?

Think I’m generalizing? Think there are an equal number of Dems and Reps on the welfare rolls? Doubt it. You’d never see someone like Todd Palin going on welfare. But I’m sure the unfunny George Lopez and Joy Behar wouldn’t dare insult anyone taking welfare or waiting on line for “Obama money,” as long as they were good little Democrat-voters. (You know, real bums).

And now The Democrat leadership is punishing hard work and initiative through taxation and demonization of the evil “rich” who by means of the unfair capitalist system have stolen from the unemployed what’s rightfully theirs.

Sorry, call me mean-spirited but I’m calling it as I see it: Democrats being unemployed at a higher percentage than Republicans is no accident.

So let George Lopez deflect the actual problems plaguing Hispanics—high unemployment among males and sexual activity so rampant that teenage girls are making their mothers grandmothers at a relatively young age—by projecting it onto Sarah and Todd Palin. Let his left-leaning audience laugh, and let like-minded liberals like Joy Behar give him a forum to spew his hatred against two of the most decent and hard-working people currently in the public eye.

Because the truth is, George Lopez and Joy Behar, America is better off with folks like Sarah and Todd Palin than with either of you.

Liberal Hypocrisy: The Obamas Live It Up at the WH State Dinner

Orlando at Fort Hard Knox posted this YouTube clip of this past week's grossly extravagant state dinner hosted by the Obama's. The Democrat politburo (a.k.a. members of the Pelosi House and Reid Senate) took time off from their Constitution-violating legislating to attend, and lefty big-Dem-donating Hollywood glitterati like Steven Spielberg and Jeffrey Katzenberg were in attendance.

And all on our dime!

How much more do you have to see to understand what "Do As I Say, Not As I Do" hypocrites these elite Marxist-socialist leftocrats are? Meanwhile, soldiers are dying in Afghanistan due to the traitor-in-chief's criminally irresponsible dithering.

Oh, and by the way, the post-partisan president had nary a Republican there. Only House Minority Leader John Boehner and Senator Mitch McConnell were invited but couldn't come. Their respective deputies were not invited to take their place.

What if this were George W. and Laura Bush who pulled this crap? They wouldn't; the Bushes had class. The Obamas are like modern-day Marie Antoinettes: "Let them eat cake!"

2010: The Year We Make Comeback

I was so proud of myself for coming up with this slogan, based on the title of the 1984 sequel to Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odessey." I even told it to my wife so she'd be my witness. If the slogan was going to go viral and reach Hannity and El Rushbo, I wanted to make sure I marked the origin of the coinage.

Good thing I did a Google search before laying such a claim publicly. Turns out "joe reboy," who blogs at Obamanation, beat me to it on October 7. Congrats, Joe. It's a great - and much wished for - slogan. Let it be officially stated: I am the second person to introduce it.

Here's looking at an exciting and pivotal 2010!

"My God, it's full of libs!!!"

Surprise Surprise: Anti-Semitism Finds Home in Hard-Left Democrat Party

A relative alerted me to this weekend story from the Jerusalem Post.

Nov 22, 2009 22:34 | Updated Nov 23, 2009 11:10
What a difference 35 years make
By MICHAEL M. ROSEN

In an October 1974 cable to Democratic Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson, following passage of his legislation helping Soviet Jews emigrate, Israel’s Foreign Minister Yigal Allon wrote that “your efforts in this matter manifest once again your deep understanding of our needs and your constant support of the cause of Israel.” What a difference 35 years make.

Nowadays, liberal members of Jackson’s party routinely cast votes against Israel, while the leftist commentators supporting them relish vilifying the Jewish state. Whether it’s blasting the settlements, criticizing Israel’s Lebanon or Gaza conflicts, or deferring sanctions on Iran, the American Left is more unified than ever in its opposition to Israel and its policies. …

Took you long enough to wake up. I could have told you the left has been been the home to anti-Semitism for years.

Meanwhile, who did the Anti-Defamation League go after last week with charges of fomenting hate, violence, and potentially anti-Semitism? Glenn Beck! Why? Because he is a harsh critic of President Golden Calf's destructive policies and because he says, "I fear for my country." [h/t radio host Steve Malzberg]

It is a topsy-turvy world!

Diversity Lane (11/23/09)

There's been no time to blog all weekend and little time this week. In the meantime, enjoy the latest from Zack R. at the incredible Diversity Lane:

   

Around the Web in 80 Minutes: Palin "Going Rogue" Edition (11/20/09)

In all honesty, I was initially not planning to buy Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue. It’s a personal trait of mine not to favor biographies or autobiographies/memoirs. I prefer books on political philosophy or events, rather than on an individual person. That’s just me. (One exception: Clarence Thomas’ autobiography My Grandfather's Son; Loved it!)

But I want the leftocracy—with the notable exception of Oprah Winfrey—to know that their continued bashing of this woman compelled me to purchase her book yesterday, and I am reading it with delight.

As the left continues to pound this woman and her new book, rather than do objective reporting, here are some retorts from the right:

Nov. 20, 2009 | National Review Online
Palinophobes Hate First, Ask Questions Later
By Jonah Goldberg

Slate magazine is just one of the countless media outlets convulsing with St. Vitus’ Dance over that demonic succubus Sarah Palin. In its reader forum, The Fray, one supposed Palinophobe took dead aim at the former Alaska governor’s writing chops, excerpting the following sentence from her book:

“The apartment was small, with slanting floors and irregular heat and a buzzer downstairs that didn’t work, so that visitors had to call ahead from a pay phone at the corner gas station, where a black Doberman the size of a wolf paced through the night in vigilant patrol, its jaws clamped around an empty beer bottle.”

Other readers pounced like wolf-sized Dobermans on an intruder. One guffawed, “That sentence by Sarah Palin could be entered into the annual Bulwer-Lytton bad writing contest. It could have a chance at winning a (sic) honorable mention, at any rate.”

But soon, the original contributor confessed: “I probably should have mentioned that the sentence quoted above was not written by Sarah Palin. It’s taken from the first paragraph of ‘Dreams From My Father,’ written by Barack Obama.” [Whoops!]

Nov. 20, 2009 | Jewish World Review
Sally Quinn on Sarah Palin — Versus Reality
By David Limbaugh

… Of all the screeds I’ve read, I don’t think any are snarkier than The Washington Post’s Sally Quinn’s “On Faith” blog post “Sarah Palin’s ‘rogue’ Christianity.”

Do we need further proof of the secular orientation of our dominant media culture than the fact that Quinn, an avowed atheist, pens the Post’s “On Faith” blog? That would be like featuring a column by Fidel Castro on free enterprise and individual liberties. …

Quinn says: “Sarah Palin writes that one summer at Bible Camp she ‘put my life in my creator’s hands and trust Him as I sought my life’s path.’ For Palin, this grand divine plan was ‘a natural progression.’ She writes. And later, ‘I don’t believe in coincidences.’“

Quinn — convinced she has exposed Palin as confused, conflicted and acutely hypocritical — volleys a series of rhetorical questions designed to reveal Palin’s apparent inconsistency in believing that G0d is in complete control (“I don’t believe in coincidences”) and yet he allows or causes terrible things to happen to people.

Here’s a sampling of Quinn’s ill-informed, sneering arrogance: “Did G0d plan for her to become Governor of Alaska. If so, did G0d plan for her to step down. … Did G0d plan for her to have a huge wardrobe? Then why did she apologize for it? ... Did G0d plan for her daughter Bristol to get pregnant while she was a teenager? Why was she then not thrilled.”

Perhaps Quinn wouldn’t be so smug if she were to do the slightest bit of thinking or reading about the concepts of G0d’s sovereignty and free will — ideas that have challenged the finest minds for 2,000 years and contributed to denominational differences within evangelical Christianity. Has Quinn studied Calvin, Wesley, Luther or any other past or present theologian on these issues? …

Quinn is exercised at Palin for supposedly settling scores in her book and allegedly failing to exhibit the Christian qualities of “love, generosity, mercy and forgiveness.” But it’s my informed guess that Quinn’s contempt for Palin has nothing to do with these false charges or Palin’s alleged hypocrisy or even her theology but is rooted in Palin’s conservative ideology.

November 20, 2009 | Town Hall
Palin-Hating 101
by S. E. Cupp

… Newsweek, in advance of Palin’s book release, obviously went for subtlety. Their headline read, “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sarah? She’s bad news for the GOP—and everybody else, too.” [As opposed to non-problems like the America-hating Barack Obama and his America-hating wife who adorned the cover of Newsweek several times since 2007; or the charlatan Al Gore, whose climate alarmism has made him filthy rich while threatening the prosperity of our nation] Accompanying it was a photo of her in running shorts used in a June 2009 Runner’s World spread. Newsweek’s message was clear: You are not to take this woman seriously. Never mind that Runner’s Week [sic] told me that the photos from that shoot are still under a one-year embargo, and that Newsweek ran the photo without Runner’s World’s knowledge or permission. No biggie. [Typically, when you’re a liberal in the process of a conservative to smear, no rules apply, not morally and not legally. Stay classy, Newsweek.]

On “Hardball,” Chris Matthews, who’s still recovering from that bizarre bout of restless leg syndrome that suddenly befell him last year, actually had the audacity to say of the attention Palin is getting for her book release, “I’ve never seen hype like this.” Apparently, the overwrought sensationalism of the Denver Democratic National Convention, where Obama stood amidst faux White House columns, under fireworks, next to Sheryl Crow and Will.i.am—or “Hype and Change 2008”—is but a distant memory to Matthews.

In another segment, on another night, Matthews and MSNBC reporter Norah O’Donnell decided that the crowd at a Palin book signing was, well, too white. “I think there is a tribal aspect to this thing. In other words, white vs. other people,” said Matthews, ever the sociology scholar.

The leftwing media has long tried to ascribe a scary nativism to Palin, who best described the phenomenon during her recent Oprah interview, when she said that Katie Couric had looked at her like she was part of some kind of nomadic tribe from Alaska. Asking her what she read was like asking her if she read. [If Couric et al. actually read Palin’s book, as I am currently doing, they will find out that Palin was raised on poetry. But, unlike elitist liberals, she doesn’t need to impress anyone by quoting any.]

Others have tried to carefully feign disinterest in the hopes that, much like the flu, disinterest is contagious. The Washington Post published a book review by Ana Marie Cox, in which she smugly “confesses” she didn’t have time to read the entire book, “It’s terrible, I know, but if I didn’t read it all, neither can Sarah Palin claim to have completely written it.” In that one sentence, we know that Cox’s time constraints excuse wasn’t the issue. She simply wanted to be able to write in a book review that Palin’s book didn’t make her to-do list. Her anti-review review is fine for Cox, but what’s the Washington Post’s excuse for publishing it?

Others still have tried to dismiss Palin as some would-be celebrity, who—how dare she?!—had the gumption and considerable bad taste to write a book. And promote it. (Irony alert: Al Gore has his own television network.) …

But we don’t see the liberal press fretting over President Obama’s penchant for self-promotion. They coo when he goes on Letterman to talk about all the cool stuff that happens when you’re president—during a recession and a war. And they applaud his Nobel Peace Prize, for which he was nominated after just 12 days in office. And they rally around his embarrassing Olympic bid, which actually argued that the IOC should choose Chicago so that he and Michelle could stop and see the fam while in their old neighborhood. Obama’s “me, me, me, me, me, me, me” aria is fine. But Palin’s plain-speaking and honest stab at defending herself against her seething critics is schlocky showboating and shameless self-promotion. Please. …

Have a blessed day!

Liberal Fascism: Commie-fornia Declares No TV's for You!

Here’s the latest abomination from the folks who put the “mental” in environmentalism. William Teach at Pirate’s Cove writes:

….And Then They Came For My TV

And I moved the fark out of California

Power-hungry TVs will be banned from store shelves in California after state regulators adopted a first-in-the nation mandate to lower electricity demand. [What about power-hungry politicians? When will they be banned? -ETR]

On a unanimous vote, the California Energy Commission on Wednesday required all new televisions up to 58 inches to be more energy efficient beginning in 2011. The requirement will be tougher in 2013, and only a quarter of all TVs on the market currently meet that standard.

And then I found out that Los Federales did the same thing. And I was sad.

There will be three consequences of the Nannyfornia law. 1st, the costs will skyrocket for those that meet the standards. 2nd, people will go out of state, or even down to Mexico, to purchase their TV’s. 3rd, there will be fewer choices. I witnessed something similar first hand in NJ back in the day when they jacked the taxes on automobiles. So, people went to Pa., NY, and Delaware to purchase. Cars in NJ were on short supply. Dealers were going out of business. NJ repealed those taxes quickly, though. Something like this will never go away.

So in various (blue) states throughout the country, the rabid extremist left has succeeded in banning transfats, smoking indoors and in some areas even outdoors, and now banned certain TV’s. Oh yeah, it’s now against federal law not to utter “hate speech,” i.e., whatever speech some left-wing political hack disagrees with.

But remember, it’s the right that’s fascistic and imposes its values on you. Give me an effing break.

You know how pathetic it is that I’m not even 40 but I can still say to my kids “When I was your age this was a free country.”?

Pop Science Quiz

OK, kiddies, time play an old favorite. Here’s a picture of the planet Earth:

 

So far so good.

Now look at this photoshopped version and find six things that are scientifically wrong/untenable:

 

Answers:

1.The hurricane off the coast of Florida is spinning in the wrong direction. Hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere (like all low pressure storms) go counterclockwise.

2. The hurricane off of South America is almost on the equator, an impossibility for hurricanes.

Notice that there are four hurricanes on the map simultaneously? But despite the climate scare-mongers, the frequency and strength of hurricanes have been decreasing over the past few years and are currently at a 30-year low.

3. All of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is removed, but snow cover over Canada and Alaska remains.

4. The middle part of the Greenland ice sheet, the thickest part, is gone. Ice remains around the edges, where it's the thinnest.

5. Cuba is totally underwater, which would require a sea level rise of over 6,000 feet. This would mean the U.S. all the way up to Denver should be submerged as well.

6. Panama is underwater too, another impossibility given its height above sea level in comparison to other land masses not submerged.

I Hate the Media says:

For Panama to disappear beneath the waves would require sea levels to rise more than 11,400 feet (slightly more than the 14-inches anticipated by the IPCC report).

That sea level rise would leave only five towns in the entire world above water – Namache Bazaar, Nepal at 11,482 feet; Potosi, Bolivia at 13,420 feet; El Alto, Bolivia at 13,615 feet, Lhasa Tibet at 12,200 feet; and La Rinoconada, Peru at 16,728 feet. Denver, the Mile High City, would be a mile under water.

If, say, a middle school science student turned in this picture of the Earth to describe what the planet would look like due to man-made global warming climate change, he would get a freakin’ F for FAIL.

Too bad that picture is the cover of Al Gore’s new book, “Our Choice.”

And to think, just a couple weeks ago Newsweek called the Goracle the “thinking man’s thinking man.” Which makes both Gore and Newsweek pathetic.

Earlier this week, eleven crack “journalists” at the Associated Press combed Sarah Palin’s new book, only to discover six lies in 432 pages. Here we have on Al Gore’s new book six lies on the cover alone. Hey, AP, fact-check this!

Other posts on the Goracle’s latest photoshop adventure: Prison Planet; Dvorak Uncensored, Moonbattery

End the Occupation! Cynthia McKinney Preaches Hate and Silences Opposition at Binghamton

Last time former Georgia Democrat Congressman Cynthia McKinney made national news was in 2006, when she struck a Capitol police officer after the supposedly racist bastard had the audacity to stop her for failing to show I.D. But before that embarrassing display, McKinney had amassed a list of anti-white, anti-American, and anti-Semitic remarks. She is truly the embodiment of left-wing hate. 

The mainstream media is very good at reporting supposed right-wing anti-Semitism, like last month when two South Carolina Congressmen made the mistake of stereotyping Jews as being frugal with their money. But radical leftist anti-Semites—especially non-white ones—Louis Farrakhan comes to mind—the media tends to sweep under the rug.

It is also an unfortunate reality that leftist racists and anti-Semites are regular guests at universities, as painstakingly documented by David Horowitz et al. This was the case last week at my wife’s alma mater Binghamton University (formerly SUNY Binghamton). 

McKinney delivered anti-Semitic rant speech called “Black in America, Black in Palestine.” But if that wasn’t bad enough, all opposing views were suppressed via physical intimidation at the speech location and the theft of flyers alerting the Jewish community of McKinney’s visit.

Earlier this week, my wife received this email from the school’s Hillel organization informing alumni of what happened. Had my wife never received it, I would never have known these disgusting events took place:

Dear Friends,

By now, many of you have heard about a disturbing event that took place at Binghamton University on Tuesday, November 10th when former Congresswoman, and noted anti-Israel speaker, Cynthia McKinney came to campus. …

We are deeply saddened that our students were silenced by the event organizers and by physical intimidation. Throughout the evening, event coordinators threatened to remove anyone who offered a dissenting opinion, and during the question and answer period anyone who even hinted at a different point of view was either intimidated or embarrassed into silence. Student “bodyguards” were in place to prevent anyone who had an opposing viewpoint from speaking.

The Jewish campus community has been deeply affected by this incident.

We are concerned that the University’s statement in the above article does not go far enough. It does not condemn the physical intimidation used by event organizers. Furthermore, the University’s statement leaves students to work out conflicts amongst themselves, without University guidance and leadership about what constitutes civil discourse.

We will continue to work with the University to resolve these matters and make our opinions known. …

More details:

Pro-Israel fliers confiscated at campus speech
November 17, 2009

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- Fliers distributed by Binghamton University Jewish students outside a campus speech by a critic of Israel were collected and confiscated by event organizers during the event.

Students from the Hillel Jewish Student Union at Binghamton passed out information outside auditorium doors before a Nov. 10 speech by former Georgia Rep. Cynthia McKinney. The New York State university’s Hillel president, Rebecca Kohn, described the fliers as facts about Israel and Hamas and other points that they did not believe McKinney would address in her speech, which was titled “Black in America, Black in Palestine.”

But before McKinney spoke, leaders of the Binghamton Political Initiative, a graduate-student organized group, asked that anyone who had received a Hillel flier should pass them to the end of the row so they could be collected.

Kohn also said that during the question period, those who asked questions critical of McKinney’s views were quickly cut off or embarrassed. For example, when one pro-Israel questioner briefly stuttered from nerves, McKinney held up the flier that Hillel passed out and said, “Do you need this?”

An article by Hillel describing the events of the McKinney speech was printed as a letter to the editor in the campus newspaper last Friday. Kohn said Hillel was reaching out to the Binghamton Political Initiative to discuss the event. The event was co-sponsored by the Multicultural Resource Center and other campus organizations.

A university spokeswoman said Tuesday that school administrators had met with the Hillel director to discuss Jewish student concerns and said the school hoped that students could work out the issue among themselves.

“While the University defends the right of event organizers to determine the content of their programs, we hope and expect that all attendees at events held on campus will be treated respectfully regardless as to the extent of their agreement with the program’s message,” the university said in a statement. “When that does not occur, our response is to continue to work with students and student organizations to promote a more respectful community. Part of that work is helping students to develop the necessary tools to resolve disputes effectively amongst themselves.”

The statement also said that “student organizations are under no requirement to be neutral or balanced in their expressive activity and we have been made aware of concerns that the hosts of this event were not interested in presenting critiques of the guest speaker as part of the program. At Binghamton University, as at most campuses, those who stand in disagreement with a program’s message certainly have many alternative avenues available to them to express their own viewpoints including hosting their own events, letter writing campaigns and rallies.”

Kohn said that while the administration had met with the campus Hillel director, no one had met with any Jewish students. She said the university’s statement amounted to administrators saying that while they did not approve of the disrespect shown to attendees at the McKinney speech, they were not going to take any action.

McKinney, whose father famously blamed “J-E-W-S” when she was defeated in a race for re-election to her Atlanta-area congressional district in 2002, has most recently been involved in the Free Gaza movement. She was arrested last summer by Israel for attempting to break the naval blockade on the Gaza Strip and called Israel’s operation in Gaza “full-scale, outright genocide.”

During her Binghamton speech, she made comparisons between Palestinians and blacks in America, and called Israel an apartheid state.

Binghamton Hillel published this response:

Response to Cynthia McKinney
Published Monday, November 16, 2009

by Hillel Executive Board

We write to you because our voices have been silenced.

Tuesday night former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney spoke at Binghamton University at an event sponsored by the Binghamton Political Initiative, the Walter Rodney Committee and other campus groups. While we expected her speech to be biased against Israel, based on her well-documented record of past presentations of this nature, we were utterly unprepared for our opposing points of view to be so forcefully suppressed.

As executive board members of Hillel at Binghamton and members of an academic community, we felt that it was our responsibility to educate our peers on all angles of the Israeli-Palestinian situation. Therefore, we had spent the week leading up to the event preparing handouts with information representing various points of view that we believed would not be shared by Ms. McKinney.

To our shock, at the beginning of last night’s event, student coordinators were forcibly taking this information away from people. The moderator publicly announced that anyone who received handouts should pass them to the aisle for immediate confiscation. These actions are unacceptable. As students at an institution that promotes academic honesty, integrity, and truth, we are angered that our right to free speech was so clearly denied. Once we distributed the sheets, those who held them had the choice to read the information or disregard it, but it was in no way the coordinators’ or moderator’s right to aggressively take away that choice.

Throughout the evening, student coordinators threatened to remove anyone who offered a dissenting opinion, and during the question and answer period anyone who even hinted at a different point of view was either intimidated or embarrassed into silence. An extreme lack of respect was shown to anyone in attendance who did not wholeheartedly endorse Ms. McKinney’s presentation.

As representatives of the Jewish community on campus, we are outraged that our fellow students chose to bring a speaker to campus who has such a clear record of bigotry. MsMcKinney is strongly tied to the New Black Panther Party, which the Southern Poverty Law Center calls a “black racist” group and is decidedly anti-white and anti-semitic. In 2006,McKinney lost her seat in congress. “Following McKinney’s concession speech, a reporter attempted to ask the Congresswoman why she thought she lost. The New Black Panther member (part of McKinney’s security detail) interrupted, shouting, “Why do you think she lost? You wanna know what led to the loss? Israel. The Zionists. You. Put on your yarmulke and celebrate.” (Anti Defamation League Press Release, August 9, 2006)

We are deeply saddened by the fact that our peers who planned this event clearly had no desire for any real discourse other than the hate speech that was delivered to the audience. While we do not have to agree with one another, we do have a responsibility to respect one another and allow for the open exchange of opinions. Ms. McKinney’s visit to Binghamton was an affront to any multicultural efforts on campus. Furthermore, it insults the significant struggles that African-Americans went through to gain civil rights in the United States and the Jewish community’s support for those civil rights. Jewish leaders marched in Montgomery and Selma. Fifty percent of white civil rights workers were Jewish and fifty percent of civil rights attorneys in the south were Jewish. Jews helped to found the NAACP. Historically Black Colleges welcomed professors who were Holocaust survivors to teach on their campuses. Ms. McKinney wants us to throw away this glorious shared history and begin a new relationship of bitterness and misunderstanding.

We sincerely disagree with this approach and hope that the leaders of all multicultural groups at Binghamton University share our desire to work together to combat hate and intolerance by creating opportunities for real dialogue. We look forward to a day when we can truly partner with our fellow students and learn to understand and respect one another’s backgrounds.

Hillel E-Board

What’s sad is that Hillel seems surprised that this type of hate speech happened on their campus and that voices of opposition were systematically surpressed. 

But this is the standard MO of the left: spread lies and hate and silence opposition. The mainstream media does it, the Obama administration is doing it, and on left-wing-dominated college campus they are most certainly doing it.

Here’s another sad thing about coverage of this incident: Not once is McKinney’s Democrat party affiliation mentioned.

END THE OCCUPATION! LIBERALS OUT OF THE SCHOOLS NOW!