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Stupid Lies Democrats Believe / Left's Culture of Hate

I haven't been in hiding, dear readers. Just been away this week on business. But this article compelled me to come out of the woodwork with this piece from Larry Elder, and one from Dennis Prager. It's in response to the Democrat-media complex's insistence that there's something wrong with the 70% of Americans who oppose the Ground Zero mosque, rather than with them:

What About the Stupid Lies Democrats Believe?
By Larry Elder

… Liberals should be sympathetic. They are quite adept at willfully refusing to face facts, if necessary, to support wrongheaded views. Here are some examples:

“The rich don’t pay taxes.” False. For the 2007 tax year (the latest income tax data year released by the IRS), the top 1 percent of income earners, those making over $410,000 a year, paid 40 percent of all federal income taxes. The top 5 percent, those making about $160,000 a year or more, paid 60 percent of all federal income taxes. Yet according to a 2008 IBD/TIPP poll, only 12 percent of Americans knew what the rich, in fact, paid in taxes. And liberals are likelier to get it wrong.

“The rich exclusively benefited from the Bush tax cuts.” MSNBC’s insufferable lefty Ed Schultz said: “Ninety-eight percent of you, it (the Bush tax cuts) doesn’t even affect you.” False. In a recent New York Times editorial, the liberal paper said extending the cuts to the non-rich—a policy it favors—would “cost” about $140 billion next year. Extending the cuts to the rich—a policy it opposes—would “cost” about $40 billion next year. If the tax cuts only benefit the rich, why would the Treasury “lose” more money from the non-rich than it would “lose” from the rich?

“The Bush tax cuts caused the deficit.” CNN’s liberal host Fareed Zakaria said, “The Bush tax cuts are the single largest part of the black hole that is the federal budget deficit.” False. In 2002, tax revenues were $1.85 trillion. In 2007, revenues had grown to $2.57 trillion—a 39 percent increase. Unfortunately, outlays increased almost as much. In 2002, outlays were $2.01 trillion. In 2007—the last year before the recession and before TARP, the various “stimulus” programs, bailouts and ObamaCare—outlays were $2.73 trillion, a 36 percent increase.

“Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11.” Thirty-five percent of Democrats, according to a 2007 Rasmussen poll, believe President Bush had prior knowledge of 9/11, and 26 percent are “not sure.” False. This was investigated years earlier and refuted by the 2004 bipartisan 9/11 Commission Report.

“George W. Bush ‘stole’ the 2000 election.” False. In November 2001, The New York Times wrote: “A comprehensive review of the uncounted Florida ballots from last year’s presidential election reveals that George W. Bush would have won even if the United States Supreme Court had allowed the statewide manual recount of the votes that the Florida Supreme Court had ordered to go forward. Contrary to what many partisans of former Vice President Al Gore have charged, the United States Supreme Court did not award an election to Mr. Bush that otherwise would have been won by Mr. Gore.” …

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The Left’s Culture of Hate
By Dennis Prager

… In the left’s worldview, conservative opponents of affirmative action cannot be driven by concern for blacks — opposition is animated by racists; conservative opponents of illegal immigration are animated by racism and xenophobia; opposition to abortion is a function of sexism; President Bush went to war for oil and American imperialism; and conservative supporters of retaining man-woman marriage hate gays.

This is not true of elite conservatives. Leading conservative columnists, leading Republicans, etc., rarely depict liberals as motivated by evil. Conservatives can say “There are good people on both sides of the issue” because we actually believe it.

Almost any contentious issue would provide proof of the left’s need to attack motives, but the proposed Islamic center and mosque near ground zero provides a particularly excellent example.

I have not come across a mainstream leftist description of opponents of the mosque/Islamic center being built near ground zero that has not ascribed hate-filled, intolerant, bigoted, “Islamophobic” or xenophobic motives to those who oppose the mosque. Contrast this with how mainstream opponents of the mosque describe the proponents of the mosque and you will see an immense divide between right and left in the way they talk about each other. …

Why does the left attribute only nefarious motives to those who believe that the Islamic center does not belong near ground zero?

Because leftism holds these beliefs:

1. Those who hold leftist positions are, by definition, better people than their opponents.

2. Those who hold leftist positions have, by definition, pure motives; therefore, the motives of their opponents must be impure. …

Ain't it the truth.

Be back next week.

Ground Zero Mosque and Tolerance

Good points here:

Ground Zero on the Tolerance Issue
Debra Saunders

… First, the right opposes the mosque. Conservative figures like Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich don't like a mosque near ground zero. They say as much.

Then, in a Pavlovian response, the left embraces the mosque and proclaims itself more tolerant of religious freedom. But the left is not more tolerant of religious freedom. Only the left, you see, has the sagacity to recognize that, as New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd put it, Rauf is "the moderate Muslim we have allegedly been yearning for."

What you're seeing is the culture-war equivalent of "The enemy of my enemy is my friend."

Quoth House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: "There is no question there is a concerted effort to make this a political issue by some." Translation: This issue is poison for Democrats.

And: "I join those who have called for looking into how is this opposition to the mosque being funded." That's Bay Area tolerance for you — a well-placed Democratic politician wants an investigation into the funding of conservative dissenters. …

So it's more than ironic to watch the same folks who jump all over devout Christians now rush to Muslims' defense. This isn't about the left being more tolerant, as much as it is about the left disdaining the right. …

Bingo.

Rhetoric vs. Reality: Hope and Fear

Rhetoric:

"Don't give in to fear. Let's reach for hope."

- Barack Obama, August 16, 2010 in Milwaukee

Reality:

"Don't give in to fear ..."? This uttered by a president who:

• said he needed to sign a $trillion "stimulus" bill immediately or else the economy will collapse,
• said he needed to bail out GM immediately or else the entire auto industry will go irrevocably belly-up,
• said he needed to sign gov't-run health (s)care into law immediately or else millions of Americans will die due to lack of health insurance coverage,
• said he needed to sign a $26 billion unnamed bill immediately or else millions of American children won't be able to go to school due to lack of paid teachers.
• sicced his DHS and media thugs on regular Americans exercising their Constitution right to protest against their rogue government, scaring people into believing the country was under a growing threat of racists, white supremacists, Timothy-McVeigh-wannabes, and crazed militiamen.
• sicced his DOJ and media thugs on Arizona, scaring people into believing Nazi-zona police would be rounding up random brown people at ice cream parlors asking for their pay-pahs!
• over-exaggerated the damage done by the BP oil leak and put a moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico in order to scare people into believing that beneath every oil rig was an ecological disaster waiting to happen.

Two years ago on the campaign trail, the whole "hope vs. fear" slogan was overused and tired. But now it's just hypocritical.

There's a bumper sticker I see every day I'm at work: 

"Democrats vote their hopes; Republicans vote their fears."

Right. Because the whole Chicken Little "The sky is falling!" campaign that poisons our schools, bookstores, and movie theatres is an example of Democrat hope.

The environ-mental-ist movement of activists and bureaucrats mobilizing to ban everything from DDT to silicone breast implants to transfats to sugary foods and drink in school vending machines for fear that all these things and much more are killing us!!! - that's really Democrat hope.

Millions of anti-Iraq war protesters marching in the street for seven years calling George W. Bush Hitler and terrorist - another prime example of Democrat hope.

Those same protesters and their political cheerleaders campaigning on accusations that the Bush administration was either (a) creating a totalitarian police state with the Patriot Act and Club G'tmo, (b) establishing a right-wing Christian extremist theocracy, (c) making the whole world, especially the Muslim world, hate us, or (d) All of the above - that was definitely Democrat hope!

I think you get the picture.

Video of the Day (8/17/10): Great Montage

Mark Levin played this last night on his show. I didn't even realize it was a video until I saw it on the home page at Human Events. Enjoy:

Listen & Learn: El Rushbo on the Overblown BP Oil Catastrophe (8/13/10)

The U.K. Daily Mail and CNBC have reported it, as well as the openly right-leaning National Review Online , Front Page Mag, and Heritage Foundation.

The BP oil leak disaster turned out to be, in the grand scheme of things, not quite a disaster. Rush predicted it wouldn't be from the very beginning. Instead of becoming hysterical, he used calm reasoning and common sense while analyzing the situation. He relied on the resiliency of the planet and the ocean. He put things in historical context.

And for this he was lambasted by the Democrat-media complex, being called heartless, cold, even an "obnoxious anti-environmentalist."

As is usually the case, Rush is vindicated. The oceans and its inhabitants are healing quicker than any of the "experts" thought. That's not to say that some beaches weren't damaged and some ocean life didn't perish. But all in all, the disaster was nowhere nearly as bad as originally reported.

 

You'd think in light of such news the left - especially the environ-mental-ist movement - would be relieved.

You thought wrong. Like every other "crisis," the BP oil leak turned out to be an overblown Democrat-media-generated concoction. For the media, it was a perfect "If it bleeds it leads" opportunity. And for the Democrat Party, not least President Golden Calf himself, it was the perfect chance to tighten the screws on the oil industry.

So now with the oil industry halted by Big Guvmint, not to mention the tourism industry along the Gulf and the Florida coast, will the scaremongers be punished?

On the contrary, the members of the Democrat-media complex will pat themselves on the back and move on to the next overblown crisis.

Here's Rush on the Gulf oil crisis that wasn't. These 20 minutes were taken from the first two hours of Friday's show:

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

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Video Exposed of Protesters Hurling Racial Slurs and Encouraging Violence Against Obama

A disturbing video was unearthed and posted on YouTube yesterday. It was a 3:45-minute clip from a rally  in Washington, D.C. At this rally, which took place on November 7, 2009, the speakers cursed incessantly before a cheering crowd—including young children who were watching while sitting on the stage.

One speaker declared that they were at war [with other Americans] and that they all needed to take up an aggressive struggle against their adversaries—fellow U.S. citizens.

Another speaker besmirched the Jewish people and Israel and rambled on like a lunatic about Zionist plots against them and their allies 

Yet another dedicated his speech to the Fort Hood shooter, who had blown away 13 innocent people just two days prior.

Oh, there’s more: These speakers and their audience were clearly not fans of President Obama. How do I know? Because to a still cheering and encouraging crowd, speakers called Obama a coon, a m*therf**ker, and, several times, a n*gger. One speaker, a foul-mouthed woman who made particular use of these racial slurs, demanded that someone “whup [Obama’s] ass.”

Yes, dear reader. There is now actual clear video evidence of President Obama being the target of racial slurs and receiving violent threats.

This must be one of those racist Tea Parties we keep hearing about, right? The ones with the “racist elements”?

Or maybe it’s a group of angry, white old people who gathered to hear from their favorite Fox News commentators or right-wing talk-show hosts?

Perhaps it’s a recent gathering of the RNC or some conservative group that has been the media has accused of stoking racial tensions and unrest since a black man got in the White House?

No, no, and no. It isn’t any of those things. This public display of hatred, violence, and racism was brought to you by a coalition called “Black Is Back” and the event was co-organized by one Reverend (!) Curtis Gatewood, a long-time official of the NAACP in North Carolina.

 

David Stein, who runs my favorite new website as of 30 minutes ago, YesButHowever!, writes:

If the majority of Rev. Gatewood’s controversial actions and statements have been under the radar, his first major clash with the national NAACP leadership was not. Four days after 9/11, on September 15th, 2001, Gatewood (then in his position as president of the Durham NAACP) gave a fiery speech at a monthly local NAACP meeting in which he implied that the World Trade Center victims were racists, and he called upon African-Americans not to fight in any wars against terrorism.

“Black males can no longer be used as sacrificial lambs at the time of war….Those black males who make it back home alive from war are likely to come home and be discriminated against by the very people whose businesses were headquartered in the World Trade Center, racially abused/profiled by an American police officer, killed on the streets in their crime-infested neighborhoods, or harmed by Bush administration policies….This is not the time to sacrifice our fathers, sons and brothers to a country that has not protected our rights.”

Jeez. This guy almost makes Jeremiah “G0d damn America” Wright look moderate by comparison.

You might be wondering at this point why a coalition of black people are so pissed off at Barack Obama.

As you will find out from watching the video below, it is mainly because he is too lenient to whites, as well as to Jews and Israel. That is, in their eyes, Obama isn’t “black” enough. They believe he has coddled those they consider the biggest enemies of blacks, and that he has sold out to who his true friends should be, including the Palestinians and other areas of the Muslim world supposedly oppressed by whites and Jews, and even Jeremiah Wright.

All right. Here’s the clip [from YBH via Weasel Zippers]. I highly recommend you watch it far away from sharp objects.

November 7, two-thousand-freaking-nine. Nearly 10 months this event took place. And we’re just finding out now what went down there.

These are sick, and, quite frankly, dangerous, people. Yet there they are under the auspices of the NAACP, which, as we are all very aware, is very sensitive to the “racist elements” of certain groups. As Stein reminds us:

At its July 2010 annual convention, the NAACP approved a resolution condemning “racist elements” in the Tea Party movement and calling on the movement’s leaders to repudiate bigotry and reject any “racism and anti-Semitism, homophobia and other forms of bigotry in their movement.”

Well guys, how about rejecting this? In fact, at the end of the video, the words on the screen present three questions:

Where is the outcry from the media?

My answer: There won’t be. Only whites can be racist. In this current political climate, even if there’s no evidence of racism, you’ll either be accused of thinking racist thoughts or you’ll just have stories about you made up out of whole cloth.

Where is the outcry from the NAACP?

My answer: They’ll most likely pull a Sherrod/Breitbart by claiming the video was either doctored or taken out of context, and then ignore it.

What if this had been a Tea Party protest?

My answer: It wouldn’t have been. Because, unlike these hateful pieces of human excrement, members of the Tea Party movement never have and never would behave this way.

Liberal Lie #12: Liberals Are Tolerant and Open-Minded; Conservatives Are Not

Remind me again, which side is lowering the standard of political debate?

Liberal group forms “F*CK Tea” effort | The Daily Caller

Liberal Lie #7: George W. Bush Caused the World's Muslims to Hate Us

Jewish World Review | August 12, 2010
Is Obama Winning the Hearts and Minds of the Arab and Muslim World?
Larry Elder

... Now 20 months into the Obama presidency, the question is: How does the Arab and Muslim world now view America? What percentage in the same six Arab nations — compared with Bush's last year in office — now views the United States "very unfavorably" or "somewhat unfavorably"?

The answer: 85 percent — 2 points higher than Bush.

Whoops.

Epic FAIL.

A Sea of Black People [UPDATED 8/12]

This story has been making my blood boil all day.

“Where are all the black people???” the Tea Party-bashers like to ask. Well I’ll tell you where a lot of them are: getting into brawls with each other while waiting on line for freaking government freebies. That’s where they are.

Here’s the Atlanta Journal-Constitution today:

30,000 line up for housing vouchers, some get rowdy

Tens of thousands of people lined up at an East Point shopping center hoping to get federal housing assistance became unruly Wednesday morning with reports of fights breaking out in the crowd.

An East Point police spokesman said the crowd numbered 30,000, some of whom waited for two days at the Tri-Cities Plaza shopping center. They were seeking applications for East Point Housing Authority vouchers to discount their rent.

As the temperature rose Wednesday, people fell ill. …

The Housing Choice Voucher Program, called Section 8, subsidized the rents of low-income families living in apartments and houses that are privately owned. The federal program makes up the difference in rent that the poor can afford and the fair market value for each area.

If you’re not yet disturbed by this report, look at the two photos provided at AJC’s website:

 
Notice anything? The tens of thousands of people waiting on line in Atlanta are 99.9999% black. In other words, using a parlance the folks at MSNBC and NY Times would appreciate, it was a Sea of Black People.

But wait—it gets even better:

… A sign on the door of the office explained that only applications were being handed out.

“The housing authority will be issuing applications Wednesday, August 11, starting at 9 a.m. Everyone in line by 1 p.m. on the 11th will receive an application. ... No Section 8 vouchers are available at this time. There are no public housing units available at this time. You’re applying for the waiting list only.”

Get it? These people, unknowingly, it seems were on line for an application for free money, not the money itself. This was exactly the situation last year in Detroit, where the thousands of people waiting on line for an application for free government cheese were also 99.9999% black.

Now, before you accuse me of being a mean raaaacist conservative Republican, I suggest you get over yourselves. It is a shande (Yiddish for shame) that any city in this country has thousands of people of any color standing on line for days for free money from the government, which of course came from other, hard-working Americans.

The fact that these people are mostly black is due to their nearly 5-decade slave-like dependence on the Democrat Party—the actual racists—for their very existence:

Forty-five years of liberal-Democrat control of the inner cities have created two generations of blacks who fail to learn or value the doors opened by getting a good education. Democrats use these uneducated pawns to show how “racist” America has created an education gap. They then use the anger they have stoked in blacks towards whites for this purported injustice to buy their vote for the false promise of solving the problem.

Forty-five years of liberal-Democrat control of the inner cities have trained two generations of inner city blacks not to be ambitious and work towards anything more than minimum wage jobs. Democrats use these unmotivated pawns to show how “racist” America has created an income gap. They then use the anger they have stoked in blacks towards whites for this purported injustice to buy their vote for the false promise of solving the problem.

Forty-five years of liberal-Democrat control of the inner cities have created two generations of 70% black illegitimacy. Who needs a real father in the home when the Big Daddy nanny state is yo daddy? In exchange for Democrat votes, of course.

Look at them, dear readers. Every one of these tens of thousands of blacks—and the millions like them in Detroit, Philadelphia, L.A., D.C., NYC, Camden, etc.—are 20th/21st-century slaves. They have been dehumanized and demoralized by the oppressive shackles of Big Daddy Democrat Government. They are completely and utterly dependent on the for their very existence, holding out their completely useless hands for welfare checks, food stamps, and housing vouchers.

This is the Democrat’s America. This is Obama’s America. And it’s disgusting.

I say this to every black American reading this: You should be ashamed of every single person standing on these lines. And you should be ashamed of the Democrat Party—the Party of Racism yesterday and today—for deliberately creating this uneducated underprivileged dependent class of modern-day slaves. 

If you are black and vote Democrat, wake the ^&#$ up, stand up for yourself, gather the self-respect you truly deserve, and get your ass off the Democrat plantation once and for all!

And if you are white and vote Democrat, you wake up too! You are aiding and abetting the Party of Racism. Just like Democrat voters in 1860, 1910, and 1960.

Related reading: Malkin

UPDATE 8/12: Fox's local Atlanta affiliate has more coverage, including video.

Joke of the Day (Possible New Feature???): Lay-Off Letter

Emailed to me by a friend:

Lay-off letter from an excellent boss.

Dear Employees:

As the CEO of this organization, I have resigned myself to the fact that Barrack Obama is our President and that our taxes and government fees will increase in a BIG way.

To compensate for these increases, our prices would have to increase by about 10%. But since we cannot increase our prices right now due to the dismal state of the economy, we will have to lay off 60 of our employees instead.

This has really been bothering me since I believe we are family here and I didn't know how to choose who would have to go.

So, this is what I did. I walked through our parking lots and found 60 Obama bumper stickers on our employees' cars and have decided these folks will be the ones to let go. I can't think of a more fair way to approach this problem. They voted for change ... I gave it to them.

I will see the rest of you at the annual company picnic.

THE BOSS

Sensible Liberal: Jon Stewart

Jon Stewart of The Daily Show has drawn both criticism and praise on this blog. He skewers conservatives/Republicans something fierce; however, unlike other left-leaning commentators, he will call out his own if they act stupidly.

In this refreshing and humorous clip Stewart shows himself as one of those rare liberals/Democrats who is sick of the race-baiting that his been occurring on his side of the aisle for some time now. His audience thought it was funny. Let's hope they realize the huge kernel of truth underlying his point:

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
Race Card Is Maxed Out
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Liberal Lie #13: GOP Is the Party of the Rich; Dems Are for the Little Guy - A Tale of Two Daughters

It’s a lie that might have once been true: Republicans are the party of the rich; Democrats represent the little guy.

Not so today. Not for quite some time now.

Consider the daughters of two former presidents, one Democrat, one Republican:

• Daughter A’s wedding cost $100,000, Daughter B’s wedding anywhere from $2–5 million.

• Daughter A attended a state college, the University of Texas. Daughter B got her BA at uppity Stanford and her Master’s at even more uppity Oxford. 

• Upon graduation from college, Daughter A taught at a charter school for disadvantaged children. She also published a biography about a 17-year-old single mother in Latin America infected with HIV. She met this girl while working as an intern for UNICEF in Panama.
  
  Daughter B went from college right to a six-figure position in a New York City consulting firm. She then took a job making the same type of money for a hedge fund firm whose owner is a heavy donor to her father and his party.

As you’ve probably surmised by now, Daughter A is Jenna Bush Hager, daughter of that eeevil rich oil guy George W. Bush—a Republican. Daughter B, naturally, is newlywed Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky, whose Democrat father has always been depicted by the media as a man of the people, champion of the little guy, the first black president, etc., etc. etc.

Does something seem about 180 degrees out of phase to you?

(Should we also mention that George and Laura Bush live on a ranch in Crawford, Texas while Bill and Hillary Clinton reside in a mansion worth seven-figures in tony Chappaqua, New York.)

And speaking of the media,  the media’s coverage of both daughters both during and after their father’s terms in office is well-documented. Chelsea’s privacy was dutifully respected. If her life was frought with trouble, as is the case with many young people facing many worldly temptations, you’d never know it from following the U.S. mainstream media.

Jenna and her twin sister Barbara, however, did not enjoy the same respect for privacy afforded to Chelsea. Their run-ins with the law due to underage drinking—which virtually everyone does and they know it—were exploited by the media and used to bash their father, himself a recovering alcoholic. (It is quite clear that the only people not to be sympathized with or forgiven for alcohol, drug, or marital problems are conservatives/Republicans. The name Rush Limbaugh ring a bell?)

Kathleen McKinley, who documents the stark contrast between the two daughters at Right Wing News, writes:

Gosh. Which daughters sound more “Republican” and which more “Democrat?” In Chelsea’s case, all things lead back to more money for her parent’s political ambitions (and for herself). In the twin’s case, all things lead to helping mankind.

I’m just saying. There is perception, and then there is reality. Interesting, is it not?

Interesting and infuriating.

Don’t get me wrong: Like most conservatives talking or blogging about the subject, I don’t begrudge Chelsea Clinton her extravagant star-studded dream wedding, her six-figure salary, or her parents’ palatial digs.

What I take serious issue with, however, is the line constantly repeated by Democrats that it is they who are the party of the little guy, and that Republicans are not.

Adventures in Government-Run Health (S)care: No Death Panels in U.S. Bill? Think Again

Every day this disaster of a “health care” plan gets worse and worse. This American Thinker article points out those “death panels” that Sarah Palin got mocked for mentioning:

August 09, 2010 | American Thinker
The Deadly Pact: How ObamaCare will ‘Save’ Money
By John Griffing

… Movies like Soylent Green and Logan’s Run have become the new reality. The popular chase scene where Logan flees state authorities, having reached the state-imposed age limit of thirty years, serves as a metaphor for present policy. Patients are told to “go home” and accept death instead of pursuing life-extending treatment. But should government decide when that is? If consulting the Patient Protection and Affordable Health Care Act, then the answer is yes …

This part is particularly informative:

The respected Canadian Fraser Institute estimates that in 2009, over 40,000 Canadians left Canada to receive non-emergency medical treatment, and another study by the Fraser Institute revealed that on average, Canadians would do better having coronary bypass surgery in the States, and not in Canada. And despite the fact that Canada is now spending 41 percent more per person than in 1993, waiting periods are still 73 percent longer than in 1993. Still want “equal” care?

Oh, we'll be equal all right. Equally screwed. (Unless, of course, you're exempt as a member of Congress or the executive branch.)

Bottom line: Government should not be deciding where and when to end someone’s life. And yet this is the inevitable result of government-funded medical care. At some point, government will cut corners to “save” money …

Too late. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Barack Obama and their coalition of the bribed and coerced have imposed it on us. Alea iacta est.

Welcome to the future, suckers.

Black Conservatives Tell Reporters Tea Parties Not Racist -- And They STILL Don't Believe It

You just can't make this up. Last week at a press conference, about a dozen black conservatives met with reporters to try to convince them that the Tea Party movement is not racist. This group of brave proud Americans included Lloyd Marcus, author and blogger Kevin Jackson, radio host (and possible '12 presidential candidate???) Herman Cain, and AlonZo Rachel of PJTV's "Zo Nation."

Amazingly, despite the fact that you have these black luminaries, the lib media types would not believe them! They kept pressing and pressing and pressing.

One of the best lines of the conference came from Zo at about the 1:20 mark. A reporter wondered why black Congressman John Lewis' word wasn't good enough when he claimed Tea Partiers spat on him and called him n***er (despite evidence to the contrary from several videos and $100,000 still sitting in Andrew Breitbart's bank account). Zo's initial answer: "Why wasn't George [W.] Bush's word good enough?" Bing!

Another good line was from Lloyd Marcus. At the 6:15 mark he took to the mike and said: "The purpose of this press conference is to introduce to all of America to all of these conservatives. Like every time I talk to the media, they're saying, 'Where are the blacks? Where are the blacks?' Well here's the blacks!"

The bottom line is this: The Democrat-media template is set. "The Tea Party movement is racist!" meme is not going to change. Even when you have about a dozen black conservative Tea Partiers, who together have attended and spoke at hundreds of Tea Parties, swearing they have not experienced racism, it makes no difference. It's simply politically beneficial for the Democrat-media complex to keep the lie alive.

Shame on all of them.

UPDATE: Lloyd Marcus himself just posted another video clip from the same conference, from a different angle.

The Propaganda Of Incompetents - Investors.com

The Propaganda Of Incompetents - Investors.com.

As the "recovery summer" turns into a nightmare, one thing has become painfully clear: This is the most economically incompetent administration since the Great Depression.

Two years into the Obama era, when the U.S. should be enjoying a booming recovery from the 2007-08 meltdown, with millions of new jobs and higher incomes for all, all we see is economic wreckage from the unbelievably foolish policies pursued by the White House and the Democrat-controlled Congress.

Whether it's the $862 billion "stimulus" that turned into a welfare program for bankrupt states and public unions, or the $700 billion TARP program that became a giant dish of pork for Democrats and their supporters, or the job-killing duo of health care and financial reform, Obama, Pelosi, Reid et al. seem oblivious to the deep and lasting damage they're doing to America's economy. ...

Video of the Day (5/23/10): Dennis Prager Speaking at Univ. of Denver in May

A Facebook friend posted this clip of Dennis from YouTube. (Is that Sarah Palin sitting next to him?):

One of his best lines, which is wholly relevant today, is this statement on Elena Kagan and the Democrats:

The very fact that the United States of America is about to confer to the U.S. Supreme Court a woman who banned the military from her campus gives you an idea of how deep this problem is: That that is not disqualifying to Democrats is a moment of darkness in American history.

I shiver at the utter destruction this party has wrought.

Liberal Fascism: 7-Year-Old's Lemonade Stand Shut Down in Oregon [UPDATED 8/6]

There's a great right-leaning children's book that was published by Katherine DeBrecht in 2005 called, "Help Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed!" I've read it for my kids, even though my wife and Democrat-voting in-laws refuse to!

The product description from Amazon reads:

This full-color illustrated book is a fun way for parents to teach young children the valuable lessons of conservatism. Written in simple text, readers can follow along with Tommy and Lou as they open a lemonade stand to earn money for a swing set. But when liberals start demanding that Tommy and Lou pay half their money in taxes, take down their picture of Jesus, and serve broccoli with every glass of lemonade, the young brothers experience the downside to living in Liberaland.

Fiction? Sure. But can such a nightmarish story come true? 

It did this week in Oregon. Last week this adorable 7-year-old girl’s lemonade stand was shut down  because she failed to procure a $120 temporary restaurant license. (Because naturally 7-year-olds tend to have $120 lying around in case they’d like to sell 50-cent cups of lemonade.)

The Oregonian (via Drudge) reports:

Portland lemonade stand runs into health inspectors, needs $120 license to operate
Published: Wednesday, August 04, 2010, 6:19 PM Updated: Thursday, August 05, 2010, 10:30 AM
Helen Jung, The Oregonian

It’s hardly unusual to hear small-business owners gripe about licensing requirements or complain that heavy-handed regulations are driving them into the red.

So when Multnomah County shut down an enterprise last week for operating without a license, you might just sigh and say, there they go again.

Except this entrepreneur was a 7-year-old named Julie Murphy. Her business was a lemonade stand at the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Northeast Portland. The government regulation she violated? Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.

Turns out that kids’ lemonade stands—those constants of summertime—are supposed to get a permit in Oregon, particularly at big events that happen to be patrolled regularly by county health inspectors. …

Drip … drip … drip … You hear that? That’s the sound of our liberty slowly slipping away.

Looks like Miss Murphy just got her first lesson in liberalism. Let's hope she never forgets this teachable moment.

UPDATE 8/6: Here's some more from the Oregonian article (this time via Allapundit at HotAir):

Even before her daughter had finished making the first batch of lemonade, a man walked up to buy a 50-cent cup.

"They wanted to support a little 7-year-old to earn a little extra summer loot," she said. "People know what's going on."

Even so, Julie was careful about making the lemonade, cleaning her hands with hand sanitizer, using a scoop for the bagged ice and keeping everything covered when it wasn't in use, Fife said.

After 20 minutes, a "lady with a clipboard" came over and asked for their license. When Fife explained they didn't have one, the woman told them they would need to leave or possibly face a $500 fine.

Surprised, Fife started to pack up. The people staffing the booths next to them encouraged the two to stay, telling them the inspectors had no right to kick them out of the neighborhood gathering. They also suggested that they give away the lemonade and accept donations instead and one of them made an announcement to the crowd to support the lemonade stand.

That's when business really picked up—and two inspectors came back, Fife said. Julie started crying, while her mother packed up and others confronted the inspectors. "It was a very big scene," Fife said.

First they came for the lemonade stands ...

Ways the Left Has Screwed Up My Country Today: Senate Approves Kagan

And the deliberate and willful demolition of the United States of America continues:

Senate approves Obama nominee Kagan to top court
WASHINGTON | Thu Aug 5, 2010 4:32pm EDT

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court won Senate approval on Thursday, his second appointment to the highest U.S. court that decides abortion, death penalty and other contentious cases.

The Democratic-led Senate voted largely along political party lines, 63-37, to confirm the former Harvard Law school dean as the fourth female justice in U.S. history and the 112th high court member. ...

Remember these names: Snowe, Collins, Graham, Lugar and Gregg.

Those are the five RINO's who sold out the country and voted with the Democrats to put another nail in the coffin of this republic and its Constitution.

Adventures in Government-Run Health (S)care: Brit Woman Texts Pics of Herself Dying

Rhetoric:

“In Britain, the government itself runs the hospitals and employs the doctors. We’ve all heard scare stories about how that works in practice; these stories are false. Like every system, the National Health Service has problems, but over all it appears to provide quite good care …”

— Paul Krugman, NY Times, August 17, 2009

“Cynics beware, I am romantic about the National Health Service; I love it. All I need to do to rediscover the romance is to look at health care in my own country.” ... “Britain, you chose well.”

— Donald Berwick, President Hope&Change’s hand-picked Medicare/Medicare director, July, 2008

Reality:

You know what happens when you let government bureaucrats run your “free” health care?

You get a 25-year-old woman dying for no good reason in her hospital bed:

Girl Texted Pics of Herself Dying
By Staff Reporter
30 Jul 2010

A DESPERATE woman texted photos of herself slowly DYING to her mum as she lay suffering on a hospital bed - being ignored by NHS doctors.

Tragic Jo Dowling, 25, sent over forty messages to her mother and best friend including pictures of a deadly rash spreading across her body as her life ebbed away.

The pretty youngster was diagnosed by her family GP with suspected Meningococcal Septicaemia after developing a purple skin rash and low blood pressure last November.

She was rushed to Milton Keynes Hospital where A&E doctors rejected the diagnosis believing instead her illness was a mild infection caused by her Cystic Fibrosis.

Doctors abandoned Jo on a observation ward and gave her headache tablets and fluids as they failed to spot the purple rash spread over her arms, hands and legs.

As the hours passed terrified Jo took photos of her rash on her mobile phone and sent them to her mum and best friend describing her condition as “getting worse”.

The meningitis bug left her in septic shock choking and coughing as fluid filled her lungs and she died four hours after her last text message - just 14 hours after arriving at hospital.

Her family yesterday accused the hospital of “neglect” after an inquest at Milton Keynes Coroners’ Court heard doctors failed to spot she was suffering ‘blood poisoning shock’.

Coroner Tom Osborne criticised the hospital for a “communication breakdown” that led to her death as tragically a simple dose of penicillin and antibiotics would have saved Jo’s life.

The inquest heard there were only two doctors on duty to cover the entire hospital the night Jo died.

Devastated mum Sue Christie, 48, of Milton Keynes, a distribution worker, said: “Our doctor knew it was meningitis but when we got to hospital all the care seemed to stop. …

… Trainee GP Vivake Roddah failed to keep a written observation record but told the inquest he did not see Jo’s purple rash on her hands, arms and legs.

Five nurses also told the two day hearing they did not spot any rash on Jo’s body.

As her condition worsened Jo swapped 42 text messages with friends and her mum describing her illness and symptoms.

Just two hours after doctors ruled out meningitis she texted a friend to say “rash is getting worse”.

She took around 10 photos of the purple rash on her legs, hands and arms and sent one to her mum complaining her condition was not improving.

Her death was pronounced at 5.20am on November 24 three hours after hospital logs show she was last checked on.

Lovely. Aren’t you looking forward to this? As long as everybody’s covered. Everybody’s covered. Everybody’s covered.

Covered with a body bag, maybe.

John at Power Line says:

That's what happens under government medicine. Political considerations are substituted for medical judgment, and over time many doctors and nurses, government employees all, come to view their patients much as postal employees view the letters and packages they sort. With no competition, patients have no choices, and the quality of care steadily erodes even as the price—like the price of everything run by government—rises.

Welcome to the future, suckers.

Classic Listen & Learn - Happy 22nd Anniversary, Rush!

In honor of today, the 22nd anniversary of El Rushbo’s national radio show, here are three classic clips downloaded and kept over the years.

The first clip, from Monday, June 7, 2004, is the first half of a tribute to Ronald Reagan, who had passed away over the weekend. Even though it was merely the first term of George W. Bush’s presidency, Rush’s eulogy made you really miss the Gipper. Now, during this dark age of the oppressive Constitution-shredding liberty-squelching and wealth-stealing triumvirate of Obama-Pelosi-Reid, is Reagan ever more missed.

The second clip is from April 26, 2007. The economy was still pretty robust, unemployment impressively low, and record tax revenue coming in, thanks in no small part to those eeeevil Bush tax cuts. That, Rush shows us, did not stop the lib Bush-hating media to spin the news as negatively as humanly possible.

Finally, the third clip, also from April, 2007, is from an immigrant from Peru. She used to believe the hate-America tripe of the liberati - which was eerily similar to the hate-America trip she would get from the Hugo Chavezes and other socialist demagogues of South America. This is, until she came across Rush's TV show one night.

Dittos, Rush! Here’s to 22 more years!

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