Well, here’s the Obama administration showing again how hypocritical they are. While the Obama administration is blacklisting Fox News Channel because they have commentators that are right wing, they are calling left wing commentators to the White House for a private meeting. Even more specifically, the administration has been pointing fingers directly at commentators Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity but has a private meeting with MSNBC personalities Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow.
http://current.com/1s6vi4c
Gee, I wonder what was being said in THAT meeting. You think they might be plotting against Fox News? You think maybe Obama is instructing the left wing press as to how he wants them to report and what he wants them to say? Ask yourself, why would the president of the United States call TV news personalities to the White House for a private meeting? And even more importantly, why would he waste time with this rather than spending time addressing the real issues facing the Nation? Does he think that meeting with Keith Olbermann is more important than coming up with a plan for Afghanistan? Or maybe telling Rachel Maddow to talk him up is more important than unemployment and the economy. Get a clue Mr. President.
Now we hear that the Obama administration specifically tried to exclude Fox News from last Thursday’s interviews with pay czar Ken Feinberg. Then they lied about it and claimed they didn’t. Guess what though; their Chicago thug style vendetta that they’ve been trying to carry out blew up in their faces when CBS news and others said that’s going too far and called them out on it. The other news people realize that if they get away with restricting free speech by excluding Fox, it could be any one of them that they could exclude the next time.
http://www.examiner.com/x-22564-Des-Moines-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m10d24-CBS-exposes-Obama-administration-lies-about-blocking-Fox-News
Well, you could say that wasting time on this assault against Fox has been senseless, stupid, arrogant, etc. but it’s also a major waste of the public trust. It’s not what we pay them for. The president and his administration should be above this. They should not be concerning themselves with controlling the media. Oh wait, I forgot, controlling the media IS a major concern for a socialist regime. They were looking to their idols Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin…
Well, back in the United States of America, I think it’s safe to say that the Obama administration has officially LOST this major war they were waging with Fox News Channel. Let’s hope they fair better in those other minor conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Unbelievable…
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
WHITE HOUSE DECLARES WAR! On free speech.
Yes the White House has declared war, on of all things, Fox News Network. The White House is sending out it’s propagandists to declare that Fox News is not a real news network. Of all the things that Obama has to handle right now, the economic mess, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan and the quandary of whether to send more troops or not, nuclear weapons in Korea and Iran, what’s the main thing occupying their minds? Fox News… Ya, way to set your priorities there guys…
So let’s take a look at what they are saying. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox."
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said the other media outlets should join the Obama administration and also declare that Fox is “not a news organization.” While speaking to ABC, he said, “Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way. We’re not going to treat them that way.”
White House communications director Anita Dunn said Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.”
So they’ve clearly decided to single out one network and wage war on them directly.
So let’s take a look at one reason the communications director is upset with Fox News Sunday. She criticized Fox News Sunday for fact-checking an administration official on the show. Now, she’s not upset that the fact-checking was wrong, she’s upset that they dared to do the fact-checking. She is upset with Fox News Sunday because they dared to question their administration official, not that they were wrong or inaccurate in their reporting. Then she has the gall to say they are not a news network. Right…
Take a good hard look at what they are doing here. AT NO TIME have they brought up any inaccuracies in Fox’s reporting. AT NO TIME have they said they got anything wrong. They can’t because everything Fox reports is the truth, plain and simple. If they were misrepresenting the facts, you can bet the White House would point it out, but they haven’t. Basically, they’re just hurling insults.
So why are they doing this? Because they want to do everything they can to silence the opposition. They want to silence Fox because they are the only network that is reporting some of the things that are going on behind the scenes in the “shadow government” that you don’t see in the daylight. These people in this administration are people that idolize Socialists like Hugo Chavez and have spoken out about how he controls the media in his country and they wish they could do the same thing here. Their problem is, they can’t send in troops to take control of the stations like Chavez does, so they are trying to do it with propaganda. They are making blanket accusations at Fox News, trying to marginalize the one network that isn’t under their control. All the other networks are being lap dogs right now and reporting what the administration tells them to report and not digging up facts and exposing the people in the shadow government like Fox is.
Make no mistake about it; every time the administration speaks out against Fox News, they are speaking out against free speech. Fox News is simply the one network that dares to report anything other than the government line and they don’t like it one bit. They don’t want any voice of opposition at all so they are trying this propaganda tactic to try and silence them.
It’s no secret that Fox has a lot of conservative commentators so you could say they have a right wing slant, but that’s their commentary and not their news reporting. But even if the news had a right wing slant, so what? All the other networks clearly have a left wing slant so what’s wrong with one network that goes the other way? Because it’s not the administration’s way. It’s not the government line. That is the only reason they are going after Fox. Simply because they ARE the other viewpoint.
But guess what, this is a losing proposition for Obama. He might think it feels good to lash out at the network that is a thorn in his side, but even the other networks are saying it’s the wrong thing to do. Even the liberal networks realize that this is a blatant assault on free speech. They realize the insidious danger in government controlled media. Maybe if the white house keeps it up, it will jolt the other networks awake and they’ll change from being lapdogs back to being watchdogs like they should be. Let’s watch and see.
So let’s take a look at what they are saying. White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN that President Obama does not want "the CNNs and the others in the world [to] basically be led in following Fox."
Obama senior adviser David Axelrod said the other media outlets should join the Obama administration and also declare that Fox is “not a news organization.” While speaking to ABC, he said, “Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way. We’re not going to treat them that way.”
White House communications director Anita Dunn said Fox is “opinion journalism masquerading as news.”
So they’ve clearly decided to single out one network and wage war on them directly.
So let’s take a look at one reason the communications director is upset with Fox News Sunday. She criticized Fox News Sunday for fact-checking an administration official on the show. Now, she’s not upset that the fact-checking was wrong, she’s upset that they dared to do the fact-checking. She is upset with Fox News Sunday because they dared to question their administration official, not that they were wrong or inaccurate in their reporting. Then she has the gall to say they are not a news network. Right…
Take a good hard look at what they are doing here. AT NO TIME have they brought up any inaccuracies in Fox’s reporting. AT NO TIME have they said they got anything wrong. They can’t because everything Fox reports is the truth, plain and simple. If they were misrepresenting the facts, you can bet the White House would point it out, but they haven’t. Basically, they’re just hurling insults.
So why are they doing this? Because they want to do everything they can to silence the opposition. They want to silence Fox because they are the only network that is reporting some of the things that are going on behind the scenes in the “shadow government” that you don’t see in the daylight. These people in this administration are people that idolize Socialists like Hugo Chavez and have spoken out about how he controls the media in his country and they wish they could do the same thing here. Their problem is, they can’t send in troops to take control of the stations like Chavez does, so they are trying to do it with propaganda. They are making blanket accusations at Fox News, trying to marginalize the one network that isn’t under their control. All the other networks are being lap dogs right now and reporting what the administration tells them to report and not digging up facts and exposing the people in the shadow government like Fox is.
Make no mistake about it; every time the administration speaks out against Fox News, they are speaking out against free speech. Fox News is simply the one network that dares to report anything other than the government line and they don’t like it one bit. They don’t want any voice of opposition at all so they are trying this propaganda tactic to try and silence them.
It’s no secret that Fox has a lot of conservative commentators so you could say they have a right wing slant, but that’s their commentary and not their news reporting. But even if the news had a right wing slant, so what? All the other networks clearly have a left wing slant so what’s wrong with one network that goes the other way? Because it’s not the administration’s way. It’s not the government line. That is the only reason they are going after Fox. Simply because they ARE the other viewpoint.
But guess what, this is a losing proposition for Obama. He might think it feels good to lash out at the network that is a thorn in his side, but even the other networks are saying it’s the wrong thing to do. Even the liberal networks realize that this is a blatant assault on free speech. They realize the insidious danger in government controlled media. Maybe if the white house keeps it up, it will jolt the other networks awake and they’ll change from being lapdogs back to being watchdogs like they should be. Let’s watch and see.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The Liars in Washington
Hey, were you like me and very surprised when congress voted to stop funding ACORN and their illegal activities? I was impressed that they stepped up and did the right thing and when I heard that they stopped funding ACORN, I thought that meant permanently. I mean, when you heard it, you thought that meant from then on, right? WRONG! I found out today that ACORN will start receiving yours and my hard earned tax dollars again at the end of this month! So it was all a sham. It was only temporary. They just didn't bother to tell us that part...
Then I found out that the federal government is coercing banks to fund them also. Get this! The Community Reinvestment Act forces banks to make bad loans to people with questionable ability to repay the loan. Wait! Wasn't that a major factor that lead to our economy crash and bank failures, you ask? YES IT WAS! But this act forces banks to make the loans or else the government will not let them expand to other areas or states or grow their business. BUT, there is a provision that says if the bank doesn't want to make the bad loans, the alternative that will satisfy the government is that they can give money directly to ACORN! The federal government is telling these banks they either have to make bad loans or give money directly to ACORN or they will shut them down!!!
Does this sound just a little like mobster mentality here, or is it just me? I wonder if ACORN sends a thug around every month to collect their protection money? Do they go in and break the bank manager's legs if he doesn't give them the payoff? THIS IS OUR GOVERNMENT DOING THIS! What the hell is going on here????
WE NEED TO VOTE THESE LIARS AND THIEVES OUT OF OFFICE! NOW!
Then I found out that the federal government is coercing banks to fund them also. Get this! The Community Reinvestment Act forces banks to make bad loans to people with questionable ability to repay the loan. Wait! Wasn't that a major factor that lead to our economy crash and bank failures, you ask? YES IT WAS! But this act forces banks to make the loans or else the government will not let them expand to other areas or states or grow their business. BUT, there is a provision that says if the bank doesn't want to make the bad loans, the alternative that will satisfy the government is that they can give money directly to ACORN! The federal government is telling these banks they either have to make bad loans or give money directly to ACORN or they will shut them down!!!
Does this sound just a little like mobster mentality here, or is it just me? I wonder if ACORN sends a thug around every month to collect their protection money? Do they go in and break the bank manager's legs if he doesn't give them the payoff? THIS IS OUR GOVERNMENT DOING THIS! What the hell is going on here????
WE NEED TO VOTE THESE LIARS AND THIEVES OUT OF OFFICE! NOW!
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Shut Up Andy Rooney
I was taking it easy today, Sunday, taking in some afternoon football and enjoying my 1 day off this week and after San Diego beat up on the Miami Dolphins, I got up to get something to eat. I don't normally watch Sixty Minutes but it came on after the game so I just left it on while I fixed my dinner. When I got back to the TV, Andy Rooney was on "complaining" about how hard it is for him to be on vacation.
Now, I'm sure he thought this sarcastic, tongue in cheek bit he did about being on vacation was funny but it just didn't strike me that way. As a matter of fact, while he was whining about how planning his vacation was such a chore and how he didn't like having all that unstructured time off to have fun and do whatever he wants, I was thinking just how ridiculous he really is. He stated that he is on vacation during the off season of the show, basically from sometime in May until September. Somewhere between 4 and 5 months.
So basically, while he's whining about having all that vacation time, I got to thinking, he works about 7 or 8 months out of the year. Then I got to thinking about how much money he makes, so I did a little research and found a news story about his pay being suspended back in 1987 because he was refusing to work in support of writers that were on strike. It stated he got paid about $7700 per week. I figured if he got even a 3 percent raise per year, he should be making over $12,000 per week today. Hmmm...
Now, I know he's not really complaining about it. He's making a joke of complaining about it, which means he's really bragging about it. Either that or he actually thinks that everybody gets 5 months vacation every year. Maybe that's funny stuff to spoiled, rich people but it's kind of an insult to us regular folks that have to work all year and only get two or three weeks vacation every year, maybe 4 if we're lucky.
So basically, here's a guy that works, what, 5 minutes a week for maybe 30 weeks out of the year and makes probably, oh somewhere in the neighborhood of $350,000 for his really tough, demanding work schedule. His job is to whine and complain about something or other, whatever strikes his fancy. It's not like he has to spend any time researching his topic or do any investigative reporting. This week he's whining and complaining about having too much time off from work for leisure and he got paid $12,000 for this diatribe, bragging about his excessive vacation time.
Good work if you can get it I guess... But I wish he'd just shut up.
Now, I'm sure he thought this sarcastic, tongue in cheek bit he did about being on vacation was funny but it just didn't strike me that way. As a matter of fact, while he was whining about how planning his vacation was such a chore and how he didn't like having all that unstructured time off to have fun and do whatever he wants, I was thinking just how ridiculous he really is. He stated that he is on vacation during the off season of the show, basically from sometime in May until September. Somewhere between 4 and 5 months.
So basically, while he's whining about having all that vacation time, I got to thinking, he works about 7 or 8 months out of the year. Then I got to thinking about how much money he makes, so I did a little research and found a news story about his pay being suspended back in 1987 because he was refusing to work in support of writers that were on strike. It stated he got paid about $7700 per week. I figured if he got even a 3 percent raise per year, he should be making over $12,000 per week today. Hmmm...
Now, I know he's not really complaining about it. He's making a joke of complaining about it, which means he's really bragging about it. Either that or he actually thinks that everybody gets 5 months vacation every year. Maybe that's funny stuff to spoiled, rich people but it's kind of an insult to us regular folks that have to work all year and only get two or three weeks vacation every year, maybe 4 if we're lucky.
So basically, here's a guy that works, what, 5 minutes a week for maybe 30 weeks out of the year and makes probably, oh somewhere in the neighborhood of $350,000 for his really tough, demanding work schedule. His job is to whine and complain about something or other, whatever strikes his fancy. It's not like he has to spend any time researching his topic or do any investigative reporting. This week he's whining and complaining about having too much time off from work for leisure and he got paid $12,000 for this diatribe, bragging about his excessive vacation time.
Good work if you can get it I guess... But I wish he'd just shut up.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Letter to Our Newest Senator
I received a newsletter from our newest Senator, George LeMieux today. In it, he said that he cast his vote against the confirmation of Cass Sunstein for the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and he voted for blocking federal funds to ACORN, the radical activist group that our government has been funding for quite some time. I was glad to see he voted intelligently in these two instances.
Now, I'm sure that the Democrats confirmed Sunstein and his strong anti-constitutional views and I'm sure that the Democrats passed more funding for ACORN so they can keep trying to commit voter fraud and help prostitutes subvert the law and evade taxes, but at least Senator LeMieux voted correctly, the Democrats are another matter. Anyway, I decided to write an email to Senator LeMieux and let him know that I am watching what he does, so I am printing the email here:
Get involved. You can email Senator LeMieux at: info@lemieux.senate.gov or find your Senator at: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm and your Representative at: https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
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Now, I'm sure that the Democrats confirmed Sunstein and his strong anti-constitutional views and I'm sure that the Democrats passed more funding for ACORN so they can keep trying to commit voter fraud and help prostitutes subvert the law and evade taxes, but at least Senator LeMieux voted correctly, the Democrats are another matter. Anyway, I decided to write an email to Senator LeMieux and let him know that I am watching what he does, so I am printing the email here:
I don't know if he will heed what I say, I'm only one guy, but by if a bunch of people start telling him the same thing, he will have to start listening. It's time we started telling these guys in our government what we want them to do. We need to start pumping emails and letters into our government to let them know that we are watching, we are involved, we care, and we will start holding them responsible for what they do and if they don't do what we want, vote them out of office. It's time we started using the power we have and vote their corrupt asses out at the first chance we get.
Congratulations Senator, I'm glad to see at least one member of congress vote in the best interests of the people, at least in your first two votes anyway. Keep up the good work and always keep the constitution in mind when you're deciding how to vote on an issue. More government control = LESS freedom. Let's make this the country with the MOST freedom again.
And if you want my views on healthcare, I do believe we need to fix a few problems with the system we have. We DO NOT need to revamp the entire system. For example, taking steps to increase competition to help control costs is a first step. Maybe require doctors and clinics to post a pricelist of all routine procedures so people can more easily compare costs would help make it easier for people to shop around for the best price. Same thing for dentists too. The consumer needs more power here, not the government. If it doesn't work, then take stronger measures. I believe we need to TAKE SMALL STEPS when we make changes to ward against unforeseen detrimental consequences.
If the main concern is the people that don't have insurance, make the insurance companies offer low cost or partially subsidized, depending on need, (the taxpayer pays for the uninsured anyway right?) insurance to the poor as a group with group rates. People that leave their jobs or become unemployed do need access to low cost insurance so they should be covered under this also. The main idea is, the government can be involved in an oversight capacity but MINIMALLY. WE DO NOT WANT GOVERNMENT RUN HEALTHCARE.
We do not want government run ANYTHING, because the government cannot run anything right! Is there any government program that is actually run well and that doesn't run in the red? Does our government ever show any fiscal responsibility? If our government was a large corporation and had to present their books to a congressional hearing to get a government bailout, what would all the windbags in congress tell them? They would tell them that they don't know how to run a company and their company is run by a bunch of greedy crooks who've run the company into the ground and just want all the perks they can get and to milk the system for everything it's worth and then jump out with a golden parachute. They'd tell them they have to change their ways and do things right. Hell, they'd probably tell them their company is too far gone and their isn't enough money in circulation to save them. Are you starting to get the idea?
Our government sucks wind. If you want to clean something up, if you really want to fix something, then start in your own house. Make government work first before you start trying to run everything else.
Regards,
Marvin J. Miller
U.S. Citizen and Voter
Get involved. You can email Senator LeMieux at: info@lemieux.senate.gov or find your Senator at: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm and your Representative at: https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Socialists In Our Government
I don't know if many of you realize that our government is moving more and more toward socialism. I know a lot of you will scoff at that notion and just blow it off, insisting that can't be true. Well, listen up. Listen to what these people are actually saying when they speak. We have socialists in our government and some of them have been there a for years. Now they have a president that is one of them so they are a little more free in speaking out, all you have to do is listen.
Take a look at congresswoman Diane Watson of California. Listen to her as she says what a great leader Fidel Castro is and the great health care plan he put in place down there in communist Cuba.
Just what I want in my government, someone who thinks Fidel Castro is a wonderful guy who does great things.
I wonder what kind of reception she would get if she said that in a speech down in Miami...
Take a look at congresswoman Diane Watson of California. Listen to her as she says what a great leader Fidel Castro is and the great health care plan he put in place down there in communist Cuba.
Just what I want in my government, someone who thinks Fidel Castro is a wonderful guy who does great things.
I wonder what kind of reception she would get if she said that in a speech down in Miami...
Monday, August 31, 2009
A Congressman That Gets It
Ok, I finally found a member of congress that is actually making some sense when he speaks. Give a listen.
Too bad the Democrats aren't listening. They are going to do what THEY want and they aren't listening to ANYONE that has a different view than them. They aren't even listening to their constituents.
Stay tuned friends and neighbors, we're in the midst of a socialist takeover.
Too bad the Democrats aren't listening. They are going to do what THEY want and they aren't listening to ANYONE that has a different view than them. They aren't even listening to their constituents.
Stay tuned friends and neighbors, we're in the midst of a socialist takeover.
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