tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20617437639975762002024-02-18T22:18:03.420-05:00KillswitchPolitick-The Shocking TruthPolitics and Media BiasKillswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-90106930275297837052010-08-10T09:03:00.002-04:002010-08-10T09:03:00.234-04:00 Let the taxpayers eat cake The First Lady enjoys an extravagant trip while Americans face more bad economic news<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SPAIN</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">—</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Remember Mr. Obama telling Americans not to go, ''blow a bunch of cash in Vegas''; well, </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Michelle Obama’s trip to Spain with daughter Sasha will probably exceed the cost of a few roundtrip tickets to the Vegas strip and blowing a couple hundred dollars at the craps table. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The trip is estimated to cost a tad shy of $400,000, </span><a href="http://www.theage.com.au/world/while-obama-preaches-sacrifice-his-family-frolics-in-spain-20100807-11pd2.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">if you do the math</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Air Force 2 costs $11,555 per hour to operate, Michelle’s hotel ranging from $400 for a single room to $6,500 for a two bedroom villa, then there’s the cost of Secret Service protection and lodging. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6752KD20100806"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reuters reports</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> that back in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Temporary jobs dropped by 5,600, reversing a streak of strong gains that economists had viewed as a hopeful sign that hiring would pick up.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Normally, companies load up on temps at the beginning of a recovery when they are waiting for confirmation that growth is gaining momentum. This recovery has been unusual in that temporary hiring did not herald a jump in private hiring.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Private hiring totaled a lackluster 71,000 in July, below expectations for 90,000 in a Reuters poll. June's tally was revised down to just 31,000 from an initially reported 83,000.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* Government hiring was another worrisome sign. The loss of 202,000 positions reflected the loss of 143,000 temporary Census jobs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You’ll be relieved to know that the Obama’s are going to the Gulf over the August 14</span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">th</span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> weekend to tour the site of the oil spill environmental disaster. But then are off for </span><a href="http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2012557439_mobama07.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ten fabulous days to Martha’s Vineyard</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-26184363063708043462010-08-03T11:43:00.000-04:002010-08-03T11:43:04.732-04:00 Arizona sheriff at odds with Obama administration Law enforcement officers and citizens defend the new immigration enforcement<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">(CNSNews.com)–<st1:state><st1:place>Arizona</st1:place></st1:state>’s Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu is hopping mad at the federal government.<br />
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Babeu told CNSNews.com that rather than help law enforcement in <st1:state><st1:place>Arizona</st1:place></st1:state> stop the hundreds of thousands of people who come into the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> illegally, the federal government is targeting the state and its law enforcement personnel.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyKtwe6846Tn0XLf_Ywe5KgEzyuKhraRtGzFV-SZeJQw10elXO-imsu8SoiKmOHZbBonOE8rCgSI2lF74lqAjS8T108EGeP0g7MEoB4DCv_cmLKH2zBUIwTIRyNsOYXdgSmJ9pGMVFw4oh/s1600/Paul+Babeu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyKtwe6846Tn0XLf_Ywe5KgEzyuKhraRtGzFV-SZeJQw10elXO-imsu8SoiKmOHZbBonOE8rCgSI2lF74lqAjS8T108EGeP0g7MEoB4DCv_cmLKH2zBUIwTIRyNsOYXdgSmJ9pGMVFw4oh/s200/Paul+Babeu.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
“What’s very troubling is the fact that at a time when we in law enforcement and our state need help from the federal government, instead of sending help they put up billboard-size signs warning our citizens to stay out of the desert in my county because of dangerous drug and human smuggling and weapons and bandits and all these other things and then, behind that, they drag us into court with the ACLU,” Babeu said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
The sheriff was referring to the law suits filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the U.S. Department of Justice challenging the state’s new immigration law.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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“So who has partnered with the ACLU?” Babeu said in a telephone interview with CNSNews.com. “It’s the president and (Attorney General) Eric Holder himself. And that’s simply outrageous.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Last week, U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton placed a temporary injunction on portions of the bill that allowed law enforcement personnel during the course of a criminal investigation who have probable cause to think an individual is in the country illegally to check immigration status. The state of <st1:state><st1:place>Arizona</st1:place></st1:state> filed an appeal on Thursday with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
“Our own government has become our enemy and is taking us to court at a time when we need help,” Babeu said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Babeu and Sheriff Larry Dever of Cochise County Ariz., spoke by phone with CNSNews.com last week about the May 17 ACLU class-action lawsuit, which charges the law uses racial profiling and named the county attorneys and sheriffs in all 15 Arizona counties as defendants. The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on July 6, charging the <st1:state><st1:place>Arizona</st1:place></st1:state> law preempted the federal government’s sole right to enforce immigration law.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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“If the president would do his job and secure the border; send 3,000 armed soldiers to the <st1:state><st1:place>Arizona</st1:place></st1:state> border and stop the illegal immigration and the drug smuggling and the violence, we wouldn’t even be in this position and where we’re forced to take matters into our own hands,” Babeu said.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Dever said the federal government’s failure to secure the border and its current thwarting of Arizona’s effort to control illegal immigration within its borders has implications for the entire country.<br />
“The bigger picture is while what’s going on in Arizona is critically important, what comes out of this and happens here will affect our entire nation in terms of our ability to protect our citizenry from a very serious homeland security threat,” Dever said. “People who are coming across the border in my county aren’t staying there. They’re going everywhere USA and a lot of them are bad, bad people.”</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), about 250,000 people were detained in <st1:state><st1:place>Arizona</st1:place></st1:state> in the last 12 months for being in the country illegally. Babeu said that that number only reflects the number of people detained and that thousands more enter the country illegally each year.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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The CBP also reports that 17 percent of those detained already have a criminal record in the <st1:country-region><st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Both Babeu and Dever said they want to remain involved in the legal battle over the law, which many experts predict will end up being decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
Dever has hired an independent attorney to represent him in the ACLU case and his attorney has already filed a motion of intervention in the DOJ lawsuit so the “(Dever) will have a seat at the table.”<br />
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A Web site also has been launched by the non-profit, Iowa-based Legacy Foundation to raise money for the Babeu’s and Dever’s legal defense.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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Both men said they believe the outcome of the case has national significance.“For us, this is a public safety matter and a national security threat,” Babeu said. <o:p></o:p></div><br />
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</div></span>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-72306425469503880082010-07-27T10:24:00.000-04:002010-07-27T10:24:42.440-04:00 Journalists conspired to spike news stories, promote Obama campaign The Daily Caller exposes media bias during the 2008 election <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><st1:place><st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WASHINGTON</span></span></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span></span><st1:state><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DC</span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—The </span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2010/07/20/documents-show-media-plotting-to-kill-stories-about-rev-jeremiah-wright/#ixzz0uFcaS5xe"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Daily Caller</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> reports it has obtained documents that show a concerted plot</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> by liberally minded journalists to spike negative news stories about then candidate Barack Obama. Among many negative stories, an effort was made in unison to blackout the Reverend Jeremiah Wright story. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY4AkhU1ubSaJWEH5twb9QySXpbRNmin_HdaFczKzUJdCZDm6oJ_1zK5YwvfvWA4FeZD0HGOwo-mgE8b_RMP3aFtfKCehwo_FtNTWqRe4hsWEP8LKD7vj1aYIETxIMBqoJVnoR_2r69wos/s1600/Spencer+Ackerman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY4AkhU1ubSaJWEH5twb9QySXpbRNmin_HdaFczKzUJdCZDm6oJ_1zK5YwvfvWA4FeZD0HGOwo-mgE8b_RMP3aFtfKCehwo_FtNTWqRe4hsWEP8LKD7vj1aYIETxIMBqoJVnoR_2r69wos/s1600/Spencer+Ackerman.jpg" /></a><span class="apple-converted-space"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Daily Caller states in their piece on the journalistic conspiracy:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the </span></span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baltimore</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the </span></span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New</span></span></span></st1:placename><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><st1:placetype><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Republic</span></span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The conspiracy to blackout negative stories about the former </span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Illinois</span></st1:place></st1:state><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> senator was in part prompted by an interview conducted by former Clintonite George </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stephanopoulos when he asked Obama about the far-left, black liberation theologist who headed Obama’s church:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-right: .5in; text-align: justify; text-indent: .5in;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Do you think Reverend Wright loves </span></span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">America</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> as much as you do?”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Besides the </span></span></span><st1:stockticker><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">FOX</span></span></span></st1:stockticker><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> News network and talk radio, news consumers were not apprised of the Jeremiah Wright story and his anti-American, racist tirades he flung in Obama’s church for twenty years. Instead, liberal columnists were recommending to their colleagues to turn the tables on any Obama critics. The Washington Independent’s Spencer Ackerman wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-converted-space">Remember Bush lied, people died? </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="apple-converted-space">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-converted-space"> was a bad war, a distraction from the get-go in 2003, while </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="apple-converted-space">Afghanistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-converted-space"> was the good war—the war that needed to be waged and won. </span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ygNtHGRbcXKjHlSLcvI0gcIKWAzi0f-hn26PuSogLQNgnDnSZC0wwKDOzXEJFApUZYqp11MTpDb-WtCcN5W1NDVosoCVtavwGRuJH-5mqbKKJXTKlT4YlRZ4thbmItewmqZD3_4ncf9n/s1600/Afghan+police.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5ygNtHGRbcXKjHlSLcvI0gcIKWAzi0f-hn26PuSogLQNgnDnSZC0wwKDOzXEJFApUZYqp11MTpDb-WtCcN5W1NDVosoCVtavwGRuJH-5mqbKKJXTKlT4YlRZ4thbmItewmqZD3_4ncf9n/s1600/Afghan+police.jpg" /></a>In July 2009, 41 percent of democrat voters gave the good war vote to <st1:country-region><st1:place>Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> and only 12 percent gave the good war vote to <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>. This July, a four point drop to 36 percent of democrats giving a good war vote to <st1:country-region><st1:place>Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region>, while seventeen points appeared in the <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> good war column, moving its approval up to 29 percent among democrats. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">Why the change of heart? Probably because there is demonstrable success in <st1:country-region><st1:place>Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region>, while <st1:country-region><st1:place>Afghanistan</st1:place></st1:country-region> languishes and because a democrat is in the White House—no Bush, no bashing. But it still contradicts what dems were saying in 2003 through 2008. That’s no problem because the media isn’t covering it. </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><st1:place><st1:city><span class="apple-style-span">WASHINGTON</span></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span">, </span><st1:state><span class="apple-style-span">DC</span></st1:state></st1:place>—Dr. Donald Berwick has been the recipient of a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,596322,00.html">recess appointment</a> by President Obama to be the head of the <span class="apple-style-span">Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (</span><st1:stockticker><span class="apple-style-span">CMS</span></st1:stockticker><span class="apple-style-span">)</span>. In 2008, Mr. Berwick spoke in <st1:city><st1:place>London</st1:place></st1:city>; here are a portion of his remarks…..<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ6okJnab33mEpDZpBcOAc6Ph1OlB2DU0yQ1m53oKmMBhDkQ6csWhoSqeEanNyduOezfbw813awCkie0z-Yosetflh88PIC2e9GHlCFOaTTwSvs7brs0aAsS-F656AKq05fnMdjxS0rYXh/s1600/Donald+Berwick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ6okJnab33mEpDZpBcOAc6Ph1OlB2DU0yQ1m53oKmMBhDkQ6csWhoSqeEanNyduOezfbw813awCkie0z-Yosetflh88PIC2e9GHlCFOaTTwSvs7brs0aAsS-F656AKq05fnMdjxS0rYXh/s1600/Donald+Berwick.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: .5in; margin-top: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span">“Any health care</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="klink">funding</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must—must— redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less fortunate. Excellent healthcare is by definition re-distributional.”</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">Or try this little gem on for size…<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">Karl Rove pointed out on <st1:stockticker>FOX</st1:stockticker> News that Mr. Berwick’s recess appointment did not meet two of the 3 traditional tests of a recess appointment: the nominee is too controversial, the nominee is being held-up by senate member, and or there exists an emergency and the post cannot remain vacant. Dr. Berwick’s appointment is just another in a long line of demonstrative actions that Obama is a committed socialist that is using the power of his office to transform America from a free market representative republic to a European socialized democracy.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DAILY KOS, INTERNET</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—Liberal blogger and political commentator </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Markos Moulitsas Zúñiga is </span><a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/29/169/32552"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">publicly calling out Research 2000</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, a polling firm that he contracted, claiming he was the victim of polling fraud. Moulitsas states that he will file a lawsuit against R2K—this will be a difficult legal standard to meet and given that R2K claims its now having to work out of a Kinko’s location, Moulitsas is unlikely to see any money. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore, John Cook of Yahoo News reports, </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Del Ali, [R2K’s] president, has been sued numerous times in his home state of Maryland for nonpayment of debt and has been hit with several tax liens, according to court records."<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now on to the abject lesson—in layman’s terms, this is how a poll is generally conducted: the poll questions are engineered to be non-biased, and respondents are supposed to be equally weighted. In other words, equal or close to equal number of party affiliation and/or self-described political philosophy. For the most accurate results, respondents in electoral race polls should be </span></span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LV</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">’s or Likely Voters, meaning they have a party affiliation and vote in nearly every election. With more general polling such as direction of the country, A’s or RV’s are sampled (Adults and Registered Voters). General polls are also conducted over a large geographic area to ensure a solid cross-section.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><st1:place><st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">WASHINGTON</span></span></span></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span></span></span><st1:state><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DC</span></span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—A </span><span class="apple-style-span"><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703900004575325263274951230.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLETopStories#printMode"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> conducted last week shows a majority of Americans are pessimistic about an economic recovery and have little faith in President Obama’s ability to grow the </span></span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">United States</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> out of the Great Recession.</span></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKH1LuCXvZOZHlM_Bw7gsEwnZuOACXGsp2MO2efcTacOP4zJahK9Yz3roi-UaxRAOWxEppMWh_reNFARQKncAPxWIHRmYb-8VjP1vaotdohSDkmthpUrZgQ_Kb3rKtqhrF-4MtIWpSkfJ/s1600/WSJNBC+poll.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKH1LuCXvZOZHlM_Bw7gsEwnZuOACXGsp2MO2efcTacOP4zJahK9Yz3roi-UaxRAOWxEppMWh_reNFARQKncAPxWIHRmYb-8VjP1vaotdohSDkmthpUrZgQ_Kb3rKtqhrF-4MtIWpSkfJ/s1600/WSJNBC+poll.jpg" /></a><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The poll shows a bleak outlook at public perception about the president being able to conduct his job properly and support for his agenda eroding among his democrat base. Less than half of Americans—40 percent—believe Mr. Obama can handle a “serious crisis” while 17 percent, or nearly ½ of his democrat base approves of his job performance.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;">Only 29 percent of respondents in a <span class="apple-style-span">June Washington Post/ABC News Survey believed their representative deserved reelection, which is 5 percentage points lower than the same poll conducted before the 1994 republican majority victory. Moreover, a recent </span><st1:city><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span">Gallup</span></st1:place></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"> poll found that 60 percent of voters will support a new candidate rather than an incumbent, with only 32 percent support.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">The 89 year-old journalist is a self proclaimed, proud liberal and like most every liberal, hates Israel; tragically finding herself involuntarily on the same side as Adolf Hitler and Islamic terrorist and theocracies throughout history (there were a number of pro-Nazi Islamic leaders that fought alongside the German Reich). </span><br />
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</div>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-83066901570850600252010-06-01T10:20:00.000-04:002010-06-01T10:20:19.789-04:00 NASA stonewalling Climategate FOIA Several Freedom of Information Act requests have gone unfulfilled by the space agency <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-18748488152840810562010-05-25T11:19:00.000-04:002010-05-25T11:19:53.505-04:00Obama’s approval rating slips to 44 percent Rasmussen Reports has a new poll showing 55 percent disapprove of Obama’s job performance<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span">There are a host of reasons for the president’s poor performance rating: unemployment that remains close to 10 percent, a lingering recession, unpopular legislation, unfinished wars in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-style-span"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span">Afghanistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-style-span">, GITMO remaining open, near-miss terrorist attacks, and inaction to the </span><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span">Gulf of Mexico</span></st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"> oil spill.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span">Obama’s disapproval numbers also account for four high profile election losses and the prospects in November’s midterm elections—that is quite simply, governing against the will of the American people (both left and right) has real consequences. Mr. Obama has said he wouldn’t mind being a one term president and if he stays with his current agenda, he’ll likely be one.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlNmhWpzE53rPrY35ESCpD0IFlttZ-lSygWyMSPZqVWxr6IQJAM-U5DZNyATljUl7PGdQxjLaLPHL-mSTXNB6-0hZvWnwmgfUz7CfWZCxIqf7r_gOsZKGpdGQZ1EGIU-4Xp2WHHSygUOKQ/s1600/KBR_Logo.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlNmhWpzE53rPrY35ESCpD0IFlttZ-lSygWyMSPZqVWxr6IQJAM-U5DZNyATljUl7PGdQxjLaLPHL-mSTXNB6-0hZvWnwmgfUz7CfWZCxIqf7r_gOsZKGpdGQZ1EGIU-4Xp2WHHSygUOKQ/s320/KBR_Logo.PNG" /></a><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the campaign trial in November of 2007, then Senator Barack Obama said, “I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in </span></span><st1:state><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Washington</span></span></st1:place></st1:state><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists — and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president.”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That statement certainly isn’t in-line with an estimated $568 million to be paid to the ex-Haliburton subsidiary through 2011 nor the $25,000 cap on no-bid contracts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Obama campaign boosted, “Barack Obama and Joe Biden will end abuse of no-bid contracts by requiring that nearly all contract orders over $25,000 be competitively awarded.” But in the 2008 campaign, Candidate Obama was the top recipient of KBR employee donations, contributing over $20,000 to his coffers. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">ASSOCIATED PRESS</span></span><span style="color: black;">—The AP ran a story about primary races in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black;">Ohio</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black;">, </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black;">Pennsylvania</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black;">, and </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="color: black;">North Carolina</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="color: black;">, by the headline, “<span class="apple-style-span">Unharnessed Anger: Incumbents Win in NC, OH, IN” you would think turnout was light—and it was—among democrat voters. On the GOP side, turnout was in record numbers, as <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703961104575226153802043696.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h">James Tranato writes in the Wall Street Journal</a>, the National Journal actually included the numbers, showing republican and independents went for conservative candidates.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzEyIUJxb_qdf4dBsSeH9yvWGtfCum6j0YWX2ZpiSk6O9-rnmhtIKdoReErp-wa0iDOpg_EF4kaLh5E_1TmmUgOM8kuQuAwelfRE6aBMjh4Wz0rj4n2P14UXB5JKd_ofwUpZgioNLtAcK/s1600/March+16+2010+TV+Rankings.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOzEyIUJxb_qdf4dBsSeH9yvWGtfCum6j0YWX2ZpiSk6O9-rnmhtIKdoReErp-wa0iDOpg_EF4kaLh5E_1TmmUgOM8kuQuAwelfRE6aBMjh4Wz0rj4n2P14UXB5JKd_ofwUpZgioNLtAcK/s320/March+16+2010+TV+Rankings.jpg" /></a><span style="color: black;">This is nothing new and an increasingly unmitigated march from reporting news to fashioning news. Compare recent “coverage” of Tea Party rallies where terms like “Birther”, “racism”, and “bigot” are peppered throughout supposedly hard news pieces. Yet the raucous pro-illegal immigrant rallies where dozens of arrests were made for vandalism and the like are buried (if even appearing) in hard news coverage.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;">Then there’s the case of Faisal Shahzad, where MSNCB’s <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/05/04/msnbcs-contessa-brewer-frustrated-times-square-bomber-muslim-0">Contessa Brewer laments</a> the attempted </span><st1:place><span style="color: black;">Times Square</span></st1:place><span style="color: black;"> bombing was the work of a middle-eastern male. When just three months ago, the mainstream media looked for any clue that could pigeon-hole Andrew Joseph Stack as a right-wing nut after he flew a small plane into an Austin office building; his manifesto a cadre of big-government, borderline communist rants.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-14509086885034447562010-04-27T09:34:00.000-04:002010-04-27T09:34:37.777-04:00 Repeat until true The media proves yet again it doesn’t let facts get in the way<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIUxJFLuaycfTNHfqjaUbl3wgKzthIlqYC2nUOjODLQ7YJVVBL2S2845vmtrQ93W82KyNR54b7o6-6cuGZLuNaesddCmzdMsl4PixLW7JNC1Z2VVqPIDpDz8m-b8gKubJQ9wez6dNT4D_7/s1600/Laura+Ingraham.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIUxJFLuaycfTNHfqjaUbl3wgKzthIlqYC2nUOjODLQ7YJVVBL2S2845vmtrQ93W82KyNR54b7o6-6cuGZLuNaesddCmzdMsl4PixLW7JNC1Z2VVqPIDpDz8m-b8gKubJQ9wez6dNT4D_7/s320/Laura+Ingraham.jpg" /></a><st1:place><st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dallas</span></span></span></st1:city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span></span></span><st1:state><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">TX</span></span></span></st1:state></st1:place><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">—After attending a Tea Party rally, New York Times Charles Blow </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/opinion/17blow.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">writes about the racism he encountered</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">; he even described the rally as a “minstrel show”. But in </span><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2010/04/19/audio-laura-ingraham-and-charles-blow-clash-over-tea-party-minstrel-show-comment/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">an interview</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> with Laura Ingraham, the Old Gray Lady’s columnist couldn’t point out one single instance of overt racism.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Blow’s unsupportable charges seem to be a trend not only in the pages of the New York Times (which published Jayson Blair’s fiction pieces) but in the media at large. Dan Rather, a perpetrator of </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Memogate</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, where the veteran “journalist” used forged documents as a campaign hit piece to derail the reelection of George Bush in 2004. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Tea Party movement has been called “Astroturf” a political term meaning the protestors aren’t really grassroots, but are paid performers. They’ve also been spun as birther kooks, but the latest label the media likes to use is racist. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-35470220492598321942010-04-20T10:28:00.001-04:002010-04-20T14:30:58.916-04:00Al Gore’s blaspheme Al Gore won’t answer questions about global warming or acknowledge God’s promise <div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><place><city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Durham</span></span></span></city><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, </span></span></span><state><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">NC</span></span></span></state></place><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">—During a recent visit to </span></span><place><placename><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Duke</span></span></placename><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span></span><placetype><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">University</span></span></placetype></place><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, former Vice President Al Gore was the “victim” of ambush journalism in which O’Reilly Factor producer Jesse Watters </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,590853,00.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">attempted to ask the global warming guru a few questions</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">… </span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Watters: One last question for you. Are you embarrassed at all...</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Mr. Gore, despite his predisposition for making money by giving end-of-the world speeches, does not take questions or criticism well. In October 2009, </span><a href="http://killswitchpolitickcurrents.blogspot.com/2009/10/why-global-warming-is-cooling-in-polls.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">environmental journalist Phelim McAleer brought some scientific facts that contradicted anthropogenic warming</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> to Mr. Gore’s attention, including the ruling by the British High Court that cited significant errors in the indoctrination documentary, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">An Inconvenient Truth</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">. Gore’s response was to offer more misinformation and moved on.</span></span><br />
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</div>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-62931955679725179802010-04-13T11:03:00.000-04:002010-04-13T11:03:20.403-04:00All the news that isn’t fit to report Fabricating the news when reporting just won’t do<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The network news and most in the mainstream media have a new angle on the Tea Party movement—they’re all right wing black helicopter kooks. Racial epithets are routinely hurled, congressmen are spat on by Tea Partiers, and egregious calls to pull down the president’s pants and spank him in front of </span></span><st1:place><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mount Rushmore</span></span></st1:place><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">.</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Various pundits and analysts see the race as a referendum on Obamacare, which was the catalyst for the gubernatorial races in </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Virginia</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"> and </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">New Jersey</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"> and the </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">Massachusetts</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;"> senate race—all of which were won by the republican candidates.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10pt;">But the special election hasn’t got much media attention, unlike the three early races. One doesn’t have to wonder why a media that carries so much water for a widely unpopular administration pushing disliked policy items. But the media blackout won’t past the election—that is, if the liberal candidate wins. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div></span></span>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-32457820410001510412009-12-15T16:28:00.000-05:002009-12-15T16:29:13.154-05:00The media’s reporting on retail sales, ideology first<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; ">Every year news consumers are bombarded with stories about dismal retail sales forecast but this year, it seems the news isn’t so gloomy, in fact on Tampa Bay’s local news this morning, there were stories about retailers and shoppers getting ready for their holiday shopping and the overall coverage strongly slanted toward a strong forecast of strong sales numbers from Black Friday foward; a Google search of “retail sales” found a quite different tone, and here’s the search results of two previous years:</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Hot October Stops <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Retail Sales </span>Cold<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Washington</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Post<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span><st1:date month="11" day="9" year="2007"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Nov 9, 2007</span></st1:date><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Retail sales </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">post weak gains in October<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">msnbc.com<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span><st1:date month="11" day="14" year="2007"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Nov 14, 2007</span></st1:date><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">US <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Retail Sales </span>in October Trail Analyst Estimates<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Bloomberg<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span><st1:date month="11" day="8" year="2007"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Nov 8, 2007</span></st1:date><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Retail sales </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">fall by record amount in October<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">FOXNews<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span><st1:date month="11" day="14" year="2008"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Nov 14, 2008</span></st1:date><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">US Oct r<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">etail sales </span>disappoint as shoppers pull back<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Forbes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span><st1:date month="11" day="6" year="2008"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Nov 6, 2008</span></st1:date><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Retail sales </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">drop for first time in three years<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Times Online<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span><st1:date month="11" day="11" year="2008"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Nov 11, 2008</span></st1:date><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">By contrast, when “retail sales” were Googled for this year, the headlines populated in the search results were decidedly different then the previous two years’ headlines:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">US r<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">etail sales </span>surge on autos, manufacturing slows<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Forbes<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span><st1:date month="11" day="16" year="2009"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Nov 16, 2009</span></st1:date><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">US Retail sales </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">slightly ahead of estimates<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Reuters<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span><st1:date month="11" day="5" year="2009"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Nov 5, 2009</span></st1:date><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><br />By Nicole Maestri, </span><st1:state><st1:place><st1:stockticker><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">NEW</span></st1:stockticker><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> </span><st1:stockticker><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">YORK</span></st1:stockticker></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> (Reuters) - US<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">retail</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>chains reported October<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">sales</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>slightly ahead of Wall Street expectations<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Retail Sales </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Enjoy Best October In 7 Years<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">New York Times<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>- </span><st1:date month="11" day="9" year="2009"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Nov 9, 2009</span></st1:date><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Could it be the media is trying to mislead its viewers/readers?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Hmmm; one wonders what’s different this year than in the previous two years (unemployment in those years were 5% in 2007 and 6.5% in 2008).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Given the present economic circumstances, with U-3 unemployment at 10.0% and the U-6 currently at 17.5%, record foreclosures and personal bankruptcy filings, the weakening US dollar, one wonders how it might be that consumers are spending more.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 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Hours later, Gore conceded the election to George W. Bush and within hours of that, rescinded his concession. It was at that moment, the American political system would forever be changed.<br /><br />Hanging chads, absentee voters, military ballots, butterfly ballots, voter intent, and the list went on and on; it was nothing really out of the ordinary as far as elections go, but it happened in the narrowest of margins and during the biggest election of the free world.<br /><br />Since the 2000 Presidential election, there have been a number of post-election challenges from state congressional races to the US Senate. The 2000 precedent of recounting and legal wrangling has been seen over and over again. The last big spectacle was between Norm Coleman and Al Franken for a senatorial seat representing the state of Minnesota. Coleman won the election initially, but team Franken kept the recounts going until their candidate was sworn in.<br /><br />Now, in the wake of the tide-turning gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey, the District 23 race in New York between democrat Bill Owens and conservative Doug Hoffman seems to have been decided. By a narrow victory on election night, Mr. Owen’s bested his opponent but the race wasn’t over. Out of the media spotlight, this race was close, close enough for Doug Hoffman to imitate Gore’s un-concession – leading to the dreaded chicken-or-egg electoral guesswork. Last week, the last of the district’s absentee ballots were counted, and challenger Doug Hoffman trailed the earlier declared winner, Bill Owens, by 3,129 votes.<br /><br />Mr. Hoffman would have to come with a 500 vote margin to continue his challenge, a goal that is quite unlikely to be met. Staring defeat in the eye for the second time, Mr. Hoffman has made allegations that state unions and ACORN had stolen the election.<br /><br />Elections are held in precincts, not courtrooms and the 2000 Presidential Election proved that; there is often a lamenting of how few Americans actually turn out to vote on Election Day, but with candidates like these, who can blame them?<br /><br /><br /><br /><strong><em>-- Killswitch Politick</em></strong><br /><br /></span><a href="mailto:killswitchpolitick@gmail.com?subject=Subscribe"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Click here to subscribe</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><br /></span><a href="mailto:killswitchpolitick@gmail.com"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;">Click here to contact</span></a><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:85%;"><br /></div></span>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-68582985045933079492009-11-16T10:21:00.001-05:002009-11-16T10:23:38.390-05:00Global cooling, 1970s, Global warming, 1990s, Global climate change, 2000s<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWg3QFu52ScNc-SCwM4IgiA8QSSp5UtylgzRf_gLqRAnuapZzsKohyphenhypheneksVHO6hMWmFU5kHirbW8Bkw73JNdWrnt_C8Fc6t_LNheXLdDDbu6Mo3VxRan29W8Kx7hxQvkgH7V6qJGw2rgAc7/s1600/Time+Magazine+global+cooling.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 100px; height: 132px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWg3QFu52ScNc-SCwM4IgiA8QSSp5UtylgzRf_gLqRAnuapZzsKohyphenhypheneksVHO6hMWmFU5kHirbW8Bkw73JNdWrnt_C8Fc6t_LNheXLdDDbu6Mo3VxRan29W8Kx7hxQvkgH7V6qJGw2rgAc7/s320/Time+Magazine+global+cooling.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404722251296845378" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">June 24</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, 1974, Time Magazine featured a cover story with a family gathered around a busted out console television and a fire burning inside, warming them – the cover exclaiming, ”The Cooling of America”.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Inside, the story told of a coming ice age, “</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around </span></span></span></span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" background:white;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Iceland</span></span></span></span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" background:white;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the </span></span></span></span><st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" background:white;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Midwest</span></span></span></span></st1:place><span class="apple-style-span"><span style=" background:white;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data.” </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background:white;color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thirty-five years later and no such catastrophe unfolded. But we are still being told of the coming climate catastrophe… </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify"></p><ul><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ted Danson stated that the oceans would be dried-up in ten years…about twenty years ago.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"We'll be eight degrees hotter in 30 or 40 years and basically none of the crops will grow, most of the people will have died and the rest of us will be cannibals." - Ted Turner in PBS interview with Charlie Rose </span></span></li></ul><p></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What has angered some scientists is the miscasting of carbon as some evil, destructive element. Humans are made of carbon; in fact, most every organic thing on this planet is made of carbon.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Trees emit oxygen and take-in carbon.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Geologist Ian Plimer, a professor from </span></span></span><st1:place><st1:placename><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Adelaide</span></span></span></st1:placename><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><st1:placetype><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">University</span></span></span></st1:placetype></st1:place><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, contends that a modern rise in temperature around the world is caused by solar cycles and other "extra terrestrial" forces. He stated carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, commonly blamed for global warming, is a natural occurrence caused by volcanoes erupting. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">"We cannot stop carbon emissions because most of them come from volcanoes.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">It is a normal element cycled around in the earth and my science, which is looking back in time, is saying we have had a planet that has been a green, warm wet planet 80 per cent of the time. We have had huge climate change in the past and to think the very slight variations we measure today are the result of our life - we really have to put ice blocks in our drinks." </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Scientists such as Dr. Roy Spencer, Professor Ian Clark, </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">and Dr. Tim Patterson, just to name a few of the most vocal “skeptics” have raised many questions regarding the science behind the anthropogenic contention and not only have pointed to the shaky evidence, but have sounded the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">follow the money</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> bell. </span></span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Last spring Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) asked former Vice President Al Gore during a House hearing if his investments in green energy meant he would personally profit from cap-and-trade. Mr. Gore’s answer was a combination of incredulousness and condescension.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mr. Gore said that he’s not stumping for money, but rather the good of the environment.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Really?</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In 2000, Mr. Gore was worth between $1M to $2M, and in eight years, his reported worth was about $100M – a nice perk for talking about melting iceburgs. </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><i><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">-- Killswitch Politick</span></span></span></i></b><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black;"><a href="mailto:killswitchpolitick@gmail.com?subject=Subscribe"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Click here to subscribe</span></span></a></span></b><b><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style="color:black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="color:black;"><a href="mailto:killswitchpolitick@gmail.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Click here to contact</span></span></a></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;color:black;"> </span><span style=" ;font-family:Arial;color:black;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2061743763997576200.post-73289445080327902822009-11-09T10:33:00.002-05:002009-11-09T10:34:15.935-05:00The pot calling the kettle black; the hypocrisy of media bias<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgNaH4fvfZAKzr5L9dwLmiwhziYfTxftdZjwS7YJ6cKnbsutSfYJdB0gMP4PEPT0VVXjSRsBIo0UIcAGa1rhW3ur7z8UYFQwwUcJQW6oMMrWfM14zViFPLHNQ2ByzB_nOjkeIn7GBbeaJ/s1600-h/John+Stossel.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 101px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMgNaH4fvfZAKzr5L9dwLmiwhziYfTxftdZjwS7YJ6cKnbsutSfYJdB0gMP4PEPT0VVXjSRsBIo0UIcAGa1rhW3ur7z8UYFQwwUcJQW6oMMrWfM14zViFPLHNQ2ByzB_nOjkeIn7GBbeaJ/s200/John+Stossel.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402127537935977538" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Last week, John Stossel wrote a piece entitled, “The double standard about journalists’ bias”. It was an autobiographical piece in which he recounts the blatant hypocrisy of his colleagues. </span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Stossel said after years of reporting on business crooks at the local level, he was surprised to find a challenge in finding like crooks when he went national on 20/20, “As a local TV reporter, I could find plenty of crooks. But once I got to the national stage…it was hard to find comparable national scams.” </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mr. Stossel deduces the reason for this is simple:</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">free markets are regulators.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They reward those companies who put forth a quality product or service and punish those that don’t, “Regulation barely deters cheaters, but competition does.” </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Certainly a sound concept but as Mr. Stossel would learn in his move from network news to the most viewed cable news network, suddenly competition isn’t such a good thing – that is, when you’re beating your competition hands-down. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">After nearly forty years as a reporter, Stossel has gone from media hero to media zero; why?</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Because after so many years of championing government regulation, he came to realize it was counterproductive to business and to the American consumer.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">His 19 Emmy wins would stop, invitations to speak at journalism conferences were no longer extended – all because the veteran consumer reporter had the audacity to change his mind about the good of government regulation. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He titled segments accordingly; “Are we scaring you to death?” analyzed the scare-for-ratings tactics of newscasts and media coverage.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When Glenn Beck was at CNN, not much attention was paid to him, but at </span></span></span><st1:stockticker><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">FOX</span></span></span></st1:stockticker><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> News, it’s an entirely different story; as in the amount of stories done about </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">him</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> and </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">not</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> the scandals he uncovers.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mr. Beck drove the Van Jones story at </span></span></span><st1:stockticker><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">FOX</span></span></span></st1:stockticker><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> News.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">He uncovered what the White House vetting process failed to find, a radical, avowed communist.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Beck and Bill O’Reilly have done yeoman’s work in investigating ACORN and have come to uncover scandal after scandal, from millions flowing through a former funeral home in </span></span></span><st1:city><st1:place><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">New Orleans</span></span></span></st1:place></st1:city><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> to rampant voter registration fraud.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Do the mainstream media back them like Deep Throat?</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">No.</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">They accuse them of making mountains out of molehills or fabricating scandals. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When the shoe is on the other foot, the mainstream media is conspicuously silent – Dan Rather used phony documents, aided and abetted by producer Mary Mapes to try and destroy President Bush from being reelected. Jayson Blair made-up entire interviews when writing for the New York Times – his explanation?</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The liberal news of record expected too much from him. </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To quote Mr. Stossel from one of his most popular segments, “Give me a break!”<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" 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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> is nuking up.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">North Korea</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> is demanding one-on-one talks.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">China</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> and </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">France</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> are lecturing the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> to get our financial house in order.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">Afghanistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> spirals toward chaos.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The Obama administration’s reaction: it’s all Bush’s fault. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">A very clear and discernable pattern has emerged from the office of the 45<sup>th</sup> President: blame the 44<sup>th</sup> President and then excuse itself from any criticism, now or in the future. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Valerie Jarrett declared "I think that what the administration has said very clearly is that we're going to speak truth to power. When we saw all of the distortions in the course of the summer, when people were coming down to town hall meetings and putting up signs that were scaring seniors to death." </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">Ms. Jarrett, a senior advisor to President Obama, doesn’t mince words – except these don’t make much sense.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Truth to power?</i> To whom or what is she bestowing such power?<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In this case, it’s a cable news network, and one that has the audacity to run stories contrary to the accounting shell game that’s being put out by the White House and the democrat majority Congress.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Too bad the most powerful man in the world doesn’t have enough power. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">While it may be a politically calculated distraction tactic, it certainly is preposterous that the White House doesn’t have a large enough megaphone or the clout to get their message out. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">And when it isn’t targeting a news network, the administration seems perfectly content to go about a methodical blame-game, “It's clear that basically we had a war for eight years that was going on, that's adrift," said Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. "That we're beginning at scratch, and just from the starting point, after eight years." </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">President Obama recently explained why his economic policies have not had a positive impact on the economy, "I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made…that's what I signed up to do. But while I'm there mopping the floor, I don't want somebody standing there saying, 'You're not mopping fast enough.' </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">A continuation of his post-inaugural speeches, with all-too familiar little chestnuts like, "…we have chosen hope over fear," and "restore science to its rightful place," and that he would never allow America to "give [our ideals] up for expedience's sake." </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">But it doesn’t just end with blaming Bush, it necessarily includes exempting and holding harmless any of his policies, "I expect to be held responsible for these issues because I'm the president. But I don't want the folks who created the mess…to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess."<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>While in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">France</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> Mr. Obama stated, "there have been times where </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma">America</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma"> has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive." </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Tahoma">While Mr. Obama may find comfort in point his finger backward, the American people are reading his explanations as excuses and his rationalizations as “I can’t handle the pressure of the office you elected me to”.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>With Rasmussen showing his approval rating at 46%, there is less confidence in the man about hope. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; 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margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 106px; height: 106px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtKi3ilvd0cCi0VLRM7b3dJSQ_KvYRIZVgrviXJM8Ot8yzGOFRMOvuaG8qBll4NlUhl_muUF_G6NjH85MY3x2RfniT0YHclSkpPKXdHR3ry5BncEYZ9yz6BRa47z5H_Uvao5eCfIhQimMp/s200/FOXnews+logo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5396903237200248466" /></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">The Obama administration has finally found a war that it is more-than-willing to fight – and its not in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">Iraq</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"> or </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">Afghanistan</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">, and the enemies aren’t militant Islamic terrorists or warlords – it’s a war of words against </span><st1:stockticker><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">FOX</span></st1:stockticker><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"> News.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;">While the administration plays Nero’s fiddle as Afghanistan backslides and unemployment creeps up toward 10%, it is pulling out all the stops in battling what it has publicly deemed the most important issues: health care reform most Americans are opposed to, and dirt-kicking a cable news network.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">From a strategy standpoint, one wonders what in the name of Pete the administration is doing:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>since the row began two months ago, </span><st1:stockticker><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">FOX</span></st1:stockticker><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"> News ratings have only gone up.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not to mention the political fallout:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>republicans who don’t much approve of the president’s policies aren’t being wooed, independents that put Mr. Obama in the White House are left to scratch their heads as his post-partisanship posture expires, and those on the left either already dislike </span><st1:stockticker><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">FOX</span></st1:stockticker><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"> News and/or are concerned about more meaningful issues.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;">David Gergen, who has served in the White House as an adviser to Presidents: Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton said, "(White House officials) have gotten themselves into a fight they don't necessarily want to be in. I don't think it's in their best interest…I mean, for goodness sakes – you know, you engage in the debate.”</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">The fight between the White House and </span><st1:stockticker><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">FOX</span></st1:stockticker><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"> News began in August when </span><st1:stockticker><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">FOX</span></st1:stockticker><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"> News Sunday’s Chris Wallace fact-checked contentious allegations made by VA Assistant Secretary Tammy Duckworth.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;">Anita Dunn, the <span class="apple-style-span">White House communications director,</span> <span class="apple-style-span">has stated that fact-checking an administration official was "something I've never seen a Sunday show do."<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>By her declaration, Ms. Dunn seems to believe that any assertion or statement made by an administration official should be accepted at face-value and the American people don’t have a right to know what is and isn’t true.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><st1:stockticker><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">FOX</span></span></st1:stockticker><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"> News has time and again asked for administration officials to come on the network to correct whatever <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">errors</i> might have been made however, Mr. Obama’s Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, has likewise chimed in and the word is out – no administration official will be made available to </span></span><st1:stockticker><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">FOX</span></span></st1:stockticker><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"> News – much like more troops won’t be given to the generals who request them.</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:13px;"> </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span style=" ;font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;">-- Killswitch Politick<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"><a href="mailto:killswitchpolitick@gmail.com?subject=Subscribe">Click here to subscribe</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"><a href="mailto:killswitchpolitick@gmail.com">Click here to contact</a><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;font-size:10.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>Killswitch Politickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08466372186686076282noreply@blogger.com0