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ACTOR ORLANDO JONES TWEETS: ‘IF AMERICAN LIBERALS WANT RESPECT…KILL SARAH PALIN’

October 25, 2011 by 31 Comments

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Just when attacks — whether they are serious statements or jokes — against Sarah Palin and her family seem like they’ve reached an unprecedented climax, someone always seems to up the ante. On October 22, actor Orlando Jones (MADtv) tweeted the following message:

While it took many people a few days to realize that this was posted to the Twitterverse, commentators and political spectators are just now delving into commentary on the matter.

As of this morning, Jones still hadn’t opted to delete the micro-message (then again, there are so many screen captures of it, doing so would be fruitless at this juncture). Instead, he’s been defending it.

On October 23, just one day after Jones sent the message, he apparently began responding to angry Tweeps who were less than content with his tweet (which he describes as “inane” and characterizes as a joke). Here are some of his responses:

While Jones is a comedian and typically tweets jokes out from his social media account, some see this one as going a bit too far over the line. Following the tragic shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, negative political rhetoric has been on the chopping block (or, at the least, there‘s been a fair share of rhetoric about the nation’s political discourse).

 Read More at The Blaze By Billy Hallowell, The Blaze

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Rick Perry Doubles Down On Birther Issue

October 25, 2011 by 16 Comments

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Gov. Rick Perry will unveil an economic plan today that he hopes will revive the economy as well as his campaign, but in an interview prior to his speech, he returned to the birther issue which arose over the weekend.

“Look I haven’t seen his, I haven’t seen his grades. My grades ended up on the front page of the newspaper, so let’s you know, if we’re going to show stuff, let’s show stuff, but look that’s all a distraction, I mean I get it. I’m really not worried about the president’s birth certificate. It’s fun to poke at him a little bit and say ‘Hey, how about let’s see your grades and your birth certificate,” Perry said in an interview with CNBC’s John Harwood Monday night.

Over the weekend, Perry opened speculation over the birther topic when he did not give a direct answer about where he stands on the issue.

“I have no reason to think otherwise,” Perry said of President Obama’s birth place in an interview with Parade Magazine published Sunday. Perry said the topic of Obama’s birth certificate arose during a dinner last month with Donald Trump, who led the crusade to force Obama to unveil his birth certificate.

But when asked what Perry believed about it, he said: ”I don’t have any idea. It doesn’t matter. He’s the president of the United States. He’s elected. It’s a distractive issue.”

Read More at ABC News By Arlette Saenz, ABC News

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Ohio Coal Official Warns Congress About Job-Killing EPA

October 25, 2011 by 8 Comments

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Most Americans probably missed watching an important hearing on the job-killing EPA that took place on July 26, 2011.

The hearing was held by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. It was appropriately titled “Lights Out: How EPA Regulations Threaten Affordable Power.”

One of the panelists at the hearing was Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association.

Carey issued dire warnings to the committee members on the destructive regulations being imposed on the coal industry by Obama’s EPA.

Carey noted that the coal companies his organization represents directly employs more than 3,000 persons in Ohio, and more than 30,000 secondary jobs that depend on the coal industry.

 Read More at epaabuse.com By Frank York, epaabuse.com

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NBC Admits Obama Mortgage Plan Won’t Work, But Cheers It As Good Politics

October 24, 2011 by 11 Comments

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At the top of Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Matt Lauer touted a new plan to address the housing crisis: “After a series of foreign policy victories, President Obama is hitting the road to sell his plan to help turn around the struggling economy and today the focus is on the housing market.” Lauer later wondered to chief White House correspondent Chuck Todd if the plan would, “help politically?”

Todd declared: “Well, it could….emphasize the fact that they can’t get anything done through Congress, right? That Republicans won’t do anything….Mitt Romney said of the housing crisis, ‘You know what? We’re not allowing foreclosures to happen fast enough.’ So this is a two-fer, as far as the White House is concerned. They feel like they can talk about housing but also make the Republicans look like they’re out of touch on that.”

However, Lauer began his discussion with Todd by pointing out criticism of the plan: “…it says that it will help make it easier for them to refinance those mortgages. Already critics say it won’t work.” Todd acknowledged a major flaw: “…it’s similar to the plan the President unveiled over two years ago….The problem is, with the plan initially and with this one, is Matt, you cannot force the banks to do this.”

Turning to the political impact, Lauer dismissed that fact: “Even though you can’t force the banks to do it, if you’re sitting at home and you’re underwater in your mortgage and you hear it coming out of the President’s mouth and you’re in a state like Nevada or Arizona or California or Florida, and those aren’t accidental states.”

Near the end of the segment, Lauer asked about GOP criticism of the Obama administration withdrawing all U.S. troops from Iraq at the end of the year: “Republicans are criticizing this, saying it’s more about politics than sound military strategy. How exposed is the President on this?” Continuing to push politics over substance, Todd argued: “I don’t think he’s very exposed at all because public opinion is with him….They would like to see these troops brought home.”

Read More at mrc.org By Kyle Drennen, MRC

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NBC Unable To Shake Slide In Ratings

October 24, 2011 by 14 Comments

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NBC’s downward slide is getting steeper.

Long a ratings laggard, the network has fallen further behind its competitors this fall, heightening the challenge facing its new owner Comcast Corp. as it works to mount a turnaround.

Through the first four weeks of the TV season ending Oct. 16, about 3.3 million adults under 50 years old have been watching prime-time TV shows on NBC, according to the latest figures from Nielsen Holdings NV. That is down 9.3% from the same period a year earlier. Much of the decline is concentrated in NBC’s entertainment shows.

Leaving out National Football League games, which NBC airs on Sunday nights, the network’s 18-to-49-year-old audience is 2.2 million—down 16% from a year earlier. That demographic is the audience group most valued by advertisers.

Among the shows demonstrating particularly severe declines are long-running programs like “Law & Order: SVU” and “The Biggest Loser,” each of which lost one of its stars. The 18-to-49-year-old audiences for those shows have fallen 20% to 3.4 million and 23% to 3 million, respectively, this season compared to last season, according to Nielsen.

Read More at WSJ.com By Sam Schechner and Lauren A.E. Schuker, The Wall Street Journal

 

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What Explains The Left’s Affinity For OWS And Abhorrence Of The Tea Party?

October 24, 2011 by 3 Comments

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The 99ers, which more accurately are 22ers, have no coalescing message other than a desire for a central command-and-control government, whether nationally or globally. In other words, they share the kindred spirit of redistributive fairness with our puerile president. Initially we saw the Muslim Brotherhood uprising, and now, with the Wall Street Spring, Barack Obama is causing democracy to break out everywhere!

First, Barack Obama said the Wall Street Occupiers express “the frustration of the American people.” Then, while honoring MLK at the dedication of the new memorial in Washington, Obama channeled the late civil rights leader in support of the protesters: “Dr. King would want us to challenge the excesses of Wall Street without demonizing those who work there.”

That’s interesting, because I cannot remember Obama proclaiming that the Tea Party protesters express the frustration of the American people. I do remember Obama leaving town to campaign for Obamacare in Minnesota on the day several hundred thousand Tea Party protesters descended on Washington in 2009 to make their voices heard. (They left the grounds so clean that maybe Obama never knew they were there.)

And, so far as I can recall, Obama has never argued that Dr. King would want us to challenge the excesses of the federal government without demonizing those who work there.

Maybe that’s because Obama was complicit in trying to demonize the Tea Party, leading the way in the immature art of vile name-calling. Reporting for the Atlantic Wire, Jared Keller writes:

[Jake] Tapper comes across a November 30, 2009 interview in which Obama declared that the unanimous vote of House Republicans against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.” Obama’s use of the term “tea-bagger,” often deployed mockingly by news outlets, surprises Tapper. “Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations,” he reports.

 Read More at American Thinker By Monte Kuligowski, American Thinker

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Video: Are “Occupiers” Like The Tea Party?

October 24, 2011 by 35 Comments

President Obama recently compared the OWS protestors to the Tea Party. But are they so similar? Watch this video and find out. (Caution: Crude images and Language)

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Obama To Re-inflate Housing Bubble; Another Credit Downgrade Likely!

October 24, 2011 by 19 Comments

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In a sign of increasing exasperation with Republicans who will not, “Pass this bill now!” President Obama has decided to go around the reticent party of NO! and fix the economy on his own.

As reported, Obama will announce two tinkering initiatives that will hopefully help repair the entrenched mess created by the disastrous Stimulus-1, which, as it turns out, was all about funding doomed-to-go-bankrupt ventures for campaign donors with sun worshiping fixations.

Obama’s new initiatives will focus on the housing and student loan crises.

The housing mess will be addressed by downgrading the requirements for refinancing mortgages, with less emphasis of loan-to-value considerations and more focus on empathy, leveling the playing field, closing the wealth gap, minority rights and other social justice actions best handled by moon bats in big government.

Hmmm. Is it not true that that sort of fuzzy thinking is directly responsible for the fact that millions of Americans are currently facing foreclosure on their homes?

 Read More at Canada Free Press By John Lillpop, Canada Free Press

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Fast And Furious: What A Tangled Web They Weave

October 21, 2011 by 11 Comments

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Tuesday October 18 proved to be an important day in the slow march towards justice for the families of murdered federal agents Brian Terry and Jaimie Zapata.

First, the U.S Senate unanimously voted in favor of an amendment prohibiting funds from going to any future gun-walking type operations. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) introduced the amendment in direct response to the 2009 Fast and Furious debacle. The bipartisan consensus prompted Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) to join Cornyn in his demand for answers from Attorney General Eric Holder.

When I look at what happened in Operation Fast and Furious, I was fast to be furious about the bungled, botched occurrences that occurred. It was poorly planned, poorly executed, had flawed leadership, and it was definitely of questionable integrity and value.

The southwest border is America’s border. Anything that happens down at your border affects us. That’s the way we need to think about ourselves, we’re all Americans, we all need to look out for one another.

Second, ABC’S Jake Tapper became the latest mainstream media reporter to focus on what he called “a big scandal.” In a Nightline interview Tapper confronted President Obama on the controversy surrounding the “Justice Department, the ATF moving guns tied to crime scenes.” Obama once again denied any prior knowledge of Fast and Furious.

 Read More at American Thinker By M. Catharine Evans, American Thinker

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Car Company Gets U.S. Loan, Builds Cars In Finland

October 21, 2011 by 17 Comments

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With the approval of the Obama administration, an electric car company that received a $529 million federal government loan guarantee is assembling its first line of cars in Finland, saying it could not find a facility in the United States capable of doing the work.

Vice President Joseph Biden heralded the Energy Department’s $529 million loan to the start-up electric car company called Fisker as a bright new path to thousands of American manufacturing jobs. But two years after the loan was announced, the company’s manufacturing jobs are still limited to the assembly of the flashy electric Fisker Karma sports car in Finland.

“There was no contract manufacturer in the U.S. that could actually produce our vehicle,” the car company’s founder and namesake told ABC News. “They don’t exist here.”

Henrik Fisker said the U.S. money has been spent on engineering and design work that stayed in the U.S., not on the 500 manufacturing jobs that went to a rural Finnish firm, Valmet Automotive.

“We’re not in the business of failing; we’re in the business of winning. So we make the right decision for the business,” Fisker said. “That’s why we went to Finland.”

 Read More at ABC News By Matthew Mosk, Brian Ross, and Ronnie Greene, ABC News

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