Beck Blasts “Birthers” Again

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May 20, 2013 TPATH- Everyone who watches Glenn Beck on his internet show knows, he begins  each broadcast by announcing, “Welcome to the Glenn Beck Show, the  network you are building.   Glenn may have been correct in that  statement since TPATH and many others have not only linked to his TV  Show, his radio show and his many publications and events, but also,  thousands of us have called cable and satellite companies in an effort  to get them to take Glenn Beck TV.

This past week, Mr. Beck, who has been called the “Conspiracy King”, and his two fawning boot lickers on the radio, decided to alienate 75% of  those “building his network”.  Beck, for some reason, only known to him, felt it necessary, once again, to take on the so called Birthers.  The  condescending, flippant sarcasm, the bunching together of those who have spent years reading and understanding the facts about Obama’s  ineligibility and then relegating them into a gaggle of fools and  idiots, would have made Saul Alinsky and Kieth Obermann proud.  (by the  way, where is Kiethy Boy theses days?)

It is important to point out that Beck does some good work, in fact some great work.  Most of which has been ridiculed by the very same people  he now appears to be aligning himself with.  The big question here  is…Why?

Its quite interesting that Glenn would choose this time, when Comrade  Obama and his cadre of leftist crooks, fabricators and liars are being  exposed for not only what they are, but for what they have been, to  attack those who are concerned that we have an illegal President.  Also, relating to this, Beck has been bedside himself when the mainstream  media either ignored or labeled him a conspiracy nut as he was putting  together evidence concerning the Saudi terrorist the State Department  secreted out of the country after the Marathon bombing.

Hey Glenn, welcome to the club, Buddy.

Over the years Glenn’s prognostications have been, while not always spot on, very close to what we are seeing today, throughout the world.  For  that work he needs to be complimented and praised.  But at the same  time, all of these many “theories” that he has investigated, organized  into cute little charts on the blackboard, can’t hold a candle to the  reams of information, proven facts, hidden and forged documents  relating  the mystery man occupying our White House.  Again, the  question screams…..Why?


Before I speculate on what could be behind Glenn’s seemingly intentional ignorance, purposeful antagonism and frankly, completely flabbergasting position he has taken on the eligibility and forgeries of Obama, the  following list of Obama Issues, most of which have been thoroughly  investigated by some very capable people and ignored by Beck, should  make one wonder why someone so into conspiracies would chose to not only evade and disdain but belittle those who are most likely to support  him.

  • Obama’s father was never an American citizen. 
  • Article II of our Constitution requires the President to be “Natural born”.  Obama is not.
  • Obama stated many times and wrote about his being Kenyan.
  • Anyone who can dial a phone could put a birth announcement in the paper in Hawaii.
  • No one, except a progressive Obama minion in Hawaii, has seen Obama’s original birth certificate. Not one person!
  • Obama’s passport has been hidden because  it may show he was listed as Kenyan during his trips to Pakistan during a time that American citizens were forbidden to travel there.
  • Federal records, in the form of  microfiche, which track every person coming into or leaving the country  have been altered and the two week period that would show if Obama’s  mother left the country with an infant are the only records missing over a forty year period.
  • The visitor’s log book from the hospital  where Obama was supposed to be born, has been concealed and removed from public view because it probably shows no visitors to Obama’s momma  before, during or after the supposed birth.  That would be pretty much  impossible unless, she wasn’t there.
  • Not any of the two Hawaiian hospitals where Obama claims he was born in will go on record as saying he was in fact, born there.
  • Obama’s mother’s passport has been found  for the period of her trips to Kenya around the time Obama was supposed  to be born.  If a guardian (parent) takes an infant out of the country,  that infant’s picture and information would have to be, by Federal Law,  added to the guardian’s passport.  His mother’s passport did not have  that information on it.  Clearly, this indicates she left before Obama  was born.
  • The birth certificate the Divider N Chief  posted on the internet is a forgery.  There is no doubt about that.   Even if one would overlook a President lying to the American people,  forging legal documents is a crime.
  • Obama has used several Social Security numbers including one issued in a state where he never lived.
  • There is no evidence that Obama ever  legally changed his name, but everyone knows he was called by several  names and enrolled in schools both in Africa and America under names not “Obama”.
  • Obama filled out election documents and  stated that he was never known by or did he ever use another name except Obama.  This is a crime.
  • The Selective Service required “citizens”  to sign up with them at the age of 18.  Obama clearly never did that.   Most likely he didn’t have to, since he was not a citizen.  When a  political career became apparent,  a Selective Service card for Obama  was fabricated.  This is also a crime.

There is more. Much more.  But considering the  penchant for conspiracies awash in Beck’s DNA, one must wonder why these things do not warrant just a bit of cogitation. 


Of course, if like some others, Glenn has decided not to pursue any of  this because he believes the politicians, the judicial system and the  country have become so corrupt, these issues will never go anywhere and  there are other more viable things that need attention, he could be  forgiven for that.  But he has spent hours trashing those who believe  every aspect of our Constitution should be protected. This does not make sense.


Some of us who watch the information highway closely, have seen bitter  rivalries arise between between radio talk show hosts and internet  hosts.  One of the most unpleasant of these engagements has been  festering between Beck and Alex Jones of Info Wars.  Alex Jones, an  aggressive and ever vigilant watchdog of our runaway government has long accused Beck of purloining data and research from his website and not  giving credit to him.


Without being specific, I have noticed that Info Wars was in front on  issues that later Glenn did talk about.  Whether that constitutes theft  of services or not, I make no contention here.   But….. Since Alex  Jones is and has been on the issue of Obama’s forgeries, crimes and  ineligibility, the impetus for Beck’s attitude towards “Birthers” could  very well stem from this, even to the point where Glenn is willing to  disparage his own viewers and supporters.


There are a few more suppositions that can be made here.  I’ll list them. You decide.

  • Glenn does not want to go against his pal at FOX, Billy O’reilly.
  • Glenn is looking to expand his network to cable outlets owned and controlled by the left.
  • Glenn is stubborn and won’t admit that early on he was too hasty in attacking Birthers.
  • Glenn may not want to see or be a part of removing the first black President.
  • And last, but not least, aliens have invaded Glenn’s brain and are about to take over the world.

Having said all this, TPATH intends to continue to link to Beck’s network.  He is a valuable partner in our war against  Islam, Communists and World Order domination.   I only hope that Glenn  checks the overwhelming comments on the Blaze from his readers and  viewers who feel betrayed by him, and then sticks to the issues he feels are important and leaves those who fear our Constitution, every part of it, needs defending, at all costs, alone. 

It’s Time To Get Radical… With The Radicals

“True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.”– Master Saul Alinsky/pupil Barack Hussein Obama

“And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.”– 2 Corinthians 11:14, KJV

On the heels of the Benghazi exposé (on the crimes of this administration), I watched a press conference this morning by the families of three Navy SEAL Team 6 members who were killed along with 26 others when their helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan. The information that came forth was nothing less than surreal, obvious, and very telling.

Telling, I say, that on a daily basis, this administration adds insult to injury when the American people have already seen, in the light of day, that its officials are willing to defend radical Muslims (America’s sworn enemy) at every turn:

Here are some points from the families’ press release:

  1. Obama and Biden disclosed that it was Navy SEAL Team 6 that carried out the successful raid on bin Laden’s compound, putting a target on the backs of our now-fallen heroes.
  2. High-level military officials sent the Navy SEAL Team 6 heroes into battle without special operations aviation and proper air support.
  3. There was a denial of pre-assault fire, possibly contributing to the shoot-down of the Navy SEAL Team 6 helicopter.
  4. Military brass, while prohibiting any mention of the Judeo-Christian God, invited a Muslim cleric to the funeral for the fallen Navy SEAL Team 6 heroes who disparaged in Arabic the memory of these servicemen by damning them as infidels to Allah.
  5. Obama went out of his way to ensure that Osama bin Laden had a proper Muslim burial.

America, you now have an administration that is clearly at war with our republic, our Mosaic institution, and our Christian heritage.

They are even willing to go the extra mile and desecrate the sacrifice of those who gave them the privilege to be in a representative, governmental position.

As seen by this press conference, the American people are now in a position where they are having to do what the government was put in place to do. This administration is now committing the crimes it has been put into position to prevent.

One more point …

America needs to quit talking to these politicians as if they do not know what they are doing; they know exactly what they are doing.

The best the conservatives have – who are responsible for the corner the American people have been painted into – have even gone so far as to sit back and play the fool by reasoning with this unreasonable administration.

This administration is filled with lying, scheming, immoral, treasonous radicals.

America attempts to be rational with the irrational; and all the while, these radicals attack America … and America loses.

No more.

This is nothing less than criminal, and criminals need to be lawfully dealt with. Simply put, it is time to get radical with criminal radicals in this most awesome God-given country of ours and bring forth justice.

The answer is found in Article II, Section 4, of the United States Constitution:

“The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors.”

 

When the president attacks America’s military:

Who is Bradlee Dean?

They Destroyed Our Country

Democrats Despise Taxpayers SC They destroyed our country

They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they promoted him.  They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they made him president, to the great injury of America and the world.  They understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)

We are talking about the Clintons, Pelosi, Reid, Schumer, Frank, Wasserman-Schultz, Biden, Leahy, Durbin, Murray, Kennedy, Hagel, Kerry, Dodd, Hoyer, Baucus, and many others.

They all knew Obama was an empty suit; yet for private gain and personal advancement, they trampled on the flag, betraying the very people they claim to serve, preferring Party to principle.  During the 2008 campaign, they said he was unqualified, ill-prepared, and unsuited for the office. Yet when his crooked ways carved out primary victory, they jumped on board the Ship of Fools, stoking his engine with lies, deception, and propaganda.  Hillary knew he stole victory; but like a good Party operative, she buttoned her lip and took orders, submitting to authority and covering criminality.

The Ship of Fools also carried members of the ‘progressive’ propaganda press, people who made it a full time job to promote the Democrat agenda and the joke called the Obama Administration: Chris Matthews, Rather, Maddow, Schultz, Olbermann, Moyers, Sullivan, Friedman, Huffington, Sharpton, and Krugman and legions of others.

They banded together with the likes of Bill Ayers, Jeremiah Wright, George Soros, Saul Alinsky, Khalid Al-Mansour,  Rashid Khalidi, and legions of other radical Islamists, communists, and assorted America-haters.   Embarrassingly, many Republicans and so-called conservatives either helped the farce along or were used as pawns in the promotion of the hoax.  But the greatest disgrace of all were evangelicals.  Through sloth or ignorance, they either voted for the poser or stayed at home on election day.

And what progress have the “progressives” delivered?

  • A ruined economy.
  • Insurmountable debt.
  • Bankruptcy.
  • Record numbers on disability and food stamps, a dependency class mushrooming out of control.
  • Federal despotism.
  • Domestic chaos, violence, and deepening divisions.
  • Systemic demoralization.
  • Emboldened enemies.
  • Erosion of constitutional protections.
  • Looming tyranny.
  • Loss of global standing.

Now, with whistleblowers finally getting an ear on The Hill and in the media, we are learning the truth about Benghazi. We are seeing the end of Obama as a consequence; but, even if he exits, the disease remains.

They knew he was a catastrophe.  They knew ObamaCare was a train wreck.  They knew.  Yet they proceeded, and they may have destroyed our country.  For that, they can never be forgiven.

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Allan Erickson enjoyed an 11-year career in radio, television and print journalism as a reporter, talk show host, and operations manager. He then turned to sales and marketing for a decade. Twelve years ago he started a training and recruitment company. Allan & wife Jodi have four children and live in California. He is the author of the book “The Cross & the Constitution in the Age of Incoherence,” Tate Publishing, 2012, and his columns appear in www.ClashDaily.com and www.WesternJournalism.com. He is available to speak in churches addressing the topics of faith and freedom.  To contact him, email:  allanlerickson@gmail.com

 

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Is Obama Following The Communist Blueprint?

Obama Communist SC 300x240 Is Obama following the Communist Blueprint?

On January 10, 1963, Congressman Albert S. Herlong (D. Fla.) read the ACP’s 45 declared goals into the Congressional record (Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963.)

Here are some Communist Party goals. Compare them to Barack Obama’s and you decide if he is trying to destroy America.

Note: some goals have been omitted to save space.

Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind.

Get control of the schools. Use them for socialism and Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.

Infiltrate the press. Get control of editorial writing, policy-making positions. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

Continue discrediting American culture.

Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them “censorship” and a violation of free speech and free press.

Break down cultural standards of morality in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.

Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as “normal, natural, healthy.”

Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with “social” religion.

Discredit the American Constitution [as] inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs…

Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the “common man.”

Belittle, discourage the teaching of American history.

Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture–education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.

Infiltrate and gain control of big business.

Discredit the family as an institution.

Herlong eventually became a Republican saying the Democrats had left him - he didn’t leave them.

This is a hard copy blueprint of where Barack Obama is taking us and how he will get us there. His mentor, Saul Alinsky, would be proud of the destructive nature of his political “son”; but this scares me to my bones.

The entire list of the ACP’s 45 goals for destroying America can be found here.

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Obama Birth Certificate Story Not Going Away

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According to lead Obama investigator Mike Zullo, fear of ridicule is the number one reason authorities are not acting on the mountain of verifiable evidence of document fraud concerning Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Appearing on the Carl Gallups, Freedom Friday call-in show, Zullo said, “We are dealing with a fraudulent document that would never survive scrutiny of the judicial process.”

Disinformation and the intentional dissemination of false information to protect Obama, will not survive in the face of what Zullo is calling a 100% fabricated document. He listed the following tactics used to discredit the research of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse: media black outs; ridicule of opponents; infiltration and domination of message boards; setting up straw men to create an argument to chip away at the truth and simply ignoring the facts. “All we ask [is that Obama] bring forward the real original document,” said Zullo.

Ridicule is among the most effective of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. The godfather of community organizers, Alinsky said: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. Since this tactic is almost impossible to counteract, the opposition becomes infuriated and then reacts to your advantage.” Though frustrated himself, Zullo assures listeners that the truth will come out. Speaking directly to those who have been “chasing this longer than I,” Zullo says the truth will eventually be known and will vindicate those who have worked to reveal the ”greatest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.” (3) A Rule of Law investigator, the detective continued: “The Obama Document Fraud attacks our core principles; we are a nation of Laws, not of Men.”

But Zullo grew pensive when he spoke about the reception that he and radio host Gallups received at the recent C-PAC event. “People are afraid,” he said. Gallups pointed out the Allen West betrayal as being just one of many examples of VIPs who backed out of a promise to support the Document Fraud investigation. “We Don’t Remember Making that Promise,” one politician said. The internet spins round and round with stories of deaths of key witnesses, friends, acquaintances who suddenly died, were shot, or even had to leave the country, as occurred in one instance. The secretive nature of events, threats, and disinformation are all more obstacles the Cold Case Posse have encountered as they try to find out who in the White House constructed the fraudulent Obama birth certificate released on-line in 2011.

As the long call-in show began to wind down, both Zullo and host Gallups remained optimistic that a breakthrough in this case is coming within the next three to six months. But the most poignant moment came at the end when they described their visit to the grounds of Mount Vernon, George Washington’s home. “Barack Obama is the only president in U.S. history who has never set foot on Mount Vernon property,” an old caretaker told them. Obama also is the only American president to spend millions of dollars to hide who he really is from the American people!

What Difference Does It Make…?

Media Protests What difference does it make...?

Author’s Note - I began my most recent post with the following:

“I never imagined that I’d find myself quoting Bill’s one-time heart throb (okay, eons of time ago), but using her just happens to suit my purpose. (Guess Bill and I aren’t so different after all….)”


Due to an inadvertent title change (the title was to have been the same as this one’s), readers were no doubt puzzled by this. Hopefully, this will clear things up.


Anyone who registers even the faintest EKG response realizes that the “Mainstream Media” isn’t mainstream. So if you felt your not insignificant intelligence was being insulted…and therefore didn’t dive headlong into the piece, I’d ask you to reconsider, as I believe our perception of the establishment media (which almost no one in this audience either reads or watches) is at the very root of all that ails us…and I mean that with absolute sincerity!


Note that I did not say that the endangered media is the problem, but that our perception of it is. Hear me out….


Every national Conservative pundit I know, with the exception of Rush Limbaugh (who has famously – and accurately – dubbed them the “Drive-by” or “Endangered Media”), Michael Savage, and Joseph Farah (who both refer to them as the “so-called ‘mainstream’ media”), mindlessly refers to them as the “mainstream” or “MSM” – freely bestowing upon them the highest of both compliments and credibility!


Would we have called the Communists’ Pravda (far more conservative today than our own state-controlled press!) the Soviet Union’s “mainstream” media? Of course not! It was nothing more than a state-owned organ of propaganda…and while George Soros may not own the New York Times outright (or even in part), it is clear that he, his allies, and his pawns are in lockstep with its entire agenda. (Obviously everything I have said about the networks applies to the so-called “Newspaper of Record,” as well as to its counterparts from coast to coast – whose viewership and coffers are also universally, and happily, “on the brink.”)


To put this in perspective I will recount an experience I had last spring, when AZ State Representative Carl Seel took me by to introduce me to then Speaker of the House, Andy Tobin. It was a Friday afternoon, perhaps 2:00 or 3:00, and the Speaker had gone for the week, as it turned out. His secretary dutifully wrote down my name and phone number, however, promising to have him call me…which, of course, he never did. I knew little about the Speaker at that time, but have since learned all I need to know: he’s a “Republican” – not a Conservative, and a “politician” – not a Statesman, as best I can tell. (It’s difficult, of course, to know any of our “representatives” well when they refuse to respond to their constituents!


As I left his office that day, and passed through the deserted anteroom, there on a freshly-polished inlaid-Mahogany desk, positioned with almost reverential deference it seemed, was a symbol of everything that was wrong with our “veto-proof” Republican Legislature, buoyed up (?) by our Republican (CINO) Governor. There, as a voice from the past, lay the day’s copy of the once-great, once-revered Arizona Republic – no doubt in a far-distant time, the voice of the People of the Great State of Arizona…but no longer.


Like every other “news” outlet and major establishment newspaper in America, it had long since ceased to speak for the People, but had become a pointed instrument through which the errantly-named “servants of the People” could oppress them (in the name of “the oppressed”), and deprive them of their God-given, and at one-time Constitutionally-protected, rights.


Yet how are The Republic and its ideological counterparts nationwide referred to by virtually everyone on our side to this day? As the “mainstream media” – the theoretical “voice of the People.”


In truth, however, almost none of us reads The Republic any more (I know of no one personally); and its circulation attests to that; but as long as the politicians (our putative representatives) do – and as long as they mindlessly accept that the rest of us do – it will continue to inform their every emotional impulse. (I almost said “every thought,” but would have missed the mark in so doing!)


Make no mistake about it, John McCain, Jon Kyle (formerly), and now Jeff Flake have no doubt that The Republic speaks both FOR and TO the citizens of Arizona…although nothing could be further from the truth. (Circulation today is 275,622 daily, and 483, 556 on Sunday, out of a population of 4,289,323, or some 1,578,471 households; thus making the portion of households receiving The Republic 31% on Sunday, but only 17% during the week.


As long as they (our elected officials) believe that The Republic speaks for (and to) the citizens of Arizona, however – and they no doubt will continue to do so until we drive them from office for failing to represent us – they will continue to rule over us with disdain and disregard for our sovereignty and for our rights.


While they may well know that these outmoded organs no longer represent the views of the People, they simultaneously know that they DO represent the views of the elite Ruling Class…and towards the latter is clearly where their loyalty lies! (There are exceptions among elected officials, but they are just that…and rare indeed!)
Our president’s mentor Saul Alinsky said this: “Always remember the first rule of power tactics: Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have” (pp. 126-127, Rules for Radicals).


As long as we the People – and our “leaders” – continue to accept that the OEM (Obsolete Establishment Media) either represents the People, or is being listened to by the People, they will continue to be considered the voice of authority, the FINAL word on what WE want or believe.


And yet, they have ONLY the power which WE, the People, give them…and no more. (Those whom we employ to represent us may choose to follow the lead of the OEM, but as their employers we can terminate their employment when we finally rise up and do so (John McCain being the perfect place to start!).


This all begins, of course, with an understanding of the true strength of our position, and the abject weakness of theirs! (That is what this entire article has been about.) We needn’t mindlessly and obsequiously grant them a status and an authority which not only belie reality, but are completely undeserved!


So here is a tip for all of us: Turn them off! Don’t buy, watch, or read them…and refer to them no more as the “mainstream media” or “MSM”! You wouldn’t consciously give money to the DNC (or perhaps even the RNC at this point!), so why would you give money to, or otherwise support, those who trumpet their failed message to the world, in defiance of the voice of the majority of the American People?


Enough is enough! We don’t need to “tune in” in order to know what they are up to! (If you couldn’t write their every story, giving their every officially-approved party line – on any subject, on any given day – then, with respect, you haven’t been paying attention!) Any one of us could write for any one of their publications starting tomorrow…or sooner! All we’d need to do is lip-sync their anemic platitudes…and cease to engage in rational thought. Like you, however, I’m afraid I can’t – and won’t- do that!

To be continued….

Tom Ballantyne is the author most recently of Uncommon Sense…Apparently! A Call To Arms, and Oh Really, O’Reilly! – both available at Amazon.com and at his website: www.UncommonSenseNow.com.  You may email Tom with comments at ThomasMBallantyne@gmail.com.

‘Mainstream Media’ Not Mainstream

Media bias1 Mainstream Media Not Mainstream

I never imagined that I’d find myself quoting Bill’s one-time heart throb (okay, eons of time ago), but using her just happens to suit my purpose. (Guess Bill and I aren’t so different after all….)

A persistent (make that constant) theme I have extolled in both writing and speaking is that as Conservatives we should not fall prey to the ingrained habit of referring to the all-but-obsolete establishment media as “the mainstream” or “MSM.” Could anything be further from the truth? Stop and think about it for a minute….

As I like to tell audiences, “You’ll never see [David Gregory or Katie Couric, et al.] at a Denny’s!” It isn’t going to happen!

Back during the Roger Staubach Era, the Dallas Cowboys were affectionately referred to as “America’s Team.” As one might imagine, such a moniker would be considered the gold standard in the world of marketing or PR.

Imagine that you are starting a new grocery store chain, and through a stroke of luck you become known as “America’s Grocer.” Could it get any better than that?

Imagine, on the other hand, that you are one of the “Big Three” television and news networks – NBC, ABC, or CBS. Imagine also that over the past 50 years your viewership has plummeted from a virtual collective dominance of 100% to, say, 25% of the “news”- viewing public.

That would still represent one out of four American adults watching, but put in perspective, three out of four “news”-watchers would have rejected your collective “news” coverage. Not very good!

While that was merely a hypothetical construction on my part, here are some actual numbers for “Evening News Ratings,” obtained at MediaBistro.com:

NBC – 9,640,000 (Total Viewers)
ABC – 8,628,000 ( ” ” )
CBS – 7,482,000 ( ” ” )

Those numbers combined make 25,750,000 out of the current U.S. Population of 315,497,649. The annual population increase is estimated elsewhere (by extension) to be .76%. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated the number of adults 18 or over to be 234,564,000 in 2010, which would be roughly 240,000,000 today, in 2013.

Thus the “Big Three” viewers among the total U.S. adult population (over 18) would be approximately 10.7%…far less than my “guesstimate” of 25%.

One site I came across seemed to indicate that some 74% of adults watch at least some news program weekly. According to this site, “CNN (20%) and FOX News (18%) are the television channels adults most often turn to when they want news or information related to politics or public affairs. These are followed by the networks, including ABC (9%), NBC (8%) and CBS (7%). Other channels include MSNBC (5%), C-SPAN (3%), PBS (3%) and CNBC (1%).”

These figures – for those who watch news or “political/public affairs” programs, as opposed to strictly the “Nightly [Network] News” – show an aggregate of 24%of Adults watching the Big Three.

Getting back to the Nightly Network News (America’s staple before Cable and the Internet)…it would appear that my hypothesis was spot on among viewers ages 25-54, whose numbers looked like this:

NBC – 2,643,000
ABC – 2,328,000
CBS – 2,141,000

For a combined total of: 7,112,000

Removing those 18-24 (31,377,456) and those 55 and over (78,516,273), from the total number of those 18 and over (140,000,000), we end up with 30,106,271. Of that number, the 7,112,000 nightly network “news” viewers ages 18-24 make up some 23.6%.

I’m not sure, frankly, why MediaBistro.com chose to include a breakout for that particular statistical bracket – surely those over 54 are still keenly interested in what is going on in their country, even if many of those 18-24 are not – but in either case, the percentage of those watching network news range between an estimated minimum of 10.7% and a maximum of 23.6%.

Enough of statistics already, but I felt the need to support my thesis with more than just my opinion. It would be easy to dismiss my argument (that the Establishment Media is anything but the “mainstream,” and should not be thoughtlessly granted cult-like status by calling it that) as or as merely semantical or “academic.”

To do so, however, would represent a colossal failure to recognize the power of labels, or, in a broader sense, the power of language, or that of thought itself (the subject of my first book series, entitled The Secret of Life – Xlibris, 2008).

For those not versed in the science of the mind, the human subconscious (in contrast with the conscious mind) takes things we say and hear quite literally, as fact, as it were…especially when these “facts” are heard and parroted incessantly, by virtually everyone in the culture, on “both sides of the aisle” – including ourselves!).

Those of us who are parents may be keenly aware of the dramatic power – for better or for worse – of labels. While each of my daughters rightly considers herself to be her dad’s “favorite,” I have nicknames for each of them, as well as for our sons. For the most part these nicknames are more on the “cute” side – some having been derived from the inability of younger siblings to pronounce their older siblings’ names, for example – but one of them simply evolved from my repeatedly calling her “special.”

One day at the grocery store or doctor’s office – I wasn’t there, but received the report from my wife later on – an older woman complimented this particular daughter on her big, beautiful eyes, and asked, “What’s your name, little girl?” To which she replied, with the utmost in child-like sincerity and belief – “Special.” And from that day to this she has officially been known as “Special”…and it seems to have had a profound effect upon her life! (I am proud of each of my children, but I believe the success of this particular one has been directly attributable to the self-affirming “label” she has carried throughout her life.)

I will end my obvious point by reminding each of us that the Obsolete Establishment Media (or OEM) is just that. No, it isn’t 100% obsolete, but when less than 1 in 9, or 1 in 4 adults continue to “tune in” (perhaps tune out reality would be more accurate), it can hardly be called the “mainstream media” or “MSM.” Think of it: either 3 out of 4, or nearly 9 out of 10 “adults” are no longer watching – down from 10 out of 10 (of those who were watching anything in the way of “news”) some 20-30 years ago!

Let me underscore that in another way: 75-90% no longer watch the so-called (absurdly-called) “mainstream” media! So enough of the madness! (Those on the Left, of course, completely accept that they are the “mainstream” – even though polls clearly indicate that self-identifying “Conservatives” outnumber “Liberals” by 2 to 1 – 41% to 21% in 2011.)

Think about that: twice as many Conservatives as Liberals…and yet we refer to those extolling the views of the latter (a mere fifth of the adult population) as the “mainstream.” This is a coup of which both Edward Bernays , the “Father of Propaganda,” and his Nazi adherent Joseph Goebbels would have been extremely proud!

To be continued….

 

Tom Ballantyne is the author most recently of Uncommon Sense…Apparently! A Call To Arms, and Oh Really, O’Reilly! – both available at Amazon.com and at his website: www.UncommonSenseNow.com.

Obama Quotes Alinsky In Speech To Young Israelis

Barack Obama American flag SC Obama Quotes Alinsky in Speech to Young Israelis

JERUSALEM – In his address in Jerusalem today, President Obama channeled Saul Alinsky, citing the radical community organizer’s defining mantra as he urged young Israelis to “create change” to nudge their leadership to act.

Obama told a crowd of college students at Jerusalem’s main convention center that Israel “has the wisdom to see the world as it is, but also the courage to see the world as it should be.”

One of Alinsky’s major themes was working with the world as it “is” to turn it into the world as “it should be.”

In his defining work, “Rules for Radicals,” which he dedicated to “the first rebel,” Lucifer, Alinsky used those words to lay out his main agenda. He asserted radical change must be brought about by working within a system instead of attacking it from the outside.

“It is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system,” wrote Alinsky.

Read More at WND . By Aaron Klein.

I’m Tired Of Playing In Saul Alinsky’s Back Yard!

Saul Alinsky Im tired of playing in Saul Alinskys back yard!

Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” are exercised against me every day. I come home all beat up, forced to get hit again and again. Why do I have to put up with it when I was taught not to play with thugs dedicated to Lucifer as Alinsky proudly “honored” his Rules? We suffer vilifying in the endless stump speeches of an insincere President who acts like the beast of this false prophet Alinsky. It has produced an out of control bureaucracy, a complicit and lazy media, and an ill-informed people; I have to get hammered with this nonsense instead of having a serious discussion based on truth and the beauty of our great country.

Where Alinsky and his disciples refer to the enemy, they are referring to you and me! As Luciferian weapons of spiritual warfare, diversity, political correctness, lying, and mockery are at the front line. If you follow the news every day, you will see these tactics expertly applied against “the enemy” (you and me) in employment, business, education, and everyday life. Surely we must expect something better in our blessed Constitutional Republic! Alinsky states:

1. Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have.

2. Never go outside the expertise of your people.

3. Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.

4. Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.

5. Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.

6. A good tactic is one your people enjoy.

7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.

8. Keep the pressure on with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose.

9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

10. The major premise for tactics is the development of operations that will maintain a constant pressure upon the opposition.

11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough, it will break through into its counterside.

12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.

13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

“It’s an ill bird that fouls its own nest.” The thoughtful reader need not delve too deep to see the rules are effectively designed as a means of deception and to reduce the opponent (you, me, and our elected representatives or candidates) to ineffectiveness by lies and character assassination. Sadly, these rules are the core of the “progressive” movement modulated in political correctness and diversity defined as class and racial warfare. These coupled with an intrinsically evil monetary system that extracts tribute from those who create its value have been applied by too many people and institutions that ought to know better.

When you hear “diversity” from the seared conscience of the “progressive,” that means racial, ethnic, and even sexual preference… a far cry from the infinite range of gifts and talents of any people. Consider the Declaration of Independence; “… endowed by our Creator…” True diversity is found in that endowment – the endless possibilities found when people can communicate and work together. The USA made it big because it added the rare element – opportunity!

When we wake up and realize the nature of this battle between what Pope Benedict correctly calls “the Culture of Death” vs. “the Culture of Life,” perhaps we’ll begin to use or own far more formidable weapons to defeat “the accuser of the brethren.” I’m tired of playing in Saul Alinsky’s back yard with his thugs and by his rules.

There is a perfect and ordered antidote for the poison of “progressivism” that is leading us to a one world government under fascism or Sharia. Both are two-class societies that define a “Culture of Death.” The order of priority is critical in our thinking and creative processes. Human discourse and creative activity can best be found in nine points our Founding Fathers must have had more than an inkling of. There is great hope to develop a middle class with its infinite opportunities to rise above one’s station in life – to succeed – to fail – to try again. I like to call it “The Fountain of Opportunity and Prosperity.”

1. Beauty – Endowment by our Creator – Highest level of human discourse; spiritual, structural, and personal beauty, art, music, and literature – The Declaration of Independence

2. Ethics – Define Moral, Ethical, and Political Boundaries – The Constitution of the United States.

3. Logic – Defend Beauty – Define Logic from Multiple Inferences – The Bill of Rights

4. Subsidiarity – Self Reliance; Levels of Help when needed include strict Time and Involvement, Limits on Government

5. Solidarity – One Nation under God, love of country, appreciation of natural beauty, community and resources and their care.

6. Chaos – Unexpected Opportunities Presented – spontaneously exploiting opportunities to meet others, invent, create, and serve.

7. High Touch – Key Component in Design, Construction, and Maintenance; Music, Art, and Literature.

8. High Tech – The Whole Process of Discovery and Development – “Subdue the earth, be fruitful and multiply…” Be so much in awe that stewardship is natural, not forced.

9. High Finance – The Enabling Servant of all the above. Money spent – not loaned – into existence per the Founders’ intent – each dollar circulating 9 times in the economy – “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” – Those whose wealth in money or talent is willingly shared with the helpless or an aspiring talent.

This priority list didn’t come out of thin air, but in the timeless human pursuit for meaning and accomplishment in life. America’s greatest Philosopher, Charles Sanders Peirce, saw a proper ordering of the normative sciences of Philosophy as: Beauty, Ethics, and Logic (BEL). In the “progressive world, Beauty is in the sewer of debt and depravity instead of being the top priority. Logic is consistently based on false premises, leading to faulty and deadly Ethics (LEB).”

Subsidiarity and Solidarity must function in combination. They are clarified in Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical “Caritas in Veritate” – Charity in truth. I added the Chaos that brings unexpected opportunities, chance meetings, and the infinite permutations and combinations of events and inspirations we see in every day life. “E pluribus unum” combined with the opportunity to rise above one’s station we Americans have always been blessed with – often in spite of ourselves.

High Touch and High Tech come from John Naisbitt’s 1980 book “Megatrends”, where he accurately projected coming events with the rise of technology and appreciation for things of beauty. I added High Finance as Enablement – as servant, not master as found in the multistory outhouse of “progressivism.”

It is time to put the melody back into music * Pride into appearance * Courtesy into driving * Romance into love * Commitment into marriage * Responsibility into parenthood * Togetherness into the family * Learning into education * Service into patriotism * Nativity scenes in the city square * Civility into behavior * Refinement into language * Dedication into employment * Prudence into spending * Ambition into achievement and God recognized as our endowing Creator in the halls of government and education from the home to the outer reaches of academia.

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Socialist Framework Espoused By Barack Obama

Angry Obama SC Socialist Framework Espoused by Barack Obama

You can count on Barack Obama having a clear vision of how the United States should look, entering into (what we think is) his final term. The narcissistic perception of success will obviously be antipodal to the conservative, clear-thinking American; but he is hell-bent on turning this country into a socialist cesspool nevertheless.

Indeed, we are stuck with the Kenyan-in-Chief for another term, thanks to liberal ignorance, a cold and calculating anti-American mainstream media, and a pinch of voter fraud for good measure.

This is not hyperbole — the damages that we have seen and continue to see in the wake of this administration is unfathomable and certainly threaten our children’s future, so take note.

The best opportunity to slow Obama’s destruction is an impeachment process, which clearly is in order even if you base it solely on the Fast and Furious atrocity (let alone the latest Benghazi cataclysm, which incidentally went largely unnoticed thanks to the Lame Stream Media.) Obama’s deluge of treasonous policies are far-reaching and will only increase now that he has more “flexibility” to execute them.

We can only pray the Republican party will suddenly grow the kahunas needed to take Barry to task, but I have serious doubts — there’s simply not the leadership in place to take down this Terrorist-in-Chief and his gang of ruffian handlers. The fact remains we are now staring back at the contemptuous aftermath of Obama’s bellicose policies and looking forward to the future that looks even bleaker and more tyrannical.

Obama’s past Marxist-influenced policies, including Obamacare, incessant entitlement programs, historical debt levels, classless economics, and now the contemptible “Fiscal Cliff” plan (or lack thereof) have weighed heavily on an already distressed economy.

We can calibrate the damage and possibly even counter imminent future vexatious policies if we understand his philosophies and framework from which he draws from — at the risk of sounding obstinate and callous, we must know the enemy. He has clearly displayed to the American people over the past four years that he is indeed the “enemy within.”

So what critical information can we glean from history? What philosophies has he leaned on to deliver assault after assault on the U.S. economy and foreign policies? Can we counter and even circumvent any of his future stratagem? This blogger thinks so and will attempt to lay out this Marxist-in-Chief foundation and principles.

Influencers — The Early Years and Beyond

Obama’s early years were strongly influenced by a number of certified nut jobs. Many of his so-called mentors instilled a strong sense of racial bigotry and anti-colonialism, including his own father, Barack Obama Sr., and communist extraordinaire Frank Marshall Davis. In fact, the characters Obama has been palling around with throughout his career have been nothing short of astonishing, including the anti-American domestic terrorist-turned university professor confidant Bill Ayers, the “audacity to hope” hate monger Jeremiah Wright, slum-lord Tony Ruzko, and much more. The list is endless and staggering.

Do liberals really believe these facts and relationships do not exist or never occurred? Do liberals really believe Obama does not act on the very principles that got him there in the first place? Please, somebody wake me up from this bad dream!

Marxism — The Adaption

One of the predominant theologies that Obama aligned himself with early on was Marxism, where he embraced the classless society theorem.

Marxism: the political, economic, and social principles and policies promoted by Karl Marx, esp: a theory and practice of socialism including the labor theory of value, dialectical materialism, the class struggle, and dictatorship of the proletariat until the establishment of a classless society” – Marxist.

Obama’s early years were also earmarked by extreme anti-American principles, including his anthropologist mother who despised her country so much, she enlisted him to Frank Marshall Davis’ tutelage.

Even though Obama had his fill of anarchistic preaching, let’s not forget his other lost treasure, such as being purported of Muslim faith. Maybe this is the explanation for his abhorrent sensitivity of sorts, bowing to Muslim kings, apologizing to the Islamic terrorists that killed four Americans, and other kiss-ass exploits, all made to look America weak. This “apology tour” has made a percentage of Americans very ignominious to this administration, and rightfully so.

One could easily draw the conclusion that the “education” and exposure he received throughout his life makes him ideally suited to take on the socialist underpinnings.

My personal belief is one of Obama being a relativist and Atheist, holding Christianity in contempt, taking on a Chameleon appearance and personality when the need or situation arises, with the unrelenting long-term pursuit of making himself the “center of the universe.” This appeasement-at-will personality was never more obvious after watching Obama’s 2007 Divisive Race Speech — but I assure you there’s more where that came from. No matter how you slice or dice it, Obama has clearly hoodwinked a majority of this country (52% to be exact) and has been deemed Entitlement Messiah and rightly so — Obama is the chosen one to carry the progressive torch.

Alinsky — The Breakout

From all indications, Obama’s policies his first four years had been likened to a radical framework using very calculated means to accomplish end goals. The characteristics include a gaping shift in ideology and a sharp divide among society, culture, and politics, all practiced with calculus longanimity. This ideology can be traced back to none other than Saul Alinsky — not exactly a chap you would bring home to meet Mom and Dad, unless of course they were Madonna and Sean Penn.

Alinsky is best known for his 1971 book “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals.” The premise of the book and teachings are intended to instill radical change in American culture and economics through public discontent and moral confusion. Alinsky developed these strategies to achieve power through mass organization. If this sounds manipulatory, well, it is. This radical style is coming through loud and clear in many of Obama’s philosophies and policies.

According to the Alinsky model, “organizing” is a euphemism for “revolution” — a wholesale revolution whose ultimate objective is the systematic acquisition of power by a purportedly oppressed segment of the population, and the radical transformation of America’s social and economic structure. The goal is to foment enough public discontent, moral confusion, and outright chaos to spark the social upheaval that Marx, Engels, and Lenin predicted.

Alinsky’s infamous rules of ethics draws a considerable level of similarity to how Sharia and the Islamic code is spread to western culture, as well as a haunting semblance to what we’ve seen from Alinsky-in-Chief himself. Remember, it was during Obama’s formative years he learned the “outside looking in” adaption to take advantage of any situation and “get what you want.” Obama has obviously gained a thorough grasp of it based on the lies and deceit he has sown — birds of a feather flock together.

By most conservative standards, Obama has failed Alinsky’s Rule #12 of Tactics, one that puts him at odds with a certain policy failure and obvious fiscal irresponsibility.

The Cloward-Piven Strategy — The Perfect Complement

Then came the Cloward-Piven Strategy, which naturally complements the Alinksy method: a call to overload the welfare system in order to initiate a crisis that requires government intervention. This same strategy has also been well-documented as an Obama staple.

“The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward (1926–2001) and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty.” —Wikipedia

Essentially, the strategy forces radical political change through orchestrated crisis — this is Obama’s nexus.

Many of Obama’s policies and strategies draw a distinct similarity to the Cloward-Piven strategy. It’s not far-reaching to prove Obama’s despisement of our beloved free market system driven by the private sector. In fact, he despises American capitalism as much as we despise him. If that sounds foreign to you, well, consider the fact that this Socialist-in-Chief has never held a real job in the private sector and is very careful to to appoint cabinet members with the same credentials. After all, birds of a feather…

“If this strategy were implemented, a political crisis would result that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty. It seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.”

Doesn’t it seem odd that this president has gone out of his way to avoid what’s necessary to get this country out of the abyss (that is, cost-cutting)? Did I say benefit?

A surge of continuous regulations will help support and further entrench a national socialism framework, inevitably causing the cancer of capitalism to metastasize until all Americans are utterly dependent on the government to run their lives. It’s not far fetched at all; in fact, we are very close to this hypothesis becoming reality.

So there you have it, Obama’s foundation of principles with an abbreviated look at the direction he’s taking to dismantle this country.

Connecting the dots from Obama’s past all the way up to the present gives us a clear road map to accomplish America’s demise under the American president’s guise. He will continue to impose relentless and extreme-left socialist standards onto this country, breaking her down economically and then piling on regulations and policies to slowly snatch power away from the people and into the hands of the government. That’s his plan anyway. It’s up to us to take that plan away from him.

It’s time to reflect but not lament — follow this bit of anecdotal and slightly modified advice to take back America. I will not tip my hat to the new Constitution, nor will I take a bow for the new revolution. Instead, I’ll get on my knees to pray and hope we the people don’t get fooled again.

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