Keith Olbermann tells World Champion/ESPY Winner/Iraq Veteran/Amputee JR Salzman he is “embarrassing the military”

This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here  This is a Twitter fight begun when J.R. Saltzman tweeted the first comment about Bob Costas. Olbermann saw it and - as you might expect - took offense loudly.  My thanks to the military blog Blackfive for passing this along.

Be sure to check out the comments to all this at the bottom of the link.

The media and the administration gang up on conservatives

'2016' Oscar Snub Has Filmmakers Claiming Political Bias "Gerald Molen, who produced the Academy Award-winning 'Schindler's List,' said the box-office success of the anti-Obama documentary proves the film was a hit: "The action confirms my opinion that the bias against anything from a conservative point of view is dead on arrival in Hollywood." "

Roger L. Simon: Reclaiming the Culture  "As the late — and increasingly lamented — Andrew Breitbart pointed out repeatedly, “Politics is downstream from culture.”
"Just how downstream we saw in this year’s election. Virtually every accusation made by the left toward Republicans and conservatives (sexism, racism, greed, etc.) was prepared and nurtured in the realm of culture. That was the earth in which the lies grew and prospered. And those lies, more than any facts or policies, were responsible for a liberal victory in a year — with unemployment at 8 percent and a deficit at 16 trillion — that should have been a Republican rout."
Emphasis added.
Mr. Simon also links us to the Ron Radosh column:  It’s the Culture, Stupid: Facing the Long Road Ahead, excerpted below:

Imagine how many television viewers, many of whom know virtually nothing about how we got to where we are, will learn from this expertly edited documentary how and why the United States is basically an evil nation, on the wrong course, and supported the wrong side in all foreign policy crises throughout its modern history. We cannot disregard the effect this kind of miseducation has on the knowledge of our fellow citizens. Do you wonder why the polls show that most Americans think Barack Obama’s foreign policy the past four years was successful? It is because they are a generation educated from “historians” like the late Howard Zinn, political theorists like the linguist Noam Chomsky, and now from filmmaker Stone and his historian co-author, Peter Kuznick.

Democrats’ “Stop or I’ll shoot myself” negotiating strategy working like a charm
"Yet the GOP actually has several aces in the hole – the only reason they are taking the submissive role in the Fifty Shades of the Fiscal Cliff playing out before us is that they chose to assume it. Maybe Obama has a mandate, but so do they. They should be exercising it.

"Their first step is to stop showing fear and to start counter-attacking. "...

MSNBC Host Alex Wagner: “Republicans Will Stand On Your Neck And Then Stab You In The Eye”…    "New tone."

Unhinged Van Jones: Obama’s “Treasonous” Opponents Want To “Let The Bodies Pile Up On The Beach”…

MSNBC's Scarborough: Can't Expect Obama to be 'Gracious' After Being Treated Like a 'Second Class Citizen'    Is this what came out of that MSNBC-Obama meeting?

Thomas Sowell writes: Obama Plays Chicken  "His priority is to increase government, and he’ll sacrifice the economy for it. ""One of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays “chicken” with congressional Republicans along the “fiscal cliff,” is that he is a master of the plausible lie, which will never be exposed by the mainstream media — nor, apparently, by the Republicans."

THE TRUE DISCIPLE OF SAUL ALINSKY  "Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s opening bid to Speaker John Boehner, a demand for $1.6 trillion in new taxes, was not meant as a serious offer. It was an ultimatum couched in an insult. Translation:

We won the election. We have the whip hand. Not only are you going to sign on to higher tax rates and higher tax revenues, we are going to rub your Tea Party noses in your coming capitulation.”

Famous Fox News faces 'get dumped off air'; 'Reality-denying predictions became a punch line'

WND  " If you’re used to watching Fox News, you may notice a lot less face time by political analysts Karl Rove and Dick Morris.

"New York Magazine is reporting the top-rated cable-news network is doing some “post-election soul searching,” and Roger Ailes, head of Fox News, is changing the characters who appear as talking heads on the air.

" “According to multiple Fox sources, Ailes has issued a new directive to his staff,” reports Gabriel Sherman of New York Magazine. “He wants the faces associated with the election off the air – for now. For Karl Rove and Dick Morris – a pair of pundits perhaps most closely aligned with Fox’s anti-Obama campaign – Ailes’s orders mean new rules.”

"Among the reported new rules is a mandate from Fox News programming chief Bill Shine that producers receive permission before booking Rove or Morris for an appearance."

....

"Dick Morris had famously, and wrongly, predicted that Romney would win the election in a landslide, and Ailes was said to be less than thrilled when Rove disputed his own network’s call that Obama won the state of Ohio, and thus, the presidential race."

This just in: Karl Rove returns to Fox News

It's that time of year once more: bells, tinsel, carols, stories about the suppression of Christmas

Seniors decry ban on Christmas tree in their complex in Newhall

"Residents in a Newhall senior apartment complex are protesting an order from management to remove their beloved Christmas tree from the community room because, they were told, it's a religious symbol. "
...."We could put out Easter baskets, have turkey for Thanksgiving but no tree for Christmas because it has Christ's name in the beginning of Christmas," Johnson said.

"Frances Schaeffer, who is Jewish, said she doesn't understand the property management company's stance.
"This tree is a symbol of reverence that we can all enjoy regardless of our religious beliefs," she said.

Gov. Lincoln Chafee: It's Not 'Tradition' to Call It a Christmas Tree "“Governor Chafee, his famous line, which he says about everything, is that ‘times are changing.’ He said times are changing and he wants to be politically correct. Well, with me political correctness doesn’t really work,” Costa told CNSNews.com.

"This is the second year that Chafee has called the Christmas tree in the Rhode Island State House a “holiday tree.” In 2011, protesters sang “O Christmas Tree" there during the ceremonial tree lighting."

Calif. Teachers Union Releases Cartoon Video Featuring ‘The Rich’ Urinating on the Poor

Heritage referred us to this post from The Blaze
"A new animated video released by the California Federation of Teachers shows the rich “1 percent” urinating on and stealing money from the less fortunate and middle class. The purpose of the video is to explain “economic inequality” and the need for wealthy people to pay their “fair share of taxes.”
"The video argues that the rich got richer by evading taxes and using loopholes to hold onto their money. The union claims this is why Congress needs to repeal Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.
''Narrated by actor Ed Asner, the full video is currently featured on the official California Federal Teachers website." (Video at this link)

"CFT Communications Director Fred Glass, who wrote and directed the video, told TheBlaze the cartoon is not intended for children.
"“I love animation and I believe it is an effective way of communicating ideas that is a little different,” he said, adding that there are no plans to show the video in California classrooms."

Professor Jacobson at Legal Insurrection made this statement that I cannot disagree with: When Soviet-style propaganda comes to America, it will be published by the California Federation of Teachers and narrated by Ed Asner
"The video is reminiscent of Soviet anti-capitalist propaganda cartoons, with gross caricatures of voracious rich people feeding off the poor:"

Prof Jacobson concludes with this ominous prediction:

As we sort through where and how this country lost its way, at least one of the roads leads to the California Federation of Teachers, and another road to Hollywood.

Founding Father Advice

Hat tip to OregonTeaParty