Empty chair=Empty suit

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Why Does MSNBC Want to Go Backwards?

Heritage   "Who knew that telling people they have rights would be so controversial?  ....
"MSNBC’s Chris Matthews went apoplectic. “It’s clear that Paul Ryan was talking to people who think about rights as something…produced by Thomas Jefferson, ignoring the people for whom the rights only came in the 1960s.”

"Another MSNBC commentator, Touré Neblett, said the line that rights come from God and nature is “so offensive.” For “black people, Hispanic people, and women, our rights do not come from God or nature. . . They come from the government and from legislation that happens in relatively recent history in America.”  

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"But rights don’t come from government. They can merely be protected by governments."

Your racial reading list: Racialists in the media bludgeon Republicans with "Racist!" epithets

In his essay, Racism vs Racialism, Daniel Hindes draws this distinction between the two: 

As a moral philosopher, Appiah finds such a viewpoint mistaken but not immoral. Racialists do not become racists until they make such convictions the basis for claiming special privileges for members of what they consider to be their own race, and for disparaging and doing harm to those deemed racially Other."

Liberal silly season graphically demonstrated: The Condensed Liberal Handbook of Racial Code Words  

A chorus of faux-ragers from the Huffington Post to NBC’s Andrea Mitchell hammered Mrs. Romney for her double-whammy sandwich of elitism and racism. Apparently, “you people” is the verbal equivalent of putting black people back in chains. One little, teeny-tiny problem: ABC News admitted: “Our ruling after reviewing the original audio is that she did not include the ‘you.’” In other words, it was manufactured out of whole cloth. Give the dog-trombone media another black mark for ridiculous bias denial. “Black mark”? I know: Raaaaaaaaaaacist!  Michelle Malkin discussed this on Hannity Friday night so I went to the source for more.

Daily Caller has more on this silliness:  New frontiers in hypersensitivity: State Department officer says ‘holding down the fort’ is racist   Not, repeat NOT, satire.

 The race canard   "Silly season is over. Racist season is here. 

"Silly season is when nothing is going on in the presidential campaign and the debate focuses on trivialities. Racist season is when the presidential campaign begins in earnest and President Barack Obama looks vulnerable. Then, liberal commentators pull out all the stops to deem practically any criticism of the president racist.

"Chris Matthews of MSNBC* led the charge this week with an on-set rant against Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus. Matthews didn’t muster an argument so much as an accusation — a lot of them, actually." Rich Lowry.
* Check out the MSNBC Facebook page to see them as the Democrat propaganda arm that they are.

Chuck Todd Race-Baits as NBC Institutes 'Whites Only' Speech Policy

So, what does the term "dog-whistle" mean in politics?  "A type of political speech using code words that appear to mean one thing to the general population but have a different meaning for a targeted part of the audience."....

Colby King: GOP Only Has Blacks at Conventions to Sing 'God Bless America' or Lead Prayers  "Interesting how King and Totenberg forgot Condoleezza Rice as well [as] Jane Edmonds, the former Massachusetts secretary of workforce.
"Of course, it really doesn't matter how many minorities Republicans feature at their conventions. "To folks like King and Totenberg, minorities only count when they're at Democratic events."


RNC List: That's Raaacist!   "We are a few ridiculous examples to add to our “That’s Raaacist” list.  As you can see, as we inch closer to the election, we get more and more cries of racism, and they arguably become more incoherent (as if that were possible)." Neal Boortz

Mark Steyn; Are there any words left that aren’t racist?  "Time’s Mark Halperin wrote this week that “Obama can’t win if he can’t swing the conversation away from the economy.” That’s a pretty amazing admission. The economy is the No. 1 issue on the minds of voters, and, beyond that, the central reality of Obama’s America. But to win the president has to steer clear. That doesn’t leave a lot else. Hence, the racism of golf, the war on women, the carcinogenic properties of Mitt Romney. Democrat strategy 1992: It’s the economy, stupid. Democrat strategy 2012: It’s the stupidity, economists."


White Man Who Was Doused With Gas and Set On Fire By 2 Hoodied Black Males Dies At Burn Center  "Where is the outrage.  Where is Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton?   "Of course this is a wanton display of evil but where are the usual racists calling to label this a hate crime, a progressive oxymoron. "It is not my intention to minimize the tragic loss of life of  Vincent Bloom.

"Perhaps had he been armed the outcome may have been more favorable. "

Chris Matthews could not be reached for comment.

All the Anti-Eastwood sources you need

Press bias discussed including this piece on the Eastwood speech: TWENTY FIVE! Childish Media Stories Mocking Eastwood

Ed Timperlake at American Thinker calls it The Greatest Piece of Performance Art in American Political History. He gives these reasons that may have escaped the rest of us:
"In this age of ubiquitous social media -- especially YouTube -- every observation and attack segment that Clint Eastwood articulated will be proliferated nationwide by his countless fans.  His performance was, at times, filled with nuance and droll asides, but always combined with the underlying principle a direct no BS statement of what it means to be an American citizen."
Well...the thought of Dirty Harry versus Dingy Harry appeals to me.

HOW ANDREW BREITBART STOPPED OCCUPY

Big Hollywood   "We soon discovered an archive of emails among Occupy organizers that revealed both their revolutionary ambitions and their cynical tactics--such as using children, veterans, and the disabled as human shields in clashes with police.

"And Brandon Darby, who had helped the FBI prevent anarchist violence at the 2008 RNC, soon alerted us to a pattern of sexual assaults at Occupy camps being covered up by organizers and the media. That story, more than any other, became Occupy’s undoing, because it showed how a movement supposedly representing the oppressed was hurting the most vulnerable. 

"It was Andrew himself who finally broke through the mainstream media’s wall of silence. When he shouted “Stop raping people!” at Occupy at CPAC, some of us thought he was crazy--until we realized his spectacle had forced the media, finally, to cover the story."

 

From Aug 29; 2012 Republican Convention: 'Occupy Unmasked' Screening Draws Threats to Filmmakers "Another documentary is drawing controversy at the Republican National Convention -- the filmmakers of Occupy Unmasked, starring the late Andrew Breitbart, say they've received dozens of threats of physical violence in advance of Thursday's screening of the critical look at the Occupy Wall Street movement."

Internal Army Poll: Only 26% of Officers Say Army Headed In Right Direction Under Obama, “Political Correctness” Cited…

Weasel Zippers  "An internal Army survey that was conducted in 2011 and published this year discovered that only 26 percent of active-duty Army officers say yes–and that one of the two main themes cited by those who say no is that the Army is now adversely impacted by “political correctness” imposed by both outside policymakers and senior Army leaders."

"...political correctness or the influence of politics in the Army is a reason the Army is not headed in the right direction. These comments generally cited the negative influence of government policy makers (outside the Army) as being detrimental to the future of the Army, and indicated that senior Army leaders themselves felt the need to bow to ‘politically correct solutions’ to appease policy makers, or to ‘play politics’ within their own organizations.”

Bill Whittle Video:“Obama, the Incredibly Shrinking Man.”

Chicks on the Right  "As always, Bill is dead ON, especially when he reiterates that we’ve had to deal with “President Kardashian” for the past four years."  

A notable quote from this video: "..a base, petty, small little man"...

Rush Contrasts Story Of Romney Helping Premature Girl With Nations #1 Supporter Of Infanticide Obama:  
"The comparison is telling; the reactionary left will no doubt jump to hear racial dog whistles, despite the fact that most aborted babies are black."
Hat tip to Conservative Blogs Central

Charles Krauthammer: The ‘deterrence works’ fantasy

Jerusalem Post

Charles Krauthammer  "Iran’s clerical regime rules in the name of a fundamentalist religion for whom the hereafter offers the ultimate rewards. For Soviet communists — thoroughly, militantly atheistic — such thinking was an opiate-laced fairy tale.

"For all its global aspirations, the Soviet Union was intensely nationalist. The Islamic Republic sees itself as an instrument of its own brand of Shiite millenarianism — the messianic return of the “hidden Imam.” "  ...."The classic formulation comes from Tehran’s fellow (and rival Sunni) jihadist al-Qaeda: “You love life and we love death.” Try deterring that."

Jerusalem Post

....Israel is a “one-bomb country.” Its territory is so tiny, its population so concentrated that, as Iran’s former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani has famously said, “Application of an atomic bomb would not leave anything in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world.” A tiny nuclear arsenal would do the job.

..."The confident belief that [the Iranians] are like the Soviets is a fantasy. That’s why Israel is contemplating a preemptive strike. Israel refuses to trust its very existence to the convenient theories of comfortable analysts living 6,000 miles from its Ground Zero."

MSNBC reporting from outer space

MSNBC’s Obama Shill, Chris “Tingles” Matthews, Goes Off His Rocker on “Morning Joe” Show, Attacks RNC Chairman Reince Priebus (video)

Chris Matthews gets into confrontation with GOP delegates

Rush Limbaugh: The Bigotry and Racism of MSNBC  "The singular focus of MSNBC for the past six days has been racism.  There's one subject that they're talking about: racism.  The racism of Romney; the racism of Ryan; the racism of every speaker at the convention; the racism of the Republican Party; the racism of every Republican and conservative.  It's all they're talking about.  It's laughably hilarious, except to them." 

Urban Legend: President Obama Did NOT Confuse Wisconsin State Flag for Union Banner

Truth or Fiction

Summary of the eRumor:  This is a forwarded email that says that while speaking at a Master Lock factory in Milwaukee, Wisconsin President Obama mistook the state flag for a union banner, pointed to it and said, "A Union shop since 1848."

The Truth:  President Obama did make a speech at the Master Lock plant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on February 15, 2012 but he never said this.   The transcript and video of his visit are posted on the White House website.    Click here for transcript and video.   At first, we believed that this was someone's attempt at political humor but it turned out that there actually was a misidentification of the Wisconsin state flag for a union banner by Politico contributor Donovan Slack, who covered the event in [her] February 15, 2012 blog. The article was corrected and this notice appeared below it: An earlier 44 blog post about Obama’s visit to Wisconsin incorrectly identified the Wisconsin state flag.

Snopes has this to say about it.

LOL! Politico’s Donovan Slack Thinks Wisconsin State Flag Is Local Union Flag

Slack is referred to in this post from Big Journalism:  "Well, for the same reason Politico's Donovan Slack excludes the most important journalistic context in her own piece of hackery that blames Citizens United for Obama shattering the record for most presidential time spent at fundraisers:"...

(Left)  Donovan Slack

That latest Navy SEAL's book controversy UPDATED

Newsmax; Pentagon Tells Ex-SEAL He Could Face Legal Action Over Osama Bin Laden Raid Book, 'No Easy Day'   Will they try him and Obama together or separately?
"It added that it is considering legal action against all those "acting in concert" with the SEAL on his book, "No Easy Day," which is scheduled to be released Tuesday."

American Thinker; Pentagon may prosecute ex-SEAL for bin Laden book  "However, erring on the side of caution is always a good thing. We just don't know what nuggets of info might fill in a piece of the puzzle our enemies are constructing from several different sources and reveal something that would be damaging to our security -- or threaten the lives of our operatives.
"The book is no doubt compelling and a good read. But Bissonette should have submitted the manuscript for review before publishing."

Navy SEAL Author Rejects the Pentagon's Legal Threat
Update: "Former Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette is going to tell his version of events surrounding the death of Osama bin Laden, even if the Pentagon sues him for every last penny."

Blackfive; CLASSIFIED INFO REVEALED BY BIN LADEN RAID BOOK  "But the problem is that Obama can declassify anything he wants, and apparently has to make himself look good and to get that move out in time for the election. But if this dude said one thing that is not officially declassified he is done."

'No Easy Day': SEAL Memoir Contradicts Official Account of Bin Laden's Death  "In other words, bin Laden wasn’t reaching for a gun, nor did he make any effort to defend himself against the SEALs. Those details were key factors in the U.S. administration’s narrative of the raid, which also includes an anecdote — false, by Bissonnette’s account — of a prolonged gunfight between the SEALs and bin Laden’s operatives outside the compound." "

Let's HOPE we can CHANGE it back!

http://terrellaftermath.com/

How To Guarantee Four More Years of Obama   "This is convention week, and the GOP should be building enthusiasm and consolidating behind Romney. Even better, the Libertarians should be mending fences with the GOP, and Ron Paul should be calling for his followers to support Romney as well."  Anybody else out there as tired of Ron Paul as I am? I still carry a grudge against Ross Perot for the Clintons.

Heritage; We Can Change America’s Course "The debate in Tampa this week raised a number of issues, including preserving the American dream of working hard to achieve success. The Heritage Foundation has extensive research and policy prescriptions on each of these issues:"....
"To put America on a path toward preserving and growing freedom, Spalding says, “The first step is to reduce the size and scope of government and unleash the engines of economic productivity and the institutions of cultural renewal.”"

 

Sweetness and Light; Obama: I Didn’t Sell Stimulus Enough   " President Barack Obama says his re-election might help end the political stalemate in Washington, much like “popping a blister.”
"In an interview with Time magazine, Obama says he expects Republicans in Congress to work more cooperatively in a second term, since his re-election would no longer be a factor."  

Oh, well then, I feel so much better about voting for Mr. Obama now.

American Thinker; The Problem with Barack  "Yet this man seriously seems to believe he is a king, free to pick and choose the laws and statutes he will obey or enforce, duly empowered to impel or forbid action by executive decree, without legislative approval."....

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"Yet he is still nothing more than a small man -- so afraid people will see -- a man loath to allow those who would dare the freedom to do what they have always been free to do -- pre-Barack, of course." 

The Salesman  "Make no mistake … Obama has the salesman thing down cold.  He doesn’t need to work on his sales pitch; that managed to con millions of Americans into putting him in the White House!  The fact that his policies aren’t working is bad enough, but it’s frightening to think that this man truly believes his biggest weakness is his sales pitch."  Neal Boortz.