Everything you need to know about Occupy in one photo

Michelle Malkin  "It’s May Day. I’m occupying my job, how about you?

"The Occupiers are out wreaking havoc, breaking windows, cursing at cops, and telling everyone else not to work. 

"In other words: Just another day at the office. I mean encampment. Or streets. Or parents’ basement. Or whatever.

"Twitter follower and cartoonist John Richards sent me this pic he drew that tells you everything you need to know (and I’ve been reporting) about the Occupy tools and their backers:"

Neal Boortz: Occutard protest  "And since the OccuTards are just so easy to make fun of, take a look at some of these brilliant signs they came up with yesterday.  These kids are now nothing but useful idiot captives of the socialist, progressive and union movements."

That, after all, is why they’re called “useful idiots.”

Occupy Wall Street May Day 'Relaunch' a Monumental Fizzle
"San Francisco was also the scene of mindless violence  as a couple of dozen black clad anarchists trashed about 30 businesses in the Mission district. The violence mystified the small business owners:"...

UPDATE! WINNING! Breitbart.com Story Results In Occupy Arrest  Breitbart story and video follows this one.

Early Wednesday morning Breitbart News posted a video of an Occupy protester in LA smashing a drum into the head of a female LAPD officer. At the time the video had fewer than 25 views. Within hours the video began to spread around the web on blogs and social media sites. Just over 24 hours later it has been viewed more than 200,000 times.Yesterday afternoon, KTLA reported that a suspect in the attack had been detained and was being questioned. This morning, the LAPD announced the arrest of Brian Mendoza age 23. Sources say Mendoza is “6 feet tall and weighs 280 pounds.” By contrast, the officer he attacked is said to be 5’1″ and just over 100 pounds. The incident:

OCCUPY BULLY SLAMS FEMALE COP IN BACK OF HEAD

What a cheap shot.

#Occupyfail: The Totalitarian Temptation ..." He picked up a piece of paper and read aloud: “Here’s what she said [conservatives] think:

. . . climate change is a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism. As conference speaker Larry Bell succinctly puts it in his new book Climate of Corruption, climate change “has little to do with the state of the environment and much to do with shackling capitalism and transforming the American way of life in the interests of global wealth redistribution.”

 "The assembled Occupiers laughed nervously, and some nodded. “Yes!” smiled the speaker. "“The Right gets it. They spread misinformation about the science, as they know that it means the end of how we’ve been living. And they’ll do anything to keep the system as it is.” "

Victor Davis Hanson: Sitting Out Obama

National Review Online  "We recently saw lots of sit-down strikes and demonstrations — the various efforts in Wisconsin, the Occupy movements, and student efforts to oppose tuition hikes. None of them mattered much or changed anything. There is a sit-down strike, however, that has paralyzed the country and has been largely ignored by the media."

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http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/04/the-rich-and-their-jobs/

...."The Mexican economy is growing more rapidly than is ours. Why did not massive annual $1 trillion–plus deficits spark a recovery, as government claimed an ever larger percentage of GDP, and new public-works projects were heralded by the administration?

Much of the answer is found in the collective psyche of those Americans who traditionally hire, purchase, or invest capital. An economy is simply the aggregate of millions of private agendas, of people sensing and reacting to a commonly perceived landscape. Yet since January 2009, that landscape has been bleak and foreboding."

The path to bin Laden’s death didn’t start with Obama

The Washington Post  "As we mark the anniversary of Osama bin Laden’s death, President Obama deserves creditfor making the right choice on taking out Public Enemy No. 1.

"But his administration never would have had the opportunity to do the right thing had it not been for some extraordinary work during the George W. Bush administration. Much of that work has been denigrated by Obama as unproductive and contrary to American principles."

....The truth is that getting bin Laden was the top counterterrorism objective for U.S. intelligence since well before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. This administration built on work pain­stakingly pursued for many years before Obama was elected — and without this work, Obama administration officials never would have been in a position to authorize the strike on Abbottabad, Pakistan, that resulted in bin Laden’s overdue death."

Jose A. Rodriguez Jr. is a 31-year veteran of the CIA and the author of “Hard Measures: How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives.”  And as such he is perhaps one of those that the Obama Administration had early on marked for criminal prosecution because of their efforts.

From Nov, 2011: 'If This Had Completely Gone South, He Was in a Position to Disavow'

President Obama’s role, too, was largely inflated.
He was out playing golf only 20 minutes before the raid began.
“If this had completely gone south, he was in a position to disavow,” Pfarrer claimed.

"Just imagine how quickly he'd have thrown these guys under the bus. Instead he goes around using bin Laden's death as a campaign tool."

UPDATED: Obama's campaign trip to Afghanistan

Obama's Midnight Ramble to Kabul  "Perhaps the most notable aspect of President Obama's sneak visit to Afghanistan was its transparency. Every aspect of the trip indicates it was a campaign function, building the Obama brand.
"The timing was blatant.  The anniversary of Osama kill for starters. But the entire Kabul visit was held at crazy hours of the early morning. Transparently, it was timed for a prime time speech to the nation with a suitably patriotic military backdrop and setting. Cheers from the assembled troops. No spontaneous interaction with the troops, of course. Too risky."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/05/01/98827

UK Mail: Obama's midnight dash to Kabul shows that he dare not visit the place in daylight  "Mr Obama tried to make a virtue out of absurdity, referring to a “new light” breaking on the horizon for Afghanistan, even as he gestured to the “pre-dawn darkness” in which he was speaking, but even Mr Obama oratorical skills couldn’t disguise the  tail-between-the-legs ‘optics’ of the event. It was terrible."

Narcissist-In-Chief Gives A Shout-Out To Himself During Speech To Troops In Afghanistan… " Nobody loves Barack Obama more than Barack Obama."

Boortz: Prezbo campaigns in Afghanistan  "Our only hope is that American voters are smart enough to see through this charade.  But I have a sinking feeling that they may not.  After all, they did put this guy into office in the first place.  The signs were all there that he was a Marxist; you just had to work to put together the pieces.  Clearly this is where the ObamaMedia failed.  They failed to vet Obama the first time around and now they will clamor to defend him because his failure also reflects on them."

Obama hedges bets with 'crass' speech at Bagram Air Base  " “In 2008, he campaigned on Afghanistan being the war we should focus on,” Inhofe said. “However, under his leadership, support for the war in Afghanistan is at an all time low because he has refused to articulate the value and importance of the work our troops are doing there.  Unfortunately, this President has allowed Washington and campaign politics to dictate his strategy in Afghanistan rather than the conditions on the ground.  We saw this when he failed to provide the troops the commanders needed during the surge, and again when he brought troops home during the height of fighting season.” " Blackfive has more.

Lillpop: Obama Spikes “bin Laden” Football AGAIN! Navy Seals Not Amused!
"Let the record show that the brave American heroes who did the heavy lifting in the OBL killing HAVE explained it all."
"The SEALS' message: Knock it off, Mr. President!"
(Emphasis in the original).


Mother Jones defends Obama  "This actually is a telling expose of just how far in the tank O's apologista corps in the media branch of his campaign are. Not only is dissent from the articulated message of martial glory and battlefield accomplishment verboten, but it is classified as a lie by these self-appointed commissars in the the Ministry of Truth."

Obama says Forward!

http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/05/launching-a-new-slogan/

Neal Boortz: Forward, eh?  ...."But later in the day people began to realize that this “Forward” slogan seemed familiar.  Then it hit .. ah ha! .. I know where this is from.  Brutal Chinese murderer Mao Zedong once engaged in his Great Leap Forward.  It is described as a period of “forced collectivization and industrialization,”which happened to result in the death of 45 million people.  Also, Spring Forward was apparently a slogan used by Communist dictator Vladimir Lenin.

"Way to go Team Obama!  But then again, maybe the Mao reference doesn’t faze them.  After all, Obama’s former chief communications director Anita Dunn once proclaimed that Mao was one of her “favorite philosophers.” 

"Also, take a look at the importance the word “forward” carries for socialists, as well as left-wing newspapers."

Hope n change

OBL's Death a Victory for the Adults

American Thinker  "Now by adults, I mean folks mature enough to understand that the world is a mean place ruled by the aggressive use of power and that the only way to stop evil from ruling is for the good guys to use more power and to use it more aggressively.  
"And by children, I mean the overgrown juveniles who refuse to understand this reality as it is and who like to think the Muslim world adored us until Bush-Cheney and Rumsfeld came to power.  Long before election day of 2012, this will become evident. 
"Because when you drill down, the death of bin Laden has nothing to do with the core beliefs of this President or the entire liberal movement."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/05/02/98844

...."Everything liberals believe about the same was defeated.  They are trying to take credit for a win in a war they never acknowledged with tactics they openly hate.  With a childish liberal in the White House, that may not be evident to much of the country at the moment.  But I predict it will be.  Facts are facts.  The adults won.  The kids were along for the ride kicking and screaming.  Americans' curiosity with how this all went down will bring this to light." C. Edmund Wright


Obama's 'gutsy' call not so gutsy   "So now, after spending the entire W. Bush presidency using military tragedies to score political points, it's quite natural for liberals such as Obama to project this type of behavior onto their political opponents." 

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/05/01/98835

Rich Terrell update

The curious resignation of Richard Grenell

Have some conservatives danced to a Democrat tune? This seems like a leftist dream come true.  This all seems so very regrettable and, if true some anti-gay conservatives have given Obama a big gift on a silver platter that could affect more than just the presidential election.

Jennifer Rubin; "Richard Grenell hounded from Romney campaign by anti-gay conservatives"
"In the National Review, Matthew J. Franck wrote late last week: “Suppose Barack Obama comes out — as Grenell wishes he would — in favor of same-sex marriage in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. How fast and how publicly will Richard Grenell decamp from Romney to Obama?” "
"The argument that Grenell could essentially not be openly gay and serve on a GOP presidential campaign was belied by the fact that Grenell has been a loyal Republican for many years, working for esteemed foreign policy figures including former Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton."
.... "Right Turn has learned from multiple sources that the senior officials from the Romney campaign and respected Republicans not on the campaign contacted Ric Grenell over the weekend in an attempt to persuade him not to leave the campaign. Those were unsuccessful. During the two weeks after Grenell’s hiring was announced the Romney campaign did not put Grenell out to comment on national security matters and did not use him on a press foreign policy conference call. Despite the controversy in new media and in conservative circles, there was no public statement of support for Grenell by the campaign and no supportive social conservatives were enlisted to calm the waters."...


Byron York: The curious resignation of Richard Grenell    " In all, several Romney aides encouraged Grenell to come to Boston and start work.  Whatever the criticisms from social conservatives, officials say, they wanted Grenell on the job."
...."The answer isn't clear, but the circumstances of Grenell's early departure from Team Romney and his own strongly-expressed opinions suggest that gay politics, perhaps not just the opinions of social conservatives, might have played some role in the whole affair.  But if Romney's aides are to be believed, it wasn't on their end."


Powerline: WHAT’S THE STORY WITH RICHARD GRENELL? "At this point, we don’t know the full story. But what we do know seems to reflect poorly on the Romney campaign. If Grenell wasn’t someone the campaign could stand behind, it shouldn’t have selected him. Once it selected him, unless significant new information came to light... the campaign should have stood strongly behind him. And if the campaign did stand strongly behind him but Grenell quit anyway, then Grenell was a poor choice all along."

Andrew Klavan; Exclusive: Obama Insider Reveals Secret Strategy to Beat Romney

Mister Lister...perhaps

Klavan on the Culture  "KOC:  I’m going to be very blunt here. I don’t understand how the president can run on his record. In July of 2008, Mr. Obama called George W. Bush “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic” for adding 4 trillion dollars to the national debt over 8 years. But in less than 4 years, Mr. Obama has added 5 trillion dollars to our debt and has proposed no reforms except a bogus tax on rich people which would accomplish virtually nothing. At the same time he keeps trying to buy off voters by offering things like student loan subsidies and other unfunded entitlements that would actually add to the debt.  How do you propose to address this issue?

"LISTER: Well, the debt is a very serious problem, but by the same token, I think you have to agree that Mitt Romney drove for twelve hours with his dog in a crate on top of his car.

Our Juvenile President: The bin Laden raid story; like The Blob, it just keeps growing

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/05/01/98815

Alana Goodman: SEALs Criticize Obama’s Grandstanding "A lesson about how heroes don’t brag, from someone who would know. In fact, some would say McCain’s own modesty hurt him in 2008, because he was reluctant to make his time as a POW a focus of his campaign."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/04/29/98766

And my personal favorite that is even more apropos today than when it came out a year ago:

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/michaelramirez/2011/05/04/87377

Blackfive: SEALS TELL BIN LADEN SLAYER TO PIPE DOWN "One of the more grotesque bits of credit thievery by our Campaigner in Chief has been the use of the bin Laden raid for his re-election, The Vice Buffoon actually touted the idea of a bumper sticker "GM is alive and bin Laden is dead" So I guess they are also claiming credit for blowing taxpayer money paying off their union allies by giving them a free car company they had already bankrupted.

"Some SEALs have decided enough is enough and have publicly called for Barry to hush his cakehole and act like he can at least spell the word dignity."....

http://terrellaftermath.com/

Also from Blackfive: COERCIVE INTERROGATION LED TO BIN LADEN  ...."That captured terrorist was taken to a secret CIA prison — or “black site” — where, initially, he was uncooperative. After being subjected to some “enhanced interrogation techniques” .... the detainee became compliant."....

 "Once this terrorist decided that non-cooperation was a non-starter, he told us many things — including that bin Laden had given up communicating via telephone, radio or Internet, and depended solely on a single courier who went by “Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti.” "....

And those who got this information out of him will be prosecuted by Obama and Holder to the fullest extent of the law!

The Realization of Osama bin Laden's Dream  "Don't let this week's anniversary of Osama bin Laden's assassination fool you.  President Barack Obama may have killed bin Laden, but no one on Earth has done more to help al-Qaeda and the world's radical Islamists achieve their goals in the last year than our president."  Tara Servatius 

MORE BLOWBACK AGAINST OUR ... SHAMELESSLY SELF-PROMOTING PRESIDENT

"...Obama seemed to put his desire to gloat ahead of the nation’s intelligence needs. Immediately after the event, Obama publicly stated that a valuable trove of intelligence had been seized, including even the location of al Qaeda safe-houses. According to Mukasey, “that disclosure infuriated the intelligence community because it squandered the opportunity to exploit the intelligence that was the subject of the boast.” "  From Powerline

Also this: WOULD OBAMA’S POLICIES, IF IN PLACE ALL ALONG, HAVE PREVENTED US FROM FINDING BIN LADEN?

What Romney actually said about getting bin Laden  "Obama's campaign lied about Romney not wanting to get him."

Below: I love the caption at the bottom of Tony Branco's cartoon.

http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2012/04/spiking-the-osama-football-1/

NiceDeb: Video: Obama Doubles Down on Disgusting Bin Laden Slam Against Romney "Via The Weekly Standard: Obama Smirks: Again Suggests Romney Wouldn’t Have Killed Bin Laden:"

At a press conference with the prime minister of Japan this afternoon, President Obama said that Americans haven’t excessively celebrated the death of Osama bin Laden, and suggested that Mitt Romney would not have made the decision to kill the terrorist mastermind.

Rewind: In Bush Years, Killing of Iraqi al-Qaeda Leader Zarqawi Greeted by Media Scowls  "While the killing of Osama bin Laden is a moment for all patriotic Americans to show pride, it's not hard to guess that the media's reception of the news would have been less positive if it had occurred in the Bush years -- and imagine if it had happened at a politically sensitive time (right before the 2006 midterms, or anywhere in the 2008 presidential cycle)."

Lib lawyer denounces Zarqawi killing  "Killing Zarqawi and three women in the house with him was not an act of war. It was an act of retaliatory terrorism. By our government. And I don’t want it to be in my name".

I haven't seen yet what she said about bin Laden's killing.

Discussion on Al Sharpton's Facebook page

On Al Sharpton's Facebook page,  quoting a link in the Tunnel Wall, I wrote:

 Why does MSNBC compensate a race-baiter like Sharpton? "He's a fraud, he's a race hustler. To walk the streets and incite prior to judgment--if he can be so sure about that neighborhood watch man [George Zimmerman], why didn't he say that about the man who stabbed Yankel Rosenbaum--an innocent person that was killed by a mob that yelled 'Let's kill the Jew'?"  

Then I left the link to this TW post: The Racemongers: Sharpton Sows Seeds of Next L.A. Riot.


The following ensued on Sharpton's page:

B------ S-----: Al Sharpton was asked by Trayvon Martin's parents and attorney for his involvement with this case because Al Sharpton has worked all his adult life for the cause of justice for African Americans which he started doing during the civil rights movement days in the 1960s. Every time that he has spoken out on a case, it has been because the people affected asked him to. He is an African American Civil Rights Activist. You have never heard him say that anyone is not worthy of his interest. Sharpton is not about just pointing out brutalities that happen but those that reflect injustice at the hands of the police and the courts relating to African Americans.

N---- R---: Google Tobias White. His son was beaten by a group of white boys. When Mr.White contacted Sharpton numerous times, he was told that since it had not reached national attention, he would not take on his case. (the boys were never charged with a crime. They actually bit part of his sons ear off) Tobias White is black. He has circulated a letter around FB about how Sharpton does not care about the black community unless it is money in his pocket. Wake up people!! Tobias white now lives in NC and is on FB. It could also be racially movitation for Sharpton. He is a biracial man. (Mr.Whites son) which is why I think Sharpton is a racist

Tunnel Dweller: Sharpton is a demagogue and unworthy of the allegiance of a proud race and it is sad to see someone of this low character having influence over the emotions of his people. I cannot imagine people of honor such as those who rescued Reginald Denny from Florence and Normandie twenty years ago being admirers of this man and I cannot see how they would fail to be disgusted by him.

M---- H-----: Well said Mr. Hayden

Tunnel Dweller:  I try not to be the coward that Eric Holder said we all tended to be.

If any more comes of this, I'll keep you posted. Meanwhile, if you go to his Facebook page you will see that The Right Reverend Sharpton does catch quite a bit of flack. I don't see Al keeping this page going much longer. TD

(SEALs UPDATE) Putting the Cart Before the Hearse

UK Mail: SEALs slam Obama for using them as 'ammunition' in bid to take credit for bin Laden killing during election campaign

"It was ‘stretching a little much’ for Mr Obama to suggest only he would have made the decision. ‘I personally I don't think Romney would have any problem making tough decisions. He got a very accomplished record of making decision as a business professional. 

"‘He may not have charisma but he clearly has leadership skills. I don’t think he'd have any problem taking that decision.’"

...."We were extremely surprised and discouraged by the publicity because it compromises the ability of those guys to operate."  Via Drudge.

PowerLine says: " From this president, the least gracious, most lacking in class that I can recall, it certainly was predictable."

HopeNChangeCartoons.com   "Team Obama is doing everything short of carrying Osama's rotting, bullet-ridden head around on a pike in order to tell people that this bold and dangerous military mission could only have been pulled off by one man.
"And of course, that man is...Admiral McRaven.
"What - you thought Obama was behind everything? Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! No, no - as the photos from the situation room clearly show, Barry had to be dragged off a golf course the day of the mission so he could be photographed watching a computer monitor in the same room as a lot of grown-ups."

What "gutsy call"?  Panetta's memo:

The timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven’s hands. The approval is provided on the risk profile presented to the President. Any additional risks are to be brought back to the President for his consideration. The direction is to go in and get bin Laden and if he is not there, to get out. Those instructions were conveyed to Admiral McRaven at approximately 10:45 am.

"Only the memo doesn’t show a gutsy call. It doesn’t show a president willing to take the blame for a mission gone wrong. It shows a CYA maneuver by the White House.

"The memo puts all control in the hands of Admiral McRaven – the “timing, operational decision making and control” are all up to McRaven. So the notion that Obama and his team were walking through every stage of the operation is incorrect. The hero here was McRaven, not Obama. And had the mission gone wrong, McRaven surely would have been thrown under the bus."

The bravely brave Sir Barry

Much more on this in Sunday's Tunnel Wall

Terrific!… New Clean Coal Ad Mocks #Occupy Criminal Movement

Well, kinda mocks it, but if you blink you'll  miss it.

Gateway Pundit "The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity released this powerful ad recently.

The group boldly mocks the #occupy criminal movement in the powerful pro-American ad."

"From the video: Small business owners, families, communities. All across America, people are asking themselves, their neighbors and their legislators for solutions. The answer is clear – America needs to invest in its most abundant, domestically produced source of energy: coal. With centuries of coal right here at home, America has the power to thrive for generations to come. But the clock is ticking. Tell your neighbors and your legislators, now is the time for clean coal. In the ad the narrator says,

“The clock is ticking America. It’s time we focused on reality instead of rhetoric.”

"And they include a photo of the crazy #occupy loons marching down a street. It’s terrific.

It’s also very important. The Obama Administration is trying to kill off the coal industry like Osama Bin Laden. This will affect everyone’s electricity rates but will hurt the Obama poor the most.