Victor Davis Hanson; Blowing Up History

Victor Davis Hanson "....most recent regrettable Islamist attack on the past was the Taliban's 2001 dynamiting and shelling of the huge twin 6th-century AD statues of Buddha carved into a cliff at Bamiyan in Afghanistan. "We are destroying the statues," Taliban spokesmen at the time bragged, "in accordance with Islamic law, and it is purely a religious issue."....

"One of the joys of visiting California's Yosemite Valley is a series of historic arched bridges  that span the Merced River on the valley floor. One, the 80-year-old Stoneman Bridge, is an architectural masterpiece and a tribute to Depression-era ingenuity and artistic elegance, while the sister Ahwahnee Bridge and the Sugar Pine Bridge were likewise designed to combine functionalism and beauty. All are used daily, appreciated by thousands of visitors each summer, and now are listed as endangered treasures by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

"Environmental zealots in the National Park Service are now proposing to demolish all three bridges, motivated by their pie-in-the-sky dreams of allowing the flood-prone Merced River to be freed to find its original course, without human contamination. To paraphrase the Taliban, these green fundamentalists would probably believe that the bridges are "symbols of humanism" and their destruction is "purely an environmental issue.""

When will so-called "journalists" ever feel shame at what they have become?

http://www.cagle.com/politicalcartoons/

Video: The Liberal Media's History of Falsely Blaming Conservatives for Massacres "Our friends at MRCTV have a great new video that goes through a short history of the liberal media's penchant for hastily laying the blame for spree shootings and other violent attacks on conservatives. Yet time after time, when all the facts came out, we learned that it was anything but conservatives behind each and every incident.

Donate to Obama and join the elite

Celebs open their wallets in White House race, mostly for Obama  "Members of the entertainment industry have a long history of sending money to their preferred presidential candidates, usually but not exclusively to Democrats. Below is a non-comprehensive list of some of the celebrities past and present who made a donation in May or June to the major political committees involved in the 2012 race for the White House."
Click here for the list...

Connie Britton (Friday Night Lights): $3250 in June, $5000 to dateSam Waterston (Law and Order): $2250 in June, $5000to dateIan Somerhalder (Lost, Vampire Diaries) : $2500Olivia Wilde (House MD, Cowboys & Aliens) : $2500Johnny Galecki (Roseanne, Big Bang Theory): $2500Maria Bello (Prime Suspect): $2500Ronald Guttman (Mad Men): $2075 in June, $4825 to dateTyne Daly (Cagney & Lacey): $2000

More names at the link... Hat tip to Neal Boortz 

Allvoices

Weasel Zippers; 80% of Obama’s Top 2008 Campaign Bundlers Received Political Appointments…  "When President Obama named Hillary Rodham Clinton secretary of state after the 2008 election, he turned a rival into a loyalist. But he also lost Mrs. Clinton as one of the most popular Democratic fund-raisers for his re-election effort, since the nation’s chief diplomat is not allowed to engage in campaigning."

The Once-Noble Democrat-- Party

The Patriot Post  "The real question is not so much what has happened to the Party of Jefferson, but what has happened to "the people" who now call themselves Democrats?

"Obama is not the problem, just its manifestation. The problem is that we are a nation with a collapsing foundation of broken families, where the faith of our founders has been replaced with the real "opiate of the masses," the mass media, and where ignorance has been institutionalized through our "public education apparatchiks." "

politicalhumor.about.com 

 

Unmasking The Occupiers

Accuracy in Academia  "The deceptive strategies and conflicting philosophies of OWS put it in sharp contrast to a genuinely grassroots movement such as the Tea Party. Darby also mentioned the discovery of over 3400 emails from Occupy organizers, which proved that there was an orchestrated attempt to create absolute chaos."
....
"Despite the Occupy movement’s abuse of the First Amendment to incite terror, such left-wing media types as Michael Moore and even members of Congress such as Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi have praised the OWS for its “spontaneity” and apparent commitment to financial responsibility. The President himself has even commended the Wall Street protesters for their efforts."

Occupy Unmasked Trailer  


Breitbart 'Occupy Unmasked' Panel, CPAC 2012  "This video is from a blogger briefing hosted by Citizens United with David Bossie, Andrew Breitbart, filmmaker Stephen Bannon, Brandon Darby, and Lee Stranahan, on their latest project, a soon to be released film on the Occupy movement they've titled, Occupy Unmasked."  One of Andrew Breitbart's last appearances before his death.

Busted… Team O Plants 3 “Surprised” Veterans at Out-of-the-Way Diner to Speak With Obama – Then Releases Their Bios

TheGatewayPundit  PORTLAND, OREGON – June 24, 2012 – President Barack Obama visited Portland Tuesday greeting diners Mark Peterson, center, and Thomas Foeller, right, at the Gateway Breakfast House in an unschedueld stop on the way to fundraisers at the Oregon Convention Center. Michael Lloyd/The Oregonian.

But then the truth eked its way out—-

The three veterans were not regulars.  More...

"In fact, the Obama Campaign even had a copy of their bios on hand.
And, one of the veterans just happens to be an Obama for America volunteer!"

Via Riehl World View;  None of the three vets knew each other before being chosen by the Obama campaign to meet with the president.  "On Tuesday morning, all three met with a staffer and were driven to the restaurant and arrived shortly before Obama.  The three said the restaurant workers and other patrons received notice only a few minutes before the president arrived."

Ben Shapiro, author of "Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV", Chronicles TV's Liberal Propaganda Efforts

Amazon

Carolina Journal  " “For now at least, the industry remains one-sided, with creators and executives ignoring the market data,” Shapiro writes. “Flipping the channel has become like voting in Cuba. You can do it, but your preference isn’t going to make much of a difference when the choices are all the same.”

"There’s another irony. While television screams “censorship” when government protests violent and sexual content, the industry sure doesn’t mind kowtowing to government when there’s a politically favorable (i.e. Democratic) administration in charge.

"Think about it: Unlike motion pictures, television has been dependent on the government since its inception due to its use of public airwaves. Thus it’s only natural that television executives would develop relationships with government to ensure political favoritism. As Shapiro notes, the “patented Hollywood-D.C back-scratch” became “an intensely common phenomenon during the Obama administration.” "


NRO; Switching TV to the Right   "...I can guarantee that if you watch anything other than Fox News, you’ve felt the Left’s ideological magnet tugging at your heartstrings. Virtually every major television comedy and drama of the last 40-odd years has been biased to the left, and the creators of the shows admitted as much to me."


Sesame Street's pinko puppets brainwash our kids; That's the claim by a right-wing* author who says he's exposed a left-wing plot behind some top TV shows.
Again, the condescending label. Do they refer to David Letterman as a "left-wing" TV host?

Ben Shapiro as
 depicted in liberal sites

Reuters; TV executives confirm Hollywood's liberal agenda  " "I played on their stereotypes. When I showed up for the interviews, I wore my Harvard Law baseball cap -- my name is Ben Shapiro and I attended Harvard, so there's a 98.7 percent chance I'm a liberal. Except I happen not to be."  

" "My whole book is a plea for openness in the industry," he added. "Hire people from the other side of the aisle once in a while, or at least stop mocking them." "

CIA: Did you mean these documents?

Hot Air  "Lost amid the hilarity of watching Senator Dianne Feinstein do a Cory Booker impersonation by denying she meant what she said about White House leaks wasanother, and perhaps more significant, retraction.  The Department of Justice had to file a motion admitting that the CIA had found numerous documents that should have been released in a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch about White House interaction with filmmakers producing a movie about the killing of Osama bin Laden:"

The Central Intelligence Agency recently discovered a “4 to 5 inch stack” of documents that relate to the spy agency’s cooperation with the makers of a forthcoming Hollywood film on the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, according to a new court filing. More...

Judicial Watch Obtains DOD and CIA Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Raid Filmmakers   "Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has obtained records from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding meetings and communications between government agencies and Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award-winning director of The Hurt Locker, and screenwriter Mark Boal.  According to the records, the Obama Defense Department granted Bigelow and Boal access to a “planner, Operator and Commander of SEAL Team Six,” which was responsible for the capture and killing of Osama bin Laden, to assist Bigelow prepare her upcoming feature film."

Over the Edge

Neal Boortz  "Obama is getting irritable.  Something has gotten under his skin.  And do you know what it is?  It is the fact that Americans have seen the true Obama, and they don’t like it.  Obama has been exposed – and he has nobody to blame.  He stood in front of the American people and opened his robe … and the American people didn’t like what they saw.  Dear Ruler isn’t very happy."
....Mitt Romney has decided to respond to the ObamaMedia and Obama propaganda team criticism that he is taking Obama’s words out of context.  See what you think about this response …

“The context, he says, you know, you think you’ve been successful because you’re smart, but he says a lot of people are smart. You think you’ve been successful because you work hard, a lot of people work hard. This is an ideology which says hey, we’re all the same here, we ought to take from all and give to one another and that achievement, individual initiative and risk-taking and success are not to be rewarded as they have in the past.  It’s a very strange and in some respects foreign to the American experience type of philosophy.”

Not bad, however Obama's media had a different outlook on Romney's response:

NBC's Mitchell Rants: Romney Using 'Dog Whistle' Language Against Obama  "On her 1 p.m. et hour show on MSNBC on Tuesday, host and NBC chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell decried Mitt Romney labeling President Obama's big-government philosophy "foreign" to American capitalism: " "

Roseanne Barr wishes cancer on Chick-fil-A customers; Update: Claims Chick-fil-A patrons are guilty of ‘child abuse’; Update: Roseanne apologizes … sort of

Newsbusters; Hate Tweet: Roseanne Barr Wishes Cancer on Chick-Fil-A Customers
"ABC's The View honored Roseanne Barr with a guest-host spot on July 19, which shows they probably aren't in the habit of evaluating her sanity based on her Twitter rants."

Twitchy

Barr@TheRealRoseanne

anyone who eats S**t Fil-A deserves to get the cancer that is sure to come from eating antibiotic filled tortured chickens 4Christ

"Also classy? Roseanne believes parents who feed their kids food from Chick-fil-A are child abusers."


You DO remember Roseanne, don't you?

Obscurity: No Crueler Punishment!

Ann Coulter  "The eternally fascinating question about mass murder is never the means. It is the psychosis behind the desire to do it. We don't need to know details about the guns, booby traps, bombs or fire starters. There will always be a way to commit mass murder. We want to know why.

"But that is precisely the information these grandstanders in the media seek to withhold from the public with the pompous justification that they don't want to give the presumed killer attention. For once, the media could deliver information that is both fascinating and potentially useful: What created James Holmes?

"But many in the media have taken it on themselves to censor the news as their personal act of retaliation. Not making James Holmes famous -- even famously evil -- is what people who make their living on TV see as the cruelest punishment they can inflict."

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/2012/07/25/101491

Obama's plan worked; just ask him!

http://terrellaftermath.com/

HopenChange

"Mr. Obama slid further into the Twilight Zone on Monday when he told supporters that tax cuts and spending cuts were a failed plan tried by previous presidents, but then "we tried our plan - and it worked!" "