If YOU Think Obama is Smart, I Know Someone Infinately More Intelligent

May 30, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Chicago Politics Goes National, Democrat Incompetence, Fiscal Irresponsibility, News, Opinion Comments Off

Those of you who fawn over Obamaramadingdong’s intelligence fail to realize that anyone can seem intelligent if his/her rhetoric is well prepared and hand fed to them via teleprompter. That aside and strictly looking academically, Obama can’t hold a candle to Dr. Thomas Sowell, Ph.D.

Today Dr. Sowell has a column that everyone should take a gander at.

Burke and Obama

For those who admire Obama for pulling himself up by the bootstraps and making something of his life, here is another reality that you need a shocking wake up to. Obama was well educated his entire life. Dr. Sowell had to pass a GED in order to be accepted to college. Knowing this fact, perhaps you should admire Dr. Sowell’s academic credentials a little bit more.

Sowell received his bachelor’s degree in economics (magna cum laude) from Harvard in 1958, his master’s degree in economics from Columbia University in 1959, and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago in 1968. SOURCE

In these tough economic times does our President have a degree in economics? No, his is in law. That’s reassuring let me tell you.

Sarcasm aside…

But, ‘OH, Obama has published 2 books and served in the US Senate.’ True, but he never completed his Senate term did he? Never has run a business or organization. He has never had to run anything but a campaign has he? But yet he has the audacity to fire GM’s CEO, tell banks and auto companies how they are to be run, and ruin an already fragile economy. Wake up folks, things are worse now and he no longer has anyone to blame but himself.

Dr. Sowell’s record in comparison..

Thomas Sowell is the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution.

He writes on economics, history, social policy, ethnicity, and the history of ideas. His most recent books on economics include Affirmative Action Around the World (2004), Basic Economics (2004), and Applied Economics (2003). Other books on economics he has written include Classical Economics Reconsidered (1974), Say’s Law (1972), and Economics: Analysis and Issues (1971). On social policy he has written Knowledge and Decisions (1980), Preferential Policies (1989), Inside American Education (1993) and The Vision of the Anointed (1995). On the history of ideas he has written Marxism (1985) and Conflict of Vision (1987). His most recent books are Barbarians Inside the Gates (1999) and The Quest for Cosmic Justice (1999). Sowell also wrote Late-Talking Children (1997). He has also written a monograph on law titled Judicial Actism Reconsidered, published by the Hoover Institution Press. His writings have also appeared in scholarly journals in economics, law, and other fields.

Sowell’s current research focuses on cultural history in a world perspective, a subject on which he began to write a trilogy in 1982. The trilogy includes Race and Culture (1994), Migrations and Cultures (1996), and Conquests and Cultures (1998).

Sowell’s journalistic writings include a nationally syndicated column that appears in more than 150 newspapers from Boston to Honolulu. Some of these essays have been collected in book form, most recently in Controversial Essays published by the Hoover Institution Press.

Over the past three decades, Sowell has taught economics at various colleges and universities, including Cornell, Amherst, and the University of California at Los Angeles, as well as the history of ideas at Brandeis University. He has also been associated with three other research centers, in addition to the Hoover Institution. He was project director at the Urban Institute from 1972 to 1974, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University in 1976–77, and was an adjunct scholar of the American Enterprise Institute in 1975-76.

Sowell was awarded the National Humanities Medal in 2002. In 2003, Sowell received the Bradley Prize for intellectual achievement. Source

The economy improves or tanks based on forcasts of the future not the past. Democrats have controlled both houses of Congress since January of 2007 and George Bush left the Presidency on January 20, 2009 at 12 noon. Our problems now are Obama’s, Reid’s, Pelosi’s and the rest of their Democrat cohorts. Time to blame those who began this crap to begin with and stop living the fantasy that it was all George Bush’s and the Republican’s fault. Continuing to do so shows just how ignorant you are when it comes to how this country actually works.

Given the choice between two very articulate African-Americans, Barack Obama and Dr. Thomas Sowell… I’d pick Sowell 365 days out of a year.

Instead of ‘The Audacity of Hope‘ one of Obama’s books should have been titled ‘The Audacity of Stupidity: An Example of the Peter Principle in Action‘.

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… It Seems That He’s Closing Dealerships That Contribute To GOP Candidates

In a story that appeared on Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, and reported on by Michelle on Fox and Friends, it seems that an overwhelming number of GOP backing Chrysler dealers are getting their franchises closed thanks to the Man with the Middle Name Hussein.

Where is the Main Stream Media on this? Absent as usual.

Back full time in a couple days.

H/T: NewsBusters

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Not A Barack Obama Fan

May 29, 2009 Humor Comments Off

Originally Titled – A George Bush Fan

A grade school teacher in a small Vermont town asks her class how many of them are Barack Obama fans.

Not really knowing what a Barack Obama fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raise their hands except little Johnny.

The teacher asks Johnny why he has decided to be different.

Johnny says, “I’m not a Barack Obama fan.”

The teacher asks, “Why not?”

Johnny says, “I’m a George Bush fan.”

The teacher asks why he’s a George Bush fan.

The boy says, “Well, my mom’s a George Bush fan and my dad’s a George Bush fan, so I’m a George Bush fan!”

The teacher is a bit angry, because this IS Vermont, so she asks, “What if your mom was a moron and your dad was an idiot, what would that make you?”

Johnny says, “That would make me a Barack Obama fan.”

H/T: Kat via email

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No Time To Blog How About a News Round-Up?

May 28, 2009 News Comments Off

Just a quick note to my readers.

You may have noticed that the writing has dropped off a bit. Normally this happens when our daughter has some sort of health related crisis but in this case, that isn’t so. Over the past month, we’ve been involved in a change of residence. I know, I know… We just moved last year. Well we found that our small apartment wasn’t cutting the mustard. It was noisy and too cramped for all of the special medical supplies that we have to keep on hand for our Princess.

Needless to say, we moved into a larger space that is a duplex (a double for those who are unsure what a duplex is). Our neighbor is extremely quiet as opposed to our neighbors at the apartment. Storage is huge here and there is ample space for the little one’s needs and daddy’s computer equipment.

That said, we are finishing up the move today and tomorrow so that we can turn in our keys to the apartment on Monday. So today, I’m offering a news round-up to help fill the void.

San Diego County flirts with 1st Amendment infringement - Couple: County Trying To Stop Home Bible Studies
Obama’s SCOTUS Nominee Ruled Against Teen’s 1st Amendment Rights - Sotomayor Ruled in “D-Bag Case”
ABA: Sotomayer a member of La Raza - Sonia Sotomayor ‘La Raza member’
WH Issues Strong-Arm Warning - White House to Sonia Sotomayor critics: Be ‘careful’
Government Motors On Its Way, Fed to own 72.5% of GM - GM makes new bondholder offer ahead of bankruptcy
Stimulus Projects Anemic in Hardest Hit States - Stimulus projects bypass hard-hit states
Injured or Sickened by Chinese Product? Tough Luck Collecting - The Price of Cheap: When China’s Products Fail, Americans Suffer
Palin Witch Hunt Dismissed - State Board Dismisses Palin Ethics Complaint
Lost Your Job? In Danger of Losing Your Job? NBC Thinks a Mexican is Entitled to It - ‘Nightly News’ Argues for Relaxed Immigration Laws Despite High Unemployment
THE Most Ridiculous AGW Claim EVER! - CBS: Paint Roofs and Roads White to Stop Global Warming
And They Call Us Fascists - Sowell: Government’s Current Role in Business the ‘Route’ to Fascism

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The Failure of Obama Thinking and the Morons Who Fall For It

May 27, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Communism, Domestic Terrorism, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, Taxes, The Economy, socialism Comments

I took some time earlier today and thought, ‘what it is about the Obamaramadingdong that has such a grip on the Politically Apathetic of this nation?’ Then it dawned on me. It is his gift of rhetoric combined with his failed idea that he can change the world to fit into HIS geopolitical ideology.

What the President doesn’t realize is that the only way to change the WORLD to fit into your geopolitical mold is to force it. This is exactly what Hitler tried to do.

As long as man, the stubborn creatures that we are, has the gift of free-will endowed by our Creator, the round world cannot be forced to fit into Obama’s square hole. It is precisely this failed idea which has led to the animosity toward the United States by those in the Middle East. They have a problem with our influences in their part of the world. What Obama doesn’t get is that in order for him to change the world to fit HIS geopolitical mold is to force this geopolitical ideology on those who are already rebelling against our endeavors to free the peoples of the world.

Obama is a Socialist. This is established fact. His upbringing was Socialist intermingled with Communist sympathies as evident by the movements around the nation made by his grandparents and his associations with Frank Marshall Davis at the hands of his grandfather. His implementation of said Socialism is confused by his heavy-handed approach which scream of Fascism as I have previously pointed out. He has disguised this by hiding his true intentions for this nation through his crafty use of rhetoric. Using 60’s hold-over buzz words and phrasing in order to con the mentally challenged voters among us (note: this is not a reference to those who are truly mentally challenged among us, just those who vote as if they are mentally challenged) into truly believing in that which has previously failed.

Every single policy put forth by the Man with the Middle Name Hussein since he began to infest 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. has previously failed in this country or in other countries around the world but yet he pushes forth as if to say to the world, “You are all morons because you haven’t been able to pull it off. It requires ME the MESSIAH in order to complete the circle and bring peace throughout the world.”

What the arrogant SOB can’t get through his thick skull is the fact that all this has been tried by better men than him and has failed repeatedly. It has even been tried here before and failed miserably. Remember what Einstein said about insanity.

Case in point – raising taxes in an economic decline.

In 1930, in response to the market decline of the previous year and the economic crisis created by the crash, the Republican Congress (under a Republican President) passed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. The goal was two-fold. The first, protect US products in US markets from foreign competition. The other, to raise much needed revenue for the federal government. This was a miserable failure. The result was rising consumer prices and the United States fell deeper into the Great Depression.

Taxes in an economic decline are NEVER a good idea. Raising taxes on domestic or foreign consumer goods raises consumer prices and contributes to an inflationary cycle. It is these inflationary cycles which prolong economic decline and hinder recovery.

It has been proven time and again that lowering tax rates creates larger revenues for the federal government. When you reduce the cost of making money, more money is made. A smaller tax rate on a greater amount of money yields more tax revenue than a higher rate on a smaller amount. This is basic economics. The problem with Obama and like minded idiots is that they don’t understand the concept of economic mobility.

Those who have economic mobility (the only true measure of freedom by the way) have control over their incomes. If the federal government raises tax rates, in a sense raising the cost of making money, those with this level of control over their incomes will make less in order to not have to pay the increased rates. This translates into several economically disastrous situations. The first being that these are the very same people who employ others to do work that they themselves are either, unskilled to perform themselves, unwilling to perform themselves, or need assistance to perform in order to make their enterprise successful. When tax rates are increased, the people they employ are usually the first to suffer. They get laid-off as the employer attempts to control his tax liability.

Obama style liberalism is incapable of understanding that it is impossible to create wealth for everyone. No matter how you redistribute the wealth of the nation, no one will become prosperous in doing so. The only thing that can and will happen is that you make those at the top of the income ladder less prosperous. In other words, the bottom won’t come up but the top will come down.

The only way to level the economic playing field is to make the rich poor. You cannot and will not make the poor rich. The poor will always be with us. But under liberalism, everyone is poor and no one is rich.

Doesn’t it make more sense to promote wealth? We’ve established that it is the wealthy who create jobs and employ others. If the wealthy are permitted to go about their business unhindered by punitive taxation, more people from the bottom have employment opportunities. In other words, more people have the opportunity to become taxpayers. Raising the pool of taxpayers should be the goal not reducing the pool to include only those who create wealth.

In Obama’s thinking he has a solution to these economic facts. Make the federal government the only employer. This is his reasoning for the federal government becoming the largest shareholder in General Motors. It is his belief that the federal government should employ everyone. Provide you with your job, your home, and a ration for your sustainability. If the federal government controls all the decisions of life, then and only then can everyone be equal. Hello Big Brother.

But that is only here in the US. His goal is to ‘change’ the world. To do so will take Hitleresque tactics for world domination in order to bring about his global ‘change’. Somehow I think that he’d meet some resistance on that front. So should he here in the United States unless you want to become the United Socialist States of Amerika.

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Minority Leader Boehner On Ohio’s Unemployment Rate

May 22, 2009 News, Ohio Politics, Opinion, The Economy, U.S. House Comments Off

Boehner Statement on Ohio’s Unemployment Rate Surpassing 10% for the First Time in 25 Years

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) issued the following statement today regarding Ohio’s unemployment rate going above 10 percent for the first time since December 1983:

“With more than half a million Ohioans out of work and the rest of our nation struggling to pull itself out of this recession, it is disappointing that some in Washington insist on pursuing policies that could send much-needed jobs overseas. For the first time since 1983, Ohio’s unemployment rate has surpassed 10 percent and there’s no light at the end of the tunnel. Automobile dealerships are closing across the state yet the Administration announced new fuel standards that could make it difficult for American automakers to recover. The coal industry is critical to Ohio’s economic well being yet the Administration has created a massive national energy tax that could bankrupt coal while raising electric rates on hard-working families. And this national energy tax will be a costly burden on our state’s family farmers, who already are struggling to stay ahead during this economic crisis.

“House Republicans have better solutions that do not include increasing the size and scope of the government yet Washington refuses to work in a bipartisan manner to solve our economic challenges. We offered an alternative stimulus bill that would have created 246,000 jobs in Ohio by the end of 2010 at half the cost of the Democrats’ government-spending bill. We offered a budget alternative that would have curbed spending, created jobs by cutting taxes and controlled the debt. And we proposed legislation to help Americans’ rebuild their personal, retirement and college savings that have been decimated over the past year. It’s for the Administration and Congress to put aside partisan schemes that raise taxes and make economic recovery impossible and begin working toward solutions that will help put our families back to work and help small businesses create jobs.”

Boehner represents Ohio’s 8th District, which includes all of Darke, Miami and Preble counties, most of Butler and Mercer counties, and the northeastern corner of Montgomery County. He was first elected to Congress in 1990.

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Proud to be One of Napolitano’s ‘Right-Wing Extremists’

May 21, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Communism, Democrat Corruption, Democrat Incompetence, Domestic Terrorism, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Obama Fascism, Opinion, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, The Blogosphere, The Useless Nations, United States Constitution, socialism Comments Off

Last week I named Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano ‘Public Enemy #1′ because of her efforts to stymie political dissent in this country by naming people like me to a list of ‘potential’ domestic terrorists.
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She considers anyone who…

Opposes abortion
Opposes same-sex marriage
Opposes restrictions on firearms
Opposes lax immigration laws
Opposes the policies of President Obama regarding immigration, citizenship, and the expansion of social programs
Opposes continuation of free trade agreements
Are suspect of foreign regimes
Fears Communist regimes
Opposes a “one world” government
Bemoans the decline of U.S. stature in the world
Is upset with loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs to China and India, and more

… to be a ‘right-wing extremist’ and capable of violent acts against her beloved government, its socialist leader, and those who support him and her.

I’m proud to say that I’m pro-life. – This automatically puts me on her list.

I’m proud to say that I oppose same sex marriage. – Calling the coupling of individuals of the same sex marriage cheapens the sanctity of the union I share with my wife. It lessens our bond with one another. Sexual coupling in a manner which cannot result in the procreation of children is a mortal sin and calling that coupling marriage legitimizes that mortal sin in society. So Janet can call me a domestic terrorist all she wants, but I refuse to alter my thinking because she finds it offensive. I find her and her homo buddies offensive.

I oppose any restrictions on the ownership of firearms in this country. – I do so because I swore an oath one time in my life to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign or domestic. Those who have wet-dreams at the prospect of removing guns from our society do so as enemies of the Constitution. The Second Amendment is clear. It along with the rest of our founding document is clear and needs no “interpretation” because it is written in English. “… the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. ” What about the words, “shall not be infringed” do these simple minded morons not understand?

Too many people in this country get hung up on the introductory statement of fact that a well maintained militia is necessary. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,…”. This is nothing more than a statement of fact. The Second Amendment was also meant to empower the people in the event that the politicians reverted back to an authoritarian state. Janet sees this as a threat because she and her boss are in fact reverting back to an authoritarian state.

I am proud to say that I oppose lax immigration laws. – I am all for legal immigration. To say otherwise is a deception. What I oppose is the free flow of individuals who are not citizens of this nation to cross our borders in clear violation of the law. To do so once is a misdemeanor. To do so a second time ( or more) is a felony. Anyone who claims these people are law abiding need to consult the immigration laws of this nation. Their mere presence in this nation is a violation of law so those who claim that these people are not criminals are twisting the truth.

It is my belief that any elected official, or individual employed by any of the 50 state governments or the federal government, who fails to enforce the existing immigration laws of this nation is guilty of dereliction of duty and should themselves be arrested, tried, convicted, and sentenced as if they aided the individuals who violate our laws directly. This includes the President of the United States and the Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. And if this belief warrants my being labeled a right-wing extremist and a domestic terrorist – I’m fine with that too.

I oppose POTUS Barry Obamaramadingdong and all of his policies because he and his policies are dangerous for our people. He is a moron. His ideas are outdated socialist tripe which have failed each and every time they have been tried before.

Einstein said it best when he described insanity. “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The Russians did it – failed. The Chinese did it – nearly starved to death. The North Koreans did it – they are still starving. Cuba – same deal. Our forefathers in the United States even tried it and nearly starved to death the first winter. Why on earth would anyone believe that because Obamaramadingdong is the self-proclaimed “chosen one” would his socialist goals for this nation actually work this time? To do so would be in Einstein’s words, “insane”.

I’m on the fence about free-trade agreements. In some cases they are good for the nation. In others, not so good. But if even if I unilaterally opposed every trade agreement I would be in good company; or at least in liberal eyes I would. You see labor unions oppose free trade agreements as well.

It is my belief that the United States needs a trade policy that reciprocates the trade policies of our trade partners. If a partner levies a 10% tariff on our goods, we levy a 10% teriff on theirs. If a partner places our goods in quarantine for a period which makes those goods unsellable, we should do the same to their goods. Free trade can only be free if the rules are the same in both directions.

If this makes me a “right-wing extremist” than it also makes the UAW and other big unions “right-wing extremists” as well. Perhaps a letter to the bosses of these unions explaining this to them would go a long way to secure their support for Obamaramadingdong in 2012.

I am suspect of all foreign governments. Even our allies. Each nation is only going to look out for the best interests of their citizens. That is of course excluding our own who is more interested in protecting the rights of foreigners who are sworn enemies of our country and are pledged to destroy it or die trying.

I oppose Communism in all its forms. Which automatically puts me on this list because Obamaramadingdong himself has a goal of creating the United Socialist States of Amerika. A nation made in the Soviet model which his mommy, daddy, grampy, grammy, and his adopted uncle (Frank Marshall Davis) worshiped.

I oppose any effort to make the United States subservient to a “world government”. I especially oppose it if it is to be run by the Useless Nations. An organization which I believe should be evicted from our soil. It is my belief that we should relocate the UN 50 miles east of its current location and withdraw from the organization.

I have a problem with an organization which derives 25% of its funding from our taxpayers then has the audacity to attempt to tell us that we owe them more money and how to run our country. As far as I’m concerned, it should go the way of the League of Nations. And if that puts me on Janet’s hit list, so be it.

The decline of the US in stature of this world is a product of the expansion of socialism at the hands of people like Obamaramadingdong. In other countries I couldn’t give a flying fig what they think. But to deride the United States from within is treason in my opinion and should be punishable by death. I won’t hold by breath waiting for Obama’s confession (or Janet’s for that matter).

I am upset with the loss of manufacturing jobs in this nation for multiple reasons. The unemployment rate being the first and quality of the goods sold in this nation is another. Our workers produce the best goods available in the world. Losing these jobs hurts this nation in every conceivable way. Price isn’t always everything. However, it is a myth to suggest that it is wages or free trade agreements driving these jobs offshore. The true culprit is taxes.

If believing what I believe makes me an enemy of the state, good. I don’t like Obama or his Secretary of Homeland Security. It is my opinion, which is protected by the First Amendment, that they are destroying this nation. They are wasting their time compiling lists of “right-wing extremists” in preparation of some sort of Naziesque or Stalinesque purge while real terrorists plot the destruction of our nation. They sit in Washington looking for ways to get political revenge and are ignoring real threats. For this, they are showing their inability to govern.

As the nation sinks deeper into this recession and our national debt continues to double, triple, or quadruple while the Man with the Middle Name Hussein infests 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., the true enemies of this nation are plotting. And we are all less safe with him “in charge”.

One last thought…

Remember Orwell’s warning in ‘1984‘. Big Brother is here and her name is Janet.

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Mr. ‘I Don’t Want to Run the Auto Industry’ Is At It Again

May 19, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Barack Hussein Obama Lies, Democrat Corruption, Democrat Incompetence, Domestic Terrorism, Fiscal Irresponsibility, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Obama Fascism, Presidential Distortions, Presidential Politics, Stupidity, The Economy, socialism Comments Off

With gas prices souring due to increased crude oil prices, POTUS Obamaramadingdong announced yesterday his plans to raise emissions and fuel efficiency standards which in all likelihood will raise the price of the average new vehicle. Add this to his meddling in the Chrysler bankruptcy and now his putting his 1/50th of a dollar into GM’s impending bankruptcy and his statement is looking kind of false.

Obama has gone on record as saying, “I don’t want to run the auto industry”. Cow chips! His latest plan dispels that idea altogether.

From Reuters:

General Motors Corp’s (GM.N) plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a quick sale of the company’s healthy assets to a new company initially owned by the U.S. government, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

NOW

Obama has already given controlling interest in Chrysler to the UAW. His next move would be to give the UAW controlling interest in GM’s solvent assets as the plan further is explained.

The government’s plans include giving stakes in the new company to GM’s union and bondholders, although the ownership structure of the company is still being negotiated, said the source who is familiar with the company’s plans.

The UAW announced that it plans to sell off its controlling shares of Chrysler once it emerges from bankruptcy. In other words, gain controlling stake when you were a minority interest before the bankruptcy, emerge with clean control of the company and sell off your interest for a profit. Who benefits? Obama’s political allies in the union. Then it is off to round 2 – GM to do the same.

Remember all this when you are in the market for your next car because you may not be able to afford a used one at this rate.

And one other thought on this…

Where does the Man with the Middle Name Hussein going to get the money to buy the profitable divisions of GM? Short answer – taxpayers. Like that was a stretch. The stretch will be ‘can the taxpayers afford the payments?’ The short answer to that is NO.

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Summary – Cheerleaders for the Revolution

The following is a summary of a report compiled by the Media Research Center.

Network Coverage of Barack Obama’s First 100 Days

During his first 100 days as President, Barack Obama has pushed an audaciously liberal agenda which, if enacted, would have radical consequences for America for decades. With Democrats enjoying monopoly control of the House and Senate, the news media have a professional duty to scrutinize those policies, and give audiences both sides of the story — not just the perspective of a powerful Chief Executive.

Unfortunately, a Media Research Center analysis of ABC, CBS and NBC evening news coverage of President Obama’s first 100 days in office shows network reporters have failed as watchdogs. The networks have raised few doubts about Obama’s left-wing agenda and showered each of Obama’s major policy initiatives with positive press.

MRC analysts looked at all 982 broadcast evening news stories about Obama and his administration from Inauguration Day (January 20) through April 29. Key findings:

Obama’s first 100 days were defined by massive spending, aggressive intervention in the private sector and proposals for a huge expansion of the federal government. Yet none of the networks aired a single story on whether Obama’s policies were pushing the U.S. toward socialism, and no reporter used the term “socialist” to describe Obama.

Not only that, network reporters never used the word “liberal” to describe either Barack Obama or his agenda during the first 100 days.

The networks lavished good press on every major initiative of the early Obama administration, including the massive stimulus package, all of the various bailouts, health care, stem cells, the environment and foreign policy.

In the days before the President unveiled his unprecedented $3.5 trillion budget — with a record-shattering $1.75 trillion deficit — four out of five statements on the evening newscasts parroted the White House spin that Obama was a deficit fighter.

Reporters treated Obama’s hugely expensive $787 billion stimulus bill to mainly positive coverage (58 percent positive, 42 percent negative).

The networks applauded Obama’s decision to use taxpayer money to fund embryo-destroying stem cell research (82% positive coverage).

Network coverage of Obama’s mortgage bailout was also positive — 59% of statements supported the bailout or wanted even more intervention, compared to 41% who opposed the bailout as unfair to responsible homeowners.

Reporters heavily skewed their coverage in favor of the President’s actions on global warming (78% positive).

President Obama’s decision to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan was greeted by nearly unanimous (91%) positive coverage — a far cry from the highly negative coverage of President Bush’s successful troop surge in Iraq two years ago.

Like Obama and the Democrats, the networks went on a feeding frenzy against big corporate bonuses. The networks aired six times more statements forwarding the “infuriated” reaction to business (104) than criticized politicians’ grandstanding (16).

The networks spent days decrying AIG’s $165 million bonuses, but hardly mentioned the $210 million in bonuses handed out by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the bailed-out mortgage giants with strong Democratic ties). ABC and NBC completely ignored the Fannie and Freddie bonuses, while the CBS Evening News gave it 27 seconds.

Such highly promotional coverage is not part of the normal “honeymoon” that exists between journalists and new Presidents. Rather, it seems to be a symptom of how few network reporters evidently see their professional role as operating on the public’s behalf as a check on whoever is in the White House.

The longstanding liberalism of network reporters made them aggressive adversaries of the Bush White House over the past eight years. The evidence from Barack Obama’s first 100 days is that that same liberal mindset has crippled reporters’ ability to be effective watchdogs on behalf of the public.

The once-fierce media watchdogs have become Barack Obama’s drooling, tail-wagging lapdogs. - Rich Noyes, Research Director for the MRC

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The detailed report on PDF can be found HERE.

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Letter From Catholic Leaders Calls for President Obama to Fire Anti-Catholic Bigot Harry Knox

May 13, 2009 Barack Hussein Obama, Catholicism, Libtards on Parade, Lunatic Lefties, News, Opinion, Presidential Politics Comments Off

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500-0003

Dear Mr. President,

On April 6, you named Harry Knox to your Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. You claim to have created this Council, among other things, to “bring everyone together – from both the secular and faith-based communities.”

Harry Knox is the hate-filled antithesis of this noble objective. Knox is a virulent anti-Catholic bigot, and has made numerous vile and dishonest attacks against the Church and the Holy Father. He has no business on any Council having to do with faith or religion.

We do not know if you or members of your Administration were aware of Knox’s deplorable, abusive attitude towards the Church and Pope Benedict XVI when you named him to the Council. We assume you were not. But since then, there have been numerous press reports on Knox’s loathsome, and clearly bigoted rhetoric, so there no longer is any excuse for your failure to act. We can remain silent no longer.

As Catholics, we call on you to remove Mr. Knox from his position and to formally disassociate yourself from his militant anti-Catholicism. Failure to do so will result in the tainting of your Faith-Based Council—and indeed, your entire administration—as anti-Catholic. We urge you to give this matter your immediate consideration.

Sincerely,

John Boehner
House Republican Leader
Member of Congress

L. Brent Bozell, III
Founder and President
Media Research Center

Judie Brown, President,
American Life League, Inc.
Stafford, VA

Larry Cirignano
Catholic Activist and Founder
CatholicVote.org

Eileen Cubanski
Executive Director
National Association of Private Catholic and Independent Schools (NAPCIS)

Bill Donohue
President
Catholic League

Chuck Donovan
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council

Deacon Keith A. Fournier
Editor in Chief, Catholic Online
Founder, Common Good

Deal W. Hudson
Director
InsideCatholic.com

Philip F. Lawler
Editor
Catholic World News

Leonard Leo
President
National Catholic Prayer Breakfast
(Mr. Leo’s affiliation is listed for identification purposes only)

Tom McClusky
Vice President of Government Affairs
Family Research Council

Congressman Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI)

Kate O’Beirne
President
National Review Institute

Thomas Peters
American Papist Blog

Al Regnery
Publisher
The American Spectator

Patrick J. Reilly
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If YOU Think Obama is Smart, I Know Someone Infinately More Intelligent

May 30, 2009

Not Only Is Obama Turning GM and Chrysler over to Union Thugs But…

May 30, 2009

… It Seems That He’s Closing Dealerships That Contribute To GOP Candidates
In a story that appeared on Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, and reported on by Michelle on Fox and Friends, it seems that an overwhelming number of GOP backing Chrysler dealers are getting their franchises closed thanks to the Man with the Middle Name Hussein.

Where [...]

Not A Barack Obama Fan

May 29, 2009

Originally Titled – A George Bush Fan
A grade school teacher in a small Vermont town asks her class how many of them are Barack Obama fans.
Not really knowing what a Barack Obama fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raise their hands except little Johnny.
The teacher asks Johnny why [...]

No Time To Blog How About a News Round-Up?

May 28, 2009

Just a quick note to my readers.
You may have noticed that the writing has dropped off a bit. Normally this happens when our daughter has some sort of health related crisis but in this case, that isn’t so. Over the past month, we’ve been involved in a change of residence. I know, I know… We [...]

The Failure of Obama Thinking and the Morons Who Fall For It

May 27, 2009

Minority Leader Boehner On Ohio’s Unemployment Rate

May 22, 2009

Boehner Statement on Ohio’s Unemployment Rate Surpassing 10% for the First Time in 25 Years
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman John Boehner (R-West Chester) issued the following statement today regarding Ohio’s unemployment rate going above 10 percent for the first time since December 1983:
“With more than half a million Ohioans out of work and the rest [...]

Proud to be One of Napolitano’s ‘Right-Wing Extremists’

May 21, 2009

Opposes abortion
Opposes same-sex marriage
Opposes restrictions on firearms
Opposes lax immigration laws
Opposes the policies of President Obama regarding [...]

Mr. ‘I Don’t Want to Run the Auto Industry’ Is At It Again

May 19, 2009

Summary – Cheerleaders for the Revolution

May 14, 2009

The following is a summary of a report compiled by the Media Research Center.

Network Coverage of Barack Obama’s First 100 Days
During his first 100 days as President, Barack Obama has pushed an audaciously liberal agenda which, if enacted, would have radical consequences for America for decades. With Democrats enjoying monopoly control of the House and [...]

Letter From Catholic Leaders Calls for President Obama to Fire Anti-Catholic Bigot Harry Knox

May 13, 2009

President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, D.C. 20500-0003
Dear Mr. President,
On April 6, you named Harry Knox to your Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. You claim to have created this Council, among other things, to “bring everyone together – from both the secular and faith-based communities.” [...]

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