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journolist conspires on best way to take out palin

Daily Caller, has released some more emails from the Journolist site, this time exposing the coordinated efforts on how to take down Sarah Palin. These are from the day her pick was announced.

The conversation began with a debate over how best to attack Sarah Palin. “Honestly, this pick reeks of desperation,” wrote Michael Cohen of the New America Foundation in the minutes after the news became public. “How can anyone logically argue that Sarah Pallin [sic], a one-term governor of Alaska, is qualified to be President of the United States? Train wreck, thy name is Sarah Pallin.”

Not a wise argument, responded Jonathan Stein, a reporter for Mother Jones. If McCain were asked about Palin’s inexperience, he could simply point to then candidate Barack Obama’s similarly thin resume. “Q: Sen. McCain, given Gov. Palin’s paltry experience, how is she qualified to be commander in chief?,” Stein asked hypothetically. “A: Well, she has much experience as the Democratic nominee.”

Quite interesting that they seem to have no problem with Obama as President, but are terrified of Palin serving as Vice President, even though they admit Palin has as much experience as Obama...

Here's another charming piece:

Ryan Donmoyer, a reporter for Bloomberg News who was covering the campaign, sent a quick thought that Palin’s choice not to have an abortion when she unexpectedly became pregnant at age 44 would likely boost her image because it was a heartwarming story.

“Her decision to keep the Down’s baby is going to be a hugely emotional story that appeals to a vast swath of America, I think,” Donmoyer wrote.

Politico reporter Ben Adler, now an editor at Newsweek, replied, “but doesn’t leaving sad baby without its mother while she campaigns weaken that family values argument? Or will everyone be too afraid to make that point?”

Obviously people weren't afraid to go there....

Ed Kilgore, managing editor of the Democratic Strategist blog, argued that journalists and others trying to help the Obama campaign should focus on Palin’s beliefs. “The criticism of her really, really needs to be ideological, not just about experience. If we concede she’s a ‘maverick,’ we will have done John McCain an enormous service. And let’s don’t concede the claim that [Hillary Clinton] supporters are likely to be very attracted to her,” Kilgore said.

Chris Hayes of the Nation wrote in with words of encouragement, and to ask for more talking points. “Keep the ideas coming! Have to go on TV to talk about this in a few min and need all the help I can get,” Hayes wrote.

Suzanne Nossel, chief of operations for Human Rights Watch, added a novel take: “I think it is and can be spun as a profoundly sexist pick. Women should feel umbrage at the idea that their votes can be attracted just by putting a woman, any woman, on the ticket no matter her qualifications or views.”

Mother Jones’s Stein loved the idea. “That’s excellent! If enough people – people on this list? – write that the pick is sexist, you’ll have the networks debating it for days. And that negates the SINGLE thing Palin brings to the ticket,” he wrote.

Another writer from Mother Jones, Nick Baumann, had this idea: “Say it with me: ‘Classic GOP Tokenism’.”

“Okay, let’s get deadly serious, folks. Grating voice or not, ‘inexperienced’ or not, Sarah Palin’s just been introduced to the country as a brave, above-party, oil-company-bashing, pork-hating maverick ‘outsider’,” Kilgore said, “What we can do is to expose her ideology.”

Oh, and in case you're wondering how it is known they were all rooting for Obama to win, make sure to read the story Daily Caller posted the day before.

DAVID ROBERTS, GRIST: It’s all I can do not to start bawling.

Click here to read the entire article.

gibbs apologizes to shirley sherrod

Do you think they've learned the lesson that you don't just take people's accusations of racism at face value? That perhaps it is in their best interest to research, and find out the facts, and view things in their proper context?

We have evidence that liberal media conspired to paint Conservative opponents to Obama as racist. We have video proof that members of the Black Caucus fabricated stories that they were spit on and called the n-word at the health care signing. We have a prominent black activist Mary Frances Berry admitting that accusing the tea party activists of being racists is an effective tool for the democrats and far left organizations. And we have video evidence that the Left edited together either irrelevant or out of context quotes to smear the tea partiers as racist. They have taken common politico language and called the Right racist for using it. This doesn't even begin to address all the *tea party is violent* bs.

The NAACP condemned the tea party, stating the incidents that supposedly happened at the health care signing. They called for the tea party leaders to condemn and expel those who allow racist attitudes. What Sherrod's video showed was a group of NAACP members cheering on Shirley when she described her initial racist actions towards the farmer. Will they condemn those people? They fired Shirley without ever bothering to talk to her, or view the tape in it's entirety - just like they did with the tea party.

The Obama people have been throwing the race card since the primary, beginning with the Clintons and their supporters, up to this week, calling Arizonians racist for trying to actually enact the federal law.

Perhaps now they have learned their lesson?

follow up to shirley sherrod, the naacp and breitbart

Breitbart appeared on FOX and CNN to discuss the Shirley Sherrod USDA debacle. Here he is from Hannity and John King:







Big Government has a plethora of stories covering this, be sure to check them out.

Oh, and while the liberal media was busy screaming that any comparison of Obama to Hitler was racist, they were actively comparing "teabaggers" to Nazis, fascists and brown shirts, on Journolist.

UPDATE: I just read the transcript of Shirley Sherrods speech, and these two paragraphs I found quite interesting.

I wonder if Mr. Spoon, the farmer who she helped, realizes she was calling him a racist when she told her story?

The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he — he took a long time talking, but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing. But he had come to me for help. What he didn’t know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me, was I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him.

I was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So, I didn’t give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough so that when he — I — I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the — or the Georgia Department of Agriculture. And he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him.

Shirley accuses Mr. Spoon of racism, treating her like an inferior. She “knew what he was doing”.

Another interesting clip, in her otherwise inspiring speech:

You know, I haven’t seen such a mean-spirited people as I’ve seen lately over this issue of health care. Some of the racism we thought was buried. Didn’t it surface? Now, we endured eight years of the Bush’s and we didn’t do the stuff these Republicans are doing because you have a black President.

So….she did to Tea Partiers/Republicans what everyone is upset claiming Breitbart did to her. She refers to "the racism that occurred over the issue of health care" – which no doubt she means the lies that members of the black caucus were spit on and called n-word. She, in her speech, condemned people without any proof.

Also, what is up with her comments that “we didn’t do this stuff” during the Bush presidency? Who is she kidding?

proof liberal media conspired to bury wright story, and accuse conservatives of racism

"According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

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In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

Thomas Schaller, a columnist for the Baltimore Sun as well as a political science professor, upped the ante from there. In a post with the subject header, “why don’t we use the power of this list to do something about the debate?” Schaller proposed coordinating a “smart statement expressing disgust” at the questions Gibson and Stephanopoulos had posed to Obama.

“It would create quite a stir, I bet, and be a warning against future behavior of the sort,” Schaller wrote.

Tomasky approved. “YES. A thousand times yes,” he exclaimed.

snip

Chris Hayes of the Nation posted on April 29, 2008, urging his colleagues to ignore Wright. Hayes directed his message to “particularly those in the ostensible mainstream media” who were members of the list.

The Wright controversy, Hayes argued, was not about Wright at all. Instead, “It has everything to do with the attempts of the right to maintain control of the country.”

Read the entire story here. The emails came from the Journolist, the same site that exposed David Weigel.

Also, Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism–2010

Be sure to read the whole story, but here are the vids Big Government uncovered:





As Ed Morrisey from Hot Air said, “The NAACP is about to learn one of the most basic of all lessons in life — those who live in glass houses should avoid provoking a stone-throwing war.”

At least she resigned:

We concur with US Agriculture Secretary Vilsack in accepting the resignation of Shirley Sherrod for her remarks at a local NAACP Freedom Fund banquet.

Racism is about the abuse of power. Sherrod had it in her position at USDA. According to her remarks, she mistreated a white farmer in need of assistance because of his race.

We are appalled by her actions, just as we are with abuses of power against farmers of color and female farmers.

Her actions were shameful. While she went on to explain in the story that she ultimately realized her mistake, as well as the common predicament of working people of all races, she gave no indication she had attempted to right the wrong she had done to this man.

The reaction from many in the audience is disturbing. We will be looking into the behavior of NAACP representatives at this local event and take any appropriate action.

Memeorandum has more, also here, and I'm sure the stories will only multiply.

think progress - race, lies and videotape

Think Progress put together a video, with the intent to *show all the racism within the tea party*. Interesting that they put together a video full of lies...



ACTIVIST 1: He’s too black to be President.

"And if you look at my wife, you'll see it's not about his skin color. It's about the blackness of his heart." (His wife is black, and his son is standing next to him.) Think Progress didn't tell you about the *blackness of his heart* comment, did they.



ACTIVIST 2: I’m a proud racist, I’m white.

This guy was confronted, and kicked out of the Tea Party. Think Progress didn't tell you that, in their video, did they. They also cropped the video so you couldn't see all the Tea Partiers following him around with "INFILTRATOR" signs.



ACTIVIST 3: Afro-Leninism! Coming to you on a silver platter, Barack Hussein Obama!

What the heck is Afro-Leninism? Michael Savage apparently calls Obama that, so no doubt this guy listens to Savage. Does that qualify as racist? Bush was called all kinds of names like Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, etc.

ACTIVIST 4: Go home wetbacks!

This was from 2006. Once Think Progress was called out for it, they removed it from the video. (There weren't any Tea Parties in 2006.)You would think if there were SO many instances of racism at the tea parties, Think Progress wouldn't have to fabricate them and go back to 2006. This guy is racist, but not a tea partier.

ACTIVIST 5: Why do you hate Mexicans? Answer: Because they're filthy, stinking animals. 

All I can find on this guy is that his video is from a site on Facebook called Cuéntame and the videos deal with immigration and immigration rallies. "The official page of Cuéntame the ¡Latino Instigators" They placed this soundbite in a video about Tea Partiers, but there is no backup explaining from what event. This leads me to believe it is most likely from an anti-immigration rally. Unless someone proves otherwise, that's what I'm going with. I don't know why someone would ask him, at a tea party rally, why he hates Mexicans. Either way, the guy is a jerk, but we don't know if he is a tea partier.

ACTIVIST 6: You're a faggot.

Funny that a group, One Wisconsin Now, that purposefully set out to infiltrate and counter protest managed to capture one guy, arguing with someone, and calling them a fag. Hmmm, that's not suspicious at all. Makes one wonder what was being said to him, and by who, and how it just so happened to be caught on camera, by One Wisconsin Now.

Otherwise, without the heckling and infiltrators, (and this one instance of ugly name calling, by an Americans for Prosperity member) it was a peaceful protest.



ACTIVIST 7: We can't kill Obama.

This guy, shockingly enough, was defended in a dairy, by someone at Daily Kos, "The guy who says "We Can’t Kill Obama" wasn’t advocating it, he was advocating defeating them electorally, because that’s what he said next." This is all I could find below, and he is not advocating killing Obama.

MAX: Who do you think is more dangerous Al Quaeda or OBama?

MAN: Obama.

MAX: Obama's more dangerous than Osama?

MAN: Absolutely.

MAX: Why?

MAN: He's trying to change the country from within. We can fight Al Quaeda, we can't kill Obama.

ACTIVISTS 8 and 9: INFILTRATORS

I seriously can not believe that Think Progress included these two images in their video. These guys are phony tea party infiltrators. Tea Partiers are really going to hold up signs announcing how *white* they are? Here is the White People are Pissed sign, from a counter protest rally, Crash the Tea Party in Boston. And the This Sign is the Brownest thing... sign.

ACTIVIST 10: T-Shirt Yup I'm a racist.

The Shirt Says on the Front: Yup, I'm a Racist

On the Back: if the Government Says so Because...

I support the Constitution
I support Free Speech
I support the Right to Bear Arms
I support the Bill of Rights
I support Capitalism
I support NO Government Bailouts
I support closing the border
I support the Military
I support the Tea Party
I support Jesus Christ as My Savior.

It's interesting that Think Progress put together such a sloppy, dishonest video. Perhaps because the usual clips and images we see of Obama involving a monkey (monkey see, monkey spend, held by a ~13 year old kid), witch doctor and Hitler were so prevelant during the Bush years, it's impossible to now claim those same exact images are *racist*.



And it's impossible to say that the Right, or Tea Partiers, have cornered the market on hate.



Obama supporters now even want to claim a billboard of Obama with Hitler and Stalin is racist, despite all kinds of disparaging billboards that ran during the Bush years. (what's with the CONSTANT charges of *racism* anyway? How is this racist? Stupid, maybe. Mean? But racist?)

The Tea Party has been smeared from one end to the other. Members of Congress have lied about them, saying they were spit on, and called the n-word, and been disproven. The NAACP announced their plans to denounce the Tea Party as racist, and has now backpedaled, but has ignored their own racism, and that of the New Black Panther Party. Tea Party leaders have publicly condemned any violence and racism, despite all of the lies, distortions and smears against them, that have been proven false.

But that still isn't enough.

Yes, there are racists, and mean evil bigots in the world. And we saw a couple in the video above. But not all of those people were Tea Party people, and not all Tea Party people are racists.

And there are plenty of racists and bigots in the Democratic party.... Funny how they like to forget their long history of NOT supporting civil rights. And it's ok to have been in the KKK if you are a Democrat. You're just a good ol' boy, trying to get elected. And you can call black people *boy* if you're a liberal. But you're a racist if you're a Conservative.

I think the last race card has been played. It no longer has any meaning. It has become a joke. Enough, already. Really.

H/T Left Coast Rebel, Right Klik and all the sites they have linked. They all did some awesome leg work on this.

"the tea party is arming. we should be armed."

They haven't been armed, already?



Seems like every time Malik Shabazz speaks, he puts his foot in his mouth.

One thing that I find interesting is how similar Malik Shabazz is to Reverend Wright. Two peas in a racist pod.

Oh, and if you heard the latest meme from the Liberal media, that this case was dropped under Bush, check this out:

Weigel, Rest of the Left Change the Facts on the New Black Panther Case

Dave Weigel, fresh from his firing over at the Washington Post, is guestblogging over at Andrew Sullivan's and pushing the latest Lefty meme on the New Black Panther voter intimidation case. Damn, they got JournoList 2.0 up fast.

Anyway, the claim -- first published at Adam Serwer's blog as a great big "Ah HAH!" -- is that the New Black Panther case was "downgraded" from a criminal to a civil case back during the Bush Administration.

[T]he case was downgraded to a civil case 11 days before Obama was inaugurated, 26 days before Eric Holder became attorney general, and about nine months before Thomas Perez was confirmed as head of the Civil Rights Division.

Conservative activist and former Voting Section Attorney J. Christian Adams identified United States Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli as the person who ordered the case dismissed, but he wasn't confirmed until March, three months after the case was downgraded.

To the Left and Dave Weigel (BIRM), this somehow means that Obama flunkies couldn't have been responsible for circular-filing the case in May 2009. Well, the obvious flaw with this line of reasoning is that it was the dismissal of the civil case that caused an uproar and started the US Commission on Civil Rights sniffing around.

The Washington Times broke this on May 29, 2009 (note for idiot Leftists: that's after Obama was inaugurated and after Perrelli joined Justice):

Justice Department political appointees overruled career lawyers and ended a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense of wielding a nightstick and intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place last Election Day, according to documents and interviews.

It was always about the civil complaint, right from the beginning. Adam Serwer is, well, an artard who wants to change the story. And Weigel uncritically repeats this Lefty meme as if it proves something.

H/T Story Balloon, HotAir and Ace of Spades

"obama stole the election?"

For those of you who have read my blogs going back to the primary and 2008 election are familiar with these stories. I, and other Hillary Clinton supporters, blogged about this stuff at length. FOX finally featured the documentary We Will Not be Silenced, which features all of the fraud that occurred and was observed during the primary.

In light of the New Black Panther case that is currently in the (FOX) news, the story is finally surfacing in the MSM. Nobody wanted to listen then, maybe, just maybe, they will now. But I doubt it.



And in case you are new to my blog, or need a refresher, this is a preview of the documentary:









Thanks to Chester for sending the FOX video along.

Memeorandum as more.

"mathematically, he's your friend"

H/T Hotair for the video.

In case you don't know the back story, this is about the New Black Panther voter intimidation suit:







The DOJ issued a memo on why they dropped the suit, and in part said this:

“I am not convinced that we can establish a basis for an injunction against the Party or Malik Shabazz by showing that the party has violent and racist views against non-blacks and jews.”

Really? They couldn't show the NBPP hold violent or racist views?

THERE was a venomous hatefest in the nation’s capitol on Halloween night. It was hosted by Malik Zulu Shabazz of the militant New Black Panther Party. Deadly rhetorical spores of Anti-Americanism and anti-Semitism permeated the air for more than four hours.

Shabazz defended Osama bin Laden, blamed President Bush for the 9-11 attacks, called our founding fathers “snakes” and likened them to terrorists, lambasted Catholicism, Christians, and Jews, and repeated his avaricious call for societal reparations to blacks.

yep…no evidence available at all, that Shabazz hates crackers.

The New Black Panther Party said yesterday (November 3, 2008) it would send its members out to the polls to ensure its interests on Election Day:

Minister Najee Muhammad, national field marshal for the New Black Panther Party, and Uhuru Shakur, local chairman of the Atlanta chapter of the party, took turns reading statements from Dr. Malik Shabazz, leader of Black Lawyers for Justice and attorney for the party (yes, that Malik Shabazz)…

…”We will not allow some racists and other angry whites, who are upset over an impending Barack Obama presidential victory, to intimidate blacks at the polls,” Muhammad said. “Most certainly, we cannot allow these racist forces to slaughter our babies or commit other acts of violence against the black population, nor our black president.”

Muhammad added, “We must organize to counter and neutralize these threats using all means at our disposal. This is a great time for our people, and we must ensure that peace prevails for our people.”

“We will be at the polls in the cities and counties in many states to ensure that the enemy does not sabotage the black vote, which was won through the blood of the martyrs of our people,” he said.

Sounds like, not only did he not condemn the actions, he supported them back in November. Surprisingly, the DOJ couldn’t find any proof against Malik Shabazz…?

Shabazz spreading the lie that doctors injected black men with syphilis and AIDS, and demanding for a separate nation...

“I think it’s a political witch hunt, part of the overall war that the Republicans are waging against Eric Holder in general,” Mr. Shabazz complained. He added that the two exonerated Black Panthers who used racial epithets at the polling place in Philadelphia on Election Day 2008 had acted on their own.

The problem is, this seems to contradict previous statements by Mr. Shabazz and other top party leaders. The Jackson Sun in Tennessee reported that three days before the 2008 election, “Minister Najee Muhammad, national field marshal for the New Black Panther Party, and Uhuru Shakur, local chairman of the Atlanta chapter of the party, took turns reading statements from Dr. Malik Shabazz, leader of Black Lawyers for Justice and attorney for the party.” Mr. Shakur added, “We will be at the polls in the cities and counties in many states to ensure that the enemy does not sabotage the black vote.”

After the election, on Nov. 7, 2008, Mr. Shabazz spoke live on the Fox News Channel to defend his fellow party members. Claiming that they had brought a weapon to the Philadelphia polling place in response to the presence of neo-Nazis, Mr. Shabazz said, “When we found that this was an emergency response [to the supposed Nazis in the parking lot], there was an explanation” for brandishing the weapon.

UPDATE: I forgot this video, where Shabazz explains why they were at the polling place (that he denies he approved of...)

"you want freedom, you're gonna have to kill some crackers"

Well, isn't this special. You remember the Black Panthers that stood outside of a polling place during the last Presidential election? And then the videos I posted below, about how the DOJ dropped the case and refuses to prosecute them?

From Hot Air:

When Attorney General Eric Holder suddenly reversed course and had the DoJ dismiss the voter-intimidation case against two New Black Panther Party activists stemming from an incident in 2008 in Philadelphia, many questioned why the DoJ would quit a case it had already won. Attorneys within the DoJ wondered why the federal government had suddenly become disinterested in voter intimidation. Some, like Christian Adams, Asheesh Agarwal, and Mark Corallo have gone public with their outrage, and also wonder where the hell Congress has gone in its duty to oversee the executive branch and its enforcement of laws Congress passed.

Well, look, maybe this was just a bad day for the defendants. Maybe they were just nice young men who took civic engagement to a momentary extreme of enthusiasm. They’re probably just nice guys caught in a single instance of bad judgment … right? Er, not exactly, as Naked Emperor News and Breitbart’s B-Cast discovers after watching National Geographic:

Nice.

too hot and lazy post vaca to blog

We just returned from Rhodes, Greece, and I think it is hotter here than in Greece! Sadly we aren't within 100 feet of the beautiful sea any longer. The water was SO beautiful! Will post pics this week.

In the meantime, here is a round up of some most interesting news:

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot is going on at NASA?…

“Bolden: I am here in the region – its sort of the first anniversary of President Barack Obama’s visit to Cairo – and his speech there when he gave what has now become known as Obama’s “Cairo Initiative” where he announced that he wanted this to become a new beginning of the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. When I became the NASA Administrator – before I became the NASA Administrator - he charged me with three things: One was that he wanted me to re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, that he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with predominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science, math, and engineering.”

Whiskey. Tango. Foxtrot. indeed!

Congressional Report Claims Administration Misled About Efforts on Oil Spill

Billy Nungesser, president of Plaquemines Parish in Louisiana, sensed that a chart showing 140 oil skimmers at work -- a chart given to him by BP and the Coast Guard -- was “somewhat inaccurate.” So, Nungesser asked to fly over the spill to verify the number.

The flyover was cancelled three times before those officials admitted that just 31 of the 140 skimmers were actually deployed. Read more.

White House Enacts Rules Inhibiting Media From Covering Oil Spill



DOJ official resigns over Obama's racism

Former DOJ Attorney Makes Explosive Accusations





Bartle Bull reacts to former DOJ attorney on Black Panther case


Obama AZ border claims false, say three … Democrats?

When Barack Obama insisted last week that the southern border was more secure than at any time over the past 20 years, no one was surprised to hear Republicans scoffing at the claim. However, they’re not the only people calling Obama’s claim false. Three Arizona Democrats in Congress blasted Obama this weekend, worried that voters in their districts might hold them accountable for Obama’s posturing... Read more.

Obama administration could dump sick people out of ObamaCare high-risk pool

Two months ago, Medicare’s actuary warned that the federal high-risk pool would cost much more than the $5 billion Congress allocated to it as part of the ObamaCare bill. The poll was created to keep people with pre-existing conditions insured until mandates required insurers to cover them took effect in 2014. Now the White House admits that the money will run out — and that those patients may not get covered after all... Read more.

Don't miss this one either: AP: ObamaCare will flood nation’s emergency rooms

Lack of jobs increasingly blamed on uncertainty created by Obama's policies

There is one word being mentioned by business leaders and economists more frequently when the conversation turns to why jobs are not returning more quickly to the U.S. economy: uncertainty. Read more.

Daily Presidential Tracking Poll

happy 4th!