You know, I really wish I could get off what must seem like a vendetta against the press in this country. I'm probably going to have to force myself to tackle another issue. However, every darn time I unload my weapon in their general direction..... Damn if one of them doesn't grab the magazine, reload it for me and hand it right back. (perhaps with some training and doggie treats I can get them to also slam it home and jack the slide back to chamber the first round)
Tonight our guest of honor in the ol' crosshairs is Mary Mapes. She used to be just about as high up in the ol' boy network she could get at CBS without banging her head on that (not supposed to be there) glass ceiling. Basically she was numero uno in charge of all the news that the anchor person delivers. The former Dan Rather delivered some of her work to the nation. Of course that's exactly why he's the former anchor man at CBS. The now infamous "Burkett memos" were something that passed through her hands to the accomplice anchor man's hands.
For those who have forgotten a Mr. Bill Burkett (sadly from Texas) "discovered" some lost and forgotten "memos" and other "documents" exiting his printer. These "memos" and "documents" had to do with the Presidents national guard service. They were about as genuine as a three dollar bill with former President Clinton's smiling face on the front. Four document experts reviewed these works. Two departed almost immediately since they were obvious fakes. The other two hung around long enough to tell Miss. Mapes that taking these things public would be a serious mistake because they were obviously fake. (One of the biggest clues was that the manual typewriters of that era did not possess the font used and could not deliver the straight lines and uniform spacing these papers demonstrated. Something about them also being printed on paper not of that era was a tad fishy too.) None the less Miss Mapes and others at CBS had an agenda and something as trivial as the lack of authenticity of their latest tool was not going to deter them.
So the chief stooge in all of this, Dan Rather, faces the cameras and reports that newly discovered documents prove that President Bush had people pulling strings to get him into the Air National Guard and keep him out of the war. Within minutes their "evidence" of this eeeeevil plot had more holes in it than a warehouse of aged Swiss cheese. The blogs lit up like a California hillside during brush fire season with Santa Anna winds fanning the flames.
CBS should have quickly tossed Mr. Burkett under a bus, or passing Metro commuter train but instead they stuck with their story. (and now we all know why the news industry calls them stories, don't we) But they did start to waffle after a couple of days of the growing heat. They started to defend themselves with very carefully selected words. They would say that the information in the memo's had not been proven to be false, thereby cleverly overlooking the fact that the entire document was a gross fabrication. And since a lot of America pays little or no attention and only picks up the sound bites what started to stick was that Bush lied. Geee! That sounds exactly like the same line the democrats are still trying to use today. Talk about your broken record. But as we've learned from the CBS debacle.... If you don't have anything you can use against someone simply make it up.
Miss Mapes seems to have found herself in the company of the also unemployed Mr Rather lately. Well... not actually IN Mr. Rather's company.... just equally unemployed. She appeared on the Larry King show the other night. Funny how liberals will not simply let other disgraced liberals quietly fade from memory. Larry asks about the documents several times and Miss Mapes comes out with something that ought to have everyone in the country taking a vow to never watch mainstream news again. "Larry, it's not our job to prove the source material is authentic.... It's up to the other side to prove it's not."
I sure hope to hell that I wasn't the only one to grasp the significance of that statement. For those not tuned in to LibSpeak what she just said was that it's okay for the media to just make stuff up if it helps advance their "story" and their agenda. Normally they advance their agenda by very selectively reporting the "news" to America. For instance.... their anti-war agenda. Please name the last time you heard a positive news report on either Iraq or Afghanistan. Please recount the last time a major media source aired a report showing our troops engaged in building schools (over 350 at last count), rebuilding municipal infrastructure, protecting and treating the hapless victims of terrorist attacks. Keep your eyes peeled for the paid ads run by the people of Kurdistan in northern Iraq TO the people of America! Kurdistan is quiet, peaceful and not one U.S. troop has died in that area since 2003. They just want to say thank you America for our freedom. That should have been a news item on every major network but it wasn't and it won't be either. That's why the people of Kurdistan had to run ads in the American media... so we would know the truth.
That last line is a sad commentary, folks. For several years now I've been mulling over the idea of assigning a rating system to all the media. We could have a "BS" rating for the tabloids for example. We could have a "N" rating for outlets that accurately reported the news. We might have a rating of "VB" for outlets that demonstrated a high degree of bias in their reporting. One could keep breaking it down but that's enough for now. Then I take the rating system one step further. First to have to prominently display your rating on the main page of a print publication and in the lower right hand corner of a TV presentation. I'd like to go one step farther and just flatly forbid anyone from being on TV unless they had an "N" rating but there is that freedom of the press thing. My nifty little system doesn't restrict the freedom of the press though. All it does is warn the public that you just might be on the receiving end of a big steaming shovel full if you don't see that "N" rating. I think that's something everyone in America ought to know!
Friday, November 11, 2005
Wednesday, November 02, 2005
The Democrat Whirlpool
It seems that the democrats are getting motion sickness these days. It's a two part problem for them but fairly easy to explain really. Part one is caused by their heads spinning around. Not unlike the little girl in The Exorcist. While most are likely not possessed by demons there is more than enough evil intent on their side to go around several times. The head spinning is caused by constantly having to change position on the various key issues based upon which special interest group they are addressing. This begins the dizziness. Part two is caused by their 40 year history of absolute control in Washington D.C. slipping further and faster out of their greedy grasp. No matter what trick or scheme they try lately it blows up in their faces. They are in one giant "flush mode" whirlpool and heading down the drain fast! Frankly it's a hoot to watch.
The current democrat party is a party without a solid core. Rather it is a conglomeration of special interest groups which the party leadership must cater to. Even at Dictionary.com one of the definitions for cater reads "The legislation catered to several special interest groups." Do those people know democrats or what? John Kerry was a prime example in his doomed run for the top office. In Detroit (New Falluja) Kerry boasted of owning several large SUV's as he addressed union auto workers. A few days later he denied owning any SUV's by stating "I don't own any, my family does." That is a point without any difference.
On my other blog I addressed the waste of time and money this trumped up witchhunt over "spy outting" is. Documentation anyone with a computer can find proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Plame outed herself 6 and 7 years before any of this other stuff surfaced. Her brilliant husband (and media whore) listed her by her cover name and cover company in the bio section of a speakers list when he spoke at a conference on Iraq one full year prior to the current hype. This is just another little "get Bush" gambit and, like all the others, it too is doomed to abject failure.
What the democratic party fails to understand is that under our political system there is no absolute right to govern granted to either party. Every other year it's a crap shoot as to who will gain office be that House, Senate or Presidency. (which I know is every four years) Back when the democrat party had a core and actually stood for things they held sway with a majority of Americans and, as a result, maintained a leadership position for four decades. At this point they really need to rename their party the "Demosaurs" because they are about to meet the big space rock and become extinct.
However, during that long reign of control, the Democrats came to believe that control was their birthright. Right now the party needs to be assessing itself and asking the key question "what is wrong with our position". But to them there is nothing wrong with their position on key issues. When they get rejected the finger pointing begins. It's rigged voting machines. It's evil republicans keeping blacks from the polls. It's that their "message" didn't get out. It's unfair and biased talk radio. The list goes on and on and on. And like one democrat put it after Persident Bush handily won the last election... "How could 51 million Americans be so stupid?" That's right... we the people are too stupid to vote for democrats..... according to them.
Sorry Dem's but the biggest stockpile of stupid is in your backyard not ours. (We have outhouses and old cars in our backyards... no room for stupid) You are the ones who earnestly believe that the American people are instantly going to believe anything you say today. That we don't have a memory. For the last two years we've heard an endless stream of "Bush Lied!" and "there were no weapons of mass destruction!" Frankly it gets tiring and that's another one of your problems. All one has to do is let their fingers trip over their keyboards and there is a wealth of wonderful quotaions on both Iraq and WMD's. Try some of these on for size:
"Without question we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator leading an impressive regime. He presents a particularlly grievous threat because he is so consistantly prone to miscalculation. And now he's miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistant grasp for weapons of mass destruction."
And how about this one:
"If Saddam rejects peace, and we have to use force, our purpose is clear: We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
And one more just to make my point crystal clear:
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the developement of weapons of mass destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Yep! Those statements are all on the record and in the history books boys and girls. War mongering republicans you suspect? WRONG!! The first quote is the work of none other and John F. Kerry on January 23, 2003. The second by the king of semen stained blue dresses himself... former President William Jefferson Clinton on February 17th, 1998. And the final quote is given to us by "Queen" Nancy Pelosi on December 16th, 1998. Each and every one a democrat to the bone and each and every one has since accused President Bush of lying about Iraq having WMD's just to get us into a war. Seems a bit two faced if you ask me. The list of famous democrats who made similar statements is lengthy. Too lengthy for me to quote them all here. However I can list a few names of leading democrats who were 100% on board for kicking Iraq's ass because of their WMD programs.
1. Bill Clinton
2. John F. Kerry
3. Nancy Pelosi
4. Sandy Berger
5. Madeleine Albright
6. Carl Levin
7. Tom Daschle
8. Al Gore
9. Ted Kennedy
10. Robert Byrd
Just to name a few! Each and every one with the very same message. Saddam Hussein is an evil man and a threat to the region and the world because of his persuit of WMD's. Folks it seems to me that if these very same people now are claiming that "Bush lied" to get us into war then wern't they lying to the American people then? Hummmmmm?? You can't have it both ways democrats that that's what's killing them. If anyone is constantly lying to the American people it's the left. They lie about Presiden Bush. They lie about their stated position on the war and on WMD's. They lie about who they are every election cycle. They lie about what they believe and what they truly want for this country.
While they piss and moan about every little bitty thing that doesn't go their way what they are not hearing is the sound of the American people waking up and paying attention. What they are not seeing is that their old ally, the mainstream media, is starting to splinter a bit and isn't always as eager to jump on their bandwagon anymore. Don't get me wrong on that point though. The mainstream media is still a bit to the left of ol' Joe Stallin and they still have their own agenda to advance. They just haven't figured out how to get anyone but democrats to do that for them yet. Thanks to the internet and the FOX network there is now a check and balance to their former total control of the media. Now when they lie all the details hit cyberspace in nanoseconds.
So while I watch the democratic party getting sucked into a black hole of it's own making I'm both elated and saddened. I'm happy because this current bunch is as slimy as dead fish and needs to get sucked apart and squashed into oblivion. I'm sad, though, because at one time this was a pretty great party and actually stood for something. They did do some good in the world and did make a difference. But their entitlement mentality refuses to come to grips with the fact that the American people have heard their "message" and have rejected it. Democrats rail against "christians" and make fun of our beliefs when 84% of the country is christian. Want a good way to stay out of power? Alienate the majority of the voters... that will do it every time. Like someone said.... put a sack of excrement down and a democrat will go out of his way to step in it. They are coming apart at the seams and can't figure that out. They can't look at themselves and see a problem. Obviously we the people have seen a problem with them.
The current democrat party is a party without a solid core. Rather it is a conglomeration of special interest groups which the party leadership must cater to. Even at Dictionary.com one of the definitions for cater reads "The legislation catered to several special interest groups." Do those people know democrats or what? John Kerry was a prime example in his doomed run for the top office. In Detroit (New Falluja) Kerry boasted of owning several large SUV's as he addressed union auto workers. A few days later he denied owning any SUV's by stating "I don't own any, my family does." That is a point without any difference.
On my other blog I addressed the waste of time and money this trumped up witchhunt over "spy outting" is. Documentation anyone with a computer can find proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that Plame outed herself 6 and 7 years before any of this other stuff surfaced. Her brilliant husband (and media whore) listed her by her cover name and cover company in the bio section of a speakers list when he spoke at a conference on Iraq one full year prior to the current hype. This is just another little "get Bush" gambit and, like all the others, it too is doomed to abject failure.
What the democratic party fails to understand is that under our political system there is no absolute right to govern granted to either party. Every other year it's a crap shoot as to who will gain office be that House, Senate or Presidency. (which I know is every four years) Back when the democrat party had a core and actually stood for things they held sway with a majority of Americans and, as a result, maintained a leadership position for four decades. At this point they really need to rename their party the "Demosaurs" because they are about to meet the big space rock and become extinct.
However, during that long reign of control, the Democrats came to believe that control was their birthright. Right now the party needs to be assessing itself and asking the key question "what is wrong with our position". But to them there is nothing wrong with their position on key issues. When they get rejected the finger pointing begins. It's rigged voting machines. It's evil republicans keeping blacks from the polls. It's that their "message" didn't get out. It's unfair and biased talk radio. The list goes on and on and on. And like one democrat put it after Persident Bush handily won the last election... "How could 51 million Americans be so stupid?" That's right... we the people are too stupid to vote for democrats..... according to them.
Sorry Dem's but the biggest stockpile of stupid is in your backyard not ours. (We have outhouses and old cars in our backyards... no room for stupid) You are the ones who earnestly believe that the American people are instantly going to believe anything you say today. That we don't have a memory. For the last two years we've heard an endless stream of "Bush Lied!" and "there were no weapons of mass destruction!" Frankly it gets tiring and that's another one of your problems. All one has to do is let their fingers trip over their keyboards and there is a wealth of wonderful quotaions on both Iraq and WMD's. Try some of these on for size:
"Without question we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator leading an impressive regime. He presents a particularlly grievous threat because he is so consistantly prone to miscalculation. And now he's miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistant grasp for weapons of mass destruction."
And how about this one:
"If Saddam rejects peace, and we have to use force, our purpose is clear: We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
And one more just to make my point crystal clear:
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the developement of weapons of mass destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Yep! Those statements are all on the record and in the history books boys and girls. War mongering republicans you suspect? WRONG!! The first quote is the work of none other and John F. Kerry on January 23, 2003. The second by the king of semen stained blue dresses himself... former President William Jefferson Clinton on February 17th, 1998. And the final quote is given to us by "Queen" Nancy Pelosi on December 16th, 1998. Each and every one a democrat to the bone and each and every one has since accused President Bush of lying about Iraq having WMD's just to get us into a war. Seems a bit two faced if you ask me. The list of famous democrats who made similar statements is lengthy. Too lengthy for me to quote them all here. However I can list a few names of leading democrats who were 100% on board for kicking Iraq's ass because of their WMD programs.
1. Bill Clinton
2. John F. Kerry
3. Nancy Pelosi
4. Sandy Berger
5. Madeleine Albright
6. Carl Levin
7. Tom Daschle
8. Al Gore
9. Ted Kennedy
10. Robert Byrd
Just to name a few! Each and every one with the very same message. Saddam Hussein is an evil man and a threat to the region and the world because of his persuit of WMD's. Folks it seems to me that if these very same people now are claiming that "Bush lied" to get us into war then wern't they lying to the American people then? Hummmmmm?? You can't have it both ways democrats that that's what's killing them. If anyone is constantly lying to the American people it's the left. They lie about Presiden Bush. They lie about their stated position on the war and on WMD's. They lie about who they are every election cycle. They lie about what they believe and what they truly want for this country.
While they piss and moan about every little bitty thing that doesn't go their way what they are not hearing is the sound of the American people waking up and paying attention. What they are not seeing is that their old ally, the mainstream media, is starting to splinter a bit and isn't always as eager to jump on their bandwagon anymore. Don't get me wrong on that point though. The mainstream media is still a bit to the left of ol' Joe Stallin and they still have their own agenda to advance. They just haven't figured out how to get anyone but democrats to do that for them yet. Thanks to the internet and the FOX network there is now a check and balance to their former total control of the media. Now when they lie all the details hit cyberspace in nanoseconds.
So while I watch the democratic party getting sucked into a black hole of it's own making I'm both elated and saddened. I'm happy because this current bunch is as slimy as dead fish and needs to get sucked apart and squashed into oblivion. I'm sad, though, because at one time this was a pretty great party and actually stood for something. They did do some good in the world and did make a difference. But their entitlement mentality refuses to come to grips with the fact that the American people have heard their "message" and have rejected it. Democrats rail against "christians" and make fun of our beliefs when 84% of the country is christian. Want a good way to stay out of power? Alienate the majority of the voters... that will do it every time. Like someone said.... put a sack of excrement down and a democrat will go out of his way to step in it. They are coming apart at the seams and can't figure that out. They can't look at themselves and see a problem. Obviously we the people have seen a problem with them.
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