Back Talk

The Media is a destructive force

2008-09-03T03:18:59Z

The media is doing everything in its power to get Obama/Biden elected, the number one and three most liberal men in the Senate.

]]> Part of this effort is to demonize the Republican candidates, even stooping to making a big issue of Vice Presidential Nominee, Sarah Palin’s, family. The abominable New York Times, now a propaganda department of the Obama campaign, ran three front page stories about Governor Palin’s 17 year-old daughter. I see the American media as a generally destructive element in our society. The media, having constant ongoing access to the public, has spearheaded the crusade among America’s Liberals for a Socialist revolution that started with the Berkeley student riots and other kinds of civil unrest in the late 1960’s. Radically changing a country’s basic culture is slow process; the revolutionaries, in our case are the liberal politicians, way-out college professors like Barack Obama’s pal, William Ayers, and leftist tenured teachers we keep reading about who have full unmonitored access to our kids. Overturning a Democracy is not so easy in a free country; not like in a totalitarian government where a few firebrands can execute a military coup. It is a slow methodical process of providing cradle to grave welfare to create a dependent class, promising free (fill in the blanks) for everyone, taking earnings away from working people who earned it, and giving it to those who didn’t (nearly one-half of Americans pay no taxes,) constantly reminding the public of the inequities in income and property to foster class envy, fanning the embers of racism, unbelievable creeping political correctness, fostering anti-big business sentiment, and generally arranging for the government to take more and more control of every aspect of our lives.

The Media and its double standard

2008-09-02T00:53:42Z

Just as we would have expected, our leftist Media wasted no time in attacking President Bush’s choice for his running mate.

]]> Media people, along with their Democrat Party soul mates, are pouncing upon the choice of Alaska Governor Sara Palen because of her inexperience. Mind you, this is the same crowd that virtually ignored that Barack Hussein Obama, who is seeking the top job, has even less experience. Tonight on the evening CBS news, where the network is supposed to be covering the convention, Katie Couric and the rest of the CBS liberal talking heads are focused on the news that Sara Palen’s 17 year old daughter is pregnant. Couric posed the question of how much this latest news would affect the Republican campaign and proceeded to interview voters in Alaska. Surprise, surprise, 90% of the interviews were with Democrat voters, and yet another surprise, they felt it was bad for the Republicans and a poor choice of VP candidate. I should be getting used to such media malfeasance but it is still annoying. The only reason this is an issue in the campaign is because news talking heads like Couric keep making it an issue. A candidate’s family, especially the children, is a private matter that is nobody else’s business. I suppose the leftist media has to stoop to this type stuff, because they backing a candidate with almost nothing to champion. Obama has no leadership experience, no management experience, and has never even authored a bill during his short stay in the Senate. He was a “community organizer” (straight talk translation: community agitator and minor bureaucrat.) Our major media long ago gave up their subterfuge of giving unbiased political coverage. They have been promoting Obama since the day he started campaigning oh so long ago. As he is ranked the most liberal senator – Joe Biden is ranked number 3 or 4 – he fits into the overall liberal media view of the future.

Those DemPols are a hoot

2008-08-30T23:10:02Z

Once again, we see that totalitarian leaders around the globe are on the same page as our Congressional Democrats.

]]> Communist, and former KGB head, Vladimir Putin, Russia's prime minister, mused in a televised interview on Thursday that the United States helped provoke the war between Russia and Georgia to benefit one of the candidates in the American presidential election. Would you like to hazard a guess on which candidate he has in mind? He stated "The suspicion arises that someone in the United States created this conflict on purpose, and the purpose was to stir up the situation and to create an advantage for one of the candidates in the competitive race for the presidency in the United States." He added, "They needed a small victorious war.” Wouldn’t you just know it? Some DemPols are saying exactly the same thing, because, when the war broke out, the United States had only 130 military trainers in Georgia preparing Georgian troops for service in Iraq.
The DemPols, as we have often similarly witnessed with Communist KGB leaders, are prone to making ridiculous claims, knowing that at least a few mindless followers will swallow the Kool-aid. DemPol Al Gore - you remember him, the man who has told us so many head-scratchers – bellowed in his convention speech that Obama was another Abraham Lincoln. That Gore is a hoot. Next thing you know, he’ll be telling us he invented the Internet… Oh, wait a minute, he did tell us that a few years ago.

The Same old Bunch of Thugs and Bubbleheads

2008-08-29T01:24:51Z

The typical motley assortment of protesters are demonstrating at the Democratic National Convention.

]]> One talking head reported that there were 100 different groups in Denver to mount their protest. What do they protest? The Iraq war, big business, big oil, capitalism, the free market, gas prices, Bush, Chaney, human rights, animal rights, global warming, global trade, wages, abortion rights, meat eating, lab animals, peanuts and crackerjacks. Anything and everything. Who are the protesters? The same as they have been at every convention for 40 years: true believing zealots, thugs, anarchists, Communists, America-hating sickos, conspiracy theorists, college kids out for the fun of raising some hell, and a whole lot of young people sold a bill of goods by their teachers and professors about some ostensible outrage that they can’t even articulate. One group in attendance is calling itself, “Unconventional Denver” and is the same group of admitted anarchists that burned, looted, and destroyed private property in Seattle during the World Trade Organization meeting in 1999. Many of the rioters/demonstrators are wearing facial kerchiefs to hide their identity; I assume many don’t want to jeopardize those monthly checks Daddy keeps sending to pay for their pointless education. In 1964, the California Berkeley campus erupted when college students, anarchists, and Communists, went on a rampage in the name of civil disobedience and students’ right to protest. The Marxist-tainted faculty joined the effort and the spineless administration caved in to the demonstrators’ desires. Thus was born several extreme left organizations that have created disunity in America for years. In fact those early riots set the precedent that we see today where a small group of activists can violate the property and civil rights of all others in the name of one cause or another. They cleverly equated freedom of speech with freedom of action – actions to destroy personal property.

Toss out another freedom

2008-08-27T00:52:33Z

I commented on the extent to which the Democrat politicians are beholden to the unions - to the tune of millions of dollars in member dues. In fact, the DemPols give proof here to the dictum, “once an organization gives you money, and you accept it, they own you.”

]]> As an aside, government welfare works on this principle; welfare payments have created a dependent class in America. The unions have been trying for years to get rid of the secret ballot, knowing that with open ballots, they could more easily pressure workers into joining the union and into voting the way union management way. Every Democrat Senator and every Democrat Congressman voted to wipe out the secret ballot in union elections. Our potential next President, Hussein Obama, has already declared he is for sale to the unions by pledging to toss out the secret ballot. Anyone who thinks union leaders will not use worker vote knowledge to coerce and intimidate workers does not know anything about union history. Either that or he is a liberal politician who places money and power above principle. This is the kind of thing that is so infuriatingly frustrating about Democrat politicians; that they can so blithely violate the rights of people, toss aside a time-tested concept, look us straight in the eye and tell us it is a good thing. Politicians can rationalize any misdeed when it comes time to pay back a special interest group. We see a similar crime against liberty with the so-called Fairness Doctrine that the DemPols want to enact - nothing more than an attempt to censor, muzzle, and otherwise control what is now a free market of ideas in talk radio. Yet, these DemPols will blandly deny that it is a violation of free speech if a few government bureaucrats get control of free radio and determine who gets to say what, when, where, and for how long. One can’t help but reflect how similar this is to the way that Communist China and Russia coolly deny the most obvious facts available for all to see.

Spin-it, Joe

2008-08-25T23:17:08Z

My first reaction when I read that Hussein Obama had picked Delaware Senator Joe Biden's as his running mate was the same as many other non-believers in the new messiah.

]]> I wondered how verbose Joe was going to explain his previous critical comments of Obama and praise for John McCain. Months ago, he went on the public record to say that Obama lacks the experience to be President. In a more recent public statement, Biden said he stood by the earlier statement and repeated that “Obama is not ready to be president,” and that “the presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training." Biden, however, being a Lawyer/Democrat government burearcrat for over 30 years will undoubtedly glibly spin this around so that you will believe he said the exact opposite of what he said. Or, he might just do the lawyer thing: I didn’t say those things, I was misquoted, and, besides, I didn’t really mean it. Wouldn’t it be refreshing if he merely said, “I still believe that, and I said those things before I knew that Hussein was going to pick me as his running mate.” Never going to happen.
During his last attempt at the Presidency, Biden, who loves the sound of his own voice, stepped on his tongue and caused his campaign to end abrubtly and badly. The talk show yakkers, not the major media that is always in the tank for liberal politicians and buries this type of story, discovered that Biden was stealing lines for his speeches from British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock.

A Perfect Marriage

2008-08-24T00:06:00Z

Barack Hussein Obama has chosen Senator Joe Biden to be his running mate. This appears to be a perfect marriage: an empty vessel and one filled with hot air. Biden has been a government bureaucrat for 30 years and is famous for his self-aggrandizing, mind-numbing, drawn out questions during senate hearings. He is a living, breathing argument for congressional term limits. The former two-time failure at attempting to gain one of the top two spots in our government can now exercise his long-winded, publicity seeking orations to the fullest.

Big Labor owns the Democrat Party

2008-08-21T23:58:20Z

We’ve known for a long time that, along with “political correctness,” one of the worst things Liberals have foisted upon our society is that they believe it is reasonable, in fact necessary for our own good, to force one point of view upon all society – their point of view.

]]> The Constitution, individual freedom of choice, and civil rights mean nothing to a devoted Liberal when these things get in the way of what he has decided what is good for all of us. The Democrats, deeply in the pocket of Big Labor, want to abolish a worker’s fundamental right - the right to a secret ballot. I read that the Democrat politicians have promised to eliminate the secret ballot in union elections, an attack upon privacy that the unions have been waging for years. The DemPols have unashamedly admitted that labor unions, with their huge bankroll, virtually paid for the Democrat’s big success in the 2006 election. In a recent vote, every Democrat Senator and every Democrat Congressman voted to wipe out the secret ballot – a standard element of freedom in a free country. Barack Hussein Obama has pledged, if he is President, to cancel the secret ballot for union people. What’s next? A local thought policeman with you in the voting stall looking over your shoulder while you are marking your ballot? The unprincipled DemPols just cannot do enough for their union paymasters; they actually cut funding to the federal agency that is responsible for investigating union corruption. Now, why do you suppose they would do that? The unions already have an enormous, unwarranted power to influence politics by buying politicians. If they are able to coerce more workers into joining unions and contributing even more funds to use for political bribes, the Democrat Party bureaucrats can stay in power forever.

Major Media Frauds

2008-08-20T00:04:28Z

We’ve just witnessed another example of the partisan media disgracing themselves.

]]> NBC presented a debate forum between John McCain and Barack Obama Saturday night. The debaters were not given the questions ahead of time; the moderator merely gave them a list of possible topics. The format called for the moderator to ask each, in turn, to respond to a question, allowing no real follow-up. The result was an embarrassing event for Obama supporters because, even though the least informed viewers could anticipate and prepare for a few critical issues for our next president, Obama came across the way he always does when speaking without a teleprompter. Indecisive, inept, political, and unpersuasive. He mouthed generalities and platitudes, obviously fearful of saying anything that might somehow upset the new Democrat Party base – the move-on.org extreme left. In short, McCain wiped the floor with him. So how did the media respond? MSNBC’s long-time news reporter Andrea Mitchell said before millions of viewers on Meet The Press Sunday, “The Obama people must feel that he didn't do quite as well as they might have wanted to in that context.” Regarding McCain’s outstanding performance, she said, “He seemed so well prepared.” And what was her rationale? She believed McCain had prior knowledge of the exact questions because he may have heard them on the TV monitor while he was in the green room awaiting the debate. In other words, he did better than my man, so he must have cheated. This turned out to be a total lie; the several witnesses in the room with McCain ridiculed the claim, because there was no working TV monitor in the green room prior to the debate because the staff had disconnected it. Media sycophants like Andrea Mitchell are so anxious for Obama to be our next president and allow them to be part of a history-making first Black President that they are willing to commit professional malfeasance. They are dishonest, corrupt, frauds.

Putin loves Obama

2008-08-18T18:47:20Z

You can be sure the Russians are not unaware of Hussein Obama’s limp response to their invasion of the small democracy Georgia. Nor of his incredible ignorance of the fact that Russia has a veto on the U.N. Security Council.

]]> Also, Putin and his old KGB pals have known ever since the cold war that our pacifist, Marxist-tinged media will soft-pedal any of their aggressions, regardless of how extreme they are. The New York Times might as well be a subdivision of Pravda when it comes to criticizing the Russian fighting bear. In fact, true to form, there are media members, along with some DemPols, blaming the U.S. for the Russian invasion of Georgia because we supported and encouraged Georgia to become independent. If Russia invaded East Germany, I’m sure our press would blame America because we have a military presence in West Germany. I’m surprised Russia hasn’t contributed to the Obama campaign since they clearly prefer him as America’s next president over someone with experience in foreign relations. They correctly believe it is to their advantage to have a weak American president in the mold of Carter, given their aggressive plan for getting back some of the small eastern European countries they lost along with the cold war.
Hussein Obama is in no way prepared to deal with world events such as Russia’s incursion into Georgia, because weakness in an adversary only inspires a man like Vladimir Putin. His community organizer work and one-half term in the Senate did not prepare him for such things, and, particularly when he seems to have no core principles, only general platitudes. He never knows how to respond to a direct question until his staff has programmed him.

Illuminating Incidents

2008-08-15T01:36:49Z

The Former Soviet Union, under the iron fist of ex KGB leader, Putin, has tried all types of intimidation and veiled threats, financial and physical, against its small former satellite countries. Now Russia has invaded the little new Democracy of Georgia on the pretext of "protecting Russian peacekeepers stationed in South Ossetia.”

]]> Hussein Obama’s first reaction was what one would expect of a pacifist and complete neophyte in dealing with such things; he called for restraint and for the U.N. to tell those naughty Russians to stop attacking Georgia immediately. He also called for the U.N. Security Council to pass a resolution for "an immediate end to the violence." Then he, once again, demonstrated his supreme ignorance by indicating he did not even know Security Council member, Russia, has veto power over resolutions. It is a mystery how Obama supporters can continually turn their heads and ignore these illuminating incidents. He is the wrong man to sit at the throne when it comes to war or threat of war. He is only good at waging war against American corporations and free enterprise.
John McCain, long time critic of Russia’s totalitarian way of doing things, took a tough position and reminded us that we didn’t stop Soviet incursion into Western Europe, and tearing down of the Berlin wall with empty rhetoric. Of course, even if Russia was not a Council member, it is foolhardy to imagine Russia would bat an eye over any U.N. resolution. Iran has been ignoring such resolutions regarding nuclear bomb development for years, and Saddam Hussein ignored 15 of them before we finally went into Iraq.

What are the scary facts?

2008-08-13T00:40:43Z

In a previous blog, I contended that Democrat politicians desperately want to muzzle talk radio and effectively destroy free speech in the medium by passing a new “Fairness Doctrine,” because they are scared to death of facts, not opinions. Facts which only conservative radio gives to the public.

]]> Facts such as the following: man-made global warming is a speculation dreamed up by American liberals and extremist environmentalists and anti-capitalists; tax increases never increase net revenues; capital gain tax increases invariably decrease revenues, constrain investment, and cause the market to negatively react; minimum wage increases cause an increase in unemployment of low wage earners; import taxes cause higher prices for all the affected goods; government price controls invariably cause shortages and higher prices; the powerful trial lawyers union buys off Democrat politicians with political contributions, to block any form of tort reform and allow thousands of frivolous lawsuits, unnecessary class action suits, tie up the courts and put billions in trial lawyer pockets; teachers unions, another hugely influential interest group, also pay off the DemPols, managing to block any innovation in our schools, maintain the status quo of our government education system, and condemn our kids – the six out of ten who stay through high school - to a second-rate education. Although some greedy mortgage lenders granted bad loans, the Democrats are mainly responsible for the so called “mortgage crisis.” They required bankers to grant home loans to questionably qualified minorities in high risk locations; just another one of the left’s misguided attempts at affirmative action. Ninety percent of our major media members are liberal sycophants who have been carrying the water for the Democrat party for years. The ultimate fact, and driving force behind all of the other above is that, government is never the solution to any problem; it is the problem.

Afraid of Facts

2008-08-11T21:31:55Z

Years ago when while suffering through another liberal congress, we had an ironically named Fairness Doctrine declaring that government bureaucrats could essentially decide who, when, and what could be presented on the radio airwaves, taking freedom of speech away from people in the name of fairness to all sides.

]]> You know, rather like Communist China. The law virtually killed talk radio for a few years until the doctrine was finally expunged. In the last couple of years, several liberal congresspersons, adamant believers in freedom of speech provided it coincides with their opinions, have made a push to restore the disingenuously named Fairness Doctrine. This latest push is a direct response to the tremendous advent of conservative talk radio and which drives the Liberals, who, for some unknown reason, have absolutely no sense of humor, to distraction. They have not been able to shrug it off and move on, nor have they been able to form their own talk radio and let the free market of ideas go with it, because Liberals tend to be boring given that their only weapon is to trash the opposition. Every time they renew their push to muzzle talk radio, I puzzle over the seeming inconsistency that the party that is supposed to believe so strongly in free speech devoutly wants to remove it from a free element in our society. Moreover, I am surprised that the DemPols behind this, all lawyers who must have learned something with all those years of schooling besides torts and contract law, don’t understand one of life’s axioms: radio big-mouths like Rush Limbaugh never ever convince an adult to completely change his opinion; it takes a big emotional event to turn a person’s mind around about his basic beliefs. So why are the Liberals so afraid of talk radio? It dawned on me that the Liberals are not afraid of opposing opinions regardless of how many times the talkers repeat them. They are afraid of facts, facts that the partisan liberal media never present.

Who caused this stuff?

2008-08-10T01:11:44Z

American Liberals, either directly or indirectly, have caused almost every major problem bedeviling America.

]]> We have an oil shortage problem which has caused big increases in the price of heating oil, gasoline, and hundreds of other products such as plastics and cosmetics and, in the process, have put our country at risk. This situation could have been avoided. The Democrats/Liberals, starting with Bill Clinton’s veto of the oil exploration bill, have blocked all new development of nuclear energy and oil exploration off our coast. We are paying the price now because of a failure to look after our own interests.
The Democrats have placed such stringent rules upon the drug companies they have forced the companies to incur unnecessary costs of research and development and have, consequently, been making fewer much needed drugs available to the public. They have also had to charge more for the drugs to cover costs. Naturally, the Democrats are now harsh critics of the companies for the high costs. Another contributor for high medical costs is the extreme leftist animal rights organizations. These loonies have threatened and even bombed laboratories that use animals to test new drugs they develop to cure human disease. Such activity has further handicapped development, increased drug prices, and delayed getting drugs on the market that could have saved thousands of lives.
The liberal media, Socialists, leftist environmentalists, and publicity seekers like Al Gore have indoctrinated the public and forced a plethora of environmental restrictions that limit our country’s productivity, growth, and full employment. Self-concerned Unions have pressured Congressional Democrats to enact import tariffs that have caused higher prices on affected products for all Americans and minimum wage laws that cause unemployment of the lowest paid wages and increase the deficit.
Our partisan media is a big part of the liberal establishment and, in years past, has been the chief indoctrinator, propagandist, and major contributor to all of the above problems.

“Facts are stubborn things”

2008-08-07T16:31:19Z

I constantly hear on the news and read in the press that global warming is one our major problems. To the media, man-made global warming is a foregone conclusion so, in almost all reporting concerning the weather, water shortage, hurricanes, earthquakes, and all other natural disasters, the lockstep liberal media make at least an offhand reference to the so-called fact of global warming.

]]> More and more scientists are now having the courage, in the face of disapproving enviro-zealots, to state that there is no evidence that man has caused any form of global warming. On the contrary, scientists report that the planet has not warmed in the last ten years, and we may be entering another cyclic global cooling phase as we had in the 1970’s. Once the enviro-nuts and Al Gore planted into the public’s mind that man has caused planet-destroying global warming, and the media daily reinforces it, and teachers and professors impress it into the minds of young people, almost no contrary fact will penetrate the lie. I can only hope that John Adams was right when he said, “facts are stubborn things,” and facts can somehow overcome the weight of all the indoctrination. However, often, even though facts emerge, they are too late to prevent the damage. Crusader Ralph Nader, with a big help from the media that bought into the story, convinced the public that the Chevy Corvair was unsafe, and, together, they destroyed the car’s image, caused its removal from the market, and cost General Motors a bundle. Nader, and of course the media, never had to answer for the damage after the story was proven to be a complete lie.
Environmentalism has all the elements of a religion; it has its faith, sin, good versus evil, redemption, and garden of evil – the American society. The congregation sees an America with no cars, no factories, where everyone rides bicycles, grows their own vegetables, makes their own soap, and lives in a cave. Kind of a Neanderthal life with bicycles.