AP pulls the curtain back on their agenda

Jourtegrity takes a huge hit with the largest news gathering organization farming out their "reporting" to 4 leftist organizations.

This pretty much signals the death of any semblance of neutrality in journalism. AP supplies boilerplate newsprint filler to the vast majority of newspapers in America. If you've noticed that your local paper has been moving pretty left the last couple of years, wait a few weeks, you ain't seen nuthin' yet.

AP, itself a not-for-profit enterprise, identified the four organizations as "civic-minded" nonprofits. They also all have decidedly liberal sponsors. A cursory glance at the "independent" news shops reveals their reliance on left-tilting patrons such as the Knight Foundation and leftist donors such as financier Herbert Sandler and currency speculator George Soros.
Sandler and his wife, Marion, founders of ProPublica, are generous givers to Democratic candidates and left-wing causes including the Center for American Progress and ACORN, the ethically-challenged radical action group. Soros, an early backer of CPI as well as the radical MoveOn.org, poured tens of millions into attacks on President George W. Bush.

Enjoy waking up to your local version of The Democrat Talking Points Bugle. Game over.

This might be the one that causes me to check out the New Zealand real estate pages.
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You can't make this stuff up

Would people just stop being so rowdy by questioning our politicicans when they're home on August recess for crying out loud? They're just trying to do their jobs as honest government representatives.

This honorable gentleman is chairman of the "House Oversight and Government Reform Committee". He's minding the store!!

re: www.yahoo.com

"A leading Democrat in the House of Representatives who has rebuffed Republican efforts to subpoena records of a mortgage program for favored borrowers at Countrywide Financial Corp got home loans from that lender, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
Representative Edolphus Towns, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, obtained two loans from Countrywide, which was bought last year by Bank of America, the newspaper said, citing information from the lawmaker's mortgage documents."

Barbara Boxer is irate that we dare question the politicians about government policy. The White House has a new "snitch" line so you can report people who are questioning the administration's healthcare plan.

Honestly, Obamaniacs, is this the type of government you were expecting when you signed on to Hope and Change? Be honest with yourself. Check out the facts, put down the KoolAid and get real. It's a totalitarian government disguised as "change".

Here are a few more names to Google: Charles Rangel, Chris Dodd, William Jefferson, John Conyer's wife. That's a starter list. Check back with me later and tell me you still want to be a Democrat.
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Clunkers program a grand loser

Four of the top five car models purchased by the people who are turning in their cars under the "Cash for Clunkers" program are foreign cars. I predicted this in an earlier blog. No data out yet (because the Obama administration won't release it) but my supposition is that a far greater percentage of the turned in cars are American instead of foreign.

Crush American cars and replace them with foreign models and do it with American taxpayer money. What's not to like....if you're from Korea or Japan.

One bright note, the lone American company in the top five is Ford, the only American car company that did not beg for bailout money from the government. And from the interviews that is apparently the reason that people are choosing Ford.

Oh, and the environmental impact of this program is negligible if not actually negative.
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Eventually someone will do an exhaustive investigation of all the ridiculously inane aspects of this law and discover how monumentally stupid it is on all levels. It will become the brunt of jokes and in fact will be used to describe any future government boondoggle...no wait - it will actually be used to replace the term "government boondoggle".
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"Government run healthcare? No thanks, that's probably just another cash for clunkers if you know what I mean."

More shameful race baiting from ABC

As I watched ABC news air it's top of the hour program this morning I was astonished at the race baiting lede.

"It appears that the shooter in the murders in Pennsylvania was motivated by the results of the election."

How do they know this I thought? A blog that the killer kept outlined his plans, emotions etc for the last 8 or 10 months. Robin Roberts the ABC anchor asked the reporter on site "Well what motivated the murderer?" She clearly wanted to get at the right-wing nutjob's racial hatred quickly.

The reporter apparently didn't get the message. He went on to outline (with supporting text on the screen) the diary entries of the murderer. He was lonely. He bought guns. He couldn't find a girlfriend. He was nervous. He aborted his plan once. He didn't think he was ugly. He liked lifting weights. Where was the Obama hate? Where was it?

Finally a quote from the blog referencing the election. "I've been following the election it seems to be getting alot of attention this year."

That's your racist murderer quote? That's it?

That was it. No further quotes detailing his plans to avenge the election or whatever they wanted us to believe. They wanted this to be a race story and it clearly wasn't. It was the tragic story of a deranged loner who killed white women at a dance class. Not exactly election revenge stuff.

Shame on ABC. They owe the viewing public an apology for that misleading, race baiting story.
Racism in America? You bet. It's in the mainstream media.
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Single payer health insurance an Obama dream

Single payer means government health care. Obama has always suggested that government run health care is his dream, even if it takes 10 years. A video surfaced today that clearly had Obama declaring such on the campaign trail.

"Keep your own doctor", "Keep your current plan" that's the mantra from Obama and minions during this race to pass a new sweeping health care bill. One simply can not have that with a government "single payer" program. Are we being lied to for the sake of blowing another huge, expensive, socialist style program by us. Yup.

The white house ran out some spokespeople today to say that the video wasn't accurate. What's not accurate? It is a videotape segment of Obama clearly speaking in his own words. Is the White House suggesting that Obama's words don't matter?

I think that's exactly what they're saying.

Wanna feel 1984ish Big Brother creepy? Check out this video where the White House tells us all we need to know. Don't listen to all those other terrible people! We know best. Hugo Chavez must be pulling these strings.
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Middle Class Tax Increase Trial Balloons Sent Up

Tax cheat and Treasury Secretary Tim Geitner is floating the idea of middle class tax increases. President Obama sends out the clowns first to take the intial flak and then he can come out and say: "but they won't be very large" a few days after the rage dies down a bit. It's a politically expedient way of breaking a campaign promise. Something the Prez has done countless times.
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Cash for Clunkers a little too telling

Cash for Clunkers, the federal program that gives people $4500 for their car that gets less than 18 miles per gallon is a bust all around.

1. We're giving money to throw cars into the scrap heap (yes they must be destroyed) - an environmental waste of epic proportions. Most of these cars, we will find, could have been on the road for many more years of usefulness. 18mpg or not, this is horrible waste.

2. We are taking $4500 per car of taxpayer money (almost double that when we pay off the Chinese for the loans), and there is absolutely no guarantee that they will buy products from the government bailed out American companies GM and Chrysler. Or from Ford for that matter, as they only have 2 hybrid models. My guess is most people will buy the high mpg cars from Toyota, Honda, Nissan etc. Money borrowed from foreigners, double debt service taxes from Americans, to buy mostly foreign cars. In the name of smaller carbon footprints and economic stimulus? BS.

3. And like most government programs it is poorly designed and poorly executed - dealers are on the hook for the money while the gov't figures out how to distribute it. The solution, by the way, as of yesterday is to triple the amount of money available. Someone find out just how much of the cost goes to "administering" the plan.

Oh yeah, I want government run healthcare.

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