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Teabaggers Are Tards!
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Glenn Beck, Government, Politics, Populists, Sarah Palin, Tea Party, United States on March 5th, 2010
TEABAGGER ANTI-STIMULUS PROTEST AT WHITEHOUSE ON 2-27-09
OK.
Let’s analyze this Tard logic.
1) Teabaggers (members of the American Tea Party) are so incensed that Rachael Maddow calls them by that name – sarcastically referencing the sexually-perverted act - that they have filed 1,239 Indecency complaints with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)against MSNBC (subsidiary cable network of parent company NBC), the broadcaster of The Rachael Maddow Show.
2) The Teabaggers were the first ones to reference the term for political purposes in their February 27, 2009 anti-stimulus protest in front of the Whitehouse (see 2/27/09 post on web containing the picture above).
3) So now their politically-correct sensitivity is insulted?
Including the Teabaggers Chief Tard, Sarah Palin?
Hail to the Chief.
Fox News’ Hiring of Sarah Palin Makes Our Founding Fathers Want a Mulligan on Freedom of the Press
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media & Communication, Politics, Populists, Sarah Palin, Tea Party on January 14th, 2010
At famous cemeteries all up and down the East coast, you can hear their contorted bodies rolling over in their graves at night. Our founding fathers are watching Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin invoke their names on Fox News as though these two are patriots to the principles of truth and freedom.
In her interview with Beck on Tuesday, Palin even went so far as to make a poorly veiled attempt at comparing herself to George Washington, stating that “he was almost reluctant to serve as president, too . . . that is who you need to find to serve in government . . . those who you know will serve for the right reasons because they’re reluctant to get out there and seek a limelight and seek the power. They’re doing it for people. ”
Notice her use of the word “too“, as in “I also am reluctant, but I will do it for my country”?
You can be certain those comments make Thomas Jefferson and James Madison almost wish they could take a mulligan on the 1st Amendment’s clause respecting Freedom of the Press. After all, even men as intelligent as they were could have never envisioned two demagogues like Beck and Palin both employed by the same network. Think about it. Could you ever in your wildest imagination have believed there would be this much self-aggrandizement polished and wrapped under the guise of news and opinions?
Well thank goodness, Jefferson and Madison were also intelligent enough to know that most Americans would not listen to shameless frauds like Beck and Palin. Our founding fathers had enough faith in the wisdom of the American people to know that the principles of reason and logic would prevail over the false words and deeds from even the most duplicitous and disingenuous hypocrites that were in our midst.
That’s called Freedom of Thinking.
Sean Hannity and Fox News’ “Inadvertant Mistake”
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Congress, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Fox News, Government, Healthcare Reform, How and Why We Get Screwed, Humor, Media & Communication, Politics, Populists, Tea Party on November 12th, 2009
This week Sean Hannity and Fox News were caught red-handed showing video footage of Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally in Washington, D.C. in order to bolster the perceived attendance numbers of the marginal crowd at Michelle Bachman’s Republican anti-Health Care Reform “press conference” held last week on the Capital steps.
John Stewart, host of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, showed the video montage that Hannity played on Fox News. Stewart’s commentary accentuates the amateur manner in which Hannity and Fox interspersed the 9/12 rally video clips with the clips from the Bachman – Republican “press conference” held in early November. Stewart points out the obvious discrepancies with witty questions as to why the trees are all green in some of the footage, and obviously changing colors as occurs in late fall in the other video clips.
Both Bachman and her Fixed Shill (Hannity) claimed that the “press conference” crowd numbered somewhere between 20,000 to 45,000 people – which ironically is the estimated number of people attending the 9/12 rally. Video footage, and estimates by the three Capitol Hill police officers, placed the number at somewhere around 4000 people. One would suspect that if there were only three Capital security officers assigned for “crowd control”, the attendance was minimal – otherwise, more officers would have been called in for duty. The officer’s estimates are likely the most accurate given their significant experience in dealing with crowds on the Capital mall.
However, the real hypocrisy committed by Hannity and the ”fair and balanced” network was his on-air apology given this week, giving John Stewart his deserved credit, with the aside that this was an “inadvertent mistake”. So Hannity is conceding that Fixed News is incompetent as a journalism network? That pathetic excuse only confirms the extent to which Hannity, Fixed News, and it’s shills will set out to deceive the public, and then lie about the deception in order to cover-up their obvious slanted political agenda.
Unfortunately, the FCC (Federal Communications Corporation) will not likely take any action for this blatant attempt at skewing the news, since Rupert Murdoch’s manipulative minions will say that it is another conspiracy by President Obama to silence them. That the network’s viewers seemingly turn their head the other way only undermines their claims that the Liberal Media is one of the principle problems in this country.
Hey Fox viewers, the lies and distortions that you constantly rant about being disseminated in this country are right their on your TV screen. Turn the damn thing off and read something with substance if you want the truth.
Lou Dobbs, Master of the Pot Shot, Bids “Adios” Due to a Bad Shot
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Conservatives, Cultural Issues, Media & Communication, Populists, Race, Tea Party on November 12th, 2009
Dictionary definition Pot Shot or pot-shot: n. 1) A random or easy shot. 2) A criticism made without careful thought and aimed at a handy target for attack [So called because such a shot is fired by a hunter whose main purpose is to get food for the pot.]
When Lou Dobbs suddenly announced his resignation from CNN yesterday it came as no real surprise. Dobbs had been slowly developing into the other proverbial “loose cannon” on the deck of the oldest cable news organization, and his populist rant was revealing a deep-seeded and incendiary paranoia that has only been matched by Glenn Beck in the past couple of years. Ironically, it was CNN that inadvertently gave them their starts – and it was inevitable that the network would have to part ways with both of them (or vis-a-versa). Advertisers were not going to be penalized by his unpredictable rants which tended to insult vast numbers of minorities that purchase goods and services around this country.
Dobbs can certainly find greener pastures at Faux News Network, where he will continue to blame the woes of this country on illegal aliens and other boogie men. After all, a valid birth certificate released by the State of Hawaii has thus far not dissuaded Dobbs from continuing to insinuate that President Obama, himself, is an illegal alien. This only lends more credence to those critics who lam-bast him for his ”racist conspiracy theories”. After all, if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck , it must be a duck.
However, the final irony herein is that after years of taking “pot shots” at the Liberal Media, Dobbs is now blaming them in another non sequitur reference regarding the fact that he and his wife were outside their home when a bullet was fired in their direction. Dobbs claimed that it was because of all of the hatred directed toward him by the liberal media, it inflamed someone to shoot at he and his wife because of his stance on illegal immigration.
Lou, double up on that Prozac tomorrow. Officials for the New Jersey State Police played down the whole incident, stating that the likely source of the obviously stray bullet was from a hunters gun, and that the bullet went into the attic of Dobbs’ house. Now if someone really wanted you dead, Lou, you would make a pretty easy target. I am betting you are not real fast on your feet, and you’re carrying enough spare tires around your gut to support a NASCAR team on race weekend. A bullet flying randomly into an attic either came from a long way’s away, or was such a bad shot that it does not merit worrying about. Trust me, Lou. If the shooter can barely hit the broad side of a barn, even a target as big as you is safe standing out in the middle of your front yard.
Either way, I just think it’s funny after all of the nasty pot shots you have taken at people, races and cultures over the years, that you are now complaining about a stray bullet that was not even likely intended for you.
Karma is strange. Isn’t it Lou?
Message to any “FED” – Hang ‘Em High!
Posted by Lance Haley in Anti-government sentiment, Congress, Cultural Issues, Government, How and Why We Get Screwed, Politics, crime on September 24th, 2009
Beck and Bachmann on fear of government intrusion
First, let’s acknowledge how irresponsible it is to accuse any particular group for U.S. Census worker Bill Sparkman’s death.
However, the peculiar circumstances surrounding him being hanged from a tree – which law enforcement investigators in Kentucky have preliminarily ruled as a homicide – beg the question, why would anyone scrawl the word “FED” across his chest, and what would be their motive?
One could easily infer that it is possibly fear of government intrusion - see the video at the bottom of an article published today.
Are Glenn Beck and Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) really that distressed over government invasion into our privacy?
Well, recall back in 2005 when the story broke regarding the fact that the National Security Agency (NSA), operating under the directives of the Bush Administration, had wiretapped millions of American citizens’ private phone conversations under the guise of investigating possible links to terrorism. This led to an investigation by Congress into the extent of the wiretaps, whether they were legal, and whether they were being properly targeted in order to protect national security as asserted by the Bush Administration.
In order to assure the American public that the wiretaps were not directed at innocent citizens, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, in a White House press briefing, stated that these intercepts were only authorized when the government “has a reasonable basis to conclude that one party to the communication is a member of al Qaeda, affiliated with al Qaeda, or a member of an organization affiliated with al Qaeda, or working in support of al Qaeda.” and that one party to the conversation is “outside of the United States” [emphasis added].
When General Michael Hayden, former head of the NSA and then-acting Director of the CIA, was eventually called to testify before the Senate regarding allegations of unwarranted government intrusion into the lives of innocent American citizens, he unconditionally denied that the government was listening to private conversations that were not reasonably related to terrorist activity. General Hayden stated, “[w]e are narrowly focused and drilled on protecting the nation against al Qaeda and those organizations who are affiliated with it,”
FACT: some of the conversations were between American couples (even servicemen and their spouses/girlfriends) engaging in the most intimate communications that had nothing to do with national security. That this is a gross invasion of privacy, and the most egregious form of governmental intrusion is beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Former NSA employee Adrienne Kinne, who was awarded an NSA Joint Service Achievement Medal in 2003, along with one of her fellow NSA peers, came forward in 2008 and pointedly criticized the NSA’s continued targeting of obviously innocent American citizens. She proudly stated that sometimes the intercepts did result in information that may have interrupted potential terror attacks in Iraq, and therefore saved American lives.
Yet, Kinne noted the problem was all of the wasted time and resources spent focusing on these innocent Americans, when it could have been directed towards finding the proverbial “needle in the haystack”. As Ms. Kinne so poignantly stated, “[b]y casting the net so wide and continuing to collect on Americans . . . it’s almost like they’re making the haystack bigger and it’s harder to find that piece of information that might actually be useful to somebody,” she said. “You’re actually hurting our ability to effectively protect our national security.”
So Glenn Beck and Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann. . . where was the outrage regarding government intrusion back then?