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Well, I never.

Obama:  “She didn’t have insurance. She couldn’t afford it, so she had put off having the kind of exams that she needed. And she had fought a tough battle for four years. All through the campaign she was fighting it, but finally she succumbed to it. And she insisted she’s going to be buried in an Obama t-shirt.”

The family said she was cremated while wearing the t-shirt, as she had requested.  And it turns out that she did have insurance, it was just high deductible.

She certainly had a right to be buried as she chose.

But as for President Obama, this is really scraping the bottom.  Does he have any respect for the dead woman?  No.  He is only using her death to promote himself and his beloved health insurance plan, (which in the long run would de-emphasize mammograms for anyone below the age of 50).

And the audience laughed.  They probably didn’t know what to do upon hearing this.

Just to get an idea of how outrageous it is for him to repeat this story, imagine for a minute this was George W. Bush and he got up and told a story about someone being buried in a Bush tee shirt.  Yeah.  Pretty crass, huh.

Washington Examiner
Posted:  01.06.10

“”ARIANNA HUFFINGTON, FOUNDER, “HUFFINGTON POST”: Aren’t you concerned about the language that Glenn Beck is using, which is, after all, inciting the American people. There is a lot of suffering out there, you know. When he talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the next -”"

I didn’t actually see this event where Arianna made this comment.  And not too many did, as evidenced by the graph. 

I love Glenn Beck.  Yesterday he took on Ms. Huffington responding to her claim that he called for people to be slaughtered and that he incited the American  people.  As is his style, rich with sarcasm, he crushes Arianna, referring to her as Media Matters after a few drinks.    (And I don’t mean actually crushed her body as under a steam roller or something, but figuratively speaking)  You wouldn’t think you would have to point that out,  but you do.

But, yeah, she is afraid the American people will be Incited.  That’s Us. The American people.  I wish people would stop saying the words, “American people” claiming every dumb thing they do or say is for us, when they frankly don’t give a damn about the American people.  But they are so worried about us being Incited and all, and so worried we don’t understand things, not even after it has been repeated umpteen dozen times.

Incitement?

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/How-to-Overthrow-the-Government/Arianna-Huffington/e/9781615590346

But, of course, Glenn did not mean a literal slaughter which he proves without any doubt in the above segment.  I think the biggest problem is that Arianna, and others who think as she does, have absolutely no sense of humor.  And maybe, just maybe, they sell us a little short as well.

An.y.body would know he was talking about the economy.  Well, I would think anybody would know.  Glenn Beck is a comedian, and a good one at that, and a very talented man, as well as being a truth teller. It goes without saying some people just can’t handle the truth.

There’s a transcript of the video on the Newsbusters website if you prefer to read it, but the video really captures the “tone” and is quite funny to boot:

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/02/02/beck-demolishes-huffington-shes-media-matters-after-few-drinks#ixzz0eUsNkUic.

Just for fun, here’s an example of some recent love speak from another network.  You know, the one that flat-lined on the chart.  I wonder if Arianna has been able to catch any of this “incitement” lately?!?  Glenn Beck don’t hold a candle to this spew.  Just sayin’.

Posted:  02.03.10

There are so many intances of this administration being off the mark that it would be impossible to mention them all.

Here’s a few of the worst in my opinion:

If there was ever a time when the president should have been outraged, it was the killing of the soldiers at Ft. Hood by one of their own.  Not only one of their own, but one who is a high ranking officer charged with a duty of counseling soldiers. I think this was one of the worst, if not the worst, acts of treason in history, and obviously an act of terrorism and yet the president gave a tepid “don’t jump to conclusions” response.

Then we have the panty bomber on Christmas Day and another slow response and reluctance to call an act of terrorism what it is.  He had betowed on him constitutional rights and then the plans for his skin grafts began. He was with AQ, he said he was with AQ, and even Osama bin Laden has since claimed him.  It took, what, four speeches before the president admitted the connection to AQ.  First reaction.  Wrong reaction.

Then we come to the decision to try terrorists in New York City, buying a prison in Illinois to put them in, the funds for this being included in the budget proposal just submitted to congress. In the case of Shiek Mohammad, at least three members of the administration – Holder, Robert Gibbs, and even the president himself – have declared him guilty and are assuring everyone that he will be executed – will meet his maker and pay for murdering innocent people and so forth.  Good.

But wait a minute.  The reason given for trying him in a criminal court, bringing him to U. S. soil and giving him constitutional rights, is to show the world the exellence of our criminal justice system, the presumption of innocence being a very key element of the system.  He is presumed to be innocent and yet the White House has already declared him guilty and, in fact, have executed him before the trial is held.  What’s the old joke? “we’re going to execute him once we give him a fair trial.”  It just becomes ridiculous at some point.

And, last but not least, the visual of members of the Supreme Court, being insulted and reprimanded by the president and then having the members of congress who surround them all jumping up and applauding him for doing so, is just stunning and chilling.  The arrogance of these people is jawdropping.  Here you have the executive and the legislative branches of the government ganging up to disrespect the judicial branch.  It does not matter that they disagreed with the recent decision of the court, the president standing there
as head cheerleader at the State of the Union address, intimidating the court  (or maybe it was a Saul Alinsky ridicule), is just a perfect example of the kind of leadership he has provided.

This is not even to get into the unprecedented spending and the submission of the new 1.6 trillion dollar budget — after the president says, the federal government cannot “continue to spend as if deficits don’t have consequences,” saying it is unacceptable to act “as if the hard-earned tax dollars of the American people can be treated like Monopoly money.”

It’s like one continuous Saturday Night Live skit.  You only stop laughing when you remember it’s for real.

Posted:  02.02.10

“We have to think about tone.”

This is just a clip of President Obama as he addressed the Republican retreat in Baltimore yesterday, or I should say as he lectured the Republicans.  As usual, this is being protrayed by the MSM with clips here and there in order to prove whatever point they are trying to make.  For anyone who did not see it live, please go to CSPAN and listen to the whole thing in order to judge it all in context.  The facial expressions are worth the price of admission.

You mean kinda like this?  First message to Republicans  (Eric Cantor) was “I won.”  Emplied:  Get used to it.

Watch this video to recapture the tone that was set by the administration from the word go.

“President Obama listened to Republican gripes about his stimulus package during a meeting with congressional leaders Friday morning – but he also left no doubt about who’s in charge of these negotiations. “I won,” Obama noted matter-of-factly, according to sources familiar with the conversation.”

Prez Zings GOP Foe in a Stimulating Talk/New York Post, January 26, 2009.

So let’s tell the truth here.  It was the president’s responsibility to set the “tone,” to provide leadership. And he did.  It was not one of bi-partanship.  The democrats have the Senate and the House and the Presidency, and the tone was to get out of our way, “I won.”" Quote from Politico, January 23, 2009.

And now that the tide is turning, they want to mislead and rewrite the facts.  And that’s what the little summit was all about, to try to shift blame to the Republicans for this horrible failure of 2009, delivered by a complete democrat controlled Washington, D. C.

Not going to work.  We have a good memories.

And probably also to divert attention away from the backtrack on the Manhattan terrorist trials, which is good news, but also highlights the fact, once again, that the first reactions and instincts of the administration are flawed.

Is he giving the GOP the middle finger? Watch. Probably. He did the same to Hillary and McCain during the campaign. That’s the kind of guy he is, real classy.

If you can take it, here’s how MSNBC is playing this.

MSNBC Obama Love Fest.

Note:  Take a look at the Neilsen ratings and these three, Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and Chris Matthews are at the dead bottom of the ratings.   But they are in love and as has long been known, “love is blind.” That’s how it is, one will go to the ends of the earth to defend the object of true love.  Too bad nobody is watching.

Posted:  01.30.10

CABLE NEWS RACE TUES., JAN., 26, 2010

FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,581,000
FOXNEWS BECK 3,196,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 3,133,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,624,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 2,415,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,187,000
CNNHN BEHAR 949,000
CNNHN GRACE 914,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 818,000
CNN KING 796,000
MSNBC MADDOW 726,000

Interesting that the top CNN show is the Joy Behar Show.  Olbermann, Larry King, and Rachel Maddow bottom three, and I don’t even see Chris Matthews on the list, nor Anderson Cooper. Does that mean they were a scratch?

H/T Drudge Report

Posted:  01.28.10

Prior to January 19, 2010

The tone has changed a bit since the 19th election, but it’s kinda fun to look back at the ridicule the tea parties have suffered.

First, is Scott Brown’s response to Chuck Schumer calling him a “far right teabagger Republican.”:

Below, watch Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox mock “teabaggers” prior to the Tax Day April, 2009 protest.  Notice the smirk on her face.  She is so cute, huh?

Odd, when you type in the word on you tube, all that comes up are these videos disparaging and making fun of the tea parties.  Now, I know there are many, many videos out there in favor of them, so the search mechanism seems very fixed.  Definitely trying to control the perception.  But then it is to be expected from You Tube/Google. See Google Goes to Washington

Oh, well, watch those election results, beginning with JANUARY 19th Massachuetts. 

Tom Friedman is just saying “he doesn’t sense a positive agenda”  from the tea bag movement.  Notice:  The positive agenda is to change Washington, D. C., by use of the ballot box, seat by seat.  That is the agenda.

One to watch: Crist/Rubio in Florida.

“The Republican primary in Florida, which pits Governor Charlie Crist against Marco Rubio, is being watched carefully as a harbinger for the impact the Tea Party may have on the midterm elections.”

Brand new poll today:  showing 47 Rubio/44 Crist.

This is the seat vacated by the resignation of Mel Martinez.

Crist appointed George Lemieux to basically hold the seat for him.

“Lemieux, 40, was Crists’ closest and most loyal adviser and political guru. Lemieux ran Crist’s 2006 campaign for governor — earning the nickname “maestro” from the governor — and later served as his chief of staff. Before that, LeMieux was Florida’s deputy attorney general under Crist from 2003-2007.”  From Orlando Sentinel
Posted:  01.26.10

I love these commercials.  The Rockstar one below is my favorite, at least so far.

All of them (I think) are on the below video.  Very, very creative.   They can get into your mind and you can’t forget what they are promoting.  A lot of bang for the buck for a 30 second ad.  So many commercials are good and you remember the commercial, but not the product.  Not these.  In fact, sometimes you wish you could get that tune out of your head.   I’d love to see somebody do an interview with whoever creates them.

There’s supposed to be a pirate hat somewhere in each one of them.

(Note:  I don’t think it is really free but maybe.) 

(http://bellalu0.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/what-caused-the-housing-crisis-money-for-nothing-and-your-houses-for-free/)

Posted:  01.21.10

Taking the country back – seat by seat

“Brown addressed a cheering crowd in Boston around 10:30 p.m., telling his exultant backers: “They can hear this cheering all the way in Washington, D.C.”

“I hope they’re paying close attention, because tonight the independent voice of Massachusetts has spoken,” Brown said, holding up a copy of the Boston Herald with the headline: “He did it.”

And to the terrorists:  “Our tax dollars should be spent on weapons to defeat them, not lawyers to defend them.”

And to Obama:  “Do you want me to drive the truck down to Washington, D. C. so you can see it?” 

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31674.html#ixzz0d7xx5wrv

Awesome Video!

“They will not force us.  They will stop degrading us.  They will not control us.  We will be victorious.”

(Background music, Uprising from Muse – see full lyrics at the bottom of post.)

Christie takes New Jersey, McDonnell takes Virginia, and Scott Brown takes the “people’s seat” in Massachusetts.

And this ain’t “below the Mason/Dixon Line,”, people,  as Chris Matthews is so fond of saying when he wants to cast disparagment on “We the People” as being a bunch of racist numbskulls.

The Silent Majority is speaking, and at the ballot box where it really counts.  Washington, are you listening?

lyric:
The paranoia is in bloom, the PR
The transmissions will resume
They’ll try to push drugs
Keep us all dumbed down and hope that
We will never see the truth around

Another promise, another scene, another
A package not to keep us trapped in greed
With all the green belts wrapped around our minds
…and endless red tape to keep the truth confined

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious

Interchanging mind-control come let the
Revolution take its toll if you could
Flick the switch and open your third eye, you’d see that
We should never be afraid to die

Rise up and take the power back, it’s time that
The fat cats had a heart attack, you know that
Their time is coming to an end, we have to
Unify and watch our flag ascend

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious

Posted:  01.19.10

Scott Brown Rally

Mechanics Hall

Worcester, Massachusetts

January 17, 2010

Wow.  I haven’t been watching every minute today, but I haven’t seen this on tv.  They broadcast live the Coakley rally yesterday.  Hardly fair, is it?

Posted:  01.18.10