Sarah Palin book signing yesterday in Florida

Hundreds of people look on as Sarah Palin arrives for a book signing at the Barnes & Noble at Lake Sumter Landing in The Villages, Fla. on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009. Palin came to The Villages for a book signing to promote her new book “Sarah Palin Going Rogue An American Life”

Sarah Palin look-alike 

Reportedly greeted by a crowd of 1,500 to 2,000, Sarah Palin was at Barnes and Noble in The Villages, Florida yesterday.  If the paper gives that number, I imagine there were a lot more, because they always under estimate.  Fox News Gretchen Carlson was traveling with her to report.   Here’s Some excerpts from the article in the Ocala Star Banner.

Randy Highsmith drove roughly 80 miles, spent the night in a parking lot hunkered down in a sleeping bag and waited more than an hour with several hundred people as storm clouds gathered overhead…..

Kevin Kerbow and his wife were first in line to have their book autographed after making the trip from Citrus County almost 24 hours before Palin was set to hit town.

Near 3 p.m., Palin exited the bus along with her daughter Piper and son Trig.

She thanked the crowd for attending and noted that The Villages was one of the family’s favorite stops during the election campaign.

She also expressed her gratitude for people purchasing her book so they could read her story “unfiltered” by the media. She then took a seat next to Carlson on an impromptu stage and spent about 20 minutes conducting an interview that was to be aired on Fox News this morning.

The video below shows the crowd at 9:00 p.m. Monday night.  This young lady has started her video journal at 5:00 p.m. on Monday night showing how the crowd gathers throughout the night.

The video below shows her first video on Tuesday morning with about 7 hours  still remaining until Sarah Palin arrives.

When she appeared here during the campaign, we waited from about 8:00 in the morning until her arrival at 3:00 p.m.  But this is real dedication here!

See another account here.

Posted:  11.25.09

Could be that Lou Dobbs is considering a run for president in 2012? He hinted as much in an interview over the weekend.

It’s one of the discussions that we’re having,” Dobbs said to one of the anchors of WTOP radio. “For the first time, I’m actually listening to some people about politics.”

“We’ve got to do something in this country and I think that being in the public arena means you’ve got to be part of the solution.”

Story.

He has posted this statement on his website:

“More Independent Than Ever

The world’s first all-news television network is now a much loved part of my past, and it seems like just yesterday that CNN was only one of Ted Turner’s mad dreams.

I’m fortunate enough to be one of the band of renegade journalists who helped build and make Ted’s dream a reality almost 30 years ago. Since then the world and this country has changed mightily, so has television news, and so have I.”

Today on the Radio:

Joining Lou in the Independent Nation on Tuesday will be ANN COULTER. The syndicated columnist and New York Times bestselling author will weigh in on the decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed to New York City for trial and the latest on the nation’s health care debate.

Web-based terrorist hunter and former Montana judge SHANNEN ROSSMILLER will discuss the missed opportunities in the Fort Hood case as well as her own special brand of “cyber-counterintelligence.”

And MICHAEL TANNER, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, will talk about ObamaCare and how so-called “moderate” Senate Democrats like Ben Nelson, Mary Landrieu and Blanche Lincoln sold out for pork and party.

As always, Lou will take your calls to discuss the issues that matter most-and get your thoughts on where America is headed. Call him toll-free on the Independent Hotline at 877-55 DOBBS.

Posted:  11.24.09

Roy Kronk is shown here making a statement back in December of 2008 after he found the body of Caylee Anthony.

On Thursday, November 19, 2009, the defense attorneys for Casey Anthony questioned Kronk in a deposition held at the State Attorney’s Office in Orlando behind closed doors.  See the story in the Orlando Sentinel.

The defense and their investigators have also interviewed two of Kronk’s ex-wives and his son.  His ex-wives are not making him sound too good, but then I guess that’s how ex-wives can be.  The interesting part to me is that his son said Kronk called him before Thanksgiving telling him he had found the child’s body and to watch, he was going to be on tv.  It was not until December 11 or so that the body was actual found, but then he had called the police previously and did not get proper response.  As I remember though he had been out to that site at least four times.

Transcripts of interviews with Kronk’s two ex-wives, son, and a longtime live-in girlfriend’s daughter depict the former meter reader as an untrustworthy man willing to resort to violence. No police reports or other supporting documentation were provided.

Ex-wives Jill Kerley and Crystal Sparks said Kronk physically attacked them. Sparks said she called police, but could not remember if she sought a restraining order. Kerley said he used duct tape to hold her against her will.

Both ex-wives said Kronk tells tall tales.

“I don’t think he would know the truth if it hit him upside the head,” said Kerley, who was briefly married to Kronk in the early 1990s.

Kronk’s son Brandon Sparks said his father told him before Thanksgiving 2008 that he found Caylee Anthony’s body and would be on television. Brandon Sparks shared the news with his wife.

“We both didn’t pay any mind, though. We both thought it was far-fetched,” Sparks said.

Casey Anthony, 23, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of daughter Caylee. The toddler was reported missing in July 2008.

I have thought there is something just not adding up about this guy from the moment I found out he had been out there to the spot so many times.  Plus because it’s odd that he was the only person able to find the body even though the area had already been searched by amateur and professional searchers.  That’s just my opinion, of course, but it is not surprising that the defense is now seizing on the opportunity to cast suspicion on him, because he is suspicious.

See another article and video of an ex-wife’s statement Here.

For some background on Roy Kronk, see previous post here and here.

Posted:  11.22.09

UPDATE: The thousands reported in the paper turned out to 25,000 to 35,000.

Thanks to RBO, you can see about five videos of the event here.

See some local coverage of Glen Beck’s visit to The Villages.

Glen Beck appears at Lake Sumpter Landing at The Villages, Florida. Crowd was described as massive – no actual numbers availabe that I can find, except “thousands.”

No announcement as to running for a political office.   He’s going to have what he called conventions.

Posted: 11.22.09

CABLE NEWS RACE

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CNN COOPER 585,000

Nielsen TV Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company/From Drudge Report

The viewers are speaking.

Posted:  11.20.09

Enough already

Stop the Abuse

I opened my compuer this morning to a prominent article on YAHOO about Fox News somehow airing crowds of Sarah Palin fans that were not necessarily from the book tour, but from some previous meetings during the campaign.  The headline read “Fox News Again Accused of Misleading Video.”

Well, I have absolutely no way of knowing if this was done intentionally to mislead or if it was a mistake made by someone in the lower ranks who maybe was just in error.  I do know that Hannity was man enough to apologize for one such instance.

Then along at the very end of the piece, the author, Brett Dykes, said this:

Barely a week into Palin’s blitz to promote “Going Rogue,” media coverage is becoming its own story. Fox News rival MSNBC caught heat last week for using altered images of Sarah Palin on the air, for which they later apologized. On Wednesday, Yahoo! News reported Newsweek’s defense of their latest controversial cover, which Palin herself blasted as “sexist.”

If – and I’m saying if – Fox News deliberately used the wrong footage, which I am not at all convinced of, it is nowhere close to being as agregious as the obviously deliberate acts of altering images by using photoshop and actually stealing a cover from a sports magazine to place on the cover of Newsweek.  Both of these blatantly meant to demean and sexualize.  There’s malice shown here that seems to be typical of the liberal media coverage of this woman.  Also, AP has dispatched 11 reporters to “fact check” her book.  Eleven people to fact check a book which she has every right to write, just as almost every other public figure has.  Has anybody done a fact check on, say, Barack Obama’s books?  Hardly.

I, for one, have had it with the extremely negative media coverage that has been leveled at Sarah Palin.  One reason is, that it seems to be entirely acceptable to bash her as a woman, and treating her in ways that would never ever be done to a man.  It is setting women’s rights back – no, I don’t think the treatment of women has ever been to this degree of disrespect.

So as a woman, I am protesting this treatment.  And, no, not any woman has been so brutalized before.  Not one.

And as far as being smart?  I am positive she is smart enough not to order a terrorist trial in the middle of Manhattan.  I am positive she is too smart to be afraid to label Major Hasan a terrorist or at the very least a traitor.

It is decidedly dumb to make a statement like Chris Matthews made in defense of Major Hasan, to quote, “Well, it’s not against the law to call al qaeda, is it?”  Now, that folks is dumb.  Yeah, it surely might be againt the law for a Major in the United States Army to be communicating with al qaeda.

But I am positive that Sarah Palin is smart enough not to push a health care overhaul that all the polls show the American people do not want.  I am positive that she would be smart enough to use the natural resources we have in this country rather than continuing to buy from our enemies.  I know she would be smart enough to make a decision on Afghanistan and not leave our troops there hanging out to dry, because she would be smart enough to listen to the recommendations of the general she chose and put in charge there and send more troops.  And I am sure without a doubt that she would be too smart to bow down to kings and emperors. I know she would be smart enough to uphold the dignity and sovereignty of the United States of America.

Posted:  11.20.09

Overload.

Obama goes on an Asian tour, bowing to Emperor Hu.  Why is he in Asia anyway?

Holder announces he will bring 9/11 terrorists to Manhattan  for trial, right on the heels of a massacre at Ft. Hood by an Army Major with terrorists ties.

We have a panel hired by the federal government, the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality - U.S. Preventive Services Task Force announce that mammograms should not be administered until age 50 and recommending against self-examination. (A death panel?)  Because it was so all over the media yesterday, it makes me wonder just what the agenda is here.  Maybe it was just time filler to avoid reporting too much how embarrassing the Asian tour is.

The vicious attacks on Sarah Palin that I observed yesterday on MSNBC, CNN, etcetera.  And what did she do?  She wrote a book.  Almost everybody who draws breath writes a book these days.  And that outrageous cover on Newsweek, stolen I understand from another magazine, sport magazine- up close and clearly meant to demean and sexualize.  Who is Jon Meachem and what kind of person is he really?  MSNBC actually photoshopped a picture, something we wouldn’t even accept from a rag tabloid, Chris Matthews called her “daffy” among other things.  Rick on CNN called her dishonest.  On the Barbara Walters interview, they pulled the camera in for an ultra closeup of her face, which I understand is designed to make someone look suspicious or maybe dishonest.    There are many, many more examples.

Lies by the administration reporting jobs saved in places that don’t even exist.

And to top it off I just heard President Obama say he is sure Sheik Mohammad will be convicted and executed and than everybody will settle down.  A good defense attorney will probably get the case dismissed on that one alone.  I am just hearing that comment again!!  Plus, any confession will probably be thrown out due to the “torture” of waterboarding.  Were they given their Miranda Rights?  A First Appearance?  Assigned a lawyer?  (Ha, Rush is just now asking the same questions that I have! )  Can he get a fair trial at the scene of the crime, so to speak, an act with more publicity than any act in history?  Change of venue?  But where will it go?  Maybe Cuba would be a good place for it?  A jury of their peers?  Who would be their peers in the USA, given they are not even citizens?

Why are we giving Constitutional Rights to war criminals and terrorists who are not citizens of the United States?

These are just some topics for discussion.  They are all in a jumble in my mind right now, so maybe I’ll have more to say a little later.

Posted:  11.18.09

What an embarassment

Since we know Barack Hussein Obama is the most intelligent person living or dead, this cannot be excused as a blunder, or an innocent mistake, or lack of experience, or ignorance of proper protocol.  He is intentionally elevating kings and emperors above the President of the United States.

http://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/19/weekinreview/the-world-the-president-s-inclination-no-it-wasn-t-a-bow-bow.html

NYT’s reaction to Clinton inclining his head to the Emperor in 1994:

“It wasn’t a bow, exactly. But Mr. Clinton came close. He inclined his head and shoulders forward, he pressed his hands together. It lasted no longer than a snapshot, but the image on the South Lawn was indelible: an obsequent President, and the Emperor of Japan.”

“Administration officials scurried to insist that the eager-to-please President had not really done the unthinkable.”

Well, so much for the unthinkable.

See some pictures of other world leaders as they have greeted the Emperor of Japan.

Posted:  11.15.09

The Ft. Hood massacre just keeps unfolding in layers, more facts coming out each day and revealing the hearts of grieving Americans as the reality of it really hits us. Today, I was reading this touching post about the 14th victim, and I had not looked at it like this concerning the unborn child that was also killed by Monster Hasan.

While following some links related to the post, I came across this amazing, amazing article about President Bush and Laura and their private visit to Ft. Hood to offer comfort in the midst of this horrific event. It’s been almost a week now, and I think each day another layer is exposed in me as I move from one emotion to another, because honestly it was so hard to believe it was for real, it is taking a while to sink in. I’ve been shocked, numb, angry, and sad, and most of all outraged.

Some Hillary supporters here have expressed their admiration for what President Bush did for the country and for the devastated soldiers and their families at Ft. Hood. Here’s an excerpt and a link.

“”If you have been reading us for any length of time, you know that we used to make fun of “Dubya” nearly every day…parroting the same comedic bits we heard in our Democrat circles, where Bush is still, to this day, lampooned as a chimp, a bumbling idiot, and a poor, clumsy public speaker.

[.....]

…..we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention,when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.

[.....]

The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them.

If there are any of you out there with any connection at all to the Bushes, we implore you to give them our thanks…you tell them that a bunch of gay Hillary guys in Boystown, Chicago were wrong about the Bushes…and are deeply, deeply sorry for any jokes we told about them in the past, any bad thoughts we had about these good, good people.”"

See the entire post here.  Don’t miss the comments and the Halloween 2009 post.It makes me proud to be an American and so happy to see some genuine bipartisanship, because after all, when push comes to shove, we are “One nation, under God,  indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

Posted: 11.12.09

I didn’t happen to see the Lou Dobbs Show last night but saw several video clips of what he said about his resignation.  Each one I saw was cut here and there and did not do justice to what he was saying.  So here is a transcript of the entire statement, and it is unfortunate most won’t know exactly what he did say.

Transcript from Nov. 11 broadcast below:

Tonight I want to turn to a personal note, if I may, and address a matter that has raised some curiosity. This will be my last broadcast here on CNN, where I’ve worked for most of the past 30 years, and where I have many friends and colleagues whom I admire deeply and respect greatly.

I’m the last of the original anchors here on CNN and I’m proud to have had the privilege to helping to build the world’s first news network. I’m grateful for the many opportunities that CNN has given me over the many years. I’ve tried to reciprocate with a full measure of my ability.

Over the past six months it’s become increasingly clear that strong winds of change have begun buffeting this country and affecting all of us. And some leaders in media, and in politics and business have been urging me to go beyond the role at CNN and to engage in constructive problem solving as well as to contribute positively to the great understanding of the issues of our day and to continue to do so in the most honest and direct language possible.

I’ve talked extensively with Jonathan Klein. John’s the president of CNN, and as a result of those talks, John and I have agreed to a release from my contract that will enable me to pursue new opportunities. At this point, I’m considering a number of options, and directions, and I assure you, I will let you know when I set my course.

I truly believe that the major issues of our time include — the growth of our middle-class, the creation of more jobs, health care, immigration policy, the environment, climate change, and our military involvement, of course, in Afghanistan and Iraq.

But each of those issues is, in my opinion, informed by our capacity to demonstrate strong resilience of our now weakened capitalist economy and demonstrate the political will to overcome the lack of true representation in Washington, D.C.

I believe these to be profoundly, critically important issues, and I will continue to strive to deal honestly and straightforwardly with those issues in the future. Unfortunately, these issues are now defined in the public arena by partisanship and ideology rather than by rigorous, empirical thought and forthright analysis and discussion.

I’ll be working diligently to change that as best I can. And as for the important work of restoring inspiration to our great free society and our market economy, I will strive as well to be a leader in that national conversation.

It’s been my great honor to work with each and every person at this wonderful network. I will be eternally grateful to CNN, to Ted Turner, and to all of my colleagues and friends and, of course, to you at home.

I thank you, and may God bless you.

I will be anxiously waiting to see what’s next for Lou Dobbs.

Obermann did a happy dance, see video here. I didn’t see this either, but note it states he “cherry picked” the statements, par for the course.

Posted:  11.12.09