Friday, August 07, 2009

George Sodini Videos

George Sodini is the guy who shot up a Pittsburgh gym, killing 3 women and then himself, the other day. Apparently Sodini, desperate for a girlfriend and struggling to contain his growing hate for women, had been planning his attack for over a year. Here are a couple of videos he shot for YouTube.




Glenn Beck Jokes About Poisoning Nancy Pelosi



Seriously, FOX just needs to get rid of Glenn Beck. I don't care what kind of ratings he brings in, this uncontrollable idiot isn't worth all the trouble he brings. And believe me, we still haven't seen the worse.

John Hughes R.I.P.


Screenwriter/director John Hughes died Wednesday morning in NYC after suffering a heart attack while on a morning walk. He was only 59. I grew up on plenty of John's films like "Sixteen Candles", "The Breakfast Club", "Pretty In Pink", "Weird Science" and of my all-time faves "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". Hughes was also responsible for making Macaulay Culkin into a huge star with the "Home Alone" flicks. Hey, I'm an 80's kid and owe many thanks to John for providing me with many a laugh.


May John rest in peace.

Thursday, August 06, 2009

Senate Confirms Sonia Sotomayor To The Supreme Court


YahooNews.com:
The Senate confirmed Sonia Sotomayor Thursday as the first Hispanic justice on the Supreme Court. The vote was 68-31 for Sotomayor, President Barack Obama's first high court nominee. She becomes the 111th justice and just the third woman to serve.

Democrats praised the 55-year-old Sotomayor as a mainstream moderate. But most Republicans voted against her, saying she'd bring personal bias and a liberal agenda to the bench.

Senators took the rare step of assembling at their desks on the Senate floor for the historic occasion, rising from their seats to cast their votes.

She replaces retiring Justice David Souter, a liberal named by a Republican president, and she is not expected to alter the court's ideological split.

Still, Republicans and Democrats were deeply at odds over confirming Sotomayor, and the battle over her nomination highlighted profound philosophical disagreements that will shape future battles over the court's makeup as Obama looks to another likely vacancy — perhaps more than one_ while he's in the White House.

The GOP decried Obama's call for "empathy" in a justice, painting Sotomayor as the embodiment of an inappropriate standard that would let a judge bring her personal whims and prejudices to the bench.

Congrats to Ms. Sotomayor. She deserves to be on the Supreme Court. And Republicans and conservatives in general still opposed to Sotomayor need to get over it, because even if it does turn out that Sotomayor's decisions are based on any liberal impartiality, it won't make a difference when you consider that she's replacing a liberal ideologue, David Souter, on the bench. My guess still says that Sotomayor will still be impartial--her overall record gives me hope.

Brad Pitt Slams Christianity


In an interview with Parade Magazine, pretty-boy actor Brad Pitt shares his simpleton, typical Hollywood-Left views on gay marriage and Prop8, while also taking some time to spit on Christianity:

On Prop 8:
"It's ridiculous that Prop 8 took away gay people's right to marry! I have no understanding of that kind of hatred. Maybe it's fear of difference or of the unknown. If you feel belittled, maybe you need someone else to belittle to feel powerful. It's the only way I know how to explain it. You've got religion telling you what to think about homosexuality, about marriage. They say homosexuality is a choice, a lifestyle, something you can be cured of, and that isn't true. But if you're tucked away and have no friends who are gay, you'll believe what the preachers say. Just think of it in terms of being in love--how would you feel if someone told you that you couldn't be with the person you loved?"

On spirituality:
"I grew up in a Christian community and for me the positive thing was that once a week, on Sundays, we focused on bigger issues. But the negative to me is that it was very stifling in the end because it was about what you can't do. Now, Christians will argue, 'That's not true.' To me, I just found Christianity to be, 'Don't do this, don't do that.'"

What an idiot. But of course, he's an rich, actor in liberal Hollywood, in love with a bisexual wench/bitch with whom he can go out and buy underprivileged kids around the globe and doll them up like Christmas tree ornaments. I mean, should anyone who'd reduce Christianity to "Don't do this, don't do that" ever be taken seriously? He's good-looking tho, so people will pay attention.

William "The Freezer" Jefferson Convicted In Bribery Cash Case


CNN.com:
Former U.S. Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana was convicted Wednesday on 11 of the 16 corruption charges against him in a case that included the discovery of $90,000 in his freezer.

A federal court jury convicted Jefferson on four bribery counts, three counts of money laundering, three counts of wire fraud and one count of racketeering. He was acquitted on five other counts including wire fraud and obstruction of justice.

Jefferson, a 62-year-old Democrat, was indicted by a federal grand jury on June 4, 2007, about two years after federal agents said they found the cash in his freezer. Authorities said the cash was part of a payment in marked bills from an FBI informant in a transaction captured on video.

Jefferson had pleaded not guilty. He faces a maximum possible sentence of 150 years in prison, with sentencing tentatively set for October 30.

After the verdict on the fifth day of jury deliberations, U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis turned down a prosecution request for Jefferson to be taken into custody, ruling that he posed no flight risk.

The verdict showed that "no person, not even a congressman, is above the law," said U.S. Attorney Dana Boente of the Eastern District of Virginia. Asked what might have turned the case in the prosecution's favor, Boente said: "We always thought that a powerful piece of evidence in this case was $90,000 in a freezer."

According to the prosecutor, Jefferson could be looking at 20 years behind bars. Jefferson plans to appeal.

Wednesday, August 05, 2009

Lynette Fromme, Woman Who Tried To Assassinate President Ford, To Be Freed From Prison

CNN.com:

The president she tried to assassinate has been dead for nearly three years, and her longtime idol and leader, Charles Manson, remains in prison.

However, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme is about to get her first taste of real freedom in more than three decades.

According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Fromme, now 60, is set to be released on parole August 16.

Fromme is housed at the Federal Medical Center at Carswell, Texas.

For years, she was one of Manson's few remaining followers, as many other "Manson Family" members have shunned him. A prison spokeswoman would not say whether Fromme continues to correspond with Manson.

Fromme was convicted in 1975 of pointing a gun at then-President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California. Secret Service agents prevented her from firing, but the gun was later found to have no bullet in the chamber, although it contained a clip of ammunition.

In a 1987 interview with CNN affiliate WCHS, Fromme, then housed in West Virginia, recalled the president "had his hands out and was waving ... and he looked like cardboard to me. But at the same time, I had ejected the bullet in my apartment and I used the gun as it was."

She said she knew Ford was in town and near her, "and I said, 'I gotta go and talk to him,' and then I thought, 'That's foolish. He's not going to stop and talk to you.' People have already shown you can lay blood in front of them and they're not, you know, they don't think anything of it. I said, 'Maybe I'll take the gun,' and I thought, 'I have to do this. This is the time.' "

She said it never occurred to her that she could wind up in prison. Asked whether she had any regrets, Fromme said, "No. No, I don't. I feel it was fate." However, she said she thought that her incarceration was "unnecessary" and that she couldn't see herself repeating her offense.

Instead of being treated like the adults that they were, liberals constantly make former Manson followers out to be innocent, doe-eyed kids, irresponsible for all their hideous crimes. It goes back to TIME's 1975 cover of Fromme (top), painting her as a "girl", when in fact she was in her mid-20's when she pointed a gun at President Ford. Even worse is the fact that Fromme has never shown any remorse or regret for her actions and continues to go on record praising Manson.

Gay Cop Arrested For Forcing Illegal Immigrants Into Sexual Acts In Florida!



Sick bastard.

Obama Honors Anti-American, Anti-Semite Mary Robinson With Medal Of Freedom Award


NYPost.com:

THE Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor. Past recipients include John Wayne, Norman Rockwell and Vaclav Havel. This year, one of the 16 recipients President Obama selected (along with such worthies as Sen. Edward Kennedy and the late Jack Kemp) is former Irish President and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson.

Bad choice.

Robinson's views are well out of the American foreign-policy mainstream. Rep. Peter King (R-LI) says, "She is definitely from the school of moral equivalency which somehow invariably comes down on the side against vibrant democracies such as Israel and the United States."

Despite her noble commitment to human rights, Robinson has become a symbol of all that's wrong in the human-rights community and the United Nations -- of the tendency to appease dictatorships, rationalize terrorism and bash the West.

She is perhaps best known for presiding over the 2001 World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa -- which targeted the West, especially Israel, while overlooking racism in Arab countries. The conference was so biased the United States and Israel boycotted it.

In the tense months before convening in Durban, Robinson failed to listen to pleas from Secretary of State Colin Powell and Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), among others, to stop Arab dictators from hijacking an anti-racism conference to advance their anti-Zionist agenda. Afterward, she declared the disaster a success, even after she herself belatedly condemned the vicious anti-Semitism coursing through the streets of Durban at a parallel forum of nongovernmental agencies.

Robinson has criticized US foreign policy throughout her career. Since 9/11, she has blasted the United States for losing the "moral high ground" -- as if she's more focussed on trying to win the "minds and hearts" of unrepentant terrorists than on the dilemmas that democracies face in fighting terror.

She also blasted the United States for objecting to the new UN Human Rights Council in 2006 -- even though America was rightly protesting the power the forum granted to human-rights-abusing dictatorships such as Libya and Sudan.

The Obama administration had to be aware of all this before the president decided to honor her. The White House has careful procedures for selecting winners of awards like this, and for running these names by key White House offices to avoid trouble.

Sad. Another Bush-hater gets kudos from Barry's administration. At least the Jews aren't taking this diss lying down.

Slick Willie Gets Two U.S. Journalists Freed


CNN.com:
North Korean President Kim Jong Il has pardoned and ordered the release of two U.S. journalists, state-run news agency KCNA said Wednesday.

The announcement came after former U.S. President Bill Clinton met with top North Korean officials in Pyongyang to appeal for the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who had been arrested while reporting from the border between North Korea and China.

"Clinton expressed words of sincere apology to Kim Jong Il for the hostile acts committed by the two American journalists against the DPRK after illegally intruding into it," the news agency reported. "Clinton courteously conveyed to Kim Jong Il an earnest request of the U.S. government to leniently pardon them and send them back home from a humanitarian point of view.

"The meetings had candid and in-depth discussions on the pending issues between the DPRK and the U.S. in a sincere atmosphere and reached a consensus of views on seeking a negotiated settlement of them."

Somehow I think that there's way more to this story than what we're getting.

Liberals Angry Over Obama/Joker Image; Didn't Mind Bush Vitriol



Newsbusters has more.

Tuesday, August 04, 2009

Nevada Supreme Court To Consider Releasing O.J. Simpson


HuffPo.com:
A trio of Nevada Supreme Court justices focused Monday on whether O.J. Simpson and a former golfing buddy received a fair trial in a gunpoint hotel room heist and whether the case was so unique that the two men should be freed from prison while their appeals are considered.

"This is post-conviction. That's what concerns me," Justice Michael Cherry declared during rare oral arguments by lawyers about whether the former football star and co-defendant Clarence "C.J." Stewart should be allowed to post bond while their appeals are pending.

Cherry, the chairman of the three-judge panel considering the bond request, didn't say how long he and justices Mark Gibbons and Nancy Saitta might take to decide.

It appeared unlikely a ruling would come before an Aug. 12 deadline for Clark County District Attorney David Roger to file a written answer to Simpson's appeal.

Roger, who prosecuted Simpson and Stewart, argued Monday the men got a fair trial, a Nevada jury had spoken, and the pair should continue to serve their sentences for kidnapping and armed robbery.

It is unusual for the Nevada Supreme Court, the state's only appeals court, to hear oral arguments about bond, and it would be even more unusual for Simpson or Stewart to be released. The last such high-profile appellant to get such a chance in Nevada skipped town after posting $100,000 in 1978.

The justices are weighing whether Simpson or Stewart might flee, whether they pose a danger to the community, and if they have a good chance of winning their appeals.

The question of their possible success was the key point of the hearing, and inquiries from the justices shed light on the issues they're considering.

Unbelievable. The con job that O.J. Simpson has pulled on our courts is an absolute disgrace. First he gets away with killing Nicole Brown Simpson along with Ron Goldman and now this.

Keith Olbermann Continues Obsessive Hate For Bill O'Reilly


Newsbusters.org:
On Monday’s Countdown show, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann disputed a claim by a New York Times article that there exists a truce between FNC and MSNBC as he accused the Times’s Brian Stelter of ignoring Olbermann’s denial that such a truce existed, and contended that the story was a "misinterpretation" of the Countdown host’s own pledge from June 1 to discontinue Bill O’Reilly’s inclusion in the show’s regular "Worst Person in the World" segment because Olbermann blamed O’Reilly for abortion Doctor George Tiller’s assassination.

During Monday’s "Worst Person" segment, Olbermann awarded the third place dishonor to Stelter: "Mr. Stelter asked me at least twice last week if there was such a deal, and I told him on and off the record there was not, and I told him I rather obviously would have to be a party to such a deal, and I told him that not only wasn't I, but I had not even been asked to be by my bosses. And he printed it anyway, and I had even written to him that this was merely a misinterpretation of an announcement I made here on June 1 that because Bill O'Reilly of Fox News had abetted the assassination of Dr. George Tiller, he'd become too serious to joke about..."

Then, after having chastised FNC earlier in the segment for not firing Glenn Beck after Beck called President Obama a "racist," Olbermann called O’Reilly a "racist clown," as he decided to return O’Reilly to the "Worst Person" segment, and recycled an old smear of O’Reilly based on a controversial quote from the FNC host that was widely distorted by the media almost two years ago. Olbermann did not provide the context that O’Reilly was interviewing NPR’s Juan Williams – who is himself black, and moderately liberal – about Williams’s book on race relations in America, and was criticizing the media for its negative portrayal of blacks which, by O’Reilly’s own account, contrasts with reality. After reading the O’Reilly quote, Olbermann continued: "Bill thought there might be a human sacrifice between the salad and the entree. Racist clown. Imagine dinner chez Bill-O: ‘I’m happily surprised you haven’t stabbed me with the steak knife, dear.’"

For first place in the "Worst Person" segment, Olbermann sourced the same article that he had earlier attacked as inaccurate as the Times’s Stelter quoted Rupert Murdoch as claiming that he had muzzled O’Reilly and other FNC hosts to avoid getting FNC’s parent corporation in trouble, as the Countdown host sarcastically pretended to side with O’Reilly over Murdoch.

What's funny is how the liberal press tries to make it about both Olbermann and O'Reilly when it's Krazy Keith who consistently attacks Bill first, while O'Reilly never even mentions Olbermann on his show. Olbermann is also the one with the low ratings, while Bill is consistently No. 1. In other words it's Keith who needs Bill, not the other way around. Olbermann is nothing but Bill's main groupie.

More Sarah Palin Sexism By MSNBC Host Donny Deutsch



Donny Deutsch, guest host on MSNBC, makes himself look like an utter fool, once again, with his blatant sexism towards former Alaska governor Sarah Palin. What makes Deutsch look even more like a dunce--forget that the Left's obsession with Palin has no end in sight--is that he actually thinks he's funny. What was he thinking? What makes him actually think that he's funny?

No, Donny. You're a sexist prick who gets away with being one because he works for a leftwing news network. The acceptance of Deutsch's sexism by his female colleagues at MSNBC is even more pathetic.

Bill Clinton Does Al Gore's Job, Attempts To Free Imprisoned North Korea Journalists


YahooNews.com:
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton made a surprise trip to North Korea on Tuesday amid an international standoff over the country's nuclear program and concerns about two U.S. reporters imprisoned in Pyongyang since March.

Clinton landed in Pyongyang in an unmarked jet Tuesday and was greeted at the airport by North Korean officials, including chief nuclear negotiator Kim Kye Gwan and vice parliamentary speaker Yang Hyong Sop, footage from APTN Pyongyang showed. He smiled and bowed as a young girl presented him with flowers.

The unannounced visit comes amid heightened tensions over North Korea's string of nuclear and missile tests in defiance of the U.N. Security Council and calls from Washington for amnesty for the two jailed reporters.

Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who work for former Vice President Al Gore's California-based Current TV media venture, were arrested in March while on a reporting trip to the Chinese-North Korean border. They were sentenced in June to 12 years of hard labor for entering the country illegally and engaging in "hostile acts."

Shame that Slick Willie would have to take up the slack for The Goracle, especially since these journalists are yunno....Gore's employees. But I guess when you're traveling around the world making millions off of faux global warming alarmism, who cares about taking care of your own.

Monday, August 03, 2009

Michelle Malkin Pwnes Joy Behar



Damn! I gotta give Malkin credit here, she took Joy down like I've never seen anyone do before ("Guess what, newsflash, George Bush is not in office anymore...."). Clearly Malkin was prepared to take on Behar's kindergarten, leftwing shillary/talking points. I may not like Malkin most of the time, but Behar's been needing an ass-whooping from a conservative for awhile now and Michelle had no problem stepping up and giving it.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 8/3/09


Obama Administration May Create Military-Civilian Terror Prison


Clunker Car Rebates Will Stop Unless Senate Acts

Obama Joker Poster Popping Up In Los Angeles

Dear Abby, Is There Any 'Lifestyle' You Won't Embrace?

The Real Affirmative Action Babies

Obama's Science Czar Said A Born Baby 'Will Ultimately Develop Into A Human Being'

Pro-Family Forces Submit Challenges To Maine 'Gay Marriage'

Truce Between O'Reilly And Olbermann?

Here Comes The ACLU! Bible As Textbook Ignites Firestorm

Are Western Leaders Stupid Or Malicious In Letting Iran Go Nuclear?

Utah Court Upholds Mother's Rights Over Former Lesbian Partner

Jobless Graduate Sues NYC College For Tuition Fees

Sunday, August 02, 2009

New Poll: Less Than Half Of Republicans Believe Obama Was Born In U.S.


HuffPo.com:

Less than half of Republicans believe that Barack Obama was born in the United States of America, a new public opinion poll finds.

Only 42 percent of Republican respondents in a Research 2000 survey, conducted for the liberal website Daily Kos, said they thought Obama was a natural born citizen; 28 percent said they did not believe Obama was born in the United States; 30 percent said they were not sure.

The responses, which were gathered after several prominent conservative media personalities fed suspicion that Obama was unconstitutionally holding office, show the extent to which the conspiracy has taken hold in the GOP.

That only a plurality of Republicans were willing to acknowledge the president was born in America is nothing short of astounding, considering the preponderance of evidence that confirms his Hawaiian birth.

Yeah, getting the facts on where Barry was really born will definitely bring the GOP back to the forefront. Any wonder why some folks wonder if the GOP is on the border of extinction? Maybe it's because they have no one out there who can put a leash on its fringe base. Again, people want alternatives/solutions, not this let's-make-up-crap-because-we-hate Barry, partisan bullshit.

Bill Maher: "Obama Drank A 40 oz King Cobra" At Beer Summit



Funny the racist stuff you can get away with if you're on the Left.

John McCain Slams Blue Dog Democrats


CNN.com:
The “Blue Dogs,” a group of moderate to conservative House Democrats who have worked to limit the price tag of health care reform legislation, are taking a hit from a prominent Republican who is suggesting that the group will ultimately prove ineffectual.
“The Blue Dogs, they always bark and they never bite,” Arizona Sen. John McCain said on an interview that aired Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union. “They almost always – in fact, always, roll over and then play dead.”
McCain’s slam of the Blue Dogs came in the context of being asked whether President Obama has the political power to stymie Republicans in their efforts to shape Democrats’ ambitious plans to overhaul the nation’s health care system.
“There's no doubt that this is a very effective president of the United States,” McCain said of his former rival. “He's an excellent communicator. He has sizeable majorities in both houses of Congress.
“So I would never count anybody out in health care or anything else when you have these sizeable majorities. I think they will renew the push after the August recess. The question is, are they going to be really bipartisan efforts or just pick off a couple of Republicans?”
In the House, the Blue Dog coalition has worked within the Energy and Commerce Committee to bring down the near trillion-dollar price tag for health care reform over the next 10 years while also protecting the interests of rural hospitals in some of their districts. Efforts to appease the Blue Dogs resulted in delays in getting legislation out of that committee. A vote on a bill came late Friday, just before the House broke for a five-week recess.
McCain's right. Conservative Democrats count on Blue Dogs to think more pragmatically about spending, because Blue Dogs are the ones who view their constituents more realistically than the emotionally responsive liberal base. And now they're caving on a health care reform package that could really hurt Americans in the long run.

Prolonged Aid To Unemployed Is Running Out


Scary:
Over the coming months, as many as 1.5 million jobless Americans will exhaust their unemployment insurance benefits, ending what for some has been a last bulwark against foreclosures and destitution.

Because of emergency extensions already enacted by Congress, laid-off workers in nearly half the states can collect benefits for up to 79 weeks, the longest period since the unemployment insurance program was created in the 1930s. But unemployment in this recession has proved to be especially tenacious, and a wave of job-seekers is using up even this prolonged aid.

Tens of thousands of workers have already used up their benefits, and the numbers are expected to soar in the months to come, reaching half a million by the end of September and 1.5 million by the end of the year, according to new projections by the National Employment Law Project, a private research group. Unemployment insurance is now a lifeline for nine million Americans, with payments averaging just over $300 per week, varying by state and work history. While many recipients find new jobs before exhausting their benefits, large numbers in the current recession have been unable to find work for a year or more.
To think the idiots at Newsweek say that the recession is over.

Saturday, August 01, 2009

New Sarah Palin Divorce Rumors: Even Off The Stage Liberals Still Attack


I knew it wouldn't end. Even after her resignation as governor, the loons on the Left just can't past their hatred of all things Palin:

Sarah Palin's spokeswoman is shooting down reports that the former Alaska governor and her husband, Todd, are seeking divorce.

The story, which appeared on the "Alaska Report" Website and several other blogs, cited a National Enquirer story about the "stress" of the couple's marriage leading to her resignation, and claimed that Palin bought land in Montana recently and that "multiple sources in Wasila and Anchorage" had confirmed the news.

After the story made the rounds on Saturday, spokeswoman Meg Stapleton posted a statement on Palin's Facebook page:

Yet again, some so-called journalists have decided to make up a story. There is no truth to the recent "story" (and story is the correct term for this type of fiction) that the Palins are divorcing. The Palins remain married, committed to each other and their family, and have not purchased land in Montana (last week it was reported to be Long Island).

"Less than one week ago, Governor Palin asked the media to 'quit making things up,'" Stapleton added. "We appreciate that the more professional journalists decided to question this story before repeating it."

An attorney for Palin denied the report to CBS News:

Sarah Palin's attorney, Thomas Van Flein, told CBS News that the report of a divorce is "categorically false."

Palin may issue her own statement later in the day, though the frequent Twitter user has yet to tweet on the topic.

Of course, liberals are the same people who decry sexism at every turn and wouldn't put up with any of this if it were say, Hillary Clinton. But when you're a conservative female, they don't count you as being a woman.

NRA Opposition Fails To Sway Senators On Sotomayor


YahooNews.com:
The National Rifle Association's threat to punish senators who vote for Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been met with a shrug by Democrats from conservative-leaning states and some Republicans who are breaking with their party to support her.

The gun rights group is used to getting its way by spooking lawmakers about the political consequences of defying its wishes. But it never before has weighed in on a Supreme Court confirmation battle. It was cautious about breaking that pattern, and it looks like a losing a fight to defeat President Barack Obama's first pick for the court.

Sotomayor is expected to easily win confirmation in a vote this coming week that could deflate the long-accepted truism in Washington that you don't cross the NRA.

Voting "yes" will include A-plus-rated and NRA-endorsed Democratic Sen. Max Baucus and his fellow Montanan, A-rated Sen. Jon Tester, as well as A-rated and NRA-endorsed Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, the only GOP leader to break with the rest of this party to back Sotomayor.

That's not to say that the NRA's late decision to wade in hasn't had an impact.

Many Republicans who were considered possible "yes" votes for Sotomayor — including Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, Georgia Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, and Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison — have come out against her after the NRA's announcement, citing gun rights concerns as an important reason.

With a Democrat majority in Congress Sonia Sotomayor was guaranteed a seat on the Supreme Court the minute Barry named her as his nominee. But this isn't about politics or partisanship. It's her record alone that warrants her right to be on SCOTUS, so people need to give up the fight and just let her get the robe already.

Ben Nelson Fights Back Against Liberal Smears


HuffPo:

Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) lashed out Friday at the ads being run against his position on health care reform in his home state, saying they would backfire -- and might even derail the entire reform process.

In a statement issued late in the afternoon by Nelson's office, spokesman Jake Thompson warned that if the new series of ads calling out the Senator's "stalling" on reform were "an indication of the politics going into August, then health care reform may be dead by the end of August."

"Nebraskans don't need outside special interest groups telling them what to think. Senator Nelson has nothing but praise for Nebraska groups working toward health care reform. Unfortunately, he says, these outside groups undermine the sincere and dedicated efforts of people in our state," Thompson wrote. "Recently, similar ads have run in Nebraska. Those ads by other special interests prompted hundreds of Nebraskans to call our offices, with 9 to 1 urging Senator Nelson to do exactly the opposite of what the special interest group wanted. In short, the ads backfired."

The hard brush-back by Nelson's staff reflects just how heated the health care debate has become even within the Democratic Party. On Friday morning, two liberal groups, Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC) and Democracy for America, launched a new ad using the testimony of a Nebraska businessman to call out Nelson for holding up health care legislation in the Senate. The spot was one in a series of television spots the groups have launched targeting the senator.

This is what you get when you're a Democrat who dares to scrutinize or question the liberal Obama agenda. It's the ruthless arrogance of the Far-Left to denounce, demean and/or threaten those who don't agree with them. The vast majority of Nebraskans are conservative and don't support Ted Kennedy's socialist idea of health care reform that Barry is trying to bully onto the masses. These are Ben Nelson's constituents, yunno, those who voted to put him into office. Ads by far-Left, special-interest groups are just going to motivate the conservative base, so yeah keep at it.

Boston Cop 'Apologizes' For Calling Henry Louis Gates "A Banana Eating Jungle Monkey"



Not only does this idiot hire a lawyer, but he uses the lame "some of my best friends are Black" defense. But then bigots have never been known for having brains.