New James Cameron Movie "Avatar" Is Decidedly Liberal

Conservatives be warned:

The political import of Avatar -- and there's no waving this aspect away because it's right in your face start to finish, and especially in the third act -- is ardently left. It is pro-indigenous native, anti-corporate, anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. Iraq War effort, anti-U.S.-in-Afghanistan (and anti-troop-surge-in-that-country, or strongly against the thinking of President Barack Obama and Gen. Stanley McChrystal), anti-rightie, anti-Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld, etc.

Yes, it's very teenaged adolescent in its super-imaginative wacko visions and exuberant energy levels, but politically it's pure Che Guevara (more the Motorcycle Diaries or Che-in-Cuba version than Che in Bolivia), Naom Chomsky, Hugo Chavez, Howard Zinn, Gore Vidal, Oliver Stone, etc. Cameron is an earth-hugging lefty from way back (the flagrant despise-the-arrogant-rich current in Titanic being but one example) so this should come as no surprise to anyone. I for one am cheered and heartened.

If Sarah Palin sees Avatar and then sits down and actually thinks about what it's saying (which is always a dicey proposition, I admit), she'll hate this movie. Because Avatar hates her and her kind. Some righties will pretend to like it ("great popcorn flick! took my kids!"), but they'd have to be in major denial mode not to recognize that Avatar is much more MSNBC than Fox News. It really spits on the Fox News philosophy/worldview. If Cameron had for some inane reason put a Fox News-type character in the film, he/she would end up with a Na'vi arrow through his/her chest, trust me.

Call it the most flamboyant, costliest, grandest left-liberal super-movie anyone's ever seen -- a political tract that cost Rupert Murdoch God knows how many hundreds of millions to make and yet is totally pro-loincloth, pro-native, despise-the-greedy, hug-the-earth, worship-the-earth, down with the soulless short-end, down with the us-first, masters-of-the-universe thinking behind the Goldman Sachs/Timothy Geithner culture and up with the eternal/spiritual in all cultures and all corners of the globe. The tragedy of the Vietnam War echoes all through this film. Somewhere Ho Chi Minh is smiling.

Cameron explains the anti-imperialist current to John Anderson in a forthcoming N.Y. Times Sunday piece: "I'm...a child of the '60s. There's a part of me who wants to put a daisy in the end of the gun barrel. I believe in peace through superior firepower, but on the other hand I abhor the abuse of power and creeping imperialism disguised as patriotism. Some of these things you can't raise without being called unpatriotic, but I think it's very patriotic to question a system that needs to be corralled, or it becomes Rome."

To think, after finally checking out Titanic years after it came out, I became a big James Cameron fan. Who knew he became yet another Hollyweird movie director using his films to promote leftist propaganda. For shame.

Congressional Black Caucus Looks Out For Black Americans While Obama Doesn't

Politico.com:

The long-simmering family feud between the Congressional Black Caucus and the first African-American president burst into the open on Wednesday, with members boycotting a financial overhaul vote as a warning shot at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

The 43-member caucus — which included Illinois Sen. Barack Obama from 2004 to 2008 — has chafed against President Obama and his top aides since the Inauguration, complaining that the White House takes it for granted and plays favorites with conservative Blue Dog Democrats.

Ten CBC members decided to boycott the House Financial Services Committee vote en masse after a tumultuous morning meeting at the Capitol between Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel failed to yield a deal, according to people familiar with the meeting.

The bill passed easily, but Waters suggested the CBC’s 43 members could vote with the GOP to scuttle a variety of Democratic bills if Obama and Emanuel don’t address what she thinks is a lack of understanding of the CBC’s wide-ranging goals of reducing urban unemployment, home foreclosures and bank failures.

“I think that it is important for us to educate those people around [Obama],” Waters told reporters. “We’ve got to get his people educated and moving. We have not brought these issues to him personally — it is important first to educate those people around him so they understand.”

Good for the CBC. During his presidency Barry has more than gone out of his way to look out for the gays, while ignoring blacks and focusing on the issues that concern his white, liberal base: global warming, health care reform, etc. Meanwhile, Black unemployment rates take on unprecedented heights. Black Americans have seen white liberals from the Democrat party take their votes for granted for decades now, but they expected more from a half-black President who they supported in record numbers (and all they've gotten in return is a half-an-hour visit to New Orleans). Well, enough is enough, and it's about time the few Black members of Congress look out for their own. Maybe now Barry and his white, liberal minions will start paying attention.

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ACLU Is Losing Funding

AP:

The American Civil Liberties Union is losing a quarter of its yearly donations now that a major donor has cut off $19 million in annual donations because of economic difficulties.

David Gelbaum said in a statement that he was indefinitely stopping the donations that had made him the New York-based group's largest anonymous donor. He's also stopping some $12 million in yearly gifts to the Sierra Club Foundation and about $50 million a year that he's been giving to an organization serving veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Gelbaum says the credit crisis and his investments in alternative, clean energy companies have left him with few liquid assets.

Gelbaum made his largess working for hedge funds and says he hopes others will step forward and replace his donations.

A radically liberal machine that constantly ties up our legal system to further its anti-American views is losing money? I'm so broken hearted. Clearly global warming must be the problem.

Gay Irish Guy Wins "Rights" Against Lesbian Couple To See Son

AP:

The Irish Supreme Court has ruled that a gay man who donated his sperm to a lesbian couple should be permitted to see his 3-year-old son regularly — in part because Ireland's constitution doesn't recognize the lesbians as a valid family unit.

Thursday's ruling was a first in Ireland, where homosexuality was outlawed until 1993 and gay couples are denied many rights given to married couples. A proposed law being debated this month in Irish parliament would give gay couples many marriage-style rights, but offers no legal recognition of their right to be parents.

The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the man was legally the child's father and that a lower court was wrong to identify the lesbian couple as a family. It ordered the lesbians to give him visitation rights.

Like Althouse says: "For the mixed-up annals of gay rights," but then too a victory for traditional families.

News Anchor Sam Rubin Goes Off On Perez Hilton

"You talentless dope!" Gotta love it.

Obama Administration Doesn't Send Condolence Letters To Military Families

What's there to "examine" exactly? I know Presidents just sign off on those ready-made letters, but it still means a lot to families of troops around the country to receive a letter of acknowledgment from the President on their son or daughter's ultimate sacrifice. This is simply absurd and yet another slap in the face to our troops by Obama and his liberal minions.

"War President" Barack Obama To Note 'Irony' In Accepting Nobel Peace Prize

HuffPo.com:

President Barack Obama is accepting the world's best-known peace award as a wartime president, an incongruity that he will directly speak to when he receives the Nobel Peace Prize on Thursday, White House officials say.

The president departed Wednesday to Oslo in an overnight flight, in time to be there for the award ceremony and banquet, and not much more. His minimalist approach reflects a White House that sees little value in touting an honor for peace just nine days after Obama announced he was sending 30,000 more troops to the war in Afghanistan.

The contrast has been stark for weeks. Obama won the award in early October, just as his review of a revamped war plan was intensifying. He and two speechwriters pivoted attention to the Nobel address the very day after Obama announced he was escalating the U.S. forces in Afghanistan to their highest levels.

So Obama, honored for strengthening international diplomacy, will use his speech to discuss what goes into the decision to expand a war.

Asked if Obama was excited about the award, national security aide and speechwriter Ben Rhodes responded: "I think he feels as if it places a responsibility upon him."

"Responsibility"?!? More like guilt for having to accept an award Barry knows full damn well he doesn't deserve one iota. Heck, guilt is the real reason Barry wants no part of the 3-day Nobel prize ceremonies. Forget the fact that Barry only won the award for not being George W. Bush, even a louse like Barry has a conscious. A conscious that must make it hard sleep knowing that you're gonna accept some lame, leftwing peace prize a week after you just sent 30,000 troops overseas to war. In respect to the troops the better option would've been to run the award down and not to go to Norway at all, but Barry's narcissism wouldn't let him do such a noble thing like that.

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Al Gore Denies ClimateGate Emails That He Hasn't Even Read

HeraldSun.com:

Al Gore has studied the Climategate emails with his typically rigorous eye and dismissed them as mere piffle:

Q: How damaging to your argument was the disclosure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglia University?

A: To paraphrase Shakespeare, it’s sound and fury signifying nothing. I haven’t read all the e-mails, but the most recent one is more than 10 years old. These private exchanges between these scientists do not in any way cause any question about the scientific consensus.

And in case you think that was a mere slip of the tongue:

Q: There is a sense in these e-mails, though, that data was hidden and hoarded, which is the opposite of the case you make [in your book] about having an open and fair debate.

A: I think it’s been taken wildly out of context. The discussion you’re referring to was about two papers that two of these scientists felt shouldn’t be accepted as part of the IPCC report. Both of them, in fact, were included, referenced, and discussed. So an e-mail exchange more than 10 years ago including somebody’s opinion that a particular study isn’t any good is one thing, but the fact that the study ended up being included and discussed anyway is a more powerful comment on what the result of the scientific process really is.

In fact, thrice denied:

These people are examining what they can or should do to deal with the P.R. dimensions of this, but where the scientific consensus is concerned, it’s completely unchanged. What we’re seeing is a set of changes worldwide that just make this discussion over 10-year-old e-mails kind of silly.

In fact, as Watts Up With That shows, one Climategate email was from just two months ago. The most recent was sent on November 12 - just a month ago. The emails which have Tom Wigley seeming (to me) to choke on the deceit are all from this year. Phil Jones’ infamous email urging other Climategate scientists to delete emails is from last year.

How closely did Gore read these emails? Did he actually read any at all? Was he lying or just terribly mistaken? What else has he got wrong?

Uganda Considering Death Penalty For Gays

HuffPo.com:

Proposed legislation would impose the death penalty for some gay Ugandans, and their family and friends could face up to seven years in jail if they fail to report them to authorities. Even landlords could be imprisoned for renting to homosexuals.

Gay rights activists say the bill, which has prompted growing international opposition, promotes hatred and could set back efforts to combat HIV/AIDS. They believe the bill is part of a continentwide backlash because Africa's gay community is becoming more vocal.

"It's a question of visibility," said David Cato, who became an activist after he was beaten up four times, arrested twice, fired from his teaching job and outed in the press because he is gay. "When we come out and ask for our rights, they pass laws against us."

The legislation has drawn global attention from activists across the spectrum of views on gay issues. The measure was proposed in Uganda following a visit by leaders of U.S. conservative Christian ministries that promote therapy for gays to become heterosexual. However, at least one of those leaders has denounced the bill, as have some other conservative and liberal Christians in the United States.

"Liberal Christians"?!? Ugh.

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Man Arrested For Throwing Tomatoes At Sarah Palin

Police in Minnesota have arrested a man after he allegedly threw a tomato at Sarah Palin that struck two police officers instead. The incident happened during Palin's book tour at the Mall of America.

The hate for Citizen Sarah sees no end in sight.

Joy Behar & Andrew Sullivan Continue To Smear Sarah Palin

NewsBusters.org:

Palin Derangement Syndrome was on full display Monday evening when HLN's Joy Behar invited the Atlantic's Andrew Sullivan on to trash the former Governor of Alaska.

At issue fully fifteen months after Sarah Palin was thrust into the limelight as John McCain's running mate was whether or not Trig is actually her son.

Behar began the segment: "Sarah Palin may have been coy on the Oprah Show about a possible White House run in 2012. But new poll numbers show she`s a contender. Oy."

This evoked laughter from crew members on the set.

Behar then introduced her guest, and after saying Palin's "people are evil and nasty," the discussion immediately went to the former Governor's mentally handicapped child (video embedded below the fold with transcript.

"A heartbeat away the last time"?!? That would mean that John McCain won the election last year (God, Behar is an idiot, but you knew that already). And just in case you missed the big news, Andrew is "leaving the Right". Right, like he was ever a conservative in the first place.

Harry Reid Compares Health Care Reform To Abolishing Slavery

CNN.com:

Republicans on Monday were quick to pounce on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, for comparing the battle over health care to the battle over the legacy of slavery.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee purchased a Web ad on the popular Drudge Report asking readers: "Do you agree with Harry Reid?"

Those who click on the ad are taken to an NRSC Web site called "Health Care Task Force," which asks readers to sign a petition and "stand up to Harry Reid and his insulting remarks."

Reid, who is in danger of losing his re-election bid next year, made the remarks Monday morning on the floor of the Senate.

"Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all Republicans can come up with is this: slow down, stop everything, let's start over," Reid said.

"If you think you've heard these same excuses before, you're right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said slow down, it's too early, let's wait, things aren't bad enough."

No surprise here. No matter what the topic on the liberal agenda (from gay "rights" to "climate change"), you can count on white liberals to exploit and use black people to get their own priorities across. Guess Reid didn't do to well in history either as a little background check will show you that it was Republicans who pushed for the 16th Amendment to end slavery while Democrats who fought to keep it legal, but what does something like facts matter to a white liberal in need of the race card? Of course, maybe the pressure Harry's facing at home in his bid to get re-elected Senator next year is just getting to him. Right.

John McCain Rips Obama's False Transparency

McCain rips into Barry and his secretive meetings with Senate Democrats over the weekend to craft a health care bill without any Republican amendments and without the oversight of the American people. Maybe if McCain had showed balls like this during the campaign last year, he'd be president instead of Barry...nah, I doubt it.

Barack Obama Was Against The Iraq Surge Before He Was For It

Speaking at Camp Lejeune Today Feb 27, Obama talks about the success in Iraq which he and the Democratic Party tried to undermine continually. One week ago President Obama also called for 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan to stabilize the situation, yet argued against the same policy in 2007 in Iraq. Obama almost appeared to take credit for the improving situation in Iraq, yet this video shows Barack Obama and Joe Biden in their own words showing how absolutely wrong they have been at every turn and how they can't be trusted on foreign policy.
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Biden Senate- April 2007
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Last, Biden spring 2007

Hypocrite.

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Roland Martin: "The Era Of 'Blame Bush' For Obama Is Over"

CNN.com:

With President Barack Obama's decision to escalate the war in Afghanistan by sending 30,000 additional troops to battle Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, he has put his imprint on the war on terror, and at the same time, given up the Democrats' most famous fallback position: blame George W. Bush.

Couple that with the economy and we are seeing the end of the president's first year in office coincide with him having to accept the full responsibility for the condition of the country.

Obama rode into office on the "blame Bush" tidal wave as the nation sickened of everything he touched. The economy? Bush was horrible at stewarding it. Giving banks billions in TARP funds? Dumb idea by Bush and Treasury Secretary Hank "Mr. Wall Street" Paulson. Sick of billions going to the war? It was all the fault of Bush and his chief crony, Vice President Dick Cheney.

The blame Bush mantra proved effective because it totally silenced Republicans, who were loathe to defend a conservative president who began with a surplus and ended with a deficit, as well as the architect of a war in Iraq based on never-proven claims of weapons of mass destruction. They couldn't even muster the strength to call him a conservative.

In the short term, President Obama's Afghanistan decision is being approved by a majority of the country. A USA Today/Gallup poll taken a day after the speech at West Point showed a slim majority – 51% – approving of the plan. A CNN/Opinion Research poll found six out of 10 supporting the president's plan. While two-thirds of those polled continue to blame Bush for the situation in Afghanistan, escalating the war there was all left to Obama, and he has to hope this action plan works.

Geez, when an Obama stan like Roland Martin says the "Blame Bush" jig is up, you gotta believe him. Needless to say, I concur.

Only In Obama's America: Navy SEALS Could Face Year In Prison For Terrorist's "Fat Lip"

LATimes.com:

Catching Up: An amazing story out of Iraq over the holiday with likely domestic political repercussions, involving another possible case of political correctness gone awry:

Three Navy SEAL commandos, who recently captured one of the most-wanted terrorists in Iraq, are now being charged criminally by the Navy for giving the terrorist a bloody lip.

The captive is Ahmed Hasim Abed, who was codenamed "Objective Amber." He's the alleged mastermind of the capture, mutilation and deaths of four Blackwater security guards in 2004 (see photo above).

After patiently tracking the suspect and capturing him, the SEALs turned the prisoner over to Iraqi authorities in September. He then complained of being punched at some point. He was returned to U.S. custody, resulting in....

...the formal action against U.S. enlisted service personnel, by officers apparently still sensitive over past prisoner abuse charges at the Abu Ghraib prison.

So now the Navy has placed formal charges for allegedly roughing up an enemy combatant against three members of its elite commando unit, whose sharpshooters were universally hailed earlier this year for simultaneously blowing the heads off three Somali pirates who'd captured a merchant ship captain.

The three newly-charged SEALs, believing they acted appropriately in and after the clandestine capture operation, have rejected non-judicial punishments and requested formal, separate courts-martial.

Rowan Scarborough of Fox News, who broke the story, quotes Neal Puckett, one of the commando's defense attorneys, as saying:

I don’t know how they’re going to bring this detainee to the United States and give us our constitutional right to confrontation in the courtroom. But again, we have terrorists getting their constitutional rights in New York City, but I suspect that they’re going to deny these SEALs their right to confrontation in a military courtroom in Virginia.

The decision by the Obama administration's Justice Dept. and Atty. Gen. Eric Holder to reject military tribunals for some Guantanamo terrorist detainees and bring them to New York City for civilian trials has raised controversy among those who see the prisoners as military participants in the global war on terrorism, undeserving of the extra legal protections afforded outside the military judicial system.

Now, on the basis of the captive's claim, the Pentagon is charging U.S. service members with physical mistreatment. The captive is a suspect in an incident from March 2004, when four Blackwater-employed security guards protecting food supplies in a convoy in Fallujah were captured, tortured, burned and hung from a local bridge in an iconic, grisly photo that came to portray the unchecked violence in that land.

Another example of the repercussions of electing a radically liberal President. Only in Obama's America can terrorists receive more sympathy than our brave troops.

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