Feminists Angry At Taylor Swift . . . For Speaking About Love And Appealing To Millions

NewsRealBlog.com:

There is no limit to the amount of control that feminazis want to have over our lives. If women do not adhere to the unbelievably strict rules set down for us by the fascist feminist Left, then they are labeled anti-feminist and anti-woman. The latest example of the femisogynist litmus test is Taylor Swift, denounced as unfeminist… for writing about true love and having a wholesome image. The nerve!


Taylor Swift isn’t even 21 yet, and she’s already a force to be reckoned with. She became a superstar in 2006 at the age of sixteen, and today she’s sold over 10 million albums and appeared in several major motion pictures. She’s written her own music and said that most of her songs are autobiographical. She not only sings, but she also plays guitar and has produced much of her own music. Does any of this matter? Nope! Her latest song, Mine, has the femisogynists up in arms.


This song is rife with freaky-deaky, weirdo language that frames Swift as someone perpetually under the ownership, or at least care, of a male authority. The lyrics describe her as not a woman, but as a “careless man’s careful daughter” that her new boyfriend has “made a rebel of.” This is problematic to me, in the sense that it implies a transfer of her ownership from one man to another. I think it’s weird in this song that she doesn’t seem to have any sense of her own identity away from the love interest, or her father. I do, however, give her props for the use of the line “we got bills to pay.” Though grammatically incorrect, it implies that Taylor will be helping to pay the bills though some means of gainful employment. Let’s go back in time 50 years so that I can congratulate her on being progressive!


The other thing I found noteworthy was how Taylor was dealing with the transition from teen star to general entertainer. As much as she infantilizes herself, Swift is distinctly more adult here as compared to her previous videos. She’s got bills to pay! She has children! Usually when you see “teen” stars (she’s 20) make the transition from adolescence, they do it via the sexy route, à la Britney, LiLo, and Miley. This video is unique in the sense that Taylor Swift appears to be trying to age herself into a more matronly, albeit still conventionally attractive, role. It’s not often that we are encouraged to make an association between young pop starlets and motherhood….


Aside from completely misconstruing the lyrics, why does it matter what Taylor Swift writes about? Here is a self-made woman, someone who has built a career for herself, and done it in a classy, age-appropriate manner. For most rational, normal people, Taylor Swift is considered a role model. But it’s not good enough for the feminazis. Heaven forbid someone writes songs about their own feelings without consulting the fascist feminists about whether or not it’s considered Feminist Approved.






Feministing also jumped on the anti-Taylor Swift bandwagon, because Taylor Swift — a woman — is somehow “sexist.” And the reason that she is sexist is because a few femisogynists decided that the message of her music is somehow bad. Traditional love and romance is considered the most sexist thing ever when it comes to these enlightened beings. (After all, why should a woman be in a traditional, loving, respectful relationship?) When you consider that, as stated before, most of Swift’s songs are autobiographical, as in, based on her own experiences in relationships, it’s even more ridiculous. The feminazis claim that the issue is that music should speak to people, but obviously her music does speak to people, or she wouldn’t be selling millions and millions of albums. The issue here isn’t that women and girls don’t empathize with Taylor Swift’s lyrics, it’s that the feminazis want to decide what kind of relationships are sexist and not sexist.


The issue here is not about Taylor Swift. It’s about the monster that these feminazis have turned feminism into. Equality has gone completely out the window. It’s just like how pro-abortion advocates call themselves “pro-choice”. It isn’t about women deciding what choices to make for themselves. Taylor Swift, for example, is a successful, independent, wealthy woman who has accomplished so much at an incredibly young age. But because certain women who have hijacked the term feminist don’t like what she sings about, she’s automatically labeled as sexist and anti-feminist. Wouldn’t equality mean that a woman could choose to write whatever kind of music she wanted to write about… and that women could choose to listen to whatever kind of music they like? Feminism is not about a litmus test for how a woman lives her life, and it isn’t a list of rules. Feminism is about equality… something that the women who claim to be fighting for women’s right threw out the window a long time ago.

White House Aides Warned Michelle Obama About Spain Vacation

WashingtonExaminer.com:

The New York Times reports First Lady Michelle Obama's aides cautioned against her going on the early August European vacation in which she stayed at a 5-star resort in Spain and mingled with royalty. The lavish trip, the aides reportedly argued, could result in harm to her image. "Aides say privately that they warned her there would be a cost to the trip, but she overruled them, insisting it was a rare chance to spend time with Sasha and with a friend whose father had died," the paper reports. "But the intensity of the uproar -- including accusations that she was a 'modern-day Marie Antoinette' -- caught the White House and Mrs. Obama off guard."

The trip resulted in the first extended negative press of the First Lady's time in the White House. Critics questioned why Mrs. Obama chose to go to a glitzy, high-priced resort at a time when unemployment is high and many Americans are suffering economically.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll taken during the trip showed that just 50 percent of those surveyed had a positive impression of Mrs. Obama -- down from 64 percent in April 2009 and 55 percent earlier this year.

New Leftist Spin: TIME Magazine Says Rising Unemployment Rate Is 'Good News'

They'll say anything to protect The One:

The following headline appeared at Time.com shortly after the release of Friday's jobs report:

What's Good About Rising Unemployment

What should jump out at the eagle-eyed reader is that headline didn't end with a question mark.

Time senior writer Stephen Gandel was actually making the case that the rising unemployment rate was good news.

Watch just how far a liberal media member is willing to go today to make economic data look favorable for the Party currently in power, and imagine the unlikelihood of such a thing happening if a Republican was in the White House:

The unemployment rate, probably the most famous of economic gauges, may actually be a very bad indicator of how healthy the economy is. [...]

The unemployment rate peaked in late 2009 at just above 10% and has been mostly falling ever since. But the hiring numbers, or less firing numbers, have only been improving recently. So what was going on? The unemployment rate tracks not just how many people have jobs, but how many people are looking for jobs. And, up until August, the number of people looking for jobs was dropping rapidly.

Bristol Palin On Jay Leno, Gets Back At Levi Johnston: "He Needs To Get His GED"

Mediaite.com:

Celebrity mom Bristol Palin is beginning the media tour for her upcoming appearance on Dancing with the Stars, and last night it landed her on the couch of Jay Leno’s Tonight Show. Leno went easy the younger Palin, giving her space to dance, laugh, and take a few jabs at her ex Levi Johnston.


Despite being a veteran of the show, though with mom Sarah in tow, she seemed a bit timid this time around at the beginning, explaining how she got onto Dancing with the Stars in the first place (a text message she received at the dermatologist’s office she works at) and awkwardly answering high school questions like “Did you go to prom?” (answer: “No, I was pregnant.”).


And then Leno gave her space to talk Levi, and suddenly she became both much more comfortable on the hot seat and delightfully, almost scathingly witty. Sure, the audience laughed when she said she wasn’t heartbroken, and she still seemed a bit dismayed when she described the pre-fame Levi as “a hard-working Alaskan man,” but when it came to his run for mayor of Wasilla, she had some important civic questions about his ability to run. “Well, he needs to move to Wasilla,” she answered, “and he needs a GED.”

Good for her.

Alan Grayson: Glenn Beck Fans Wore "Sheets Over Their Heads"

OrlandoSentinel.com:

Since his election two years ago, Orlando Democrat U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson’s fame has multiplied exponentially with every inflammatory remark.


Every time he says something like the Republicans’ health care plan is to “die quickly” or that Dick Cheney is a vampire who should “STFU,” he becomes a bigger hero to liberals and a bigger target of conservatives. Now there’s another addition to the list of Grayson’s greatest hits.


During an appearance on the progressive talk-radio “Stephanie Miller Show” on Thursday — part of a regular segment called “Face the Grayson” — the congressman likened those who attended Glenn Beck’s rally last week at the Lincoln Memorial to Ku Klux Klan members.


Miller: “The Glenn Beck thing — is that going to have an effect in November? To me, they were, I’m sorry, mostly old, white … mostly McCain-Palin leftovers, weren’t they? These aren’t new voters, these are people that have always voted Republican.”


Grayson: “These are people who were wearing sheets over their heads 25 years ago.”


The congressman also repeated one of his recent favorites: “You only have three friends in life: God, your mama, and the Democratic Party.”

I know that Stephanie Miller is a staunch liberal (and ironically a FOX News contributor), but for her to laugh at this idiot's remark comparing Beck fans to the KKK without realizing how much his sheer stupidity hurts the "progressive cause" is pretty sad. Alan Grayson appeals to dumb liberals who like to scream and shake their fists, that's it. Alan Grayson is a dishonest scaremonger and an all-around scumbag. Comparing your political opponents fans to the KKK is so disgusting and beyond the pale that it leaves you with little wonder why this country is so fed up with the Left.

Fewer Young Voters Identify As Democrats

NYTimes.com:

The college vote is up for grabs this year — to an extent that would have seemed unlikely two years ago, when a generation of young people seemed to swoon over Barack Obama.

Though many students are liberals on social issues, the economic reality of a weak job market has taken a toll on their loyalties: far fewer 18- to 29-year-olds now identify themselves as Democrats compared with 2008. 

“Is the recession, which is hitting young people very hard, doing lasting or permanent damage to what looked like a good Democratic advantage with this age group?” asked Scott Keeter, the director of survey research at the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan group. “The jury is still out.” 

How and whether millions of college students vote will help determine if Republicans win enough seats to retake the House or Senate, overturning the balance of power on Capitol Hill, and with it, Mr. Obama’s agenda. If students tune out and stay home it will also carry a profound message for American society about a generation that seemed so ready, so recently, to grab national politics by the lapels and shake. 

Not appealing to young voters? Isn't that what the Obama Era was supposed to be all about?

Clinton Fan Releases First Hillary 2012 Ad

FOXNews.com:

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insists she's not running for president
in 2012, but that hasn't stopped one of her supporters from rolling out a wishful ad.


William DeJean, a Chicago dentist, says he spent $3,000 to create the first "Hillary 2012" ad, and another $2,000 to begin airing it in New Orleans on Wednesday.


DeJean said the ad will also air in Washington, New York and Los Angeles in the next few days. He said he hopes the ad will give Clinton an incentive to run.


"In my opinion, we need the Clintons back in the White House to fix this country," he told FoxNews.com. "I don't think we're going in the right direction. I don't like this administration. I think they're ruining the Democratic Party."


"My ad is expressing what everyone is thinking," he added.


The ad is a 30-second ode of pure adulation, with a portrait
of Clinton rotating to symphonic music.


"She has more experience working in and with the White House than most living presidents," the caption reads. "She is one of the most admired women in our nation's history. Let's make sure the president we should have elected in 2008 will be on the ballot in 2012."


The ad ends by urging viewers to start now, and it displays a slogan: "Where there's a Hill, there's a way."

And so it begins.

Confirmed: Pretty Much Everyone Offended By Vanity Fair Hit Piece On Sarah Palin

Hotair.com:

So here’s where we’re at. Yesterday the piece dropped, and immediately even left-leaning reporters like Ben Smith and Dave Weigel started challenging it. Today Smith came back with another reason to question its accuracy; meanwhile, lefty feminists (including KP, whose criticism of Vanity Fair almost but not quite atones for her recent “Republicans are racist” op-ed) are unloading on VF for attacking Palin over alleged behavior that’s par for the course for male politicians. And now, as a coup de grace, here’s renowned Palin-hater Shannyn Moore telling Weigel that she’s filled with heart-ache at what a supposedly unethical hack the VF author has turned out to be.

I don’t give a rip what you said about me – though it was so completely wrong, and put me in such a completely inaccurate and unfavorable light people are mad on my behalf.

Fine thanks for Alaskan hospitality. I have extended the Alaska Spirit to dozens of journalists and visitors, and I will continue to do so. It’s on YOU, not me, as you are the only one who has broken agreements with sources you promised complete anonymity.

I’m sure you’re thrilled to be on TV now. Just know, like Sarah, Alaskans paid a price for it. Specifically, a 79-year old woman, with failing health, who spoke to you under anonymity who hopes her adult children will speak to her again.

Not enough to move the skepticism meter? Well, Conservatives4Palin talked to another source alleged by VF to have left Palin’s team on bad terms who now insists it’s not true, and Peter Hamby at CNN tweets, “I was w/ Palin for entire VP bid. never got a hint that she ‘lashed out at the slightest provocation’”. All of which brings me to a question: If, like Vanity Fair, you’re in the business of churning out occasional hit pieces on Palin to take her down and/or convince your readers that she’s every bit the demon they believe she is, wouldn’t you want to make extra, extra sure that the details are perfectly accurate? You know her supporters will allege media bias; the only counterargument is to present an airtight factual case. As it is, they’ve managed to turn this into Exhibit A in her argument for just how lame the “lamestream media” is. Amazing.

Unemployment Rises To 9.6%, 54,000 Jobs Lost In August

BizJournals.com:

The U.S. lost 54,000 jobs in August, the effect of jobs lost at the end of the U.S. Census period, according to a Friday report from the Department of Labor.


While the private sector did add 67,000 jobs in August, government employment losses resulted in a stagnant unemployment rate of 9.6 percent.


The number of unemployed in the United States remains at 14.9 million.


The latest employment data for the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington area is from July. The U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics said the number of jobs in D-FW grew by 31,300 that month.

Ann Coulter And Laura Ingraham Discuss “Save The Whale, Abort The Baby” Environmentalists

Mediaite.com:

Ann Coulter and O’Reilly Factor guest host Laura Ingraham made some really good points tonight while discussing Discovery Channel hostage taker James Jay Lee. Coulter said that we can’t generalize fans of Al Gore just because one of them went crazy while Ingraham admonished Liberals for generalizing Conservatives whenever another tragedy happens and the shoe’s on the other foot. Of course, these good points were slightly muddied by all the comments around them about how all environmentalists want a world without humans and love earthworms more than people and so on and so forth.


Yes, one couldn’t really be blamed for getting slightly mixed messages while watching the segment. In fact, sometimes the mixed messages seemed to come side by side like in these comments from Coulter that make a hard left turn about half way through:


“I mean, there are going to be nuts who are fans of all sorts of things out there. That church killer down in Tennessee was citing Bernie Goldberg’s book. The Craigslist killer was a fan of mine. So I don’t think you can jump quickly, the way liberals always do, to this guy was a fan of a particular political point of view and then he killed someone. But, in this case, well, there are two points to be made. One is, over all, the political violence is heavily committed by Liberals. White Liberals I might add. And, secondly, the environmentalist nuts, this is their end goal. Not just the ones who pull out the guns. It is the elimination of humans.”

David Letterman Again Bashes Obama's Vacations

Damn, when an unabashed supporter like Letterman starts to get fed up you know you got it bad:

David Letterman for at least the second time in eight days mocked Barack Obama for spending so much time on R&R.


During his "Late Show" opening monologue, the host quipped, "The President's been busy, he redecorated the Oval Office and then he took another two week vacation."


Moments later, Letterman talked about Obama's address to the nation the previous day before presenting a video of the speech.

BBC Had "Massive Bias To Left:" Says Director General

Breitbart.com:

The director general of the BBC admitted Thursday that his organisation had been guilty of a "massive bias to the left" but said "a completely different generation" of journalists now works at the broadcaster.


Mark Thompson told the right-of-centre Spectator magazine that there was an institutional bias when he joined the organisation, reinforcing the findings of a 2007 internal report which concluded that greater efforts were required to avoid liberal bias.


"In the BBC I joined 30 years ago, there was, in much of current affairs, in terms of people's personal politics, which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left," Thompson said.


"The organisation did struggle then with impartiality. And journalistically, staff were quite mystified by the early years of Thatcher."Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC," he added.


The 2007 report criticised the organisation?s slow response to the rise of Euroscepticism and immigration concerns, which it said were considered "'off limits? in terms of a liberal-minded comfort zone."

Obama Justice Department Lawyers Sue Arizona Sheriff In Civil Rights Probe

CNN.com:

Justice Department civil rights lawyers filed suit against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona on Thursday after talks collapsed on a deal to provide federal investigators with documents they requested.


The suit, filed in federal court in Phoenix, Arizona, claims the Maricopa County sheriff has failed to cooperate with the investigation into alleged discrimination against Hispanics by Arpaio's law enforcement officials.


The Justice Department expressed dismay at the sheriff's office's "refusal to cooperate with the investigation."


"The actions of the sheriff's office are unprecedented," said Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, chief of the Civil Rights Division. "It is unfortunate that the (Justice) Department was forced to resort to litigation to gain access to public documents and facilities."


The federal action became virtually certain after the sheriff's office last Friday rejected the government's demands in an open letter posted on the county's website.


In the letter, Arpaio's attorney, Robert Driscoll, wrote that the Justice Department's "current position that it is entitled to any document it wants, to access any facility it wishes, and to interview any witness it wants, without limitation ... is simply unreasonable."


At a news conference Thursday Arpaio struck a defiant tone.


"It's rather disgusting saying we don't cooperate when we are," the sheriff insisted. "A year and a half they've been investigating me on alleged racial profiling on the streets. They can't get the proof so now they're suing me, just for documents."

Barry's radically leftwing administration is on the side of illegal immigrants instead of our brave police officers, still wondering why Barry gets more and more unpopular with each passing day?

Bill O’Reilly’s Culture Warriors Talk Muslims, Jews, And Strippers

Mediaite.com:

Hey, remember that meme from the past few weeks that Conservatives and Fox News were stoking anti-Muslim sentiment by harping on that whole Mosque thing? Well, don’t worry about it! That’s right, Bill O’Reilly’s Culture Warriors were on the case to explain how that whole thing was completely overblown because, guess what? Americans hate Jews more! Yay!


Yes, O’Reilly brought out a 2008 study from the FBI that showed that, at the time, way more hate crimes were committed against Jews than Muslims. While those are certainly fascinating figures, especially considering, as O’Reilly pointed out, Antisemitism is usually considered more of a European problem, it really has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation at hand. Seriously, if people are worrying that anti-Muslim crimes are going to happen in the future because of talk that’s happening now, why would it help to show that, two years ago, Americans beat up a lot of Jews? Seriously, that’s one of the most bizarre arguments I’ve ever seen.


Fortunately, Tamara Holder was on hand to point out that recent figures show an uptick in anti-Muslim crimes. Of course, O’Reilly and Gretchen Carlson quickly reminded her that those figures were from CAIR which is made up of a bunch of “Arabs.” Yep, Muslims have nothing to worry about.


And then, to help make this one of the best Culture Warriors segments ever, Carlson and Holder went on to defend strippers’ right to protest outside of churches. Man, this was an awesome segment.

Ohio Wants George W. Bush Back

MarketWatch.com:

Two years can make a world of difference in politics. In 2008, the swing state of Ohio helped elect President Barack Obama over John McCain by giving the Democrat 52% of the vote to 47% for his Republican rival. In a new poll, however, Obama would lose 50% to 42% to … former President George W. Bush! See poll question and results.

Yep, the very same George Bush who ended his presidency with one of the lowest ratings ever for an outgoing president. See what two years out of the public limelight can do.

The survey of 425 likely voters, conducted by Public Policy Polling, shows Democrats continuing to lose ground against Republicans in Ohio. Democratic Gov. Tom Strickland, for example, now trails Republican John Kasich 50% to 40% among likely voters in the gubernatorial race.

Just three months earlier, Kasich led by just 43%-41% in a PPP survey of registered voters. (Likely voters are considered a more accurate gauge).

Tom Jenson, director of the poll, wrote in a blog that “There’s not much doubt things are getting worse for Democrats … and they were already pretty bad.”

Victory For Tea Party, Sarah Palin As Lisa Murkowski Concedes Defeat To Joe Miller

YahooNews.com:

Backed by the Tea Party Express and Sarah Palin, a little-known conservative lawyer from Alaska became the latest newcomer to the national political stage to take down an incumbent in 2010.


In arguably the biggest political upset of the year, Joe Miller claimed the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate when incumbent GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded Tuesday evening. Murkowski gave up after failing to gain much ground in an count of outstanding absentee ballots.

Miller will be the favorite in November in strongly Republican Alaska against Democrat Scott McAdams, the mayor of Sitka.

The MSM would love it if Sarah Palin just went away from good. They keep telling us about what a danger she is to democracy, healthcare, women, blacks, babies, unicorn's, you name it. They mock and attempt to discredit her at every turn just because her politics disagrees with theirs. Yet, she's still here, making a difference, swaying the American public, proving them all wrong and not only can they not stop her, they can't even contain her. Expect them to step up the hate.

Glenn Beck Destroys NAACP President's Malicious Suggestion of Racism Regarding Beck Rally Attendees

Newsbusters.org:

On Saturday, NewsBusters sister site Eyeblast.tv sent contributing editor Joe Schoffstall to see what exactly Al Sharpton’s protest rally was all about. While there, he was able to get an interview with NAACP President Ben Jealous regarding his thoughts on Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally. 

Jealous claimed that those at Restoring Honor wouldn’t applaud Dr. King's historic 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech.


Beck aired that Eyeblast video and promptly destroyed Jealous's argument by playing clips of the crowd enthusiastically cheering mentions of the late civil rights leader.

On MSNBC, An Incensed Rachel Maddow Howls Over Obama's Kind Words for George W. Bush

Newsbusters.org:

President Barack Obama's decision to include, in his Tuesday night address from the Oval Office on the end to the “combat mission” in Iraq, a sentence respectful toward former President George W. Bush, appalled MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.


Anchor Keith Olbermann recited Obama's graciousness toward Bush (“It's well known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset, yet no one could doubt President Bush's support for our troops or his love of country and commitment to our security”) and then, obviously speaking for himself and the entire MSNBC team, proposed: “There are people who would support President Obama who would howl at hearing that said aloud more than once.” Maddow indeed howled, launching into an indignant rant:

To have in this speech, as combat operations are ending, to have...the President not only not addressing the circumstances in which we went to war, but these kind words for President Bush, describing his “commitment to our security” despite the recklessness with which President Bush discarded that national security in favor of this war of choice, which only diminished our security, and is responsible, probably, for the Afghanistan war still going on today, for the deaths of people who have died in Afghanistan after the time after which that war would have ended had we not gone to Iraq -- not to mention all of the people who died in Iraq.

“They wouldn’t be satisfied if Dennis Kucinich was president.” - Robert Gibbs

Texas Appeals Court Overrules Activist Liberal Judge On "Gay Divorce"

Good for the people of Texas who have made it clear that they don't want gay marriage (or in this case divorce) anywhere near their great state:

Gay couples legally married in other states cannot get a divorce in Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday.

The 5th Texas Court of Appeals ruled that a Dallas district court judge didn't have the authority to hear a divorce case involving two Dallas men who married in Massachusetts in 2006. Republican state Attorney General Greg Abbott's office had appealed after Judge Tena Callahan, a Democrat, said she did have jurisdiction and dismissed the state's attempt to intervene.

"Today's court of appeals decision overruled the district court's improper ruling, confirmed the constitutionality of Texas' traditional definition of marriage and correctly found that Texas courts lack the legal authority to grant divorces to same-sex couples," said Abbott spokesman Jerry Strickland.

Callahan also had ruled Texas couldn't limit marriage to a man and a woman, but the appeals court said the state's same-sex marriage ban was constitutional.

"A person does not and cannot seek a divorce without simultaneously asserting the existence and validity of a lawful marriage," Justice Kerry P. Fitzgerald wrote on behalf of three Republican appeals court justices. 

"Texas law, as embodied in our constitution and statutes, requires that a valid marriage must be a union of one man and one woman, and only when a union comprises one man and one woman can there be a divorce under Texas law."

The appeals court ordered the case be sent back to Callahan, who must vacate her order.

Barack Obama Was Against The Surge Before He Was For It

No Barry, you were wrong now have the guts to admit it.

Climate Change Lies Are Exposed

The best part of political unrest that's taking place in this country? The liberal fallacy that is "climate change" failed to make it through Congress:

THE world’s leading climate change body has been accused of losing credibility after a damning report into its research practices.

A high-level inquiry into the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change found there was “little evidence” for its claims about global warming.

It also said the panel had emphasised the negative impacts of climate change and made “substantive findings” based on little proof.

The review by the InterAcademy Council (IAC) was launched after the IPCC’s hugely embarrassing 2007 benchmark climate change report, which contained exaggerated and false claims that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035.

*** DEBATE: IS CLIMATE CHANGE AND GLOBAL WARMING JUST A CON?...***

The panel was forced to admit its key claim in support of global warming was lifted from a 1999 magazine article. The report was based on an interview with a little-known Indian scientist who has since said his views were “speculation” and not backed by research.

Independent climate scientist Peter Taylor said last night: “The IPCC’s credibility has been deeply dented and something has to be done. It can’t just be a matter of adjusting the practices. They have got to look at what are the consequences of having got it wrong in terms of what the public think is going on. Admitting that it needs to reform means something has gone wrong and they really do need to look at the science.”

Climate change sceptic David Holland, who challenged leading climate change scientists at the University of East Anglia to disclose their research, said: “The panel is definitely not fit for purpose. What the IAC has said is substantial changes need to be made.”

Gretchen Carlson, Robert Gibbs Spar On Surge, Credit For Iraq Success

Mediaite.com:

Fox and Friends Gretchen Carlson interviewed Press Sec. Robert Gibbs earlier this morning ahead of President Obama’s speech on Iraq tonight, and whoah. Things got contentious pretty quickly.


You can watch the back and forth below but things turned south when Carlson asked Gibbs whether Obama was planning on explaining his ‘flip flop’ on the surge tonight, and Gibbs responded:


Gretchen, I’m happy to spend a lot of time looking back at decisions that were made four years ago or even seven and a half years ago…I think what’s important, while you guys play political games, is the president to laud our men and women, and to mark the end of our combat mission.


Carlson followed up by asking whether Obama would credit Bush tonight in his speech. And she kept asking it until Gibbs finally said: “Gretchen, I don’t know whether this is you actually interviewing me or just a tape of you looping the same question over and over.”


You get the picture. Later Carlson defended her tone saying that’s how she talks when she wants answers.

Democrat Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Redirected Scholarships To Relatives, Aide's Children

FOXNews.com:

Relatives of Texas Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson and a top aide reportedly won scholarship funds from a Congressional Black Caucus Foundation program in violation of the group's rules.

The Dallas Morning News reported Monday that Johnson awarded nine to 11 scholarships per year from 2005 to 2008, which are the years the Morning News had available for review, and in each year, three or four winners were related to Johnson or her district director, Rod Givens. 

Johnson, an influential Democratic member of Congress and former Congressional Black Caucus chairwoman, told the newspaper that she "unknowingly" violated nepotism rules when she gave two grandsons, two great-nephews and her district director's two children scholarship money.

"I recognized the names when I saw them. And I knew that they had a need just like any other kid that would apply for one," she told the newspaper, adding that had had there been "very worthy applicants in my district ... then I probably wouldn't have given it" to the relatives. 

She released a statement Monday evening pledging to reimburse the money and establish a "non-biased third party objective review committee" to handle awarding future scholarships.

Clearly this is the evil Tea Party's fault, but is it just a coincidence that the most significant Democrats to get in trouble lately have all been black?

CNN's Rick Sanchez Calls Obama 'Cotton Picking President', Liberals Stay Mum

HuffPo.com:

Rick Sanchez referred to Barack Obama as the "cotton picking president" on CNN Monday.

Sanchez made the comment in a discussion with CNN correspondent Jessica Yellin on "Rick's List" about the many falsehoods that have been spread about Obama, such as the claim that he is a Muslim or that he is not a citizen of the United States. His voice rising in frustration, Sanchez asked Yellin why people continued to believe the false rumors:

"He is the cotton picking president of the United States! If the president of the United States doesn't have enough of a bully pulpit to convince people that...a lie is a lie...what the hell is going on here?"

After a commercial break, Sanchez immediately apologized. He said that soon after he had used the phrase, people had started contacting him on Twitter, pointing out that he had just used it when referring to a black man — an insensitive reference, given the phrase's connections to slavery.

"You know I didn't even realize it?" he said. "I was just saying 'cotton picking' because it's a term that I've used because I grew up in the South...however, I apologize for using it, in case it was taken by anyone as an act of disrespect."

One can only imagine the OUTRAGE!!! from the Left if Glenn Beck or Limbaugh had said this.

Alaska Libertarian Party Says No To Lisa Murkowski

CNN.com:

An offer wasn't even on the table, but the Alaska Libertarian Party has given a pre-emptive no to the idea of Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski running on their ticket in November.


Alaska Libertarian Party chairman Scott Kohlhaas said the executive committee decided to meet "amid all the speculation on the theoretical possibility" Murkowski could be come their candidate if she if loses the final vote in the Republican Primary. She currently trails Joe Miller by 1,668 votes, as the count of absentee and early votes begins Tuesday.

The committee voted 5-0 to not consider having Murkowski replace their Senate candidate, David Haase. Kohlhaas said there had been discussion of benefits to having a major political figure as their candidate. "There was support from our national leadership," he said.


But he said, "we had a chance look over her record again. There is a fundamental difference in philosophy" over issues like her vote for the financial bailout, the war in Iraq and school choice.

In the end, the issue never moved beyond outside buzz and rumors. "We never talked with her," Kohlhaas said. "It's like Seinfeld. It was [a vote] about nothing."

Looks like Sarah Palin wins again.

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Narcissist Brack Obama Gives Himself All The Credit For Ending Iraq War

HotAir.com:

Yesterday, I wrote that Barack Obama had an opportunity to at least share a little credit for the close of combat operations in Iraq with George W. Bush, who wrote the plan for drawing down American troops in Iraq that Obama has followed to the letter, rather than go for Obama’s repeatedly promised all-out 16-month retreat plan from 2007. If his weekly address is any indication, the American electorate will have to wait for some other opportunity for its Chief Executive to show a little class. Try to count all of the self-references as Obama sprains his shoulder through overly enthusiastic backpatting:

On Tuesday, after more than seven years, the United States of America will end its combat mission in Iraq and take an important step forward in responsibly ending the Iraq war.

As a candidate for this office, I pledged I would end this war. As president, that is what I am doing. We have brought home more than 90,000 troops since I took office. We have closed or turned over to Iraq hundreds of bases. In many parts of the country, Iraqis have already taken the lead for security.

In the months ahead, our troops will continue to support and train Iraqi forces, partner with Iraqis in counterterrorism missions, and protect our civilian and military efforts. But the bottom line is this: the war is ending. Like any sovereign, independent nation, Iraq is free to chart its own course. And by the end of next year, all of our troops will be home.

Total mentions of Bush: zero. Total mentions of victory: zero. Total mentions of “I” in speech: six, including the three in the excerpt above.


And that promise to have all troops home at the end of 2011? It’s certainly possible, although very unwise. The Iraqis still don’t have much of an air force or navy, and it will take years to build both. They face pressures from Iran and Syria, and while their army can maintain internal security now, they won’t be any match for Iran or Syria alone, let alone together, if the two countries decide to subjugate Baghdad. I’d put that promise in the easier-said-than-done category, where the promise to close Gitmo wound up. If we’re not involved in combat operations, the political pressure to withdraw those forces drops to about the same level of class shown by Barack Obama in this address.

Of course, Barry was against "the surge" before he was for it, but why let facts get in the way of giving yourself a high-five.

Lloyd Marcus: Glenn Beck More Legitimate Leader Than Al Sharpton, Ben Jealous

Mediaite.com:

One of the most frequent criticisms of today’s “Restoring Honor” event is that, on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, gathering thousands of Americans to listen to Glenn Beck is disrespectful to the Civil Rights Movement. Not all African-Americans are offended, however, and CNN found one attendee, Lloyd Marcus, who actually believes Beck’s views are closer to Dr. King’s than many modern black civil rights leaders.


Donning a charming hat and enthusiastically defending Beck, Marcus argued that the rally had “nothing to do with race,” and that the only reason race is a factor is because Beck is a “white boy.” “If Beck were black, would we be having this conversation? No.” Since it’s not about race, Marcus clarified what he did believe it was about: “restoring honor… bringing God into the public square,” which made it, to him, a “tremendous tribute to Martin Luther King.”


Asked about comments he had made that some civil rights leaders had “sold their souls” and were thus less legitimate leaders than Beck, Marcus replied in the affirmative and named Al Sharpton and NAACP President Ben Jealous among them. Of Sharpton, he noted that “the fact that he’s even leading anything is amazing to me,” and called Jealous a “liar” for claiming there were racist elements to the Tea Party.

George Will and Entire "This Week" Panel Smack Down Donna Brazile's Call For More Spending

Newsbusters.org:

An amazing thing happened on the set of ABC's "This Week" Sunday: a liberal tried to extol the benefits of President Obama's unrestrained federal spending only to get completely smacked down by the entire panel.


Host Christiane Amanpour began the Roundtable segment of the program by showing some of last week's horrendous economic numbers, and opened the debate about what can be done to improve the current condition.


When Democrat strategist Donna Brazile got her turn at the plate, she uttered the same nonsense Americans have been hearing from her ilk for approaching two years:

Congress is divided. They are afraid to put more money back into the system, although most Americans should know by now that the stimulus did create or save 2 million to 4 million jobs, averted the Great Depression 2.0, but Congress doesn't have the appetite to put more money into the system.

The other panelists - George Will, President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass, "Nightly Business Report" host Susie Gharib, and even Amanpour - weren't buying it

MSNBC Promotes Glenn Beck Rally More Than Fox

Mediaite.com:

The past couple of nights, Keith Olbermann has done lengthy reports on Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. He’s pointed to Fox News’ claims that they won’t promote the rally and claimed hypocrisy as Beck’s been all over Fox & Friends and the O’Reilly Factor talking it up. However, at the end of Olbermann’s piece, we had one question: who’s really talking about the rally more, Fox News or MSNBC? Fortunately, with the help of our friends at TV Eyes, we can find out.


Using the past six days (Sunday morning at 12 am to Thursday night at 11:59 pm) we checked for references made to the rally or Beck on both networks. At first we searched for the phrase “Restoring Honor” and found that, in that time period, it had been referenced 15 times on Fox News and 11 times on MSNBC which makes sense. Then we remembered that MSNBC rarely references the rally by its name; frequently speaking of it as “Glenn Beck’s rally” or “Glenn Beck’s event.” When we broadened our search accordingly, the results were surprising:

Terms Mentioned	Fox News	MSNBC
“Restoring Honor”	15	11
“Glenn Beck”	21	71
“Lincoln Memorial”	14	19
Total	50	101

So why is MSNBC talking about Beck and his rally so much when publicity, good or bad, could only help him? Well, it probably has a lot to do with the concept of “the other.” Last night, Countdown also had a great segment on Ken Mehlman’s admission of how the GOP successfully vilified gays in the 2004 and 2006 elections and Olbermann connected it to the current furor over immigrants and Muslims. Just as this Rove-ian tactic has worked wonders in politics, its also been just as successful in politics news.