Al Gore Compares Global Warming Debate to Civil Rights Movement

This is what it's come down to for ManBearPig, a pathetic con artist who now has to brainwash young people into buying his lies. Of course, the civil rights movement was based decades of racial discrimination that led to the deaths of millions of black folks, while "global warming" or "climate change" or whatever the hell they call it now, is littered with nothing but lies, propaganda and the Left's an innate ability to move the goalposts whenever something really inconvenient like facts get in the way. The audacity of white liberals to pimp the civil rights movement for their scheming, corrupt and immoral agenda whenever possibel should not surprise anybody:

As NewsBusters previously reported, a climate conference is taking place this weekend in Washington, D.C., where thousands of youth activists are sadly being brainwashed by the likes of Obama's former green jobs czar Van Jones and members of the International Socialists Organization.


Giving one of the keynote speeches Friday evening was Nobel laureate Al Gore who told attendees that the fight against global warming is like the Civil Rights movement of the '60s

Jesse Jackson Accused Of Sexually Harassing Gay Man

Too funny:

A former employee of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. at the Rainbow Push Coalition has filed a bombshell wrongful termination and discrimination complaint against the civil rights leader with the City of Chicago's Commission on Human Rights.


The complaint, filed sometime last year by Tommy R. Bennett, a regular on the Tom Joyner Radio show and member of Barack Obama's LGBT Leadership Council, includes shocking allegations about Jackson's behavior toward the openly gay staffer including an allegation that the civil rights leader propositioned him.


Jackson has denied the allegations in a legal response that was filed in July 2010 and resurfaced when the Windy City Times published a story Tuesday.


Bennett, 55, claims Jackson ridiculed him in front of other employees and required him to perform "humiliating tasks" like escorting women to Jackson's various hotel rooms, cleaning up after alleged trysts and packing his clothing. It also includes an allegation that Jackson asked for oral sex, according to the claim. Jackson flatly denied each claim in his response.


"The Rainbow PUSH Coalition unequivocally deny Tommy Bennett’s false claims of harassment, retaliation and discrimination," the organization said in a statement released late Thursday, adding that it is "fully cooperating with the Chicago Commission on Human Relations and expect to be fully exonerated."

As outlandish as this may seem on the surface, considering Jackson's past as a noted race-baiter, serial liar and repeated adulterer, why should he be given the benefit of the doubt here?

S.E. Cupp Battles Joy Behar and Jerry Springer Over Defunding Planned Parenthood

Newsbusters.org:

Conservative author S.E. Cupp must have felt like she was getting tag-teamed Wednesday when she opted to go on the "Joy Behar Show" along side Jerry Springer.

The trio debated a number of issues including the Bush tax cuts, but the debate really got heated when the host brought up the Republican desire to defund Planned Parenthood

It really is funny how liberals don't understand the concept of money being fungible.


Taxpayers opposed to federally funded abortions have absolutely no certainty that money supposedly going to Planned Parenthood for procedures other than abortions don't end up directly or indirectly doing exactly what it's not legally allowed to.


Beyond this, many Americans are offended by their tax dollars going to the other services that PP offers including for example birth control. Between Medicaid and the various free clinics all around the country, the poor in this nation have access to all kinds of options without there being a federally-sponsored organization that is also responsible for one abortion every 95 seconds.

Obama Admits Voting As A Senator Against Raising Debt Limit Was ‘Political’

Mediaite.com:

President Obama sat down with George Stephanopoulos to discuss budget issues and the deficit. The interview airs on World News Tonight, but in the preview clip Obama is already making news with his suggestion that one vote of his in the Senate was motivated more by politics than what was good for the country.


On the issue of raising the debt ceiling and whether Obama’s vote as a Senator not to raise it was a mistake, Obama said:


“I think that it’s important to understand the vantage point of a Senator versus the vantage point of a . . . President. When you’re a Senator . . . nobody likes to be tagged as having increased the debt limit for the United States by a trillion dollars . . . As President, you start realizing, ‘You know what? We can’t play around with this stuff. This is the full faith and credit of the United States.’ And so that was just an example of a new Senator, you know, making what is a political vote as opposed to doing what was important for the country. And I’m the first one to acknowledge it.”


Since Obama has learned from his prior misguided voting strategy, now he is hopeful that current members of Congress also realize that the debt crisis is an issue too serious for anyone to continue playing politics.

Sign of the Liberal Times: ABC Axes "All My Children" And "One Life To Live"

People.com:

It's a sad day for soap opera fans.


ABC announced Thursday that the sun will set permanently in the fictional towns of Pine Valley and Llanview as All My Children and One Life to Live wrap up for good.


AMC's last episode – which was rumored last month to be on the horizon – will be in September, while OLTL will end in January 2012.


At the very least, fans needn't worry they'll be stuck with controversial, Lost-style endings – producers promise a satisfying conclusion to both soaps' legacies.


"To honor the core, passionate audience and their rich history with our soaps," both shows will conclude "in a manner that respects their legacies and the longstanding hopes of many of their viewers," reads a press release from ABC.

Not that I ever watched any of these shows, but I can easily recall how much my mom and her friends were into them. Yet, at the same time in an era where a no-talent and all-around messy drunk like Snooki can make the cover of "Rolling Stone", should anybody be surprised at the demise of soap operas? While they all had their share of controversial storylines, at its core soap operas had a moral center that most people could relate to. But then with the times came reality-TV, cheaper to produce and morally corrupt enough garner viewers, which at the end of the day says a lot about the kind of world we live in.

Paul Ryan Rips Obama's Budget Proposal: ‘Demagoguery Not Solutions’

Mediaite.com:

As Fox News host Neil Cavuto said after watching Senator Paul Ryan reacted to Obama’s earlier address on reducing the budget deficit “the name calling ensues.” Earlier today President Obama gave a speech on how to best address fiscal responsibility (that may have been soporific to at least one senior White House official) that was predictably received along partisan lines.


GOP leadership followed the speech by delivering a reaction that can best be described by Ryan’s comment that the president wasn’t “building bridges but poisoning wells.” Ryan admitted that he had high expectations for Obama’s speech, saying “I was excited when I was excited when I was invited to his speech today” adding that he saw it as an “olive branch” but found it to be “excessively partisan, dramatically inaccurate and hopelessly inadequate to addressing our country’s fiscal challenges.”

MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur Opens Exposé On Michele Bachmann By Attacking Her Looks

Amazing that such a good-looking guy like Uygur would be attacking somebody's looks. But then when you have nothing left, it's the far-Left way to make it personal:

It’s fair to say that TV pundits aren’t a particularly “nice” bunch – they’re tasked with taking a look at world events and the politicians who shape them through a (highly) critical lens. Sometimes – or, you know, most of the time – that criticism can take a turn for the personal, not only because individual people in politics often do or say incredibly stupid and/or hilarious things, but also because going after the person behind the policies more often than not makes for better ratings. But at what point does going after individuals become petty and mean and, well. Spectacularly lazy?


That’s the question I asked myself when watching MSNBC’s Cenk Uygur take on Republican Representative Michele Bachmann. Nine times out of ten, it’s easy to predict what a pundit will say about any given politician, and Bachmann is a frequent target for liberal TV hosts (Ahem. Cough. Wheeze.), so it was expected that Uygur would go for the jugular. But when he began making fun of her eyes, the only think I could think was, “Really?”


It’s just not all that funny to watch a grown man with a fairly serious job mock a woman for her appearance (or a man for his). But, more significantly, it makes Uygur look petty, unintelligent and lazy. My respect for and interest in any actually valid points he has to make about Bachmann wane in light of his impression, and it makes it seem like what he has to say about Bachmann is personal and emotional rather than thoughtful or intellectual. And, you know, I just don’t want to see someone go off on someone they personally hate, because it undermines their point. If I wanted to listen to gossip or the personal opinions of people who aren’t particularly qualified to weigh in on political matters, I’d watch The View. (Nothing personal, of course.) Plus, yeah, we get it: Michele Bachmann has wide eyes. John Boehner is very tan. Sarah Palin has a distinctive accent. I’m sure everyone has something about them others will find amusing or awkward. What does any of this have to do with that person’s ability – or inability – to be a thoughtful, productive lawmaker?


And it’s not just Uygur. His MSNBC colleague Chris Matthews routinely goes after Bachmann for her looks and mannerisms (you can check out a couple of examples in my coughing fit a few paragraphs back) to the point that he seems not only fascinated by Bachmann, but downright obsessed with the Congresswoman – which hurts his credibility each and every time he speaks about her. And, for what it’s worth, I just can’t see prominent Fox News personalities doing this. Bill O’Reilly, arguably the Poster Pundit for conservative opinion news, often takes jabs at the left, but I’m hard pressed to find an instance of him going after the looks or physical quirks of anyone with whom he disagrees. His takedowns can be downright acerbic and biting, but they never seem superficial.


My advice to Uygur (…advice for which, curiously, he’s yet to ask me) and is ilk would, then, be this: Don’t hesitate to be funny. Don’t back down from being brutal and nasty if the topic calls for it. Get angry, be snarky. But don’t make it personal. And, for the sake of God and/or Pete, stop pulling Bachmann’s pigtails in the sandbox. Not only is it petty, it’s gotten boring to watch.

Bill Maher Tells Rachel Maddow He Hates Republicans as Much as She Does

Even tho Maddow is nothing but a lying, scheming, pseudo-journalist with a liberal agenda, is she really that comfortable when a prick like Maher puts her bias on blast like that? Then too, why would any Republican want to come on her show after hearing this:

Bill Maher Tuesday made a statement on MSNBC that would be truly embarrassing for the so-called news network if any of its executives cared at all about being an impartial disseminator of information.


At the end of an almost thirteen minute interview with Rachel Maddow, the comedian said of Republicans, "I hate them as much as you do"


As readers would expect, what preceded Maher's final assertion was his typical Republican bashing of his usual targets such as Ronald Reagan as well as the newest object of his disaffection, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.).


This was all the predictable, GOP-hating fare that one is bludgeoned with when HBO's "Real Time" is in session. The only things out of the ordinary were the venue and the response from the host.


If Maddow wanted to preserve even the slightest appearance of impartiality and journalistic integrity, instead of laughing like a hyena when Maher said he hates Republicans as much as she does, she would have countered by stating that she just disagrees with conservative viewpoints, but doesn't hold any animosity towards those on the opposite side of the aisle.


If she had even a shred of journalistic sense in her body, Maddow would have made it clear to her audience that she doesn't hate Republicans at all.


Since she didn't, one has to conclude that Maher's right, and not only does Maddow despise a large percentage of the nation, she's also comfortable allowing it to be aired on the very "news network" she's employed by.

MSNBC's Contesaa Brewer Can't Contain Liberal Bias, Cheers ‘Preach It!’ As Alan Simpson Slams GOP ‘Homophobes’

Mediaite.com:

MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer really, really enjoyed a clip from former Wyoming Republican Sen. Alan Simpson, who was criticizing new, socially conservative members of the GOP as “homophobes” and “woman haters.” After airing the clips–from an earlier episode of Hardball–Brewer couldn’t quite resist the urge to add an “amen” in the form of an–assumingly ad-libbed–”Preach it!”


Brewer also set up the clip by describing Simpson as a “truth-teller:”


CONTESSA BREWER: And speaking of truth tellers, former Republican senator Alan Simpson pulls no punches. Here he is with Chris Matthews last night on Hardball railing against the new crop of social conservatives in the Republican Party.


SIMPSON: We have homophobes in our party. That’s disgusting to me. We’re all human beings. We’re all God’s children.


SIMPSON: I’m not sticking with people who are homophobic, anti-women, you know, moral values while you’re diddling your secretary, while you’re giving a speech on moral values, c’mon, get off of it.


BREWER: Preach it! Simpson served as a senator from Wyoming for eighteen years.

Arianna Huffington Sued by Freelancer Who Bemoans 'Slaves' on HuffPo 'Plantation'

Newsbusters.org:

A freelance blogger on Tuesday filed a class action lawsuit against Arianna Huffington for $105 million. The suit alleges that the Huffington Post's legion of unpaid bloggers are entitled to one third of the revenue from the site's sale to AOL in February.


Jonathan Tasini, who filed the lawsuit, compared Huffington to a "robber baron" in a blog post on Tuesday, and called her site a "blogger plantation - where her slaves work to build her fortune."


Tasini's hard-left perspective came through in his complaint (students of Marx will no doubt recognize his labor theory of value):


We live in a time of unrelenting class warfare. We are the richest nation on earth—yet that wealth is flowing into the hands of the few. The greatest stage for that class warfare is in the workplace: CEOs and their top executives believe that they are the most important part of the company and that they should reap an obscene portion of the value created by WORKERS.


The Huffington Post was, is and will never be, anything without the thousands of people who create the content. Ms. Huffington is acting like every Robber Baron CEO—from Lloyd Blankfein to the Waltons—who believes that they, and only they, should pocket huge riches, while the rest of the peons struggle to survive. Ms. Huffington stance has been clear: only she deserves the fruits of the labor of the people who work for her.


Actually, Arianna Huffington is worse than the CEOs of the banks, the Walton family of Wal-mart. At least, they pay their workers something—even if those wages aren’t enough to make ends meet.


Huffington pays zero. Nothing. Nada.


Arianna Huffington is a hypocrite. While reaping money and building her "brand" based on books and speeches decrying the growing divide between rich and poor (I am not linking to those books in order to avoid giving her even more cash to pocket), Ms. Huffington is precisely acting to impoverish bloggers and create a blogger-plantation--where her slaves work to build her fortune.


The plantation line is absurd on its face. The Washington Examiner's Timothy Carney summed up everything wrong with the claim in a short headline: "Like slavery, only voluntary".

Donald Trump At The Top Of New Republican Poll

Who knows if he's serious about running for President or not, one's thing's for sure: all the talk about Trump has made the world of politics a lot more interesting:

Donald Trump is now tied with Mike Huckabee for first place when Republicans are asked who they support for the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, according to a new national poll.


But while a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Tuesday indicates that the real estate mogul and reality TV star has nearly doubled his support since mid-March, it doesn't mean he has smooth sailing ahead.


"More than four in ten Republicans say they would not like to see Trump toss his hat in the ring," says CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.


Nineteen percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents questioned in the poll say that as of now, they'd be most likely to support Trump for next year's GOP presidential nomination. Trump says he'll decide by June whether he runs for the White House. An equal amount say they'd back Huckabee. The former Arkansas governor and 2008 Republican presidential candidate says he'll decide by later this year if he'll make another bid for the White House.

Mitt Romney Is Officially In

CNN.com:

Mitt Romney Monday took his first formal step towards launching another bid for the White House.


The former Massachusetts governor, who was a candidate for 2008 Republican presidential nomination, announced that he was setting up a presidential exploratory committee.


"From my vantage point in business and in government, I have become convinced that America has been put on a dangerous course by Washington politicians, and it has become even worse during the last two years. But I am also convinced that with able leadership, America's best days are still ahead," says Romney, in a video to supporters. "That is why today I am announcing my Exploratory Committee for the Presidency of the United States."


Romney spends most of his time in the video talking about the economy, touting his experience in creating jobs and balancing budgets in the business world. Romney taped his video at the University of New Hampshire and starts his message by pointing out that he spoke Monday morning to students at the Durham, New Hampshire campus. The state holds the first primary in the presidential primary and caucus calendar and is considered a must win contest for Romney.


Monday's announcement allows Romney to begin to fundraise for a White House bid.

Wild Shoutfest Between Al Sharpton And Cornel West On Obama And Race

Some liberal on liberal violence for your amusement:

On the MSNBC special The Black Agenda hosted by Ed Schultz, there was an extremely intense debate over whether President Obama is doing enough for the African American community or whether black leaders in Congress and around the country are improperly expecting Obama to do all the heavy lifting. On polar opposites of the debate were Al Sharpton and Cornel West, as Sharpton declared most black leaders, except for Obama, are silently doing nothing while West considered Obama to possibly be no more than a “black mascot” for the wealthy.


Sharpton declared:


“Too many of us are putting it all on the President, if I see a [Paul] Ryan in Congress, where is the counterpoint to Ryan? That’s not President Obama’s job . . . He shouldn’t lead the civil rights marches against himself. Eveybody’s sitting around acting like we can’t do anything, Obama’s going to do it. That’s hogwash.”


However, West did not jump on the bandwagon to defend Obama and offered a provocative reason why many black congressional leaders are hesitant to lead on issues themselves and to challenge Obama:


“They have a black constituency and there’s a context in the nation that a criticism of President Obama is an attempt to support the right-wing vicious attacks of Fox News and others.”


When West told Sharpton that he worries this White House is manipulating him as they seem more eager to serve the interests of wealthy oligarchs than to serve the black community, then Sharpton really exploded. And West was willing to go toe-to-toe, arguing back by claiming that over 72% of young black men have been stopped and frisked by the police in New York City yet Obama never addresses such issues. Instead West predicts, “if investment bankers were stopped and frisked, he’d say something.”


As the segment closes with West yelling “where’s the jobs bill” from Obama, with Sharpton raising his voice, and with Velma Hart (the persistent Obama critic from the famous townhall meeting) demanding to know “where’s the leadership,” MSNBC and Schultz may want to consider assembling such a lively and entertaining Sunday night debate more often.

"Everything you've done in your career has been for equality..." What a joke. Amazing too that more folks don't just come out and talk about how MSNBC is way more an arm for the liberal wing of the Democrat party than FOX is too conservatives. Guess that Schultz didn't get that memo on his guest concerning the Tawana Brawley Hoax, jew-baiting, the people killed at Freddy's Fashion Mart, being a tax cheat and an FBI informant.

Politiks As Usual: In The News 4/11/11

Donald Trump Pushes For Obama's Birth Certificate

Gaddafi Accepts Peace Plan But Rebels Say He Must Go 


GOP, Obama Make 'Historic' Dead To Avoid Government Shutdown, Debt Cut


Texas May Ban Courts From Considering Foreign Laws


You Can Slaughter Christians, But You Can't Burn A Koran


J. Crew Pushes Transgender Child Propaganda

'Make No Mistake: I Oppose This Negotiated Dead,' Says Bachmann


Federal Judge Rules Against Anti-Gay Protesters, Gays Allowed To Adopt In Arkansas


Why No Outrage Over Democrat Saying Republicans Want To Kill Women?


Gov. Walker Vows: Unions Won't Steal Prosser Election Win


Why Conservatives Must Lead On Education Reform

Andrew Sullivan Schools Bill Maher and Eliot Spitzer on Paul Ryan and Budget

Shocking, indeed.