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Jolie Rouge
04-01-2005, 12:41 PM
Pat Buchanan Doused With Salad Dressing

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - Commentator and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan cut short an appearance after an opponent of his conservative views doused him with salad dressing.

``Stop the bigotry!'' the demonstrator shouted as he hurled the liquid Thursday night during the program at Western Michigan University. The incident came just two days after another noted conservative, William Kristol, was struck by a pie during an appearance at a college in Indiana.

After he was hit, Buchanan cut short his question-and-answer session with the audience, saying, ``Thank you all for coming, but I'm going to have to get my hair washed.''

The demonstrator, identified by authorities as a 24-year-old student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, was arrested and faces a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. He was released on a $100 cash bond, pending his April 14 arraignment. ``He could have faced a felony assault charge, but Pat Buchanan decided to not press that charge,'' university spokesman Matt Kurz said.

Buchanan's visit had evoked controversy on campus because it fell on the birthday of the late Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez. Buchanan favors tighter controls on immigration.




Kristol, editor of the influential conservative magazine The Weekly Standard and former chief of staff to Vice President Quayle, was splattered by a student during a speech Tuesday at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind.

Members of the audience at the Quaker college jeered the student, then applauded as Kristol wiped the pie from his face and said, ``Just let me finish this point.'' Kristol then completed his speech and took questions from the audience.

The student, who was not immediately identified, was suspended and could face expulsion following a disciplinary review, Earlham Provost Len Clark said Wednesday.

Clark also issued a written apology complimenting Kristol for his ``graciousness.''



04/01/05 08:46


http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050401%2F0847587449.htm&sc=1110


(( Can you imagine if this had happened and Kerry, Dean, or some other Liberal Darling had been the target ?? The Media would be all over it ! ))

Jolie Rouge
04-09-2005, 08:02 PM
THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LEFT
Thu Apr 7, 2005

It's been a tough year for the secularist crowd. There was Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," the moral values election, the Christian hostage subduing her kidnapper by reading from "The Purpose Driven Life," and the Christian effort to save Terri Schiavo. Not only that, but earlier this year Dr. James Dobson insulted the Democrats' mascot, SpongeBob SquarePants, with impunity.

:rolleyes:


And now, for all the hullabaloo in the media, you'd think the Pope had died.


The liberal take on Catholicism is that it's a controversial religion because of its positions on abortion, sodomy and various other crucial planks of the Democratic platform (curiously, positions that are shared by all three of the world's major religions).


In defense of the Catholic Church's most "controversial" position (meaning "contrary to the clearly stated opinion of CNN"), I wanted to return to a story from a few weeks ago that passed from the headlines far too quickly. The "controversial" Catholic position is the ban on girl priests.

I'll leave it to the Catholics to explain the theological details, but we have a beautiful pair of bookmarks to the exact same incident illustrating women's special skills and deficits. The escape and capture of Brian Nichols shows women playing roles they should not (escorting dangerous criminals) and women playing roles they do best (making men better people).


Nichols' murderous rampage began when he took the gun from a 5-foot-tall grandmother who was his sole guard at the Fulton County Courthouse. It ended when an otherwise unremarkable 26-year-old woman appealed to the Christian conscience of this same violent killer holding her hostage.


At 2 a.m. one Saturday night, Ashley Smith went out for cigarettes while unpacking her new apartment, yet another victory for tobacco pleasure. Returning from the store, Smith was grabbed by a man at her front door, who put a gun in her side and told her not to scream. He asked if she knew who he was. When he removed his baseball cap, she saw it was Nichols, the dangerous fugitive all over TV who had escaped custody during his rape trial and had killed four people in the previous 48 hours. (Although he also looked a lot like of one the guys on "American Idol.")


In Smith's apartment, Nichols bound Smith's feet and hands and put her in the bathtub. Later, at Smith's request, Nichols allowed her to hop from the bathroom into the bedroom, where she began talking to him.


In short order, Smith was reading aloud to Nichols from the Christian book "The Purpose Driven Life" -- in direct violation of his constitutional right to never hear any reference to God, in public or private, for any purpose, ever, ever, ever! For more on this right, go to the "People for the American Way" Web site.


After reading the first paragraph of Chapter 33 aloud, about serving God by serving others, Nichols -- the man pundits were calling an "animal" -- asked her to read it again.


Nichols listened to the passage again and responded by telling Smith he was already dead, saying, "Look at my eyes." But Smith looked and told him God had a purpose for him, perhaps to minister to other lost souls in prison. Smith read to Nichols some more, both from the "Purpose" book and from another popular book that's been dropped from all news accounts of this incident: the New Testament. (In the Hollywood version, Smith will be reading from the Quran.)


Smith knew all about Nichols' violent depredations from TV. Yet she saw him not as a monster, but as one of God's creatures. Most Christians -- most people -- have trouble seeing the humanity of people who take our parking spots. Smith could see God's hand in a multiple murderer holding her hostage. By showing him genuine Christian love, Smith turned Nichols from a beast to a brother in Christ. This phenomenon, utterly unknown to liberals, is what's known as a "miracle." Top that, Paul Krugman!


Nichols told Smith she was "an angel sent from God," calling her "his sister" and himself her "brother in Christ." Nichols said he had come to Smith's home for a reason, in Smith's words, that "he was lost and God led him right to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people."


This trampling of our Constitution -- I mean this conversation -- lasted long into the night. They watched Nichols' shooting people on TV. Nichols said he couldn't believe he was that man. In the morning, Smith made Nichols eggs and pancakes for breakfast. Then she walked out of the apartment to pick up her daughter and to call 911. The last thing Nichols said as Smith was leaving was to say hello to her daughter for him. When the police arrived, Nichols surrendered without incident, an utterly transformed human being.


Heaven help the average liberal if this ever happens to him! What would an urban secularist do? Come sit down and let me read to you from Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men." Or maybe he could put a SpongeBob video in the VCR. WE ARE FAM-I-LEEEEE! At least before he killed again, the dangerous fugitive would have warm feelings toward sponges.


It's also another example of how our universities are failing students. Today's college coeds would be dead: They know nothing about Jesus Christ and can't cook a good meal.


Smith saved the soul of a man on a killing spree by talking to him about Christianity. But liberals think this won't work with the Muslims? We ought to fly this Ashley Smith to Saudi Arabia. We could just make her a box lunch every day and send her on her way.



Liberals would approve of a nice Christian girl like Smith going to the Middle East only if she went as a Marine or -- better! -- if she were getting herself run over by a tank while defending a PLO tunnel into the Gaza Strip used by suicide bombers. Sadly for liberals, feminist lunacy doesn't convert and transform, it browbeats and harangues. The only miracle it has ever performed is getting people to listen to Nancy Pelosi.




http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=108&ncid=742&e=10&u=/ucac/20050407/cm_ucac/thepurposedrivenleft

fatesfaery
04-09-2005, 10:47 PM
THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LEFT
Thu Apr 7, 2005


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Nichols' murderous rampage began when he took the gun from a 5-foot-tall grandmother who was his sole guard at the Fulton County Courthouse. It ended when an otherwise unremarkable 26-year-old woman appealed to the Christian conscience of this same violent killer holding her hostage.


At 2 a.m. one Saturday night, Ashley Smith went out for cigarettes while unpacking her new apartment, yet another victory for tobacco pleasure. Returning from the store, Smith was grabbed by a man at her front door, who put a gun in her side and told her not to scream. He asked if she knew who he was. When he removed his baseball cap, she saw it was Nichols, the dangerous fugitive all over TV who had escaped custody during his rape trial and had killed four people in the previous 48 hours. (Although he also looked a lot like of one the guys on "American Idol.")


In Smith's apartment, Nichols bound Smith's feet and hands and put her in the bathtub. Later, at Smith's request, Nichols allowed her to hop from the bathroom into the bedroom, where she began talking to him.


In short order, Smith was reading aloud to Nichols from the Christian book "The Purpose Driven Life" -- in direct violation of his constitutional right to never hear any reference to God, in public or private, for any purpose, ever, ever, ever! For more on this right, go to the "People for the American Way" Web site.


After reading the first paragraph of Chapter 33 aloud, about serving God by serving others, Nichols -- the man pundits were calling an "animal" -- asked her to read it again.


Nichols listened to the passage again and responded by telling Smith he was already dead, saying, "Look at my eyes." But Smith looked and told him God had a purpose for him, perhaps to minister to other lost souls in prison. Smith read to Nichols some more, both from the "Purpose" book and from another popular book that's been dropped from all news accounts of this incident: the New Testament. (In the Hollywood version, Smith will be reading from the Quran.)


Smith knew all about Nichols' violent depredations from TV. Yet she saw him not as a monster, but as one of God's creatures. Most Christians -- most people -- have trouble seeing the humanity of people who take our parking spots. Smith could see God's hand in a multiple murderer holding her hostage. By showing him genuine Christian love, Smith turned Nichols from a beast to a brother in Christ. This phenomenon, utterly unknown to liberals, is what's known as a "miracle." Top that, Paul Krugman!


Nichols told Smith she was "an angel sent from God," calling her "his sister" and himself her "brother in Christ." Nichols said he had come to Smith's home for a reason, in Smith's words, that "he was lost and God led him right to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people."


This trampling of our Constitution -- I mean this conversation -- lasted long into the night. They watched Nichols' shooting people on TV. Nichols said he couldn't believe he was that man. In the morning, Smith made Nichols eggs and pancakes for breakfast. Then she walked out of the apartment to pick up her daughter and to call 911. The last thing Nichols said as Smith was leaving was to say hello to her daughter for him. When the police arrived, Nichols surrendered without incident, an utterly transformed human being.

Smith saved the soul of a man on a killing spree by talking to him about Christianity. But liberals think this won't work with the Muslims? We ought to fly this Ashley Smith to Saudi Arabia. We could just make her a box lunch every day and send her on her way.

Liberals would approve of a nice Christian girl like Smith going to the Middle East only if she went as a Marine or -- better! -- if she were getting herself run over by a tank while defending a PLO tunnel into the Gaza Strip used by suicide bombers. Sadly for liberals, feminist lunacy doesn't convert and transform, it browbeats and harangues. The only miracle it has ever performed is getting people to listen to Nancy Pelosi.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=108&ncid=742&e=10&u=/ucac/20050407/cm_ucac/thepurposedrivenleft

Nice article, but it left out the fact that Brian Nichols and the ex finace he was accused of raping were heavily involved in a local church...so Ashley Smith hardly 'led him to god.' It also failed to mentioned that they left her apartment, she then followed him in her car while he moved the truck he stole to another location further away from her apartment. She picked him up and they returned to her apartment....that and the fact that they were members of the same gym...not a large chain gym, but a much smaller gym in Buckhead seem to be what have people here asking questions.
As far as what she read to him...maybe you have to live in the Atlanta area for it to be common knowledge....even among liberals.

llbriteyes
04-10-2005, 07:44 AM
The media WAS all over it. It was funny. And if it happened to Kerry, et. al., it would have been Just as funny.

Nothing funnier than a pie in the face!

Linda



Pat Buchanan Doused With Salad Dressing

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) - Commentator and former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan cut short an appearance after an opponent of his conservative views doused him with salad dressing.

``Stop the bigotry!'' the demonstrator shouted as he hurled the liquid Thursday night during the program at Western Michigan University. The incident came just two days after another noted conservative, William Kristol, was struck by a pie during an appearance at a college in Indiana.

After he was hit, Buchanan cut short his question-and-answer session with the audience, saying, ``Thank you all for coming, but I'm going to have to get my hair washed.''

The demonstrator, identified by authorities as a 24-year-old student at Kalamazoo Valley Community College, was arrested and faces a misdemeanor charge of disturbing the peace. He was released on a $100 cash bond, pending his April 14 arraignment. ``He could have faced a felony assault charge, but Pat Buchanan decided to not press that charge,'' university spokesman Matt Kurz said.

Buchanan's visit had evoked controversy on campus because it fell on the birthday of the late Mexican-American labor leader Cesar Chavez. Buchanan favors tighter controls on immigration.




Kristol, editor of the influential conservative magazine The Weekly Standard and former chief of staff to Vice President Quayle, was splattered by a student during a speech Tuesday at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind.

Members of the audience at the Quaker college jeered the student, then applauded as Kristol wiped the pie from his face and said, ``Just let me finish this point.'' Kristol then completed his speech and took questions from the audience.

The student, who was not immediately identified, was suspended and could face expulsion following a disciplinary review, Earlham Provost Len Clark said Wednesday.

Clark also issued a written apology complimenting Kristol for his ``graciousness.''



04/01/05 08:46


http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20050401%2F0847587449.htm&sc=1110


(( Can you imagine if this had happened and Kerry, Dean, or some other Liberal Darling had been the target ?? The Media would be all over it ! ))

llbriteyes
04-10-2005, 07:53 AM
Jolie, just the title of the article in your post makes me wonder why you wonder why *we* trash the right wing christian.....

What???? Are you saying the only way to subdue a criminal is to read passages from *religious* texts? No wonder I think you're a nut.

SOME of today's co-eds (MINE included) not only have a personal relationship with our Lord, but she can cook a mean mac & cheese any day of the week! My son, who doesn't believe, can cook a 7 course meal.

Linda




THE PURPOSE-DRIVEN LEFT
Thu Apr 7, 2005

Heaven help the average liberal if this ever happens to him! What would an urban secularist do? Come sit down and let me read to you from Michael Moore's "Stupid White Men." Or maybe he could put a SpongeBob video in the VCR. WE ARE FAM-I-LEEEEE! At least before he killed again, the dangerous fugitive would have warm feelings toward sponges.

It's also another example of how our universities are failing students. Today's college coeds would be dead: They know nothing about Jesus Christ and can't cook a good meal.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=108&ncid=742&e=10&u=/ucac/20050407/cm_ucac/thepurposedrivenleft

Jolie Rouge
04-10-2005, 06:07 PM
Nice article, but it left out the fact that Brian Nichols and the ex finace he was accused of raping were heavily involved in a local church...so Ashley Smith hardly 'led him to god.' It also failed to mentioned that they left her apartment, she then followed him in her car while he moved the truck he stole to another location further away from her apartment. She picked him up and they returned to her apartment....that and the fact that they were members of the same gym...not a large chain gym, but a much smaller gym in Buckhead seem to be what have people here asking questions.

As far as what she read to him...maybe you have to live in the Atlanta area for it to be common knowledge....even among liberals.


Thank you - some of these details I had not heard...

I thought the whole article was rather "tongue in cheek"

Jolie Rouge
03-09-2006, 01:44 PM
[b]Audience members, T-shirts blast speaker's views
Neal SenGupta

Clad in shirts mocking the speaker's list of dangerous academics, students and professors protest David Horowitz's speech.

Student groups and professors made sure David Horowitz heard their criticisms during his speech Tuesday night.

An e-mail organizing a protest of Horowitz's appearance circulated to several student groups Tuesday several hours before Horowitz's speech began.

The e-mail was initially distributed by Associate Professor Diane Nelson of the cultural anthropology department. It suggested that students pull their shirts off at a set time during the speech. "They claim [Horowitz] will 'expose academia'.... Here are some ways we will 'expose them,'" Nelson wrote in the e-mail, proceeding to describe how students should literally expose themselves. "I say we all wear jog bras (for ladies) and nothing (for boys) under our T-shirts and at a given signal pull them off."

The stripping never materialized, however, and all audience members remained seated and clothed.

About 45 students and faculty did wear shirts that read, "Why Didn't I Make the List?"-a reference to Horowitz's book, The Professors: 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.

The back of the shirts inferred that Horowitz is attempting to destroy intellectual freedom. "Intimidation, Blacklisting, Litmus Testing, Narcing on Profs = Academic Freedom?" the shirt read.

The protesting audience members sat together in the left front rows of Page Auditorium. Some laughed and heckled at several of Horowitz's statements throughout his 45-minute lecture.

At times, Horowitz directed comments toward them.

When Horowitz said "professors are teaching students that America is the 'Great Satan,'" the protesting group laughed loudly. The response prompted Horowitz to say, "We've got some people on mushrooms in here."

Another time when audience members yelled out at his comments, Horowitz asked them "didn't your mother teach you manners?" This drew an ovation from the rest of the audience.

Junior Stephen Miller, a Chronicle columnist and president of Duke's chapter of Students for Academic Freedom-the group that organized the event-said he was disappointed by Nelson and the students who heckled Horowitz.

"It is absolutely inexcusable for a professor to organize students to disrupt a sanctioned University event," Miller said. "She is an embarrassment to Duke, and the University should use disciplinary action on her."

When the question-and-answer session began, Nelson was the first person of several to ask a question at the microphone.

"I'm hesitant to give you the microphone considering you came here to fight the exchange of free views," Miller said.

Nelson said she did not go to the event with the intention of disrupting the speech but noted that she was compelled to because some of Horowitz's statements merited ridicule.

"We came to listen to him. We didn't come to disrupt him," Nelson said. "We couldn't help but laugh at some of the things he said-like when he said professors only work five hours a week."

Although the e-mail from Nelson said to pick up the anti-Horowitz shirts in her office, she said the protest to the speech was not her idea but rather the brainchild of several student groups.

"It was organized by many different students," Nelson said. "Horowitz has attracted a lot of attention, and people have been talking about doing something [during the event] for a long time."

Jamal Modir contributed to this story.

http://www.dukechronicle.com/media/paper884/news/2006/03/08/News/Audience.Members.TShirts.Blast.Speakers.Views-1659278.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.dukechronicle.com



Nelson said she did not go to the event with the intention of disrupting the speech

But this is at odds with her actions :


An e-mail organizing a protest of Horowitz's appearance circulated to several student groups Tuesday several hours before Horowitz's speech began.

The e-mail was initially distributed by Associate Professor Diane Nelson of the cultural anthropology department. It suggested that students pull their shirts off at a set time during the speech. "They claim [Horowitz] will 'expose academia'.... Here are some ways we will 'expose them,'" Nelson wrote in the e-mail, proceeding to describe how students should literally expose themselves. "I say we all wear jog bras (for ladies) and nothing (for boys) under our T-shirts and at a given signal pull them off."

Although the e-mail from Nelson said to pick up the anti-Horowitz shirts in her office, she said the protest to the speech was not her idea but rather the brainchild of several student groups


So she promotes several ideas of HOW to disrupt the speaker, has t-shirts available in her STAFF OFFICE that mock the speaker but she had nothing to do with it..... right.


Note to llbriteyes : the title of the thread was taken from the title of an article. It seems to be predominately LIBERAL critics ( students and staff ) that heckle and disrupt speakers that they disagree with - creating a "circus-like" atmosphere.

If you don't agree with the speakers - don't attend.

Wouldn't it be effective to have a free pizza party somewhere at the same time and have the speaker talking to a nearly empty room ? Not as much fun as throwing food at the people on stage but more mature.

Jolie Rouge
03-09-2006, 03:28 PM
Red-Faced at Duke
By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 9, 2006

The academic freedom campaign could not have paid for a better publicity stunt than the one three leftist professors at Duke University gave it for free Tuesday night. In this case, a cross-dressing feminist professor and her cohorts tried to talk 20 students – male and female – into stripping during the middle of David Horowitz’s speech. With one move, they stripped away any pretense that certain academic departments are anything other than political parties – complete with street theater aimed at undermining their critics.

The Speech

For weeks, Students for Academic Freedom activist Steve Miller laid the groundwork to bring David Horowitz to Duke. He tirelessly canvassed the university, distributed flyers, and networked with any organization that might have an interest in hearing the lifelong civil rights activist and leading critic of university abuses. During the day, Duke President Richard Brodhead met with Miller and Horowitz, saying his university had no need to adopt an Academic Bill of Rights to protect students from faculty misbehavior.

Then Horowitz spoke.

Miller’s hard work had paid off, as campus police estimated the crowd at 800 out of a student body of 6,400. “It was more than any student sponsored event in recent history,” Miller said. Only university-sponsored events – such as Harry Belafonte’s speech on Martin Luther King Day, or Colin Powell’s visit – attracted larger audiences. By contrast James Carville had recently stammered to a crowd of only thirty. C-SPAN had cameras rolling, to broadcast the address at a later date.

In the audience a contingent of about 20 students, led by three faculty members, including the Professor Diane Nelson, the Director of Undergraduate studies sat themselves near the front of the auditorium. They were all wearing matching T-shirts reading, “Why didn't I make the list?” on the front, and on the back, “Intimidation, blacklisting, litmus testing, narcing on professors = academic freedom?” They sat as they thought: in one bloc.

Horowitz began his speech, by holding up his 450 page-112,000 word book and saying "I have in my hand here a book. Take a look. It's a book, not a list." But within moments, the disruptions began. “Whole departments at Duke are no longer scholarly enterprises," he said. "They have been transformed into political parties, whose message is that America is the Great Satan.” On cue, the group of T-shirted protesters burst into loud orchestrated giggles. These continued at pointed moments throughout the speech as, for example, when Horowitz pointed out that professors at Duke make over $100,000 a year, work five hours a week in class, have four month paid vacations and lifetime jobs -- all at the expense of Duke students who pay $43,000 a year for the privilege.

The outbursts were clearly designed to break Horowitz's flow, but he brushed them aside with humor, observing at one point, “Apparently there are some people on mushrooms in here.”

When their bouts of artificial derisory giddiness failed to have their desir effect, The Feminist Collective became more vocal, yelling rebukes at him. In a perfect Judo pivot, Horowitz turned the tables on his tenured hecklers and their obedient puppets: “Didn’t your mother teach you manners?” According to one of two front page stories about the speech in the campus newspaper, The Chronicle, “This drew an ovation from the rest of the audience.”

However, this adolescent protest was not the full extent of what the three professors led by the Director of Undergraduate Studies had planned: they intended to have more than a dozen students of both sexes strip partially naked on television.

....

The Duke University Faculty Handbook makes very clear that Professor Nelson's behavior was a violation of university rules:


It is the policy of the university to protect the right of voluntary assembly, to make its facilities available for peaceful assembly, to welcome guest speakers, and to protect the exercise of these rights from disruption or interference…It recognizes that academic freedom is no less dependent on ordered liberty than any other freedom, and it understands that the harassment of others is especially reprehensible in a community of scholars. The substitution of noise for speech and force for reason is a rejection and not an application of academic freedom. A determination to discourage conduct that is disruptive and disorderly does not threaten academic freedom; it is, rather, a necessary condition of its very existence. Therefore, Duke University will not allow disruptive or disorderly conduct on its premises to interrupt its proper operation. Persons engaging in disruptive action or disorderly conduct shall be subject to disciplinary action, including expulsion or separation, and also charges of violations of law…Disruptive picketing, protesting, or demonstrating on Duke University property or at any place in use for an authorized university purpose is prohibited.

As members of learned professions, faculty members of Duke University should remember that the public may judge their professions and their institution by their actions. They should also remember that in a deeper sense they cannot separate freedom as a member of the academic community from their responsibility as a privileged member of society. While the university will always protect freedom to espouse an unpopular cause, faculty members have a responsibility not to involve the university. Hence, when speaking, writing, or acting in the capacity of a private citizen, they should make every effort to indicate that they are not spokespersons or representatives of the university.

The Handbook indicates consequences for those who violate these guidelines, can be severe:

[quote]The university may terminate the appointment of a full-time academic staff member having a term appointment prior to the expiration of the appointment, or may terminate the appointment of an academic staff member having continuous academic tenure prior to retirement, for misconduct or neglect of duty. (Emphasis added.)

It certainly appears Nelson and her academic assistants – History professor Jocelyn Olcott and University Writing/Women’s Studies lecturer Caroline Light – have violated this policy.



More importantly, these three academics vividly illustrate the sad polemical state of modern academia: professors instructing students not only which views to hold but how to express them, and how to disrespect their fellow students to disagree with them. The Daily Tarheel reported Light even applauded those students at Horowitz’s speech who did as they were told. Each of these professors provided a perfect illustration of Horowitz's claim that political ideologues have inserted themselves into the heart of the modern university system. Duke is ranked fifth in academic quality among all American universities in the rankings by U.S. News and World Reports.

The article is too long to C&P in it's entirelty ...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=21594

Jolie Rouge
05-11-2006, 09:06 PM
Dean Misstates Party Platform on Gays
By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer
Thu May 11, 4:15 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Democratic chairman Howard Dean mischaracterized his party's platform on gay rights in an interview courting evangelicals, then set the record straight Thursday when an advocacy group called him on it.

Dean told Christian Broadcasting Network News that the 2004 Democratic platform declares "marriage is between a man and a woman" — just one of the points he made in reaching out to religious conservatives who are largely hostile to the party.

But the platform does not define marriage that way, and his remarks prompted the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force to return a $5,000 donation from the Democratic National Committee.

Dean later acknowledged his misstatement, but the group sent back the money anyway. "We need for Governor Dean to demonstrate real leadership on our issues," executive director Matt Foreman said in an interview, "not to equivocate depending on the audience."

Dean sought to establish common ground with religious conservatives in the interview on Pat Robertson's network, a tall order considering their opposition to the Democratic Party's positions on abortion rights, gay rights and some other social issues.

Dean said that "one of the misconceptions about the Democratic Party is that we're godless and that we don't have any values."

He went on: "The truth is, we have an enormous amount in common with the Christian community, and particularly with the evangelical Christian community. And one of the biggest things that Democrats worry about is the materialism of our country, what's on television that our kids are seeing, and the lack of spirituality."

With Republicans embracing the traditional definition of marriage in 2004, Democrats sought to appeal to such traditionalists without giving up their support for gay rights.

The result: a platform plank that left the central question about what defines marriage to the states, and specifically rejected President Bush's support for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

It asserted: "We support full inclusion of gay and lesbian families in the life of our nation and seek equal responsibilities, benefits, and protections for these families."

Dean stated in the interview: "The Democratic Party platform from 2004 says that marriage is between a man and a woman. That's what it says."

He added that the party differs with some religious leaders in believing "everybody deserves to live with dignity and respect, and that equal rights under the law are important."

After the gay rights group went public with its complaints about his remarks, Dean acknowledged: "I misstated the Democratic Party's platform, which does not say marriage should be limited to a man and a woman," and reasserted the party's commitment to equal protection for all.

Foreman said Dean should be persuading Democrats to fight against ballot initiatives seeking to ban gay marriage, but instead has misrepresented the party's "important and affirming plank" several times.

"There has been a disturbing lack of clarity from Governor Dean about where we fit into the party and the country," he said after Dean corrected himself.

Foreman said the $5,000 was for sponsorship of the group's leadership awards dinner in Washington last week, and will be missed.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060511/ap_on_re_us/democrats_gays_2

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On the Net:

Account of Dean interview: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/politics/060510a.asp

National Gay and Lesbian Task Force: http://www.thetaskforce.org/




Imagine - if you will - the hullaballoo which would have followed if ANY rep of the GOP had "misspoken" in this fashion - much less the Chairman.


I respect the stance of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force in return the donation from the DNC.

Jolie Rouge
05-12-2006, 08:41 PM
Michael Schiavo is blogging at the Daily Kos....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/5/12/14936/0858

Jolie Rouge
06-09-2006, 09:35 PM
They throw pies at their opponents. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=BRF%20Kristol%20Pie

Salad dressing. http://channels.netscape.com/news/story.jsp?id=2005040108470001587449&dt=20050401084700&w=APO&coview=

Paint. http://www.newsobserver.com/102/story/433153.html

Molotov cocktails. http://www.nbc11.com/news/5236993/detail.html

And now it's...dog feces:

Dog Feces Left at Congresswoman's Office
Jun 08 10:44 PM US/Eastern

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/08/D8I4E19G0.html


GREELEY, Colo. Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave's Greeley office.

Musgrave spokesman Shaun Kenney said someone stuffed the envelope through the mail slot in the door on May 31 and then sped away in a car. Kenney said most of the preprinted return address was blacked out, but staffers used the nine-digit ZIP code to trace it to Kathleen Ensz, a Weld County Democratic volunteer.

Ensz told The Associated Press she left the envelope at Musgrave's office but said it "wasn't in the office doors, it was in the foyer." Asked what she meant by the act, she declined comment.

Kenney demanded an apology from Musgrave's likely Democratic opponent, state Rep. Angela Paccione of Fort Collins.

Paccione spokesman James Thompson denied the campaign had anything to do with it. "We find that kind of act to be completely deplorable," he said. "We're not in the business of dirty tricks like that. This type of thing is really out of our control, but of course we'll do anything that we can to discourage this."

Thompson said Ensz, vice chairwoman of a state Senate district committee for the county Democratic Party, has no formal ties to the Paccione campaign.

Kenney said police were asked to investigate. A police spokesman did not immediately return a call. [/quote]


Denver 7 News reports that the accused, um, dog poop depositor comes from academia. http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9345470/detail.html


Ensz was charged with criminal use of a noxious substance. She is a professor emeritus at UNC [University of Northern Colorado].


Denver Post has more: http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_3915979


Ensz began teaching at UNC in 1970 and earned her emeritus status in 2000, said UNC spokeswoman Gloria Reynolds.

Since she is no longer on staff, she doesn't face sanctions, Reynolds said.

A receptionist at Musgrave's campaign office saw a woman drive up to the office and cram the offending mailer through the outer door's mail slot, according to Musgrave officials.

Musgrave staff members also traced the mailer back to Ensz's neighborhood, where they spotted the car she allegedly drove to deliver the mailer and a large German shepherd, said Aaron Johnson, Musgrave's communications director. "It's a large dog, and it apparently makes a big mess," he said.


Contrary to AP characterizations, Ensz is no mere "volunteer." She holds an official Dem Party position as Colorado Senate District 13 Democratic Central Committee vice chair. http://www.weldcountydems.org/candidates/CO/S13.html


Jon Ham notes more misleading reporting on the story: http://www.johnlocke.org/lockerroom/lockerroom.html?id=8073


The Associated Press has moved a story with this headline: "Dog Feces Left at Congresswoman's Office." And what's the lede of the story?:

Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave's Greeley office.(emphasis added) http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/06/08/D8I4E19G0.html


You would think that police are still out searching for the culprit in this incident, but you would be wrong. In the third paragraph a Democratic activist admits leaving the, er, token after the congresswoman's enterprising staff traced her through a ZIP code on the envelope containing the feces. So why not just lead with that and write the headline appropriately?


Since Ensz is 63 it is kinda hard to put this down as youthful highjinks.

Just think - if she had gone down to Walmart and used a NEW mailer, they would have had a lot harder time locating her. I guess we should give her points for recycling.

Jolie Rouge
10-30-2006, 09:47 PM
Candidate swipes campaign signs: [i]Republican Party says Deb Eddy violated law when she had workers pull out stakes



http://www. kjmp.sv.publicous.com/app/bcsi/jpg
Patrick Hagerty/Journal

Matthew Lundh looks at the 263 political signs Friday that police returned to the King County Republican Party headquarters in Bellevue. Lundh was in the office when police returned them at midnight Thursday. The police confiscated them earlier in the week from Eddy’s car, garage and campaign office.


House candidate Deb Eddy was unrepentant Friday in the wake of Republican Party charges that she'd violated the law by taking their campaign signs, which accuse her of backing higher taxes. "She just completely lost it and took the law into her own hands," said King County Republican Party Chair Mike Young. "And she's a lawyer, that's a funny part of the whole thing."

What's funny, Eddy said, is how long she had to wait to hear back from Republicans after she e-mailed them Monday, asking if they owned the signs. At roughly the same time her field workers were pulling out the stakes, she was sending King County Republicans an e-mail.

Eddy, seeking a House seat in the 48th District against Bret Olson, a lesser-known and inexperienced opponent, said she was only trying to avoid a confrontation between her supporters and the sign's owners.

She said the signs — which read simply: Deb Eddy's Property Tax .com — are misleading.

On Friday, Bellevue police picked up 263 of them at Eddy's home in Kirkland and returned them to GOP headquarters in Bellevue. The county GOP, which owns the signs, filed a complaint Thursday with the Bellevue Police Department, alleging Eddy stole them. Eddy said didn't hear from them until Thursday afternoon, when she learned they'd reported it to the police.

A Tuesday e-mail to her opponent, Olson, garnered no response, nor did she hear back from state Republican Party Chair Diane Tebelius, she said.

Eddy said she had her workers pull the signs because the Web site it listed, www.debeddyspropertytax.com, had no attribution. She said that when she first visited the Web site, it had no attribution either. She said only research into the Web site's registration listed the Republican Party.

But Young said Eddy was acting like a vigilante. "She cowboy'ed it," he said.

The Republicans contend that state law does not require campaign signs to show attribution — and anyway, the Web site listed on the signs states who's behind them. Her recourse, Young said, was to the Public Disclosure Commission.

Eddy said she filed a complaint with the Public Disclosure Commission Saturday, but she said she couldn't wait for them to act. "This is one of the difficulties with Public Disclosure Act is they seldom get around with resolving the complaints until far after the election."

The Web site accuses Eddy of supporting an increase in the Real Estate Excise Tax, or REET, though its attribution of that claim is simply that Democrats backed it in last year's Legislature — when Eddy did not serve in Olympia.

As for the code, she has a different take. "I went back and reread the RCW and there is a way to read it that yard signs don't have to have attribution. You can read it that way. But historically, all of us in politics have observed a requirement that you put something on there that indicates who's responsible for speech. That's the whole purpose of the Public Disclosure Act."

Eddy said she considered the whole incident over when she turned the signs over to the Bellevue police Friday.

She said she has no regrets because she acted in good faith. "The mistake I made, if any, was expecting (Republicans) would act in good faith."


http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061028/NEWS/610280334

Jolie Rouge
10-30-2006, 09:56 PM
Candidate swipes campaign signs: Republican Party says Deb Eddy violated law when she had workers pull out stakes



http://www.kjmp.sv.publicous.com/app/bcsi.jpg
Patrick Hagerty/Journal
Matthew Lundh looks at the 263 political signs Friday that police returned to the King County Republican Party headquarters in Bellevue. Lundh was in the office when police returned them at midnight Thursday. The police confiscated them earlier in the week from Eddy’s car, garage and campaign office.


House candidate Deb Eddy was unrepentant Friday in the wake of Republican Party charges that she'd violated the law by taking their campaign signs, which accuse her of backing higher taxes. "She just completely lost it and took the law into her own hands," said King County Republican Party Chair Mike Young. "And she's a lawyer, that's a funny part of the whole thing."

What's funny, Eddy said, is how long she had to wait to hear back from Republicans after she e-mailed them Monday, asking if they owned the signs. At roughly the same time her field workers were pulling out the stakes, she was sending King County Republicans an e-mail.

Eddy, seeking a House seat in the 48th District against Bret Olson, a lesser-known and inexperienced opponent, said she was only trying to avoid a confrontation between her supporters and the sign's owners.

She said the signs — which read simply: Deb Eddy's Property Tax .com — are misleading.

On Friday, Bellevue police picked up 263 of them at Eddy's home in Kirkland and returned them to GOP headquarters in Bellevue. The county GOP, which owns the signs, filed a complaint Thursday with the Bellevue Police Department, alleging Eddy stole them. Eddy said didn't hear from them until Thursday afternoon, when she learned they'd reported it to the police.

A Tuesday e-mail to her opponent, Olson, garnered no response, nor did she hear back from state Republican Party Chair Diane Tebelius, she said.

Eddy said she had her workers pull the signs because the Web site it listed, www.debeddyspropertytax.com, had no attribution. She said that when she first visited the Web site, it had no attribution either. She said only research into the Web site's registration listed the Republican Party.

But Young said Eddy was acting like a vigilante. "She cowboy'ed it," he said.

The Republicans contend that state law does not require campaign signs to show attribution — and anyway, the Web site listed on the signs states who's behind them. Her recourse, Young said, was to the Public Disclosure Commission.

Eddy said she filed a complaint with the Public Disclosure Commission Saturday, but she said she couldn't wait for them to act. "This is one of the difficulties with Public Disclosure Act is they seldom get around with resolving the complaints until far after the election."

The Web site accuses Eddy of supporting an increase in the Real Estate Excise Tax, or REET, though its attribution of that claim is simply that Democrats backed it in last year's Legislature — when Eddy did not serve in Olympia.

As for the code, she has a different take. "I went back and reread the RCW and there is a way to read it that yard signs don't have to have attribution. You can read it that way. But historically, all of us in politics have observed a requirement that you put something on there that indicates who's responsible for speech. That's the whole purpose of the Public Disclosure Act."

Eddy said she considered the whole incident over when she turned the signs over to the Bellevue police Friday.

She said she has no regrets because she acted in good faith. "The mistake I made, if any, was expecting (Republicans) would act in good faith."


http://www.kingcountyjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061028/NEWS/610280334




[b]Democrat House Candidate Deb Eddy Admits Theft of KCGOP Property
http://soundpolitics.com/archives/007238.html

Democrat Deb Eddy, 48th District state House candidate, has admitted to illegally removing lawfully posted campaign signs belonging to the King County GOP. :


(KCGOP) is asking that [Bellevue Police Dept.], in conjunction with Prosecutor Maleng, take the following action with regard to Deb Eddy who has admitted to acts against the property of the KCGOP constituting theft in the first degree (RCW 9A.56.030), possession of stolen property in the first degree (RCW 9A.56.150) and the lesser included offense of removing or defacing political advertising (RCW 29A.84.040). Theft in the first degree and possession of stolen property in the first degree are both class B felonies (RCW 9A.56.030 and 9A.56.150). Removing political advertising is a misdemeanor. A conviction of either felony charge would warrant removal from public office under RCW 42.12.010.

Eddy's (law-abiding) Republican opponent is Bret Olson.

Jolie Rouge
12-03-2006, 09:12 PM
You'll recall that at another Michigan school--Western Michigan University--last year, Pat Buchanan was assaulted by a deranged student who hurled salad dressing at him. Last month, David Horowitz and his bodyguards were attacked by two thugs with a cream pie.

What flavor of liberal intolerance have you tasted today?

Horowitz noted at the annual Restoration Weekend conference:
FrontPage magazine.com :: Restoration Weekend 2006: Storming the Universities by David Horowitz (http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25586)


Leftist ruffians have ensured that if you are a conservative speaker you will never know what might be coming at you. When I spoke recently at Ball State University, it was only a cream pie. I didn’t even see the person who was charging us, but the chief of campus police and Floyd and the policemen present saw her coming and interposed themselves between us, and were drowned by this cream pie. Not a big deal, but three suits had to go to the dry cleaners, and a police officer was cut apprehending the culprits. Refreshingly, they were arrested and had to post bail.

This is the sad state of our campuses.


Indeed, it is. And on and on and on it goes, as Cinammon Stillwell thoroughly documented recently.

When Leftist tries to argue, as they invariably do, that conservatives are as unhinged on campus as they are, ask them to name the last five liberal speakers physically attacked while trying to speak at a college or university.

Do you hear what I hear? Crickets chirping, chirping, chirping.

Jolie Rouge
02-22-2007, 03:17 PM
bump .... to link with http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-information/535733-unhinged.html#post95533435

Jolie Rouge
02-23-2007, 08:14 PM
Performance artist gives chance to "kick" Bush [i]


NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers got to kick President George W. Bush's butt on Thursday, sort of.

Performance artist Mark McGowan kicked off his bid to crawl for 72 hours across Manhattan dressed as the president, offering the opportunity to kick his backside.

The controversial artist from London began his odyssey from New York's Lincoln Centre wearing a rubber George Bush mask, a business suit, knee pads, work gloves and a sign stuck to his cushioned posterior reading simply: "Kick My Ass".

Though few ordinary New Yorkers, other than fellow artists, cameramen and photographers, were present for the launch on a wet workday afternoon, some people gave him a kick. "It felt real good to kick Bush," said Casmirr Sharp, 52, of New York's Queens borough. "He really deserves more than a kick."

McGowan told Reuters he hopes his performance proves therapeutic to the city's denizens. But he insisted his work was no publicity stunt but art: "It's definitely an art form. A lot of the things I do are a bit silly but they always have a political edge to them."

McGowan said he does not have any particular political stance on the Republican president, who has seen his approval ratings plunge in the face of an unpopular war in Iraq.

McGowan made his name in Britain with a series of controversial acts including a performance called "Dead Soldier" where he dressed up in army fatigues and lay in the streets for a week. He also crawled 60 miles from London to the town of Canterbury.

McGowan's latest act is part of the Scope International Art Fair at the Lincoln Centre performing arts complex.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070223/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bush_kick;_ylt=ArozL7gUexu1mh9Ih.HD.7vMWM 0F


This is considered "art" ?

Jolie Rouge
11-20-2007, 12:45 PM
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Alberto Gonzales Harassed, Abused at University of Florida
The intolerant Left is at it again[/b]

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2007/11/moonbats-harass-alberto-gonzales-at.html

In what is to be expected anymore on US university campuses...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApfY1s0XUio

Alberto Gonzales was the latest conservative to be abused during a speaking engagement.

The young storm troopers were out in force on Monday night.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_L6pDyjqqsvY/R0MfbgJCc1I/AAAAAAAAJFQ/0zJCdp7TWkU/s1600-h/gonzales.jpg

Former US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was harassed at Florida U on Monday night. The media reports don't begin to tell the abuse this conservative received on the University of Florida campus.


The Florida Alligator reported: http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/11/20/news/campus/gonzales.txt


Protesters arrested at Gonzales speech
By DEVIN CULCLASURE, Alligator Writer

In his first appearance at a university since resigning in August, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was met at UF on Monday with a mixture of cheers, boos and scattered interruptions by protesters, two of whom were arrested.

Gonzales, who resigned from his position after a controversial tenure, spoke to more than 800 people at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.

During his prepared speech, Gonzales largely avoided discussing the controversies he faced in office, including his dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys.

Instead, he focused on encouraging students to consider a career in public service while describing his own experiences in that field.

About 15 minutes into his speech, two UF students, Richard Gutierrez and Kevin Hachey, climbed onto the stage wearing orange jumpsuits and black hoods on their heads.

University Police Department officers scrambled onto the stage to remove them. Matthew Cox, an employee of the Phillips Center, wrestled with one protester on the far side of stage, grabbing his legs and pulling him down.

The other stood directly next to Gonzales, who calmly avoided looking in his direction. As police took the protester away, Gonzales glanced in his direction before attempting to continue his speech while he waited for the raucous crowd to settle down after a few minutes.

A few more protesters climbed onto the stage.

Meanwhile, even more protesters stood up, removed shirts or jackets revealing yellow T-shirts that read "SHAME," and stood with their backs toward Gonzales. They remained standing in their positions for the rest of the event.

Eventually, Gonzales continued his speech and then sat across from Henry Wihnyk, a UF law professor, for a question-and-answer session.

Wihnyk read students' questions, which had been written on index cards before and during Gonzales' speech.

During Gonzales' address, the self-described "son of a Mexican immigrant and cotton picker" said his life was evidence of the American dream. "I love America for all that she has done for me," he said. "We are not perfect. Sometimes we stumble, but we always get up."

Gonzales said he was proud of his record and defended his work with President Bush, though there were missteps, he said.

Later, he ignored scattered jeers from the crowd to answer questions about his dismissal of the attorneys, the Geneva Convention and torture.

Afterward, UPD Lt. Stacey Ettel said Gutierrez and Hachey were arrested for disrupting a public event. Ettel said UPD expected most of the protester's actions because they received information about some of the plans prior to the event. However, UPD did not anticipate what Gutierrez and Hachey did, he said.

Still, Ettel said he believed most of the protesters' behavior was acceptable. "I felt like they were able to express their feelings and voice their concerns from a visual viewpoint," he said.

Steve Orlando, UF spokesman, said the usual number of four security officers was present. He added that he also thought most of the protesters expressed their views reasonably. "A few crossed the line, but I think it went pretty well," Orlando said.

"I think Mr. Gonzales saw a whole lot of First Amendment tonight," he added with a laugh. "As he said, that's what this place is about."


Of course... Left leading blog Think Progress clearly condones the abusive behavior. http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/20/alberto-uf/


Gonzales will be in St. Louis at Washington University in February.



That picture captures it perfectly: lefties blocking Gonzales' freedom of speech while wearing "Civil Liberties" on their shirts.



"I think Mr. Gonzales saw a whole lot of First Amendment tonight," he added with a laugh. "As he said, that's what this place is about."

I wonder how well this would have gone over had Hillary been speaking ??

Jolie Rouge
04-23-2008, 09:42 PM
Conservative campus speakers have long endured the threat of pie-throwing, shoe-wielding, salad dressing-tossing nutballs. MSM types have barely batted an eye.

Now, enviro-nitwits have been caught throwing pies at NYTimes columnist and author Thomas Friedman because they disagreed with his approach to global warming.

I predict we’ll see a blossoming of liberal media pieces decrying the mob atmosphere at American colleges and universities and calling for civility in academic exchanges. Better late than never.

I guess ....

http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo-20080423-piethrowing.91a247f0.html


A Brown University student was apprehended by Brown University police last night after allegedly throwing a green pie container filled with what appeared to be green whipped cream at a New York Times columnist who had been invited to speak to students about energy.

Thomas Friedman ducked the pies, which were thrown by two people who rushed the stage just after he stepped to the microphone. He avoided the brunt of the contents, stepped off stage for a few minutes, and returned to deliver his speech.

“We are grateful that Mr. Friedman went on to deliver his lecture to a full audience, who gave him a standing ovation,” reads a statement from Vice President of Public Affairs Michael Chapman.

The two rushed the stage with the pies, and then threw fliers into the crowd which aired their criticisms of Friedman’s views on the free market and climate change.

“Freedom of speech is prized on a university campus,” Chapman said in his statement, “While Brown students are encouraged to express their opinions on any subject and in a variety of forums, the University does not tolerate such assaults against a speaker or disrupting the right of others to hear a speaker’s perspectives.”

The student was placed in the custody of the Department of Public Safety. The school in a statement said it will review the incident through a “non-academic disciplinary system,” and determine what to do from there.


The Brown Daily Herald has more details and a photo of the apprehended pie thrower. The assailants called themselves the “Greenwash Guerillas.”


A female audience member ran on stage last night and threw a green pie at New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, who had just begun a lecture on environmentalism in Salomon 101. The woman had been sitting in the south side of the auditorium’s front row when she pulled the pie out of a Brown Bookstore plastic bag that had been tucked in a red backpack and leapt out of her seat.

At the same time the woman threw the pie, a male accomplice seated a few rows back ran down the aisle and onto the stage, throwing small pamphlets explaining the actions into the crowd.

After the pie hit Friedman and splattered on his face and torso, the two jumped offstage and ran out of the southeast exit of the building, followed closely by a man trying to catch them. A police officer also ran toward the exit but stayed inside…

…The pamphlets thrown by the male accomplice identified the pair as the “Greenwash Guerillas,” who wrote that they were acting “on behalf of the earth (sic) and all true environmentalists.”

One side of the pamphlet contains an excerpt from a September 2006 review of Friedman’s book, “The World is Flat,” written by Raymond Lotta for the journal “Revolution,” which styles itself as the “Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.” The review is highly critical of Friedman, who the review claims cannot see his own errors while “seated in the business class of his analytical jetliner.”

The other side contains five bullet-points explaining why “Thomas Friedman deserves a pie in the face,” which include reasons like “his sickeningly cheery applaud for free market capitalism’s conquest of the planet,” and “for helping turn environmentalism into a fake plastic consumer product for the privileged.”

The pamphlet declares “Thomas Friedman’s ‘Green’ as fake and toxic to human and planetary health as the cool-whip (sic) covering his face.”


***


So predictable it’s cliche. But here you go, fresh from HuffPo:


You’re right, Bulbul. As one of the main cheerleaders for the Iraq War,he got his just “desserts.”
Posted 04:43 PM on 04/23/2008

Was it humble pie, this neocon-artist needs a big slice of it.
Posted 04:25 PM on 04/23/2008

Only if the “innards” of the pie came from the horse stall…….
Posted 05:02 PM on 04/23/2008

It could be argued that a cream pie IS free speech (though a concrete pie is not). Certainly it’s one of the better means of deflating the pompous and self-important. I’ve always thought that to deliver a cream pie in a truly classy manner, one should include a cheque to cover the cost of the dry cleaner.
Posted 04:59 PM on 04/23/2008

Pie throwing is not bullying. Pie throwing tells these self-appointed MSM pundits that their clever triangulating columns and positions are simply wrong, and not at all wise. The bullies are on the other side of the equation. They squelch scientists reports for political favor. They disbelieve in evolution, photosynthesis, geological time, and whatever else their hillbilly Christians want them to disbelieve. They are criminal, and the least we can do (absent tar and feathering) is pie them.
Posted 04:28 PM on 04/23/2008

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer Zionist NeoCon. Next time hopefully it’ll be a plate of whipped fecal matter.
Posted 04:10 PM on 04/23/2008

Bahet
04-23-2008, 09:52 PM
Darn, when I saw this post was about a liberal circus I thought perhaps Al Gore was doing a high wire act and Alec Baldwin had some dancing dogs. Boy am I disappointed. :(

Jolie Rouge
04-23-2008, 09:57 PM
Darn, when I saw this post was about a liberal circus I thought perhaps Al Gore was doing a high wire act and Alec Baldwin had some dancing dogs. Boy am I disappointed.

LOL ! No that thread is over in "Entertainment" - one of the "Brady" kids and one of the "Partridge Family" kids are doing a "Big Top" show ...

Jolie Rouge
06-09-2011, 08:27 PM
OBAMA: HOPE, CHANGE, AND THE OCCASIONAL SEX DREAM
Thu Jun 9, 11:33 am ET

In Part One of my new book I demonstrate that liberals have all the earmarks of mob psychology. Their myths, slogans, demands for immediate action, messianic goals, demonization of opponents, creation of political idols and occasional resorts to violence -- all this is classic herd behavior.

Because mobs are irrational, immature, subject to wild passions and infatuations, they cannot be reasoned with. And they are always dangerous.

The mob attributes of liberals we will review this week are a crowd's inability to perceive contradictions and its tendency to form an infatuation for an individual.

Consider just one blinding contradiction recently embraced by liberals.

Immediately after Jared Loughner's shooting spree in Tucson, Americans were lectured on civility by the likes of Keith "the leading terrorist group in this country right now is the Republican Party" Olbermann.

Two days after the shooting, The New York Times ran an op-ed by former Democratic congressman Paul Kanjorski (Pa.) calling for "an atmosphere of civility" to eliminate a "fear of violent confrontation." Only months earlier, Kanjorski had said of the Republican candidate for governor in Florida (now governor), Rick Scott: "They ought to have him and shoot him. Put him against the wall and shoot him."

But the media turned to one man more than any other to discuss how rhetoric can lead to violence: Al Sharpton -- someone whose rhetoric actually had inspired violent mobs.

In addition to libeling innocent men in the Tawana Brawley hoax, ginning up angry mobs outside the Central Park jogger's rapists' trial, whipping up mobs after a car accident in Brooklyn's Crown Heights neighborhood killed a black child and a rabbinical student was stabbed to death, Sharpton famously incited an anti-Semitic pogrom against a Jewish-owned clothing store in Harlem, saying, "We will not stand by and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business."

Someone who was listening to Sharpton later decided to storm the store and start shooting, wounding several employees, and setting a fire that killed seven people.

Of course, after all this, Sharpton became a pariah -- oh wait! In the opposite of being exiled, he became famous, ran for president as a Democrat and Al Gore kissed his ring, after these events.

In January of this year, Sharpton was repeatedly rolled out as the expert commentator on civil discourse -- on NBC's "Meet the Press," NPR, CNN and MSNBC. As MSNBC's Ed Schultz said in introducing him, "Al Sharpton is on a crusade against hate speech on talk radio."

In light of Sharpton's history, you'd think that, in the middle of the Arizona shooting being blamed on "rhetoric," someone in his organization might have said: "Boss, I'd keep a low profile for the next couple of weeks. We just don't want you to be on TV right now because someone is going to say -- 'Hey, how about Freddy's? What about Gavin Cato's funeral? Weren't you the guy stirring up the violent rabble at the trial for the Central Park jogger's rape?'"

They needn't have worried. No one brought up any of the mayhem that had followed Sharpton's speeches.

As Gustave Le Bon, the father of groupthink, explains: A crowd's "complete lack of critical spirit does not allow of its perceiving these contradictions."

Second and most obviously, liberals fanatically worship their leaders. FDR, JFK, Clinton, Obama -- they're all "rock stars" to Democrats. They're the Beatles, Elvis, Abraham Lincoln or Jesus, depending on which cliche liberals are searching for.

Nearly seven decades after FDR was president and five decades after JFK was, we still have to listen to liberals drone on about their stupendousness. It's as if Republicans demanded constant praise for Calvin Coolidge.

Even Republicans are forced to pretend to admire these profligate Democrats in order to court Democratic voters. Republicans don't mention Reagan as much, and he was a better president.

In 1992, Time magazine quoted The Boomer Report editor Cheryl Russell, saying, "Every woman I know is having sex dreams about Bill Clinton." (If you call nightmares about Bill Clinton dropping his pants "sex dreams," I guess I was, too.)

When Obama came along, guess who liberals started having sex dreams about? Yes, the big-eared beanpole. The New York Times' Judith Warner reported: "Many women -- not too surprisingly -- were dreaming about sex with the president."

Meanwhile, during Reagan's first year in office, conservatives didn't even rank him as their favorite conservative. He was assailed from the right throughout his presidency.

Republicans certainly never had sex dreams about Reagan -- nor Coolidge, Nixon or Bush. Most of the time, conservatives can barely stand their leaders. They aren't a mob.

As Gustave Le Bon explains, the "convictions of crowds assume those characteristics of blind submission, fierce intolerance, and the need of violent propaganda which are inherent in the religious sentiment."

Perhaps if they believed in a real God, liberals wouldn't have to keep creating an endless stream of human gods.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucac/20110609/cm_ucac/obamahopechangeandtheoccasionalsexdream

comments

Before any of the apologists start writing off Ann, the below are just two of the more egregious offenses Sharpton has been guilty of. The last time I posted information about Fat Al, it was deleted, i.e. not marked as not shown because of negative low rating, it was on my profile with over a 1,000 thmbs up and then suddenly completely disappeared, another example of how the media toadies to that buffoon.

"The three were successfully sued for slander and ordered to pay $345,000 in damages, the jury finding Sharpton liable for making seven defamatory statements about Pagones, Maddox for two, and Mason for one.[81] Sharpton refused to pay his share of the damages; it was later paid by a number of black business leaders"

"On May 9, 2008, the Associated Press reported that Sharpton and his businesses owed almost $1.5 million in unpaid taxes and penalties. Sharpton owed $931,000 in federal income tax and $366,000 to New York, and his for-profit company, Rev. Al Communications, owed another $176,000 to the state."

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Here is an Obama "success" story:
2-27-2011; CBO: "Stimulus Jobs Cost at Least $228,055 Each"
"The jobs that were created and saved by the economic stimulus legislation that President Barack Obama signed in February 2009 cost at least $228,055 each, according to new data from the Congressional Budget Office.
In a report released on Wednesday, the CBO said it now estimates the stimulus bill cost $821 billion, up from its original estimate of $787 billion.
The CBO also estimated that in the fourth quarter of 2010, between 1.3 and 3.5 million people were employed who would not have a job if the stimulus had not been enacted.
The CBO also estimated that between 1.4 and 3.6 million were employed as a result of the stimulus bill during the third quarter of 2010.
The figures take into account not only the new jobs believed to have been created, but also the existing jobs that were saved that would otherwise have been lost.
So the $821 billion cost of the stimulus, divided by the maximum of 3.6 million jobs the CBO believes were saved or created, equals $228,055 for each job, according to CNS News.
Taking the 1.4 million figure for jobs created or saved means each job cost $586,428.
Footnote: When President Obama signed the stimulus bill, the national unemployment rate was 8.2 percent. In January 2011, it was 9 percent."

(Well, do you feel stimulated yet?)

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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” "Joseph Goebbels'.

This quote wasn't origional to Goebbels or even the often mis quoted Adolf Hitler .
Several other famous indiviuals have quoted similar statements long before HItler and Goebbels.

"A lie told often enough becomes truth" - Vladimir Lenin.

There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it." - William James (1842-1910) The father of modern Psychology

So if you are insistant on spamming famous quotes to make your political point, at least try to give credit where credit is do. Lenin, James, Goebbels and Hitler would appreciate that.

Jolie Rouge
06-09-2011, 08:31 PM
Performance artist gives chance to "kick" Bush [i]


NEW YORK (Reuters) - New Yorkers got to kick President George W. Bush's butt on Thursday, sort of.

Performance artist Mark McGowan kicked off his bid to crawl for 72 hours across Manhattan dressed as the president, offering the opportunity to kick his backside. The controversial artist from London began his odyssey from New York's Lincoln Centre wearing a rubber George Bush mask, a business suit, knee pads, work gloves and a sign stuck to his cushioned posterior reading simply: "Kick My Ass".

>snip<
McGowan told Reuters he hopes his performance proves therapeutic to the city's denizens. But he insisted his work was no publicity stunt but art: "It's definitely an art form. "

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070223/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bush_kick;_ylt=ArozL7gUexu1mh9Ih.HD.7vMWM 0F


This is considered "art" ?

Imagine the outrage if this was even considered with the current resident of the Oval Office ??

Jolie Rouge
09-17-2011, 03:52 PM
Party foul: Liberal protester douses GOP legislator in beer
By C.J. Ciaramella -- The Daily Caller Fri, Sep 16, 2011

Over the past year, Wisconsin has seen just about everything in terms of political protests, but here’s a first: Beer-battered legislators.

Madison resident Miles Kristan, 26, allegedly took out his frustration over the recent political melee in Wisconsin by pouring a beer on the head of a state GOP legislator Wednesday night.

According to the police report, Kristan, accompanied by a cameraman, confronted three state GOP legislators — Reps. Robin Vos, Scott Suder and John Nygren — in a hotel lobby. Police said Kristan yelled out something like “money” and “damned Republicans” before dumping a glass of Miller Lite beer onto Vos’s head. “All of the victims indicated the suspect swore at them and called them criminals,” Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain told the Madison Capitol Times.

After giving Vos an impromptu beer shower, Kristan allegedly fled the scene. He voluntarily turned himself in on Thursday and was issued a citation for misdemeanor disorderly conduct. It’s not Vos’s first run-in with Kristan. Vos told police Kristan had been verbally harassing him since February. The Capitol Times reported Kristan moved to Madison this winter to be a part of the Capitol protests. He was also arrested in March for throwing a pink nightgown — or “pink slip” — at Vos during a Republican fundraiser.

Critics have painted the incident as yet another in a string of outrageous stunts by liberal protesters. “Childish antics have become the norm for the left in Wisconsin,” wrote Media Trackers, a conservative investigative outlet. “Actions that fit a University of Wisconsin weekend frat party are not a winning public relations strategy and protesters would likely do their cause well if they stopped their present approach.”

Vos didn’t appear angry about the incident, but he did say it was bad public relations for his opponents. “While I have long been a proponent of free speech, it’s a shame when the expression turns into criminal behavior,” Rep. Vos said in a statement. “Hopefully, the protesters will realize this only hurts their cause with the public.”

But if they heard Vos’s advice, protesters did not heed it. The Capitol Times reported that while Kristan was in the police district office, about a dozen supporters stood outside chanting: “We’re gonna pour a beer on him.”

As of press time, no one has commented on the tragic waste of beer.

http://news.yahoo.com/party-foul-liberal-protester-douses-gop-legislator-beer-160402845.html

Jolie Rouge
06-23-2012, 09:23 AM
Tuesday, June 19, 2012 | 6:00 AM

Has Any Other President Been Shown Such Disrespect?
By Daniella Gibbs Léger

I was having a conversation with a friend of mine last weekend. As often happens with us, the conversation moved from gossip to politics and we discussed the announcement President Obama made on Friday granting reprieve to hundreds of thousands of undocumented youths facing possible deportation. These are kids – DREAMers – who came here through no fault of their own and are often excelling in school but have the threat of deportation constantly hanging over their heads. Because Republicans wouldn’t support a bill many of them previously supported, President Obama took action on Friday and directed DHS to use prosecutorial discretion to stop deporting these young kids and allow them to stay and go to school and/or work.

It’s not a permanent solution; it offers no pathway to citizenship. But it lifts the big boulders off their shoulders for the moment. It was a huge deal to those who care about the fate of these young people and immigration reform. My friend and I were commenting that coming on the heels of President Obama’s gay marriage announcement, this has been a pretty historic and exciting few months.

But as happy as I was on Friday, something did put a damper on the day. By now you’ve heard that while the President was speaking, he was interrupted – I would say heckled – by a reporter from the right-wing publication the Daily Caller. As usual, President Obama handled it like a pro and never lost his cool. I, however, could not say the same. Was I really watching the President get interrupted by a member of the press corps? Yes, yes I was. And for about 30 minutes, I forgot all about the substance of his remarks and the fact that the lives of so many young people would be changed for the better. Instead I was enraged by this lack of decorum and respect shown to Obama.

What is it about this President that causes people to go crazy? I remember people saying some bad things about Bush, sure. But I don’t remember members of Congress saying anything that equals what the birthers in the current Congress have said. I don’t remember any member of Congress pulling a Rep. Wilson moment during the State of the Union. And it’s not as if there weren’t plenty of elected officials who vehemently disagreed with Bush’s policies.

I’m not one to make everything about race. Sometimes there is no underlying reason behind things, other than that people are jerks; you know, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. But when you factor in that you’re talking about the office of the Presidency (and the respect that commands) and compare to past presidents, it’s hard to not come to a conclusion that dances around that topic.

So, I mentioned this on Twitter and I put it to you: Can someone point out a time in recent history when (1) a reporter interrupted a President during his speech — not during the back-and-forth of a press conference but during prepared remarks?; and (2) a member of Congress shouted out “You lie” or some other admonition to the President during the State of the Union address?

You can hit me on Twitter or in the comments. I’d like to be proven wrong. Seriously! I want to be comforted in the fact that this level of utter disrespect has happened to some other sitting President. I want to hear that what that fool from the Daily Caller did has happened before and that there isn’t an unprecedented pattern of disrespect shown to this President.

Until then, I’ll be waiting. With a side-eye at the ready.

http://www.essence.com/2012/06/18/has-any-other-president-been-shown-such-disrespect/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+essence%2Flifestyle_channel_ latest+%28Lifestyle+Channel+Latest%29&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedburner&pkw=outbrain-rss#ixzz1ydN2AKYX

comments

Yes, the previous president was subjected to terrible disrespect. Much worse than Obama! He even had a shoe thrown at him. Very vitriolic. The current president still blames him for everything that is going wrong. News commentators spoke very negatively about him every night.

Where were you during the Bush years? You have very selective short-term memory...

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This would be where freedom of speech comes in. It gives us the right to speak out against tyranny such as Obama is forcing down Americas throat!!!

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I guess people are showing President Obama the same respect President Bush was shown on so many occasions. And, naturally, you wrote an article about that too, didn't you?

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remember one president that shown a lot worse disrespect by the looney liberals. His name is George W. Bush. The amount of disrespect aimed at him during his time in office was and still is reprehensible. Obama has it easy. The liberal media reports hardly anything that makes him look bad. He should consider himself lucky.

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Is this story a joke?

President George W. Bush was shown more (unmerited) disrespect, especially by the news media, than any president since Nixon!

The media have been fawning over Obama since 2008. At least some are finally waking up.

Jolie Rouge
06-23-2012, 10:11 AM
Has Any Other President Been Shown Such Disrespect?

http://www.bigbigforums.com/off-topic-chat/237532-sean-penns-letter-president-bush-washington-post.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-information/590557-you-sick-bush-bashing-yes-no-7.html

http://www.bigbigforums.com/news-information/473844-faith-our-future.html#post96351793

Hating Bush
John Leo

Political rhetoric, left and right, seems steadily worse.

"Kill Bush" T-shirts and bags were offered for sale last week on the Internet, then quickly removed after protests.

In Chicago, a college art show featured a series of mock postage stamps showing Bush with a gun to his head.

The unhinged left has long flirted with the theme of killing presidents, from the 1992 Manhattan posters urging the murder of the first President Bush to the "that pig Bush must die" message on a fringe website last week.

Columnist Michelle Malkin offered some acid comments on the "pro-assassination left," citing anti-Bush slogans such as "We support our troops, when they shoot their officers" and "Bush is the disease. Death is the cure."

Such attacks, of course, are not limited to the left. As the Washington Times reports, Judge George Greer is swimming in "a sea of death threats" since his rulings that resulted in the feeding tube's being removed from Terri Schiavo. Justice Clarence Thomas issued a startling sentence last week: " I think we have been on borrowed time," a reference to the possibility of more violence against judges. Thomas and Justice Anthony Kennedy told a House appropriations subcommittee that they want more police protection in front of the Supreme Court.


This puts angry anti-court commentary in a different light.

Surely it is time for Rep. Tom DeLay and his allies to withdraw their inflammatory remarks about judges before some suggestible person decides to act on their statements. Sen. John Cornyn's comments on the judiciary were more ambiguous than the way the media played them. His rambling speech contained several qualifiers, but the core paragraph can be interpreted to mean that judges are bringing violence on themselves. He should explain clearly what he meant.

DeLay has apologized for his statement on the Schiavo rulings (an "act of medical terrorism"); Pat Robertson's "judicial murder" comment calls for the same. And so does the remark by the Rev. Flip Benham, director of Operation Rescue, that the courts have become a tool "in the hands of the devil."


Nazi rhetoric.

Most of us, alas, are upset by vicious rhetoric only when it is aimed at our side. The extraordinary Bush-is-a-Nazi rhetoric of the antiwar marches and the presidential campaign drew very little criticism from the responsible left, just as the repeated accusations that President Clinton is a murderer, perhaps a multiple murderer, didn't ruffle many people on the responsible right. The anti-Clinton vitriol has subsided, partly because the Bush family has reached out to Bill Clinton. But the Nazi references to Bush and Republicans rumble right along, showing up in art shows, columns, and letters to the editor. Sen. Robert Byrd recently said that the "nuclear option" to break any Democratic filibuster on judges was reminiscent of Nazi Germany and Mussolini's Italy. Last October, Byrd said that the Bush tactics that got us into Iraq reminded him of Hermann Goering. During the presidential campaign, comedian Janeane Garofalo referred to the Bush administration as "the 43rd Reich."

Victor Davis Hanson writes that if you type "Bush + Hitler" into a Google search, the result is 1,350,000 hits. Virtually every major figure in the Bush administration has been compared to some Nazi official or other. Bush has been likened to Hannibal Lecter, Ted Bundy, Mussolini, Napoleon, Nero, Caligula, and the Japanese warlords of World War II. Howard Dean, who says he hates Republicans and considers them evil, recently introduced a Communist theme, charging that Republicans "are essentially the best propaganda machine since Lenin."

We may be into another big anti-Clinton assault, this one aimed at Hillary Rodham Clinton. Last week a breathless item on the Drudge Report said that an anti-Hillary book, out next September, will be the equivalent of the Swift Boat Veterans campaign against John Kerry and may well derail her chances to be president. This is a cringe-making prospect. Do we really need yet another major assault on a prominent politician, or can we spend some time discussing actual issues?


We have reached the point where much political debate consists of insults and name-calling, every attack is likely to be called a "lynching," and tired expressions such as "institutional terrorism," "institutional racism," and "intellectual McCarthyism" are supposed to be taken as real arguments.

Political polarization is an obvious cause. But so is the democratization of the media, particularly the arrival of the Internet and big-time talk radio, which allow all of us to say whatever we like, no matter how crude. Mail to columnists is much more abusive than it was a few years ago. Inarticulate people, many of them celebrities, are finding it hard to make their cases without lapsing into abuse. So political discussion more and more consists of angry feelings instead of rational argument. Our political rhetoric is routinely awful. Let's work to clean it up.

Jolie Rouge
06-25-2012, 02:49 PM
... instead I was enraged by this lack of decorum and respect ...

Shut that Jan Brewer b-tch up’: Left targets Arizona governor with vile slurs after SCOTUS immigration ruling
Posted at 3:38 pm on June 25, 2012 by Twitchy Staff

Another day, another pen full of liberal pigs wallowing in their misogyny.

After Arizona Governor Jan Brewer expressed gratitude that the U.S. Supreme Court upheld part of her state’s controversial immigration law, nasty liberals began bashing her physical appearance and peppering her with the usual gender-based slurs and sexualized attacks.

Once again, liberals can’t help but slither out of the gutter to expose the Left’s true misogynist colors. Sexist slurs are completely acceptable when used as weapons against conservative women who won’t toe the liberal line.

And it’s the Right that’s waging a War on Women?

http://twitchy.com/2012/06/25/shut-that-jan-brewer-btch-up-left-targets-arizona-governor-with-vile-slurs-after-scotus-ruling/


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New tone: Tolerant Left spews slurs, wishes Justice Scalia be put on ‘kill list,’ hopes other Justices die
Posted at 1:26 pm on June 25, 2012 by Twitchy Staff

Civility! The oh-so-tolerant Left once again showed itself to be hate-filled and violent. As Twitchy reported earlier, the United States Supreme Court handed down decisions today on Arizona’s immigration law. They also ruled on an important case involving free speech, which reaffirmed the Citizens United decision.

To the Left, this was cause to spew hate. And death wishes.

Justice Thomas was a target as well, starting even a couple of days ago.

http://twitchy.com/2012/06/25/new-tone-tolerant-left-spews-slurs-wishes-justice-scalia-be-put-on-kill-list-hopes-other-justices-die/

Jolie Rouge
03-12-2013, 01:27 PM
Ashley Judd slams Apple customers for ‘financing mass rape,’
continues using her iPhone

Posted at 3:07 pm on March 12, 2013

http://twitchy.com/2013/03/12/ashley-judd-slams-apple-customers-for-financing-mass-rape-continues-using-her-iphone/


https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/s480x480/74418_506175196113198_976453463_n.jpg

Jolie Rouge
04-30-2013, 09:15 PM
‘What’s another 5 bodies on the pile?’: Michael Moore sends condolences following plane crash
Posted at 5:39 pm on April 30, 2013 by Twitchy Staff


Michael Moore ✔ @MMFlint

What's another 5 bodies from Michigan 2 throw on the pile? Condolences 2 the families & rage @ all who took us to war

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201304292132/NEWS01/304290057 …

12:26 AM - 30 Apr 2013


Aircraft crash in Afghanistan kills 5 from Michigan

All seven crew members, including five people from Michigan, were killed Monday in a civilian cargo aircraft crash at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan.



We don’t think much of Michael Moore as a filmmaker, but at least he’s not writing sympathy cards for a living. Will the families of those “5 bodies from Michigan” killed in a plane crash in Afghanistan yesterday appreciate his condolences? It might be his rage against the war in Afghanistan that’s responsible for the lack of tact, but Moore doesn’t mention that the seven killed were operating a civilian cargo flight. Yes, seven were killed in the accident, but only five were “bodies from Michigan."

http://twitchy.com/2013/04/30/whats-another-5-bodies-on-the-pile-michael-moore-sends-condolences-following-plane-crash/

Jolie Rouge
06-26-2013, 03:23 PM
Wendy Davis of Texas: Why She's Our New Hero
By Beth Greenfield, Shine Staff | Healthy Living – 7 hours ago

If you didn't know Wendy Davis before, you certainly know her now. She's the fierce Fort Worth, Texas, Democrat who made it her mission on Tuesday night to filibuster away the restrictive state Senate abortion bill. It would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and placed severely crippling restrictions on the Texas's many abortion clinics, effectively closing almost every one.

In her opening remarks, she said she was "rising on the floor today to humbly give voice to thousands of Texans," and called out Republicans for trying to pass the bill, calling their efforts a "raw abuse of power." And that's not the only reason we love her:

She stood for 11 hours—and didn’t even take a bathroom break. This is actually enough to make her our hero. Did she dehydrate herself for an entire day before beginning the filibuster, we wonder? (Yahoo! Shine reached out to Davis for comment on this and other even more pressing points but did not hear back from her office.)

She was not a slave to fashion. While most every report has called the sneakers she wore Tuesday night “pink,” they look pretty orange to us, which would have aligned her with the hundreds of orange-clad pro-choice activists who crowded into the Senate gallery. But whatever the color, she wore sneakers—and a back brace, to help her stand for so long, since she was not allowed to lean on anything, according to bizarre filibuster rules. She was prepared.

She went from teen mom to Harvard grad. At 14 she worked at Orange Julius in her local mall and cared for her three siblings and single mother. By 19 she was married, pregnant and divorced, and living in a trailer park with her baby daughter. Still, she finished high school, graduated first in her class at Texas Christian University and went on to Harvard Law School.

It wasn't the first time she made Rick Perry sweat. In 2011 she successfully used the filibuster tactic in an attempt to stop $5 billion of cuts to public schools, and eventually got most of the funds replaced. That time, wrote the New York Times, the filibuster “prompted Gov. Rick Perry to send exhausted lawmakers, poised to adjourn Monday after a grueling budget battle, back into an immediate special session" — and quickly became legend.

She spent 11 hours making cogent points. Instead she said things like, “The consequence of the ambulatory surgical center rule will decrease, in a fairly dramatic fashion, the number of centers where abortions can and will be provided in Texas,” and read large chunks of testimony from women and doctors who would be impacted by the bill. When a Republican colleague tried to ask her a question that would get her off topic and end the filibuster, Davis said, “I will not yield.”

She mobilized women in Texas and far beyond. The Capitol was packed with passionate supporters, who chanted “Let her speak!” with a deafening roar when her filibuster was halted because she dared to talk about ultrasounds. For those who couldn’t be there, there was the Twitterverse, which couldn’t think about anything but #standwithwendy all night, as well as the filibuster’s live-stream on YouTube, which drew more than 100,000 simultaneous viewers. Watch the victorious moment when her crowd of supporters learn that she'd killed the bill here.

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/wendy-davis-of-texas--why-she-s-our-new-hero-151226977.html

pepperpot
06-26-2013, 04:10 PM
Certainly not a hero for the unborn child........ :headshake

Jolie Rouge
06-27-2013, 10:47 AM
Boom! Laura Ingraham destroys ‘hero’ Wendy Davis with one question
==> http://twitchy.com/2013/06/27/boom-laura-ingraham-destroys-hero-wendy-davis-with-one-question/


Laura Ingraham ✔ @IngrahamAngle

Question to “hero” St. Sen. Wendy Davis: Which kids that you see on the playground shouldn't be there?

9:24 AM - 27 Jun 2013

Bam. Leave it to the always-awesome Laura Ingraham to sum things up with one key question. This time, she blasted late-term abortion proponent Wendy Davis. As Twitchy readers know, Ms. Davis filibustered to kill a bill that would limit abortion after 20 weeks in Texas.

Davis has grossly attained a sort of hero status among the morally bankrupt who advocate for late-term abortion. http://twitchy.com/2013/06/27/delicious-pro-aborts-lose-control-of-pathetic-pissedatperry-hashtag-conservatives-dominate/ You know, like President Obama … or Organizing for Action (wink wink, nudge nudge). http://twitchy.com/2013/06/26/non-partisan-wink-guess-how-media-reported-barackobama-standing-with-wendy-davis/


Gary Alexander @gary_bing

This says it all! RT @IngrahamAngle: Question to “hero” St. Sen. Wendy Davis:
Which kids that you see on the playground shouldn't be there?

10:44 AM - 27 Jun 2013

It does. Something else says it all, too: The fact that some are hailing her as a hero. For advocating for the death of unborn children.


Allahpundit @allahpundit

[b]Good point by @justkarl:
We must not let SCOTUS distract us
from the majesty of a mob hooting encouragement of a pro-abortion filibuster

8:51 AM - 26 Jun 2013

Pro-aborts lose control of pathetic #PissedAtPerry hashtag; Conservatives dominate
Posted at 9:06 am on June 27, 2013 by Twitchy Staff

http://twitchy.com/2013/06/27/delicious-pro-aborts-lose-control-of-pathetic-pissedatperry-hashtag-conservatives-dominate/


Dave Riederer @DaveRiederer

Once again, libs attempt to create a hashtag to blast conservatives.

Once again, cons prove that they are winning Twitter. #PissedAtPerry

8:47 PM - 26 Jun 2013

All your hashtags are belong to us : http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/all-your-base-are-belong-to-us

At the Netroots Nation gathering last week, progressives admitted they haven’t figured out how to push back against conservative Twitter messaging http://disruptingthenarrative.blogspot.com/2013/06/netroots-right-is-killing-it-on-twitter.html?spref=tw and lamented what they called the ”Michelle Malkin effect.” http://twitchy.com/2013/06/21/netroots-nation-struggles-to-counter-michelle-malkin-effect/

Jolie Rouge
07-28-2013, 08:39 AM
Liberal Logic

https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc1/p320x320/374445_596934507004774_348219062_n.jpg

Liberal debate tactics and “standards”...
http://LiberalLogic101.com/

Jolie Rouge
07-28-2013, 01:47 PM
Liberal Logic II

https://sphotos-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/p320x320/62994_550530725000217_1261535742_n.jpg

Jolie Rouge
08-05-2013, 09:49 PM
Wendy Davis of Texas: Why She's Our New Hero
By Beth Greenfield, Shine Staff | Healthy Living – 7 hours ago

If you didn't know Wendy Davis before, you certainly know her now. She's the fierce Fort Worth, Texas, Democrat who made it her mission on Tuesday night to filibuster away the restrictive state Senate abortion bill. It would have banned abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and placed severely crippling restrictions on the Texas's many abortion clinics, effectively closing almost every one.

In her opening remarks, she said she was "rising on the floor today to humbly give voice to thousands of Texans," and called out Republicans for trying to pass the bill, calling their efforts a "raw abuse of power." And that's not the only reason we love her:

She stood for 11 hours—and didn’t even take a bathroom break. This is actually enough to make her our hero. Did she dehydrate herself for an entire day before beginning the filibuster, we wonder? (Yahoo! Shine reached out to Davis for comment on this and other even more pressing points but did not hear back from her office.)

She was not a slave to fashion. While most every report has called the sneakers she wore Tuesday night “pink,” they look pretty orange to us, which would have aligned her with the hundreds of orange-clad pro-choice activists who crowded into the Senate gallery. But whatever the color, she wore sneakers—and a back brace, to help her stand for so long, since she was not allowed to lean on anything, according to bizarre filibuster rules. She was prepared.

She went from teen mom to Harvard grad. At 14 she worked at Orange Julius in her local mall and cared for her three siblings and single mother. By 19 she was married, pregnant and divorced, and living in a trailer park with her baby daughter. Still, she finished high school, graduated first in her class at Texas Christian University and went on to Harvard Law School.

It wasn't the first time she made Rick Perry sweat. In 2011 she successfully used the filibuster tactic in an attempt to stop $5 billion of cuts to public schools, and eventually got most of the funds replaced. That time, wrote the New York Times, the filibuster “prompted Gov. Rick Perry to send exhausted lawmakers, poised to adjourn Monday after a grueling budget battle, back into an immediate special session" — and quickly became legend.

She spent 11 hours making cogent points. Instead she said things like, “The consequence of the ambulatory surgical center rule will decrease, in a fairly dramatic fashion, the number of centers where abortions can and will be provided in Texas,” and read large chunks of testimony from women and doctors who would be impacted by the bill. When a Republican colleague tried to ask her a question that would get her off topic and end the filibuster, Davis said, “I will not yield.”

She mobilized women in Texas and far beyond. The Capitol was packed with passionate supporters, who chanted “Let her speak!” with a deafening roar when her filibuster was halted because she dared to talk about ultrasounds. For those who couldn’t be there, there was the Twitterverse, which couldn’t think about anything but #standwithwendy all night, as well as the filibuster’s live-stream on YouTube, which drew more than 100,000 simultaneous viewers. Watch the victorious moment when her crowd of supporters learn that she'd killed the bill here.

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/wendy-davis-of-texas--why-she-s-our-new-hero-151226977.html

Pro-abortion Texas State Sen. Wendy Davis pleads ignorance on Kermit Gosnell
Posted at 6:03 pm on August 5, 2013 by Twitchy Staff


Matt Vespa @mVespa1

Abortion-loving Wendy Davis:
'I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case.'
#tcot #stand4life

4:26 PM - 5 Aug 2013 from Reston, VA, United States

Unbelievable.

This afternoon, Texas state senator and rabid abortion crusader Wendy Davis told The Weekly Standard’s John McCormack that she doesn’t “know what happened in the Gosnell case”:


John McCormack @McCormackJohn

Wendy Davis tells @weeklystandard:
"I don't know what happened in the Gosnell case"
http://shar.es/y2BLS

3:34 PM - 5 Aug 2013


Davis claims to be an advocate for women’s rights,
but she’s clueless about a man convicted not only of butchering babies
but also of killing an adult woman?
http://twitchy.com/2013/05/13/rot-in-hell-gosnell-found-guilty-of-first-degree-murder-citizens-applaud-justice-served/

Really?



John McCormack @McCormackJohn

Wendy Davis can't explain difference between
Gosnell killings and late-term abortion
http://shar.es/y2TCk

3:36 PM - 5 Aug 2013


Here’s what she said: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wendy-davis-i-dont-know-what-happened-gosnell-case_742625.html


I don’t know what happened in the Gosnell case. But I do know that it happened in an ambulatory surgical center. And in Texas changing our clinics to that standard obviously isn’t going to make a difference. The state of the law obviously has to assure that doctors are providing safe procedures for women and that proper oversight by the health and human services department is being given. It sounds as though there was a huge gap in that oversight, and no one can defend that. But that’s not the landscape of what’s happening in Texas.


If Gosnell-type murder is “not the landscape of what’s happening in Texas,” we’d love for her to explain the case of Houston abortionist Douglas Karpen, http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/05/20-texas-lawmakers-demand-probe-of-douglas-karpen-killed-babies-born-alive/ who allegedly ran a “house of horrors” similar to that of Gosnell. Either she really is oblivious about murder in her state and beyond, or she knows but doesn’t care.



Brad Mattes @BradMattes

@WendyDavis claims ignorance RE Gosnell.
With all due respect, she's either ignorant or lying:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wendy-davis-i-dont-know-what-happened-gosnell-case_742625.html?page=1 …

4:22 PM - 5 Aug 2013


In either case, she has no business being a state legislator.

http://twitchy.com/2013/08/05/pro-abortion-texas-state-sen-wendy-davis-pleads-ignorance-on-kermit-gosnell/

Jolie Rouge
08-05-2013, 09:57 PM
20 Texas Lawmakers Demand Probe of Douglas Karpen, Killed Babies Born Alive
by Steven Ertelt | Washington, DC 6/5/13 5:34 PM

Twenty Texas legislators have signed on to a letter demanding an investigation of Douglas Karpen, a Houston abortion practitioner who is being considered the second Kermit Gosnell for killing babies born alive after abortion. A video expose’ of Douglas Karpen has three former abortion clinic employees of abortion practitioner Douglas Karpen exposing horrific practices that took place at his abortion clinic.

In May, That a second Kermit Gosnell would be operating in Texas is so revolting that Lt. Governor David Dewhurst is demanding an investigation. Local officials responded and “Harris County authorities and the Texas Department of State Health Services are investigating, according to a report in the Houston Chronicle. “We have several people looking into the allegations,” said Sara Marie Kinney, a spokeswoman for the Harris County District Attorney’s Office.

Now, State Representative Phil King has released a letter signed by he and his colleagues calling for a full investigation of the late-term abortion practitioner. After viewing the video exposing Karpen, Rep. King sent a request to the pro-life group Life Dynamics for the unedited raw footage of the interview, which Life Dynamics provided on DVD.

The pro-life group tells LifeNews today that King informed Life Dynamics that his office then mailed that DVD to Lt. Richard Kleczynski with the Homicide Division of the Houston Police Department. He also sent a letter to Ms. Mari Robinson, executive director of the Texas Medical Board, and David L. Lakey MD., Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, requesting a full investigation. These letters were co-signed by 20 Texas lawmakers (send end of story for list).

“We strongly support a full investigation into the allegations of Dr. Karpen. As a state, we must ensure that the health and safety of women and children are being protected by laws and regulations in place,” King wrote to the agencies.

Mark Crutcher, President of Life Dynamics, reacted to the King letter saying, “If the abortion lobby thinks this issue is going away, they are literally whistling past the graveyard.”

Crutcher continued, “One thing that was often overlooked about the conviction and life sentence recently given to abortionist Kermit Gosnell, is that eight of his employees also received long prison sentences for their roles in what he was doing. Today, the abortion lobby is in “damage control mode” and telling anyone who will listen that Gosnell is an aberration and that every other abortionist in America is Mr. Clean. But the people who actually work in these places know better, and they are beginning to fear that they could be the next ones dragged into a courtroom wearing handcuffs and leg irons.”

The three informants in the expose’ video, Deborah Edge, Gigi Aguliar, and Krystal Rodriguez, have come forward to tell of their horrific experiences working for him at one of three of his Texas abortion clinics, the Aaron Women’s Clinic in Houston. A fourth informant has co-operated with Operation Rescue, filing an affidavit about her experiences, but remains at this time anonymous.

These women brought forward evidence of illegal late-term abortions in the form of photos taken on their cell phones at the Karpen’s clinic on Schumacher Lane in Houston. The photos were scandalous. They depicted two babies aborted well beyond the legal limit of 24 weeks in Texas. Their necks had been cut. “The photos show babies that are huge, with gashes in their necks, indicating that these babies were likely born alive, then killed, just as Kermit Gosnell did at his ‘House of Horrors’ clinic in Philadelphia,” said Troy Newman, President of Operation Rescue. “In fact, there are numerous similarities between Karpen and the Gosnell case, including the disregarding of complaints by the authorities that allowed both men to continue their illegal operations.”

The video interview of the three informants verified the worst. “When he did an abortion, especially an over 20 week abortion, most of the time the fetus would come completely out before he cut the spinal cord or he introduced one of the instruments into the soft spot of the fetus, in order to kill the fetus,” said Deborah Edge, who worked as a surgical assistant for Karpen for about 15 years until leaving in March, 2011. “I thought, well, it’s an abortion you know, that’s what he does, but I wasn’t aware that it was illegal…Most of the time we would see him where the fetus would come completely out and of course, the fetus would still be alive,” Edge continued.

How often did this happen?

“I think every morning I saw several, on several occasions,” she said. “If we had 20-something patients, of course ten, or twelve, or fifteen patients would be large procedures, and out of those large procedures, I’m pretty sure that I was seeing at least three or four fetuses that were completely delivered in some way or another,” said Edge, acknowledging that these babies would be alive.

She described how some babies would emerge too soon and would be alive, moving, and breathing. She also told of how Karpen would sometimes deliver the babies feet first with the toes wiggling until he stabbed them with a surgical implement. At the moment the toes would suddenly splay out before going limp. Sometimes he would kill the babies by “twisting the head off the neck,” according to Edge.

During the interview the former abortion clinic employee says: “the fetus would come completely out and of course, the fetus would still be alive” and the abortion clinic employee added “I’m talking about the whole floor dirty. I’m talking about me drenched in blood.”

One abortion clinic employee is quoted as saying, “I thought, well, it’s an abortion you know, that’s what he does, but I wasn’t aware that it was illegal. Most of the time we would see him where the fetus would come completely out and of course, the fetus would still be alive.”

“He does a lot of huge abortions. A lot of the times, we would bring the big fetus that were over age, we would re-open the bag and just look at it and be like, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s so big,” the abortion clinic staffer adds. “Sometimes he couldn’t get the fetus out. He would yank pieces – piece by piece – when they were oversize. And I’m talking about the whole floor dirty. I’m talking about me drenched in blood.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9fhyJItGPko


The list of legislators signing on to the letter include:

Phil King
Linda Harper Brown
Dan Flynn
Jonathan Stickland
Rob Orr
Cindy Burkett
Stefanie Carter
James White
Allen Fletcher
Jodie Laubeneberg
Bryan Hughes
Bill Zedler
Jim Murphy
Ron Simmons
Craig Goldman
Charles Perry
Geanie Morrison
Ed Thompson
Harvey Hilderbran
Larry Phillips

http://www.lifenews.com/2013/06/05/20-texas-lawmakers-demand-probe-of-douglas-karpen-killed-babies-born-alive/

Jolie Rouge
08-06-2013, 10:23 AM
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Jolie Rouge
08-06-2013, 11:09 AM
CNN and NBC have both announced programming promoting former Secretary Hillary Clinton ahead of her likely presidential campaign in 2016.This is wrong. Sign the petition and tell the media: Dump the docs or no debates! http://bit.ly/1c30bmG

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Jolie Rouge
08-10-2013, 01:10 PM
Bad boy male feminist’ melts down: ‘I used sex and charm and whiteness’ to scam you all

Posted at 10:36 am on August 10, 2013 by Twitchy Staff


RB @RBPundit

Seriously. Read this timeline. https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer
Scroll down to the beginning of the tweets today.


Pam Swan @pjswan

WOW. Blames "white privilege". RT @RBPundit: Read this timeline.
https://twitter.com/hugoschwyzer
Scroll down to the beginning of the tweets today.

3:15 PM - 9 Aug 2013

For many years, feminist blogger and Pasadena City College professor Hugo Schwyzer was welcomed by the lefty feminist community. His writing was published by The Atlantic, the Good Men Project, Jezebel, HuffPo, Alternet, The Frisky and the Guardian.

Sure, he alienated some femme-a-gogues over the years, inspiring the Fuck No, Hugo Schwyzer Tumblr. Here’s part of the most recent post:

•He tried to murder a woman after she’d been sexually assaulted because he thought that being raped and having substance abuse problems made her better off dead

•He used his position of authority as a teacher to coerce students into sleeping with him

•He’s capitalized on sexually assaulting one of his partners by writing articles about her blaming her for not saying no to him enough

•He has used racism in white-dominated feminist spaces to hide behind famous white Feminists and shut down, silence, and alienate women of colour


But Schwyzer promoted SlutWalks and ran around with his speculum-handled abortion pom-poms reciting “pro-choice” cheers, so he continued his cushy gig teaching courses on porn and gender studies while receiving a platform in the feminist media.

Last month he kinda, sorta quit the Internet. The next day, screen caps of a sexting affair between the married “male feminist” and a porn star surfaced. He told New York magazine he was done with the Internet because of his “fragile” mental health and also that feminists are meanies.

This week, the Pasadena Star-News reported that following the sexting scandal and extramarital affairs, Schwyzer would be taking some sick time. At least one trustee doesn’t want him to return to teaching “Navigating Pornography.”

Schwyzer returned to Twitter yesterday, admitting in dozens of tweets to years of deception as he weaseled his way into feminist academia. He also said he was in the middle of a manic episode. Here’s a selection of those tweets from the self-described “notorious bad boy male feminist”:


Hugo Schwyzer @hugoschwyzer

So the real story you all missed is that I talked my way into teaching women's studies on the basis of 2 undergrad courses only

1:43 PM - 9 Aug 2013


There is more ... much more ... most of it would be ***'d out because of the language.... so go read for yourself http://twitchy.com/2013/08/10/bad-boy-male-feminist-melts-down-i-used-sex-and-charm-and-whiteness-to-scam-you-all/

Jolie Rouge
10-04-2013, 05:33 AM
Teachers’ union president: Wendy Davis’ filibuster was ‘too support children’
Posted at 8:20 pm on October 3, 2013


Randi Weingarten ✔ @rweingarten

Go #Wendy Go.. Such awesome news 4 Texas + 4 everyone who cares abt families & children..
#WendyDavis 1st filibuster was too support children

6:26 PM - 3 Oct 2013

We’ve been guilty of our share of typos here at Twitchy, but there’s something so wrong about such an obvious typo coming from Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers — not to mention the idea that Wendy Davis’ 11-hour filibuster was “for the children.”

Just a reminder: Davis’ filibuster was to prevent a vote on legislation that would ban most abortions five months after conception and was directly inspired by the horrors revealed by the Kermit Gosnell murder trial — a case she said she knew nothing about. http://twitchy.com/2013/08/05/pro-abortion-texas-state-sen-wendy-davis-pleads-ignorance-on-kermit-gosnell/

So, yeah, it was all about “supporting children.”

http://twitchy.com/2013/10/03/teachers-union-president-wendy-davis-filibuster-was-too-support-children/

The phrase "collective mind" sticks out to me. They are the Borg of circular logic - whatever they do is right, because they're doing it. No matter that they constantly criticize others for things they do as a matter of course.

I must reiterate my stance that a course in basic logic (critical thinking) should be a prerequisite to graduating high school, with emphasis on informal logical fallacies.


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But, she’s doing it for the children — the children who were “wanted,” at least.

Supporters pray for Wendy Davis’ pink sneakers to ‘turn to combat boots’
Posted at 6:57 pm on October 3, 2013


Betsy Woodruff @woodruffbets

Invocation before Wendy Davis's gov announcement:
Tarrant County Commissioner prayed that her pink running shoes would turn to combat boots

4:46 PM - 3 Oct 2013

Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis threw her pink sneakers into the ring today, announcing her 2014 campaign for governor against Attorney General Greg Abbott. Davis and her sneakers became national news when she held a nearly 11-hour filibuster against Kermit Gosnell-inspired abortion regulations that would ban most abortions five months after conception. The legislation, which passed despite the filibuster and a tampon-wielding mob occupying the capitol building, also imposed safety regulations on abortion clinics more in line with ambulatory surgical centers.

That filibuster grabbed the attention of high-profile celebs, earned Davis a glamour shot in Vogue magazine and had many looking forward to a “Wendy Davis 2016″ presidential run. Before that, though, she might want to win this campaign, which she kicked off today (marked by MSNBC with the chyron, “Run Wendy Run”). The invocation asked for divine guidance in turning her famous running shoes into combat boots.

http://twitchy.com/2013/10/03/ugh-supporters-pray-for-wendy-davis-pink-running-shoes-to-turn-to-combat-boots/

Jolie Rouge
11-07-2013, 11:31 AM
Pro-choice idiots can say what they want to try to steer away from looking like a baby killer, but they aren't fighting for anything more than unrestricted abortions. They demonize Republicans for pushing for restrictions on abortions, but if they'd pay attention Republicans are okay with it in the event of rape, incest, or life of the mother.

‘You’ve GOTTA be kidding me’: Proud pro-abort Wendy Davis proclaims ‘I am pro-life’
Posted at 2:02 pm on November 6, 2013 by Twitchy Staff

From the article : http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/local_news/article_5374c1f2-469e-11e3-bc9f-001a4bcf6878.html

Davis suggested that her views on abortion access do not mean she does not care about life.


It was late June when Wendy Davis, a state senator from Fort Worth, rocketed to national prominence on the strength of a 11-hour filibuster of a bill being considered that would indirectly lead to closing abortion clinics across Texas.

“I am pro-life,” she said, borrowing from the label anti-abortion activists assign themselves. “I care about the life of every child: every child that goes to bed hungry, every child that goes to bed without a proper education, every child that goes to bed without being able to be a part of the Texas dream, every woman and man who worry about their children’s future and their ability to provide for that future. I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else.”

Yeah, she’ll fight for people, all right. Unless those people happen to be unborn children.

Wendy Davis declares herself 'pro-life'
By Joel Gehrke @Joelmentum

Wendy Davis wants to be the governor of Texas, so the Democratic state senator famous for filibustering a bill that would increase regulations on abortion clinics and bann late term abortions has dubbed herself "pro-life"

http://washingtonexaminer.com/wendy-davis-declares-herself-pro-life/article/2538615



Matt @Matthops82

"I support killing babies because I'm pro-life."

Smart take, Wendy Davis.

12:28 PM - 6 Nov 2013


Old Bald Fat Guy @WarmerdamS

Wendy Davis misspoke, "I Am Pro-Life" is what came out,
but "I Am Pro-Lie" is what she meant to say.
Words are such pesky things.

11:37 AM - 6 Nov 2013


Baby Bear @coolhandschlute

If I have to die trying,
I'll remind every last voter in #TXGOV
that @WendyDavisTexas is #prochoice..
...not #Prolife.

You own it, Wendy.

12:44 PM - 6 Nov 2013

http://twitchy.com/2013/11/06/youve-gotta-be-kidding-me-proud-pro-abort-wendy-davis-proclaims-i-am-pro-life/

Jolie Rouge
11-07-2013, 12:13 PM
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Jolie Rouge
11-16-2013, 10:18 AM
Sick: MSNBC’s Martin Bashir suggests someone defecate in Sarah Palin’s mouth and urinate in her eyes

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Joe Newby

Just when you think MSNBC has hit the bottom of the barrel, the network goes even lower. Martin Bashir, one of the most mean-spirited propagandist at MSNBC, forever established the network’s position as the official outlet of insane liberal hate.

Not only did he call Sarah Palin “America’s resident dunce” with a “long deceased mind,” he actually suggested someone defecate in her mouth and urinate in her eyes, Newsbusters reported Friday.

Video of Bashir’s disgusting comments can be seen below, courtesy of Newsbusters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AZ_pbzmnxvQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AZ_pbzmnxvQ

Noel Sheppard posted a transcript of the segment:


MARTIN BASHIR: It’s time now to clear the air. And we end this week in the way it began – with America’s resident dunce, Sarah Palin, scraping the barrel of her long deceased mind, and using her all-time favorite analogy in an attempt to sound intelligent about the national debt.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SARAH PALIN: Our free stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children, and borrowing from China. When that note comes due – and this isn’t racist, so try it. Try it anyway. This isn’t racist. But it’s going to be like slavery when that note is due.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BASHIR: It’lll be like slavery. Given her well-established reputation as a world class idiot, it’s hardly surprising that she should choose to mention slavery in a way that is abominable to anyone who knows anything about its barbaric history. So here’s an example.

One of the most comprehensive first-person accounts of slavery comes from the personal diary of a man called Thomas Thistlewood, who kept copious notes for 39 years. Thistlewood was the son of a tenant farmer who arrived on the island of Jamaica in April 1750, and assumed the position of overseer at a major plantation. What is most shocking about Thistlewood’s diary is not simply the fact that he assumes the right to own and possess other human beings, but is the sheer cruelty and brutality of his regime.

In 1756, he records that “A slave named Darby catched eating canes; had him well flogged and pickled, then made Hector, another slave, s-h-i-t in his mouth.” This became known as Darby’s dose, a punishment invented by Thistlewood that spoke only of the slave owners savagery and inhumanity.

And he mentions a similar incident again in 1756, this time in relation to a man he refers to as Punch. “Flogged Punch well, and then washed and rubbed salt pickle, lime juice and bird pepper; made Negro Joe piss in his eyes and mouth.” I could go on, but you get the point.

When Mrs. Palin invoked slavery, she doesn’t just prove her rank ignorance. She confirms that if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, then she would be the outstanding candidate.

“Readers are reminded that this isn’t Bill Maher or some libtalker like Mike Malloy,” Sheppard noted. “This is a host for a so-called cable news network saying these astonishingly vile things about a former governor and former vice presidential candidate.”

In Nov. 2010, we first called MSNBC the network of insane liberal hate, and observed the network still held that position in Jan. 2011.

“Is there no limit to what people are allowed to say about conservatives on this disgrace of a network?” Sheppard asked.

In a word, no. In fact, if someone were to try this, Bashir would probably celebrate the attempt.

No doubt, if a conservative said anything anywhere near as vile as this, liberal heads would be exploding across the country.

But since it was uttered on MSNBC by a radical left-wing propagandist with a British accent, and the target was Sarah Palin, nothing will be said.

Perhaps conservatives should demand Bashir publicly apologize before being canned. Remember, MSNBC suspended Ed Schultz for calling Laura Ingraham a “right wing slut.” Now, the network is openly advocating violence against Sarah Palin.

Yes, Virginia, liberalism really is an ideology of insane hate and rage.

http://conservativefiringline.com/sick-msnbcs-martin-bashir-suggests-someone-defecate-sarah-palins-mouth-urinate-eyes/

Jolie Rouge
11-17-2013, 10:12 AM
ABC, CBS Notice Obama's 'Lowest Ever' Approval Rating; NBC Out to Lunch
By Matthew Balan | November 13, 2013

On Tuesday, ABC's World News and CBS Evening News both reported the latest poll numbers from the "respected" Quinnipiac University, as CBS's Scott Pelley labeled the institution, regarding President Obama's "lowest ever" approval rating, along with Americans' dim view of the politician's honesty. ABC's Diane Sawyer noted that "for the first time in his presidency, a majority of American voters – 52 percent...say President Obama is not honest and trustworthy."

Both evening newscasts reported these numbers as they led into their coverage of former President Clinton's recent word of advice to Obama on his health care law – that "the President should honor the commitment...[he] made to those people, and let them keep what they've got."

NBC Nightly News also devoted air time to Clinton's remarks, but failed to mention the current President's drooping approval number. [MP3 audio from the ABC and CBS reports available here http://www.newsbusters.org/sites/default/files/2013/2013-11-12-ABC-WN-Sawyer.mp3 ]


http://www.mrctv.org/videos/abc-cbs-notice-obamas-lowest-ever-approval-rating-nbc-out-lunch

http://www.mrctv.org/videos/abc-cbs-notice-obamas-lowest-ever-approval-rating-nbc-out-lunch

Pelley spotlighted the Quinnipiac poll's findings before turning to correspondent Major Garrett, who detailed the White House's reaction to Clinton's statement:


SCOTT PELLEY: The troubled rollout of President Obama's health insurance law is taking a toll on his job approval ratings. In the respected Quinnipiac University poll out today, only 39 percent of Americans say they approve of the job he's doing – the lowest ever in that poll; 54 percent disapprove. Perhaps reflecting his broken 'you can keep your insurance' promise, only 44 percent said the President is honest and trustworthy.

Garrett continued that "Clinton's comments focused even more attention on the most glaring political problem facing ObamaCare: those consumers on the individual market who had their policies canceled, but can't afford the new policies that comply with ObamaCare. The White House is looking for a fix, but it hasn't found one yet."

On World News, Sawyer underlined the "rough new poll number for the President – for the first time in his presidency, a majority of American voters – 52 percent – in a new poll, say President Obama is not honest and trustworthy. One factor: the people who felt misled about getting to keep their insurance under ObamaCare."

Correspondent Jonathan Karl then trumpeted that "Bill Clinton said what President Obama's harshest Republican critics have been saying – that he may need to the change the health care law to help the millions of people who have seen their insurance canceled, despite the President's promise that would not happen."

Later in the segment, Karl pointed out that "an ABC News analysis of administration documents suggest that fewer than 50,000 people have been able to enroll through HealthCare.gov. In contrast, an estimated seven-plus million are getting cancellation notices."

He also featured a soundbite from a man in Pennsylvania who lost his insurance policy and "after spending more than 40 hours...trying to enroll on the website and over the phone, he is still out of luck."

The following morning, on ABC's Good Morning America, news anchor Josh Elliott mentioned during a news brief that "a new poll finds that for the first time, a majority of Americans do not believe the President is, in fact, trustworthy."

On CBS This Morning, anchor Norah O'Donnell reported how "President Obama's approval rating is at an all-time low – the latest casualty of the health care rollout", but didn't mention the 52 percent figure of Americans who don't find the Democrat honest and trustworthy.

[Update: the full transcripts of Jonathan Karl's report from Tuesday's World News on ABC and Major Garrett's report from Tuesday's CBS Evening News can be read on MRC.org. http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/abc-cbs-notice-obamas-lowest-ever-approval-rating-nbc-out-lunch ]

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2013/11/13/abc-cbs-notice-obamas-lowest-ever-approval-rating-nbc-out-lunch#ixzz2kvJwJzTI

Jolie Rouge
11-27-2013, 03:49 PM
Grab your “what if a Republican had said that?” file, because we have a red hot entry. While touring California begging for money, and trying to save the Senate from the hands of we nefarious conservatives, President Obama made what some might call a racist statement about immigrants. Let’s go to the tape!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=00wHXJcVv-c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=00wHXJcVv-c

So how does that work? Do people born in America have different faces from those not born in America? Or could he be talking about their skin color? But that would mean that only some colors of people are native-born Americans! Wait a minute …


Rick Klein ✔ @rickklein

odd Obama line? per WH transcript:


"just looking at faces,
I could tell
there were some folks
who are here
not because
they were born here."

5:05 PM - 26 Nov 2013


Carol Sidwell @CarolSidwell

@rickklein @whpresscorps OMG is that a 'racist' comment? And from the president no less!

5:11 PM - 26 Nov 2013


Ken Diesel @KenDiesel

Obama said he can spot immigrants just by looking at their faces. I guess it's like a new kind of 6th sense.

8:23 PM - 26 Nov 2013


jimgeraghty ✔ @jimgeraghty

Would any other politician get a pass for saying you can spot immigrants just by looking at their faces? http://natl.re/1cs0y6w

4:42 PM - 26 Nov 2013

http://twitchy.com/2013/11/26/heres-your-wtf-moment-for-today-obama-says-he-can-identify-immigrants-just-by-looking-at-their-faces/

Jolie Rouge
12-04-2013, 08:01 PM
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I got private messaged by this dipsht. Here's his message and my response:


So you hate Hillary but like bush 2? Please explain how Hillary is a failed leader? What is worse than inventing the Iraq war that killed 4000 Americans and made 3 trillion of our dollars disappear? –Rick P.

Rick, I usually don't respond to morons, but you're so exceptionally misguided, I'm doing going to do you the favor.

First, I don't know where you came up with the idea that I "like Bush 2." I'm not the biggest fan of his, but I must confess that these days I do miss him. I almost forget what it's like to have someone in the White House who actually loves this country.

Second, how does one "invent" a war? I'm not sure if you were around at the time, but you may want to Google "9/11 and Al Qaeda" it was kind of a big deal. I have a friend with a mentally-challenged kid, so I think I know what you meant to say.

I think you meant Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction and got us into the Iraq War. Not true, my friend. Bush was going on intel that many of your liberal cohorts in politics agreed with.

Lest ye forget, 77 Senators voted YEA for the war. Including Dodd, Feinstein, Kerry, Reid, and Schumer. I noticed that your a fan of "Bumblin'" Joe Biden. Guess what? He supported military action in Iraq as well. I'm guessing you forgot that, or simply did not know. Guess who else agreed we should go to war? That's right, Hillary Clinton!

In the end Syria was all to happy to take those weapons off of of Saddam's hands and later use them on his own people.

Which promptly made King Obama almost go to war without any approval whatsoever. Putin was kind enough to bitch-slap Barry back into reality.

Finally, I'm not even going to explain to you how "Hillary is a failed leader", because she isn't a "leader."

She's a politician of the worst order.

She's a blatant liar, who is so driven by sheer political ambition, that it overrides any small, black kernel of decency that may be hidden under aging, gray carcass. You are an indoctrinated liberal simpleton who choses to blindly follow a party and refuses to acknowledge basic facts.

You are exactly the type of rube that gets us stuck with bad politicians. – William L.

Jolie Rouge
12-06-2013, 08:56 AM
Sick: MSNBC’s Martin Bashir suggests someone defecate in Sarah Palin’s mouth and urinate in her eyes

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Joe Newby

Just when you think MSNBC has hit the bottom of the barrel, the network goes even lower. Martin Bashir, one of the most mean-spirited propagandist at MSNBC, forever established the network’s position as the official outlet of insane liberal hate.

Not only did he call Sarah Palin “America’s resident dunce” with a “long deceased mind,” he actually suggested someone defecate in her mouth and urinate in her eyes, Newsbusters reported Friday.

Video of Bashir’s disgusting comments can be seen below, courtesy of Newsbusters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AZ_pbzmnxvQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AZ_pbzmnxvQ

Noel Sheppard posted a transcript of the segment:


MARTIN BASHIR: It’s time now to clear the air. And we end this week in the way it began – with America’s resident dunce, Sarah Palin, scraping the barrel of her long deceased mind, and using her all-time favorite analogy in an attempt to sound intelligent about the national debt.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SARAH PALIN: Our free stuff today is being paid for by taking money from our children, and borrowing from China. When that note comes due – and this isn’t racist, so try it. Try it anyway. This isn’t racist. But it’s going to be like slavery when that note is due.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BASHIR: It’lll be like slavery. Given her well-established reputation as a world class idiot, it’s hardly surprising that she should choose to mention slavery in a way that is abominable to anyone who knows anything about its barbaric history. So here’s an example.

One of the most comprehensive first-person accounts of slavery comes from the personal diary of a man called Thomas Thistlewood, who kept copious notes for 39 years. Thistlewood was the son of a tenant farmer who arrived on the island of Jamaica in April 1750, and assumed the position of overseer at a major plantation. What is most shocking about Thistlewood’s diary is not simply the fact that he assumes the right to own and possess other human beings, but is the sheer cruelty and brutality of his regime.

In 1756, he records that “A slave named Darby catched eating canes; had him well flogged and pickled, then made Hector, another slave, s-h-i-t in his mouth.” This became known as Darby’s dose, a punishment invented by Thistlewood that spoke only of the slave owners savagery and inhumanity.

And he mentions a similar incident again in 1756, this time in relation to a man he refers to as Punch. “Flogged Punch well, and then washed and rubbed salt pickle, lime juice and bird pepper; made Negro Joe piss in his eyes and mouth.” I could go on, but you get the point.

When Mrs. Palin invoked slavery, she doesn’t just prove her rank ignorance. She confirms that if anyone truly qualified for a dose of discipline from Thomas Thistlewood, then she would be the outstanding candidate.

“Readers are reminded that this isn’t Bill Maher or some libtalker like Mike Malloy,” Sheppard noted. “This is a host for a so-called cable news network saying these astonishingly vile things about a former governor and former vice presidential candidate.”

In Nov. 2010, we first called MSNBC the network of insane liberal hate, and observed the network still held that position in Jan. 2011.

“Is there no limit to what people are allowed to say about conservatives on this disgrace of a network?” Sheppard asked.

In a word, no. In fact, if someone were to try this, Bashir would probably celebrate the attempt.

No doubt, if a conservative said anything anywhere near as vile as this, liberal heads would be exploding across the country.

But since it was uttered on MSNBC by a radical left-wing propagandist with a British accent, and the target was Sarah Palin, nothing will be said.

Perhaps conservatives should demand Bashir publicly apologize before being canned. Remember, MSNBC suspended Ed Schultz for calling Laura Ingraham a “right wing slut.” Now, the network is openly advocating violence against Sarah Palin.

Yes, Virginia, liberalism really is an ideology of insane hate and rage.

http://conservativefiringline.com/sick-msnbcs-martin-bashir-suggests-someone-defecate-sarah-palins-mouth-urinate-eyes/

MSNBC's Bashir Resigns
by Ben Shapiro 4 Dec 2013

On Wednesday, MSNBC’s Martin Bashir formally tendered his resignation from his daily show. Bashir had been absent from his show since November 22, prompting rumors from inside the network that he had been suspended; MSNBC had maintained that he was merely on vacation. Bashir was under heavy fire for his comments in which he stated that someone should “p*ss” and “s***” in Sarah Palin’s mouth. He issued an on-air apology, but criticism of MSNBC never waned, especially given the fact that his monologue suggesting such misogyny was backed by the network itself. MSNBC is expected to release its own comment shortly.

Bashir said in a statement: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/martin-bashir-resigns-from-msnbc/


After making an on-air apology, I asked for permission to take some additional time out around the Thanksgiving holiday.

Upon further reflection, and after meeting with the President of MSNBC, I have tendered my resignation. It is my sincere hope that all of my colleagues, at this special network, will be allowed to focus on the issues that matter without the distraction of myself or my ill-judged comments.

I deeply regret what was said, will endeavor to work hard at making constructive contributions in the future and will always have a deep appreciation for our viewers – who are the smartest, most compassionate and discerning of all television audiences. I would also wish to express deepest gratitude to my immediate colleagues, and our contributors, all of whom have given so much of themselves to our broadcast.’


http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/12/04/MSNBC-Bashir-resigns?utm_source=contentsharing&utm_medium=linkexchange&utm_term=postion5&utm_content=MSNBC-Bashir-resigns&utm_campaign=foxnews

I think it's obvious that he was given one of those classic "choices" from management -- "You can resign now ... or we will fire you."

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Sarah Palin speaks out on Martin Bashir resignation: 'Accept it and move on'
By Leslie Larson / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Sarah Palin said she is ready to move on after the personal, on-air attack launched by MSNBC host Martin Bashir, when he suggested someone defecate in the mouth of the conservative talking head.

Bashir resigned from the cable network on Wednesday following the backlash from his on-air comments.

"My role is to accept his apology and be humble enough to accept it and move on," Palin said Thursday on FOX News Channel's “FOX & Friends," without discussing whether Bashir should have been fired by the network instead of resigning.

After years of being in the media spotlight, Palin said she has become "calloused" and said, “At this point I’m used to it,” during her interview on the morning show in New York. "In this world you are going to be hurt and attacks will come your way," she said.

Stepping away from an outright slam of Bashir himself or the network, she did praise the media for coming to her defense during the controversy and said she hopes the episode is a lesson learned for “those with that platform, with a microphone, a camera in their face, they have to have some more responsibility taken.”

Bashir did not mince words on his show on Nov. 15, dubbing Palin "America's resident dunce" and a "world-class idiot,” during a segment when he suggested someone should defecate in Palin’s mouth for a speech she gave when she equated the burden of the U.S. debt to China to slavery.

Palin had made the comparison during an address at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition in Des Moines, on Nov. 9. But after Bashir’s scathing attack, he admitted he went too far and offered an “unreserved apology,” on his show on Nov. 18.

It is not known if Bashir ever personally reached out to Palin to discuss the incident.

The former Alaska governor said she accepted Bashir’s contrite words but slammed the hypocrisy of the “media elite bubble” that allowed for attacks on conservative women, in an interview with FOX News’ Chris Wallace on Nov. 24.

Palin, 49, serves as commentator for FOX News.

As controversy swirled over the incident, Bashir took two weeks off from his show for a “vacation,” during which he reportedly did some soul searching, even apologizing to conservative MSNBC host Joe Scarborough for the fallout.

The “Morning Joe” host had called Bashir’s comments “deplorable ... he has every reason to be ashamed for saying it,” but he later in November he told Talking Points Memo his cable news colleague wrote him a personal note and called him to apologize “for putting me in a difficult position.”

During his time away from the airwaves, Bashir also met with MSNBC President Phil Griffin.

On Wednesday, the British journalist revealed he had resigned from the network. “I deeply regret what was said, will endeavor to work hard at making constructive contributions in the future and will always have a deep appreciation for our viewers — who are the smartest, most compassionate and discerning of all television audiences,” he said in a statement.

Griffin praised Bashir as a “good man and respected colleague,” in his response to the anchor’s departure.

“I understand his decision and I thank him for three great years with MSNBC,” Griffin said in a statement.

Bashir, 50, joined the network in 2010. He is married to Deborah Bashir and has three children.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/sarah-palin-speaks-martin-bashir-resignation-article-1.1538294#ixzz2mic1s39I

hblueeyes
12-06-2013, 10:50 PM
We all know how "good men" speak of women that have different views than their own. Thankfully he is not one of them. I wonder how he speaks about and to his wife and daughter(s). Actually, I don't wonder.....we all saw a piece of how he is.

Me

Jolie Rouge
01-21-2014, 09:39 AM
Candidate Caught Rewriting History
Why did Wendy Davis lie about being a poverty stricken, single, teenage mother?
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

At least one political expert doesn't think revelations about a Democratic candidate for governor will do much damage. Wendy Davis has admitted some of the information given about her life history was untrue. Rice political science professor Bob Stein says it's a problem for the candidate, just not a big one.

“It speaks to the general integrity of the candidate,” Stein says. “It's not good. Will it hurt her? Because this is a very polarized election and her chances of becoming the next governor of Texas were never very strong.”

Stein says Davis' path to success doesn't include convincing Republicans to switch and vote for her.

“The real issue is that, in this campaign and this election it's not about persuading people,” he says, “it's about Wendy Davis turning out people.”

http://www.kprcradio.com/pages/waltonandjohnson.html?article=11988989#ixzz2r3H0wN JG



Wendy Davis Heroically Cheated on Her Husband, Stayed With Him Till He Paid Off Her Student Loans
January 20, 2014 by Daniel Greenfield

Wendy Davis is a hero because she wore pink sneakers while holding a filibuster in support of murdering children. Then Melissa Harris Perry wore tampon earrings on MSNBC in support of Wendy Davis and also became a hero. It’s easy to be a hero these days.

Now Wendy Davis is heroically running for governor in Texas and the media keeps calling her heroic because of her amazingly heroic life story. http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/01/uh-oh-wendy-davis-life-story-not-what-it-seems/


A single mother working two jobs, she met Jeff Davis, a lawyer 13 years older than her, married him and had a second daughter. He paid for her last two years at Texas Christian University and her time at Harvard Law School, and kept their two daughters while she was in Boston.

When they divorced in 2005, he was granted parental custody, and the girls stayed with him. Wendy Davis was directed to pay child support.

In his initial divorce filing, Jeff Davis said the marriage had failed, citing adultery on her part and conflicts that the couple could not overcome. The final court decree makes no mention of infidelity, granting the divorce solely “on the ground of insupportability.”

When she was accepted to Harvard Law School, Jeff Davis cashed in his 401(k) account and eventually took out a loan to pay for her final year there….

Over time, the Davises’ marriage was strained. In November 2003, Wendy Davis moved out.

Jeff Davis said that was right around the time the final payment on their Harvard Law School loan was due. “It was ironic,” he said. “I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.”

Wendy Davis’ amazing heroic life story includes heroically using her husband as an ATM to pay for Harvard, heroically cheating on him, heroically divorcing him after using him to get the last loan payment and heroically dumping their kids on him.


A former colleague and political supporter who worked closely with Davis when she was on the council said the body’s work was very time-consuming.

“Wendy is tremendously ambitious,” he said, speaking only on condition of anonymity in order to give what he called an honest assessment. “She’s not going to let family or raising children or anything else get in her way.”

Wendy Davis really is the perfect poster child to campaign for abortion. I wonder which of her daughters she wishes she would have killed.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/wendy-davis-heroically-cheated-on-her-husband-stayed-with-him-till-he-paid-off-her-student-loans/

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Point any of this out in a political ad and the media will be howling about how mean Republicans are for telling the truth... yet a conservative with this kind of history would be clubbed like a baby seal by the traditional media.

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The media wants to change Texas from a Republican dominated state to a Democratic one. After all, they have New York and California already in their pocket. Without Texas, and its electoral college votes, Republicans won't have a chance of electing a Republican president.

Their strategy is to get the 'Hispanics' of Texas to vote by their skin color instead of their minds - they always cater to the lowest denominator. Pitting one group against another, even if it causes societal strife, is more important than people getting along. Power is more important than human relations.

The media will worship and put upon a pedestal ANY Democrat in Texas which stands up to the Republicans regardless of her past. It is not about morality, it is about political power.

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There was a time when someone like Ms. Davis would have been called a deadbeat mother and gold digger. Now they just call her type a Harvard Law School grad.

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You missed the first husband, a construction worker, who she took to the cleaners for several vehicles and other miscellaneous property before she was twenty.

Poor ole Jeff Davis was #2, whom she met while helping out in her father's Dinner Theater. Just another tax-deduction to a prosperous father doesn't equate to a poor victim of circumstance. She was probably only working there fishing for a Sugar Daddy, and she found one.

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"Heroism." Another word strained of its noble definition. The most treacherous battlefields have been fought within the human heart. Should I fulfill my momentary desires or deny myself? Should I honor my commitment or rationalize my fulfillment despite how it will damage others? Heroism is a choice to deny oneself for the sake of honor and fidelity. There is no hero in this story.
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Jolie Rouge
01-21-2014, 05:01 PM
Democrat Wendy Davis, Candidate for Governor of Texas, Caught in Major Lies
January 20, 2014 By Jennifer Burke

Texas State Senator Wendy Davis was catapulted onto the national scene following her filibuster in the Texas Senate in support of abortion. She was almost immediately deemed a Democrat rising star as the national spotlight was thrust upon her. Hoisted upon the stage of unforgettable stories, Davis was praised for ‘overcoming the odds’ as a single mother eventually graduating from Harvard Law School. A few weeks ago, Davis declared candidacy in the governor’s race for the state of Texas. However, the tales of her life’s story are starting to unravel as we learn that much of it is untrue.

The Dallas Morning News revealed this weekend that ‘key facts were blurred’ by Wendy Davis in her campaign.

In other words, Wendy Davis is a liar.


The basic elements of the narrative are true, but the full story of Davis’ life is more complicated, as often happens when public figures aim to define themselves. In the shorthand version that has developed, some facts have been blurred.Davis was 21, not 19, when she was divorced. She lived only a few months in the family mobile home while separated from her husband before moving into an apartment with her daughter.A single mother working two jobs, she met Jeff Davis, a lawyer 13 years older than her, married him and had a second daughter. He paid for her last two years at Texas Christian University and her time at Harvard Law School, and kept their two daughters while she was in Boston. When they divorced in 2005, he was granted parental custody, and the girls stayed with him. Wendy Davis was directed to pay child support.

When confronted with the discrepancy between reality the compelling story told by her campaign, Davis’s response was weak at best.


“My language should be tighter,” she said. “I’m learning about using broader, looser language. I need to be more focused on the detail.”

Given the numerous lies that she has been caught in, does she mean that rather than ‘being focused on the detail’ that she should be focused on the truth? http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20140118-as-wendy-davis-touts-life-story-in-race-for-governor-key-facts-blurred.ece

Okay I will start. Since when do we have to listen to people that will not even give their constituents the respect of telling them the simple truth? Do they have us so programmed that we do not even value when someone tell us the truth or become indignant and disrespected when someone lies to us? I tell you this. I want REAL in any candidate that runs for office. This lady is not being REAL!

http://www.tpnn.com/2014/01/20/democrat-wendy-davis-candidate-for-governor-of-texas-caught-in-major-lies/#sthash.H09un9Mf.dpuf


As Wendy Davis touts life story in race for governor, key facts blurred
Wendy Davis became a Democratic star after her filibuster against abortion regulations during the Legislature’s special session last summer. She defends the accuracy of her overall account about how she rose from poverty as a young single mom.
By WAYNE SLATER Senior Political Writer wslater@dallasnews.com 20 January 2014 05:54 PM

FORT WORTH — Wendy Davis has made her personal story of struggle and success a centerpiece of her campaign to become the first Democrat elected governor of Texas in almost a quarter-century.

While her state Senate filibuster last year captured national attention, it is her biography — a divorced teenage mother living in a trailer who earned her way to Harvard and political achievement — that her team is using to attract voters and boost fundraising.

The basic elements of the narrative are true, but the full story of Davis’ life is more complicated, as often happens when public figures aim to define themselves. In the shorthand version that has developed, some facts have been blurred.

Davis was 21, not 19, when she was divorced. She lived only a few months in the family mobile home while separated from her husband before moving into an apartment with her daughter.

A single mother working two jobs, she met Jeff Davis, a lawyer 13 years older than her, married him and had a second daughter. He paid for her last two years at Texas Christian University and her time at Harvard Law School, and kept their two daughters while she was in Boston. When they divorced in 2005, he was granted parental custody, and the girls stayed with him. Wendy Davis was directed to pay child support.

In an extensive interview last week, Davis acknowledged some chronological errors and incomplete details in what she and her aides have said about her life. “My language should be tighter,” she said. “I’m learning about using broader, looser language. I need to be more focused on the detail.”

All campaigns seek to cast their candidate in the most positive light and their opponent in less flattering terms. Davis is presenting her story on websites, interviews, speeches and campaign videos. Last week, NBC’s Today show became the latest media outlet to showcase the story of Davis’ difficult early years in a flattering piece.

Using her story to inspire new voters, particularly women, youths and minorities, is a key part of the campaign’s strategy to overcome the state’s heavy Republican bent. But likely Republican nominee Greg Abbott and his allies are expected to focus on different details to tell voters a competing story. Some will question how much of her success was her own doing, and how bad her circumstances were to start.

Davis defended the accuracy of her overall account as a young single mother who escaped poverty, earned an education and built a successful legal and political career through hard work and determination. “Most people would identify with the fact that we tend to be defined by the struggles we came through than by the successes. And certainly for me that’s true,” she said, sitting in her campaign office in Fort Worth. “When I think about who I am and how it’s reflected in the things I worked on, it comes from that place.”

‘Texas success story’

The candidate’s compelling life story begins with 14-year-old Wendy Russell working to help support her single mother in Tarrant County. While still a teenager, Davis married, had a child and divorced, she has said. “I had a baby. I got divorced by the time I was 19 years old,” she testified in a recent federal lawsuit over redistricting. “After I got divorced, I lived in a mobile home park in southeast Fort Worth.”

As a working mother raising a daughter, Davis enrolled in Tarrant County Community College. “With the help of academic scholarships and student loans, Wendy not only became the first person in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree but graduated first in her class and was accepted to Harvard Law School,” her website says.

She won a seat on the Fort Worth City Council and later moved to the Texas Senate. Last June, her 11-hour filibuster against abortion regulations made her a champion of women’s health care and propelled her candidacy for governor. “I’m a Texas success story,” Davis told NBC. “I am the epitome of hard work and optimism.”

Jolie Rouge
01-21-2014, 05:02 PM
There’s no question Davis struggled financially. When her parents separated, her father, Jerry Russell, started a sandwich shop and fledgling dinner theater.

“While he lived that passion, he never made money again and was never able to comply with the terms of my parents’ divorce,” she said. “What it meant for us financially is that things ... completely turned upside down, and it was a real struggle. My brothers and I went to work young — and it was out of necessity, not about wanting to have a little bit of spending money.”

She was 17 and still in high school when she moved in with her boyfriend, a construction worker named Frank Underwood. She got pregnant, married and “some time between [age] 19 and 20 was when Frank and I separated,” she said.

Davis remained in the mobile home a few months, then moved in with her mother before getting her own apartment. She got custody of her daughter, Amber, and Underwood was ordered to pay child support.

Under terms of the divorce, he got a boat, the mobile home and the responsibility for the mortgage on it. She got a 3-year-old Pontiac Grand Prix, a 1972 Firebird and a 1967 Chevy pickup. Davis was 21.

Second chapters

A few months later, she enrolled at the local community college. The idea came from a nurse at the pediatrician’s office where she was working as a receptionist.

Four nights a week, Davis was also waiting tables at her father’s Fort Worth dinner theater, Stage West. It was there that she met her future husband, Jeff Davis, a 34-year-old friend of her father’s.

“One day at the end of a meeting, Jerry asked, ‘How do you like younger women? My daughter wants to go out with you,’” Jeff Davis said in an interview. “I was flattered so I took her out. We dated two or three years, then got married.”

While they dated, Wendy Davis enrolled at Texas Christian University on an academic scholarship and a Pell Grant. After they married, when she was 24, they moved into a historic home in the Mistletoe Heights neighborhood of Fort Worth.

Jeff Davis paid for her final two years at TCU. “It was community resources. We paid for it together,” Wendy Davis said.

When she was accepted to Harvard Law School, Jeff Davis cashed in his 401(k) account and eventually took out a loan to pay for her final year there.

“I was making really good money then, well over six figures,” he said. “But when you’ve got someone at Harvard, you’ve got bills to pay, you’ve got two small kids. The economy itself was marginal. You do what you have to do, no big deal.”

The daughters, then 8 and 2, remained with Jeff Davis in Fort Worth while Wendy Davis was at Harvard.

“Harvard really impressed her with a different culture of energy, really bright young people. That was something she would like to be around. She just enjoys that culture,” Jeff Davis said.

Wendy Davis agreed. “It expanded my perspectives tremendously,” she said. “I went to school with some of the brightest people in the country, and I learned tremendously.”

Political player

After she graduated from Harvard in 1993, Wendy Davis started her own law practice and worked with her husband at the title company he founded. They enrolled their younger daughter, Dru, at Fort Worth Country Day School, a prestigious private school.

Jeff Davis had once served on the Fort Worth City Council, and Wendy Davis expressed interest in running for a seat in 1996.

“I opened some doors for her with people, knew how bright she was and knew she’d do a good job,” he said.

She lost in 1996 but ran again two years later and won. The council seats were nonpartisan but in terms of voting, she was a Republican. Davis said she voted in GOP primaries because she supported mayor and congressional candidate Kay Granger, a Republican, and as a lawyer, she wanted to have a say in selecting judicial nominees in a county where the judges were often Republicans.

Over time, the Davises’ marriage was strained. In November 2003, Wendy Davis moved out.

Jeff Davis said that was right around the time the final payment on their Harvard Law School loan was due. “It was ironic,” he said. “I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.”

Wendy Davis said that as a lawyer, she contributed too.

“I was a vibrant part of contributing to our family finances from the time I graduated to the time we separated in 2003,” she said. “The idea that suddenly there was this instantaneous departure after Jeff had partnered so beautifully with me in putting me through school is just absurd.”

In his initial divorce filing, Jeff Davis said the marriage had failed, citing adultery on her part and conflicts that the couple could not overcome. The final court decree makes no mention of infidelity, granting the divorce solely “on the ground of insupportability.”

Amber was 21 and in college. Dru was in ninth grade. Jeff Davis was awarded parental custody. Wendy Davis was ordered to pay $1,200 a month in child support.

“She did the right thing,” he said. “She said, ‘I think you’re right; you’ll make a good, nurturing father. While I’ve been a good mother, it’s not a good time for me right now.’”

Wendy Davis declined to discuss the circumstances or terms of the divorce.

“When I decided to run for governor, I promised my girls we would not revisit a time that was terribly difficult for them,” she said. “I will tell you it was very important to me that Dru stay in her childhood home. It was a very difficult time in our life.”

She said: “I very willingly, as part of my divorce settlement, paid child support. That was at my request, not any court telling me I needed to financially support my daughters.”

A former colleague and political supporter who worked closely with Davis when she was on the council said the body’s work was very time-consuming.

“Wendy is tremendously ambitious,” he said, speaking only on condition of anonymity in order to give what he called an honest assessment. “She’s not going to let family or raising children or anything else get in her way.”

He said: “She’s going to find a way, and she’s going to figure out a way to spin herself in a way that grabs at the heart strings. A lot of it isn’t true about her, but that’s just us who knew her. But she’d be a good governor.”

Davis’ daughters, now adults, are supporting their mother’s campaign for governor. Both appear in a campaign video on her behalf.

Jeff Davis said the financial difficulties that Wendy Davis faced before her second marriage were real.

“A lot of what she says is true,” he said. “When she was 21, it became a little easier for her. The first 21 years were about working one, two and three jobs, trying to get through, raising a kid, driving an old Toyota pickup truck that was the smallest you could find.

“She got a break,” Jeff Davis said. “Good things happen, opportunities open up. You take them; you get lucky. That’s a better narrative than what they’re trying to paint.”

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20140118-as-wendy-davis-touts-life-story-in-race-for-governor-key-facts-blurred.ece

Jolie Rouge
02-02-2014, 09:25 AM
Democrat State Senator (and gun grabber) Rod Wright is convicted of 8 Felonies (for what amounts to election fraud) and 2 days later introduces a Bill that would change some felonies to misdemeanors in CA.

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State Law says this FELON can NOT be removed simply because of his convictions... he must be voted out by the Senate, which is a Democrat Super Majority... Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (probably the most corrupt politician in the State, and gun hater) is personal friends with Wright and is also a member of the same Party... so where do you think this is going?

Please help spread the word and put National attention on this BLATANT hypocrisy and corruption. We are DEMANDING that Senate Pro Tem holds a vote, and we are DEMANDING the results of that vote remove Rod Wright POST HASTE!!!

Senate Pro Tem Office Information
Address:
1020 N St, Room 576
Sacramento, CA 95814-5624

Capitol Phone: (916) 651-4006
Fax: (916) 651-4906
Business Phone: (916) 651-1529

Jolie Rouge
04-14-2014, 03:42 PM
The 12 Unspoken Rules For Being A Liberal

Posted by: Joshua Riddle April 14, 2014

Our friends over at Townhall compiled the 12 unspoken rules for being a liberal and they are spot-on! http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2013/08/31/12-unspoken-rules-for-being-a-liberal-n1687730/

1) You justify your beliefs about yourself by your status as a liberal, not your deeds. The most sexist liberal can think of himself as a feminist while the greediest liberal can think of himself as generous. This is because liberals define themselves as being compassionate, open minded, kind, pro-science and intelligent not based on their actions or achievements, but based on their ideology. This is one of the most psychologically appealing aspects of liberalism because it allows you to be an awful person while still thinking of yourself as better than everyone else.

2) You exempt yourself from your attacks on America: Ever notice that liberals don’t include themselves in their attacks on America? When they say, “This is a racist country,” or “,This is a mean country,” they certainly aren’t referring to themselves or people who hold their views. Even though liberals supported the KKK, slaughtering the Indians, and putting the Japanese in internment camps, when they criticize those things, it’s meant as an attack on everyone else EXCEPT LIBERALS. The only thing a liberal believes he can truly do wrong is to be insufficiently liberal.

3) What liberals like should be mandatory and what they don’t like should be banned: There’s an almost instinctual form of fascism that runs through most liberals. It’s not enough for liberals to love gay marriage; everyone must be forced to love gay marriage. It’s not enough for liberals to be afraid of guns; guns have to be banned. It’s not enough for liberals to want to use energy-saving light bulbs; incandescent light bulbs must be banned. It’s not enough for liberals to make sure most speakers on campuses are left-wing; conservative speakers must be shouted down or blocked from speaking.

4) The past is always inferior to the present: Liberals tend to view traditions, policies, and morals of past generations as arbitrary designs put in place by less enlightened people. Because of this, liberals don’t pay much attention to why traditions developed or wonder about possible ramifications of their social engineering. It’s like an architect ripping out the foundation of a house without questioning the consequences and if the living room falls in on itself as a result, he concludes that means he needs to make even more changes.

5) Liberalism is a jealous god and no other God may come before it: A liberal “Christian” or “Jew” is almost an oxymoron because liberalism trumps faith for liberals. Taking your religious beliefs seriously means drawing hard lines about right and wrong and that’s simply not allowed. Liberals demand that even God bow down on the altar of liberalism.

6) Liberals believe in indiscriminateness for thought: This one was so good that I stole it from my buddy, Evan Sayet: ” Indiscriminateness of thought does not lead to indiscriminateness of policy. It leads the modern liberal to invariably side with evil over good, wrong over right and the behaviors that lead to failure over those that lead to success. Why? Very simply if nothing is to be recognized as better or worse than anything else then success is de facto unjust. There is no explanation for success if nothing is better than anything else and the greater the success the greater the injustice. Conversely and for the same reason, failure is de facto proof of victimization and the greater the failure, the greater the proof of the victim is, or the greater the victimization.”

7) Intentions are much more important than results: Liberals decide what programs to support based on whether they make them feel good or bad about themselves, not because they work or don’t work. A DDT ban that has killed millions is judged a success by liberals because it makes them feel as if they care about the environment. A government program that wastes billions and doesn’t work is a stunning triumph to the Left if it has a compassionate sounding name. It would be easier to convince a liberal to support a program by calling it the “Saving Women And Puppies Bill” than showing that it would save 100,000 lives.

8) The only real sins are helping conservatism or harming liberalism: Conservatives often marvel at the fact that liberals will happily elect every sort of pervert, deviant, and criminal you can imagine without a second thought. That’s because right and wrong don’t come into the picture for liberals. They have one standard: Does this politician help or hurt liberalism? If a politician helps liberalism, he has a free pass to do almost anything and many of them do just that.

9) All solutions must be government-oriented: Liberals may not be as down on government as conservatives are, but on some level, even they recognize that it doesn’t work very well. So, why are liberals so hell bent on centralizing as much power as possible in government? Simple, because they believe that they are better and smarter than everyone else by virtue of being liberals and centralized power gives them the opportunity to control more people’s lives. There’s nothing scarier to liberals than free people living their lives as they please without wanting or needing the government to nanny them.

10) You must be absolutely close minded: One of the key reasons liberals spend so much time vilifying people they don’t like and questioning their motivations is to protect themselves from having to consider their arguments. This helps create a completely closed system for liberals. Conservative arguments are considered wrong by default since they’re conservative and not worth hearing. On the other hand, liberals aren’t going to make conservative arguments. So, a liberal goes to a liberal school, watches liberal news, listens to liberal politicians, has liberal friends, and then convinces himself that conservatives are all hateful, evil, racist Nazis so that any stray conservatism he hears should be ignored. It makes liberal minds into perfectly closed loops that are impervious to anything other than liberal doctrine.

11) Feelings are more important than logic: Liberals base their positions on emotions, not facts and logic and then they work backwards to shore up their position. This is why it’s a waste of time to try to convince a liberal of anything based on logic. You don’t “logic” someone out of a position that he didn’t use “logic” to come up with in the first place.

12) Tribal affiliation is more important than individual action: There’s one set of rules for members of the tribe and one set of rules for everyone else. Lying, breaking the rules, or fomenting hatred against a liberal in good standing may be out of bounds, but there are no rules when dealing with outsiders, who are viewed either as potential recruits, dupes to be tricked, or foes to be defeated. This is the same backwards mentality you see in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, except it’s based on ideology, not religion.

Jolie Rouge
04-19-2014, 04:25 PM
Ted Forcht
April 15 at 4:45pm · Marco Island, FL

April 15 - Tax Deadline, 2nd Day of Holy Week and the one-year anniversary of the Boston Bombing, good thing this day just comes around once per year!

What else is happening today, well the Post Office along with the FBI, NOAA, and Homeland Security have requested several million rounds of 9mm for small arms. If you will remember a few months ago, I wrote about the EPA closing the production of lead down. That, along with restrictions on the manufacturing of ammunition, seems to be preparing the Government for the rationing of ammunition if they can’t control the sale of rifles and handguns.

That ties in with the 1 million gun owners in New York who have refused to register their gun(s) by this weekend.

As much as we hate it, the numbers seem to bare out that America has lost about 2.1 million manufacturing jobs in the past 7 years leading to a marked drop in productivity and causing America to fall behind other developed nations in production.

While America continues to hold its own in the service sectors, without an increase in vocational training we will continue to slip behind the rest of the world.

Senator Mary Landrieu (D. LA) got into a bit of trouble when she recut her campaign ad to make it appear that some staffers were with her at a hearing when they really were not. Now, in addition to fighting her competition, she is having to take on the fake news people like John Stewart and Saturday Night Live…You hate it when they catch you in a line you didn’t mean,

April 11 wasn’t a good day to be a Jewelry store robber in Antioch, California, that is if you want to talk about it later. Seems that two armed robbers tried to pull off an afternoon robbery that left one dead and his accomplice with a non-life threatening wound. The owner of the store had had enough of the attempted thieves and had started arming himself back in May. The jeweler thinks he has taught the criminals a lesson.

With even Senate Majority leader Harry Reid turning on the Family Bundy, they think they have had enough and are willing to show force before they let the government take their land. After a weekend showdown on the Nevada farm the family had been working for a hundred years or so, the Senate Majority leader gave a speech calling for the Bundy's to give up their fight to which they responded that maybe Senator Reid was the one who needed to leave give up the fight.

Lastly, the Unions representing the first responders in Detroit, as part of their bankruptcy deal, agreed to scale back their retirement and compensation so the departments could stay afloat. Without the deal, the retirees would be facing major benefit and pay cuts.

Jolie Rouge
09-21-2014, 09:36 AM
World in chaos? Whatever! Who will help the keg standers? WHO? Mary Landrieu is on it

Only in Louisiana politics....



Ellen L. Carmichael @ellencarmichael

No, really. Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA) poured beer into the mouth of a dude doing a keg stand today

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More from The Hill:

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) was spotted helping a man do a keg stand at a Louisiana State University tailgating event on Saturday.

A photo from the event appears to show Landrieu—one of the most vulnerable Democratic incumbents this year— holding the keg’s spigot while a young man
dressed in the Tigers’ purple and gold does a handstand on the keg and other participants hold his legs. A crowd of onlookers cheers him on.

A source close to the campaign said the man was in his late 20s and was enjoying a tailgate with his friends and family. The source also said his father was at the tailgating party with him.

Good grief!

http://twitchy.com/2014/09/21/so-whats-up-with-sen-mary-landrieu-and-keg-stands-this-happened-photos/
11:28 PM - 20 Sep 2014

Jolie Rouge
09-22-2014, 03:08 PM
What Embattled Dem Senator Landrieu Is Doing In This Viral Pic Could Cost Harry Reid Big Time

Fighting for her political life in a very tight re-election campaign...
Norvell Rose — September 22, 2014



It could be one of those moments when a political career careens into a great big “Dead End” sign…when the needle of impending electoral doom swings into the red zone of “massive meltdown.”

In a picture that’s gone viral, embattled Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is seen helping to force beer down the throat of a football fan at a tailgate gathering. Apparently, Landrieu, who is fighting for her political life in a very tight reelection campaign, must have thought she could win the hearts and votes of a certain hardcore party crowd when she helped a guy do a keg stand before the LSU-Mississippi State football game.


http://www.westernjournalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ByB6vD0IQAABPZF.jpg

From the Times-Picayune of New Orleans: http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/09/mary_landrieu_assists_with_a_k.html



For those who don’t know, a keg stand involves hoisting someone in the air — in this case a purple-Polo-wearing LSU fan — and putting the running spigot from a beer keg directly in his mouth.

The idea is for the person to drink as much beer as possible, while being essentially upside down. It’s a common practice on college campuses, especially at house parties and tailgates.



Admittedly, politics in Louisiana is often an animal of a different color. But to have a sitting U.S. senator shown helping some guy guzzle suds in an obvious attempt to get plastered is a campaign tactic of a very different color.

The Times-Picayune article notes that Landrieu did draw the line at doing her own upside-down beer-guzzling:


Landrieu was apparently encouraged — but declined — to do her own keg stand, according to Tim Murphy, a Mother Jones reporter that was tailing her as she walked around LSU’s campus before the football game started.

“‘My first keg stand,” Landrieu says, as we walk away. ‘He wanted me to do it, but I said absolutely not — at least not in front of the national press.’ What if it would’ve won her some votes? ‘That’s alright — I’m not that desperate,’” wrote Murphy of an exchange with Landrieu.


Brad Dayspring @BDayspring

Bright side: Mary Landrieu will have plenty of time after losing her seat to help students binge drink.

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9:03 AM - 21 Sep 2014


Landrieu, a three-term Democrat, is engaged in a tough reelection campaign against U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy. She has faced harsh criticism recently because of her disputed residency status as well as over campaign trips paid for out of her official Senate account ( $30000 worth .... ).

The outcome of the Landrieu-Cassidy election could help determine whether Republicans gain control of the Senate and remove Obama’s right-hand man, Harry Reid, from the leadership position.

http://www.westernjournalism.com/what-embattled-dem-senator-landrieu-is-doing-in-this-viral-pic-could-cost-harry-reid-big-time/#u0ed78mvHzhLo4Vj.99

Jolie Rouge
02-09-2015, 04:45 PM
Rev. Al Sharpton has run into some money problems...

Every one of his for-profit businesses has been shutdown for failure to pay taxes.


https://www.facebook.com/video.php/v=10153031502830238&fref=nf

Rev. Sharpton Blames Tax Scrutiny On Support Of Obama, Ferguson
By NewsOne Now

http://newsone.com/3072777/al-sharpton-tax-evasion-ferguson/



Rev. Al Sharpton: In Obama's ear and alleged serial tax cheat

Published February 02, 2015 | On the Record | On the Record

This is a rush transcript from "On the Record," February 2, 2015. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Reverend Al Sharpton, a cable news host and activist and advisor to President Obama and now reports he is a serial tax cheat. A new report showing that every single for profit enterprise started by Reverend Sharpton has been shut down for failing to pay taxes. Yes, you have heard that right -- every single one.

And the latest bombshell coming just months after the New York Times added Sharpton for owing millions in personal taxes. The National Review's Jillian Melchior joins us. Jillian, I read your article today. Tell me what did does your research show?

JILLIAN MELCHIOR, NATIONAL REVIEW: Yeah. Al Sharpton has a bunch of for profit entities that have opened up one after the other. All of them shut down for failure to pay taxes, failure to file tax paperwork, some combination of tax problems. Just one right after another and then they will open back up, sometimes in the same location. I just really see a pattern here.

VAN SUSTEREN: Well, you know a lot of people get into tax trouble. That's not so unusual. The thing that sort of rubbing me the wrong way personally from the New York Times report that I read is that it doesn't look like the IRS has him on a payment plan, trying to work it out so he can get straight with the American people. This is really a debt to the American people, not to the IRS. In looking at the businesses, is there any indication that they were making efforts to sort of work out a plan or program to get, you know, on the straight with the IRS, the American people.

MELCHIOR: Sure, for his profit and nonprofit company there was actually a tax settlement reached. I think the problem is we don't know the details as taxpayers. We don't know whether he got a discount deal. We don't know whether he is compliant with paying for them. The IRS won't tell you. They say this is a private taxpayer and need to respect the privacy, but for me, as a taxpayer, and I think for a lot of other taxpayers, that's frustrating because here you have got the New York Times saying cumulatively $4.5 million in tax debt. I'm looking at active tax warrants, tax liens well over a million dollars. You know, I wonder what's going on.

VAN SUSTEREN: Have you reached out to Reverend Sharpton or any of his organizations to see if there is an innocent explanation for all of this?

MELCHIOR: Yeah, I did, actually. I talked about his nonprofit and actually interviewed him. He says he has worked out a payment plan wouldn't tell me a single detail about it, wouldn't tell me where he is at, and wouldn't estimate his tax debt right now. So I think there is no transparency. And that's specially concerning given his nonprofit.

VAN SUSTEREN: So what does he have now in terms of -- what is he responsible for in terms of the profit or nonprofit field? What corporations or organizations?

MELCHIOR: Well, as far as can I tell and it's kind of tricky to tell just depending which state has what transparency about corporate records, but the nonprofit, when you look at tax records, more than a million dollars in the red. If I am remembering right, I think $800,000 in tax debt and has worked out a settlement for his for profit entities, several of them still owe taxes, have active tax warrants. Then he has one company that was actually shuttered in Delaware for failure to file taxes was supposed to shut down in New York, never shut down.

VAN SUSTEREN: You know, I'm sure that he thinks it is just Fox News going after him as a competitor. I just want to point out this was the New York Times who wrote the first one. Now, you have broken the most recent one about his business. But this is a New York Times, this is a debt to the American people. This is also a guy who seems to have special treatment going in and out of the White House which I must add we pay the electric bill for. So it's a little bit disconcerting. The IRS, they act like they are concerned about it and all trying to collect this money?

MELCHIOR: You know, it's really hard to tell. I mean, he is a politically connected guy. For me, the question is what's going on here? This is a public figure, he is a respected guy. Yet, when I look at his finances I know they are a mess. I don't know whether it's incompetence. I can't tell from the records whether its sloppiness or maybe it's something criminal. You just don't know.

VAN SUSTEREN: He was in and out of the White House 80 times according to our latest number, but anyway, Jillian, thank you.

MELCHIOR: Thank you.

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/on-the-record/2015/02/03/rev-al-sharpton-obamas-ear-and-alleged-serial-tax-cheat

Jolie Rouge
02-12-2015, 06:56 AM
Liberals Blast Killer of 3 Muslims as ‘Right Wing Christian’
– Then Go Silent When His Details Are Revealed

By Brian Hayes on February 11, 2015

This morning’s horrific slaughter of 3 Muslim students in North Carolina quickly unleashed angry liberals screaming “Islamophobia” and pointing fingers at “conservatives,” “Christians,” and even “FoxNews” as accomplices to mass murder.

Lefties and Muslim activists took to Twitter enraged at the right:

Michael Lee @MichaelLee2009

Three American Muslim students shot dead near University of North Carolina by Christian terrorist https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/three-american-muslim-students-shot-dead-near-university-of-north-carolina-by-christian-terrorist/ … #MuslimLivesMatter

4:47 AM - 11 Feb 2015


But then it was quickly revealed that the murderer, Craig Stephen Hicks, was no Christian — but instead an atheist. A “militant atheist,” in fact, according to his own online rantings.

That revelation didn’t stop one participant in the White House’s recent closed-door meeting with Muslims — Muslim “comedian” (and Hamas-supporter) Dean Obeidallah — to rant on against the right:


Dean Obeidallah @Deanofcomedy

I dont blame atheism for murder of 3 Muslim Amer students. My focus is the GOP officials+professional anti-Muslim bigots #MuslimLivesMatter

7:08 AM - 11 Feb 2015

Um, wrong again. Turns out that the madman Hicks was a died-in-the-wool left-wing Progressive.

Not that the media has any intention of telling anyone about it.

As the Daily Caller reported: http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/11/progressive-atheist-kills-3-muslim-students-media-ignores/


The New York Times reported on the murders and mentioned Hicks’ atheism, but not his politics. CNN did the same, as did The Washington Post.

Yet even a passive look at his Facebook page would reveal Hicks is not only a rabid atheist, but a passionate progressive.

A review of the Facebook page of the man charged in these murders, Craig Hicks, shows a consistent themes of anti-religion and Progressive causes. Included among his Facebook “likes” are the Huffington Post, Rachel Maddow, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Freedom from Religion Foundation, Bill Nye “The Science Guy,” Neil deGrasse Tyson, Gay Marriage groups, and a host of anti-conservative/tea party pages.


In other words, a veritable Who’s Who of the Progressive Left.

Can you imagine if Hicks was a Christian, or a fan of FoxNews, Rush Limbaugh, Phil Robertson, Family Research Council or Breitbart.com? The story would be leading all news broadcasts and Obama would have spoken to the media by now to denounce “rampant Islamophobia” alongside CAIR leaders.

Well he wasn’t.

And so the media quickly changed the subject. After the 3 Muslim murder led the news with breathless coverage as the day began, as the killer was revealed to be one of them, media interest curiously waned, and they rapidly moved on to other subjects.


Now it wasn't "intolerance" that triggered the violence, it was a dispute over a parking space.

Media hypocrisy at its finest.


http://toprightnews.com/?p=8310

Jolie Rouge
02-19-2015, 04:21 PM
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Americans Suggest 18 Different Jobs for ISIS That Really Fit a Jihadist’s Resume
By Justen Charters 1 day ago

In a MSNBC interview with Chris Matthews, State Department Spokesperson Marie Harf was asked if the U.S. led coalition forces were killing enough ISIS terrorists.

After Harf explained that we are ‘killing a lot of them,’ she elaborated by saying we need to get to the ‘root causes’ of what leads people to join extremist groups, such as a ‘lack of opportunity for jobs.’ http://www.ijreview.com/2015/02/252658-state-department-spokesperson-says-cant-kill-way-war-isis/As Daesh has only showed interest in slaughtering people, Harf’s remarks didn’t succeed in changing a lot of hearts and minds.

The gaffe generated the Twitter hashtag #JobsForISIS. Here are just 18 of the ideas:

http://www.ijreview.com/2015/02/253259-americans-suggest-18-different-jobs-fit-jihadists-resume/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=organic&utm_content=conservativedaily&utm_campaign=Terror

Jolie Rouge
02-19-2015, 08:11 PM
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Jolie Rouge
02-21-2015, 01:14 PM
“JOBS FOR JIHADISTS":
HILARIOUS Applications Flood State Department
Doug Giles | #ClashDaily

Thank you Marie Harf for being the latest political fodder. The following are some hilarious job applications filled out by "Jihadists" and sent to the State Department.

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http://clashdaily.com/2015/02/jobs-jihadists-hilarious-applications-flood-state-department/

Jolie Rouge
02-21-2015, 01:18 PM
State Dept. Blog: ‘The Solution To Violent Extremism Begins in Your Community’

Despite the backtracking, Marie Harf apparently told the truth about her employers.

by David Steinberg February 20, 2015 - 1:26 pm


The left takes the same approach to every problem, be it bullying or beheading: an expensive conference promoted by the same Benetton-ish graphic design the left has used since Live Aid, and the already-agreed-upon solution that the answer lies in greater “dialogue.”

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a current screen shot of the U.S. State Department’s “Official Blog”:


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Imagine, for a moment, you are a Yazidi refugee who was rescued from a monstrous death at the hands of ISIS, though you’ve witnessed your children murdered. The U.S. State Department has just published a graphic claiming they stand ready to offer “SUPPORT” to combat this extremism with a little heart on a lavender house.

Other solutions for halting the rise of the Fourth Reich:

“MENTOR”

“PARTNER”

“COMMUNICATE”

“EDUCATE”

“ENGAGE”

Jihadi John, who currently has as much blood on his outsides as his insides, gets a mentor and a partner.

Recall the State Department did backtrack on Marie Harf’s “jobs” comments, insisting that the current policy is to kill ISIS and not save them. Obviously this was false and Harf spoke the truth.

It’s the 1930s all over again, brought to you by people on record trying to reassure us with “Never Again.”








http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/02/20/breaking-state-dept-blog-the-solution-to-violent-extremism-begins-in-your-community/

Jolie Rouge
04-29-2015, 09:05 AM
Leftist lunacy: 1) The same leftists who say you should rely on First Responders and not be able to defend yourself--despite leftist incubated savages rampaging through the streets--are the same people who say that cops are out of control murderers. 2) The same leftists who claim 12 year old girls should be able to decide whether or not they should have an abortion, without parental input, are the same leftists who think 12 year olds can't decide what to eat and their parents aren't smart enough to know what to feed them.

Jolie Rouge
05-03-2015, 05:15 PM
Brilliant Quote Perfectly Sums Up How To Identify A Liberal
David Rufful - February 28, 2015 1:06 pm

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The image was originally posted on reddit and pays tribute to Jeff Foxworthy for his famous jokes beginning with the phrase, “You might be a redneck if…”

As a reminder for the historically inept, the Republican Party opposed slavery and fought to abolished it. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, supported slavery and fought to expand it. In 1865, the 13th Amendment passed with 100% Republican support and only 23% Democrat support in Congress.

The 14th Amendment, which gave citizenship to freed slaves, passed in 1868 with 94% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in congress. The 15th Amendment, which gave freed slaves the right to vote, passed in 1870 with 100% Republican support and 0% Democrat support in Congress. Meanwhile, the KKK was started by and consisted of individuals who were also Democrats.







In 1957, Republican President Eisenhower pushed through the Civil Rights Act of 1957 while his Democratic opponent, Lyndon Johnson, opposed it. In 1964, a higher percentage of Republicans than Democrats in Congress supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Despite these facts, liberals foolishly cry that Republicans are racist. They’re called “racist” for criticizing the IRS, for having the Republican National Convention during a hurricane, for wanting to own a gun to prevent break-ins, and for mentioning “Constitution” or “respect for the Founding Fathers.” They’re called “racist” for calling Obama “angry,” for saying Obama lies, for noting that Obama is privileged, for saying unions boss Obama around and for supporting voter ID laws. And perhaps most ridiculously, Republicans are called “racist” for saying “I want my country back,” for being fans of Hermain Cain, for fighting for the 2nd Amendment, for trying to keep Obama from being reelected and for disliking Obama and fact that he’s president.

Ultimately, these false accusations of racism undermine the seriousness of actual racism and the sickening history of the Democratic Party.

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http://www.youngcons.com/brilliant-quote-perfectly-sums-identify-liberal/

Jolie Rouge
05-03-2015, 06:21 PM
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Jolie Rouge
05-05-2015, 09:59 AM
Modern America is more divided than ever along racial lines, and much of the conversation on the topic of race is filtered through political correctness instead of the First Amendment, which obviously paves the way for fake liberal outrage and obvious double standards from progressive, left-leaning media.

A new billboard along the interstate in Arkansas is stirring a lot of controversy for promoting “White Pride Radio,” which has many in the community and around the country crying racism.

Of course, if this billboard said something about “Black Pride,” or “Black Lives Matter,” no one would say a single word about it, so this exposes the obvious bias in our culture right now.

Check it out.

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From KFSM: http://5newsonline.com/2015/05/01/russellville-mayor-issues-statement-after-white-pride-radio-billboard-goes-up/


Russellville Mayor Randy Horton released a statement on Friday (May 1) saying a new billboard advertising “White Pride Radio” infers “a racist tone to many who have seen it.”

The billboard advertises a website that contains an online radio broadcast from Harrison, along with multiple links to Ku Klux Klan websites. It went up earlier in the week near Exit 81 on Interstate 40 in Russellville, according to the mayor.

“There are many radio shows out there that are available,” a post on the website states. “However, we wanted to do something different. Many people throughout the country have contacted us expressing interest in a radio format for the whole family. Therefore, this is one more edition to the efforts of our non-profit organization to reach and encourage our people.”

“The implication of this content, in my opinion, inaccurately depicts the sentiments of the overwhelming majority of the citizens in Russellville,” Horton said. “To my knowledge no member of the [Russellville] City Council has ever expressed thoughts that support this message.”

While the mayor isn’t happy with the billboard or the message he believes it sends out, he does say something incredibly intelligent and absolutely true that almost no one who has been involved in the topic of race relations has ever bothered to state.



“Due to first amendment protections, the city has no control or oversight of the content of private advertising. But we can condemn intolerant, divisive [and] racist thoughts. As the mayor of Russellville, I hereby do so,” Horton said.

Rather than attempting to get the billboard taken down, he’s allowing this person or group to express their First Amendment rights, while also exercising his own to freely share his ideas and opinions about their message and beliefs.

That’s how this kind of thing is supposed to be handled. We’re to hash out differences in ideology on the battlefield of ideas, with the sword of free speech as our weapon to cut down evil and win the hearts and minds of citizens across the land.

Personally, I think it’s stupid to be so wrapped up in your skin color that pigmentation becomes something you’re “proud” of, whether you’re white, black, blue, or green.

Why be proud of something that’s a mere external characteristic you had no control over?.

How about being proud of the contributions you make to society? What about taking pride in helping others, feeding the homeless, fighting for your freedom, or something like that?

Our culture focuses too much on the outside, whether it’s how fat or skinny we are, or the color of our skin. Enough is enough. Let’s concentrate on developing our personal character, who we are when no one is looking, instead of worrying about outer “beauty.”

That’s the key to truly becoming a “post-racial” society.

http://www.youngcons.com/billboard-for-white-pride-radio-drawing-criticism-from-arkansas-mayor/

Jolie Rouge
05-08-2015, 05:45 AM
CNN Host Sally Kohn Forgets Wallet,
Subway Officer Let’s it Slide, She Calls Him a Racist

We live in a culture saturated by rudeness, and any time someone dares to go against the status quo and do something nice for another person, they either get labeled a sexist or a racist.

Stuff like this is why we can’t have nice things.

CNN host Sally Kohn provides an excellent example of this kind of backwards liberal nonsense.

Kohn recently forgot her wallet when she was taking a spin on the subway. Fortunately for her, a polite and gracious subway officer let her get on for free.







What a kind gesture, right?

Something like that, despite appearing totally insignificant, is the kind of thing that restores one’s faith in humanity.

Not Kohn.

Here’s how she decided to repay the good deed.

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This is how nonsensical modern society is.

If you don’t do nice things for people, you’re told you’re a jerk and that you should be more kind. You do something nice and kind, someone else calls you a sexist, racist, or other “ist” you want to insert here.

You can’t win.

The fact Kohn was given a free ride — literally — has nothing to do with her skin color, but everything to do with the kindness of one individual who wanted to do something nice for a fellow human being on the journey of life.

Rather than being thankful for the gesture and commenting how great the world is, Kohn decides to politicize it and say something so mind-blowingly stupid she should be ashamed of herself.

Also notice that while Kohn’s crying “white privilege,” she didn’t hesitate to take full advantage of the offer with no regret.

Hypocrisy at its finest.

http://www.youngcons.com/cnn-host-sally-kohn-is-insane/

Jolie Rouge
07-05-2015, 11:22 AM
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During an early morning interview on a southern California radio talk show, Senator Dianne Feinstein managed to outrage both the conservative and liberal parties when she made a questionable statement regarding medical marijuana and veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces. As a result, her approval rating has dropped an unprecedented level in only a single day.

Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Lexington, the host of 'Morning California' on PBS of Southern California, discussed current hot topic issues in the American conscience such as gun control, gay marriage, and marijuana legalization. However, it was Feinstein's comments at the end of the interview that left the talk show host utterly speechless.

"The last thing this country needs is to make a dangerous and addicting drug easily and readily available. What kind of message would that be if we federally allowed people to choose for themselves what they can and can't put into their body? We have those regulations for a reason. It's bad enough that the American public can just chow down willy-nilly on fattening foods with little restraint, why should we give them a substance that would make them want to eat even more?

Now we are hearing all this nonsense about how medical marijuana could alleviate the symptoms of PTSD in soldiers coming back from the Middle East. If individuals are having nightmares and panic attacks about the atrocities they have committed overseas while following orders from a war criminal like former President George Bush, then quite honestly they deserve it. We shouldn't free them from their guilt any more then we should free a murderer or rapist from their prison cells."

Her comments were almost immediately followed by a public outcry on social media, with various commenters calling Feinstein 'ignorant, tyrannical, idiotic,' and 'disgusting.' This does not include the countless other comments directed at the Senator that are too vulgar to be shown in this article.

"This will be a very interesting case to observe," said William Kelly, a professor of sociology and political science at the California Institute of Science. "Feinstein has in just a few sentences managed to upset people across the entire political spectrum. This includes interest groups from veterans to conservatives to progressives; even marijuana advocates are lashing back at Feinstein. For someone like me who studies social sentiments and events, this is like being able to observe a lunar phenomenon that only happens once in a millennium."

Californians interviewed on the street couldn't hide their shock and disbelief over Feinstein's comments, many finding it difficult to articulate their feelings without the use of obscene language. One man said, "I'm definitely going to start paying more attention to who I vote for," before shaking his head and walking away without giving his name.

As of this writing, Senator Feinstein's office has disconnected all phones and have not replied to any emails. According to an inside tip, many in Feinstein's staff have 'abandoned ship' and resigned from their positions in an effort to distance themselves as much as humanly possible from the now 'toxic' Senator.

http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/feinstein-openly-objects-to-treating-ptsd-in-combat-veterans-t16555.html#sthash.PLDDd4GL.dpuf

Jolie Rouge
07-06-2015, 08:05 PM
U.S. Senator claims First Amendment does not apply to individuals

Posted on July 6, 2015

The depths that haters of Christians and the Constitution are willing to go seemingly have no bottom.

Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin, the first lesbian elected to the U.S. Senate, is now claiming that the First Amendment does not apply to individuals. This is what she said: http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2015/07/02/sen-baldwin-1st-amendment-doesnt-apply-individuals


“Certainly the First Amendment says that in institutions of faith that there is absolute power to, you know, to observe deeply held religious beliefs. But I don’t think it extends far beyond that. . . . [I]n this context, they’re talking about expanding this far beyond our churches and synagogues to businesses and individuals across this country. I think there are clear limits that have been set in other contexts and we ought to abide by those in this new context across America.”

But here is the text of the First Amendment:


“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Let’s be clear about what is going on here. Baldwin and those like her will stop at nothing to create a culture of conformity. They are authoritarians, plain and simple.

Jolie Rouge
07-08-2015, 03:28 PM
Obama’s Progressive America: Politico Calls for Ethnic, Cultural Cleansing of Southern Whites
Kristinn Taylor Jul 7th, 2015 4:56 pm

Politico Magazine, edited by former Washington Post reporter Susan Glasser, published an amazingly racist and culturally bigoted article by contributing editor Michael Lind last Friday entitled, How the South Skews America, We’d be less violent, more mobile and in general more normal if not for Dixie. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/how-the-south-skews-america-119725.html?ml=m_a3_1#.VZw5vflVikp


Politico bemoans conservative, religious white Southerners whom the magazine accuses of preventing the U.S. from being more like Britain, Canada and other liberal, English speaking democracies. The article concludes with the hope that the South will be ethnically and culturally cleansed by immigrants from other countries and liberals relocating from other parts of the U.S.


“The United States would be much less exceptional in general, and in particular more like other English-speaking democracies such as Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand were it not for the effects on U.S. politics and culture of the American South.

“I don’t mean this in a good way. A lot of the traits that make the United States exceptional these days are undesirable, like higher violence and less social mobility. Many of these differences can be attributed largely to the South.”

…”Minus the South, the rest of the U.S. probably would be more like Canada or Australia or Britain or New Zealand—more secular, more socially liberal, more moderate in the tone of its politics and somewhat more generous in social policy. And it would not be as centralized as France or as social democratic as Sweden.”


Politico goes on to twist statistics to fit its bigoted screed:


…”The American South, with the lowest rates of intergenerational social mobility in the U.S., clearly skews the national statistics, creating an embarrassing and depressing version of American exceptionalism.

“Economic inequality? Apart from California and New York, where statistics reflect the wealth of Wall Street, Hollywood and Silicon Valley, the South is the region with the greatest income inequality. Southern exceptionalism has helped to ensure that the American Dream is more likely to be realized in the Old World than in the New.”

Politico builds its case for anti-Southern white bigotry through similar sophistry throughout the article.

“Jesusland” as the article calls the South keeps the U.S. down by its faith in God, according to Politico.


“Religiosity is one example of American exceptionalism among English-speaking countries that is largely the result of Southern exceptionalism within the United States. “We don’t do God,” Tony Blair’s aide Alastair Campbell famously remarked, emphasizing that religion is kept out of the public sphere in modern-day Britain. In most modern English-speaking countries, voters find ostentatious piety on the part of political candidates troubling, not reassuring. But in the U.S., born-again Southern evangelical politicians like Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush who troll for votes with piety have given U.S. presidential politics a flavor more reminiscent of Tehran than of London or Ottawa or Canberra. According to Gallup, in 2014 the most religious Americans were all found in Southern states, with the exceptions of Mormon Utah and semi-Southern Oklahoma. Mississippi led the nation in zeal.”

Politico distorts racial statistics to paint Southern whites as more prone to violence than anyone in the country.


“Southern violence also goes a long way toward explaining the exceptional violence of the United States in general compared to otherwise similar countries. The pre-modern “culture of honor” continues to exist to a greater degree in the South. White Southerners are more likely than white northerners to respond to insults with increased testosterone and aggression, according to social scientists. According to the FBI in 2012, the South as a region, containing only a quarter of the population, accounted for 40.9 percent of U.S. violent crime.”

Southern whites are also attacked as being racist for not voting for Barack Obama and being Republican.


“The racial polarization of the American electorate is exacerbated by the white Southern electorate. In 2012, Barack Obama, the first African-American president, won only 39 percent of the white vote. But low numbers among white voters in the South dragged down his nationwide total. Obama did better than his national average with white voters in the Midwest and won outright with 51 percent in Iowa.

“Voting is far more polarized along racial lines in the Southern states than elsewhere. According to a recent study by political scientists Avidit Acharya, Matthew Blackwell and Maya Sen, “the larger the number of slaves in his or her county of residence in 1860, the greater the probability that a white Southerners today will identify as a Republican, express opposition to race-coded policies such as affirmative action and express greater racial resentment towards African Americans.”

The article ends on an upbeat note for liberals. Politico expresses the hope that ethnic and cultural cleansing will take place in the South.


“The northern progressives who joke about the U.S. jettisoning “Jesusland” and merging with Canada will not get their wish. But there is hope: A combination of demographic change and generational change is weakening the ability of the old-fashioned South to skew American politics and culture in the future. Peripheral Southern states like Florida and Virginia are increasingly competitive, and the Deep South may join them in time. In Texas once-reactionary cities like Houston and Dallas are competing with Austin as tolerant meccas for transplants who prefer the Sun Belt to the Old South. Immigration into the South from other countries and American regions is breaking down local oligarchies and old folkways.


“The decline in Southern exceptionalism in time may lead to more of a convergence among the U.S. and other modern democracies. Let us hope so. We have had enough of the wrong kind of American exceptionalism.”

This is an appallingly bigoted article, especially for a 21st Century D.C. political institution like Politico. On the issue of race alone, Politico ignores the many minority Republicans and Democrats elected to public office across the South.

Politico has published an article that is politically and intellectually dishonest.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/07/obamas-progressive-america-politico-calls-for-ethnic-cultural-cleansing-of-southern-whites/#ixzz3fLF0TfHm

2014 Most Dangerous Cities in the US

10. Birmingham, Alabama
9. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
8. Rockford, Illinois
7. Baltimore, Maryland
6. Little Rock, Arkansas
5. Cleveland, Ohio
4. St. Louis, Missouri
3. St. Louis, Missouri
2. St. Louis, Missouri
1. St. Louis, Missouri

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/15/most-dangerous-cities_n_6164864.html

How did Chicago miss this list ??


Top 25 Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in America

Neighborhood - Violent Crime Rate(per 1,000) My Chances of Becoming a Victim Here
(in one year)


25 : Baton Rouge, LA (N Lobdell Ave / Harry Dr) 68.96 1 in 15

24 Chicago, IL : (S Pulaski Rd / W Lexington St) 71.55 1 in 14

23 St. Louis, MO : (Clara Ave / Saint Louis Ave) 72.09 1 in 14

22 Washington, DC : (Atlantic St SE / 4th St SE) 72.65 1 in 14

21 Saginaw, MI : (Lapeer Ave / E Genesee Ave) 73.17 1 in 14

20 Chicago, IL : (S Indiana Ave / E 60th St) 75.18 1 in 13

19 West Memphis, AR : (E Jackson Ave / Autumn Ave) 76.03 1 in 13

18 Rockford, IL : (N Rockton Ave / W State St) 76.73 1 in 13

17 Omaha, NE : (N 24th St / Ames Ave) 76.95 1 in 13

16 Cincinnati, OH : (Central Pky / Central Ave) 80.21 1 in 12

15 Baltimore, MD : (E Oliver St / N Broadway) 80.49 1 in 12

14 Oklahoma City, OK : (NE 36th St / N Martin Luther King Ave) 81.31 1 in 12

13 East St. Louis, IL : (Caseyville Ave / N Park Dr) 82.69 1 in 12

12 New Orleans, LA : (Conti St / Marais St) 83.58 1 in 12

11 Detroit, MI : (W Jeffries Fwy / Seebaldt St) 84.78 1 in 12

10 Camden, NJ : (Whitman Park) 84.78 1 in 12

9 Detroit, MI : (Broadstreet Ave / Cortland St) 84.94 1 in 12

8 Detroit, MI : (Wyoming St / Orangelawn St) 85.91 1 in 12

7 Rochester, NY : (Orange St / W Broad St) 88.20 1 in 11

6 Memphis, TN : (Chelsea Ave / N Claybrook St) 88.77 1 in 11

5 Rockford, IL : (7th St / E Jefferson St) 89.70 1 in 11

4 Saginaw, MI : (E Holland Ave / E Genesee Ave) 93.65 1 in 11

3 Atlanta, GA : (Mcdaniel St SW / Mary St SW) 96.20 1 in 10

2 Jackson, TN : (James Buchanan Dr / 1st St) 97.50 1 in 10

1 East St. Louis, IL : (City Center) 100.97 1 in 10

http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/neighborhoods/crime-rates/25-most-dangerous-neighborhoods/

Jolie Rouge
07-13-2015, 01:38 PM
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Jolie Rouge
08-15-2015, 02:12 PM
New "Truths"

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