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Written by Melanie Morgan
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Thursday, 22 July 2010 13:06 |
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Shirley Sherrod placed the blame for her ouster at Fox News's feet. Hardly surprising. She's a liberal (former) member of a liberal administration. More surprising, given the clear preponderance of facts contradicting this meme, is that much of the media has followed her lead.
Ironically, while a number of mainstream media outlets claim that Fox News is responsible for getting Sherrod to resign, Fox's first call for a resignation, made by Bill O'Reilly just before 9:00 pm on Monday, came roughly an hour after Sherrod had actually resigned.
In other words, Fox News exerted no meaningful pressure on the administration to take any specific actions with regard to Sherrod before the administration took those actions on its own accord. FoxNews.com had run a story earlier (no longer available on its site) displaying Breitbart's video and reporting what were then assumed (erroneously, it turns out) to be the facts of the situation - Sherrod had acted in a condemnable, racist manner.
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Written by Melanie Morgan
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 08:15 |
(Warning - disturbing material to be viewed only by strong-willed individuals.)
Byline: Byron York, Washington Examiner
This morning I asked Rush Limbaugh what he thought of references to him on the private left-wing journalist discussion group JournoList. As reported in the Daily Caller, an NPR producer named Sarah Spitz wrote on JournoList that if she witnessed Limbaugh dying of a heart attack, she would “laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out.”
“I never knew I had this much hate in me,” Spitz wrote, according to the Daily Caller account. “But he deserves it.”
So I asked Limbaugh: What do you make of the fact that people in positions of influence on the Left don’t just want to see you fail, don’t just want to see you marginalized, but would actually like to witness you dying a painful death?
“Not having wished anyone dead, nor having fantasized about watching someone die, I cannot possibly relate to this,” Limbaugh responded.
Read his reply here
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/limbaugh-responds-to-journolist-death-wish-report-98917869.html
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/at-washington-post-mums-the-word-on-journolist-98909894.html
Is there a problem for the Washington Post? Potentially.
Since the paper employs JournoList’s founder and proprietor, and since comments on JournoList led to Weigel’s leaving the paper, and since those events raise questions about whether other Post journalists took part in JournoList, and since there are likely more stories to come from the thousands of still-unpublished exchanges on JournoList, it is reasonable to ask what the Post’s management knows, and what it knew in the past, about Post journalists taking part in the list-serv.
It’s reasonable to ask — but the Post isn’t going to answer.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/at-washington-post-mums-the-word-on-journolist-98909894.html
Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit reminds us why it is important to distrust the MSM - our lives depend on healthy skepticism of some very despicable people.
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Written by Melanie Morgan
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Wednesday, 21 July 2010 07:12 |
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Reveille Morning Headlines: BP CEO Tony Hayward will resign in October?
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/mornin/
China's Oil Spill--15 hour pipeline fire has become a 70 mile spill...sound familiar? lots of photos
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/chinas-oil-spill/
Iranian nuclear scientist who just went back to Iran was actually a double agent who probably misled us about when Iran will be nuke-ready
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/iranian-nuke-scientist-a-double-agent/
November election alert: "Non-Profit" Agency is Attempting to End the Electoral College for the 2012 election...monitor this!
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/november-election-alertnon-profit-attempts-to-end-electoral-college/
Justice Ginsburg May Also Leave the Supreme Court Soon
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/justice-ginsburg-may-also-leave-supreme-court-soon/
Killer cold winter in South America--80 dead so far...
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/killer-cold-winter-in-south-america-80-dead-so-far/
Religion of "Peace" Update: Jihad, Sharia activity worldwide
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/religion-of-peace-update/
Lesson of the little, lost Lindsay Lohan and her loser mother
http://www.uncoverage.net/2010/07/the-lesson-of-little-lost-lindsay-lohan/
Mickey Kaus Unplugged: The Democrat blogger/author who ran against Barbara Boxer this spring almost sounds like a Republican.....
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Written by Melanie Morgan
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Monday, 19 July 2010 16:02 |
NAACP Guilty of Racism? Breitbart Reports, You Choose.
Official At Freedom Fund Banquet Says Racial Considerations Would Be Factor For How Much Help Afforded
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
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- Shirley Sherrod, USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director Last Tuesday, the NAACP
 passed a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement. The organization's delegates called on Tea Party leaders to "repudiate those in their ranks who use racist language in their signs and speeches."
Tea Party members and supporters saw the resolution as a condemnation of the group itself, which calls for fiscal responsibility, restrictions on governmental power, and backs political candidates who claim the same.
The NAACP's action caught the attention of Andrew Breitbart of BigGovernment.com, who said the controversy was "absolutely manufactured for political gain," in a summer "in which the economy is the number one issue affecting blacks and whites in this country. This country can ill afford the schism of race to be exploited the way [he is] based upon the false premise of the Tea Party being racist."
He also claimed to possess recorded evidence of racism from the NAACP.
On Monday, Breitbart posted a video of a speech by Shirley Sherrod, USDA Rural Development Georgia State Director, delivered at the NAACP's 20th Annual Freedom Fund Banquet.
The video shows Sherrod speaking of racial considerations being a factor for how much help she would give.
"The first time I was faced with having to help a white farmer save his farm, he took a long time talking but he was trying to show me he was superior to me. I know what he was doing, but he had come to me for help. What he didn't know while he was taking all that time trying to show me he was superior to me was, I was trying to decide just how much help I was going to give him," Sherrod said.
"I was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland, and here I was faced with having to help a white person save their land. So I didn't give him the full force of what I could do. I did enough," Sherrod said. "So that when he, I assumed the Department of Agriculture had sent him to me, either that or the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and he needed to go back and report that I did try to help him."
In the video, Sherrod also spoke of referring the white farmer to a white lawyer, thinking the latter would be more sympathetic because of race. "So I took him to a white lawyer that had attended some of training that we had provided because Chapter 12 bankruptcy had just been enacted for the family farm. So I figured if I take him to one of them, that his own kind would take care of him."
The NAACP had no immediate response Monday afternoon |
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Written by Melanie Morgan
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Friday, 16 July 2010 05:54 |
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http://hotair.com/archives/2010/07/15/ppp-obama-palin-tied-4646-in-2012-polling
Sarah Palin Ties Obama?!
"..No, this is not coming from Rasmussen or an internal GOP poll, but from the normally Democrat-sympathetic Public Policy Polling. PPP pitted Barack Obama against five potential Republican challengers for the 2012 presidential campaign, and the only one Obama beat was … Jan Brewer. Even that, PPP admitted, resulted from Brewer’s lack of name recognition. The headline, though, is Sarah Palin’s dead heat with the President:
With his approval numbers hitting new lows it’s no surprise that Barack Obama’s numbers in our monthly look ahead to the 2012 Presidential race are their worst ever this month. He trails Mitt Romney 46-43, Mike Huckabee 47-45, Newt Gingrich 46-45, and is even tied with Sarah Palin at 46. The only person tested he leads is Jan Brewer, who doesn’t have particularly high name recognition on the national level at this point.
It’s not that any of the Republican candidates are particularly well liked. Only Huckabee has positive favorability numbers at 37/28. Romney’s at 32/33, Gingrich at 32/42, Palin at 37/52, and Brewer at 17/20. But with a majority of Americans now disapproving of Obama it’s no surprise that a large chunk of them would replace him as President if they had that choice today.
There are two things driving these strong poll numbers for the Republican candidates. The first is a lead with independents in every match up. Romney leads 48-35 with them, Gingrich is up 50-39, Huckabee has a 46-40 advantage, Palin’s up 47-42, and even Brewer has a 38-37 edge."
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