CRUISIN' & MUSIN'

MAKE MINE YELLOW OR RED
Little Miss Attila has figured out why Obama seems so confused about Afghanistan.

“Unfortunately, When They Said Afghanistan . . . Obama thought they were discussing a crocheted blanket draped over the back of the couch.”

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SCARY LOOKING TERRORIST
Yousef al-Shihri, a former Gitmo detainee and now a member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

What is even more scary is that Obama and his Moonbat followers want to turn more of these guys loose, or move them to the US. Are we so thrilled that we are one step closer to making the Demwits dream, of letting all the terrorists free, come true?

Read more at LongWarJournal

BLAME GAME
Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, is blaming the Republicans for blocking the passage of his Medicare measure that would have prevented a 20% drop in reimbursement rates for physicians. "I want everyone within the sound of my voice to understand that Washington is being driven by a small number of people on that side of the aisle that are preventing us from doing things that help the American people," Reid said.

He made no mention of the 13 Democrats who sided with Republicans with statements of concern over ballooning deficits and budget overruns, nor that the Medicare measure failed to get even a simple majority of senators.

Do all Democrats have some kind of demwit gene that makes them look for someone to blame whenever they don't get their way?

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PRUDE OR PERVERT?
Eric Williamson faces an indecent exposure charge after a passerby saw him in the buff in his own home making coffee.  It happened at 5:30 a.m. Monday. The woman and 7-year-old boy who saw him naked apparently had cut through Williamson's front yard from a nearby path. Williamson, 29, says he didn't know anyone could see him while he was in the kitchen fixing a cup of coffee.

I can understand someone not wanting their young children to be exposed to nude strangers, but to file charges against a nekkid guy chilling out in his kitchen that she would not have even seen if she wasn't trespassing on private property and looking into a stranger's window? What is wrong with this picture?

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OBAMA THE MASTER PRESTIDIGITATOR
The majority opinion concerning Obama's purpose in picking a fight with Fox is that Team Obama is taking a page from Saul Alinsky's manifesto Rules for Radicals. Alinksy, a left-wing community organizer and author, advised his acolytes to "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. In conflict tactics there are certain rules that [should be regarded] as universalities. One is that the opposition must be singled out as the target and 'frozen.' "

Glenn Beck and a few others are agreeing with me (even though they don't know it since I am not on their radar.) I did a piece that makes the case that the war on Fox is a sleight-of-hand tactic that Obama the Master Prestidigitator is using to misdirect the country's focus.  A number of other pundits are also following this logic so I am quite sure we are on target even if our guesses as to Obama's purpose are different.

WAG THE DOG

Matt Lewis, in Politics Daily thinks this is a "wag-the-dog" circumstance. "In the now-classic 1997 political film "Wag the Dog," the president's spin-doctors advisers (played brilliantly by Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman) invent a bogus war with Albania in order to take the focus off a nascent sex scandal that could doom the president's re-election. It works brilliantly, at least in Hollywood's telling. In real life, dropping bombs on a pharmaceutical factory in Sudan and an empty terrorist camp in Afghanistan didn't work as well for President Clinton. But political attack dogs are nothing if not derivative.

"Might Obama's team have invented the "War on Fox" to distract liberals? It gives his base something to be happy about, even as they face concessions on health care and Afghanistan. Liberals who have been irritated by the news channel over the years can justify continued support of Obama by saying, "At least he stuck it to Fox!"

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MOONBATS CAN BE SO FUNNY WHEN THEY ARE NOT BEING IRRITATING, ANNOYING OR DANGEROUS

ConWebBlog, (your New Media watchdog) is a Moonbat attempt at exposing the right side of the blogosphere. One huge scoop that had them wiggling and practically wetting their pants with pure esctacy. They caught WorldNetDaily in a huge headline error: "A 3-Letter Word -- jobs!"

If they had bothered to read the commentary that was discussing where DC's focus should be (one being jobs) they would have seen that WND was quoting then-candidate VP Biden who had used the line in an October 15, 2008 appearance in Athens, Ohio.

With the economy floundering, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., told Ohio voters today that he and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., would focus on one specific issue that Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has neglected. 

"Look, John's last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S," the Democratic veep nominee said at a morning rally in Athens.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/oh-that-joe-n-6.html

Another, oh so funny, Moonbat site "Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To Stupid" gave WND his "Conz-Iz-Excellent-Spellerz" award. One of the commentators asked:

"Now that we all know World Net Daily was in fact mocking Biden’s gaffe….
1) Do they still get a Win? Or does it revert to Biden?
2) Or to anyone who couldn’t figure it out by reading the article beyond the headline?
3) Or do we get all huffy and defensive and explain that mocking and derision over an inability to count letters is unacceptable when it’s a decent non-conservative getting mocked?"

Until next time I hit the superhighway to cruise for the wild, wonderful, whacked out and WTH sites on the WWW.

Obama is making a list, and he's checking it twice

OBAMA'S MESSAGE TO DISSENTERS

Say Nice Things or Shut Up, Be Happy, Be Afraid, Obey

or you will go on my BAD LIST and you WILL be punished.

The White House is full of Chicago political thugs, including Chief of Staff Rham Emanuel, senior advisers David Alexrod and Valerie Jarrett, and President Obama himself.  They use a style to respond to any criticism; and it's taken directly from the father of community agitating Saul Alinsky and his book Rules for Radicals.  They isolate the target and go to great lengths to destroy its credibility and, ultimately, silence them.

The Enemy List they have compiled include the Republicans (of course), Tea Party Patriots, Townhallers, banks and investment houses, Humana and other insurers who don't support ObamaCare (unlike AARP who heeled like good little pets), the bondholders who resisted the GM and Chrysler bailouts, and Fox News. The Thug tactics have included much more than mere words.

Any right-wing, conservative group or person is on the list by default: The Department of Homeland Security issued a document warning counter-terrorism and law enforcement authorities of an alleged threat to the U.S. posed by “domestic right-wing terrorists.” Included in the group of potential right-wing terrorists are individuals who are pro-life, support the Second Amendment and oppose the flood of illegal aliens. The DHS pamphlet also singled out military veterans for possible recruitment into domestic terrorist cells.

The Thug tactics have included much more than mere words. The 789 Chrysler dealerships that were ordered closed by the White House had owners who donated to GOP candidates, Republican-leaning causes or donated to Hillary Clinton or John Edwards during the Democratic presidential primaries. Fox News was denied interviews. Negative rumor campaigns were conducted, Rush had his own that was dubbed "Rushbo."

Banks, businesses and insurance companies that did not play ball were subjected to investigations, regulators and threats to rescind licenses and other strong-arm activities. Just today Congress voted to end anti-trust protections for Insurance Companies.

One recent addition to Obama's Enemy List has been US Chamber of Commerce. In the last few weeks, Obama's Moonbat Militia (such as MSNBC) have taken pot shots and conducted covert attacks against the USCC and the White House fired a few warning shots over the their bow; but since the Chamber has not been scared into submission the attacks have been intensified.

In addition to the war of words with the administration, the Chamber has been victim of a hoax by a Moonbat group called the Yes Men.

The American Spectator has been discussing Obama's Enemy List and Chicago Style Thuggery since the campaign in 2008 and made some ominous predictions that have come to pass:

"Imagine the gross violations against political speech that may very well occur when there are no checks and balances from a sycophantic Congress and there is complicity from the national news gatekeepers. The public may be very surprised at the lengths the Obama Administration may pursue to silence critics. Moreover, the self-anointed Praetorian Guard of the First Amendment will conveniently develop a case of amnesia regarding on which side of the debate they fall when it comes to press freedoms. Do not expect to see the New York Times editorialize against Obama and the Congress when it comes to protecting free speech rights aside from its own and that of like-minded, liberally-biased press outlets."

The White House's attempts to neuter the US Chamber of Commerce and demonize Fox News led Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) to issue a stern warning to Obama. Alexander is the last Nixon White House aide still in public service, and, as he pointed out, he knows how bad things can get when a president has an Enemy List.

TRANSCRIPT

White House officials offer no apologies for their aggressive tactics. "The best analogy is probably baseball," says Gibbs. "The only way to get somebody to stop crowding the plate is to throw a fastball at them. They move."

Click on READ MORE for links to commentary about the Enemy List and Chicago Style Politics.

Obama the Prestidigitator

Obama's declaration of war on Fox News Channel has most talking heads and political pundits scratching their heads in amazement. From across the political spectrum, the reactions have been everything from amazed to appalled. But no matter if they are on the left or right, the question has been the same from everyone, "WTH was he thinking?" Only the most servile of the kool-aid addicts are even trying to explain, defend or praise his actions.

I was scratching my head along with everyone else until it finally struck me... Obama declared war on Fox News Channel because he is a prestidigitator. He knows he can't shut down Fox, but the attention it garners keeps focus off his other attacks on freedom of speech. His lefty agendas have a better chance of succeeding by using sleight of hand. Examples of the misdirection could be such things as: regulation of rumors and the Internet, bail-out of newspapers (officially making them state-run media), instituting regulations and fees that will effectively destroy talk radio, and God only knows what else might be up his sleeve.

Now I am wondering how else Obama might be using his street magic.

(This video is the one done by a Black man during the campaign but Rush Limbaugh has garnered a lot of criticism for playing it.)

But, still and all, the Obama vs Fox show is quite entertaining. It will be interesting to see how it plays itself out. Click on Read More for a run-down on the reactions (some will surprise you) and links to some articles that I particularly for interesting.

PATRIOT ALERT: Free Speech may soon be just a Fond Memory

The attack on free speech in America is not some conspiracy theory being espoused by paranoid, tin-foil hatted, nut jobs. It is not some Orwellian scenario that might occur sometime in the future. Censorship in America is happening right now, right under our noses.

Those that don't listen to Fox News Channel or read alternative news sources online, may not realize just how severe and organized the attack has been. As a political junkie, history buff and retired journalist; I have been appalled, angered and outraged by this threat against one of our most cherished fundamental freedoms.

But what is most frightening is that the war is now being waged with little or no attempt at subterfuge. The Obama Political Machine has not only openly declared warfare on Fox News, they are also commanding their media lapdogs to heel.

It is distressing to me that even media giants, the once fierce and powerful watchdogs for We The People have become lapdogs; giving up their honorable calling in exchange for a pat on the head, rub behind the ears and a "Good Boy" from His O'liness.

Be not deceived, this Declaration of War against Fox News Channel is only the most recent conflict in a decades long, progressively escalating, assault against our freedoms by the Progressives (formerly known as Liberals.) They have thoroughly infiltrated many areas of American life, such as: Arts & Entertainment, Education, Unions, and the Main Stream Media (now known in this Republic of Loriland as the Marginal Sycophant Media.)

Example of Liberal Law #1 being used by White House

Liberal Law # 1: Dont Debate... Dictate and Dominate

EXAMPLE OF USAGE: ABUSE OF POWER

President Obama and his administration has indicated their displeasure with Fox News in various ways from the occasional dig from the podium during news conferences by the president or daily news briefings by Robert Gibbs. There have also been comments and jokes directed at Fox News during a number of speeches or interviews with other networks.

“I’ve got one television station that is entirely devoted to attacking my administration,” Obama said in June, though he did not mention Fox by name. He added, “You’d be hard pressed if you watched the entire day to find a positive story about me on that front.”

At the White House Correspondents Dinner in May, Obama even mocked the media for supporting him. "Most of you covered me; all of you voted for me," Obama said, spurring laughter and applause from the assembled journalists. "Apologies to the Fox table."

However, now the gloves are off and the White House has declared open warfare on Fox News Network by publicly declaring that they consider Fox News to be the opposition and not a legitimate news outlet. Anita Dunn, the White House communications director said, “We’re going to treat them the way we would treat an opponent. As they are undertaking a war against Barack Obama and the White House, we don’t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.”

Additionally, not only is the president refusing any interview with or appearances on Fox News, all officials in the administration have likewise been instructed to boycott Fox News.
While animosity between a president and the media is nothing new, directing the animosity toward a specific news outlet is quite uncommon. Even Nixon's war with the New York Times was waged in private. What has never been done (to my knowledge) is the abuse of power being so openly conducted by this White House.

Most political pundits attest to the fact that conducting a feud with the press is ill-advised and rarely successful and many of them have commented as such.

David Gergen, who has worked for President Bill Clinton and three Republican presidents, questioned the propriety of the White House declaring war on a news organization.
"It's a very risky strategy. It's not one that I would advocate," Gergen said on CNN. "If you're going to get very personal against the media, you're going to find that the animosities are just going to deepen. And you're going to find that you sort of almost draw viewers and readers to the people you're attacking. You build them up in some ways, you give them stature." He added: "The press always has the last barrel of ink."

Tony Blankley, who once served as press secretary to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
"Going after a news organization, in my experience, is always a loser," Blankley said on CNN. "They have a big audience. And Fox has an audience of not just conservatives -- they've got liberals and moderates who watch too. They've got Obama supporters who are watching. So it's a temptation for a politician, but it needs to be resisted."

John Dickerson of Slate.com said, "It can look a little petty and a little small as it sort of . . . punches down at a cable network, And so they have to make sure that if they're going to take on Fox News, that they don't seem overly obsessed by it."

In recent weeks, the White House has begun using its government blog to directly attack what it called "Fox lies." I call using taxpayer money to hire someone whose only job is to watch and respond to Fox News an abuse of power.