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23Jul10

I’ve moved the blog to my radio home… WRKO.com. Please visit and check out the cool new look.

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Race Exists

23Jul10

How far along is Shirley Sherrod, really, in her migration from racist to humanist? Remember, her stated ideal is to meet the Toni Morrison standard – where race exists, but it doesn’t matter.

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Tags: because you have a black president, Bush, Obama, Shirley Sherrod, toni morrison, vilsack

Insulated Environment

23Jul10

At the heart of the left’s criticism of the New Conservative Media is disdain for the fact that they are short on journalistic standards but long on political agenda.

Which makes the New Media surprisingly similar to the Over the Hill Media.

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Tags: Fox News, journalists, journolist, mainstream media, msm, otm, political hacks, sean hannity, tucker carlson

Luke Who?

23Jul10

Following in his father’s footsteps, Luke Russert is a reporter for NBC. Russert does a great job going after the ethically challenged Charlie Rangel, who doesn’t seem to have any idea that Luke is the son of Tim.

A House ethics subcommittee Thursday charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel with ethics violations, a blow to the veteran Democrat roughly 100 days before crucial midterm congressional elections.

The panel did not detail the charges against Rangel, who was forced to step down as chairman of the influential House Ways and Means Committee this year over his long-running ethics troubles.

Luke inherited his name, and his gig at NBC, so the pressure to make a name for himself is small.

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Tags: charlie rangel, corruption, ethics violations, luke russert

Sorry Accusations

23Jul10

Shirley Sherrod got her call from the president, but still believes that her ouster was guided by the White House, and that Andrew Breitbart is a racist.

Asked to respond to Breitbart during an interview Thursday night with CNN’s John King, Sherrod… called Breitbart a liar and accused him of stoking racist elements.

Asked what Breitbart would need to do in order for Sherrod to forgive him, the former Department of Agriculture official said he “would really need to come and sit down with me and look me in the eye so that we could see if we can find a place.”

Sherrod says she thinks Breitbart wants to see a return to slavery and that he’s after Obama because of his race.

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Tags: breitbart, huffington post, obama apology, race relations, sherrod, usda, vilsack

Heroes & Villains

22Jul10

Are the right people being blamed in the Shirley Sherrod caper?

Fox News is facing scathing attacks from the Vast Left Wing Conspiracy, but Fox wasn’t even involved in the story until after the White House had fired Sherrod.

Many people from MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann to Shirley Sherrod herself have implied Fox News was a driving force behind propping up Andrew Breitbart’s out-of-context video that forced her to resign.

While Fox can be quite aggressive in stories like this, the level of venom focused on the network bares no resemblance to the network’s role in this story.

Both the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post write about a directive from Fox Senior Vice President Michael Clemente for the news hours of FNC to check the story out before devoting any time to it. “Let’s make sure we do this right,” he said.

While the lefties are eager to demonize Breitbart, he offers a New Media outlet that doesn’t fall under traditional journalistic expectations. He is half consolidator, half activist. From where I sit, he provides the material, it’s up to those of us who grab it to research it further. He’s putting paint on the pallet.

Even Media Matters, in their documentation of how FNC disseminated the story, notes its infrequent appearances on Monday – considering the story broke on Big Government at 8amET.

The president is still trying to recover from the White House mishandling of the situation. He called Sherrod today.

And that doesn’t mean FNC was the only one to mention the story Monday night either. It was referenced by a guest on Larry King Live, and Anderson Cooper did have a brief segment as well on CNN. By Tuesday morning, all three cable networks were leading with the Sherrod video.

The biggest screw-ups are the White House/Ag Dept folks, who certainly have a higher fact checking responsibility than Andrew Breitbart has, and that’s why their sycophants are going so strong at Breitbart.

The NAACP are a bunch of morons. Remember, Sherrod was speaking at their event, and they were the ones in possession of the full videotape that Breitbart was sent an excerpt of.

On Tuesday, FNC covered the story a lot – 39 times according to TV Eyes. MSNBC covered it 21 times, but CNN? They mentioned Shirley Sherrod 63 times. Now there will be an argument made about the tone of the coverage, but as the story evolved throughout the day, it shifted so much it had Glenn Beck, the cable news host near the center of the controversy to begin with, coming out with an enormous defense of the former USDA worker.

Lastly, the Mainstream media fell down by replaying the video without doing their own journalism. Considering the mainstreams, the White House, and the NAACP are all part of the same political organization, it’s easy to see why AB and FNC are taking the heat.

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Tags: breitbart, Fox News, rachel maddow, sherrod, usda, vilsack, white house

Arrogant Irony

22Jul10

Keith Olbermann seems not to like Andrew Breitbart much. Which puts a nice halo over AB.

He starts to make some sense when he complains about the politicized White House, more worried about polls and bad press than about following principles. Small consolation, however, for his pretending to be ready to cry at the end.

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Tags: breitbart, Fox News, MSNBC, murdoch, olbermann, rahm emanuel

World Tour

22Jul10

The Shirley Sherrod World Tour continues, with the fired USDA sometime racist visiting the View, among other shows.

Ousted but now recruited U.S. Agriculture Department official Shirley Sherrod says she wants to hear directly from President Obama that he and his administration are fully committed to fighting discrimination against black farmers.

“I can’t say that the president is fully behind me,” Sherrod told ABC’s “Good Morning America” Thursday morning. “I would hope that he is…I would love to talk to him.”

She now wants to consult to the White House…. but why is she being offered a new job instead of being given her old job back? Congressman Steven King, meanwhile, argues that Sherrod’s original hiring should be reviewed.

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Tags: idaho, iowa, Obama, sherrod, steven king, the view, usda, vilsack

Another Dreamer

22Jul10

Ed Schultz goes after Andrew Breitbart.

As usual, liberals do the evil things that they falsely accuse the right of doing.

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Tags: breitbart, drudge, ed schultz, Fox News, sherrod

Presidential People

22Jul10

These are the president’s people… the ACORN crowd, community organizers, demonstrating how they intimidate.

Realizing that the government is now controlled by these people puts the president’s socialist policies into context.

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Tags: acorn, community organizer, Obama

Profound Vitriol

22Jul10

Why are Democrats so committed to keep the race divide alive?

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Tags: bill maher, breitbart, dyson, racism, sherrod

Serving Up Government

22Jul10

Title IX lives on… so does Volleyball!

The judge in the case wrote that “competitive cheer may, sometime in the future, qualify as a sport under Title IX,” but that the activity is still too “underdeveloped and disorganized” to be treated as a genuine varsity sport, not a surprising opinion, based on what I’ve seen and heard.

I began cheering my freshman year of high school and it immediately gave me a confidence I’d never had before. It also made me appreciate what it takes to succeed in a competitive, challenging and dangerous environment – and isn’t that the definition of a sport?

Isn’t this a fight that should play out in the marketplace?

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Tags: cheerleading, qunnipiac university, Title IX, volleyball

Race Baiting on GMA

21Jul10

Andrew Breitbart meets his alter-ego on GMA this morning.

Nah… that’s unfair. Breitbart tore apart a race spewing hater of the vast left wing race baiting conspiracy.

Internet publisher Andrew Breitbart debated Media Matters Senior Fellow Eric Boehlert on ‘Good Morning America’ this morning.

BREITBART: He talked about race-baiting here. The context is laid out here by an icon within the civil rights movement. Mary Francis Berry, who was appointed by both Clinton-

STEPHANOPOULOS: Former head of the Civil Rights Commission-

BREITBART: Civil Rights Commission- said this. Appointed by Clinton and Carter said this: “Tainting the Tea Party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There’s no evidence that Tea Party adherents are any more racist than any other Republicans and, indeed, many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having one’s opponents rebut charges of racism, is far better than discussing joblessness.”

That’s the scam the Democrats have been pulling off for years. Odd to have it described so sharply by a member of the liberal cabal.

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Tags: andrew breitbart, Eric Boehlert, gma, race baiting, Shirley Sherrod, stephanopool, tea party

Cover-up

21Jul10

Tom Vilsack, the Obama Administration official who fired Shirley Sherrod yesterday, says the White House wasn’t involved in the decision, despite what Sherrod says about it.

Glenn Beck explains how odd it is that the NAACP piled on Sherrod, but now says it was snookered by the New Media, even though the remarks were made at an NAACP event!

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Tags: breitbart, Fox News, glenn beck, sherrod, tom vilsack

More Sherrod

21Jul10

More Shirley Sherrod tape is out, and while the new sound may exonerate her with regard to her story of judging farmers based on race, there is other material that shows a fixation on race.

Andrew Breitbart gives his take on the controversy to John King on CNN.

Tom Vilsack, who fired Sherrod late Monday from her job as Georgia administrator for the U.S. Ag Department, announced early today he will reconsider her firing.

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Tags: breitbart, health care, health reform, racism, Shirley Sherrod, tom vilsack, usda

Call Them Racists

20Jul10

No one can claim the liberal media cabal is a theory anymore – the smoking gun has been found.

A conspiracy of liberal writers to defraud the electorate by failing to cover bad news for Obama has been revealed. Most shocking is their method of deception.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with (Rev. Jeremiah) Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

Call Them Racists. We all know that Democrats seek to muddy the waters with cynical, unjustified cries of racism against their conservative foes, but who would have guessed that their media partners would be so callous and unprofessional in their anger over ABC news coverage of the Reverend Wright scandal?

Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian, also tried to rally his fellow members of Journolist: “Listen folks–in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn’t about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people.”

Serves the people? Wouldn’t it have been of service to the people to know that Obama had built his adult life around associations with a crowd of radicals?

It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign.

The Democratic party will never recover from this unique period, as America learns that voting blue means voting for radicals. Obama is truly transformative.

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Tags: betrayal, journolist, Michael Tomasky, Spencer Ackerman, Washington Post