Posted on 06/17/2009 10:55:57 AM PDT by OK Right
Posted by Oscar De Los Santos and Kelly L. Goodridge on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 1:45:10 PM By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos
Conservative lives, freedom and property are under assault by a volley of daily liberal attacks. The Left is perpetrating racism, sexism, smears, and falsehoods. Conservatives who counter the Left are met with no-holds-barred assaults. The MEANstream media rarely misses an opportunity to demean the Right. Tragically, six months into Barack Hussein Obama’s presidency, it’s obvious that the war on conservatism is a joint White House / Right Wing venture.
The White House and the MEANstream Media
In April, we learned that Rahm Emanuel has “daily phone calls” with the press and that top Obama cabinet members attend secret dinners with media darlings (Warner Todd Huston, “WaPo Shocker: Obama Staffers Attend Secret Dinners with Lefty Media,” April, 28, 2009, www.newsbusters.org). Huston also reports that, “Rahm Emanuel, Sec. of the Treasury Tim Geithner, and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have all recently had their chance to schmooze the press and guide them with the spin desired by the White House.”
The “transparency” of the Left-leaning press’s Obam-bias is frightening. Listen to a Rush Limbaugh montage of breaking news as showcased by talking heads (Olberman, Brewer, Mathews, Couric, Mitchell). Any un-Obam-biased mind will pick up the liberal agenda and hateful message. Conservatives are painted as cold and clueless idiots and liberals as compassionate geniuses. Above it all is Obama, who remains Oblameless.
Of course, when it comes to the blame game, no one beats the left-leaning media. They spend as much time looking back as forward in order to stir the conservative hate soup. For instance, CBS published - via New Republic - an article (June14, 2009) that shows a picture of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad beneath the headline, “Meet Iran’s George Bush” (http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/). Ahmadinejad’s regime was and will continue to be violent as witnessed by the arrests and shootings of protestors that followed his reelection this weekend. He’s the same dictator who denies the Holocaust happened, and who most likely was behind the jamming of communications out of Iran after its recent election. Yet, rather than report extensively on the violence that ensued after outraged Iranian voters cried election fraud, CBS published a story about Ahmadinejad that compared him to President George W. Bush.
As many conservative voices have pointed out, we’ve been subjected to eight years of hard-hitting Bush-hate and it continues. A new condom pack features some of the most evil dictators of the last 100 years. It includes Hitler, Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush. The product description says the images are designed “to remind of the painful consequences of having sex without a condom” (http://www.thedieline.com/blog/2009/06/trouble-maker-campaign.html). OK has read – and witnessed first-hand – that Obama is “cool” among America’s youth. His silence on the nasty tactics of the Left speaks volumes.
As do the antics of others who should know better: the college students wearing Marx and Che Guevara shirts; the legion of communist and dictator-loving celebrities; the Black Caucus singing the praises of murderers and thugs.
More Hate, and Hate-Rape Jokes
Earlier in the month, Playboy online magazine posted an article about hate-raping the top ten conservative women in the country. Feminist groups were silent. So was the current administration. Pamela Geller (Atlas Shrugged) observed, “Obama promised us the dream of post-partisanship—a cuckoo land where party affiliation and factional animosity were forgotten. Turn on cable news or open any newspaper, however, and you’ll quickly discover that the dream has yet to materialize. But there is a way to reach across the aisle without letting principles fall by the wayside. We speak, naturally, of the hate [f**k]. We may despise everything these women represent, but godda**it they’re hot” (http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/06/playboy-hate-fks-women-they-could-never-touch-literally-or-figuratively.html, June 1, 2009, second set of asterisks OK’s). And Seton Motley, the Director of Communications for Media Research Center (MRC) pointed out the media double standard for conservatives on Fox News. Conservatives have no “grievance group” or one-man-complaint-band like the Rev. Al Sharpton on their side. Motley discussed Letterman’s statutory rape joke in the context of radio shock jock Don Imus’s racist comment regarding the female Rutgers basketball team. Motley concludes that “Being liberal means never having to say you’re sorry” (FoxNews.com, 6/15/09).
Last Sunday, The Boston Phoenix ran a photo of Newt Gingrich, Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly dressed in KKK hats and robes. The photo accompanied a story on “the new anti-choice terror” and the murder of abortion doctor George Tiller (gatewaypundit.com, June 5, 2009). The Left is fueling hate in this country, yet Oblameless and his camp remain quiet.
During the election Obama warned that digs at his family were off limits. The Left-leaning press all too readily obliged. In fact, most American journalism won’t risk sullying Obama with even the most tangential bad press. It took a foreign press to release the pre-election story of Obama’s Aunt Zeituni Onyango – an illegal Kenyan immigrant and half sister of Obama’s late father – living illegally in Boston (www.telegraph.co.uk/). And there was little coverage about Obama’s half-brother molesting a 13-year-old during his visit to England last year and being denied reentry into Britain in April (gatewaypundit.com, April 12, 2009).
The left-heavy entertainment crowd won’t slam Obama either. No comedians are joking about the President’s daughters – nor Elliot Spitzer’s, for that matter. Yet, CBS’s late night talk show host, David Letterman, has targeted Sarah Palin and her family with sexist and sexually orientated jokes for months now. Michelle Malkin’s June 12 blog lists the numerous sexually charged jokes that Letterman has told about Palin over the past few months. She calls him a “p*rv” for his jokes and admission that he is “aroused” by Palin. Palin was with her daughter Willow at a Yankee weekend June game. The following Monday (June 8, 2009), Letterman joked about Willow “getting knocked-up” during the seventh inning stretch by Yankee third baseman Alex Rodriquez. It was a scripted joke – even more reason to fault Letterman, who should vet his material. CBS remained quiet about the incident, hoping it would blow away. It didn’t. On NBC (Friday, June 12), Gov. Palin defended her 14-year-old daughter against Letterman’s statutory rape joke. She also called on Letterman to apologize to all young women for such a comment and demonstration that it’s okay to talk about young women in this manner. CBS closed its E-mail complaint address late Friday afternoon. In a move that would make liberal hypocrites and Orwell’s Ministry of Truth proud, the network removed Letterman’s joke from the show’s online-posted transcript. Nice try, CBS. You can pretend the Letterman debacle didn’t happen – except that viral Internet footage of the original program tells the world otherwise.
Finally, there was a slight, almost grudging shift in tide. The National Organization for Women (NOW) finally added “Late Show” host Letterman to its Media Hall of Shame (Noel Sheppard, “ NOW bashes Limbaugh while Putting Letterman in the Hall of Shame,” June 12, 2009, www.newsbusters.org). Of course, not all the change was change we could believe in. Joe Scarborough of MSNBC was on “Meet the Press” (Sunday, June 14, 2009) when he accused Palin of “picking fights” with Letterman. Keith Olberman did worse and accused Palin of parading her children during the election and declared she is now getting what she deserves.
So much for media sensitivity and families being off limits. So much for Obama rallying to the aid of a former campaign opponent – and underage girls – by denouncing such jokes as Letterman’s. But why expect such help? This is the same Obama who made fun of John McCain on Ellen DeGeneres’s show last fall and declared himself a better dancer than McCain. (OK wonders if Obama would dance as well if he had endured the torture Vietnam POW McCain endured as his legs and shoulders were repeatedly broken.) This is the same Obama who laughed during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on May 9, when angry lesbian Wanda Sykes called a well-known conservative talk show host a terrorist and wished him dead. This is the same Obama who made fun of the Special Olympics on his “Tonight Show” appearance earlier this year.
Lying is also a tool of the MEANstream media. Look at the way they covered (up) the Holocaust Museum shooting in Washington, D.C. on June 11, 2009. ABC, MSNBC, CNN, The New York Times, The Huffington Post and others identified the killer as “a right-winger” even after the FBI released information and labeled the killer a left-wing Nazi supporter and Bush hater.
So Long, MEANstream & Co.?
Character assassinations and falsehoods are the modus operandi of today’s Left. They never miss the opportunity to promote their agenda – which is more often than not Obama’s agenda. Is it any wonder that newspapers across America are tanking? Is it any wonder that the Left’s TV news ratings are disappearing faster than water slipping through a fat-holed sieve?
Laughably, many in the MEANSstream media blame the Internet for their death pangs. There’s too much free news on the Internet, they claim. Wrong. There’s too much news distortion these days and the Left’s longtime posterior kissing is finally catching up to them. That’s the one positive offshoot of this long and shameless display of Obama worship. Yes, leftist journalism has caused extensive damage to our culture by promoting hate and violence to women and conservatives, but it’s also angering folk who are bailing from such distortion in droves. And if they’re finally rejecting the MEANstream media, they may be on the brink of rejecting the MEANstream’s Number One D.C. darling. Maybe, just maybe, it won’t be long before we’re rattled by a resounding cry that declares, “Emperor, you and your toadies – especially those in the peacock shirts – are NAKED!” (Easy there, Chris Mathews.)
Welcome to the two of you!
The media helped get the One elected. The One is repaying them.
Let’s find our Conservative Leader NOW. Names, please, so we can draft this person to begin the opposition immediately. America is waiting and we’re running out of time before our end days.
Let’s Roll!
Calling Glenn Beck, Mark Levin, Rush, Roger Hedgecock... help us find a leader with guts, spine, and gonads coupled with love of our country.
Anyone out there have direct contact with any of these men?
And the worst pat is that the Left views all this hate-laden comedy as “satire,” and referred to Letterman’s disgusting outburst by saying, “It’s just a joke! They want Letterman fired for just a joke?”
Lefties don’t get it because they exist in a parralel universe.
“to begin the opposition immediately”
Palin’s already doing it (for years).
Look at her latest action this past week with the natural gas pipeline.
Roger Dat on a “Leader”...
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