(best Mike Meyers voice ON) That's a man, baby!
Posted on 09/07/2009 1:58:14 AM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
The Jones departure recalls another Democratic surrender: The indicated willingness to abandon a plan to fund voluntary end-of-life consultations after they were miscast by Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as “death panels.”
"As we've seen before, succumbing to these types of propaganda attacks from the right wing only emboldens the aggressors. This controversy will go away and they will trump up another one tomorrow,” said David Brock, founder and chairman of Media Matters for America, a group that has taken on conservative commentators. “No good comes from appeasing a lunatic bully like Glenn Beck."
"If Jones left under pressure from the Obama administration then we are in for a very long and painful four years,” said Melissa Harris Lacewell, a political science professor at Princeton University. “I would hate to think that Glenn Beck can simply shout down any member of the administration he chooses to target.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
LLS
I agree 100%. The ‘administration’ first targeted Rush & they got the asses handed to them. Then they tried Beck... same results. After the media won them the election, they felt untouchable... these arrogant fools underestimate the intelligence of the American people.
Job well done!!!
LLS
LLS
I hope they're kidding. Well-educated? With an elite education? Jones sounds a lot like a rabble rouser off the street with only slightly elevated language. Not compelling at all. Is this the best the DemocRats came come up with?
“As we’ve seen before, succumbing to these types of propaganda attacks from the right wing only emboldens the aggressors. This controversy will go away and they will trump up another one tomorrow.....”
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FReepers, there’s a pattern I have noticed this spring with the MSM. They have done it before but this spring, it has been the most conspicuous. David Brooks bemoans the “controversy” of this situation. However he is placing the controvsey squarely on the shoulders of Beck and not VJ.
IWO, what VJ has done and said over the last several years IS NOT controversial according to the MSM. But it is controversial when Glenn Beck reacts to what VJ has said. The exact same thing happened with Sarah Palin and David Letterman this spring. The “jokes” that Letterman directed towards Palin were not controversial but Palin’s reaction to them were controvercial.
The SRM has tried to reframe the controversy and focus of the story to suit their liberal agenda. The failed in both situations above. Next time the SRM mentions “controversy,” pay attention to where they apply it and call them on it if they do this crap again.
Great article and replies
LLS
“”Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself”
Barack Obama, Oct 15, 2008 Presidential debate”
I have... I do and hussein is guilty of treason and sedition.
LLS
I won’t disparage O’Reilly.
I think he is a bloviator, disingenuous, and all that stuff- don’t get me wrong.
His Modus Operandi simply seems to me as: take the most middle road position on nearly every issue as possible, unless he believes there is an egregious wrong being committed and ignored.
I’ve no idea where he stands in his own mind on any of those positions, but unless he and I were best friends and he confessed such things to me, I would never trust him to have my back.
Good post I know he had to have a HUGE budget.
excellent! well said.
(best Mike Meyers voice ON) That's a man, baby!
The reporting on this is sickening.
http://news.google.com/news/story?ned=us&hl=en&ncl=d0wLn3gxmZAhcMMiZoAoch2mDzZ8M&cf=all
Jones is the founder of Green For All. $500 million to his organization...
That’s right. he got stimulus money for GREEN jobs yet the media FAIL to report this.
THIS is so sick. The media are already on the defense.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26809.html
The Stimulus Green by the Numbers: Where the Money Will Go
And here’s what’s got everyone so excited: (from NRDC)
• $6 billion for clean and safe water, creating more than 200,000 jobs
• $4.5 billion for greening federal buildings
• State energy grants, issued through the Treasury Department, that will fund renewable energy projects that are eligible for the available tax credits
• Funding for the state energy program, which includes important utility reforms and building code conditions
• $2.5 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy Research and Development
• $5 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program, creating approximately 90,000 jobs
• A multi-year extension of the renewable production tax credit
• A more effective tax credit for home efficiency upgrades
• $6 billion in loan guarantees for renewables, transmission and leading edge biofuels
• $2 billion for advanced batteries
• $9.3 billion for intercity rail, including high-speed rail
• $27.5 billion for highways (this large pot of money is not exclusively for highways, and states and cities must use this flexibility to invest in fuel-efficient public transportation)
• $8.4 billion for transit
• $1.5 billion in competitive grants for transportation investments (which could be used for public transportation)
Even some of the smaller numbers are encouraging: (from previous TreeHugger post)
* $125 million to restore trails and abandoned mines
* $146 million for trail maintenance at National Park Service sites
* $140 million for volcano monitoring systems
* $600 million for the Environmental Protection Agency Superfund environmental cleanup program
* $200 million to clean up leaking underground storage tanks
* $500 million for forest health and wildfire prevention
More Green News: Tax Credits for Wind Energy
More good news—a three year extension for tax credits for wind energy. Before the bill, wind energy advocates had to lobby every year to get the credits extended. Now, the tax credit is safe for at least three years—an encouraging message to wind energy proprietors.
What Got Left Out
With perhaps the biggest investment in stimulating a green economy in history, it seems silly to make gripes like ‘it could have been better.’ But it could have been better. The $12 billion initially proposed for public transit fell to $8.4 billion, seemingly out of proportion to the $27.5 billion allocated to highway renovation.
Even though some unfortunate cuts were made through amendments—no new public swimming pools, for example—some fortunate ones were made as well: 50 billion dollar subsidies for nuclear power and clean coal were thankfully scrapped.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/green-stimulus-bill-60-billion.php
SOMEONE SAVE THIS before it disappears.
I think the media is using Alinsky tactics as well.
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