Posted on 08/21/2011 4:53:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Pawlenty is out, Perry is in and Obama is...on vacation. This week was fun, and a mess. But arent they all? We learned President Obama is, after 2 1/2 years in office, ready to address his number 1 priority since taking office and release his Nixonian secret plan to deal with the jobs crisis...in September. Now THATS leadership! Hows that hope and change working out for you?
Anyway, I write about none of these things below, so lets get to it...
Youd Think That With Think In Their Name Theyd Actually, You Know, Think.
Think Progress, a George Soros funded, tax-exempt shill group for the Obama Administration (I say a and not the because there are just so damn many of them) has gotten their orders - attack Rick Perry. If theres one thing the hive-minded drone army of the flying monkey brigade does well its follow orders and attack. Having reality on their side is not a necessary component of a liberal attack, they just get it out there and they count on NBC News picking it up and running it without question.
A quick aside: If you think about it, its amazing how these disparate groups, that are non-partisan and tax-exempt, like the Center for American Progress, Media Matters, Moveon, etc., all manage to come up with, use and push the same talking points within minutes of each other. Inevitably theyre all over NBC News and spewed as if they just occurred to the hosts, one after the other, on the spot. (I use NBC News to cover NBC proper and MSNBC. They want to be thought of as individual entities to protect the remaining shred of credibility NBC News still has, but they arent. When personalities from the credibility lifeboat on NBC appear on or have shows on MSNBC, they are the same.) And miraculously theyre the same talking points and buzzwords the White House adopts. No coordination there... But Im straying. End aside.
Last week Rick Perry criticized Ben Bernanke, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, for the failed QE2 program. He said, If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what yall would do to him in Iowa but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treasonous in my opinion. Given the damage to the US Dollar the actions of Bernanke and the Obama Administrations actions have already done, this statement, inartful at best, expressed the anger of many Americans whove seen prices of necessities rise thanks to food inflation. But having their orders, the flying monkeys of Think Progress snapped into action.
They posted the video with the closing line Treason is a capital offense. Their not-so-subtle implication was that Perry was making a death threat, or at least a threat of violence, against Bernanke. Its so absurd on its face as to be laughable, so it was naturally parroted by left-wingers throughout the drone army.
Gawker, the pathetic left-wing site with quality just below that of your neighborhood grocery store circular, tweeted, Rick Perry Want to Execute the Chairman of the Fed.
Neil Irwin, an alleged reporter for The Washington Post, tweeted, Whatever the flaws are in U.S. monetary policy, Im pretty sure implied threats of violence and accusations of treason wont solve them.
Matt Yglesias, resident blogger at Think Regress, er, Progress, urinated on the graves of everyone ever lynched when he tweeted, Rick Perry proposes lynching Ben Bernanke. (Well get back to Matt in a bit.)
Academia, never one to be outdone in the area of stupidity, had their entrants too. Nouriel Roubini, a professor at NYU, weighed in with this bit of genius, The mind of Rick Perry (his sick words on Bernanke) is not much different from that of the Norway mass murderer. Loaded words cause violence.
There you have it: criticizing the Chairman of the Federal Reserve is the equivalent of calling for his execution, threatening him, the lynching of black Americans and the mass murder of dozens by a lunatic leftists who idolized the Unibomber. Isnt the new tone great?
These are people who would have to create new pejorative terms to come up with something unique to call Republicans while telling us to tone down our rhetoric. The people who carried BUSH IS HITLER signs for 8 years but see Nazi references in LEAVE US ALONE banners at Tea Party rallies. To say that they are blind to themselves is to let them off too lightly. It would be more accurate to say that theyve never seen a reflective surface in their entire lives.
Even if thats not true, they know what they are doing. But they dont have to worry about it, they wont be called out on their hypocrisy in the mainstream media. The mainstream media is too busy letting the flying monkeys do their jobs for them to actually do original reporting anymore. Investigative pieces now consist of left-wing opposition research spoon fed to reporters and regurgitated as if they dug it up themselves. Theyre safe because a parasite cant destroy its host if it hopes to survive.
Thank God for the Internet.
The Perry wants to kill Bernanke meme was attacked and pretty much shot down in all credible outlets, fading away as quickly as it started. But Think Progress wasnt done.
Think Progress was soon back attacking Perry and the jobs record of Texas. Since the reality of his record wouldnt serve their purposes, the Texas economy is booming, a new unit of measure was needed. So they made one up and called it a REPORT.
Forget the fact that this report consisted only of data compiled by a research assistant who works for, you guessed it, the Center for American Progress Action Fund.
They created the job creation when accounting for population growth yardstick. What is that? It means that while a disproportionate percentage of all jobs created in the United States have been created in Texas in the last few years (40 percent), that doesnt matter because more people are moving to the state. If that sounds stupid its only because it is stupid.
See, this new yardstick does not measure the number of jobs created because that would make Perry look good and go against their directive. It measures job creation relative to population growth. Since Texas is booming and most other states are sinking like a stone, a lot of people are moving to Texas to find work. In fact, people are moving to Texas faster than jobs are being created, even though jobs are being created at an astronomic rate compared to any other state. This has bumped up the unemployment rate of Texas because thats what happens when people flood into a state.
To illustrate how stupid this unit of measure is, the healthiest state in the Union when measured with this new yardstick is Michigan. Thats right, Michigan. Now Im originally from Michigan, and Michigan has been in a single state depression since Jennifer Granholm was elected Governor on what seemed to be a bet to see how fast should could ruin the state. To have any positively spun unit of economic measure put Michigan in first place, a state where the military could safely test nuclear weapons in its biggest city and not kill anyone because so much of it is abandoned, requires the flexibility of Mr. Fantastic from the Fantastic Four. And even hed have a hard time bending that much.
Basically its this: Michigan is hemorrhaging people faster than it is losing jobs (theyre probably going to Texas), so their unemployment rate is dropping. Forget the fact that people are leaving because theyve been unemployed for years, that doesnt fit the narrative. I told you it was stupid.
Think Progress wants people to think things in Texas arent going as well as they are because of this new unit of measure theyve cooked up. Its bled its way into the media, but mostly NBC News, so no one has really been infected with this garbage either, thankfully.
But this is the length to which the Left-Wing Industrial Complex will go to avoid people being exposed to the destructive reality their policies cause.
As an ironic footnote, Matt Yglesias, who looks like the lovechild of Ringo Starr and a clone of Ringo Starr without the talent or hair (cheap shot but he deserves it), tweeted out this Slate story on how the unemployment rate in the construction business is falling not because of new jobs but because discouraged workers are leaving the industry. It was meant to inspire sympathy for construction workers who cant find work, but his tweet did something else too. It exposed that the star blogger at Think Progress is fully aware of what their new unit of measure, their new yardstick, really measures. His tweet read, Falling unemployment among construction workers a sign of people leaving the industry, not economic health. Thats the exact opposite of what he and his employer want you to think of the same thing happening in Michigan relative to Texas. Come to think of it, maybe those construction workers moved to Texas to find work...
The Thoughts Just Keep On Coming
If theres one think Think Progress is good at its finding pubescent ideologues and giving them titles that sound respectable, coupled with responsibilities beyond their abilities. Enter Lee Fang.
Never heard of Lee Fang? Then you must not be a...person who likes embarrassingly bad political propaganda dressed up as hackery. OK, that might be a bit harsh on poor Fang, but only if youre unfamiliar with his work. Lucky you. For a laugh check out the routine take-downs Fang suffers at the hands of RedState. Theyre things of beauty.
Lees title is investigative researcher and blogger at Think Progress. If the title investigative researcher sounds redundant thats only because it is. But just like people who feel the need to tell you how smart they are because their actions give the opposite impression, when you dont have any credentials through accomplishments, throw a nebulous title on it, close your eyes and hope for the best. For Lee Fang that best didnt work out too well this week.
Liberals hate Congressman Darrell Issa (R-CA). The reason they hate him is that he chairs the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the investigative arm of the House of Representatives. He has the power to investigate things like Operation Fast and Furious, which the media isnt, and all other manner of possible corruption perpetrated by the Obama Administration - and the Obama Administration must be protected at all costs.
Enter Fang.
In a post labeled as an Exclusive, Fang cracked the Da Vinci Code web of clues to discover an Issa staffer had changed his name a few years back and implied heavily that he did so to avoid the world discovering his past as *gasp* a vice-president of Goldman Sachs! The impression Fang would like readers to walk away with is that this man, Peter Simonyi (formerly Peter Haller), left Goldman Sachs, changed his name and went to work for Issa as part of an elaborate plan to make Goldman Sachs even richer. And Issa was in on it.
Its a plot too dumb even for Hollywood, which means its perfect for Left-Wing Industrial Complex. Turns out it was even too good for Fang to check.
You see, Peter Simonyi didnt change his name from Haller as some sort of James Bond-ian plot to go undercover as a mole for Goldman Sachs, he did it for the same reason many people change their names - to honor their heritage.
The Left-Wing site Talking Points Memo did the basic fact-checking Fang didnt bother to do and reached out to Simonyi for comment. They discovered that Peter changed his name to honor his father, as did his sister who, unless this is truly the most elaborate plan ever hatched by human beings, also changed her name to Simonyi. Read his statement here, it involves a grandfather who died fighting fascists in 1944.
Lee, now de-fanged, wasnt about to let facts get in the way of a perfectly good attempted character assassination. He issued update after update, including one after his post was published saying he had reached out to Issas office for comment. Had Lee simply done that easy step before publishing his hit-job he couldve avoided even more humiliation, but somethings are simply too good to bother verifying.
Five corrections later, which has to be some sort of record, a clarifying post was written for Think Progress. Fang once again saw black helicopters in the form of the Daily Caller. Issas old press secretary now runs PR there and the person who used to run PR there is now works in Issas press shop. Conspiracy! (Full disclosure - I helped found the Daily Caller.)
He accused Issas office and the Daily Caller of conspiring to push back against his original story, not seeming to notice that the facts had already done all the pushing needed. The Daily Caller, noting a complete lack of facts to the charge, adamantly objected. Think Progress had no choice to issue even more updates to the clarification post and crossed out the Daily Caller accusation in their piece.
It was an amazing cluster of simple, deliberate deceptions that were unravelled nearly as quickly as they were spewed. The original post required 5 updates and the clarification necessitated by the errors in the original post required 2 more. I dont know exactly what an investigative researcher does, but Id imagine it shouldnt involved 7 corrections in a year, let alone a day.
Think Progress is, at least at this moment, standing by what remains of Fangs post - which amounts to a guy changed his name and could-might-possibly be a plant for Wall Street...if you discount reality. They can because most drones will read only parts of it and some might only read the parts they like, not all the updates at the bottom.
The takeaway here is this: Think Progress, just like all the other Left-Wing organizations, has an agenda, and that agenda will not be deterred by facts. So whenever you see anyone on TV from Think Progress, Media Matters or any liberal activist group (a safe bet is any group with the word Justice in their title), theyll usually be on MSNBC (so you might never see them), remember that the odds are pretty good that you are being lied to. That rule applies to any newspaper story that mentions those groups.
Also-Ran Stories
Union No! Remember how that picture with crosshairs on it on Sarah Palins website caused an unstable, Bush-hating, anti-war leftists in Arizona to murder a bunch of innocent people? Remember how conservatives words inspired a Unabomber-loving, environmentalist lunatic to murder dozens in Norway? It seems every time someone on the political right opens their mouth it puts lives at risk, according to the media anyway. Its an easy case to make when not bound by the truth. When the dust settles and the truth is known, many times that the perpetrator is of the Left, but it doesnt matter. Its too late. When its clear the perpetrator is a liberal from the start, the media will simply ignore it. For example, this story of a business owner being shot because he owns a non-union shop. Have you heard of it? Nope. Hard to pin this one on conservatives so the media has to ignore it.
Unbelievably Stupid. The 10th Anniversary of the September 11th attack is fast approaching. As we ready to mark that horrible day there is simply unbelievable news out of New York - the first responder heroes aren't invited to the ceremony at the site. These are people who risked their lives to save others and simply because there are too many of them, they will be invited to a separate ceremony at a later date. Yes, family members of those we lost should be there, and they will be. But those who risked everything should be there too. This problem of a large crowd could not have snuck up on the event planners, something could have been done. But a bureaucracy cant adapt, cant think outside the box, it is the box. And the box doesnt think. I hope a solution is found in time. Ground Zero is a large space that can accommodate a lot of people. All Americans were impacted in some way that day, and undoubtedly many will travel great distances to be there on the anniversary. What kind of shame will it be if those who risked their lives, faced the horror head-on to help their fellow man and now suffer adverse health effects are shown the sort of disrespect? Theres a solution somewhere...bureaucrats should be fired one at a time until one of them comes up with it.
And In The End...
There are idiots and there are idiots...then theres this woman. Suzanne Eman is 32 years old, the mother of 2, and possibly the dumbest human being walking the face of the Earth. OK, shes not walking, shes rolling. Whats her goal in life? To be the fattest woman ever. She hopes to break the old record of 1,600 pounds. Shes about half way there. Eman consumes 20,000 calories per day. She told the UK Daily Mail, Id love to find out if its humanly possible to reach a ton. I told you, shes an idiot. Shes also single and unemployed, if you can believe that. While the story doesnt say, Im sure our tax dollars are paying for Shamu to achieve her dream, which must also secretly include making her children, 16 and 12, motherless by the time theyre both done with puberty. She says she feels confident and sexy, and that shes started attracting more men. What she doesnt mention is those men are attracted to her because of the force of gravity. I feel bad for her kids. Not only is their mother scaring them for life by slowly committing suicided in front of them, theyre going to face all kinds of lawsuits from the pallbearers at her funeral throwing out their backs. But seriously, its disgusting and her kids should be taken away from her immediately.
If I dont stop now I never will. One day, if Im not careful, Im just going to end up accidentally posting a book here. I am capable of being brief, believe it or not, but only when its imposed upon me.
That is all, go about your week.
This Suzanne Eman woman is a fruitcake! She was on a local AM morning show recently, and she just left me staring at my radio, shaking my head, and asking, “Is the fat infecting her brain?”
800 lb. is bad enough. I was pushing 400 lb. at one point in college, but that was due to a regular diet of beer, takeout, and bong tokes. By 25 I’d dropped to 325, and 2 years later, I was nearing 220. It took me several years to regain control of my weight and my life, and I’ve never been happier.
This idiot is going the opposite direction and will eventually require taxpayer-subsidized assistance in the form of a sawzall to take out the side of her house, an industrial forklift to move her, and a flatbed semi to move her. Think she’s gonna pay any of us back?
Idiots like this should not be subsidized by any taxpayer monies. She’s doing this to herself and admitting that she wants to be heavier. That, to me, should mean automatic disqualification from any Medicare, SS, or Medicaid assistance.
I have a hunch many many democrats (although few will admit it) are asking themselves “What in the HELL was I thinking” when I voted for Barry Half-White..
People hate to admit it they were comatose politically..
They were fooled and have been fooled by the democrats..
The internet has so much information available many are slowly getting their minds right..
I believe this..
The Tpcaucus(TPC) shows many democrats are there as members..
The TPC showed serious strength in Nov. 2010...
The TPC has been growing steadily and strongly since Nov.. 2010..
In places normally considered totally democrat its growing..
Like San Fransiko, Chicago, even friggen Detroit... its growing..
Nov.. 2010 was a rehearsal, Nov. 2012 will be the main event..
The democrat party knows they are toast.. nothing they do can help..
The most important thing I think “We” have to consider is replacing many of the RINOs...
Some RINOs will be re-elected its true BUT as many as possible should be challenged..
TO Do THAT.. RINO must be considered as a VALID TERM...
I have seen a picture, where she was shopping in a grocery store with her daughter and son, who were each pushing a cart that was full of food/groceries. She was sitting in one of those motorized chairs for handicapped people and pushing another cart that was full of food. People like this should not be allowed to use those chairs. They also should not be allowed to use handicapped parking parking places
Nobody exposes these tactics (of totalitarians) better than Rush Limbaugh, when he compiles all of the talking points soundbites. HOORAY Rush Limbaugh! Thank you, sir!
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