http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/demagogues/ en-us Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:54:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211359/posts 'WE will hunt you down!" thundered Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) during the AIG bonus demagogue-a-thon on the House floor Thursday. "If they're not going to give [the bonuses] back, we're going to take them back," growled Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), who vowed to recover the taxpayers' "ill-gotten gains" from rogue corporate executives. House Republicans pressed the Democrats on who knew what and when regarding the AIG bonus protections included in Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd's now infamous amendment to the stimulus bill. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) shrieked about the Bush administration's culpability. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) smugly patted Democrats on... NY Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2211359/posts#comment Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:54:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162064/posts A Maryland grand jury on Friday indicted Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon on 12 criminal counts, including theft and perjury, for alleged official misconduct beginning when she was a councilwoman. A number of the charges relate to gifts that prosecutors say Ms. Dixon received from developers, including her former boyfriend, Ronald Lipscomb, and didn't properly disclose. Mr. Lipscomb isn't named in the indictment but was charged with bribery this week in Baltimore. His lawyer has said he is innocent. In addition, the Maryland prosecutor's office charged that for four years Ms. Dixon misused holiday gift cards that were intended to be... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2162064/posts#comment Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:07:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158487/posts Yahoo has done Andrew Sullivan proud with their headlines.....and doesn't this have a "deja vue" ring to it? And, didn't we just see this same media trick in September? Of course the article has to go on to mention that the babies Father-Levi Johnston mothers was recently arrested on Drug Charges. Johnston's mother, Sherry, was arrested on drug charges earlier this month after an undercover narcotics investigation. Yahoo and US Weekly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158487/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 15:08:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158663/posts Week of babies and lies Sarah Palin talks about her daughter's baby, and a hoax that fooled Oprah Winfrey falls apart. Buzz Week in Review A collective exhale ushered the volatile 2008 out the door this week, although one baby who caused a political storm managed to quietly slip himself out before the end. Meanwhile, a long-time Oprah hoax and high-seas piracy stirred up the Buzz—and the searches—during this transition period. Mom, Do We Have to Do a Combo Celebration? Bristol Palin's boy emerged not as the grandson of the first female vice president, but as another December baby who... Yahoo Buzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2158663/posts#comment Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:14:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156205/posts <p>WLS just broke in to say Roland Burris, a former Illinois Comptroller, has been named to the Senate by Rod.</p> WLS - 890 AM http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156205/posts#comment Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:25:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156241/posts Gov. Rod Blagojevich is expected today to name former Illinois Atty. Gen. Roland Burris to replace President-elect Barack Obama in the U.S. Senate. The action comes despite warnings by Democratic Senate leaders that they would not seat anyone appointed by the disgraced governor who faces criminal charges of trying to sell the post, sources familiar with the decision said. Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2156241/posts#comment Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:23:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155991/posts Caroline Kennedy, you know, might need, you know, a speech coach, um, if she, you know, wants, um, to be a senator. Um, you know? Kennedy, who gave a flurry of media interviews on Friday and Saturday, revealed some cringing verbal tics that showed her inexperience as a speaker, experts told the Daily News. In a 30-minute session with The News on Saturday, Kennedy punctuated her answers with "you know" more than 200 times. "Um" was fairly constant, too. NY Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2155991/posts#comment Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:39:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150517/posts ANCHORAGE, Alaska – An accelerant was poured around the exterior of Gov. Sarah Palin's church before fire heavily damaged the building, federal investigators said Monday. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said the accelerant was poured at several locations around the church, including entrances. AP via Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2150517/posts#comment Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:00:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146863/posts Fox news, other news channel, presser coming up. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146863/posts#comment Thu, 11 Dec 2008 15:48:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146908/posts An unflattering portrait depicting Illinois First Lady Patricia Blagojevich as a modern-day Lady Macbeth who plotted against her husband's perceived enemies and backed his corrupt schemes emerged in court documents connected to the governor's arrest Tuesday. Her alleged ambitions and brashness are outlined in a 76-page federal criminal complaint: She helped her husband hatch a plan to sell President-elect Barack Obama's old U.S. Senate seat. She angled to trade her husband's power for lucrative spots on corporate boards. And she unleashed an obscenity-filled tirade suggesting Tribune Co. ownership should "just fire" Chicago Tribune editorial writers if the company wanted the... Chicago Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2146908/posts#comment Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:38:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141793/posts Matthew Spalding, Director of the Center for American Studies at the Heritage Foundation, says the visitor center selectively cuts passages from the Constitution, weighing in on a long-running debate about the scope and limits of federal power by taking the liberal side of that debate, envisioning broad congressional powers that the founding fathers never intended. "I started looking at this stuff and it's just patently absurd," he said. "The dominant message when you walk though the doors in this exhibit you're hit with is the role of Congress is to fulfill our greatest aspirations. So the message you're teaching these... Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141793/posts#comment Wed, 3 Dec 2008 00:30:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138477/posts November 25, 2008, 9:45 a.m. Opposed to Holder without ApologyThe shameful pardons are disqualifying. By Andrew C. McCarthy I’ll concede this much to Lanny Davis: Last Friday night, during our Hannity & Colmes debate over President-Elect Barack Obama’s selection of Eric Holder to be the next Attorney General, Davis said (or I should say, screeched) that I’d soon be apologizing, and he’s right. I am sorry that our discussion degenerated into a screaming match. That’s wince-making television that doesn’t edify anyone. So I do apologize to anyone who had to endure that segment. But Davis’s hysterical suggestion that I... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2138477/posts#comment Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:51:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129582/posts By now you’ve all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA. I was perfectly happy staying under the radar as an anonymous source for Fox News‘ Carl Cameron, but now that Palin has accused her accusers of being “unprofessional…jerks…cowards… taking things out of context, and then tried to spread something on national news” and begun to cast doubt on the Fox News report, maybe she’s right to a certain extent. For those of us on the McCain... The Eisenstadt Group http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129582/posts#comment Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:42:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128608/posts Nuclear power plants smaller than a garden shed and able to power 20,000 homes will be on sale within five years, say scientists at Los Alamos, the US government laboratory which developed the first atomic bomb. The miniature reactors will be factory-sealed, contain no weapons-grade material, have no moving parts and will be nearly impossible to steal because they will be encased in concrete and buried underground. The US government has licensed the technology to Hyperion, a New Mexico-based company which said last week that it has taken its first firm orders and plans to start mass production within five... The Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2128608/posts#comment Sun, 9 Nov 2008 07:25:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122372/posts Zomblog has obtained an extremely rare copy of the first issue of Osawatomie, a newspaper published by the Weather Underground in 1975. Noteworthy passages are reproduced below, along with exact transcriptions. The full pages, with each passage in context in high resolution, are found at the bottom of this post. Much of Osawatomie, which was written at a time when the Dohrn-Ayers wing of the Weather Underground was transitioning from terrorism to “working from the inside” for revolution, concerns itself with the need to encourage “organizers” who will work in “communities” and use “audacity” to bring about “socialism” in America.... Zombietime http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122372/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 06:37:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118746/posts BOWLING GREEN, OH - Sarah Palin joined her running mate's attacks against Barack Obama and the media Wednesday, suggesting the Los Angeles Times is withholding a videotape that shows Obama watching as a former Palestinian Liberation Organization spokesman bashed Israel. Palin departed from her stump speech to talk about Obama's "assortment of friends from Chicago." She described Rashid Khalidi, the former PLO spokesman, as "another radical professor from the neighborhood who spent a lot of time with Barack Obama going back several years." She said Obama was at a party for Khalidi in 2003, when he described Israel as the... National Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2118746/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 18:24:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116186/posts It's moving now folks. Drudge just a few minutes ago posted a red headline on the top of his page with the link to the audio posted earlier here on FR of Obama's 2001 comments where he talks about breaking free of the “constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution” and in so doing, achieve “social justice” through “redistributive change.” Drudge http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116186/posts#comment Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:22:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113681/posts Media analyst Bob Knight is questioning the Obama campaign's decision to sell Chicago election night coverage packages to news outlets. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Lynn Sweet notes the Obama campaign is planning to charge reporters $935 for a package that includes access to a heated file tent, power, cable TV, Internet, and food. The cheapest place a reporter could stand on a riser with a view is $880. Members of the media will also be charged $300 for an unlimited long distance phone line and $275 for high-speed wired Internet. According to Sweet, "This is an outrageous pay-to-play plan that caters... One News Now http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113681/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:23:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107716/posts ACORN doesn't seem to have learned that if you're going to lie, at least lie consistently. The radical left-wing group, which has been arguing strenuously that Project Vote is a separate entity, posted a job listing at idealist.org for Project Vote. This demonstrates that the two organizations are virtually one and the same. In case the ad magically disappears, here is a screen grab of the top of it: The job requirements section (not shown in above screen grab) reads (SKIP TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS POST IF YOU'RE IN A HURRY): Description: Project Vote is seeking a Finance Director... Capital Research Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2107716/posts#comment Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:19:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106514/posts Chicago New Party Update by Bruce Bentley About 50 activists attended the Chicago New Party membership meeting in July. The purpose of the meeting was to update members on local activities and to hear appeals for NP support from four potential political candidates. The NP is being very active in organization building and politics. There are 300 members in Chicago. In order to build an organizational and financial base the NP is sponsoring house parties. Locally it has been successful both fiscally and in building a grassroots base. Nationwide it has resulted in 1000 people committed to monthly contributions. The... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2106514/posts#comment Wed, 15 Oct 2008 22:17:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105577/posts Whether intentionally or not Jesse Jackson is causing problems again for Barack Obama. The latest from the New York Post: Jackson believes that, although “Zionists who have controlled American policy for decades” remain strong, they’ll lose a great deal of their clout when Barack Obama enters the White House. “Obama is about change,” Jackson told me in a wide-rangingMcPeak said progress had not been made in the Middle East peace process because of the Jewish community in New York City and Miami. And the change that Obama promises is not limited to what we do in America itself. It is... Commentary http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105577/posts#comment Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:11:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105699/posts Newly discovered documents from the Illinois state archives prove Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has lied about his opposition as an Illinois state senator to legislation requiring health officials to provide care to babies who survived abortion. Obama has repeatedly claimed he would have voted for Illinois’ version of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA) had it included language to protect abortion rights guaranteed by Roe v. Wade, as the federal version of the bill did, which sailed through the U.S. Senate 98-0. Contrary to what Obama has said, forgotten records from the Illinois Senate archives show Obama did... townhall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2105699/posts#comment Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:08:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2100615/posts Chicago New Party Update by Bruce Bentley About 50 activists attended the Chicago New Party membership meeting in July. The purpose of the meeting was to update members on local activities and to hear appeals for NP support from four potential political candidates. The NP is being very active in organization building and politics. There are 300 members in Chicago. In order to build an organizational and financial base the NP is sponsoring house parties. Locally it has been successful both fiscally and in building a grassroots base. Nationwide it has resulted in 1000 people committed to monthly contributions. The... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2100615/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 17:34:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091889/posts Obama stretched out his schedule for withdrawing troops from Iraq. During the debate, Obama said we could "reduce" the number of combat troops in 16 months: Obama: "Now, what I've said is we should end this war responsibly. We should do it in phases. But in 16 months we should be able to reduce our combat troops, put – provide some relief to military families and our troops and bolster our efforts in Afghanistan so that we can capture and kill bin Laden and crush al Qaeda." But in Oct. 2007, Obama supported removing all combat troops from Iraq within... FactCheck.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091889/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:33:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091565/posts Please post the lies and gaffes that Obama made.    I know he made one --   Saying "the eight years the Bush administration has concentrated on Iraq." (I'm paraphrasing)   What a farce he is.     Please add the versions of Obama gaffes and detected lies that you heard................. http://www.freerepublic.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091565/posts#comment Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:56:46 GMT