http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/goebbels/ en-us Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:12:57 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344793/posts *NEA conference call full audio and transcript here** Should the National Endowment for the Arts encourage artists to create art on issues being vehemently debated nationally? That is the question that I set out to discuss a little over three weeks ago when I wrote an article on Big Hollywood entitled The National Endowment for the Art of Persuasion?” The question still requires debate but the facts do not. The NEA and the White House did encourage a handpicked, pro-Obama arts group to address politically controversial issues under contentious national debate. That fact is irrefutable. But some have claimed that... Big Government http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2344793/posts#comment Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:12:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312108/posts Me and Google Images http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2312108/posts#comment Sun, 9 Aug 2009 21:30:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2308228/posts If you see anybody publicly opposing President Obama’s plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the health care system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP. From the White House website: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help. If you get an email or see... redstate.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2308228/posts#comment Tue, 4 Aug 2009 21:57:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272918/posts I'm not sure I believe this. Credit to Drudge of course, but reproduced here as Matt's "smoking gun" page gets changed from time to time, and this one is too important to let slip beyond the inevitable 30-second-long public attention span. As far as I am aware this has never happened before in any administration - Democrat or Republican. A free and independent press is one of the legs on which all representative governments rest. If we have lost it, The American Experiment's remaining time is short indeed. UPDATED: I have personally authenticated the purported letter from the RNC via... The Market Ticker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2272918/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:27:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267085/posts You want a blatant example of the Old Media's over-the-top, gobsmacked love affair with Obama? Well, one would be hard pressed not to see Time Magazine's latest piece by Nancy Gibbs as a perfect example of the media ignoring all ills and of projecting only what is wonderful onto the dearly beloved as this piece represents. The lionization of Obama is bad enough, but the selective memory of the writer is even more appalling. Writer Gibbs begins her column trying to "place" Barack Obama in a "cultural map." Most famous people are remembered for a certain place that formed their... NewsBusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2267085/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:42:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255154/posts What could go wrong? Seriously, Tapper’s being a tiny bit paranoid about this in my opinion, but don’t let me stand in the way of a good hand-wringing about Obama starting his own nascent propaganda bureau. Besides, JT’s honest enough to wink at how much the media slobbers over The One: Read the TV pool report: “Your Pool was not allowed to go over and shoot POTUS with the team shooting hoops. We protested loudly.”Now we know why: Obama White House officials decided to do their own media report on the visit, complete with cuts, interviews, and chyrons identifying who’s... HotAir.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2255154/posts#comment Thu, 21 May 2009 01:37:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251511/posts The sitting Speaker of the House of Representatives has accused the CIA of lying to Congress. She is ensnared in a web of conflicting accounts. Her very hold on power could be under a cloud. Meh. Guess we can find some room on A20. But pot pies need to be heated to 165 degrees to be safe? Hold the presses: put it on the front page! Such is the news judgment of the New York Times. The Morning Joe crowd had a field day with Gray Lady and Pelosi’s travails during the show’s opening half-hour today, Joe Scarborough having great... FinkelBlog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2251511/posts#comment Fri, 15 May 2009 13:10:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235866/posts For the first time in years, more Americans than not say the country is headed in the right direction, a sign that Barack Obama has used the first 100 days of his presidency to lift the public's mood and inspire hopes for a brighter future. Intensely worried about their personal finances and medical expenses, Americans nonetheless appear realistic about the time Obama might need to turn things around, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. It shows most Americans consider their new president to be a strong, ethical and empathetic leader who is working to change Washington. Nobody knows how long... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2235866/posts#comment Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:04:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2232388/posts Washington Times - Letter to the Editor 6/7/95 - Arlington Thomas Colton Ruthford During the past several months in the American press, the Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very ironic. I remember the Nazis. Let me share a little about them and recall some of their exploits. First of all, "Nazi" was gutter slang for the verb "to nationalize". The Bieder-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was "The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany". Hitler and... Washington Times Letters To the Editor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2232388/posts#comment Sat, 18 Apr 2009 20:17:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200472/posts A top U.N. official accused the United States of committing inhuman "atrocities" in Iraq and Afghanistan during a speech Wednesday to the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva. "The aggressions against Iraq and Afghanistan and their occupations constitute atrocities that must be condemned and repudiated by all who believe in the rule of law in international relations," said U.N. General Assembly President Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann. • Click here to see the speech. D'Escoto claimed that U.S. actions have directly led to more than a million Iraqi civilian deaths since 2003, a vastly inflated figure that does not correspond with the... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200472/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:07:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185635/posts The traditional newspaper is dying. The Evening Standard has been sold off for a pound to a former KGB agent, the Los Angeles Times is bankrupt and even the New York Times is in trouble. Mexican plutocrat Carlos Slim may become its largest shareholder in return for financing the paper's billion-dollar debt. Except for the financial press, newspapers have failed to convince readers to pay for online access – and there is no reason to think that readers will suddenly succumb to the charms of PayPal. The newspaper bust has been good for one business. Policy wonks have been charging... Al Guardian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185635/posts#comment Sat, 14 Feb 2009 17:08:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167277/posts The Arab fabrications and spinning is now in overdrive, as the terrorist-associated media has article after article each with more ridiculous claims than the one before. Paltoday describes scenes of dead women and children, of course killed with "phosphorus bombs," being eaten by dogs in the streets of Gaza camps. Many terror-supporting doctors are throwing in their expertise in these claims, such as one who said that "white phosphorus kills brain cells" which explains why otherwise lightly injured children are dying. Another "eyewitness" describes how the IDF poured gasoline on his body and threatened to light him up. Of course,... Elder of Ziyon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2167277/posts#comment Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:38:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165629/posts Israeli media reports that Hamas took over the first floor of the building that the BBC offices in Gaza last night and fired rockets from there, trapping the journalists above. Despite the fact that their reporters have now escaped the building, the BBC has so far not said anything about this. When I was interviewed on the BBC last week, I commented on the pervasive intimidation of the MSM in Gaza, which is one of the reasons that there were none there when the hostilities broke out. I pointed out that the last journalist resident in Gaza, Alan Johnston, now... Augean Stables http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165629/posts#comment Fri, 16 Jan 2009 10:20:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159923/posts Ontario's largest university workers union is proposing a ban on Israeli academics teaching in the province's universities, in a move that echoes previous attempts to boycott goods and services from the Jewish state. The resolution, proposed by CUPE's Ontario University Workers Coordinating Committee, is in protest of a Dec. 29 bombing that damaged the Islamic University in Gaza. "In response to an appeal from the Palestinian Federation of Unions of University Professors and Employees, we are ready to say Israeli academics should not be on our campuses unless they explicitly condemn the university bombing and the assault on Gaza in... National Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159923/posts#comment Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:41:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113684/posts Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance. The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with two wars, a scarred global image and a government systematically stripped of its ability to protect and help its citizens — whether they are fleeing a hurricane’s floodwaters, searching for affordable health care or struggling to hold on to their homes, jobs, savings and pensions in the midst of a financial crisis that was foretold and preventable. As tough as the... NYT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113684/posts#comment Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:28:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096359/posts UPDATED CBS News and Knowledge Networks have conducted a nationally representative poll of 473 uncommitted voters to get their immediate reaction to tonight's vice presidential debate. After the first presidential debate, a similar survey showed that more uncommitted voters identified Barack Obama as the winner Final numbers from tonight's poll have yet to come in, but we do have some early results. (These numbers may change as more respondents complete the survey.) They suggest that once again more voters have responded favorably to the Democratic candidate. Forty-six percent of the uncommitted voters surveyed say Democrat Joe Biden won the debate,... CBS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096359/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 04:04:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017751/posts An early review is in for HBO's upcoming movie, Recount, about the Bush-Gore battle in Florida after 2000 election. Gillian Flynn in Entertainment Weekly, which like HBO is part of the Time-Warner family, has described the film, to premiere next Sunday night, as tilted against the Republican characters. In her review in the May 23 edition of the magazine, Flynn asserted: “Recount may not be downright blue, but it's not as purply as it wants to appear.” Saying “Recount is an underdog story, and thus a Democrat story,” Flynn reported that the “Republican players here are coolly calculating -- Tom... newsbusters.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2017751/posts#comment Sun, 18 May 2008 19:53:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981117/posts If you’ve wondered why so many mainstream media stories about Islamic issues omit important details and draw spurious morally equivalent conclusions, wonder no more. They’re doing it on purpose. This was apparently released by the Society of Professional Journalists shortly after the 9/11 attacks: Guidelines for Countering Racial, Ethnic and Religious Profiling. On Oct. 6 at its National Convention in Seattle, the Society of Professional Journalists passed a resolution urging members and fellow journalists to take steps against racial profiling in their coverage of the war on terrorism and to reaffirm their commitment to: — Use language that is informative... Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1981117/posts#comment Thu, 6 Mar 2008 03:26:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973749/posts The U.S. military confirmed yesterday that it was holding an Afghan reporter, Jawad Ahmad [pictured right], because of his extensive ties to the Taliban. Jawad was a stringer for Canadian Television (CTV). Apparently his cell phone had Taliban phone numbers on them and indicated that the journalist had done extensive interviews with them. He also was in possession of Taliban propaganda videos. Have we just met the Afghani Bilal Hussein? Reporters Without Borders, of course, is outraged that a journalist--a journalist!--is being detained. After all, aren't all journalist--journalists!--immune from any and all suspicion? To be honest, this may be one... The Jawa Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1973749/posts#comment Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:04:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923454/posts Remembering Kristallnacht, the 'Night of Broken Glass' By Hilda Pierce November 9, 2007 Crystal Night is a beautiful name for an evil event that took place in Austria and Germany on the night of Nov. 9, 1938. It was orchestrated on the orders of Adolph Hitler's minister of propaganda, Josef Goebbels. Adolf Eichmann also had a part in organizing the “Night of Broken Glass,” the night of burning synagogues, smashing windows of Jewish stores, looting, killing or torturing Jews on the streets and in their homes, 69 years ago today. It is a historical date because it was also the... SignOnSanDiego.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923454/posts#comment Fri, 9 Nov 2007 18:23:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827009/posts LOOSE CHANGE 2: Warning: Contains disturbing scenes. Was 9/11 a government set up? You decide. Everyone's talking about it so we thought you'd like to see the film that started out as a home movie and became one of the most downloaded documentaries of all time. Was 9/11 a government set up? Were the twin towers brought down in a controlled explosion for an insurance payday? These questions and more are posed in this controversial film, seen by millions, derided by many. Now it's your chance to make up your own mind. Virgin Atlantic In-flight video listing http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1827009/posts#comment Wed, 2 May 2007 07:06:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817316/posts Britian's National Union of Journalists has voted at its annual meeting for a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a protest against the Second Lebanon War, the British daily Guardian reported on its Web site Friday evening. The vote was carried 66 to 54 - a result that met with mixed responses from the NJU delegates present. The motion came during a series of motions on international affairs and read: "This ADM [annual delegate meeting] calls for a boycott of Israeli goods similar to those boycotts in the struggles against apartheid South Africa led by trade unions and the... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1817316/posts#comment Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:21:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765484/posts A BBC mole has sent me this briefing for BBC staff from the BBC's Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, on what lies ahead this year. It’s all too predictable. The "fragmentation" of Palestinian society has, in Mr Bowen’s view, nothing to do with the Palestinians and everything to do with Israel (“the death of hope, caused by a cocktail of Israel's military activities, land expropriation and settlement building – and the financial sanctions imposed on the Hamas led government”). Indeed, Israel is to blame for almost everything. The Palestinians are not responsible for anything; Israel is the culpable party. He... Stephen Pollard http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1765484/posts#comment Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:51:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761429/posts Reporting for the Tuesday edition of CNN’s "Newsroom," correspondent Arwa Damon labeled Saddam Hussein’s execution "an act of sheer revenge" and predicted it would have only negative consequences. Damon now joins NBC reporter Richard Engel who last week also described the death of the tyrant as "revenge." Additionally, Ms. Damon characterized the grainy cell phone footage of Hussein’s death as "chilling" and noted that onlookers "taunted" Saddam. The CNN reporter suggested that the execution of the former Iraqi leader would further split the country apart: Arwa Damon: "With Shia chants defining Saddam Hussein's last moments, it turns his execution into... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1761429/posts#comment Tue, 2 Jan 2007 21:14:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1636748/posts FGS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1636748/posts#comment Tue, 23 May 2006 05:23:35 GMT