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NBC is furiously erasing its tracks. Any attempts to upload the forbidden SNL bailout skit skewering George Soros and his left-wing subprime schemer friends Herbert and Marion Sandler will likely be squashed. So, I transcribed the whole comedy sketch for you and provided screenshots for the 7-minute video that has disappeared from NBC and Hulu. (Pat Dollard’s blog has posted the full clip on its server. Thanks to Ms. Underestimated for the .wmv file.) THE SCRUBBED SNL VIDEO FROM 10-4-08 ((it wouldn't work on Firefox for me, but did on Explorer))

Soros floats alternative bailout plan with Dems By Alexander Bolton Posted: 09/30/08 11:19 PM [ET] The billionaire financier George Soros, a major Democratic financial backer, is floating his own rescue plan among Democratic lawmakers who are uncertain what to do in the wake of a surprise defeat of a proposed $700 billion rescue package proposed by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson. Soros has outlined his plan in an opinion editorial in the Financial Times and circulated a concept paper among decision-makers. Specifically, the liberal philanthropist has proposed that government funds should be used to recapitalize the American banking system by purchasing...

LONDON (Reuters) - The bankruptcy filing of Lehman Brothers (LEH.N) is another blow for the hedge fund industry, though the writing has been on the wall long enough for many to have reduced their exposure to the U.S. investment bank. Legendary fund manager George Soros, who runs around $18 billion in assets, looks likely to have had his fingers burned after raising his stake in Lehman to 9.5 million shares in the second quarter. A spokesman for Soros Fund Management declined to comment on the composition of their portfolio. British activist hedge fund Algebris will also probably have taken a...

Who Is Funding Barack Obama? by Paul Hollrah In a July 10 installment of “The World According to Barack,” we discussed Obama’s phenomenal fundraising juggernaut. Obama boasts of having built a contributor base of 1.5 million people, each contributing $5, $10, $20...or, as Obama assures us, “whatever they could afford.” Please do the math with me. The Obama campaign has disclosed that one-fourth, or $66.25 million of the $265 million reported as of May 31, 2008 (he has raised an additional $70 million during the month of June), came from those contributing $2,000, or more...which means that the remainder, or...

Hillary Clinton Told YearlyKos Convention She Helped Start Media Matters As NewsBusters reported Sunday, the leftwing organization responsible for the recent smear campaigns against Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly, Media Matters, has direct ties to the Clintons. To be sure, folks on the left, and in the media that support them, will either deny this connection, or ignore it.In the end, that's going to be hard to do, for on August 4, while speaking at the YearlyKos convention in Chicago, the junior senator from New York proudly stated, "institutions that I helped to start and support like Media Matters and...

On the endless go-rounds about illegal immigration I wrote a while back: What if it’s all an illusion, just like the Cinco de Mayo “nationwide protests” by Hispanics was an ‘06 (election year) illusion that had nothing behind it in ‘07 (no elections). What if everyone is being played a little bit, here, being prompted to emotional reactionaryism as a means of reaching into and infecting those Americans of good-will who until the “flashpoint” and the sudden hue-and-cry couldn’t be moved to hate? Moved to grousing, yes, but never before moved to real, unadulterated hate? Illusionists are clever sorts -...

Democracy: George Soros is known for funding groups such as MoveOn.org that seek to manipulate public opinion. So why is the billionaire's backing of what he believes in problematic? In a word: transparency. How many people, for instance, know that James Hansen, a man billed as a lonely "NASA whistleblower" standing up to the mighty U.S. government, was really funded by Soros' Open Society Institute , which gave him "legal and media advice"? That's right, Hansen was packaged for the media by Soros' flagship "philanthropy," by as much as $720,000, most likely under the OSI's "politicization of science" program.

The Left: The smear ad published against Gen. Petraeus has drawn attention to its sponsor, MoveOn.org. But the fingerprints of the group's chief financial backer, George Soros, were all over it. Who is this man and what is he up to? To read Soros' own spun story, he's a Jewish survivor of Nazi-occupied Hungary who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, studied economics in England, became a U.S. citizen in 1961 and made a multibillion-dollar fortune as a financier who pioneered hedge funds. Over the years, Soros has written books giving his philosophical take on global affairs and acquired a...

WASHINGTON — At a White House news conference Thursday, President Bush took the opportunity to drop a political bomb on Democrats, saying they are more afraid of riling extreme wings of their party than of riling the U.S. military. The president was responding to a question about an advertisement run last week by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org, which suggested Multinational Forces in Iraq commander Gen. David Petraeus was falsifying information about the war, under a bold headline, "General Petraeus or General Betray Us?" "I thought the ad was disgusting," Bush told reporters in the White House briefing room Thursday....

WHY DEMOCRATS JUST ABSOLUTELY HATE BEING CALLED ..... I've always being one who likes to get under the skin of the collective left, and glorioski, have I found a way to rattle Democrats. You just refer to their wonderful party as the Democrat Party! Lordy, does this put a burr in their thongs. Well .. now I think I've found out why! A buddy of mine at CNN (who, for obvious reasons, shall remain unnamed) provided me with some interesting information. Joseph J. Ellis wrote a book called "Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation." I ordered my copy this morning. One...

<p>The Federal Election Commission has fined one of the biggest liberal political action committees $775,000 for using unregulated cash to boost Democratic candidates during the 2004 elections.</p> <p>America Coming Together (ACT) raised $137 million for its get-out-the-vote effort in 17 states in the 2004 elections, but the FEC found most of that cash came through contributions that violated federal limits or were otherwise barred by campaign rules.</p>

Media Matters For America was created by David Brock, a self-described “hit man,” self-confessed liar, and gossip peddler. His past casts a shadow over his current self-proclaimed dedication to truth-telling. Previously he viciously attacked Clintons and Bushes, Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, Rush Limbaugh and National Public Radio, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. Each time he recants a prior assault he lunges out at a new political enemy. Brock puts himself in the position of someone who says, “I’m a liar. Believe what I tell you.” Journalist Christopher Hitchens wrote Brock “is incapable of recognizing the...

Wealthy philanthropic foundations are helping bankroll the pro-immigration movement, while groups advocating for tighter control of U.S. borders say they take a more grass-roots approach to raising money. The Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation and Democratic activist George Soros are among the liberal funders that have donated millions of dollars to pro-immigration groups, as the Senate continues its debate on a contentious bill that would overhaul the nation's immigration policy. Three of the nation's biggest and most influential pro-immigration groups -- the National Immigration Forum, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and the National Council of...

RAISING THE NEGATIVES: The Democrats Plan to Win in ‘08 By MHGinTN and grey_foxx39 In the 2006 election, Limbaugh and even the President thought that the base was going to be there supporting like they always do. But, that didn’t happen. WHY? Because the power rests with the people who vote. posted by Pan_Yans Wife Let’s take a moment to address that simple truth. What platform issues encourage people so they make the effort to vote and be counted in the determination of our future leadership? … Oh, wait! That’s not how elections are won or lost in this era...

According to liberal Democrats, their loyal press and their mindless minions across the country, none of whom care about the facts, they were “elected” by Americans in 2006 for the purpose of “saving America” from those corrupt Republicans who have been busy “selling America” to lobbyists and foreign interests. The problem with their story is, according to official Federal Election Commission reports, it isn’t supported by the hard facts. During the study years running from 1990 through 2006, here are the real facts concerning who is selling America for political contributions…

According to this (via Digg) House Speaker Pelosi is quietly going back on her word and conducting a kind of push poll to drum up support for impeachment. Looks like it needs a serious freepin'! 1-202-225-0100

The Washington Post made a big splash today with a story linked by almost everyone that said congressional Democrats had backed down on Iraq withdrawal timetable after their failure to override President Bush's veto which struck it down. In a possible continuance of the congressional Dems' jostling with the Washington Post after their complaints against Post columnist David Broder, Democratic leaders are denying that they have caved to liberal blogger Joshua Marshall: [T]he offices of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid are denying a Washington Poststory today saying that Congressional Democrats have backed down to the White House by offering to...

Today’s Democrat Party has reduced itself to the most anti-American organization in the world, yet the American press has yet to question a single outright lie, shine a light on the wholesale bribery used to buy the anti-American votes calling for retreat, surrender and defeat in the war on terror, or point out a single overt act of treason, now common place among liberal Democrats. (SNIP) It isn’t a “bi-partisan” bill at all. It narrowly passed with a 51-46 vote in the senate with only two (2) Republicans voting YEA, Hagel (R-NE) and Smith (R-OR), and only one (1) Democrat...

Liberal Democrats are attempting to muzzle conservative talk radio: they are assaulting free speech. Like the communists in the former Soviet Union, America’s liberals seek to crush dissent by consolidating control over the media—especially talk radio, which has emerged as the dominant medium for conservative opinion. Allies close to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi are promoting legislation, which if passed, will take off the air prominent conservative radio hosts such as Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly—along with thousands of smaller conservative broadcasters. The bill, entitled the "Media Ownership Reform Act," is sponsored by Rep. Maurice Hinchey, a...

Republicans, This Is Why You MUST Vote!Written by Doc FarmerMonday, November 6 2006ChronWatch.com Tomorrow is Election Day. The miracle provided to you by the Founding Fathers in 1776, and protected and preserved for you by the blood of our best. A miracle that most Americans, sadly, take for granted. Don't be one of those who take it for granted. Especially if you're a rep/con/tair -- my more accurate term for the so-called "right". An amalgam of the core political constructs of Republicans, conservatives and libertarians. For many, many months, you've been told that the lib/dem/soc/commies (my more accurate term for...

There's been a lot of speculation this campaign season about who our terrorist enemies might actually want to see win the elections next Tuesday. Thanks to the courageous and enterprising work of WND's Jerusalem bureau chief, Aaron Klein, we don't have to speculate anymore. Some of the senior leaders of terrorist organizations in the Middle East have spoken out – given their endorsements, if you will – on the record. And the winners of their support are … the Democrats. Why isn't this surprising? Because deep in our hearts, we knew it all the time. It makes perfect sense, doesn't...

The comments made by Sen. John Kerry this week, disparaging the intelligence and abilities of U.S. troops serving in Iraq, were revolting. But they hardly were surprising. The latest remarks by Kerry follow those by his colleague, Democrat Sen. Dick Durbin in June 2005 when he compared American troops to "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags or some mad regime – Pol Pot or others – that had no concern for human beings." There are two motivations for cut-and-run Democrats to make outrageous comments like these. One is that they are so unprincipled in their quest for power that they will...

DNC Goes Into Debt to Fund Effort to Take Over Congress By Greg Giroux 43 minutes ago It may have taken a $4 million loan for them to do it, but the fundraisers at the Democratic National Committee (DNC) actually outdid their usually more prolific partisan counterparts at the Republican National Committee (RNC), in pre-election campaign finance reports covering the first 18 days of October. The DNC, which trailed the RNC — and often by wide margins — through most of the cycle, reported $10.2 million in receipts from Oct. 1 to 18 to $8.4 million for the GOP committee,...

The Democrats have begun their campaign to frighten voters before the fall elections. It's nothing but a replay of past elections, the only difference being that they seem to be starting the scare tactics a bit early this year. I guess you can't blame them. Nothing else has worked. The tried to hand the Florida election problems on Bush. No go. Then it was the economy, and that didn't work either. They gave a stab at the "Bush is stupid" routine, but Americans aren't buying it. Enron looked worse for Clinton than it did for Republicans, so the Social Democrats...

Washington -- Even more than fighting a contest of ideas with Republicans, Rep. Nancy Pelosi is waging a multimillion-dollar fundraising battle intended to produce a Democratic House majority in the Nov. 7 midterm elections. As the minority leader, Pelosi is the chief fundraiser for the party's national campaign effort, a job that has taken on increased importance in a year when the cost of races in all 435 House districts already has exceeded $700 million. Along with success at the polls, her job has involved making sure that Democrats in close contests have enough money to compete with Republicans who...

Blog | Talk Radio Online | Columnists | Your Opinion | The News | Photos | Funnies | Books & Movies | Issues | Action Center The Democrats' contract with America By Ben Shapiro Wednesday, October 25, 2006 Democrats claim they have consistently lost elections over the past six years based on their inability to define a platform. Democrats were for the war before they were against it; they were for social security reform before they were against it; they were for sexual impropriety by politicians (Bill Clinton, Gerry Studds, Barney Frank) before they were against it (Mark Foley); they...

Charles at LGF sends word that left-leaning Google has now registered a political action committee. The Guardian writes: Google’s PAC will be run by a five-person board of directors who will be guided by the recommendations of an advisory committee made up of Google employees. It will raise its funds through voluntary donations from staff. But judging from the fact that in the past Google employees have been involved with leftwing groups such as MoveOn.org, it will be very interesting to see where that cash is headed. As noted last year: Google employees gave $207,650 to federal candidates for last...

Pelosi Doesn't Understand War on Terror, Hastert Says By Susan Jones CNSNews.com Senior Editor October 24, 2006 (CNSNews.com) - The United States cannot win the global war on terror if U.S. leaders don't understand it -- and Rep. Nancy Pelosi does not understand it, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said on Tuesday. Hastert -- who holds the job that Pelosi is eager to assume -- was reacting to Pelosi's remarks on the CBS program "60 Minutes." He said her comments should serve as a "bellwether" for the American people. "Democrat Leader Pelosi would trust the terrorists to give up their objective...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More American Muslims are now supporting the Democratic Party but their votes should not be taken for granted, an Islamic civil rights group said on Tuesday. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, released a poll of 1,000 registered Muslim voters in the United States it said showed the community has changed a great deal since supporting Republicans in 2000. The poll found 42 percent of respondents were Democrats and 17 percent Republican, while some 28 percent had no party affiliation, said CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad. "It shows that Muslim community votes should not be taken...

Randy Graf vs. the Soros $$$ machine, a discredited RINO, and the open borders lobby Wes Vernon Wes Vernon October 23, 2006 Voters in Arizona's 8th Congressional District have an opportunity to send someone to Congress who shares their pro-American values. These people — living right up against the border — have been on the front lines in the war against the invasion of this country by Mexico. Yes, invasion by Mexico, whose government (because of its corruption, incompetence, and Marxist-tinged economic policies) has millions of its people living in abject poverty. So Mexican authorities have a solution. Not a...

Testing a Theory... By now, we have all seen this business where the Media Dinosaurs are touting the upcoming midterm elections as already in the bag for the Democrats. But, we are also starting, just this week, to see stories disputing that assumption. Rove and Bush are said to be strangely buoyant and upbeat about the chances of the GOP keeping their majorities. Several pundits and magazines as well as some pollsters are beginning to say that, while the GOP will lose some seats, the Party won't lose all power in some great midterm Democratic landslide. So the question becomes,...

Buying Power: Billionaire Democratic Party sugar daddy George Soros is stiffing congressional candidates this year so he can fund more cerebral liberal causes. But this self-styled political philosopher is no towering intellect himself. Soros might be best known for spending nearly $30 million in vain trying to oust President Bush from the White House in 2004, but what the cocksure hedge fund tycoon enjoys the most is lecturing America on its shortcomings. Last week, he blamed North Korea's nuclear test on the president because George W. Bush had called Kim Jong Il's regime part of the Axis of Evil. "We...

"Values’ Voters Fade as Factor in U.S. Campaign,” crows an October 17 Reuters headline. If this is true, it isn’t happening by accident. With the November elections looming, the biggest players in the mainstream media are casting aside objectivity to mount an all-out effort to discourage values voters from going to the polls.

It would appear that the left's confidence in a Democratic election victory is slipping and they plan to respond as totalitarians always do when their pretense of mass support is punctured: Crank up the conspiracy theories and take to the Streets. As Lyn Davis Lear (a lefty elitist if there ever was one) says: "Here are some questions: Are these guys simply narcissistic idiots Rove-ing around in some never-never land bubble or do they know something we don’t? Have they planned a grab bag nose punch of an October/November surprise? Or have Diebold, ES&S, and local state secretaries assured them...

Lyn Davis Lear is worried. As Mrs. Norman Lear writes in the Huffington Post, President Bush, Karl Rove and Vice President Cheney appear awfully confident of retaining a Congressional majority. This, despite the fact the mainstream media merrily reports every poll suggesting a huge Democratic victory, if not a landslide, is only two weeks away. Mrs. Lear frets that Republicans are planning an election eve surprise, or may win by spending so much more than their opponents. Then again, maybe they're planning to just steal the election. Gore Vidal suggested to her that "the Bush-Cheney henchmen could simply call on...

Under the U.S. Constitution, in the case of an event that eliminates or disables the President and Vice President, the Speaker of the House becomes President.  Nancy Pelosi could become the Speaker of the House, and as such, be the third in line to the most powerful office in the world.  That friends is a frightening, sobering, and terrifying thought. Now, to make you feel better, Nancy Pelosi has said that she will not seek impeachment against President Bush.  I certainly feel "better," just like when Bill Clinton assured America "I did not have sex with that woman!"  Before...

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While it may appear that Republicans generally are getting hammered in a wide variety of polls going into this last month before the November mid-term elections, what is almost never explained by the pollsters, or their media conspirators, is that the polling data is deliberately skewed to favor the Democratic outcome. (Gee, who would have guessed?)The scam is a simple, yet thoroughly devious one. The polling service simply "samples" a disproportionately large number of Democrats versus Republicans in its poll. Taking as an accurate generalization that Democrats poll one way for the most part, and Republicans another for the most...

Cindy Sheehan became an instant liberal-media celebrity when she held a vigil outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas and demanded to meet with him (a second time) over the death of her son Casey in Iraq. But is the liberal media only about creating the legend and leaving the negative details out? MRC's Justin McCarthy reported that on Wednesday's "Fox and Friends," Melanie Morgan and Catherine Moy, authors of the book American Mourning, said they found Sheehan was paid by John Kerry's campaign in 2004 to speak out against President Bush. Said Morgan: "We have Federal Election Commission documents....

Senator Barack Obama, the first-term Illinois Democrat who has rapidly emerged this year as one of the most popular figures in his party, said today that he was considering running for the White House in 2008, a shift in position that he said was in response to many Democrats pressing him to join the field... Mr. Obama opposes the war in Iraq and thus could provide an alternative for Democrats who have expressed strong concern about Mrs. Clinton's support of the war effort... Mr. Obama made his remarks in an interview with Tim Russert on "Meet the Press" on NBC,...

The Democrats are on fire this election season. They smell victory -- or perhaps that smell is Senator Harry Reid's land deals. Or could it be the smell of voter fraud? In their effort to gain control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, they are doing anything and everything including their old standbys: registering the dead, minors and illegal aliens. In St. Louis, Missouri, Election Board officials say they've discovered at least 1,492 "potentially fraudulent" voter registration cards -- including three from dead people and one from a 16-year-old -- among the thousands pouring in before today's voter...

A plan is in place to censure and impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Orchestrated and organized by the radical Left and Congressman John Conyers, Jr., this plan is ready to go should the Democratic Party take control of the House of Representatives in November. The plan is the ultimate manifestation of left-wing hatred for George W. Bush rooted in the contentious election of 2000. Since failing to defeat Bush in 2004, the Left has focused its efforts on destroying his presidency by assembling a list of charges aimed at impeaching him. Impeachment plans began seriously coalescing in 2005,...

I'm not sure when this started, but a crucifix cross* appears to have become a regular part of Hillary Clinton's wardrobe. She wore a gold one July 20, for a speech criticizing advertising directed at children. No picture available.) And she wore the diamond-studded one pictured above to the News last week. A Google Images search doesn't seem to turn up any others, though whenever you think you've noticed something new about Clinton, her aides usually produce rock-solid evidence that it has always been thus. Clinton's Christianity, while never exactly lapsed, has rarely been forefront; noticing the jewelry doesn't...

As a retiree and political independent, I study a lot of commentary about military and political subjects, from far left to far right but mostly in between. I offer below some summary conclusions from this study, in the 450 words allowed, for those who get their news and views from the liberal media. The Democratic Party, with massive help from the liberal media, academics and labor union leaders, has become a dysfunctional gang of dysfunctional minority groups and anti-war, anti-American, left-wing special interests. This gang is led by incoherent social elitists and Marxists who are undermining everything the government is...

The Minority Leader is in a pickle. A former staffer became a whistle-blower, and revealed shady details involving a land transaction that netted a cool mil. Today, the ML declared that he was reimbursing his campaign war chest for funds which had been converted to pay personal expenses. That is illegal, and the ML knows it. Still, according to the ML, it’s not his fault. Reid labeled the AP story as the “latest attempt” by Republicans to affect the election. AP reported last week that it learned of the land deal from a former Reid adviser who had concerns about...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 17, 2006 CONTACT: Brendan Daly/Jennifer Crider 202-226-7616 Pelosi Statement on Signing of Military Commissions Bill Washington, D.C.– House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on the military commissions bill that President Bush signed into law this morning: “Democrats voted overwhelmingly to go to war in Afghanistan so that those responsible for the 9/11 attacks would be brought to justice. More than five years later, because of the failure of the Bush Administration to devise a legal process that could withstand the scrutiny of the Supreme Court, not a single person who planned the...

With all of the threads on books and hit pieces attempting to 'split' the conservative base, such as David Kuo's new book claiming that President Bush makes fun of Christians, I felt it was important to put this into the context of the Democrat's political strategy. This video is from New Politics, a DNC marketing group. This outlines how to quickly publish progressive political books (see, right before the election) and how to use viral market strategy to get the word out. http://www.newpolitics.net/content_areas/videos/?series=108 Specifically, focus on the areas regarding marketing and how these books can be used to influence the...

by Mark Finkelstein October 16, 2006 - 17:58 Doth Chris Matthews protest too much? Interviewing James Baker on this afternoon's 'Hardball' about his new book on a life in politics, Matthews raised the risk a political party fracturing in the course of a presidential primary campaign: "How do you hold your party together when you have people, secular candidates like John McCain who's often in that [guest] chair, and Rudy Giuliani running against Brownback, and people like that, Frist and George Allen perhaps, who are real cultural conservatives?" Baker: "We hold it together the same way that you hold your...

The nation's economy has encountered its shares of bumps this year, and voters are uneasy. They've seen the value of their homes drop and surging prices for energy and other goods take a big cut out of their paychecks. In the face of these uncertain economic times, they think Democrats can do a better job handling the economy. Never mind that gasoline prices have started dropping, that the value of their 401(k)s rises with each new Dow Jones industrial average record, and that the interest rates on their credit cards and adjustable mortgages have leveled off for now. The nation's...

Once again showing their inability to recognize clear and present danger to the United States, even when it hits them in the face, one of the Democrats’ feckless spokesmen opened his monotone mouth—again on Sunday. As North Korea looms in the forefront of increasingly insane third-world despotic states, Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) has decided (along with his Democrat brethren) that this is another of his “just-the-right-times” to again bash President Bush and blame him for yet another Democrat failure. Note: The original North Korea failure was, of course, due to the inept Clinton Administration’s understanding of the true meaning of...