The problem with racists seems to be...well...their race.

Finding examples of media bias toward liberal viewpoints is about as difficult as finding stink in a month old carton of two percent milk. You, unfortunately, tend to get the same reaction when pointing this bias out to someone as you get when you say "here smell this" to your lovely spouse standing before you with a bowl full of dry Grape Nuts and a spoon. A reaction of indifference to your plight in having been the one to recognize the problem, a bit of irritance (sic) that you feel necessary to share the pain, indignance that you expected anything else to come from the so-called mainstream media or a container of clearly separated, past its prime bit of bovine juice and impatience that there is no quick remedy being proposed.

It was rather fun to run down to the local Whole Foods grocery to pick up a quart of fresh, organic, non-fat milk at an inflated price and listen to the pantheon of left leaning shoppers decry the chain's CEO's op ed piece against The ONE's health care initiative and proposing his own more conservative plan. There are even calls to boycott the haven for the organic food fueled, reusable bag carrying, granola munching crowd.

The milk run was easier than finding an unbiased news report on the recent town hall meetings on my 70 channels of Comcast basic cable. The latest topic du jour for reporters and pundits alike is the rash of anti-Obama, anti-health care militia members bringing their assault weapons to the events.

Let me be clear here: I am a staunch second amendment advocate who in matters of self-defense thinks a fair fight means you didn't bring a big enough gun. That said, it makes no sense to choose the battle of health care to demonstrate your personal viewpoints on this issue by bringing a weapon with you when attending a town hall affair. This move, albeit completely legal, only gives fodder to zealots on the left who will relish it with their morning cereal and herald it along with snap, crackle and pop as further evidence of the lunacy of the protesters.

The reporters pushing this issue prove they have the initiative of your average DMV worker at 4:59 PM on a Friday before a Labor Day Monday by resorting to the tired argument of racism as the motive behind their arming themselves.

Case in point is this report from the ever balanced MSNBC:


There is no doubt this group of concerned media professionals is concerned for the safety of our First African American President of the United States. Honestly, at times I am too; just not for the same reason. There is growing anger in the country toward the President and his marching us toward something that would make the wigs on our founding fathers turn prematurely gray. Soon it may rival the near hysterical and psychotic hatred the left had, and maintains, for George W. Bush. I feared for his safety too.

Where I differ with the dolts from the news post above is that I don't see the issue of race here. They seem to see it everywhere. I guess my first clue that the gun toting protester mentioned doesn't hate The ONE because he is African American is that the gunman too is African American. It took quite a bit of searching but here is a photo of the member of a well maintained and regulate militia:
Maybe this man is against Obama's white roots from his mother's side. Maybe he feels Obama is an Uncle Tom and not Black enough like was said about Clarence Thomas during his hearings when nominated for the Supreme Court. Maybe he is just a self-loathing African American who feels his brother is being uppity and serving the Man.

Maybe the reporters simply ignored the man's race because it didn't serve their purpose. I feel like a broken record in decrying the broken record of using racism as some ever effective kryptonite against any argument that goes against the lock step viewpoints of today's average journalist (sic).

And by lock step I am not claiming they are Nazi-like...blah blah blah blah.

S2

What have you done for me lately?

To listen to the mainstream media talk about the recent Tea Parties, when they weren't making juvenile jokes (Ed note: How does Anderson Cooper KNOW it is hard to speak while teabagging?) rather than discussing the real philosophy behind them.

The protests were not solely anti-democrat. They were not racist. They were not a bunch of ignorant sheep blindly following Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. They were full of bible carrying, gun owning potential terrorists, but that is just Ms. Napolitano's opinions.

Proof that hypocritical Republicans won't get a free ride comes in this video from PalmettoScoop.com taken at a Greenville, SC Tea Party. Congressman J. Gresham Barrett from the state's 3rd District, who voted for the TARP program and for a second stimulus package tried to show how he was "one of us". Overall, his record is fairly good with appropriate votes on many conservative issues. His entire voting record can be found here. But what is evidenced by the reception he received at the tea party is that Republicans don't automatically pull the lever for the candidate with an R by his/her name unlike other well know "voting blocks".

I am speechless

Watching the reporting, when there was any, regarding the Tea Parties (or if you were watching CNN or MSNBC the Teabagging "snicker snicker guffaw" Parties) I actually found myself speechless.

If the media displayed a lack of ability to report, in an unbiased way, news during the election of The ONE, they went completely off the rails yesterday.

Somebody once said there are two sides to every story and I guess there are; there is the truth and then there is, umm, not the truth.

The Media Research Center has links to a dozen examples of media bias. In my own research, I found two examples of how it is not the right wing interested in squelching free speech. Look at how State run USC, claiming to be private property, treats a film maker only interested in asking questions. Then watch how students suppress the speech of an invited guest. You will not the police in this second video are a bit more comfortable with gadflys.

Link:

Now look at how a right wing fanatical protester and public teabagger (said for the benefit of David Shuster) is confronted by a CNN reporter and then look at this same reporter at an anti-Bush rally in New Orleans several years ago.





I can't think of anything to say. Sorry. I will let the geniuses over at Fox's Red Eye say it for me.



S2

It is a slippery slope as Green will be the new Pink

I feel for the DHS classified Right Wing Extremest Tea Party attendees in the Salt Lake area tomorrow. The mountains above our beautiful city are expected to get another two feet of global climate change induced snowfall. This skiable precipitation will be nothing but a cold wet rain in the valley. I suppose the inclement weather will limit attendance of the event to the truly faithful and keep the riff raff to a minimum. I will be doing the 450 mile carbon burning commute to Las Vegas for the day so my attendance will be only in spirit. To those of you going I say carry on and carry an umbrella.

The spring snowfall turns my thoughts to global warming and the manufactured hysteria around this false, anti-capitalist movement. Summer will soon be here along with the warm temperatures we normally have. Heat waves will spawn the usual newspaper and internet headlines of rising sea levels, melting ice caps and mankind's imminent demise.

The "green" movement, having reached the highest levels of our government has inspired a stimulus package filled with incentives for energy saving jobs, energy saving technologies and alternative energy research. The incentives promise us a better tomorrow and a cleaner planet. Unfortunately, a recently released study indicates the move to "greener" jobs will lead to a bitter tomorrow and emptier parking lots at companies. The unemployed who are now training for "green collar" jobs should be prepared to be back in training very soon as their new job will lead to less jobs overall.

Recently, President Obama's Interior Secretary, Ken Salazar, said that the amount of "developable" wind power off the East Coast could produce more energy than all of the coal-fired electric plants in the United States. According to FactCheck.org this statement is full of a bit of globally warmed hot air.

In theory there is enough offshore wind to generate far more electricity than coal plants do. Right now the United States has a total of zero offshore wind farms and, assuming the Kennedys and their Portuguese water dog walking friends in Hyannis Port aren't the only "not in my back yard" citizens on the East Coast, that number likely won't grow to the 3,600 farms it is estimated will be needed to harness and produce enough electricity to replace coal in the near future. To put that number in perspective, we are talking about land based farms that will cover an area the size of the state of Rhode Island.

In an example of how cannibals eat their own, the environmentalist group, Friends of the Earth, have stated that their fellow tree huggers favorite pump product, Biofuels, is producing twice the amount of carbon emissions of the gasoline they are made to replace. As one (most likely) ponytail clad vegetarian member of the group stated, "Trying to cut emissions by adding biofuels to petrol is like trying to cut down on beer by lacing your pints with vodka". I'll agree with him on that point; these green groups drive me to drink, but only in hybrids.

Most disturbing in this age where new coal, oil or nuclear plants are as welcome as Caroline Kennedy at the Vatican, a study of the effects on employment of public monies spent on renewable energy sources in Spain has just been released. In speeches, our President Obama has pointed to the bull running homeland as a solar powered shining example of a green move toward alternative energy. I will admit I haven't read the entire 51 page report but I did gleam this from the executive summary:

"... while it is not possible to directly translate Spain’s experience with
exactitude to claim that the U.S. would lose at least 6.6 million to 11 million
jobs, as a direct consequence were it to actually create 3 to 5 million “green
jobs” as promised (in addition to the jobs lost due to the opportunity cost of
private capital employed in renewable energy), the study clearly reveals the
tendency that the U.S. should expect such an outcome."

What that means in English and Austrian is the expansion of and investment in green jobs actually has a net negative effect. According to the study, Spain spent over 570,000 Euros to create each "green job", including subsidies of more than 1 million Euros per wind industry job. The study cautions against green energy mandates. Duh!

Tomorrow (today for most of you) there will be an estimated 2,000 protest Tea Parties around this great carbon producing country of ours. The numbers in attendance should dwarf those of any recent Earth Day celebrations. Despite this turnout, these parties will be belittled, discounted and made fun of. The attacks have already started on left leaning internet sites and MSNBC. It amazes me that, in the face of overwhelming impact, the mainstream media can ignore this movement while, in the face of underwhelming and often made up "facts", they support the global climate change crowd. Tomorrow, I can hope, will be the tipping point in the economic battle and this will lead to additional victory on the warming front.

While taking back our government, let us also remember, we need to take back our planet.

If you get a chance, pick up a copy of the newly released book "Heaven and Earth" by Ian Plimer. Heaven and Earth is an evidence-based attack on conformity and orthodoxy inspired by the likes of Mr Offset himself, Al Gore. In fact, help the economy, buy two copies and give one to a friend; preferable a liberal one.

S2

Signs of the times

Last night's rambling kept me up later than I would have liked so tonight I'll offer a short commentary on a trend that is sweeping the nation and gaining momentum. No, it isn't wearing your housecoat backward and calling it a "Snuggie sleeve blanket" nor is it wiping up spills with a camping towel and calling it a Sham Wow! By the way, if I get any more emails from either of these to spamalot companies I will scream!

Sweeping the country are organized and peaceful protests about the actions being taken by the First African American president of the United States. The ONE and his practices of spending enough money to buy all the tea in China is drawing the ire of regular folks in cities big and small. These citizens are raising Cain like a tempest in a teapot and, with the help of bloggers and talk radio, are letting their voices be heard.

I normally share Groucho Marx's "I won't belong to any club that would have me" philosophy but I am hoping to be in a city where one of these demonstrations is brewing for I will join in. My cup is running over with fury about the direction the country is going. It is time we all dipped our teabags into the warm waters of political debate. Papers are covering the protests on a local basis but the National media seems lukewarm to the idea of covering this hot topic.

Glenn Beck will be having an event on March 13th (I think that is the date) but check at your local right wing fanatical super secret clubhouse for a rally in your hometown area. Or you could head over to MichelleMalkin.com as she seems to have tons of links to organizers all over the country.

If you want to see what a motivated and peacefully pissed off electorate looks like go here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. I think you get the idea by now. GET INVOLVED!