11:57 PM

Bob Novak Dies

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Columnist Bob Novak has passed away after battling cancer for over a year.

The Chicago Sun Times remembers Novak:

WASHINGTON — Chicago Sun-Times columnist Robert Novak, one of the nation's most influential journalists, who relished his "Prince of Darkness" public persona, died at home here early Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer.

"He was someone who loved being a journalist, loved journalism and loved his country and loved his family," Novak's wife Geraldine told the Chicago Sun-Times.

The left showed its usual intolerance towards people with differing opinion - American Power - Reactions on the Left

7:56 PM

Hamas Distributer CNN Caught Peddling a Hoax

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Paliwood at its finest!


Confederate Yankee details the hoax:

But what marks this story as a hoax, and what elements point to media collusion in promoting this video as propaganda? Please watch the video above again, and we'll go through those elements step-by-step.

They are:

 * basic medical procedures are poorly faked
 * known propaganda actors are used in this film
 * the site of the attack is poorly-constructed and inconsistent with a military attack.
 * the body doesn't act like a body

CNN has pulled the video but left a transcript of the events in its place. This is the same organization that hid Saddam's atrocities in order to maintain media access to these thugs. There is no bar they will not crawl under in order to maintain a working relationship with terrorist organizations.

9:44 PM

10 Silver Stars

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Fox News reports: US Military Unit Earns 10 Silver Stars

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Capt. Kyle Walton remembers pressing himself into the jagged stones that covered the cliff in northeast Afghanistan.

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Months later, Walding wants back on the team even though he lost a leg. Morales walks with a cane.

The raid, the soldiers say, proved there will be no safe haven in Afghanistan for terrorists. As for the medals, the soldiers see them as emblems of teamwork and brotherhood. Not valor.

"When you go to help your buddy, you're not thinking, 'I am going to get a Silver Star for this,"' Walding said. "If you were there, there would not be a second guess on why."


Heroes all. Well done and thank you for your service.

3:21 PM

Interview with Al Jazeera

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It is interesting who strikes up a conversation with you in the Press Filing Center:


Myself and Marathon Pundit were both interviewed by a roving reporter for Al-Jazeera English.

8:29 PM

I Cannot Tell A Lie

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.....unless my name is John Edwards.

Former presidential hopeful John Edwards admitted to an affair Friday with his former videographer, Rielle Hunter, though he firmly denied tabloid reports that he is the father of her child.

Edwards released a statement late in the day saying he made a "serious error in judgment," after telling ABC News' Nightline in an interview scheduled to be broadcast Friday night that he repeatedly lied about the affair during his failed presidential campaign.



If he was capable of repeatedly lying about this affair, we are now to believe him when he claims the child is NOT his? Uh huh - show me the paternity result excluding Edwards as the father.

11:08 PM

PC Absurdity in NYC

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9/11 relatives asked to remove U.S. Flag:



I could see this happening in West Chester, Pa.

H/T: Lady Sheepdog

8:23 PM

Great Letter To The Editor - Philly Inquirer

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I found this gem of a Letter To Editor in the Philadelphia Inquirer:


Racial Divisiveness

A local Barack Obama team leader hysterically warned about an imminent onslaught of racist attacks against the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee (Letters, June 25). But the racial divisiveness against Obama has come from within the Democratic establishment itself: the recent "off-mike" comments of former Democratic presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson and the troubling cover art from Democrat-friendly New Yorker magazine.

In the interest of a respectful and honest dialogue during this election, campaign team leaders should renounce their fear-mongering tactics about race and start looking in the mirror. Maybe some honest introspection will cure this psychological projection.


Now it seems the racial divide is deepening, and it is not coming from the so-called GOP Attack Machine, as Karen Porter so described it in her LTE on June 25.

Jackson uses the "N-Word"

CBS 2 Chief Correspondent Jay Levine reports that, although Jackson did not directly address the slur he used in a conversation he believed was private, he apologized Wednesday "...for the pain and sorrow that I have caused as a result of my hurtful words."

The words, leaked to and posted Wednesday on the TVNewser blog, were from the same hot-mic conversation in a Fox News Channel studio that got him into hot water last week.

While waiting for an interview on the "Fox & Friends" news show earlier this month, Jackson said "see Barack been um, talkin' down to black people, on this faith based … I want to cut his n--s out."

Those comments first aired on Bill O'Reilly's program on Fox News, but the network decided not to air another portion of the same conversation, when Jackson used a more controversial n-word, completing the sentence: "Barack...he's talking down to black people ... telling n-----s how to behave."


Let us call out the race-baiters for whom they are, instead of deflecting the debate with politically expedient bogeymen during an election cycle.

8:10 PM

Farewell, Tim Russert

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Tim Russert, host of NBC's "Meet the Press" and its Washington bureau chief collapsed and died at work Friday after suffering an apparent heart attack. He was 58. Russert, of Buffalo, N.Y., took the helm of the Sunday news show in December 1991 and turned it into the most widely watched program of its type in the nation. His signature trait there was an unrelenting style of questioning, sparing none of the politicians, business giants and even sports figures who appeared on his show.




H/T: Flopping Aces


A real go getter reporter, he will be missed.

9:12 PM

Time 100 Finalists for 2008

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Meet Rain

Go HERE and vote for RAIN in Time Magazine's online "Most Influential People in the World' Poll.

Do you really want Steven Colbert , Jon Stewart or Hilary Clinton to take the lead from Rain? After watching the videos below, I don't think you would want that either.



4:04 PM

Compare and Contrast

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Two stories this weekend have peaked my interest - saddam not withstanding. They both revolve around the concept of ‘free expression’. Each story offers a contrasting viewpoint of how best to protect and promote freedom of expression.

In Venezuela, Chavez claims the role of sole arbiter of what constitutes a threat to national dignity and independence:

 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said he will not renew the licence for the country's second largest TV channel which he says expires in March 2007.
In an address to troops, Mr Chavez said he would not tolerate media outlets working towards a coup against him.

Radio Caracas Television, which is aligned with the opposition, supported a strike against Mr Chavez in 2003. "There will be no new operating licence for this coupist TV channel called RCTV. The operating licence is over... So go and turn off the equipment," Mr Chavez said.

Mr Chavez said the channel was "at the service of coups against the people, against the nation, against national independence, against the dignity of the republic".

In Iraq, members of the US Airborne division have worked together with local Iraqi’s to build a radio station where once there was none. The Mayor of Balad Ruiz notes that “This is a free station, the people can say what they want, and they can speak freely.” No mention of was made of shutting down any news outlet to better protect the citizens.

BALAD RUIZ, Iraq -In a city where there is no means for releasing information to its people, coalition forces have developed a project to give the people a chance at free speech.The ribbon cutting ceremony for the Al Noor radio station, also known as the The Light, located here, opened its doors to many with high hopes and happy faces from the Iraqi Army and police department as well as city officials of Balad Ruz and members of the 5-73 Cavalry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division. "This is a great day for Balad Ruiz and its people," said Mayor Mohammed Maroof Al-Hussein, city mayor. "I think this is a new stage for our city and a new way to serve our people."This is a free station," he continued. "The people can say what they want, they can speak freely."

"This is a pro-government radio station that counters what terrorists are saying," said Pratt. "It also lets the people know what the coalition forces are doing in their area to help them.


I find these two articles to be a great litmus test for an individuals political leanings concerning free speech.

Those who support the Chavez-Sheehan power coupling would find no fault in Chavez’s actions.

Others to the right of this power couple applaud the tenacity and hard work that the good guys are doing in Iraq in the name of democracy.

Where do you stand?

6:00 AM

Inquirer Front Page ~ December 31, 2006

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Hmmm...Saddam's last words don't jive with the Inquirer's claim - translation via Healing Iraq

Saddam (as the noose is put around his neck): Ya Allah (Oh God).

Someone in the audience: Mercy be on those who pray for Mohammed and the household of Muhammed (Everyone repeats the prayer, including Saddam) -

Executioner and two people in the audience: ... And hasten his return (the Mahdi), curse his enemy and grant victory to his son, Muqtada, Muqtada, Muqtada! (This is a common Sadrist chant.)

Saddam (smirking): Muqtada? Is this your manhood? (unclear)

NSA Muwafaq Al-Rubai'i: To Hell!

Saddam: (laughing) ... disgrace to you. (unintelligible)

Prosecutor Munqidh Al-Far'awn: Please, no.

Muwafaq Al-Rubi'i: Longlive Mohammed Baqir Al-Sadr!

Someone in the audience: To Hell!

Prosecutor Munqidh Al-Far'awn: No. Please, no. I beg you.

Saddam (solemnly recites the Shahada prayer): I witness that there is no god but Allah, and that Mohammed is the messenger of Allah. I witness that there is no god but Allah, and that Mohammed is the- (trap door is opened).

Audience: Prayers for Mohammed and the household of Muhammed.Someone: The tyrant has fell. May Allah's curse be upon him.

Someone: May Allah's curse be upon him. (commotion in the hall)

Someone: No. No. Stay back.

Someone: Leave him for 8 minutes, boys. Don't take him down.

Someone: Everyone. Stay back. Everyone. Back.


Was the Inquirer attempting to mislead its readership with its banner headline of Saddam's last words? If so, how else has the Inquirer mislead its readership in regards to the story of Iraq? Inquiring minds want to know.

12:08 AM

AP reports former President Gerald Ford Dies

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Former President Ford dead at 93


"My family joins me in sharing the difficult news that Gerald Ford, our beloved husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather has passed away at 93 years of age," Mrs. Ford said in a brief statement issued from her husband's office in Rancho Mirage. "His life was filled with love of God, his family and his country."

9:39 PM

It's about TIME....

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With tremendous gratitude to Wordsmith for creating this masterpiece.

10:45 PM

Free Jamil Gholaiem Hussein

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Curt responds to the New York Times :
For bloggers who believe that the media has been drawing false pictures of mayhem in Iraq, the insistence of the American military and Iraqi officials that the burning incident appeared to be a mere rumor was proof that their suspicions were correct. “Getting the News From the Enemy” was how the Flopping Aces blog (floppingaces.net) tracked the developing face-off between the military and A.P.

Iraq’s interior ministry wielded the article like a bludgeon and used it as an opportunity to create a press monitoring unit that suggested, in no uncertain terms, that reporters in Baghdad should come to its press officers for “real, true news.” A ministry spokesman promised “legal action” — whatever that might mean — against journalists who publish information the agency deemed wrong.


That may seem patently absurd.

Curt nails the NY Times rebuke to the wall with the following remarks:

Now that my friends is called spin. The Iraqi's set up a unit so that the press could be assured that the official spokesmen that these reporters like to quote so much are in fact who they say they are. What's absurd is the notion that this wrong and somehow restricting their freedoms. Is it too much to ask that the media quote REAL police officers?

Yeah, so ludicrous that they still cannot prove to anyone that Capt. Jamil Hussein is a living breathing person because we sure the hell know that he is no police Capt. Is ludicrous that the AP even expects us to swallow this crap. The author of this article fails to note that when the reporters went back they found 3 witnesses, all unnamed. How convenient. It's also convenient that the bodies are already buried. It's convenient that even the family members of the supposed dead can't be found. All they have is 3 unnamed witnesses, 1 witness who recanted, and a imaginary police Captain.

The agenda is to force our MSM to own up to their partisan and biased reporting.....period.

ANY QUESTIONS?

10:52 PM

Taqiyya and the MSM

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Flopping Aces featured on a Day By Day Cartoon
Congratulations Curt, you so richly deserve this recognition :)


In the light of Flopping Aces revelation regarding news outlets using stringers sympathetic to terrorists causes to create a picture of exaggerated mayhem in Iraq; let's review the Islamic concept of 'taqiyya' (fear, guard against):

In the Hadith Volume 5 , Book 59, Number 369, we see Mohamed make a specific provision for Muslims to lie if it will help them to kill an enemy.

Allah's Apostle said, "Who is willing to kill Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?" Thereupon Muhammad bin Maslama got up saying, "O Allah's Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?" The Prophet said, "Yes," Muhammad bin Maslama said, "Then allow me to say a (false) thing (i.e. to deceive Kab). "The Prophet said, "You may say it."


This idea of deception is repeated in the al-queda terrorist manual. The following section echoes and reinforces the findings at Flopping Aces:

Lesson 18: Prison and Detention Centers.

A directive lists one mission as "spreading rumors and writing statements that instigate people against the enemy."

If captured, the manual states, "At the beginning of the trial ... the brothers must insist on proving that torture was inflicted on them by state security before the judge. Complain of mistreatment while in prison."
This past weekend media outlets worldwide reported this AP story:

BAGHDAD - Revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left prayers yesterday, drenched them with kerosene, and burned them alive while Iraqi soldiers did nothing to stop the attack, police and witnesses said. At least 87 bodies were found across Iraq yesterday. Police Capt. Jamil Hussein said Iraqi soldiers at a nearby army post failed to intervene in the burnings of Sunnis, carried out by suspected members of the Shiite Mahdi Army militia, or in the torching of four Sunni mosques and slaying of at least 19 other Sunnis, including women and children, in the same northwest Baghdad area.

Through Curt's diligent efforts, it has been revealed by Centcom that Capt. Jamil Hussein, the one and only source for alot of this mayhem reporting is NOT a employee of the Ministry of Interior nor is he a police Capt. Additionally, The Multinational Force confirms that only one mosque was attacked not four as reported by AP:
Contrary to recent media reporting that four mosques were burned in Hurriya, an Iraqi Army patrol investigating the area found only one mosque had been burned in the neighborhood.Soldiers from the 6th Iraqi Army Division conducted a patrol in Hurriya Friday afternoon in response to media reports that four mosques were being burned as retaliation for the VBIED attacks in Sadr City on Thursday.

Has the MSM been punked by taqiyya-practicing Muslims? Or has the media adopted the tactics of this ancient Islamic tradition to spread their own ideology?

UPDATE: The AP has responded to this challenge of the veracity of their story by declaring it "frankly ludicrous".

8:33 PM

A Bias at BBC?

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A Bias at the BBC?

An internal British Broadcasting Corporation memo reveals senior figures admitted the national news agency was guilty of promoting left-wing views and anti-Christian sentiment.
News of the memo, reported by British media, comes as the BBC continues to struggle against claims of biased reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and distorted coverage of the global fight against terror, reports the Israeli YnetNews.com.


The admissions of bias were made at a recent "impartiality" summit the BBC held. Most executives admitted the corporation's representation of homosexuals and ethnic minorities was unbalanced and disproportionate, YnetNews.com said. The British news agency, the report said, leaned too strongly towards political correctness, the overt promotion of multiculturalism, anti-Americanism and discrimination against the countryside.


At the summit, executives were given a fictitious scenario in which they were asked to make a judgment.
In the illustration, Jewish comedian Sasha Baron Cohen would participate in a studio program in which guests were allowed to symbolically throw in a garbage bin things they hated. What would you do, the executives were asked, if Cohen decided to throw kosher food, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bible and the Quran in the trash. Everything would be allowed, the executives said, except for the Quran, for fear of offending the British Muslim community.


The BBC also revealed its executives favored interviewing terrorist leader Osama bin Laden if the opportunity arose, the Washington Times reported.


The executives were presented with a current hot-button issue in Britain, the wearing of Muslim veils. Should a veiled woman be allowed to present the news, they were asked. The BBC's diversity editor said yes, since news anchors were allowed to wear crosses. A senior BBC executive admitted to the British paper Daily Express, "There was a widespread acknowledgement that we may have gone too far in the direction of political correctness. Unfortunately, much of it is so deeply embedded in the BBC's culture, that it is very hard to change it."



Makes one wonder what else is being misrepresentated at the BBC, oh like, maybe the TRUTH about global warming? Or perhaps the full story of Iraq?How long now before the NY Times admits to a bias in its reporting???

11:09 AM

Wallace Interviews Clinton - Let The Fireworks Begin!

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WALLACE: Do you think you did enough, sir?

CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him.

WALLACE: Right.

CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right-wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try. They did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed. When I failed, I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke, who got demoted.

CLINTON: And you’ve got that little smirk on your face and you think you’re so clever. But I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin Laden. I regret it. But I did try. And I did everything I thought I responsibly could.



Wow! A lot of blame being spread around, and large dose of finger waggling happening in this interview. I believe the only people Clinton didn't blame were Mother Teresa and Hilary - probably didn't have enough time during the interview to blame them. The most honest line spoken in this interview ocurred when Clinton acknowledged his failure in capturing OBL. Another disturbing point: Does our intelligence services have to be in complete concurance in order for a democratic president to act? What type of message is this sending - that a democratic president won't act on the behalf of US security issues without such concurrance?

What are your thoughts on this interview? Don't be shy, speak to me.


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