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"It is now a two-person race between Hoffman and Democrat Bill Owens with Scozzafava fading badly."
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Brent Bozell was hardly alone yesterday in touting new polls showing a surge for conservatism in reaction to Barack Obama's forever-lengthening statist agenda. Also making the rounds is Nile Gardiner's blog for the Telegraph (of the UK) suggesting President Obama has failed to defeat American conservatism:
This week’s striking Gallup poll on political ideology is further confirmation that the United States is in essence a conservative nation, which has ironically become even more conservative under Barack Obama. According to Gallup, 40 percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, 36 percent as moderate and 20 percent as liberal. This is the first time conservatives have outnumbered moderates in America since 2004...
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A senior White House advisor on Tuesday told Campbell Brown that Fox News is biased, but refused to comment when the CNN host asked her,"Well, then do you also think that MSNBC is biased?"
"I don't want to generalize..."
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Is it a requirement at MSNBC that program hosts interrupt conservative guests whenever possible thereby preventing anyone other than liberals to make a point?
It was so bad that by the end of the segment, when O'Donnell said, "We're out of time. I gave you as much time as you wanted to tell me one thing," Schiff marvelously replied,
"But you kept interrupting me."
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Throughout the previous administration, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann would nightly attack President George W. Bush and members of his administration and regularly bash some conservative personalities for being too cozy with Bush.
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Discussing the subject on the recent installment of ABC's "This Week," Will said it was highly unlikely Democrats actually have the votes for what they call a "public option," but the media are assisting them in
"cleverly and skillfully manufacturing a sense of inevitability that they hope will be self-fulfilling."
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When Matthew Shepard died on October 12, 1998 at the age of 21, five days after getting into a pickup truck with two goons who beat him mercilessly, he had already become a huge national news story that continues today. It made the cover of Time magazine with the headline "The War Over Gays," with reporters predictably using the occasion to blame religious conservatives and call for hate-crime laws and other gay-left agenda items.
But when Jesse Dirkhising died on September 26 at the age of 13 from suffocation after being bound, gagged with underwear in his mouth, blindfolded, taped to the bed, and sodomized by one gay man while another gay man watched, the national media said nothing, even after The Washington Times exposed the untold story...
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Brent Bozell found the homepage of washingtonpost.com funny today. William Kristol’s op-ed, titled "A good time to be a conservative," began with this thought:
Bien-pensant conservative elites and establishment-friendly Republican big shots yearn for a more moderate, temperate and sophisticated Republican Party. It's not likely to happen. And probably just as well.
"The GOP’s right turn: A more moderate, temperate and sophisticated Republican Party is not likely to happen."
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Post reporter Tim Craig suggests distaste for the protesters in the first few words: "A small but noisy group of protesters, many bused in from churches," rallied Sunday. This would not happen in a story on a liberal protest. Size would almost be irrelevant. (And their transportation wouldn't be a negative.)
Craig counted "about 150 opponents of same-sex marriage" in the second paragraph. Earlier this month, when hard-left protesters rallied outside the White House to get the U.S. out of Afghanistan, the Post waited 25 paragraphs to tell readers only 176 people showed up.
They put that rally on page one, not page one of Metro (where yesterday's protest landed).
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One of the answers is that journalism schools at our nation's colleges and universities are hot-beds of liberalism.
As a perfect example, the following song was created by graduate students at Columbia University's School of Journalism.
Rapping over Jay-Z's "Empire State of Mind," the students mocked the Fox News Channel and host Sean Hannity as they sang to their class about ethics in journalism (video embedded below the fold with subtitled lyrics, h/t Breitbart TV):
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In the October 26 edition, there were only four pro-Biden letters hailing his "valiant voice of sanity." But here's where it gets funny: Newsweek ran a chart of its reader mail. Of the letters on the Biden cover, it said 25 percent were positive, 25 percent were neutral, and 50 percent were critical.
Not one of them was worthy? It's like Newsweek is saying: "Stop criticizing our heroes. We're not going to publishing your critical letters anyway."
In fact, this issue ran only seven letters: four for Biden, two criticizing Newsweek for allowing Christopher Hitchens to lament Obama's Nobel Prize, and one generic attack on "the right wing media."
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CNN’s Carol Costello began a new series on political talk radio on Monday’s American Morning, suggesting it was unfairly dominated by conservatives, and brought on a liberal psychiatrist who theorized that Rush Limbaugh has an audience because he’s ''operating like the bully, and if you’re on the playground...you want to be...under the bully’s wing and go along with him and get...some power by proxy.''
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[Hmm, wonder who will win?]
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The news business' tenuous hold on profitability has threatened its sustainability and requires massive government involvement, according to a new 'report' authored by Michael Schudson, a professor at the Columbia Journalism School.
"American society must now take some collective responsibility for supporting news reporting through varying combinations of philanthropy, subsidy and government policy."
- A national Fund for Local News paid with taxes the Federal Communications Commission collects from or could impose on telecom users, broadcast licensees or Internet service providers.
- A gigantic ramping up of public [GOVERNMENT] radio and television, reoriented to provide significant local news reporting in every community served by public stations.
- Universities and colleges becoming institutional sources of local, state and accountability news reporting...
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There have been a lot of bad days recently for what’s come to be known as the Mainstream Media – or MSM – but Monday was one of the worst. New circulation figures showed that big city papers had lost as much as a quarter of their circulation in the last six months...
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NEW YORK -- The decline in U.S. newspaper circulation is accelerating as the industry struggles with defections to the Internet.
That was greater than the 7.1 percent decline in the October 2008-March 2009 period
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If you change one word and add two others, the answer to the resulting question -- "What's still mostly black and white, but red all over?" -- would be, based on just-released information about their daily circulation, "every one of the nation's top 25 newspapers turning in comparative numbers."
The figures come from the newspaper industry's Audit Board of Circulations (ABC), and cover the April-September 2009 time period.
Here are a few paragraphs from Michael Liedtke's coverage of the carnage at the Associated Press, which depends largely on newspaper subscription fees for its lifeblood. Note the "so far" reference in Liedtke's third paragraph:
[I.e., the next convenient 'crisis' to to require government intervention...]
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In the current era of single party rule, is there any chance that this further intrusion of the government into our lives might actually come true? Might we one day be forced to pay a tax every time we make a cell phone call to make sure the Press Room in the White House is stuffed with even more reporters eager to credulously swallow whatever nonsense comes out of the President's mouth? Could truly independent newspapers be forced to compete with government subsidized lapdogs like, say, truly independent banks or car companies?
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You may not have noticed that the Obama Administration, in addition to trying to seize control of the health care and energy sectors, is implementing a national "broadband plan" to redefine the media and transform America's system of government. It's designed, they say, to provide "open government and civic engagement." But it looks increasingly like an excuse for the federal government to control the Internet and access to information and even tell us what is truth.
Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute recently explained at a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "National Broadband Plan Workshop" that it is necessary to have "a common space with shared facts." Armed with $7.2 billion of "stimulus" money, the federal government is going to provide this. It looks like various progressive groups are lining up at the public trough for their share of the loot. They have in mind what the George Soros-funded Free Press calls "an alternative media infrastructure."
If you think we already have that, with public TV and radio, think again. The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has received $8 billion in federal tax dollars since it was created in 1967, is not considered radical enough by these folks. The Free Press favors an additional $50 billion "Public Media Trust fund" financed by a tax on home electronic devices. It also wants the federally-funded AmeriCorps to finance jobs for journalists.
A new national broadband plan, combined with the just-announced FCC plan for "net neutrality," or regulating access to the Internet, provides the opportunity for the federal government to define a "new public square" with a "common space with shared facts," as Ornstein put it at the August 6 FCC event. He explained, "It's something that was easier when we had three broadcast channels and virtually everybody in the society tuned into them."
Those were the days, you may remember, when Walter Cronkite claimed "That's the way it is," and many people believed him. We know better now. But Ornstein seems to be pining for the "good old days" when Cronkite and other liberals dominated the dissemination of news and information...
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"They're hitting us and hitting us hard," said Timothy Menke, head of investigations for the Office of Inspector General at the Department of Health and Human Services. "Organized crime involvement in health care fraud is widespread."
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Steve Kroft traveled South Florida with the FBI to investigate fraudulent medical equipment suppliers and fake self-storage garage pharmacies collecting millions of dollars per month from Medicare and then disappearing quickly.
Several interesting facts: Medicare has 3 investigators for the state of Florida; however a convicted criminal states that there are over 2000 people in the Miami area alone participating in Medicare fraud.
The woman in charge of enforcement at Medicare makes the lame excuse that their enforcement budget is too small. [It's government; the budget will always be 'too small'.]
The criminals have left drug dealing because Medicare fraud is easier, less dangerous, offers shorter prison terms if convicted, and is way more profitable.
This fraud casts serious doubt on the government's ability to run any program that doles out lots of cash.
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The facts and figures presented by CBS's Steve Kroft were disturbing as were the details concerning how shysters bilk the system for an estimated $60 billion a year.
As Kroft warned viewers in the segment's teaser,
"We caution you that this story may raise your blood pressure, along with some troubling questions about our government's ability to manage a medical bureaucracy"
[HT:LDot:
If you missed the 60 Minutes expose last night on this horror, track it down and watch. Appalling
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"The [Medicare] HI trust fund is not adequately financed over the next 10 years. At the beginning of 2009 the assets of the HI trust fund were $321 billion and are projected to be exhausted during 2017, under the intermediate assumptions. The HI trust fund does not meet the short-range test of financial adquacy."
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The Royal Navy has agreed to sacrifice one of its two new aircraft carriers to save about £8.2 billion from the defence budget.
The admirals, who have battled for a decade to secure the two new 65,000-ton carriers, have been forced to back down because of the soaring cost of the American-produced Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft due to fly off them.
The move will leave the navy without a carrier when the Queen Elizabeth goes into refit, leaving open the possibility that it might have to borrow one from the French navy.
In a meeting with Brown last year, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, had suggested that refits of French and British aircraft carriers should be 'co-ordinated'.
[Two (2) carriers for all of Britain - and that's the ramped-up sum.
Again, when next enlightened socialist points to Europe managing to survive its high welfare budgets, remind them that they've mortgaged their defense capabilities the past 30 years to do so.]
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[Another one, reported the same day as above]
Shortages in standard issue military clothing have forced Swedish conscripts to wash their uniforms at home and train in boots without soles.
''The soldiers’ boots lacked soles and in some cases had been previously issued to other soldiers up to eight times,''
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President Obama's chief economic forecaster went to bat on Monday for a tax on high-priced insurance plans, the so-called ''Cadillac tax,'' calling it
"probably the number one item that health economists across the ideological spectrum believe is likely to stem the explosion of health-care costs.''
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Those of us who oppose Obamacare's "public option" insurance plan may be advocating the wrong reasons for doing so, says columnist Robert Samuelson in the Washington Post.
While pointing up some of the obvious drawbacks, the real downer for the public option is that those who believe in its stated benefits - or posit dire consequences from its passage - are looking at a mirage:
The promise of the public plan is a mirage. Its political brilliance is to use free-market rhetoric (more "choice" and "competition") to expand government power.
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The "public option" is dangerous not for what it might do but for what it allows the politicians not to do.
From the start, the Obama administration has said that health-care reform has to make health care both more accessible and less costly .
If Congress does the first without the second -- guarantees a new entitlement without controlling costs -- it will bankrupt us ...
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If the health care plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats passes, 57% of voters nationwide believe it will raise the cost of health care, and 53% believe the quality of care will get worse. That’s part of the reason that just 45% support the plan.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 51% are opposed to it. Those numbers include 23% who Strongly Favor the plan and 40% who are Strongly Opposed.
Just 18% say passage of the congressional plan will reduce costs, while only 23% believe it will lead to better care. Still, despite the less-than-enthusiastic support, 54% say passage of the plan is at least somewhat likely this year. Thirty-five percent (35%) say it is not.
Voters under 30 are most likely to support the health care proposal while those over 65 are the least supportive.
[Amazing. Have they not done the math? {rhetorical: obviously not}]
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that Senate Democrats will include in the health care reform bill a government-backed health insurance program that allows states to opt out if they can come up with an alternative. '
[Evidently our betters know better than us.]
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A government-sponsored "public option" for health care lives, though it may be more attractive to skeptics if it goes by a different moniker, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday. In an appearance at a Florida senior center, the Democratic leader referred to the so-called public option as "the consumer option." Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appeared by Pelosi's side and used the term "competitive option."
[The daily insult.]
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran writes in the Washington Post about the Marines’ success in pacifying Nawa in southern Afghanistan — the same story I mentioned in my New York Times op-ed. Chandrasekaran’s article is excellent and adds more details than I could include in a brief opinion piece. He suggests, as did I, that the relative success in Nawa — admittedly fragile and limited — indicates “that after eight years of war the United States still may be able to regain momentum in some areas that had long been written off to the Taliban.”
To expand such successful efforts across southern and eastern Afghanistan will require more troops, more time, more money — and more casualties. It’s a painful process, but what choice do we have unless we want to risk Afghanistan reverting to its pre-9/11 state? Options such as “reintegration” — offering incentives to lure Taliban fighters to lay down their arms (described in this USA Today article) — are unlikely to work until foreign and Afghan troops have changed the facts on the ground to convince the Taliban they can’t win. Other shortcuts such as the counterterrorism option or training Afghan forces can complement a large ground-force commitment but can’t substitute for it.
For an explanation of why there is no credible Plan B in Afghanistan — any more than there was in Iraq when the surge was being debated — see this New Republic article by my Council on Foreign Relations colleague Stephen Biddle.
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“I HOPE people who say this war is unwinnable see stories like this. This is what winning in a counterinsurgency looks like.”
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a blunt response Friday to the latest broadsides from former Vice President Dick Cheney:
“Who cares?”
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Three weeks after their gushing praise of President Obama's meeting with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the media have taken a cue from the lack of action that followed.
It was a good run while it lasted.
Word from the conflict became more dire almost by the day as Obama's cabinet squabbled. The American media, having sensed Afghanistan could be lost without action, chose to cover for their favorite president and begin the process of mentally preparing the public for defeat.
As for what that plan might be, Kurtz's Vietnam defeat song sounded all too familiar...
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No, Mr. President and all members of the Senate and the House - we will NOT allow our Finest to be a part of your political games. You sit there in your warm and cushy offices, all safe and sound from the horrors of war and diddle with our kids lives.
You stand up every now and then when photo ops abound or political points can be scored and reporters wait breathlessly to take down every golden word from your lying lips. I was told that actions speak louder than words and I have found that to be true time and time again over the decades I have been alive. Your actions - or lack thereof speak volumes. Words are cheap, but our kids’ lives are not. We are done with your words.
You say you support the troops ~ Put your money where your words come from. Stop apologizing for the country and Law of the Land that our kids are defending every day. Stand up and really support our Troops. Get comfortable with the word, “Victory” or get out of the way. A defeatist CIC just gets more of our kids killed.
And that, Sir, will not do.
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Armey, who joined Hoffman at Thursday's press conference, called the flat tax "the best option available to us."
He said the current tax system is used to redistribute wealth and for social engineering, when the only legitimate purpose of taxes is to raise revenue for governments.
But if history is any indication, Hoffman won't be facing a loss of revenue any time soon...
[It's justice we're after - and what's that got to do with fairness? No chance.]
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[What good is electing a 'republican' if their policies are liberal? Much better to fight the long war, and insist on conservative representation even if a few election cycles need be lost to make the point.]
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Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate challenging liberal Republican Dede Scozzafava and Democrat Bill Owens in New York’s 23rd congressional district, has had quite a week.
“I’ve been overwhelmed by all of the national support,” Hoffman tells NRO. “Sarah stands up for what she believes in and is a commonsense conservative, a Reagan Republican,” says Hoffman. “I feel like I’m an average citizen. Sarah reflects those kinds of values.”
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) became the latest Republican to buck his own party Monday, wading into a New York special election to offer support for Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman instead of the GOP nominee.
"We cannot send more politicians to Washington who wear the Republican jersey on the campaign trail, but then vote like Democrats in Congress on issues like card check and taxes,"
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The blogosphere is abuzz over a new poll showing Conservative candidate Doug Hoffman leading Democrat Bill Owens and Republican Dede Scozzafava in the race to replace Congressman John McHugh (R), who resigned to become Obama's Secretary of the Army. The Club for Growth-sponsored poll by Basswood Research shows Hoffman with 31%, Owens with 27%, and Scozzafava at 20%.
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Conservatives around the country are sending an important message to the Republican establishment in their outstanding grassroots support for Doug Hoffman: no more politics as usual,"Palin wrote on her Facebook page.
