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It's better measured with a word count than a story count. ABC, CBS, and NBC combined gave it 239 words (or less than 80 words per network). NBC had 34 words, ABC 84, and CBS 141 (half a story).
This is 239 words more than the 2010 March for Life. Obviously, the timing was terrible, with the final vote on health "reform" scheduled. But you would think it would draw more than this. Perhaps the plugged-in Democrats like Stephanopoulos got a signal that focus on this issue wasn't helpful when voters are already angry with Democrats about health care...
[Don't be fooled: with the amazing goal-line-stand of the 07 bill blockage by the people, we could very well be in for a stealth approach this time around.]
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
'Immigration Reform' Rally Gets Major Diss from TV Networks
Phobia in the News: Gun Dealer Denied Little-League Team, Unlike 'Cluck-U Chicken'
Cam Edwards at NRANews.com passed along a New Jersey Star-Ledger story showing how gun dealers are held in low esteem. Matt Carmel of Maplewood, New Jersey was rejected when he applied to sponsor a little-league baseball team:
Carmel, a licensed gun dealer, applied to sponsor a team in the local Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken baseball league, using the name of his business — Constitution Arms.
He was rebuffed.
"Arbitrary, capricious and unfair," Carmel said of the perceived slight. "I don’t like being pigeonholed."
But what really makes the story maddening (and worth wider attention and commentary) are the sponsors that have been allowed...
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The shocking truth about a fundamental right being denied to 55% of citizens
There is a fundamental right being denied 55% of all Americans. This denial costs over 16,000 lives per year, meaning more than 44 of our fellow Americans will die every day that we delay. What should be done in light of these shocking figures?
Using the example set by President Obama and the Congressional Democrats, there is only one answer: Universal Gun Care for every American. Surely a right outlined in the Bill of Rights (2d Amendment) is just as important as a right NOT found the Constitution (Health Care).
Bonus, it should be easier to implement. After all, gun dealers and manufacturers are ready and willing to help solve the problem. Unlike the evil insurance companies, gun dealers don't want to take your weapon away from you when you most need it. Nor will they deny selling you a weapon simply because you haven't purchased one in the past (i.e. a pre-existing condition).
• Conventional estimates state that 45% of all US households own a firearm. This leaves at least 55% of all Americans "uncovered."
• In 2008 there were 16,272 murders in the USA. How many of those could have been prevented if the victims had been able to protect themselves?
My proposal is a modest one:
• Mandate for every American to purchase a gun or be provided one by their employer (children under the age of 26 can share a weapon with their parents)
• Tax credits to offset the cost of purchase (for those making less than $250,000 per year and everyone in Nebraska)
• For those that can't afford it, a grant or subsidy to purchase a weapon (union members can get two weapons subsidized before 2018)
• Funding for a series of community based gun dealers/clinics and firing ranges (especially in under-served urban and rural areas)
• Monthly ammunition benefit so that no one has to choose between feeding their kids, paying the rent, or buying a box of .38 special cartridges
Contact your representative today. The time to act is now...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
POLL: 53% Worry Opposition to Obama’s Policies Will Lead To Violence
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A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 42% of voters don’t share that concern.
Those figures include 28% are very concerned and 13% who are not at all concerned.
The partisan difference is noticeable. Seventy-one percent (71%) of Democrats are at least somewhat concerned that Obama’s policies will trigger a violent reaction. Fifty-six percent (56%) of Republicans are not concerned while unaffiliated voters are almost evenly divided on the question.
Democrats in particular have raised the specter of possible violence following their passage of a national health care plan that has been consistently opposed by most voters, They raised similar concerns following the angry congressional town hall meetings last August when voters complained about the health care plan and other expensive Obama initiatives.
[I.e., the MSMs scare campaign is working - and we've months to go before November.]
Democratic group targets tea party candidates
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Craig Varoga, a longtime Democratic political operative, has formed a group -- known as Patriot Majority PAC -- with the specific goal of keeping tea party candidates out of office.
"Americans need to confront the dangerous ideas of the tea party movement head on, without any fear [?], before they gain any additional traction in the legislative process or the 2010 elections,"
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The next move of the Alinsky left
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The war between the left and right has been ratcheted up this past weekend. Although a philosophical war of words, to the committed Alinsky left it is nonetheless a deadly serious war.
The progressive movement has long been known for its intolerance of opposing philosophies and its propensity for violence to attain its goals. As Noel Sheppard notes, at the 2008 Republican Convention leftist demonstrators hospitalized conventioneers with bricks thrown through bus windows and sandbags dropped from overpasses onto passing cars. The progressive media looked the other way.
Following the passage of ObamaCare, much media frenzy has surrounded incidents where a coffin was put on congressman Carnahan's front lawn (didn't happen) and a brick was thrown through congresswoman Slaughter's Niagara Falls office window. Of course, the last time someone smashed Democratic Party office windows, a Democrat was found responsible.
Remember, to those on the Alinsky left, this is a war. And as Saul Alinsky wrote,
"The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means...."
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America's Quiet Anger
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There is a quiet anger boiling in America.
It is the anger of millions of hard-working citizens who pay their bills, send in their income taxes, maintain their homes and repay their mortgage loans -- and see their government reward those who do not.
It is the anger of small town and Middle American folks who have never been to Manhattan, who put their savings in a community bank and borrow from a local credit union, who watch Washington lawmakers and presidents of both parties hand billions in taxpayer bailouts to the reckless Wall Street titans who brought down the economy in 2008.
It is the fury of the voiceless, the powerless, the ordinary nobodies of Flyover Country who are ridiculed, preached to, satirized and insulted by the Celebrity Loudmouths of the two Left Coasts, the Jon Stewarts and Keith Olbermanns, the Paul Krugmans and their ilk.
It is the salted wound of the millions who see that ruling Democrats in Congress are not listening to them but are willfully ignoring public opinion and the verdict of recent elections in passing a huge new health care entitlement when the existing entitlements of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are already going broke.
It is the frustrating helplessness of citizens who revere the Founding Fathers and the genius of the Constitution that they wrote, who actually believe the words of the Constitution mean what they say, not more and not less. They who watch politicians and the courts stretch and bend that Constitution -- finding "rights" not enumerated, powers never granted, meanings unimagined -- believe that their country is being redefined without their consent.
Most of the angry are not out marching in the streets, waving signs or shouting into bullhorns. And they are not smashing windows or phoning death threats to politicians. They are simply waking up angry in the morning, and going to bed angry at night. And their resentment is multiplied by the media's efforts to portray them all as dangerous, crazy people, and by the effort of certain Democrats to tar them with brush of violent intent.
They are embittered, too, by the rhetoric of a triumphant president who turns on its head Winston Churchill's heroic attitude promising defiance in defeat but magnanimity in victory. For a president of a deeply divided country, defiance in victory is not an endearing posture. It has all the persuasive charm of a Chad Ochocinco victory dance in the end zone of the opponent's stadium.
These quietly angry people gather in their churches while their religions are called divisive and their beliefs are labeled as bigotry, and they pray for a better day. They talk among themselves in their Main Street cafes, at the Rotary club or at their kids' softball games, seeking others who understand their frustration and will not respond with arrogant dismissal.
They are tired of being told they are too stupid to understand the country's complex problems, too rooted in the past to find solutions, too selfish to share what they have worked for with everyone else who wants it.
They are not reaching for guns or for pitchforks. They are holding their anger within, waiting for their time, watching those in power over-reach and over-indulge.
Their wound is deep, and it will not be salved by more presidential speeches, Congressional hand-outs, or promises of wonderful things to come. They no longer believe any of that.
Their quiet rage abides, waiting till it can be expressed in that silent place behind the curtain where the ballot lists the names that they have now committed to an angry memory.
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No Time for a Real Threat as ABC and CBS Skip Arrest of Man Targeting GOP’s Cantor
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NBC on Monday night squeezed in a few seconds for the arrest of “a Philadelphia man for threatening the life of the number two Republican in the House of Representatives, Eric Cantor of Virginia.”
CBS last week started with “threats of violence against Democrats who voted for health care reform” as Nancy Cordes relayed how “Democrats complain Sarah Palin is also using violent words and imagery.”
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Reality Check Re: The Conservative = Violent / Liberal = Non-Violent Myth
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the mainstream media consider the Tea Party capable of violence. Let's take a look at those who have committed most of the political violence, both in the United States and abroad.
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More Guantanamo Detainees Are Returning to Terror Upon Release
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But despite the list of charges against him, the U.S. government transferred Hafiz to his home country in December. And now, a senior U.S. official tells Fox News, he is back on the battlefield....
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Absolutely Pathetic Coverage of Judge's Release of Gitmo Detainee
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First, here's what little Yost deigned to divulge:
Judge Robertson threw out Ken Starr’s charges against the Clintons’ bag man and fall guy, Web Hubbell. And he has protected many other Clinton cronies over the years.
More recently, Mr. Robertson blocked the release of First Lady Hillary Clinton’s phone records from FOIA requests.
More to the point, however, Mr. Robertson is also the same heroic judge who resigned from the FISA court in a self-righteous hissy fit protest.
He also summarily released 30 other terrorists detainees last November.
More importantly perhaps, Judge Robertson is the also same legal hero who begat the Hamdan ruling, when he demanded that foreign combats should receive habeas corpus rights.
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The Source of the Current Feud With Israel and Why It Matters
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President Obama's tilt towards the Palestinians is rooted in ideology espoused by Jeremiah Wright...
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US 'may not veto UN resolution on Jerusalem'
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The US is considering abstaining from a possible UN Security Council resolution against Israeli settlements in East Jerusalem, sources suggest to the BBC. The possibility surfaced at talks in Paris last week between a senior US official and Qatar's foreign minister.
The official said the US would "seriously consider abstaining" if the issue of Israeli settlements was put to the vote...
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To only say Iranian nukes are unacceptable is to accept them
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Years later, the French political thinker Raymond Aron commented,
"To say that something is unacceptable was to say that one accepted it."
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Putin: Iran's nuclear plant launch set for summer
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But Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, at a joint press conference with Clinton, immediately responded that Russia would put the reactor online...
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Federalized Higher Education
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By dangling dollars, the federal government controls the operation, enrollment, budget, facilities and curriculum of our esteemed institutions of higher education to a greater degree than ever in history.
What can anyone possibly point to as a past example of this being a good thing?
Americans must realize that it is the minds of our children the government has just commandeered...
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A Nation of Dependents
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The more we expect government to provide our basic needs, the more we become a nation dependent on government largesse, rather than independent individuals personally empowered to earn the values we seek.
It has already happened in education. Government programs have crowded out private alternatives, currently providing 90% of primary and secondary schooling. Without affordable private alternatives, parents are reduced to lobbying politicians for funding and supporting campaigns to squeeze more tax money from their neighbors.
Now it's happened to the rest of us for our pre-retirement health care... [snip]
ObamaCare will rob us of our freedom, our independence, and our access to quality medical care. What this country needs instead is real reform consistent with freedom, independence, and individual rights....
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Prelude to a Media Victory Lap: Santelli Warns Not to Buy Hype of Upcoming Jobs Data
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With March unemployment data to be released April 2, some are anticipating what potentially lower jobless numbers will all mean for the financial markets and the economy as a whole. However, that data will come with the caveat that it will be misleading because it will include temporary jobs driven by hiring for the 2010 census.
"You know, I think it's fascinating," Santelli said. "Most experts would agree, the kind of job creation we're going to see is welcome but it isn't the kind we need in the big picture. But having said that, yes, I think that the markets will act in a way that will show a robustness if the number comes in a couple of hundred thousand and I think it's kind of silly."
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Green think tank tells environmentalists: Leave climate change science behind
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Leaders of a environmental think tank, The Breakthrough Institute, have a way to 'get beyond the climate science wars': Break the link between global warming research and the push for low-carbon energy...
[Think about what's being said here.]
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Electric Green Waste
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Green initiatives are costing hard-pressed Americans billions of dollars, in the form of higher utility bills...
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CONSUMERS WILL PAY MORE TO FUND LOS ANGELES MAYOR'S 'GREEN' INITIATIVES
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Households that get their power from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) could see their electric bills go up 28.4 percent under a plan unveiled Monday by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.
Villaraigosa said the proposed increases would ensure that the DWP meets his goal of securing 20 percent of its energy from renewable sources such as wind and solar by Dec. 31.
The increased revenue would help pay for new environmental initiatives, including more aggressive conservation programs and a solar 'initiative'.
But it also would 'address' the DWP's failure to collect enough money to cover the cost of existing renewable energy initiatives.
Even worse for the state's economy, businesses would see increases in the average bill ranging from 20 to 26 percent.
Once all the increases are in place, the DWP will receive an additional $648 million per year to pay for the hiring of "green doctors" to 'evaluate' [inspect] the energy efficiency of homes and make residents obtain energy-efficient lightbulbs and refrigerators....
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Free energy saving bulbs cost £45
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More than 200 million 'free' energy-saving light bulbs have been sent to households over the last two years.
However, each household has ended paying £45 each through higher energy bills to 'fund' the scheme, even though most consumers objected to being sent the bulbs...
[Again and again...]
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Firearms Deaths Fall As Gun Restrictions Ease
What's the likelihood of an EXTREMELY liberal media outlet publishing an article about firearm related homicides declining while permits to carry concealed weapons increase?
About as likely as Keith Olbermann saying something nice about Sarah Palin, right?
Well, on Wednesday, MSNBC.com actually published a piece with the following shocking headline:
Shhh. Wait. It got better...
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Police: Robbers called US bank for money to go
Fairfield, Connecticut - Police in Connecticut say they had ample warning of a bank robbery because the two suspects called the bank ahead of time and told an employee to get a bag of money ready.
Police arrested 27-year-old Albert Bailey and an unidentified 16-year-old boy on robbery and threatening charges Tuesday afternoon at a People's United Bank branch in Fairfield...
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Monday, March 29, 2010
Leftist Totalitarians Stage False Flag EventsTo Provoke Violence
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And so it begins… The left is staging false events meant to engender violence. See the following non-event:
Watch the video closely. Though there may have been spittle flying because of yelling, there is no way to actively spit on someone through cupped hands. Unfortunately, I don’t think this is going away. I think the left will milk it for all it is worth and use it as a weapon against the Tea Party activists and the American people in general.
Cleaver walked through a crowd of tens of thousands who were against this bill and with the majority of Democrats, defied millions of Americans who want it thrown out thus stomping on the will of the people. And he takes offense at ‘Kill the Bill?’ Pansy-ass wimp… Far, far worse was done to President Bush, to Rush Limbaugh, to Glenn Beck, to Ann Coulter and the list goes on and on.
Mark my words, leftist totalitarians will stage false flag events to provoke violence and precipitate an emergency that will hand all control of America over to this administration, thereby doing away with the Constitution, our rights and freedoms, elections and the rule of law. One way or another, I fear the Progressives will have their way.
[I'd like to consider very unlikely - but with a duplicitous MSM that we've witnessed can sell America on anything... and its full-court press aiding such fabrications....
"Clyburn Health Care Opponents Aiding Terrorism"
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2010: A Race Odyssey — Again
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As I have said over and over and over, the left has one trick that it will use again and again when its back is in the corner: shout ‘racist’ in a crowded country.
On Saturday, during the peaceful and patriotic tea party protest at the Capitol, the Democrats staged a series of symbolic acts meant to manipulate the media to do its bidding. The Congressional Black Caucus pulled the Selma card and chose to walk through the crowd in the hopes of creating a YouTube incident. This is what it looked like:
If we let them get away with Saturday’s stunt — using the imagery of the Civil Rights era and hurtful lies to cast aspersions upon the tea party whole — then they really will have won the day.
It’s time for the allegedly pristine character of Rep. John Lewis to put up or shut up.
Therefore, I am offering $10,000 of my own money to provide hard evidence that the N- word was hurled at him not 15 times, as his colleague reported, but just once. Surely one of those two cameras wielded by members of his entourage will prove his point.
And surely if those cameras did not capture such abhorrence, then someone from the mainstream media — those who printed and broadcast his assertions without any reasonable questioning or investigation — must themselves surely have it on camera. Of course we already know they don’t. If they did, you’d have seen it by now.
THOUSANDS OF TIMES.
Rep. Lewis, if you can’t do that, I’ll give him a backup plan: a lie detector test. If you provide verifiable video evidence showing that a single racist epithet was hurled as you walked among the tea partiers, or you pass a simple lie detector test, I will provide a $10K check to the United Negro College Fund.
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Tea Partiers Are Descendants of George Wallace and David Duke
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... the Washington Post’s Colby King charged in his weekly Saturday column, maintaining
was the beginning of his column, “In the faces of Tea Party shouters, images of hate and history,”"The angry faces at Tea Party rallies are eerily familiar. They resemble faces of protesters lining the street at the University of Alabama in 1956..."
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CNN Convicts Palin and Tea Partiers of ‘Inciting Violence’ and Stoking Racism
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... titled “DANGEROUS RHETORIC: When heated words incite threats & violence,” CNN’s panel agreed Obama’s political opponents are inciting violence and are motivated by racism --
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You Racist, Sexist, Homophobic Conservatives
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[Make no mistake, the media meme from now until November will be the demonization of all resistance to Obama's agendas by portraying opposition as racists and violent extremists.
If not vociferously rejected at every instance, it stands a very real chance of succeeding by bending the portion of the mushy middle that still get their news primarily from TV away from the constitutional arguments due to a fabricated association between liberty promoters and racists.
Americans need counter every accusation of racism with the calm rejection of it as racist itself; to inject race into a debate on what this country is to be going forward that has noting to do with race until the Left injects it.
It's already being used as a funding tool by the White House itself...]
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Obama Using Death Threats To Democrats As Fundraiser
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President Obama's campaign group Organizing for America is using alleged death threats against Democrats in Congress to raise money for its efforts to get the public to support the unpopular healthcare reform bill signed into law this week.
As Obama-lovers in the media hyperventilate over every incident they believe confirms their most derogatory view of Tea Party members and anyone voicing opposition to what's happening in the United States, will they give attention to the fact that the White House is using the publicity as a fundraising vehicle?
Consider that question as you read the following posting by OFA Director Mitch Stewart...
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Media Only Like Protests If They Agree With Protesters
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"Red Eye" host Greg Gutfeld on Saturday said the media's response to the nation's anger over healthcare reform was totally predictable.
"I've been down this road so many times I could navigate it blindfolded and covered in peanut butter," Gutfeld marvelously wrote at his blog.
"It goes like this: for the media, anger is only okay if its targets meet their stereotypical, romanticized criteria. Meaning: the corporation, the conservative, the daddy who never loved them."
Conversely, Gutfeld then offered "a list of people doing angry things the media is okay with"...
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What Bias? Re: Media 'Forget' Leftwing Violence at 2008 GOP Convention
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As so-called journalists across the fruited plain hyperventilate about alleged death threats and future acts of violence they claim are being stoked by "hate speech" from the Right, they are conveniently ignoring how the Left behaved in this country when George W. Bush was in the White House.
Case in point: the violent protests that occurred at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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CNN Lowballs Nevada Tea Party Event: 'Hundreds of People, at Least Dozens of People'; Politico Reports 20,000
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"Hundreds of people, at least dozens of people - we haven't gotten a count of how many people turned out there..."
Politico's Kenneth Vogel had a little higher number, saying "an estimated 20,000 tea partiers gathered for a rally in a windswept desert lot," in his March 27 report on the event...
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POLL: Most Say Tea Party Has Better Understanding of Issues than Congress
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In official Washington, some consider the Tea Party movement a fringe element in society, but voters across the nation feel closer to the Tea Party movement than they do to Congress.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 52% of U.S. voters believe the average member of the Tea Party movement has a better understanding of the issues facing America today than the average member of Congress. Only 30% believe that those in Congress have a better understanding of the key issues facing the nation.
When it comes to those issues, 47% think that their own political views are closer to those of the average Tea Party member than to the views of the average member of Congress, vs only 26% feeling closer to Congress.
Finally, 46% of voters say that the average Tea Party member is more ethical than the average member of Congress. [no news there] Twenty-seven percent (27%) say that the average member of Congress is more ethical. [no sense there]
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It's Democrats' deafness that reaps hate mail
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People get loud and angry when they feel as if they're being ignored. *
Democrats stubbornly refused to listen to the tremendous public outcry against their health care package. They attempted to minimize the protests and marginalize the protesters. But now that they've shoved the bill down America's throat, they're feigning shock -- and even fear -- at the vehemence of the backlash.
They say they're being 'terrorized' by potentially violent opponents of the health care bill, and produce stacks of letters, e-mails and phone messages they claim make them fearful of their lives.
But what is being passed off as menacing is nothing more than old-fashioned hate mail. Much of it is crude and offensive, a lot of it is inappropriate, but it doesn't rise to the level of a threat....
[*Does anyone else find it amazing how those on the Left forever insisting we must understand why Islamic terrorists 'feel' the way they do evidently feel no such curiosity toward what has provoked such strong emotions in the majority of their own countrymen?
Rhetorical: they're not remotely interested - their goal is to rely on their MSM allies to sufficiently demonize any & all descent so that it will become socially unpalatable by November...]
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Liberal Delusion
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"It is with great humility and with great pride that we tonight will make history for our country and progress for the American people. [Applause] Just think-we will be joining those who established Social Security [bankrupt], Medicare [bankrupt], and now tonight health care for all Americans. [Applause]... Americans will look back on this day as one which we honored the character of our country and honored our commitment to our nation's founders [spinning in their graves] for a commitment to ‘life, liberty [insulting], and the pursuit of happiness.'"Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, March 22, 2010.
Word Cloud derived from polled Americans on
Source: The Pew Research Center:
Size of word reflects number of times used to describe Congress, by 749 polled Americans:
Percentage of those polled who:
Believe Congress is doing a poor job: 64%
Believe Congress is doing a good or excellent job: 11%
Would vote to keep current legislators in office: 17%
Would like to throw out all congressmen and start over: 59%
Would vote for a generic Republican for Congress: 43%
Would vote for a generic Democrat for Congress: 35%
Source: Rasmussen.
Percentage who approve of the way Congress handled job,
in 2002: 84%
In 2008: 18%
Source: Gallup.
[Yup, those tea partiers - they're a problem...]
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