I was in a rotten mood tonight. Rotten. Then I stumbled onto this. Yes, I’ve seen it a million times in the past week, and probably so have you, but I watched it again and now I feel…well, better.
All the craziness and ugliness in the world at the moment make you appreciate these rare moments all that much more, so take 5 , watch it again, and have a great night.
-Cnation
I have never been much of a Greta Van Susteren fan, but like her or not, there’s no denying her tremendous experience and professional credibility.
On O’reilly this evening, Bill and Greta discussed Susan Roesgen’s disgraceful performance at the Chicago Tea Party on the 15th. Although many, many people, myself included, have taken Roesgen to task in the days since, Van Susteren’s comments are the first real critique of a ‘colleague’ from the perspective of a seasoned industry pro that I’ve heard, and it is far and away the most devastating. The smackdown value is completely off the scale.
-Cnation
From Michelle Malkin:
“If only the condescending cable TV anchors at CNN and MSNBC had paused from wallowing in gutter puns about tea bags, they might have reported an even more significant phenomenon: Tea Party protesters were as vocal in their criticism of Republicans as they were of Democrats. In Salt Lake City, Utah, a crowd of 2,000 repeatedly booed GOP Sens. Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett, who both supported the $700 billion TARP bailout, and protested GOP Gov. Jon Huntsman’s decision to accept $1.6 billion in porky stimulus funds.”
Michelle Malkin: The Million Taxpayer March
From Jeff Emanuel @ Pajamas Media:
“Despite efforts to spin the pirate tale as evidence of bold leadership by an inexperienced president, the reality was clearly nothing of the sort.”
The Story of a Successful Rescue (and the Obama Adminstration’s Attempt to Claim Credit)
From Ed Morrissey @ Hot Air:
“The DHS pushed its report out on right-wingers in one hell of a hurry, according to the AP. Internal reviews of the document showed concerns over potential civil-liberties violations before its publication, but DHS ignored them in order to quickly make the document public. What was the rush?”
DHS ignored civil-liberties lawyers’ warnings on report
Another take on the DHS report fron Jonah Goldberg @ NRO:
“The problem with it is that it makes little effort to document or demonstrate its contention that “extremist” groups are resurgent, that they are right-wing, or that they may be formed from the ranks of “disgruntled military veterans.” Worse, it’s very sloppy about what qualifies someone as “extremist” in the first place. Basically, it’s fancy bureaucratese for: We’re guessing bad people will do bad things because the economy is bad and the president is black. But we have no real evidence.”
(Right) Winging It at the DHS
From John Lillpop @ Canada Free Press:
“Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) is generally recognized as one of the most liberal politicians in the United States Congress. That fact became too obvious last week when Schakowsky unleashed a bitter verbal assault against American citizens audacious enough to take part in the so-called Tea Parties held all across the nation on April 15.”
Despicable and Shameful? What About Tax Violations,Bank Fraud, Rep. Schakowsky?
Janeane Garofalo is beyond insignificant and unworthy of further mention. By anyone.
No link or anything, just needed to be said…
Have a great weekend, and keep up the good fight.
-Cnation
Anderson Cooper didn’t need to go there, but he did. Is it any wonder that CNN’s ratings are dropping like a stone when an award-winning journalist like Cooper resorts to junior-high level sexual innuendo in the middle of a serious story?
Welcome, Anderson, to the ranks of Maddow, Olberman, Shuster, Roesgen, et al. Loser.
This is nothing though compared to what Mike Taibbi had to say about Michelle Malkin.
The media has gone insane.
-Cnation
Man, I just don’t even know where to start. So much going on related to yesterday’s protests……
OK then, if there was ever any doubt, there shouldn’t be anymore. Not only is the media at large not going to represent us fairly or accurately, but they are now actively mocking United States citizens who are exercising their right to protest their government. Never mind how they lovingly covered the illegal alien rallies a couple of years ago, or brought the G20 protests into our living rooms almost non-stop. The assault on regular Americans by the mainstream liberal media is on. You want to know why? because they’re scared shitless. They’ve never seen anything like this, they sure as hell didn’t expect it, and now they’re worried that they may have overreached. Their choices are to acknowledge our movement, or to play it down and ridicule it. True to the liberal playbook, they took option B.
So, except for the despicable morons at MSNBC and CNN making ‘teabagging’ jokes, one might never know the Tax Day Tea Parties ever took place if it weren’t for Fox News and the blogs.
Here in Raleigh, NC, we had around 1500 turn out to the state capital building in downtown Raleigh, and we were, predictably, barely worthy of mention in the local media.
Raleigh may be a relatively bustling city, but 1500+ people never convene for anything around here that’s not a concert, sporting event or the State Fair. Yet both the News And Observer (paper) and WRAL (TV news) websites had us buried well below the fold, and WRAL had us off the front page and un-findable without a site search by early afternoo
To be fair, the WRAL piece wasn’t bad, just hard to find. The News and Observer piece, however, was crap. Like so many other stories, this one by Jay Price played up the racial angle writing:
“The protesters were almost entirely white, a fact that hecklers in passing cars pointed out more than once. “All you white rednecks!” yelled one woman as she drove past the courthouse.
You know, there are a majority of white people at these events. So what’s the big surprise? The black vote turned out in record numbers for Obama, do you really think they’d show up in large numbers at a protest based largely on conservative principals? As I’ve mentioned written time and again, ALL Americans are welcome; those who stayed home did so by choice. I wish these media pricks would stop trying to make something out of nothing, but that would require journalistic ethics and a lack of bias, two things that have been all but eliminated in the American media.
You know something though? Screw ‘em all, we don’t need the media. This movement was built without them, and it will continue to grow in spite of them. And the more they show their true selves by reverting to things like the endless ‘teabagging’ references and transparent attempts to stir the racial cauldron, the more they’ll drive the moderates, many of whom are mortified by what they’ve done and who they’re now perceived to be aligned with – right back to us.
Keep the faith and keep up the good fight, people. This is only the beginning.
-Cnation.
Another example of the party of ‘tolerance’ demonstrating that they are, without a shred of a doubt, the most intolerant people in America. Freedom of speech, rational debate and discussion, the free exchange of ideas on a college campus? Are you kidding? The only ‘free speech’ these sheltered, cowardly, know-nothing suburban fascists believe in is speech that is in agreement with their beliefs.
Sounds a lot like radical Islam, doesn’t it?
Read more and see the videos of the actual event at mmdnewswire.com: ALIPAC Releases Videos of Violence at UNC Tancredo Event
-Cnation
In what is probably the worst case of journalistic bias I have ever witnessed by a mainstream news organization, some half-witted shrew by the name of Susan Roesgen goes on the attack at a Chicago Tea Party event, and then not two minutes later whines that the crowd is “anti-CNN”.
News flash for you there Susan, they probably weren’t ‘anti-CNN’ until you showed up with your attitude and agenda in full display, you nasty, elitist creep.
Watch this video as she actually attacks two tea party participants. Granted, neither of these two gentlemen elaborated their points as clearly as maybe they could have, but Roesgen’s behavior was despicable. Even by liberal media standards.
To make matters worse, when they switch back to the studio, Kyra Phillips picks the smarmy, disparaging tone right where Roesgen leaves off.
This is nothing but a hit piece. Pure propaganda. CNN should be ashamed.
-Cnation
I got there late – there wasn’t a parking spot to be found within a mile of the capital building. Lots of people…I can’t begin to estimate the size of the crowd, but there were at least a thousand, probably more.
All I can really tell you is that I haven’t seen this many people so upset about government in my lifetime. And, after spending my days surrounded by people who have no apparent passion for freedom, liberty, or against tyranny, it was great to be among this crowd of like-thinking Americans. It was tremendously encouraging, and I hope Washington was listening.
If there was sore spot to the evening, it was the local republican representatives putting “Vote GOP” stickers on people as they walked by, many of whom didn’t seem to notice exactly what they were being stickered with.. Pretty f-ing ballsy if you ask me. I took mine off immediately and told the gentleman that the GOP’s got some work to do before I even consider supporting them again.
There’s a great thread over at Michelle Malkin’s site on the nationwide protests
Some pics, more to come:
Great sign...
Big crowd
More from the crowd
Here's a guy who knows.
Welcoming committee
-Cnation
Back on the 8th I wrote about Massachusetts Rep Pam Richardson, who wants to give illegal aliens the right to vote in local elections to “give them a voice” in government. The post was accompanied by a video, linked from Youtube, of Rep Richardson addressing a group in Framingham to whom she elaborates on her desire to further undermine the rule of law by bestowing rights unto those who don’t belong here in the first place.
Sometime over the past few days though, the video got scrubbed not only from Youtube, but from everywhere. Not to worry though, Conservative Nation’s vast sooper-secret network of right-wing extremists was called into action and was able to secure another copy of the video with minimal bloodshed.
In all seriousness though, what does it say about Rep. Richardson that she doesn’t have the courage to stand behind her convictions, that she – or someone on her behalf – tried to bury this video?
Heck, I won’t even make you dig down to the original post, here is the video again:
-Cnation
I’ve been reading about how the left is starting to play the race card with regards to the tea party protests cropping up all across America. Michelle Malkin reports on how sensationalist race baiter Geraldo Rivera commented on how he’s “never seen any people of color” at the tea parties.
To those who choose to believe Geraldo and those like him, I ask you to consider just one simple thing – who, specifically, is telling “people of color” that they’re not welcome at these protests? If you’re honest with yourself with the answer, you may just start to realize how you are being played by the race hustlers.
Here’s a fact: ALL Americans are welcome at these tea party protests, as well as to any other organized or disorganized gatherings we may have in the future.
Unlike the left, we do not care what race, creed or color our fellow Americans are. We do not need to ‘stock’ our protests with ringers in order to play or pander to any particular demographic. We are protesting because we care about the future of America for ALL Americans, not just for some little select group.
Unlike the left, we are honest about who we are, what we’re doing, and why we’re doing it.
Don’t let the race hustlers like Geraldo and Acorn con you on this one – this isn’t a ‘white’ thing, it’s an ‘everyone’ thing. The current level, direction, and sheer wastefulness of government spending is an outrage that should be shared by all Americans. And believe me, when the bill comes due for the current administration’s wild, reckless spending spree, every last one of us, whether black, white, Christian, Muslim, conservative, liberal, etc… will be asked forced to ante up.
Please, come join us. We’d love to have you.
-Cnation