The Stout Republican

Thx WIKI: Astroturfing in American English is a neologism for formal public relations campaigns in politics and advertising which seek to create the impression of being spontaneous “grassroots” behavior, hence the reference to the artificial grass, AstroTurf.

The democrat dream machine caught in the smear zone again? Dream a little false grass roots dream for me…

“Sarah Palin was a member of an Anti-American separatist organization”

The NYT had to retract the claim on the 3rd of September this year. Here’s what FactCheck.org says about the claim as well.

[Sarah Palin] was never a member of the Alaskan Independence Party, a group that wants Alaskans to vote on whether they wish to secede from the United States. She’s been registered as a Republican since May 1982.

Will the MSM attack this like the blood in the water it is? NOT LIKELY… A search using google and yahoo results in much-ado about astroturf the real thing. Ah yes the stumbling herd of the economy that only moments ago no one knew anything about or what to do about it commands the headlines. Makes one wonder why the sudden interest by previously uninterested dems does it not? Oh yes the economy is very important indeed.

The O-ne/Biden sucks harder than McCain/Palin…volkswagens through garden hoses comes to mind.

Update: Moonbats just suck Daily KOS also covering astroturfing tracks! Just how stupid are these people? Nothing goes away on the net, NOTHING…

Lan astalem,

GoingThere

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Economists Warn Anti-Bush Merchandise Market Close To Collapse

UPDATE of a more serious vein
WHOSE economic policies led to the credit crisis?

In the NYT 5 years ago, “The Bush administration today recommended the most significant regulatory overhaul in the housing finance industry since the savings and loan crisis a decade ago…Among the groups denouncing the proposal today were the National Association of Home Builders and Congressional Democrats who fear that tighter regulation of the companies could sharply reduce their commitment to financing low-income and affordable housing.”

Please do read the original post above. Below the fold is a comment left by a reader of that post that is lengthy but should be read as well. Crickets chirping indeed… Read more…

Conspiracy, Democrats, Limousine Liberal

gendre on

Harry Potter fans, the rumors are true; Harry Potter, student wizard, broom riding quidditch player, member of the house of Gryffindor and our hero is heterosexual. J.K. Rowling, author of the mega-selling fantasy series that ended last summer, outed the beloved character Friday night while appearing before a full house at Carnegie Hall.

gendre off

Obviously a play on the outing of Dumbledore as being gay. And his sexual preference is important because? Why was it necessary to provide this level of “insight”? “Insight” that has absolutely nothing to do with any of the characters as developed in the front story. A reach into the back story? The tools and components of story telling/writing, loyalty, betrayal, good vs evil seem to provide us with all the insight we need. The coloring of the tools and components by the writer wreaks of “grandeur”.

I could care less if someone is or is not gay. Dumbledore’s outing provides no additional insight into the story or it’s characters, though it certainly provides insight into the “character” of the author.

IMHO her declaration of a character’s sexual preference serves no other end then to further her own fading front story, a grasp at continuing relevance.

901 seconds and counting…J.K who?

GoingThere

UPDATE: TIME Magazine..Put Dumbledore Back in the Closet

HAHAHAHA one can’t make this stuff up, TIME magazine even chose a photo for the article that is a prissy shot (read as sterotype gay like pose, TIME STEROTYPING YEP!) of Dumbledore. Dumbledore a role model? A gay role model? Life IS stranger than fiction.
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Douche of the Week, Limousine Liberal

Shamelessly ripped off from Hot Air, who pulled it from Pew, who polled it from the people (catch the wordplay).

I suppose it the perfect response to those who laud the wonders of Venezuela and Chavez is a quote from Ayaan Hirsi Ali:

You grew up in freedom and you can spit on Freedom.

I don’t see it as toooooo ironic that the current polling data shows that the heavily socialized Venezuelan state sees free markets as better. When you live under the foot of a dictator (a real one…not like those reflexive leftists who think Bush is going to find a way to stay into office), you want what the United States has…when you live in the United States, usually guilt, and I think unresolved daddy issues, lead to this feeling that we can’t enjoy, and don’t deserve the freedoms, posterity, and wealth that we’ve been blessed with…which usually waterfalls into one of two fields:

1) We get this freedom and wealth by using the downtrodden of the world (certainly not our minds or our wits).

2) We don’t really have this freedom, the general public has just been brainwashed.

People like Ayaan Hirsi Ali, atheist critic of the faith based terrorism done in the name of Islam, who grew up literally oppressed with little to no rights…need to be marginalized by the left, as her Canadian interviewer Avi Lewis asked her (and to put her response into context):

Is there a school where they teach you these American cliches?

No, she lives “over there”, and now she lives “over here”. She actually has a point of reference, so I’ll trust her on that.

Though I do hate hearing such jejune crap in my native cadence.

I will close with an article I encourage everyone to read from the great science fiction writer (and Democrat…must say that otherwise his writings may be considered out right lies just to make oil profits for the Cheneys) Orson Scott Card, writer of the Enders Game Series, as he tackles the “truth” about Global Warming…a selection below.

If you pay close attention, you’ll find that Global Warming alarmists are not actually saying “Global Warming” lately. No, nowadays it’s “Climate Change.” Do you know why?

Because for the past three years, global temperatures have been falling.

Oops.

Heh…Red Meat.

Limousine Liberal, Moonbats

Ten Year NBC Veteran and Military corerspondent Col .Ken Allard has quit NBC. Why?

Like some second marriages and most Hollywood sequels, it’s usually a bad idea for a columnist to revisit the same topic. But last week’s discussion of renegade blogger and NBC military analyst Bill Arkin proved some larger points.

In case you missed it, Arkin characterized U.S. soldiers as “mercenaries” enjoying “obscene amenities” shipped into the war zone — pampered hirelings who then complain about declining public support for the war effort.

In reaction, many military people and their families wrote in. Some wondered why NBC would continue to give Arkin a platform for spreading slurs about our men and women serving in Iraq — and as volunteers rather than as mercenaries.

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When you don’t have skin in the game, war becomes a matter of sheer personal preference. Channel clickers are wielded, the soldier overlooked or, as we saw last week, even maligned as a mercenary without provoking a career-ending scandal.

It is, therefore, possible to argue that NBC is merely undergoing a delicate arabesque in anticipation of changing audience preferences and the long- hoped-for Democratic restoration (although journalists generally seem reluctant to raise the tough questions that should punctuate the 2008 campaign).

But has anyone else noticed the network’s precipitous retreat from journalistic and ethical standards? Not only were no apologies given and no pink slips issued for Arkin’s outburst, but on his MSNBC show last week, Keith Olberman went out of his way to defend this “valid criticism” of our military.

…But sometimes the only way to show where you really stand is to vote with your feet. And so with great reluctance and best wishes to my former colleagues, with this column I am severing my 10-year relationship with NBC News.

…and he was in the military. So the question is…do the Washington Post and NBC represent the mainstream. Or do are they so far left, that they represent no one. Your choices: People agree with NBC, which is why there is no real MSM public outcry, and the Military is a bunch of Pampered Mercenaries…or…NBC has an extreme Liberal Bias and has lost all journalistic integrity…unless there’s a third option I’m missing.

Maybe it involves a diversion from the argument to bring up Fox News…

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$4.25 million. That’s how much a US wide syndicated radio conglomerate is worth. A business staffed by liberals, run by liberals, invested in by liberals…and not listened to by enough liberals to stay alive. Was it the content? The management? The lack of listenership? All of the above? Regardless…the result is still the same…a failed business.

I said early on in discussions liberal talk radio wouldn’t fly…not enough liberals are interested in the news and the analysis to be able to make an endeavor fly. Radio targets an older, more educated audience…not a slam against those on the left as “stupid” because many of them aren’t. Liberals tend to be younger…as people get older they become more conservative…as people become older they listen to radio. This isn’t opinion, this is targeted marketing analysis, and this is how conservative radio makes money, and liberal radio doesn’t. They have an educated audience that will buy the products advertised on the stations: mortgages, insurance, investment and portfolio analysis…what would you sell to liberal listeners?

There are successful liberal talk stations out there…but they really are in their infancy. Liberals wondered what Rush would do once the Clinton era was over (they gave credit to successful conservative talk show just because on Clinton…why without Clinton, what would they talk about). Well…more stations are around then.

As an afterthought:

Why does talk radio have to be fair and balanced? It’s editorials…it’s media…it’s entertainment. It doesn’t present itself as balanced…ick…the Fairness Doctrine. Start reading now people…I’ll post on that soon.

Limousine Liberal

I mean blockquoting. Ripping this other more intelligent work. The New Job has me exhausted. It’s not that I’m working more, but there’s no real down time in the job. It’s nice though. It’s actually the stimulating career life, the hustle and bustle of the “the big time”. Haha…right. I’ll let you know when I make the stock price jump.

Anywho…to the meat of it. The thing that bothers me about people isn’t what they believe. Yes, I can disagree with them, and do so civilly (otherwise when entertaining for me). What bothers me is hypocrisies. Complaining that we need to stop the genocide in Darfur, but not finding it convincing that we needed to stop the genocide in Iraq. Complaining about CEO pay, but not the pay of Trial Lawyers, Athletes, Actors…the truly privileged. For what it’s worth…I don’t care how much someone makes…make as much as you can…it’s a free market (almost) system, not Stalinist Russia.

Edwards seems to be the nice guy in the Democrat race…aside from Obama…kinda. So…what’s bothered me the more that I read about him is the hypocrisies…the inconsistencies in one’s beliefs versus their actions. Anywho, here’s the Dean Barnett article, and some select text.

First, some people erroneously inferred that I was lambasting Edwards for engaging in such a gaudy display of conspicuous consumption. Au contraire, my leftist friends. I love conspicuous consumption, and I engage in as much of it as my finances allow. If I had the means, I would happily fly around in a private airliner like John Travolta does, although under no circumstances would I wear a sissy pilot’s costume like he does.

The issue with Edwards is the hypocrisy. I have to be honest here – hypocrisy has never been a big deal for me. If you have values and goals, you’ll occasionally fail to exemplify the virtues that you want to. That’s part of the human condition. That’s why I’m usually a little sympathetic when I hear about someone who has sinned. We all fall short. In the end, we’re all hypocrites.

The issue with Edwards and his hypocrisy is its outsized scale. Personally, I don’t care if a guy builds a house for himself the size of Cleveland. But when you’ve based your entire political career on railing about the disparities between the haves and the have nots, it’s a striking thing when you build a house so redolent of decadence as the Edwards’s new 28,000 square foot abode.

A word is also in order about the 28,000 square foot number. Some commenters seemed to think that because roughly 18,000 of those square feet fall in “The Barn,” they shouldn’t count as part of the house. For those of you with short memories, what the Edwards call “The Barn” has a basketball court, a squash court, two stages, a bedroom, kitchen, bathrooms, swimming pool, a four-story tower, and of course “John’s Lounge.”

The square footage of a house is typically determined by its climate controlled area. I think it’s safe to say that everything in “the barn” will be climate controlled, unless we expect that master of the house to shiver during a North Carolina winter while he seeks solace in his eponymous lounge. Just because the Edwards decided to use some of their square footage for unusual things like stages and a basketball court doesn’t mean those areas don’t count. When they say the Breakers Mansion clocks in at 60,000 square feet, that number includes such rarely used rooms as a reception hall the size of an aircraft hangar.

What’s was that “Two Americas”?

Limousine Liberal, Social Issues

Thanks to John Ziegler from local KFI 640 AM for providing the audio.

So it’s finally happened…”Proud to Serve” John Kerry let us know what he truly thinks about American soldiers over in Iraq as he was over here in Sunny California throwing his support behind floundering Phil Angelides. We’re supporting Arnold over here…

POSSIBLY THE MOSTEST STUPIDEST
COMMENT…EVER

Click here to listen, or “Save As” for the bloggers.

This is the man that we were (and may be asked to decide again) to trust with the well-being of our soldiers. This is the man who was going to show us how a military should be run, entirely based on his service for this country in Viet-nam (to get the proper emphasis on the proper syllable). This is his impression of the men that currently serve the military…not a judgment of those in power, or a criticism of the current executive or legislative branch. This is a man, at his most honest. There’s only so long a man can hide his nature before he slips publicly, and disagree with George Bush as much as you want, but when it comes to supporting the men of our military…bicker as Republicans do on policy, you’d be hard pressed to find such a statement come from our side of the aisle. Click on the above to listen to the audio.

UPDATE: Allah scoops me again…I beat him to the post (because my writing is far more hackey and rushed than his), but he already knew about the story, I emailed him to check (damn it)…next time my Teacher…next time.

UPDATE:

The Waffle called Mr. John Kerry ,
From His Frankenstein Lips Something Scary
“If you fight for this nation, you deserve indignation,

(*What was that…someone was recording this…shit*)

I mean…Republicans are just out to get me.”

UPDATE: 11/1/2006

The troops respond…

Douche of the Week, John Kerry, Limousine Liberal

Back in the Swing of Things

John Kerry is taking shots again…we all know that “he had a plan” which he never unveiled during the 2004 election, now he states about the Israel conflict, “If I was president, this wouldn’t have happened. ” Okay Mr. Kerry…how?

“This is about American security and Bush has
failed. He has made it so much worse because of his lack of reality in
going into Iraq.…We have to destroy Hezbollah,” he said.

I want to make sure I have this right. We shouldn’t be in Iraq, because they posed no threat to us, because they have (had) no weapons of mass destruction…but, we can destroy Hezbollah, who poses no direct threat to us, and has no weapons of mass destruction. Somebody help me out here. I know that Kerry is the master of nuances…but I miss the point where Saddam attacking and killing neighbors, means we go to the UN…Hezbollah attacking and destroying neighbors, the US needs to “destroy”. Any liberals out there who can clarify Kerry’s stance without offering you own (as y’all make me do with Bush)…he might be your candidate in ‘08.

So therefore…
John Kerry – Douche of the Week.

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The Limousine Liberal – An Examination

There is nothing more enraging than trying to have an intelligent debate with a Liberal from the above listed ilk. These are the rich socialites on the parenthesis of the country who know everything about everything. I suppose it would be easier to compare them analogously with a fifteen year old girl. A girl of that age is just at that point in their life where they realise that they know everything, yet expect others to take care of the problem. They don’t pay the rent, they don’t have a job, and they have little experience with the working class, or with anything requiring work in general. The limousine liberal loves to throw money at problems, but hate to come in contact with the problem itself. They contibute emphatically to charities that help the snow owl, or ANWR, but prefer that tax dollars distributed by the government be spent on less fortunate. To them, problems can be fixed with money, not well thought out preventative policy. These people scoff at middle America, but never heard of the Dixie Chicks (let alone enjoyed their music) until they heard that the Dixie Chicks hate president Bush. They can be seen eating caviar over champagne with Rob Reiner while trying to convince us that as taxpayers in California, it’s our duty to make sure that every child has free preschool, as dictated by the nanny state.

Limousine Liberals….here’s to you.

For further reference, see any work by Harvard cheater Ted Kennedy.

Limousine Liberal