It’s a well known fact that the Democrat and Chronicle’s OPINION page has a liberal bias and that they’ve been Obama sycophants since the 2008 election.

Today’s editorial, Don’t repeal health reform law; improve it instead took the cake though. It started right out of the gate:

The House Republicans are having a good ol’ time this week with their symbolic yet time-wasting moves such as organizing a reading of the U.S. Constitution.

Imagine that, it’s a waste of time for the House of Representatives to read the Constitution, the law of the land.

This is yet again another example of the foresightedness of the Founders for providing us with the First Amendment, that guarantees that the D&C and their fellow progressive Democrats the right to put their collective feet in their mouths, letting us know how they really feel about the Constitution!

Anyone with a pulse and their wits about them has heard through the Old Media that a mosque has been proposed for Lower Manhattan, mere feet from Ground Zero. While this is certainly controversial, and brings to the surface emotions perhaps some have not had in some time, there’s quite a bit in Imam Rauf’s background which should give even the most casual observers, even supporters of the mosque, some pause.

Imam Rauf has close ties with the Obama Admin., in fact he recently boasted about writing President Obama’s Cairo speech, and he’s traveled on State Dept. junkets across the world, all paid for by we, the taxpayers. Essentially, he’s your typical, smooth-talking type who loves to lecture others about perceived “insensitivity”, particularly when it pertains to the West and its dealings with the Muslim World. Basically, political-correctness, Islam-style, with a soft, candy-assed shell.

Hat tip to 5TownsJewishTimes for cluing folks into a Human Events article about the taxpayer-subsidized Slumlord Imam:

Ground Zero Imam a Taxpayer-Subsidized Slumlord

by Connie Hair

08/30/2010

The elitist, media-generated grand illusion of the Ground Zero mosque imam has begun to collapse under scrutiny.

New reports from The Record out of Hackensack, N.J., reveal Feisal Abdul Rauf, the would-be Ground Zero imam, owns taxpayer-subsidized apartment buildings in Hudson County where the tenants have made municipal health complaints including rat, roach and bedbug infestations, seeping toilets, leaks, urine-soaked hallways, no heat and no hot water.

Despite millions of dollars in government subsidies, Rauf has trouble maintaining several small apartment buildings in North Bergen, Palisades Park and Union City.

From the NewJersey.com report:

Page after page of municipal health records examined by The Record show repeated complaints ranging from failure to pick up garbage, to rat and bedbug infestations and no heat and hot water.

Cynthia Balko, 48, of Union City — a longtime tenant of Rauf’s — said she’s had to live with rats, leaks and no heat: “I don’t have anything nice to say about the man.”

Despite having received over $2 million in public funding for renovations, Rauf’s tenants were forced to file municipal health complaints to seek relief. One such single mother living in a Rauf-owned apartment in Union City said Rauf has not answered complaints.

From an additional story in The Record:

To understand her perspective, you need to go to a forlorn corner on the Jersey side — to 22nd Street in Union City and a four-story apartment building owned by Rauf. The locks on a front door are broken and the hallway leading to [Melba] Lopez’s two-bedroom apartment smells of urine.

Looking east on 22nd Street — back across the Hudson — the Empire State building pokes the sky. On that side of the river, New York’s mayor speaks of Rauf as a symbol of religious freedom and last week invited the Imam’s wife, Daisy Khan, to dinner at Gracie Mansion to honor the Islamic celebration of Ramadan.

But in Union City, Lopez, a single mother, has another way of describing the man who has time to promote the so-called Ground Zero mosque, but does not seem to have time to answer her complaints about leaks in her toilet.

Lopez said in the report she has never met the would-be Ground Zero mosque imam but she says she has met Rauf’s wife Khan.

Lopez said she remembers Khan telling her that she and her husband did not have enough money to fix her leak and other problems in the building. What Lopez did not know was that at the same time, Rauf and Khan were trying to raise money for their mosque project on the other side of the Hudson

According to the new reports, Rauf has a long history of taxpayer subsidies and grants for slum properties. There’s even a new revelation of a lawsuit settled in June over what the report terms a suit alleging fraud.

From the link:

[T]he suit alleged Rauf and Khan transferred ownership to another firm they owned and then obtained a $650,000 mortgage on the same building from a bank. After the building was damaged by fire in February 2008, Rauf and Khan stopped making mortgage payments to Cockinos, a former key executive at Daibes’ Mariner’s Bank. When Cockinos tried to foreclose, he discovered Rauf and Khan had switched ownership and filed suit alleging “fraud.”

The case was settled shortly before a June 28 trial, with Rauf and Khan agreeing to pay off the mortgage to Cockinos within the next few years, said the couple’s lawyer, Richard Rosa of Hackensack.

There is much more on Rauf and Khan’s current financial woes at the link.

The New York Post reported the site’s developers owe hundreds of thousands in back taxes:

The mosque developers are tax deadbeats.

Sharif El-Gamal, the leading organizer behind the mosque and community center near Ground Zero, owes $224,270.77 in back property tax on the site, city records show.

El-Gamal’s company, 45 Park Place Partners, failed to pay its half-yearly bills in January and July, according to the city Finance Department.

Sounds like a good time to raise $100 million for a mosque.

Reuters is reporting New York is considering granting the group a reported $70 million in public funding.

So, there ya have it. A smooth-talking imam, not unlike any other smooth-talking type who is not a real holy man, just another shyster who seeks to bilk millions out of the taxpayers’ pockets, both for his slum properties and a mosque/”community center” mere feet from Ground Zero. Same as any other dime store shakedown artist who hides behind his religion. I’d bet dollars to donuts he and his people, to include the deadbeat owner of the property, made all this noise so they could get more private funding. The fact that Bloomberg supports this is a shame, and a slap in the face to the survivors and victims’ families of the September, 11th, terrorist attacks.

Thanks go out to my friend in Montreal who sent me one of the articles.

rochesterconserative.com member, HowardRoarke, tipped me off to an article on the New Zeal Blogspot about Journolist members connections to Marxist and far left organizations as well as having ties to the Obama campaign. From the New Zeal Blogspot:

Many “JournoListas” were involved with Marxist based based organizations such as Democratic Socialists of America, or the far left Institute for Policy Studies.

Some, like Robert Kuttner of The American Prospect, had close ties to the Obama campaign and Administration.

An overlapping group of “JournoListas” , at least eight strong were centered on another organization, which has close ties to the three highly influential power centers – financier and “change agent” George Soros’ , internet giant Google and DC based non profit Free Press – accused by its opponents of aiding Obama Administration attempts to censor and manipulate information on the internet.

The organization in question, the Washington DC based New America Foundation has close ties to the Obama Administration, stretching back to Obama’s alma mater Occidental College in the early 1980s.

Marxist journalists shilling in their publications for Obama, who admitted in his book, “Dreams From My Father”, his interest in Marxism:

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout,I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students.The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist Professors and the structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

Birds of a feather flocking together for the “Hope and Change” to fundamentally transform America into a European style socialist democracy.

“JournoListas” connections to the New America Foundation that’s supported by George Soros, weaves a web of collusion where details of Obama’s radical past were suppressed by compliant, “fellow traveler” journalists. This is truly what Congressman A. S. Herlong Jr described as Communist Goals to the House of Representatives back on January 10, 1963:

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

Rep. Herlong Jr also listed this:

15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

The Democratic Party is now controlled by progressives (aka socialists).

Although the conservative blogsphere suspected all of this, the proof that a Marxist was elected as President of the US with the assistance of a compliant MSM and the Democratic Party is chilling.

Continuing today on the subject of Journolist, one of the people targeted was Fred Barnes who is the executive editor of the Weekly Standard and a commentator on Fox News Channel. From theDaily Caller:

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

Here’s Barnes’ take on the Journolist issue and the liberal biased MSM in general. From the Wall Street Journal:

My response has usually been to say, yes, there’s liberal bias in the media, but there’s no conspiracy. The liberal tilt is an accident of nature. The media disproportionately attracts people from a liberal arts background who tend, quite innocently, to be politically liberal. If they came from West Point or engineering school, this wouldn’t be the case.

Now, after learning I’d been targeted for a smear attack by a member of an online clique of liberal journalists, I’m inclined to amend my response. Not to say there’s a media conspiracy, but at least to note that hundreds of journalists have gotten together, on an online listserv called JournoList, to promote liberalism and liberal politicians at the expense of traditional journalism.

My guess is that this and other revelations about JournoList will deepen the distrust of the national press. True, participants in the online clubhouse appear to hail chiefly from the media’s self-identified left wing. But its founder, Ezra Klein, is a prominent writer for the Washington Post. Mr. Klein shut down JournoList last month—a wise decision.

We here at rochesterconservative.com know of this liberal bias first hand because as pioneers of the Tea Party Movement, we’ve been targeted by it in a seemingly organized fashion that seems like those journalists colluded with each other.

Fred Barnes brought up a good point, that the members of Journolist promoted “liberalism and liberal politicians at the expense of traditional journalism”. IMO, most of the MSM has voluntarily acted as the propaganda arm for Obama’s campaign in 2008 and for him and his administration after they helped him win the election.

This sort of collusion of the MSM actively promoting and covering for political candidates and elected officials brings to mind Rep. A. S. Herlong, JR. of Florida reading of the Communist Goals on the House Floor on January 10 1963. Two of those goals concern the MSM:

20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.

21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

We’re there right now. This is exactly what got Obama elected, a complicit MSM. Far left ideologues have infiltrated the MSM and are voluntarily pushing this agenda and promoting politicians who are also believes in this world socialist (aka communist) revolution. Our country is being pushed away from being a Constitutional Republic towards a European style socialist democracy. We all know what the evils of government run socialism can bring, over 100 million deaths of innocent civilians during the 20th Century. I cannot understand why these supposedly educated people in the MSM would actively work to push our country in this direction. Utopia is unattainable and ends up being deadly for those living in countries trying to attain it.

The news has been breaking about the secretive Journolist, the listserv where liberal journalists tried to shield their favored Presidential candidate, Barack Obama and spiked the Jeremiah Wright story. The Daily Caller broke the story yesterday:

The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”

Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. “George [Stephanopoulos],” fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is “being a disgusting little rat snake.”

IMO, Stephanopoulos has treated Obama with kid gloves. So has most of the media. They are complicit in the non-vetting of the former community organizer with little executive experience who never met a radical that he didn’t like.

The story with Journolist gets nastier though:

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

To those of us who participate on commenting on the D&C OPINION Page, you’re very familiar of the racist charge. When the liberals are on the losing end of a debate, they revert to personal attacks and calling us (conservatives) racists.

The Tea Party Movement is very familiar with this tactic and the D&C OPINION published a series of editorials by a cabal of journalists led by Eugene Robinson, Clarence Page and Bob Ray Sanders, vilifying us as violent racists. I wrote about it in my article, The Democrat and Chronicle’s Campaign of Lies Malign the Tea Party Movement.

There is definitely a campaign of collusion in the MSM to cover for Obama and the Daily Caller article proves it.

There’s more today from the Daily Caller:

In a post to the list-serv Journolist, an online meeting place for liberal journalists, Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.

In boasting that she would gleefully watch a man die in front of her eyes, Spitz seemed to shock even herself. “I never knew I had this much hate in me,” she wrote. “But he deserves it.”

Spitz’s hatred for Limbaugh seems intemperate, even imbalanced. On Journolist, where conservatives are regarded not as opponents but as enemies, it barely raised an eyebrow.

I don’t find it surprising that Spitz hates Rush and hates conservatives in general. Again, I see this attitude on a daily basis on the D&C.

Let’s face it folks, we are in the midst of an ideological war in this country. The exposure of the Journolist and reading the true, unguarded feelings of liberal journalists should be a wake up call to the remainder of us who are still in slumber. They don’t want debate, they want dominance. Instead of honestly reporting on it, they covered for Obama and his virulantly racist pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

Oliver North had an article on the McChrystal Resignation published in TownHall.com today. Here’s an excerpt:

McChrystal’s firing has been likened to President Abraham Lincoln’s replacing George McClellan during the Civil War and President Harry Truman’s sacking Douglas MacArthur in the midst of the Korean War. Not accurate.

Both McClellan and MacArthur vocally opposed the stated policies and strategies of their presidents. That’s not what happened here. In announcing he had “accepted” his battlefield commander’s resignation, Obama acknowledged that he and McChrystal “are in full agreement about our strategy.” This week’s firing was simply political theater designed to enhance Obama’s stature as a “leader” in the eyes of his supporters and critics.

Obama suffers from decision-deficit disorder. He routinely is described as detached, disengaged, ambivalent and uncertain in everything from the economy to securing our borders to the Gulf oil spill to the war itself. He has been unable or unwilling to name our radical Islamist enemies or define victory. He is the only commander in chief to announce a deadline for withdrawing troops while committing more Americans to combat.

McChrystal was relieved because a thin-skinned president couldn’t take criticism in the press and needed to prove he’s the boss. The intemperate published remarks made by McChrystal and his staff in Rolling Stone provided an opportunity for Obama to show his left-wing base that he is in charge.

That left a mark!

It’s become clear that Obama is not executive material. He is detached and indecisive and uncomfortable in his role as Commander in Chief. Obama dithered for months on McChrystal’s request for more troops and when he did approve, it was with fewer troops than McChrystal requested and he set a deadline for withdrawal. I didn’t realize he’s the first American CiC to do this, a terrible precedent to set.

North points out that the McChrystal/Rolling Stone situation “provided an opportunity for Obama to show his left-wing base that he is in charge” and his sycophants in the media have been crowing about this as witnessed in an editorial in yesterday’s D&C OPINION page, Obama was right to remove McChrystal, undoubtedly penned by Obama propagandist, James Lawrence. He wrote:

With such high stakes, President Barack Obama is right to put his foot down and remove Gen. Stanley McChrystal as the top U.S. commander.

Let’s not forget that it was the Obama Administration that appointed Gen. McChrystal, who admitted that he voted for Obama. Gen. McChrystal was Obama’s man and he saw through the rhetoric and as the Rolling Stone article reported, “never taking his eye off the real enemy: The wimps in the White House.”

An upcoming documentary by MSNBC’s Chris Matthews is running promotional advertisements that tout Alex Jones as the leader of the “New Right” and the Tea Party Movement. Cliff Kincaid of Accuracy in Media reports:

Radio host Alex Jones, who believes that 9/11 was a U.S. government plot and “inside job” conspiracy, is featured in Chris Matthews’ Wednesday documentary on MSNBC as a leader of the “New Right” and the Tea Party movement. But Jones has absolutely nothing to do with the conservative or Tea Party movements.

In the advance promotional advertisements for the program, Jones is shown saying that the U.S. has entered the phase of “deep tyranny.” The promos make Jones appear to be the undisputed leader of the “New Right” and the Tea Party movement.

First off, the Tea Party Movement does not have a national leader. Secondly, Alex Jones is a “truther”, a person who believes that 911 was in inside government job and he actively promoted it on his radio show. Although the “truthers” have tried to glom on to the Tea Party Movement, they are NOT a part of us and NOT welcome at the Tea Parties.

Cliff Kincaid further reports:

But Jones is not and never has been a conservative. Jones has much more in common with the left than the right. He is, for example, a member of the 9/11 Truth Movement, as was Van Jones, the Obama official fired after evidence of his communist background began to surface. The 9/11 Truth Movement was originally designed to undercut evidence that Muslims were behind the attacks that killed almost 3,000 Americans. Leftists joined the movement and used it to undermine the Bush Administration drive for a military response to Islamic terrorism and its base of operations in the Middle East.

We know that Chris Matthews hates the Tea Party Movement and does everything in his power to malign us. Apparently that includes holding up conspiracy nut Alex Jones as a leader of the “New Right” and the Tea Party Movement. Ridiculous!

A recent Gallup Poll has found that Americans are giving Obama a thumbs down concerning his handling of the BP oil spill. From UPI:

More Americans disapprove of President Obama’s handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill than of his overall job performance, a Gallup Poll indicated Tuesday.

Results indicated Obama’s rating for the oil spill was 40 percent, 7 percentage points lower than his overall job approval rating. More Americans disapprove than approve of his handling of the oil spill that began April 20 when an oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers, and sank two days later.

In an earlier poll, Gallup said 53 percent of Americans called Obama’s efforts in responding to the spill “very poor” or “poor,” while 73 percent expressed the same sentiments about BP.

The MSM wrongly vilified George Bush for his handling of the Hurricane Katrina crisis when it was Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray “School Bus” Nagin, who did not fullfill their respective State and City duties to protect and evacuate citizens. In the BP oil spill disaster, the MSM has given Obama a pass, but the American people aren’t buying it. We have to again look to the British press to get honest reporting of this. From The Daily Mail:

Bush did a better job with Katrina! Obama’s popularity slumps over handling of BP oil spill

Barack Obama’s popularity is slipping in the wake of America’s worst oil spill.

More Americans – 69 per cent – are unhappy about the U.S. president’s administration’s response to the BP disaster than disapproved of George Bush’s botched handling of Hurricane Katrina five years ago, according to a poll.

Although BP is responsible for this disaster, Obama as President of the United States is responsible for the response in protecting shorelines and containing the spill. He clearly dropped the ball on this from early on. There’s this pesky thing named the Clean Water Act, which places responsibility for response of disasters such as the BP oil spill directly on the President’s shoulders:

Clean Water Act – Section 311

(A) If a discharge, or a substantial threat of a discharge, of oil or a hazardous substance from a vessel, offshore facility, or onshore facility is of such a size or character as to be a substantial threat to the public health or welfare of the United States (including but not limited to fish, shellfish, wildlife, other natural resources, and the public and private beaches and shorelines of the United States), the President shall direct all Federal, State, and private actions to remove the discharge or to mitigate or prevent the threat of the discharge.

(B) In carrying out this paragraph, the President may, without regard to any other provision of law governing contracting procedures or employment of personnel by the Federal Government–
(i) remove or arrange for the removal of the discharge, or mitigate or prevent the substantial threat of the discharge; and
(ii) remove and, if necessary, destroy a vessel discharging, or threatening to discharge, by whatever means are available.

For the first 40 days of the BP oil disaster, it hardly made it on Obama’s agenda. Here’s a video that chronicles those days:

The American people are noticing, but the MSM is still covering for their guy!

Helen Thomas bared her soul the other day and told us how she really feels:

One doesn’t get more virulently anti-semitic than that and because of that, she was forced to resign.

I for one will weep no tears for Helen Thomas. She’s long been anti-Israel and anti-semitic and she’s about as liberal as they get. Remember these quotes from her:

The day Dick Cheney is going to run for president, I’ll kill myself. All we need is another liar… I think he’d like to run, but it would be a sad day for the country if he does.

and

This is the worst President ever. He George W. Bush is the worst President in all of American history.

Helen Thomas was a BDSer extraordinaire.

Good riddance, Helen, and don’t let the door hit you on the butt on your way out!