The New York Times met with the Obama Administration and reviewed the Afghan War information they obtained from WikiLeaks. I didn’t know about this until RC Forums member SMZ brought this up yesterday and tired_of_it provided the link to the salon.com article on it. Times Washington bureau chief Dean Baquet reports:

I did in fact go the White House and lay out for them what we had,” Baquet said. “We did it to give them the opportunity to comment and react. They did. They also praised us for the way we handled it, for giving them a chance to discuss it, and for handling the information with care. And for being responsible.

I do give the NYT credit for disclosing what they had to the Obama Administration. What I found upsetting about this was the reported reaction of the Obama Administration.

The Times redacted some information in the name of “national security” and protecting the safety of individual soldiers, but the White House doesn’t seem to have told the Times that publishing stories based on these documents would in any real way harm our troops.

If this in fact was the true, “behind the scenes” reaction of the Obama Administration, they are at the least, naive to believe that the leak of these documents will not harm our troops and/or at the worst, they are complicit for not being more forceful in preventing the secret documents from being published.

We’ll see in the coming days what sort of stories come out of the WikiLeaks Afghan War documents but I don’t see anything good coming from this. Hard decisions are made by our troops in combat situations and sometimes wrong targets are hit and civilians end up getting killed. This is especially true when fighting Islamic Jihadists, whose cowardly tactics include using civilians as human shields. When trying to root the Jihadists out, civilian casualties are inevitable due to those tactics. Will our brave troops be depicted as blood thirsty baby killers as the liberal MSM painted them during the Vietnam War? If so, I’ll hold WikiLeaks, the NYT and the other MSM outlets who received the documents and also the Obama Administration, for their non-action, responsible for repeating the sins of the past and allowing our troops to be maligned and vilified!

Rush Limbaugh was all over Clinton appointee, Judge Susan Bolton’s ruling that ripped the guts out of the Arizona immigration law sb1070. From RushLimbaugh.com:

The Associated Press, partisan political operatives, and the Democrats are just doing handstands. They are ecstatic. Susan Bolton, the judge, “has blocked the most controversial sections of Arizona’s new immigration law from taking effect tomorrow, which is a major victory to opponents of the crackdown. The law is still gonna take effect but without many of the provisions that angered the opponents, including sections that require officers to check a person’s immigration status while enforcing other laws.” The cops cannot do that now. Why not? Now, this is just until the courts resolve the issues. This is a temporary injunction, pending a trial to have final adjudication on this. But this is just flat-out amazing. Who is going to enforce immigration law if the Feds are not going to do it?

I mean, there are states that already do this, cops that already determine this. What about raids in states that are hiring illegals and they’re found and they’re deported? “Yeah, Rush, but those are federal agents doing that.” No, not entirely. Local police in Rhode Island are enforcing federal immigration law, but now a judge has said that that cannot happen in Arizona, pending the results of a trial. By the way, if this gets all the way to the appellate court that’s the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals that will decide this, which is to say they will uphold her. So if this ends up as far as they go there’s going to be a trial with this and be after that then it will get to the Ninth Circus. So local cops will no longer be able to go after kidnappers. I mean, that’s a federal offense. This is absurd. This is patently absurd, and I’m going to tell you something.

All of you Democrats, all you liberals, you think you’ve won something here. This is just gonna add to your defeat, the size of your defeat come November.

Polls are showing that 55% of Americans support Arizona sb1070. That’s a similar percentage that was opposed to the Health Care Reform (NOT!) Bill that was shoved down our throats. You can be sure that Obama ordered Holder to file this lawsuit that goes against the will of the American people and the people of Arizona and lackey Judge Susan Bolton followed the party line with her ruling that yet again went against the will of the American people and enforcement of the rule of law.

Americans will Remember in November!

The un-Constitutional “Disclose Act” failed 57-41 in yesterdays (7/27/2010) cloture vote in the Senate! The Republicans all voted against it.

If it had passed, the so-called “Disclose Act” — more properly referred to as the “Incumbent Protection Act” — would have:

Of course, New York Senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Chuck Schumer both voted for this un-Constitutional act. We’ve got to vote them out this November!

The following video is an excerpt from an interview by Marc Morano of Climate Depot with Physicist Dr. Denis Rancourt, former professor and environmental science researcher at the University of Ottawa, who has left the anthropogenic (human induced) global warming (AGW) movement. He states his reasons for leaving the movement.

Excerpts from the video:

“It is as much psychological and social phenomenon as anything else,”

“I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed by military might; and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth. In my opinion, activists who, using any justification, feed the global warming myth have effectively been co-opted, or at best neutralized,”

“Global warming is strictly an imaginary problem of the First World middleclass,”

Click here to read the rest of the Climate Depot article.

There you have it, a left wing environmentalist who was once a part of the AGW movement and is now speaking out against it because it’s a hoax and a scam.

Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, had an interesting and informative article in the Wall Street Journal about Independent voters and where they stand. From Who Are the Independents, and What Are They Thinking?:

At this point, independents are significantly closer to Republicans than they are to Democrats on a host of questions involving their views of President Barack Obama, the political parties and issues. This is a reversal of the situation in 2006 and 2008.

Unless the Democrats can move independents’ views closer to their own, they are likely to face the same fate Republicans met in the last two elections.

Brown is basing this on a Quinnipiac national poll of 2,181 voters that was released last week.

This shift by Independents to the right is not surprising to me. By it’s very nature based on its founding, America is a fundamentally conservative country. Many people got snookered by “hopey changey” and the desire to elect a person of color to the presidency and the MSM was complicit in keeping the lid on Obama’s radical past. Unless people were reading conservative blogs, they didn’t know about any of this. Now that people have been able to see Obama and his administration in action, they are witnessing his agenda of transforming our country into a European style socialist democracy. Independents are taking notice of this direction Obama is leading our country away from its founding principles and are waking up with a case of buyers remorse.

I also believe that the Tea Party Movement has been instrumental in sounding the alarm to the American people of Obama’s socialist agenda. We had to speak out because the MSM is almost fully behind Obama and acting like TASS back in the days of the Soviet Union. We hit the streets, regular working class folks, and people saw us and listened to us and our message of smaller government, lower taxes, adherence to the Constitution and individual liberty resonates with most Americans. The radicals and socialists are well organized and loud but we outnumber them by a wide margin. The Independents are seeing socialism in action in the White House and they are rejecting it.

There was a good article on townhall.com by Brian Walsh about Dan Maffei and Ann Marie Buerkle and the NY 25th Congressional race:

Excerpt from: 2010 Race of the Day: Democrats’ Maffei Problem

Highlighting the growing concern over Maffei’s left-wing voting record and Republican candidate Ann Marie Buerkle’s broad appeal, Buerkle was endorsed by the Independence Party this week, strengthening her bid to take this seat in November. Her campaign theme is “Jobs are Job Number One” and it has resonated loud and clear among central New Yorkers. Having united Independents and Republicans of all stripes, Buerkle faces no primary and will be the only candidate on the ballot in November under the Republican line, the Conservative line, and the Independence line.

Incumbent Rep. Maffei has voted with Nancy Pelosi 96.5% of the time over the past two years, which has made his constituents, and most notably independents in the 25th District, tired of the same old Washington politics. A former aide to the corrupt Congressman Charlie Rangel, Maffei has only voted against his party’s agenda a handful of times. He voted for the stimulus, healthcare reform, and now the costly financial overhaul bill, supporting the current Administration’s out-of-control spending and disregard for America’s future. In the past two years, all Maffei has proven is that he’s just another unimpressive Pelosi puppet, one who holds his party’s agenda above his constituents’ interests.

Click here to read the full article

Incumbent Rep. Maffei has voted with Nancy Pelosi 96.5% of the time over the past two years

A former aide to the corrupt Congressman Charlie Rangel

If I had input into Ann Marie Buerkle’s campaign, I’d be running with the above factoids, both Ann Marie herself bringing them up while on the campaign trail and also in ads. The ratings for Pelosi’s Congress are at 21.8% according to the RealClearPolitics Poll Average. That’s even lower than W’s ratings at the end of his presidency. Rangel’s corruption case is front and center now and as a former aide, how could Maffei not have known what a crook Rangel is! Heck, Rangel helped Maffei get elected.

Shout Maffei’s voting record and ties to Charlie Rangel from the roof tops, Ann Marie!

Here’s a video of Ann Marie at the 2010 Tax Day Rochester Tea Party

Remember in November!

Enjoy!

RV

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.

HowardRoarke posted the following video to the RC Forums yesterday. Breitbart TV released these videos in response to the NAACP’s resolution of racism in the Tea Party Movement. Check out this video taken at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia.

Unbelievable! And the NAACP has the nerve to call the Tea Party racist! They basically awarded racism in the above video.