CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? PEOPLE DON'T LIKE TO BE TOLD WHAT TO WATCH!

Amazing. And after they were told to boycott the show!

Though a little scandal might alienate advertisers, it’s pure ratings gold. Last night Glenn Beck had over 3 million viewers at 5pm, second only to O’Reilly for the night. But, Beck had more 25-54 viewers than O’Reilly (888K to 876K). I don’t watch or really even care about the cable news wars, but still…wow. Even though Beck airs before primetime, when there are fewer people watching TV, he had the most 25-54 viewers in the cable news world for the night. (TV By the Numbers)

Oh, and about that boycott by Color of Change?

While the Color of Change is bragging about their success I would sort of take that with a grain of salt. The companies have not pulled their advertising from Fox, rather Fox has simply moved those commercials to different times, so they continue to reap the benefits of those advertising dollars. The second part is without all of those commercials Glenn now has more time to conduct interviews and have his say, so in essence these idjits have given Glenn more air time to take this administration to task and ask those disturbing questions about Barry O's "friend", who are now political appointees. (Jammie Wearing Fool)

Thanks!



This must very much displease Our Glorious Leader. He'll have to amp up his efforts at stamping out free speech!

GOOD QUESTION

Here’s a question for you: Why is Rodney King famous and Kenneth Gladney unknown?

Here’s a better question: If Kenneth Gladney — a black American who was beaten when he went to protest ObamaCare — had been there instead to support President Obama and had been beaten up and called a nigger by Anti-Obama town hall protesters…

…Well, does anyone doubt he would have been as famous as Rodney King? Why is Kenneth Gladney ignored? And why did a black patriot who showed up in opposition to ObamaCare with an AR-15 have his face and hands edited out of the video that MSNBC used to create the belief that wild white mobs, enraged at the very idea of a black man in the White House, were waiting outside to lynch the “President of Color?” (Bill Whittle)

ANSWER: They are creating their own reality!

CROWDER GOES LIBERAL!

Now that there is some good art!

THE NEA IS BEING TRANSFORMED INTO A GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA ARM

Germany had Goebbels, I guess The Obamunist has the National Endowment for the Arts (that you pay for and that just got a boat-load of porkulus money).

At Big Hollywood, an artist invited to an NEA conference call reports:

On Thursday August 6th, I was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to attend a conference call scheduled for Monday August 10th hosted by the NEA, the White House Office of Public Engagement, and United We Serve. The call would include “a group of artists, producers, promoters, organizers, influencers, marketers, taste-makers, leaders or just plain cool people to join together and work together to promote a more civically engaged America and celebrate how the arts can be used for a positive change!” ...

Backed by the full weight of President Barack Obama’s call to service and the institutional weight of the NEA, the conference call was billed as an opportunity for those in the art community to inspire service in four key categories, and at the top of the list were “health care” and “energy and environment.” The service was to be attached to the President’s United We Serve campaign, a nationwide federal initiative to make service a way of life for all Americans...

We were encouraged to bring the same sense of enthusiasm to these “focus areas” as we had brought to Obama’s presidential campaign, and we were encouraged to create art and art initiatives that brought awareness to these issues. Throughout the conversation, we were reminded of our ability as artists and art professionals to “shape the lives” of those around us...

I leave you with a few statements made by the NEA to the art community participants on the conference call. “This is just the beginning. This is the first telephone call of a brand new conversation. We are just now learning how to really bring this community together to speak with the government. What that looks like legally?…bare with us as we learn the language so that we can speak to each other safely… “

Did you get that? The NEA's mission is to communicate The One's directives on "healthcare, energy and the environment." As part of an "initiative to make service a way of life for all Americans."

All the pieces are falling into place. Like Beck says (like him or not), stand back and look at the big picture. It's all coming together.

AS IF I NEEDED ANOTHER REASON TO LOVE TEXAS

And in Lubbock, no less.

BEFORE YOU GET MAD, REMEMBER...THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS TRUTH

... to the post-modern intellectual. The "truth" is only what you say it is and is always in quotes!

Shortly after the 2004 Republican convention, Mary Mapes produced a segment for 60 Minutes II that alleged that George W. Bush had manipulated his enlistment in the Texas Air National Guard to avoid serving in combat in Vietnam....

Recall that the heart of Mapes’ story was that Bush was a coward who didn’t want to face combat. In the context of the 2004 election, the importance of this attack cannot be underestimated....

Well look what's come out, now that it's only so much paper:

Mary Mapes knew before she put the story on the air that George W. Bush, the alleged slacker, had in fact volunteered to go to Vietnam.

You have no right to impose your truth on her! I mean, it's there in the Constitution...right under the right to persue your own truth part...or sumpin'.....

Garsh. People are so picky!

VOTED DOWN NEW TAXES? WELL, YOU'LL GET THEM ANYWAY

All your money r belong to us.

Hot Air:

Californians must have thought they’d sent a loud and clear message to Sacramento in May when they rejected a series of referendums that would have approved tax hikes to solve their budget crisis.

They were wrong. You see, they mistakenly thought that the government worked for them, when in our new reality, they in fact work for the government.

Stupid people....thinkin' they were free n' all......is to laugh!

R.I.P. Mary Jo Kopeckne

(via It Don't Make Sense)

SINCE FLAGS ARE FLYING HALF-MAST TODAY 'N ALL...

Of all people, Henry Rollins tells the story...in Vanity Fair. What...what? Yeah. Henry Rollins.

I HATE HEARING THIS AND HATE THINKING THIS

But the evidence keeps piling up.



Yes I think The One most likely is purposely trying to destroy the economy. Suffering people will beg to be helped/controlled, will gladly hand over any and all remaining power and the way will be wide open for him to make the kind of nation that his buddies like Chavez and Castro have made.

He's packed his new personal executive government (the zillion czars) with self-avowed Marxists. He's not stupid, and yet a friggin' water-head could see he's pushing us off an economic cliff.

Just because something is too horrible to think about, is not a reason not to face it if reason points it out to you.

We all gotta grow some.

WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET:

'Cruel and neglectful' care of one million NHS patients exposed.

That's the headline from a horrific story in the the UK's Telegraph. Some bits:

...a horrifying catalogue of elderly people left in pain, in soiled bed clothes, denied adequate food and drink, and suffering from repeatedly cancelled operations, missed diagnoses and dismissive staff....

...the Patients Association has been receiving calls on our helpline from people wanting to talk about the dreadful, neglectful, demeaning, painful and sometimes downright cruel treatment their elderly relatives had experienced at the hands of NHS nurses...

Now really. What the hell can you expect when a face-less government bureaucrat that has been told to cut costs for a program that can't be paid for makes decisions about YOUR BODY instead of a doctor?

You aren't a human any longer, comrade, you're a number.

It isn't about your health. It's about their control.

(image via freerepublic, with lotsa pics of the eeeevil cops Ayers and pals murdered)

WHEN YOU SAY WE LOVE TERRORISTS, IT'S BAD.
WHEN WE SAY WE LOVE TERRORISTS, IT'S GOOD.

From the NYTimes, no less, by the author of a book on "The Weather Underground, the Red Army Faction, and Revolutionary Violence in the Sixties and Seventies":

“The bombings that year were an expression, an act of, if not foolhardy, optimism. They were desperadoes. They had the belief that they could bomb old ideologies out of existence.”

Professor Varon said that the movements out of which groups like Mr. Melville’s emerged will always have a degree of romantic resonance with young activists.

“It’s the nature of young people,” he said. “They will always be inspired by people of intense principles. The bombers represent the extreme edge of the commitment. They will for a long time be regarded for their generational mobilization. It’s impressive to most people.”

Jonah Goldberg responds:

Um, no, no it's really not "impressive to most people." And the "romantic resonance" is overwhelmingly with young left-wing and liberal activists, despite the fact I keep hearing how mainstream liberals and Democrats don't have any affinity whatsoever with the Weather Underground and similar groups. When conservatives say (as I did in my book) that liberals, broadly speaking, have a romantic attachment to this stuff it's an outrageous slander. But when the New York Times essentially reports it as fact, it's interesting social commentary.

Oh and on that point, bonus prize for anyone who can guess whose name does not appear in the article. I'll give you a hint, he worked with the man who's currently the president of the United States.

Meanwhile, let's get back to talking about how protestors at town-hall meetings are "political terrorists."

Those beautiful, bomb-throwing, murderous flower-children! Why, they were sorta like the founding fathers of our new Totalitarian Marxist state, weren't they!? Garsh, I can't wait till there's a monument to Bill Ayers to replace the one to that evil, capitolist pig Jefferson!

Some background on our NEW CHOPE-Y founding fathers, from Hannity:

(via Pookie's Toons)

NO, I DON'T THINK THIS IS EXTREME

(via Pookie's Toons)

BUT DON'T CALL IT UN-AMERICAN.

AIN'T IT THE TRUTH.

FORGET COLLEGE

They were valuable when the had not yet become full-tilt post-modern Marxist indoctrination centers, but now....

...the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) has done a study of what students are learning and sadly, the results are not surprising:

ACTA conducted research to see whether 100 major institutions require seven key subjects: English composition, literature, foreign language, U.S. government or history, economics, mathematics and science. What ACTA found was found was alarming, reporting that "Even as our students need broad-based skills and knowledge to succeed in the global marketplace, our colleges and universities are failing to deliver. Topics like U.S. government or history, literature, mathematics, and economics have become mere options on far too many campuses. Not surprisingly, students are graduating with great gaps in their knowledge -- and employers are noticing."

The National Center for Education Statistics reports that only 31 percent of college graduates can read and understand a complex book. Employers complain that graduates of colleges lack the writing and analytical skills necessary to succeed in the workplace. (Walter E. Williams)

This is a godsend to Statists. A population that does not know our history, our founding or our defining documents is a population that will make good slaves. No wonder so many voted for slavery.

RUSH WAS EVIL WHEN HE PREDICTED THEY WOULD DO WHAT THEY JUST DID

Only on the left. Kennedy's death has quickly become something to be used for political gain.
From Legal Insurrection:

" it’s time to come back after Labor Day with a single coherent Senator Edward M. Kennedy Health Care Reform Bill, and to twist whatever arms, ears, or other parts are necessary to get a good strong comprehensive bill passed and signed, NOW. We owe the memory of a great man no less."This theme of naming a bill after Kennedy is sure to pick up steam, as Democrats are desperate to do anything to overcome public opposition on the merits. Witness this San Francisco Chronicle column today:

There would be no more fitting tribute to the passing of Ted Kennedy, than to pass a health-care reform bill by early fall.

Yes, it would glorify him to name what is perhaps the last nail in America's coffin after him. Even More than Chappaquiddic. But what's funny is,

when Rush Limbaugh used the phrase "Kennedy Memorial Health Bill," [in predicting how Democrats would use Kennedy's death] he was harshly criticized.

CRAPTACULAR!

A GENERATION RAISED ON "SELF-ESTEEM"

Ever wonder why so many kids are are getting so violent? Music full of hate, mysogyny, and murder gets blamed sometimes, but maybe thats just a symptom of this destructive theory foisted on children in the name of liberal nice-ness:

From Cracked's list of 6 BS Facts about Psychology:

This seems to be one of those deals where they've confused correlation and causation. Rather than thinking, "Maybe kids with high self-esteem feel good about themselves because they get good grades in school and have lots of friends," they decided that it's the other way around, that they succeed because they have self-esteem. So they tried to teach people to feel good about themselves for no other reason than pure entitlement, figuring the actual reasons for feeling good about themselves would follow at some later date.

This results in some kids having too much self-esteem, a breed of human that scientists classify as "douchebag."

We're not kidding. Research shows kids who have an inflated sense of self-worth become aggressive when their sense of superiority is called into question, leading to a more damaging fall for little Billy when he realizes what a loser he is (whereas fat Ralph already knew himself to be a loser and is therefore immune to disappointment).

We're certainly not experts, but it would, you know, seem like the solution would be to teach the stuff that leads to success (like social and communication skills, better strategies at dealing with stress, etc.) and just let that lead naturally to success and thus self-esteem, rather than just bypassing all that and going right for the self-esteem part.

Mr. Miyagi didn't teach the Karate Kid to believe in himself. He taught him how to kick people in the **** head.