Carly Fiorina on Net Neutrality Video

New ad out from Republican Carly Fiorina on the very important issue of Net Neutrality. In a debate forum with Fiorina and sitting-Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) the two women have vastly differing opinions on: regulate the net, or not? See the video below

Carly Fiorina and Barbara Boxer

FIORINA: “Net neutrality, in principle, sounds fantastic,” Fiorina said in a ten-question online forum hosted by PDF. “But I grew up in the telcom industry, and I know how bureaucratic, and frankly antiquated, the regulations in the telcom industry have been.”

“I don’t think we should take a regulator structure that was created in the early 20th century and apply it in the 21st century,” she said, adding, “I don’t support reclassifying broadband as telecom as a result.”

Boxer does not appear in Fiorina's ad, of course, but according to Breitbart's Big Goverment, her statement in the debate was this: No regulation is bad regulation. “I strongly believe that we must preserve Net neutrality..." Of course she does. If you are not up to speed on this issue, Warner Todd Huston is, and a couple of times a week he is posting pertinent information. Begin with Huston here.

Posted by Maggie @ Maggie's Notebook

Rachel Maddow Steve Stockman: Stockman Received Prior Notice of OKC Bombing Says Maddow

Rachel Maddow accused a woman now dead, of being a member of a militia, as if that is unlawful and egregious, and then claimed that then-Republican Texas Representative Steve Stockman received written information of the Oklahoma City Bombing prior to the disaster that killed 168 people, including 19 children and babies, and injured hundreds. And worse, she said Stockman faxed the information to the NRA, but not the FBI. See the video below.

Rachel Maddow

...Mr. Stockman actually received advanced notice that the Oklahoma City bombing was going to happen. 

MADDOW: Yes, this has happened to a smaller degree before. In 1994, in the first mid-term election after the last Democratic president was elected, we got a slate of candidates that included Helen Chenoweth of Idaho and Steve Stockman of Texas. These two were so close to the militia movement in this country that Mr. Stockman actually received advance notice that the Oklahoma City bombing was going to happen.

A bit of Internet research showed this by Jim Simmon writing for the Houston Press on June 22, 1995.

Contrary to suggestions in some initial reports, Stockman's office had received the fax after the bombing and promptly passed it on to the FBI (ironically, the initial misunderstanding about the fax was propagated by the National Rifle Association, Stockman's chief patron).

I live in Oklahoma and knew nothing of this story. This intrigued me: according to NewsBuster's Jack Coleman, the fax said this:

According to the Morning News, a hand-written message on the fax read, "First update. Bldg 7 to 10 floors only. Military people on scene -- BATF/FBI. Bomb threat received last week. Perpetrator unknown at this time. Oklahoma." The machine that sent the fax to Stockman stamped "Wolverine" at the top of the page, the Morning News reported. 

 Militias are not everyone's cup of tea, and anarchist militias are certainly not acceptable, but we must remember that militias are a guaranteed right under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution - for a very good reason: it is not impossible that our government might seek to take control in an unconstitutional manner. The Second Amendment allows militias to be our guardians.

Having said all that, I don't know about Stockman's militia connections, but it does seem that now, in 2010, trying to tie him to the deaths of those murdered in the Murrah Building in 1995, is a particularly cruel and highly improper thing to do. One thing we is, every word out of Maddow's mouth is calculated and measured. She knew what she was doing.

I'm not sure what the implication of evoking Helen Chenoweth is about. She was a Republican Representative from Idaho from 1995 to January 2001. She died in an automobile accident in 2006, while a passenger in the back seat of a car that flipped and ejected her on a Nevada road. She apparently did have militia connections - but again, there is nothing illegal there. One interesting thing about Chenoweth, in 2003 she attempted to board a flight to her Nevada home. TSA "selected" her for a hand search. She refused and drove a rental car to get to her destination, and made this statement:

"Our borders are wide open and yet they're shaking down a 66-year-old white grandmother they greeted by name," she said of the incident. "It's time the American people say no to this kind of invasion. It's a question of personal privacy. There shouldn't be that kind of search without reasonable cause."

So a defenseless dead woman has been placed in the same company as a person Maddow alleges hid prior knowledge of the Oklahoma City bombing. Is there anything we can expect from MSNBC about this - like a reprimand, an apology to the family of Chenoweth and to Stockman, a firing? No, I don't think so. These are despicable people. Others talking about Maddow's accusations: BlackFive and Political Byline.

 

Rachel Maddow on Steve Stockman

Posted by Maggie @ Maggie's Notebook

Ann Coulter Rick Sanchez: Coulter Accuses Sanchez of Kiddie Porn Kinda/Sorta

This video is classic - pure Ann Coulter - clear, pithy and dynamic thinking. Rick Sanchez gets putty-fied in the eruption of a Coulter-quake. Notice she forces him to talk about the three-month old accusation that Tea Partiers spit on Congressman John Lewis (D-GA-5th). Listen as she charges Sanchez with kiddie porn to make a point. I bet Sanchez has no ratings unless Coulter guests.

Ann Coulter and Rick Sanchez on Racism and Lies (video)

Slightly Hilarious: McChrystal Bans Fox News

Didn't we think the exemplary rock-solid, magnificent warrior, General Stanley McChrystal was surely a conservative? Before the Rolling Stone article, did you assume the General was not happy with the COIN strategy of insurgency, largely meaning "winning the hearts and minds of the Afghan people?" Wouldn't you think the mighty General commanding the Afghanistan war would want his troops to have a supportive view from back home of the war they are fighting? Did you know that around McChrystal's headquarters, he banned Fox News? Apparently, Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Katie Couric, Diane Sawyer, and maybe - Christiane Amanpour are his kind of war reporters.

Stanley McChrystal

Not only is the hearing of free speech denied, but junk food as well - although I want to make it clear that pizza must not...cannot, be defined as "junk food," and to do so is heresy:

General Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of Special Forces in Iraq, who runs eight miles a day, eats one meal and sleeps for only four hours a night, has given orders to close the junk food concessions on Nato bases.

No longer will the fighter pilots at Bagram or Kandahar airfields be able to ring Pizza Hut to deliver. Once General McChrystal has his way, the Whoppers will be off the menu: Burger Kings at both locations are to close. Even the newly opened TGI Friday’s on the boardwalk in Kandahar is to close its doors once its contract expires.

So, our "other" valiant warriors, out there fighting a deadly war to protect the locals, at the expense of their own lives, cannot decide on their own nourishment. If the mess hall is providing nourishing meals, why not give the troops the choice of food and news? Ah...the answer: a Liberal General thinks them incapable.

Marc Ambinder confirms that General McChrystal's vote for the president helped bring this dreadful administration to the White House:

Even more about McChrystal: now it can be told. The story about him voting for Obama is not contrived. He is a political liberal. He is a social liberal. He banned Fox News from the television sets in his headquarters. Yes, really. This puts to rest another false rumor: that McChrystal deliberately precipitated his firing because he wants to run for President.

When the Rolling Stone article broke, I expressed dismay that this fine General could approve of this version of COIN. As I began researching the Rules of Engagement for Afghanistan, who wrote them, and who supported them, I could not eliminate McChrystal from the column of enthusiastic supporters. Today we know that he and Obama were joined at the hip. The Lonely Conservative has more.

Glee is Liberal: Not Shocking (Video)

The video below says that the popular Fox show, Glee, turned Left as soon as the show's popularity began its monumental rise. The question is, does the Liberal-bent of the show lead high schoolers down the Leftard road? Of course it does. The shock would be if we had talented, singing and dancing teenagers with a single conservative thought in their heads, because that just doesn't happen.

Video courtesy of Newsy.com

Glee is Liberal (video)

Ronald Reagan James Dean GE Theater Video: The Dark Dark Hours James Dean Ronald Reagan

The story is, that this footage has not been seen in 50 years. Ronald Reagan and James Dean in The Dark, Dark Hours.

Ronald Reagan and James Dean in The Dark, Dark Hours (video)

South Park Offends Islam: Bows to Muslim Protests: Revolution Muslim Jihad

Muhammad Bear, appearing on South Park, sparked a jihad warning against writers Trey Parker and Matt Stone. See a video below.

 Theo Van Gogh - Dead by Jihad

The Islamic terrorists, known as Revolution Muslim, compared Parker and Stone to the now dead Theo Van Gogh, a dutch filmmaker who was murdered in 2004 by jihadist, Mohammed Bouyeri, for criticizing the abusive treatment of women in Islam through Van Gogh's film Submission.

Here is the threat printed in EOnline:

We have to warn Matt and Trey that what they are doing is stupid and they will probably wind up like Theo Van Gogh for airing this show. This is not a threat, but a warning of the reality of what will likely happen to them.

Okay. It was a "prediction," not a "threat."

This statement from EOnline:

Seemingly lost on the fundamentalists (and the network execs) was that the offending South Park storyline was mocking the ridiculousness of extremists who would resort to bombing if a bunch of cartoon cutups showed Muhammad (even with a big "censor" strip plastered over him or if he was hidden in a bear suit).

To the contrary, the whole thing is lost on EOnline writer Josh Grossberg. It's Grossberg that doesn't get it. You are not allowed to portray the prophet Muhammad. Grossberg in any manner. You are an infidel! It is, indeed, a position that cannot be reasoned with. Islam does not reason.

Here is how Comedy Central responded to the threat (find a link to the cartoon still streaming):

We apologize that South Park Studios cannot stream episode 201 at this time.

After we delivered the show, and prior to broadcast, Comedy Central placed numerous additional audio bleeps throughout the episode. We do not have network approval to stream our original version of the show.

We will bring you a version of 201 as soon as we can.

 EOnline says that the network "wussed out" -- "but not without good reason." America, this is about more than a South Park cartoon. People will continue to die for offending Islam, and we will continue to ignore it.



South Park Muhammad (video) Related and Background:
Mohammed Bear - is Islam compatible with levity and humour?

Others talking about South Park and their Muslim Mess:
Left Coast Rebel
NewsBusters

Megyn Kelly Howard Stern: Megyn Marries Sean, Sleeps with Bill and Kills Glenn: Megyn Kelly on The View

Fox News America Live host, Megyn Kelly went on the Howard Stern show for some reason, I cannot phantom. She also appeared on The View this morning. See that video below. Stern has a little game he likes to play known as "Marry, F, Kill." Stern gave Kelly three names, and she had to choose which she would do what "to" or "with." You don't even have to guess at the names: they were of course Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck. Megyn chose to marry Sean, sleep with Bill, and kill Glenn.

 Megyn Kelly

I predict we will see Bill O'Reilly preening his way through the Talking Points tonight. Also of interest, if you haven't seen it, take a look at the exchange between Megyn Kelly and Bill Burton in this video.


Megyn Kelly on The View (video)

Greta Paul Ryan: No Dem Budget: $670 Billion in New Taxes Since Obama

On April 15 - Tax Day, we can count on Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) to tell us how the budget goes, and basically, there is no budget to "go." Ryan was on Greta last night. The video is packed, as a conversation with Ryan  usually is, but...is it legal for this country not to have a budget? Ryan says it is the Republican's understanding that the Dems have chosen not to do a budget!  Be warned of whiplash when Ryan tells you in the Time of Obama, we have $670 Billion in new taxes levied on the American people - just since January 20th, 2009. $300 billion hit people making less than $250,000.00. See a video below.

Paul Ryan

Greta Van Susteren and Paul Ryan No Budget - Huge Taxes on those making under $250,000 (video)

Did You Hear What Charlie Crist Said Today?

Florida Governor Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio were on FOX News Sunday today with Chris Wallace. Wallace asked Crist who his favorite senators were. Crist answered "John McCain and Lindsay Graham." Deadman Walking. Death knell tolling.

Obviously, that's a reference to Crist's political aspirations - not a threat. I mean, we have to explain these things today, don't we?


Linked by The Lonely Conservative who says Rubio told Wallace his favorite Senator is Jim DeMint. Great answer.

Meghan McCain Laura Ingraham: Meghan drags out the Kiss My Ass Again on The View

She is the daughter of John and Cindy McCain. She calls herself a "progressive Republican." Her Dad calls himself a conservative Republican. Neither are either.

Meghan McCain and John McCain

Last year, in the Daily Beast article linked below, from the set of The View - on air - she told Laura Ingraham she could "kiss my fat ass."   Appearing at the conservative Young America's Foundation this week, which apparently pulled funding for her appearance, she told the crowd "I'm not Ann Coulter, I'm not Glenn Beck...I'm not trying to get my own show on Fox...I'm adamantly against hate-mongering." Then she said Ingraham and Coulter were "nasty," and a few days later, went on The View again and said of Ingraham "By the way, she can continue to kiss my ass."

Michelle Malkin points out Meghan's "ideological principles," whatever they may be:

You know what's wrong with Meghan McCain? It's not her weight. It's not her voice. It's not her looks. She's a beautiful young girl with TV-friendly poise and natural charm. The trouble with Meghan McCain is that, like her father, she has no fixed ideological principles - conservative, liberal, or otherwise....She seems to have inherited the notion that playing the "maaaaverick" imparts her with moral authority and credibility as a fresh voice for the GOP. I'm all for peaking truth to power. But like her father, Ms McCain's maaaaverick-iness appears to be rooted less in any firm set of beliefs than in the need for liberal approbation.

Take her "beef with Ann Coulter." If Ms. McCain sincerely detests Coulter's "demeanor" and "extreme" thinking, statements, and behavior because they represent "hate" and alienate young voters, then how is it that the same genteel ms. McCain can cheer the cretinous, left-wing extremist Russell Brand?

Meghan tweeted about Brand being "freaking hilarious," and then linked to his website.

In a March 2009 Daily Beast column Ms. McCain blasted Coulter. Laura Ingraham responded:

[Meghan McCain] is "just another Valley Girl gone awry," and "plus-sized." 

That's what started the "fat ass" comments.

On the stage at Jack Morton Auditorium last night, she said this:

After urging the Republican Party to stop being "so stubborn and closed-minded," McCain added that Democrats are capable of intolerance as well. She accused MSNBC's Keith Olberman of doing just as much damage as Rush Limbaugh, worrying that the tenor of their political discussions will result in a whole generation that will have no desire to get involved with politics.

Pity isn't it? Rush will drive the young away from Conservatism? Oh wait - young people are more conservative today than ever, and Meghan, they don't like your message. A study by The Chronicle of Higher Education, says that 24% of conservative college students support gay marriage as you do, but that means 75% percent do not. In Meghan's mind, conservatives are:

...dying off, becoming less and less relevant to the party structure as a whole." [From the Daily Beast article]

Dad, John McCain, a loose political cannon if there ever was one, supporting amnesty for multiple-millions said back in the summer of 2008 that he has heard from "the people" and learned his lesson on amnesty, but...but...his campaign stage was shared by Juan Hernandez, who quietly joined the McCain campaign staff and hung out with Meghan. Hot Air has this quote from Hernandez saying "of Mexicans who move to the US:

I want the third generation, the seventh generation, I want them all to think of of Mexico first."

Meghan, if you follow Dad on immigration and amnesty, ignoring the enormous cost to the country, you haven't a prayer of being relevant in Republican politics. See Meghan and Hernandez photographed together here and read the details.

Young conservatives want smaller government - even those who weren't listening before the November 2008 elections and voted for Obama. This from TheNextRight:

They said we were going to be foundation of a new Democratic movement. They labeled us a generation upon which Democrats could build a political dynasty. They though we bled blue. They were wrong.

A little more than a year after Barack Obama won 18-29 year olds by a 2-to-1 margin, young adults are changing course. We were wooed by the promise of "change," only to find a year later that things have changed for the worse. Washington is different, but only because it is bigger...The reach of government into our lives has been altered, but only because their arm is longer. This is not the change we voted for and we're taking note."

Meghan alludes to being on a campaign to "hip up" the Republican party.  Being a Republican "is about as edgy as Donny Osmond," she said, and she slammed last year's CPAC speakers, young author/speaker Jonathan Krohn, and Christian-activist Stephen Baldwin, and dismissed them as though they had no political thought - especially when compared to her own.

No worries that Meghan will be a driving force in the party, in spite of the fact that she is Meggie McCain - or maybe because of it.

Obama Interviews with FOX News Bret Baier

Nothing more to say about this, other than it is scheduled for tomorrow night, Wednesday, March 17th on FOX News Special Report, 6 PM EDT. It appears this will not be a live interview.

Chris Matthews: Matthews says Israelis Racist Don't Like Obama

Chris Matthews' guest Ethan Bronner eventually says Israeli's were nervous that Obama came into office and cozied up to Muslims, and distanced the U.S. Presidency from Israel. Then Bronner said "I would say that there is some level of prejudice about the fact that he had some islamic background through his stepfather....I think there's some sense here, that some degree of racism to be perfectly honest."

Well, okay, Bronner ignores Obama's Muslim father.

Gerbil-brained Matthews response:

Yeah, because they see it as a black man.

What? Bronner made it clear that the racism he was speaking of had to do with Obama's Islamic background.

Here's the full exchange, see the video at StoryBalloon:

Chris Matthews: Who’s more popular over here? Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden. Put them in order. Who’s the most popular figure over here in Israeli?

Ethan Bronner: Bill Clinton is the most popular of those four. And I would say Hillary is probably next. And then I would say Joe Biden. And then president Obama.

Chris Matthews: Okay, that tells you a lot. So tell me why the President of the United States is so far at the bottom? Is it his middle name? Hussein?

Ethan Bronner: I would say that there is some level of prejudice about the fact that he had some islamic background through his stepfather. But I think it has more to do with the fact that when he came in to office a year ago he wanted to recalibrate the relationship between the United States and the Muslim world. And the easiest way to do that was to put some distance between the United States and Israel. And he did that. And that made people nervous. I think there’s some sense here, that some degree of racism to be perfectly honest.

Chris Matthews: Yeah, because they see it as a black man.

Muslim Beheadings Explained Video: Beheading Uppity Women

This video from Holger Awakens and Rage Boy. Thank you Holger!

Global Jihad Explains Beheadings of Uppity Women (video)

Barack Obama Health Care Press Conference 3-3-2010

Live blogging. The president will speake from the East Room of The White House. We expect to hear a tone that Obama is showing leadership, and health care will pass - reconciliation is assured, as there are no Republican votes. Doctors and Nurses are filing in, in their blue and white medical coats. They will stand behind Obama as he speaks. Transcript here when available.

Obama says he is bringing this journey to a close. He speaks of the health care summit. Every idea has been put on the table, every argument has been heard, everything that could be said about health care has been said.

Both sides say they agree that the status-quo is not working. He does some strong bashing of insurance companies. What do we do about it? On one end of the spectrum: some suggest a government run system, others want to loosen protections on insurance companies. Obama disagrees with the second approach, but says nothing about the first.

It is time to give the am people more control over their health care and their choices. Doctors and nurses and physician assistants should be free to help decide what is best for their patients. Folks, he's blowing smoke.

My proposal gives Americans more control by holding insurance companies accountable. You can keep your insurance plan and you can keep your doctor with my plan.

My proposal changes three things: I will end the worst practices of insurance companies. They cannot drop you because have preexisting conditions, they can't raise premiums

Uninsured and small business employers get the same kind of choice that congress gets (he did not say we get the same insurance - big distinction. Who defines "the same.") In the new marketplace, if you still cannot afford the coverage we'll give you tax credits. The largest middle-class tax cut ever.

$100 billion a year. He is going to spend your money more wisely. The dollars spent will make insurance more affordable and more secure. A new fee on insurance companies. Make sure the wealthiest americans pay their fair share in Medicare.

All the costs are already paid for (lying son of a goat herder). We have now incorporated most of the serious ideas from across the spectrum. We do this while protecting Medicare benefits (lie). The senate bill reduces most people's benefits and brings down our deficits. He quotes the CBO, which Paul Ryan and Lamar Alexander showed to be incorrect.

Best ideas from Dems and Repubs, including some at the health care summit. Gets rid of provisions that have no place in health care. Despite all that we agree on and all the repub ideas we have incorporated.

Disagreement between Democrats and Republicans on how much oversight we should have (government oversight). We would "tinker around the edges" if we do this piecemeal, as Republicans want.

There will be no more negotiations. We will not start over. (The urgency of the strategy of manufactured crises - American. You are seeing it and hearing it live).

He says it deserves an up or down vote - which could have been done at any time, with 60 votes before Senator Scott Brown was elected.

He wants a vote in the next few weeks. Make your voice heard if you want this bill. (Dittos for all of us who do not want it, although the president does not mention you.)

He will lead. He won't let excuses get in the way. You are waiting for me to lead. I don't know how it will play politically. "Let's get it done."

After press conference talk:

BRETT BAIR: The Prez says make your voice (if you want his plan). Polls are not in favor of the President. This plan extends the life of Medicare and cuts $500 million dollars. The CBO said the $500 million is being spent twice. He did not use the word reconciliation. A lot of painful days on the Senate floor as they try to count votes.

MIKE PENCE: Disappointing to millions of Americans. Has ignored the overwhelming sentiment of the American people. We heard talk of a smaller bill, more incremental approach, but didn't hear that today. Advancing the gov't having more control, no matter what the President said. It's more of the same. Most troubling the prez openly advocating leaders of his party abuse historic rules of the Senate to pass his plan (reconciliation)

MEGYN KELLY: President: Already passed the vote of a super majority in Senate. Now deserves an up-or-down vote.

MIKE PENCE: To use reconciliation is an abuse.The issue of health care and insurance is a profound issue to the American people. Pence questions the President's assertion that this must get down now. Pence suggests that Dems want to push this through before so that the shock is over before the elections.

MEGYN KELLY: The President talked a different tune before he became President, when he said you cannot pass health care with a 50+1 vote on something as important as health care. (if you have not seen these statement - view them on video here.)

MITCH MCCONNELL RESPONSE: Obama didn't mention 1/2 trillion dollars in new taxes or $2.5 trillion dollars in new spending. The only thing bipartisan about passing the bill is the opposition to it. In all my time here in Washington, nothing has been focused as to the extent that this bill has been. It is an argument between Democrats and the American people.

About Scott Brown, exit polls in the most liberal state, Massachusetts, 48% mentioned health care. No other issue had more than 5%.

Musing that the point of this is to make history. You will be history if you vote for this.

If this bill is passed, it will not be behind our Democratic friends, it will be before them and they will see that in the polls. If passed we will have a national referendum in this country.

Mitt Romney Dave Letterman: Romney Thinks Sarah is Terrific, Audience Groans

Love Mitt Romney on this segment. He says Sarah is terrific, has energy and passion. The audience groans. Best: in airplane incident, the rapper broke Mitt's hair.

Mitt Romney on Letterman - Romney thinks Sarah is "terrific" (video)

Simon Cowell is Mezhgan Hussainy Fiance: Simon Cowell Engaged to Afghan-born Mezhgan Hussainy

American Idol's Simon Cowell is the fiance of Mezhgan Hussainy. Mezhgan is the chief make-up artist on Idol. She and Cowell met on the show several seasons ago, and have been dating about a year. A wedding date has not been announced.

Simon Cowell and Mezhgan Hussainy

Mezhgan, pronounced "mish-gone" has her own line of makeup. Her website says:

Meet Mezhgan, the make-up artist behind the Hollywood stars who is making a face in the beauty cosmetics world.

Hussainy was born in Afghanistan. From a quote on her website, it seems her family fled Afghanistan when she was 8 years old (she is not 36 - Simon is 50).

"Just keep running and don't stop."

Those were the words my mother shouted as we fled Afghanistan, when I was just 8 years old. I knew we were headed for a better life, but I had no idea what was in store. That journey changed my life forever and I carry my mother's words with me through my life and into career, to this day.

Source and another source.

Bill O'Reilly Obama Bashing and Socialism: Rush Limbaugh on O'Reillys Pandering

Bill O'Reilly discussed Obama Bashing and Socialism this week, and compared the Bush Bashing of the last administration, to that of what speakers at the Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) are doing this week in Washington, D.C. Rush Limbaugh worked this latest O'Reilly fetish into his program today. See two videos below.

Bill O'Reilly interviews Barack Obama

Does Obama Bashing accomplish anything, O'Reilly asked. One of his examples of bashing at CPAC, was Mitt Romney announcing that Lindsay Vonn lost her Olympic Gold Medal because Obama is going downhill faster than her. There were more pithy quips, but you get the idea.

O'Reilly is dead-on perfect when he talks about children, the crimes against children, the punishment of those who abuse children, and the judges who enable the abusers...there is nobody better than O'Reilly, but when he wants an interview with an important personage, he is tolerant of mammoth indecencies, and he desperately wants another interview with Barack Obama.

O'Reilly fails to grasp the urgency most of us feel about this President. He doesn't see the edge of the precipice that you and I see looming. He doesn't see Obama standing there, signing executives orders or worse, with Nancy and Harry, none-too-gently dragging us to the extremity of the world we know, where the President will plant his well-heeled size 12 Allen Edmonds on our posteriors, and tip us over into the spirit-stifling cosmos of socialism, where statist omnipotence cannot be escaped.

When O'Reilly speaks of Socialism, he characterizes it correctly, as you'll see in the second video below, but he is far too mild about the dangers we face. He spends a lot of time talking about out-of-control government spending, but fails to tie it to the agenda of a committed Socialist, or worst. The two are not separate. Socialism depends on mammoth spending.

So here is where Rush Limbaugh comes in. Today a caller said she and her husband began listening to Limbaugh about one year ago when Barack Obama advised the country to stop listening to people like "Rush."  You know how O'Reilly states his position, and then asks his guest where he is going wrong? Rush tries that with the caller, Sharon. She doesn't play along well, but that isn't important. Here is where Rush went with conversation:

RUSH [pretending to be O'Reilly]: Well, we just don't like all this Obama bashing here at The Factor, that's for these extreme right-wingers, this Obama bashing, it's not productive, the Bush-bashing wasn't productive.  We're going to give socialism and the destruction of the country a fair examination, and if we determine that Obama's destroying the country, we'll report it fairly.

 Look, all I'm telling you is that we've gotta give socialism a fair shake for the folks, I'm not going to sit here and condemn it like these right-wingers are.  We've gotta give socialism a fair shake, and we here at The Factor are going to give socialism, even communism, a fair shake.  We'll do an in-depth investigation, and we'll report back because we're not knee-jerking, and we are looking out for you, the folks.

So, I'm not the only one that loathes O'Reilly's faux pandering, in the name of enlightened wisdom. He simply sounds foolish these days.

The first video below is O'Reilly on Obama Bashing and the second on Socialism, sans alarm bells.

Also of interest are O'Reilly's views on gun confiscation and the Second Amendment:

Bill O'Reilly was too busy writing lousy sexual tales to learn the Constitution at Bungalow Bill's Conservative Wisdom

O'Reilly on Gun Confiscation at Instapundit

Bill O'Reilly Supports Gun Confiscation During Hurricane Katrina

Bill O'Reilly - Obama Bashing
Bill O'Reilly - Socialism

Mike Huckabee Michelle Obama: Huckabee interviews Michelle Obama on Childhood Obesity

Michelle Obama will appear on Mike Huckabee to talk about childhood obesity. It is estimated at 17% of America's children are obese. The segment will air Saturday, February 20th.

 

Malia and Sasha Obama with Dad, Barack Obama

The First Lady said her daughter's pediatrician recently advised her to pay attention to her own daughter's body mass indexes (BMI). (Check out this quick site to compute your own BMI)

...the family's pediatrician, she said, kept a close eye on trends in African-American children and "warned that he was concerned that something was getting off-balance."

Here is how the FLOTUS went about changing the problems in her own family:

No more weekday TV. More attention to portion sizes. Low-fat milk. Water bottles in the lunch boxes. Grapes on the breakfast table. Apple slices at lunch. Colorful vegetables on the dinner table.

The positive results showed at the next pediatrician's appointment, and the doctor was amazed:

It was so significant that the next time we visited our pediatrician, he was amazed. He looked over the girls' charts and he said, 'What on earth are you doing?'"

Huckabee has been a prominent voice in the battle against weight loss. He lost over 100 pounds and wrote the book Stop Digging your Grave with a Knife and Fork: A 12 Step Program. He believes the government should not try to regulate our eating habits.

Beppe Bigazzi Cat Casserole: Beppe Bigazzi Eats Cats: Celebrity Chef Stews Cats

Beppe Bigazzi is a top celebrity chef in Italy...or was. He has been suspended from his television show for recommending stewing cats for dinner, after soaking them in spring water for three days. Bigazzi said "casserole of cat" was a famous dish in his home region of Valdamo in Tuscany.

Beppe Bigazzi

The live show went to a commercial break, and a young woman on the show with him, cat owner, Elisa Isoardi, and the show's producer tried to convince him to apologize. He refused.

I’ve eaten it myself and it’s a lot better than many other animals,” he told viewers. “Better than chicken, rabbit or pigeon.” He said that for optimum flavour the meat should be “soaked in spring water for three days” before being stewed.

Bigazzi is now being investigated for "criminal offences" and "incitement to mistreat animals." Punishment can be as much as 18 months in jail.

He also recommended a "cat soup" recipe and then said he expected to hear from  "racist" environmentalists.

He is the author of Cooking with Common Sense, and considered a "star" celebrity chef on Ready Steady Cook in Italy:

He is noted for his exuberant style and previously caused uproar by boiling lobsters live on the show. Yesterday he said that he had only been joking about the recipe, and he had been misunderstood.

He added: “Mind you, I wasn’t joking all that much. In the 1930s and 1940s, when I was a boy, people certainly did eat cat.

Venice, Italy has long been known as "magnagati" or "cat eaters," going back to the hardships of Medieval times. Cat is still considered a delicacy in South East Asia.

 A very sweet reader, oriana, took the time to find the video with English sub-titles. Thank you oriana!





Beppe Bigazzi - Cat Casserole English Sub-titles (video) Others talking about Beppe Bigazzi: Oriana at Tuscanycious