EVERYBODY DANCE!

A commenter at Don Surber’s on the post, Manchin dumps on Obamanomics, makes an astute political prediction.

From gk1 says:

Look for the democrats to start walking the cat back with “The Stimulus was never meant to create jobs, just to fight off a DEPRESSION!” I am already hearing this nonsense from Barbara Boxer out here in the in bay area. Not even the brain dead liberals out here are buying it. They have a huge problem on their hands.

Sounds like a most reasonable prediction to me.

Being at odds with the facts and history has never stopped the Democrats–or their Mainstream Media cronies–before.

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NOW YOU TOO CAN IMITATE SOVIET-ERA METHODS in JOURNALISM in THREE EASY STEPS

Politico demonstrates that the Soviet Union, though it ceased to exist 20 years ago, left a legacy to which the Left-heavy site can refer.

1- Politico’s Alex Isenstadt pens a post at Lefty political site, Politico: “Bombastic West rakes In cash”.

2- Within 7 hours, Paul at Powerline, calls out Politico on Isenstadt’s use of Name-calling as journalism.

Politico reporter Alex Isenstadt fails to explain why he considers West bombastic. Instead, he notes that West has been endorsed by Sarah Palin and that a speech he gave at Tea Party event has received two million views on YouTube. Enough said, if you’re a leftist writing for leftists.

I heard West speak back in January. I found his talk compelling, patriotic and at times fiery, but not bombastic. In any case, there were no Greek pillars on the stage.

Affixing judgmental adjectives to candidates strikes me as a ground-breaking development in poltical reporting. Until now, the liberal MSM has been slightly more subtle. But these are desperate political times for the left, and readers can no longer be trusted to draw their own conclusions no matter how far a reporter leads them.

3- When last checking Politico–voila!–Isenstadt’s headline had changed to the more neutral, “West rakes in cash.”

While it’s a good thing that Politico exercised some journalistic standards–even in hindsight–there was no “Update,” “Correction” or “Notes” added to the post to show that the headline had changed. Just a light touch of the digital airbrush and later readers are none the wiser that it took a post from a large conservative blog to move Politico/Isenstadt to rectify their bias.

The post at Powerline is the only proof that Soviet-style journalism took place at Politico–all in three easy steps!

Regardless, one would hope that Politico (maybe Isenstadt doesn’t do his own headlines?!?) will thoughtfully pause before their next auto-Prog headline appears.

Just another day and more hi-jinks from the Mainstream Media: Digital Division.

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After Thursday’s “Decision,” Lebron James is almost as big a putz as ESPN.

Almost.

ESPN has reached a level of self-promotion that James can only hope to someday attain. But, the ex-Cavalier tried hard on Thursday’s LeBron Lovefest.

Actually, LeBron worked harder to keep viewers interested in the hour-long commercial than he worked in the last minute of his last game for Cleveland.

What did the papers say? LeBron James: The Front Pages has a fast wrap-up of the front pages of the cities involved in the James Circus.

The ultimate Cleveland reaction: The LeBron Decision.

For one of the best columns written before the “Decision,” see Bill Simmons, Countdown to the LeBronocalypse. And remember: Simmons wrote this before it was known that James would settle for as a role as a South Beach Second Banana.

OTHER TAKES:

* LeBron is no Michael Jordon but is an incredible narcissist

* Did LeBron become a villain overnight?

* No Shining Moment: LeBron, ESPN, viewers should emerge a little dirty after “Decision” show

* ESPN and the sorry hype of LeBron James Special

ESPN has nothing left but sorry hype. The cable channel long ago stopped being about sports: instead they’re all about how ESPN will tell you about sports as filtered through hip, ignorant mouthpieces pimping the latest “Big Star” of “fill in the blank” (high school sports, football, etc.).

And this post wouldn’t be complete without a link to Cavaliers owner, Dan Gilbert’s scathing letter to Cleveland fans.

LeBron James calls himself “The King.”

Just like that guy behind the curtain referred to himself as a “Wizard” when Dororthy came to see him.

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WE’RE HOLDING OUT FOR “CLUELESS”

From Is Paul Krugman Heartless, Clueless or Confused (Pick Only One)?

Paul Krugman reserved July 4 for what must be a deliberate deception, Punishing the Jobless, on the issue of extending unemployment benefits, which recently failed to pass the Senate.

Krugman blames Republicans, whom he terms “heartless”:

By the heartless, I mean Republicans who have made the cynical calculation that blocking anything President Obama tries to do — including, or perhaps especially, anything that might alleviate the nation’s economic pain — improves their chances in the midterm elections.

The only problem is that Krugman ignores that Republicans were in favor of extending benefits by taking the money from elsewhere in the budget, including unused stimulus funds. It was the Democrats who balked at this solution, insisting on running up more debt. So the entire premise of Krugman calling Republicans heartless amounts to nothing more than a fiscal policy dispute. Why aren’t Democrats heartless for not going along with the Republican proposal?

The author above, Prof. William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, gives us the perfect name for a future Paul Krugman firm–if Krugman ever decides to leave the isolated, provincial backwater of the New York Times:

Krugman, Heartless, Clueless & Confused

However, Krugman’s failed economic policies, if adopted, would lead to the founding of another, bigger firm: One that mankind has been represented by for most of recorded history, other than the residents lucky enough to live in the United States for the last 234 years.

Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Paul Krugman’s economics have always been influenced by his politics; both of which, fortunately, are increasingly irrelevant to any serious discussions of the future.

Idea from Is Paul Krugman Heartless, Clueless or Confused (Pick Only One)?

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First of July Tea Party Rally
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, OHIO
July 1, 2010
For more information, article and more pix: Ohio Tea Party: Rally at St. Clairsville is Magnet For Candidates

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Summertime and the living is easy…

“We will remember in November.”

Media Matters argues that this man is advocating blowing up Parliament or something–if he happened to be in the vicinity of London. Most likely, we think his T-shirt has something to do with the man’s intent to exercise his right to vote in the November elections–though probably not in the way Lefty attack dog, Media Matters, would prefer.

This lady was one of the volunteers who helped organize the event at St. Clairsville.

This woman was engaging in subversive activities by handing out red slips of paper with “The Story of the Star Spangled Banner” printed on them. The flip side had the fourth verse of the National Anthem printed on it–which was sung at the rally.

More scenes from the “mob.”

The scene before the speakers start.

More people kept coming.

The red balloons were being handed out by Dolph Santorine (obscured by the crowd), a candidate for the West Virginia Legislature from Ohio County. He was assisted in his endeavors by his daughter.

One last pic as I was leaving the scene. When asked where she got her T-shirt, the winsome lass replied, “The Internet!”

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For more information, article and more pix: Ohio Tea Party: Rally at St. Clairsville is Magnet For Candidates

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FLAG DAY TRIBUTE

We’re a few days late to this one. Still…

Great salute to the American Flag and what it stands for.

Doc Zero’s The Birth of Defiance

This flag was not meant to be kept within the borders of our fifty states. It is a gift of genius and courage, presented to all mankind by patriots who refused to turn away from the divine truth of equality and inalienable rights. The American flag carried that truth through a forest of muskets and bayonets, into all the shackled corners of the world, past the frozen forests of Europe and the graveyard islands of the Pacific, and to the grey dust of the Moon. It passes nightly over the communist squalor of Cuba and North Korea, the butchers of Tiananmen Square, and the high priests of the Middle Eastern death cult. Let none of them ever look upon the Moon without remembering that free men walked there first. No slave or suicide bomber will ever leave a footprint beside the one Neil Armstrong made. No servant of darkness will ever touch the flag he planted there.

Several very original thoughts to this type of piece. Read the whole thing.

Even if Flag Day was a couple of days ago.

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tries to paint his opponent for the U.S. Senate, Sue Angle, as a “crackpot”–for wanting to abolish the inefficient, waste factory that is the Department of Education.

Sometimes, a you read a writer who writes about what you were thinking. Mona Charen did that this weekend.

Mona Charen: Abolishing Department of Education isn’t extreme.

Newly minted Nevada senate candidate Sharron Angle is a kook. That’s what Sen. Harry Reid’s people are telling reporters. ABC, CNN, and other outlets seem to agree, noting that Mrs. Angle wants to shutter the federal Department of Education, get the U.S. out of the U.N., phase out Social Security, and eliminate the IRS.

We haven’t yet heard her explanations of these positions — many of which can be justified in the proper context. It’s certainly possible that she is a little eccentric (that prison massage program doesn’t pass the smell test). But this much is certain: It is not kooky to favor the elimination of the Department of Education. That this proposal is routinely labeled “extremist” is a reminder of the one-way ratchet that operates in government. Enshrine something in a federal agency and it becomes sacrosanct. Democrats cheerlead for federal programs because they are the party of government, and Republicans quietly go along because they’re afraid.

Education is the only field where great sums of money are allocated for completely untested ideas which are tried out for decades on students acting as guinea pigs. After the idea fails, it’s off to a new idea, another couple generations and more trillions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money.

The Department of Education just involves the Federal Government in the entire failed process.

End it and save the money.

Do it for the kids.

NOTE: That Harry Reid considers it ‘dangerous’ and a “crackpot” idea to save taxpayers’ money by abolishing the Department of Education says more about the Senate Leader than it does about his opponent, Sue Angle.

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