Progressivism: No Longer Good Business
Roger Simon at Pajamas Media:
Arianna has read the tea leaves. Progressivism, which was riding the crest of popularity on the election of Obama, is over. It is no longer good for business. And just as the stock market is said to be a leading indicator on business cycles, I submit Arianna’s track record has shown her to be a leading indicator on the zeitgeist. She knows when to get out. Obama, and by extension progressivism, is fini. It is best left to fringey looneys like Code Pink. Put simply: Progressivism is no longer good business.
Now this does not mean Arianna won’t tilt left publicly, at least somewhat. That’s what’s done in “polite society.” But in the real world of business, it’s over. Out with the healthcare crisis, in with divorce and Lindsay Lohan. Forget the puffery about “Citizen Journalism” coming to AOL. This is for show, to continue getting free content while suckering some of the old, disgruntled audience from the original HuffPo. This combination very well could succeed.
Oh Snap!
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER ON PAUL KRUGMAN:
“Rarely in American political discourse has there been a charge so reckless, so scurrilous and so unsupported by evidence. . . . The origins of Loughner’s delusions are clear: mental illness. What are the origins of Krugman’s?”
Loughner More Disturbed Than First Thought
As details are emerging from more fact-related news reports on the attempted assassination of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the murder of six citizens outside a Tucson Safeway Saturday, it seems that reporters are more curious about Jared Lee Loughner, a paranoid schizophrenic, than blaming right wing speech for his actions.
How whack was this guy? He built a satanic altar in his back yard. A classmate of Loughner describes him as a “Left-wing pothead” and it’s been reported he’s been obsessed with Rep. Giffords since 2007. There are no diaries, no blog posts, no youtube rants where Loughner lists Palin or the tea party as the influence for his actions. His claims his favorite reading material includes the writings of Adolf Hitler and Karl Marx, and other people were frightened of him. He’s insane in a Hinckley kind of way.
Tucson Killer Threatened Giffords … back in 2007?
While many in the MSM are trying to plank the idea that shooter Jared Lee Loughner was inspired by the Tea Party and/or Sarah Palin to shoot 19 people in Tucson on Saturday, CBS news in an actual bit of journalism are reporting that the shooter, who had mental health and drug problems, was obsessed with Congresswoman Gibbords as far back as 2007:
Jared Loughner, the suspect accused of killing six people and wounding 13 others Saturday, including Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, was described by friends and neighbors as a disturbed, pot-smoking loner who lived with his parents. Additionally, sources tell CBS News that Loughner had made threats in the past and even interacted with Giffords in 2007. CBS News Justice and Homeland Security correspondent Bob Orr said on “Face the Nation” Sunday, “We do know from our sources and from our national security analyst Juan Zarate that Loughner had an interaction once before with Congresswoman Giffords back in 2007, where he apparently posed a question to her, kind of a benign question. “She answered the question; he didn’t find it acceptable, he didn’t like the answer,” Orr said.
“In the time since then, investigators believe perhaps he was tracking her and targeting her in a very loose way,” Orr told CBS chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer.
Read the rest at cbsnews.com. Let’s keep the victims and their families in our prayers.
MSNBC Openly Discusses Obama as Incompetent
The kool-aid the left-wing media is drinking must be watered down right now. They are actually criticizing Obama and relaying information that top – “TOP” – democrat Senators, at least seven of them, have told several journolists that Obama “doesn’t know what he is doing” and often remark the same shocked thing we do everyday – “Do you believe what [Obama] is doing today?”
Very interesting clip:
Sarah Calls Out Corrupt Alaska Media
Former Governor Sarah Palin discussed with Chris Wallace the “corrupt bastards” in the local media in Alaska who conspired to smear Republican Senate candidate Joe Miller. She’s fired up to fight corruption both in politics AND in the left wing media.
Tingles Says Democrats Will Lose Majority in the US
Well, he didn’t exactly say that but MSNBC’s Chris Matthews did say yesterday: “After the election, the Democrat Party will only exist on both coasts.”
Which leaves a vast amount of country in between that the Dems will lose on November 2nd.
From his lips to God’s ears.
Well, it’s pretty much already that way now. Not that we want democrats – the good ones – to go away. Not at all. The two-party system is a good thing. We just want them to throw the Marxists, Communists, and Progressives out of their party’s leadership and be democrats again.
Katie Couric Caught on Tape Dissing Palin
She had yet to meet Governor Palin and knew nothing about her, but that didn’t stop leftist media maven Katie Couric of CBS News from snorting snarky criticisms on the day Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain running mate in 2008. The supposedly “unbiased” news reader did not know her words were being recorded since she was not live on the air yet.
The video of perky Katie mocking Palin and her kids hit the web today. It proves what we already knew: Couric had an elitist’s distain for Palin and wanted to make the guv look bad so that the messiah would be elected in November …
No mention of Governor Palin’s achievements or her 85 percent approval rating in Alaska. Just a hard-core leftist mocking anyone who does not believe in the socialism progressive pro-abortion ideology.
h/t to conservatives4palin.com who received it from thecollegepress.com.
Journolist Scandal Exposed
We suspected the mainstream media (MSM) of leaning left for many years but their actions were never so blatant as when they acted as cheerleaders for candidate Barack Obama in 2008 before the presidential election.
They covered no story that was critical of Obama, and refused to vet him as a presidential candidate. They felt it was their job, not to investigate a man with a mysterious past, who had no accomplishments save writing two books about himself, who came from nowhere to get elected to the Illinois seat, and was about to be thrust into the Oval Office.
Now we know the truth.
In a scandal that should shake out any faith you have left in journalist, today’s journolist revelations will show beyond a shadow of doubt that hundreds of so-called mainstream journalists from leading newspapers, magazines, and broadcast news organizations are leftwing political operatives.
Sean Hannity was correct when he said journalism died in 2008.
Thought for the Day: Obama & His Press
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.” ~ Joseph Goebbels (Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda)
It is a New Day in America
I’ve had a couple of democrat friends give me indications over the past month that they are fed up with the “crooks” in Washington, but each seems to have a different “last straw” or reason to rethink their support of ANYONE with a “D” at the end of their name.
It appears that the good folks at hillbuzz.org – who are dyed-in-the-wool long time Hillary Supporters and staunch democrats, are finally fed up with Obie and his white house goons, the leftist congress, and the state-run Pravda media. Hillbuzz writes:
The only party loyalty we have rests in the Clintons themselves, and their loyalists. In truth, that’s what’s kept us calling ourselves “Democrats” when in reality we are now “Clinton Moderates”, without a party of our own. We will vote against anyone who didn’t support the Clintons. We will happily vote Republican when a good, non-religious zealot is up against a corrupt, machine-candidate, Obot.
We have absolutely no respect for the Democrat Party after the way it’s behaved the last three years.
All of the above would have been UNTHINKABLE to us in 2007. Never in our lives did we think we would vote Republican or call ourselves Indepedents, but that’s where things have certainly moved.
Change is coming… and it won’t be what Obama planned on.
