RePO Team … Should Scare You!

A great article.  Get the rest of it at http://www.humanevents.com/

The Reid-Pelosi-Obama (RePO) Team Vs. The Rest of America

by Newt Gingrich (more by this author)

Posted 10/15/2008 ET
Updated 10/15/2008 ET

First, this summer’s economic bailout bill put the taxpayers on the line for $152 billion. 

Then the housing bailout added $300 billion.

The Paulson bailout cost us another $700 billion.

Now Washington Democrats – already counting on complete, filibuster-proof control of the nation’s purse-strings come November – are talking about spending another $300 billion on a “stimulus package.”

That comes to a grand total of $1.45 trillion the taxpayers are being asked to provide for Washington’s ideas on how to save the economy.

But here’s the thing: Has anyone ever asked the people who are footing the bill – the taxpayers – how we’d like this money spent?

How would you spend $1.45 trillion to make America better? Today I’m going to give you an opportunity to tell America how you’d spend this money.

But first some news, with Halloween just around the corner, that should scare us all.   MORE …

OUTRAGE – ous!

This letter has been making the rounds on the internet for weeks now.  It was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 by Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills, California.  Any comments?  I’ll begin.  I think Alisa speaks for many of us.  She speaks for me. 

 

 

On July 31, 2008, the Wall Street Journal had an article titled, “Where’s The Outrage?’ 

 Really?  I can tell you where the outrage is.  The outrage is here, in this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman.  The outrage is here, but I have no representation, no voice.  The outrage is here, but no one is listening – for who am I?

Soros

 I’m not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire political movement. 

 I’m not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the attention of the press to promote political candidates.

Barbra

Al Gore

 I am not a filmmaker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver misleading movies to the public. 

 The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don’t know how to reach those who feel similarly, in order to effect change.

 Why am I outraged?   I am outraged that my country, the United States of America , is in a state of moral and ethical decline.   There is no right or wrong anymore, just what’s ‘fair’. 

 Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowed more than they could afford are now being bailed out by the government and lending institutions to stave off foreclosure?   Why shouldn’t these people be made to pay the consequences for their poor judgment? 

 When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase only what we could afford.   Believe me, there are much larger, much nicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased.   But, taking responsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house that we could afford, not the house that we couldn’t afford.  The notion of personal responsibility has all but died in our country.

 I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant from Hitler’s Nazi Germany and required that she and her family learn English, now allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants, and worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.  

 I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here illegally; That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such disarray that I felt it incumbent to send my child to private school; that every time I go to the ATM, I see “do you want to continue in English or Spanish?”; that every time I call the bank, the phone company, or similar business, I hear “press 1 for English or press 2 for Spanish.”   WHY?   This is America , our common language is English and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.

 I am outraged at our country’s weakness in the face of new threats on American traditions from Muslims.   Just this week, Tyson’s Food negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor Day.   What am I missing?   Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim population working at the Tyson’s plant in Tennessee.  Tennessee, last I checked, is still part of the United States.   If Muslim’s want to live and work here they should be required to live and work by our American Laws and not impose their will on our long history.

 In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely delayed the publication of “The Jewel of Medina,” by Sherry Jones, a book about the life of Mohammed’s wife, A’isha, due to fear of retribution and violence by Muslims.   When did we become a nation ruled by fear of why at other immigrant groups want?   It makes me so sad to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the principles that built this country.

Ahmadinejad - The Dictator of Iran

 I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying to do.    An excellent article, also published recently in the Wall Street Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been and will continue to be ineffective.  Yet talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do.  Have we so lost our moral compass and its ability to detect evil that we will not go in and destroy Iran ’s nuclear program?  Would we rather wait for another Holocaust for the Jews – one which they would be unlikely to survive?   When does it end?

 As if the battle for good and evil isn’t enough, now come the Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want to put a bag tax on grocery bags in California; to eliminate Mylar balloons; to establish something as insidious as the ‘recycle police’ in San Francisco.  I do my share for the environment – I recycle, I use water wisely, I installed an energy efficient air conditioning unit.

 But when and where does the lunacy stop?   Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, the California economy is being overrun by illegal immigrants, and the United States of America no longer knows right from wrong; good from evil.  So what does California do?   Tax grocery bags.

 So, America , although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do anything about it.   I don’t even feel like my vote counts because I am so outnumbered by those who disagree with me.

 Alisa Wilson, Ph.D.

Beverly Hills, California

 

Keith Olbermann Is Losing It!

Keith Olbermann is losing his mind.  On September 8 of this year The New York Times included an article that outlined NBC’s plan to minimize Olbermann’s (and sidekick Chris Matthews’) influence in this year’s Presidential Election.  (see the  entire article)  Brian Stelter reports (with Jim Rutenberg contributing):

“MSNBC tried a bold experiment this year by putting two politically incendiary hosts, Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews, in the anchor chair to lead the cable news channel’s coverage of the election.

“That experiment appears to be over.  After months of accusations of political bias and simmering animosity between MSNBC and its parent network NBC, the channel decided over the weekend thatthe NBC News correspondent and MSNBC host David Gregory would anchor news coverage of the coming debates and election night. Mr. Olbermann and Mr. Matthews will remain as analysts during the coverage.

“The change — which comes in the home stretch of the long election cycle — is a direct result of tensions associated with the channel’s perceived shift to the political left.

‘The most disappointing shift is to see the partisan attitude move from prime time into what’s supposed to be straight news programming,’ said Davidson Goldin, formerly the editorial director of MSNBC and a co-founder of the reputation management firm DolceGoldin.”

It’s about time Olbermann got what he deserves … a kick in the pants.  How NBC justified keeping the ESPN-reporter-turned-news-anchor this long is amazing, still.

There is a lively debate taking place in this country … one the leftist media can’t moderate.  The debate centers around the role of the media in day-to-day life in America.  Many see socialists and elitists of academia, along with media bosses, using the “news” medium to promote their personal, political and ideological agendas.  And today’s news reporters and editors in both print and electronic media don’t seem to get it.  THEY feel victimized.  Isn’t that a hoot!?  Hello bias.  So long objectivity.

Stelter went on to write, “When the vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin lamented media bias during her speech, attendees of the Republican convention loudly chanted ‘NBC.’”

Finally a group of courageous current and former media staff members said tensions between MSNBC and NBC had come to a head.  But courage can only go so far.  All the comments coming from this group had to remain anonymous because ” … the network does not permit its people to speak to the media without authorization.”  So much for fair and balanced at NBC, CBS, and ABC.

Stelter pointed out, “Mr. Olbermann, a 49-year-old former sportscaster, has become the face of the more aggressive MSNBC, and the lightning rod for much of the criticism.  His program ‘Countdown,’ now a liberal institution, was created by Mr. Olbermann in 2003 but it found its voice in his gnawing dissent regarding the Bush administration, often in the form of ’special comment’ segments.  As Mr. Olbermann raised his voice, his ratings rose as well, and he now reaches more than one million viewers a night, a higher television rating than any other show in the troubled 12-year history of the network.  As a result, his identity largely defines MSNBC.  ’They have banked the entirety of the network on Keith Olbermann,’ one employee said.”

Holy cow!  How did such a young, angry man become so powerful?  And so troubled?

After the Republican party paid tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attack, according to Stelter and anyone who happened to tune in, “Mr. Olbermann abruptly took off his journalistic hat” … and lost his mind!  “‘I’m sorry, it’s necessary to say this,’ he began.  After saying that the video had exploited the memories of the dead, he directly apologized to viewers who were offended.  Then, sounding like a network executive, he said it was ‘probably not appropriate to be shown.’  Keith later explained, ’I found it ironic and instructive that I could have easily said exactly what I did say, exactly when I did say it, if I had been wearing a different hat, and nobody would have taken any issue,’ he said.”

Arrogant!  Self-important.  Hypocrite!  Since when has MSNBC and Olbermann abstained from showing the aftermath of attacks on civilians and our military in Iraq?  When did they start filtering mayhem out of their nightly broadcasts?  Never … not when they can espouse their own (and personal) politically charged agenda.

Lest ye think NBC has seen the light and will be turning down the volume on its leftist, vitriolic commentary on the Bush White House, the McCain and Palin candidacy, and Wall Street’s capitalistic woes  … turns outthe volume will stay up.  Olbermann and his “Countdown” will still be aired at strategic times … just before the three Presidential and Vice Presidential debates.

MSNBC, committed to its leftist agenda, hopefully will experience what such a position rates in the marketplace … and I’m not talking about the marketplace of ideas.  MSNBC is still going to prop up Olbermann while adding another socialist, Rachel Maddow, to the mix.  Question:  Who’s buying

 commercial time on these shows??  

To tell you how “in the tank” MSNBC is, and how much they have invested in Obama’s election, MSNBC’s president (Griffin), thinks Olbermann and Maddow’s point of view (single point of view – no diversity there) has a huge audience and constitutes a “signature brands of the entire company.”  That should remove any doubt as to where MSNBC has been and where it’s headed.  No longer reporting the news, MSNBC is creating news.

Take a good, long look at Stelter’s Times article.

And think about it!

Rewriting History – Olbermann Style

Just in case you doubt how angry Olbermann is, take a look … and get ready to throw up!

Keith Olbermann – Your Days Are Numbered!

“In a Special Comment, Keith Olbermann rebukes John McCain and his campaign handlers for abandoning honesty in favor of politically manipulative distortions, from rewriting the history of the Iraq war to blaming the media for the failings of the campaign and the candidate himself.”

That, my friends, was on the MSNBC web site tonight.

How can Olbermann rebuke the McCain Campaign for “abandoning honesty in favor of politically manipulative distortions” when he, himself, wears his leftist biased on his face, sleeve, etc.?

He actually proves the point of the McCain crowd with “… blaming the media for the failings of the campaign and the candidate himself.”  He’s a member of the media.  He’s done everything he can to criticize McCain and lionize Obama; he’s never asked Obama to explain his record (or lack thereof); he’s set up his fellow commentators with loaded questions – beginning his “questions” with something akin to “Now we all know that McCain is lying when he …” blah, blah, blah.  

Olbermann is a very unhappy man right now because I believe he sees that his days are numbered as a “credible” source of information.  Keith, baby … why not admit you’ve gone the way of Time, Newsweek and US News and World Report … you’ve aligned yourself with the Washington Post and the NY Times … and in the process made this name for yourself:  LEFTIST PROPAGANDIST.  Your hammer and sickle tatoo is showing.