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Twitter Ends List Service After Liberal Favoritism Exposed
Twitter will finally end their list service that blatantly favors liberal politicians while excluding conservative ones.
The list service in question provides new Twitter users with lists of users they might like to follow — like say…other liberals.
It should be very disturbing to all Americans that powerful companies like Google and now Twitter constantly show favoritism and shill for left-wingers.
Google is in bed with the Obama administration and now Twitter is trying to influence political races. It’s outrageous.
It’s inconceivable to me how a successful company based in California can honestly want liberal democrats elected to anything. It’s bizarre. California is in total collapse after decades of leftist economic and environmental policies. Taxes are driving business out of the state at record numbers.
But for some reason companies like Google, Twitter, Apple, etc. want more of the same. They want to give more of their profits to the federal government. They want more environmental regulations to squeeze their businesses. They want to lose more freedom.
I just don’t get it. Are they just ideological Kool-Aid drinkers or is it something else? What am I missing?
Gallup Poll: 40% Of America Is Conservative, 20% Liberal
Ever since the election of Barack Obama, the number of self-identified conservatives has continued to skyrocket. A new Gallup poll find 40% of Americans now identify themselves as conservative, while only 20% say they’re liberal.
Joe Klein Is The Dumbest Man In America
You have to read Joe Klein’s latest piece on Swampland. It’s so ridiculous you can’t believe it’s actually real. Klein is exactly the kind of asshole everyone outside of Manhattan loathes.
The tone and substance of the piece is liberal elitism at its finest. Everyone in middle America should print it out and save it. Klein expresses perfectly the utter contempt liberals like him have for average Americans.
-Chris Jones
The HuffPo’s Andy Ostroy Is An Ass Hat
When I watched President Obama’s big speech on health care the other night I was watching it on Fox News — or so I thought.
It turns out I was suffering some type of hallucination. According to The Huffington Post’s Andy Ostroy, Fox News didn’t air the Obama speech.
So President Barack Obama on Wednesday night gave the most important speech of his presidency on an issue, health-care reform, which has taken center-stage in American politics over the past several months. Every single major network and cable-tv news network carried the prime-time address live…except the self-proclaimed Fair and Balanced Fox News.
How better to continue dumbing-down your audience than to censor what they see and hear that just might spoil their partisan delusion. Why give them another side of an issue? Why expose them to a radical/socialist/communist/fascist/terrorist like Obama, right? (can you actually be all of those things at the same time, as he’s been accused?) Wouldn’t the fair and balanced thing to do be to simply, well, be fair and balanced? To let your viewers see the speech and make up their own minds? Nah, that would spoil the fun and prevent despicable blatant liars like Fox’s Sean Hannity from deceiving its audience with its decidedly unfair and unbalanced reporting.
For example, on his program after Obama’s speech, Hannity, during an interview with Republican pollster/analyst Frank Luntz, said that Obama"said tonight that insurance company executives are bad people!" " But if Fox’s viewers had actually seen the speech, they’d know what the president actually said: "Insurance executives don’t treat their customers badly because they’re bad people; they do it because it’s profitable."
Like most Fox haters, Ostroy has revealed through his ignorant writing that he doesn’t watch Fox News. He’s most likely never watched Fox News.
Fox News carried the speech live while Fox broadcasting did not. The O’Reilly Factor aired immediately after the speech and included an interview with David Axelrod. Hannity aired after O’Reilly and he had Frank Luntz as a guest.
You can look for Ostroy’s incredibly stupid post to pull a disappearing act within the hour I predict. That’s okay though, I’ve already downloaded a complete screen capture in case memories get fuzzy.
-Chris Jones
(hat tip johnny$)
Video: Cable Company Changed Glenn Beck Listing To ‘Glenif*ck’
What a petty thing to do. When libs can’t win the argument they resort to biting fingers off and middle school pranks like this.
That said, cable blows. Everybody knows DirecTV is king.
(hat tip TVNewser)
Environmental Extremism Responsible For California Wildfires
Federal authorities failed to follow through on plans to burn away highly flammable brush at the edge of L.A. to prevent raging forest fires.
After battling environmental groups in the courts the U.S. Forest Service finally obtained a permit to do a controlled burn on more than 1,700 acres of Angeles National Forest.
Due to pressure from liberal groups the Feds dragged their feet and only cleared a 193 acres before the wildfires sparked.
Even though this latest blaze has burned more than 5 dozen homes and killed two firefighters, a biologist with the Center for Biological Diversity had this to say (emphasis mine):
iologist Ileene Anderson with the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental organization, said burn permits should be difficult to get because of the potential damage to air quality. Clearing chaparral by hand or machine must be closely scrutinized because it can hurt native species.
Notice the enviro-kooks always look out for everything except human beings. It doesn’t matter how many people or homes burn as long as the “native species” are not harmed.
People in California need to wake the hell up and take their state back from the environmental Marxists and loony progressives. Until they do, California will continue falling apart.
-Chris Jones
(hat tip Mere Rhetoric)
Hilarious: Toledo Mayoral Candidate Gets Heckled
This is hilarious. Watch Toledo Mayoral candidate Ben Konop get heckled mercilessly while he tries to conduct a press conference.
You only need a passing glance to know immediately what party Konop represents. This kid is a poster-boy for eco-conscious, Prius driving progressives you’d like to punch.
Ben decided it would be good politics to hold a press conference in front of the house where his mother grew up. What Ben didn’t know is that Maxwell the neighbor thinks he’s a lying tool and wasn’t going to let him have his press conference.
I’m normally opposed to shouting people down, but I had a visceral dislike for this Konop character after only seeing him for 30-seconds.
(hat tip Newsbusters)
Video: Anderson Cooper Interviews Anti-War Liar Who Claimed To Be Wounded Gay Marine
Anderson Cooper interviewed the asshole who became a public face of the anti-war movement. Rick Strandlof turned out (not surprisingly) to be a total fraud. He was never in the Marines, never wounded, and was not in the Pentagon on 9/11. This guy shilled for liberals during the election and pretended to be a wounded gay marine. He’s really just a lying scumbag and a fraud. Liberals never miss an opportunity to play the victim.
Breitbart: Lone Wolf Shooters Have A Lot In Common With The Left
Andrew Breitbart has written yet another great column. This week he attacks the liberal media for attempting to tie the Holocaust Museum shooter and others to the Conservative movement.
Here’s a little taste:
While Mr. von Brunn is currently being made out to be the poster child of the Republican Party, even a cursory look at his professed views shows he is the avowed enemy of the GOP in its current incarnation. Among many others, Mr. von Brunn hates Rupert Murdoch, Fox News (that means you, too, Shep!), George W. Bush and John McCain. And according to the FBI, Mr. von Brunn even had in his vehicle the address of the Weekly Standard, home base of the dreaded "neo-cons."
Seems Mr. von Brunn wasn’t a big fan of the Iraq War and also believed that 9/11 was an "inside job." Given this political sketch, Mr. von Brunn would feel at home at Camp Casey, Cindy Sheehan’s antiwar outpost in Crawford, Texas, and at the Daily Kos convention, rather than partaking in a National Review cruise with pro-Israeli war hawks Mark Steyn and Victor Davis Hanson.
The inconvenient truth is that David Duke and James von Brunn currently share more in common with Markos Moulitsas and Arianna Huffington than with Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer. But the right wouldn’t be so crass or foolish to try to blame the political left for the existence of – or motivation behind – haters like Mr. von Brunn.
It’s the left side of the aisle that hates Jews. You won’t find anyone at a Conservative gathering wearing pro-Palestinian or pro-Hamas attire, but you’ll sure as hell see it at any liberal “progressive” rally.
How ironic that just a couple of days after the Holocaust Museum shooting, Obama’s former pastor, Rev. Wright, said “them Jews” won’t let him talk to Obama.
He went on to blather about “Zionism” controlling the government and other such nonsense. Sounds pretty racist to me, and Wright is to the left of Karl Marx.
The reality is that the surge in violence is primarily a cause of the economic downturn. A surge in violence almost always accompanies a recession or depression.
The people who were barely hanging on to their sanity prior to the recession are starting to snap.
It doesn’t have anything to do with political parties. It’s about crazy and not crazy.
-Chris Jones
Hey Liberals, Gay Republicans Don’t Bother Me
One of the left’s favorite things to do is “out” gay republican politicians. I happen to share their disdain for republicans who crusade against gay rights and turn out to be gay themselves. That kind of hypocrisy really is just too much.
However, it’s when the left tries to “out” republicans just because they’re republicans through nefarious whisper campaigns and gossip that bug me.
A republican senator or congressman who’s above the age of 40 and still single must be gay — according to the left.
Oddly, it’s the same leftists who howl about gays being treated equally that relish outing gay republicans as if being gay were something bad.
A favorite target of lefty homophobes is Sen. Lindsey Graham. Liberals often talk about Graham being gay as if it’s an established fact that everyone already knows.
Proud lesbian lefty and former democratic congressional candidate Linda Ketner is the latest one to “out” allegedly gay republicans.
In an interview with far left blog Firedoglake, Ketner makes the claim that three South Carolina GOP politicians are gay.
She names Sen. Lindsey Graham, Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer, and S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell.
Ketner doesn’t actually know if the three are gay, but certainly thinks so based on what she’s heard.
Here’s the real point that liberals and gay activists are missing. The vast majority of republicans don’t really give a damn if someone is gay.
Folks who support Lindsey Graham are not going to scream in horror if they discover he’s gay and not vote for him anymore. As much as the left would love for that to happen it’s not.
Liberals often make the mistake (on purpose usually) of tying the gay marriage issue to a hatred of gays.
Just because a person thinks the word “marriage” should remain legally defined as being between a man and a woman doesn’t show a hatred of gays.
In California, gay couples get ALL the same rights as married couples do, but it’s just not called “marriage.”
So demonizing Carrie Prejean, staging dramatic protests, and invoking Martin Luther King Jr. is about nothing more than semantics.
Gays want that damn marriage word and nothing short of it. To hell with all the legal rights they just want that damn word!
But, that’s another issue — back to outing gay republicans.
I happen to like Lindsey Graham. Many conservatives think he’s too much of a RINO (Republican In Name Only), but nevertheless he’s a good guy.
His sexual orientation is totally irrelevant. Whether or not he likes dudes has no impact whatsoever on his performance as a U.S. Senator.
Again, it’s the same people who want special hate crime laws to protect gays and pretend to be champions of gay rights, who also try and publically humiliate other allegedly gay people with whom they disagree.
This of course is the usual rank hypocrisy you get from the left — so I’m not really surprised.
-Chris Jones
Minorities Only Count If They’re Liberal
If there’s one thing liberals love it’s identity politics. They play it at every opportunity and they play it well.
Since president Obama named judge Sonia Sotomayor as his choice for the supreme court, liberals have been cooing about her rise from the inner city and everything she had to overcome, blah, blah, blah.
Liberals love to name “firsts” and then constantly remind republicans that they’re naming a “first” and then dare them to oppose that “first.”
One must be careful not to get too carried away criticizing the first black president. Criticism could well be interrupted as racism and nobody wants that!
By the same token, Obama chose Sotomayor because in the mind of democrats (and sadly most republicans) opposing the first Hispanic woman to the court is dangerous ground and should be done with extreme caution.
Liberals aren’t actually interested in diversity, they’re interested in using the pursuit of diversity as a weapon.
When naming the first woman or minority to a particular position, if democrats cannot in some way benefit from it they don’t talk about it or pretend it didn’t happen.
Justice Clarence Thomas is a prime example of this. Because he’s not a radical leftist nothing he does counts for anything in the eyes of most liberals and more importantly most blacks.
Sen. Claire McCaskill made the stunning claim yesterday on Fox News that Obama’s nomination of Sotomayor was important, because no one currently on the court comes from an impoverished background. “That’s something new,” she added.
I suspect that was the moment Justice Clarence Thomas kicked his TV over. Not only is Thomas a black man sitting on the Supreme Court (appointed by a republican), but he comes from the poorest background imaginable.
In his memoirs, Thomas recounts a childhood of poverty that judge Sotomayor could not in her wildest dreams imagine. She grew up like royalty compared to the adversity that Thomas faced.
McCaskill’s claim is one of the most ignorant statements ever uttered. But it speaks to the larger point that in McCaskill’s eyes and in the eyes of most liberals Sotomayor really would be the first.
Clarence Thomas is a black conservative which makes him both an enemy to democrats and an enemy to most blacks.
What he believes and what he’s accomplished in life mean nothing. As far as most liberals are concerned there is no black man on the Supreme Court.
You see the same kind of treatment when it comes to Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.
Colin Powell was the first black Chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the first black Secretary of State, but did you ever hear the media cooing about that? Nope. Never.
Did you get a chance to read all those columns in the NY Times during the last eight years about what a progressive guy Bush was for putting so many black people in positions of power? Me either, I’m still trying to find them.
Had he been a democrat appointed by a democrat you would hear about it ad nauseam for years even decades to come.
Dr. Condoleezza Rice who herself came from very impoverished beginnings in the south when racism was at its very worst.
Rice was the first black national security adviser and a woman to boot. She went on to be the first black female Secretary of State. Once again, did you hear the media gushing about any of that? Not just no, but hell no!
Like Powell, she’s a republican appointed to a position of power by republicans. Therefore, those “firsts” don’t count. Like Clarence Thomas, Rice and Powell are also heretics and enemies of both democrats (Powell not so much lately) and most blacks.
Think about how significant it is that both of president Bush’s Secretary of State picks were African-American. I don’t remember ever reading a column or magazine article applauding president Bush for appointing so many minorities to his cabinet. You can imagine the books, movies, documentaries, and monuments that would have been created to honor a democratic president for doing the exact same thing.
It’s interesting that the party most often labeled “racist” is also the party that has put more minorities in positions of power. Unlike democrats, this wasn’t done to make a political statement they were simply the best people for the job.
Republicans should not bow to political correctness on Sonia Sotomayor. They should ignore her ethnicity and gender (no matter how many times liberals bring it up) and focus on her judicial record.
It’s pointless to fret about being called a racist, because liberals are always going to call throw that bomb around no matter what.
If you’re a republican and you dare to question a liberal you WILL be labeled racist, sexist, homophobe, bigot, hatemonger, and any combination of those. Get over it.
I believe the American people by and large can see through the race baiting and identity politics the democrats so often play.
The important thing is for republicans to challenge Sotomayor’s record and show the American people why judicial activists like her are bad for the country.
There’s little doubt that Sotomayor will eventually be confirmed. However, republicans can still count it as a win if they present an effective case to the public about why she’s a judicial activist and what that means for them.
The most important thing for republicans to remember is that by not engaging on issues the democrats have labeled as racially sensitive it only make things worse.
Playing the race and gender card has been such a success for democrats over the years that they’re using it more and more.
Republicans need to aggressively make their case and let the chips fall where they may.
-Chris Jones
New Republic: Sotomayor May Not Be Liberal Enough For Supreme Court
The New Republic makes the case that president Obama should be careful about appointing Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court.
According to TNR, she may not be liberal enough. The far left is concerned that she may not be strong enough to move the court “in a different direction.”
Sounds like the kind of judge republicans should get behind. She may turn out to be the lesser of many evils.
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