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Posted at 10:35am on Jun. 24, 2007 Media Outrage of the Week: Cheney is a Working Vice-President, Oh No!

By thespis148

Oh no! The Washington Post has discovered a scandal…the Vice-President of the United States works hard, works on goals set for him by the President of the United States, and is intricately involved in the operations of the Bush White House! Liberal Bloggers are already reporting on this made for TV scandal. Do you get my sarcasm? Are you buying this latest, made for the drive-by media scandal?

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Posted at 1:30pm on Jan. 7, 2007 Johnny One Note: The New Liberals in Washington

By thespis148

The supposedly new leadership in congress is still singing the same old tune: Johnny One Note. The center piece of their tired melody is still the same: cut and run, surrender Iraq now-and nothing more.

The Sunday Morning News Shows, also known this week as "The Celebration of Democrat Rule in Washington," are over for this week. Most of the hosts, and nearly all of the guests were commemorating the rise of Nancy Pelosi and the increase of liberal influence in the new congress. In fact, a sweeping of view of these news programs today would leave one the impression that the party of Europe is now running everything in Washington DC. Never on a Sunday of congressional rule by the Republicans have so many members of the majority party dominated the shows, or has such a lopsided view been permitted to stand as the news of the day.

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Posted at 12:49pm on Oct. 8, 2006 Thespis Journal Exclusive Essay: On A Clear Day, You Can See Forever

By thespis148

The mainstream liberal media is an absolute, absurd, and self flagellating feeding frenzy. These drive-by media types have decided that the “Worst October Surprise Ever” is worth stoking beyond its’ capabilities as a political nuclear bomb. Never mind that the only fuel for the fire is gossip from young adults-not teenagers who interacted with Mark Foley on some level or another each coming forward for their fifteen minutes of fame. These former pages are treated as infallible sources of virtue and immediately become darlings of the media who shine their tabloid spotlight on each one without regard for the truthfulness or veracity of their stories.

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Posted at 10:36pm on Oct. 1, 2006 Shame on Sherrod Brown

By thespis148

Shame on Sherrod Brown! Shame on Sherrod Brown for reciting the talking points of the Manhattan and Washington DC elite liberals with no consideration for the needs of Ohio. Shame on Sherrod Brown for wasting our time rehearsing Nutty Ned’s lines for an Ohio election.

When Ohio voters realize that Ned Lamont’s clone is running in Ohio, they will turn out in droves to defeat him. And believe me; defeating Brown is a nobler goal than electing Dewine.

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Posted at 7:43am on Sep. 20, 2006 Update: Jimmy Carter Quacks Again...

By thespis148

After dedicating the latest edition of “Ten Stupid Things Said by Liberals” to Jimmy Carter, our contempt for Jimmy Carter should be obvious. Carter continues to be one of the greatest embarrassments in United States history, so his latest idiocy is no surprise.

In a twisted rhetorical flourish, Carter claims that President Bush supports torture for terrorists. Well, about two-thirds of America would agree with President Bush on that one, and it’s too bad that it isn’t true. If the goons of mad-dogs of the middle east got word that the United States of America would not tolerate their horrid, inhumane actions any longer, some of these bad boys would shrink from the sheer acts of cowardice that have plagued the world for more than twenty five years. Too bad Mr. Carter has it wrong again.

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Posted at 10:16pm on Sep. 17, 2006 Misunderestimated Again

By thespis148

President Bush has used another brilliant master stroke of political genius to get the democrats on the run. The fact that McCain and Company got in the way just adds to the President’s credibility. It’s interesting to note that the most basic of issues in the War on Islamic Fascism continue to mystify the most strident of liberal voices. Since their ideas are superficial and vacant, these liberals have allowed wide openings for a smart leader to repeatedly out maneuver their amateur political grandstanding. Democrats and their friends at Netroots and Moveon.org spent a lot of energy gloating over the misguided decision rendered in June by the Supreme Court awarding broad rights to terrorists who have been captured. The preposterous decision of the court to award rights to illegal enemy combatants provided a unique opportunity for President Bush and his administration.

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Posted at 8:21am on Sep. 6, 2006 Media Obsession: Sunny Election Forecast for Liberals

By thespis148

Someone take a message to the mainstream media: Election Day is November 7, 2006. CNN and MSNBC have been relishing in celebrating an election victory with their buddies in the liberal party all afternoon. The apparent template today calls for a dismal view of the republican chances this fall. Their misleading stories, “push media” tactics, and classically biased coverage would have you believe that there isn’t any need to count votes on November 7: the democrats have already won. How quickly things change: remember their November 2000 slogan: “count every vote.” Al Gore and Joe Lieberman wanted to count every vote twice if it meant that they would win.

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Posted at 8:27am on Sep. 4, 2006 Pulling Back the Curtain on Modern Marxists

By thespis148

The time has come for a new American emancipation--a great national drive to tear down economic barriers and liberate the spirit of enterprise in the most distressed areas of our country. My friends, together we can do this, and do it we must, so help me God.

From new freedom will spring new opportunities for growth, a more productive, fulfilled and united people, and a stronger America--an America that will lead the technological revolution, and also open its mind and heart and soul to the treasures of literature, music, and poetry, and the values of faith, courage, and love.

At the heart of our efforts is one idea vindicated by 25 straight months of economic growth: Freedom and incentives unleash the drive and entrepreneurial genius that are the core of human progress. We have begun to increase the rewards for work, savings, and investment; reduce the increase in the cost and size of government and its interference in people's lives.

President Ronald Reagan, January 21, 1985
Second Inaugural Address

The dramatic vision outlined so eloquently by President Reagan almost twenty three years ago has manifested itself bountifully in contemporary American life. Reagan’s policies that were maligned by Uncle Teddy Kennedy, Walter Mondale, and other liberal icons, have wrought an unprecedented period of sustained economic growth. Yet another economic renaissance has been underway since 2003. Even in the face of the most vicious and fatal attack in American history and a raging war on Islamic-fascists, the American economy flourishes and is the envy of the world.

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Posted at 10:32pm on Aug. 26, 2006 Wicked: Starring Hilary, Ned, Jack, and Ray

By thespis148

Hilary Clinton, Jack Murtha, and Ray Nagin, taken collectively, had quite a week. This is not the first time that they have been cited as singing their song of gauche harmony within a few days of each other. It’s almost as if the New York Times kicked off another story for the cast of Hilary, Jack, and Ray to sound off in a discordant unison. Hilary was responsible for the round off back tuck that brought the verbal gymnastics to a conclusion on Friday. Attempting to pull off the mother of all political triangulations, Hilary had a rendezvous with Ned Lamont to stage-manage and scheme for his campaign against Joe Lieberman. Never mind that Bill Clinton campaigned vigorously for Lieberman in the primary or that Hilary endorsed old Joe just a few weeks ago. The leftist, socialist wing of her party has surrounded her like the winged monkeys of Oz to demand her loyalty to their patron saint, Ned, as he attempts to unseat the evil Joe. Leave it to Hilary to fly in on her broom and attempt to save the day. The monkeys’ will no doubt protect her as they fly rapidly, in a vulture like formation, to protect her against all the elements of Oz, or in this case, The Times, The Post, and The Daily Kos.

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Posted at 11:05pm on Aug. 16, 2006 Notes to Ned

By thespis148

Ned Lamont, democrat candidate for Senate in Connecticut took a bold step in his general election campaign by writing an Op-Ed piece for the Wall Street Journal today. We say a bold step because his radical, socialist supporters might consider anyone writing for the Wall Street Journal to be treasonous to the religion of ultimate faith in Moveon.org, and the team of netroots bloggers.

Lamont tries to assume the attire of a moderate, yet he ends up the column with his trademark rant about the Iraqi war that is filled with cliché, reminiscent of Helen Thomas, Hezbollah, Cynthia McKinney, and Cindy Sheehan. Additionally, Lamont attempts to highlight a campaign platform and appeal to a wider spectrum of Connecticut voters. A barely masked attempt to play catch up with Senator Lieberman’s revitalized campaign; Lamont is on uncertain footing, and may realize that the dynamics of the race are not in his control. When the New York Times writes an adoring piece on Senator Lieberman, Lamont must be feeling especially uncomfortable. And by the time Chris Matthews starts telling you to your face that Old Joe has the money all lined up from major backers, the air certainly has escaped from that euphoric moment when the mainstreamers televised you with Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and Mad Max last Tuesday night.

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Posted at 7:03pm on Aug. 16, 2006 Ridiculous Liberal Attempt to Steal The Security Issue

By thespis148

In the wake of each successful attempt to thwart a terrorist attack, the spokesmen of kook fringe left are utilizing their biased platform endowed them by mainstream media to blast the Bush administration for failing in the war on terror. In their desperate attempt to turn security into a winning issue for democrats, liberals are trying to make up for lost time and lost elections in 2002 and 2004. The goal of the liberals it to make the Bush administration pay for successfully using the security issue in the last two national elections. These liberals, still smarting from the loss of Senators Clelland, Carnahan, Daschle, Mondale and others, are shamelessly clamoring for greater security measures in the face of a five year record of success.

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Posted at 5:57pm on Aug. 12, 2006 Mike Wallace: Idiot of the Week!

By thespis148

Mike Wallace's exclusive interview with the Iranian president is going to receive a couple of major showcases in coming days.
On Sunday's "60 Minutes," the chat will take up the program's first two segments. Wallace, left, conducted the interview this week with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, right, in Tehran. The CBS newsmagazine airs at 7 p.m. Sunday on WKMG-Channel 6.

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Posted at 10:58pm on Aug. 7, 2006 Jimmy Carter Quacks Again

By thespis148

There should be a sunset clause on the publication of comments by former Presidents who embarrass the nation. Depending on the failure rate of a presidency, or after a couple of dozen royal screw-ups, the former President should have no forum from which to spout his folly. When Ronald Reagan skunked Jimmy Carter in November, 1980, the nation breathed collective sigh of relief as we believed we were finished being lectured by the king of malaise. Jimmy Carter, the person whose method of fighting the cold war was to tell the communists that we would not attend the Olympics, the man who perfected the misery index, and the real accident of the Watergate history should be exposed for his sheer silliness.

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Posted at 2:10am on Jul. 21, 2006 Faulty News Templates for the Middle East

By thespis148

Kofi Annan, Secretary General of the United Nations July 20, 2006:  "I repeat, hostilities must stop!"

If Kofi Annan had been speaking for the United Nations in 1944 as the tide of World War II turned strongly in favor of the allies, he no doubt would have insisted that the allies cease hostilities and permit Adolf Hitler time to re-arm his nation and murder more of his people.  In fact, had the United Nations been around in 1940, there would have been voices insisting that the world take more time to truly understand the motivations of Japan and Germany. Applying today's paradigm of thought to the 1940's would have allowed America's freethinking, socialist sophists to construct an elaborate, nuanced response that would have left Hirohito and Hitler in power well into the 1960's. Fortunately for all of us, the prevailing thinking of the 1940's demanded that we fight and win wars in the quickest manner possible. The constant equivocating of good and evil, which hangs like a musty scrim over today's liberals, took a backseat to the world-wide struggle of good versus evil in World War II. The grayish miasma of leftist quibbling with the strong articulation the values of liberty, freedom, capitalism, and equality by our President and military apparatus had no place in the total victory for the allied powers in the great wars of the twentieth century.

Unfortunately for those of us present at the dawn of World War III, essential lessons of World War II are being ignored in favor of political posturing on the part of nearly every elected democrat public official. Domestically, we are experiencing a trivial political debate full of daily dogmatic drivel. A calculated strategy that is regularly employed by the liberals is to insist that the United States work with the United Nations. This notion of deference for the views of the United Nations is not a part of the autonomy that has served the United States throughout our history. Strident voices of the left are crying out in accord led by Jack Murtha, Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd, and others blaming the Bush administration for failing at diplomacy for these past five years. These so-called leaders of the opposition seem to have diplomacy confused with appeasement, and along with Madeleine Albright, they seem to have all of the administrations flaws at their finger tips at any moment.

I am sorry that the United States of America must continue to participate in the charade at the so-called United Nations. The UN has become completely irrelevant, corrupt and useless. The mainstream media in our country has a glaring and unmet obligation to inform citizens of the culture of corruption which exploded at the UN under Mr. Anann's leadership. The oil for food scandal and the correlating nepotism have not made their way into our national consciousness. Anyone who has any abiding faith in the ability of the United Nations to positively impact events in the Middle East is a fool!

There is some general concurrence on the useless nature of the United Nations in the 21st Century.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/3/11/110420.shtml

http://hotair.com/archives/vent/2006/05/11/useless-united-nations/

http://aaronleewudrick.blogspot.com/2005/03/useless-united-nations.html

http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/007358.php

The gyrations of the United Nations on the terrorism raging in the middle east is all part of the great schematic template of thought being force fed to the American people by a mainstream media that has never been more treasonous. As if to please these voices of an imagined world unity, the American media cries for restraint on the part of Israel. These voices call strenuously for a proportionate response on the part of Israel. They say this as if another Israeli concession with bring a different result than those allowances that Israel has made in the past.

Despite the lessons of history, and the facts of the current conflict, the media uses its own predetermined model to tell their fictions from the Middle East.

The most pronounced example of a failed news template is the reporting emanating out of Lebanon, Israel and Iran this week. The reckless, tabloid, and adolescent reporting of the mainstream media is a dubious unison being sung by liberals in a prescribed, counterfeit harmony that pierces the realm of the harsh realities faced by the United States, Israel, and the world. Generally, the television networks and the work of their so-called reporters borders on an illusory sedition.

Whether you may watch CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, or MSNBC the plotline is the same with the only variation being the order of the talking points to be used against President Bush.

A short list of the most egregious and flawed viewpoints overused by the mainstream media would include the following:  

*    Israel must have a proportionate response

The shrill, piercing, and constant cry for a "proportionate response" from Israel from disjointed voices across the networks is redundant and demonstrates a profound ignorance of the circumstances that led to this war. Countless stories are based on the misguided premise that Israel somehow owes the world a proportionate response for being repeatedly and randomly attacked.

*    Condolezza Rice should travel immediately to the Middle East

Madeleine Albright, Anderson Cooper and others in the media have promulgated a superfluity of stories making it appear that Condoleeza Rice should immediately go to the Middle East. Their desire for immediate gratification in the arena of cosmetic diplomacy has nothing to do with winning the war. This convoluted strategy is fraught with failure, and President Bush is not going to accept advice from the enemies of his doctrine. Albright and others need to apply their proportionality mechanism to their constant cries for Condi to intervene immediately. Like children throwing a earsplitting tantrum, the repetitive call for Condi to travel to the region has no logical purpose or conclusion. Condi, ever the mature adult, has called for a framework to be in place that would alter the broken structure of a strained peace between Israel and her neighbors. Condi and the United Sates must pursue the policy that terrorists must be eliminated not pacified, soothed, and placated!

*    The evacuation of US Citizens from Lebanon is a replay of the Katrina evacuation

Using narrow prism of faux caring, meticulously polished with a shining veneer of feigned concern, Nancy Pelosi and her willing accomplices in the elite media have generated countless stories this week regarding the evacuation of US citizens from Lebanon. In a politically motivated effort designed to manipulate the thinking of unsuspecting viewers, this evacuation has been repetitively compared to the Katrina victims stranded at the Superdome.  Rush Limbaugh created a montage of statements by several media personalities documenting this obsession on the part of the media.

The answer will not come from me, will not come from you,. It won't even come from the New York Times. The answer will come from polls and focus groups. As Bob Dylan once sang, ladies and gentlemen, the answer, my friend, is blowing in the polls. (laughing) The Democrats, I'm sure they're out focus-grouping this right now. Now, they may have already had their answer handed to them by the Drive-By Media. Dingy Harry and Nancy Pelosi have returned to the scene of the original drive-by, which is Katrina. The Lebanon evacuation is just like that now. Here's a montage of various leftists.

JACK CAFFERTY: Remember Katrina? France has gotten more than 700 of their people out!

CHRIS JANSING: Sort of brought back, you know, the whole Katrina thing.

ANDERSON COOPER: It's like Katrina all over again.

NANCY PELOSI: Just another manifestation of the Katrina mentality.

HARRY REID: It is too bad that this is being treated as a mini Katrina.

ANDREA KOPPEL: The slow response that the Bush administration had after Katrina...

MILES O'BRIEN: One of the people we talked to earlier today equated it to...Katrina!

KATE SNOW: Some in Capitol Hill are bringing up memories of Hurricane Katrina.

DAVID SHUSTER: The image of Americans terrified has burned the Bush administration before following Hurricane Katrina.

PAULA ZAHN: You have heard Katrina, calling it "a mini-Katrina."

These robots in the media seem to expect the American people to lap up their version of the news like thirsty dogs on a hot July day. There are obvious comparisons to Katrina: these comparisons are so obvious that the elite, arrogant, liberal media chooses to ignore these real stories while they invent other tales in order to twist the reality that is so painfully obvious.

The failure of the state and local governments in New Orleans is a direct parallel to the failure of the United Nations. The local and state government agencies and officials are well matched with the incompetent and ineffective officials of the United Nations.

The citizens of New Orleans and the US citizens in Lebanon have individual accountability for their circumstances that is ignored by the mainstream media. Neither the situation in New Orleans or Lebanon was entirely unexpected. Therefore, the threshold of personal responsibility trumps government culpability in our system of government.

Our media will never provide it, but we need a dose of reality on the networks and in the newspapers. Let's see a rash of news stories exposing the evils of Iran, Syria, Hezbolah, Hammas, and the United Nations. Let's review the fundamental lessons of history when it comes to appeasing terrorists and dictators.

Peggy Noonan makes the point stronger than I ever could in her Wall Street Journal column of July 20.

The other day ABC News's Internet political report, The Note, argued that President Bush, in his then-upcoming veto statement and other presentations, had better be at the top of his game if he wants his party to hold on to Congress in 2006. "[Mr. Bush] is going to need to be focused and impressive, not easy pickings for the Rich-Krugman-Dowd-Stewart axis."

As I read I nodded: That's exactly true. What was significant is that The Note did not designate as Mr. Bush's main and most effective foes Pelosi, Dodd, Reid, Biden, et al. Mr. Bush's mightiest competitors are columnists and a comedian with a fake-news show.

This is one reason the media is important. (It's not "the media are" it's "the media is." People see the media as one big thing.)

One big reason the media is important is that they change things. And they lead. On 9/11 itself it was the media--anchors, reporters, crews sent to the scene, analysts--that functioned, for roughly 10 hours, as the most visible leaders of the United States. The president was on a plane; the vice president was in the bunker and on the phone. It was on-air journalists who informed, created a seeming order, and reassured the public by their presence and personas and professionalism.

So they're important. But very recently it seems to me they're important because it is from the media that Mr. Bush's most effective opposition--attacks on his nature and leadership, attacks on his policies--comes. Among the Democrats an op-ed columnist has more impact than a minority leader.

It is common wisdom that newspapers are over. But when the most powerful voices against a powerful president at a crucial time are op-ed jockeys, newspapers are not over. Or perhaps one should say paper may be over, but news is not.

Hear, Hear!

http://www.nysun.com/article/36423

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071906/content/america_s_anchor
man.member.html

http://boortz.com/nuze/200602/02032006.html#outrage

http://perishthethought.blogdrive.com/archive/93.html

http://hardastarboard.mu.nu/archives/2006/07/good_reasons_to_1.php

http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110008676

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Posted at 1:27am on Jul. 16, 2006 On The Brink Of World War III

By thespis148

Menacing threats are on the near horizon for the United States of America. The storm clouds are gathering, the forces of evil are conspiring against the American people and Western civilization, and we the American voters, and our leaders need to be prepared to deal with this military and geo-political conflagration.

Many voices in the elite, intellectual venues of power in the major media circles of New York City and Washington DC are trapped by the limits of a narrow view of history. If these frothy thinkers had been in charge in 1941, they would have wanted to provide Hirohito, Mussolini, and Hitler endless opportunities to rehabilitate themselves and return to the peaceful community of nations. After Pearl Harbor, no reasonable leader in America believed, even superficially, that there should be more time for negotiations and stronger attempts made for a ramshackle appeasement. The United States of America and the leaders found a unity of purpose in defeating a clear enemy, and in all of the righteous might of a determined people who love freedom; an undivided America fought back and won.

The forces at work in World War I and World War II were no more black and white than the circumstances that we Americans are facing today. The struggle of good versus evil, the clash of cultures, and the manifest envy of tyrannical rulers with an identity crisis were no less pronounced. The differences in our current circumstance with the great World Wars of the 20th century have nothing to do with the struggle of the United States and other nations. The differences are in the dominant political philosophy controlling the mainstream media in these early years of the 21st century, and the disproportionate time the self-flagellating media pays to the out of power liberals and their insatiable appetite for power.

Last week saw an outbreak of stories in the dominant liberal press regarding a change of direction in the Bush doctrine. While there may have been a pause in the Bush doctrine of pre-emptive strikes against the axis of evil, and a momentary roll-back in the unwavering pursuit of freedom and democracy around the world, anyone who believes that President Bush and Condoleeza Rice have abandoned the core principals guiding their decisions since September 11, 2001 simply does not have sensible or appropriate context for their wandering remarks and sensationalist commentary. In the days ahead, Bush, Cheney, and Rice will once again demonstrate their hallmark decisiveness. These highly skilled world diplomats will no doubt surprise the unimaginative deadbeats in the liberal hierarchy and their allies in the mainstream press with strategies and methods developed while these elite editorial writers and lugubrious latte-drinkers were still trying to convince the public that Saddam Hussein could have been a friend to the United States if only Albert Gore were our President today.

The reality of today is that the United States is on the brink of World War III. It doesn't look that much different than the last World War, and the list of similarities suggests that eerie sense of a path that must be followed:  Fanatical dictators hate the West and the United States. Socialist Europe attempts appeasement while we lunatic Americans carry on with the true spirit of 1776. The acts of aggression are breath-taking and shake the world economy. An Asian mad-man wants to dominate his region. Many Americans want to avoid war at all cost. Americans lead the World in many of the critical indicators of success, including, but not limited to the most prosperous economy and living standard known to mankind.

While President Bush and his team must move carefully forward, we must never conduct our foreign policy and our global relationships from a retiring, apologetic tone. The United States, despite the dissonant voices arrayed against us from without and from within, must provide the glittering beacon of liberty's light in all of the dark days ahead.  With a clarion voice, the chanticleer must sing out the song of sovereignty, autonomy, and basic human freedoms.

No one can predict the future, but if you ask me: the days and months ahead will prove to be a dire time our nation's history, and sometime in the near future, it will be universally recognized by renaming this War on Terror as World War III.

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