LEE RODGERSOBAMA APOLOGY FOR YOUR RIGHTS
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NOW WILL HARRY REID SHUT UP? ...
PUBLIC WISE TO LYING MEDIA
NOW WILL HARRY REID SHUT UP? ...
PUBLIC WISE TO LYING MEDIA
Did you ever hear of such
lunacy?! Barack Obama is spending your
tax dollars buying TV commercials in Pakistan apologizing for
some obscure anti-Muslim video that nobody ever heard of until
Al Qaeda decided it would make a good vehicle for arousing a
bunch of heathen hyenas to kill Americans! He is, in effect,
apologizing for our First Amendment freedom of speech rights.
Meantime, the government of Pakistan declared a holiday from work so their loonies could go out and indulge in anti-American riots yesterday, which resulted in at least 21 deaths. Gee, that apology really worked well, didn't it?
If we had a Congress
with the balls of a bantam rooster, this farce alone would get The
Manchurian Candidate impeached.Meantime, the government of Pakistan declared a holiday from work so their loonies could go out and indulge in anti-American riots yesterday, which resulted in at least 21 deaths. Gee, that apology really worked well, didn't it?
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Burt Prelusky on Obama's farcical "foreign policy" ...
"Even Obama must be embarrassed by the obvious failure of his Middle East policy, which consisted of feeding the Muslims a load of bull hockey about their alleged contributions to America and the world. Judging by the firestorm of anti-Americanism that is streaking across the Muslim world, stretching from Egypt to Indonesia, one can easily see that soft words have no effect on them. Perhaps because even they realize how backward and vicious they really are, they assume that anyone who is praising them is only doing so out of cowardice and fear. And for once, they’d be right.
"As with a mad dog, you can avoid it by staying indoors. Or you can shoot it on sight. But you are never going to turn it into a house pet with a lot of soft soap."
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Note to any Democrat whiners who want to get their tax rate down to 14%, as Mitt Romney did:
All you have to do is give more than $4 million -- 30% of his income -- to charity ... also as Mitt Romney did.
If you're feeling guilty, you could also do what he did -- pay more than legally required. Wonder when Harry Reid last did that ...
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A timely suggestion from Jim Eason ...
"Now that Romney has revealed his 2011 tax returns...will the
Honorable Senator from Nevada, "Dirty Harry," (1) apologize, or
(2) identify his anonymous source...
"Nah, I didn't think so."
"Nah, I didn't think so."
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A pertinent observation by Jonah Goldberg ...
"In Pakistan, Egypt and the Palestinian territories, Christians are being harassed, brutalized and even murdered, often with state support, or at least state indulgence. And let's not even talk about the warm reception Jews receive in much of the Muslim world.
"And yet, it seems you can't turn on National Public Radio or open a newspaper or a highbrow magazine without finding some oh-so-thoughtful meditation on how anti-Islamic speech should be considered the equivalent of shouting 'fire in a movie theater. It's an interesting comparison. First, the prohibition on yelling "fire" in a theater only applies to instances where there is no fire. A person who yells 'fire' when there is, in fact, a fire is quite likely a hero.
"If free speech in America causes a comparative handful of zealots to want to murder Americans, the correct response is to protect Americans from those zealots (something the Obama administration abjectly failed to do in Libya) and relentlessly seek the punishment of anyone who succeeds."
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Reader Margie contributes this invaluable quote ...
"To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last. But eat you he will." -- Ronald Reagan
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Best news of the week: poll numbers showing that 60% of Americans trust the media little -- or not at all. Having spent an entire working lifetime doing much radio, a good bit of TV and even some newspaper work, I can assure you that distrust is entirely justified, especially the slanted political "reporting."
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If you aren't following the series in the Washington Examiner called "The Obama You Don't Know," you should. Here's an excerpt ...
"President Obama's controversial relationships with radical figures like Columbia University professor Rashid Khalidi have been well-publicized in recent years.
"Prior to his academic career in the United States, Khalidi worked for Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization when it was classified by the State Department as a terrorist group.
"Less well-known is a cluster of Chicago businessmen who formed an Arab-American network at the heart of Obama's political apparatus.
"Chief among them was Obama mentor Tony Rezko. Born in Aleppo, Syria, home of strongman Bashar al-Assad, Rezko migrated to the U.S. in the late 1970s and built a political and financial empire in Chicago and Springfield, the Illinois capital.
"Rezko is now serving a 10-year federal prison sentence following his convictions on federal fraud and bribery charges related to disgraced Gov. Rod Blagojevich and state contracting."
There's more. Much, much more. And an ignorant American public, kept that way by the obsequious media, badly needs to know more about the fraud they put in the White House.
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Pass this along to any Democrat dope you might be trying to rescue from the clutches of ignorance and gullibility ...
"Joe Biden has a bumper-sticker phrase to justify reelecting the president: 'Bin Laden is dead, and GM is alive.' Some, such as former Michigan governor Jennifer Granholm, doubled down on the demagoguery during the Democratic National Convention, declaring that Barack Obama saved not just General Motors, but the auto industry itself. But is it really true that were it not for the president, there would be no American auto industry?
"Obama didn’t 'save the car companies from bankruptcy,' let alone 'save the auto industry' — he simply saved the UAW, the administration’s political ally, from a bankruptcy judge. Judge Gerber’s ruling in July of 2009 was simply a rubber stamp of a corrupt government restructuring by fiat. -- Rand Simberg, PJ Media
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Mea Culpa, mea culpa ...
Knew better, but didn't do better. Yesterday I misspelled the name of a TV legend, Jack PAAR. Used two R's instead of two A's. It was later corrected, but my gigantic staff of 500+ will be savagely beaten and put on starvation rations.
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An (almost) necessary evil: the post-game show. Especially on radio. As a broadcaster of long-standing -- sometimes long-sitting -- I well understand the economics of sports on radio and TV. Broadcast rights are expensive, and those pre- and post-game shows bring in more advertising revenue to pay for those deals.
Pre-game shows serve at least to whet the appetite of the fan for the upcoming event. Post-game shows ... well, I've done 'em, and even as a participant I always felt, "This is a waste of time."
The best ending to a baseball broadcast I've ever heard came years ago on a visit to San Francisco, long before I lived there. The Giants were on KSFO with Russ Hodges and Lon Simmons doing the game. It ended. One or the other said, within seconds of the last out, "That's it. Giants beat the Cubs, 3 to 2!" And a hit song immediately begins as KSFO got on with its regular entertainment programming. As I recall, Jim Lange was on the air at the time.
I said to my companions at the time, "Perfect. That's the way to do it! When the game is over, it's OVER."
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Argus Hamilton with distressing news ...
"Colombia's Queen of Cocaine Griselda Blanco was assassinated by a motorcyclist on the streets of Colombia Tuesday. Thirty years ago she pioneered the distribution of cocaine on a national scale. She was succeeded by her second-in-command, Lindsay Lohan.
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A longtime friend who's taken up the unfortunate habit of counting his birthdays forwards these philosophical gems ...
Now that I'm "older" (but refuse to grow up), here's what I've discovered:
I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
My wild oats have turned into prunes and All Bran.
I finally got my head together; now my body is falling apart.
Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.
Funny, I don't remember being absent-minded.
If all is not lost, where is it?
It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.
Some days you're the dog; some days you're the hydrant.
Kids in the back seat cause accidents.
Accidents in the back seat cause kids.
It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.
If God wanted me to touch my toes, he would have put them on my knees.
These days, I spend a lot of time thinking about the hereafter. I go somewhere to get something and then wonder what I'm here after.
Funny, I don't remember being ... absent-minded.
Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.
"...and now, if you'll excuse me..."