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• Stay Off Fox

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    Dear MoveOn member,

    All year, FOX has worked 24/7 to block President Obama's agenda—repeating lies about "death panels," promoting Tea Party protests, and whipping up fake political scandals.¹
    

    Now, President Obama is fighting back. The White House communications director said FOX is a "wing of the Republican Party...let's not pretend they're a news network."² To draw attention to its biased coverage, President Obama will not appear on FOX for the rest of this year.³
    

    It's about time Democrats stood up to FOX! Can you sign this petition asking Democrats to support President Obama's stance by staying off FOX as long as he does? We'll deliver it to Rep. Johnson. Clicking here will add your name:
    

    http://civic.moveon.org/foxobama/o.pl?id=17603-15306616-4l5QMox&t=3
    

    The petition says: "Democrats should support President Obama's effort to call out FOX. Please stay off FOX for as long as he does." 

    Democrats often appear on FOX in hopes of reaching out to conservative viewers. But FOX cuts off their mic, distorts what they say, or runs biased headlines at the bottom of the screen.⁴ In the end, Democrats always lose on FOX.

    FOX insists there's a difference between its news shows and its right-wing opinion shows with Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, and others.
    

    But in August, FOX's so-called news shows "aired 22 clips of town hall meeting attendees opposed" to Obama's health care plans and zero in support. CNN and MSNBC were more fair and balanced.⁵
    

    In another "news" story, FOX passed off a GOP press release as its own research—typo and all.⁶
    

    FOX executives now describe the channel as "the voice of opposition" to Obama's agenda. FOX president Roger Ailes—a former adviser to Nixon, Reagan, and George H.W. Bush—said, "I see this as the Alamo."⁷
    

    But a Capitol Hill newspaper reports, "In the House and Senate, Democrats who pledged to follow the administration's near-boycott of Fox were hard to find, although many expressed support for Obama's stance."⁸
    

    Democrats will only find the courage to join Obama if they hear from enough concerned voters. Sign this petition to ask Rep. Johnson to stay off FOX. Clicking here will add your name:
    

    http://civic.moveon.org/foxobama/o.pl?id=17603-15306616-4l5QMox&t=4

    Thanks for all you do.

    –Noah, Nita, Michael, Kat, and the rest of the team

    Sources:
    1. "Fox News viewers overwhelmingly misinformed about health care reform proposals," Think Progress, August 19, 2009
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84884&id=17603-15306616-4l5QMox&t=6
    

    "Fox News Signs On To Tea Party Agenda, Aggressively Promotes Anti-Obama Protests," Think Progress, April 10, 2009
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84885&id=17603-15306616-4l5QMox&t=8

    "Beck-led Fox News "czar" witch hunt moves to ridiculous smear of Anita Dunn," Media Matters for America, October 16, 2009
    http://mediamatters.org/research/200910160004
    

    2. "White House: Fox News 'a wing of the Republican Party'," New York Daily News, October 12, 2009
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84886&id=17603-15306616-4l5QMox&t=9
    

    3. "The Battle Between the White House and Fox News," The New York Times, October 17, 2009
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84898&id=17603-15306616-4l5QMox&t=10
    

    4. "Outfoxed: Fox News technique: cut their mic!" Brave New Films, May 11, 2007
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTkFU4MtubU

    "The Case Against FOX," FOXAttacks.com
    http://foxattacks.com/facts.php

    5. "Fox News' town hall coverage amplifies opponents of health care reform, ignores supporters," Media Matters for America, September 8, 2009
    http://mediamatters.org/print/research/200909080004

    6. "Fox passes off GOP press release as its own research—typo and all," Media Matters for America, February 10, 2009
    http://mediamatters.org/research/200902100019
    

    7. "'Voice of the opposition': Fox News openly advocates against Democratic Congress, White House," Media Matters for America, September 11, 2009
    http://mediamatters.org/reports/200909110016
    

    8. "Congressional Democrats defend the White House's snub of Fox News," The Hill, October 14, 2009
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=84899&id=17603-15306616-4l5QMox&t=11

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• A Long Hot Summer

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    It’s been a Long Hot Summer

     

    A Satirical Account of what’s currently going on in Republican Country – * Dedicated to Nandi

     

    Outside the Bunker

     

    Newsflash from the Hooterville Gazette:

     

    The day after graduation

     

    It is the day after ground zero (graduation from the Hornets Nest Academy) and I, Cyrus P. Beauregard your humble roaming news reporter from the Hooterville Gazette, is ready to disclose pertinent information that all blue blooded Gawd fearing, Chuck Norris loving Americans are entitled to know, but first, let me put my story into perspective by rehashing how it all began. In the beginning I volunteered for love of Gawd, Country and Guns to become a blind folded participant in a secret program designed to retake our country back from the Liberal, Hitler loving Democratic Party.  At a secret location buried deep in the bowels of Tennessee, the best of the best of the best of born again Conservative reporters were re-indoctrinated to Conservative principles as given to us by our beloved Ronald Reagan.  The overall purpose of the program was to teach loyal members of the right wing press the newest tactics on how to (1) properly disseminate Conservative spin, err…I mean Conservative truth about our country’s first Negroid President, Barrack Hussein Obama and (2) further divide the Democratic Party by befriending our adopted Democratic brethren better known as “The Blue Dog”.   

     

    The Tactics – Day 1

     

    On day 1 we were taught how to terrify wimpy Liberals by brandishing hand guns and shot guns in places that wimpy Liberals like to congregate at.  With the exception of Christian schools, Christian churches and Christian Day Care Centers there ain’t no place we won’t go to without our loaded guns.  Hell we even went to a Liberal library with semi automatic weapons. In order to drive home the point of our lesson, we all participated in a drill which had us chant, “Guns are good” for two hours straight. 

     

    As a surprise for our loyalty to the cause, we members of the press were honored to have former Alaska Governor Sara “you betcha I’m a wolf hunter” Palin and former VP Dick “shoot em in the face” Chaney appear as motivational speakers. The dynamic duo teamed up to instruct our class on how to use new Conservative math as a way of embellishing the actual number of “Tea Party” participants that are bused to targeted Liberal functions as directed by Fox News and reported by Christian news anchors.  Although Sara had problems with placing the decimal behind the right zero, no one seemed to care, mostly because she showed up at the Hornets Nest looking as pretty and devilish (I just love her winks) as ever.

     

    In an exclusive interview granted to yours truly by former GW senior advisor Carl Rove, Rove stated that “All Good and God Fearing Americans will never question statistics that are presented by CNNs Lou Dobbs and Fox Network news anchors (well…except for that traitorous Sheppard Smith).  In fact Rove went on to say that a poll that was sponsored by “The Sons of Willie Lynch Society” and Fox News Sean Hannity, counted using the new and improved Conservative math, 50 million “Tea Party” protestors in Copenhagen, Denmark that were gathered to protest against the Olympics coming to Barry’s hometown of Chicago.

     

    The Tactics – Day 2

     

    On day 2 of our instruction, we were tutored by none other than Orly Taitz, the Queen of the “Birthers Movement”, we members of the right wing press were taught that accepting manufactured Barrack Hussein Obama birth certificates that indicate that Barry was actually born in Cairo, Egypt to include other undesirable places outside of the U.S.A. is good for the Conservative cause and good for America. We were further taught that we should accept all questionable birth certificates as being legitimate source documents; even it comes from Bubba’s and Ethel’s Rib Shack located in Stone Mountain, Georgia.  House Minority Leader John Boehner agreed that telling a fib in the name of expelling that Colored family from the White House is not a sin because Gawd is behind the Conservative movement. In order to drive home the point, we all participated in another re-indoctrination drill which had us chant, “Barrack is a Muslim” for three hours straight. 

     

     

    The Tactics – Day 3, 4, 5 & 6

     

    Day 3 through day 6 we reporters were treated to shots of Tennessee sipping whiskey between lessons on “How to deny being racists”.  Err…after my tenth shot of Jack D, I can’t remember what we were taught.

     

     

    The Blue Dog Democrat

     

    Blue Dogs, Dixie’s Best Friend

     

    Per Pat Buchanan, who is the Dean and Chief Administrator of the Hornet’s Nest, the Democratic Blue Dogs are worth every penny that is paid to them and their families by our Conservative friends who are blessed by Gawd to have substantial off shore banking accounts which provide the Blue Dogs with enough money to forget that they owe their allegiance to Barry and those other Communist Liberal Democrats. The Blue Dogs have completely re-wired the thinking of traditional Democrats by instilling doubts and fears about the President in the Southern and Pacific Northwest communities that currently recognize that Barry is actually Adolf Hitler reincarnated as a Negro. For this service to country the Blue Dogs will always hold a special place in the hearts of men and women who sing “Dixie” and recite the Pledge of Allegiance as they clean their guns and count their ammunition.   

     

    Back to Hooterville

     

     

    As I go back to Hooterville and the newspaper that I love so dearly, I am refreshed in my commitment to report to the world and Neocon America the news in such a manner that would make all Conservatives proud of what the Hornets Nest Academy has accomplished. With Gawd’s help we will get the Liberal, Nazi loving Democrats out of power one way or another. Until that time, this is Cyrus P. Beauregard signing off as the roving reporter for the Hooterville Gazette.    

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• The long hot summer

  • From: TheSarge1960
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    It’s been a Long Hot Summer

     

    A Satirical Account of what’s currently going on in Republican Country – * Dedicated to Nandi

     

    Outside the Bunker

     

    Newsflash from the Hooterville Gazette:

     

    The day after graduation

     

    It is the day after ground zero (graduation from the Hornets Nest Academy) and I, Cyrus P. Beauregard your humble roaming news reporter from the Hooterville Gazette, is ready to disclose pertinent information that all blue blooded Gawd fearing, Chuck Norris loving Americans are entitled to know, but first, let me put my story into perspective by rehashing how it all began. In the beginning I volunteered for love of Gawd, Country and Guns to become a blind folded participant in a secret program designed to retake our country back from the Liberal, Hitler loving Democratic Party.  At a secret location buried deep in the bowels of Tennessee, the best of the best of the best of born again Conservative reporters were re-indoctrinated to Conservative principles as given to us by our beloved Ronald Reagan.  The overall purpose of the program was to teach loyal members of the right wing press the newest tactics on how to (1) properly disseminate Conservative spin, err…I mean Conservative truth about our country’s first Negroid President, Barrack Hussein Obama and (2) further divide the Democratic Party by befriending our adopted Democratic brethren better known as “The Blue Dog”.   

     

    The Tactics – Day 1

     

    On day 1 we were taught how to terrify wimpy Liberals by brandishing hand guns and shot guns in places that wimpy Liberals like to congregate at.  With the exception of Christian schools, Christian churches and Christian Day Care Centers there ain’t no place we won’t go to without our loaded guns.  Hell we even went to a Liberal library with semi automatic weapons. In order to drive home the point of our lesson, we all participated in a drill which had us chant, “Guns are good” for two hours straight. 

     

    As a surprise for our loyalty to the cause, we members of the press were honored to have former Alaska Governor Sara “you betcha I’m a wolf hunter” Palin and former VP Dick “shoot em in the face” Chaney appear as motivational speakers. The dynamic duo teamed up to instruct our class on how to use new Conservative math as a way of embellishing the actual number of “Tea Party” participants that are bused to targeted Liberal functions as directed by Fox News and reported by Christian news anchors.  Although Sara had problems with placing the decimal behind the right zero, no one seemed to care, mostly because she showed up at the Hornets Nest looking as pretty and devilish (I just love her winks) as ever.

     

    In an exclusive interview granted to yours truly by former GW senior advisor Carl Rove, Rove stated that “All Good and God Fearing Americans will never question statistics that are presented by CNNs Lou Dobbs and Fox Network news anchors (well…except for that traitorous Sheppard Smith).  In fact Rove went on to say that a poll that was sponsored by “The Sons of Willie Lynch Society” and Fox News Sean Hannity, counted using the new and improved Conservative math, 50 million “Tea Party” protestors in Copenhagen, Denmark that were gathered to protest against the Olympics coming to Barry’s hometown of Chicago.

     

    The Tactics – Day 2

     

    On day 2 of our instruction, we were tutored by none other than Orly Taitz, the Queen of the “Birthers Movement”, we members of the right wing press were taught that accepting manufactured Barrack Hussein Obama birth certificates that indicate that Barry was actually born in Cairo, Egypt to include other undesirable places outside of the U.S.A. is good for the Conservative cause and good for America. We were further taught that we should accept all questionable birth certificates as being legitimate source documents; even it comes from Bubba’s and Ethel’s Rib Shack located in Stone Mountain, Georgia.  House Minority Leader John Boehner agreed that telling a fib in the name of expelling that Colored family from the White House is not a sin because Gawd is behind the Conservative movement. In order to drive home the point, we all participated in another re-indoctrination drill which had us chant, “Barrack is a Muslim” for three hours straight. 

     

     

    The Tactics – Day 3, 4, 5 & 6

     

    Day 3 through day 6 we reporters were treated to shots of Tennessee sipping whiskey between lessons on “How to deny being racists”.  Err…after my tenth shot of Jack D, I can’t remember what we were taught.

     

     

    The Blue Dog Democrat

     

    Blue Dogs, Dixie’s Best Friend

     

    Per Pat Buchanan, who is the Dean and Chief Administrator of the Hornet’s Nest, the Democratic Blue Dogs are worth every penny that is paid to them and their families by our Conservative friends who are blessed by Gawd to have substantial off shore banking accounts which provide the Blue Dogs with enough money to forget that they owe their allegiance to Barry and those other Communist Liberal Democrats. The Blue Dogs have completely re-wired the thinking of traditional Democrats by instilling doubts and fears about the President in the Southern and Pacific Northwest communities that currently recognize that Barry is actually Adolf Hitler reincarnated as a Negro. For this service to country the Blue Dogs will always hold a special place in the hearts of men and women who sing “Dixie” and recite the Pledge of Allegiance as they clean their guns and count their ammunition.   

     

    Back to Hooterville

     

     

    As I go back to Hooterville and the newspaper that I love so dearly, I am refreshed in my commitment to report to the world and Neocon America the news in such a manner that would make all Conservatives proud of what the Hornets Nest Academy has accomplished. With Gawd’s help we will get the Liberal, Nazi loving Democrats out of power one way or another. Until that time, this is Cyrus P. Beauregard signing off as the roving reporter for the Hooterville Gazette.    

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• Should America Fear Muslims an

  • From: TheSarge1960
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    This particular article is not the article that I intended to submit for today’s readers, however, after receiving a disturbing email this morning from a man that I’ve called friend for over two decades and who I personally believe has morphed into a caricature of hate and fear that is reflective of much of the confusion and anger that we see on television and hear on radio in America today, well…again I am compelled to respond in the form of commentary that I hope will promote thought and civil discourse which will prevent that metaphorical “powder keg” from exploding across small towns and big cities in the United States.
     
    This is what the email stated: 
     
    “I feel better now; we need to keep those crazy Christians in check, right?”
     
    “America has finally lost it”.....
     
    “Repeat after me”....
     
    Obama is not a Muslim, Obama is not a Muslim, Obama is not a Muslim,
     
    Obama is not a Muslim, Obama is not a Muslim…
     
    In order to keep my friend’s email in proper context I should explain that embedded in his email is a link islamoncapitolhill.com/Home_Page.html that connects to a website that I assume was created by a pro American Muslim organization. The website announces a planned day of Muslim prayer which is scheduled to be held at the U.S. Capital on September 25, 2009. Upon connection to the link, in addition to what is written, one will hear what appears to be a prayer in Arabic, which to some Americans who are unfamiliar with the Arabic language, may sound sinister and threatening. This is the gist of the website's opening statement:
     
    “The objective of this gathering is to invite the Muslim communities and friends of Islam to express and illustrate the wonderful diversity of Islam. We intend to manifest Islam’s majestic spiritual principals as revealed by Allah to our beloved prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) of Arabia. Likewise, we intend to inspire a new generation of Muslim to work for the greater good of all people, regardless of race, religion or national origin”.
     
    In addition to the proclamation of a day of prayer made in the narrative, the website also gives an itinerary of planned events for that particular day. Motivated to carefully review the website after reading the false allegation that President Obama is a Muslim, I thoroughly searched but could not find any endorsement of this planned event by the President or any of his cabinet members. 
     
    As a professed Christian, I personally do not feel threatened by this event, nor would I feel threatened by any other religious organization / faith that planned to have a peaceful rally at our nation’s Capital. However, for individuals whose agenda includes emasculating the President and disseminating seeds of fear and hate, this is another opportunity to prey on Americans that may not be fortunate enough to be able to separate fact from fiction. I’m not a soothsayer, however; as debate on national health care reform reaches a boiling point, I understand and can envision how tactics of spreading misinformation and fear about President Obama can distract the average American from staying focused on an issue that will ultimately affect tens of millions of fellow Americans who are concerned about not having sufficient health care coverage.
       
    In regard to the email that I received this morning, President Obama has empathically stated that he is a Christian. I find it hypocritical and disingenuous that former President Bush was not accused of being a Muslim when he held an Iftar dinner (refers to the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during the Islamic month of Ramadan) at the White House during his Presidency. www.wrmea.com/archives/janfeb2002/0201082.html  The million dollar question is, why is Obama being accused of being a Muslim and Bush, in light of officially honoring the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, when he served as the President of the United States, hasn't? An image of Jack Nicholson’s performance as the defiant Colonel in the movie, “A Few Good Men” comes to mind when Mr. Nicholson proclaimed to a relentless Tom Cruise, “You can’t handle the truth”. Inquiring minds want to know what you think about the planned Muslim event at the Nation’s Capital which is scheduled on September 25, 2009. 
     
    Is this event something that Americans should fear? Or is the rally being used as fodder for opponents of the President who rely on “misinformation” as means to boost their own agenda and negatively manipulate the minds of Americans who are forced to deal with near record unemployment and an uncertain future?  As I write this commentary there is no doubt in my mind that my friend’s email will be sent to untold numbers of fellow Americans who may become confused as to what to believe. In lieu of some American factions portraying most Muslims as the “Boogie Man” and with an ever increasing effort on their part to associate President Obama as being an undercover Muslim, does my friend’s particular brand of propaganda instigate violence against the President and his family?  
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• Spread The Word

  • From: pinkiehot52
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    Now please help spread the word.

    Thank you for calling on Glenn Beck's advertisers to take their dollars elsewhere. It's an important step towards keeping the misinformation and race-baiting of people like Glenn Beck off of cable news.

    200,000 people have already signed on, and 62 companies have stopped their ads from running on Beck's show. And the more of us who stand together, the stronger our voice will be. Will you take a moment and invite your friends and family to add their voice as well?

    Feel free to use the draft letter below, or write your own. But please only contact people you know personally — spam will hurt more than it helps.

     

    You can cut and paste the text below into an email message:

    Dear friends, As you may know, right-wing talk show hosts have been bringing race-based fear mongering into the mainstream, but FOX's Glenn Beck has taken it to another level. I signed ColorOfChange.org's petition to stop Glenn Beck's lies and distortions, and so far, 62 major companies have stopped their ads from running on his show. These companies have decided they don't want to be associated with Beck's race-baiting. But Beck is only stepping up his fear-mongering, so we can't stop now. We have to make sure advertisers keep leaving, and stay away from his show. Will you take a stand and be counted, and invite your friends and family to do the same? It takes just a moment: http://www.colorofchange.org/beck/hold/?id=1744-523806 This summer, Beck said:   This president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people... this guy is, I believe, a racist. That statement fits into a pattern of rhetoric from Beck designed to stoke racial paranoia and fear. He has claimed that President Obama has a "reparation appetite" and a desire to use his policies to settle old racial scores. Beck's overall plan is to create an atmosphere in which the White House can accomplish nothing, and he's carrying it out by preying on race-based fears and mobilizing hate. Beck relies on dishonesty, distortion and exaggeration, and he is embarking on character assassinations of Obama administration officials with whom he disagrees. FOX has a horrible track record on pushing racist propaganda, but Glenn Beck appears to be taking the network to an even lower standard. He's trying to divide and distract America when we should be coming together and talking about issues that really matter--like health care and the economy. The good news is that we have the power to stop this. Over 200,000 people have joined this campaign, and 62 advertisers have already stopped their ads from being run during Beck's show. Please help keep the momentum building. http://www.colorofchange.org/beck/hold/?id=1744-523806 Thanks. Here are some links to more info: "Beck: Obama has 'exposed himself as a guy' with 'a deep seated hatred for white people'" http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907280008 "Glenn Beck: Obama agenda driven by 'reparations' and desire to 'settle old racial scores'" http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907230040

     

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• PRAYING FOR THE FIELD OF EDUCA

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    <p style="text-align: center"><img style="width: 179px; height: 231px" alt="" src="http://fs1.blackplanet.com/c262c38e0c947bfcad9a776cc3d35116e770e072/437x" /><img style="width: 167px; height: 227px" alt="" src="http://fs1.blackplanet.com/d500ff8f15575e2c2896de46fed70aad7a58c025/437x" /></p><p style="text-align: center">          <span style="color: #3366ff"><span style="display: none" id="1252446504226S"> </span> <span style="color: #000080"><u><strong>PRAYING FOR THE FIELD OF EDUCATION IN U.S. SCHOOLS</strong> </u></span></span></p>    <li><span style="color: #3366ff">       It is incredible to learn that there are actually people in this country who have played into the wiles of Evil who have wrongfully accused President Obama of an inappropriate speech even BEFORE the speech had been made to American Schools. What I want to know is how can someone accuse another person of intending so say something BEFORE he has been able to say it. This sounds not only UnAmerican, and Un-Christian, but also un-intelligent and unfair. Some odeous people were ranting, crying, and shouting they would be removing their children from school -- which is always their right. Just go on and do it quietly and keep the foul stench of ignorance and unrighteousness to yourself, I say. Cacausian Presidents -- many before this African-American President == have spoken to America's students without fury. African-American's never have accused them of intended racism, nor socialism; so why are Cacausian's accusing this president of socialism and worse:  politicism. Not one of them has been &quot;forced&quot; to display their entire speech in the press to convince the public that what they are saying is only words of encouragement. No fairly elected American President should have to go through that. But I commend our President that he has the humility to go on and do so to quell the evil-nature of the beast we are being confronted with.  The rouse that a lesson plan that asks students to write how they would help the President is malicious.  As a former teacher who assigned such topics (though usually students had their own options in my class), this is not only innocuous, but typical; and that it really is a question of how would students desire to help the country regardless of who the sitting president happens to be. It is similar to JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country", which was universally considered a highly patriotic statement.</span></li>    <li> </li>    <li><span style="color: #3366ff"> What is more, we are hearing about a minister in his parish in Arizona who has openly said to his congregation that he wants President Obama dead and for his children to be fatherless. This is coming from a man who is supposedly &quot;of the Cloth.&quot;  Following that, one of his parishioners was seen at a Congressional meeting carrying an automatic rifle. What is this world coming to?!?!?!?!?!!! What are we teaching our children from our actions and words as parents, church, and community. The field of education must help our children make sense of all of this. Not by teaching politics, but in teaching intelligence, and how to read and think for themselves properly. . That is really the basis of it all.   <li> </li>    <li><span style="color: #3366ff"> Again, I beg of people all over this country to pray also against the Evil that is being dispersed through distractors and detractors in this country who are crying out against President Obama with false allegations, against a man who is in the uppermost position our nation, who only wants to encourage our nation's students to study and do well in school.  So again, I ask the members of this site to come together in prayer in support of the person that God has allowed to be put in charge of this country at this moment in time. I have just heard a newscast that reports former First Lady Laura Bush has spoken out saying that she thinks President Obama is doing a good job, and is praising First Lady Michelle. I give her high commendations for this objective, Christian-like response of speaking out amid the evil-mongering of the Right, including those who are ill-advised of her own party. We need more Christians to speak out in righteous indignation against the discord that is going on through both parties in this country. </span></li>    <li><span style="color: #3366ff"> </span></li>    <li><span style="color: #ff6600"><u>So I pray</u>:</span><span style="color: #3366ff"><span style="color: #339966"><em> Lord, God, help this nation to avert the tragedy of racism and divisiveness. Too many of us who believe in God and this nation's democratic principles are silent, when we should be either speaking out in grace and peace or in open prayer. Father, we all need Thee now more than ever! Show us the way for Thy Peace, Joy and Praise to exist righteously among the people of this land. Not arguing aimlessly in ignorance. We all need to study to show ourselves approved, workmen worthy in Thy sight. Father, help more of us who follow Thee rightly to have the courage to speak up and speak out in a peaceful, judicious manner against the evils that so easily beset us. For we know Thou are the God of Peace and not Confusion. Lord, we love Thee, we honor Thee and we adore Thee. And we will praise Thy name forever. Amen.</span style="color: #3366ff"></em></span></span></li>

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• Censure Joe Wilson

  • From: pinkiehot52
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    Michele,

    Thanks for signing our petition to Censure Rep. Joe Wilson. We'll keep you updated on progress.

    If you're on Facebook, please click here to share the petition.
    

    Would you like to join the Twitter conversation on the petition page?

    Just include @CongJoeWilson, #CensureWilson, http://bit.ly/1hUrqM in your Twitter message and it will appear. Click here to get started on Twitter with a sample Tweet.
    

    Or spread the word by simply forwarding the below email to your friends.

    Thanks for being a bold progressive,
    --Adam Green, PCCC co-founder
    

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    Tonight, during a speech in which President Obama explained the need for a public option, right-wing Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) played the roll of teabagger and yelled, "You lie!" Enough. Can you sign our rapid response petition, asking Congress to censure Wilson? Click here to see petition and sign.

    Hi--Tonight, we saw a momentum-shifting speech from President Obama -- and progressives who had the courage to speak up in recent days helped make it happen.

    After an emergency, 6-day campaign -- launched as the West Wing was debating what would be in the president's speech -- President Obama did what so many of us hoped he would do, and urged him to do.

    Obama embraced the public health insurance option and explained why insurance companies that profit by denying care need competition. To be fair, there were downsides, such as framing a public option with overwhelming 60%-70% support as a left-wing proposal.

    But overall, his speech put big momentum in our direction and he used fighting words: promising to "call out" anyone who spreads misinformation to kill reform.

    One person immediately deserves to be "called out." Right-wing Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) played the roll of teabagger by yelling "You lie!" at the president. Let's go on offense -- will you sign this petition to Congress?

    PETITION: "Enough is enough. On an issue as critical as health care reform, it's time to stop the lies, the misinformation, and the uncivil disruptions. Rep. Joe Wilson went way over the line by yelling 'You lie' during President Obama's speech, and Congress should censure him immediately." Sign here.

    It's getting late at night -- but let's see if we can get 20,000 signatures by noon tomorrow. Can you send this email to your friends who watched the speech?

    After you sign the petition, you'll have the option of chipping in for an ad targeting Wilson.

    Let's send a signal to President Obama that if he is willing to fight and win on the public option, a grassroots movement will be there with him -- including going to bat against crazed teabaggers who want to kill reform.

    Can you sign the petition, and pass it on to others? Click here.

    Censure could be a real possibility if we go on offense now. Sen. John McCain called Wilson's yelling "totally disrespectful." Wilson later called his own actions "inappropriate and regrettable" but repeated the same misinformation he yelled out at President Obama -- about illegal aliens.

    Frankly, an apology is not enough. Apologies weren't enough for Van Jones, the bold progressive who right-wingers forced to resign from the White House this past week for remarks taken out of context. And House Rules of Decorum specifically state that it is not permissible to call the President a "liar" -- let alone yell it.

    Can you sign our petition today asking Congress to censure Wilson -- and pass it on?

    Thanks for being a fighting progressive!

    --Adam Green, Stephanie Taylor, Michael Snook, Andrew Perez, Evan Miller, and the PCCC team

     

    Everyone Let us Sign the petition, and if possible donate . Let's Act Now!

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• Critically think Black people

  • From: thanubian
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    How is it that today so many African Americans, perhaps more now than ever before in history, so favorably and adamantly refer to themselves by the derogatory "N" word?   How is it that a word that we as a people once fought so adamantly against is now seen as a favorable term of endearment and empowerment among so many of us?   Why are so many of our male youths now admiring the deplorable behaviors of thugery and pimping?  Moreover, how have Black unity, racial pride, and educational aspiration, once hallmarks of Black identity -especially as so overtly demonstrated during the 1960's- so dramatically declined?  How and when did we African Americans become living contradictions of our former selves?  Do we continue to accept the easy and convenient answer that we as a people merely “just changed” – therefore our admirable cultural traits all merely disintegrated-- when integration and other subsequent opportunities became available?  Are we really to believe that the white race’s unmatched proclivity for racism magically disappeared and that it is only we that are now our own worst enemy? (Our thoughts of contempt has now been turned psychologically inward; it is a common combat strategy to turn a people against themselves)

     Within this same breath the question should also be asked of how and when did the white race become the litmus test and standard for all humanity despite their brutally racist history to the contrary of where of which all other races has been either their enemies or their victims?

    Many people of African descent-- those possessing the mental fortitude to remain psychologically awaken within a white dominated world that wants them asleep-- have pondered upon these very same profound questions their entire lives. They know that there is something going on. Many often can not fully explain it, but have felt it their entire lives like a splinter in their minds that something is terrible wrong.  Rather than partaking within the pathological struggle created by these profound questions this literature will instead reveal the long awaited answer.  It is a terrible truth that many Black people have intuitively always known was happening.

    These profound questions regarding the present state [and apparent mind set] of Black America is not void of a rational and intelligent explanation.  The present state of Black America [as with Blacks else where within a white governed society i.e. the U.K, Canada, etc...] is the result of a governmentally deplored modern method of control.  Although today most African Americans do not experience racism the way their parents experienced it, they do, however, still experience White racism.  White America's practices of economically exploiting and suppressing its Black population were never actually abandoned, but instead sophisticatedly reincarnated. White America's methods of institutional racism has been secretly modified into a more contemporary and stealthy design.

    As a means of  maintaining its white dominance and control over its Black population, the U.S. Government now secretly deliberately disseminates false deplorably racially devaluing statistics and propaganda about its Black population that are deliberately designed to adversely manipulate and shape the minds and collective consciousness of its African American population-- corrupting African Americans sense of unity, cohesion, and reason -- and facilitates a consensual national environment  of where in which its Black population is more easily divided, exploited and ultimately suppressed.  When most people hear the term of psychological manipulation they usually think in terms of the classic "conspiracy theory" that refers to overt mind control such as mind altering drugs with carefully hypnotic programming. However, the real and true dangers are Bernays well proven methods of affecting the unconscious mind by using deception, and psychological manipulation. It is neither magical nor mystical, but a process that involves a set of basic social psychological principles.

    This modern system prevails by using misinformation as a tool to spread false beliefs and fears to influence the masses to ensure that its white dominance and control is maintained. The usage of information is rarely considered when discussing method of emitting white racism; however information is the single most important thing that moves the global economy, influences political regimes, and constructs human behavior. Information management, social engineering, and traffic shaping are the evil crafts of the digital age.  Information is the single most important thing that moves the world economy, influences political regimes, constructs human behavior and, when put together, defines meaningful thoughts. It is a tool of our trade and a powerful ally, but it can also be used as a weapon of mass destruction.

     The constant relentless bombardment with deplorably negative images of themselves that of which African Americans are so inundated with is a very carefully and deliberately designed mass media social manipulation program that subjects African Americans--through a white controlled media --to seeing only the fraudulent worst in themselves. Its unrelenting daily assault on the Black psyche drills the message that Blacks are powerless, of lesser moral, and intelligence and that they need whites to govern over their lives.  It totally detaches African Americans from their sense of power and reality. Moreover, it corrupts African Americans’ sense of racial unity and cohesion, mold the character of self-hatred, engender self-doubt, self-loathing, and distrust among their group while insinuating that Blacks admire, respect, and trust only Whites

     

     Unlike the blatantly overt system of racism used in the past that resulted in African Americans unifying themselves against it, this modern system of racism is not easily recognized or comprehended by its Black victims.   It is so subtle, pervasive, well-organized, complete, and proficient and yet most African Americans are totally unaware of this method of emitting white racism. In fact most African Americans will find it too shocking to contemplate. 

    Nevertheless, it is directly intertwined with the extensive challenges negatively impacting Black America today. It is so well disguised that although many of its Black victims may instinctively feel that there is something wrong, they are however unable to sufficiently conceptualize it so that they can unify and defend themselves against it.  It is so sophisticated that even the very brightest of African Americans may have little, if any hope of extricating themselves from its detrimental effects. 

     Unfortunately for Black America, this modern racist system will not be discontinued by the white elites because of the historic and unprecedented presidency of Barrack Obama alone.  America’s true rulers, the white elites that maintain their powers and status regardless of who is president, merely intends to use this presidency as a global marketing campaign as a means for restoring America's eroded global image and standing in the world.  They will also use it to solidifying their positions of white dominance and control by perpetuating the false hood that America has truly become a fair and equal society thus making all minorities cries for true equality even lesser heard.  

     Unless the masses of Black people are made aware of this modern racist system and unify themselves against it, the white elites will continue to use it against us --even with one Black president.   

    From the perspective of the white elites this action against its Black population is deemed necessary as a means of preserving its White dominance and control. If the U.S. government did not treat its Black population in a manner which promoted maintaining its White dominance and control, it would be diametrically opposed to itself--its white preservation and dominance.  This hidden scenario has always necessitated the U.S. Government to secretly use every conceivable means and opportunity to suppress the advancement and growth of its Black population; even those suppressive methods that contradict its own stated moral and ethical values. [This statement is affirmed by  evidential facts of history’s  Jim crow laws; Tuskegee experiments, Federally funded eugenics program targeting Black birth rates; CIA’s involvement  in  disseminating drugs and high powered weapon into Blacks communities ; Federal enhance sentencing laws that targets Black populations; FBI COINTEL programs that negatively targeted  Black enhancement programs and groups.]

     

    Through this sophisticated media deployed psychosocial program African Americans are perpetually misled and manipulated by way of fraudulent negative media reports and false statistics that are designed to corrupt their sense of unity

    This psychological manipulation program works by affecting the unconscious mind through deception. It uses the psychology of deceit to adversely affect the recipient group in terms of their behavior. To the detriment of many African Americans, it has been an extremely effective. It has successfully conditioned many African Americans to accept the dominance of Whites and white institutions over their lives by misleading them to believe that they are, themselves, their own worst enemies, therefore engendering an aberration of internalized self contempt that pulverizes Black unity and halts Black upward mobility. It is at the root of both the profound division and self hatred now afflicting so many Black Americans and is at the heart of internalized feelings of superiority that many whites possess.

     

    IT ALSO ENGINEERS CONSENT FOR THE MISTREATMENT OF BLACK PEOPLE

    . Not only does this massive governmental psychological manipulation campaign negatively impacts Blacks self perceptions, it also lesson pressure for social change in their behalf thus facilitating a national consensual setting for their easier exploitation and suppression. This media driven psychosocial program  conveniently provides a more socially acceptable and covert means of ensures that the masses of African Americans remains the most racially devalued and most economical exploited and suppressed group in America. 

    The media’s constantly depicted deplorable imagery of Black Americans creates a shift of victimization that changes the root problem of racism in America to be due to Black’s behavior rather than White’s proclivity for racism. Therefore engendering increasingly prejudiced distorted perceptions and acrimonious beliefs about African Americans that are designed to makes the nation and the entire world insensitive to their plight, tranquilizes efforts on their behalf, lessens pressure for social change on their behalf, and makes any serious criticism of White racism almost impossible today. Therefore fostering a national setting of where in which Blacks are more easily exploited and ultimately consensually suppressed. It also creates a false justification for the legal system’s mistreatment of African Americans wherein they are disproportionately incarcerated, given stiffer sentences, and are more likely than other racial groups to be treated brutally, beaten, and fired upon by police officers while they are unarmed. These injustices now goes ignored because the perception has subconsciously become that it’s all now justified.  When contempt of Blacks is made to appear to be justifiable, it is the fiercest and most effective type of racism because its witnesses, bystanders, and even world audiences will sit by idly allowing African Americans to be brutally mistreated under the belief that it is justified. This method of control and suppression is based upon the methods of propaganda techniques of renowned psychologist and United States propaganda specialist Dr. Edward Bernays. This is what mass manipulation propaganda specialist Dr. Edward Bernays referred to as “engineering consent”. 

    The effects of this social program are also manifested in ideas, education, governmental policies, economic stratification, social segregation, housing markets, hiring and promotion practices, psychological issues, and minority access to a variety of social services and opportunity. It also affects attitudes that when enacted through governmental policies, laws, and other legislation actions, serve to ensure that African Americans will not advance.  Through the usage of mass psychological manipulation White America’s methods of institutionalized racism has been secretly modified into a more sophisticated and stealthy design. Unfortunately to the detriment of many African Americans this modern system of deploying white racism has been very proficient.  Some studies have shown that this social program has engendered increasingly acrimonious beliefs and prejudiced perceptions about and against African Americans that are arguably stronger today than they were after emancipation.

    This is not an attempt to shirk our own personal responsibilities as Black people but is instead a truth that needs to be recognized and address if Black people are to be apart of the future. This present stated of Black America is the results of this detrimental social engineering program.

    Because this literature exposes the profound dimensions of hidden, conspiratorial racism that secretly still exists at governmental levels in the United States, these are therefore very dangerous areas that the author is exploring.  For if this disclosure was to become better known among African Americans, the U.S. Government would most certainly initiate a national campaign of spin control and coverage through the national media and the Internet with experts lined up to dispute its premise.  The reason of why is because this article offers the truth for those who will listen for it.  The many problems now facing Black America will not be corrected by implementing outdated strategies of foot marches, speeches, or the commemoration of fallen Black martyrs.  We can also no longer survive as a race addressing this modern system of racism using nineteen century strategies.  Nor will these problems be corrected by the preaching of scriptures from any of our religious texts but instead only by exposing and addressing this modern covert system of control that I refer to as the “Black Matrix”. It is the fiercest and most lethal system of institutionalized racism now facing Black America.  A reality of truth must prevail if we Black people are to be a part of the future. We can no longer survive as a race hanging on to given white misinformation used to confuse, divide, exploit and ultimately suppress us as a means of maintaining their white dominance. 

    We Africans and African descendants throughout the world must educate our selves about what is really going on. This understanding is in fact extremely imperative if Black people are to be a part of the future. In order for Black people to acquire real positive change within the entire global community it is imperative that we understand how white racism has sophisticatedly evolved and then confront it unrelentingly.

    The Black Matrix is very real. To see how deep that the rabbit hole really goes visit www.divineblacktruth.org and order your copy of the book The Black Matrix: The modern mental and social suppression of African Americans Under national interest. 2006, 2008.

     

    
    
    

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• The Wizards of Conservatism

  • From: TheSarge1960
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    The Wizards of Conservatism

     

    A Satirical Account of what’s currently going on in Republican Country – * Dedicated to Nandi

     

    Inside the Bunker

     

    Newsflash from the Hooterville Gazette

     

    Seated blindfolded in an underground steel fortified bunker buried 2 miles deep in an unspecified mountain located in the hills of Tennessee, your humble news reporter from the Hooterville Gazette, Cyrus P. Beauregard, (that’s me) has chanced life and limb and not to mention “enhanced interrogation techniques approved by former V.P. Dick Cheney, to report to you and the rest of the “civilized world”, exactly how strategies to combat Liberal Democrat Commies are born and developed in a place so secret, that we will only refer to it as “The Hornets Nest”. 

     

    The Reality of it all

     

    “The Hornets Nest” is the Think Tank of all Conservative Think Tanks.  Funded by our friends and allies from The John Birch Society, the NRA, Fox Network News, Birthers for Freedom, Hanks Ammo and Taxidermy and 65% of the US Senate, our goal, err… I mean, “Their goal”, is to defeat the Socialist Communist Nazi Loving Democrat Party which is led by “Their President”, Barrack Hussein Obama”.  Who, thank you very much, is attempting to ensure that ALL Americans receive affordable healthcare.  Every real conservative knows that healthcare insurance without maximum profit is purely un-American. 

     

    In an exclusive interview granted to yours truly by Tennessee Senator Diane Black this past Easter at the “Beacon Light” Baptist Church in Gallatin, Tennessee, Senator Black stated that “All Good and God Fearing Americans already have ample enough health insurance as provided by our patriotic Health Care Corporations”.  In fact the Senator went on to say that if we allowed Governmental Socialist Health Insurance to circulate around the country, “illegals”  “from south of the border” and welfare recipients from “up North” would live longer, thus creating an unnatural phenomenon that would increase their chances of taking over our beloved country.   

     

    The Hornet’s Nest

     

    Under the leadership of House Minority Leader John Boehner and former Alaska Governor Sarah “You betcha I’m a wolf hunter” Palin, the best and brightest of “Conservative Minds” converge annually on the birthday of our country’s greatest President, Ronald Reagan and devise tactics to counter the Democratic agenda which is led by Obama, Pelosi and Reid. They are taught that the best way to hide one’s weaknesses and the best way to protect one’s backside is to accuse his or her nemesis of the very weakness that makes that particular “conservative soldier” weak.  Whether the weakness is women, young boys, drugs or booze, if that conservative soldier has a particular struggle, then in the name of Gawd Almighty, (Gawd won’t mind, because Gawd is a Conservative) accuse your Liberal opponent of having that weakness and then…create enough smoke to make the charge “linger around” for a decade or two.  Getting “them” before they can “get you” is an essential component of Hornet's Nest Philosophy. 

     

    Per Senator Black, Knowing when to apply the principles of “up is down” and “down is up” – example – (torture is good, war is good, diplomacy is bad) - to our constituents who still believe that “Mayberry RFD” and “All in family” are the last oases for safe family viewing on TV Land, is paramount in being able to control our constituent’s political “hot buttons”.  From years of study and application, it has been proven by alumni of the Hornet’s Nest, that the mere mention of God, guns, abortion, Socialism, and Communism will drive our faithful constituents into a frenzy that is fit for a lynching.  But the greatest secret weapon that current Hornet’s Nest students are devising that will be used against Obama, Pelosi and Reid is a critter called “The Blue Dog”. 

     

     

    The Blue Dog Democrat

     

    Blue Dog who?

     

    Per Pat Buchanan, who is the Dean and Chief Administrator of the Hornet’s Nest, the Democratic Blue Dog Coalition is a group of currently 52 moderate and conservative Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives, first formed in 1995.  The Blue Dogs promote, among other things, fiscal conservatism and accountability.  In other words, Blue Dogs believe in the same values as set forth by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Robert E. Lee and John Wayne.  Because of the Blue Dog’s ability to infiltrate and wreak havoc within the world of Liberal Socialism, they are rewarded by way of campaign contributions from our country’s greatest corporate philanthropists (Insurance and Banking), who ensure that the Blue Dog’s double agent existence and cover will prevail and their mission of dissolving Democrat Party unity lives on forever.    

     

     

    Class is about to Start

     

     

    Although I cannot see who is in the room that I am reporting from, I’m hearing from Tom DeLay who is sitting next to me, that class is about to start.  I’m so excited that I’ve accidentally wetted my pants.  That rather attractive conservative Asian woman named Michelle Malkin is about to sing Dixie and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.  I shall have a full report of how “Real Americans” will be mobilized against Obama and his motley crew of Socialists and Communists next week.  Until that time, this is Cyrus P. Beauregard signing off as the roving reporter for the Hooterville Gazette.    

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• Top Five Health Care Reform Li

  • From: pinkiehot52
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    Top Five Health Care Reform Lies—and How to Fight Back

    Lie #1: President Obama wants to euthanize your grandma!!!

    The truth: These accusations—of "death panels" and forced euthanasia—are, of course, flatly untrue. As an article from the Associated Press puts it: "No 'death panel' in health care bill."⁴ What's the real deal? Reform legislation includes a provision, supported by the AARP, to offer senior citizens access to a professional medical counselor who will provide them with information on preparing a living will and other issues facing older Americans.⁵
    

    Lie #2: Democrats are going to outlaw private insurance and force you into a government plan!!!

    The truth: With reform, choices will increase, not decrease. Obama's reform plans will create a health insurance exchange, a one-stop shopping marketplace for affordable, high-quality insurance options.⁶ Included in the exchange is the public health insurance option—a nationwide plan with a broad network of providers—that will operate alongside private insurance companies, injecting competition into the market to drive quality up and costs down.⁷

    If you're happy with your coverage and doctors, you can keep them.⁸ But the new public plan will expand choices to millions of businesses or individuals who choose to opt into it, including many who simply can't afford health care now.
    

    Lie #3: President Obama wants to implement Soviet-style rationing!!!
    

    The truth: Health care reform will expand access to high-quality health insurance, and give individuals, families, and businesses more choices for coverage. Right now, big corporations decide whether to give you coverage, what doctors you get to see, and whether a particular procedure or medicine is covered—that is rationed care. And a big part of reform is to stop that.
    

    Health care reform will do away with some of the most nefarious aspects of this rationing: discrimination for pre-existing conditions, insurers that cancel coverage when you get sick, gender discrimination, and lifetime and yearly limits on coverage.⁹ And outside of that, as noted above, reform will increase insurance options, not force anyone into a rationed situation. 
    

    Lie #4: Obama is secretly plotting to cut senior citizens' Medicare benefits!!!

    The truth: Health care reform plans will not reduce Medicare benefits.¹⁰ Reform includes savings from Medicare that are unrelated to patient care—in fact, the savings comes from cutting billions of dollars in overpayments to insurance companies and eliminating waste, fraud, and abuse.¹¹

    Lie #5: Obama's health care plan will bankrupt America!!!

    The truth: We need health care reform now in order to prevent bankruptcy—to control spiraling costs that affect individuals, families, small businesses, and the American economy.

    Right now, we spend more than $2 trillion dollars a year on health care.¹² The average family premium is projected to rise to over $22,000 in the next decade¹³—and each year, nearly a million people face bankruptcy because of medical expenses.¹⁴ Reform, with an affordable, high-quality public option that can spur competition, is necessary to bring down skyrocketing costs. Also, President Obama's reform plans would be fully paid for over 10 years and not add a penny to the deficit.¹⁵

    We're closer to real health care reform than we've ever been—and the next few weeks will decide whether it happens. We need to make sure the truth about health care reform is spread far and wide to combat right wing lies.

    Can you forward this email to your friends today? And remember, also post it on Facebook by clicking here: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51746. And on Twitter, by retweeting: @MoveOn Check out the Top 5 Health Care Lies—and How to Fight Back. http://bit.ly/Bncs5

    Thanks for all you do.

    –Nita, Kat, Ilya, Michael and the rest of the team

    P.S. Want more? Check out this great new White House "Reality Check" website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/ or this excellent piece from Health Care for America Now on some of the most outrageous lies: http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51729&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=1

    Sources:

    1. "More 'Town Halls Gone Wild': Angry Far Right Protesters Disrupt Events With 'Incomprehensible' Yelling," Think Progress, August 4, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51733&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=2

    2. "Fight the smears," Health Care for America NOW, accessed August 10, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51729&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=3

    3. "Palin Paints Picture of 'Obama Death Panel' Giving Thumbs Down to Trig," ABC News, August 7, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51728&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=4

    4. "No 'death panel' in health care bill," The Associated Press, August 10, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51747&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=5

    5. "Stop Distorting the Truth about End of Life Care," The Huffington Post, July 24, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51730&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=6

    6. "Reality Check FAQs," WhiteHouse.gov, accessed August 11, 2009.
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/faq#i1

    7. "Why We Need a Public Health-Care Plan," The Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51737&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=7

    8. "Obama: 'If You Like Your Doctor, You Can Keep Your Doctor,'" The Wall Street Journal, 15, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51736&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=8

    9. "Reality Check FAQs," WhiteHouse.gov, accessed August 10, 2009.
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/faq#r1

    10. "Obama: No reduced Medicare benefits in health care reform," CNN, July 28, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51748&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=9

    11. "Reality Check FAQs," WhiteHouse.gov, accessed August 10, 2009.
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/faq#s1

    12. "Reality Check FAQs," WhiteHouse.gov, accessed August 10, 2009.
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/faq#c1

    13. "Premiums Run Amok," Center for American Progress, July 24, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51667&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=10

    14. "Medical bills prompt more than 60 percent of U.S. bankruptcies," CNN, June 5, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51735&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=11

    15. "Reality Check FAQs," WhiteHouse.gov, accessed August 10, 2009.
    http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/faq#c1

    Sources for the Five Lies:

    #1: "A euthanasia mandate," The Washington Times, July 29, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51732&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=12

    #2: "It's Not An Option," Investor's Business Daily, July 15, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51743&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=13

    #3: "Rationing Health Care," The Washington Times, April 21, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51742&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=14

    #4: "60 Plus Ad Is Chock Full Of Misinformation," Media Matters for America, August 8, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51734&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=15

    #5: "Obama's 'Public' Health Plan Will Bankrupt the Nation," The National Review, May 13, 2009.
    http://www.moveon.org/r?r=51744&id=16782-15306616-hUs.5vx&t=16

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• help us increase the pressure

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    James Rucker

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    Posted: August 6, 2009 04:24 PM

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    Glenn Beck's advertisers are backing away -- help us increase the pressure

    Cross-posted at Jack and Jill Politics, Firedoglake, and DailyKos.

    Last week, after Glenn Beck called President Obama a "racist" who has a "deep-seated hatred for white people," we asked ColorOfChange members to call on Beck's advertisers to pull their funding from his show. More than 50,000 people have already joined the call, and today we have great news to report -- advertisers are starting to listen:

    Three companies who run ads during Glenn Beck -- NexisLexis-owned Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance -- today distanced themselves from Beck. LexisNexis has pulled its advertising from Beck and says it has no plans to advertise on the program in the future. Both Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance called the Beck advertising placements an error that they would correct.

    Since we released our statement announcing the news this morning, another company, S.C. Johnson (Pledge, Ziplock, Off!) told us that it was a mistake for their ads to be running on Beck's show, and that they'd make sure it wouldn't happen again in the future.

    This is great progress, and it shows how effective it can be when thousands of people tell advertisers not to support this kind of hateful rhetoric. Now we need to step up the pressure on Beck's other advertisers. While Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble and Progressive Insurance were quick to respond, many others have avoided answering us, or refused to budge. We're currently in conversations with advertisers, and the more people they see joining this campaign, the more reason they'll have to listen.

    If you haven't done so already, please sign our petition to Beck's advertisers, and ask your friends and family to do the same. Moving forward, we'll keep you informed about effective ways you can pressure the advertisers to withdraw their support from Beck's show.

    Here's what Lawyers.com, Procter & Gamble, and Progressive Insurance told us this week:

    "Thank you for bringing this matter to our attention," said John Michaels, Senior Communications Manager at LexisNexis in an email to ColorOfChange.org. "We have suspended further advertising during Mr. Beck's program."

    "We have no plans to continue advertising on Mr. Beck's show," Michaels continued in another email.

    When executives at Procter & Gamble were contacted by ColorOfChange.org, they said that any ads run during Glenn Beck were run by mistake, and that they would correct the problem going forward.

    "No P&G ads should have appeared on this program in the first place," said Martha Depenbrock, Brand Building Stakeholder Relations for Procter & Gamble in an email. "To be clear, if any of our advertising appeared on the Glenn Beck show, it was in error and we appreciate you bringing this matter to our attention. We will do what we can to see that it doesn't happen again."

    Progressive Insurance said any ads running during Glenn Beck were a mistake by Fox News Channel -- a mistake they have asked the network to fix immediately.

    "Our (advertising) order specifies no Glenn Beck," said Linda J. Harris, Media Director at Progressive Insurance in an email to ColorOfChange.org. "We have confirmed with the network that our spots should not be running there," Harris said in a later email.

    The decision by these three advertisers to distance themselves from Beck should help increase the pressure on others. The writing is on the wall -- Beck should not have the backing of mainstream advertisers. If we keep the pressure on, we believe we can seriously threaten his platform.

    Please join us.

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• LET'S TAKE ACTION

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    Hello, I am concerned with the very vocal minority that has set out to derail what most of the American people voted for in November when we pulled the lever for President Barack Obama. That was change and get America back on track from the downward spiral it was on under continued illegitimate Republican rule. As we see that CNN refuses to air our ads to rid the network or Lou Dobbs or Fox Networks continued racist and unfair and bias attacks. Then why are we the good people who made our voices heard in November now letting a small and troublesome group continue to hijack the progress we want made to move American forward not backward. How long will we continue to remain passive and quite. They have made their intentions very clear they want  President Obama to Fail, They would rather have the country tank then support a Black President or any forward thinking that would move us past such a primitive level as shooting wolves from planes and moving us toward a more humane and intelligent way to deal with our continued time on the plant without destroying ourselves and everything on it.
    
    It is time for those who wanted change take charge and move our movement into the streets and town hall meetings to argue our point to shed light on lies, to get both sides of the story told. To continue our internet assault as well as targeting those who spew lies and untruths by targeting their advertisers. Hitting them where it hurts $$. They plan to stay on this until the elections to defeat the democrats. We also need to be on it to counter  their negative assaults on the uninformed. If Corporate America controls the airways then we can control the streets and how our dollars are spent. Now that the blue dog democrats have been outed  and targeted then they must also pay the price, we must inform the people of whom they have monetary allegiance to other than the voters.
    I feel it is time for the people to speak , if we really want change, if we really want this administration to succeed , if we truly want progress than we the people need to be about the business of getting that across to those who wish to block progress for their own political gain and not that of the people. If not now when. When it is time to vote again after those who wish the country harm have some success or are we willing to invest the time now.
    
    I SAY IT IS TIME TO ACT NOW. STAND UP AND LETS GET INTO THE STREETS ALL OVER THIS COUNTRY AND FIGHT FOR WHAT'S RIGHT AND WHAT WE BELIVIE IN.

    ARE YOU READY?

    EMAIL ME AT  nandi459@hotmail.com

    let's organize

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• STOP GLENN BECK

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    More and more, right-wing talk show hosts are bringing race-based fear mongering into the mainstream, but FOX's Glenn Beck just took it to another level. On Tuesday, Beck said:

     

    This president has exposed himself as a guy over and over and over again who has a deep-seated hatred for white people... this guy is, I believe, a racist.¹

    It's part of a larger argument Beck has been making:² that President Obama is using the White House to serve the needs of Black communities at White people's expense. This kind of talk stirs up fear, hate, and it can lead to violence.^3,4

    Together we can stop Glenn Beck.⁵ Starting today we're calling Beck's advertisers, asking them if they want to be associated with this kind of racist hate and fear-mongering. When they see tens of thousands of people signing on behind that question, we believe they'll move their advertising dollars elsewhere, damaging the viability of his show and possibly putting him out of business.

    All it requires is you, standing up and being counted. Please take a moment to join the effort, and invite your friends and family to do the same:

    http://www.colorofchange.org/beck/?id=1744-523806

    Glenn Beck is appealing to the worst in America. Of course, some people refuse to accept the fact that our president is Black or the idea that he could truly serve all Americans. We know that. The only way these views will fade away is if they're not reinforced by mainstream society. Instead, folks like Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs,⁶ and Rush Limbaugh⁷ are exploiting racism and race-based fear to bump their ratings, stirring up racial discord in the process.

    The dangers of these tactics are real. We saw the same dynamic during the presidential race: by the end, the McCain/Palin campaign was unable to control the violent energy whipped up by their race-baiting. The result was an unprecedented number of threats on Obama's life, a rise in the number of hate groups, and an increase in the number of threats and crimes against immigrants and Black people.^8,9,10

    FOX has had a long history of race-baiting and racism on its shows, and we've run campaigns calling them out.^11,12 But Glenn Beck appears to be taking the network to an even lower standard. He's trying to divide and distract America when we should be coming together and talking about issues that really matter--like health care and the economy.

    The good news is that we have the power to stop this. All major media is funded by advertising. And advertisers, more than anything, care what consumers think. If we want to change what's happening and put an end to folks like Glenn Beck having a platform, we can do it.

    It's up to us, and it can start now. Please join us:

    http://www.colorofchange.org/beck/?id=1744-523806

    Thanks and Peace,

    -- James, Gabriel, William, Dani and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team
       July 30th, 2009

    Help support our work. ColorOfChange.org is powered by YOU -- your energy and dollars. We take no money from lobbyists or large corporations that don't share our values, and our tiny staff ensures your contributions go a long way. You can contribute here:

    https://secure.colorofchange.org/contribute/?id=1744-523806

    References

    1. "Beck: Obama has 'exposed himself as a guy' with 'a deep seated hatred for white people'" Media Matters, 7-28-09
    http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907280008

    2. "Glenn Beck: Obama agenda driven by 'reparations' and desire to 'settle old racial scores'," Media Matters, 7-23-09
    http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907230040

    3. "Palin linked to death threats against Obama," Economic Times, 11-9-2008
    http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/3691429.cms

    4. "Obama win prompts wave of hate crimes," Times Online, 11-17-2008
    http://tinyurl.com/5rhf29

    5. "MSNBC's Deutsch encourages viewers to demand advertisers on Beck's show spend money elsewhere," Media Matters, 7-29-09
    http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907290037

    6. "On Television and Radio, Talk of Obama's Citizenship," The New York Times, 7-24-09
    http://tinyurl.com/mb467j

    7. "Rush and reparations," The Nation, 5-12-2009
    http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion/435392/rush_and_reparations

    8. See reference 2.

    9. See reference 3.

    10. "Homeland Security report warns of rising right-wing extremism, Huffington Post, 4-14-2009
    http://tinyurl.com/cpgx6q

    11. ColorOfChange.org email on Fox's attacks on the Obamas
    http://www.colorofchange.org/foxobama/message.html

    12. "An overview: Fox News and its problem with African-Americans," ColorOfChange.org
    http://colorofchange.org/fox/summary.html

     

     

     

    President Obama has "hatred for white people"?

    Glenn Beck is using his platform to stoke race-based hate and fear. Help us fight back, by hitting Beck where it hurts, NOW:

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• Tyler Perry/Creative Steps and

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    (I received this because I’m subscribed to his message board. The story and his response touched my heart, so I’m sharing it with you. If you agree with his request, (in the highlighted section), and are in a position to participate, please do so, or pass this on to someone you know who can. I’ve also included his message board link in case you would like to share your comments with him. )

     

    A Message from Tyler Perry

     

    http://www.tylerperry.com/_MessageBoard/submit.php

     

    This made me so angry.
    
    Since Michael Jackson died I have not watched the news. I have just been so disgusted at how the mainstream media has riddled this family with
    disrespect, and no matter what anyone, you or I included, might have thought of him, the truth of the matter is this - the man was still a human being and his kids and family deserve some privacy and space. And I
    know that I'm not the only one that feels this way, so I purposely kept the TV off.  Anyway, I was walking through the house, and I don't know how this TV was on, but I saw a little boy on the news crying his eyes out. So I turned it up. Here is this kid talking about being kicked out of the Valley Swim Club outside Philadelphia because he was black. Did you hear
    me? I said, "No way, this can't be! It's 2009. I don't believe this!" But, I know it happens even in this year of Obama.
    
    As I listened to the story the anchorperson went on to talk about a woman named Althea Wright. This young lady started a non-profit called Creative
    Steps to help inner-city children.  And apparently she had booked the Valley Swim Club's pool and paid for it to be used by the children through the summer.  As we all know, this is such a great thing. During the summer our kids can get into a lot of trouble if they don't have something creative to do. Anyway, as the story went on I was shocked to find out that it wasn't just him but 65 children in all, black and Hispanic kids,
    that were kicked out of the pool. You should Google this story and read it online for yourself. It's crazy! I went from being mad to being furious.
    
    The news reporter went on to say that the president of the club and its members said, and I quote, "We don't want to change the complexion of our club." The president refunded the money of the children and asked them not to come back.  WHAT?!  I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I said I have to do something for these children. I can't let them think that they are inferior because of the color of their skin.  Then that night I saw the president of the Valley Swim Club on the news again saying that he misspoke and that it was a safety issue and the club wasn't able to
    accommodate so many children.  But the children themselves reportedly said that members were taking their kids out of the pool, and that they were
    saying things like, "Why are they here?" and "They're black", even insinuating that these kids would steal or maybe hurt their children.
    
    
    

    Now get this.  A few days later I catch the story again on CNN. This time the club was inviting the kids to come and swim. WHAT?! I'm confused.  If
    you refunded the money because there was not enough room in the pool and it was a safety issue then why are you asking the same 65 kids to come
    back?
    
    This is awful, and for anyone that has grown up in the inner-city, you know that one small act of kindness can change your life.  These kids see the images of President Obama on TV and then they see the drug dealers and thugs on the corner. Which do you think is more their reality? One act of kindness, one person telling them that they are special, one moment of
    encouragement can make them move mountains. I know it to be true because I was one of them.  They don't need to be called names and be told that they
    are less than, because of the color of their skin or because of where they
    come from.
    
    I was told that one of these children, a seven year old, asked her mother if she was "too black to be in a pool." How do you answer that? How do you get a seven year old past that? Again, it broke my heart and I wanted to
    do something, and I feel like you all would want to do something, too. That's why I'm telling you this. Since you all have put me in the position to be able to do something I feel like by me doing this we are all doing
    it together. So what I did was on Aug 1st thru 3rd I'm sending these kids to Disney World, and then to a Disney water park. I want them to know that
    for every act of evil that a few people will throw at you, there are millions more who will do something kind for them. This is all about the kids.  So, thank you for letting me do this. Thank you so much. And do me
    a favor please. When you see these kids coming through the airport, (I'm sure you won't be able to miss them. I imagine they are going to be super excited) when you see them in the park and in the hotel, let's show them a whole lot of love and respect. Show them that they are just as good as anyone else.  And show them that they can do or be anything they want to
    be no matter what any one says!
    
    Thanks,
    
    Tyler Perry

     

     

    Etsaman’s comment to TP

     

    There is a reason why you are so blessed by God.  God knows his blessings are in good hands, with you, and that you will use them wisely to do his work.

     

    Your letter caused me to cry with joy that there are people like you on the same planet with me.

     

    Your one random act of kindness far over shadows the ignorance based fear of those “poor minded” people at the pool. Pray for them, and pray especially for the manager who rented the pool to the kids in the first place.  His peers are about to drag him through hell.

     

    I love you, I thank God for you.  You are blessed and you are a blessing.

     

    Namaste,

     

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• Barack Obama Is Our President

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     Barack Obama Is Our President

     

    Yesterday evening when President Obama gave his speech at the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan, New York, before a celebrative audience that was honoring the NAACP’s one hundred year anniversary, the President reminded me why I voted for him.  Simply, President Obama inspires me to become the best person that I can be. In another life, Barack Obama would have made a great Baptist preacher.  Great Preachers have the ability through the use of rhapsodizing sermons to stir positive emotions that lay semi-dormant in the hearts of their parishioners. Consequently, these emotions as channeled by the Preacher in conjunction with an interaction with the Holy Spirit, creates a sense of “oneness” with God that ultimately encourages individuals to be the best that they can be. As our President attempts to guide a “ship” named “United States” through near record unemployment and fiscal pessimism, he like a good Baptist Preacher, must find a way through the use of words, to positively inspire and motivate all Americans to rise and become the best that they can possibly be. Let there be no mistake, President Obama a man of multicultural descent, is quite aware that if the national unemployment rate is 9.5, then in Black and Brown neighborhoods across America, that particular statistic doubles. 

     

    “Change” as envisioned by President Obama, begins in the form of providing our youth with a superior education, which in turn will empower them with high self esteem and confidence. High self esteem and confidence are important personal qualities that will prepare America’s youth as they face the challenges of the 21^st century. The education of our youth should be rooted in our homes and should be directed and meticulously managed by parents / guardians who understand that it is more important for our Black and Brown children to understand the relativity of an isosceles triangle as it pertains to mechanical engineering, than prioritizing the mechanics of their child’s basketball jump shot. In order to ensure that the “circle of economic inferiority” is forever broken in Black and Brown neighborhoods, there must be a re-dedication to academic excellence as overseen by adults who are willing to become mentors to our youth.

     

    Between 1910 and 1930 nearly one million Black and Brown Americans migrated from the South to the North in hope of creating a better way of life for themselves and their family.  During this timeframe, a Black renaissance was born from the minds of educated Blacks in cities across America.  It’s been 99 years since our first and last Black renaissance in America. If you listened closely to President Obama as he spoke to the audience, he directly challenged Black and Brown America to become economically empowered through education.  Education is the key that unlocks economic opportunities and shatters “glass ceilings”. In commemoration of the NAACP’s 100 year anniversary, and the 99 years since the birth of the 1910 Black American renaissance, let us as Black and Brown Americans today make a pledge to begin a new renaissance of education which begins in our homes, in our places of worship and in our schools. No more excuses my people, we must become more involved in steering our youth toward economic independence and global empowerment via love and via education as we take an active stand in preparing our children to be the best Americans that they can possibly be.

     

    In closing I’d like to end this article with the last paragraph of Maya Angelou’s “Still I rise” poem:

     

    Out of the huts of history's shame
    I rise
    Up from a past that's rooted in pain
    I rise
    I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
    Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
    Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
    I rise
    Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
    I rise
    Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
    I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
    I rise
    I rise
    I rise.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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• Conservative Free Republic blo

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    This photo of U.S. President Barrack Obama's daughter Malia, wearing a peace-symbol t-shirt touched off a storm of epithet-laced comments on the conservative 'Free Republic' blog

    Photograph by: Remo Casilli , Reuters

    
     

    This photo of U.S. President Barrack Obama's daughter Malia, wearing a peace-symbol t-shirt touched off a storm of epithet-laced comments on the conservative 'Free Republic' blog

    Photograph by: Remo Casilli , Reuters

    These are a small selection of some of the racially-charged comments posted to the conservative 'Free Republic' blog Thursday, aimed at U.S. President Barack Obama's 11-year-old daughter Malia after she was photographed wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign on the front.

    The thread was accompanied by a photo of Michelle Obama speaking to Malia that featured the caption, "To entertain her daughter, Michelle Obama loves to make monkey sounds."

    Though this may sound like the sort of thing one might read on an Aryan Nation or white power website, they actually appeared on what is commonly considered one of the prime online locations for U.S. Conservative grassroots political discussion and organizing - and for a short time, the comments seemed to have the okay of site administrators.

    Moderators of the blog left the comments - and commenters - in place until a complaint was lodged by a writer doing research on the conservative movement, almost a full day later.

    "Could you imagine what world leaders must be thinking seeing this kind of street trash and that we paid for this kind of street ghetto trash to go over there?" wrote one commenter.

    "They make me sick .... The whole family... mammy, pappy, the free loadin' mammy-in-law, the misguided chillin', and especially 'lil cuz... This is not the America I want representin' my peeps," wrote another.

    Such was the onslaught of derision on the site that the person who originally complained about the slurs, a Kristin N., claims only one comment in the first hundred posted actually criticized the remarks as inappropriate.

    A note on the front of the blog reads, "Free Republic does not advocate or condone racism, violence, rebellion, secession, or an overthrow of the government," but one comment on the thread read, "This disgusting display makes me more and more eager for the revolution," while another read, "I never actually wnated [sic] to be a pistol before but..."

    After attention from other blogs, the thread was suppressed and placed under review, but before long it was returned to the site intact, and attracted a new series of racial slurs when the original complaint email was posted publicly to the site, with the sender's email address intact.

    "The writer has a point," wrote site owner Jim Thompson sarcastically. "We should steer clear of Obama's children. They can't help it if their old man is an American-hating Marxist pig."

    "I agree Jim," wrote commenter, by the nickname NoobRep. "The kids didn't pick their commie pinko pansy of a father. Nor did they choose to be put into the spotlight. But Obama/Soetoro is fair game and so is his witch of a wife."

    "Poor kids. I hope they're not 'punished with a baby'," wrote another. "Hopefully they won't deal cocaine like the Kenyan."

    "DIRTBAGS! All of them. Our [White House] is now a joke to the rest of the world. We have no respect and this is not going to turn out well, mark my words. We will be hit, and much worse than last time. We are now seen as weak and vulnerable. Ghetto and Chicago thugs have taken over."

    Only after significant negative attention from a host of left wing political blogs did the maintainers of the Free Republic site place the thread under review for a second time, before finally pulling it.

    In the wake of the controversy, some Free Republic posters complained about the vitriol.

    One poster by the name of "fullchroma" wrote, "To Jim Thompson: The recent uptick here in racist vitriol, aimed at Barrack, Michelle and their children has made me wonder if I belong. My objection to Obama has nothing to do with skin tone. Is the ugly stereotype of Conservative racism true?"

    Another, going by the name of TChris, wrote, "Free Republic is a political discussion forum. It SHOULD be beneath us as a group to stoop to such juvenile tactics as I see increasing here lately. Do we REALLY have to insult Mrs. Obama's appearance like a clique of nasty 14-year-old girls?"

    But such opinions were not shared by all. Said Roses of Sharon, "Poor libs .... Too late, the battle has been joined."

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    Hello, How do like this colorblind society that we now live in. You know the one Colored Republicans seem to insist exist. And this is Vancouver not the deep south.
    
    
    
    
    
    

     

    
    
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• President Obama: Running the G

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    President Obama: Running the Gauntlet

     

    Merriam-Webster defines the word “gauntlet” as a double file of men facing each other and armed with clubs or other weapons with which to strike at an individual who is made to run between them.  Now that we have the definition of the word gauntlet out of the way, as used in this article, let us address President Obama’s most recent “running of the gauntlet” that originated this past week with the President’s two day meeting with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and former head of the Russian KGB / former Russian President / current Russian Prime Minister –who by the way in hip hop vernacular is still considered by most Russians to be the Russian big baller / Russian shot caller – Mr. Vladimir Putin. 

     

    Essentially, the two day meeting between arguably the world’s two most powerful men (Obama and Putin) yielded very little in “ground shaking” significance.  As expected, both President Obama and President Medvedev agreed to proceed with the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty which if enacted, would reduce the nuclear offensive warheads between both superpowers by one third.  The fallacy of this agreement is that the remaining amount of nuclear weapons -if launched- between both countries against each other, would still destroy the world many times over. God forbid, if nuclear weapons were ever launched between the United States and Russia, aimed at U.S. and Russian cities, the world as we currently understand it, within minutes, would no longer exist. 

     

    In terms of foreign policy, because President Obama appears to support the last U.S. administration’s plans for creating a missile defense system in Eastern Europe which by the way the Russians are adamantly against, expect little to no help from Medvedev or Putin in helping Washington cope with Iran’s obsession in obtaining nuclear material that could be used to manufacture nuclear weapons. Such a threat if materialized would certainly incite Israel to conduct a military preemptive strike against Tehran that could ignite an already smoldering Middle Eastern tinderbox into a full blazed Jihad against Israel and Israel’s best friend and ally, the United States.  Due to the potential apocalyptic outcome of this “dangerous game” between two superpowers, this phase of President Obama’s “running of the gauntlet” is by far, the most dangerous, “shield up, sword drawn” Mr. President.     

     

    President Obama’s official visit to the African country of Ghana this past Saturday marked the President’s first visit to a Sub-Saharan African nation as the President of the United States.  Although the selection of visiting Ghana instead of Kenya (Kenya being the birthplace of President Obama’s father) was made as a political gesture in support of how well Ghanaian President, John Atta Mills, is currently running his democratically elected government, Kenyans in general understood as did most of Sub-Saharan Africa the importance of President Obama’s historic visit to this region of Africa.  Africa and Black Africans for over two millennia have a history of being exploited by both Arab and European.  In fact, an interesting and enlightening novel to read is Chancellor William’s “The Destruction of Black Civilization - Great issues of a Race from 4500 B.C. to 2000 A.D.” 

     

    Conquering Arab and European armies helped paved the way for the establishment of African colonialism, which through its inception, created a system of Black African subjugation. This subjugation provided both Arabs and Europeans the means to ruthlessly rule Black Africans in accordance to religion, skin color and social class. As often taught, people who are divided are a people who are easily conquered. By forcing the conquered Black African to absorb the ruling classes’ religion, values and social order, a de-sensitizing of all things relative to Black African history, beliefs and culture had begun to take root. This unfortunate system which started over two millennia ago is the main problem behind Black Africa’s identity crisis and Black Africa’s governmental troubles. 

     

    As President Obama has given hope of a better life (through government) to tens of millions of Americans, tens of millions of Sub-Saharan Africans also see President Obama as a democratic symbol of future hope and future goodness for their own native lands and for their own native people. It is President Obama’s presence in this poor region of Africa that fuels the hope of these proud Black Africans.  For some, “Hope” may be just an American political slogan, but for the Black Sub-Saharan African, “Hope” is an idea which they pray will one day unlock the “shackles” of “African mental colonialism” which has only bred war, corruption and human despair.  So President Obama, as you and your family mingle with the average Ghanaian who fights to live by the principles of democracy, please understand the importance of your speeches and the importance of your vision for Africa.  Please sir, understand that these proud people do not want charity or welfare, what they want translates into a partnership in commerce.  The Ghanaian people just like most people worldwide, believe in the adage of “teaching a person to fish” versus giving a person one fish to eat.  I think that sending a corps of young MBAs to Ghana and other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa as teachers who can teach the intricacies of starting businesses would be a terrific start for a new U.S. / African relationship / partnership.  In return for these young MBAs dedication, they can be rewarded in terms of academic debt forgiveness and hire ability status as they too look for future employment in international business.  Mr. President, the possibilities are endless.  However, for every good deed possible, there are enemies domestic and foreign who will try to thwart such a noble endeavor.  Mr. President, in light of the magnitude of this week’s African visit, to successfully pass the second stage of this week’s gauntlet, “helmet on”, “shield up” and “sword drawn”.  

     

    In closing, when President Obama returns to Washington, D.C, this week, by far the diciest issue for him to tackle will be Health Care Reform. Recent polls suggest that three out of four Americans want a public option that will enable all working Americans to be able to afford health care protection for themselves and their family should a serious illness occur. As it currently stands, over half of Americans are not properly insured to cover the total expense of medical treatment should a major health problem occur. Unfortunately, it appears that there are several major stumbling blocks for Health Care Reform. Since a public option would empower Americans to have a choice between buying health insurance coverage from the government or buying coverage from a private health insurance company, lobbyists who represent health insurance corporations are waging a hard fought war against any governmental health care coverage plan.

     

    (1^st ) It’s always about profit and the increase of profit for the health care insurance companies.  (2^nd) Although there is a loud cry from Americans to allow a governmental public option, there are members of Congress and the Senate (who by the way have governmental health insurance) that receive large campaign contributions from health insurance corporations. (3^rd) As a reward to the health insurance companies for their campaign contributions, certain members of Congress and the Senate turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to the plight of struggling Americans that are often forced into bankruptcy as a result of an accumulation of debt that occurs as the under insured / non insured individual attempts to pay the cost for life saving medical procedures. The far majority of Americans pay a monthly health insurance premium that is equivalent in cost to what they pay towards renting an apartment or for what they pay towards their monthly mortgage. Without a supplemental health insurance policy to make up for what their regular health insurance policy does not cover, most Americans cannot afford to become seriously ill. (4^th) A legitimate bi-lateral concern is where will the President along with Congress find the money to fund such a mammoth project?  With near record unemployment, rising cost of food and gasoline, where does the government find the money to help America’s sick?  I don’t know but personally, I’d like to see marijuana legalized and taxed, but hey, that’s a whole new topic. Either way, Mr. President, as you are running through the third and final phase of this week’s gauntlet, please remember,  “helmet on”, “shield up”, “sword drawn” and just to be safe, “pistol loaded”, hell, you’re going to need all the protection that you can get. Lions, and Tigers and Bears Oh My!

     

     

     

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• WHY OBAMA SCARES ME, TOO

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    Why Obama Scares Me, Too

    by  Chuck Norris
    

    06/16/2009
    
    
    

    The New York Times passed on the opportunity to publish a great op-ed letter to President Barack Obama from Lou Pritchett, a former vice president of Procter & Gamble. Pritchett worked for that company for 36 years, until his retirement in 1989.
       
    Confirmed by the Internet watchdog Snopes, here's a sample of what Pritchett wrote:
    
    Dear President Obama:

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    You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me. …
       
    You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll. …
       
    You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail.
       
    You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.
       
    You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.
       
    You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.
       
    You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves. …
       
    You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.
       
    You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals. …
       
    You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
       
    You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.
       
    You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.
       
    Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
    
    Lou Pritchett
    
    Thank you, Mr. Pritchett, for your love for America, honesty and willingness to risk your reputation by speaking up to this administration.
       
    Now let me add a few of my own fears to yours:
    
    President Obama:
       
    You scare me because so many amazing corporate and American leaders, such as Lou Pritchett, are saying you scare them.
       
    You scare me because after you initiate more government borrowing and bailouts than all presidents combined, you then require Congress to follow a system that is "pay-as-you-go."
       
    You scare me because you really do believe that going into massive amounts of debt can remedy our economy in the long run.
       
    You scare me because your actions don't reflect the federal governmental constraints and fiscally prudent principles of our Founding Fathers and Constitution.
       
    You scare me because you repeatedly still play the blame game with the Bush administration but never blame the Clinton administration, even though it was responsible for the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac subprime fiasco via the proliferation of loans to unqualified borrowers.
       
    You scare me because you buy and run the banking, automobile and (soon) health industries with taxpayers' money but refuse to call it socialism.
       
    You scare me because you claim to be a fighter for minorities and the promises of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness yet do not defend the unborn. What greater minority is there than those in the womb, against whom you already have enacted more pro-abortion laws than anyone since the Roe v. Wade decision?
       
    You scare me because you promise to defend the U.S. against all potential enemies yet pacify those harboring terrorists, fight for the rights of combative detainees, and enable the enemies of Israel.
       
    You scare me because you deny America's Judeo-Christian heritage before other countries of the world, espousing "the promise of a secular nation" during an age in which religious revisionism is on the rise. (Thank God for Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Va., and others like him, who even now are trying to preserve America's religious history by proposing the passage of a bill that would create "America's Spiritual Heritage Week." Call or write your representative today to support it.)
       
    You scare me because your media team (including the mainstream media) seeks to label as radical, quarantine socially or in some way penalize any opposing conservative voices (such as conservative talk show hosts, news agencies, columnists and actors, such as Jon Voight).
       
    You scare me because your media team does not address or diminish in any way your deification before the world, epitomized by the editor of Newsweek who stated this past week on Chris Matthews' MSNBC show: "In a way, Obama's standing above the country, above the world. He's sort of God." (How much scarier can it get than representative statements like that in a republic that once stood for a balance among political powers and a government "by the people, for the people"?)
    
    Sincerely,
    
    Chuck Norris
    
    America, it's time to awaken from your slumber. Quit looking to the government for answers, and start looking to reputable sources. I recommend starting with Lou Pritchett's 1995 business book, "Stop Paddling & Start Rocking the Boat."

    
    

    HE SCARES ME AND JON VOIGHT, ANN COULTER, PIG LIMBAUGH, THE NEWT AND ALL OF SATAN'S UNDERLINGS,

    THAT CALL THEMSELVES REPUBLICANS AND CONSERVATIVES AND BLUE DOG DEMOCRATS. THE GROUP THAT CLINGS TO GUNS AND GOD. THE REAL AMERICANS,  YA BETHCA!

    
    

    ALL THIS SITE DOES IS SPREAD HATE PROPAGANDA AND TAKE THESE FOOLS MONEY, WITH BOOKS AND RECRIUTMENT TO THE NRA. A BUNCH OF FLIPPING RETARDS. THE RESULTS OF CENTURIES OF INBREEDING.

    
    
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• PRINCESSES, FROGS AND RACIAL I

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    As I observe the racially motivated insults  in the last few days, such as First Lady Michelle Obama (insulted by a SC GOPer) and the President insulted by some government employee forwarding an image of all the Presidents that depict President Obama as a pair of eyes open in a dark room, I wonder.  I have written about the matter of this Disney film a couple of years ago, when it was nothing more than a thought.  Even wrote a letter to them in hopes that they would get this right, by not giving us what they want us to have, but giving us what we want: A great and positive image of a real princess of color and African descent.  To the credit of a couple of the Disney board members, a couple of them asked to be involved in the development of the film but were refused by the two men creating the film.  I was discussing my thoghts with my  business partner, who has twins, one of whom is a little girl. He'd taken them to the movies where a trailer of The Princess and the Frog was shown.  His little girl asked him: Why would the princesshave to turn into a frog?  My partner was not at all happy with what he saw either.
    I had a chance opportunity to speak with an insider who wanted my take on the upcoming movie.  He had been given a clip to check out and expressed concern in its content.  As a result, in February 2009 I wrote a followup commentary, which includes the original posting.  I have included it here and will simply say this: Is it truly a positive thing for us to have our princess become an animal creature, given the history in this country about how we have been viewed as 3/4 human?  Is there a reason why they could not portray the prince as a black young man?  I am not willing to accept good as enough, when better was always an option.

     DEAR PRINCESSES: SOMETIMES A FROG IS JUST A FROG

    
    I wanted a story that would make my niece smile.  A story that she could relate to,  a story about what really defines her, a fantastic journey upon which she knew she was a passenger.  So I  researched and wrote her a story.  What gives me absolute joy is that smile I see, I hear every time I read that story to her.  On March 16, 2007, I wrote the following on my Blog:
    Disney has announced that they are finally going to have a black princess.  Hmmm....  Makes perfect marketing sense, given that all money is green and this is yet an untapped market.  Problem is...the image of this black princess is not dissimilar to what is done by doll manufacturers.  Take an Anglo featured doll and color it brown.  Further , there is nothing to relate this image to the history or culture of the African American population, unlike Pocahontas or Mulan, which are at least  [very] loosely based on the history of the cultures they represent.  I can hear the jokes already:  A frog princess; if we kiss her will she turn white?  and on and on...
    
    Maybe a bit of bias on my part, since as I promised my niece,  for whomI took the time to do research and write a really good story about an African princess, yet I cannot get an audience with the powers within the animation industry to pitch it.  I am disappointed.  Disney has a great opportunity here.  Instead of going the usual route of giving the African American market what you want us to have, instead of what we really want -- which is traditionally what happens --  then get mad if we complain about the way we are represented.  I am one who believes that if better is an option, good is not enough.
    
    Today, nearly two years later, I read in the online version of USA Today  (http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2009-02-15-disney-black-princess-tiana_N.htm)  that Disney was releasing  their line of toys for the Princess and the Frog although the movie is not scheduled to hit the theatres until  December 2009. I suspect the Disney corporation wanted to leverage the current interest in the Obama family and all things "tween."  I  contacted  Lisa Skriloff,, president of Multicultural Marketing Resources (http://www.multicultural.com/), who the article quoted as saying: "It's [a black princess doll] very significant," says Lisa Skriloff, president of Multicultural Marketing Resources. "It's like a stamp of approval for one of the most outstanding family (entertainment) companies to say this is important."   She was kind enough to respond and honest enough to let me know that she wasn't completely aware of the point of view of the African American market when it comes to this subject.  She was gracious enough to invite me to her website and open the door of dialogue. 
    
    While there are formidable names associated with this animated feature, with Disney casting Oprah Winfrey, Jennifer Lewis and  Anika Noni Rose, it still does not measure up to my expectations.  I am just not so excited about the end product.  I am not a fan of being given what they -- who are empowered to provide big screen imagery -- want you to have versus what has been asked for.  I think that Mothers of color will take their daughters to see the film, their daughters will clap in delight to see a darker version of the Disney princess line on the big screen, yet  the mother will feel a vague sense of disappointment and not really understand why. 
    
    Two years ago, I was hugely disenchanted when the producers of this project chose to create this film without a lot of input from those it is targeted toward.the producers even refused volunteered assistance from two Disney board members.   For the record and according to a knowledged source, the Asian market was not thrilled with the Mulan feature film either, as it was not a true depiction of who they are, or even remotely depicts their true historic culture. They saw a part of the film and confirmed my expectation of what this film would turn out to be.  Yes, this is fantasy, yes these are commercial films, but when you have limited opportunity to be defined on the big screen, you just want a certain degree of truth woven into the tapestry of the story told.  While there were some name, title and image modifications since 2007, it is what it is: a sanitized version of the same story, just in living color and voices that they still believe define us.  .
    
    I am a realist;  my point if view is not enough to derail the Disney train; they have made it clear that they could care less about what I think.  The film will be profitable, will likely carry some degree of controversy, if for no other reason than because controversy sells in this country.  Most will decide that good is enough, even when better was an option, because  that is how we often do.  We accept the mediocre as the best we can get, assuming nothing else  will be offered.  I am however, still hopeful that I will realize the dream I have for what an animated feature of and for African America will look like.  And I smile.

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    Sherri Goforth, an executive assistant for Tennessee State Rep. Diane Black (R-Gallatin), sent this picture out to other legislative staffers:

    
    
    
    
    
    

    The email was headlined "Historical Keepsake Photo."

    One staffer who received the email publicized it online:

    I talked to my local rep, Mark Maddox about it, and described the picture to him at a recent fund raising event. I think he was as appalled as I was. I was going to post it last week but there was a death in my family and I had to think about it.

    
    Because it made me mad.

    But, you know, people need to know that this stuff is going on. I would be just as angry if a democratic staffer had sent it.

    Dammit, Tennessee, haven't we moved past this kind of crap. I'm serious.

    Goforth admitted to sending the email, but she apologized only for sending it to the wrong people.

    "I went on the wrong email and I inadvertently hit the wrong button," Goforth said. "I'm very sick about it, and it's one of those things I can't change or take back."

     

     

    "They are coming out of the woodwork"

    In our Post Racial America!

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