Larry Pratt of GOA decimates Piers Morgan’s anti-gun ranting
Here’s another recent video of Piers Morgan lowering the level of discussion to the gutter and logical fallacy.
The sum total of Piers Morgan’s arguments is this,
You are talking complete and utter nonsense….
… What you just said, Mr. Pratt, was an absolute lie …
… You’re an unbelievably stupid man, aren’t you? …
… What a ridiculous argument. You have absolutely no coherent argument whatsoever. You don’t give a damn, do you, about the gun murder rate in America. You don’t actually care …
… It’s complete nonsense …
… It’s down to idiots like you …
… You wouldn’t understand the meaning of the phrase ‘high level argument.’ You are a dangerous man espousing dangerous nonsense, and you shame your country …
Larry Pratt – whether you agree with his arguments or not – absolutely decimated Morgan’s scraping the bottom of the barrel style of argument. Pratt remained calm and collected throughout Morgan’s ad hominem laced assault. He made several logical points that repeatedly knocked Morgan off of his high horse. All Morgan had left in his pathetic bag of tricks was personal attacks.
MSNBC edits audio again
Amazing to see MSNBC once again editing and misrepresenting news in a transparent effort to defame and detract from conservative candidates. (Remember the edits to Romney’s sandwich making comment and their equally odious edits to the Zimmerman 911 call? Note that I would be equally concerned if the editing and outright lies were being done in a manner that attacked and defamed liberal/progressive candidates.)
I have heard and read first hand accounts from more than one person who was at this campaign event and they are all saying that the crowd was yelling “Romney, Romney, Romney” and Mr. Romney stopped them and asked them to include Ryan in their chant. If one actually listens to the crowd, you can clearly hear that they are chanting “Romney.” However, that chanting is cut short by MSNBC audio techs. So they have deliberately misrepresented the crowd’s chant as “Ryan, Ryan, Ryan”. That way, when Romney stopped and asked them to chant both names, he appears weak and ineffective – having to remind the crowd who is leading the ticket. Instead Romney was lowering himself and raising up his running mate.
MSNBC apparently couldn’t stand to have Romney appear as a humble or self-effacing candidate, so they chose to smear the conservative in the story by editing the audio and reporting a lie.
Tell me again why anyone watches this channel? They’re not even doing a good job as a paid wing of the Democrat party because their attempts to smear the other side are so transparent that they become almost comical.
Romney releases tax returns & the left becomes completely unhinged
This says it all. The hatred being thrown in Romney’s direction will continue no matter the issue.
The left is now apparently furious at Romney for overpaying his taxes – that is intentionally limiting his deductions to boost his effective tax rate. They’re apparently claiming that he is doing this as a political ploy.
It’s amazing to see how – in a matter of a few hours – Romney has gone from being attacked as a dirty double-dealing alleged tax cheat, to someone who is even willing to overpay on his taxes to win an election. They’re actually claiming now that he will “(do) anything to win.” (See @goldietaylor on Twitter for an example)
Romney’s 2011 taxes show that he gave some 30% of his income ($4.021 million) to charity and paid a tax rate of 14.14% ($1.935 million on income of $13.697 million – which is actually over 20% of his income after charitable givings). That tax rate, along with a 20 year average tax rate of 20.2%, now makes Romney a bad man?
The political left has become completely unhinged.
See more on Twitchy, and Townhall.com.
Top 10 reasons Obama will lose
These are all good, accurate, and very valid points.
The working assumption, in the modern media, is that Obama simply cannot lose his reelection bid. Obviously, they want “The One” to be around for two. While their ever-present and sometimes intense rooting for him will certainly help Obama, there are a host of reasons why Obama will lose. Here’s a list:
With a record like Obama’s, this election is the Republican’s to win or to lose.
Scripted AZ news?
There’s an interesting discussion going on at AZ’s Espresso Pundit.
Short version of the post is that the so-called mainstream news media is squelching a story on the liberal state senate candidate Jerry Lewis. Lewis is running in the AZ LD 18 recall election. LD 18 is currently represented by State Senate President, Russel Pearce. The Espresso Pundit post cites a lawsuit brought by a former colleague of Lewis’. That lawsuit contends that 1) Lewis was involved in a a string of ethically suspect activities involving charitable donations to a Tempe school, and 2) When a colleague complained about Lewis’ questionable activities, she was terminated.
Even more interesting are the comments after the post. Some comments claim Lewis is a poor manager and was the cause of significant financial and morale troubles at the Tempe, AZ school where he served as Principal. Other comments claim Lewis is being unfairly treated and the colleague was terminated as a result of dwindling budgets.
Regardless of how the case is finally decided, the primary claim in the AZ Espresso Pundit post remains very valid. We have endured months of stories of Scott Bundgaard’s personal issues, we’ve been ceaselessly regaled with headline after headline of Russel Pearce’s failings, but we hear nothing more than the occasional cricket chirp when the Democrat liberal candidate opposing Pearce in the recall election is facing serious ethical and possibly criminal charges.
Where is the mainstream media on this story and why are they refusing to cover something this important to the voters in AZ LD 18?
Breitbart confronts bussed in “protestors”
It’s amusing to watch the union-directed rent-a-mob that was bussed in to protest the “hate” at Right Nation 2010. Rather than simply accept the cannard that any mob of angry left-wing ranters represents the will of the people, Breitbart walked over the the crowd and started asking them some simple questions. Not surprisingly, none of the protesters had any clue about why they were there, what their sign meant, who was “hating,” or how “hate” or “racism” was being shown by members of the TEA Party. None of them could or would explain why they were allowing themselves to be led around like sheep by the group leaders (Eugene Winkler and CJ Hawking) either.
Perhaps the most enlightening portion of the video was when one of the protesters (who was in the process of being whisked away from Breitbart’s questions by Winkler) loudly opined to her friends in the that she thought Breitbart was “gay.” Who would have thought that a group of big tent “progressives” who were there to protest the “hate” and “racism” in the TEA Party would so openly take pleasure in homophobic slurs?
The video is well worth watching in full because it clearly demonstrates the lack of rational thought, as well as the hate and bigotry that is present on the progressive side. It also demonstrates that the progressive protests we see on the news every night are very likely ready-made rent-a-mobs, bussed in by local unions and left-wing special interest groups.
To steal Nancy Pelosi’s term, they are Astroturf in every sense of the word and represent nothing more than the will of a few union thugs and left-wing activists.
“Have you seen any people of color around?”
Classic video by Bob Parks of Black & Right that asks several attendees of the 9/12 Tax Payer March if they’ve “seen any people of color around?”
Best line in the video is by the fellow at the end (3:30),
We’re just all American citizens, trying to speak to our president … and tell him “get your hands out of our pockets.”
Founding Fathers views on Mohammed & his doctrines
Pajamas Media has an excellent article discussing arguments that the Founding Fathers respected Mohammed and revered his doctrines and teachings. Apparently one specific talking head – Akbar Ahmed – has been claiming that John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and other Founding Fathers regularly read and were substantially influenced by the Quran and “respected” Mohammed and described him as a “model of compassion.”
Unfortunately Ahmed is 180 degrees out of phase with the truth. As the PJTV article notes, John Adams described Mohammed as,
“a military fanatic” who “denies that laws were made for him; he arrogates everything to himself by force of arms.”
John Quincy Adams wrote that Islam,
In the seventh century of the Christian era, a wandering Arab of the lineage of Hagar, the Egyptian, combining the powers of transcendent genius, with the preternatural energy of a fanatic, and the fraudulent spirit of an impostor, proclaimed himself as a messenger from Heaven, and spread desolation and delusion over an extensive portion of the earth. Adopting from the sublime conception of the Mosaic law, the doctrine of one omnipotent God; he connected indissolubly with it, the audacious falsehood, that he was himself his prophet and apostle. Adopting from the new Revelation of Jesus, the faith and hope of immortal life, and of future retribution, he humbled it to the dust, by adapting all the rewards and sanctions of his religion to the gratification of the sexual passion. He poisoned the sources of human felicity at the fountain, by degrading the condition of the female sex, and the allowance of polygamy; and he declared undistinguishing and exterminating war, as a part of his religion, against all the rest of mankind. THE ESSENCE OF HIS DOCTRINE WAS VIOLENCE AND LUST: TO EXALT THE BRUTAL OVER THE SPIRITUAL PART OF HUMAN NATURE. [emphasis in the original]
There are several other revealing quotes from Jefferson and Franklin. They’re well worth taking the time to review as a means of learning the Founding Fathers actual views on Mohammed and his doctrines.
Reid is battling back due to JournoList-style media coverage
The mainstream, JournoList media has done its job well in Nevada and I’m sure more than a few of them will be lining up after the election to get some sort of payback from Senator Reid.
As of July 28, Rasmussen had Angle trailing Reid 43% to 45%. 58% of voters think Angle holds “extreme” views–no doubt due to our helpful friends in the MSM. Nevada “leans democrat,” Reid’s manufactured optimism is catching on, and Angle has been nearly-successfully painted as a nut. It’s not like nobody saw this coming, but it’s still unbelievable when you consider that Angle’s opponent is a perfect example of the cronyism and rabid progressivism that is currently running this great country into the ground.
It’s amazing to see the roll the media has played in bringing one of the least-effective, most-reviled, least-trusted, and corrupt politicians in the history of the Congress back to life. As of right now, they’ve handed him a Democrat-leaning lead in the November elections.
One has to hand it to the JournoList media because despite widespread recognition of their systemic and overbearing left-wing bias, they have managed to snow the people of Nevada once again. They’ve mounted one of the most effective negative ad campaigns against Sharon Angle, the U.S. electorate has seen in a long time. The only thing missing at the end of each of their articles in the now mandatory, “I’m Harry Reid and I support this message” footnotes.
What is truly sad is that the voters of Nevada appear to have bought their activism and overt Pro-Reid campaigning hook line and sinker.
Obama’s protective shield
Ramirez’s latest via Powerline Blog and IBD.
The MSM does more to protect Obama than his own secret service detail.
MSM continues to attack Fox for Administration and NAACP error
I find it increasingly amusing that those who are decrying the treatment that Shirley Sherrod received as a result of the now infamous edited video, so routinely set their sites on Fox News as the main protagonist in this farcical episode. I also find it ironic (and hypocritical) that Sherrod herself, while claiming to have been mistreated throughout the affair, has no difficulty whatsoever with continuing to flog the clearly inaccurate story that Fox News had a hand in her being fired.
As Charles Krauthammer rightly notes in this video clip (via NewsBusters) from PBS’s “Inside Washington,” the concerns that Sherrod — and those who have taken up the cause to defend her — is expressing should be with the NAACP and the Obama administration. Fox news had not commented on the Sherrod issue until after she had been publicly attacked by the NAACP (who would have been in possession of the original, unedited video from the day it was filmed) and fired by Vilsack and the Obama administration.
For those still biting on the hook being trolled by so many in the MSM, here’s Krauthammer’s comments.
Even more amazing that even after Krauthammer sets the record straight, Colby King, Mark Shields, and Nina Totenberg continue to attack Fox News.
Rasmussen: 59% of voters want immigration law like AZ SB 1070
Rasmussen just released new polling numbers that show 59% of voters across the nation want a law like Arizona’s SB 1070. These responses were given after the large protest rallies that were held in the wake of Governor Brewer signing the bill.
Also discussed in this news release was the fact that,
- 55% of Colorado’s voters want a law similar to AZ SB 1070 passed in Colorado
- 50% of voters have an unfavorable opinion of the pro-illegal immigration protestors
Not surprisingly, however, the people surveyed did not fit the misguided media and special-interest narrative that those who want illegal immigration controlled and the border secured are racist, hateful, and anti-immigrant. The Rasmussen numbers showed that,
- 55% of voters were at least somewhat concerned of the potential for the violation of rights with increased border security
- 59% of voters want to see immigration policy become “more welcoming” to potential immigrants, while only excluding “national security threats, criminals and those who would come here to live off our welfare system.”
What Qu’ran?
Robert Spencer (of Jihad Watch) has an excellent article on the lengths to which some in the MSM will go to hide the facts when those facts deal with Islam.
AGW high priest admits “science” can be perverted for profit
The Telegraph has an amusing editorial on the how “the high priest of the AGW cult,” George Monbiot, “is feeling frustrated and depressed.”
In a Guardian editorial Monbiot is laments the discovery of a massive academic and scientific fraud perpetrated by several of the world’s eminent climate scientists. Of course he refers to this revelation as an “attack on climate scientists.” He continues by claiming that this horrid “attack” is “now widening to an all-out war on science.”
Laughable of course, and that hilarity is quickly pointed out by the editorial author, Gerald Warner who states that Monbiot shouldn’t get too far ahead of himself as the “war” is only being waged against “bogus science.”
But as Monbiot attempts to argue, no one but he and his similarly endowed high priests have a prayer of understanding their advanced thoughts and theories on climate. Furthermore, the merciless “monopolies” led by publishers and editors of scientific journals make it impossible for the public to access the ‘science’ that he and his cohorts are producing (would those be the same journals in which Phil Jones, Mike Mann, and the other CRU & IPCC-linked “scientists” conspired to control the content, or to shut out when they found they couldn’t? Just asking …) Even worse, he then goes on to detail how popular culture makes all scientists into “sinister schemers.”
So, after reading Monbiot, you begin to understand that its the public’s stupidity, the greed of publishing companies, and that eevilll Hollywood (except when they’re awarding Al Gore his Oscar or Academy Award) that makes it impossible for poor, misunderstood, and under-appreciated climate scientists to get their clear vision of truth, justice, and climate purity out to the masses.
It has nothing to do with the East Anglia fraud, Climategate, Glaciergate, the misreported NASA data, or any of the other frauds perpetrated in the name of climate change. It’s just that we’re too dumb and to easily controlled by publishers and the media.
Monbiot’s hand-wringing and whinging might be easier to endure if he weren’t so completely arrogant about his massive intelligence as compared to the public’s stupidity and malleability. It might be easier still to endure if the fact that none of his stated concerns mattered in the least when the true-believer’s ideas were doing the influencing.
Chris Matthews admits race is his first filter
Wow!!!
Chris Matthews admits openly that for an hour he “forgot that (Obama) was black tonight.” Once again, we see that Matthews views everything — first and foremost — through the prism of race. He states clearly that he sees an African-American standing before a “bunch of other white people.” He doesn’t see the President — a human being — standing in front of a group of other people. He sees skin color before he sees or thinks about anything else.
Now, who’s the racist?
Update — John Stewart’s take on Matthew’s comment is absolutely priceless. (Watch right after the 4 minute mark.)
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ACORN DC office: councils child prostitution ring
I am so completely swamped with work that I don’t have time to go into this, but I feel it is essential that everyone with a blog and a conscience at least mentions this story. ACORN (the place where Obama learned the ropes so to speak) has demonstrated once again that it is rotten to the core. Given Obama’s clear and persistent links to this group (and numerous other radicals and criminals), I’m just waiting for the day when he takes over from Nixon as the face corruption in government. Of course, Obama’s pals in the MSM will do everything they can to ignore any links between the One and ACORN once again.
In this video, James O’keefe employs the left’s tactics against themselves. He follows the Alinsky concept of making them live according to their own rules. He videotapes a meeting he had with two ladies at an ACORN office. He and Hannah Giles posed as a pimp and prostitute and sought help from ACORN in setting up a brothel in Baltimore. The ACORN employees advised what they thought was a prostitution ring on how to avoid being caught, how to avoid paying taxes, how to cheat on their taxes, how to cover up the fact that they were bringing in several young girls from El Salvador (to act as prostitutes), … and the list of offenses goes on and on and on.
As I watched the video, I kept wondering if these ladies felt even the smallest twinge in their conscience. I kept thinking that, at some point, they would have to question the morality of what was being discussed. However, the two of them were so wrapped up in their expertise and abilities to game the system and their desire to get something for nothing, to steal from the country and people that provide them with so much opportunity, that they never even paused to consider what they were doing.
It’s all up at biggovernment.com, Andrew Breitbart’s new website. And the list of posts is expanding rapidly.
In the bowels of Blatimore’s ACORN
Washington, DC ACORN video: Child Prostitution Investigation Video
There’s really too much to link to here, GO OVER THERE and see what $4 billion to $5 billion of your tax dollars that have been earmarked for ACORN and similar groups is buying you. Then do two things. First, remember that this is the “change” Obama has promised. Second, ask yourself which group of people in our government appears more and more to have at their core a basic “culture of corruption.”
Update September 11 10:40am: Why am I not at all surprised to see that none of the “mainstream” news networks have anything about the ACORN corruption on their home pages. I’ve checked CNN, ABC, CBS, and MSNBC and NOTHING! Only Fox and smaller, local news channels are putting anything about this on their websites. It’s like the mainstream media is purposefully trying to cover this up.
Where will Obama and the Dems stop?
We’re now at just over a half a year into Obama’s reign and he’s already,
- – Moved to finish the Bush administration’s take over the banks,
- – Moved to gain control over much of the auto industry
- – Working on taking control of the energy industry
- – Working on taking control of the health care industry
- – Appointed a self described “rowdy black nationalist” and “communist” as the “special adviser for green jobs, enterprise and innovation to the White House Council on Environmental Quality,” who recently demanded that we “change the whole system”
Of course, this is just a short list and doesn’t hit on all the power grabs this administration is attempting. One more power grab is worth mentioning though, as it currently sits at the base of much of our communication and knowledge-sharing in this country.
Obama and the Democrats in Congress are not satisfied with the banks, auto industry, health care, energy, and filling the White House with unelected and unaccountable “Czars.” Now they’re turning their attention to the Internet. Working from the same mindset that drove the Patriot Act, they’re drafting legislation that will give them the power to simply seize control of private computer networks and the Internet.
The new version would allow the president to “declare a cybersecurity emergency” relating to “non-governmental” computer networks and do what’s necessary to respond to the threat. Other sections of the proposal include a federal certification program for “cybersecurity professionals,” and a requirement that certain computer systems and networks in the private sector be managed by people who have been awarded that license.
FoxNews discusses the bill here (strange that at this time, all of the major news and cable networks are almost completely silent about it …)
A Senate bill would offer President Obama emergency control of the Internet and may give him a “kill switch” to shut down online traffic by seizing private networks — a move cybersecurity experts worry will choke off industry and civil liberties.
Details of a revamped version of the Cybersecurity Act of 2009 emerged late Thursday, months after an initial version authored by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., was blasted in Silicon Valley as dangerous government intrusion.
“In the original bill they empowered the president to essentially turn off the Internet in the case of a ‘cyber-emergency,’ which they didn’t define,” said Larry Clinton, president of the Internet Security Alliance, which represents the telecommunications industry.
Anyone else out there think that the Obama administration and the Democrats in Congress are going just a bit overboard? Anyone else even remotely concerned that we have to endure at least another three and a half years of Obama’s radical, leftward sprint?
Oh, and one more thing, Republicans need not get to smug on this issue as they have the Patriot Act to answer for. The FoxNews story also indicates that when Senator Rockefeller (D-WV) first introduced the bill into the Commerce Committee in April, he did so with “bipartisan support.” The cnet article indicates that Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-ME) co-authored the bill with Rockefeller.
Excerpts of S. 773 are here and there’s more discussion on the bill here as well.