Yes, it’s apparently true. At age 50, Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, has passed away. My readers don’t typically come here for entertainment news, so that’s why I’m leaving it up to the others to report.
A strange man, but even so, I grew up dancing to the “Jackson 5″ music. I’ll always like his music, but still he grew up to be a peculiar person. No disrespect intended, but I hope it won’t be MJ’s death news 24/7 on TV. I’m sorry, but he was only a titular King – that of a musical genre, not a nation.
Now this makes three: Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, and now Michael Jackson.
Former Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, was on with Napolitano today (sitting in for Beck), and Iran was the topic of discussion. Eagleburger had a few choice words for Obama, said he’s a novice at foreign policy and should probably take that advice from his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Eagleburger says Obama thinks he is only speaking for himself, but is forgetting that he speaks for all Americans – and we are SICK of what’s happening to the freedom-seekers in Iran. He should speak out with OUR voice; not his.
After some of the reports today from Iran, I can’t say I disagree with him at all. Obama preens while the Iranians are being thrown off bridges, axed to death, beaten, shot, and probably more than we’ll ever know. Eagleburger says the Mullah theocracy cannot last the new media age, but it will take a long time. He says it’s unfortunate that Iranians have not yet had the full taste of Western freedom, and if they did, they would be even more hungry for it.
Today Judge Andrew Napolitano was sitting in for Glenn Beck, and one topic of discussion was the universal health care crap the administration is trying to ram down our throats. Guests included Dr. Eric Novack from Arizonans for Healthcare Freeom. Arizona is trying to amend their state Constitution to protect individuals’ rights to choose and pay for their own healthcare as they see fit.
Also on was the Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who has a similar take on what Obama’s aspirations are, but has an inside track on what his real intentions are and who he really is trying to screw. This is going to be a shocka to some, and if it weren’t for the Sanford story, this would probably be all over today (oh, there’s also that little ABC Obama-infomercial tonight, too – yeah, not watchin’ it either).
You gotta give it to Rev. Peterson for stepping up and speaking the truth! He should know…he is from the black community.
CNN’s Ivan Watson was left dumbfounded on Wednesday during an interview with an unnamed eyewitness in Iran who told the news network that security forces mercilessly beat protesters.
The woman, whose identity CNN chose to keep secret for fear of reprisal by the Iranian government, also said she believed security forces had fired into a crowd.
“The black-clad police, they stopped everyone, they emptied the buses that were taking people [to the protests] … and then all of a sudden some 500 people with clubs and boots [came out of a mosque] and they poured into the street and they started beating everyone,†the eyewitness said.
“They beat a woman so savagely that she was drenched in blood, and her husband was watching the scene — he just fainted.â€
Watson was left dumbfounded as the near-hysterical interviewee gave an impromptu plea for help from the West.
“This was a massacre,’ she said. “They were trying to beat people so that they would die. They were beating old men. This was exactly a massacre. You should stop this. You should help the people of Iran who demand freedom.â€
As the protester says, “it’s time to act.” My heart is breaking for these brave people, starving for freedom. This girl unfortunately doesn’t know she’s begging for help to the ball-less CNN International media. A pox on all their houses!
Yes, she went there. She surely did. Boy, this was a heated back and forth, and Elisabeth really got in some good points. The only thing she missed was to point out that Obama sent Joe Biden to monitor the elections in Lebanon, so do we now get to pick and choose where we meddle?
Anyway, for Joy to compare what the Iranian people are suffering to the 2000 Bush V. Gore election is just outrageous. Absolutely slimy and an attempt at piss-poor moral equivalency. And the harp seals in the audience dutifully applauded to all the anti-Bush lines. Including Behar’s final jab asserting that since we elected Obama, Iranians no longer chant “Death to America.” She thinks Obama fixed all that. Oh, really Joy? Really? You are one classless individual.
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Listen…I’m no fan of Obama, and like Mark Levin, I’d vote for a can of orange juice before I’d vote for Obama in 2012. Somewhere along the way, just because our president is black, videos like this are becoming more mainstream and more acceptable on YouTube and other sites, and it should not be.
This is tastleless to the n’th degree, but if it’s okay for black people to do this, how is anything ANY of the Republican candidates do remotely deemed racist at all?
If this country ever truly wants to progress and become a more civilized nation, why is trash like this even tolerated? I’m not asking for this garbage to be censored, but I’d love to see at least SOME condemnation of things like this to be more prevalent. Can we please all agree this is unacceptable in a civilized world? You cannot condemn one group of people for being allegedly “racist” while simultaneously approving of another group of people for creating videos such as this, villifying a single race of people in the process of glorifying the creators of these videos? One need only search certain terms on YouTube to find thousands of videos like this one. And they’re all equally disgusting.
What say you, Eugene Robinson, Goldie Taylor, Donna Brazile, Marc Lamont Hill, etc., etc.? I’m waiting for you all to openly condemn videos like this on YouTube. If you don’t, then I have no reason to listen to your small and petty complaints of racism from Fox News, Republicans as a whole, and GOP candidates in the 2012 primary. Your silence about videos like this are tacit approval of them.
As is said in many places, “hilarity ensues” (h/t Mediaite):
Frances Martel does a fabulous write-up about it, and I couldn’t have said it any better, so here it is direct from the Mediaite post:
“Are you offended?” O’Reilly asked Harpootlian, who replied that he was not, but that he found the fact that Republicans had “no outreach to African Americans” a problem “in a state where we have an African-American Republican Congressman.” “Adding insult to injury, this debate ignoring Martin Luther King’s birthday!” he added, which made O’Reilly ask who was ignoring the debate and why. The Republicans, Harpootlian replied, because “no one has raised any issue with Fox about it being appropriate or inappropriate.”
O’Reilly then asked whether there was a reason for this– namely, something that happened in 2008. Harpootlian did not remember what happened in 2008 (a Democratic primary debate on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day) and who sponsored it (the Congressional Black Caucus), which prompted several awkward seconds where Harpootlian was obviously caught flat-footed. With this development, O’Reilly then told him that, “by injecting race into this, you do a disservice.” Harpootlian finally replied, blaming Republicans for injecting race into the matter by calling this “the most important election since 1860.” “We in the South have a little different version of that election,” he noted, suggesting that talking to Southerners in such a way was a sort of dog whistle. O’Reilly disagreed and just asked Harpootlian to give it up, adding, “you’re getting killed here!”
Today on Neil Cavuto, radio talk show host and constitutional scholar, Mark Levin was on to discuss his new book, “Ameritopia.”
Levin’s previous book, “Liberty and Tyranny” was a best-seller, as was another book before that titled, “Men in Black.” “Liberty and Tyranny” is a must-read for anybody who wants to know how we got to the point where we are in America today.
I’ve been stewing on this and stewing on this figuring out the right way to convey how I feel about it, and I’ve been struggling with just the right words to describe my sentiment. I read a fabulous screed by Deebow over at BlackFive, but it wasn’t until I saw the headline in a Weekly Standard piece today that quoted Lt. Col. Allen West (R-FL) on this matter. I couldn’t have said it better myself:
‘Shut Your Mouth, War Is Hell’
Yes, you got that right. Congressman West has weighed in on this flap over the Marines taking a piss on dead Taliban terrorists, sending an email to the Weekly Standard, who got his permission to print what he said. Here’s a portion of his commentary:
“All these over-emotional pundits and armchair quarterbacks need to chill. Does anyone remember the two Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division who were beheaded and gutted in Iraq?
“The Marines were wrong. Give them a maximum punishment under field grade level Article 15 (non-judicial punishment), place a General Officer level letter of reprimand in their personnel file, and have them in full dress uniform stand before their Battalion, each personally apologize to God, Country, and Corps videotaped and conclude by singing the full US Marine Corps Hymn without a teleprompter.
“As for everyone else, unless you have been shot at by the Taliban, shut your mouth, war is hell.”
I’m not even quite sure that what the Marines did was wrong, but since when in the hell did we become so indignant and self-righteously outraged about treating killers like they deserve to be treated? Sure, they probably shouldn’t have videotaped what they did, but who the hell cares? And don’t give me this “don’t stoop to their level” B.S. either. Until you have been in the shoes of our warriors, or our first responders (cops, firefighters, etc.), or, heck, even ever been a crime victim yourself, you have no idea what you would do, given the same circumstances.
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