Last night, Shepard Smith started a series called the “Rise of Freedom,” set to chronicle the building and construction of the new towers, the Memorial, and surrounding sites.
If everything gets built like was shown tonight, it will be a beautiful site (and a stab in the eye of all the Islamofascists in the world). I’m just sad that it’s taken so long to rebuild there. However, knowing that this first site is already seven stories down, it gives me some relief with the pace. I hadn’t realized so much work was being done underground. And apparently the new structures appear they’ll be super-duper strength and reinforced to the hilt. I hope all of these structures are able to be completed by the 10-anniversary, as discussed in this segment. It would be a phenomal accomplishment, considering the current pace.
God bless all these construction workers and everyone involved in this labor of love.
This is just a short tidbit from a recent Fox News Special, hosted by Greta Van Susteren, on the Manson Family murders. Maybe I just wasn’t paying attention before, but I never knew “The Family” was admired by the Weather Underground. Hmm…
I wonder if they had any other fans in Chicago, besides leader of the Weather Underground, Bernadine Dohrn, saying her Weathermen “dig Charles Manson” for “offing those rich pigs with their own forks and knives.” Weatherman Mark Rudd went so far as to say the group adopted a 4-fingered “fork” salute, I suppose as a way to honor the monstrous murderers. Gee, who else do we know from Chicago that has a deep-seated hatred for “rich” people? I wonder….
This past weekend, the Fox News Watch gang took a look at the liberal media outlets’ takes on the “Restoring Honor” rally hosted by Glenn Beck at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 2010.
As usual, MSNBC’s Chris “thrill up my leg” Matthews said it was just a group of white people “united to bring down the President.” WTF? Does MSNBC ever do any drug testing? It might help if they did.
Bill Sammon hits the nail on the head, though, noting the press was ready for a fight, for punches to be thrown, to see racist signs and all that. Yet they were crestfallen when none of that happened. It was too late, however. They already had their narratives written with their pre-conceived ideas as to what it would be. Sammon continued to note that they expected anger and ugliness, and in the end, the only one that exibited that was the press, itself. It was nothing like the press expected it to be. I know. I was there. Sammon also makes a prescient observation that the Beck crowd was “nearly all-white,” but notes they never mentioned the Sharpton rally was “nearly all-black.”
I just have one thing to say about Ellis Hennican – he is a loon.
My apologies for the sometimes-shakiness of the video, but I kept having folks move in front of my camera, so just bear with me. Michele Bachmann was just one of the fine speakers for this dinner. George Will gave the Keynote Address, and blew the doors off the room. I honestly never knew George was such a staunch conservative. It really makes me wonder what goes through his mind now, as he has to contend with Christiane Amanpour as the new ABC News’ “This Week” on Sundays.
Anyway, Michele’s speech was not lacking either. She got dozens of rousing rounds of applause, and was quite the crowd-pleaser. Looking very elegant in a turquoise dress and an upswept hairdo, this intelligent lady seems to have it right when she talks about what this country needs in a good solid conservative leader. I think there are stellar things in her future, and, in turn, in the future of our country. She’s not going anywhere. I can’t wait to see where she goes from here.
One of the guest speakers for the mid-day Opening Session luncheon, Herman Cain, popped in to the AFP Bloggers’ Row, and to our tremendous surprise, he was willing to give us all a sit-down interview. The whole group got to ask him questions, one at a time, about what his political plans are for the future, and solutions he would propose to fix the problems in our nation today.
For those of you who don’t know Herman, he’s a much-beloved Atlanta talk show host on WSB Radio. He’s also a staunch proponent of the Fair Tax. Herman Cain has quite an impressive bio, and here is just a portion of it from his website:
In 1986, Pillsbury appointed Cain to the presidency of the then financially troubled Godfather’s Pizza, Inc. chain headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. In 14 short months, under Cain’s leadership, the chain regained profitability. In 1988, he led his executive team in a buyout of the company from Pillsbury.
Cain was elected to the Board of Directors of the National Restaurant Association in 1988. In 1994 to 1995, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors. While leading this association, he developed the organization into a pro-business voice via national debates and speeches concerning health care reform, employment policies, and taxation. Following this experience, he was appointed to serve on the Economic Growth and Tax Reform Commission in addition to serving as Chairman and Member of the Board of Directors for the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. He then became a senior advisor to the 1996 Dole/Kemp campaign for the Presidency.
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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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It has spiked just like every OTHER negat...
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First Amendment, beeeyotch!
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Fake_ear: If Chris did this he would be guilty of assault and battery, but he didn't. Looks to me like Fox, O'Reilly, and Kyle have opened themselves up to a m...
