Why do I not bet on things like this? In a truly “shocking” turn of events, an associate librarian at Yale has once again, compiled a list of top quotations of the year and they are, predictably, predominately unfriendly to conservatives. The only reason that Shapiro’s selections are of news value is because he trades on the past that is Yale’s name.

In 2010 the quotes were unfriendly to conservatives; for this 2011 list they are so almost entirely again. Shapiro christened Occupy Wall Street’s mathematically-challenged claim, “We are the 99%,” as the slogan de l’année and said this of the tea party:

Mr. Shapiro noted that the conservative tea party movement was prominent in last year’s quotes.

“The tea party quotes are very strongly anti-government,” Mr. Shapiro said. “The Occupy quotes and the other more liberal quotes that you see at the top of the list this year are directed more at Wall Street and the upper 1 percent economically of the country rather than focus squarely on government.”

The quotes Shapiro chose last year to represent the tea party were selected to paint the movement as anarchist hooligans–funny, because that’s exactly what we saw with OWS, but I digress. For Shapiro to say that the tea party is “strongly anti-government” either makes Shapiro deliberately or naturally obtuse.

There is a difference between a strong desire for limited government, which is what the tea party movement has always been about, and no government, which is what the anarchists at OWS are about. Shapiro must decide whether he’s attempting to present a bias of ignorance or malice–it is either one or the other.

And just what of those quotes? This is number one:

1.“We are the 99 percent.” — slogan of the Occupy movement.

Says the article:

The growing scrutiny of the rich dominated this year’s best quotes, according to a Yale University librarian who anointed the Occupy Wall Street protesters’ slogan — “We are the 99 percent” — as the year’s best.

“Growing scrutiny” or Marxist propaganda from a minority?

I’m further shocked that these memorable quotes, from our Commander-in-Chief no less, don’t appear to have made any previous Shapiro lists. Please correct me in the comments if I am wrong.

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CHRIS MATTHEWS:  Tonight, President Barack Obama. Let’s play Hardball.

OBAMA:  Hello, Chris. Hey, you ever see someone about your ADHD problem?

MATTHEWS:  Too busy. Sir, recently I criticized you pretty harshly. You came on anyway. I’d like to kiss and make up.

[from off screen]

MICHELLE:  You keep your distance, buddy boy.  I’m watching.

MATTHEWS:  Yes’m. Sir, rumor is you cut the Asia trip short for clandestine meetings with the Supercommittee.

OBAMA:  Not true, Chris. I returned earlier, but for a more important reason than rescuing our economy: I wanted to save the NBA season, and in so doing show the world I deserve the Nobel Peace Prize.

MATTHEWS:  You’re involved in the negotiations?

OBAMA:  Hush-hush summit at Camp David. Reverend Jackson and Secretary of State Clinton were my lead mediators. Kobe Bryant and David Stern agreed to represent their constituents. (more…)

Jesse Jackson wasted no time yesterday in using a Martin Luther King, Jr. event to attack the tea party and create racial divide. The event was one of many planned for the days leading up to the official opening of the MLK memorial on the National Mall.

USA Today reported Jackson’s comments:

Jesse Jackson said Thursday that the Tea Party’s tenets are reminiscent of state’s rights philosophies used in decades past to oppose federally mandated integration.

“The Tea Party is not new,” Jackson said at a luncheon honoring civil rights pioneers on Thursday. “It’s just a new name for an old game.”

There are no details as to whether any black tea party members were invited to the MLK pre-memorial launch event.

The media also does not recount how, despite all the divisive talk from Jackson, no one in the tea party has ever threatened to castrate President Obama as Jackson has done.

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This isn’t the first time Contessa Brewer has stuck her foot in her mouth:

h/t KL South

CHRIS MATTHEWS:  Tonight, Democratic National Committee Chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.  Welcome, Ma’m.  Let’s play hardball.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ:  Do me a favor, Chris.  Call me Madame Chair, or Chairwoman, or even Chérie.  Not M’am, which I find demeaning.

MATTHEWS:  Ok, uh, Chérie. First up, a small thing: you used to be Wasserman dash Schultz.  Now you’re just plain Wasserman Schultz.  When did you lose your hyphen?

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ:  I was sixteen, Chris, and Billy Collins and I were making out in his car at Lookout Point.  Well, things got out of hand, and . . . .

MATTHEWS:  Never mind.  You wanna make a coupla outrageous claims about Republicans?

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ:  Sure.  Wal-Mart and the Koch brothers plan to lay off 100,000 employees late next year to spike unemployment reports before the election.

MATTHEWS:  Anything else?

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ:  Rick Perry wants illegals arrested and sentenced to three years hard labor picking cotton for Monsanto.

MATTHEWS:  Muy loco.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ:  Finally, Speaker Boehner’s proposing that African-Americans provide DNA evidence at the polls to prove they are who they say they are.

MATTHEWS:  Shameless.

WASSERMAN SCHULTZ:  Jesse Jackson told me last week he’s been hearing the voices of long-deceased African-Americans pleading for retroactive enfranchisement.  Oh, if only we still had the House. (more…)

Don’t Hurt Me

September 15, 2012

New York Times – President Obama has petitioned a Virginia Superior Court judge to issue a restraining order against Fox News contributor Brit Hume prior to tonight’s Presidential debate at James Madison University.

Obama stated in his complaint he fears for his campaign and is concerned Hume may “rough him up” in his role as moderator of the debate.  The President wants Hume enjoined from coming within 500 feet of him with a question which might appear harmless but could be used to bludgeon him.

Drop the Ballot; Step Away from the Voting Booth

November 6, 2012

Reuters – In a massive protest today against the almost certain election of Republican Mitch Daniels to the Presidency, Democrats across the country avoided the polls, casting the integrity of the results into doubt.

In Washington, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said it was heroic for 30 million Democrats to choose self-disenfranchisement rather than allow their votes to count for nothing.  An AP survey last weekend had the President down to Daniels by 20%, despite gross oversampling of Wisconsin academics.

Summat for Nothing

July 22, 2013

Boston Globe — Cambridge Police Officer James Crowley of “beer summit” fame was arrested outside his Natick, Massachusetts home today and charged with disorderly conduct after pleading with a mob chanting “racist pig” to calm down.

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Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Garrison Keillor Presents

A Prairie Home Companion Special Election Night Poetic Commentary

Reverend Jesse Jackson and New York Times Publisher Arthur “Pinch” Sulzberger

Invoke the Bard of New England

With the Frost There Comes a Thumpin’

First Reading

“Sobbing in the ‘hood on Election Evening”

(Apologies, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”)

Recited by the Reverend Jesse Jackson

These exit polls, portending woe,
Don’t mean that I’ll be eating crow.
I warned him, made it crystal clear
The race was always his to blow.

His counselors must think I’m seer
Because I said he’d lose last year
When all he prized was Kobe steak
And flailing at that little sphere.

My urban base is stunned awake;
What will the new Man give—or take?
As is my wont, I’ll school the creep
And show the world he don’t know Jake. (more…)

Some of the same members of the media, who once sold us on the idea of President Obama being a post racial and post partisan President more than two years ago, are demanding that he gets tougher with his political opponents or in their words, “act black” in order to save his presidency.

The left is now embittered because the card house that is Obama has crashed in upon itself, leaving him no other choice, but to comprise with congressional republicans in order to avoid gridlock and move forward on his agenda.

Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow and others are demanding that he get tough and refuse to work with congressional Republicans after the American public soured on the direction of the nation under his Presidency along with a Democratic Congress. Bill Maher wants to see the CEOs of major corporations such as BP bullied into subjugation by Obama and quoted as saying at the height of the Gulf oil spill, “That Obama needed to start acting black” by calling in the head of BP into the Oval Office and brandishing a pistol and swearing at him in order to speed up the pace of the cleanup efforts.

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Because Jesus apparently put the Reverend in charge of measuring melanin.

CNN published an excerpt of Soledad O’Brien’s candid memoir, The Next Big Story, in which she recounts her offense at being racially profiled by Jesse Jackson:

The American Public has come to know firebrand Reverend Al Sharpton as the #1Black Leader in the media.

Sharpton has billed himself as the voice of fairness, balance and authority, when it comes to the issues racial injustice in the Black Community, while boasting he is unafraid to debate anyone about the merits, yet unknown to many Al Sharpton is actually afraid to debate one man and that man happens to be Project21’s Chairman Mychal Massie.

Massie has put out several calls and letters to debate Sharpton on the issues of race relations, big activist government and the tea party movement, yet Sharpton and a whole host of other self-appointed Black Leaders are either unwilling or unable to debate the issues, yet they are willing to hide behind members of the press, who will allow them to filibuster and control as well as edit the segments in their favor.

I believe like many in the media Sharpton is simply afraid he would be unable to think on his feet and present his arguments logically against an Intelligent Conservative of Color, thus he would rather pretend that Massie does not exist.

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What NPR did in terminating Juan Williams was a high profile act of journalistic terrorism.  It was a professional beheading with the goal of instilling fear so that other lesser reporters and journalists who might dare associate on Fox News will now think twice.

The message has gone out:  Whoever can destroy one such as prominent as Juan Williams can effectively censor other less prominent commentators with ease. Welcome to the New Age of Make-Believe Media Sharia.

There’s nothing that controversial about what Juan Williams said. Jesse Jackson admitted a concern similar to the one Williams voiced. Several years ago, Jackson expressed sadness at his own feelings of relief when upon hearing footsteps behind him and fearing robbery, he turns to see a white person.
No great purging took place. Jesse’s still hanging with the power people.

NPR’s taking offense at Williams’s Muslim comment is nothing other than a veil, a burqa, if you will, to cover the real reason underneath his termination.  The real reason is to quash dissent. Especially when, as a liberal, you appear on a Fox News broadcasts.

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From the Los Angeles Times:

Larry Elder, the self-proclaimed “Sage from South Central,” has heard you missed him. Now he’s back.

Elder, the African American talk-show host who frequently provoked black listeners with his conservative views during his 15-year stint on KABC-AM (790), is returning Monday to the station he abruptly left almost two years ago. He will take over the 9 a.m. to noon weekday slot vacated Friday by the more lighthearted “Frosty, Heidi and Frank” show.

“I’m tanned, rested and ready,” Elder quipped last week in a phone interview, echoing the oft-told one-liner about former President Richard Nixon on his political availability after his impeachment. Elder added in a more serious tone, “[KABC] approached me, and I was ready to get back in the game. I think I have been missed, and I believe I will be welcomed and embraced.”

His return to KABC, where he formerly occupied the afternoon drive-time slot, will bring a more unified conservative tone to the station, which is also home to commentators Sean Hannity and Mark Levin, said program director Jack Silver, who took charge of programming two months ago. (more…)

OBAMA: The party’s hemorrhaging elderly voters over ObamaCare despite Andy Griffith’s help.   And even the Times says the plan’s numbers don’t add up.  What now?  David?

AXELROD:  Two tracks, sir.  Short term, lure seniors back.  We need their votes in November to keep the Senate, at least.  Long term, address the program’s fiscal time bomb.

OBAMA:  OK.  How do we get Democrats bragging to oldsters about their support for the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act”?   HHS?

SEBELIUS:  Sir, announce that attorneys reviewing the law have determined that language in Part 3, Sec 1141, (a), (1) suggests seniors’ pets may be considered ”partners,” and therefore eligible for health insurance as dependents of covered humans.

JOE BIDEN:  Nice!  But . . . who’d, uh, vet the claims?  Hahahahaha.

OBAMA:  Be quiet, Joe.  Remember, Hillary’s in the wings.  Whaddya think, Tim?

GEITHNER: Too costly, sir . . . unless the only treatment option for animals was to put them down.

LARRY SUMMERS:  That works for me.  Even so, there’s just enough scratch in the budget we haven’t passed yet to euthanize felines.  Dogs will have to wait.

OBAMA:  Agreed.  Let’s call the subsidiary program “Medicat.” “Peticare” sounds too  . . .  inclusive.  Other ideas to energize old folks?  Nancy? (more…)

When I learned of Helen Thomas’ retirement I was tempted to head my column with, “ Ding, Dong, the **^ is Dead …..” but then I remembered that I’m not a liberal journalist who resorts to personal attacks instead of hardcore facts. I can’t even said I’m overjoyed that Margaret Hamilton’s doppelganger has been removed as a White House correspondent.

It would have been so much better to see her go out because of her ridiculous remarks about President Bush calling him the worst president in history. She often repeats the canard that Bush waged war on a country that did nothing to us. I wonder how she explains why we went to war with Germany after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor? Sponsors of terrorism– and Iraq was certainly one –were warned after 9/11 that they would be targets Did she think Bush was joking?

I’ve been reading the post-mortems of Thomas’ leaving and snort at the description of her as a trail-blazing correspondent. The fact is that the uber-partisan Thomas never blazed anything except a scorching dislike of any Republican president. (more…)

After pleading guilty to what is apparently the misdemeanor of “Entry by false pretenses to any real property, vessel, or aircraft of the United States” (18 U.S.C. § 1036), James O’Keefe has joined a long list of political activists convicted of charges related to their political activism.  He’s just the only conservative one.  Nonetheless, we look forward to the mainstream media enshrining him in its current pantheon of heroes of civil disobedience.  And to elephants flying.

Like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, with their like-clockwork arrests protesting whatever is in the news at any given moment, O’Keefe’s antics were apparently designed to make a political point.  In this case, the point seemed to be to show that the local staff of Senator Mary Landrieu (D., La.) was making up stories about her telephone system’s being down in order to dodge calls from outraged constituents decrying the health care reform bill.

It being a conservative point, rather than a left-wing attempt to raise racial tensions or extort money from cowardly corporations, we have not seen much sympathy for O’Keefe’s plight.

Of course, it is unfair to compare O’Keefe to lefty icons Sharpton or Jackson – unfair to O’Keefe.  The precocious O’Keefe helped blow the lid off ACORN’s twisted willingness to break not only the law but also the most basic tenets of moral decency in order to assist what its representatives understood to be child sex slavers, leading to ACORN’s welcome demise.  In contrast, Sharpton is a notorious charlatan who has spent years dodging the judgment against him entered after the Tawana Brawley charade, and Jesse Jackson is a noted shakedown artist, adulterer and father of a love child. (more…)

What happens when a journalist asks the right questions and gets a politician a few minutes past their talking points?  Well, sometimes, as Michael Kinsley has pointed out, we get to the truth.  That’s what happened this morning on WLS 890 AM in Chicago.  Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft were filling on the Don Wade and Roma morning show and had Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. on to discuss the Health Care Reform bill.

This is the bill that President Obama has declared will lower premiums, increase benefits and cut the deficit, right?

After wading through Jesse Jr.’s talking points, the interview finally gets to the truth:

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That was Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. saying something that none of us has heard from a Democrat over the past 12 months of debate over the Health Care Reform act: (more…)

“I have been affiliated with the Cuban Council of Churches since the 1980s,” boasted Rev. Jeremiah Wright in a sermon on July 16, 2006.

I have several close Cuban friends who work with the Cuba Council of Churches and you have heard me preach about our affiliation and the Black Theology Project’s trips to Cuba. The Cuban Council of Churches has been a non-partisan global mission partner for decades. I have worked with them for two decades.

“Non-partisan,” Reverend Wright? Not according to Cuban intelligence defector Juan Vives, who from hands-on experience reports that the Cuba Council of Churches is in fact an arm of Cuba’s ICAP (Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos) itself an arm of Cuba’s DGI, Cuba’s secret police, founded and mentored by the KGB and East German STASI. The ICAP’s long-time chieftain was Rene Cruz Rodriguez, perhaps one of Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s “friends.” (more…)