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		<title>BigDawg Spotlight: &#8216;Operation Jelly Bean&#8217; &#8211; Answering the Call in the &#8216;Spirit&#8217; of Bipartisanship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Mei Norton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can tell a lot about a fella&#8217;s character by whether he picks out  all of one color or just grabs a handful.&#8221; ~ Ronald Reagan explaining why he liked to  have a jar of jelly beans on hand for important meetings.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>&#8220;You can tell a lot about a fella&#8217;s character by whether he picks out  all of one color or just grabs a handful.&#8221; ~ Ronald Reagan explaining why he liked to  have a jar of jelly beans on hand for important meetings.</em></p>
<p>Our mission at <a href="http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com">BigDawg Music Mafia</a> is to unite and encourage conservatives with creative abilities to get engaged in the culture revolution &#8211; to promote American exceptionalism through the arts.  While many of us are using our talents to draw attention to the destruction of liberty by the current administration and those on the far left, there are times when we can use our creativity to bridge that partisan divide, even if only in a light-hearted way. This was one of those times.</p>
<p>Taking a cue from Senators Harry Reid and Chris Dodd who recently visited the late Sen. Ted Kennedy&#8217;s grave site to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEH6eVr6mZs">channel his bipartisan spirit</a> by pouring whiskey on his grave and reciting a prayer in hopes the Super Committee would reach an agreement on the budget cuts, BigDawg Music Mafia decided to answer their call for bipartisanship in a mission we dubbed &#8220;Operation Jelly Bean.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Having heard radio&#8217;s Rush Limbaugh talk about the Super Committee&#8217;s failed attempt to reach an agreement and how the two Senators contributed to the process by their visit with Kennedy; and having heard the challenge Limbaugh posed to one of his callers to visit Kennedy&#8217;s grave site on his behalf, BigDawg Music Mafia Co-Founder, Andrew (a.k.a. BigDawg) convinced me we needed to take that challenge since the caller indicated she was not local.  My friend Reese and I, however, are.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s what Rush <a href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2011/11/23/rush_baby_enraged_by_school_breakfast">asked of one of his callers</a>:</p>
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<blockquote><p>If you&#8217;re ever in Washington and you stay at a hotel, grab a bottle of scotch, one of those mini-bar bottles of scotch, and go to Ted Kennedy&#8217;s grave and pour it on the grave.</p></blockquote>
<p>As both Andrew and I are retired military, and Reese&#8217;s husband is a vet, Arlington National Cemetery is sacred ground to us so we  wanted to ensure we maintained proper decorum in what we did.</p>
<p>Instead of just pouring some scotch on Kennedy&#8217;s grave (respecting the fact that  we  were on hallowed ground) we decided to concoct a brand new &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; adult   beverage.  We thought since Kennedy liked Chevis, and Reid and Dodd already  poured some on his grave, why not answer their call for bipartisanship  and mix some of that Chevis with something enjoyed by many of us on the right?  What better than Rush&#8217;s fabulous <a href="http://www.twoifbytea.com/">Two If By Tea</a> &#8230; and what better garnish than President Ronald Reagan&#8217;s <a href="http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/reference/jellybellies.html">favorite sweet treat</a>, Jelly Belly Jelly Beans?</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Two If By Tea Manhattan</strong><br />
1 part Chevis<br />
2 parts Raspberry Two if By Tea (regular or diet)<br />
3 Jelly Belly jellybeans (garnish)</p>
<ul>
<li> Blue jelly bean representing the left</li>
<li> Red jelly bean representing the right</li>
<li> White jelly bean representing unity/bipartisanship</li>
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<p>We brought the sealed bottle of Chevis and a small cooler of Two If By  Tea with us &#8230; placed the bottle of Chevis and a bottle of Two if  By Tea in front of Ted’s headstone &#8230; along with one of each color of the  Jelly Belly jellybeans (that came with Rush&#8217;s Two if By Tea  gift set as a tribute to President Ronald Reagan) to channel Ted’s “spirit” &#8230; or love of spirits as it were.</p>
<p>Since Virginia has an open container law and alcohol consumption is not allowed on  the National Mall and surrounding federal park lands we made sure we kept the Chevis sealed until we got  home.</p>
<p>So, in honor  of our fallen brothers and sisters, we did not follow Rush&#8217;s challenge as posed to his caller. Instead, we waited until we got back  to my house, then mixed the drink and offered the following toast &#8211;  in honor of Mr. Kennedy:</p>
<blockquote><p>We heard you were visited by Dodd and by Reid<br />
In the spirit of bi-partisanship you&#8217;ll be pleased<br />
Rush sends his regards but we’ve added a twist<br />
Your Chevis, his Tea make a tasty new mix<br />
A drink in your honor that’s smooth as satin<br />
Reagan Jellybeans with a Two If By Tea Manhattan</p>
<p>Cheers to &#8216;The Lion of the Senate&#8217;, &#8216;The Doctor of Democracy&#8217;, and &#8216;The Gipper&#8217;.</p></blockquote>
<p>Believe it or not, this is a very smooth, sweet and refreshing drink!</p>
<div id="attachment_551264" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 584px"><a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2011/12/ira2.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-551264  " title="ira" src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2011/12/ira2.jpg" alt="" width="574" height="430" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mementos for Corporal Ira Hamilton Hayes</p></div>
<p>While at Arlington, Reese and I also paid a visit to the grave site of <a href="http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com/forum/topics/ira-hayes-was-a-reluctant-arizona-hero">Corporal Ira Hamilton  Hayes</a>, one of the six men immortalized in the iconic photograph of the <a title="Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_the_Flag_on_Iwo_Jima">flag raising on Iwo Jima</a> during <a title="World War II" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II">World War II</a>, and left a bottle of Two if By Tea, some Jelly Belly Jellybeans,  and a copy of a CD from the  great new patriotic rock bands at our  site, <a href="http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com/profile/MadisonRising">Madison Rising</a>, who just hit the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150437470552949&amp;set=a.55740417948.67992.582577948&amp;type=1&amp;theater">top 100 rock albums</a> on Amazon, and will be doing a cover of <a href="http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com/forum/topics/johnny-cash-ballad-of-ira-hayes-lyrics">“The Ballad of Ira  Hayes”</a> in the near future.  The story of Ira Hayes is one that needs to be told as it highlights the effects of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder which so many of our veterans are suffering from today.  Who better than a band whose lead singer, <a href="http://www.bigdawgmusicmafia.com/profile/DavidOwenBray">David Owen Bray</a>, is a veteran himself?  Their debut CD, Madison Rising, has a song called <a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/artist/song_details/10697182"><em>“In The Days That Reagan Ruled”</em></a> which ends with the  following chorus:</p>
<blockquote><p>Tearing down an iron wall<br />
Acting in his greatest role<br />
Made all his critics look like fools<br />
<strong>‘Cause even jelly beans were cool!</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>We truly enjoyed executing this mission; the weather was gorgeous, the  symbolism of what we were doing there was priceless, and we ended up  with a great new cocktail to enjoy just in time for the holidays!</p>
<p>President Reagan would be proud.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
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		<title>*Yawn*: Conan Tweets Palin-and-Bachmann-Are-Dumb Joke</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 20:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hollywoodland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously, someone in comedy please please PLEASE make a Democrat the punchline of one of these our-leaders-are-stupid jokes.  Why is it that these two beautiful, accomplished conservative women are the only Americans in public life subject to a constant stream of lines like this?  Oh, right&#8230;
How many of you know that Michele Bachman has not [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seriously, someone in comedy please <em>please</em> PLEASE make a Democrat the punchline of one of these our-leaders-are-stupid jokes.  Why is it that these two beautiful, accomplished conservative women are the only Americans in public life subject to a constant stream of lines like this?  Oh, right&#8230;</p>
<p>How many of you know that Michele Bachman has not just a Bachelor&#8217;s degree and a Juris Doctorate, but also an LL.M. (that&#8217;s a <em>Masters of Law)</em>?    Is Harry Reid moonlighting as a rocket-scientist or something?  Did I  miss the memo that Joe Biden is a foremost authority on biblical  hermeneutics?  But why would comics rib these intellectual giants when they can make Bachmann and Palin the punchline for the eleventy-billionth time?</p>
<p>By all means, Hollywood, poke fun at our leaders, but why not test-drive some new targets?  We guarantee you&#8217;ll win over a broader audience.  Besides, you&#8217;ll allow for at least a shadow of a doubt that you aren&#8217;t the partisan shills you are. <em>-AM</em></p>
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		<title>Meet Whitney Cummings: Up-and-Coming Comic Who Steals Jokes about Handicapped Babies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Marlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[CONTENT WARNING: This post contains harsh language.]

On Wednesday night, Quentin Tarantino was roasted at the New York Friars&#8217; Club. Some of Hollywood’s most famous and talented stars were on hand, many of who did the actual roasting. Among them Samuel L. Jackson, Jerry Lewis, Sarah Silverman, Rob Schneider, Eli Roth, and Neve Campbell. One shameless [...]]]></description>
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<p>On Wednesday night, Quentin Tarantino was roasted at the New York Friars&#8217; Club. Some of Hollywood’s most famous and talented stars were on hand, many of who did the actual roasting. Among them Samuel L. Jackson, Jerry Lewis, Sarah Silverman, Rob Schneider, Eli Roth, and Neve Campbell. One shameless roaster named Whitney Cummings, often seen on <em>Chelsea Lately</em>, delivered the most buzz-worthy/cringe-worthy <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/friar_club_roast_of_tarantino_tickles_KaugWsPQbFpRAxKp0yHOZJ#ixzz16zPh6aIa">line of the night</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>[Tarantino has] produced more retarded things than Sarah Palin&#8217;s vagina.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Somewhere out there, Andrew Dice Clay is blushing. Not because the joke is off-color, he doesn’t care about that. He’s flushed because it’s unfunny, stolen hackery.</p>
<p><a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2010/12/whitney.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-422401" title="whitney" src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2010/12/whitney.jpg" alt="" width="402" height="353" /></a></p>
<p>Let’s deal with the unfunny part first: Who is the butt of this joke? A toddler who suffers from down-syndrome and the mother that chose not to destroy him while he was in the womb. <em>Yikes</em>. Regarding Trig: Lay. Off. The. Kids. Okay? Regarding Mama Palin: Is it possible to write a more obvious joke on a more obvious target? I’m sure Ms. Cummings fancies herself irreverent; what would be truly irreverent is if she would harness a little of that hate that dwells in her dreary heart and direct it toward someone who is actually in power. Here are some possible targets she may want to consider: Barack Obama, Michelle Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, or Joe Biden (notice how I&#8217;m not mentioning Obama&#8217;s children?). If she insists on resorting to humor that’s main attribute is shock-value, why not try a target that might actually shock someone?</p>
<p>Now let’s deal with the hackery part. It’s one thing that Whitney Cummings is mean-spirited, vulgar, and boring, but it’s quite another that she stole this joke. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEdk4UHhwA4&amp;feature=player_embedded">Here’s a super-NSFW clip</a> of Louis CK on <em>Opie and Anthony</em> going on a jag against Sarah Palin that ends with him referring to her vagina as a “retard-making cunt.”<span id="more-422397"></span></p>
<p>You mean Whitney Cummings isn’t the first to make a &#8220;Sarah Palin’s vagina produces retarded things&#8221; joke?!? <em>Waaahhhh?? </em>Actually, she’s not even the second. Here’s a joke <a href="http://www.ebaumsworld.com/jokes/read/1036314/">from the popular comedy site eBaum&#8217;s world</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>What is the difference between Sarah Palin&#8217;s mouth and her vagina?</em></p>
<p><em>Not everything that comes out of her vagina is retarded.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>John Nolte has <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jjmnolte/2010/09/09/leave-the-kids-alone-tonight-show-seats-crude-sarah-palin-hater-seated-next-to-her-daughter/">thoroughly detailed</a> that the depraved Louis CK took the gold at the Degenerate Olympics for his attempt to induce vomiting with a single phrase, but I think Cummings did him one better. At least when CK savaged Trig Palin and Sarah’s birth canal, his idea was probably original.</p>
<p>Meet Whitney Cummings: <a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20239791_3,00.html">the up-and-coming comic</a> who rips-off other people’s jokes about handicapped babies and the moms who choose not to abort them. The University of Pennsylvania must be proud <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney_Cummings">of their alumnus</a>.</p>
<p>I reached out to a stand-up comedian friend to verify my observation that this might not have been her joke, and he confirmed “it’s a steal.” Apparently this isn’t the first time either: “She&#8217;s stolen more jokes than <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickey_Henderson">Rickey Henderson</a> stole bases,” he said. “She’s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Mencia">Carlos Mencia</a> with a penis.”</p>
<p>Furthermore, telling a joke that isn&#8217;t your own at this particular venue is incredibly stupid. This isn’t the junior high school cafeteria and she’s not getting yucks from the cool kids by regurgitating <a href="http://www.deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com/">Deep Thoughts</a> she’s memorized. Cummings shared the stage with some of Hollywood’s biggest names, only to tell and take credit for a joke that&#8217;s shamelessly derivative at best and plagiarism at worst. The depravity of the joke is only surpassed by the arrogance of it.</p>
<p><a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2010/12/palins.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-422413" title="palins" src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2010/12/palins.jpg" alt="" width="507" height="309" /></a></p>
<p>But unfortunately, this is likely the last you’ll hear on this topic—<a href="http://www.now.org/">NOW</a> will be AWOL and we all know that hate and bullying directed toward Sarah Palin and her family isn’t the type of hate and bullying the NO H8/anti-bullying crowd cares to fight. (This is particularly telling of how backwards the Left’s priorities are, because unlike helpless Trig Palin, gay teens and adults are fully capable of defending themselves against bullies.)</p>
<p>So the Left’s obsession with Sarah Palin’s vagina and uterus continues and classless comedians still single out Trig as the only mentally challenged baby in America that’s fair game for public ridicule. While the smiley-faced Palins soldier-on, fending off horrendous indignity after horrendous indignity, joyless, joke-stealing scolds like Whitney Cummings continue to speak truth to out-of-power in the cheapest, laziest, and ugliest ways possible.</p>
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		<title>Maureen Dowd: Aggressive Female Politicians are Mean, Using the Word &#8216;Whore&#8217; is Not</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 00:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Greg Gutfeld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So according to Maureen Dowd, we&#8217;re seeing a rising tide of vicious bullying this political season &#8211; the kind you might see in high school, when &#8220;teenage tormentors&#8221; would &#8220;spread rumors that you were pregnant.&#8221;
Oh how I hated that.

For Dowd, these new &#8220;Republican Mean Girls,&#8221; are angry, aggressive women who are angry and aggressive. And [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So according to Maureen Dowd, we&#8217;re seeing a rising tide of vicious bullying this political season &#8211; the kind you might see in high school, when &#8220;teenage tormentors&#8221; would &#8220;spread rumors that you were pregnant.&#8221;</p>
<p>Oh how I hated that.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-406445" title="2170846296_ff5fd32bc6" src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2010/10/2170846296_ff5fd32bc61.jpg" alt="2170846296_ff5fd32bc6" width="458" height="310" /></p>
<p>For Dowd, these new &#8220;<a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/10/17/maureen-dowd-ridicules-gop-women-mean-girls-grown-versions-teenage-to">Republican Mean Girls</a>,&#8221; are angry, aggressive women who are angry and aggressive. And mean.</p>
<p>Why not just call them bitches?</p>
<p>Anyway, to the irony. Here Mo laments the evils of smearing women &#8211; right before doing essentially the same thing. In a way, she becomes that cliched head cheerleader who always supports the loutish jock. &#8220;You better leave him alone, or I&#8217;ll say you banged the gym teacher under the grandstands!&#8221;</p>
<p>Funny thing is &#8211; I did. I always did.</p>
<p>But Dowd&#8217;s biggest blind spot? She writes this column only a week after Meg Whitman was called a whore -and &#8211; after the California NOW chief said &#8220;whore&#8221; was an apt description.<span id="more-406429"></span></p>
<p>But none of that made her column.</p>
<p>Odd.</p>
<p>So, how is calling a lady a whore not seen as mean, but Sharon Angle asking Harry Reid to &#8220;man up,&#8221; is? I&#8217;d ask for an explanation, but that might be too mean.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s also just too funny seeing Dowd go after Angle for being aggressive in a debate. It&#8217;s what you do in a debate, sister.</p>
<p>But maybe Mo thinks Reid can&#8217;t defend himself, or that a debate is just no place for chicks.</p>
<p>And so women&#8217;s worst enemy are always women. And the media eggs this girl-on-girl action on &#8211; but only in one direction, of course. See Meghan McCain, yet again &#8211; being asked her opinion on a Republican lady: </p>
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<p>Eloquent.</p>
<p>Yep: when you&#8217;re looking for a chick to bang on a conservative chick, you can always count on double M. She criticizes O&#8217;Donnell for being inexperienced -and I, for one, totally back Meg on this. She may be the foremost authority.</p>
<p>And if you disagree with me, you&#8217;re a racist homophobic tyrannophobe.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.dailygut.com/"><strong>Tonight:</strong></a></p>
<p><strong>-Juliet Huddy!</strong></p>
<p><strong>-Angela Maglowan!</strong></p>
<p><strong>-Jim Norton!</strong></p>
<p><strong>and special guest: Bill O&#8217;Reilly</strong></p>
<p><strong>PLUS, some other surprizeys.</strong></p>
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		<title>Social Security Reform: The New Radicalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph C. Phillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is, perhaps, no better testament to how far this nation has drifted from the principles of individual liberty, free markets, and private property than that those proponents of real reform of the Social Security system are now looked upon as radicals.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is, perhaps, no better testament to how far this nation has drifted from the principles of individual liberty, free markets, and private property than that those proponents of real reform of the Social Security system are now looked upon as radicals.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-full wp-image-406181 aligncenter" title="PRES. BUSH PLAN TO PRIVATIZE SOCIAL SECURITY" src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2010/10/0826-socialsecurity_jpg_full_600.jpg" alt="PRES. BUSH PLAN TO PRIVATIZE SOCIAL SECURITY" width="450" height="257" /></p>
<p>Senate majority leader, Harry Reid (D-NV), running for his political life, accused his opponent, Sharron Angle, of wanting to “kill Social Security.” Of course, Harry Reid has a rather elastic definition of “the truth,” so his attack lacks a measure of veracity. Angle has taken the position that in order to save Social Security we must stop raiding the (non-existent) lock-box and that “going forward, we need to personalize Social Security the same way that Harry Reid has a personalized account.” Reid has routinely characterized Angle as an extremist. Alas, Reid also suffers from the political malady known as “Venetian memory:” Recalling that which is advantageous and forgetting everything else. You see, in 1999 Harry Reid was all for “putting a small amount of Social Security dollars into the private sector.”</p>
<p>What is also interesting is how fast Angle changed the subject. And who can blame her? Democrat warnings that Republicans want to roll the dice with the retirements of the elderly have been extremely effective. Republicans running for office must distance themselves from the topic of Social Security reform, lest they commit political suicide.<span id="more-405613"></span></p>
<p>Unfortunately, such scare tactics have also scuttled any hope for finding a real solution to the very real problem of securing the financial future of the Social Security system.</p>
<p>This year, Social Security went into deficit; the program is paying out more than it is taking in. According to the Congressional Budget Office, this deficit will continue for the next four years, “with small surpluses reappearing briefly in 2014 and 2015.” The report continues: “After that, demographic forces are expected to overtake the fund, as more and more baby boomers leave the work force, stop paying into the program and start collecting their benefits. At that point, outlays will exceed revenue every year, no matter how well the economy performs.”</p>
<p>To this happy news, progressives shout that privatization, which really means giving private citizens ownership and control of their Social Security dollars, will lead to disaster. Such pronouncements are really an example of the old political game of saying one thing while doing another. In neighborhoods outside of Washington, D.C., this is also known as lying.</p>
<p>In order to stave off the impending collapse of the system, Congress must either raise taxes, raise the age of retirement, cut services, implement means testing for recipients, or some combination thereof.</p>
<p>In other words, in order to get votes, liberal politicians are convincing citizens that conservatives want to take away their retirement savings. Once in office, those same Democrat politicians will pass laws that will take Social Security away from large swaths of the American public.</p>
<p>As it happens, there is also another way to save Social Security: import workers. In addition to the potential of providing Democrats with several million new voters, “comprehensive immigration reform,” (or amnesty), would also add millions of new workers to pay into the Social Security system. The idea of importing workers to sustain entitlement programs is not new. France buoyed its social welfare programs by importing millions of North Africans; Americans can sustain its entitlement programs by looking south of the border. And like France, we might also look forward to millions of citizens rioting in the streets when the financial rubber finally hits the road. But I digress.</p>
<p>The great irony is that what conservatives are really saying is that workers should be allowed to own the fruits of their labor. What a radical concept!</p>
<p>Actually, it turns out that it’s not all that radical. You see, there are approximately six million state and municipal employees, including policemen, firemen, and school teachers that have been able to opt out of the Social Security system. In fact, prior to 1984, federal employees did not participate in the system. In an effort to shore up the system, federal employees were brought into the fold. That process was vehemently opposed by none other than that old radical, then-Congressman, Harry Reid.</p>
<p>My, how times have changed!</p>
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		<title>Lady Gaga Judges No One &#8230; Except the U.S. Military</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Sep 2010 21:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Jena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there no end to the many talents of Lady Gaga, already recognized as the greatest Madonna impersonator of this century? Of course we all know her as a singer, musician, fashionista and female impersonator, but recently she has revealed herself as maven in two new areas: military expert and political advisor.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is there no end to the many talents of Lady Gaga, already recognized as the greatest Madonna impersonator of this century? Of course we all know her as a singer, musician, fashionista and female impersonator, but recently she has revealed herself as maven in two new areas: military expert and political advisor.</p>
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<p>It started at the MTV Video Music Awards. That is ironic in itself since I think that MTV stopped being a music channel sometime in the 1990’s. Ms. Gaga, (I don’t know if “Lady” is a title or simply the first part of her pseudonym) appeared in a costume made of meat. When asked the meaning of her get-up by Ellen DeGeneres, she explained it wasn’t a slam on vegans.  </p>
<p>“As you know, I am the most judgment-free human being on the earth,&#8221; Gaga replied.  </p>
<p>Wow! Did the irony of that statement knock anyone else down into their La-Z-Boy? That might be the truest thing she has ever said. It wasn’t too long ago that having judgment skills was considered a plus. Not anymore!</p>
<p>Be that as it may, the whole idea was to call attention to the plight of gay folks in the military. If you don’t see the linkage between “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” narcissistic self- indulgence and wearing a Porterhouse, come on over and sit on the terminally un-hip bench with me while I try to figure it out. <span id="more-395909"></span></p>
<p>Ms. Gaga went on to explain that her being accompanied by some disgruntled former employees of the military was a political protest:</p>
<blockquote><p>“For me this evening, if we don’t stand up for what we believe in and if we don’t fight for our rights pretty soon, we’re going to have as much rights as the meat on own bones. And, I am not a piece of meat.”</p></blockquote>
<p>I am not really sure what that means, either. I am a fairly hefty guy and I have a lot of meat on my bones. So are my rights safe? Perhaps Ms. Gaga is trying to tell us that DADT is somehow linked to anorexia in the fashion industry. Ahhh, now it’s all starting to come together.</p>
<p>She went on to say:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;It is a devastation to me that I know my fans who are gay . . . feel like they have government oppression on them.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Not that there &#8220;is&#8221; government oppression but that they “feel” there is oppression.</p>
<p>Later she “tweeted” to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Senator was smitten with Lady Gaga. They tweeted back and forth for days! That is, if you think they do their own “tweeting.” I believe that both have people who do this job for them and the job title is “Twit.”  There is probably a Head Twit and several Assistant Twits. I imagine Lady Gaga and Harry Reid are surrounded by Twits.</p>
<p>Perhaps he is just looking for his next gig when he finds himself unemployed in November.</p>
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		<title>&#8216;WaPo&#8217; and Sean Penn&#8217;s &#8216;Fair Game&#8217;: Lying for the Left&#8217;s &#8216;Larger Truth&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:59:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Tapson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brilliant Humberto Fontova tells a story in one of his books (I believe it&#8217;s Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him), about guitarist Carlos Santana being confronted once about wearing the iconic Che T-shirt. After deservedly getting an earful about what a murdering coward Che was, and how the counterculture’s favorite [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The brilliant <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/author/hfontova/">Humberto Fontova</a> tells a story in one of his books (I believe it&#8217;s <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Real-Che-Guevara-Idolize/dp/1595230521/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1282795868&amp;sr=1-1">Exposing the Real Che Guevara and the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him</a></em>), about guitarist Carlos Santana being confronted once about wearing the iconic Che T-shirt. After deservedly getting an earful about what a murdering coward Che was, and how the counterculture’s favorite revolutionary icon despised musicians and artists like Santana himself, an irritated Santana reportedly sputtered, “You’re just hung up on the facts, man.”</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img class="size-full wp-image-389465 aligncenter" src="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/files/2010/08/sean-penn-fair-game-20-5-10-kc.jpg" alt="sean-penn-fair-game-20-5-10-kc" width="428" height="286" /></p>
<p>In a recent article entitled “<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/20/AR2010082002087.html">Washington-Set Films May Fudge Facts, But Good Ones Speak To Larger Truths</a>,” the<em> Washington Post</em>’s Ann Hornaday discusses how D.C. audiences composed of political insiders scrutinize Hollywood’s D.C.-based historical dramas for fidelity to the facts. “Myth or reality?” she asks. “That&#8217;s the question posed by movies based on true events, and it&#8217;s a conundrum that Washington officialdom seems to have a perennial problem in reconciling.” As examples, she references such films as <em>Charlie Wilson’s War</em>, <em>Thirteen Days</em>, <em>All the President’s Men</em>, and of course, Oliver Stone’s controversial oeuvre: <em>JFK</em>, <em>Nixon</em>, and <em>W</em>. (I can’t tell you how long I’ve been wanting to use the word “oeuvre” in one of my blogs).</p>
<p>History buffs and D.C. insiders may nitpick about such films, but as Ms. Hornaday writes, “You don&#8217;t have to support Stone&#8217;s signature brand of revisionism to agree that overweening literalism can sometimes obscure a larger truth.”<span id="more-388269"></span></p>
<p>Actually, the problem isn’t that adhering to the facts obscures the truth. The problem is that “overweening literalism” bogs down the storytelling. Bringing a fact-based story to the screen necessitates all sorts of manipulation of messy and inconvenient facts in order to compose a compelling, well-ordered tale: compressing time and events, creating composite characters and/or omitting others, putting imagined dialogue in the mouths of historical figures, etc. The trick, and the goal, is to manage all these creative techniques in a way that might “fudge facts,” as Ms. Hornaday says, but stays <em>faithful to the truth</em>.</p>
<p>She quotes <em>The West Wing</em> screenwriter Aaron Sorkin as calling nonfiction drama “a tricky needle to thread. When an audience sits in a theater having been told that &#8216;The Following is a True Story,’ they should look at it the way they&#8217;d look at a painting and not a photograph.” Exactly so, and I believe most audiences do view nonfiction dramas, or docudramas, that way. I believe most people understand that what they’re seeing is not a documentary or an exact record of facts, but an “artist’s rendition” of historical reality. (Even documentaries are not strictly collections of facts, of course; they too are carefully pieced together and shaped to tell an entertaining story from a particular point of view).</p>
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<p>About <em>All the President’s Men</em>, which Hornaday says is considered <em>the</em> masterpiece of political drama, she notes that “it barely matters that the film&#8217;s most iconic piece of dialogue – ‘Follow the money’ – was never spoken in real life”:</p>
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<blockquote><p>[T]he movies about Washington that get the right stuff right – or get some stuff wrong but in the right way – become their own form of consensus history. ‘Follow the money,’ then, assumes its own totemic truth. Ratified through repeated viewings in theaters, on Netflix and beyond, these films become a mutual exercise in creating a usable past.</p></blockquote>
<p>What prompted Ms. Hornaday’s article in the first place was the impending release of the Sean Penn-Naomi Watts political <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">snoozer</span> thriller <em>Fair Game</em>, about the “outing” of CIA agent Valerie Plame in the buildup to the Iraq War. When it hits theaters in November, she says D.C. audiences will “prepare to truth-squad the movie&#8217;s tiniest details.”</p>
<p>Actually, they won’t <em>have</em> to zero in on the tiniest details, because <em>Fair Game </em>is false in the broad strokes. The script clearly aims to convict the Bush administration and Karl Rove in particular for lying about going to war with Iraq and conspiring to “out” Plame’s identity in order to punish her ambassador husband Joe Wilson for exposing those “lies.” As I revealed when I first <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2010/04/06/sucker-punch-squad-in-fair-game-sean-penn-rewrites-valerie-plame-affair-to-trash-rove-bush/">reviewed the script</a> for Big Hollywood back in April:</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he truth is,<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/08/leak.armitage/index.html"> it was State Department official Richard Armitage – a Bush <em>critic</em>, not an evil neocon – who leaked Plame’s name</a>… Rove, Libby, Cheney, Bush – the whole criminal pantheon of the Left’s fevered imagination – were not responsible for Plame’s outing&#8230; <em>Yet</em> <em>Armitage’s name never appears in the script</em>. And how could it? That would defuse the filmmakers’ intent to demonize Rove and Bush and to condemn the war as shameful, unjust American aggression.</p></blockquote>
<p>In the case of <em>Fair Game</em>, the filmmakers have not merely tweaked the facts to better tell the truth; they have <em>intentionally buried </em>the truth in order to replace it with a narrative that they want to see become accepted as historical fact &#8211; their “larger truth.”</p>
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<p>Contrast this with the Left’s response to the 2006 ABC miniseries <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0473404/">The Path to 9/11</a></em>, which dramatized the chain of events that led to the Islamic attacks of that terrible morning almost exactly nine years ago (a morning <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/09/11/honoring-september-11th-they-wants-us-to-forget/">the Left would like us to “get over”</a>). As <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2010/01/29/clinton-supporter-robert-iger-dga-honors-exec-who-banished-path-to-911-miniseries/">I’ve written about before</a>, and as John Ziegler’s documentary <em><a href="http://www.blockingthepath.com/">Blocking the Path to 9/11</a></em> brilliantly depicts, Democrats hallucinated that the $30+ million miniseries was a hit job on the Clinton administration, concocted by a cabal of conservative filmmakers and somehow financed by a non-profit, Christian (gasp!) relief mission.</p>
<p>Without having seen a frame of <em>The Path to 9/11</em>, Democrat pit bulls like Senators Harry Reid and Louise Slaughter went into pre-emptive attack mode to protect their legacy, claiming that the miniseries was a pack of libelous lies, and threatening to pull ABC’s license if the show aired. Meanwhile an internet-fueled <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/discover-the-secret-right_b_29015.html">smear campaign</a> spearheaded by the unscrupulous character assassin, blogger Max Blumenthal, ramped up a mob mentality among the lonely and the impotent in the blogosphere. Ultimately, Bill Clinton himself boiled over about it in his <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYNI5RPOlp4">infamous interview</a> with Chris Wallace.</p>
<p>They pulled out all the stops not only to censor <em>The Path to 9/11</em>, but to bury it, because the Left knows how <em>critical</em> it is to control the &#8220;consensus history,&#8221; that &#8220;usable past&#8221; that Ann Hornaday mentioned. In the end, none of their threatened lawsuits materialized, because the miniseries was faithful to the larger truth and they knew it. But the damage had been done &#8211; the show aired only once, and it <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2010/01/29/clinton-supporter-robert-iger-dga-honors-exec-who-banished-path-to-911-miniseries/">remains unavailable on DVD</a>.</p>
<p>This is the third time I’ve written about <em>Fair Game </em>for Big Hollywood. Why bother to devote so much space to a movie that&#8217;s fated for box-office oblivion anyway? Because it&#8217;s important to call out the Left&#8217;s persistent efforts to establish their ideologically correct narrative when the historical evidence doesn’t conform to it. Facts may be stubborn things, to paraphrase John Adams, but they don&#8217;t stop the Hollywood Left from spinning a “larger truth” out of a lie.</p>
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		<title>Barack Obama&#8217;s Helter-Skelter, Insane Clown Posse, Alinsky Plans to &#8216;Deconstruct&#8217; America</title>
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		<dc:creator>Andrew Breitbart</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The bounty is now $100,000 for any audio/video footage of the N-word being hurled at Congressmen John Lewis and Andre Carson.
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After 14 months of committing 100% to health care reform, the day after the signing of the Health Care bill was to mark the Democratic Party&#8217;s new primary concern: destroy the uprising, annihilate by [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em><strong>UPDATE:</strong> The bounty is now $100,000 for any audio/video footage of the N-word being hurled at Congressmen John Lewis and Andre Carson.</em></p>
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<p>After 14 months of committing 100% to health care reform, the day after the signing of the Health Care bill was to mark the Democratic Party&#8217;s new primary concern: destroy the uprising, annihilate by all means necessary, the Tea Party movement.</p>
<p>The first sign that a plan was in place was the ham-fisted, high-camp posturing of the most controversial members of the Democratic caucus walking through the peaceful but animated &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; demonstrators on Capitol Hill. There is no reason for these elected officials to walk above ground through the media circus amid their ideological foes. The natural route is the tunnels between the House office buildings and the Capitol. By crafting a highly symbolic walk of the Congressional Black Caucus through the majority white crowd, the Democratic Party was looking to provoke a negative reaction. They didn&#8217;t get it. So they made it up.</p>
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<p>The proof that the N-word wasn&#8217;t said once, let alone 15 times, as Rep. Andre Carson claimed, is that soon thereafter &#8212; even though the press dutifully reported it as truth &#8212; Nancy Pelosi followed the alleged hate fest, which allegedly included someone spitting, by walking through the crowd with a gavel in hand and a shit-eating grin on her face. Had the incidents reported by the Congressional Black Caucus actually occurred the Capitol Police would have been negligent to allow the least popular person to that crowd – the Speaker – to put herself in harm&#8217;s way.</p>
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<p>That crowd was a sea of new-media equipment. Not only were tens of thousands people armed with handicams, BlackBerrys and iPods, so also was the mainstream media there, covering every inch of the event. Why did not one mainstream media outlet raise the specter that perhaps a video would exist to prove the events occurred? I am still dealing with the same press telling me we didn&#8217;t prove that ACORN was aiding and abetting criminal activity because we &#8220;did not provide enough audio and video evidence.&#8221; (Insert laugh track.) Is there not a blatant double standard at play here? Nancy Pelosi tipped her hand that race was a central part of her strategy. She invoked the Civil Rights Act and compared it with the universally reviled health care bill. Her caucus is doubling down on the civil-rights rhetoric. There are no coincidences.</p>
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<p>Linking the health-care bill, which has nothing to do with black and white, to the divisive civil-rights period, while simultaneously accusing its opponents of being racist, is an evil strategy &#8212; literally. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_(Manson_scenario)">Charles Manson would approve</a>.</p>
<p>The Democratic Party is trying to signal to the black community and to progressive media types that the way to push back against the Tea Party and Republicans is to use the reliable race card by provoking a racial incident. The ensuing rhetoric about the bill and about the nature of the Tea Party is based upon repeated talking points. Propaganda. Everyone is on message that Republicans and Tea Partiers are racist &#8212; a divisive and dangerous argument, so lacking in any shred of evidence save for the fact that the majority in the Tea Party, as in America itself, is white. This is <a href="http://crime.about.com/od/current/a/duke_lacrosse.htm">Duke lacrosse politics</a> at its worst.</p>
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<p>Those in the movement who are Hispanic or black are given the Clarence Thomas treatment: mocked, ridiculed and marginalized. The Democratic party cannot afford for minority groups to break from the pack, so they show that apostasy is met with high-grade ridicule. Those willing to withstand vile and hateful un-American taunts are some of America&#8217;s greatest patriots.</p>
<p>The press went straight to petrified Republican leaders like John Boehner and Michael Steele over the falsified &#8220;N-word&#8221; allegations, who dutifully offered apologies that they were not qualified to give. It was a set-up.</p>
<p>I smelled a rat so I offered at first $10k five days after the highly publicized alleged incidents happened. How could we be five full news cycles into this major controversy and not have any evidence? In fact, the existing footage showed the Congressional Black Caucus walking and never once moving their heads toward any “racist outbursts.” Is it conceivable that all of them stoically walked by the N-word as it was hurled 15 times &#8212; as they were holding up cameras to convey they were suspicious of the crowd to begin with?</p>
<p>We are now two weeks since the bill was signed and the $10k reward jumped to $20k in a day after it was mentioned on both Hannity and O&#8217;Reilly. At the Searchlight Tea Party event last weekend I upped the ante to $100k. So where&#8217;s the evidence? Ken Vogel of <em>Politico </em>covered this story and said calls to Rep. John Lewis &#8212; one of the originator&#8217;s of the N-word storyline – were never returned.</p>
<p>Nancy Pelosi did a great disservice to <a href="http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/players.htm">a great civil rights icon</a> by thrusting him out there to perform this mischievous task. His reputation is now on the line as a result of her desperation to take down the Tea Party movement.</p>
<p>We’ve called their bluff. And they have tried to back off. They realize that this race warfare can backfire, just as it did with the railroaded Duke lacrosse players, as it did with professor <a href="http://nasblog.org/2010/03/25/madonna-constantine-plagiarist-professor-loses-lawsuit/">Madonna Constantine and her faked noose</a> incident at Columbia and the Sergeant Crowley boner by Barack Obama who stupidly said the white police officer had behaved &#8220;stupidly&#8221; in handcuffing Skip Gates.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44246" title="Gates" src="http://bigjournalism.com/files/2010/04/Gates-300x239.jpg" alt="Gates" width="300" height="239" /></p>
<p>The first Alinsky president is now using surrogates to split this nation into two hostile parties so he can puppeteer the have-nots against the perceived haves. The non-response to my $100k challenge is a tacit acknowledgement that the Congressional Black Caucus and Barack Obama don&#8217;t have the stomach for doubling down.</p>
<p>The other part of the strategy that is built into the N-Word Capitol Hill Walk is the strategy to incite. The media is doing their job for them by speaking of an unhinged white Tea Party mob. Absent any evidence other than creatively selected hand-crafted signs from the fringe of the audience that are presented to represent the whole, the media is simply repeating assumptions that Democrats and media elites have against fly-over types. What we have here is hardcore media elitism mixed with politically correct class warfare.</p>
<p>The Searchlight Nevada Tea Party is the Rosetta Stone of the Democratic Party strategy. Tea Party protesters were not going to Sen. Harry Reid&#8217;s office building to threaten individuals, Democratic-style: &#8220;No Justice, No Peace!&#8221; They went to <a href="http://www.2steppin.com/srchlt.htm">the middle of nowhere</a>, a place akin to the moon landing site, to talk up the constitution, the founding documents and to express their dismay with the current political class. The real astroturf, the bought-and-paid-for, union-thug support network that does the heavy lifting and the bone breaking, traveled to Searchlight to incite a fight. Video captured by my film crew caught Harry-Reid-placard-holding, t-shirt-wearing appartchiks, not just misdirecting traffic down the wrong highway but also, when confronted over that hostile act, throwing a dozen eggs at the passing Tea Party Express bus.</p>
<p>The usual suspects of Democratic Party apologists, like John Podesta&#8217;s Media Matters, were quick to diminish the events. Eric Boehlert dubbed my report &#8220;the Phantom Egg,&#8221; calling into question my veracity. But on tape a day later we were able to prove that the Harry Reid supporters were not just the ones who’d misdirected traffic, they were also the ones who threw the eggs, just as they were also the ones who called the police to report that I was the egg thrower and the instigator. Classic Alinsky. Accuse those of the acts that you are doing. It usually works. But in this day and age of new media and hyper-media, the tape, or lack thereof, usually tells the tale.</p>
<p>The race baiting of the Tea Party crowd on the Capitol front was caught by calling the Democrats out &#8212; and they didn&#8217;t deliver the goods. The attempt to incite a reaction from the Nevada Tea Party was even worse. They were the violent ones, who traveled out of their way to provoke an incident &#8212; and when they didn&#8217;t get it, they blamed the victim.</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/sright/2010/04/02/did-the-democratic-party-field-director-lie-to-police/">IT&#8217;S ON TAPE</a>. And the person lying on camera to the police is the field director of the Nevada Democratic Party.</p>
<p>Over at Media Matters, Podesta&#8217;s den of deceit, the phantom egg has turned into Breitbart mockery over easter eggs. Change the subject, misdirection, their side caught with their pants around their ankles, don&#8217;t look there media, there&#8217;s nothing to see here.</p>
<p>Alinsky.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-44250" title="alinsky" src="http://bigjournalism.com/files/2010/04/alinsky-191x300.jpg" alt="alinsky" width="191" height="300" /></p>
<p>The Democrats need to kill the Tea Party movement. They need to marginalize and demonize those who would stand up to their hardball, toxic and anti-democratic tactics. Their strategy is to bait and incite the Tea Party and to use whatever they can get to silence the awakening giant. They have failed, epically, and the American people now see these tactics for what they are. At long last, new people every day are beginning to understand the kinds of people we are dealing with here.</p>
<p>Will the media keep falling into the trap? Their business model continues to fail each and every time they are suckered – unless, of course, they are doing it on purpose. The Republican Party failed in its attempt to make good with the Tea Party when its leaders apologized for it. When will the GOP stop playing Charlie Brown to the media&#8217;s Lucy? The Democratic party has been exposed as trying to create a <em>Kristallnacht</em> to save the Obama presidency along the fault line of race and the essence of the First Amendment. If the GOP does not have the intestinal fortitude to fight back, a growing number of disenchanted and disenfrachised Tea Party participants will have to do it themselves.</p>
<p>Who is calling the shots here? Is it the White House, by way of Chicago? Or is it Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid? The press refused to tell you the truth about this president. It refused to tell you of his proud adherence to the teachings of the original Chicago &#8220;community organizer&#8221; Saul Alinsky. We have now entered the first full-fledged Alinsky presidency. The only way to beat Alinsky is with Alinsky. The Democrats and President Obama will not give up this tack. Do you think the GOP will win the day in November and in 2012 if its strategy is to apologize for every manufactured &#8220;right wing fringe&#8221; outrage?</p>
<p>With President Obama over the last week calling attention to the Tea Parties and their &#8220;heated&#8221; rhetoric, he has officially connected himself to the civil war his minions have flailingly attempted to inflame. The only good thing to come of this is that we can now officially put to rest the laughable notion that Obama was going to be the first post-racial president.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I finally figured out what makes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid so intriguing.
He&#8217;s a big stupid-face.

Example: Monday, during a Senate debate over the job creation package, he suggested that unemployment causes men to beat their wives.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So I finally figured out what makes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid so intriguing.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s a big stupid-face.</p>
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<p>Example: Monday, during a Senate debate over the job creation package, he suggested that unemployment causes men to beat their wives.</p>
<p>&#8220;I met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse. It has gotten out of hand,&#8221; Reid said. &#8220;Why? Men don&#8217;t have jobs.&#8221;</p>
<p>He adds that &#8220;Women don&#8217;t have jobs either, but women aren&#8217;t abusive, most of the time,&#8221; he said.<span id="more-312386"></span></p>
<p>So what Reid seems to be saying is that the difference between a man who beats his wife, and a man who doesn&#8217;t &#8211; is simply a paycheck &#8211; a brutal indictment implying all men are capable of abuse &#8211; and only a &#8220;jobs bill&#8221; can stop them. This is a view of men that only Janeane Garofalo could love.</p>
<p>But Reid is from Nevada, and he maintains the state&#8217;s domestic crisis shelters are &#8220;jammed.&#8221; If he&#8217;s right, he has two people to blame: President Obama, and Reid himself for voting for President Obama. After all, it&#8217;s Obama who twice told people to stay out of Vegas, the equivalent of taking work out of the hands of those who live there. Because liberals always believe correlation is causation, President Obama&#8217;s attacks on Vegas have no doubt lead to an uptick in spousal abuse.</p>
<p>Of course, I don&#8217;t really believe that. I&#8217;m just showing you where a Harry Reid opinion inevitably ends up, if you happen to believe it yourself.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a place called Idiotland. Population: You.</p>
<p>And if you disagree with me, you probably beat your spouse with a sharpened griffin rib.</p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.dailygut.com/">Tonight we&#8217;ve got Remi Spencer, Jim Norton, Mediaite&#8217;s Steve Krakauer, and Admiral John Bolton.</a></strong></p>
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