Rachel Maddow at Most Shameless: Claims GOP Congressman ‘Received Advance Notice’ of Oklahoma City Bombing
"Lean Forward," MSNBC's new slogan suggests. The better to stick a shiv in your opponent's back.
Ethics-averse Rachel Maddow did exactly that on her MSNBC show last night. After disparaging Republican candidates for their gall in criticizing reckless federal spending and government-controlled health care, Maddow made this jaw-dropper of a claim -
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Shameless: Maddow Uses the OKC Bombing AGAIN to Scare Her Viewers About Conservative
Rachel Maddow and MSNBC have shown repeatedly that they see the people of Oklahoma City as tools.
Though, this it isn’t only MSNBC that uses Oklahoma City to play the Christians Can Be Radicals Too Card - Whoopi Goldberg used it just last week with Bill O’Reilly. Speaking only for myself, as someone who heard the thunder of the bomb, those references churn my stomach and I’ve seen it do worse to the survivors and surviving family members.
As an example of “extremists” being elected to office, Maddow uses the example of former Congressman Stockman of Texas. She makes the blatantly false claim that Congressman Stockman was tied “so close” to the “militia movement” that he received early warning of the Oklahoma City bombing. That was fleeting rumor disproven in 1995 by the FBI and by the former Congressman’s office.
Rachel Maddow already used the Oklahoma City bombing 15th anniversary for a disgusting documentary of McVeigh’s life by replaying the final tapes of McVeigh discussing how he planned the bombing and was completely unrepentant for his actions. She played quotes from McVeigh for viewers such as, “You’re not the first mom who’s lost a son,” and “they just need to get over it.” Although Maddow’s documentary actually showed otherwise, she concluded that McVeigh’s ties to a “militia movement” is what fueled his desire for destruction rather than his own psychological problems and the fact that he was a complete loner. Setting aside the obvious inhumanity it takes for someone to use the deaths of fellow Americans for political gain, Rachel Maddow’s invocation of the Oklahoma City bombing once again shows the desperation of the left. It appears in these last few weeks leading up to the election, there really is nothing sacred.
If MSNBC and Maddow are using the deaths of the men, women, and children of Oklahoma City this close to election day for a scare tactic, it makes one wonder how low they will actually go before November 2nd. It is shameless, it is sad, but it is no longer surprising. The great news is that we the people will have our say on who are the “extremists” on in November.
Adventures in welfare; the young and the shameless
Decades of liberal entitlements have given birth to a new social class, the children of redistribution.
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Shameless: Kathy Griffin Insists Calling Scott Brown’s Daughters ‘Prostitutes’ Was a Fantastic Career Move
Liberal "comedian" Kathy Griffin thinks there is no line of rudeness she can’t cross, including calling the daughters of Sen. Scott Brown "prostitutes." On Monday’s Joy Behar Show on CNN Headline News, Griffin proclaimed "But yes, whenever a statement is issued against me, I`m in heaven. I feel my next special is half written for me. And then I get to read statements allowed in my live shows which you can go to KathyGriffin.net and see the many, many cities I`ve picked up for my current tour."
Not even Rep. Barney Frank could make her feel bad about it:
BEHAR: So you’re really feeling bad about it all? Okay, I mean, when Barney Frank turns on you, one of your gays, you have to start to wonder.
GRIFFIN: Hey, the gays, look, there is — that’s — there is a reason that that flag has colors. There’s many levels and colors. There’s not just — I mean, I make the joke about the gays, but there’s many, many kinds of gay people like there are many, many kinds of straight people. And you know, he’s one of my gays. He just doesn’t know it because he doesn`t know, you know, who I am, as usual.
Behar had the same conversation with liberal "comedian" Margaret Cho on August 25, but Cho had no idea who Scott Brown was. So Behar told her (incorrectly) that Scott Brown posed for Playgirl magazine — when it was really Cosmopolitan.
BEHAR: And he also introduced his daughters in one speech that he gave saying they’re available and he posed for them in bikinis. They were in bikinis. People felt that they were easy targets and available. But she got into trouble because he didn’t like that she called them prostitutes.
CHO: Yes, well, I don’t know. I think she can say whatever she wants. And part of her appeal and her glory is that she does. She doesn`t really care.
BEHAR: She doesn’t care, the more you criticize, the more she loves it.
This logic of Griffin’s doesn’t always work — CNN did bump her off their New Year’s Eve program as she incessantly tried to embarrass Anderson Cooper.
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Shameless: Reid Claims ‘War is Lost’ Comment Helped Turn Effort Toward Victory
As a service to all Americans, allow me to remind you all of Sen. Harry Reid’s infamous pronouncement in 2007:
Now, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sen. Reid makes an unbelievable new claim:
At the time Sen. Reid made this comment, President Bush had been pursuing a failed, stay-the-course strategy that had cost thousands of American lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. Iraq appeared to be on the verge of a sectarian civil war. He was simply pointing out what our military leaders, including Gen. Petraeus, had been saying for months: that we could not win by staying the course; the war needed to be won diplomatically, politically, and economically. Sen. Reid and his colleagues were successful in forcing President Bush to finally abandon his failed approach and refocus on political reconciliation. This is what ultimately paved the way for the Iraqi government to take greater responsibility for Iraq’s future. Sen. Reid’s comments were directed at President Bush and his following of misguided policymakers, not at the heroic troops who continue to serve our country with incredible courage.
As Sherman Frederick of the Las Vega Review-Journal puts it:
Asked about his 2007 comment in which he proclaimed “This war is lost” while our soldiers were still in Iraq getting their heads shot at and before the so-called “surge” even had begun, Reid today said that his statement was actually a “successful” ploy to force President Bush to refocus on political reconciliation.
The undeniable fact is Sen. Reid called it wrong on Iraq. He undercut our troops in the process. Bush called it right. The “surge” worked and it (not Sen. Reid’s “This war is lost” statement) made today possible. That’s the unvarnished truth and no amount of revisionist sophistry will change it.
Shameless: Reid Claims ‘War is Lost’ Comment Helped Turn Effort Toward Victory
As a service to all Americans, allow me to remind you all of Sen. Harry Reid’s infamous pronouncement in 2007:
Now, in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Sen. Reid makes an unbelievable new claim:
At the time Sen. Reid made this comment, President Bush had been pursuing a failed, stay-the-course strategy that had cost thousands of American lives and billions of taxpayer dollars. Iraq appeared to be on the verge of a sectarian civil war. He was simply pointing out what our military leaders, including Gen. Petraeus, had been saying for months: that we could not win by staying the course; the war needed to be won diplomatically, politically, and economically. Sen. Reid and his colleagues were successful in forcing President Bush to finally abandon his failed approach and refocus on political reconciliation. This is what ultimately paved the way for the Iraqi government to take greater responsibility for Iraq’s future. Sen. Reid’s comments were directed at President Bush and his following of misguided policymakers, not at the heroic troops who continue to serve our country with incredible courage.
As Sherman Frederick of the Las Vega Review-Journal puts it:
Asked about his 2007 comment in which he proclaimed “This war is lost” while our soldiers were still in Iraq getting their heads shot at and before the so-called “surge” even had begun, Reid today said that his statement was actually a “successful” ploy to force President Bush to refocus on political reconciliation.
The undeniable fact is Sen. Reid called it wrong on Iraq. He undercut our troops in the process. Bush called it right. The “surge” worked and it (not Sen. Reid’s “This war is lost” statement) made today possible. That’s the unvarnished truth and no amount of revisionist sophistry will change it.
Legal Victories for Shameless Liars
Truth may set you free, but lies are running a close second these days as Rod Blagojevich, Tom DeLay and a politician who falsely claimed to have won the Congressional Medal of Honor are doing well in the court system.
The legal principle involved in persuading only 11 of 12 jurors that Blago tried to sell Obama’s Senate seat, according to Scott Turow, author of “Presumed Innocent,” is that it’s not enough to be caught with crumbs on your face next to an empty jar, after telling everybody how much you love cookies.
Being “crass and ham-handed” will not send you to the slammer when everybody in public life is selling out for campaign money.
Speaking of crass, this news comes as the Justice Department ends a six-year probe of Tom DeLay, the former GOP House leader who went on to fame on “Dancing With the Stars” until a stress fracture ended his second career.
Two of DeLay’s aides were convicted of taking money from lobbyist Jack Abrahamoff, who also served time, but DeLay was nimble enough to evade Federal arraignment. He still has to tap-dance his way out of felony conspiracy charges in Texas for misusing campaign contributions but, in a climate where the U. S. Supreme Court is making even corporations safe in that area, the odds must be with him.
Meanwhile, a Court of Appeals strikes down the Stolen Valor Act, which makes it a crime to falsely claim a military decoration, freeing Xavier Alvarez, who was convicted of fibbing to voters about receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor while running for a California Water Board.
While denying that they were endorsing “an unbridled right to lie,” the Court majority ruled that “society would be better off if Alvarez would stop spreading worthless, ridiculous, and offensive untruths…
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Balko pwns repeat offender Wendy Murphy and ties her lies to the depressing state of punditry.
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Mohammed-Phobic Comedy Central Lectures Conservatives About Religious Liberty? Jon Stewart’s That Shameless
Jon Stewart landed both his jokey feet on the Ground Zero Mosque controversy on The Daily Show Tuesday night. He mocked conservatives for having no respect for freedom of religion. This, from Comedy Central? The network that mocks Jesus and Christians relentlessly, but censors whenever the radical Muslims threaten them? Yes. Stewart was arguing for the “greatness” of Islam, that it should be accepted with great tolerance as a global religion – regardless of how much tolerance Islam demonstrates for freedom of religion.
Stewart mocked conservatives and Republicans. “Haven’t these people ever heard of freedom of religion? Lieutenant Goveror of Tennessee, you wanna take this one?” He ran a hacked-up snippet of GOP Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey: “I’m all about freedom of religion [edit]…you could argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality way of life, or cult whatever you want to call it.”
We’ll get to Stewart’s surgical removal of context later. Stewart made a shocked face, narrowed his eyes, and lectured: “I think religion is what they wanna call it. But point taken. I can see being confused with Scientology, or the thing that Madonna does with the red bracelets, of this whole Justin Bieber craze, certain World Warcraft guilds, Harry Potter book clubs. But I think over 1400 years and over a billion Twitter followers, Islam’s kind of an accepted religion now.”
Again, this is a rich line of argument coming from Stewart, whose acidulous attacks on the Roman Catholic Church hardly qualifies as treating Catholicism as an “accepted religion.” Instead, it’s a den of perverts and hypocrites. It’s the "villain" that’s "easy to spot."
Stewart insisted that Islam deserved more respect than Harry Potter or Justin Bieber fan clubs, but unlike certain mosques, those groups haven’t been known to nurture terrorist cells.
Then Stewart moved on to mocking Newt Gingrich: “But some people don’t want to be lectured about religious liberty.” He ran a clip of Gingrich saying “I don’t want to be lectued by them about religious liberty when there’s not a single church or a single synaogue in Saudi Arabia.”
Stewart took the easy retort: “Why should we as Americans have higher standard of religious liberty than Saudi Arabia! Makes no sense!” The audience applauded.
But it is Stewart and the Comedy Central crowd that are the shameless hypocrites about religious liberty. If they really believed in free expression, they might dare to mock radical Muslims instead of cower before them.
Now let’s consider how much Fake-News Stewart edited out from Ramsey’s argument. Mediaite printed a fuller transcript (ks it’s all wonderfully wacko. But there’s certainly more substance in here about the Islamic threat to religious liberty than Stewart wanted to allow. It would ruin his perfectly cocky liberal rant. Ramsey said this (Stewart’s edit in bold) about controversy over permits for a mosque proposal in Murfreesboro, Tennessee:
Now, I’m all about freedom of religion. I value the First Amendment as much as I value the Second Amendment as much as I value the Tenth Amendment and on and on and on. But you crossed the line when, when they start trying to bring Sharia law here to the state of Tenn, in the United States. We are a law- we live under our Constitution and they live under our Constitution. But it’s scary if we get there. It’s always arguable- and I’ve been studying this issue, but I’ll be right up front with you, like I say until two weeks ago, three weeks ago, nobody ever asked me about this on a governor’s race. And why do you ask about that? Til this mosque started coming in up there.
I’ve been trying to learn about Sharia law, I’ve been trying to learn about what going on-, it is not good if that’s what’s going on. Now, you could argue whether being a Muslim is actually a religion, or is it a nationality way of life, or cult whatever you want to call it. But certainly, we do want to protect our religions, but at the same times, this is something that we are gonna to have to face.
Right now, though, the most ironic part of what’s happening in Rutherford County is I’m in the real estate business, you want to get something re-zoned, if you want to get something put in, that’s a three-month process. They approved that in 17 days ["mmm" from audience] in Rutherford County. The least they can do is back up, and say, let’s, let’s see what we’re doing over there, (inaudible) 53,000 square foot mosque in the middle of basically a neighborhood and they did it all almost overnight, 5:16. So that has become an issue, and what an issue. I’ve tried to study up on it. But I’ve read enough about Sharia law to know that it’s crazy.
When liberal journalists (think Tom Brokaw) tout Jon Stewart as a precious steward of democracy, please remember how he’ll take video clips wildly out of context for a punchline. Tom Brokaw would think that would give bloggers a bad name, but apparently not fake news anchors.
