...the crazies on the Left did no such thing about Democrats...
By continuing to blog about the "Birthers," I am not lending them any credibility, because I don't agree with their movement. When I blog about them, I am only discussing how liberals apply credibility with the same standards as the shifting winds. Mark Morford, a blogger at HuffnPuff pokes fun at Birthers and the GOP, by offering up 9 more conspiracy theories they could embrace once the Obama birth certificate story dies. He and I agree that the Birthers have no legs to stand on, in light of the evidence, it's a fallacious claim he makes which gives me a problem. He claims that while the Left has no shortage of crazies, they did not dominate discussion in quite the same way as the Birthers are about the GOP. Anyone remember Trig-gate?
After Sarah Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate in the Election of 2008, journalists were airlifted into Juneau to try and dig up dirt on dear old Sarah. Barack Obama was licking his chops in anticipation for a saucy divorce story that similarly derailed the campaigns of his opponents for the US Senate. Unfortunately, Sarah was still married to her first husband and had children by him. She had no illegitimate children, and she had the highest approval ratings of any governor in the union. Obama, whose lead over McCain was shrinking, began to panic. Soon, there were murmurings in the blue blogosphere about Sarah's fifth child actually being her grandson. "JACKPOT!" Obama said, reminiscing the 1970s and 80s gameshow. He stayed above the fray, but gave a milquetoast condemnation to liberals who pushed the story (and liberals blamed Sarah Palin for not quelling the rumors that started in the blue blogosphere...and they, oddly, don't call on Obama to do the same about the Birthers).
Need another? Look at Troopergate, where Sarah was under investigation for firing the Public Safety Commissioner. Before the investigation was complete, liberals were claiming that she abused her power and that she was unfit for being "a heartbeat away." The investigation found Sarah acted well within her authority to fire Walter Monegan for insubordination. Instead, liberals trumpted the notion that Palin "abused power," which was in contrast to the report. The report claimed she violated an ambiguous ethics law which said, "any public official’s action that benefits a personal or financial interest is a violation of public trust..." Hell, she could be sued for merely releasing carbon dioxide in the air...and liberals felt that THIS was the sole disqualification for her VP candidacy? Obama had many more problems than that. He obviously had become unnerved by Palin, since he referred to her as a "pig" in one of his campaign speeches. I don't think Morford is convinced that crazies on the Left don't make policy for Democrats yet.
In the aftermath of the contentious Election of 2000, liberals became apopletic about the possibility that the winning president can win the electoral vote, but not the popular one. Various conspiracy theories emerged that President Bush conspired with then-Secretary of State Katherine Harris to throw the election his way. There was one article that posed the hypothetical that something was amiss because the governor of the state in question happened to be the brother of one of the candidates. Several news outlets questioned the results of the election in an attempt to make Bush's presidency illegitimate, with chief conspiracy theorist, Michael Moore claiming that the news networks followed the lead of Fox News Channel.
There were murmurings about US forces committing war crimes among the blue blogosphere that got aired on the floor of the US Senate. Everyone, who's honest, recalls Senator Richard Durbin on the floor of the US Senate referring to GITMO as a "gulag," even though no independent report stated that GITMO detainees were being abused. When the tragedy at Abu Ghraib was exposed, at least one prominent Democrat alleged that all detainees in US custody were treated similar to prisoners in Saddam's rape rooms. The Haditha incident brought out more hysterics as Congressman Jack Murtha and Senator John Kerry alleged our forces were killing innocents in cold blood, by breaking into their houses in the dark of night. This, no doubt, was borne on the pages of blue blogs.
In my final episode of the wackiness of liberals being aired out by Democrats, comes the impending Bush impeachment. Because liberals felt that "Bush lied, kids died," since the intel he used to justify the Iraq invasion was faulty, and because they felt Bushie wanted to dismantle the US Constitution amendment by amendment, they believed he needed to be impeached. It was a crackpot idea, in light of many Democrats claiming the same thing Bush did...only years earlier. But that didn't stop the Democrats in the US House of Representatives from staging mock impeachment trials. I think Mr. Morford should take a more objective view of the crazies on the Left, and how they routinely make policy for Democrats, and stop projecting onto Republicans.
Can he explain the regular meetings Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and other prominent Democrats, have with kos and other liberal bloggers and fellow crazies?
Have a great day...
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28 July 2009
Mike Stark: Getting in people's faces is my job...
...if others put me on the spot, it's a hate crime...
Mike Stark is back. In case you don't remember who Mr. Stark is, he's the guy who went on a tirade against Melanie Morgan's radio show on KSFO in San Francisco after an unknown started sending her sponsors edited clips of her radio show, designed to make it appear that Melanie and her cohost, were hateful. The idea was an attempt to shut down conservative talk radio after the Democrats took the majority on Capitol Hill in the aftermath of the Election of 2006. Dan Riehl, of Riehl World View, decided to take on Mr. Stark in a debate, of sorts, on Howard Kurtz' CNN show, Reliable Sources. If your memory's still a little fuzzy, Mike Stark is also the guy who asked then-Senator George Allen if he "spat on his wife," and was the guy holding the sign, "Hannity Sucks Ass," behind Alan Colmes, who was acknowledging Joe Lieberman's defeat in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic senatorial primary. Needless to say, the debate wasn't a good idea for Mr. Stark...
The new mission of both Democrats and liberals, like Stark, is to embarrass the GOP by offering a resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's statehood. The resolution states that Hawaii is the birthplace of the 44th president, which is a challenge to the GOP to either support the Birther movement or oppose celebrating Hawaii's statehood. Stark has appeared in front of at least three Republican legislators asking them if Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. The Republican lawmakers, seeing the looming "gotcha" moment, either run or filibuster. The time wasting resolution passed, but that didn't stop liberals from bitching about Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann's desire to stop it by saying a quorum wasn't present.
But OH how times have changed...
Let us set the WayBack Machine for September 2007, where we are in the aftermath of the MoveOn.org's heavily discounted ad, "General Petraeus or Betray Us." TheCongress US Senate was considered a resolution calling on Democrats, who could not believe the Iraq surge was working, to separate themselves from the moonbattery going on at George Soros and Eli Pariser's MoveOn.org. The Senate had passed the resolution condemning the ad, while the House Democratic leadership refused to consider. The same liberals who are now bitching at Michelle Bachmann for stopping a political charade, went after Congressional Republicans (one commenter at GunTotingLiberal, claimed the GOP was shredding the Constitution for suggesting this...) for doing the exact same thing for which they're championing Neil Abercrombie (D-HI). I say it's just another episode of political theatre, as these liberals said about Republicans then, designed to distract from the inability to pass the disastrous ObamaCare.
In another episode of in the OHTHC theme, is how more credulous one group of conspiracy theorists are than another, according to the media. A few years after 9/11, a fringe group became convinced that President Bush engineered the World Trade Center attacks, in fact a poll released in 2007 said that between 61% of Democrats wouldn't rule out the idea that Bush either knew in advance about the attacks, or that he pressed the demolition button himself. Noted metallurgist Rosie O'Donnell proudly claimed on The Spew that 9/11 marked the first time fire melted steel. They were treated in the media, as responsible citizens, who had moral authority to question their government. The Birthers, on the other hand, are treated with scorn, and dismissed as kooks on the lunatic fringe of the rightwingnutosphere. Now, I have no use for any conspiracy theory, no matter what side of the political spectrum they are born. But if one group of conspiracy theorists are going to be treated with scorn, they all should.
Have a great day...
Mike Stark is back. In case you don't remember who Mr. Stark is, he's the guy who went on a tirade against Melanie Morgan's radio show on KSFO in San Francisco after an unknown started sending her sponsors edited clips of her radio show, designed to make it appear that Melanie and her cohost, were hateful. The idea was an attempt to shut down conservative talk radio after the Democrats took the majority on Capitol Hill in the aftermath of the Election of 2006. Dan Riehl, of Riehl World View, decided to take on Mr. Stark in a debate, of sorts, on Howard Kurtz' CNN show, Reliable Sources. If your memory's still a little fuzzy, Mike Stark is also the guy who asked then-Senator George Allen if he "spat on his wife," and was the guy holding the sign, "Hannity Sucks Ass," behind Alan Colmes, who was acknowledging Joe Lieberman's defeat in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic senatorial primary. Needless to say, the debate wasn't a good idea for Mr. Stark...
The new mission of both Democrats and liberals, like Stark, is to embarrass the GOP by offering a resolution commemorating the 50th anniversary of Hawaii's statehood. The resolution states that Hawaii is the birthplace of the 44th president, which is a challenge to the GOP to either support the Birther movement or oppose celebrating Hawaii's statehood. Stark has appeared in front of at least three Republican legislators asking them if Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. The Republican lawmakers, seeing the looming "gotcha" moment, either run or filibuster. The time wasting resolution passed, but that didn't stop liberals from bitching about Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann's desire to stop it by saying a quorum wasn't present.
But OH how times have changed...
Let us set the WayBack Machine for September 2007, where we are in the aftermath of the MoveOn.org's heavily discounted ad, "General Petraeus or Betray Us." The
In another episode of in the OHTHC theme, is how more credulous one group of conspiracy theorists are than another, according to the media. A few years after 9/11, a fringe group became convinced that President Bush engineered the World Trade Center attacks, in fact a poll released in 2007 said that between 61% of Democrats wouldn't rule out the idea that Bush either knew in advance about the attacks, or that he pressed the demolition button himself. Noted metallurgist Rosie O'Donnell proudly claimed on The Spew that 9/11 marked the first time fire melted steel. They were treated in the media, as responsible citizens, who had moral authority to question their government. The Birthers, on the other hand, are treated with scorn, and dismissed as kooks on the lunatic fringe of the rightwingnutosphere. Now, I have no use for any conspiracy theory, no matter what side of the political spectrum they are born. But if one group of conspiracy theorists are going to be treated with scorn, they all should.
Have a great day...
27 July 2009
Birthers: We don't mind grasping for straws...
...we just wanna stay relevant...
Talk about strange, your humble blogger friend, Dr. Asten, agrees with Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo. I'm gonna get in trouble with some of my more conservative leaning friends based on my opinion about Obama's birth certificate. I believe conservatives have more valid grounds in going after Obama other than proving whether he is a citizen or naturalized based on the 14th Amendment. If his mother was an Amurican citizen, Barack Obama is a citizen as well. End of story. John McCain is a citizen, like any child born to military and civilian parents who live overseas. To continue to pursue this silly story makes Obama appear more credible and will make it that much harder to scuttle his disastrous agenda. I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, and they often distract from our main goal, which is to keep our politicians honest.
Like the 9/11 Truthers and the deniers of Bush's election as president in 2000, Birthers come off as unhinged, and rightfully so. All of Barack Obama's ducks are in a row on this issue, it would be best if those on the Right (and possibly the Left) dropped it, and instead turned their efforts elsewhere. John Hawkins at Right Wing News, wrote an article about the Obama birth certificate, and I believe he's right when he says that based on all the evidence we have thus far on this issue, no minds are changed then it's best to let the issue go down the memory hole like the North American Union. I'd like to add when Alan Keyes is the de facto leader of the movement, that's reason enough to let the issue die a slow death (perhaps he's still reeling from being beaten by Obama in the Illinois US Senate race in 2004...).
I suppose it'd be easy to jump on this bandwagon in light of Obama's declining popularity, just like liberals, who thought that any given action by former President Bush was a scandal. With ObamaCare seemingly on the skids, the administration backtracking on its Porkulus rhetoric, and Obama believing that Emperor Hirohito signed a treaty on the USS Missouri in 1945, Obama opponents have a plethora of things with which to hammer him. So, for those of you who thought I, an ardent Obama opponent, was going to side with you on the Birther issue, you were sadly mistaken.
That doesn't mean we still can't be friends, though...
Have a great day...
Talk about strange, your humble blogger friend, Dr. Asten, agrees with Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo. I'm gonna get in trouble with some of my more conservative leaning friends based on my opinion about Obama's birth certificate. I believe conservatives have more valid grounds in going after Obama other than proving whether he is a citizen or naturalized based on the 14th Amendment. If his mother was an Amurican citizen, Barack Obama is a citizen as well. End of story. John McCain is a citizen, like any child born to military and civilian parents who live overseas. To continue to pursue this silly story makes Obama appear more credible and will make it that much harder to scuttle his disastrous agenda. I'm not a fan of conspiracy theories, and they often distract from our main goal, which is to keep our politicians honest.
Like the 9/11 Truthers and the deniers of Bush's election as president in 2000, Birthers come off as unhinged, and rightfully so. All of Barack Obama's ducks are in a row on this issue, it would be best if those on the Right (and possibly the Left) dropped it, and instead turned their efforts elsewhere. John Hawkins at Right Wing News, wrote an article about the Obama birth certificate, and I believe he's right when he says that based on all the evidence we have thus far on this issue, no minds are changed then it's best to let the issue go down the memory hole like the North American Union. I'd like to add when Alan Keyes is the de facto leader of the movement, that's reason enough to let the issue die a slow death (perhaps he's still reeling from being beaten by Obama in the Illinois US Senate race in 2004...).
I suppose it'd be easy to jump on this bandwagon in light of Obama's declining popularity, just like liberals, who thought that any given action by former President Bush was a scandal. With ObamaCare seemingly on the skids, the administration backtracking on its Porkulus rhetoric, and Obama believing that Emperor Hirohito signed a treaty on the USS Missouri in 1945, Obama opponents have a plethora of things with which to hammer him. So, for those of you who thought I, an ardent Obama opponent, was going to side with you on the Birther issue, you were sadly mistaken.
That doesn't mean we still can't be friends, though...
Have a great day...
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