What's so provocative about the Tebow ad? ~ By Star Parker

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"So what's bothering these women? "Two things. "First, the enabler of human brutality is de-humanization. Pro-abortionists know that our existing legalized-abortion regime can only continue as long as we keep the human face off abortion."

By Star Parker Posted: January 30, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern © 2010 Why are pro-abortion groups so up in arms about the Tim Tebow ad that CBS will run during the Superbowl? According to the press release of Focus on the Family, the Christian organization sponsoring the ad, University of Florida football star and Heisman Trophy winner Tebow and his mother, Pam, "will share a personal story centered on the theme of "Celebrate Family, Celebrate Life." The Tebows are devout Christians, and Pam gave birth to Tim despite advice from her doctor to abort because of illness during her pregnancy. Since the script is not publicly available, all we know is the family story and knowledge that the ad passed muster with CBS. We spoke with Focus on the Family spokesman Gary Schneeberger and asked if the ad in any way speaks to the politics of abortion. The answer was an emphatic "no." According to Schneeberger, it's "not selling, it is celebrating" and is about the "love between a mother and a son." So what's provoking the letter writing campaign of feminist groups to CBS to pull the ad? Why would the National Organization for Women call this "offensive to women" or would the Women's Media Center call it "divisive?" Sure, there's no question that Focus on the Family is pro-life and opposes legal and readily accessible abortion. But CBS wouldn't be running this ad if its focus was political advocacy. READ FULL STORY >

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Where's the birth certificate? ~ By Joseph Farah

By Joseph Farah Posted: June 15, 2009 1:00 am Eastern © 2009 Not quite 30 days ago, I launched a campaign to raise the visibility of Barack Obama's presidential eligibility issue. Out of frustration with the corporate media's efforts to bury the very real concern of millions of Americans that the man in the White House may not in fact be constitutionally qualified to be there, I decided to ask for support of an effort to erect billboards around the country asking the simple question, "Where's the birth certificate?" The result was quite astonishing, given that no one in the media, beside WND, was talking about, or writing about, this issue. In the first month, about $80,000 was raised and a half-dozen billboards have already gone up, with more on the way. Though the campaign is still in its infancy, it has had a dramatic impact on the national dialogue about a once-unspeakable topic. You may have noticed there's much more chatter about the eligibility issue in recent days. Most of it is still uninformed. Most of it consists of ad hominem attacks. Most of it is in the form of smears and name-calling. But some of it is not. Major talk-show hosts are openly talking about Obama's missing birth certificate. It's suddenly respectable to be a "birther." Even the White House's own "open government" website was overrun by people posting demands for Obama to look in the mirror first when it comes to "truth and transparency." Something else happened in the last 30 days that illustrates just how serious major public media corporations are compromised by their lapdog allegiance to Big Government. One by one, the biggest billboard providers began banning the campaign – first CBS, then Lamar, then Clear Channel. Consider the irony here: The billboard campaign was designed to do an end-run around the Big Media, which was censoring an issue of significant public concern. But even this innocent campaign, asking a simple, four-word question, was itself the target of an attempt at censorship by tentacles of the Big Media. [CONTINUE READING]

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Cover-up: CBS bans eligibility billboards

Industry signage leader rejects campaign asking simply 'Where's the birth certificate?' Washington – The company touting itself as the "world's largest out-of-home media" enterprise has banned WND's national billboard campaign that asks one simple question: "Where's the birth certificate?" CBS Outdoor, a division of CBS Corp. that sells more outdoor advertising than any other billboard company in North America, refuses to accept purchases of space on any of its 550,000 displays nationwide, media buyers for WND report. The billboard campaign was begun last month by Joseph Farah, editor and chief executive officer of WND, due to his frustration with media colleagues not giving attention to what he sees as critical questions about Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility to serve as president. "Here we have one of the largest media companies in the U.S. now not only refusing to allow news coverage of a vitally important national question being asked by millions of Americans, but one that won't even permit the purchase of space to raise the question," said Farah. "What is the value of a First Amendment in a country when this kind of self-censorship is at work – self-censorship specifically geared to stifle inquiry and debate about the most powerful person in the country." Farah maintains Obama has not proved he is constitutionally eligible to serve as president as a "natural born citizen, and suggests only the release of his long-form birth certificate showing the hospital of his birth, attending physician and other details can conclusively meet that test. Obama's presidential campaign released to select news organizations only what is known as a "certification of live birth," a document obtainable in Hawaii in 1961 by Americans actually born outside the country. [Continue reading]

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Glenn Beck - Interviews - Glenn Beck talks with Chuck Norris

You will learn something you may never have known had it not been for this Glenn Beck interview with Chuck Norris (text transcript). From the article (interview):

GLENN: If we're both sitting there and there's a nuke and you've got the red wire and the green wire and we're both sweating and you're like, I don't know, I'm going to go with my instinct, I think I'd like a little bit more. NORRIS: Hey, actually I did a movie like that called President's Man. Listen to this. No one knows about this. But in 2000 I did a movie of the week called President's Man and what I do as President's Man, when the FBI and the CIA can't take care of a situation for the president, I come in and take care of it for him. And so we did one. It was so successful that CBS wanted me to do another one. So I started thinking about a story for another movie and I was talking to Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and I said, Kay, I said, what is the greatest threat we have in America? And she says, our greatest fear is Osama Bin Laden's going to sneak a nuclear device into our country. And I said, oh, really? So I got my writers together. We wrote a story about Osama Bin Laden sneaking a nuclear device into America and hiding it actually in Chicago, which we didn't know at the time, and he calls the president and says, "I want you to release my holy warriors from the 1993 bombing or I'm going to explode this nuclear device in your country." So I get called in -- GLENN: Wait, wait, this is in 2000 you did this? NORRIS: Yeah, this is in 2000. So anyway, I go to Afghanistan, I kidnap Osama Bin Laden, and I bring him back to the United States for trial. Then during that time -- and then the attorney general's a Muslim as well, Osama, and they get into a debate about the interpretation of the Qur'an and the, you know, the attorney general says the Qur'an talks about tolerance, you know, not war. GLENN: Did you make this movie? NORRIS: Oh, yeah. Anyway, so I do the movie, I finally find the nuclear weapon, disarm it at the last minute like Jack Bauer did. I was trying to find the right wire to cut down to two seconds. Anyway, we deliver this movie to CBS on September 7th, 2001. GLENN: Holy cow. NORRIS: Then four days later, of course, 9/11 hits. So now CBS doesn't know what to do. You know, the name of it was called Ground Zero was the name of the movie. GLENN: Has it ever been seen? NORRIS: No.

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