The no-questions, no-proof media ~ By Joseph Farah

Finding that it isn't just the Eastern establishment media that is attacking those that question Barack Obama's constitutional eligibility to be President, Joseph Farah writes about a Texan editorial page editor, John Kanelis, and his negative column about a Texas state legislator, Republican Leo Berman. It was bad enough when Rep. Leo Berman was ridiculed by CNN's Anderson Cooper. Joseph Farah discovered the fact that John Kanelis used the usual liberal strategy of invoking the race card against Rep. Berman:

"And it's fair to ask: Is this question solely a function of the fact that Barack Obama is the first black man to hold the office of president?" states Kanelis.

"No, it's not fair to ask," wrote Farah, who goes on to assert, "What would be fair to ask is why John McCain had to prove his eligibility when legitimate questions were raised, but Obama continues to get a free ride from the no-question, no-proof media."

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Big Media dig in on eligibility ~ By Joseph Farah
'American people' have spoken? ~ By John Kanelis


The no-questions, no-proof media

JOSEPH FARAH

By Joseph Farah

December 04, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

The news media are still at it.

They are still suggesting we should take Barack Obama at his word about his background and personal history – even though virtually everything he has told the American people has proven false under scrutiny.

And it's not just the Big Media in New York and Washington that ridicule anyone who dares ask a tough question or suggests we actually should enforce the law of the land and demand proof of Obama's claims. It's the regional and local media that are often just as guilty.

JOHN KANELIS, EDITOR
AMARILLO GLOBE-NEWS

Take for example a recent column by the editorial page editor of the Amarillo Globe-News – John Kanelis.

He is attacking Texas legislator Leo Berman for introducing a bill that would do something highly commendable – ensure that future presidential candidates prove constitutional eligibility for office before getting on the state ballot. You might think this is a no-brainer. You might think such safeguards already exist. You might ask, "How can anyone argue with such a common-sense measure?"

Meet John Kanelis – watchdog not of the people's interests, but of Obama's self-interest.

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Big Media dig in on eligibility ~ By Joseph Farah

Joseph Farah takes on the mainstream media regarding Barack Obama's birth certificate and Constitutional eligibility to be President. The latest so-called "journalist" to ridicule the "birthers" - and in this case it is State Representative Leo  Berman (R-TX) - is CNN's Anderson Cooper.

Joseph writes that he'd like to ask Mr. Cooper some questions:

What's wrong with wanting to see Obama's birth certificate? Why is it so threatening to you? Where is your journalistic curiosity? Why were CNN and Dan Rather so eager to see George W. Bush's National Guard records that had no bearing on his constitutional eligibility to serve in office? Why is there a lower standard of accountability for Barack Obama than any previous president?

Big Media dig in on eligibility

Joseph Farah

By Joseph Farah

December 02, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

I guess the lesson to draw from Anderson Cooper's hostile interrogation of Texas state Rep. Leo Berman is that the Old Media, which mishandled the eligibility story from the beginning, is now determined to ensure America never learns the truth at their expense.

Berman's offense was introducing a bill into the Texas Legislature that would require any candidate for president or vice president to provide a birth certificate to the Texas secretary of state to ensure constitutional eligibility before getting on the ballot.

It's a perfectly logical and reasonable and commendable action. It should involve no controversy whatsoever – unless you believe Barack Obama is above the law, as apparently CNN's Anderson Cooper does.

Cooper demonstrated his complete ignorance of the facts by beginning: "There's a certificate of live birth, which is what the state of Hawaii sends out. Why isn't that good enough?"

Republican State Rep Leo Berman debates his Obama Citizenship Bill on CNN

Video provided by PoliticalSkeptic ~ December 01, 2010

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When the teapot boils over ~ By Pat Boone

Commentary from WorldNetDaily. Welcome back, Pat! It had been awhile, since the beginning of January, when Pat Boon had last written on WND. I'm so happy to see him back, and this is an excellent column for his return!

What the TV and press pundits haven't yet recognized, along with the current administration and their Chicago-style political machine, is that the same desire for individual liberty and less government control (and voluntary, not coerced, concern for our neighbors' needs) is fanning the flames under this new teapot.

By Pat Boone

Posted: February 20, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

Double, double toil and trouble …

"Macbeth," Act 4, scene 1

In Shakespeare's famous classic, the Bard depicted three Scottish witches incanting over a boiling cauldron, conjuring up a powerful potion of foul ingredients including poisoned entrails, eye of newt, toe of frog and other despicable things, portending double toil and trouble for the man who would be king – Macbeth.

On March 7, a year ago, in this space I called for "A New Boston Tea Party." Though I hadn't heard anybody else proposing it, I soon learned that others were spontaneously and independently calling for the same thing. In a matter of weeks, there were local and regional demonstrations all over the country, hundreds of thousands of American citizens crying loudly, like Peter Finch in the movie "Network," "We're mad as hell, and we're not going to allow this administration to ruin our lives, to take over the country and tell us what we can and can't say!"

I don't think there has been a phenomenon like this "Tea Party Movement" since the first one in 1773, the one that keynoted the looming American Revolution. What liberals and party bosses and jaded people in the media can't seem to comprehend is that nobody started this, nobody organized this, no secret big money funded it, and nobody is orchestrating it now!

Just today, before I sat down to write this, I saw Anderson Cooper on CNN and Bill O'Reilly on Fox trying to figure it out … and missing the point entirely. Anderson, a very smart man, was asking Ron Paul why "the tea party hasn't endorsed your son, running for Congress?" I didn't wait to hear Paul's answer, but I was laughing at Cooper's lack of understanding of the "tea party" itself. It's not an organization, a political "party"; there are no paid flacks laying out strategies in a back room, painting signs for out-of-work folks to parade in public places, hardly knowing what the slogans are about. It's not a long planned, well laid out agenda aimed at toppling some party or promoting another – or even creating a new one.

Bill O'Reilly was expressing his concern to Sarah Palin that the New York Times was painting the whole thing as a revolt of "extremists," just a fringe thing that would soon be written off, discounted and forgotten. He was asking Sarah what she thought, and how the "few kooks and loonies you can find in any movement," as he put it, could be silenced and kept from making the whole tea-party thing look loony and irresponsible.

Sarah did a pretty good job of explaining there is no governing authority, nobody presuming to tell the huge, disparate, diverse horde of citizens what they have to say or not say. If some "partners" make controversial signs or take an extreme position on some issue – so be it; they have a right to be heard, too. This is democracy in action, undiluted with political second-guessing, expensive polls or predetermined agendas. This is the people of America speaking out, making their desires clearly known, demanding that their government serve them, not the other way around!

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Purveyors of hate ~ By Henry Lamb

Commentary from WorldNetDaily

These ordinary people are organizing from the precinct level to counties, to states and into national groups. They fully intend to reject the Washington majority's plan to empower government far beyond its constitutional limits in order to nationalize the economy and enslave individuals.


People who insist on calling these American patriots "teabaggers" are, indeed, purveyors of hate.

By Henry Lamb

Posted: February 13, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

What is the correct word to describe people who deliberately, publicly and repeatedly use the "N" word when they refer to black people? There are such people. Are they sick? Are they mean? Are they stupid? Are they just full of hate?

How do you describe people who deliberately, publicly and repeatedly call gay people "queers"? There are such people. Are they sick? Are they mean? Are they stupid? Are they just full of hate – or are they all of the above.

Obviously, people who insist on doing these things have no compassion or appreciation for people who are different from themselves. They have no tolerance. Most people condemn this behavior and find it appalling.

What is the correct word to describe people who deliberately, publicly and repeatedly call the people who attend tea parties – "teabaggers"?

These people are called: Anderson Cooper (CNN); Keith Olbermann, Chris Matthews, Dylan Ratigan, Rachel Maddow, Anna Marie Cox, Janeane Garofalo (MSNBC); Bill Maher (HBO); ABC News; CBS News: Daily Kos; Huffington Post; and a host of other bloggers and TV personalities.

The people who deliberately, publicly and repeatedly refer to tea-party participants as "teabaggers" suffer from the same character flaw that makes people use the "N" word and call gay people "queers." The character flaw that would allow someone to tie a hangman's noose on a tree in front of a black man's house or burn a cross on his front lawn is precisely the same flaw that allows a person to deliberately, publicly and repeatedly call someone a "teabagger" when they know it to be untrue.

These are the same people who preach tolerance – but practice hate.

These are the same people who never missed an opportunity to denigrate and demean President Bush, but rush to label Obama protesters as hate-mongering redneck "teabaggers."

By their deliberate, public repetition of the term "teabaggers" in reference to the participants of tea-party events, these people and institutions are condoning and perpetuating hate for those who hold a different political view. Moreover, their actions tell those who are influenced by them that it is normal and right to belittle and demean the people who are not "politically correct" as defined by the "in" crowd.

It is sad to realize that this attitude is learned in school, particularly in many colleges and universities. David Horowitz was shouted down at Emory University by students who suffer this same character flaw. Rep. Tom Tancredo met the same fate at the University of North Carolina. College kids have learned that it is perfectly normal and right to shout down or deny the First Amendment to anyone who holds a political view different from their own.

Is it any wonder that when this crowd gets to Congress they think it is perfectly normal and right to shut out opposing views? Democrats routinely reject amendments offered by Republicans, often with no discussion or debate. On President Obama's health-care bill, Democrats refused to even let Republicans into the room when key portions of the bill were being negotiated. Then they have the audacity to call Republicans the party of "No."

This is the kind of disingenuous political representation that makes ordinary people rise up.

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