Boooriiing!

Guests of the weekly Gang-up

Guest host: Susan Page (neutral objective journalist)
Jim Angle, FOX News Channel
David Corn, Washington editor of "The Nation" and epitome of civility. Jeanne Cummings, The Wall Street Journal

What a boring week! Yawn! Now that the new conservative Democrats are in power and there are no scandals to drive for weeks on end by the Demomedia (Democrat media as in NBC, ABC, CBS, NPR, CNN) it seems that besides the Trump vs. Rosie O'Donnell war nothing else was going on.

Well, we could have had more coverage on the senseless and spineless non binding resolution by the U.S. Senate against the "surge" of American troops in Iraq proposed by President Bush but we didn't.

Frankly, it was so boring that I didn't feel like posting anything this week. I don't know what I will do if this most ethical Congress of all times continues to operate. Yet, at least we know that someone was squirming enough on the sidelines not to be sidelined that all of a sudden we started finding out more about the "O". No, not the Oprah, we are talking about the other "O" from Chicago, the Obama. Remember him? Yes, we are talking about Sen. Barak Hussein "Don't talk about my ears" Obama.

Well, it appears that infatuation does tend to blind lovers. After weeks of Demomedia hyperventilation it seems that certain aspects about their beloved were overlooked. According to various reports the Clinton camp seems to feel really threatened by the real surge that really matters to them, the surge of the "O". According to these operatives, the Clinton camp have let loose an onslaught of emails "exposing" first the Senator's middle name, Hussein, and most recently information concerning the Islamic background of his upbringing and education, supposedly including indoctrination in fanatic Muslim schools.

Following all these revelations and considering that the "O" is showing a consistent popular lead over the "H" it is not surprising that the Clinton camp will be forced to advance their announcement for the 2008 race. Do not expect a negative campaign against Sen. Obama from the Republican camp; at least not as dirty as that coming from the Democrats, they don't need it. Republicans are already benefiting from the campaign by the Democrats. The question is whether and when will the Demomedia join in for the kill.

So far Sen. Obama has not received much enthusiasm from the African American Democratic Party establishment either. You see, Sen. Obama is not known for having been part of the Democratic Party-Civil Rights Movement and racial politics apparatus, and unless they can determine whether he can play ball in the scheme of things he is not going to be supported. Besides he represents not the government African American of the dependency plantation but the immigrant Black whose family has been able to accomplish a middle class life with a son in the Senate without the baggage of the racial politics machine.

That runs against the grain of the racial welfare lords in the Democratic Party. The only way he has a chance is if he gets the Clinton machine to support him and that machine is already dedicated to the "H" candidate, or if gets the old Black Civil Rights Welfare plantation establishment overseers to support him. But the masters of the Democratic Party/liberal welfare plantation are the Clintons, and they get to determine who comes into the house. After all African Americans already had a president according to author Toni Morrison, who declared President Clinton "the first Black president" and they may explain why a Black was never appointed to high-level decision making office during that administration.

Unless Sen. Obama becomes a "house negro" (I assume this is an acceptable term since it has been used by liberal African Americans in reference to Gen. Colin Powell and Dr. Condoleeza Rice) in the Democratic Party plantation like some of the "civil rights" leaders and some in the Democratic Black Caucus, he will be looked upon with jealousy and suspicion. So, before he gets the "Ok" there will have to be more than one "sit down". And that my friends, is the bottom line.

Maybe we will move from the fight between The Donald and The Rosie to the war between the "O" and the "H". Let's hope so. I'm bored. This Congress is too ethical!

BEWARE OF THE TWO-HEADED MONSTER BIRD CREATED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY-MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX!

Guests of the weekly Gang-up first hour: Tony Blankley, editorial page editor of "The Washington Times."
E.J. Dionne, Washington Post columnist, David Gregory, White House correspondent for NBC News and maximum exponent of White House Press Corps civility and distinguished member of the Democratic Party-Media Industrial Complex.

Guests of another well balanced panel, second hour: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, assistant managing editor for continuous news, The Washington Post. Doyle McManus, Washington bureau chief, "Los Angeles Times" Barbara Slavin, senior diplomatic reporter, USA Today.

President Eisenhower warned us of the military-industrial complex for the possible damage it could bring to the republic. But he could not foresee the strange creature that has come out as result of another type of complex: The Democratic Party-Media Industrial Complex. The strange creature is a two-headed bird full of itself, pompous in behavior and vain as it could be. The bird has an incredible ability to disguise which direction is looking at, therefore, it is almost impossible to catch. The bird is properly named the Demomedia.

The Demomedia is capable of making strange noises and moves that make the inocent looker forget all previous noises and moves made by this bird. And while you are looking at one head the creature is actually looking at you with the other head. While you are listening to noises made by one head you can't hear the noises of the other head. Here are some examples of what the Demomedia birds does when it makes its appearances in shows like the DR Show and others.

NO mention of the many leading Democrats who just before the elections were calling for more troops for Irak, or as they call it today "a surge". Before the elections Rep. Pelosi and Sen. Biden among other leading Democrats, criticized the President for not having enough troops in Iraq. Consistently they called for more troops, not less. Have any of these leaders been faced with their comments by the Democratic Party-Media Industrial Complex? NO. Will they? NO. The evidence is solid that they did support more troops. All they have to do is ask Tim Russell for the tapes.

Why aren't the Democrats calling for a right out defunding of the troops? Because they know that the American people will not support it. So they will continue to grandstand for the purpose of pleasing the noisy fringe of their party at the expense of national security. Will they be challenged by the Democratic Party-Media Industrial Complex? Mr. Dionne, Mr. Gregory admit it, you are not neutral "journalists" and no matter what President Bush does you will not approve. You are members of Democratic Party-Media Industrial Complex.

You did not hear about her Nancyness' possible ethical limitations regarding the recent raise on the minimum wage. Well, it just happens that American Samoa was excluded from the minimum wage raise. And according to the chairman of the House, Education and Labor Committee, Democrat George Miller of California, it's because the economy of American Samoa doesn't have the ability to handle the United States' minimum wage and should be exempt.

But as it has already been alerted by the alternative media that there could be another reason. It has to do with the tuna industry. It has been reported that "the average wage for tuna workers in American Samoa is $3.60 an hour." And that one of the biggest employers there is Starkist Tuna with headquarters in San Francisco; Rep. Nancy Pelosi's territory. Will Mr. Gregory, Mr. Dionne, the DR Show or any of their fellow journalists of the Democratic Party-Media Industrial Complex take a closer look at Nancy Pelosi's campaign finances? Don't hold your breath.

You did not hear about Sen. Barbara Boxer's attack against feminism either. During Secretary of State Dr. Rice's appearance before a Senate hearing the millionaire Boxer said to Dr. Rice: "You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family." She was refering to the fact that Dr. Rice is not married and is also without children of her own and therefore had no price to pay in Iraq. Now apparently only people with children have a stake in Iraq, but also one of the major tenets of the feminist movement is obsolete. It seems that choosing a high level career over men and having a family is no longer looked upon as laudable in Democratic Party sectors. The feminist movement sought to erase from society the stigma of the childless professional woman as incapable of concentrating on her job. Now the Boxer has given it a nockout. Will the Democratic Party-Media Industrial Complex pursue an apology from Sen. Boxer? NO, not while is feeding the head that makes you look at the other head.

BEWARE OF THE TWO-HEADED MONSTER BIRD CREATED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY-MEDIA INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID!

http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070112-120720-2734r.htm

WHICH WAY WILL THEY LOOK?



Guests of the Weekly Gang-up:
Clarence Page, syndicated columnist, "Chicago Tribune"
Jerry Seib, Wall Street Journal
Byron York, White House correspondent for National Review and author of "The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy"






While Democrats rushed to their first press conference they were reminded of who claims to have put them in power. Lost cause célèbre Cindy Sheehan and the tin foil troops showed up to heckle Rep. Rahm Emanuel who had to give up and cancel his press conference. This might be a sign of things to come once the ecstasies of having the first woman as Speaker of the House wear out. Is it going to get boring? With Democrats now "in power" the Weekly Gang-up and the media in general might get boring. I mean, I cannot imagine the press going after the first woman to make it to Speaker of the House in the same manner they went after Newt Gingrich. So after a generous allowance for the traditional honeymoon there is something to demand: Please stop the fluff! Let's hope that NPR, the DR Show, etc., will show the same zeal to examine the record of the "new conservative" Democrats as they have done with the Republicans.

The Democrats may be over-playing their hand and their interpretation of the elections as a mandate for surrender in Iraq, and as an approval of the “cut and run” policy of the Rep. Murtha, Rep. Kucinich, Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan wing of the party. Yes, the American people are not happy with the way things are regarding Iraq. But the media has a tendency to believe their own spin and their own carefully crafted politically motivated polls, namely, “things are so horrible in Iraq that there is nothing positive about it and the public therefore oppose the war as we do.”

But this doesn’t translate into a desire by the American people to surrender. Just as the specter of Vietnam serves as the “boogey man” to scare us out of foreign involvements, it also serves as a lesson for those who understand and do not overlook the other side of the Vietnam War; what happens when you send out a signal of weakness.

So once the Democrats come back from their honeymoon they will have to consider which way to look; more to the left, or more to the right? If they do not follow through on their “cut and run”—hmm, “redeployment”—policy they will not please the time warp peaceniks, if they do they will not please the majority of American people which realistically understand the consequences of a politically motivated pull-out.

So, again, once the ecstasy is over, please stop the fluff you have dealt with this morning and let us hope you will keep a close eye on the promised “most ethical” Congress in history. I guess, in order to do that we will put aside any investigations on the “less than clear” defense contract dealings of Rep. Murtha, Rep. William Jefferson of Louisiana, the meaning of the theft of documents by Sandy Burger, the shady real estate dealings of Rep. Reid and even of her Nancyness.

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!

Panelists on the Weekly Gang-up:
Caroline Daniel, White House correspondent for the Financial Times.
Michael Duffy, assistant managing editor, TIME magazine.
Steve Roberts, syndicated columnist
11:00 panel:
Tom Gjelten, correspondent, NPR and is working on a book about Cuba
David Ignatius, Washington Post columnist and co-moderator (with Fareed Zakaria) of an online forum on international affairs at washingtonpost.com called "PostGlobal."
Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC and author of "Talking Back."


This week's panels, especially the 11:00, was classical liberal media group therapy.....It must be nice to sit in the comfort of a radio studio in D.C. pontificating on the major decisions a president must make while actual people die.

Any mention of the Sandy "Burglar" Burger case and its effect on the 9/11 Commission? Barely.

While left wing fanatics and their friends in the Democratic Party and the media give credence to paranoiac conspiracy theories about Bush and 9/11, here we have a real Clinton conspiracy to cover up and change history, and it gets dismissed by the panel on Dianne Rehm as almost just a prank! Other than that, the panels this week were nothing but absolute fluff.

Well, thank God we'll have a few days ahead of repose from politics! Merry Chirstmas, Happy New Year and Happy Hannukah! Pray for Peace! Merry Christmas Diane and Staff!

"LEND ME YOUR EARS...I GET BY WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FRIENDS"

Guests of the weekly Gang-up: John Harwood, reporter, "Wall Street Journal", Margaret Carlson, writes a weekly column for Bloomberg News and is the Washington editor of The Week magazine, Andrew Sullivan, senior editor, "The New Republic," and columnist, "Time".

One of the most endearing characters of American politics was Ross Perot. During one of his presidential debates in funny self-deprecation he uttered, "I'm all ears". The man with the pie charts and crew cut knew, and political cartoons reminded him, that his head cut a particularly unique profile, so he made light of it.

In the current religious media extasis about Sen. Barak Hussein Obama only a few radio talk shows, certainly not NPR or the DR Show, have covered a little incident that happened this week after the candidate for political canonization confronted NT Tymes columnist Maureen Dowd. Ms. Dowd had made some remarks in writing about Sen. Obama's auricular protuberances and he was letting her know he didn't like it!

After finishing his speech (in New Hampshire) Sen. Obama confronted Ms. Dowd, famously known for her dissatisfaction with men and now apparently obssesed about men's ears. Unaware, their words were recorded.

Sen. Obama (off mic): "You talked about my ears, and I just want to put you on notice: I'm very sensitive about -- What I told them was, ''I was teased relentlessly when I was a kid about my big ears.' "

Ms. Dowd (purring): "We're trying to toughen you up."

"Put you on notice"? Imagine if a male Republican or conservative candidate had said something like that! We would hearing that recording for two weeks straight, at least! Feminists would burn him alive! Remember when Sen. Clinton's male opponent approached her podium during a debate? Oh the humanity! He invaded her space! He was threatening!

Of course, as it is obvious, the media is not only "preparing the way of the Lord" so to speak for Sen. Obama, but also coaching him. And he will need a lot of that if he is so thin-skinned about his physical appearance (which is why we have decided to make our own artistic contribution to toughen him up also). Due to the cannonization process, and the lack of coverage of this incident, it would be doubtful whether political cartoonists will exploit the incident to create cartoons about it. In fact, they may practice self-imposed "politically correct" restraint in making sure they don't offend the Senator and his devotees.

Sen. Obama should learn from Ross Perot but he must learn the right lesson. Although he has found a sympathetic ally in the main stream media, not everyone will be so kind. In the end Ross Perot was not thick-skin enough to handle an assault on his daughter and came out with an almost paranoiac excuse to leave the race.

Maybe Maureen Dowd is correct. If Sen. Obama is going for the long haul he needs to toughen up. And although Ms. Dowd might be trying to help in that regard, so far it looks like the mainstream is only doing everything they can to throw flowers at his path.

TRYING TO AVOID THE UNAVOIDABLE WILL BRING ABOUT THE AVOIDABLE

Guests on the Weekly Gan-up: Susan Page, Washington bureau chief for "USA Today" Karen Tumulty, reporter, "Time" magazine Joseph Curl, The Washington Times

The times eerily and truly resemble the 1930s. By trying to avoid a war with Germany the "civilized" nations ended up in a much larger and more costly war. Now that the Democrats are in power, or at least have more than they had, and in the words of Iraq Study Group member Leon Pannetta, "we must come together".

PANETTA: "As I told the president this morning, this war has badly divided this country. It's divided Republicans from Democrats, and to some extent, the president from the people. And policy sometimes, with those divisions, has been reduced to a 30-second sound bite that runs the gamut from “victory” or “stay the course” to “cut and run”. And what this group tried to do, five Democrats and five Republicans, is try to set aside those code words and those divisions and try to look at the realities that are there.

And I would suggest to the president and to the American people that, if you look at the realities of what's taking place there, the fact that violence is out of control, the fact that Iraqis ultimately have to control their future; they have to take care of security; they've got to deal with the region in that area, that ultimately, you can find consensus here. This country cannot be at war and be as divided as we are today. You've got to unify this country. And I'd suggest to the president that what we did in this group can perhaps serve as an example to try to pull together the leadership of the Congress and try to focus on the recommendations that we've made. We have made a terrible commitment in Iraq in terms of our blood and our treasure. And I think we owe it to them to try to take one last chance at making Iraq work, and more importantly, to take one last chance at unifying this country on this war. I think the president understands that he simply is not going to be able to proceed with whatever policy changes he wants to implement if we're divided. That is the principal goal, in my mind, that he has to accomplish." (December 6, 2006 Iraq Study Group News Conference Transcript)

Either I am as stupid as Democrats think I am as a citizen or someone has the kind of gall that is capable of erasing from our memory the fact that the man represents the side in this country which has waged a greater war against president Bush than against the enemy the US fighting!

About the “code words” Mr. Panetta says the Study Group tried to avoid, when Mr. Panetta says, “I think the president understands that he simply is not going to be able to proceed with whatever policy changes he wants to implement if we're divided” and that he “can find consensus here” what he really means is that the President needs to agree with the Democrats or they will continue to wage war against him, not against al-Qaeda in Iraq.

Mr. Panetta also said, that “this war has badly divided this country” and that in Iraq “violence is out of control”. Do Mr. Panetta and the new “conservative” Democrats believe that we all have forgotten the endless speeches, comments, books, “documentaries”, newscasts, editorials, statements from leading Democrats, in other words the whole campaign directed to discredit not only the President, but even the armed forces? And can he really not understand the connection between that domestic campaign and the emboldening of terrorists in Iraq leading to a violence that is not “out of control” but purposefully controlled to create the impression of chaos?

Now the Democrats and a few so-called “realists” are upholding the Iraq Study Group pages as someone by the name of Chamberlain once held a piece of paper as hope for “peace for our time.”

But in these times of news clips and sound bites perception is reality and now the perception around the world is that not only the US is surrendering but also that both Democrats and terrorists are celebrating something in common, the Iraq Study Group. In trying to avoid a greater regional conflict the Iraq Study Group and those who believe this is a road for peace may be mixing elements of delusion with what they think is realism. And that it is not a recipe for peace.

REALITY BITES

Guests in this week's Gang-up:
Frank Sesno, special correspondent, CNN
John Dickerson, chief political correspondent, Slate,Jeanne Cummings, The Wall Street Journal.

Just as we predicted, the Democrats once in power have started backtracking on Iraq. On the way to the elections their cut and run —“redeployment”—“Bush lied, people died”, Murtha-Dean-Michael Moore self-induced, propaganda caused apoplexia was kept unchecked. But now that they have a more direct share in the responsibility of power and the outcome of Iraq they are faced with a reality check: they have found out that it is not as easy to put your money where your mouth is. As the Spanish saying goes, “Una cosa es llamar al Diablo y otra cosa es verlo venir” (One thing is to call the Devil and another one is to see him coming toward you).

This week, after alerting us—“wake up, America, John McCain is bonkers”—“documentary” maker Michael More, the once honored guest at the last Democratic Party convention rotundly pronounced in his website:

“The responsibility to end this war now falls upon the Democrats. Congress controls the purse strings and the Constitution says only Congress can declare war. Mr. Reid and Ms. Pelosi now hold the power to put an end to this madness. Failure to do so will bring the wrath of the voters. We aren't kidding around, Democrats, and if you don't believe us, just go ahead and continue this war another month.”

In his open letter to the American people (eerily similar in tone and content with Iran’s president letter to the American people) titled “Cut and Run, the Only Brave Thing to Do” (really, this is the title) Mr. Moore then proceeds to give us his anti-bonkers plan:

“Bring the troops home now. Not six months from now. NOW. Quit looking for a way to win. We can't win. We've lost. Sometimes you lose. This is one of those times. Be brave and admit it.”

Ironically his letter includes a photo of defeated WWII tyrants as examples fast victories in contrast to a victory in Iraq. Yet, he fails to mention that none of them were defeated by following a “cut and run” policy. And in none of the defeated countries were we welcome as occupiers either, the only difference is that when we occupied those countries we occupied those countries (not half-way occupations), not “cut and run” out of them, nor did we follow time tables of so-called “exit strategies”.

But the issue is not Mr. Moore but what he has represented all along, the relatively small but very strident, sophomoric wing of the Democratic Party and the mostly emotional and highly irrational paradigms for opposing the intervention in Iraq. This same segment of the population which thought it could overthrow Sen. Lieberman, quicker than Saddam was overthrown, by intervening in the elections of a state via the internet has now to face reality. It will be easier for the US to extricate itself from Iraq than for the Democratic Party leadership to do so from its previous positions, or for the “hate Bush at any cost" crowd to have a final say in the new “conservative” Democratic Party.

After trying the Vietnam syndrome unsuccessfully the liberal media (that is, most of the media) is now trying the civil war syndrome. Will it work? They surely hope so, although so far, looking at statements from Democrat leaders and unofficial presidential forerunners the misnomer “war on terror” still prevails.

“House Speaker to be” Pelosi has already caved on Murtha and Hastings, beginning a process of dissociation from the “cut and runners”. And just this week she has agreed with President Bush’s long held position that Iraq is the actual physical battleground against al-Qaeda. Now the Democrats, having voted for the war and then doing everything possible to oppose it for partisan interest, find that the intervention in Iraq has also become the battle ground for moderation.

In a recent list of twenty options for presidential candidates given to the American public for the next elections John Kerry came in last. The process of canonization of Sen. Obama as a moderate is only part of the process and part of the race to watch between him and Saint Hillary for the crown of centrism and moderation. Meanwhile the Clinton camp has already called for the head of Howard Dean. All put together it looks like the Democrat leadership is really listening to the American people. Now reality bites.

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