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The Obama campaign whined about WFTV being “unprofessional” when it dared to dish out some tough questions to Vice President hopeful, Joe Biden.

The Obama spokesperson issued this statement about the interview:

“There’s nothing wrong with tough questions, but reporters have the very important job of sharing the truth with the public — not misleading the American people with false information. Senator Biden handled the interview well; however, the anchor was completely unprofessional. Senator Biden’s wife is not running for elected office, and there are many other stations in the Orlando television market that would gladly conduct a respectful and factual interview with her.”

“This cancellation is non-negotiable, and further opportunities for your station to interview with this campaign are unlikely, at best for the duration of the remaining days until the election.”

So the second round of layoffs at the Idaho Statesman-Democrat has begun.

This time fifteen more people will lose their jobs.

Here’s a hint Statesman: Start with Dan Popkey.

Ok, maybe it’s not Dan himself, but the whole smug liberal attitude that he represents. It is poisoning our local paper all newspapers. Have you looked at how Republican this state votes? Have you looked at how many of your potential big-business advertisers are members of the conservative Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry?

And yet you continue to push out your liberal agenda and whine and complain when we cancel our subscriptions and move our advertising over to Craigslist or ZIdaho. I mean, really, It doesn’t seem like rocket science here.

Earlier this year the Statesman cut about ten percent of its staff, while another 22 people will be losing their jobs with the new joint-publishing venture due to come online next year. Oh, and couple this with the fact that eighty one percent of businesses plan to increase there online ad spending in the coming year, and those costs will be taken from the print advertising budgets.

Maybe its time for a new business plan, you think Mi-Ai?

Perhaps you could:

1. Get rid of Dan Popkey, which your readers have been asking you to do for years.
2. Bring more conservative columnists on to balance out your readers perception of bias.
3. Quit making yourself a target for the 75% of this state that votes conservative by quitting the election endorsements.
4. Give us more local content and a better sports section. One that isn’t run by Boise State hating Mike Prater.
5. Get rid of riff-raff columnists like the douchbags Scott Orr and Micheal Deeds. Really, in a market that is overwhelmingly Mormon, do you really need your own beer columnist? Think about it.

In short, make your paper more representative of your potential subscribers and ad buyers: conservative, pro-business and supportive of the Boise State Bronco’s. Its time for a big-shake up. Most locals have completely lost faith in your paper because they cannot connect with the values that you espouse. Engaging the communities expectations for editorial content is the only way that you will stop this trend in the blog/instant news era.

In the meantime, have fun watching the profits sink. Blogs are always a better read anyway.

 

Yes, that is the title of his book in Indonesian. No it’s not in the translation, it’s a whole new title that is being marketed in the Muslim countries. Yet more proof Barack is trying to hide his Islamic connections.

A must read, brought to you by the wonderful Atlas Shrugs.

In a blatant expose of the government media complex the WaPo has embraced the FCC’s version of the “free net”. The “free net” that has gatekeepers to regulate, monitor and filter out the sites you visit, the content you download and the use of your internet connection.

Remember: telecoms are now granted immunity to cooperate with the governments agenda. We must assume ISP’s are complicit in this as well. If we allow gatekeepers on the net, the last vestige of the free media will be lost. How soon will it be before your ISP’s cooperate with the government and start “filtering out” unwanted political dissent and discussion?

We must assume a backroom deal is being made here. The government is offering this to the ISP’s: cooperate with our desired policies and we will allow you to filter content to manage your under capacity network. This may well be the biggest win for the government-media complex when seen through the prism of history.

From one of my favorites, Newsbusters.com: Politcal donations from the media run 100 to 1 in favor of the Democrats.

More proof they want to ram their agenda down your throat.

See Also: Rasmussen Reports: Belief Growing That Reporters Are Trying To Help Obama Win.

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UPDATE 12:30 PMAnd then today: NYTimes has REJECTED a McCain rebuttal peice to Obama’s “vision” for Iraq. Perfect time to show your bias with all these polls coming on out the subject, no?

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UPDATE 7-22-2008 8:25amMore proof of media bias: Only one reporter and photographer sent to cover McCain campain stop. Contrast that to the thousands of media personall sent with The Messiah to Germany.

Minico High School (Burley, ID) English-as-a-second language teacher Dan Luker has been charged with mutilating the flag under Idaho Statute, which is punishable by 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. This follows the May 5th incident in which he ripped the United States Flag off the wall and stomped on it to show his hatred for America.

According to KTVB.com:

Some students had brought Mexican flags to the school that day in celebration of Cinco De Mayo, which recognizes Mexico’s victory over the French army in 1862.

One student had his Mexican flag taken away and put in the garbage can by gym instructor Clint Straatman. Luker said he was responding to that incident, and that his actions were also trigged by the school administration’s indifference to what he called generalized mistreatment of Latino students.

This story pisses me off so much:

1) Why is an American school celebrating a foreign country’s holiday?

2) Why is Clint Staatman not being treated as a hero?

3) Why do we allow public schools to have radical anti-American insurrectionist liberals teaching our children?

4) Why do the taxpayers have to cow-tow to the illegal immigrant population by teaching them with their own special set of teachers?

5) Why are the taxpayers being forced to waste money charging someone with an unconstitutional law? Why not just charge the teacher with disorderly conduct, or threatening the safety of students? How about aiding and abetting the enemy? Let’s get serious on those who will destroy American for other nations.

6) Why is the media not reporting that this teacher destroyed an American flag to promote Mexico and Mexican interests?

7) Other sites note Luker was trying to take down the flag, “because it was a distraction”. Really? Being patriotic and proud of your country is now a “distraction” to liberal fascists?

This story is a perfect example of what your children are being taught at public school. And the Idaho Department Of Education wonders why only 12% of Idaho parents would choose public school if they had a choice.

It’s clear that private or home-schooling is the best choice against the indoctrination of your child. However, in the end the taxpayers won this one: the ESL program is being dissolved and Dan Luker has resigned his teaching position.

File this under Roadmap 2008. 

John McCain pisses me off.

There, I said it. Whether its embracing the liberal agenda on open boarders, environmental policy or campaign finance reform, this guys seems all to willing to go in the direction that the government/media complex would take us.

On at least on issue however, McCain’s mind has been changed by the sheer weight of popular and conservative opinion. At that, in itself, is a win.

CNN.com: McCain wants to lift ban on offshore drilling

Quite simply this is a breath of fresh air from this guy. I was certain he was going to come out and give some sort of politician weasel speak about the environment, not being effective to reduce oil prices and how it would take ten years to bring the oil stations on line. In other words, all the same old anti-energy lies that currently take precedence in our public policy.

But McCain didn’t say that. He knows that this issue alone could continue to tip the electoral winds in his favor.

WSJ.com notes energy policy is at the top of Americans mindsets this election:

A recent Gallup poll shows 57% of Americans support opening up new territories to drilling, while a Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll conducted this month shows 59% of Americans saying Congress should take the lead on responding to high gas prices.

This is an issue that can almost single-handedly turn the GOP prospects for a November victory around. Republicans need to rally around the issue of energy independence, lowering oil prices and cutting excessive regulations on the oil and gasoline industry. Most importantly, Republicans need to demand domestic oil drilling. Additionally, the Republican House leadership needs to investigate claims by the Democrats that oil companies are not currently drilling on 68 million acres of publicly leased land.

I believe, after the investigations are complete, most of those 68 millions acres will be unusable or undrillable. But regardless, the taxes on developing a new drilling site would easily outweigh the costs as it stands. Reducing the amount, time and cost of “environmental studies” would be the first significant step to solving the biggest energy crisis this nation has seen in over 20 years. But that alone is not enough.

We need to drill, and drill now. Barriers must be removed to domestic oil production. No longer can we let the OPEC cartel dictate what prices our economy will be run around. Nearly everything is affected by the price of oil and gasoline and not have a domestic barrier against foreign market tampering is dangerous, unpractical and fiscally inflationary.

Even Rush Limbaugh agrees.

You want to make sure the environment isn’t damaged? Fine. You want to make sure we move toward renewal energy sources in future? Fine. You want to make sure a fair market is in play? Fine. Make those conditions of domestic drilling. But get it started for god sakes. The economy simply cannot endure this much longer.

Oklahoma has seen an over one percentage point drop in the state’s seasonal unemployment rate, down to 3.1% as of March this year. While unemployment rates this low are likely to mean big things for the economy of the Sooner state, one has to ask: Why is the media not covering this historic event?

My dear readers, it is another sad, sad case of media bias.

Want to know why the MSM won’t touch this subject? Simple: Oklahoma has targeted illegal immigrants stealing American taxpayer jobs in an effort to make sure American citizens have the first shot at work.

Gee, imagine that, an immigration policy that makes sense!

Which makes you ask, how the hell did John Sidney McCain win Oklahoma anyway?

One thing is for sure, this subject will be too hot for the MSM to touch. But know this, there is now definite proof that illegals take Americans jobs. And it’s not that Americans don’t want those jobs, but rather, the evidence seems to be mounting that the industries that hire illegals deliberately underpay market wages to purposefully attract undocumented workers. Thus saving them payroll taxes, IRS withholding compliance standards, workers compensation insurance… the list goes on and on. The end results is American workers getting laid off in favor of the cheaper illegal immigrant wage.

Which brings us to the next question: how soon will other states copy Oklahoma’s labor law to benefit their own unemployed citizens?

More hypocrisy from the left

Newspeak claims another win.

This time we cannot refer to those who want to destroy us for what they are- Islamic terrorists. What the hell is going on in this country? The government/media complex is so throughly entrenched that they are already starting to “sift out” President Bush’s war on terror before he has even left office.

Be certain of this: this is not a policy that is being implemented to help the U.S. State Department or the CIA capture more intelligence on pending terrorist activities against America. No, this policy is driven out political correctness which will ultimately serve to weaken our identification of the enemy and further stalwart public opinion against the War on Terror.

Another thing to consider: the government probably had no choice but to implement ”Words That Work And Words That Don’t: A Guide To Counter-Terrorism Communication”. After all, the vast majority of the news outlets in the country, both print and television, operate in a void of patriotism and national pride. Instead, these outlets have taken the side of the United Nation’s human-rights screamers. A system where “terrorist” is deemed a “freedom fighter” and where identification of religious groups is discouraged.

So know this, our security is being compromised by the same mentality that existed Pre-9-11. Namely that, “we can all just get along” and that no individual groups actions represent a grave enough threat for an individual nation to respond.

Perhaps the bureaucrats who wrote this report will not want us to consider the statement, “Death to America! Praise be to Allah!” as a overt threat of planned intentions against the United States. Perhaps they are just, “struggling with cultural identities in the global community”.

Please, what a bunch of bullshit.

The good news:

In a recent interview with the Washington Times, a McCain aide said the senator would continue to use the term Islamic terrorism.

And that, my friends, is yet another reason to support this man in the general election.

To the Liberals like B. Hussein Obama and H. Clinton we are not allowed to discuss issues like patriotism, national pride and questioning a religious ideology that boarders next to that of the Islamic Terrorism. More proof that these two are not fit to be the next leader of the free world.

Also, more on B. Hussein’s “religion”

 Also, the NYTimes.com tries in vain to attack McCain for having John Hagee’s endorsement because of this video:

www.paulvclinton.com  <—– WHAT THE MEDIA WON’T TALK ABOUT!!

More proof that the “global warming” agenda is really just a public policy agenda.