AS THE TITLE SAYS
Media Elitism, The Death of Journalism, Media Bias, Voter Fraud, Destructive Economics and other things Obama
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Sunday, April 26, 2015
Book Review: "The Communist" by Paul Kengor.
I don't hold to traditional format in book reviews. Amazon has liberated us from that crippling structure. The Amazon review is to criticism what free verse is to poetry. Here we go.
The Barack Obama story is an American tragedy. The powers that be, the elitists and the elite including 99% of the news media, decided Barack Obama would be our president. They would participate in myth making and attack anyone who challenged their fairy tales. There would be duping and intentional self-duping. There would be mass celebration of bad times to come.
With the pledge of media Omerta enforced, a few Indexed writers stepped up to tell the world about Barack Obama. "The Amateur" made the strong case for The Peter Principle in action. "The Great Destroyer" credited the president as an architect of destruction. "The Communist" bridges the school of Ineptitude with the school of Domestic Quisling. Like the other two books, "The Communist" was released just months before the 2012 election and it would not affect the outcome. The question remains, is this still worth reading?
"The Communist" is worth reading. Barack Obama comes across as an imprinted duck. An adolescent imprinted duck. The Konrad Lorenz in this case is a radical self-avowed Communist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis.
What is frightening about Obama is that he doesn't quote or refer to other influences. Did he learn anything at Occidental or Columbia or Harvard? If he did, he does not mention what that might be. Whatever he needed to know he learned in high school from "Frank". He would carry his sophomoric pride with him for the rest of his life.
The author compares Frank Marshall Davis's influence to Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton's forgettable mentors. They are mentioned here and there by their mentees. Barack Obama on the other hand, is obsessed with his teacher. Not only does he talk about "Frank" often, he parrots the cliches and slogans Frank Marshall Davis parroted. Obama's verbiage can often be traced to American Communist propaganda.
If a future president has but one intellectual influence, it would be good for all of us if that influence was a man steeped in wisdom of his times and of the ages. Those of you hoping for a Plato and Socrates situation will be disappointed. Frank Marshall Davis comes across as a not particularly deep thinker consumed by bitterness.
The author is sympathetic. He refers to him as "Frank" instead of the conventionally used surname. Davis did indeed face racism throughout his life. That in no way excuses his falling for the silliness and yes, the evil, of Communism. And fall he did. Face first with no hands extended.
Apart from the exposure of Frank Marshall Davis, Kengor focuses a lot of attention on the Communists in America. I hold the strong opinion that the lineage of Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod is disturbing. Like their meal ticket, they have never renounced Communism or spoken openly of converting or seeing the light.
I was not aware that the American Communists cheered for Hitler in the early stages of World War II. If I knew that Hitler and Stalin were frenemies in the early stages of the war, I had forgotten it. Churchill was the devil who was resisting an ally of Papa Joe. Maybe that explains Obama's Anglophobia.
Kengor reveals a lot of the front groups and dupes who wittingly or otherwise advanced American Communism. Their influence is everywhere these days always repackaged in deceptive terms like "social justice." There is a larger pattern here. This is a portrait of a mass movement and the simple but embittered minds attracted to it. For this reason "The Communist" is well worth reading now and for a long time to come.
The Barack Obama story is an American tragedy. The powers that be, the elitists and the elite including 99% of the news media, decided Barack Obama would be our president. They would participate in myth making and attack anyone who challenged their fairy tales. There would be duping and intentional self-duping. There would be mass celebration of bad times to come.
With the pledge of media Omerta enforced, a few Indexed writers stepped up to tell the world about Barack Obama. "The Amateur" made the strong case for The Peter Principle in action. "The Great Destroyer" credited the president as an architect of destruction. "The Communist" bridges the school of Ineptitude with the school of Domestic Quisling. Like the other two books, "The Communist" was released just months before the 2012 election and it would not affect the outcome. The question remains, is this still worth reading?
"The Communist" is worth reading. Barack Obama comes across as an imprinted duck. An adolescent imprinted duck. The Konrad Lorenz in this case is a radical self-avowed Communist by the name of Frank Marshall Davis.
What is frightening about Obama is that he doesn't quote or refer to other influences. Did he learn anything at Occidental or Columbia or Harvard? If he did, he does not mention what that might be. Whatever he needed to know he learned in high school from "Frank". He would carry his sophomoric pride with him for the rest of his life.
The author compares Frank Marshall Davis's influence to Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton's forgettable mentors. They are mentioned here and there by their mentees. Barack Obama on the other hand, is obsessed with his teacher. Not only does he talk about "Frank" often, he parrots the cliches and slogans Frank Marshall Davis parroted. Obama's verbiage can often be traced to American Communist propaganda.
If a future president has but one intellectual influence, it would be good for all of us if that influence was a man steeped in wisdom of his times and of the ages. Those of you hoping for a Plato and Socrates situation will be disappointed. Frank Marshall Davis comes across as a not particularly deep thinker consumed by bitterness.
The author is sympathetic. He refers to him as "Frank" instead of the conventionally used surname. Davis did indeed face racism throughout his life. That in no way excuses his falling for the silliness and yes, the evil, of Communism. And fall he did. Face first with no hands extended.
Apart from the exposure of Frank Marshall Davis, Kengor focuses a lot of attention on the Communists in America. I hold the strong opinion that the lineage of Valerie Jarrett and David Axelrod is disturbing. Like their meal ticket, they have never renounced Communism or spoken openly of converting or seeing the light.
I was not aware that the American Communists cheered for Hitler in the early stages of World War II. If I knew that Hitler and Stalin were frenemies in the early stages of the war, I had forgotten it. Churchill was the devil who was resisting an ally of Papa Joe. Maybe that explains Obama's Anglophobia.
Kengor reveals a lot of the front groups and dupes who wittingly or otherwise advanced American Communism. Their influence is everywhere these days always repackaged in deceptive terms like "social justice." There is a larger pattern here. This is a portrait of a mass movement and the simple but embittered minds attracted to it. For this reason "The Communist" is well worth reading now and for a long time to come.
As Baltimore Burns
Haven't we seen this movie?
Here's a good first person account from Breitbart.
The message is the message. We no longer have riots. We have unrest. The word 'insomnia' is waiting in the wings to be deployed.
Most of our lives we have lived under the rule of good people who may or not may not be good at running things. Think Jimmy Carter. He is a good Christian man who tried hard for all of us without much success. The nation has seen countless Jimmy Carters come and go.
The current administration is morally bankrupt. Yes, our country's police are frequently predatory and frequently abusive of their power. But we all know that looting and rioting and attacking baseball fans does not address the situation.
And we know that Barack Obama is influential in our inner cities and that he could probably stop riots in Ferguson or Baltimore but he did not lift a finger to do so. Why let a crisis go to waste? The businesses that were looted and torched? They didn't build that. White privilege. Burn baby burn.
Here's a good first person account from Breitbart.
The message is the message. We no longer have riots. We have unrest. The word 'insomnia' is waiting in the wings to be deployed.
Most of our lives we have lived under the rule of good people who may or not may not be good at running things. Think Jimmy Carter. He is a good Christian man who tried hard for all of us without much success. The nation has seen countless Jimmy Carters come and go.
The current administration is morally bankrupt. Yes, our country's police are frequently predatory and frequently abusive of their power. But we all know that looting and rioting and attacking baseball fans does not address the situation.
And we know that Barack Obama is influential in our inner cities and that he could probably stop riots in Ferguson or Baltimore but he did not lift a finger to do so. Why let a crisis go to waste? The businesses that were looted and torched? They didn't build that. White privilege. Burn baby burn.
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Another Curve Ball: Joel Gilbert Interviews Malik Obama
Truth does not always arrive in an EZ-open container. In an era of media somnambulance it seems we are always fumbling through the kitchen drawer in search of a functioning can opener.
Recently this blog reported on the discrediting of Obama biographer Joel Gilbert.
An internal search for "Malik Obama" will bring up five previous posts as well as this one. Malik Obama has made appearances on terrorist watch lists and his non-profit agency was fast-tracked at the IRS with an assist from living legend Lois Lerner. It has been rumored that less than six degrees connect Malik Obama to the self-radicalized lone nut purveyors of workplace disorder, Zhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Chlorine is toxic and sodium is deadly. Merged in a compound these elements form an essential nutrient. In this salty interview, Malik Obama reveals a half-brother is who is cold, impersonal and a pinchfist with his own dimes. Maybe we shouldn't close the book on Gilbert just yet.
Recently this blog reported on the discrediting of Obama biographer Joel Gilbert.
An internal search for "Malik Obama" will bring up five previous posts as well as this one. Malik Obama has made appearances on terrorist watch lists and his non-profit agency was fast-tracked at the IRS with an assist from living legend Lois Lerner. It has been rumored that less than six degrees connect Malik Obama to the self-radicalized lone nut purveyors of workplace disorder, Zhokar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
Chlorine is toxic and sodium is deadly. Merged in a compound these elements form an essential nutrient. In this salty interview, Malik Obama reveals a half-brother is who is cold, impersonal and a pinchfist with his own dimes. Maybe we shouldn't close the book on Gilbert just yet.
Wednesday, April 22, 2015
Book Review: "Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles In Liberal Hypocrisy by Peter Schweizer
This guy hits a nerve with the reactionary Left. I plead fair use to lift this copyrighted review from "Publishers Weekly" via Amazon.
Note the Left gets quotation marks. Is that because it is a fictitious entity? And the summary statement that this appeals to ad hominem blogggers. Should I take that statement personally? If this annoys "Publishers Weekly" it can't be all bad.
And the 78 1-star reviews from Occupy Amazon is yet another ringing endorsement.
From Publishers Weekly
Working with a broadly inclusive pantheon of "the Left" that places Ralph Nader and Barbra Streisand on equal footing with Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton, Schweizer (The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty) suggests that liberalism's heroes conduct their lives in ways that prove their philosophy to be "ultimately self-defeating, self-destructive, and unworkable." While acknowledging that conservatives can be high-profile hypocrites as well, Schweizer employs a double standard, arguing that "when conservatives betray their publicly stated principles, they harm only themselves and their families," but when liberals misbehave, they harm their principles first and foremost. Sometimes his research uncovers significant contradictions, as when Schweizer points out that Noam Chomsky, who tends to demonize the military establishment, wrote his first book, Syntactic Structures, with grants from the U.S. Army, the Air Force and the Office of Naval Research. But many of his charges are egregiously hyperbolic, as when he suggests that Cornel West is a "segregationist" because he bought a home in a largely Caucasian suburb. Schweizer clearly knows the limitations of his argument, since he backpedals from many of his most damning statements in his closing remarks. For all its revelations, in the end, this volume reads less like a critique of liberal philosophy than a catalogue of ammunition for ad hominem bloggers. (Oct. 25)
Even if you are in tune and disgusted with the anti-gun crusaders who employ private armies, jet-setting green warriors, Warren Buffets and Barack Obamas advocating for increased taxes because they pay taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries and then doing back flips to assure that they pay taxes at a lower rate than their secretaries, this book will open your eyes.
Ralph Nader and Michael Moore have succeeded in creating public personas that could not differ more from their high on the hog lifestyles. Green advocate Barbra Streisand goes shopping in an RV because she will not use a store--even an upscale store--restroom. The Kennedys have more oil than J R Ewing...If you love ad hominem attacks, this book is full of them.
"Do As I Say..." is an ad hominem-loving blogger's dream. Written in 2006, it is still valid and fresh.
I can't wait to read "Clinton Cash...." which will come out May 5. In the meantime, there are plenty of ad hominem attacks to warm the soul. Peter Schweizer is great.
Monday, April 20, 2015
Thugocracy In The Cheese State
THEY CAME WITH A BATTERING RAM.” Cindy Archer, one of the lead architects of Wisconsin’s Act 10 — also called the “Wisconsin Budget Repair Bill,” it limited public-employee benefits and altered collective-bargaining rules for public-employee unions — was jolted awake by yelling, loud pounding at the door, and her dogs’ frantic barking. The entire house — the windows and walls — was shaking. She looked outside to see up to a dozen police officers, yelling to open the door. They were carrying a battering ram. She wasn’t dressed, but she started to run toward the door, her body in full view of the police. Some yelled at her to grab some clothes, others yelled for her to open the door.
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417155/wisconsins-shame-i-thought-it-was-home-invasion-david-french
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417155/wisconsins-shame-i-thought-it-was-home-invasion-david-french
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Assessing Societal Damage Inflicted By Cheesy Propaganda Emanating From "Dragnet" and "Law And Order"
Remember the "Dragnet" episode where the baby drowns in the bath tub because the parents are high on marijuana? Young people will watch this episode and ask, "Is this a comedy?'
No, it was not a comedy. It was hard hitting, realistic drama brought to the small screen. This wasn't your father's favorite western. Oh no, this was real life.
There were other episodes where drug users were just as clownish. No, the series doesn't hold up very well, as least not for dramatic effect or edification. "Dragnet" reruns are unintentionally campy (if that is not a contradiction in terms.) Yet, drug laws were made by people whose only knowledge of the subject came from Jack Webb.
I remember reading a poignant essay in the 1970's about the drip drip drip impact of "Dragnet." It was a cautionary tale about propaganda. Sadly, "Dragnet" had a huge cultural impact despite its silliness.
The second run of "Dragnet" only lasted four years (An earlier version of the show ran for eight years but it was light on social and political commentary.) "Law And Order" ran for 20 seasons, is perhaps the most popular rerun in history and spun off four other series: "Law And Order: Special Victims Unit", "Law And Order: Criminal Intent", "Law And Order: Trail By Jury", and "Law And Order: LA" Depending on the standard used, it is perhaps the most successful TV show in history.
To say I watched "Law And Order" is like saying I watched the weather. Sadly, someone close to me loved the show. I had a job where I supervised the people who supervised group homes and staffed apartments for an array of serviced populations. I would show up to check the books and receipts and "Law and Order" was often (seemed like always) playing in the background. It was popular with both resident and staff alike.
I would later work at a small mental health/detox establishment. One of the most popular shows was, drum rolls please..."Law And Order..." in all of its many variations. Staff made two "rule of thumb" observations about viewers of "Law and Order". One, viewers of the show usually viewed the show to the exclusion of all other shows (and it was seemingly rerun ALL OF THE TIME.) Two, clients who preferred to watch "Law And Order" usually did not do well in treatment. Make of that what you will.
There has probably never been a TV show with the broad appeal of "Law And Order." Critics loved it and it was viewed by artists and intellectuals as well as folks on the left side of the Bell Curve.
I am perhaps the only person I know who dislikes "Law and Order". It is cheesy, formulaic, stupid, and predictable. The stories are "ripped from the headlines." I am not big on wise ass government agents and I will skip over the pain inflicted by Ice-T, an actor challenged not just by the English language, but by language itself. More insidious than the steady stream of hokum is the overt propaganda and its damaging effects on society.
Good vs. Evil is a hibernating formula as Authority vs. Evil carries the day. There but by the grace of Munch go I. The lead characters threaten and intimidate innocent people. They bring charges against people knowing the charges won't stick because they are not guilty of said charges and this is advanced as the morally correct course of action.
"Law And Order" aggressively promotes a politically correct agenda. PC slaps you in the face, PC over the head, PC up the nose, and PC down the throat. Consensual is consensual but don't you feel a little bit violated after watching that show?
One of the first times I saw "Law And Order" was in 1992. From IMDB: A teenage drug addict claims that a nun molested her at a treatment house, but the investigation leads an accusation of rape involving the chief executive of the facility.
Because other women fled the shelter and met with untimely deaths, they decided to pursue murder charges against the chief executive. It was almost a commercial for the welfare state. Without treatment on demand, shelters and whatever else we feel like funding, women will die of AIDS and drugs and the hazards of the street. In other words, if you take a NIMBY approach to addiction treatment, there is blood on your hands as well. Worse yet, it was presented as noble and forthright and caring to bring homicide charges against the rapist for frightening the poor women enough to exit his shelter.
This isn't a scholarly study so maybe my observations are skewed. However, it did seem like rich white men accounted for most of New York's crime and it seemed like if it was mentioned that a character was Christian, he was up to no good. Gay men are often the victims of hate crimes and gay witnesses fear discrimination should they testify. In one episode a young gay man is murdered and his father, a Jerry Falwell prototype, is woefully insensitive to his son's demise.
One of the spin-offs, "Law And Order: Special Victims Unit" seems to have but one theme that is repeated over and over and over: Privileged white kids get away with sexual assault because of their wealth and status. Which brings us to current events:
Quoting "New York Times" via Ann Coulter concerning the discredited University of Virginia gang rape story: "The New York Times' Charles Blow wrote a column on the CJR report, suggesting that although this "one particular case" of a fraternity gang rape had been "shown to have flaws," the "overall condition that it illustrated holds true."
How does Mr. Blow know about the overall condition so well? I cannot prove it but I suspect it's the drip drip drip of "Law And Order." I bet Mr. Blow has watched many an episode of that celebrated show. I bet too, the editors of "Rolling Stone" are fans of the show including Sabrina Erdely. For that matter, the esteemed members of "Columbia Journalism Review" have probably watched the show and its spin-offs many, many times.
Let's recall once more the false rape accusations leveled against the Duke lacrosse team in 2006. Briefly, the prosecutor would be disbarred, the accuser would be convicted of murder, the lacrosse coach would get fired, players would be publicly shamed and would strike back with lawsuits against the school and city...
And yet, students and faculty and media were convinced of the lacrosse players' guilt. Why? The drip drip drip of "Law And Order"?
In assessing the probability of a woman being raped on a college campus, people who should know better--government officials--greatly overstate the frequency of the crime. Once more, "New York Times" via Ann Coulter:
"Always the last to know, Blow also defended Obama's nonsense claim that 1 in 5 college women will be raped by citing a Washington Post "Fact Checker" from May 1, 2014, which merely called the figure "problematic" -- a resounding confirmation of the statistic, as far as Blow was concerned.
Unfortunately for Blow, about six months after the Post's fact check, that rating got downgraded to "utter B.S.," when Eric Holder's Justice Department released a study of nearly the past decade of crime statistics, finding that 0.61 percent of college students are victims of sexual assault, not 20 percent. That makes it .03 in 5, not 1 in 5. "
No, it was not a comedy. It was hard hitting, realistic drama brought to the small screen. This wasn't your father's favorite western. Oh no, this was real life.
There were other episodes where drug users were just as clownish. No, the series doesn't hold up very well, as least not for dramatic effect or edification. "Dragnet" reruns are unintentionally campy (if that is not a contradiction in terms.) Yet, drug laws were made by people whose only knowledge of the subject came from Jack Webb.
I remember reading a poignant essay in the 1970's about the drip drip drip impact of "Dragnet." It was a cautionary tale about propaganda. Sadly, "Dragnet" had a huge cultural impact despite its silliness.
The second run of "Dragnet" only lasted four years (An earlier version of the show ran for eight years but it was light on social and political commentary.) "Law And Order" ran for 20 seasons, is perhaps the most popular rerun in history and spun off four other series: "Law And Order: Special Victims Unit", "Law And Order: Criminal Intent", "Law And Order: Trail By Jury", and "Law And Order: LA" Depending on the standard used, it is perhaps the most successful TV show in history.
To say I watched "Law And Order" is like saying I watched the weather. Sadly, someone close to me loved the show. I had a job where I supervised the people who supervised group homes and staffed apartments for an array of serviced populations. I would show up to check the books and receipts and "Law and Order" was often (seemed like always) playing in the background. It was popular with both resident and staff alike.
I would later work at a small mental health/detox establishment. One of the most popular shows was, drum rolls please..."Law And Order..." in all of its many variations. Staff made two "rule of thumb" observations about viewers of "Law and Order". One, viewers of the show usually viewed the show to the exclusion of all other shows (and it was seemingly rerun ALL OF THE TIME.) Two, clients who preferred to watch "Law And Order" usually did not do well in treatment. Make of that what you will.
There has probably never been a TV show with the broad appeal of "Law And Order." Critics loved it and it was viewed by artists and intellectuals as well as folks on the left side of the Bell Curve.
I am perhaps the only person I know who dislikes "Law and Order". It is cheesy, formulaic, stupid, and predictable. The stories are "ripped from the headlines." I am not big on wise ass government agents and I will skip over the pain inflicted by Ice-T, an actor challenged not just by the English language, but by language itself. More insidious than the steady stream of hokum is the overt propaganda and its damaging effects on society.
Good vs. Evil is a hibernating formula as Authority vs. Evil carries the day. There but by the grace of Munch go I. The lead characters threaten and intimidate innocent people. They bring charges against people knowing the charges won't stick because they are not guilty of said charges and this is advanced as the morally correct course of action.
"Law And Order" aggressively promotes a politically correct agenda. PC slaps you in the face, PC over the head, PC up the nose, and PC down the throat. Consensual is consensual but don't you feel a little bit violated after watching that show?
One of the first times I saw "Law And Order" was in 1992. From IMDB: A teenage drug addict claims that a nun molested her at a treatment house, but the investigation leads an accusation of rape involving the chief executive of the facility.
Because other women fled the shelter and met with untimely deaths, they decided to pursue murder charges against the chief executive. It was almost a commercial for the welfare state. Without treatment on demand, shelters and whatever else we feel like funding, women will die of AIDS and drugs and the hazards of the street. In other words, if you take a NIMBY approach to addiction treatment, there is blood on your hands as well. Worse yet, it was presented as noble and forthright and caring to bring homicide charges against the rapist for frightening the poor women enough to exit his shelter.
This isn't a scholarly study so maybe my observations are skewed. However, it did seem like rich white men accounted for most of New York's crime and it seemed like if it was mentioned that a character was Christian, he was up to no good. Gay men are often the victims of hate crimes and gay witnesses fear discrimination should they testify. In one episode a young gay man is murdered and his father, a Jerry Falwell prototype, is woefully insensitive to his son's demise.
One of the spin-offs, "Law And Order: Special Victims Unit" seems to have but one theme that is repeated over and over and over: Privileged white kids get away with sexual assault because of their wealth and status. Which brings us to current events:
Quoting "New York Times" via Ann Coulter concerning the discredited University of Virginia gang rape story: "The New York Times' Charles Blow wrote a column on the CJR report, suggesting that although this "one particular case" of a fraternity gang rape had been "shown to have flaws," the "overall condition that it illustrated holds true."
How does Mr. Blow know about the overall condition so well? I cannot prove it but I suspect it's the drip drip drip of "Law And Order." I bet Mr. Blow has watched many an episode of that celebrated show. I bet too, the editors of "Rolling Stone" are fans of the show including Sabrina Erdely. For that matter, the esteemed members of "Columbia Journalism Review" have probably watched the show and its spin-offs many, many times.
Let's recall once more the false rape accusations leveled against the Duke lacrosse team in 2006. Briefly, the prosecutor would be disbarred, the accuser would be convicted of murder, the lacrosse coach would get fired, players would be publicly shamed and would strike back with lawsuits against the school and city...
And yet, students and faculty and media were convinced of the lacrosse players' guilt. Why? The drip drip drip of "Law And Order"?
In assessing the probability of a woman being raped on a college campus, people who should know better--government officials--greatly overstate the frequency of the crime. Once more, "New York Times" via Ann Coulter:
"Always the last to know, Blow also defended Obama's nonsense claim that 1 in 5 college women will be raped by citing a Washington Post "Fact Checker" from May 1, 2014, which merely called the figure "problematic" -- a resounding confirmation of the statistic, as far as Blow was concerned.
Unfortunately for Blow, about six months after the Post's fact check, that rating got downgraded to "utter B.S.," when Eric Holder's Justice Department released a study of nearly the past decade of crime statistics, finding that 0.61 percent of college students are victims of sexual assault, not 20 percent. That makes it .03 in 5, not 1 in 5. "
How do people like Charles Blow and Barack Obama miss so badly? By a factor of 33!!! I suspect they watch "Law And Order"
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