It is entirely predictable that, immediately after an act of Islamic terrorism, certain politicians and leftist pundits will rush to stick their head in the sand. With your head in the sand, reality is blocked from view. “If I see no evil, there is no evil.”
There is no safety in this approach.
French President, Francois Hollande, with sand in his eyes, told the public “these terrorist attacks have nothing to do with the Muslim religion.” Nothing at all. Completely unrelated. He warned the French public that they should not be “confused.”
After the Jihadists slaughtered those who had satirized Muhammad, shouting ”Allahu Akbar”, our President said, “We’re still trying to figure out who is responsible for this attack and what their motivations are.” It’s just so confusing. What could their motivation be?
Despite the confusion, there is one thing Obama does know for sure. These acts of jihadist violence we see around the world “have nothing to do with Islam” and we should guard against making that kind of a foolish judgment. “Islam is a religion that preaches peace,” he said.
Here is a video of Howard Dean, former head of the Democratic National Committee, speaking with his head in the sand. Dean explains that the French jihadists were not Muslims and they don’t understand the Koran as well as he does.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As65VN_PUn0
There need not be confusion about what the Koran says. The text is readily available. There is a vast amount of commentary, on the web and elsewhere, about the verses in the Koran that directly justify violence and require the forced submission of non-believers, everywhere in the world. It is not difficult at all to extract a brutal, supremacist, totalitarian ideology from the Koran.
Those who wish to see the Koran with clear eyes and understand the religious motivation of Islamic terrorists, will appreciate the following video by David Wood. It would be good for the world if Obama, Hollande and Dean would take a look.
Pat Condell explains how all of these Koran-inspired atrocities around the world have ”Nothing to do with Islam” :
The events in Ferguson, Missouri are the latest example of sick political theater, carefully orchestrated to shape public policy. The theatrical productions are pure fiction, but are presented as fact. They are morality plays with heroes and villains and are intended to create strong emotions directed at a political objective. All of the elaborate productions are based on central lies. None would be possible without a complicit media to carry the script.
If you consider some examples you will see that the various plots all have a similar structure.
When Jared Loughner shot Representative Gabrielle Giffords, the “Why Did Sarah Palin Cause Giffords To Be Shot” political theater began almost immediately. Palin was not related to the shooting in any way, but there was an explosion of stories about her culpability. There were headlines like, “Giffords Blood Is On Sarah Palin’s Hands” Democrat politicians joined in. Wasn’t it just awful how violent those conservatives are?
False accusations and moral posing by liberals are part of each script.
The climax of the play is when the Poseur in Chief assumes the godlike role of lecturing to us about morality. We watch the arsonist, who helped set the fire and who stoked the fire, speak to us about how disappointed he is that we have a fire. In the Palin-Giffords case the climax was quite a grand production.
In the case of Professor Gates arrest, the climax was a small production. The policeman who answered a call to protect Mr. Gates home was unfairly attacked by the President for “acting stupidly” and then the media script expanded to the topic of racist police. The climax was Presidential pontification at a “beer summit”.
The fictional stories written for the Mike Brown/Darren Wilson and the Trayvon/Zimmerman morality plays followed nearly the same script. Two wonderful young black men were shot by racist white men for no reason at all. They were “executed”. They were “gunned down like dogs”. America is racist. Cops are racist.
The leftist media present the fictional story with glee, repeating the lies endlessly, sometimes doctoring the evidence and always ignoring the facts. They appear oblivious to the hatred and division that they are causing. Or worse, they appear to seek violence as a ratings booster. In Ferguson, the mob knew the script. For media and mob it was, “lights, camera, action!”
In both cases, Obama, Holder and many Democrat politicians played important roles in fanning the racial flames. In private, they call this motivating the voter base. In the play, they assume the role of moral heroes. They are attacking white society, attacking police, attacking America and selling a message of anger and victimization to black communities ‘because they care’.
Obama, who is always happy to attack America in an international forum, discussed Ferguson at the U.N. as a sign of America’s moral failing. He met with the mob leaders and urged them to “stay the course”. Missouri’s Governor, along with many other Democrats, acted as lynch mob leaders calling for Officer Wilson’s head prior to an examination of the facts.
Eric Holder sent large numbers of Dept. of Justice agents to both Ferguson, MI and Sanford, FL. He does not send large numbers of agents to investigate the massive number of black deaths where there is no political motivation for his ‘great concern’. He mostly sends no agents at all and shows no special interest at all. Few people realize that Holder sent community activists to Sanford to foment racial tensions in the Trayvon case. And he repeatedly got the message out in Ferguson that the problem was racism. When a policeman shoots a charging 290 pound man who had assaulted the officer moments before, what could it be but racism?
Eric Holder knows every detail of the eyewitness testimony and he knows the physical evidence. He knows, but he doesn’t care. He has a role to play in this sick, political drama and the facts will not change his role in any way. He and the ever-present, ever-despicable, race-baiters like Sharpton and Jackson throw Molotov cocktails of racial division into the crowds. They are mob creators, and Sharpton (an Obama adviser!), truly has blood on his hands from a mob he created in Crown Heights in 1991.
The work of these hatemongers, with the help of a leftist media, directly created the destructive mobs we have seen in Ferguson and other cities. In this morality play, their role is portrayed as righteous, justified anger. They are the aggrieved party. You, if you are white or are a policeman, are the guilty party.
In reality, the Brown/Wilson tragedy does not fit the narrative of a racist cop killing a gentle black man. The opposite is true. Let’s examine some of the other narratives that were pushed by the emotional, misinformed mobs. Three common chants and protest signs were: We Want Justice, Black Lives Matter, and Stop Killing Us.
“We Want Justice”- It is an undeniable fact that the credo, “snitches get stitches” dominates black culture. Co-operation with the police is explicitly forbidden and those who testify about crimes are very often punished for it. There are many black murder cases where significant numbers of people witnessed the murder and none of them will talk to the police. The do not want justice.
“Black Lives Matter”- Where are these demonstrators when thousands of other black lives are snuffed out. It appears that “Some Black Lives Matter”, the ones that are part of the show. “Stop Killing Us” - 91% of black murder victims are killed by other African-Americans according to FBI statistics. You should stop killing you. White people and white policemen are not the problem. Thomas Sowell has some insight on the real problem here and Jason Riley here.
Not all of the plays reach the final act. In some, the central lies are too great to be sustained. The debacle in Benghazi was not “caused by a video”. The extensive targeting of conservative groups by the IRS was not “caused by a couple of agents in Cincinnati”. The massive recent influx of young illegal aliens was planned in advance to be a “humanitarian crisis” and an inducement to change immigration laws, but it backfired. The final act of the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation was supposed to be Holder and Obama (the gunrunners) speaking as moral authorities, bemoaning the damage caused by American guns and explaining necessary restrictions on the second amendment. The “Cruel Republicans Shut Down The Government ” story did not fool the thinking people, but it did fool the Republican leadership, who have now essentially abandoned the power of the purse.
To a large extent, it is elaborate fictional stories that shape public discourse and public policy. In the current drama about race, it is very disturbing to see blacks manipulated like angry puppets on a string by their perennial masters. It is very disturbing to see the degradation that the welfare state has produced. It is sickening to see the very people who produced this degradation, the people who profit from this dependency, posing as saviors. What an evil and destructive game this is.
Updates: The grand jury transcripts show that several witnesses were threatened and pressured not to tell the truth… because the mob doesn’t want justice, they want lies. There is a chilling story of witness intimidation here.
There also is a column here about “Black Lives Matter”. An excerpt:
The focus of the [black lives matter] campaign would have much more moral authority and would be taken much more seriously if it focused on those actions that do devalue black lives- which have very little to do with white cops and everything to do with blacks themselves. According to data collected from 1980-2008, in 2008, the homicide offender rate for blacks was almost 25 percent, seven times higher than the offending rate of whites (3.4%). The homicide victimization rate for blacks was about six times higher than the victimization rates for whites. Blacks were also 47.4% of all homicide victims and 52.5% of all homicide offenders. During the same period, blacks accounted for 62% of all drug-related homicides compared to 37% committed by whites. Over 65% of all drug-related homicide offenders were black; whites comprised 33 percent. Blacks were 44.1% of felony murder victims and almost 60% of felony murder offenders. For gun homicide rates, blacks were 51.4% of all victims but 56.9% of offenders. Black offenders committed 93% of all black homicides. The FBI statistics aren’t any better. In 2012, of the 2,648 black victims of homicide, blacks were responsible for 2,412. Of the 14,581 total murder offenders that year, 5531 (38%) were black.
Neal Boortz on “black lives matter”:
Here’s a question … how many blacks have been killed by other blacks since Officer Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown. One estimate I’ve read says 2,100. Thousands of young blacks are murdered every year. The numbers in recent years range from almost 6,000 to 9,000. The average is around 7,900. One statistic that is borne out is that 93% of these murders of blacks are committed by other blacks. This is to the tune of over 20 each and every day. Michael Brown attacked Officer Wilson on August 9th. That’s 108 days between the incident and the report on the grand jury’s findings. Multiply by the average of 20+ a day and you have 2,160 during that period. If you want a more alarming statistic, try this one. The number of days elapsed since the killing of Trayvon Martin and the report from the Ferguson grand jury? That would be 1003 days. That means 20,000 killed and over 18,000 of them killed by other blacks.
During this entire time frame the ONLY time I saw a “black lives matter” sign was in connection with a protest over Michael Brown’s death. Didn’t the other 20,000 black lives matter as well? Where were the signs? ….
Perhaps blacks need to recognize that negative attention focused on their communities isn’t necessarily due to feelings of white or genetic superiority. Maybe it has something to do with the prevailing culture of violence in the urban black community … especially the YOUNG urban black community. A community that revels in mimicking prison garb, complete disregard and disrespect for women, an anti-learning and anti-achievement culture in schools, and visceral hatred for the police is not a community that is going to be well regarded by others. It has nothing to do with skin color, and everything to do with culture – behavior.
Thomas Sowell explains in “Opinions vs. Facts” who benefits and who suffers from the actions of the racial grievance industry. The last paragraph is about the history of Detroit, but it could also be about the future of America. Read it here
Bill Whittle exposes the real race war. There is a staggering amount of racial violence that is well hidden:
It is instructive to consider the premises that underlie the liberal view of the world. These are the ideas that determine their votes in elections; ideas that could shape the future of our country. Taken together, it is striking how detached from reality the beliefs are. The list could be much longer, but consider the following 20 beliefs from the imaginary world where liberals live.
The “Affordable Care Act” will reduce the cost and increase the quality of health care, because if you want something done efficiently and economically, then you definitely want unionized government bureaucracies to handle it. History has demonstrated that bureaucrats provide efficient service at lower cost. If we can eliminate consumer choices and let a government monopoly take care of things, like managing all health care, that is a dream worth fighting for.
President Obama is correct that “we don’t have a spending problem” and Nancy Pelosi is correct that government is cut to the bone and “there is no place left to cut”.
It is morally acceptable to borrow massive amounts of money from our grandchildren to support our own current consumption.
The 22 trillion dollars spent on the War on Poverty was quite successful in reducing the number of people in poverty.
As you look at the plight of women around the world, it is clear that the most important problem for feminists to concentrate on is free birth control for American women.
The Social Security Program is a trust fund where your money is placed in a government account for you and invested intelligently. That money belongs to you and you will be guaranteed a good return. It may be true that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are headed for certain bankruptcy without major reforms, but the people who want to talk about reforms to protect the programs from collapse are just mean people. We should stay on the course we are on.
Political “compromise” means move to the left and only to the left. Those who do not understand this are “obstructionists”.
The most serious problem effecting black communities is that racist policemen are shooting young black men for no reason at all. The facts around the Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin cases show that these two fine young men did nothing to provoke the racists who killed them. This proves that our racist country has not really improved at all since the 1950’s. The lynch mobs in the streets, and the lynch mob organizers in these two cases have the moral high ground. There is just no reason in the Michael Brown case to spend much time seeking the facts when you know the policeman is white.
The way to help black people is to teach them that none of their problems are their fault and none of the solutions are their responsibility. The good men in the racial grievance industry, like Sharpton and Jackson, are creating the kind of anger that will lead to a brighter future.
All the problems in black communities are caused by racist Republicans who want to return to segregation and are trying to keep blacks from voting. It was racist Republicans in the South, who tried to keep black people out of white schools and keep them sitting at the back of the bus. Fortunately, the Southern Democrats worked hard to stop this Republican racism.
The earth has been warming very rapidly in recent decades. The polar ice caps are disappearing and polar bear populations are dying from lack of ice. ‘Climate change’ means that it is much warmer, colder, wetter, drier, and stormier than ever before. And it is going to get much, much warmercolderwetterdrier in the future. There is good news, though. Politicians in this country can vote to change the world’s climate to be an ideal climate.
Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. The fear that Islamic Jihadists represent a supremist, totalitarian ideology, similar to Nazism, only worse, is an irrational fear called “Islamophobia”.
The best available evidence from intelligence agencies and from those on the ground during the Benghazi attack was that there was a demonstration about a YouTube video that got out of hand. Administration officials reported the best information they had to the public with no consideration given to upcoming elections.
President Obama immediately authorized the military to do every single thing possible to protect our Benghazi heroes. As the law requires, he immediately granted Presidential authorization for rescuers to cross the Libyan border, an essential first step in the rescue. As our men fought bravely for many hours, begging for help, our Commander in Chief was doing everything he could to rescue them.
There is “not a smidgen of corruption” in the IRS. Some people say there was an organized effort to silence the political speech of those extremists who want limited government, but the whole, so called , ‘problem’ was just a couple of agents in Cincinnati who made a harmless mistake. There was “nothing political about this at all”.
The “Fast and Furious” gun-running program was a sensible plan to sell weapons to drug cartels and then track these non-trackable weapons right to the doorstep of the drug kingpins. Those who question Holder’s and Obama’s story on this (or any other) policy are racists.
The rules for stopping the spread of highly contagious diseases should be shaped by politics and multi-cultural sensibilities.
With the right politicians in power, people will be given their expanded human rights. Everyone has a right to a certain standard of living including good housing, food, education and medical care. Progressive politicians can make these goods and services free for anyone who wants them. If politicians who really care vote for more free stuff, it will just be there.
The concept “earn” must be replaced by the concept “deserve”. People deserve things, so liberal politicians will reshape reality to create that wonderful utopia where people have everything they want. The leaders in the past who have tried this and have left only blood and poverty in their path were doing it wrong. We can do it right this time. Forward!
If a government program does not work and creates more problems than it solves, you can fix it by spending more money. If the intentions of the program were good, then it’s a good program regardless of the results.
The mainstream media, popular culture and the education establishment live primarily in this imaginary world. They believe in it and they teach it. They also teach a strong sense of moral and intellectual superiority to fellow believers. They are the good people. And, despite the detachment from reality of their voting premises, they consider themselves the smart people.
Our country’s future will be determined by this: Do the voters who live in reality outnumber the voters from the world of liberal delusions.
We constantly hear that conservatives need to compromise. We just can’t “move forward” unless conservatives compromise. There will not be “progress”, we are told, unless conservatives “reach across the aisle” and work with the liberals.
As an observer of political discourse for many decades, I do have a clear picture of what the calls for compromise really mean. I have compiled a handy list of the terms commonly used in this political debate and I think it will help you understand the liberal argument if you understand the true meaning of their words.
First, take a look at these three charts to get a picture of how the federal government has changed in the last 50 years. [It is a similar story for State governments.] The charts tell the real story about compromise.
For at least 50 years, when a liberal says “Let’s compromise”, he means, “Let’s move left…. let’s move in the direction of larger government. “
When a progressive says, “We are not going to get anywhere until you are ready to reach across the aisle”, he means, “We are not going to get anywhere until you are ready to completely move across the aisle and join me in the quest for a larger government.”
When mainstream media reporters say, “The conservatives are unwilling to compromise and this extremist position is slowing the progress of important legislation”, they mean, “Some bad people believe that we need to slow the growth of government and we are going to pound them until they accept the progressive position.”
When a RINO says, “There are some wacko-bird, Tea Party types who just don’t understand how things get done around here”, they mean “We are quite comfortable with a huge and growing government. We like our power and don’t want these limited-government types to mess it up. Our role as Republicans is to occasionally pretend we don’t like big government, but we can’t stand these radicals who say that and actually mean it. ”
When the Democrats say that all they want is “a balanced approach” in budget negotiations, they always want the ‘balance’ to be larger government and more spending first, with the promise of reduced spending and taxes way off in the future. The reduced spending never comes. Republicans seem to have an unlimited supply of gullibility in buying into this recurring scam. It could also be that they understand the game, but don’t really have strong objections.
If some principled conservative legislator says he is not buying into that scam, Senator Schumer will say, “You cannot negotiate when they take hostages and when they extort, period.” Senator Durbin will say it is “political terrorism” to demand a reversal in the growth of government. The media will agree. The Republican leadership will agree. The government will continue its un-sustainable growth.
President Obama says that because of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh “there is a Republican base of voters for whom compromise with me is a betrayal.” He says those nefarious forces have resulted in, “the inability of my message to penetrate the Republican base”. Obama makes no allowance for the possibility that some Americans heard his message clearly and disagree with it. He has perfected self-righteousness, which has always been a strong suit for liberals in general.
Obama’s position is: My policies are correct, and if it wasn’t for people disagreeing with me, then we would all agree. And then we could move forward smoothly to “the complete transformation” of this country.
When Obama says, “The one unifying principle in the Republican Party at the moment is making sure that 30 million people don’t have healthcare”, he may actually believe that absurd statement. He may be incapable of seeing that many people oppose government controlled healthcare because they know it will harm the quality of healthcare. They oppose it because they know government never runs things efficiently or inexpensively. Even with those facts clearly on display in Obamacare, with more Americans losing insurance than gaining it, with the economic assumptions of the law shown to be absurd, with chaos and incompetence everywhere, leftists will never acknowledge that their critics were right.
The history of the last 50 years is the history of relentless growth of government. The ‘compromises’ have been in one direction. This is not ‘give and take’. This is just take. Take more power and take more money for the ruling elites. Democrat politicians and apparently most Republican politicians like it that way. To many Republicans, compromise simply means capitulate.
There is some solace in the fact that a recent Gallup poll reported that 72% of Americans say “big government” is the greatest threat to our country’s future. In another poll, 3% of Americans think immigration reform is a top priority. Global warming consistently ranks at the bottom of the list of concerns. Americans are much smarter than their leaders.
In the State of the Union speech and beyond we will be urged to “compromise”, to increase the size of government, to change the world’s climate with legislation, to open our borders. We need to “work together” and “be reasonable” to make sure that the red lines in the charts above continue to skyrocket upward in an absolutely unsustainable trajectory.
No. This leftward compromise must end. To survive, we need 50 years of “compromise” in the other direction.
The fact that President Obama is a confident, skillful liar is not a surprise to any objective observer. His personal history is fiction in many key respects. He lied about his membership in the socialist New Party in Chicago, he lied about the extent of his relationship with Bill Ayers. He lied about an open and transparent administration. He lied about letting the public review legislation for 5 days before any vote was taken. He lied about cutting the deficit. He lies about being a non-partisan President who is always open to consider proposals from his opposition. When he is caught in lies about the growing list of administration scandals, he lies more.
When he lies, he usually assumes his pose of moral superiority. He begins many lies with the phrase “Let me be clear”. You can see video samples of 21 lies here:
Obama’s lies about the Unaffordable Health Care Act were so blatant and were repeated so many times that even the mainstream media is noticing and publicizing the bait-and-switch pitch. The lackeys at NBC are reporting that Obama knew his sales pitch was a lie. Obama repeatedly said things like:
“You can keep your doctor and keep your plan. The only thing we are going to do is lower costs.”
“No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period. If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”
“No matter what you’ve heard, if you like your doctor or your health care plan, you can keep it.”
“This will not increase the deficit by one dime.”
Some key employees, like Kathleen Sebelius, are also comfortable lying. In this recent whopper, she repeated the Obama phrase, “regardless of what you’ve heard”, which is meant to denigrate the people telling the truth.
SEBELIUS: “In every state in the country, regardless of what you hear. In every state in the country, there will be a new health marketplace open for business on October 1. There will be online availability that now is up and running.
After the rollout disaster, Sebelius explained the cause of the 700 million dollar website failure: The problem was that, ”the majority party at least in the House was determined to stop this any way they possibly could”. This is truly sick and pathetic.
Obamacare was designed to fail. The insurance company and union fools who supported the plan will suffer greatly under it. Many millions will lose insurance coverage that they liked. Younger people who were supposed to sign up for much more expensive coverage won’t do so. Revenue will be much less than expected and costs will be much higher than expected. The plan, as written, will fail.
Then we will be told that the only solution is government control of all health care.
In 2003, Obama said, ”I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer healthcare system for America, but as all of you know, we may not get there immediately.” In 2007, he said, ”But I don’t think we will be able to eliminate employer-based coverage immediately. There is potentially going to be some transition time.”
Illinois Representative, Jan Schakowsky, explained to a group of supporters that private insurance would be destroyed by Obamacare. She said that the public option would, “put the private insurance companies out of business and lead to single-payer.” Her audience cheered.
In 2008, Yale Professor Jacob S. Hacker openly explained the deceitful strategy. He said, ”Someone once said to me this is a Trojan Horse for single payer. It’s not a Trojan Horse, right? It’s right there! I am telling you. We are going to get there. Over time. Slowly. But we are going to move away from reliance on employer-based health insurance, as we should, but we will do it in a way that we are not going to frighten people into thinking they are going to lose their private insurance.”
Harry Reid has already explained that the country has to “work our way past” insurance-based health care. On a Las Vegas PBS’ program, Reid explained, “What we’ve done with Obamacare is have a step in the right direction, but we’re far from having something that’s going to work forever.”
When then asked whether he meant ultimately the country would have to have a health care system that abandoned insurance as the means of accessing it, Reid said: “Yes, yes. Absolutely, yes.”
This law was passed without anyone even knowing what was in it. It was a step toward government control, and that is all that mattered to them. It was passed against the will of the American people. Mr. Reid “deemed” it to be law without even a vote on the actual bill. They argued forcefully that it wasn’t a tax and then they argued in court that it was. The entire Obamacare endeavor has been a deceitful scam played on the public for the purpose of extending government power. It will severely damage the greatest health care system on earth, but, to them, that doesn’t really matter.
The battered wife syndrome is a well-known psychological malady in which an abused partner stays with her abuser, thinking things would be worse without him. They think the separation would be more painful than the beatings and can’t really imagine life without their man.
For some victims, there finally comes a time when they have had enough and they face the reality that this man is not good for them. He lies to them. He hurts them. Eventually, even his sweet talk falls on deaf ears.
Watching the news this week, I have seen clips of our President lying smoothly, comfortably, and repeatedly in his bait-and-switch sales pitch for the comically named Affordable Health Care Act. “You like your doctor; you can keep your doctor.” “You like your plan; you can keep your plan, period.” “You will have much better insurance for less money”. “Your insurance costs will go down by an average of $2,500.“ “This plan will not increase our deficit by one dime.”
All lies.
The public is being battered on health care and that is becoming increasingly obvious.
Bill O’Reilly played clips of the President responding to various administration scandals. After the Fast and Furious gunrunning scandal, after the Benghazi disaster, after the IRS was used as an instrument of political intimidation, after the Obamacare rollout debacle, the President assured us that he would “get to the bottom of this” and “hold people accountable”. He comfortably played the role that was required at the time.
Then he endlessly stonewalled, held no high level officials accountable, and eventually said it was time to move past these “phony scandals”. Scandals that he acted very concerned about had morphed into completely unimportant distractions.
His concern was an act, a lie. He does not need an investigation to know what he did on the night of September 11, 2012. He knows what orders he made and what orders he withheld. He knows what he discussed with Hillary Clinton in their 10 PM conversation. He knows why she used the video alibi immediately after the call. Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods were still fighting for their lives at the time of the alibi discussion. And he knows perfectly well that the IRS targeting of conservative was a partisan operation. He knows White House officials were involved in the operation and the cover-up.
There comes a point where abused people just get tired of the obvious lies. That may even be true of the mainstream media, a group deeply in love with Obama. They easily forgive him for any abuse of conservatives. In fact, they help him with that abuse. But some were unhappy when it was discovered that reporter’s phone lines were being bugged by the administration. And more recently, a NY Times reported admitted that this administration is “the most closed, control-freak administration I have ever covered.” The abuser promised that it would be “the most open and transparent administration” ever. Some in the media are reporting honestly about the Obamacare rollout debacle.
Another group that has been fully in love with Obama is the black community. But blacks have been disproportionately harmed by Obama’s policies. PBS host and Obama supporter, Tavis Smiley, recently admitted the truth, saying , “The data is going to indicate, sadly, that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category. At some point, this group may realize that this man is not good for them. At some point, reality may overpower the imagined significance of half-blackness.
I am seeing signs that a battered public is tired of the lies and tired of the economic destruction. It is becoming clear that their man is a con-man, unworthy of their trust. This is a very tough transition for people who thought they were in love and had high hopes for the relationship. If a significant number of those who thought they loved him become immune to the lies, then there is hope for the future.
President Barack Obama August 6, 2013 The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500 — Confidential —-
Dear Mr. President,
I am ever more worried about the path we are taking in dealing with the nation’s debt and our money supply. As we have discussed on several occasions, creating money in massive quantities, which we are doing every month, is like giving drugs to a drug addict. We produced the drug-induced euphoria in the markets that you wanted and government expansion is being financed with the borrowed money, but a day of reckoning is coming.
The world has never seen debt at the levels we are creating it. Nothing even comes close. Every thinking person knows that our present course is not sustainable. Honestly, Mr. President, if you just do the math you will see that our current unfunded liabilities cannot be paid. You simply cannot tax our grand-children at the rate that will be required and still have a productive economy. We are putting such a load of obligations in this wagon that future generations will not be able to pull it.
The further we go down this road, the more painful the correction is going to be. You see what happens when I even suggest that I may slow down on my “quantitative easing”. The markets panic. So I can’t do that without a very serious contraction. You and I will be blamed.
But I can’t keep printing billions of dollars endlessly without destroying the value of the dollar. I am already having trouble finding buyers for our bonds. And the interest rate on the debt is sure to rise as the bonds become less desirable. That will wreak havoc on our budget as debt service takes an ever increasing share of tax revenue. We are going to get blamed for that.
I know our goal has been to push this trouble down the road, and I am still manufacturing fake prosperity as fast as I can, but I just don’t know if I can push the coming economic chaos off into the next President’s term. For that reason I am submitting my resignation and would like to be replaced soon.
I have the luxury of jumping ship, but you must remain.
The Honorable Ben Bernanke August 14, 2013
Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
20th Street and Constitution Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20551 — Confidential —
Dear Ben,
I am sorry to see you go and I appreciate your concern for me, but you worry too much. We have a plan to manage the problems you describe. You need to understand that the economic problems ahead are not the issue. The issue is who gets blamed for them.
Don’t you see, Ben, if you control The Narrative it doesn’t matter what happens. The Narrative is shaped by the mainstream media, popular culture and the education establishment. They are all cheerleaders for big government. They are firmly on my side.
Look at Obamacare. I sold this program with bold lies. I firmly promised people that they could keep their current plans and their current doctors. I assured them it would all be much less expensive. I said it would lower the deficit and help businesses. I told them it would improve the quality of medicine.
In reality, every claim I made was the opposite of the truth. The law is so horrendous that many of my supporters have demanded exemptions. But look, Ben, The Narrative has not changed. Those who shape public opinion still sell the dream and ignore the reality. Those who oppose Obamacare are demonized. Don’t you see the power in that? The facts don’t matter.
The current Obamacare legislation is just Step 1, anyway. It was designed to fail. When it fails, the extremely messy failure will be blamed on greedy insurance companies and greedy doctors. From this crisis we will create a clamor for Step 2 – the complete government control of health care. I win.
So chaos is my friend. You need to read Saul Alinsky or the Cloward-Piven plan to understand how this works. The economic turmoil you fear does not frighten me. Managed properly it is the perfect tool for the fundamental transformation of this country.
I will show you another example this fall when we approach the debt ceiling negotiations. I will accomplish 3 things with relative ease:
I will humiliate the Republicans in the budget showdown. They may have a winning hand if you look at the facts about debt and spending, but the facts will not be discussed. The story will be that extremist, jihadist Republicans want to shut down the government and hurt people. The media will herd these Republicans around like sheep. It’s just fun to watch.
I will single out the Tea Party for special humiliation. Their power in 2010 was a serious threat to my plans, so we have had a multi-agency attack on them since that time. They simply must be marginalized. Those of us in power in Washington understand the threat they represent.
The coming shut-down fight must last long enough to be painful. You and I know the economy is not doing well and blaming Bush is a weaker argument with each passing year. If I can force something that is damaging, and blame the Tea Party, I will be in a perfect position for the critical 2014 elections. I’ll say, “The economy would be great now if those Tea Party extremists had not wrecked everything for you.” It’s easy if you control the Narrative. And I do.
That’s the plan, Ben, and it should work fine. I am sorry that you don’t have the stomach for it. I will find a replacement for you who is comfortable borrowing more money from our grandchildren. That level of heartlessness is required.
The Trayvon – Zimmerman case is interesting for reasons that go far beyond the case itself. I paid close attention this week as the prosecutors of this second-degree murder case presented their evidence. In varying degrees, each prosecution witness was transformed into a defense witness on cross-examination. Some were devastating to the prosecution even on direct examination. Zimmerman’s story was reinforced, not weakened.
This is a political prosecution, a show trial. The case is in the courts because the professional race-baiters, the leftist politicians and the leftist media want it there. Each of these entities profits in different ways from this unjust prosecution. Each of these entities benefits from stirring up racial animosity.
After this case is over, and Zimmerman is acquitted, the violence and hatred that follows should be blamed on those who turned this case into yet another way to make sure that racial wounds never, ever heal.
Here is a sample of the hatred that is being created by the lies surrounding this case. These are just of few of many comments from the haters:
Matthew Owens
When the Trayvon story was originally crafted, the race hustlers sold the false narrative that a little black child was hunted down and shot just because he was black. In their election year agitation, they whipped up some destructive mobs and created significant racial violence. For example, a group of young blacks in Mobile, Alabama severely beat a white man, Matthew Owens. He was beaten with bricks, brass knuckles, , chairs and pipes. One attacker said, “Now, that’s justice for Trayvon.”
As I have watched the news coverage of the first week of the trial, it is clear that some news outlets are intent on continuing with the fabricated story, regardless of the evidence presented at trial. Their reporting often bears shockingly little resemblance to the actual testimony. This misreporting will increase the outrage among blacks when Zimmerman is acquitted, and will very likely result in more violence and destruction. Will the mob-creators be proud of their accomplishment?
The effort to create and sustain racial animosity is a despicable enterprise. Those who orchestrate the anger, posing as advocates for black people, are doing great harm to both blacks and whites and to the cause of racial harmony. Martin Luther King’s dream of a colorblind society will never occur as long as we give a respectful ear to the professional race-baiters. They are disgraceful and should be treated as such.
In the trial testimony this week, there was evidence of racism in the encounter between Zimmerman and Martin, but it was not the racism the prosecution was hoping for. Rachel Jeantel was on the phone with Martin when Martin noticed a man in a car following him and watching him. Martin told Jeantel that the man (Zimmerman) was ” a creepy ass cracker”.
We do have evidence (not part of court testimony yet) about Zimmerman’s attitude toward blacks. In Zimmerman’s home town, the son of a policeman sucker-punched a homeless black man for the fun of it and the 2010 incident was caught on video. The police department ignored the assault, as though the black man did not matter, and that offended Zimmerman’s sense of justice.
Zimmerman passed out flyers calling for an arrest and calling for the Sanford police chief to be fired. There was an arrest and Chief Tooley was fired. This kind of civic concern for others is what would prompt a man to join the crime-watch team in his neighborhood.
As a side note, Trayvon also had a noteworthy incident involving a homeless man. Trayvon and his friends came upon a homeless man being beaten up by a man who wanted to steal his bicycle. Trayvon filmed the fight with his cell phone. The audio track is Trayvon and his friends laughing as they watch.
Clarice Feldman wrote an excellent column at American Thinker about the Trayvon – Zimmerman case. She starts out like this:
The Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman case has come to trial this week and the best thing that’s been said about it is from Thomas Maguire: “I’m proud to say I live in a country where the show trials look more like an SNL [Saturday Night Live] skit.
You will enjoy reading the whole thing here. And there is an excellent summary by Mike McDaniel here. It is entitled, “Week 1: The Narrative Spontaneously Combusts”.
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The “instructions” can be good or bad; constructive or destructive.
You remember when that racist white guy gunned down that cute little 12-year-old black boy in Florida last year… shooting him for no reason at all? He just hunted the little boy down “like a rabid dog” and shot him in cold blood.
That’s the story that the race-baiters and most of the media told us about George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin. All the usual mob creators worked at creating angry mobs. Racial animosity was generated across the country and many rallies ended in the exhortation to register and vote. This is what the despicable professional race-baiters do for a living. This socially destructive orchestrated drama is part of every pre-election season.
Those of us who followed the story closely know that the initially reported story bears almost no relationship to the truth. That this incident was a terrible tragedy is the truth, but the nature of the assailant and victim is quite different from what we were told.
What we know about George Zimmerman, the “white Hispanic” shooter includes the following:
The man is not a racist. He tutored minority children for free. He went to bat for a black man who he thought was treated unfairly by the police. A black friend who has know him for years spoke highly of his character.
Zimmerman’s neighborhood had been hit by many home invasion robberies. He had recently comforted a frightened neighbor after the woman was terrorized by a home burglary. He was concerned about the safety of his own family and was part of a neighborhood effort to be watchful. The sign at the entrance of his neighborhood said, “We report all suspicious persons & activities to the Sanford Police Department”.
Zimmerman did exactly as the sign said when he called the Sanford Police. He wanted the police to handle it. He did not try to run Trayvon down, nor could he have. Trayvon, at 5’11′ and 160 pounds, was much more fit than Zimmerman.
An eyewitness to the fight that led to the shooting was interviewed 90 minutes afterward. The witness said that he saw Martin straddling Zimmerman and violently battering him “MMA” style. The witness also said Zimmerman was the one screaming for help. A second witness also described a person on the ground with another straddling him and pounding his face.
When the police arrived, Zimmerman had a broken nose, two black eyes and cuts on the back of his head. Trayvon had abrasions on his knuckles and a bullet wound.
The real Trayvon that emerges from his own social media sites and from disciplinary records is not quite as palatable as the imaginary version sold to us by the media. The photo of Trayvon here is the photo he chose to represent himself in social media where he called himself ”No_Limit_Nigga”.
No_Limit_Nigga tweeted about his drugs, his “bitches”, his fondness for Mixed Martial Arts, etc., in barely literate conversations. One of his friends, or marijuana customers, tweeted, “damn were you at nigga needa plant”. A cousin heard that Trayvon had punched a bus driver and tweeted, ”Yu ain’t tell me yu swung on a bus driver”.
Trayvon had been suspended from school three times for offenses such as drug use and vandalism. The details of the third suspension are what I want to concentrate on here because they reinforce my point that the world is presented to you in a false way for political reasons.
Trayvon’s third suspension was the result of a school security officer finding Trayvon spraying “WTF” on the schools wall. The officer inspected Trayvons backpack and found evidence of marijuana, a bag of women’s jewelry and a screwdriver, which the officer called a “burglary tool” in his report of the incident. There were at least 12 pieces of women’s jewelry and a man’s watch in the bag.
When this incident was reported in the news after Trayvon’s death, Martins parents and their attorney indicated that the jewelry story was false and was simply a smear to make Trayvon look like a burglar, the very thing Zimmerman had feared that he was. Attorney Benjamin Crump said of the burglary insinuation, “ If it were true, why wouldn’t they call the parents? Why wasn’t he arrested?”
Those questions were answered recently by the bloggers at The Last Refuge. These citizen journalists uncovered an amazing plot to misrepresent facts about crime in the Miami-Dade School District. The plot to hide information from the public involved the School Superintendent and the Police Chief, who has since lost his job.
Because there was a plot to hide criminal behavior, there was no attempt in cases like Trayvon’s to solve the crime and return the stolen property to it’s owner. In Trayvon’s case, the stolen merchandise, which is in a police storage room, will likely be returned. The bloggers tracked down a burglary reported near Trayvon’s school where the stolen jewelry matches the description of the jewelry in Trayvon’s pack. Police have been notified of the apparent match.
Whether the issue is crime statistics, unemployment statistics, the cost of Obamacare, the “hockey stick” proof of global warming, the cause of the attack in Benghazi, the relationship of Islam to worldwide terror attacks, the seriousness of our President in controlling government spending, the relationship between gun laws and crime, etc., the news is filtered, shaped and delivered with a political agenda. Reality is somewhere under and behind the official story.
“He was compassionate. He was caring. He was a lovely, lovely kid”. That’s how neighbor Larry Aaronson described Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the younger of the two Jihadist psychopaths who carefully packed bombs with nails and ball-bearings to inflict maximum physical damage on men, women and children they did not know. There were more bombs back home, presumably prepared to slaughter other strangers. Lovely, lovely boys.
When the uncle asked the older brother why he had dropped out of school, Tamerlan said, “Oh, I’m in God’s business”. That would be the Jihad business, the killing non-believers business. His YouTube account has a “terrorists” video section and links to his Islamist mentors. It will be interesting to see who paid him for his religious work. Dzhokhar also expressed his higher calling in two tweets last month. “Never underestimate the rebel with a cause”, and “Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.”
Last week, these lovely good men did something… something, in their view, to please God.
Dzhokhar was so comfortable with his actions that on the night of the massacre, he tweeted ” LOL, those people are cooked” and “I’m a stress free kind of guy”. The psychopath attended a party the next night.
As observers, we witnessed the standard rush of the media to name conservatives as the likely perpetrators. It was Patriots Day, Axelrod said, and you know the kind of people those patriots are. In a racist rant, Salon openly wished the bomber was a white man. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour said she “hoped beyond hope that this doesn’t turn out to be what it might be?”
She had that hope because it is becoming increasingly difficult for the media to sell the delusion that radical Islam is not at war with the West.
Our President rushes to judgement in every case where he thinks that will help him politically. With Gates in Boston, Gifford in Arizona, Trayvon in Florida and Benghazi in Libya, false accusations were quickly made, and in the case of Benghazi, maintained against all evidence. Yet, on the night Dzhokhar was captured, Obama was there to counsel us against “jumping to conclusions” and to suggest that we honor “diversity”. He said we must, ”take care not to rush to judgment — not about the motivations of these individuals; certainly not about entire groups of people.” Certainly not.
He has the same problem as Amanpour. Sane people will make rational judgements about this case and others like it.
Sure, we will have to endure weeks of media stories about how America let these poor boys down, how we could have done more, how it is our fault. We will be told that we just don’t know what motivated them. It’s such a mystery.
I don’t think it is a mystery to most Americans. Despite all the ostrich-like foolishness by political and media ‘leaders’, most of us know that war has been declared against us and we do not take kindly to “Death To America” preachers. Fundamentalist Islam is no less a threat to us than any other totalitarian ideology. They want us to submit to the coming worldwide caliphate, or die. I don’t like either option. Tolerance in the face of this open threat is suicide.
Few people understand this more clearly than Andrew McCarthy. His column, “Jihad Will Not Be Wished Away”, is worth reading in its entirety. Some excerpts:
It was in fact the jihad that stubbornly refuses to be wished away. It will have to be defeated. It was never a molehill we were exaggerating into Mohammed’s mountain. After 1,400 years of aggression, we can safely say it is not anytime soon going to evolve into the ballyhooed “internal struggle for personal betterment” — not for the tens of millions of Muslims for whom Islamic supremacism is, quite simply, Islam.
…We are in a war driven by ideology. “Violent extremism,” which is the label the government and the commentariat prefer to put on our enemies, is not an ideology — it is the brutality that radical ideologies yield. Our enemies’ ideology is Islamic supremacism. To challenge and defeat an ideological movement, you have to understand and confront their vision of the world. Imposing your own assumptions and biases will not do. Islamic supremacists do not see a world of Westphalian nation-states. They do not distinguish between Russia and America the way they distinguish between Muslims and non-Muslims. Their ideology frames matters as Dar al-Islam versus Dar al-Harb: the realm of Islam in a fight to the death against the realm of war — which is everyone and everyplace else.
The fact that you think this is nuts, or that I’m nuts for saying it out loud, has nothing to do with whether they believe it. They do — and they don’t care, even a little, what you think.
You do not defeat an ideology by hoping it will change or disappear.”
Many lovely, lovely boys are being trained by leaders of a supremist religion to hate and kill those who oppose their plan for worldwide domination. There is no value in pretending otherwise.
It is entirely predictable that, immediately after an act of Islamic terrorism, certain politicians and leftist pundits will rush to stick their head in the sand. With your head in the sand, reality is blocked from view. “If I see no evil, there is no evil.”
