My long time friend and former colleague, Frank N. sent me this today:

Ted Nugent, rock star and avid bow hunter from Michigan , was being interviewed by a liberal journalist, an animal rights activist. The journalist asked, ‘What do you think is the last thought in the head of a deer before you shoot him? Is it, ‘Are you my friend ?’ or is it ‘Are you the one who killed my brother?

Image - Ted Nugent - NRA Board Member

Nugent replied, ‘Deer aren’t capable of that kind of thinking. All they care about is, what am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next and can I run fast enough to get away.

They are very much like the Democrats in Congress.’

The interview ended.

Ramirez notices that we’re getting the usual half-truth from the Japanese disaster.

By the same logic, shouldn’t Major Media also be outranked by General Public?

The following are excerpts from Charles Krauthammer’s comments on Fox News regarding the Juan Williams firing by National Public Radio:

Well, I want to start by having people look at this quote from Jesse Jackson about 18 years ago in which he says, [”There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery … then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.”] Jesse Jackson is saying this. In other words, if the people he looked at were black, he would feel anxiety or fear.

Now, this – there’s nobody in his right mind who’s going to say that Jesse Jackson is a racist, [an] anti-black racist. He’s not.

. . .

So [Williams] makes a statement that’s perfectly parallel with what Jackson said. Now, you explain to me why nobody would attribute hostility, bigotry, or racism in the Jackson statement, and yet NPR attributes it to the Juan Williams statement — and not only attributes it but does it with such certainty that it dismisses him without even a hearing.

I’d like to hear one executive at NPR defend that. If not, this is not just a case of political correctness. It’s a case of intellectual cowardice.

Amen!

Time to DEFUND NPR and PBS. Stop spending our $$ on their crap!

Hat tip to NRO.

Does a former drill Sargent make a TERRIBLE therapist? We just started seeing this commercial for Geico the past couple of days. It is just hilarious.

Disclaimer: the intent is to entertain - not to endorse auto insurance.

Damsel wondered out loud why the media and liberals are AFRAID of the tea party movement. She answered her own question - they are AFRAID of the truth being told about them.

The Patriot Post offered the following cartoon as well as an interesting photo-shop of the “Democratic Health Care Surprise.” Check it out.

Via Planet Gore:

Climategate is now huge. Way, way bigger than the Mainstream Media (MSM) is admitting it is - as Richard North demonstrates in this fascinating analysis. Using what he calls a Tiger Woods Index (TWI), he compares the amount of interest being shown by internet users (as shown by the number of general web pages on Google) and compares it with the number of news reports recorded. The ratio indicates what people are really interested in, as opposed to what the MSM thinks they ought to be interested in.

North explains:

Tiger Woods delivered 22,500,000 web and 46,025 news pages, giving ratio of 489. That is the “Tiger Woods Index” (TWI) against which I chose to measure a raft of other issues.

Here are the rankings:

1. Climategate: 28,400,000 - 2,930 = 9693
2. Afghanistan: 143,000,000 - 154,145 = 928
3. Obama: 202,000,000 - 252,583 = 800
4. Tiger Woods: 22,500,000 - 46,025 = 489
5. Gordon Brown: 12,300,000 - 37,021 = 332
6. Climate change: 22,200,000 - 68,419 = 324
7. Sally Bercow: 25,000 - 86 = 290
8. David Cameron: 545,000 - 4837 = 113
9. Meredith Kercher: 261,000 - 3,471 = 75
10. Chilcot Inquiry: 125,000 - 4,350 = 29

In order to more clearly see the extent to which the mainstream media are suppressing one of the most important revelations in history, I plotted North’s results in a pie chart:

The mainstream news suppression of the climate scientist’s lies is an order of magnitude greater than the next topic, Afghanistan. Likewise, they suppress most news and information that conflicts with their far-left agenda and promote meaningless “noise stories,” like the Tiger Woods incident.

The televised and print media are not our friends.

UPDATE: Thanks to Richard North of EUReferendum and Edward Craig of Planet Gore for posting our graphic on their sites.

James Taranto of the Wall Street Journal posted this item today about MoveOn.org’s attack on Fox News:

MoveOn.org, the ghastly people who brought us “General Betray Us,” have joined President Obama in his war against Fox News Channel. Yesterday we received an email from MoveOn’s Noah T. Winer that begain:

“All year, FOX has worked 24/7 to block President Obama’s agenda—repeating lies about “death panels,” promoting Tea Party protests, and whipping up fake political scandals.

Now, President Obama is fighting back. The White House communications director said FOX is a “wing of the Republican Party . . . let’s not pretend they’re a news network.” To draw attention to its biased coverage, President Obama will not appear on FOX for the rest of this year.

It’s about time Democrats stood up to FOX! Can you sign this petition asking Democrats to support President Obama’s stance by staying off FOX as long as he does?”

We think Fox is too left-wing, so we signed the petition in the hope of remedying that.

Seriously, though, we are of two minds about this, and we should begin by disclosing our direct interest in the matter: We have been an employee of Fox’s parent company, News Corp., since it acquired Dow Jones & Co. in December 2007, and we own some News Corp. stock.

Of course it delights us to see the president and his most unsavory supporters promote Fox as the only TV news network that isn’t in the tank for the administration. Although this isn’t entirely fair to the other networks–in particular, ABC News’s Jake Tapper has shown a strong independent streak–it is well-deserved recognition for the work Fox has done in bringing to the fore such stories as the Van Jones and Acorn scandals, which many other news organizations ignored for as long as they could.

On the other hand, we are an American, and Barack Obama is our president too. It cracks us up when MoveOn.org cheers on the president for “fighting back” by “not appearing” and “staying off.” “Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about, and gallantly he chickened out.”

But it scares the hell out of us to think that this also seems to be Obama’s approach to dealing with America’s enemies.

Emphasis mine - Obama seems unable to face his enemies, political or otherwise.

Fox Hunt cartoon via the Patriot post.

The Democrats and big media and their constant din of misinformation vs. the bullhorn and grass roots for truth. Hat tip: The Patriot Post

Always a fan of the great Walter Cronkite, but seldom in agreement with his political leanings, it is with nostalgia and a bit of sadness that we acknowledge the life and works of a great American News Icon. We grew up and spent most of our young adulthood watching and listening to the way it was.

God bless the family in this hour of loss.

Walter Cronkite - 1916-2009 - Rest in peace.