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NPR Uses Double Standard on Juan Williams Firing

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

juan-williams.jpgWell, 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.

22 Oct 2010 by Media Whacko Politics

Reagan Reflections

This video juxtaposes Ronald Reagan’s observations about Washington politics against a host of outrageous contemporary liberal politicians. After thirty years, Reagan’s wisdom and political intuition are still as valid today as they were then.

The utterances of Pelosi, Frank, Durbin and others demonstrate just how out of control Congress has become and how out of touch with America liberal politicians are. Reagan, of course, makes profound sense as he usually did.

The video runs for a little over two minutes. It’s worth the time.

17 Oct 2010 by Beltway Kabuki Whacko Politics

Countdown to Election Day

Thanks to DrJim for the reminder . . . I am re-posting (from the other site) the countdown to election day timer.

It is now less than one year three weeks until the next election. We will have the opportunity to throw the bunch of liberal bums currently in office OUT. It’s time to get politically independent and to vote for the ISSUES and not the party.

The media, will be feverishly cranking out the rhetoric about ‘all the tea-party racists out there.’ They will try and protect the liberal bums from those of us who have had enough of left wing socialist BS and gun-grabbing idiots. Ignore the media crap and just VOTE THE BUMS OUT.

Time waits for no politician. The clock is ticking.

15 Oct 2010 by Beltway Kabuki Whacko Politics

The Stupidity of Biofuels

The Idso Clan at CO2 Science report on a study that reveals that biofuel production will be harmful to the environment and will cause food shortages.

Excerpt from The Large-Scale Production of Biofuels in a Food-Insecure World:

In a review article published in the Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Rattan Lal of the Carbon Management and Sequestration Center of Ohio State University (USA) introduces the subject of his concern by writing that “the world is faced with the trilemma of climate change, food insecurity, and energy demand,” because (1) “there still are more than one billion food-insecure people in the world (FAO, 2009a,b),” (2) “the world food supply will have to be doubled between 2005 and 2050 (Borlaug, 2009) because of the increase in population and change in dietary preferences,” and (3) “the world energy demand is also increasing rapidly and is projected to increase by 84% by 2050 compared with 2005.” And what makes the problem even worse is the fact that in an attempt to meet the anticipated increase in the global demand for energy, “the emphasis on biofuels is strongly impacting the availability of grains for food and soil resources for grain production.”

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13 Oct 2010 by Environment Greenbats Whacko Politics

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