Posts Tagged ‘Media’

Obama Campaign: Part 6-The Coarse and the Vulgar

10/27/2012

President Obama used to make a pretense of appearing presidential. We all know he is perceived as likable even though I questioned that in this earlier post.

But ever since the first presidential debate, he has steadily revealed himself as not what his handlers portray.

Over the last few days, he has really let us in and no one with decency could think he can continue to serve as president in a second term based on what they have been seeing.

First, he told Rolling Stone in an interview that kids know a “bullsh*tter” when they see one. We know he was talking about Governor Romney, which his campaign arrogantly refused to deny.

It is one thing to trash talk the opponent having a beer with one’s friends. It is another when one gives an interview to a widely read publication as president calling one’s opponent a vulgar name.

Not presidential or even sportsmanlike.

Second, not to be outdone in terms of vulgarity, Vice President Biden asked the father of a heroic Navy Seal who died in the recent terrorist attack in Libya if his son “always [had] balls the size of cue balls”. The VP apparently meant it as a compliment. This question is not only in poor taste and offensive, it is completely inappropriate to speak this way to a grieving father. Especially as the vice president of the United States.

We know from his debate performance that he is unhinged, but people should seriously question whether this man is capable of serving as vice president in light of his latest “gaffe”.

(Source: justjared.com)

Finally, there is the shocking Lena Dunham video comparing the experience of first time voters to losing one’s virginity. We get the “joke” which is for the cool young people who are supposed to be Democrats, of course.

It is not just the concept of the video but what this young actress says to develop the idea of losing one’s political virginity. And the fact it is put out by the Obama campaign.

“Your first time shouldn’t be with just anybody. You want to do it with a great guy. (Sexist and homophobic, no?)….Someone who really cares about and understands women; a guy who cares about whether you get health insurance, specifically whether you get birth control (So men don’t have to take responsibility for their irresponsible sexual activity).” (Comments in italics mine)

(This is part of what she says in the video which is largely incoherent. The fact this talentless, vacuous, unattractive young woman is embraced by Hollywood tells you what you need to know. Imagine her on a real job interview? But Obama is nothing if not a champion of mediocrity so I can see why the two support each other.)

What these recent examples show is a mindset that is incompatible with effective leadership and quite frankly common decency. The question is, does America even know what common decency is anymore? If they do, I have no doubt Mitt Romney will be the next president of the United States.

Only ten days to go until liberation

Obama & Illegal Immigration: Part 3-Disrespect for the Rule of Law

10/09/2012

Besides President Obama’s attack on freedom of religion and the monstrosity dubbed Obamacare, I think the most troubling aspect of his presidency has been his disrespect for the rule of law. If the president does not agree with a law, he doesn’t always enforce it.

Sort of a violation of our beloved Constitution, that archaic old parchment that a bunch of old white men dreamed up a couple of centuries back.

That was before someone as enlightened as Mr. Obama came around and showed us how to do things better. His administration has not enforced the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA)–even before he declared he had evolved to a position in support of homosexual marriage. Why? Because he deemed DOMA unconstitutional. When was he appointed the Supreme Court?

(Source: dailypolitical.com)

I want to focus on his disrespect for the rule of law, however, through the subject of illegal immigration. Not only has his administration ignored laws with which it disagrees, it has at times made itself adverse to the states and, as a result, the people. The federal government sued Arizona for passing a law to allow police who stop people for probable cause to prove they are legal. Suing a state for trying to protect itself from potentially dangerous lawbreakers?

More troubling is his decision not to deport illegal aliens and to bypass Congress. He knew he had no legal right to do it because the bill he tried to pass–dubbed the DREAM Act–failed. This would allow certain young illegals who came to America through no fault of their own but who have served in the military or been educated to stay in this country. Whether or not this is a worthwhile group deserving of this gift, it is up to Congress to pass the law for Obama to sign. He lacks the authority to enact this policy through Executive Order.

With no one to stop him, however, he has done just that. No outrage. No questions from the media. No opposition from the Republicans.

A second term would only embolden this man. We need to elect Mitt Romney who appreciates the rule of law. And even if he didn’t, the Democrats would never allow him to get away with ignoring them. The media would howl in protest. They only do that if the president is a Republican as we all know.

This is a serious issue Americans should contemplate before they vote.

And remember that there are only 28 days left until the election of a lifetime!

Romney Needs to Be on Offense

09/13/2012

We all know the liberal media is in the tank for President Barack Obama. If he says something questionable, it is not challenged. If he attacks Governor Mitt Romney, it is covered as if it is factual and not political.

Romney has been campaigning long enough to know what he is facing. He cannot be mushy Mitt. He has to be strong, tough and show the leadership promised at the Republican convention last month.

His first major decision as the nominee was selecting the young, intelligent reformer who is widely respected, Rep. Paul Ryan. He did not go with a safe choice, such as a boring, non-controversial person. (Of course, even the most bland person would be attacked as a right-wing extremist by the media.) He also did not give in to political correctness by choosing a woman or a minority just for the sake of diversity. He chose the best man for the job, who happened to be a white man!

He did a good job at the convention, highlighting his humanity if only because the media has typecast him as an aloof rich man who doesn’t care about the little people. As if Obama does–that is the biggest laugh of all!

Mitt seems like a very nice man who aims to please. Like most people, he seems to back down sometimes from the constant criticism by the media. Who wants to be wrongly accused of being responsible for a woman’s death from cancer? Who wants to be called a felon when one is not?

(Source: CitizensForRomney.org)

The problem for Mitt is that he has to stay on his game, advance his agenda, and ignore what the liberals are saying. They hold Republicans to an impossible standard and give passes to Democrats. Think Joe Biden and his ongoing idiocy.

When Romney seems to waver in order to seem reasonable to liberals who cannot be appeased, he instead looks weak.  Perfect example: his recent comments on Obamacare and his planned repeal. I understand what he is saying. Not everything in it is necessarily bad and some portions may be salvageable. But he promised to repeal it on his first day. He should repeal and replace exactly as he promised. Anything less leads to charges of waffling that he can ill afford.

What Romney did well this week–despite blistering criticism–was tell the truth about Obama’s failed leadership and point out that we should not apologize to people who attack us. The same liberals who gleefully tell Catholics it is their right to mock God and the sacraments and for us to shut up and tolerate it are the ones who want to be respectful of Muslims’ feelings. Even as they murder our fellow citizens on American soil abroad.

Mitt’s denunciation was appropriate and timely and shame on the media for placing their political views ahead of the nation. I dare anyone to tell me Mitt was wrong as we saw photo after photo of our ambassador being paraded through the streets of Libya, beaten and bruised and dead.

The good news is that, despite the desire for freebies such as food stamps, most Americans still understand honor and will appreciate that Obama’s failure in addressing world problems is not only a defeat for America, but a threat that impacts all of us.

Please pray for the repose of the souls of the Americans murdered during these Middle East riots.

Pro-Life IS Pro-Woman & So Are Romney-Ryan

08/30/2012

I have seen numerous members of the media asking Republicans recently how being anti-abortion and thus pro-life may hurt them with women. The question is offensive.

Why does being a woman make clueless liberals (i.e., members of the media) think one must be pro-choice and thus pro-death?

I am a woman and have been pro-life for as long as I have known that such an evil as abortion existed. I am also opposed to embryonic stem cell research, favoring adult stem cell research which does not take a life. I oppose euthanasia and embrace loving people until their natural death, not offing grandma because it is convenient and cheaper for us.

Women are created by God to be loving and compassionate, mothers to the next generation and wives to men who know their  role in the family and the world.

(Source: firstpost.com)

Men should not promote abortion as a way of giving women so-called equal rights. What does one have to do with the other? How does having the option of killing one’s baby make one equal? Don’t people get that at least half the babies that are aborted are female? Where are their rights?

So you can see how offensive it is to imply that Romney and Ryan are anti-woman because they oppose abortion. It shows the greatest respect to women–both born and unborn–to advocate for the most vulnerable, including unborn female babies. Honoring women means allowing us to live the life to which we are called by God.

This means opposing the objectification of women; protecting all women by not exposing them to the pressures by men and society to correct conception “mistakes”; and de-regulating appropriately to grow the economy so people can get jobs, especially the husbands of America, so ladies can raise their children themselves.

Romney and Ryan want to help women and men and this nation.

So with our comeback team being pro-life, they have proven themselves to be pro-woman and pro-American. And no Republican should ever accept the premise of the question on the gender gap as being related to abortion. There is nothing about being female that makes one predisposed to supporting abortion. It is simply a disrespect for God and His creation and being selfish rather than loving.

Rep. Ryan Is an Inspired VP Choice!

08/11/2012

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has finally done something bold and brilliant in advancing what should be a cakewalk to the White House by selecting Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan as his running mate.

It won’t be a cakewalk because President Obama’s failures are not trumpeted by the media. So Mitt had to pick a veep that could do for Mitt what he won’t do–aggressively discuss Obama’s failures and cheerlead for what Mitt will do for America.

This choice is inspired. While not a woman or a person of color, which might have made the media feel better in its quest for diversity in all things except newsrooms, Ryan is accomplished at a young age. He is energetic and undeniably smart.

He is the chairman of the House Budget Committee and understands the economy and knows why Obamacare is a disaster for it. He can explain what we need to do to fix Medicare and Social Security, not destroy it which is what liberals dishonestly allege.

He is a good Catholic, unlike pro-abortion VP Joe Biden, and is a family man. He has a good personality and can take the fight to the Democrats.

U.S. Congressman Paul Ryan

(Source: PaulRyan.House.gov)

May God bless him because the media firestorm about to take place will be like nothing he has seen despite his seven terms in Congress.

But, judging by his speech today, he is ready. The highlights:

  • He said Obama implemented his agenda with the help of a Democratic Congress and yet the agenda failed
  • He pointed to over three years of 8% unemployment with 1 in 6 American in poverty under Obama
  • He correctly called this a “record of failure” and declared that this is not the “new normal”
  • Romney is unlike Obama, who refuses to make difficult choices because he is more worried about the next election than the next generation
  • We must act now to avoid painful consequences and that means the Romney plan of economic growth, fiscal discipline and job creation
  • He talked about the American dream where we do not resent our neighbor’s success
  • He also reminded us that America was founded on an idea and that our rights are not from the government but are from God
  • The Constitution and the American dream guarantee equal opportunity, not equal outcomes
  • We are on an unsustainable path which is robbing America of freedom and security
  • Romney and Ryan will lead, will take responsibility and reapply our founding principles

With a start like this, I am very excited for the fall!

The Chick-fil-A Wake-Up Call to America

08/04/2012

I am so proud of the American people, the true believers who love this nation and are not looking to the government to solve all our problems. These are people who believe in America as it has always been, not in the America President Obama is creating with the help of his leftist allies.

It is bad enough we are intimidated about our belief in traditional marriage. We are told we are bigots and anti-gay for believing what the world has always believed. What every major religion has taught. What Christianity still teaches along with other faiths.

We have allowed the media and leftist politicians and Hollywood to paint traditional marriage support as being anti-homosexual. One does not equal the other. Saying that for a union to be called marriage it must include a man and a woman is just being factual; it is not bigotry.

When gays and their supporters insist on calling what they enter into marriage, they are deluding themselves. By re-defining marriage, they destroy the very concept. If two men can marry, why not three men or people and pets? Where is the standard?

In shoving this fictional view of marriage down the throats of the American people, the elites have tolerated no opposition. What started as seeking acceptance to an alternative lifestyle has quickly turned into a fascistic demand for compliance with penalties attached.

Enter Chick-fil-A. All that was expressed was a support for traditional marriage but such views are now verboten. The kiss-in was quickly scheduled to punish them, but before it could take place, there was an uprising of the American people who finally opened their eyes to the erosion of our precious First Amendment rights of freedom of religion and speech.

Thousands upon thousands of average Americans showed their solidarity by participating in Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day as suggested by Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum.

To their credit, this included people who don’t necessarily agree with Dan Cathy, the company’s president, about traditional marriage. But they realized that the time to defend our free speech rights is running short. If we do not challenge those who would silence us, we eventually will lose the right to do so.

This was different from other media firestorms because big government reared its ugly head, telling Chick-fil-A in a number of jurisdictions, including New York, that its leaders were not entitled to have different views on social issues. And insofar as they do, they cannot operate businesses in these locales.

City Council Speaker and mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn, in particular, showed that she puts her own feelings as a lesbian ahead of her sworn duty to uphold the Constitution. She told New York University which has the only Chick-fil-A location in the City that it should not be re-opened when school starts in a few weeks and should be replaced with a more gay-friendly business.

I am sure you have never heard of such a frontal assault on free speech by a government official in your life.

The headline for the week, however, is that the intimidation failed. The people–in the middle of the summer and the Olympics and vacations–rose up and made their voices heard simply by eating a meal.

What is more beautiful, peaceful or American than that? The culture war goes on thanks to Americans willing to fight for our birthright.

This is the most hopeful I have been about our nation in years. May God bless America and may we remain forever vigilant!

Liberals Don’t Believe in Free Speech: The Chick-fil-A Example

07/28/2012

When I don’t like the politics of a business, I don’t shop there. For example, designer Kenneth Cole has a history of pro-abortion and other liberal advertisements to promote his brand. It is not that he is just giving money to promote the death of babies, but he is using it to sell his clothes!

That’s obnoxious.

No one criticizes him for that.

But when Chick-fil-A, a chain of fast-food chicken restaurants, reiterated its position in favor of real marriage–you know between a man and a woman–liberals flipped out. Chick-fil-A also closes on Sunday and gives back to the community. They take their Christianity seriously.

If one is anti-Christian or a homosexual who is intolerant or both, then one does not have to eat at Chick-fil-A. But liberals lie when they claim to support free speech. They boycott, they complain, they demand repentance!

The mayor of Chicago, a crony of President Obama, said Chicago does not share the company’s pro-marriage beliefs. Considering the economic turmoil, the violence and the general disorder of the once-great city, you would think he would encourage a family-friendly franchise that provides jobs and social stability. But he is a hack Democrat who irrationally promotes the liberal agenda at the expense of his own city.

It is bad enough that liberal activists–especially the hypersensitive homosexuals–do not tolerate opposing viewpoints, but we do not need public officials disregarding the First Amendment.

(Source: picturesdepot.com)

Christians, who are technically the majority, had better wake up and support the few brave businessmen who are willing to tell the truth, facing ridicule, boycotts and condemnation.

What is wrong with us that we say nothing? I give credit to our evangelical friends who are supporting Chick-fil-A. And I am sure they have a great product!

While we say nothing and do nothing–shame on us conservatives who are inherently less vocal than carping leftists–events are planned to intimidate this poor company. Homosexual activists–who claim they want tolerance but fail to tolerate Christianity–plan a kiss-in this Friday at Chick-fil-A stores.

If you don’t like something, do what I do and protest with your dollars. Shop elsewhere. Write a letter. Don’t stick your tongue down the throat of your same-sex lover to show your outrage. Isn’t there a bathhouse for that?

Since clearly this is a violation of free speech to intimate these good people, liberals instead denounce this Christian viewpoint as bigotry. If we disagree that two men should get married, that makes us bigots. If they don’t believe in our views which have anchored civilization for over 2000 years, we don’t call them bigots although that is exactly what they are. Intolerant and hypocritical.

They project onto us what they are and, with the support of the media, they attack until they get their way.

We have to draw a line in the sand. Support Chick-fil-A by eating there and contacting them to show approval of their position. Write letters to the editor.

Fellow Christians, every time we stay silent, and they gain ground, we are losing our freedom. If you are not outraged that it is now considered bigotry to oppose gay marriage, then you need to examine your conscience and determine if you have the right to call yourself Christian.

Support Chick-fil-A with your dollars and words!

Don’t Blame Guns! Blame Hollywood!

07/21/2012

When I woke up Friday morning and saw the tragic and shocking news about the movie theater shooting, one of my first thoughts was that liberals would use this–as they do all such shootings–as a justification for renewed calls for gun control.

(Well, this is one way to bury the fast and the furious scandal–about guns and government. Not that it was getting much media coverage per my previous post.)

Anyway, one person allegedly re-enacted a violent scene inspired by Batman and similar movies.

I don’t see this as being about guns. In fact, it is about an overload of our senses with disturbing images.

While the vast majority will never become unhinged enough to shoot up a theater filled with innocent people, violent and sexual images with which we are constantly bombarded have an effect on us as individuals and as a society.

(Source: beyondhollywood.com)

The media give us wrong ideas about crime and violence. I have read that back in the day one could never get away with a crime on TV. I have watched enough Alfred Hitchcock re-runs from the 1950s to know that is true. The bad guy always got caught. Today many times the bad guy does not get caught and lives out the dreams we have been taught to want. In fact, good people doing bad things for supposedly good reasons is a common theme today. Getting away with it is a goal and it’s only wrong if one gets caught is a typical mindset.

And it is not just violence but sex. Somehow I don’t think aberrant sexual behavior such as threesomes was all that mainstream until glamorized by Hollywood. People see and they imitate. They think it is normal if everyone else is doing it.

But not everyone else is or was doing it. Media convinces us that the images are mainstream when it is simply not the case.

I just read about a study where girls as young as six years old see themselves as sexual objects. And teens are more likely to have sex based on what they see depicted in the movies according to another study.

In fact, the teens wanted to re-enact sexy scenes. No one wants to re-enact the results of reckless sex: taking penicillin for STDs, feeling crushed after one’s significant other uses then dumps them, facing an unexpected pregnancy.

Just as seeing sex on the screen can impact us, surely images of violence, with no repercussions, have the same effect. We see people get slaughtered in big budget films and cheer. But each person is a human being made in the image and likeness of God and should not be considered disposable.

But then again we are a society filled with narcissistic and selfish people who abort unplanned babies and hurry to off grandma when she is hanging on too long. We don’t value people the way we should.

And yet when one lone nut slaughters the innocent, we are shocked and scandalized. Perhaps we should examine what we tolerate and encourage as a society and we should be more mindful of the media we consume that impacts our very souls to our detriment.

Defeat Obama? Pray–and Change Yourself!

07/15/2012

Those of us who love America and want to see her restored to her former glory oppose the re-election of President Barack Obama.

Despite his alleged accomplishments, I opposed the re-election of President Bill Clinton. Not only was his agenda wrong for America, his personal behavior was contemptible. The only reason he had any accomplishments was that he was riding the wave of President Reagan’s economic boom and his behaviors led to a Republican Revolution bringing in a Congress that passed good legislation such as welfare reform and the Defense of Marriage Act.

That Congress was smart enough to impeach him for his scandalous actions although he was unfortunately not removed from office.

At least his time was marked by economic prosperity and an awareness by the people that he was an immoral man.

Obama has neither.

Despite scandals such as fast and furious, Obama has kept his reputation as a good man. Despite his agenda attacking the Catholic Church, the Constitution, the rule of law, among others, he has not been exposed for what he is. The media protect him. The elites exalt him.

Average Americans seem unfazed by the fact he has not made any inroads into restoring American prosperity. Those that want him re-elected still blame George Bush so as to protect their messiah.

So for those of us who see that Obama’s agenda is bad for America, we need to not just vote for Mitt Romney, we have to fight the good fight.

We have to pray. And repent.

The reason that a man like Obama could be elected to the highest office in the land despite his disdain for the nation that gave him so many opportunities is that we are not living as we should.

(Source: anunews.net)

If we were educated in American history, trained in civics, and paid attention to the world instead of our mechanical devices, we would never have elected a man who does not value our constitutional form of government but is working to turn us into a European-style socialist state.

And we would not be more interested in our sex lives, our celebrity role models and our hybrid cars if we were decent people ourselves. We were once a nation of God-fearing, self-disciplined, self-sufficient, honorable people who worked hard and lived lives of virtue.

Now we care more about two men getting married and getting free contraception so we can act out perversions from Fifty Shades of Grey.

To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, people without religion and virtue cannot self-govern. By letting ourselves become decadent and self-centered, we have allowed ourselves to be taken over by government bureaucrats, who are more than happy to tell us how to live. In exchange for cradle-to-grave freebies, we have willingly handed over our freedom.

For those who want to live like this, it is un-American. And those of us who love America and reject the loss of liberty have to suffer. We want America back. But unless we pray and repent in our own lives, we will continue to sink into socialism. The last great hope will be eclipsed by the more disciplined Muslims and Chinese.

There is so much against us. America has given up virtue and we must embrace it again. We must pray, begging God’s forgiveness for everything from killing the unborn to treating sodomy as a constitutional right.

If you are living an immoral life or a dependent one, change it. Put your children before your own needs. And feed your children yourself; don’t depend on the government. Those freebies are actually not free; the cost of them is your liberty and that of your children.

It is time for us to really be Americans. There are only a few months until the election. If Obama is re-elected, then the American dream is over. We each have the opportunity to prevent that and to try to get America back on track.

Are you American enough to play your part?

Intolerance for Conservatives

07/12/2012

I am so sick of hearing that conservatives are intolerant. And closed-minded. And bigoted.

The truth is, conservatives are the ones who suffer at the hands of the Intolerant also known as liberals. And hypocrites.

Cases in point:

Jane Pitt, about whom I recently posted, told the truth in a letter to the editor, a time-honored American tradition. She expressed her opinion that Christians have a moral obligation to oppose President Obama by voting for Republican Mitt Romney.

I knew this would be a big story because her son is one of the biggest liberals in Hollywood. I did not anticipate that she would receive death threats. Imagine death threats for writing a letter to the editor?

And for saying something as non-controversial as vote for Romney!

Liberals always act like they are aggrieved and victimized. Yet they can say anything they want without fear of retribution or criticism, let alone death threats and other forms of intimidation.

Thankfully actor and almost in-law Jon Voight defended her.

It is not just innocent, elderly women who are attacked. Mitt Romney was brave enough to speak before the NAACP even though he knows that blacks overwhelmingly favor Democrats and President Obama.

(Source: thegrio.com)

He delivered a speech that was interrupted by boos, especially when he expressed his intention to repeal Obamacare.

One can disagree with the speaker but one should hear him out, not try to drown him out with boos. It is positively un-American what the audience did.

And if it had been reversed, the media would have howled at the so-called racism! The incivility! The bigotry!

When Mitt is the one booed, it is what he deserves according to liberals.

The man should be allowed to share his ideas. We don’t have to agree with each other but we should hear each other out.

The point is liberals are intolerant of conservatives while insisting we are intolerant of them. Hogwash!

If you are conservative, speak up despite the ridicule and disdain you face. We need to be brave and to speak while we are still allowed.


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