Yesterday, the RNC Chief of Staff Ken McKay sent the head of ABC News a complaint over their special “Prescription for America” asking that they be allowed a segment to provide the viewing public a moment to hear opposition to Obama’s plan to socialize our health care. His request was summarily rejected. There WILL be no opposition.

Dear Mr. Westin:

As the national debate on health care reform intensifies, I am deeply concerned and disappointed with ABC’s astonishing decision to exclude opposing voices on this critical issue on June 24, 2009. Next Wednesday, ABC News will air a primetime health care reform “town hall” at the White House with President Barack Obama. In addition, according to an ABC News report, GOOD MORNING AMERICA, WORLD NEWS, NIGHTLINE and ABC’s web news “will all feature special programming on the president’s health care agenda.” This does not include the promotion, over the next 9 days, the president’s health care agenda will receive on ABC News programming.

Today, the Republican National Committee requested an opportunity to add our Party’s views to those of the President’s to ensure that all sides of the health care reform debate are presented. Our request was rejected. I believe that the President should have the ability to speak directly to the America people. However, I find it outrageous that ABC would prohibit our Party’s opposing thoughts and ideas from this national debate, which affects millions of ABC viewers.

In the absence of opposition, I am concerned this event will become a glorified infomercial to promote the Democrat agenda. If that is the case, this primetime infomercial should be paid for out of the DNC coffers. President Obama does not hold a monopoly on health care reform ideas or on free airtime. The President has stated time and time again that he wants a bipartisan debate. Therefore, the Republican Party should be included in this primetime event, or the DNC should pay for your airtime.

Respectfully,
Ken McKay
Republican National Committee
Chief of Staff

…but the mainstream media ISN’T biased at all…

Comedian Wanda Sykes was delivering her normal shtick of half-assed humor at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner (She always sounds like she’s complaining to me) and shifted gears towards the easy target… Rush Limbaugh.

You know, you might want to look into this… because I think maybe Rush Limbaugh was the 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung out on OxyContin he missed his flight.

Rush Limbaugh hopes the country fails? I hope his kidneys fail, how ’bout that?

Fair enough… she likes to stab people with her brand of shock comedy… until you compare the reaction from the press, to that aimed at David Feherty of CBS who retooled an old joke aimed at Congressmen Pelosi and Reed.

“If you gave any U.S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and Osama Bin Laden, there’s a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and Bin Laden would be strangled to death.”

CBS issues a response to the press that “Feherty’s column for a Dallas magazine is an unacceptable attempt at humor and is not in any way condoned.” and Sykes’ attempts at humor are passed off as mildly funny and to be expected.

I don’t agree with either comment… and I think both should publicly apologize for their off color remarks but it’s yet again more of the same from our press.

It doesn’t take much to get Janeane Garofalo’s briefs in a bunch… but man o man did those tea parties tweak her off. Speaking on Keith Olbermann’s show on MSNBC last night, she had just a slight opinion on these protests.

“Let’s be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It’s not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don’t know their history at all. It’s about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that.
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Their synapses are misfiring. … It is a neurological problem we are dealing with.
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Who else is Fox talking to? Urban older white guys and their girlfriends who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome.”

I wonder if Mrs. Garofalo would care to explain to us just what that Boston Tea Party was all about? Or how these protests have anything to about the color of the President’s skin when this isn’t the first set of protests on overspending and taxation from our government.

Janeane’s tactic hasn’t changed in years. Rather than take the issue to task, she feels the best way to meet a conflicting point of view is with a personal attack.

Janeane is not alone on this front… as CNN was all too willing to put Susan Roesgen in front of a camera and let her loose on party goers.

There were not millions upon millions of people out in the streets uprooting IRS offices or anything of the such, but it was a good start. I hope there are more, because watching Liberals explode like children sent to bed without supper is hilarious.

With recent killings of four police officers in Oakland as well as 13 people in Binghampton the press has been interviewing every anti-gun politician and man on the street they can find in their sad attempt at connecting passionate gun owners and supporters of gun rights, to the lunatics behind these ruthless slaughters.

Yes, none of these people should have owned a gun but ask yourself… within the confines of our right to keep and bear arms, how would you enforce such a measure on someone who had, up until then shown NO signs of intent to harm others? The man in Oakland was a clear example of someone who we KNEW should not have been near a weapon, but again… define for me, clearly how you would structure a gun restriction that would have kept firearms from the Oakland shooter, yet allowed me my full and complete rights as a US citizen.

Those of you out there who feel that we need to classify weapons, and ban those that do the most harm first (assault weapons), explain to me how that ban would have protected those four, now deceased officers in Oakland. Assault weapons and pistols and shotguns all share a common trait… bullets. It is the person behind the gun that does the harm as without them, that bullet has no way of assaulting you. I ask you, if I lay a loaded M-16 and a Colt .45 on a table, which will kill you the quickest? Neither, until a crazy person picks one of them up. Redefining “crazy people” and “lunatics” as “gun-lovers” and “those passionate about the second amendment” does a great disservice to those of us who ARE passionate about our rights, yet would never march into a school and massacre children.

The Constitution was written by men who took up arms against a tyrannical form of government. They may not have had access to AK’s or RPG’s… but if you asked anyone on the receiving end of the revolutions firearms, they might as well have been their equivalent of assault weapons.

Politicians prefer unarmed peasants to citizens willing to fight for their freedoms. Just because a crazy person was capable of acquiring a firearm, does not mean I and my fellow Americans must suffer the consequences.

I flat out refuse to accept gun restriction and registration as a way to curb gun violence. Show me a way to block criminals from guns and ONLY criminals, and then I’ll listen.

“We need earmark reform, and when I’m President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”

Well Mr. President… you might want to visit your Congress for something other than a Reagan-esque speech.

Tom Jones, a staffer for Senator Jim DeMint who handles budgetary and commerce related issues has been using his Twitter account to post his pork findings as he combs through this waste of taxpayer money. Here are some gems he’s spotted recently:

• $1.75Mfor “Mammoth Springs National Fish Hatchery-complete visitor center”
• 2 earmarks for $200K to study “Chronic Wasting Disease”
• $1.762M earmark for “Honey Bee lab”
• “Center for Grape Genetics” & “Center for Advanced Viticulture and Tree Crop Research” $4.4M
• $2M for “for the promotion of astronomy in Hawaii”
• $400K “to combat bullying”
• $215K – “Stony Brook Univ for program to teach scientists how to communicate w/ press”
• $5.8M for “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate. Planning and design of a building & an endowment”

Where’s this hard hitting Obama the press and his handlers painted for us during the election… he wouldn’t have said all that JUST to get elected would he?

Two local affiliate news shows have gone on the attack during interviews with Biden in the last week. One out of Florida and another out of Pennsylvania.

Reaction to both interviews has been lock down by the Obama campaign… essentially banning the stations from any more interviews “at best, for the remainder of the campaign”. The Obama campaign opened up their complaint with this gem:

“There’s nothing wrong with tough questions, but reporters have the very important job of sharing the truth with the public — not misleading the American people with false information.”

So grilling your VP candidate is unprofessional, but TV reporters drilling on and on about Palin being a beauty queen or a lousy mother isn’t? You can’t have it both ways sir.

Couple these two events with Obama’s attack on “lies and false information” on radio and TV ads and his attempts to silence those who oppose him rather than combat their misinformation with the “truth”… and you’re raising some interesting questions about the role of the press in your administration.

One has to wonder that with someone so hell bent on controlling his image, will those reporters who refuse to see eye to eye with the Messiah, find themselves lacking access to the White House, should he win in November?

The press as of this morning was trumpeting the 11 point Obama lead following the debate he supposedly won… only problem is the polls are all over the MAP right now and citing ONE poll as the beacon of defeat for McCain. I’m not buying that it’s over. This time 8 years ago, Al Gore was enjoying an 11 point lead over then Governor Bush… and look what he walked away with, a weight problem and an award winning propaganda film.

Rasmussen Tracking: Obama +5
Hotline/FD Tracking: Obama +6
Reuters/CSpan/Zogby Tracking: Obama +4
GW/Battleground Tracking: Obama +3
Gallup Tracking: Obama +11
NBC News/Wall St. Jrnl: Obama +6
CBS News: Obama +3
CNN: Obama +8
Ipsos/McClatchy: Obama +7
Democracy Corps (D): Obama +3

I never try to call any election unless it’s just ridiculously obvious… Zogby recalled the Carter / Reagan race of 1980 where it seemed lost for Reagan in the polls until the Sunday before the election when support for Carter fell off.

Anything is possible folks… we have less than 30 days until this election is in the history books and to say that a candidate, who is averaging numbers right in line with or slightly outside the margin of error on many polls nation wide, “has it in the bag” is just wishful thinking. Stranger things have happened and history is proof.

As the police dig deeper into the motivations behind the shooting in Tennessee, the media is loving the references in his letters to Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Michael Savage, as well as the books found in his home from the same individuals.

Adkisson shot those people because of their beliefs and politics… do you blame him or talk radio?

“The amendment was intended to protect the authority of the states to organize militias”

Funny, since the statement ‘the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.‘ appears, separated by a comma, following the statement about militia. How dare they write an amendment to our Constitution that contain more than one point… we wouldn’t want to cover similar topics in one swipe would we.

According to the CT, the ruling disregarded the first portion of the amendment regarding militia. I don’t see it that way. The “preamble” to the 2nd Amendment says ‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State‘…

The CT claims that this statement is regarding militia gives the authority TO the state to regulate a militia, or military… when with the inclusion of the right to the PEOPLE (conveniently avoided by the CT) would give the power to the people to protect themselves and form a regulated militia if so needed to protect their state (or in my opinion FROM the state).

There are 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights, the CT would have you believe that only 9 of them pertain to you, and that a random amendment was tossed in to enable government when the whole of the Constitution is set up to free the people and REGULATE government.

It never ceases to amaze me, the lengths that government junkies will go to undercut the freedoms afforded to all in our Constitution.

The report is already drawing in headlines like this in the UK

Shell’s ‘obscene’ £13.9billion profit is biggest ever by British company

Union leaders in the UK are demanding a hefty “windfall” tax be dumped on shell… after all, profit is EVIL right? By definition a windfall is simply an “unexpected benefit”. So to all of you out there who support “windfall taxes” on large profits I ask you one thing… was this $27.65 Billion profit unexpected by Shell? Or was it just a shock to YOU that people make a profit off of goods and services?

I think I’ll mention this again for the umpteeth time here… if you’re making a profit on a commodity you’re selling that is in high demand, you’re going to make a lot of money. The key thing to look at is their profit margins on what they’re selling. The industry average on profit margins for these companies falls in around 8-10%. Banks pull in more than double that… The retail furniture chain I worked for pulled in 37%+ profit margins on their products. If you can find a report showing Shell was raking in a 30% profit margin on the sale of their goods and services when all the rest were parked @ 10% THEN you’ll have something, but until then… shutup.

Remember, governments like the US make more per gallon on fuel and the likes than ANY of these companies do… buy you don’t ever hear THOSE numbers.