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ELECTION DAY UNTIL JANUARY 20th, 2009
Thirty-five days until Election Day, and counting.
What can we expect for the eleven weeks between November 4th and January 20th when the forty-fourth president of the United States takes the oath of office?
If Senator Barack Hussein Obama wins:
—Reverend Jeremiah Wright will reappear in full glory. He will be seated behind Obama in all his regalia, sneering and thinking, “We gots them now! God HAS damned America!”
—Michelle Robinson Obama will be released from captivity and named Liaison to Recently Proud Americans and Ambassadorette to Nigeria so she can re-organize the efforts to scam Americans with new offers to send them money in return for a small cash security deposit.
—Tony Rezko will be pardoned and be immediately named to the new Office of National Ethics and nominated as Ambassador to his home country, Syria. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad presents him with that nation’s highest honor, “The Distinguished Medal of Iniquity.”
—ACORN is cited for its “unprecedented service ....
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Anyone Salonites get the feeling this election is rigged and being orchestrated in newsrooms?
Thirty years ago, pre-Fox News, pre- Washington Times, and pre-Drudge, unfavorable political stories could be interred so deeply in liberal newspapers’ and television networks’ files that they never saw the light of publicity. Today Fox and the Times out them but with little effect.
We can almost dismiss the media’s ignoring scandals such as Speaker Pelosi paying off her hubby with PAC money: http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/oct/01/pelosis-pac-pays-bills-for-spouses-firm/. That can be considered just more Democratic same-ol’.
DrudgeReport.com features two other reports today which are far more relevant for November 4th and which demonstrate the mainstream media putsch aimed at electing Senators Obama and Biden as president and vice president of the United States.
Regrettably, this is nothing new. That media has gone so far to the left in recent decades that it’s on the verge of falling off the charts. Yet, despite the fact their Machiavellian machinations are predicated on the gullibility of the American electorate, the media failed in 1980 and 1984 when Reagan upset their schemes, as well as in 1968 and 1972 when Nixon did likewise.
However, Senator John McCain is no Reagan, or Nixon, and the mainstreamers are better entrenched in positions of power in 2008 so it remains to be seen if their manipulation of the minds of the electorate will hit paydirt on November 4th.
It’s one thing to watch Katie Couric try her gotchas on Governor Palin, since we know Katie is struggling for gravitas, and failing; her interviews were even bested by the crew of Saturday Night Live: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/arts/television/01rati.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&ref=television&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin.
It’s quite another to read reports such as those below and realize what a pickle the nation is in...
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ELLEN ADVOCATES MAKING (LESBIAN) LOVE, NOT WAR, AND DEFEATING PROPOSITION 8
Ellen Degeneres, sometimes less than affectionately known as Ellen Degenerate, used Leno’s “Tonight Show” podium last night to advocate against Proposition Eight in California: http://television.aol.com/tvtop5/ellens-plea-the-tonight-show/2261100?icid=200100397×1210673684x1200657447.
Ellen contended that millions of dollars are being raised by proponents of the proposition, which–radically, it appears– amends the California constitution to state that marriage always has been and always should a contract between a man and a woman. It would therefore effectively ban “gay marriages.”
Ellen generously suggested that those millions would be better spent on people whose mortgages are being foreclosed rather than on “hate.” Leno seemed all in favor of defeating Proposition Eight, although he did seem flummoxed when he yammered on about how neat and clean gay West Hollywood was and said profoundly, “If two people want to…have something together,” then so what?
Being a Noo Yawker, I knew next to nothing about Proposition Eight and did some research. For a fairly objective analysis of its provisions, its proponents and opponents, and possible effect on the national election, please see http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php?title=California_Proposition_8_(2008)#Background.
Now, Ms. Degeneres is of course entitled to express her opinions, although I don’t see a comedy/entertainment hour as a proper venue for such a pitch unless, that is, Leno provides equal time to those who favor the proposition.
Don’t hold your breath on that prospect which is as likely as Leno, or Letterman, providing a platform for Phyllis Schlafley or Dr. Laura to expound on their views. The Hollywood elite wouldn’t like that and the late night comedians would be hosting stupid animal tricks five nights a week.
Other than that inequity, which is part and parcel of what Jay and Dave do to entertain their audiences, namely by providing one-sided, leftist, liberal points of view, I think Proposition Eight makes a great deal of sense, but it won’t make a damned bit of difference....
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