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YouTube Censors Comedian's Anti-Sharia Video Called 'Welcome To Saudi Britain'

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 9:41:21 PM
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Believe It

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 9:38:53 PM
YouTube Joins the Jihad  Condemning Sharia courts in Britain will get you censored from YouTube. This company is begging for Dhimwit of the Month honors!
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Palin, McCain And The Weeks Ahead

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 9:28:43 PM
What McCain and Palin need to do now
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Yet Another Way To Restrict Free Speech

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 6:52:47 PM
Are we to accept that American bigots are equivalent to Muslim mass murderers? “Shut Up, He Explained”

Not since the Nazi book burnings of the 1930s has free speech been as endangered as it is today. Firebombing publishers, murdering filmmakers, issuing death threats against writers and cartoonists, suing researchers, restricting freedom of expression through bogus “human-rights commissions” and the U.N. — these are some of the ways militant Islamists, their enablers, and their apologists are seeking to silence their critics.
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Obama And Biden’s Health-Care Deceptions

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 6:44:23 PM
Every time Joe Biden sounded especially confident, he was saying something that wasn’t true. “An Unhealthy Debate”

For the most part, these were gross exaggerations or convenient fictions aimed to allow him to make a point he couldn’t otherwise support. How to answer the charge that he and Obama voted for a budget resolution that called for taxing Americans making $42,000? Assert that John McCain voted for it too, although he didn’t. How to argue that we’re paying no attention to Afghanistan? Claim repeatedly that we spend more in Iraq in three weeks than we have spent in Afghanistan in seven years, although that’s very far from true. How to explain his vote for the Iraq war in light of his subsequent views? Say it wasn’t a war resolution, though it was. And on and on Joe went.

One set of distortions in particular, however, seemed like more than extemporaneous exaggeration. Biden offered several criticisms of John McCain’s health-care plan which tracked precisely with the line of attack the Obama campaign has taken up against the plan in recent days, and which are flatly untrue and deceptive.

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Do They?

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 6:38:46 PM
Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? “Do Facts Matter?”

Abraham Lincoln said, “You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”

Unfortunately, the future of this country, as well as the fate of the Western world, depends on how many people can be fooled on Election Day, just a few weeks from now.

Right now, the polls indicate that a whole lot of the people are being fooled a whole lot of the time.

The current financial bailout crisis has propelled Barack Obama back into a substantial lead over John McCain — which is astonishing in view of which man and which party has had the most to do with bringing on this crisis.

Fact Number One: It was liberal Democrats, led by Sen. Christopher Dodd and Congressman Barney Frank, who for years — including the present year — denied that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were taking big risks that could lead to a financial crisis.

It was Sen. Dodd, Congressman Frank, and other liberal Democrats who for years refused requests from the Bush administration to set up an agency to regulate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

It was liberal Democrats, again led by Dodd and Frank, who for years pushed for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to go even further in promoting subprime mortgage loans, which are at the heart of today’s financial crisis.

Yet, today, what are we hearing? That it was the Bush administration “right-wing ideology” of “de-regulation” that set the stage for the financial crisis. Do facts matter?

We also hear that it is the free market that is to blame. But the facts show that it was the government that pressured financial institutions in general to lend to subprime borrowers, with such things as the Community Reinvestment Act and, later, threats of legal action by then Attorney General Janet Reno if the feds did not like the statistics on who was getting loans and who wasn’t.

Is that the free market? Or do facts not matter?

Then there is the question of being against the “greed” of CEOs and for “the people.” Franklin Raines made $90 million while he was head of Fannie Mae and mismanaging that institution into crisis.

Who in Congress defended Franklin Raines? Liberal Democrats, including Maxine Waters and the Congressional Black Caucus, at least one of whom referred to the “lynching” of Raines, as if it was racist to hold him to the same standard as white CEOs.

The Washington Post criticized the McCain campaign for calling Raines an adviser to Obama, even though that fact was reported in the Washington Post itself on July 16th. The technicality and the spin here is that Raines is not officially listed as an adviser. But someone who advises is an adviser, whether or not his name appears on a letterhead.

The tie between Barack Obama and Franklin Raines is not all one-way. Obama has been the second-largest recipient of Fannie Mae’s financial contributions, right after Sen. Christopher Dodd.

But ties between Obama and Raines? Not if you read the mainstream media.

Facts don’t matter much politically if they are not reported.

The media alone are not alone in keeping the facts from the public. Republicans, for reasons unknown, don’t seem to know what it is to counterattack. They deserve to lose.

But the country does not deserve to be put in the hands of a glib and cocky know-it-all, who has accomplished absolutely nothing beyond the advancement of his own career with rhetoric, and who has for years allied himself with a succession of people who have openly expressed their hatred of America.
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Pork, Pork, Who Has The Pork

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 6:27:02 PM
Porking Up The Rescue Bill

It doesn't matter how much politicians talk about reducing pork, they always find a way to add plenty of filler to their legislation and the bailout bill is no exception.

From ABC News' Jake Tapper.

The Senate Finance Committee has published a summary of some of the additions to the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.


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In The Tank For The One

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 6:12:05 PM
Post Admits the Truth on Palin

A Washington Post article by Jennifer Agiesta and Jon Cohen discusses how “six in 10 voters see her as lacking the experience to be an effective president and a third are now less apt to vote for McCain because of her,” according to a new Washington Post-ABC poll.

“Initially, voters rated Palin as highly as they did McCain or his rival, Barack Obama, but after weeks of intensive coverage, and several perceived missteps, the shine has diminished.”

By intensive coverage, do the Post writers mean false accusations about Trig’s parentage, incorrect assertions about her membership in the Alaska Independence Party as printed by the New York Times, or the sensationalized coverage surrounding Troopergate?

“Several perceived missteps” likely refers to Palin’s botched video interviews with ABC News and Katie Couric, never mind that the ABC News deliberately edited
Palin’s responses to make her look naïve on foreign policy.
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Another Friend Of "Change"

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 6:00:41 PM

The Audacity of Tenure

It turns out that the “change agent” running for president has yet another colorful associate the media seldom ask him about.

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Unfortunately, Too Many Analysts Usually Want To Fix The Part Of The Health Care System That Works

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 5:56:18 PM
In Sickness and In Health

Unfortunately, too many analysts usually want to fix the part of the health care system that works. “When you compare the United States to Sweden, their infant mortality rate is about half,” Brent C. James, an adjunct professor at the University of Utah’s medical school said in the Continuum symposium. “As soon as you adjust for gestational age, the difference disappears.”

“What it says is that the Swedes are classifying premature infants differently—as stillbirths—while we’re classifying them as salvageable infants and we’re going to pull out all the stops to try to save them.” James is the executive director of the Institute for Health Care Delivery Research.

“There’s a phenomenon called ‘rescue care,’ which is this overwhelming feeling we have as human beings to help someone who’s suffering or facing death,” James said. “When it comes to the ‘rescue’ world, the United States is by far the best.”


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Palins' Tax Returns Show Couple Underpaid An Extension [How Bogus]

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 3:40:03 PM
New Palin scandal: She slightly underpaid her income taxes after an extension

I read this article and then this comment which tells it all;

"By: tkoreporting

I am losing my mind out here. Franklin Raines walks away with $90 million in bonuses from Freddie Mac, Barney Frank chastises the Inspector General and the republicans who dare question his leadership, Maxine Waters praises Raines for "meeting and exceeding housing goals", the taxpayers are left holding the $7 billion+ bag and the AP thinks we ought to worry about this?

Jeesh... will I ever wake up from this freaking nightmare?

October 4, 2008 at 2:19 p.m."

The MSM gives the Democrats a pass on the causing of this mortgage "crisis" and then they investigate this woman to death, they really show how bankrupt they are, and how they are in bed with the Democrats.

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Stand Up. Stand Up And Fight

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 3:02:38 PM

Final McCain ad push to go nuclear on Obama over Ayers, Rezko

WaPo: Team McCain taking off the gloves

Republicans frustrated by a perceived lack of fight from the John McCain campaign will find cheer in a Washington Post report this morning.  Sources within the campaign say that they will become much more aggressive in exposing Barack Obama’s ties to radicals and his lack of experience and judgment in the final four weeks of the campaign.  This strategy entails significant risk, but they need to regain the edge they had before the conventions

With the bailout bill behind him, though, McCain has to start talking about the real reasons behind the financial collapse — the perversion of the lending markets through Democratic intervention, and the Democrats who protected Fannie Mae from the OFHEO regulators while they blithely bought billions in bad paper and turned them into bad securities that poisoned the entire investment sector.    He may have held his tongue while building bipartisan support for Congressional action, but the time has come to name names, and to point to Obama’s massive fundraising from Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac interests and link it to his complete inaction on the subprime lending crisis.

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Hardly Knew Ayers, Except Apparently When Obama Worked For Him

Posted by On the Right on Saturday, October 04, 2008 2:54:07 PM

Gray Lady on Ayers-Obama connection: Nothing to see here. Move along.

We’ve been waiting for the mainstream media to apply one-tenth of the investigative power that they’ve put into Wasilla probing Sarah Palin into Chicago to check on Barack Obama.  The New York Times offers about that — a tenth of an effort — into exploring Obama’s connections to William Ayers.  Despite the fact that Obama worked for Ayers at the Chicago Annenberg Challenge for several years and with Ayers on the Woods Fund for a few more, the Paper of Record insists that the two men have no real ties at all.

The first clue as to their spin?  The headline — “Obama and ’60s Bomber: A Look Into Crossed Paths”.  Crossed paths?  Are they just two ships that passed in the night?

Update: Color Tom Maguire unimpressed with the Times’ effort; 

No Yards And A Cloud Of Dust

Scott Shane of the NY Times presents an elegant apologia for Obama's mysterious relationship with unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers.  Mr. Shane presents the bare bones of many of the allegations made by critics, thereby allowing the Times to defend this piece as fair and two-sided.  However, little or no evidence is presented to support the allegations while the Obama denials and current explanations are presented uncritically.  The net effect will probably be to convince many people that the Times pushed hard but simply could not find a story here.

Ditto for Steve Diamond

Obama/Ayers Update: White Wash by the Gray Lady? New York Times Ignores Evidence of Ayers' Role in Annenberg Board Selection

Once again, the New York Times misses the story, parroting the false claims of the Obama Campaign about the relationship between Bill Ayers and Barack Obama. Some months ago the Times reported without comment the Campaign's lie that the first time Obama met Ayers was in late 1995 at a "meet and greet" held at Ayers' home for Obama when Obama launched his campaign for the state senate.

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Truthless Joe

Posted by On the Right on Friday, October 03, 2008 10:40:18 PM
It's hard choosing the worst in last Thursday's vice presidential debate: Sen. Joe Biden's continual untruths, his certitude in delivering them, or the free pass he got all night long.

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A Flawed But Necessary Rescue

Posted by On the Right on Friday, October 03, 2008 10:37:40 PM

Like the metastasizing federal tax code, the rescue bill swelled from three pages and $700 billion in its first incarnation to more than $800 billion and 451 pages in just a matter of days.

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