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4/17/2009 By Ben Leave a Comment

A Chance for Denver Tax Day Tea Party Protestors to Clarify the Record

Update, 9:40 AM: Rossputin has a more thorough and comprehensive debunking of the ProgressNow nonsense. It's simply a must-read. Also, Joshua explains the "astroturfing" myth and why the Left is pushing it. Here's a shock: the local Soros-funded Lefty media hack is completely misrepresenting the Tax Day Tea Party here in Denver and as a nationwide movement. What else would you expect? Mike Huttner has to earn his keep from the sugar daddy somehow. The vapid silliness coming from ProgressNow includes: Selectively finding the few offensive signs of the common sense-challenged out of thousands to paint the crowd with a broad brush of ignorance and hatred (here's a video that helps give lie to this tactic) Parroting discredited CNN … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christianity and Faith, Colorado Politics, Education, Fiscal Policy, General, liberty, PPC Tagged With: astroturf, clarification, CNN, common sense, corporate, courteous, Denver, George Soros, grassroots, hatred, ignorance, Lefty, media hack, Mike Huttner, misrepresenting, movement, nationwide, offensive signs, partisan attack, Peoples Press Collective, press release, ProgressNow, public figure, response, silliness, spoke, stereotype, sugar daddy, talking points, Tax Day Tea Party, transparent, vapid, video

12/6/2008 By Ben Leave a Comment

Obama Voters, CNN and Network TV Viewers More Poorly Informed

John Ziegler is to be commended for his post-election polling work. At first we learned how ridiculously ill-informed Obama voters were, leading us to some conclusions about how Obama got elected. Ziegler took upon himself a challenge that the misguided critics on the Left - who (all too predictably) attacked the questioners rather than deal with the substance of the findings - would not do. He commissioned a second poll with even more telling results (H/T Granite Grok): … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Education, General, National Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, challenge, CNN, commended, commissioned, conclusions, critics, education reform, elected, findings, FoxNews, Granite Grok, ill-informed, John McCain, John Ziegler, Left, media, misguided response, MSNBC, national newspapers, network news, Obama voters, polling, questioners, real factor, Republicans, results, Sarah Palin, talk radio

10/14/2008 By Ben 2 Comments

CNN Documents ACORN Voter Fraud: 2,100 Registrations All Phony

Though they couldn't bring themselves to identify ACORN's connection with Barack Obama and the Democratic Party (via Powerline): 2,100 voter registrations in one county, and they are ALL fraudulent? Has Barack Obama answered any questions about ACORN? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: clean government, General, National Politics Tagged With: ACORN, Barack Obama, CNN, Democratic Party, Powerline, voter fraud, voter registrations, YouTube

10/3/2008 By Ben 3 Comments

“Experienced” Joe Biden is All Confused about the Office He Is Running For

Apparently, "experienced" Joe Biden doesn't know much about the high office of vice president he is running to fill. My first-year law school friend Tyler at Constructively Reasonable has the details (and as Tyler points out, so do the legal minds at the Volokh Conspiracy). So does the Washington Times. A man who has been in the U.S. Senate for 35 years could be so ignorant about how our federal government works? What if it had been Sarah Palin who had made the gaffe? You can imagine the mainstream media reports would be swift, harsh, and unforgiving. But since it's Slow Joe Biden at the Wilmington, Delaware Home Depot, representing their favored Democratic Party ticket, for the most part there's been nothing but the sounds of crickets … [Read more...]

Filed Under: General, National Politics Tagged With: CNN, Constructively Reasonable, David Gergen, Delaware, Democrats, experienced, extremely well informed, favored ticket, gaffe, high office, Home Depot, Joe Biden, law school, legal minds, mainstream media, Sarah Palin, Tyler, U.S. Constitution, U.S. Senate, vice president, Volokh Conspiracy, Washington Times

4/21/2008 By Ben Leave a Comment

Blogger Exposes CNN Agenda Journalism on Penn State Campus

On the eve of the most crucialest of all crucial votes in this media-obsessed rollercoaster of a Democrat presidential showdown - also known as the Pennsylvania primary - I wanted to turn attention to a major example of in-your-face media bias provided in coverage of the event. Warner Todd Huston, someone I met at Samsphere Chicago, exposed the verbally abusive bias of CNN's Rick Sanchez on the Penn State University campus:CNN contacted students in several political clubs at Penn State to arrange for the interview and two weeks ago their cameras and crews arrived at the university to film the segment with the on-air personality. 21-year-old journalism student Chelsea Brown, though, was less than impressed by Sanchez’ bellicose … [Read more...]

Filed Under: blogging, General, National Politics Tagged With: Barack Obama, CNN, Hillary Clinton, media bias, Penn State University, Pennsylvania primary, Rick Sanchez, Warner Todd Huston

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