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Excerpt – Four billboard trucks bearing the message “Stop the Liberal Bias, Tell the Truth!” began circling the Manhattan headquarters of ABC, CBS, NBC, and the New York Times on Friday.

AWESOME!

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/trucks-encircle-abc-cbs-nbc-challenge-li

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While some heavy, premature chest-beating is occurring in other media, we here at the Tip of Texas Tea Party website commend Moses Sorola and others for their petition drive to stop government waste. After alterations made by the city commission with regard to their attempted Certificates of Obligation offering at Tuesday’s regular meeting, the formerly active petition drive was made irrelevant. The potential petition motion before the city commission would be deemed defective.

Many people signed the petition, or would have signed the petition, over their anger at spending more borrowed money on the Brownsville Sports Park, which some have dubbed the Charlie Atkinson Sports Park. The majority on the city commission knew that and probably wanted to prevent the petition drive from succeeding. Manipulating the system to target streets, what people complained most about, would at least seem palatable and less offensive than continued splurging of our precious tax dollars.

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An “Open Borders” policy with regard to illegal immigration is a little like engaging in unprotected sex. You can get away with it once, twice, perhaps a dozen or more times. But eventually, inevitably, your luck runs out. In the recent case of a 2 year-old girl who was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant in McAllen, Texas, the more appropriate metaphor would be Russian Roulette. And to make matters worse, the AP’s press release omitted the most salient detail of the accused child murderer’s identity:

McALLEN, Texas — A Texas man accused of fatally beating his 2-year-old stepdaughter when she wouldn’t stop crying as he watched a World Cup game has been charged with capital murder.

McAllen Police Sgt. Joel Morales says 27-year-old Hector Castro was charged Monday after his Saturday arrest. Castro is being held on $1 million bond at the Hidalgo County jail, where a booking clerk says he does not yet have an attorney. Read the rest of this entry »

(From bio.com)

In a surprise move, White House correspondent and opinion columnist Helen Thomas retired Monday. The departure of the 89-year-old reporter came after a taped interview of Thomas making controversial comments about Israel was released to the press. In the video, Thomas said that Israelis should “get the hell out of Palestine” and told them to go “home” to Germany, Poland or the United States.

Michelle Malkin recently posted “Yet another reconquista photo album the MSM won’t print,” which documents some of the photographs taken by Donald Douglas, author of American Power Blog, who attended the anti-anti-illegal immigrant law rally and march in Phoenix, AZ, on May 30.  I’m reposting the photos here, without captions or commentary.  Visit American Power Blog for Douglas’s informative commentary.

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Yeah, I wasn’t finished.  The post was getting longish, so I ended it.  But I’m not done with my analysis of Cavazos’s screed, Civil Rights Message Fails To Reach Planet Paul. 

By the eighth paragrapgh of the piece, Cavazos has broken into a run with the meme that Rand Paul is a Jim Crow racist who wants to roll back civil rights legislation and possibly reimpose slavery on blacks.  He even evokes the memory of William F. Buckley in a weak attempt to “prove” that the weight of historical proof is on his side.  Problem is, Cavazos is proving something that never existed.  Rand Paul never said what Cavazos thinks or claims he said.  He’s just building imaginary straw men and whackin’ them down.  Cavazos writes:

Buckley’s admission near the end of his long life that federal government intervention was needed in the matters of civil rights has hardly swayed either Paul or his father – or likely many in the so-called Tea Party movement.  Many of the cable TV talking heads theorized that Rand Paul’s beliefs concerning the Civil Rights Act will hurt his general election chances. Maybe, but it certainly will not adversely effect him among Republicans and his Tea Party kin.

Do you see how Cavazos demonizes Rand Paul, the Tea Party, and Republicans without actually explaining why they are worthy of such demonization?  It’s just implied.  What are Rand Paul’s beliefs concerning the Civil Rights Act, exactly?  Cavazos doesn’t say.  Apparently it’s not all that important.  And here’s why:

In the echo chamber that is the dinosaur media today, EVERYONE knows that the Tea Party is filled to the brim with racists.  EVERYONE in this echo chamber knows – and has known for years – that the GOP is full of angry white greedy racist homophobic xenophobic males.  Cavazos insinuates that Rand Paul is a racist, claims that the cable TV talking heads who parrot this “revelation” will hurt his chances in the general election, and then paints the Tea Party and the GOP with the same, broad racialist brush.  It is sickening.

But Cavazos isn’t finished.  Not by a long shot.  He continues:

The Tea Party effort may indeed be mostly about rolling back the reach of the federal government, but it’s also about the discomfort many in that wing of American political life feel about changing U.S. demographics, not to mention the nation’s first African-American president who so aptly symbolizes those changes. The anti-Obama signage displayed during a typical Tea Party rally along with party conventions featuring the likes of anti-Hispanic demagogue Tom Tancredo tell the story behind the story of the TP.

Translation:  If you disagree with the notion that Federal Immigration laws should be enforced, you are a racist.  If you disagree with the direction Barack Obama is taking this country, you are a racist.  Such demagoguery is unbefitting anyone who considers himself a member of the Constitutionally-protected Press.  Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!  This isn’t an editorial; it is leftist propoganda at its very WORST.

Towards the end of this propoganda piece, Cavazos writes:

Back in the day, 1964 to be exact, a Republican House leader, Bill McCulloch, rose to take offense with the Southern Democrats and other conservatives of the day who were so avidly opposing the Civil Rights Act.

“. . . [A]nd other conservatives of the day . . .”  Once again, we are expected to associate “conservative” with “racist.”  And, once again, Cavazos thinks you are a brainless idiot.

The last two paragraphs of this leftist propoganda piece constitute a painfully contrived appeal to “basic rights” for all, insinuating of course that Rand Paul (and, by extension, anyone who opposes Barack Obama, the status quo on our southern border, and the entire leftist agenda so earnestly pursued by an out-of-control Congress) is working to DENY basic rights to non-whites.  And it doesn’t matter a whit that he offers no evidence whatsoever to support this ridiculous claim.  Because in the warped world of leftist politics, it is the seriousness of the accusation that matters most, not the actual guilt of the accused.  It’s similar to the manner in which we are expected to judge leftists on the basis of their good intentions, not the results of their disastrous policies.

-Chris

R. Daniel Cavazos writes opinion pieces for the Brownsville Herald.  He wrote “Planet Paul Misses Civil Rights Message” for the Sunday, May 30, edition.  If you haven’t read it yet, please do.  Read it before you read the rest of this post.

I am so tired of reading intentional distortions, painfully twisted legalistic interpretations, and outright LIES about the Arizona anti-illegal immigration law, known throughout twitterland as #azlaw and #sb1070.  Do writers like Cavazos think that if a lie is repeated often enough, it eventually and magically morphs into truth? 

Unfortunately for Cavazos and other leftists in the dinosaur media, just as there was no philosopher’s stone for turning lead into gold, there is no way to make a lie become truth, no matter how often it is repeated. 

Cavazos rambles for four paragraphs about the Tea Party and Rand Paul, trying desperately to connect dots that don’t exist.  Rand Paul made a newbie mistake by going philosopical on what he thought was a serious question by celebrity leftist commentator Rachel Maddow, who was actually just on the hunt for a great “GOTCHA!” moment that would play well in the KOS kiddie looniverse and the rest of the leftist blogosphere.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, then you don’t know who Rachel Maddow is or what she represents to leftists everywhere.  Take some time to find out.  Google “Rachel Maddow.”  Look her up on wikipedia.  Find out for yourself if Maddow is an unbiased professional commentator who happens to be leftist in her personal private political beliefs, or an angry agenda-driven leftist propogandist with an axe to grind.

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(From The American Interest)
By Walter Russel Meade

In one of the most embarrassing news stories I’ve ever seen in the mainstream press, the New York Times has a comprehensive report on the catastrophic meltdown in the public’s interest in global warming.

The only problem: nothing in here is news, if by news you mean ‘new’.

“Climate Fears Turn To Doubts Among Britons,” blares the headline.

The story begins:

LONDON — Last month hundreds of environmental activists crammed into an auditorium here to ponder an anguished question: If the scientific consensus on climate change has not changed, why have so many people turned away from the idea that human activity is warming the planet?

Last month? The conference was last month and we are only hearing about it now, at the end of this month?

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Never thought I’d see the day.  Obama actually being grilled by reporters.  Very gratifying.  The grilling starts on the second clip.

Jake Tapper of ABCnews has acquiesced to liberal tweeps and the White House and deemed “ObamaCare” a pejorative. It will not be used anymore.

Say it ain’t so! How can this be? Pejorative is defined as having a negative connotation. It’s a disparaging remark.

The question that everyone is asking is “how can it be a pejorative if Obama’s proud of his accomplishment?”

Better yet, you would think he would want to own the rainbow farts right?

I happen to agree with AnaJay: Since “reform” defined indicates improvement, can we object to the use of the term “Health Care Reform”?

(Hat tip: Patterico)

(From The Peter Morrison Report)

Texas State Representative Debbie Riddle (R-Tomball) found herself in the middle of a firestorm the other day after she gave an interview to an obscure left wing talk show host in Houston.  An attorney named Geoff Berg hosts a weekly talk show called Partisan Gridlock on station KFPT which, just like Berg’s politics, is on the far left end of the FM dial.  KFPT is affiliated with the notoriously radical Radio Pacifica network.  For an idea of where Berg and KFPT are coming from, just look at a few of the programs on the station’s schedule:   Queer Voices, Proyecto Latino Americano, Uprising, Arab Voices,  Nuestra Palabra and Voz de la Tierra.

Berg was interviewing Rep. Riddle about her call for a crackdown on illegal immigration.  Rep. Riddle has promised to introduce legislation this year that will be very similar to the recent bill passed in Arizona; in other words, she wants a law on illegal immigration that will actually be effective.  During the interview, Berg employed a typical left wing tactic – he prefaced his question with “Without making it a racial issue…”, and then proceeded to bluntly make opposition to illegal immigration into a racial issue.

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(From IHateTheMedia.com)

We made up the “self-loathing” part, but you just know it probably got edited out of the New York Times story on black Republican candidates at the very last minute. It’s just the way liberals think.

The Times has the painful story of changing times:

Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.

The House has not had a black Republican since 2003, when J. C. Watts of Oklahoma left after eight years.

But now black Republicans are running across the country — from a largely white swath of beach communities in Florida to the suburbs of Phoenix, where an African-American candidate has raised more money than all but two of his nine (white) Republican competitors in the primary.

Party officials and the candidates themselves acknowledge that they still have uphill fights in both the primaries and the general elections, but they say that black Republicans are running with a confidence they have never had before. They credit the marriage of two factors: dissatisfaction with the Obama administration, and the proof, as provided by Mr. Obama, that blacks can get elected.

“I ran in 2008 and raised half a million dollars, and the state party didn’t support me and the national party didn’t support me,” said Allen West, who is running for Congress in Florida and is one of roughly five black candidates the party believes could win. “But we came back and we’re running and things are looking great.”

But interviews with many of the candidates suggest that they felt empowered by Mr. Obama’s election, that it made them realize that what had once seemed impossible — for a black candidate to win election with substantial white support — was not.

The New York Times is shocked – shocked, we tell you – that a black man could be a conservative and even more shocked that racist white conservatives would vote for him.

Come November, let’s see if they report that white Democrat voters are racist for voting against those black conservatives.

We won’t hold our breath.

Source: New York Times

In order to get the full effect of this post, you’ll need to download this mp3 and have it playing in the background. Come on – do it.  It only takes a couple of minutes.  As soon as the music starts playing, continue reading the post below.

According to the Associated Press, unemployment rose from 9.7 to 9.9% as a result of a strengthening economy.

The economy got what it needed in April: A burst of hiring that added a net 290,000 jobs, the biggest monthly total in four years. It showed employers are gaining confidence as the recovery takes deeper root.

But people who had given up on finding jobs are gaining confidence, too, and are now looking for work. That’s why the unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent to 9.9 percent and will likely go higher.

Unemployment edges near 10% after we have pumped hundreds of billions of dollars (money that we did not have) into the economy, an act that was supposed to keep unemplyment from topping 8%, but don’t worry – the AP reports that Happy Days Are Here Again!  Rising unemployment is a good thing, don’t you know that?

It doesn’t bother me that the AP and the rest of the establishment media are shills for the Obama Administration in particular and the Democrat party in general.  That’s not revelatory.  What bother me is that they think we’re as dumb as a box of rocks.  They really think we’re stupid.

UPDATE

Mark Levin devoted his entire opening monologue this past Friday to this contralogical statist propoganda put out by the AP and others that rising unemployment in a good thing, in the face of

• massive national debt imposed on us by the Obama regime
• the impending collapse of the Euro with Greece as the proverbal canary in the coal mine
• looming oppressive taxation to support the most massive entitlement (Obamacare) in American history
• inevitablity of some form of cap-and-tax scheme to smother the last vestiges of free market capitalism in this country
• instability of the stock market, as evidenced by the DOW’s recent 1,000 point plunge last week
• government takeover of the world’s largest auto maker
• government takeover of student loans
• government takeover of the home mortgage market
• government takeover of the financial markets

…and on and on and on.  The statists are trying to convince us that down is up, loss is gain, and bad is good.  It’s almost as though they believe words have a magical power all their own, that all one needs to do is say that such-and-such is, and -voila! – it happens.  All Obama has to do is say that rising unemployment is a good thing, and – voila! – it is.

Everybody SING:

Happy days are here again
The skies above are clear again
So let’s sing a song of cheer again
Happy days are here again!

-Chris