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	<title>Obama&#039;s Enemies List: A Growing List of Obama&#039;s Enemies &#187; Conservative Talk Radio</title>
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		<title>Union Bosses Showing Their True Colors in Wisconsin</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ From the Diaries&#8230; As the Recall Walker effort submitted their signatures to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board today (claiming 1 million signatures), Wisconsinites deserve a serious analysis of this Big Labor, big money game to force a recall election on the people of this state.  We will be shocked at what is yet to come.  Evidence is already mounting to suggest that Big Labor has used underhanded, fraudulent and illegal tactics to pad their petition numbers.  Major national labor organizations have dumped millions into Wisconsin to stop Governor Walker&#8217;s reforms and with the integrity of these petitions being questioned; they have shown their true colors The Recall Walker effort must be scrutinized to maintain any shred of confidence in the electoral system. There have been numerous reports of major deficiencies with Wisconsin’s recall process and union bosses seem to have taken full advantage &#8211; and then some. Here are just a few of the many existing reports of apparent fraud in the recall effort.  As we move through the process, these will prove to be just the tip of the iceberg. Perhaps the most egregious example was discovered when one man admitted signing a recall petition 80 times because he thought President George W. Bush cheated in the 2000 election. He seemed to have no problem rationalizing his abuse of the process and the petition carriers were happy to let him do it.  It wasn’t just one bad apple that signed multiple times.  Liberal advocacy group One Wisconsin Now actively encouraged people to sign recall petitions more than once.  Presumably, many other opponents of Governor Walker followed One Wisconsin Now’s advice in signing multiple times.  This tactic could affect thousands of signatures. There have also been many reports of people signing on behalf of others.  One woman was quoted as saying “I signed for my parents” who were outside of the country.  Another person said they saw Vicki McKenna’ s name on a recall petition.  Vicki McKenna is a conservative talk radio host and when contacted about this incident she, of course confirmed that she did not sign.  Additionally, conservative talk radio show host Mark Belling reported a Milwaukee Public School teacher admitted to her friend that she had signed 10-12 other people’s names. With all this going on, one isn’t surprised that bribery has been involved as well.  Somehow bribing people to sign a recall petition is not illegal in Wisconsin.  However, the Government Accountability Board has frowned upon it and there are efforts to make it illegal. During an Occupy Milwaukee protest, video and photos have documented what looks to be the old tactic of trading cigarettes for signatures. Furthermore, a lawmaker said a constituent told his office that a friend was offered a $10 bribe to sign a recall petition. As the process moves forward, we will see thousands more completely ineligible individuals on big labor’s petitions.  One 16 year old signed a recall petition (you have to be 18 years old to be eligible to sign a recall petition). Thankfully, her mother found out and crossed off her name from the petition.  But one good mother does not mean others are not using this tactic for additional signatures. Also, it indicates that the Recall Walker petition gatherers are not regularly asking the ages of those who sign the petitions. Big Labor is making a Big Mistake if they think conservatives and supporters of Governor Walker are going to let Mickey Mouse dictate the future of Wisconsin.   If this much fraud is being discovered haphazardly, just imagine how much fraud will be uncovered as the signatures are scrutinized. This needs to be taken seriously by every Wisconsin voter who cares about the integrity of their government.  The Government Accountability Board has been forced by a Waukesha County judge to look for fake names, illegible signatures, and duplicate signatures. Everyone should raise their voices and join the effort to prevent these tactics and the people who condone them from grabbing more power at the expense of the taxpayer. ]]></description>
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		<title>Newt, Perry: Time to Get Out?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ POW! In his typical understated New York fashion, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani went on Fox and Friends yesterday and smacked Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry for their sudden yearning for class warfare. "What the hell are you doing, Newt? I expect this from Saul Alinsky. This is what Saul Alinsky taught Barack Obama, and what you're saying is part of the reason we're in so much trouble right now," said a furious and frustrated America's mayor. Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal reports there are now second thoughts in the Gingrich camp about identifying a man who repeatedly identifies himself as a "Reagan conservative" with a 28-minute documentary attacking Mitt Romney as a big bad capitalist. Good thinking. One has to wonder: What in the world is Gingrich SuperPAC honcho Rick Tyler smoking? In a clip of an interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell, played on air by Rush Limbaugh, Tyler responds to Mitchell's question of whether or not the anti-Romney approach taken by the Gingrich campaign is not causing Gingrich himself problems -- with Republican voters. To which Tyler answers by saying that Obama's David Axelrod knows infinitely more about Romney's Bain Capital than the Gingrich camp and will let fly if Romney is the nominee. So therefore, was the implication, the attacks on Romney over Bain by the Gingrich campaign are as nothing… and necessary to boot. To say the least, we've been critical of Governor Romney in this space. He is a nice guy but not a conservative. In fact, the one thing Newt is doing right is identifying Romney as a "Massachusetts moderate." True. Absolutely. Romney is a 21st century Rockefeller Republican, just another card-carrying GOP moderate of the type that has routinely lost presidential elections or turned in historically disappointing presidencies that are nothing if not just more status quo. We've taken flack from the anti-Newt side of the corral and others for thinking of Speaker Gingrich from our experience with him in his days as a young Reaganite leader of the Conservative Opportunity Society in the House. Newt, it has been insisted to us, is not a conservative at all but a liberal… an opportunist… a man unable to stop shooting himself in the foot etc., etc. Suffice to say, this was certainly not the impression he gave in repeated dealings with him as an energetic Reaganite House leader carrying the war straight to the liberal likes of Tip O'Neill and Jim Wright. But what Mr. Tyler is saying… plus the disgraceful Romney-attack ads coming from the Gingrich SuperPAC now being played on conservative talk radio… can not only deepen that impression of the anti-Newts, it can have the end result of self-sabotaging the Gingrich campaign and his reputation beyond as a Reagan conservative. Lending the distinct and to some alarming impression that in a fit of fury at Romney (justified) the ex-Speaker is switching from being a leader of the Conservative Opportunity Society to what might be called the Gingrich/Perry Conservative Resentment Society. There are 1,000 and one ways to go after Romney's record as a "Massachusetts moderate." Flip-flopping, abortion, planned parenthood, the anti-Reagan streak when convenient, the "I was an independent and I'm not a partisan" shtick used to run for office in Massachusetts. Even under attack on Bain, Governor Romney seems too timid to make a full throated defense of economic freedom and capitalism. Indeed, Romney's very timidity in defending both himself and the core principle of conservatism that is economic freedom should serve as yet another fire bell in the night as to the lack of boldness inherent in a potential Romney administration. One of the other points Mayor Giuliani made is perhaps key to the entire campaign -- the emotional desire of both Rudy Giuliani and millions of grassroots Republicans/conservatives to raise the Reagan conservative banner. Newt was making progress on this path. But in an apparent -- and understandable -- desire to even the score with Romney over all those Iowa commercials, Gingrich himself or his advisers (that means you, Rick Tyler) are using an influx of cash to the end result of effectively trashing the Reagan legacy, not to mention the ex-Speaker's credibility as a Reagan conservative. This baloney -- and that is what it is -- should stop. The offensive Gingrich radio ads being run on conservative talk radio effectively attacking free markets and economic liberty under the guise of Bain-did-bad should be halted on the spot. Designed this way or not, they are perceived as a vivid and direct Alinsky/Obama style attack on capitalism and economic freedom. In particular, to run them on the shows of the most prominent conservative talkers in the land -- whose audiences are large precisely because the hosts are Reagan conservatives -- is akin to running ads on evangelical radio stations attacking religion. This isn't serious strategy. This is self-sabotage. The fact of the matter is that Newt Gingrich has made an excellent case for himself -- and against Romney. Rick Perry, once filled with promise, is stumbling around out there not simply because of bad debate performances but because he gave the impression with his in-state tuition answer for the children of illegals that he was at heart a closet liberal. A perception he has doubled-down on with this "vulture capital" routine, the latter doing nothing if not reminding that Mr. Perry began his career as a Democrat supporting Al Gore. It is often said that Social Security is the "third rail" of politics. Touch it, so goes the tale, and your career will die. In the wake of the Gingrich/Perry attacks on Romney it can perhaps be added that economic freedom is the third rail of conservative politics. If one touches it -- "touches" defined as being perceived as attacking economic freedom -- a conservative will find their career if not dead at least impossibly scorched. Speaker Gingrich and Governor Perry are in the process of scorching themselves and killing both their campaigns and larger Reagan conservative reputations. If this continues, perhaps the best thing all around would be if someone quietly said two words to each. Get out. ]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Huntsman&#8217;s Original Sin</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LanaGalloway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Would conservatives support a presidential bid by David Petraeus? The Iraq surge architect isn't a candidate. But for years prominent conservatives from Rep. Peter King to Andrew Breitbart have touted the soldier-scholar as a dream conservative candidate to take on Barack Obama. The question is, if Petraeus had run, would his service in the Obama administration -- first as head of U.S. Central Command, then as Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan and now as CIA Director -- have counted against him? It's safe to say conservatives wouldn't have re-purposed the old "General Betray-Us" moniker for the man who has become one of President Obama's most trusted advisors on national security and intelligence matters. By serving the president, most people understand, Petraeus has been serving the country. But serving one's country has been seen as a negative factor in former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman's bid for the Republican nomination. Huntsman served as the Obama administration's ambassador to China from August 2009 until May 2011. That service, and the way in which he ended it, is a major reason why his candidacy has floundered. Though he doesn't always talk like one, Jon Huntsman is a conservative . He combines many of the best qualities of the other Republican candidates. He has the deep policy knowledge of Newt Gingrich, the business background of Mitt Romney, and the record of conservative governance of Rick Perry. And his pro-life credentials, both personally and professionally, are as impressive as those of Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum or Ron Paul. What's more, Huntsman's foreign policy background is unmatched in the Republican field. He held foreign policy positions in the administrations of the last three Republican presidents. All this helped to make Huntsman a perfect choice to be America's top diplomat in China. And by all accounts Huntsman, who speaks Mandarin fluently, did an exemplary job in China. He earned high marks from former ambassadors, China experts, human rights activists and business leaders. U nlike other Obama administration officials, Huntsman wasn't afraid to praise Chinese dissidents or criticize the communist government, especially for its human rights violations. You might think these things would have endeared Huntsman to conservatives. And they probably would have, except that he did them as a representative of the Obama administration. If Republican primary voters know anything about Huntsman it's that he worked for Obama -- and for most that's all they need to know. As a commenter on the conservative blog freerepublic.com wrote about Huntsman's acceptability as a GOP candidate, " Nope. He worked for Obama. Nope. Nope. Nope." Huntsman realizes how his service has been received by Republican voters, telling the Washington Post last month, "I crossed a partisan line when I went to serve this administration, which as an outgrowth of my personal belief that you always put country first. People looked at that and they concluded that I had committed an egregious sin, and they then just sort of glossed right over us and went on to the next candidate." Huntsman didn't help himself by breaking one of the cardinal rules of modern American politics. Ronald Reagan popularized the 11th Commandment of politics: never speak ill of another Republican. Huntsman broke what could be called the 12th commandment of modern Republican politics: never speak well of a Democrat. But Huntsman didn't speak well of just any Democrat. He complimented the three Democrats most loathed by Republicans: Barack Obama and Bill and Hillary Clinton. When he resigned as ambassador to China, Huntsman wrote a short note to Obama, thanking him for the chance to serve. He referred to Obama as "a remarkable leader" and wrote, "it has been a great honor getting to know you." He even underlined the word "remarkable." In another letter, Huntsman had kind words for President Clinton and Secretary of State Clinton, calling the former's analysis of world events "brilliant." These private handwritten notes were obtained last April by the Daily Caller , a conservative website. The Daily Caller referred to the notes as Huntsman's "love letters" to Obama. Numerous other news outlets discussed the notes, including the major networks, newspapers, conservative talk radio and Fox News . When Sean Hannity pressed Huntsman on the letters, and in particular his use of the word "remarkable" to describe Obama's leadership, Huntsman averred that he meant Obama was a remarkable leader for appointing a Republican to such a crucial foreign policy position. No matter how he meant them, Huntsman's gracious comments stand out at a time when anti-Obama sentiment runs deep. The Daily Caller says the person who sent the letters did so on the condition that his or her identity not be disclosed. It's likely the Obama reelection campaign wanted the letters to be made public to poison Huntsman's chances of winning the Republican nomination. This is no surprise given how much Team Obama feared Huntsman's candidacy. Last spring, Obama's campaign manager, David Plouffe, told US News &#038; World Report that he considered Huntsman Obama's strongest prospective opponent, and the only one who made the president's team "shake in their boots." Other Democrats felt similarly. Twenty-five of the 100 Democratic Party insiders and strategists National Journal polled last June believed Huntsman would be the strongest candidate the Republican Party could nominate, ranking him a close second behind Mitt Romney, who received 27 votes. Since then, liberal politicians and journalists have been, as Time's Melinda Henneberger put it recently, "pelting [Huntsman] with rose petals… that they openly hope will disqualify him in the eyes of Republican Party regulars." That Huntsman became the media's favorite Republican candidate for president certainly didn't help his cause. But he disqualified himself well before then. By crossing the partisan line, Huntsman doomed his candidacy before it even began. ]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Steven Chu and ‘Common Sense’</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 23:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Energy Secretary and Nobel Laureate Dr. Steven Chu defends the banning of conventional incandescent light bulbs as a &#8216;common-sense&#8217; measure that is certainly a &#8216;win-win&#8217; for consumers. (Caution: Clicking HuffPo links may cause a loss of IQ points.) Overall, consumers will save $6 billion a year from these standards. Here&#8217;s another example of how common-sense standards like these have been working for American families for decades: since the 1970&#8242;s, we&#8217;ve made energy-saving improvements to refrigerators that now save Americans $20 billion per year, or $150 per family. Seems to me that if we went back to old refrigerators (@ $20 B) and light bulbs (@ $6 B) and got rid of the Department of Energy (@ $30+ B), we&#8217;d be money ahead. My skepticism has a basis in experience, Mr. Secretary: thanks to the same kind of ‘common-sense standard’, my EPA-mandated 1.6 gallon-per-flush toilet doesn&#8217;t do its job properly. Chances are those efficient refrigerators would have found their way into the marketplace without government interference. And as with CAFE standards and “light trucks” a/k/a SUVs, the marketplace will find a way to circumvent the will of Washington when it runs contrary to their wishes and desires. While we&#8217;re on the topic of common sense, the following photo and caption can be found at Dr. Chu&#8217;s Facebook page : Dr. Chu&#8217;s observation doesn&#8217;t stand up to the rigorous peer-review of his Facebook readers, several of whom pointed out that UPS has employed white fiberglas roofs on their delivery vans for years, and they do it for purposes of lighting , not climate change. Duh. Also, note that UPS&#8217;s energy saving move was not mandated by government, but by free businessmen exercising common sense. In arguing against the House measure to bring back the Edison bulb, Dr. Chu said: &#8220;We are taking away a choice that continues to let people waste their own money.&#8221; The reason that attitude from a high government official causes heartburn from free-marketers like me is that it tends to be contagious. The DOE has already decided that it&#8217;s government&#8217;s place to deny our wasting money on passenger vehicles with mileage under 62 miles per gallon &#8212; what&#8217;s next? For the time being, the government &#8220;continues to let people waste their own money&#8221; on a number of items that &#8220;Progressives&#8221; find objectionable, among them: Personal firearms Private schools Conservative talk radio Grandma&#8217;s chemotherapy How long until &#8220;common-sense standards&#8221; put an end to this waste? Cross-posted at stevemaley.com . Follow @VladimirRS ]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans on Uneasy Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There is a sense of unease about the cast and storyline of the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012. Something is off. Things have started too early. Or maybe they haven’t started yet. "No one" is running. Too many candidates are on or near the stage. Things just are not right. This discomfort is disappointing. Obama is vulnerable. He has governed poorly. Since his $800 billion stimulus, another 2 million Americans have lost their jobs. Inflation looms. His government takeover of health care has become less popular since Nancy Pelosi passed it and allowed Americans to read the 2,500 pages of small print. The 2010 Tea Party/Republican landslides should have signaled victory in 2012. Republicans gained 63 House members, six senators, six governorships, and 715 state legislators (taking into account the 25 party switchers from the Democratic side). Next: the presidency, for sure. And yet… Herein, four thoughts on why we seem adrift in what should be the dash to victory. First, the once grand post-FDR tradition of GOP nomination fights is largely behind us. The contest between the East Coast establishment and the conservative movement is no longer played out every four years. Wendell Willkie and Thomas Dewey won for the establishment in 1940, 1944, and 1948. War hero and moderate Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 stopped Robert Taft from being the man who won the party for the right. In 1960, Nixon was only sort of "us," but Rockefeller was certainly "them." Goldwater broke through as an unabashed conservative in 1964, but failed to win the presidency. Nixon again beat Rockefeller Republicanism in 1968. The establishment held off Reagan in 1976, but Reagan won in 1980 and George H. W. Bush won in 1988 as Patroclus wearing Reagan’s armor. In 2000, George W. Bush was the conservative alternative to "establishment friendly" John McCain. And in 2008, the conservative vote splintered among several candidates, with many social conservatives following the pied piper of Arkansas, Gov. Mike Huckabee, off the playing field and into irrelevancy long enough for McCain to win a nomination he could not have won in a two-way, right vs. establishment campaign. For almost half a century, the liberal establishment vs. conservative battle lines within the Republican Party, like the old Cold War face-off with the Soviet Union, provided clarity. We knew there were two teams. Conservatives knew what was expected of them. Now, every candidate is running as a Reagan Republican. The Rockefeller wing cannot win a primary in Delaware against a witch. Second, there are new faces and names in Republican leadership. Since 1952, when Ike ran with Nixon, through 2004, when George W. Bush won reelection, there was only one election -- 1964 -- when the Republican ticket did not include a Nixon, a Bush, or a Dole. The list of presidential and vice-presidential candidates reads like the Monty Python skit about Spam, Eggs, Bacon, and Spam -- 1952 and 1956: Ike and Nixon; 1960: Nixon and Lodge; 1968 and 1972: Nixon and Agnew; 1976: Ford and Dole; 1980 and 1984: Reagan and Bush; 1988 and 1992: Bush and Quayle; 1996: Dole and Kemp; 2000 and 2004: Bush and Cheney. In the days]]></description>
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		<title>Wisconsin Left Gears Up As Politico Game Exposed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 20:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Here they come. The Left is issuing secret marching orders for Wisconsin. And the same Politico "reporter" who "covered" the recent judge race won by a conservative turns out to be the author of Politico 's bogus talk radio pay to play stories on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck. First, the leaked marching orders for Wisconsin. Democracy for America's Jim Dean, brother of Howard, says the Left's push to recall six Wisconsin Republican Senators "is almost ready to go and it's the biggest campaign we've ever run." In an e-mail obtained by The American Spectator , Dean is vowing he will have "thousands of volunteers from across the country to make calls to voters in Wisconsin" in what he calls "the biggest campaign we've ever run." The calls will be made in conjunction with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC). In addition to flooding Wisconsin with calls from out-of-state activists, the campaign will consists of "hard-hitting television, radio and web ads" targeting the six Republican state senators for "their votes to destroy unions and middle-class families." There will also be a "massive canvassing operation that will knock on 137,523 doors in 40 days." Similar campaigns, Dean reveals, are being geared up in "New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio and all across the country." But Wisconsin is first. And…oh yes…he's asking if recipients will send ten bucks. What continues to be striking here is that effort to bring Wisconsin's middle-class tax payers to their knees and politically club them into submission. Forcing them to pay for outrageous health care and benefit packages for public employees they can't even afford for themselves is the focus not simply of the Wisconsin Left but the American Left. Every last resource from all across the country is being poured into this effort to recall six Wisconsin state senators who have valiantly tried to protect their very middle class constituents from the equivalent of highway robbery. Now part two: Wisconsin, talk radio and understanding how the game works with the Left and their liberal media allies. Remember this from the Daily Caller 's Jeff Poor? Poor was writing about Politico's Kenneth P. Vogel and his so-called talk radio pay-to-play stories. Said Poor: Writing a piece highly critical of conservative talk radio hosts like Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh, then taking that message to the debut of Keith Olbermann's reincarnation on former Vice President Al Gore's Current TV doesn't give yourself away as a lefty -- but it certainly doesn't help with one's perception of objectivity. Exactly. So after going through the substance of the leaked e-mail rallying the Left to Wisconsin, a thought occurred, and Mr. Google went to work. When a conservative judge was initially thought to have lost a campaign for re-election earlier this year in Wisconsin, amid all the upset with Governor Scott Walker and public employee unions, this gloating headline ( "Conservative judge behind in Wisconsin" ) appeared in Politico . When the story turned out not to be true, and a recount confirmed the conservative judge had in fact won, this story appeared in Politico . The headline: "David Prosser confirmed winner in Wis. Judge race." In other words, Politico headlined a prospective Prosser loss as that of a "conservative judge." When the results were finally in, the victory was headlined not as that of a "conservative judge." Suddenly the headline is about a personal win for "David Prosser." And the plot thickens. Who is it that wrote the first story in Politico with the gloating "conservative judge behind" headline? You got it. That would be one "Kenneth P. Vogel." That's right. The same Kenneth P. Vogel whose "lefty" tendencies the Daily Caller 's Jeff Poor was musing about.]]></description>
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		<title>David Frum, Politico: Trash Talk Radio for Cash?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DixiePeters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Not since I watched Captain Midnight selling Ovaltine back there in the 1950s -- blessedly preserved for eternity on YouTube (who knew??) -- have I been so shocked. Shocked! Oh the agony of having to learn as a child that Captain Midnight -- Captain Midnight!!! -- was getting paid to sell Ovaltine! I tell you…trauma city. The playpen was a mess for weeks! Now -- hold on to your playpen, conservative kiddies. Yesterday Politico ran a story accusing conservative talk radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Glenn Beck of selling endorsements of conservative organizations. The groups in question are the Ovaltine of conservative adulthood: The Heritage Foundation, Americans for Prosperity, and Freedom Works. David Frum piled on, writing this up for The Week]]></description>
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		<title>Talk Radio Hosts Targeted in Ratings Scandal?</title>
		<link>http://www.obamashitlist.com/2011/05/31/talk-radio-hosts-targeted-in-ratings-scandal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AlvarezDana</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ " You say you want a revolution Well, you know We all want to change the world ." -- Revolution , by The Beatles "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." -- Mark Twain IT WAS THE MOST downloaded app when it was released in December of 2010. For two days. Apple scored it #1 for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad maniacs. Who was moving these kind of numbers? What force of nature was blowing through the tech world with the force of a category five hurricane? Say what? You guess Lady Gaga? Guess again. The center of all this attention was none other than -- Rush Limbaugh. That's right. The man liberal critics are trying to convince you is losing his radio audience is in fact at the head of a conservative radio revolution that is not only humiliating liberals all over again, this time he's doing it right under their noses. As befits those who could never master the basics of talk radio (can you say Air America ?) this time liberals haven't even begun to scratch their heads at what's happening because they haven't yet realized that it is happening. And well beyond the story of a technological revolution led by talk radio, a question has now surfaced that raises the possibility liberal opponents have deliberately tried to fix radio ratings. Why? To give the decidedly false impression conservative talk radio is losing audience. First, the Radio Revolution. Limbaugh and conservative talkers Sean Hannity and Mark Levin are not only not losing their audience, as low-tech (or is that no-tech?) political critics are braying, the three are so far ahead of the communications curve that their liberal blogger and news outlet political foes are literally clueless even as the revolution unfolds right in front of them. There is a stunning story here, a new one and a big one. How best to explain? Let's start by taking a look at this classic cartoon short (34 seconds) of the legendary Wile E. Coyote, Super Genius as he tries yet again to do in his mortal enemy The Road Runner. Wile has gone to extraordinary lengths to accomplish his task of obliterating Road Runner. A blueprint. Huge rock, small rock. Bait. Rope. Leverage angles. Telescope to see when his target approaches. And just as Road Runner appears -- the rope is pulled, the small rock gives way -- and the big rock falls backwards, flattening Wile. The Road Runner flashes by with his trademark greeting: Beep beep! In short if slightly exaggerated form, this cartoon captures exactly what has happened here. With Rush, Sean and Mark playing the always sought after but never caught Road Runner. The real story no one has yet understood began to surface with this curious February posting over at the liberal bastion the Daily Beast (aka Tina Brown town), where Limbaugh and conservative talk-radio foe John Avlon (Avlon is but the latest incarnation of Wile Coyote -- so many liberals have tried to sandbag Rush Limbaugh over the last 22 years it's probably just best to call them all by the same name) surfaced the idea that conservative talk radio was "dying."]]></description>
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		<title>Ford versus Reagan: The Sequel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 15:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ "But several of his characteristics seemed to rule him out as a serious challenger. One was his penchant for offering simplistic solutions to hideously complex problems." ]]></description>
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		<title>Between Mubarak and a Hard Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ There is a wonderful scene in Ferris Bueller's Day Off when Ferris, played perfectly by Matthew Broderick, tells us that he's missing his class on European Socialism by taking a day off. But what does that matter? (as he asks). "I'm not a socialist. I'm not European. I don't plan to be European." (Paraphrasing here.) I am reminded of John Hughes' deathless lines as I watch the breathless, endless coverage of the recent turmoil in Egypt on TV. I don't doubt that it's terribly important. I just don't see the story the way it's being played on TV and here's why. Let's take it point by point. No matter how this turns out, it's not going to be good for America. The people in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez demonstrating against Mubarak are not Jefferson, Madison, and Washington. They are not liberal democrats and believers in universal human rights. In the final analysis, they are not going to be pals of the United States or our only reliable friend in the area, Israel. Dwight Eisenhower, a genuinely great President, stood up boldly against Israeli, French, and British seizure of the Suez Canal in an effort to befriend Egypt. Gamal Abdel Nasser and his Egyptians responded by kicking us in the teeth every chance they could. If there has been a fundamental change in the Egyptians' attitudes towards the U.S., it has been subtle indeed. Maybe too subtle to be detected. Yes, indeed, all of these demonstrations are a sign of a new dawn in the Mideast. But it's a lot like the old dawn, except for a thick haze of Iranian smoke. Has no one noticed that in all of the recent political changes in the Arab states, power going to persons largely sympathetic to Iran is a constant? Has anyone noticed how Mohamed ElBaradei endlessly carried water for Iran about nuclear arms when he was at the UN supposedly trying to stop nuke proliferation? This is not going to end well for the U.S. and the air of breathless (that word again, sorry!) expectation from the newscasters that Egypt and the whole Mideast will turn out to be like Minnesota simply has no precedent in history. Next, how is it that hardly anyone is pointing out except in conservative talk radio that when there was a real democratic outpouring in the streets of Iran, an attempted revolution against the dictatorship of the Holocaust-denying, America-hating, nuclear weapons–seeking Ahmadinejad in Iran, and Iran suppressed it with gunfire, Barack Obama said not a word. He totally ignored the young people trying to make Iran into a democracy. (Iran is the one place in the Mideast besides Israel where there are a lot of pro-American young people.) He tried to kiss up to Ahmadinejad with the blood of pro-democracy youth. But when our (sort of) pal in Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, is under siege, Obama treats him like a whipping boy. This is the classic liberal ploy of appeasing our enemies and snubbing our friends. It is foolish and does not look nice. It says very bad things about us as a people and nation. It is just plain craven. Third, Egypt has about 80 million people. Let's say that at a maximum, there have been 800,000 or even 1,800,000 demonstrators against Mubarak (whom I totally believe is not a nice guy). That means we have the views of one or two per cent that Mubarak should go. How do the other 98 or 99 per cent feel? We don't know. But why should a large group of demonstrators be able to control the electoral process when they are a tiny fraction of the population? The Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in 1917 with a tiny sliver of the urban population. The results were catastrophic. The same thing happened in France in its Revolution. Again, disastrous results. I would love to see an example of when an urban mass demonstration led to a better government (especially in the Mideast, but anywhere, for that matter). Should a mass gathering of the Tea Party be allowed to oust Mr. Obama? No, there have to be procedures for the people to choose for the government to have legitimacy, and what we are seeing in Cairo looks more like a coup than an orderly process for getting the people's will about power. (We're not going to like it when we do get it, by the way.) By the way, I keep seeing that there is fantastic unemployment in Egypt and that's what the crowds want to change. How are they going to do that? How will a new government get work for these people? Why are they not already sought out as low wage workers for manufacturing or textiles in our global economy? Something is going on in Egypt and the whole Arab world mind set relative to work and that something is not succeeding. Will kicking out Mubarak change that? If so, how? Good luck to Egypt. Good luck to the people who cover Egypt for CNN and everyone else. As for me, it just looks like a sad story I have seen before, and I have work to do to feed my family. My ancestors left Egypt long ago, and I'm not going back. Not in any way. ]]></description>
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