Morality is not determined by the church you attend nor the faith you embrace. It is determined by the quality of your character and the positive impact you have on those you meet along your journey
Saturday, June 04, 2011
While we were all watching Palin drive cars off of the road with her giant bus, Obama was saving the auto industry.
I bet Obama has no problem describing what Paul Revere did back in 1775 either.
It would be great to stage a debate on American history 101.
I can not wait to hear Palin's damage control.
I suspect the average person seeing local news will merely see the patriotic Palin family went on vacation touring historical sites. They won't know the family bailed.
Let's see: Driving Gas-guzzling bus, polluting air, requiring police escort to help bus maneuver in and out of heavy traffic(depending on that big old government, Sarah), leaving fans out of the loop while they wait 9 hours to see her.
And all she needed to do was read and study and post a message. Raising awareness is an expensive business. Notice that she didn't have any web address on that bus that referred people to a charity that helps get disadvantaged kids to all these great sites, or that promotes reading, or that helps libraries, etc. NO, she had her PAC address on there to DONATE to her.
It is just really hard to imagine there isn't some nights where Obama, in his nightly prayers, says "Dear Lord...thank You SO much for Sarah Palin, and how good she makes everyone around her look by comparison".
Sarah does not give shit about America. She sold her soul. I see her as a big threat to America. Her brain is about Give me more money...me me me me. Rupert is funding her, and now she does not know how to deal with the cash, so she is buying properties all over America to hide the cash. What a big fraud.
While our smart president is busy solving our problems behind the scene.
Sarah is a biggest Fraud in the American political history.
Media Fails again, Sarah is proving to them that they can not catch her fraudlent doings.
USA Journalism indeed is about ratings, and butt chasing Sarah's bus? Priceless.
"The US$5 billion sale added the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch's news empire, which already included Fox News Channel, financial network unit and London's The Times, and locally within New York, the New York Post, along with Fox flagship station WNYW (Channel 5) and MyNetworkTV flagship WWOR (Channel 9).[23]
On December 13, 2007, shareholders representing more than 60 percent of Dow Jones's voting stock approved the company's acquisition by News Corp.[24]"
My words Besides they both Sarah and Jornalists are hired by the same boss Rupert the Australian immigrant who got his US citizenship on 4th Sept 1985, for one reason" to own the American media outlets. Here read it for yourselves:
"Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (English pronunciation: /ˈruːpɚt ˈmɚdɑk/; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-American media mogul and the Chairman, and CEO of News Corporation. Beginning with one newspaper in Adelaide, Murdoch acquired and started other publications in his native Australia before expanding News Corp. into the United Kingdom, United States and Asian media markets. Although it was in Australia in the late 1950s that he first dabbled in television, he later sold these assets, and News Corp's Australian current media interests (still mainly in print) are restricted by cross-media ownership rules. Murdoch's first permanent foray into TV was in the USA, where he created Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986. In the 2000s, he became a leading investor in satellite television, the film industry and the Internet, and purchased a leading American newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.
Rupert Murdoch was listed three times in the Time 100 as one among the most influential people in the world. He is ranked 13th most powerful person in the world in the 2010 Forbes' The World's Most Powerful People list.[4] With a net worth of US$6.3 billion, he is ranked 117th wealthiest person in the world.[5]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch who runs almost all the USA media with right wingers.
If you wonder why media is not investigating Sarah? Rupert= Media, Media = Palin. Sarah Palin is part of media. Sarah bashing media is a cover up. Here is a story about the boss of the media and her boss Rupert Murdoch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch "Murdoch made his first acquisition in the United States in 1973, when he purchased the San Antonio Express-News. Soon afterwards, he founded Star, a supermarket tabloid, and in 1976, he purchased the New York Post. On 4 September 1985, Murdoch became a naturalised citizen to satisfy the legal requirement that only US citizens were permitted to own American television stations. Also in 1985, Murdoch purchased the 20th Century Fox movie studio. In 1986, Murdoch purchased six television stations owned by Metromedia. These stations would form the nucleus of the Fox Broadcasting Company, which was founded on 9 October 1986. In 1987, in Australia he bought The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, the company that his father had once managed. By 1991, his Australian-based News Corp. had worked up huge debts (much from Sky TV in the UK), forcing Murdoch to sell many of the American magazine interests he had acquired in the mid-1980s.
In 1995, Murdoch's Fox Network became the object of scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when it was alleged that News Ltd.'s Australian base made Murdoch's ownership of Fox illegal. However, the FCC ruled in Murdoch's favor, stating that his ownership of Fox was in the best interests of the public. That same year, Murdoch announced a deal with MCI Communications to develop a major news website and magazine, The Weekly Standard. Also that year, News Corp. launched the Foxtel pay television network in Australia in partnership with Telstra.
In 1996, Murdoch decided to enter the cable news market with the Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news television station. Following its launch, Fox News consistently eroded CNN's market share and eventually became the most-watched cable news channel. Ratings studies released in the fourth quarter of 2004 showed that the network was responsible for nine of the top ten programs in the "Cable News" category at that time. Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner (owner of CNN) are long-standing rivals.
In late 2003, Murdoch acquired a 34 percent stake in Hughes Electronics, the operator of the largest American satellite TV system, DirecTV, from General Motors for $6 billion (USD).
In 2004, Murdoch announced that he was moving News Corp.'s headquarters from Adelaide, Australia to the United States. Choosing a US domicile was designed to ensure that American fund managers could purchase shares in the company, since many were deciding not to buy shares in non-US companies. Some analysts believed that News Corp.'s Australian domicile was leading to the company being undervalued compared with its peers." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
This is a short film from 1947. Sadly, it's relevant today. 'Admonishes Americans that they will lose their country if they let fanaticism and hatred turn them into "suckers."' http://www.archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947
This man accomplishes more while drinking his morning coffee than Sarah ever did in her entire red bull guzzling career.
How's she ever going to walk back her warped vision of history, or lets say, common sense challenged. The woman has two blackberrys, how long would it take to look something up and jot notes, oh on her palm, her forehead, or any other idle waste of flesh?
My cat has better staff than she does, and more brains.
Ted Powell at 8:09 am Thank-you so much for posting that link.I had seen that film years ago and forgotten the title. I had been trying to find it again since the rise of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck and, of course , Palin. I hope everyone takes the time to watch it.
Thanks for highlighting the President's mastery of bringing this nation out of the hole he inherited. Since day one, he's been getting some things done ~ and it is important that the acknowledgement of his administration's accomplishments (on so many fronts) breaks through the noise of the 24 hr soundbites...
SOMEONE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA FINALLY HAS THE BALLS TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS. THIS SHOULD BE SPREAD FAR AND WIDE. HATS OFF TO GREG SARGENT:
Please make it stop By Greg Sargent http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/please-make-it-stop/2011/03/03/AGPwaFIH_blog.html Everyone has already had a grand old time mocking this video of Sarah Palin bungling her Paul Revere history, but I actually think it amounts to quite an eloquent statement. It’s as eloquent an argument as anyone could make that this woman really should not be treated by any of us as anything resembling a presidential candidate until it’s absolutely necessary — which is to say, until she actually runs for president.
And as such, it should be spread as widely as possible:
Palin said:
“He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and, um, makin’ sure as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free.”
Come on, this is just crazy. Palin is not in this race, and even if she does run, most credible observers agree that she will be a weak candidate. Just imagine this kind of thing happening with regularity on the campaign trail. The GOP establishment doesn’t want her to run. If polls are to be believed, not even her own supporters want her to run. The other day, her camp actually leaked word that she would not be meeting with party leaders in key primary states in order to encourage a sense that she’s planning an unconventional presidential campaign! To put it mildly, that's not exactly credible. The bus tour itself has no coherent rationale whatsoever. She launched it, transparently, after media interest in her had bottomed out. Palin is openly mocking reporters who are treating it as real news. Until she actually declares her candidacy, mark this whole thing down as a complete con job.
I’m with Justin Elliott on this: The sight of scores of reporters chasing after Palin’s shiny new bus is one of the most dispiriting media displays we’ve seen in a very long time. Even worse, it’s happening barely days after the political media got whipsawed badly by Donald Trump’s birther hucksterism!
Please make it stop. Spread this video far and wide.
Alaska is actually responsible for 2.6 percent of the nation's total energy production, ranking 12th among the states, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It is more like 11 percent of the nation's total crude oil production, second behind Texas, the EIA reports
Palin's oil policy is coming under attack from none other than her former lieutenant governor, Republican Sean Parnell, an ex-legislator and oil company lobbyist whom Palin elevated to governor when she resigned. Parnell and Republican legislators maintain that the oil tax increase Palin championed, called Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share, is seriously hindering further development of the oil and gas industry here and is hurting the state's economy.
Republican leaders of the Alaska Legislature are also critical of Palin's strategy for pursuing a natural gas pipeline to the Lower 48, saying it is a fantasy costing the state up to a $500 million subsidy
NICE TO FINALLY SEE A PRESS PILE-ON ON PALIN'S NEGATIVES, ESPECIALLY ADN'S POLL NUMBERS: http://www.adn.com/2011/06/04/1899655/palin-flaunts-alaska-alaskans.html
Politico: Palin makes Bachmann look like Longfellow
Forbes: This certainly gives us an entirely new point of view to consider when examining our nation’s founding.
Mediaite: Palin’s version wasn’t exactly the official History Channel rendition of the tale...
ABC: Perhaps this week's lesson in the annals of American history was necessary for Sarah Palin.
Fox News has the video up leading their site, but no text or commentary. Perhaps they're speechless.
For example, Rolling Thunder is about sacrifice and service -- the remembrance of men and women in the military who might be forgotten if not for the mighty motorcycle caravan in DC on Memorial Day.
What the press should have asked is what moral right Palin has to partake in that when her sense of public service is largely defined by resigning as governor of Alaska halfway through her term so that she could sign up to host a reality TV show for TLC and and become an analyst for Fox News. The price tag for each: $1 million. And she couldn't even wait to finish out her term before reaching for that easy money.
But there she was ready for her closeup last weekend, Mr. DeMille, in her Harley-Davidson helmet. Vroom, vroom. Knowing her, she probably got a product placement fee for wearing it.
And I am too outraged by her talk of this phony bus trip as an attempt to "remind" Americans of our shared history to comment on it at length without my head exploding.
Some of us, Sarah, actually studied American history in school instead of hopscotching from college to college until we could find one that would give us a degree. A 30-minute stop at a fort or battlefield before grabbing an ice cream cone, a couple of photo ops and heading for an air conditioned bus or hotel suite isn't exactly an act of deep historical engagement. But even our shared history is seen as only another prop for you, isn't it?
There have been a few voices calling Palin's trip out for what it is, an exercise in political calculation, brand inflation and narcissism. Joe Scarborough did that Tuesday, and good for him, because he was one of the few doing so on cable TV.
Good post. Think we need to get a grip.
ReplyDeleteGryphen has a great sense of humor.
ReplyDeleteIt would be great to stage a debate on American history 101.
I can not wait to hear Palin's damage control.
I suspect the average person seeing local news will merely see the patriotic Palin family went on vacation touring historical sites. They won't know the family bailed.
Let's see: Driving Gas-guzzling bus, polluting air, requiring police escort to help bus maneuver in and out of heavy traffic(depending on that big old government, Sarah), leaving fans out of the loop while they wait 9 hours to see her.
ReplyDeleteAnd all she needed to do was read and study and post a message. Raising awareness is an expensive business. Notice that she didn't have any web address on that bus that referred people to a charity that helps get disadvantaged kids to all these great sites, or that promotes reading, or that helps libraries, etc. NO, she had her PAC address on there to DONATE to her.
George Romney (Mitt's dad) was CEO of American Motors.
ReplyDeleteMitt was AGAINST the auto bailout.. even though a lot of the family money came from it.
Michigan should LOVE Mittens.
It is just really hard to imagine there isn't some nights where Obama, in his nightly prayers, says "Dear Lord...thank You SO much for Sarah Palin, and how good she makes everyone around her look by comparison".
ReplyDeleteGOP sold America off: Media fails.
ReplyDeleteSarah does not give shit about America. She sold her soul. I see her as a big threat to America.
Her brain is about
Give me more money...me me me me.
Rupert is funding her, and now she does not know how to deal with the cash, so she is buying properties all over America to hide the cash. What a big fraud.
While our smart president is busy solving our problems behind the scene.
Sarah is a biggest Fraud in the American political history.
Media Fails again, Sarah is proving to them that they can not catch her fraudlent doings.
USA Journalism indeed is about ratings, and butt chasing Sarah's bus? Priceless.
"The US$5 billion sale added the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch's news empire, which already included Fox News Channel, financial network unit and London's The Times, and locally within New York, the New York Post, along with Fox flagship station WNYW (Channel 5) and MyNetworkTV flagship WWOR (Channel 9).[23]
On December 13, 2007, shareholders representing more than 60 percent of Dow Jones's voting stock approved the company's acquisition by News Corp.[24]"
My words
Besides they both Sarah and Jornalists are hired by the same boss Rupert the Australian immigrant who got his US citizenship on 4th Sept 1985, for one reason" to own the American media outlets.
Here read it for yourselves:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wall_Street_Journal
"Keith Rupert Murdoch, AC, KSG (English pronunciation: /ˈruːpɚt ˈmɚdɑk/; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-American media mogul and the Chairman, and CEO of News Corporation.
Beginning with one newspaper in Adelaide, Murdoch acquired and started other publications in his native Australia before expanding News Corp. into the United Kingdom, United States and Asian media markets. Although it was in Australia in the late 1950s that he first dabbled in television, he later sold these assets, and News Corp's Australian current media interests (still mainly in print) are restricted by cross-media ownership rules. Murdoch's first permanent foray into TV was in the USA, where he created Fox Broadcasting Company in 1986. In the 2000s, he became a leading investor in satellite television, the film industry and the Internet, and purchased a leading American newspaper, The Wall Street Journal.
Rupert Murdoch was listed three times in the Time 100 as one among the most influential people in the world. He is ranked 13th most powerful person in the world in the 2010 Forbes' The World's Most Powerful People list.[4] With a net worth of US$6.3 billion, he is ranked 117th wealthiest person in the world.[5]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
Rupert Murdoch who runs almost all the USA media with right wingers.
Shame shame
If you wonder why media is not investigating Sarah? Rupert= Media, Media = Palin.
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin is part of media. Sarah bashing media is a cover up. Here is a story about the boss of the media and her boss Rupert Murdoch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
"Murdoch made his first acquisition in the United States in 1973, when he purchased the San Antonio Express-News. Soon afterwards, he founded Star, a supermarket tabloid, and in 1976, he purchased the New York Post. On 4 September 1985, Murdoch became a naturalised citizen to satisfy the legal requirement that only US citizens were permitted to own American television stations. Also in 1985, Murdoch purchased the 20th Century Fox movie studio. In 1986, Murdoch purchased six television stations owned by Metromedia. These stations would form the nucleus of the Fox Broadcasting Company, which was founded on 9 October 1986. In 1987, in Australia he bought The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, the company that his father had once managed. By 1991, his Australian-based News Corp. had worked up huge debts (much from Sky TV in the UK), forcing Murdoch to sell many of the American magazine interests he had acquired in the mid-1980s.
In 1995, Murdoch's Fox Network became the object of scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), when it was alleged that News Ltd.'s Australian base made Murdoch's ownership of Fox illegal. However, the FCC ruled in Murdoch's favor, stating that his ownership of Fox was in the best interests of the public. That same year, Murdoch announced a deal with MCI Communications to develop a major news website and magazine, The Weekly Standard. Also that year, News Corp. launched the Foxtel pay television network in Australia in partnership with Telstra.
In 1996, Murdoch decided to enter the cable news market with the Fox News Channel, a 24-hour cable news television station. Following its launch, Fox News consistently eroded CNN's market share and eventually became the most-watched cable news channel. Ratings studies released in the fourth quarter of 2004 showed that the network was responsible for nine of the top ten programs in the "Cable News" category at that time. Rupert Murdoch and Ted Turner (owner of CNN) are long-standing rivals.
In late 2003, Murdoch acquired a 34 percent stake in Hughes Electronics, the operator of the largest American satellite TV system, DirecTV, from General Motors for $6 billion (USD).
In 2004, Murdoch announced that he was moving News Corp.'s headquarters from Adelaide, Australia to the United States. Choosing a US domicile was designed to ensure that American fund managers could purchase shares in the company, since many were deciding not to buy shares in non-US companies. Some analysts believed that News Corp.'s Australian domicile was leading to the company being undervalued compared with its peers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rupert_Murdoch
Sarah Palin is dangerous, just think if she had a brain how dangerous she would really be.
ReplyDeleteThis is a short film from 1947. Sadly, it's relevant today.
ReplyDelete'Admonishes Americans that they will lose their country if they let fanaticism and hatred turn them into "suckers."'
http://www.archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947
This man accomplishes more while drinking his morning coffee than Sarah ever did in her entire red bull guzzling career.
ReplyDeleteHow's she ever going to walk back her warped vision of history, or lets say, common sense challenged. The woman has two blackberrys, how long would it take to look something up and jot notes, oh on her palm, her forehead, or any other idle waste of flesh?
My cat has better staff than she does, and more brains.
Frightening to see how Obama is destroying our country. hehehe
ReplyDeleteTed Powell at 8:09 am Thank-you so much for posting that link.I had seen that film years ago and forgotten the title. I had been trying to find it again since the rise of the Tea Party, Glenn Beck and, of course , Palin. I hope everyone takes the time to watch it.
ReplyDeleteThanks for highlighting the President's mastery of bringing this nation out of the hole he inherited. Since day one, he's been getting some things done ~ and it is important that the acknowledgement of his administration's accomplishments (on so many fronts) breaks through the noise of the 24 hr soundbites...
ReplyDelete:)
SOMEONE IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA FINALLY HAS THE BALLS TO TELL IT LIKE IT IS. THIS SHOULD BE SPREAD FAR AND WIDE. HATS OFF TO GREG SARGENT:
ReplyDeletePlease make it stop
By Greg Sargent
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/post/please-make-it-stop/2011/03/03/AGPwaFIH_blog.html
Everyone has already had a grand old time mocking this video of Sarah Palin bungling her Paul Revere history, but I actually think it amounts to quite an eloquent statement. It’s as eloquent an argument as anyone could make that this woman really should not be treated by any of us as anything resembling a presidential candidate until it’s absolutely necessary — which is to say, until she actually runs for president.
And as such, it should be spread as widely as possible:
Palin said:
“He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t gonna be takin’ away our arms, uh, by ringin’ those bells and, um, makin’ sure as he’s ridin’ his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that, uh, we were gonna be secure and we were gonna be free.”
Come on, this is just crazy. Palin is not in this race, and even if she does run, most credible observers agree that she will be a weak candidate. Just imagine this kind of thing happening with regularity on the campaign trail. The GOP establishment doesn’t want her to run. If polls are to be believed, not even her own supporters want her to run. The other day, her camp actually leaked word that she would not be meeting with party leaders in key primary states in order to encourage a sense that she’s planning an unconventional presidential campaign! To put it mildly, that's not exactly credible. The bus tour itself has no coherent rationale whatsoever. She launched it, transparently, after media interest in her had bottomed out. Palin is openly mocking reporters who are treating it as real news. Until she actually declares her candidacy, mark this whole thing down as a complete con job.
I’m with Justin Elliott on this: The sight of scores of reporters chasing after Palin’s shiny new bus is one of the most dispiriting media displays we’ve seen in a very long time. Even worse, it’s happening barely days after the political media got whipsawed badly by Donald Trump’s birther hucksterism!
Please make it stop. Spread this video far and wide.
By Greg Sargent | 03:33 PM ET, 06/03/2011
Alaska is actually responsible for 2.6 percent of the nation's total energy production, ranking 12th among the states, according to the most recent figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. It is more like 11 percent of the nation's total crude oil production, second behind Texas, the EIA reports
ReplyDeletePalin's oil policy is coming under attack from none other than her former lieutenant governor, Republican Sean Parnell, an ex-legislator and oil company lobbyist whom Palin elevated to governor when she resigned. Parnell and Republican legislators maintain that the oil tax increase Palin championed, called Alaska's Clear and Equitable Share, is seriously hindering further development of the oil and gas industry here and is hurting the state's economy.
Republican leaders of the Alaska Legislature are also critical of Palin's strategy for pursuing a natural gas pipeline to the Lower 48, saying it is a fantasy costing the state up to a $500 million subsidy
Read more: http://www.adn.com/2011/06/04/1899655/palin-flaunts-alaska-alaskans.html#ixzz1ONk3js5A
NICE TO FINALLY SEE A PRESS PILE-ON ON PALIN'S NEGATIVES, ESPECIALLY ADN'S POLL NUMBERS:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.adn.com/2011/06/04/1899655/palin-flaunts-alaska-alaskans.html
Politico: Palin makes Bachmann look like Longfellow
Forbes: This certainly gives us an entirely new point of view to consider when examining our nation’s founding.
Mediaite: Palin’s version wasn’t exactly the official History Channel rendition of the tale...
ABC: Perhaps this week's lesson in the annals of American history was necessary for Sarah Palin.
Fox News has the video up leading their site, but no text or commentary. Perhaps they're speechless.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/06/sarah-palin-claims-paul-revere-warned-the-british-that-they-werent-gonna-be-takin-away-our-arms.html?cid=6a00d8341c630a53ef014e88e2ddcb970d
ANOTHER PALIN (AND MEDIA) EXPOSITION THAT DESERVES PROMOTION:
ReplyDeletePalin, Trump, pizza - and a debased media in tow
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/zontv/2011/05/palintrump_new_political_low_i.html#more
For example, Rolling Thunder is about sacrifice and service -- the remembrance of men and women in the military who might be forgotten if not for the mighty motorcycle caravan in DC on Memorial Day.
What the press should have asked is what moral right Palin has to partake in that when her sense of public service is largely defined by resigning as governor of Alaska halfway through her term so that she could sign up to host a reality TV show for TLC and and become an analyst for Fox News. The price tag for each: $1 million. And she couldn't even wait to finish out her term before reaching for that easy money.
But there she was ready for her closeup last weekend, Mr. DeMille, in her Harley-Davidson helmet. Vroom, vroom. Knowing her, she probably got a product placement fee for wearing it.
And I am too outraged by her talk of this phony bus trip as an attempt to "remind" Americans of our shared history to comment on it at length without my head exploding.
Some of us, Sarah, actually studied American history in school instead of hopscotching from college to college until we could find one that would give us a degree. A 30-minute stop at a fort or battlefield before grabbing an ice cream cone, a couple of photo ops and heading for an air conditioned bus or hotel suite isn't exactly an act of deep historical engagement. But even our shared history is seen as only another prop for you, isn't it?
There have been a few voices calling Palin's trip out for what it is, an exercise in political calculation, brand inflation and narcissism. Joe Scarborough did that Tuesday, and good for him, because he was one of the few doing so on cable TV.