IS THIS WHY THE MEDIA IS SO OVER-THE-TOP BIASED?

Network television executives have been murmuring about how detrimental it is for them to drop high draw programming to carry Obama's ponderous press conferences and speeches for months but are they helpless because Rahm Emanuel is bypassing them and going straight to the top?


HOWARD KURTZ reports that Emanuel's sharp elbows are still intact:

Instead of contacting NBC, Emanuel went to Jeffrey Immelt, the chief executive of General Electric. He also spoke with Les Moonves, the chief executive of CBS Corp., the company spun off from Viacom.

I seem to remember a time when executives of parent companies stayed out of the programming business.

What if......the shameless sycophancy we're seeing from the likes of MSNBC talking heads is more about placating their parent company bosses than it is a blind and mindless love for a man determined to destroy the country?

The networks "absolutely" feel pressured, says Paul Friedman, CBS's senior vice president: "It's an enormous financial cost when the president replaces one of those prime-time hours. The news divisions also have mixed feelings about whether they are being used."

If I'm a parent company exec and bow to the pressure of Emanuel, don't I send a message all the way down the line to make sure Obama gets GLOWING coverage?

I'd like to take a bit of a sidebar because I've been asserting that it's more than just a little possible that Obama's "(police) acted stupidly" comment was intentional and Alinsky-based. Kurtz actually makes a case for this, albeit likely unintentional on Kurtz' part.

Had Obama not answered the last question that evening -- declaring that the Cambridge police had acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis Gates Jr. at his home -- the news conference would have been almost totally devoid of news. And that raises questions about whether the sessions have become mainly a vehicle for Obama to repeat familiar messages.

What was the reason for the presser? To make the case for health care, right? Obama needed to get the constituent pressure off the blue dogs. He did that by saying something stupid. Had he not done that, even Kurtz notes that the whole exercise would have been futile.

Shouldn't we begin asking why Emanuel was so insistent that the networks cover such an innocuous press conference?

Many dynamics at work here for sure....

h/t to MICHELLE MALKIN

VIDEO: ORLY TAITZ ON MSNBC A MUST SEE

Can't anyone buying into Birth Certifi-Gate at least entertain the notion that this is all just Obama playing with them using the most basic of Alinsky-ite tacitcs? Does ANYONE find it curious that this "Kenyan Birth Certificate" is released right as the Obama administration needs and wants to distract opponents away from the Health Care debate?

That said, it would be nice for folks like David Shuster to start calling for Obama to just produce the original already and get people like Taitz to stop clamoring for it.

This is a side of Orly Taitz I was exposed to when she debated Andrew Walden on my show back on June 21st. It was fun watching an apoplectic Shuster, who was unable to deal with it.

A must see.

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VIDEO: WATCH ONLY IF YOUR COMPUTER CAN HANDLE YOU YELLING AT IT

This is RIGHTEOUS righteous indignation. Democratic representative Tim Bishop from Setauket, NY faced some serious heat on June 22nd, 2009 over health care. While it took place six weeks ago, it is DEFINITELY worth watching because Bishop was visibly and virtually shaken by some justifiably angry constituents.

Much like a football player might listen to AC/DC to get psyched up, watch this video before confronting your Representative or Senator this month.

You can even hear protestors in the background chanting from OUTSIDE the building.



Here's part II



TIM BISHOP BIO here...

How soon before the Obama administration's talking points involve blaming talk radio and bloggers for them actually being held accountable.

h/t to DRUDGE

FORMER HIGH RANKING ISRAELI OFFICIAL: OBAMA A SUNNI MUSLIM

Avi Lipkin, who writes as Victor Mordechai, served two years as senior editor and translator in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office and for him to make these claims brings significant weight. We all remember how the sheer notion that Obama was a Muslim brought scorn from the acorns and the Obamautomatons.

Lipkin doesn't seem to think there's even the slightest bit of uncertainty....

there is no doubt that President Mubarack (“Blessed one” in Arabic) Hussein Obama is the son of a proud member of a Sunni Muslim tribe in Kenya, the same tribe that massacred Kenyan Christians a few years ago.

HERE'S MORE (but you'll have to sign up for the entire article).

SPECIAL GUESTS has Lipkin's entire Bio..

ABOUT AVI…
AVI LIPKIN is an author, speaker and cofounder of Israel Today Magazine, who has served 30 years in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) Reserves, 16 years in the IDF Artillery Reserves and 14 years as an IDF spokesman.

Avi served two years as senior editor and translator in the Israeli Prime Minister’s office.

Since leaving that office, Avi has had the opportunity to be a guest on many popular US talk shows including Sean Hannity and Fox & Friends.

Avi has also been a popular guest on international programs including Israel National TV Channel 1 in Hebrew in response to Pope Benedict XVI's remarks Islam, on Revelation TV in London, and on Vision Norge Norwegian Television.

Avi has been a keynote speaker in hundreds of churches and synagogues across the U.S., Canada, Mexico, The UK, Switzerland, France, Greece, Norway, Finland, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Holland and Israel.

Mr. Lipkin speaks six languages and has received his B. A. from Hebrew University, 1973, majoring in Sovietology/Russian Studies and East European Studies. Between 1991-1994 Avi studied at the Jewish Theological Seminary for three years in the framework of the MA program.

Avi is well versed in the centuries of Islamic wars. Avi was born in the U.S. but immigrated (made Aliyah) to Israel in 1968.

Avi has written several books under the pen-name Victor Mordecai, including “Is Fanatic Islam a Global Threat?" which in 1997 predicted 9/11-type attacks by Islamic terrorists against the United States.

Someone with Lipkin's background and insider knowledge saying such things about Obama are noteworthy.

VIDEO: MORE GATES-GATE FALLOUT

If Obama's "stupidly" comment was intentional, we may be looking at more unintentional consequences for him. Crowley won the fight in the arena of public opinion. Gates clearly lost because of his racist comments and leanings.

Now Aaron Klein has uncovered a video of Cornel West (a Gates comrade) introducing Barack Obama at a Harlem fundraiser in 2007. West is a close friend of Louis Farrakhan AND Henry Louis Gates as Klein points out.

West authored two books on race with Gates, who is at the center of controversy after Obama remarked on Gates' being handcuffed by police outside his home after a report of a burglary in his house.

The degrees of separation between Obama and some quite nefarious characters vary but it is an extensive web and it is amazing how so many people refused to see it.

Obama named West to the Black Advisory Council of his presidential campaign.

The switch for the national spotlight on Gates was flipped by Obama. It seems to be shining on West as well, which can't be good for Obama.

From Klein:

After branding the U.S. a "racist patriarchal" nation in his book "Race Matters," West wrote that "White America has been historically weak-willed in ensuring racial justice and has continued to resist fully accepting the humanity of blacks."

White America has been "weak-willed"? Does that not have echoes of Eric Holder's comment about America being a "nation of cowards" "in things racial"?

Also in that book, West claimed the 9-11 attacks gave white Americans a glimpse of what it means to be a black person in the U.S. – feeling "unsafe, unprotected, subject to random violence, and hatred" for who they are.

Who exhibited signs of being a hater in the Gates / Crowley incident again?

"Since 9/11," West wrote, "the whole nation has the blues, when before it was just black people."

Be sure to read KLEIN'S ENTIRE ARTICLE.

Again, if Obama intentionally said, "stupidly" to distract attention away from health care (Alinsky tactic), this may be another indicator that it could have backfired.

Politically speaking, this could be a case of, "LIVE BY COMMUNITY ORGANIZING - DIE BY COMMUNITY ORGANIZING".

Obama is Unmasking himself and he's doing it sooner than he wanted to.

VIDEO: READ OBAMA'S LIPS

Obama said repeatedly that he would not raise taxes on the middle class. Tim Geithner takes well over three minutes on Sunday to say what he could have said with five words (Obama delivered a false promise).

Forgive me but are any of you Obamautomatons willing to admit you were wrong and that there actually were people out there who guaranteed this would all happen?



And just for kicks, let's revisit Obama giving his "Firm Pledge" not to raise taxes on people making less than $250k.



h/t to GATEWAY PUNDIT

KENYAN BIRTH CERTIFICATE: NOT SO FAST

Isn't it strange that this supposed smoking gun birth certificate showing that Obama was born in Kenya surfaces almost simultaneously with the August recess? Obama-Care is potentially a game breaker for this nation and this alleged Kenyan birth certificate will only serve as a distraction.

Even if it's true, it will only diminish the constituent heat Senators and Congressmen would otherwise feel this August.

Even if it's true, why not wait until this August's work is done on Health Care?

The fact that it is diverting attention at this time is straight out of Alinsky's playbook. Whether it's a calculated diversion is as provable as the legitimacy of the birth certificate, which is another reason to focus on the SMOKING GUN that just came out (Obama admitting he wants single-payer health care).

CONFEDERATE YANKEE gives another reason for re-focusing attention away from Birth Certifi-gate.

h/t to HOT AIR

VIDEO: OBAMA CAUGHT LYING ABOUT HEALTH CARE

Obama has been defending his health care plan recently by saying those who say it will lead to "single payer" (gov't run health care) are fear-mongering in order to kill it. Well, Naked Emperor News has uncovered some damning video of Obama telling us what his true intentions are.



Money quotes in the video:

"I don't think we'll be able to eliminate employer coverage IMMEDIATELY."
- March, 2007

"I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan."
- 2003

SINGLE PAYER = GOV'T RUN HEALTH CARE

h/t to BREITBART

VIDEO: SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN ALREADY GETTING EARFULS

First up (and best of the two videos) is from Philadelphia, PA on August 2nd at the National Constitution Center. Arlen Specter and Kathleen Sebelius may have been expecting a more sympathetic crowd considering where this town hall was held but they didn't get it. Heckled and booed throughout, the loudest cheer anyone got came from a lady in the audience when she delivered this "money quote":

"Medicare is broke. Medicaid is broke. Social Security is broke. And you want us to believe that a government, which can't even run the 'cash for clunkers' program is going to run health care?!"

Take that bureaucrats! Specter tried to whip out the argument that 47 million people are not covered under the current plan and was shouted down and called a "liar".

The truth hurts, doesn't it Kathleen and Arlen?


Not as entertaining but just as revealing is the welcome Lloyd Dogget (Democrat rep. from TX in Austin) received when he returned home.



h/t to GATEWAY PUNDIT and MICHELLE MALKIN