VIDEO: CNN COVERS FOX COVERAGE OF OBAMA

Not sure what the bigger story is here. The Obama administration singling out Fox News in true Alinsky Rule #8 style (keep the pressure on) or CNN actually discussing how great Fox News Channel's ratings are.

What's more amazing than all of that is the fact that CNN and others are making absolutely NO EFFORT to follow the winning formula Fox News has discovered. Instead, they apparently want to do play by play and color analysis of the battle between FNC and Obama. Perhaps they should stop fact-checking Saturday Night Live skits directed at Barack Obama as a start.

Interesting to watch, though. The overwhelming sentiment seems to be that going after FNC publicly is a bad move by the Obama White House. Obviously, their biggest beef is with Beck, Hannity, and O'Reilly (probably in that order). However, instead of answering the questions posed by those hosts (Beck in particular), they stonewall and cry foul.

Pretty pathetic........and pretty telling.

Beck and company must be onto something.



h/t to HOT AIR

ANOTHER SANE LEADER ALIENATED

Yet another example that the world is upside down... All across Europe, leaders of nations are signing on to the myth that is man-made global warming (if it wasn't a myth, it wouldn't have been re-named "climate change"). However, Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic is embarassing all of the others who know the truth and go along because of cowardice or ignorance.

(Pictured: Vaclav Klaus - I LOVE THIS GUY) The TIMES ONLINE reports:

In faraway Brussels furious diplomats were calling for his impeachment and even his country’s expulsion from the European Union because of his obstinate refusal to sign the Lisbon treaty. Klaus, now the only European leader holding out against ratifying the document, made it clear he did not give a damn.

Surely, there are other leaders who know the truth as well but where are they? Are they such cowards that they are willing to let Klaus stand alone?

So far, the answer is yes.

Perhaps it's a similar mentality to that of RINO senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham, who are signing on to the CAP & TAX BILL.

Anyway, particularly noteworthy in the Times Online article is how Klaus is standing up to these intenational bullies. Knowing that any change to the charter he thinks is useless, Klaus has advocated a change that would require all 27 nation states to sign before he will accept the treaty himself. The change is pretty reasonable actually - Germans not allowed to reclaim property in the region given to Hitler in WWII:

On Klaus’s return to Prague he dropped a political bombshell. At a press conference in his official residence the Czech leader announced that he would sign the treaty only if his government negotiated an opt-out from the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which is incorporated in the treaty.

He was concerned that the charter may permit retrospective property claims by the Sudeten Germans, a 3.5m-strong minority group expelled from the Czech Republic after the second world war.

“I have always considered this treaty a step in the wrong direction,” Klaus said. As he is well aware, the slightest change to the treaty, which was first proposed in 2001, would require all 27 EU member countries to agree.

His remarks were greeted with outrage in Europe. German and French diplomats, in talks with their Czech counterparts, explored two ways of removing the Klaus obstacle: impeach him or change the Czech constitution to take away his right of veto.

In a world that is upside down and backwards, it is leaders like Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic, Roberto Micheletti of Honduras, Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, and Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County in Arizona who are showing true courage and are on the right side of history. So many others are either nefarious or cowardly.

h/t to FREE REPUBLIC

JIM DEMINT REPORTS BACK FROM HONDURAS

A prime example of why John Kerry didn't want Republican Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) to travel to Honduras on a fact finding mission. If you remember, Kerry tried to blackmail DeMint by preventing the trip because DeMint was holding up ambassadorial appointments as a member of the Foreign Relations Committee.

It seems Mr. DeMint has written a column for the WALL STREET JOURNAL that details what he found. As suspected, Micheletti's government was further vindicated by DeMint's trip, which seems to explain Kerry's alleged blackmail attempt.

After visiting Tegucigalpa last week and meeting with a cross section of leaders from Honduras's government, business community, and civil society, I can report there is no chaos there. There is, however, chaos to spare in the Obama administration's policy toward our poor and loyal allies in Honduras.

That policy was set in a snap decision the day Mr. Zelaya was removed from office, without a full assessment of either the facts or reliable legal analysis of the constitutional provisions at issue. Three months later, it remains in force, despite mounting evidence of its moral and legal incoherence.

Calling the Obama adminstration's policy toward Honduras a "snap decision" without the "facts" is actually giving him the benefit of the doubt and a bit kind. Assuming that's all it was would likely mean another beer summit, this time with different guests. Obama would speak to the White House press corps. and tell them that he should have "calibrated" his "words differently". But unlike the fracas Obama caused domestically with his "police acted stupidly" comment, there has been no real political damage for his insistance on reinstating a would-be dictator and friend of Hugo Chavez, Daniel Ortega, and the Castro brothers.

I found two more very revealing things in DeMint's column. One is that the only person in Tegucigalpa that he met who insisted that Zelaya was ousted via coup was the U.S. Ambassador:

In a day packed with meetings, we met only one person in Honduras who opposed Mr. Zelaya's ouster, who wishes his return, and who mystifyingly rejects the legitimacy of the November elections: U.S. Ambassador Hugo Llorens.

When I asked Ambassador Llorens why the U.S. government insists on labeling what appears to the entire country to be the constitutional removal of Mr. Zelaya a "coup," he urged me to read the legal opinion drafted by the State Department's top lawyer, Harold Koh. As it happens, I have asked to see Mr. Koh's report before and since my trip, but all requests to publicly disclose it have been denied.

Again, take note of the socialist tendency to withold the truth because the positions taken by socialists are so untenable, sunlight would lead to certain defeat in the debate arena.

As further illustration of my point: John Kerry (D) tries to prevent DeMint from going on a fact-finding mission to Honduras and fails. While in Honduras, DeMint asks the U.S. Ambassador why the Obama Administration insists on siding with a would-be dictator. Said Ambassador doesn't answer DeMint's question but instead directs him to a legal opinion written by another Obama appointee, Harold Koh. When DeMint attempts to obtain that legal opinion, he can't get it.

Obama is acting stupidly on Honduras.

Be sure to read DeMint's ENTIRE COLUMN.