Glenn Beck; President Obama Is Sympathetic To (Terrorists) Cause

Glenn Beck

Normally, I tend to avoid writing much about Glenn Beck because I see him as one of two things: a con man using racial politics and nutty extremism to get an audience of crazies or a freak.

I suppose he could be a little of both.

Anyway, here is the latest craziness coming from Beck that I found particularly disturbing even by his pitiful standards of human decency.

From Media Matters for America:

GLENN BECK: The Japanese government has no plans to expand the 12 mile evacuation zone. Meanwhile, we’re loading up all of the diplomats from the State Department and getting out of there. Also something that I’m going to do tonight, I’m going to give the speech that the President should give in the Oval Office that he hasn’t, and I don’t know why. Our donations are way, way down for Japan. I don’t see Hollywood mobilizing. So, we will. The speech from my Oval Office, tonight. It’s amazing what’s going on, and I don’t really understand why yet I haven’t figured it out yet.

There’s another story that is very disturbing. And this just came in, it’s an alert from the Wall Street Journal. The Obama Administration is seeking an United Nations security resolution that would authorize a wide range of possible military strikes against the forces of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. It is aimed at preventing them from overrunning the rebels and civilians in the country’s east. In discussions with other Security Council members, the Obama administration is making the case that a no-fly zone is not enough. It would be insufficient to save the rebel capital in Eastern Libya. So the U.S. is seeking a broad UN authorization for strikes aimed at holding back Libyan ground and air forces with the aim of protecting the rebel capital and avoiding a humanitarian crisis there. Military operations could include a no-fly zone but wouldn’t be limited to that.

Holy cow. What does this mean? You know we’ve been saying that – where is the President on Libya? Tonight, I lay out the case, and it’s not a smoking gun, and it’s not an open and shut case, but it is something that I haven’t found the right people yet, or the right evidence to link it all together, but I can feel it, that there’s something wrong with this Libyan thing. We were talking about it this morning, Pat. That the time to have a no-fly zone is not now.

PAT GRAY: Yeah, right at the beginning. Right at the beginning. Seriously, I mean, it’s progressed way too far just to do a no-fly zone.

BECK: Now it’s going to be a civil war. Now, now, this would be – think of this America, this would be the third country that America has ground forces or air forces or sea, that is in battle and engaged in a Muslim country. That’s insanity.

GRAY: Mmhmm.

BECK: And the time to support the rebels was at the very beginning when the momentum was there. There’s no momentum now. The momentum is the other way. I’m not saying we don’t do something to protect these people, but I’ll tell you, it’s very disturbing to me that our military could be engaged in yet another war in the Middle East.

GRAY: I think if you would have done this at the beginning, you would have been far less likely to have any kind of confrontation. You remember 1989 when we had that little run-in with the MiGs, the Libyan MiGs? And our -

BECK: – our guys

GRAY: Our F-14 tomcats took ‘em down.

BECK: Yeah.

GRAY: And there was not a peep out of Libya for the next 20 years. Libya didn’t make a sound. Well -

BECK: Yeah. [unintelligible]

GRAY: I mean, they had the couple terrorist activities. But, for the most part, Moammar Gadhafi was pretty quiet after that point.

BECK: Oh yeah. We were bombing his tent.

GRAY: Yeah.

BECK: There’s no – there’s, I mean, now, this is the problem with this president, it’s the same thing. Look at his pattern, the BP oil spill. This is the thing that bothers me. And it’s always patterns. The BP oil spill – we all know he used that to his advantage – never let a good crisis go to waste. And so what did he do? He wasn’t there – he was engaged, of course he talked about it, but he wasn’t engaged. Until it started getting out of control, and all of us were saying, where is the government?

GRAY: Mmhmm.

BECK: Where is the president on this? And he was strangely absent.

GRAY: Hasn’t it been like that with every crisis -

BECK: Everything. Every crisis.

GRAY: The Fort Hood – the Fort Hood shooting. He wasn’t really out front with that, and that was, you know, 13 U.S. soldiers being killed on their base. And then when he finally did make the statement, he comes out and talks about the – the Indian medicine man first -

BECK: Right. OK.

GRAY: – for two minutes before he even got around to the mention.

BECK: But here is – here is the point on that. I believe that’s because he just sees us as the oppressor nation. He just sees us as a nation who is and has oppressed the Native Americans and, and the Muslim communities around the world. And so he’s – he’s – he’s not with the terrorists, I’m not saying that, but he is sympathetic to their cause, which slows people down. You know what I mean?

GRAY: Mm.

BECK: You agree with that or disagree with that?

GRAY: Well, I don’t know if sympathetic to the cause is the right -

BECK: Sym -

GRAY: – phrase.

BECK: Sym – oh, uh – wait a minute, I’m not saying that he’s sympathetic with people blowing people up.

GRAY: Yeah.

BECK: I’m saying -

GRAY: I just wanted to make sure -

BECK: Yeah, yeah.

GRAY: – that people know that you’re not saying that.

BECK: He’s sympathetic, he’s sympathetic [unintelligible]

GRAY: Well I think he sympathizes that America has done some bad things -

BECK: Yeah.

GRAY: And, and so – [unintelligible]

BECK: The Palestinian plight.

GRAY: Yes.

BECK: The Palestinian plight – only like 23 percent of Americans agree with the Palestinians. But he is, I believe, he’s probably one of the 23 percent.

GRAY: Well, his pastor said it best, didn’t he, when he said America’s chickens have come home to roost.

BECK: Yes.

GRAY: Maybe he has a little of that sentiment -

BECK: Yes.

GRAY: – I don’t know.

BECK: Yes, yes. I’m not saying that he’s in league with the terrorists, I’m not saying that he agrees with bombings like that. But he is slower to react because he is a guy who is sympathetic to something that most Americans are not. We don’t – he has said it himself over and over, I’m tired of Muslim-Americans being rounded up in the middle of the night. That’s never happened. And if it has, show it to me, Mr. President because I will be with you on that. I agree with you that that shouldn’t happen. So show me the evidence, and I will stand with you.

But what’s disturbing about the BP oil crisis is it worked to his favor, it worked to his advantage by leaving it go for a while and not capping it, he had to have a massive disaster to be able to do what he did. Now is this what’s happening in Libya? Because the time for that, I mean, even France is leading this. Nobody, is – and the people are crying out, America. And everybody knows we’re the only one that can do it. We have the carriers right there. I’ve been on the aircraft carriers in the fifth fleet – 90 miles off the coast of Libya. We have them. We can do it. But the time to do it was when we had momentum and now, what’re we gonna – we have more troops going someplace? The possibility of it? We’re going to engage people with our military? What’re – what – we’re going to get involved in another war? What are you, out of your mind? It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t make sense.

And here’s the other thing that I just want to share with those who think that the workers of the world can unite. What is happening in the world right now is exactly what happened in the 1920s and early 1930s in Europe, and it is the communists, and the socialists, and the Marxists that believe in one global order, and they believe that if the workers will unite – I mean, the people who took out the permit for the unions for the American Dream Act in Washington D.C., they say it clearly on their own website, the International Socialist Organization, that they believe that only the workers uniting will actually cause the revolution to happen.

Well here’s where they go wrong. If you look at what’s happening in Japan right now and you look at the spike of the yen, that is because people love their country and they are selling their stuff, and they are getting out of gold or whatever it is, and they are buying their own dollar, their yen, and they are going to invest it in their own country. When the whole world melts down, when America begins to fall on real hard times – and I mean, I – I hope I’m discredited on this, but I believe it’s coming. And when we fall on real hard times, they will say workers of the world unite, and they will unite all of the workers, but at some point the unions – the union workers will say, wait a minute, how are you going to balance the world, you’re giving our jobs to India, or Mexico, or whatever. And people become nationalists, that’s what’s happening in Japan. There’s no – I’m not saying it’s communist or anything else, I’m just talking about the yen – they’re becoming nationalists. We did it after 9/11. We protect our own countries.

And that’s what the Soviet Union, that’s where Lenin and Marx and Stalin all went wrong – is they think they can unite the whole world with the workers. But the first step where it starts to go wrong is people start to protect themselves and their own communities that they understand as communities. And the world does not accept this global order, it doesn’t, and when things get better in India or jobs go to India instead of here, they will not listen to a socialist saying, “workers of the world, unite” what they will listen to is a national socialist, somebody who says take care of America first, workers, you’re already unionized, you’re already together right? It’s them that is the problem, and they become national socialists, not international socialists. International socialism will not work, and it will turn the world to national socialism, which is the Nazi regime.

I don’t know how people don’t understand the logic of this, but it is true, and it happens the same way every time, and governments, and they, the, governments, or the people, that the radicals, they use the youth – which is happening, and they also use giant corporations. And they get giant corporations, some of them willingly, and some of them just acquiesce because they say, I’ll just get, ’cause they’ll let me survive, and I’ll be part of the survivors. You do not want to be part of those survivors, because in the end, they do not survive, because they always end the same way, always. Whether it’s Mao, Stalin, Hitler, or Mussolini, they always end the same way.

Beck, no one knows what you mean because you’re a freak.

One expects insane rants from Beck, but some of the stuff in here, with regards to terrorism and President Obama is disgraceful.

More Examples Of Hate Coming From Far Right Regarding Health Care

Across this great nation, far-right Republicans and conservatives continue to engage in the politics of fear and smear with regard to health care.

Media Matters for America has begun a list to document the extremist language being used by many of those on the far right. And, not surprisingly, some of the worst offenders are Rush Limbaugh and Fox News. This is, of course, no big surprise. Limbaugh and Fox News have been working overtime defending pretty much anything coming from the far right and demonizing just about everything coming from the far left. At least Limbaugh is honest about being dangerously hateful and conservative. With him, what you see is what you get. Fox News, on the other hand, lies about being fair and balanced while being anything but fair and balanced.

Health care has driven the far right to sanity’s breaking point. The right wing has mobilized in an effort to do everything within its power (using its public relations team, Fox News, to get it done).

Here are a few of the insane comments from some on the far right:

RUSH LIMBAUGH: “Mullah Nancy Bin Pelosi … is no different” than those who “convince all these people to put bombs on their kids.”

LIMBAUGH: Democrats are “the kamikaze party.”

ANDREW BREITBART: Calls President Obama “Suicide-Bomber-In-Chief.”

MONICA CROWLEY: Health care reform is Democrats’ “suicide mission.”

Limbaugh is an unpatriotic extremist, Breitbart is a nut and an extremist and Crowley is just …. Monica Crowley (if you have seen her on Fox News you know how little she really has to offer that is positive and fair).

These are but a VERY few samples of hate speech compiled by Media Matters for America illustrating the lengths to which far-right conservatives will go to derail health care and demonize opponents.

For the rest of the ugly talk coming from conservative haters, check out the Media Matters for America page at: http://mediamatters.org/research/201003080022

Glenn Beck Vs. Glenn Beck On Racism … Courtesy Of Media Matters For America

This video shows a small taste of the idiocy of Glenn Beck.

A Disgusting Cheap Shot From Washington Times Editor Emeritus That Targets President Barack Obama’s Mother

The far-right rag, the Washington Times, has a column written by Wesley Pruden that takes a hard and disgusting shot at the mother of President Obama. It’s more evidence of the lengths to which these right wingers will go to attack President Obama in any way they can imagine. It’s no surprise that this kind of trash would be published in a toilet-like publication like the Washington Times, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be called out. There are far too many people who would read the Washington Times and not be able to filter out the extreme prejudice in its messages.

Here is how Pruden starts his column in the Washington Times:

A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a foreign land is enough to frighten protocol officers and embarrass the rest of us.

Here is an excerpt of what Pruden wrote as captured by Media Matters for America:

So far it’s a memorable trip. He established a new precedent for how American presidents should pay obeisance to kings, emperors, monarchs, sovereigns and assorted other authentic man-made masters of the universe. He stopped just this side of the full grovel to the emperor of Japan, risking a painful genuflection if his forehead had hit the floor with a nasty bump, which it almost did. No president before him so abused custom, traditions, protocol (and the country he represents). Several Internet sites published a rogue’s gallery showing how other national leaders – the prime ministers of Israel, India, Slovenia, South Korea, Russia and Dick Cheney among them – have greeted Emperor Akihito with a friendly handshake and an ever-so-slight but respectful nod (and sometimes not even that).

Now we know why Mr. Obama stunned everyone with an earlier similar bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, only the bow to the Japanese emperor was far more flamboyant, a sign of a really deep sense of inferiority. He was only practicing his bow in Riyadh. Sometimes rituals are learned with difficulty. It took Bill Clinton months to learn how to return a military salute worthy of a commander-in-chief; like any draft dodger, he kept poking a thumb in his eye until he finally got it. Mr. Obama, on the other hand, seems right at home now giving a wow of a bow. This is not the way an American president impresses evildoers that he’s strong, tough and decisive, that America is not to be trifled with.

[...]

But Mr. Obama, unlike his predecessors, likely knows no better, and many of those around him, true children of the grungy ’60s, are contemptuous of custom. Cutting America down to size is what attracts them to “hope” for “change.” It’s no fault of the president that he has no natural instinct or blood impulse for what the America of “the 57 states” is about. He was sired by a Kenyan father, born to a mother attracted to men of the Third World and reared by grandparents in Hawaii, a paradise far from the American mainstream.

That is just disgusting and shows the hatred that exists in the heart of this man, Wesley Pruden.

Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/200911160068

Washington Times:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/17/pruden-obama-bows-the-nation-cringes/?feat=home_headlines

Washington Times Seems To Make Up Racism Charge In Its ACORN Story

Like Media Matters for America, I too was puzzled by the accusation that ACORN representative Bertha Lewis charges of racism against individuals critical of the group. Note the headline from the Washington Times below, as captured by MMA: “ACORN’s Lewis suggests opponents are racist.” So, when I see such an explosive headline, my first reaction is … “I can’t wait to see the mountain of evidence the reporter and newspaper have compiled to substantiate such a powerful charge. But, as you might expect, I was woefully disappointed by an article absent of the necessary information to support its unsubstantiated header.

Below is The Washington Times article as posted by Media Matters:

ACORN’s Bertha Lewis charged Tuesday that accusations about the embattled community organizing group are racist, alleging that a coordinated political effort started by former Bush adviser Karl Rove sought to stop the group from registering minority voters.

“For many years, there’ve been folks who’ve disagreed with our ideology or methodology that [have] gone after us,” Mrs. Lewis, ACORN’s chief executive officer, said in a speech at the National Press Club in Washington.

“I mean we, [going back] to 2004, we now see through e-mails from Karl Rove from the previous administration that ACORN itself was targeted, targeted to go after us so that we would stop doing voter registration because it was said that we were moving too many minorities to vote, changing the power dynamics on the local election and that we needed to be stopped.”

She also labeled as racist the infamous videos that show ACORN workers advising a man and young woman posing as pimp and prostitute how to circumvent the law. “These new filmmakers, [James] O’Keefe himself, told The Washington Post, ‘They’re registering too many minorities; they usually vote Democratic; somebody’s got to stop them,’” Mrs. Lewis said.

But Mrs. Lewis did not mention that The Post was forced to issue a later correction on the story, saying the quote attributed to Mr. O’Keefe was inaccurate.

But, as Media Matters points out, it’s difficult to see the evidence in the story that supports the headline.

Now, I know what people are going to say … the Washington Times is basing its misleading (if not inaccurate) headline on her comment about some opposition being troubled by the registration of “too many minorities.” But, the explosiveness of the headline does not match the thin (damn-near invisible) evidence supplied by The Washington Times.

This newspaper saw a book of matches on a table and immediately screamed “FIRE!” Notice the paper ignored the political angle that was in the same sentence it latched onto for the headline.

The paper’s supporting facts are weak next to the headline’s charge in what appears to be an example of poor and blatantly-biased journalism.

Fear Of A Black President: Conservative Media Drumming Up Racial Fear

Here is a Media Matters for America-produced video that I have published on here before. I am posting it again as I think it has again become relevant in the current political climate.

When you see these videos it becomes a bit easier to put together the puzzle and see the pattern that begins to come into focus.

Crybaby Chris Wallace Still Whining Because President Obama Won’t Kiss His Ass

Crybaby Chris Wallace, of the right-wing Fox News and host of the conservative-leaning Fox News Sunday, was back on the air whining like a kindergartener again because President Obama won’t come on his show. Wallace then goes into the usual temper-tantrum stuff of cheap-shotting the president and the White House like we used to do as kids when we were in elementary and middle school and didn’t get our way. This is what Wallace said as the tears started to flow when he found out he would not get a chance to interview the president, “biggest bunch of crybabies I have dealt with” as Obama made the media rounds for Sunday. Wallace then went on to refer to the Obama administration as being petty and childish. The hypocrisy there is nothing short of stunning considering Fox News enjoys popularity due largely to the right-wing people who flock there and get drunk on the old G.O.P.-flavored Kool-Aid.

Wallace, as he mentally talked himself down off the ledge from his on-air fit, finally cried, “What ever happened to reaching out to all Americans?” Maybe Wallace and his Fox cronies should have thought about that when Fox blew off events the president had that were picked up by the other networks and dismissed it to the right-wing Fox News channel (which has been bashing Obama with reckless abandon).

This is from Think Progress, and it is interesting:

But ironically, later during the panel discussion, Wallace cited a recent report showing that Obama has done more one-on-one interviews than both Presidents Clinton and Bush up this point and wondered if Obama is “overexposed” (despite wanting to interview him on his show). In another bit of irony, Wallace, who has been complaining for the past few days about the snub, accused the White House of being thin-skinned:

WALLACE: Every president is thin-skinned but I wonder whether this administration, this White House has a particular problem with criticism. … Not talking about just us but just the attitude of this White House. Whatever happened to reaching out to all Americans?

By the way, media people are way more thin-skinned than presidents (check out the vendettas Bill O’Reilly constantly wages against anyone in the media who has a beef with him or anyone he does not like).

This adminstration doesn’t have a problem with criticism (it seems Wallace is the one who is more thin-skinned and with a problem based on the amount of crying we’ve heard from him and his crew at Fox News). For example, MSNBC has people like Joe Scarborough and Pat Buchanan who regularly bash the president, but the network also has balance with commentators who give a different set of views with respect to the president. CNN has Lou Dobbs who regularly trashes the president, but is a reputable organization because it balances its news and offers balanced opinion (something Fox News rarely attempts to do).

Fox News is free to show clips from the interviews the president conducted with other media outlets.

Also, Think Progress added this:

During one of Wallace’s whining sessions this week, another Fox host complained that Obama is skipping out on “the highly rated Fox News Sunday.” But as Media Matters points out, Fox News Sunday is “in dead last, where it has remained pretty much since its inception.”

If Fox News was the only major news outlet that didn’t get the love then that seems to indicate something about Fox News than about President Obama.

Steve Malzberg Uses Racial Politics To Divide

Steve Malzberg, a right-wing radio show host, begins this clip using the customary racial politics to take a shot at President Obama and the media.

It’s sort of a predictable way for Malzberg to start …

Ralph Peters, who has a history of making highly offensive comments in his role as a columnist and a Fox News analyst, makes the following statement in audio captured by Media Matters for America. Now, Media Matters captured the audio because Peters slips and mixes up (President) Obama with Osama … as conservatives curiously seem far more apt to do than liberals or independents. I was more disturbed by something Peters said later in the clip when he started to talk about President Obama in a little more depth.

When trying to describe why he thinks it could be good to have a black president of the United States, Peters said the following:

“I would welcome a black president because it’s great for our image in the world. Maybe it can help minority Americans get their act together and behave responsibly.”

Uh, excuse me. (Don’t think too highly of the right-wing nut Peters as he eventually goes on to attack Barack Obama as, in essence, being incompetent.)

He later attempted to clarify (as host Steve Malzberg seemed to realize the gravity of how stupid and racist the statement comes across as) the offensive remark by talking about minorities stay in school. Hmm…

Oh yeah, there are the obligatory poor-Sarah-Palin comments here, too.

Previous MMA articles:
Ralph Peters claims it’s “shocking” that “eight years after 9/11, we have a president who doesn’t think it was any big deal”

Fox News’ Peters claimed Obama “clearly has a massive Third World chip on his shoulder”

Foolish Right-Wing Nuts Still Sounding Crazy About Barack Obama’s Birth Certificate

The nuts on the far right of the political spectrum are beginning to look increasingly unstable as they manufacture conspiracy theories about President Obama’s place of birth and whether or not he really is a citizen of the United States of American (one of the necessary requirements to become president). These nuts, led by bitter Alan Keyes who has been whipped politically by Obama, continue to advance useless speculation and waste time and resources pursuing ghosts.

Here is the transcript from Lou Dobbs’ CNN show guest-hosted by Kitty Pilgrim. Even as Pilgrim confronts the two player-hater guests with a mountain of evidence and facts, they still are unsatisfied.

Frankly, I thought Keyes was nuts, but that lawyer (Orly Taitz) makes him look composed, rational and credible.

Here is the transcript from Media Matters for America:

PILGRIM: Well, an Army Reserve major is again raising controversy over President Obama’s place of birth. Now, the major challenged his deployment orders, claiming that President Obama wasn’t born in the United States, and that renders his orders illegal.

Now, a former presidential candidate, Alan Keyes, also filed a lawsuit challenging the president’s right to hold an office, and a hearing will be — on that suit will be held on Monday.

Now, questions about the president’s place of birth have been asked and answered many times since before the election, and the president’s birth certificate says he was born in Hawaii. The state’s Republican governor and other officials have backed that up. CNN has fully investigated the issue, found no basis for the questions about the president’s birthplace, but the controversy lives on, especially on the Internet.

Joining me now is Orly Taitz, and she represents the Army major and filed the Keyes lawsuit. Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes joins us. And on the other side, John Avlon, who is a columnist for the DailyBeast.com and author of Independent Nation; and Errol Louis, columnist for the New York Daily News and a CNN contributor, also an attorney.

And so, let me, just before we start, bear with me a bit. There’s overwhelming evidence that proves that his birth certificate is real, and that he was born in Honolulu on August 4, 1961. If you’ll just bear with me, I’ll run through a little bit of the evidence, and then we can get to this discussion. Now, the Annenberg Political Fact Check, which is a nonpartisan group, went to Chicago to view the birth certificate last year, and they released photos and this statement, “FactCheck.org staffers have now seen, touched, examined and photographed the original birth certificate. We conclude that it meets all of the requirements from the State Department for proving U.S. citizenship. Our conclusion: Obama was born in the U.S.A. just as he always has said.”

The Republican governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, on record, she says Obama was indeed born in her state, and we should note, she did support John McCain. So, we also have a copy of the Honolulu Advertiser, the newspaper, August 13, and the Hawaii Star-Bulletin, August 14, 1961, both announcing Barack Obama’s birth.

Also, October last year, the director of the Hawaii Department of Health wrote a letter, stating, “I have personally seen and verified that the Hawaii State Department of Health has Senator Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with state policies and procedure.”

PolitiFact.com reissued their results from their investigation they conducted in June of last year, and they say, quote, “Since we published Obama’s birth certificate, questions about its authenticity have been frequent and fierce. After reviewing the evidence, we are confident of our rulings.”

And this is the last one; thanks for bearing with me. The White House press briefing this week, reporter from the WorldNetDaily pressed again about the birth certificate. The White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs, said this following comment:

GIBBS (video clip): Do all of your listeners and the listeners throughout this country the service to which any journalist owes those listeners, and that is the pursuit of the noble truth, and the noble truth is that the president was born in Hawaii, a state of the United States of America.

PILGRIM: Now, Alan Keyes, you’ve been patient letting me get through all that, but what more do you need to be convinced?

KEYES: Some evidence. And the evidence is something that President Obama is strenuously blocking. You ask me to prove that I was born in New York City at the time and hospital I say, and I will give you a certified copy of a full birth certificate with a doctor’s signature, the hospital, and everything else. I won’t direct you to some photograph on the Internet and a bunch of hearsay statements that would not be accepted as evidence in any court of law.

And so the very simple question is: Why spend $800,000 to a million dollars blocking the birth certificate, blocking records at school and college that would in any way have a bearing on the question –

PILGRIM: All right, Alan –

KEYES: — both of his birth and of his citizenship claims at various times in his life.

PILGRIM: Let me let –

KEYES: Why is he going to all this trouble if, as they say, the matter is resolved? Can’t be resolved by a bunch of statements and assertions.

PILGRIM: OK, Orly, we have to keep this quicker –

TAITZ: Yes.

PILGRIM: — but please tell me what you –

TAITZ: OK, Obama never provided his birth certificate. What he provided is certification of live birth that was issued last year that does not have the name of the doctor, does not have the name of the hospital, does not have any signatures. Do you know that Hawaii has a statute, 338, that allows foreign-born children of Hawaiian residence to get Hawaiian birth certificates? Did you know that?

PILGRIM: Errol, I would like you to respond.

LOUIS: Listen, I think — I think what we have here is a case where under the guise of saying, well, we can’t trust whether or not he should be president because we don’t have the evidence, it’s actually the reverse. These are folks — and there are a number of them, and some of them are raising money, like WorldNetDaily, which is as far as I’m concerned, running a scam, where they’re selling all kinds of bumper stickers and stuff like that. And I don’t know what Miss Taitz is taking in the way of legal fees.

TAITZ: Excuse me, if you –

LOUIS: They’re raising legal fees from across the country –

TAITZ: I’m doing this pro bono.

PILGRIM: All right.

LOUIS: — and the reality is they don’t accept –

TAITZ: It’s pro bono.

LOUIS: — they don’t accept that the president is the president –

TAITZ: No, no, no, no.

LOUIS: — and, therefore, they work backward and there will never be enough proof to satisfy them.

PILGRIM: All right, John, I have to let –

AVLON: You’ve offered a mountain of evidence in addition to two birth announcements. That’s a pretty deep conspiracy. What we have here –

TAITZ: Can I respond to this?

AVLON: No.

PILGRIM: In just one second.

AVLON: What we have here is Obama derangement syndrome. This is pathological hatred of the president posing as patriotism.

TAITZ: This is nonsense. This is total nonsense. You have never investigated this.

AVLON: Ambassador Keyes says that President Obama has called him a radical communist.

TAITZ: This is absolutely irrelevant. Sir, this is absolutely irrelevant.

AVLON: You on your blog have repeatedly referred to the administration as Gestapo SS. Which is it? Get your story straight. Is he a Nazi or a communist? You guys are nuts.

TAITZ: You don’t know what you’re talking about.

PILGRIM: Orly, I have to ask you to let everyone at least have their say before you respond to it.

TAITZ: OK.

PILGRIM: I believe we’re out of time, I’m sorry to say. Great discussion. Orly Taitz, Alan Keyes, Errol Louis, and John Avlon.

TAITZ: You know what, let me just mention one more thing. In order to be the president, you have to have two parents that are citizens. Obama’s father was never a citizen of this country.

PILGRIM: All right.

TAITZ: He was a British citizen.

PILGRIM: Orly, we have to call it there. I’m sorry. Thank you very much — all of you — for joining in this very lively debate.

Another attack on Barack Obama that I doubt few (if any) other people who served as president of the United States of America ever had to deal with.

It makes me wonder why.

Jim Quinn Calling Anyone Racist Is Laughable … Although …

… maybe conservative radio show host Jim Quinn speaks from the voice of experience in regards to being a racist. Rather than focus on his own racism, he chooses to manufacture racism in others.

Here is what Quinn, as documented by Media Matters for America, had to say about Judge Sonia Sotomayor as she is embarking on her confirmation hearings for a spot on the U.S. Supreme Court:

QUINN (ON SOTOMAYOR): A racist woman with a racial chip on her shoulder, steeped in identity politics.

Here is how one person responded on Media Matters for America: Quinn: A racist man with a racial chip on his shoulder, steeped in stupidity.

This is from the Daily Kos quoting Wiki:

On November 6, 2008, Quinn compared modern welfare recipients to slaves, saying “You know, if you were a slave in the old South, what did you get as a slave? You got free room and board, you got free money, and you got rewarded for having children because that was just, you know, tomorrow’s slave. … Can I ask a question? How’s that different from welfare? You get a free house, you get free food, and you get rewarded for having children. Oh, wait a minute, hold on a second. There is a difference: The slave had to work for it.” Quinn apologized for that remark. However, he has not apologized for his June 24, 2008 statement, “Slavery was evil, there’s no question about that. But you know what? If it hadn’t happened, where would you be right now? If your ancestors hadn’t come over here for whatever reason where would you be right now? You’d be floating down a river in Rwanda in pieces or maybe you’d be chased down by a machete wielding Janjaweed militia in the Sudan or starving under Robert Mugabe. Hey, ingrates, get on your knees, kiss the American dirt beneath you and please shut up.”

Here is another Quinn beauty:

On The War Room with Quinn & Rose, Jim Quinn said: “You know, if you were a slave in the old South, what did you get as a slave? You got free room and board, you got free money, and you got rewarded for having children because that was just, you know, tomorrow’s slave. … Can I ask a question? How’s that different from welfare? You get a free house, you get free food, and you get rewarded for having children. Oh, wait a minute, hold on a second. There is a difference: The slave had to work for it.”

What an interesting despicable way of repackaging slavery and trying to put a bow tie on the atrocity of slavery. But, should we expect anything less from Jim Quinn.

Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200907130035

Conservatives Flipping Out Over Al Franken

This is kind of funny watching the far right wingers whining about Sen. Al Franken’s election basically becoming official.

Peace out, Norm Coleman.

It’s funny watching the right-wing nutjobs lose their minds and begin the campaign of attacks as Media Matters for America is beginning to document:

Is Rush Limbaugh Comparing Minnesota Senate Race To Iran Election Controversy?

One of the intriguing aspects of Sen.-elect Al Franken’s victory over former Sen. Norm Coleman has been watching the conservatives whine and complain (because of how much they hate Franken). So, leave it to Republican leader Rush Limbaugh to come up with the comparison of Franken’svictory over Coleman to the Iran election scandal.

LIMBAUGH: Look at this. From Iran’s press television, the state-run media in Iran: Ahmadinejad gains votes in recount, just like in our country! It had — just like in our country. Norm Coleman wins in Minnesota in a recount, and they keep having recounts, and Al Franken wins. So they had the recount in Iran, and shazzam! Ahmadinejad gained votes!

I think the people of Minnesota deserve better than to be smeared by someone like Rush Limbaugh.

Rush, like it or not – the people of Minnesota has spoken and Sen.-elect Franken is finally taking office if Republicans will cease with the obstructions.

Crooks and Liars:
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/rush-limbaugh-compares-al-frankens-win

Rush Limbaugh Remains A Fountain Of Misinformation

Right-wing nut Rush Limbaugh was on the air today discussing the tortured argument about whether or not President Obama was born in the United States of America. It’s an old story that the conservative haters continue to harp on to try and portray the president as not being “one of us” as being “different” or something else.

Here is the headline from a Media Matters for America story:

Limbaugh: “I don’t know” where Obama was born, “supposedly Hawaii”

This is a thoroughly debunked storyline that was a smear during the presidential campaign and is continuing to be a smear even to this day.

Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200906300027

Media Matters Continues To Call Out Conservative Dishonesty

Media Matters for America, a watchdog group, has done a fantastic job of driving the right-wing nuts by exposing their sins to the public. But, as you might expect, the right wingers don’t seem to have a whole lot of love for Media Matters.

Media Matters Posts A Top Ten List Of Its Own

I found this interesting. Media Matters for America writer Karl Frisch wrote the following: I humbly present a Top Ten list of “Right-Wingers From Whom Conservatives Should Be Demanding Apologies.”

10) Focus on the Family founder James Dobson, for falsely claiming a hate-crimes bill that adds gay, lesbian, and transgender Americans to the list of protected groups would also protect those who commit incest, necrophilia, pedophilia, bestiality, and a host of other perversions.

9) Fox News’ Sean Hannity, for hosting “Internet journalist” Andy Martin, who once called a judge a “crooked, slimy Jew, who has a history of lying and thieving common to members of his race.”

8) Syndicated radio host Neal Boortz, for describing welfare recipients as “human parasitic garbage lining up to get their applications to loot.”

7) Fox News conspiracy-theorist-in-chief Glenn Beck, for describing Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court as, “Hey, Hispanic chick lady! You’re empathetic. … You’re in!”

6) MSNBC’s resident cranky uncle, Pat Buchanan, for saying prior to Sotomayor’s selection that he wanted Obama to pick a Supreme Court justice “who has real stature, impresses people” but thinking instead that Obama would pick “a minority, a woman and/or a Hispanic.”

5) Syndicated radio host Jim Quinn, for repeatedly calling NOW the “National Organization of Whores.”

4) Cincinnati-based radio host Bill Cunningham, for allegingthat “Obama wants to gas the Jews.”

3) Michael Savage (née Weiner), the third-highest-rated radio host in America, for saying“Obama hates” and “is raping America.”

2) Fox News’ irrepressible mega-star Bill O’Reilly, for repeatedly quacking that the legalization of gay marriage could lead to folks marrying ducks.

And No. 1, the conservative movement’s de facto leader, Rush Limbaugh, for sayingof Obama, “We are being told that we have to hope he succeeds, that we have to bend over, grab the ankles … because his father was black.”

Find Out What Pat Buchanan Is All About

Pat Buchanan, a failed multiple-time candidate for president and currently a commentator for MSNBC, has said more than his fair share of offensive things over the years.

But, reading this article from Media Matters for America, chronicling Buchanan’s history, should leave most rational people feeling nothing short of disgusted.

Here’s one sample:

Last year, Buchanan suggested that slavery worked out pretty well for “black folks”:

First, America has been the best country on earth for black folks. It was here that 600,000 black people, brought from Africa in slave ships, grew into a community of 40 million, were introduced to Christian salvation, and reached the greatest levels of freedom and prosperity blacks have ever known.

Nice. He attempts to portray the brutal Middle Passage, that forcibly brought slaves (those who were not among the millions who died) to the present-day United States of America, as some luxury-liner cruise to paradise.

Media Matters:
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200906080008

Karl Frisch Writes A Compelling Report On Right-Wing Web site ‘The Fox Nation’

I would encourage all people to take an opportunity to read Media Matters for America writer Karl Frisch’s intriguing written piece on “The Fox Nation.” This fairly-new blog site has turned into little more than a safe haven (a virtual cesspool) for right-wing hate to grow and prosper.

Media Matters for America:
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200906020036