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UPDATE: NYC military recruitment center attacked, moonbats blame the right

UPDATE (3/06/2008 – 8:07 P.M. EST):  This is going to put a damper on the moobats’ “right-wing” conspiracy theory.  Turns out the bomber(s) wrote an anti-war screed and sent it (along with a photo of the recruting center) to all of NYC’s Congressmen (all Democrats).  Congrats, lefties: you spawned a homegrown terrorist!

Story of the attack here.  Fortunately, no one was injured.  But here’s what a nutjob diarist at the Kos kooks’ kamp had to say:

It’s nothng [sic] new for the right to CAUSE or INCITE the violence, or to trigger arranged mob responses, and make sure it all gets pinned on the Left. And the right seems to be able to get the FBI and law enforcement to do this for them as well. Anarchy, chaos, property damage, physical harm, mayhem, murder, militarized police with massive crowd control equipment, are all ‘options’ the right are eager to use to shut down any potentially energizing movement. 

Yeah, it must be a right-winger’s work!  After all, the moonbats really need our help making themselves look like nutbars, right?  Plus, we’ve seen all those “right-wingers” in Berserkley trying to run the Marines out of town, right?  Moron.

March 6, 2008 Posted by | moonbats | 7 Comments

Reid: Filibusters = stabbings

Just when I thought that moron couldn’t get any stupider, he shows me that I was incorrect in that assumption.  From Politico:

Reid and Democrats have pointed to the 72 cloture motions — which cut off debate and require 60 votes — as “filibusters.” Republicans say these are not true filibusters, since many of the motions pass overwhelmingly.

Nonetheless, Reid says Republican contentions that they’ve only forced 65 or so cloture motions proves the point. Here’s the stabbing quote:

“Is it 72; is it 65? It’s like you’re charged with aggravated assault and the complaint says you stabbed somebody 72 times and you say no, it’s 65 times,” Reid said.

Reid liked the analogy so much he used it again on a follow up question. “The picture is clear what the Republicans have done. Whether the stab was 72 times or 65 times — a lot of filibusters,” Reid said. “The American people see what’s going on.” (We sure do, and we see you’re a buffoon and a hypocrite. – Ed.)

Oh, I see.  So when Dems were in the minority, they were stabbing Bush’s judicial nominees?  How odd, since I seem to recall Harry saying that those “stabbings” were a way to constrain the majority (which, presumably, is a good thing).  Now that the shoe’s on the other foot, these “stabbings” sure seem a lot more painful.

Jackass.

March 6, 2008 Posted by | Reid | 1 Comment

Washington comPost with another left-weighted poll

Not surprising, but I’d be remiss if I didn’t put this up.  From Capt. Ed:

The Washington Post reports that their new poll shows John McCain trailing Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton — a result that contradicts Rasmussen’s polling this week. Instead of showing a five-point lead for McCain, the WaPo survey has Obama up by 12. How can that be? It helps to have a huge oversample of Democrats and a lot of unregistered voters (via Jim Geraghty):

Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) leads McCain, who captured the delegates needed to claim the Republican nomination Tuesday night, by 12 percentage points among all adults in the poll; Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) holds a six-point lead over the GOP nominee. Both Democrats are buoyed by moderates and independents when going head to head with McCain and benefit from sustained negative public assessments of President Bush and the war in Iraq.

Well, let’s take a look at that sample, shall we? It consists of 1126 adults, 15% of which are unregistered. That puts registered voters at 957. That’s enough to skew the sample, at the very least making its predictive value useless. Most reliable pollsters use registered voters for their entire sample, and the most predictive narrow that down to likely voters.

That’s not the only problem in this poll. Party identification breaks down 40/28/28 for Democrats, Republicans, and independents, respectively. Rasmussen’s party identification surveys show a much different breakdown for the population: 38.7/33.1/28.2, which halves the gap shown in WaPo’s survey. The survey then asks how the independents lean, and winds up with almost a 20-point gap between Democrats and Republicans — 55/36/7.

Didn’t anyone at the Post look at these numbers and wonder whether that reflected the nation as a whole, or perhaps a bias in sample collection?

The result is an unreliable poll, but one hell of a headline. McCain trails by twelve! And when McCain beats Obama or Clinton, we’ll hear once again that the election had to have been stolen — because all of the polls showed McCain behind.  (That’s the last thing that the paranoid #sshat conspiracy theorists on the left need! – Ed.)

Nope…no liberal media bias!

March 6, 2008 Posted by | media bias, polls | Leave a Comment

Anti-2nd Amendment reporter fired for badgering old man

Remember the story out of Dallas back in October about the reporter who hounded a 70-year-old Army vet who blasted a home intruder?  If not, here’s your refresher.  She was suspended shortly after the incident.

Good news: the wench has been fired, and deservedly so.  From Uncle Barky:

Rebecca Aguilar’s 14-year career as a Fox4 reporter has officially ended via a letter from an attorney representing the station.In a telephone interview Wednesday night, Aguilar, 49, said she was checking her mail at mid-afternoon that day when she noticed an envelope under her front door mat. It informed her that Fox4 was exercising an option to drop her at the halfway point of a two-year contract that began on March 6, 2007.

“No doorbell, no knock on the door,” said Aguilar, who had been on paid suspension since Oct. 16th following her controversial interview with an elderly West Dallas salvage business owner who had shot and killed two alleged burglars within three weeks time.The interview had been hotly debated in both Dallas and around the country. Some accused Aguilar of “ambushing” a feeble old man; others said she had been aggressive, but not unduly so, in getting a story that rival stations also wanted on their newscasts.

The suspension came less than two weeks after Aguilar had accepted the Broadcast Journalist of the Year award from the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Three other Fox4 staffers connected with the story belatedly received suspensions lasting less than a week combined.

“I just think it’s really sad that I gave this company 14 years and I did about 6,000 interviews,” Aguilar said. “And now I’m out of a job because of one interview? It’s like in one swoop it ruined my reputation. It ruined my name.“  

No, dumb#ss, you ruined your name!  Continuing:

… Aguilar said that most street reporters are expected to “go out there and ask the hard questions. As journalists, shouldn’t we able to do the same thing on the inside? We shouldn’t live in fear. Because once you put fear into a reporter, how can you expect that person to pursue the truth, pursue the facts? We cannot as reporters be Jekyll and Hyde, one person on the inside, another person on the outside. Those plantation days are over.” 

“Plantation days”?  Care to elaborate, Señora?  Besides, there’s a difference in “agressive reporting” and what you said to a traumatized old man: “Are you a trigger happy kind of person? Is that what you wanted to do, shoot to kill?”

Continuing:

Aguilar, whose husband still works at Fox4, contends that the station may have “ruined my career.”

Again: no, dumb#ss, you ruined it!  Take some responsibility for your own putrid actions, you jackass!

March 6, 2008 Posted by | gun rights, media bias, Texas | 5 Comments

Hillary camp: Obama = Ken Starr

She wins TX and OH, and then smacks of desparation with this?  From Politico:

Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson, taking the campaign a bit meta on a conference call today, attacked Obama for attacking Clinton, and compared him to a notorious Clinton foe.

“When Senator Obama was confronted with questions over whether he was ready to be Commander-in-Chief and steward of the economy, he chose not to address those questions, but to attack Senator Clinton,” Wolfson said. “I for one do not believe that imitating Ken Starr is the way to win a Democratic primary election for president.”

Wolfson was attacking Obama’s explicit strategy, in the wake of his March 4 losses, to attack elements of Clinton’s record on the grounds of secrecy, and to revisit the questions raised by Clinton foes in the 1990s and earlier. Obama has demanded Clinton’s tax returns, cited delays in releasing her White House schedules, and even made reference to trades in cattle futures in the late 1970s that became a subject of allegations during the White House years. … 

I guess they figured that illogical yet emotionally charged images would appeal to the Dem base.  Wait a minute…stuff like that does appeal to the “feeling, not thinking” Dem base!  OK, never mind.

March 6, 2008 Posted by | Hillary, Obama | 1 Comment

Quote of the day

From Jay Leno:

You see Barack Obama at that rally surrounded by all those Kennedys? Man, I couldn’t tell if he was running for president or bartender! 

Zing!

March 6, 2008 Posted by | quote of the day | 1 Comment

NBC show casts McCain as cannibalistic murderer

I’m sure it was just a big coinkidink.  From Newsbusters:

Monday’s NBC psychic crime drama “Medium” featured a plot line in which an Arizona senator and former POW is discovered to be a two-time murderer and a cannibal. While it is safe to assume that the story was written before the Hollywood writers’ strike, and before the rise of John McCain to front-runner status for the GOP presidential nomination, the blatant use of McCain’s personal history, as a politician and Vietnam POW, as grist to feed the murderous plot is obvious.

In Monday’s episode, titled “Aftertaste”, the medium (“Allison DuBois,” played by Patricia Arquette) suspects an ex-POW Arizona state senator is involved in a murder she sees in her dreams. Through a series of psychic flashbacks, she discovers that the senator (“Jed Garrity,” played by Gregory Itzin), as a young Army captain held by the North Vietnamese, proposed to his cellmates that they kill and eat a dying American soldier rather than starve to death. “Garrity” drew the short straw and committed the actual murder himself by strangling the dying soldier.

Yes, I know the show is fiction.  But they just so happened to pick a character who, minus the Hannibal Lechter-like qualities, matches Juan McCain to a tee?  Nope…no liberal media bias!

March 6, 2008 Posted by | McCain, media bias | 14 Comments

   

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