And of course, the leaking of this report is not timed to discredit the Tea Parties in which conservatives are protesting fiscal policy. Because the White House is unaware of the Tea Parties, according to ABC News.
But my jaw dropped when I clicked on the CNN story about the DHS report and saw this file photo:
Get it? If you're pro-life, pro-Second Amendment, pro-border control, or a war veteran, you might be a neo-Nazi.
This is from the CNN that never, ever reported on the role that communist and socialist groups have been playing in organizing anti-war and anti-capitalist protests here and around the world. At best, the the most violent protesters are labeled "anarchists" by CNN. But they're not shown hoisting red flags with hammers and sickles, even though they often do.
This is from the CNN that blamed a shooting rampage on some Fox News Channel hosts because a killer listened to conspiracy theory crackpot Alex Jones, not Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck.
Labels: CNN, news media analysis, talk radio
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You may walk down the street with two fingers shoved up your nose and any color hair you like. True Americans won't say a word. We may laugh and snicker but we will not stop you.
Only a Tyrant or patriot would have anything to worry about when a guy with gun is carrying a sign with the quote from Jefferson. I don't think the carrier was a patriot so those that have a problem with his actions are saying that Obama is a Tyrant. Tyrants should always be worried about armed citizens. Sic Semper Tyrannis. It matters not for whom we vote, we always get a Tyrant. No true citizen can run for the Presidency or even Congress for that matter. My state won't let me run because I couldn't raise enough money to get on the primary ballot. How Mr. Sullivan picked your worthless butt is beyond me. Maybe a blue dress was envolved.
Here's a shock: He "usually goes to the left" ¶ 2:13 PM
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This was uncomfortable to watch, yet the radio host held up well considering the block he was trying to converse with.
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What was that? Ole' Billy Bob sure was a pain. Was he on drugs or something? Pretty scary the way he gave the radio host such a hard time!
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Oh, my gosh! That DJ did a pretty good job given the tough nut he was talking to. Something must have happened before they went on the air-did you notice how the band members didn't interact with each other, no eye contact, nothing? The only one that seemed at all engaging was the one next to Billy Bob.
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Wow. The previous comments were correct: it was just painful to watch. I have to say that the other band members did a good job of covering for each other, but OUCH. It was just awful.
Did they get any other albums out after this?
And to all my Western Christian friends, a blessed Good Friday!
Labels: talk radio
¶ 9:44 PM
It is a rare occasion for an Orthodox Christian hierarch to stand face to face with the President of the United States. Not only was His Eminence invited to the White House on Wednesday, he was given the chance to address President Obama who has, in a very short time, reversed American foreign and domestic policies that have protected the lives of unborn children.
Obama is using American taxpayer dollars to fund embryonic stem cell research that destroys unborn humans for the sake of possibly helping the living. He has also pledged $50 million to the United Nations Population Fund which has been linked to forced abortions in China. The President is also working to force health care providers and institutions to offer abortion services, even if doing so violates their consciences and religious convictions.
Obama's actions have led one member of Congress to label Obama "the abortion President". Some Roman Catholic students and alumni of Notre Dame University who are outraged at Obama's actions are urging the university to withdraw the honorary degree and offer to speak at commencement it has extended to the President.
Instead of challenging Obama, His Eminence flattered him. He asked for Obama's help in resolving disputes with Greece's neighbors and even compared the President to the Greek military genius and folk hero Alexander the Great. In his remarks, Abp Demetrios was stunningly silent about Obama's haste to enable, facilitate, and fund the killing of the unborn.
The timing of the archbishop's remarks is even more troubling. His Eminence was invited to the White House to commemorate Greece's war of independence from the oppression of the Ottoman Turks which began on March 25, 1821. The revolutionaries chose to launch their offensive on March 25 because it is the feast day of the Annunciation in the Orthodox Church, one of the most important days of the Church calendar. Exactly nine months before Christmas, the Church celebrates that the Virgin Mary heard the angel's message and agreed to conceive Christ Jesus for the salvation of the world. The Greek revolutionaries sought the protection of her whose womb gave life to the Life of the World. The sanctity of the womb should be in the forefront of the minds of all Orthodox Christians on March 25.Perhaps His Eminence wished to avoid controversy. Perhaps he was saying what he was told to say by his superior, the Patriarch of Constantinople. Perhaps he was trying to attract a fly with sweet words of honey.
Not all Christian hierarchs avoid discussing doctrinal issues for the sake of currying favor with those in positions of power. In 1993 Pope John Paul II bravely and publicly chastised the new President Bill Clinton to his face for pioneering these same policies of violence against the unborn that Obama is reviving. This courageous act -- and Clinton's embarrassed reaction -- made news, and for the right reasons.
It is proper to pay the President the respect that is due to his office, to be constructive in message and temperate in tone, to be appropriately complimentary, and to ask for his help in temporal matters. However, as the head of SCOBA and a leading voice of Orthodox Christianity in America, Abp Demetrios most importantly had a responsibility to "speak truth to power" by using this God-given opportunity to witness to a misguided President, the nation that elected him, and an ideology of death that is at odds with the teachings God has revealed in His Holy Church.
It is lamentable that Abp Demetrios balked at that opportunity by remaining silent about the Christian message he has dedicated his life to proclaiming while adulating the President so he would intercede in Greek affairs. I pray God will forgive him for this serious failure.
Labels: abortion, Obama, Orthodox Christianity
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Scotto: Care to explain why it was "courageous" for John Paul II to lecture Bill Clinton? He was the pope, for cryin' out loud. Not that he ever got the chance, but if he'd done it to Saddam Hussein, now that would have been courageous.
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Why's that, Dan? The courage of your convictions applies no matter who those convictions are directed at. Scotto merely wishes His Eminence had his.
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Scotto....the leader of your faith has joined a long list of powerful men and women who don't want to be the first one to say 'no' to Obama.
Where is his 'mojo' comming from ??
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Thanks for the post--will keep this in mind.
I just wanted to say I heard you on Gibson's radio show talking to the fellow (Bukhari?) defending the guy who drew his gun on cops. WELL DONE! You were articulate and delivered an excellent argument against an appalling, even scandalizing defense of this thug. Thanks for doing such a great job. -
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Dan Kennedy may be a 'Professor' but he apparently missed class the day 'The vatican' was discussed - as in it is a 'country' governed by a religious leader much the same way some theocracies operate.
The Pope, as head of this 'country' in existance since around 1928 or 29, would be considered a leader with, by golly, opinions, and gosh golly again, being a religious guy running his own 'country' it would be most appropriate to articulate opinions one Leader to another - thus, the discussions with Bill Clinton were appropriate and, Clinton's embarrasment probably came from the only honest bone left in his body, bein' he is a good ole country baptist boy...get your head out of your butt Dan. Religion may be a racket, but hell, so is institutional government!
It's nice you stop by now and again though - good to see how the 'other half' thinks...
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What does BowlingGate distract attention from?
The Democrats' own distraction game. They have exploited the furor about AIG bailout money going to pay for $165 million in bonuses to divert attention away from the Democrats' own roles in enabling those bonuses -- roles that we learn more about every day -- and from the Obama administration's failures. Consider this:
- Several of Obama's appointees withdraw their nominations because of personal scandals or philosophical differences with his extreme agenda.
- When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits China, she follows her orders from Obama and avoids any discussions of human rights abuses by Beijing.
- Obama's Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is a tax cheat who while leading the Federal Reserve Bank of New York did nothing to stop AIG from getting dangerously deep in insuring subprime mortage-backed securities.
- Geithner lies about knowing nothing about the AIG bonuses until last week when in fact he insisted those bonuses be paid when the bailout bill was included in the stimulus plan crafted last month.
- Senate Banking Committee chair Christopher Dodd, who exceeded only Obama in 2008 political contributions from AIG, lies about writing Geithner's bonus plan into the bailout bill.
- Obama breaks his campaign promise not to appoint lobbyists and confronts a reporter for challenging him for it.
- Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi calls American immigration law "un-American" in a speech to illegal immigrants.
- Obama takes responsibility for the economic crisis, including the nosedive the stock market has taken since he took office, while saying he isn't to blame. Then he gets on a plane to appear on a comedy show.
- Obama insults UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown by downsizing his White House visit to one not becoming of the US's key ally in the world and by gifting the Browns some plastic toy models of Marine One and a box of DVDs they can't watch in the UK.
- 3/5 of the way through his first 100 days in office and has yet to unveil his promised economic recovery plan or appointed key Treasury officials.
- Obama puts together a budget based on overly optimistic projections about the future of the economy -- to the tune of about a trillion dollars a year.
- The Commander-in-Chief Rahm Emanuel still refuses to use the word "victory" to describe the Iraq War, in spite of dramatic reductions in attacks and casualties, free multi-party elections, continuing troop withdrawals, and Iraqi armed forced having command of the entire country.
- Obama insists the $787 billion stimulus package -- larger than the costs of the entire Iraq War -- is free of "pork barrel" spending, spurring investigators to find no less than $5 billion in earmarks.
- White House Chief of Staff takes personal control of the 2010 US Census, raising serious concerns about whether the Census will be politicized in order to boost Democractic representation in Congress.
- Obama takes hundreds of thousands of dollars as an advance on a lucrative book deal just days before taking the oath of office, becoming the first President to sign a book contract before taking office.
- Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who never hesitated to use the word "terrorism" when serving as governor of Arizona, now uses the word "man-caused disaster" to avoid offending anyone with words of "fear".
- Obama announces that Gitmo detainees who the government lacks enough evidence to try in court will be set free in the United States.
- Obama is forced to distance himself from Attorney General Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, after he labels the America "essentially a nation of cowards" with respect to race issues.
- New data from the federal government showing America's abortion rate leads the industrialized world and almost 3/4 of black children are born out of wedlock is met by the White House with a silent indifference.
Obama owes and apology not just to the Kennedy Kid who runs the Special Olympics but to the thousands of Americans who struggle to overcome learning disabilities as well as the families who lovingly support them. That Obama thinks his remark was insulting only to the Special Olympics organization and further proves how callous he is.
Labels: bailout, Congress, Democrats, Obama, Tonight Show
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As a woman with 2 nephew's with autism, and a daughter that was the President of the Best Buddy's organization in our town, I am totally BESIDE myself about what this idiot said. The fact that the american people voted this man into office, scares the living
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It came as a great comfort to me that Deval reduced the annual income of his newly appointed friend from 170K down to 120K. Filling a job that had been vacant for 12 yrs. No serious problems became apparent with the seat vacant. That said,I am real glad it's filled now and we saved 50K due to the grilling he took.HMMMMMMMMMMMM
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If you want to get REALLY pissed, listen to talk radio. Moveon.org is running a flight of ads bashing the "Bush disaster" and various things they had to get off their chest. Hey guys, you won! If the current make up of Congress and the White House isn't enough for them, I have been proven right: They are a group of ignorant a-holes that can't get anyone to listen to them without George Soros's money.
Oh, and hey, in case you missed it, the Iraq War began six years ago today.
It's not getting a lot of coverage by the cable networks. If its getting any coverage at all in the newspaper, it's often in the back pages. Here are some facts:
4,260 American service members dead, but casualties are at their all-time lowest because the Bush administration -- finally -- put in enough troops to get the job done, even though our current Vice-President predicted the surge would backfire and escalate the conflict.
No service members killed (thank God) since last month. No sailors killed in over a year. No marines killed since December. No airmen killed in almost a year. Iraq's most recent round of elections went off pretty much without a hitch.
We've won. Since you may not read it anywhere else, and few would dare utter these words, I will repeat: The US has won the Iraq War.
No wonder Democrats would rather whine about the millions in AIG bonuses they allowed to be paid out with taxpayer money. The Democrats realized last year that there weren't enough American corpses to campaign on, and when they started harping no the economy instead, the Iraq story somehow went away.
It can't go unmentioned that the Obamacrats have spent more taxpayer dollars since taking power in Washington in January than the Iraq War has cost in six years. And yesterday, the Federal Reserve Bank announced it was buying up US debts by printing up about twice as much money as has been spent in Iraq War. Very sobering.
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Scotto...the Iraqi people are the
winners here. We hit the reset button for them but what do we get
for it? Loyalty? Partnership? Oil?
No, No, & Hell No! We get to compete for their business with
Europe,Russia,& China...wow. We won
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First Prize: A new Cadillac.
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¶ 11:14 PM
We Orthodox Christians, who also venerate St Patrick on this day, strongly disagree. This prayer, widely attributed to St Patrick himself, proves the point well:.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength,
The invocation of the Trinity,
Through the belief in the threeness,
Through the confession of the oneness
Of the Creator of Creation.
I arise today
Through the strength of Christ's birth with his baptism,
Through the strength of his crucifixion with his burial,
Through the strength of his resurrection with his ascension,
Through the strength of his descent for the Judgment Day.
I arise today
Through the strength of the love of Cherubim,
In obedience of angels,
In the service of archangels,
In hope of resurrection to meet with reward,
In prayers of patriarchs,
In predictions of prophets,
In preaching of apostles,
In faith of confessors,
In innocence of holy virgins,
In deeds of righteous men.
I arise today
Through the strength of heaven:
Light of sun,
Radiance of moon,
Splendor of fire,
Speed of lightning,
Swiftness of wind,
Depth of sea,
Stability of earth,
Firmness of rock.
I arise today
Through God's strength to pilot me:
God's might to uphold me,
God's wisdom to guide me,
God's eye to look before me,
God's ear to hear me,
God's word to speak for me,
God's hand to guard me,
God's way to lie before me,
God's shield to protect me,
God's host to save me
From snares of demons,
From temptations of vices,
From everyone who shall wish me ill,
Afar and anear,
Alone and in multitude.
I summon today all these powers between me and those evils,
Against every cruel merciless power that may oppose my body and soul,
Against incantations of false prophets,
Against black laws of pagandom
Against false laws of heretics,
Against craft of idolatry,
Against spells of witches and smiths and wizards,
Against every knowledge that corrupts man's body and soul.
Christ to shield me today
Against poison,
Against burning,
Against drowning,
Against wounding,
So that there may come to me abundance of reward.
Christ with me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ in me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me,
Christ on my right,
Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down,
Christ when I sit down,
Christ when I arise,
Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of me,
Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me,
Christ in every eye that sees me,
Christ in every ear that hears me.
I arise today
Through a mighty strength,
The invocation of the Trinity,
Through belief in the threeness,
Through confession of the oneness,
Of the Creator of Creation.
*hat tip: Erick Straghalis
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Hear about Jay Severin? Jeez, Olberman can attack Miss California, but so much is Banned in Boston.
Welcome to what has been going on for years to the left. The examples of abuses that have gone on are too numerous to mention when writing on the fly, but the abuses against activists (including Iraq War veterans) at the political conventions last year stand out as well as the groups targeted by these "fusion" centers.
Sure, there are nuts in EVERY movement, but the wholesale targeting is ridiculous. It will be interesting to see what happens now that those on the "right" appear to be receiving some of the same unjustified scrutiny of those on the "left." I can remember plenty of activists (both liberal and true conservatives) warning of such things only to be ridiculed in the corporate media.
What is more, you should be careful about believing every image you see from the protests. I have no doubt you saw the flags you say you saw. However, did they indeed belong to those you believe they did? One tidbit that never really made it into the media in this country is an apparent agent provocateur in the midst of protesters at the Bush-Harper-Calderon summit in Canada a couple of years ago.
I suspect this stuff goes on more than we know, but if it happened once, it can happen again.
This is exactly why you should be careful about blindly giving any government such wide powers. You simply never know when it can be turned on you.
I encourage you to find other media outlets that actually cover the protests. The American corporate press (CNN, Faux, MSNBC and PBS, which I'm including because of its corporate underwriters) never cover these events well, if at all. Those outlets aren't the only ones that are horrible either.
Come on, Scotto....how about refreshing this site for some of your more old-fashioned listeners
that don't "tweet" or put their faces on facebook? While you're at
it, how about fulfilling your best destiny and getting a regular radio
gig back? You're better at it than O'Really and some others ever dreamed of, so get off your arse
and get back to it, pal!
Scotto...are you still around?
Scotto, are you still sharing opinions somewhere?
Scotto...have you been raptured??
Scotto...you okay?...as you can see, you still have some folks who look forward to exchanging with you.
LOOKS LIKE SCOTTO NO BLOGGO NO MORE!
Miss ya Scotto!
Scotto, It's been well over a month since we've heard from you....what gives???
SCOTTO...YA DIDN'T TURN LIBERAL ON US DID YA?
I MEAN YOU'RE NOT FILLING IN ON CNN OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT ARE YA?
HOPE YOU AND THE FAMILY ARE WELL..JUST MISS YA!
HMMMMMMMMMMMM??????????????!!!!!!!
Looks like Scotto can be found on twitter now.
http://twitter.com/scottoradio
SCOTTO!
Where have you been?