Couric - Fringe Media Socialist Attack Troll
As the world turns…
(Hat Tip to ArleneArmy)
Seems Katie Couric’s turn in the expose-a-fringe-media-socialist-moonbat barrel is coming…
Andrew Breitbart, the blogger at BigGovernment has more Socialist Moonbat ACORN Crushing coming your way…
Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, “Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror.” ACORN was not the only target of those videos; so were Katie, Brian, Charlie and every other mainstream media pooh-bah.
They were not going to report this blockbuster unless they were forced to. And they were. What’s more, it ain’t over yet. Not every hint I dropped in that piece about what was to come has played itself out yet.Stay tuned…
Check out Andrew Breitbart Presents BIGGOVERNMENT’s latest Blog Post…
Planting the Seeds: The Politicized Art Behind the ACORN Plan
Everything you needed to know about the unorthodox roll out of the now-notorious ACORN sting videos was hidden in plain sight in my Sept. 7 column, “Katie Couric, Look in the Mirror.” ACORN was not the only target of those videos; so were Katie, Brian, Charlie and every other mainstream media pooh-bah.
They were not going to report this blockbuster unless they were forced to. And they were. What’s more, it ain’t over yet. Not every hint I dropped in that piece about what was to come has played itself out yet.Stay tuned.
When filmmaker and provocateur James O’Keefe came to my office to show me the video of him and his friend, Hannah Giles, going to the Baltimore offices of ACORN – the nation’s foremost “community organizers” – dressed as a pimp and a prostitute and asking for – and getting – help for various illegal activities, he sought my advice. In the past, Mr. O’Keefe created brilliant social satire that rocked his college campus and even made its way on to the talk-radio and cable-news shows, but the magnitude of his latest adventure had the potential to rock the political establishment.
I was awed by Mr. O’Keefe’s guts and amazed by the footage, but explained that the mainstream media would try to kill this important and illuminating expose about a corrupt and criminal political racket, and that the well-funded political left would go into “war room” mode, with 25-year-old Mr. O’Keefe and 20-year-old cohort Miss Giles in the cross hairs. I felt I had a moral obligation to protect these young muckrakers from the left and from the media, and to devise a strategy that would force the media’s hand.
Once the American public saw with its own eyes the grotesque, common practices of ACORN’s housing offices, Mr. O’Keefe and Miss Giles could no longer be a legitimate focus of media scrutiny. Kill the messenger doesn’t work with the American people when they realize that the message is so devastating and honest. I think the video exposed the misuse of public funds and systemic manipulation of the tax code in the name of “helping the poor.”
If Mr. O’Keefe dumped the videos on YouTube, the political powers would have killed the expose before it got traction. I half-joked that he should secretly tape pitching the major television networks exclusive use of his videos for their nightly news broadcasts. But a simpler, less controversial method proved as fruitful.
I told him that in addition to launching his compelling and stylized Web videos, we needed to offer the full transcripts and audio to the public in the name of transparency, and to offer Fox News the full footage of each video before each was released.We had to devise a plan that would force the media to see the evidence before they had enough time to destroy these two idealistic 20-something truth seekers. Mr. O’Keefe agreed to post the full audio and full transcript of his video experiences at BigGovernment.com.
Thus was born a multimedia, multiplatform strategy designed to force the reluctant hands of ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times and The Washington Post.
Videos of five different ACORN offices in five separate cities would be released on five consecutive weekdays over a full week – Baltimore, Washington, New York, San Bernardino and San Diego. By dripping the videos out, we exposed to anyone paying attention that ACORN was lying through its teeth and that the media would look imbecilic continuing to trot out their hapless spokespeople.
Read the full article at the Washington Times.
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Can’t stay this morning… boo hoo hoo…
sometimes you guys have all the fun!
meow…
Have a good day VF and thanks for this new Thriller Blog.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/22/obama-tells-letterman-actually-black-election/
Obama on Letterman: I Was Black Before the Election
The president gave his most irreverent answer yet on the question of whether some of the reaction to his health care plan is driven at least partly by racism.
NEW YORK — President Barack Obama sat down with late night TV talk show host David Letterman on Monday, wrapping up a blitz of television appearances as he tries to build support for his top domestic priority, an ambitious health care overhaul plan.
Obama, America’s first black president, also had his most irreverent answer yet on the question of whether some of the reaction to his health care plan is driven at least partly by racism.
“Was Jimmy Carter onto something … was this unease or poor decorum rooted in racism, or is that just something to talk about?” Letterman asked.
“First of all, I think it’s important to realize that I was actually black before the election,” Obama said to huge laughs from Letterman and the audience.
Letterman quipped: “How long have you been a black man?”
Obama replied: “So the American people, I think, gave me this extraordinary honor. That tells you a lot, I think, a lot about where the country is at.”
By the time Obama came on stage to the taping of the “Late Show,” Letterman had offered up 10 reasons why in the world the president had agreed to do it.
Among Letterman’s theories: Obama said yes without thinking about it, or as Letterman put it, “Like Bush did with Iraq.”
But Obama had other ideas. It turns out he was listening when Letterman had bantered with a woman in the audience who brought a potato in the shape of a heart to the show.
Obama told Letterman: “The main reason I’m here? I want to see that heart-shaped potato.”
The woman tossed the potato to Letterman.
She agreed to let Obama keep it. Said the president: “This is remarkable.”
The Top 10 list was edited out of the broadcast, but it was available on the CBS Web site. A spokesman said the length of the Obama interview caused the edit.
Letterman covered a number of topics with Obama — many of them serious — in a taping that ran about 40 minutes. The show will be broadcast Monday evening.
On the economy, Obama offered a sober prediction as the country deals with 9.7 percent unemployment, the worst level since 1983. He said he expects unemployment will be a “big problem” for at least another year. But he also said the economy will rebound even stronger.
On the war in Afghanistan, Obama said he knows some people want him to bring troops home, and others are calling for him to increase U.S. force levels to combat the insurgency. The top U.S. commander there is warning the war could be lost without more troops.
Obama said he won’t make a decision on sending in more troops, though, until he completes a comprehensive review of the war effort and settles on his next strategy.
“I’m going to be asking some very hard questions,” Obama said.
Obama’s visit made him the first sitting president to appear on Letterman’s program. He had been on Letterman’s show five times before, though, most recently in September 2008. He was elected in November.
The White House said it was a good way for him to reach yet another audience.
As president, Obama has done the “Tonight” show, on a competing network, when it was hosted by Jay Leno.
After taping Letterman’s show, the president returned to his midtown Manhattan hotel and quietly emerged a while later in gym clothes and a baseball cap. His destination: the church across the street for some basketball with his aides.
Tomorrow starts Obama’s main mission in New York: His participation in the United Nations General Assembly.
Obama Ties to ACORN Date Back Nearly 20 Years
President Obama took great pains Sunday to act as if he barely knew about Acorn. In fact, his association goes back almost 20 years.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/21/obama-ties-acorn-date-decades/
Only one of the five television networks that interviewed President Obama for their Sunday shows bothered to ask him about Acorn, the left-wing community organizing group whose federal funding was cut off last week by an overwhelming vote in Congress.
“Frankly, it’s not something I’ve followed closely,” Mr. Obama claimed, adding he wasn’t even aware the group had been the recipient of significant federal funding. “This is not the biggest issue facing the country. It’s not something I’m paying a lot of attention to,” he said.
Mr. Obama added that an investigation of Acorn was appropriate after an amateur hidden-camera investigation had found Acorn offices willing to abet prostitution, but he carefully declined to say whether he would approve a federal cutoff of funds to the group.
Mr. Obama took great pains to act as if he barely knew about Acorn. In fact, his association goes back almost 20 years. In 1991, he took time off from his law firm to run a voter-registration drive for Project Vote, an Acorn partner that was soon fully absorbed under the Acorn umbrella.
The drive registered 135,000 voters and was considered a major factor in the upset victory of Democrat Carol Moseley Braun over incumbent Democratic Senator Alan Dixon in the 1992 Democratic Senate primary.
Mr. Obama’s success made him a hot commodity on the community organizing circuit. He became a top trainer at Acorn’s Chicago conferences. In 1995, he became Acorn’s attorney, participating in a landmark case to force the state of Illinois to implement the federal Motor Voter Law. That law’s loose voter registration requirements would later be exploited by Acorn employees in an effort to flood voter rolls with fake names.
THE LIAR IN CHIEF GETS CAUGHT WITH OUT HIS TELEPROMPTER:
I don’t have time to post until later today, but wanted to get this out! The Obama administration is working very hard behind the scenes to take away our first amendment rights, along with Cass Sunstein, Julius Genachowski, is using the inch by inch method in trying to control bandwidth on internet providers. What this could mean is that you could not upload videos, or if your blog page is “deemed” not worthy?? The government can cut it off for news they see fit!! This is a travesty, it is going on each day to erode our freedoms, and it is sliding by the people and being kept under the radar!! Heads UP!!
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125354032776727741.html
The Fringe or Liberal Media did not think this was so bad. It didn’t even scare Pelosi to tears .
Thanks Kinky. That’s a hot one.
There is no like for this one. Beck will have info on public school indoctrination tonight.
As you know indoctrination is one of my peaves.
Kinky great find and thanks for sharing.
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This isn’t the video Beck found, but it’s telling.
What I’m hearing in my industry is that the government is waiting to bailout Verizon and AT&T, of which I will be working for one of them with my companies buyout.
If when that happens, AT&T and Verizon will have no say so about how they do their business.
I thought I was going to be busy today, but it’s alot of hurry up and wait. Sami, you know a little about that being in the military, huh?
The Verizon AT&T thing has to do with that article you put the link to, Kinky.
A hahahaha, yes I do Foxwood and I also know about Take that Hill. Retreat, Take that hill again.
Most of they guys I work with are ex-Military or National Guard. So I guess it carries over…
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Analysis: Why everyone is saying no to Obama
By AMIR MIZROCH
Everybody is saying no to the American president these days. And it’s not just that they’re saying no, it’s also the way they’re saying no.
Saudis twice said no to his request for normalization gestures towards Israel (at Barack Obama’s meeting with King Abdullah in Saudi Arabia, and in Washington at meetings with Hillary Clinton). Who says no to the American president twice? What must they think of Obama in the desert kingdom?
The North Koreans said no to repeated attempts at talks, by test-launching long-range missiles in April; Russia and China keep on saying no to tougher sanctions on Iran; the Iranians keep saying no to offers of talks by saying they’re willing to talk about everything except a halt to uranium enrichment; Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is saying no by refusing to meet with Binyamin Netanyahu until Israel freezes all settlement construction; the Israelis said no by refusing to agree to a settlement freeze, or even a settlement moratorium until and unless the Arabs ante up their normalization gestures. Which brings us back to the original Saudi no.
The only thing Obama did manage to get Bibi and Abbas to say yes to is a photo-op at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in NY. Mazel tov.
It’s the economy, stupid.
Everyone has worked it out by now: The great secret is out. America’s economy has made Obama a weak president, and he will likely remain weak throughout his first term. He has about two years to pull the American economy out of its free-fall before he begins his reelection campaign. If he can do it, and that’s a big if, chances are good that he’ll get reelected, and in his second term he can try to pull some geopolitical strings. But for the next three years, expect to see a world that says no to Obama. No meaningful and dramatic diplomatic initiative can come out of the White House in the next three years, as long as Obama remains weak.
And that’s a real pity, because there are some serious and imminent issues that need to be addressed.
Pyongyang is getting more bellicose and not being punished. The North Koreans have violated every single international agreement and norm, and nothing tangible has happened to them.
In Iran, this registers. “Look at how bad they’re being,” the mullahs say, “and they’re getting away with it.” Even so, the Iranian government is weak internally and internationally following its election fiasco.
The US and EU could tighten sanctions against Iran without the support of Russia and China, but they would need political will for that. Sanctions, such as a ban on refined oil imports, barring Iranian flights to America and Europe etc., could have a serious impact on Iran and weaken the regime further. The US and EU can act now against Iran like the US and UK did against Libya several years ago when they persuaded Gaddafi to abandon his nuclear ambitions. Back then, though, the US was much stronger. Now, the American economy, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and North Korea have all weakened the US.
In retaliation for increased, unilateral sanctions, Iran could turn up the heat on US and coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, which will stymie Obama’s plan to win and withdraw. In Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran has the US president by the kishkes, in a manner of speaking. And so do the Taliban.
So, when a president with so many problems comes asking for a favor, everyone finds it easier to just say no.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1253198168048&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
hey guys I can sign in at work LOL, crap I am going to get fired!!!
The chickens have come home to roost. Remember when the CIA or the Pentagon would leak on Bush?
http://www.reuters.com/article/joeBiden/idUSTRE58L2PS20090922
Yeah, I’m not supposed to login to anything other than work location, but I have a “supposedly” safe way of getting in. 🙂
SamI said quoting news source:
“Obama on Letterman: I Was Black Before the Election”
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Not true. Obama needs to stop his shucking & jiving. Before & during the election, Obama was not considered black or not black enough. Lets not forget the Obama’s “Kentucky fried chicken eating” comment, that black folks booed him for.
http://www.zimbio.com/2008+Presidential+Candidates/articles/1099/BARACK+OBAMA+BOOED+NAACP+GATHERING
Poll: Americans Angry at Feds
Americans are overwhelmingly angry at the U.S. government and is nearly as let down by the lack of ideas from both political parties, a new poll by Rasmussen Reports revealed Tuesday.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/22/poll-americans-angry-feds/?test=latestnews
Americans are overwhelmingly angry at the U.S. government and is nearly as let down by the lack of ideas from both political parties, a new poll by Rasmussen Reports revealed Tuesday.
Sixty-six percent of voters in a national poll said they’re angry at the policies of the federal government, including 36 percent who counted themselves as very angry.
Thirty percent are not really angry, including 10 percent of whom say they aren’t angry at all.
Among those most angry are Republicans — 90 percent of whom say they are somewhat or very angry. Seventy-seven percent of independents are angry and just 44 percent of Democrats are peeved.
Among those suggesting anger abounds falls a majority of Republicans, Democrats and independents — 59 percent overall — who say the anger is greater now than it was during the Bush administration.
But few believe that the political parties have an answer. Of those surveyed, 60 percent said neither Republicans nor Democrats understand what is needed and among those who claimed to be very angry, that number rises to 80 percent.
Forty-three percent of people say they are at least partly concerned that the anger could turn violent. That fear breaks down among party lines with 63 percent of Democrats saying they are concerned and 71 percent of Republicans saying they are not concerned. Sixty-one percent of independents are also not concerned.
Additionally, those who are most angry are least concerned about violence. Among the 36 percent who are very angry at the government, only 15 percent say they are very concerned about the possibility of violence. But 51 percent of those who are not angry at all say they fear violence.
The poll of 1,000 adults was taken Sept. 20-21 and has a margin of error of 3 points.
Arlene said:
Not true. Obama needs to stop his shucking & jiving. Before & during the election, Obama was not considered black or not black enough. Lets not forget the Obama’s “Kentucky fried chicken eating” comment, that black folks booed him for.
http://www.zimbio.com/2008+Presidential+Candidates/articles/1099/BARACK+OBAMA+BOOED+NAACP+GATHERING
Arlene,
Good find on that one. My next question would be: Where was the Fringe Media when the NAACP was Booing Obama? That in and of it self seems to be very Racist of the NAACP.
The Illinois Senator proceeded (in an ill-advised manner) to try and prove to African Americans that he was just like them by espousing a series of stereotypical characteristics about black people only held by racist white people.
“I eat fried chicken,” Obama said to the stunned crowd, “why sometimes I go to bed with a bucket of KFC, so I can eat it while I fall asleep, and again when I wake up in the morning.” The senator apparently did not notice how uncomfortable this statement made the crowd who were still willing to give him a chance to save himself.
Things just got worse however, as Obama proceeded to talk about the infamous O.J. Simpson trial. “And we all know that the white man set him up…Am I right N#$%@’s?” Obama said as he held up his hand for mental a high five that never came.
“So all of you who say that I don’t know much about the Black community don’t know much about me.” Obama continued as he pulled out a 40 oz bottle of Hurricane Malt Beverage and began to swig it.
At this point ushers began to help the elderly out of their seats and into the lobby to spare them what could only be a truly hurtful experience. However, the senator, desperate to close the gap between himself and front-runner Hillary Clinton in the presidential race only got out one more comment before security had to escort him away for his own safety.
“Lets face it,” he said, “we all love a good Dog Fight now and then,” Obama said as the crowd began to boo and throw furniture at the stage. “I mean, I fight dogs all the time, and make a good living doing it too.”
http://www.zimbio.com/2008+Presidential+Candidates/articles/1099/BARACK+OBAMA+BOOED+NAACP+GATHERING
From:
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2009/09/22/what-is-condoleezza-rice-talking-about/
What is Condoleezza Rice Talking About?
Posted by Malou Innocent
In an interview with Fortune Magazine, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says, “The last time we left Afghanistan, and we abandoned Pakistan, that territory became the very territory on which Al Qaeda trained and attacked us on September 11th.” She goes on to say, “So our national security interests are very much tied up in not letting Afghanistan fail again and become a safe haven for terrorists.” She declared, “It’s that simple, if you want another terrorist attack in the U.S., abandon Afghanistan.”
Actually, Ms. Rice, it’s not that simple. Your logic ignores the fact that terrorists can move to governed spaces. Rather than setting up in weak, ungoverned states, enemies can flourish in strong states because these countries have formally recognized governments with the sovereignty to reject foreign interference in their domestic affairs. This is one reason why terrorists find sanctuary across the border in Pakistan. Besides, 9/11 was planned in many other countries with competent law enforcement agencies, Germany and the United States included.
If there were (god forbid!) another 9/11, it would prove that invading and forcibly democratizing two Muslim-majority countries has not made America safer. In fact, if Ms. Rice is so concerned about abandoning Afghanistan, where was she in 2002 when her boss diverted America’s resources away from those who attacked us on 9/11 by invading a country that did not?
Americans should reject Ms. Rice’s atrocious interpretation of policy and remember that she and her ilk were adept at keeping the American public in an elevated state of panic. Fear-mongering should be rejected and replaced with a sober analysis of policy and its consequences.
Al Qaeda poses a manageable security problem, not an existential threat to America. Yet, as I mention here, policymakers tend to conflate al Qaeda with indigenous Pashtun-dominated militias. America’s security, however, will not be at risk even if an oppressive regime takes over a contiguous fraction of Afghan territory; and if the Taliban were to provide sanctuary to al Qaeda once again, it would be easier to strike at the group within Afghanistan than in neighboring, nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Your racist friend Foxwood thinks Condoleezza Rice should have ran for President.
VF
On Obama 5-media blitz, he blamed the bloggers for driving the discussion. This is a an admission that blogsphere is formidable.
When I look for the news, the 1st thing I do is hit the blogs & twitter before I look at the television news. I guess Stephanopoulos is trying to get ahead of the curve by embarrassing Obama with a vocabulary lesson. See, when Obama is challenged, it gives more credibility to the challenger.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/22/senate-committee-begins-work-health-care-reform/
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid threatened on Tuesday to use a procedural maneuver to steamroll opponents of health care reform, even as a Senate panel began delicate negotiations over a package that could have the best chance at passing.
The Nevada Democrat, who has issued similar threats before, spoke as the Senate Finance Committee began debate over Chairman Max Baucus’ reform plan. Reid threatened to use a budgetary tool called reconciliation — also known as the “nuclear option” — that would allow Democrats to pass key parts of the legislation with a simple majority, as opposed to the 60 votes needed to avoid a Republican filibuster.
“If we can’t work this out to do something within the committee structure, then we’ll be forced to do the reconciliation,” Reid said, adding that he views that as a “last resort.”
“It remains to be seen as to whether we will have to do reconciliation. I am confident and hopeful we won’t have to do that, but time will only tell,” Reid said.
Republican Sen. Richard Burr, N.C., said reconciliation would be a “grave mistake,” and that Reid underestimates the public concerns over the bill.
“I don’t think it’s a threat. I think that’s what Harry Reid intends to do,” Burr told FOX News.
But the Senate Finance Committee pushed through tense and intensive talks Tuesday to reach common ground on the Baucus plan. Senators have filed 564 amendments, and on Tuesday afternoon Baucus released a slew of changes.
Among them, Baucus agreed to cut in half the penalty attached to a government-mandated requirement to buy health insurance. Under the changes, families could be charged a maximum of $1,900 for failing to meet the requirement — as opposed to $3,800.
Baucus also agreed to raise the threshold for insurance plans that would be subject to an excise tax. Under the revisions, plans worth $8,750 for individuals and $23,000 for families would be subject to the tax — the thresholds were previously $8,000 for individual plans and $21,000 for family plans.
And he agreed to increase the value of tax credits low- and middle-income people would receive toward insurance. Officials said Baucus decided to commit an additional $50 billion over a decade toward making insurance more affordable for working class families.
The Finance Committee is the last of five panels to have a say before the full Senate debates legislation.
Baucus’ legislation is designed to make coverage more available and affordable, while restraining the growth in the cost of medical care generally. Its 10-year price tag is below $900 billion, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Baucus made numerous concessions to Republicans in his unsuccessful stab at bipartisan compromise, jettisoning calls for the government to sell insurance in competition with private industry, as well as a proposed requirement for large companies to offer insurance to their workers.
In his opening remarks, Baucus sought to preempt Republican criticism.
“Despite what some may say, this is no ‘government takeover’ of health care,” Baucus said. “Our plan does not include a public option. We did not include an employer mandate. And we have paid for every cent.”
But Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, the panel’s ranking Republican, said the White House and Democratic leaders short-circuited the bipartisan talks by imposing a mid-September deadline. “I find it utterly and completely appalling,” he said.
Grassley criticized many of the plan’s key components, from a requirement that all Americans get insurance, to the taxes that would pay for subsidies to make the coverage affordable. He also said the bill falls short in guaranteeing that illegal immigrants won’t get government help to buy insurance, as well as in preventing funding for abortion.
The concerns are bipartisan.
A number of committee Democrats had raised concerns about whether subsidies in Baucus’ bill are generous enough to make insurance truly affordable for low-income people. There also are worries about the new tax on high-cost insurance plans, which critics fear would hit some middle-class workers, including many union members in risky occupations such as mining and police work.
Those concerns were shared by Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, whose support could become even more critical if legislation makes it to the Senate floor.
Arlene, Obama is becoming a joke and an embarrassment around the world and he is losing every bit of credibility he ever had. Even the leaders around the world are dissrespecting him and are no longer viewing this country as a threat to rogue nations. We are becoming just an insignificant paper tiger.
Arlene,
I tend to catch Fox Radio, then the blogs. I’m usually in my truck, tho.
Like Condi said… were primed for another attack.
Since MSNBC, CNN & others (except for Foxnews) will NOT challenge Obama, regular folks do not tune into those channels.
Bertha Lewis realized this & shows up at foxnews. She knew that by talking to the liberal media (who has little viewership) was like singing to the choir, but the choir (viewers) kicked her under the bus.
Big Government (dot) Com has proved that government corruption was exposed with:
1. little money (I think under 5K … fiscal conservatism) for the sting operation
2. descent operating vehicle
3. minimal amount of basic electronic equipment
4. 2 willing patriot participants
5. video broadcasting account
6. a blog
This ought to make the television media hang their heads in shame.
Very Very Good Arlene, you are on a roll dear.
Foxwood
I can hardly wait to get my dvr. It should be in this week.
But when we are in the truck, we listen to foxnews on XM.
At night while in bed, I use cell phone to catch twitter & then I tune in to medianet for some news …. but usually read mobile politico.com. Sometimes I check in on VF’s blog, but my cell phone can’t seem to handle the intense graphics. I contacted the cell phone about this & they told me that the blog owner has to make it “mobi” friendly. I do plan on getting an iphone, but I cant seem to get a straight-forward answer from AT&T on the details.
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I can tell you that AT&T is not customer friendly. My co. rents T1s from them and it’s like pulling teeth to get repairs done.
SamI & Tellit
Obama’s a jive talker & he’s WEAK.
Keep a watchful eye on the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC). In 2010, the black caucus’s membership will NOT increase. This is a reality that threatens the CBC survival & its membership is its survival. They will do what ever’s necessary to survive.
The political race to watch is NY, Massachusetts & Illinois.. but especially NY. Also New Jersey (from the fall out from NY). That’s when the Congressional Black Caucus will buck hard on Obama to endorse Paterson & to dump Cuomo. If Paterson gets bloodied up to bad, then that will cause Corzine (NJ) to be viewed unfavorably by blacks.
ZERO black governors is very likely. Patrick is too weak & Paterson is weaker up against Guilliani. The “Paterson” affect will ignite the “racers”. Paterson may have slim chance to win due to the delicate discourse on race & he’s blind. Guilinni will be labeled a racist during the gubernatorial debate. A black probably will win Burris’s seat, but it wont be Jackson Jr.
If the only 2 black governors are replaced by non-blacks & if blacks start losing seats in the House, that’s when Obama will lose his probationary black status. That’s when real black folks will see Obama as Kenyan. And Clinton regains his crown as the 1st black president.
Obama’s cutting in on Beck’s show !!!
Obama aint fooling me. I know what he’s trying to do.
Im emailing Foxnews RIGHT NOW for them to cut Obama’s speech off & put Beck back on NOW!!!!