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Ron Paul, Herman Cain Trounce Mitt Romney and Rick Perry at Values Voters Summit. Media Reaction: Crickets
As a freelance journalist and public relations expert, I’m here to point out media bias so Hillbuzzers everywhere can learn to recognize it, and protect themselves from being made into Eeyores by manipulation by the government-controlled media.
If you are not an educated consumer of media coverage, you’re in danger of mistaking it for the truth, instead of opinion disguised as fact.
Today’s lesson comes courtesy the Values Voters Summit that took place over the weekend. This sixth-annual event, organized by the Family Research Council, includes training sessions for conservative activists; speeches by politicians who are (or are pretending to be) conservatives; and a presidential straw poll.
The Values Voters Summit is recognized by the government-controlled media as a leading indicator of conservative voter opinion, unless, of course, the media-annointed, hand-picked, “it’s their turn” candidates get their butts kicked in the straw poll. If anyone but this year’s media-declared candidates win, the event is “fixed.”
Here are the results:
Ron Paul – 37 percent
Herman Cain – 23 percent
Rick Santorum – 16 percent
Rick Perry – 8 percent
Michele Bachmann – 8 percent
Mitt Romney – 4 percent
Newt Gingrich – 3 percent
Undecided – 1 percent
Jon Huntsman – 0 percent
Yes, Jon “I Look Just Like Mitt” Huntsman lost to “Undecided.”
So, where’s the bias?
This story from ABC News gives us some great material to analyze.
The headline is, “Ron Paul Wins 2011 Values Voter Straw Poll, Herman Cain Takes Second Place.” So you might expect the story to be about Ron Paul and Herman Cain.
Well, you’d be half-right.
Remember, the Washington press corps votes 98% Democrat. They are essentially in the employ of the Obama Regime. They thing they’re “normal” and they think you–the patriotic, tax-paying, gun-owning, church-going, responsible Americans–are a reactionary, right-wing, bigoted raaaaaacist fanatics. You have to evaluate all government-controlled media coverage in that context.
The story is 572 words long. The first paragraph of 24 words is about Ron Paul:
The Texas congressman and presidential candidate who remains in the single digits in most national polls emerged as the choice of 37 percent of those who cast ballots at the annual Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. [bias emphasized]
But interestingly, the paragraph also subliminally tells you, the conservative voter, to ignore the results of this straw poll of conservatives, because Ron Paul “remains in the single digits in most national polls.” Which national polls? Of whom? Voters? Likely voters? Adults? Other members of the government-controlled media? Mittens Romney’s campaign staff? The Obama Regime? We’ll never know, because the ABC News reporter thinks we’re too stupid and gullible to ask.
Why is Ron Paul in single digits, when he gets consistently high rankings from Conservative watchdog groups like the National Taxpayers Union? Could it be because of biased coverage like this? Could it be because hand-picked “frontrunner” RINO candidates get hundreds of times more media coverage?
Single-digit poll results don’t stop the government-controlled media from telling you, the conservative voter, that Jon Huntsman is a “frontrunner.”
And single digit poll results don’t stop the government-controlled media from telling you, the conservative voter, in this same story that “Current GOP front-runner Mitt Romney…wound up near the bottom of the pack with 4 percent.”
How can a “journalist” write a sentence like that with a straight face?
How many more straw polls will Mittens Romneycare, Rick “I Heart Illegals” Perry and Jon “RINO” Hunstman have to lose before the government-controlled media stops putting the word “frontrunner” in front of their names? (It’s a trick question–they will never stop.)
In this 572-word story, which is ostensibly about Ron Paul winning the Values Voters Straw Poll, Ron Paul only gets 79 words of coverage, and two of those references are dismissive and negative.
Even though ABC news sent an intrepid reporter into the crowd to “take the temperature of the cultural conservative voters,” and more than one out of every three participants voted for Ron Paul, she apparently couldn’t locate a single Ron Paul voter to interview. Hmmm.
Herman Cain is the big winner in this story. He gets 196 words, all positive. And ABC News managed to hunt down and quote two Cain voters for the article.
With a third-place (16%) finish, you’d expect that the brain trust at ABC News would want to talk to or about Rick Santorum. Nope!
Instead, ABC news chose to boost Rick Perry, who gets 166 words of coverage (more than twice as much coverage as Ron Paul, the winner, and just slightly less than Herman Cain, the second-place finisher) despite earning an embarrassing 8% of the votes. All of Rick Perry’s coverage is positive.
So, conservative voters, here are the messages ABC News wants you to take away from this story:
- You’re stupid if you vote for Ron Paul. You should ignore him like we do!
You’re only slightly less stupid if you vote for Herman Cain.
Mitt Romney is the frontrunner. Because we say so.
Rick Perry is the serious candidate. Because we say so.
Here are a couple more illustrations of media bias around this news story:
First, a Google search engine results screen capture for the search phrase “Ron Paul Values Voters.” This search brings up TWENTY-SIX news stories in the first group of results, most of which don’t include the actual news–he WON! The most prominent story in the second group of results says that the event was “fixed.”
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A search on “Herman Cain Values Voters” brings up FOUR HUNDRED FORTY-ONE news stories in the first group of results.
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Big loser Mittens Romneycare, who only beat “Undecided” by 3%, scored ONE THOUSAND, NINE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-THREE news stories about this event. That’s seventeen times more news coverage than the winner. I didn’t read them all, but I assume that each contains the word “frontrunner.”
Is it any wonder that you don’t consider Herman Cain or Ron Paul as a “serious” candidate? Do you even know what their positions are? Or have you already let the government-controlled media make your decision for you?
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Every time you read a newspaper, you’re being manipulated. Every time you watch the TV news, you’re being manipulated. The story I’ve linked above contains several subliminal editorial comments designed to push you toward Obama-Regime-approved candidates Mittens Romneycare and Rick Gardisil Perry, and away from the two candidates who were the overwhelming choice of the conservative activists who paid to get in to the Values Voters Summit.
Your job is to research the candidates yourself, without the media filters. Learn to recognize that words like “frontrunner” are meant to brainwash you.
Get up off the sofa.
Put down the Pepsi.
Turn off the TV.
And do the legwork required to be an informed voter.
Pretend Republican Jon Huntsman Earns Endorsement From Pretend Human Michael Moore
Lefty Propagandist Michael Moore
Michael “The Hutt” Moore, Lefty propagandist, has endorsed a GOP candidate. For what, we’re not sure, since Moore typically votes significantly to the left of his idol, Nazi propagandist filmmaker and Hitler devotee Leni Riefenstahl.
Anyway, in an appearance on Piers Morgan Tonight, Moore burbled between swallowing whole live frogs,
“There’s only one that has sanity operating inside of him and that’s Jon Huntsman. Brrrrraaaaaccckkk! When they asked ‘who here believes in science?’ He’s like, the only one to raise his hand! Brrrrrrppp. Here he was, a Mormon and the governor of Utah..slluuurp…and he got a civil union law passed that’s not passed in many states that are not Utah. Haa…haaa…haaa…haa…haaaaaaaa! *cough*”
Pretend Republican Jon Huntsman
For those of you keeping track at home, there are at least 56 states that are not Utah, according to Jabba’s favorite president, Barack Hussein “Madrassa-Educated, but Not a Muslim” Obama.
This endorsement from a Leftist propagandist virtually guarantees that Huntsman will be dubbed the new “GOP Frontrunner” by Government-Controlled Media.
Jon Stewart to Ron Paul: “The media has a real problem with your consistency.”
It’s a sad day in America when the most substantive, in-depth discussion with a Presidential candidate is conducted by a comedian on Comedy Central.
Check out the last minute or so of this segment, where Jon Stewart gives Ron Paul some tips for becoming more popular with the media. It’s hysterically funny, but unfortunately very true.
Florida Straw Poll Voters Give Lamestream Media The Finger; Give Herman Cain the Win
In a massive show of force against the Lamestream Media and Cocktail Party GOP, voters in the Florida Straw Poll catapulted former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain to the head of the GOP pack with 37% of the votes cast.
Because they were “upset” and “surprised” that their manipulation failed to guarantee either of their hand-picked “frontrunner” candidates the win, news coverage referred to Cain’s win as a “shocking upset victory” and “surprise win.”
Unwilling to admit that their hand-picked, “because we say so” “frontrunner” candidates, Mittens Romneycare (who got 14% of the vote), and Rick “I Heart Illegals” Perry (15%), are loathed by much of the GOP electorate, the Lamestream Media released a statement.
Despite the fact that Herman Cain received more votes than frontrunner Mitt Romney and frontrunner Rick Perry combined, we will continue to refer to second-place frontrunner Mitt Romney and third-place frontrunner Rick Perry, as “frontrunners.”
We realize that we never referred to Iowa Straw Poll winners Michelle Bachmann and Ron Paul as “frontrunners.” However, there is a simple explanation for this: as members of the media, 98% of us are Democrats. And we realize that neither frontrunner Mitt Romney nor frontrunner Rick Perry, who are frontrunners, can beat our president, Barack Obama.
So, while Herman Cain may continue to win straw polls–joining Ron Paul, who has won dozens of them–you can rest assured that we will not ever refer to either of them as “frontrunners.” Because, of course, both of them can beat Barack Obama.
Luckily, you GOP voters are so gullible and easily manipulated that you’ll swallow the “frontrunner” label hook, line and sinker, without question.
Because, you see, it doesn’t matter who gets the most votes.
“Frontrunner” is our label to bestow. We gave it to Bob Dole. We gave it to John McCain. And once you nominate one of our handpicked frontrunners, frontrunner Mitt Romney or frontrunner Rick Perry, the label “frontrunner” will be ours to take away.
Suckers.
—The Media
GOP Debate Watch Thread: Fox News, 9:00 PM EST
The Fox News/Republican Party of Florida debate is tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern on Fox News.
The GOP candidates who will be on the stage are:
- Michelle Bachmann (Theocrat, Tea Party candidate)
- Herman Cain (Tea Party candidate, CEO, Gospel Singer, Full of Awesome)
- Newt Gingrich (Establishment Cocktail Party Republican, but oh, so fun to watch when he gives the LSM the smackdowns they so richly deserve)
- John Huntsman (RINO, Obama Regime Plant, Disturbingly Life-Like Except When Speaking–See Mitt Romney)
- Gary Johnson (Libertarian, Budget-Cutter, Full of Awesome, kicked ass as governor of New Mexico)
- Ron Paul (Tea Party candidate, Full of Awesome, 10th Amendment Devotee, #1 in Active Duty Military Fundraising)
- Rick Perry (Establishment Cocktail Party Republican who occasionally goes slumming with the Tea Party)
- Mitt Romney (RINO, Annointed Media Darling, Epitome of Entitled Cocktail Party GOP, Disturbingly Life-Like–See John Huntsman)
- Rick Santorum (Big-Spending Theocrat who needs to go run an anti-abortion non-profit)
In an effort to provide the most fair and balanced debate possible, Fox News announced unique new debate rules today:
- Because “it’s his turn,” all questions will be directed to Mitt Romney. (However, half of those questions will accidentally be directed to John Huntsman, Mitt Romney’s animatronic stunt double.)
- Mitt Huntsman will have up to 30 minutes to respond to each question, with other candidates except Rick Perry allotted up to 10 seconds each for rebuttals, except for Ron Paul, who will get no time for rebuttals, and in fact, will not be allowed to speak at all, because “everybody knows he’s not ‘top tier.’”
- Rick Perry will have unlimited time for rebuttals whenever he’s fighting with Mitt Huntsman.
- All questions will be prefaced with the false choice, “Do you agree with Mitt Romney or Rick Perry about….” to subliminally emphasize their pretend “top tierness”
Las Vegas oddsmakers have laid the following odds for the debate:
- 10,000 to 1: All candidates get equal time
- 1 to 1: Viewer questions will be chosen to emphasize social issues and divide libertarians and Tea Party supporters from Establishment GOP voters
- 5,393 to 1: Michelle Bachmann will give Rick Perry a pass on Gardisil
- 1397 to 1: Herman Cain will answer a question about Islam by singing “Nearer My God To Thee”
- 1 to 1: Ron Paul will be asked NO questions about the Federal Reserve, sound money, the gold standard or the national debt, or any other economic topic about which he has written a book
- 1 to 1: Newt Gingrich will point out the obvious: the LSM is dead
- 50,000 to 1: Bret Baier will ask no “gotcha” questions about abortion
- 1 to 1: Mittens defends Romneycare; is identified as John Huntsman in the closed captioning
- 486 to 1: Gary Johnson will be asked, and given time to answer, an intelligent question about the War on Drugs or border control
- 15 to 1: A bug will develop in John Huntsman’s speech unit, requiring the White House to power him down and reboot him via remote control during a commercial break
- 3 to 1: No questions will be asked about Fast & Furious, Solyndra, or other Obama Regime scandals
I’ll be watching the debate on Fox News tonight at 9:00 p.m. Chime in with your comments.
Any of these candidates (with the exception of Mittens Romneycare and John Huntsman, who are not Republicans) would be a better president than Barack Hussein Obama, who is not a Muslim.
(Damn…and I went nearly a whole day without having to report myself to AttackWatch.)
DEBATE LIVE BLOGGING…
Shocking! Perry and Mittens get the first questions. Perry does well. Mittens deftly avoids answering the question and defining the word “rich.” God, he’s slimey.
Q: Michelle Bachmann is asked, “out of every dollar I earn, how much do I deserve to keep?” Great answer. She says everyone should be able to keep every dollar. AMEN.
Q: Santorum gets a “right to work” question. I watched it live, moments ago, and yet I still can’t remember what he said. I may have nodded off.
Q: Newt gets a question about unemployment. Newt thinks unemployment should be given in exchange for attending business-led job training. AMEN. Big applause. Newt wants all 50 states to experiment with this. People should never get money to stay at home and do nothing. Applause.
Q: The Huntsman Android gets a question about Solyndra and tax subsidies for alternative energy!!! He starts by sucking up to debate organizers. We’re 90 seconds in…still waiting for an answer… He’s advocating natural gas as a “bridge.” Time’s up. Huntsman flip-flops, says he would not subsidize alternative energy as he said back in June after all.
Herman Cain gets huge applause for his 9/9/9 plan. Q: Isn’t there a danger in having the income tax & sales tax at the same time? His answer is no–throw out entire current tax code & replace with 9/9/9 okab. Treat all businesses the same. Huge ovation for Herman! Crowd is showing the love.
Mittens Romneycare wants to help the people who have been most hurt. His plans says that middle income people get a tax break. Tepid applause. Weasel.
Video that got the most votes: How will 10th amendment be restored if you are elected President? Asked of Ron Paul. Ron Paul: I would veto every single bill that violates the 10th Amendment. Still has time left. Government has gotten totally out of control. There is no authority in Constitution to run schools, control economy, control individuals. He would restore constitutional government. HUGE OVATION.
Q for Gary Johnson: What makes Gary Johnson a better choice for libertarians than Ron Paul? Refuses to take Ron Paul-bashing bait. Talks about his history as governor of New Mexico. He vetoed more bills than all other governors combined. Advocates Fair Tax. BIG ovation for Fair Tax.
This seems to be a much bigger Tea Party crowd than was present at the Tea Party debate on CNN.
Message from Rick Scott.
Perry: Romney has been hammering you on your idea of turning Social Security over to the states. How will 50 separate systems work? Perry: people on SS and approaching SS have nothing to worry about. Not first time Mitt has been wrong. Perry–people should have option to go to state plans. In Mass. almost 90% of state employees aren’t in the SS system.
Romney: different than what Perry said in book & interviews. Seems petty. SS is responsibility of federal government. We’re gonna have 1 plan. Committed to keeping SS. RINO weasel answer. Perry sucks!
Perry responds: Mitt’s economic advisor talked about Romneycare…blah blah blah blah blah. Blah, blah, blah. Blah….blah. Romney sucks!
Complete waste of time. MOVE ON. NO ONE CARES.
Question for Romney: Is Obama a socialist? Romney: Weasel… weasel… joke… weasel… Never answers question. Obama’s a big-spending liberal. Takes inspiration from Europe. I believe in America. I believe in free enterprise and capitalism. Govt. is too big. I love this country. I spent my life in the private sector. Except when I was Governor Romneycare.
Question for Mittens. No, wait…that’s Huntsman. Crowd is silent. We need to create jobs…we need to fix economy…talking points…talking points…talking points. Golf applause.
One of top 10 questions: Q: If you were forced to eliminate one department from Fed government, which one and why.
Herman Cain: Will start with EPA and start all over. That makes some nervous. EPA has gone wild. Regulation goes into effect Jan. 1 to regulate DUST. Offers solution for Social Security. Chilean model. Been around 30 years and it works. 30 other countries have privatized. Don’t banter about what you call it. FIX IT. Crowd cheers.
Q: Every day Federal government brings in 6 billion dollars but spends 10. How can we slash spending by 40%.
Newt: The way you described the question, you can’t. It’s all hopeless, we may as well buy Greek bonds and go down together. Big applause from crowd. This month in the Reagan admin, we created 1.1 million new jobs. Under Obama we created ZERO. Went from 2.2 trillion deficit to 2 trillion surplus when he left office. We can do it. Big applause.
Q: School administrators focus more on teaching to test. What as president would you do about massive overreach of government into classroom.
Johnson: Promises to submit balanced budget that includes abolishing Fed Dept of Education. American doesn’t understand that it is a negative to take Fed money.
Santorum: Schools doing worse with Fed interference. Customer is parents. Schools don’t serve customers. Parents have been convinced they don’t have that responsibility.
Gingrich: Profound state reform. Get rid of Dept. of Education regulation. K-12 Pell grants direct to parents.
Ron Paul: If you care about your children you will get the federal government out of the business of educating them. Get the government out completely. Everyone hates No Child Left Behind. Tax credits for people who opt out. HUGE APPLAUSE.
Perry: Lots of good ideas up here. Promote school choice. Vouchers. Charters. Dig against Romney for being in favor of Obama race to the top.
Romney: Education has to be held at local & state. Smaller classroom size driven by teacher unions. Hire best and brightest to be teachers. Will stand up to NEA.
Q: Did Perry say something that wasn’t true? Romney: Sect of Education doing a good thing by saying teachers should be evaluated. Better than what Obama did. Crowd is silent.
Bachmann: got involved in politics because of foster kids. Repeal all federal laws re education. Send all money back to states and local.
Cain: Cut all federal programs…remove strings. Get federal government out of trying to educate kids.
Huntsman: I signed 2nd voucher bill in US. Worked on early childhood literacy. Cut unfunded mandates. Localize. Tepid golf applause.
Q: Would you support each state enforcing immigration laws if federal government doesn’t?
Bachmann: Reprehensible that Obama has sued Arizona for trying to protect the people of Arizona. Would uphold sovereignty of USA. Build a fence along entire southern border & secure it, and enforce laws on books. Not allow taxpayer funded benefits for illegals or their kids.
Q: US workers have to compete with illegal aliens. Do you support E-Verify? Do you support penalties against employers who don’t?
Newt: Outsource E-Verify to American Express, Mastercard or Visa…they know how to run something like that. Easy as swiping card. Favor 100% control of border. English as language of government (huge applause). Modernize legal immigration.
Q: About illegal aliens and in-state tuition. Romney: in-state tuition for illegals is wrong. Costs $22,000 a year per student in Texas. Crowd applause. Repeats other GOP immigration talking points. Applause.
Q for Perry: You’re the candidate whose name came up most often about immigration. You have not tried to stop the illegals from coming. Are you going to exert an effort to stop the abuse of US citizens by illegals. 16,000 illegals’ children took advantage of in-state tuition in Texas.
Perry: No one on this stage has spent more on border security than me. Texas Ranger recon teams there now. Joined AZ in suit against Feds. Kids in Texas brought there by no fault of their own. Must educate them or they will become a drag on our economy. LOTS OF BOOS!
Q: Is Perry soft on illegal immigration?
Santorum: Perry is saying that unless we subsidize illegals’ kids, they can’t go. We’re saying they can go. They have to borrow money like anyone else. Don’t give them special treatment. Perry weak on border security.
Perry: Put the boots on the ground. Aviation assets.
Scuffle between Santorum & Perry. Crowd is turning on Perry.
Q: to Ron Paul on border fence. Do you know a lot of Americans who want to take their money out of the country? Ron Paul: There are trillions of $ overseas already because of tax policy. When countries destroy a currency, it leads to capital control and people control. Databanks…leads to national ID card. Attack BENEFITS for illegals–they are a magnet. No welfare, no in-state-tuition, no free healthcare (big ovation). That will solve immigration problem–illegals will have no reason to come here. Don’t ignore fact that in tough economic times, people and money want to leave the country. More applause.
Google poll: majority (47%) want to eliminate Department of Education.
Q: How would you approach middle East with threats from Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Authority.
Romney: President all wrong to apologize for America. Stand shoulder to shoulder with allies. Don’t negotiate for Israel. Support and defend Israel. Unacceptable for Iran to become nuclear nation.
Q: How would you respond to unilateral declaration of Palestinian state?
Herman Cain: Peace through strength and clarity. Met with Dept. Prime Minister of Israel. Israel will defend itself. DPM wasn’t sure how Obama Regime stood with Israel. If you mess with Israel, you are messing with U.S. If it was clear where U.S. stood they might have had second thoughts.
Q: About Pakistan–what if there were a coup. Build a relationship in region. To have a relationship with India. Know they are an ally with the U.S. Had chance to sell India upgraded F-16s. Allies must know we are their friends. Today we don’t have allies in the region.
Santorum: would keep U.S. troops in Iraq & Afghanistan until national security objective met. Work in concert with allies in region.
Q: Foreign aid: top question. When are we going to get someone in the White House and tell other countries they aren’t getting money from us anymore?
Gingrich: Couple of good reasons to review foreign aid. Encourage American jobs that make US and other country wealthier. Don’t give government to government money. Why give money to countries that vote against us in U.N.? May be 100+ nukes in Pakistan.
Q: Charter flights from Ft. Lauderdale to Cuba have resumed. How do you feel about that?
Gary Johnson: Biggest threat to national security is that WE’RE BANKRUPT. Trade promotes friendship. Establish those kinds of flights.
Michelle wants to weigh in. Michelle: State Dept’s website, 4 nations are state sponsors of terror. Cuba is one. We shouldn’t go there.
Huntsman: Difference of opinion on Foreign Policy. We must fix our core…blah blah blah. Bring home troops from Afghanistan. Polite applause. Yawn.
Santorum: Just because economy is sick doesn’t mean our country is sick. We should be fighting wars to win, not for politics.
Huntsman. Only Pakistan can save Pakistan. Only Afghanistan can save Afghanistan. America must save America. Good lord, I actually agree with the Hunstman animatronic. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
Q: What is the limit of government injecting religion.
Michelle: We believe in freedom of conscience. Foundational principle. Shouldn’t prevent people from expressing personal beliefs.
Q from soldier in Iraq: In 2010, I had to lie about being gay. Do you intend to circumvent progress made by gay and lesbian service people.
Santorum: Sex has no place in military. DADT removal injects social policy into military. Should only be about national defense. Going forward, would reinstate DADT. Sex should not be an issue. Keep to yourself whether gay or straight.
Q for Ron Paul: if you believe life begins at conception, how do you support abortion for rape, incest, use of morning after pill in those cases?
Ron Paul: This should be a state issue. If someone is treated 24 hours after a rape, you have no way of knowing if she’s even pregnant. How will you police the day after pill? No one can outdo me on respect for life. The law doesn’t solve the problem. Only the moral character of the people will solve this problem, not the law. HUGE applause.
Q: Bad blood between Perry and George W. Bush. Perry: highly respects GWB. Differences in various issues.
Yawn. Who cares. Non-issue.
Herman Cain gets lovely applause for surviving Stage 4 colon and liver cancer.
Herman Cain: I would be dead under Obamacare. March 2006 was detected. Got all the tests, CAT scans, surgery, chemo, tests, and was cured in 9 months. Under Obamacare I would have died waiting for treatment. Treatment based on MY timetable not bureaucrat’s timetable. I had 30% chance of survival. Big ovation.
Q: Huntsman gets top question on heathcare from college kid who wants to stay on mommy & daddy’s insurance until he’s 26. I think of my daughter who has diabetes. Obamacare creating uncertainty. Let states experiment to find solutions. Do what we did in Utah. We don’t have affordable policies. Doesn’t answer question. Virtually no crowd response.
Gardisil question for Michelle Bachmann: You said it could cause retardation and other side effects. Do you stand by statement. Michelle denies making statement–was repeating what a mom told her. Michelle says issue is Perry mandating shot for 12-year-old girls for STD. Perry gave parental rights to a drug company. Problem was cronyism. Applause.
Perry: I got lobbied by 31-year-old to had stage 4 cervical cancer. Admits should have had opt in. Erred on the side of life. Will always err on side of life. Some applause but a LOT of boos.
Q for Perry: Texas has 25% uninsured residents. Feds treat TX like all other big states. TX has imposed toughest eligibility. Rank 49th in Medicaid coverage.
Perry: disagrees with analysis. Has tried to get waiver from Feds for years.
Q for Romney–Perry says we shouldn’t nominate Obama Lite (Romney).
Romney responds. Blah, blah, blah. Romneycare is good and bad. Different from Obamacare.
Perry: Americans just don’t know which Mitt they’re dealing with. 2nd Amendment, social programs, abortion, race to the top, Obamacare. Wait till tomorrow to see which one we’re talking to. Romney sucks! Tepid applause.
Romney. BLAH. Blah. Blah. Blah! No, you suck! Tepid applause.
Another useless catfight that tells us nothing.
MOVE ON, CHRIS!
Q: Obama promised Hope & Change. How will you turn this country around?
Huntsman: Human tragedy. Tax reform. Regulatory reform. Energy independence.
Herman Cain: Economic growth. 9/9/9 plan. LEADERSHIP. American people will develop confidence. Reagan. We were a shining city on a hill. We have slid down. Need leader to build back up.
Michelle Bachmann: Reach for brass ring of liberty. #1 reason no hiring = Obamacare. Will repeal.
Romney: Blah blah blah blah. Tough times. Blah blah. We’re patriotic. Blah. Out of time.
Perry: Americans want a leader in job creation. Kill Obamacare and job-killing regs. Lower tax rates. Make US energy independent.
Paul: Government destroys jobs, market creates them. Understand where business cycle comes from, how Federal Reserve has destroyed economy. Has warned for 20 years. Get rid of government interference & let free market work. HUGE ovation.
Gingrich: 32 years ago we were in same place. A leader came along. When your brother in law is unemployed it’s a recession. When you lose your job it’s a depression. Then Jimmy Carter loses his job, it’s a recovery. Barack Obama’s losing decisively will turn around economy.
Santorum: Reagan’s farewell address….blah blah.
I nodded off again.
Gary Johnson: My next door neighbor’s 2 dogs have created more shovel ready jobs than this president. Biggest ovation of night. Balance budget NOW. Not 10 years from now or 20 years from now. Throw out entire federal tax system and replace with Fair Tax. Huge ovation.
Q: Who would you choose as your VP among the others on stage?
Johnson: Ron Paul. The notion that this country is about liberty and freedom. Facing extraordinary crisis. Must face now, or we will be left with nothing. We must avoid it by acting NOW.
Santrorum: Newt. I agree with him more.
Gingrich: I have no idea. Won’t play this game show. What I do know–someone capable of being president. I won’t hurt any of their feelings by choosing one.
Ron Paul: I don’t plan to make a choice at the moment. I’m in 3rd place in national poll. As soon as I’m in top 2 I will start thinking about it. Too early right now.
Perry: Staying with game show idea. Herman Cain & Newt Gingrich’s love child. Applause.
Romney: Will have hard time getting that image out of my head. That & dogs. If you pick a VP you have to give a lot of thought. These people would all be better than what we have now.
Romney: We all have problems. Gov. Perry & I disagree. We all agree Obama needs to be former Pres. Obama.
Bachmann: Strong constitutional conservative. Every 4 years we are told we have to settle. I don’t think that’s true. Obama has lowest public approval of any in modern time. Choose conservatives.
Cain: This is a game. It’s hypothetical. I’ll play. If governor Romney would throw out his plan, he has a shot. I would otherwise go with Speaker Gingrich.
Huntsman: Romney & Perry won’t be around, will bludgeon each other to death. Herman Cain because of his selection of ties and 9/9/9. Shakes Herman’s hand.
The amazingly incompetent Debbie Wasserman Schultz
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d2Qz3XTtKI
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is so incompetent that words can not begin to describe her performance. The only thing she is able to do is parrot the same old DNC tag-line…”we need to focus on continuing to get this economy turned around and focus on job creation.” Really? Her response to Hoffa’s use of threatening language is to focus on the economy? Gretchen just gives it to her and never lets up. The look on DWS’s face is one of pure fluster. She has a hard time looking at the camera and blinks her eyes at least a thousand times a minute. She is way out of her league with Gretchen.
DWS is probably the perfect DNC Chair for Obama. He and his White House thugs can control her like a puppet. She wouldn’t know an original idea if it slapped her in the face and she has about as much spunk and pizazz as a dead fish.
This woman really annoys me.
How about you?
(and that Hoffa fella is one scary dude. He needs to cut back on his caffeine.)
Former Democrats: What Was The Last Straw?
I truly, sincerely want the readers of Hillbuzz to come together to defeat the Marxist-In-Chief. And I try to point out groupthink, eeyorism, and rumormongering with absurdity whenever I can. It’s one thing to familiarize yourself with a candidate’s views–and disagree with them. It’s quite another to unquestioningly swallow LSM propaganda and never make any effort to find out the truth for yourself.
I think about 70% of the crap spread around about Tea Party candidates is the same-old, same-old “you’re a RAAAAACIST and you hate the environment and you want us all to die from polluted air and you hate gay people and you want to kill old people” B.S. put out by paid DNC operatives and repeated ad nauseum on MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, NBC, etc. and even Fox News on occasion. Much of the rest is put out by Establishment Cocktail Party candidate’s campaigns and/or supporters.
Sarah Palin has to deal with this B.S. for going on 4 years (“She’s a RAAAAACIST and hates the environment and hates gay people and she’s a quitter and stupid and she thinks she can see Russia from her house.” But even if 70% is manufactured outrage/fear, that leaves a few people on our side who actually believe this stuff that has no basis in reality. And I’m truly baffled as to how to reach out to them.
In this era of sound bites, very few of these people are willing to educate themselves. Learning about foreign policy and monetary policy and economic policy takes time and effort, and most of us who are government-educated didn’t learn any of this in school.
Another thing we didn’t learn in school is critical thinking skills. Hillbuzzers know why Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska. Her family was over $700,000 in debt from legal defense against totally bogus ethics charges filed by her political enemies. Most normal people understand that no one would stay in a job that cost your family five times as much as your salary. But there are plenty of real live conservatives who parrot, “she’s unelectable because she’s a quitter!!” That perjorative label, “quitter,” is enough for some people reading this to throw Sarah Palin on the scrap heap.
So, Hillbuzz readers, all of you put together are smarter than I am by myself. When it comes to Tea Party candidates, how do we get our friends and neighbors to start thinking instead of reacting? How do we get them to start researching instead of parroting?
Have you been through a conversion experience like Kevin DuJan’s? What was your “wake-up call?” When do you remember realizing that you had been sold a bill of goods? What was it that finally broke through years of LSM brainwashing? And how can we use it to reach out to our friends and neighbors who are still getting their information from the LSM?
