DAILY DOOM ANTIDOTE: Punching holes in media’s narrative that claims widespread support for Obama — 10/2/2012
http://youtu.be/OYecfV3ubP8
Let’s do an exercise this morning (but not P90x or anything, because we all don’t have to be Paul Ryan…though, that would be nice).
So, the corrupt vintage media in Barack Obama’s Ministry of Truth (Minitrue for short) pushes a narrative that there’s more widespread support for him in 2012 than there was in 2008; this is, of course, required if the polls that Minitrue expects you to believe without question could possibly be accurate since in the polls that show Obama leading he’s snagging a bigger share of the vote in swing states than he did in 2008. That’s just not possible, folks.
If you stop and think about it, you’ll see how irrational it is.
When I was a kid, I must have seen JAWS on TV late at night and for a while I had an irrational fear of great white sharks (how racist, I know). I was six or seven and would get the jitters in a swimming pool…or around Lake Erie…and I’d even be a little leery getting into a bubble bath because I couldn’t see to the bottom of the tub. This lasted until my parents taught me how to stop, think, and decide if my fear was rational or not by seeing if I could punch some logical holes into whatever crazy thing was scaring me.
Let’s do that with Minitrue’s latest pro-Obama narrative. Does the public really love this man MORE in 2012 than in 2008?
Here are some things I could think of just off the top of my head indicating that is NOT the case:
* 2009 — saw the rise of the Tea Party, which didn’t much like Obama. Minitrue kept trying to claim the Tea Party didn’t exist, but there sure were a lot of people packed into those rallies and none of them loved Obama more in 2009 than they did in 2008
* 2009 — Town Hall Meetings against Obamacare proved the public hated this bill, despite Democrats and Minitrue (but I repeat myself) claiming the public loved it. Minitrue did its best to hid the Town Halls from the public but film emerged online showing Democrats terrified by the negative reaction they were getting in their districts. Some Democrats even stopped returning to their districts so they would avoid being screamed at.
* 2010 — Glenn Beck’s Restoring America Rally in DC…which easily had over a million attendees. I know because some friends and I were there and we saw how Minitrue kept trying to lie and claim there were only 50,000. It was easily the largest assemblage of people around the Lincoln Memorial that I can think of. None of these people loved Obama more in 2010 than they did in 2008…and they came from around the country to show it.
* 2010 — Midterm elections…and Minitrue spent several months in the lead up claiming that Democrats would not only hold the house but would also gain members. It was the biggest blowout against a party in power in many decades. Nancy Pelosi was removed as Speaker, despite claiming up until election day that she’d retain her gavel. Democrats lost governorships, Secretaries of State positions, and state legislatures. Clearly, Americans did not love Obama and Democrats more in 2010 than they did in 2008.
* 2008 – 2012 = the antics and adventures of Andrew Breitbart gave Americans opposed to Obama energy and encouragement and people responded with enthusiasm for everything he did. We will forever be grateful.
* 2011 — Occupy Wall Street fizzled out and did not return in the spring of 2012 as promised. Democrats at first embraced it as the antithesis of the Tea Party but then had to disown the “movement” when it clearly focus-group tested poorly and hurt the Democrat brand further. In 2012, Democrats and Minitrue are not pretending that OWS never happened.
* 2012 — Chick-Fil-A Appreciation Day…a massive outpouring of support for a business besieged by the Left. Minitrue refused to cover it, but word got out anyway and lines stretched around for blocks causing some locations to run out of chicken.
* 2012 — “You Didn’t Build That, Somebody Else Made That Happen”…a quote from Obama that I think sealed his fate and that objective historians will one day agree is what cost him the election in a “let them eat cake” moment. Minitrue pretends this didn’t happen either, or that Obama was taken out of context.
Despite Minitrue’s best efforts, 2 + 2 must always equal 4.
There is no great white shark in the bathtub or swimming pool.
Fear is the best weapon in the Democrats’ arsenal. The Alinsky Rules for Radicals assume their opponents will cower and quiver with frost-fingered fear.
Sitting down today for a few minutes and thinking about things that punch holes in the narrative that Barack Obama is popular and beloved by the majority of Americans is a smart thing for you to do on a personal level…because once you do this, you’ll see just how much Minitrue lies to you…and how ridiculous the lies are because consistently the tee-vee networks and the newspapers attempt to rewrite history to better suit Democrats today.
They’ve tried to pretend an awful lot of things since 2008 didn’t happen…and that’s just AWFUL period.
What else is on your mind today?
What further examples can you cite above?
What are people in YOUR part of the country talking about?
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The University of Colorado has correctly picked every presidential winner since 1980. It picks Romney. Case closed.
Hey Kevin have you seen this post from Legal Insurrection?
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/10/insubordination/
Thought you would get a kick out of it since it’s coming from Cook County.
That’s in Cook county? Awesome doesn’t begin to describe it.
My son, who in spite of my best efforts remains a liberal leaning “independent”, admitted to me yesterday over the phone he doesn’t see the same kind of enthusiasm for Obama in Chicago in 2012 that he saw in 2008. Nowhere even close.
While I’m not sure I’ll be able to convince him to vote for Romney, I’m ecouraged by his report.
WWW (We Will Win)
Ralph
Please stop using the word “liberal”. Delete it from your vocabulary today.
One of the most foolish things conservatives do is to use the terminology the Left prefers.
Why on Earth are you doing this?
Can’t you see you HELP THEM by using their chosen branding?
Call them what they really are: lefties or leftists.
No more “liberals” ever!
I totally agree with the idea behind this, but I’m not sure I agree with the specifics. It seems to me that the left adopted the term “progressive” instead of “liberal”. I always assumed that “liberal” had come to be too negative in the eyes of the country at large.
Either way, the greater point is an astute one.
Don’t use “progressive” or “liberal”.
But the thing is, like 1% of conservatives ever say “progressive”. Few on the Left do that either.
Listen to Democrats though and they proudly label themselves as “liberals”.
Any conservative who uses the word “liberal” thus enforces the Democrats’ chosen branding.
Why on Earth help them like that?
Justin’s mom says “liberal, liberal, liberal, liberal” when I answer the phone. I say, “Hello, CarolAnne” back to her and she usually says, “I’m saying liberal because you tell people not to because you can’t tell me how to talk…liberal, liberal, liberal”.
I think that’s childish of her, and she resents me pointing out this word really helps Democrats more than anything else conservatives do ever day…but she just won’t listen. I know I am not going to get through to a 65 year old woman who shouts “liberal, liberal, liberal, liberal” into the phone at me from Arkansas but my hope is that in time enough conservatives stop using this word so that people begin calling Democrats what they really are: lefties or Leftists.
Those of us who are left-handed, may take offense.
Absolutely Kevin. They are not liberals, they are leftist fascists. In fact because of Obama’s relationship to companies like GE, and the Banks, fascism is the reality of Obama. I studied a lot of German history in college and the one thing that peaks out at me like a light being flashed is that relationship because HItler created the same relationship with giant companies in Germany, like KRUPPS, and THEISSEN and MESSERSCHMIDT. And remember the Volkswagen…GM ring a bell? Obama uses commie language but in reality he’s the fascist we all see from the old news reals. And the video that Hannity will release? Will prove it. The ranting street vagrant that once stormed around Chicago streets like someone else we knew from way back when. But unlike the Germans, we have his number. Big time.
Kevin,
I totally agree with you. The Cambridge Dictionary defines a liberal as “someone who respects many different types of beliefs or behavior”. I don’t believe that any of us would agree that this fits any of the leftist elite that have hijacked the Democrat party.
A few years ago I read an editorial written by someone (can’t remember who) who considered himself a liberal according to this definition. He was very much incensed that the term had been hijacked by the left and no longer held it’s original meaning.
By this definition JFK, may have been a “liberal”, but was certainly not a leftist. When we call them liberals we are actually being too kind.
Call them leftist, communist, socialist, redistributionist, anarchist, or fascist. Just don’t go soft and call them liberal. They don’t deserve it.
As for the complicit media, my pet name for them is “Goebbels-ites”
Ralph,
I wouldn’t give up on your son. I thought members of my family would not vote for Romney either. They were buying into the “flip flopping” Romney that the leftist media is constantly shoving down our throats. I ask people regarding the flip-flopping Mitt “who hasn’t changed their mind?” People who grow and learn will change with when presented with conflict and needed resolution. It can be a good thing because it means they are open to the ideas of others they rely on for advice.
Obama despite all the mistakes won’t change at all because I think he truly believes all the press about being the messiah and doesn’t believe he needs to change. He believes that we are just to stupid to see his brilliance. Give me a man willing to listen to the good advice of others over a narcissist any day.
Romney unlike Obama is not tooting his horn on a daily basis, and doesn’t have a complicit media doing it for him, so it takes some searching to find the real man not the leftist media controlled image of Mitt.
I kept asking family members “what has Obama done to make your life better, tell me specifics?” Most people can’t unless they are like the woman who is getting the free Obama phone. That is where Mitt was right that those people are not going to change their minds on voting for Obama.
Ask your son to just consider NOT why he should vote for Romney, but why he would want to vote for Obama?
What is Obama going to do in the next four years to improve your son’s life and that of this country that he couldn’t have done when he had the Presidency, and both Houses of Congress for two years? Obama could have worked on the job situation and gotten people working again but pushed his healthcare agenda instead.
A good businessman would have gotten the country working to get more money in the Treasury to then help pay for the medical care he wanted to give everyone. In fact a great President could have delegated groups in Congress to work on the economy and medical care at the same time.
As it stands now not even considering that we could have a Republican controlled House and Senate next year, Obama would get nothing done except through Executive Order. It will then only get worse for everyone. Misery for all.
That is no way to lead this country, and it will only get really bad for everyone, even those getting freebies because people are going to quit working so hard if they are only going to have the fruits of their hard work redistributed. That gravy train of free phones, food stamps, housing, schooling and every other entitlement program is going to go over the cliff once hard working people decide they are tired of carrying not only “their fair share” but the share of so many others that don’t want to contribute as well. Once that happens there will be nothing to give away to anyone.
It amazes me how many people are screaming for the rich to pay “their fair share” when they don’t contribute anything, much less their fair share to the running of this country. I’m not talking about those who truly can’t contribute due to age or disabilities either but those who have been taught they are entitled everything in life from cradle to grave.
Most people are interested in what will make their life better. If you (knowing him) can show your son things about Mitt that will help him in the next four years if Mitt were President then he might just come around by election day. We don’t need a perfect President we just need a competent one who cares about America, and while Mitt was not my first choice with his business background might just be what this country needs to get back on track.
Confronted with the reality that life has gotten harder for almost everyone, even the rich, people rarely can come up with a logical reason to vote for Obama. Ask your son if he were going to hire someone to manage his money would he want someone who he thinks might be a “nice guy or cool” but knows nothing about money management or someone who seems milquetoast in his eyes but make him money?
Your son might actually find the truth if he has to explain to not only you, but also himself in concrete ways how Obama has or will make his life better by being President for another four years
In the end, if all you can do is get him to NOT vote for Obama by election day then it at least deprives Obama of another vote.
I know hard core union members that will not be voting for Obama this time because he has even thrown them under the bus. If they can see the light then I think many more like your son can as well.
I agree the media is pro demoncract ,pastors across the nation should preach against obama,we need to get rid of this cancer.
Ah but Minitrue has that base covered – the IRS is standing by ready to revoke a church’s tax exempt status. Even if a church does have the right to preach most don’t have the budget to fight the IRS & the bad publicity. Now they can ask open-ended questions like “are you better off than you were four years ago?” and tell everyone to go vote as long as no names are mentioned. – That from an elder at my old church. When the congregation has only 50 members people are very careful…until the pot luck after evening services.
Pastors have more flexibility than they think — they do not have to say “vote for candidate x;” all they need to do and what they should be doing is teaching the biblical perspective of the issues, and teaching their flocks how to research and evaluate candidates based on biblical principles, and to go and vote for the candidates who will best uphold these principles.
Oh it’s already happening – check this out: Bishop E.W. Jackson with a message to black Christians [http://tinyurl.com/9cs4agm]
I don’t like preachers to discuss politics from the pulpit, but that doesn’t mean that pastors can’t participate in politics such as Bishop Jackson’s video, or Catholic leaders speaking out against the illegal HHS contraceptive mandate.
This is a nice contrast to the venom and lies being spewed forth by the ‘Revs.’ Jeremiah Wright, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, dontcha think?
Bishop Jackson is dyn-o-mite. He ran for the US Senate in the VA primary. We had so many good candidates for that office, but the guy with the most name recognition won. Jackson is the best. He added energy, zest, and common sense to the campaign and is thinking about politics as his next career step. He is moving into the political theater. I don’t know if he is giving up his church life or not. I know he is considering some sort of move. He spreads the Conservative message everywhere he goes.
This Sunday, October 7, is designated to be Pulpit Freedom Sunday. Pastors nationwide are encouraged to exercise their First Amendment right as they preach according to God’s word to their congregations. Last week at my church we were handed a voting guide outlining the platforms of the two main parties and how they lined up with scripture.
The whole unconstitutional infringement of speech regulation for 501(c)3 organizations, including churches, was instigated through an amendment in 1954 to the federal tax code by none other than LBJ (spit).
Learn more about Pulpit Freedom Sunday here:
http://www.speakupmovement.org/church/LearnMore/details/4702
The story line that I think will help kill both Obama and Minitrue is that we are in a recovery and Obama has created XXX number of jobs. Tell that to the people who were laid off in 2008 and have stopped looking for work, or the 1 in 5 households that have one adult who is unemployed or underemployed and has been for over a year. Minitrue cites the fact that the Dow is back up to 12000 or so as evidence. What they fail to report is that inflation happens when the dollar is devalued, which has been going on for the past four years; companies are valued higher today because the dollars used to buy them are valued lower. The people who used to work and be in the middle class but who now shop at food pantries don’t like Obama more today than they did in 2008.
People on the street know that the economy still stinks no matter what spews forth from the CNBS taking heads. I happen to live in a very affluent suburb in the midwest and I have a business friend that has had his landscaping business for 20+ years. He’s seen double digit declines in top line revenue since 2008 (and saw sales decrease by 20% in July 2012 YOY!). The average person knows that Obama has been a disaster and that even if Romney isn’t your first choice, at least with him there’s a chance to reverse the slide.
Agreed. This year, I’m making between 1/3 and 1/2 of what I made in 2008 — despite being in a field that absolutely FLOURISHES in a normal economy. I don’t remember the last day I ate three meals. Many days, it’s not even two.
Any of these fancy-pants statisticians / data merchants who want the straight poop about living your life balanced on the blade of a knife, every single day, can come talk to me.
Air Force Brat – I am so sorry you are having problems making ends meet. In my area, I sometimes volunteer at a local food pantry, and they say the need has grown tremendously in the last few years. Anyway, please check out resources in your local area – food banks, local churches, etc. You should not go hungry in this great country. That is just wrong. If no one else will help you, please contact me and I will send you groceries. I can’t afford to send very much, but I will do what I can.
“When I was a kid, I must have seen JAWS on TV late at night and for a while I had an irrational fear of great white sharks (how racist, I know).”
I wouldn’t call fear of great white sharks irrational, Kevin. Hell, I fear them too! Just like fear of Islam, it makes perfect sense.
I’ve been doing my share by talking to people pointing out the sheer incompetence and criminal behaviour of the Obama regime. And much to my surprise, I’ve been able to do it calmly and control my desire to insult Democrats.
I’m glad you mentioned it being hard to control the desire to get emotional. It really is hard.
Honestly, the only way I can do it is if I pretend I am on camera being recorded when I talk to anyone. It is the only way to keep the emotions in check and to watch my language because I really am so angry about the last four years.
But if I pretend I am being recorded whenever I speak then my rational brain can overpower my emotional core and I can discuss this stuff.
Sometimes I get really mad at Justin when he starts repeating crazy things his mother has picked up each day from watching MSNBC. I just need to imagine the cameras turned on and I have a spotlight on me and then Justin gets my “radio voice” and I calmly tell him that I do not want to listen to his mother’s nonsense and that he knows better than to let it influence him either because MSNBC is part of Minitrue and it lies.
Kevin, when I speak with indoctrinated Leftists, they generally use Mitt Romneys’ wealth as a reason to dislike him. A response I have found effective is to point out that “I would rather vote for a man who earned his wealth, than a man who became wealthy BECAUSE he became President.”
I hope once Romney is elected the conservative media outlets will completely eclipse the tee vee jourNOlists and these liars will just become irrelevant once and for all. Frankly, I’m weary about hearing how biased and corrupt they are. It takes away so much time and brain power from our wonderful conservative journalists to be able to focus on the REAL problems our country is facing, i.e. the DEBT CRISIS and illegal immigration. Hopefully we can soon ignore the leftist media and not give them any attention so that we can focus on getting our country back on track.
Keep up the great work, Kevin!
Once these communists are out of power, there needs to be a congressional investigation with something done about LSM’s blatant dishonesty. It is unbelievable that damned near EVERY SINGLE THING which is published / broadcast by Big Media has to be analyzed with the mental acuity of a card counter in order to distill the bias. The information provided by LSM’s only value, given its falsity, is to gleen what agenda they are wanting to push.
Interesting that you posted the Apple video. I was reminded of that ad – and of Orwell’s “1984″ last night when I came across one of the new advertisements for Progressive Insurance. They are really pushing their “snapshot” gizmo, wherein you, the consumer, attach their gizmo to your car – whether you are a customer of theirs or not. The gizmo tracks everything you do while driving your car. Where you go, how you drive, how quickly you accelerate away from the stop sign or traffic light, how fast you drive, how quickly you brake, how many miles you go, and on and on. Now, if your MOTHER wanted to put such a gizmo on your car you’d balk and say “Hell no! It’s none of your business what I do in my car – or in your car, for that matter.” But Progressive markets this as a way for them to determine your insurance rates – based on your “good driving record.” I am willing to bet that few people would get a LOWER rate after having this thing on their car for a few months.
Anyway, back to the ad, toward the end of the ad, they have a shot of a bunch of creepy TV screens with Flo’s face on them talking about having “snapshot” on your car. It was so reminiscent of “1984,” especially because Barky’s good buddy and puppet master owns Progressive Insurance.
Do you really want an insurance company owned by George Soros to know about everything you do relating to your car? Not me. It will only be a matter of time before they use those things to send us speeding tickets every time we drive. Very creepy…
There’s a reason they call that company “Progressive…”
That IS creepy, D.G. But now that I think of it, the “snapshot” device thingy makes perfect sense. Of COURSE a Soros-owned, leftist-supported company would want to keep track of everything you do in what used to be the private territory of your own car.
Flo has always seemed really creepy to me too — she’d be a perfect fit in a remake of the old “Motel Hell” movie.
Wouldn’t it be something if, after Romney wins, Progressive Insurance just HAPPENS to unfortunately have to close its doors? Heh heh heh.
Saw the Kristin Gillibrand ad (Cleaning up Washington) with a bunch of people. They were all shocked when the insider trading in congress part came up. They all thought that our legislators have blind trusts and can’t insider trade. It was a real shocker for a lot of them. Caused a huge discussion and I took the opportunity and blamed them not knowing about this issue on the media. I then was able to plant the seed of doubt asking what else the media isn’t telling you and starting to give a list. You could see everyone was clearly disturbed.
Things are much quieter on this end. I don’t see or hear the kudos and allocates of before. With gas at 4.39 it is a little hard to get excited about him, except for wanting him to leave.
The Wisconsin recall is another great example of the MSM and the Left’s narrative absolutely failing. They protested like angry toddlers for over a year, pumped up by money and bussed-in muscle from unions. They demonized and harassed Walker, other Republicans, and their families. Prominent Dems, including Obama, as well as all of MSNBC, supported these protests.Then they lost miserably. Scott Walker got MORE votes in the recall than in the original election.
Epic failure of ideas and methods.
Yay! You tell ‘em, Lizzy! (Or, as they say where I’m from, TESTIFY !!!)
Gov. Walker is a hero for the conservative movement. The media and Democrap juggernaut was stopped from achieving their goals due to his bravery and the down-to-earth, wonderful common sense of Wisconsinites (is that the correct word?
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Kevin, AceofSpades has a post up about the AFSCME ad criticizing Romney for not talking to his garbage collector. Someone left a comment suggesting that it would be interesting to take a video camera down to Hyde Park and talk to those trash collectors.
Good idea, huh?
I suspect that most people who see that ad will think: “What’s the big deal? I’ve never brought Gatorade to my trash collector. Who does?” Most people are at work or on the way there when the trash is collected.
The majority of people probably know that trash collectors are unionized and are better paid than some of the people whose trash they collect. They’re not picking up Mitt’s trash out of the kindness of their hearts.
Is this thing even real? Did the Onion put this out? Complaining that Romney hasn’t hugged him or given him Gatorade? WTH? This is a joke right?
I don’t talk to my garbage collector, either. They have a job to do, and a schedule to follow that their supervisor has likely set out for them to follow. If everyone talked to their collector, they wouldn’t get home till midnight.
I do make a point to smile and nod to the collectors every time I’m outside when they roll around.
The Blaze has this from the Romney campaign that completely refutes the AFSCME ad. Obviously they did not do their homework. Hope this goes viral.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/new-union-ad-claims-romney-doesnt-even-appreciate-garbage-man-flashback-when-romney-worked-as-trash-collector-during-gov-campaign/
The Obama campaign is truly dumpster-diving now.
We are all garbagemen now, and we’ll be hauling off the trash at 1600 Pensylvania Avenue soon. No hugs will be required.
The Obama ads keep getting worse. This ad elicited a “Ewww!” response from me:
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obama-campaign-website-vote-your-lady-parts-depend-it_653393.html
Remember how teh won ushered the Dalai Lama out the back door of the white house like trash? At least the governor will not bow to China by dissing a “real” man of peace and will differentiate trash from dignitaries. By the way, when Mr. Romney was running for governor he tried out several jobs around the state including spending a day as a garbage collector. Read his book.
“Exodus Now” – excellent example, Black Pastor calling for Massive Exodus of Christians from the Democrat Party
http://standamerica.us/exodus-now/
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/09/27/Black-Bishop-Rips-Dem-Party
Univision takes on Pravda (MSM) with Fast and Furious investigation is another good example. Also, foreign press does the job reporting on Libya while US Pravda covers up the story.
Good stuff.
Keep up the good work.
Kevin, you always cheer me up. Whenever I hear the MSM tell their gloom and doom stories about Romney, and then today I read Ben Afflek was interviewed and said Romney will lose, I go to your site and get out of the woe is me attitude I start to have. You provide an indispensable public service that no one else can. To me, you are the new Breitbart in a lot of ways. Thank you.
Ben Affleck may be cute and a passable actor, but he has less brains than my parakeet, and his political opinions are worth about as much as what the parakeet leaves with great abundance on the newspapers lining its cage.
who cares what Ben Affleck thinks. He is an actor. No brains. Just an actor.
He’s a himbo.
Do you have that in Australia?
A great looking guy who has pudding for brains.
I will freely admit this: I have liked a himbo or two in the past. I dated a gorgeous himbo named Jacobi once; he was a ballet dancer and had less than 3% body fat on him. His feet were all mashed up and his face was kind of Muppet-like but he rocked a bod like a Greek sculpture.
Dumb. As. Rocks.
AND he collected tiny plastic dragon toys that he lined up on the window sills of his room. He also made a tinfoil suit of armor for his cat, “Bear”, that he’d strap to the cat with rubber bands transforming the vexed creature into “Sir Bear, the Dragon Slayer”.
I cannot deny the appeal of a himbo though I will say I’m not the kind of guy who’d date one for long because once the fun of his physical self becomes an every day thing it’s hard not to want more. AND it’s tiresome to have to explain to him what everything on tee vee is about or who all the people in the magazine are.
Ugh! This just in: Michelle won the Family Circle Presidential Cookie Contest: http://tinyurl.com/8wjevr2
Not only does our nanny FLOTUS disapprove of sweets like cookies, but she sure as heck doesn’t bake ‘em (that’s Sam Kass’ job). But as usual, the MSM has her back.
I don’t think that the average garbage men have time for a chat in the middle of their routes.
The latest Quinnipac Poll sampled only 24% GOP likely voters, and all they were only able to come up with a 4 point lead for their fuhrer.
This isn’t polling, it’s propaganda.
Note to the fine intelligent and patriotic ladies here – the nut we have to crack is WOMEN. It’s the only place Obama hasn’t lost support.
Any ideas you could give us challenged males would be greatly appreciated. I haven’t won an argument with a woman since 1979.
Frankly, all of the SMART women I know are voting for Romney. All of the women who are up to date on current events are voting for Romney. Honestly, the only women I know who are supporting Barky are black and only doing it because they are racist (but if he was a Republican they would say he’s WHITE and would want him OUT), or they are completely out of touch with what goes on outside their own little worlds from day to day. These are the kind of women who watch “The Spew” and consider themselves informed…
Thanks for providing this information about the Quinnipac Poll. Lucianne had this as their top headline today–like it meant something, like it was accurate, like we should all be worried about it!
I have enjoyed Lucianne for several years now, but I’m beginning to see a lot of Eeyorism there! Sad.
Lucianne is brilliant, everyone is allowed a miss. Email her a short friendly note about the internals. I’m sure she just missed them.
A good website that cuts through the number-bending and over-sampling of Dems is: unskewedpolls.com
Ground report from Cincinnati: Early voting starts here today in Ohio. In my area, the democrats hold an event called “Sleep out the Vote” where democrats camp out in front of the Board of Elections the night before voting starts. Local democrat look for a large turnout to kick off voting in the Cincinnati area and to rally support for Obama. One of our local tea party leaders dropped by first thing this morning to see how successful the Democrats were in rallying their people look below for the pictures. It was a BUST!
http://www.clermontteaparty.org/democrat-early-voting-rally-a-dud-pictures.html
Wow! Looks like the OWS 2012 reunion!
Wow fourteen people who had no place to go after the bars closed. I wonder what the hype for the event set them back? Every one of these failed attempts is another strain on their budget and they won’t even get airtime for it because there’s no way to spin it. Epic Failure!
Another thing too: campaigns only have so much “juice”.
Juice is the ability to get people to do something.
If you have the juice, you can get people to assemble for something…but then you have less juice when you ask for the next thing. There is a finite amount of “juice” that you can utilize as political cachet and capital.
Democrats had little juice if they were able to muster so few people for this.
People will not wake up early if they are unenthused and go stand around somewhere…for what?
Excellent statement – going to clip this and remind myself for campaigns, political and otherwise.
Totally true! As a PTA Pres, you’ve got to marshal your resources and don’t over use them. Also helps putting them to work, when there is an option at things they like or at least don’t detest.
The latest ad from the Obama camp –
“Vote like your lady parts depend on it”
I kid you not. What a degrading pile of hooey! Check out the graphic at http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/10/02/Obama-Campaign-Lady-Parts.
I think this will cost them votes.
Can they get any more degrading? Frankly, I don’t even want to KNOW the kind of women this would appeal to.
the answer is easy… to someone like Sandra Fluke who is a town bike
When Fluke was told you can get birth control for $ 9 a month at Target, she was a deer in headlights.
Just tuned into Rush to see what’s up with him and he just mentioned this ad.
Sorry folks it’s official. “Lady Parts” has (have?) been scrubbed! The shortest life for a campaign ad ever. I knew the minute the adults sobered up at the Obama Campaign Man-Boy Cave it would get pulled. There goes more money, keep the bloopers coming. Cha-Ching!
Should we respond to the Obama “Vote like your lady parts depend on it” with “Vote with your brain, your “lady parts” are your’s not the government’s concern”.
That is great and I hope you do not mind if I use it for my next t-shirt!! “Vote with your brain – Your “Lady Parts” are your’s not the government’s concern” LOVE IT
Free of charge.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pravda
Maybe we need to start putting Pravda in front of drive by news organizations which use the narratives?
Pravda ABC
Pravda NBC
Pravda CBS
Pravda NY Times
Pravda Time
Pravda Newsweek/The Daily Beast
Pravda MS-NBC
Hmmmm….I kind of like this.
I am going to try using this today and see the impact it has on people.
Good idea.
You’re welcome!
Charlie Sykes (620 WTMJ Milwaukee) mentioned this on his show this morning when talking about how the media is covering up and not reporting things.
I love Charlie Sykes! I listened to him all the time when I lived in Milwaukee.
If you had a lot of space and someone who gets the joke, perhaps you could say “Pravda’s ABC bureau reports…”, “Pravda’s Time bureau stated…”, etc.
Or how about: Pravda-USA’s ABC/CBS/NBC bureau….etc.?
“My friends Barack and Michelle Obama will have been married 20 years exactly this Wednesday.
That’s also the day that Barack will face off with Mitt Romney for the very first presidential debate of this election.
I suppose you can’t plan everything — even when you’re president of the United States.
But there’s something we can all do to help send them off into the last month of this election feeling good:
Add your name and well-wishes to a 20th anniversary card for Barack and Michelle.
This race will be close until the very end, and tomorrow will be an important day for the campaign.
But let’s take a moment to show Barack and Michelle that we wish them well in life, not just in politics.
Add your name to the card today:
(link for donation goes here)
Then, let’s dig in and get ready for the next 35 days.
David”
Two direct donation links. Leading to a secure donation page completely filled out with all your personal information.
I can’t wait to see how Mitt and Paul celebrate the anniversary!
the only card I would sign for two slobs like them is one that states: POQ
“Push Calls Ask: ‘How Can You Support a Mormon?’…”
http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/peter-roff/2012/09/27/obama-supporters-dirty-tricks-to-win-the-catholic-vote
“Deal W. Hudson: More Obama Push Calls to Catholics Continue the Big Lie”
http://www.catholic.org/politics/story.php?id=47821
The first link is from matt drudge. The second is the one I brought up yesterday cause this just was bothering me after I saw the article.
Heard about this on the radio — if you’re talking to a real person, you should “push poll” back and ask, “How can you as a Catholic support someone who goes against your church’s teachings?”
I thought of another reason for optimism: the problems the lefties had at their recent Convention! They could barely drag the politicians in, lots of them were “absent”, and they had to resort to passing out tickets in bars, plus having to downsize the venue for Barry’s big acceptance speech.
All good signs!
Kevin, I think Matt Drudge is really going all in on the new pic of the president and the caption.
I can’t believe I didn’t see this kind of stuff until you pointed it out, there’s a whole bunch of stuff I’ve been missing!
I just had a look and that was funny:
“It’s a drag”:D
“Just because millionaires are people too, and they too can apparently lose their jobs, we now learn courtesy of the Congressional Research Center, that in 2009, 2,362 Americans making over $1,000,000 in income (and just shy of a million people making over $200,000) collected unemployment benefits.”
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-02/18-households-making-over-10-million-and-2362-making-over-1-mm-collected-unemploymen
Wonder how these people reacted when the obama campaign came knocking figuring they’d get that lucrative donation that they probably already counted in?
Probably the same way Monica’s dad did when the DNC asked him for another donation. “They’ve got to be kidding”.
Do you think Andrew Breitbart died of natural causes?
Yes.
He deteriorated a lot in the last few months of his life. Bad diet, too much travel, too much work, not enough sleep, too much coke, too much booze, and all this on top of a congenital heart condition. He was obese and abusing his body before he died and trying to get away with things he got away with physically when he was in college.
That’s what killed him. Not an assassin.
Breitbart may have also had hypertension, either known or undiagnosed. I say this because one of the attorneys I work for had (and fortunately, survived) a massive heart attack two years ago while walking the half-block from his office to the courthouse. Not only did he drop like a brick per the eyewitnesses, but his face was beet-red. His doctors ascribed this to hypertension. He also lived fast and played hard, like Breitbart had done.
Granted, in most heart attack cases the person’s face goes ashen or ghostly white, but NOT in all cases. Most people out there aren’t aware of the hypertension factor.
I had heard that AB had been trying to get into better shape, He’d been to the UCLA med center, and got marching order to get a gripe on his health. He just couldn’t. He wanted to do too much and his body couldn’t keep up with his spirit. People do die young of these things. Heck, one of the ladies my trainer works with, a VEGAN and a runner had a heart attack here and honestly I think the low fat diet is as bad as the Big Mac attack. My husband when he was doing tri athalons did the low fat diet and he raised his bad cholesterol because of it. He had to stop.
Andrew Breitbart was a drugger at his age, with a wife and four little kids? I hate to sound like Eeyore, but that does make me very sad.
He partied hard. He was a boisterous guy. He was a great guy, but he partied hard and didn’t ever stop.
I used to work in the entertainment industry and then in event planning and marketing. So many of my friends from the 90s burned bright but flamed out. So many OD-ed, got HIV, wrecked their livers, had to go to rehab multiple times, lost their looks because of drugs, etc.
Drinking and drugs lead you nowhere.
I never did any drugs (not even a cigarette) but I used to drink socially and then last year when we did an intervention with a friend of ours who has a SERIOUS drinking problem I promised her I would never drink again if she didn’t. Well, she drank again but she has reined it in a bit but I never had a drink again and never will. Justin has a glass of wine at dinner once in a while and about twice a year he gets a beer if we are in a bar for some reason, but alcohol won’t ever be part of my life again. I just don’t need it, it’s expensive, and I’d rather just have a Coke as a treat (a real one, not Diet…on special days).
I am so excited to post a ground report. I live in looney leftist land (thanks for the nudge on using that word, Kevin) in northern lower Michigan, and I’ve never been able to post a ground report because I thought I was the ONLY conservative around.
I’ve been reading Hillbuzz since July of 2008 and Kevin got me hyped up to volunteer for the local Republican office. I worked three days a week for about 6 weeks and probably saw 5 or 6 people TOTAL. A couple of them were repeats because their signs had been stolen.
Today I went into the Republican office and there were at least 8-9 people in there. One was addressing envelopes (the job I’ll be doing tomorrow), a few were there answering questions by people like me, and others were picking up literature and signs. The Mitt Romney signs aren’t in yet (why, why, why!!), but they had a waiting list at least two pages long of people who wanted signs to put in their yards.
The lady in charge told me that this is how it’s been since the office opened a few weeks ago. They can’t keep things in stock. I asked for a bumper sticker, and she told me that the waiting list is so long that it would be wise of me to just order one from Romney’s website.
This is Michigan. Blue Michigan. I honestly thought I was all alone, but I’m not! Of all of the Dem signs I see, (and there are quite a few) are for local and state elections. I know of two Obama signs. No Mitt signs yet, but it’s because they haven’t gotten them yet. It was such a wonderful experience for me to go there today – like I stepped into a world with normal, HAPPY people!
One lady was ordering two HUGE Romney signs to put on her property near the highway.
Thanks, Kevin, for getting me revved up for this election. I can’t wait to get there tomorrow morning to help. I hope I have a great time and meet some like minded people.
This totally made my day.
I wil be honest: volunteering in election season is tough. I’m booked solid through November 6th and have actually canceled any freelancing gigs that are not directed at the election until then. If I’m not here at HB writing something, I’m doing other things behind the scenes to help Romney/Ryan and a few other candidates I like. I have Justin booked solid too and have also been able to book a handful of friends (and growing) doing volunteer work in the field to defeat Obama. It’s a lot of work.
But I will never regret doing this. On November 7th, I am going to sleep ALL DAY and will take it easy for a little vacation after that. My health is holding up and I am being very careful not to overextend and overexert myself, but I am giving all my blood, sweat, and tears to this effort and am holding nothing back. Poor Justin has never been through a campaign so he’s bewildered doing this stuff every day…but it’s just until November 6th and then later he can feel pride in knowing he did all he could to stop Obama.
It really is worth it in the end. The hard work and long days and pain and suffering in the moment really does pay off.
Like I said, you never regret doing this stuff…but could be sorry you didn’t if results don’t work out the way you wanted and you thought maybe you could have done more.
It’s now or never…and soon it will be only one month to go, if you can believe it.
Well, I am fired up this year. The last time I volunteered for the McCain/Palin team, I did it for Palin. Plus, they had nobody else doing it and I can’t say no, so I brought the 4 year old with me and we hung out for a few hours and colored. This time, the office is ROCKING. I’ll let you know more tomorrow when I go in to help out.
Oh, and one more thing, I am one of those really nice people who go out of their way to make people happy. I can’t do confrontation at all. I don’t think I can phone bank for that reason, as I want to please everyone. BUT, stuffing envelopes is something I can do! I’m so geeked! Maybe I’ll hear others talking on the phone while calling and I can get my courage up to do that next. I’m such a wimp and brain stutter when people are confrontational, so maybe hearing others working may help me out.
You alone have given me the courage to stand up (slightly) for my convictions. I’m not where I should be, but I’m getting much, much better!
You are totally where you should be!
Just do the best you can every day.
Work as hard as you can.
As long as you can say you did your very best every day, then you are totally where you should be!
Believe in yourself!
I sure as heck believe in you and I know I am not alone!!!
Kevin – I just have to tell you this:
you are simply the best motivator around!
The way you encourage people is outstanding.
I just wish I was an American and could do some envelope-stuffing, phoning, whatever, as well.
As things are, I’m restricted to call out the ‘correspondents’ on the daily online papers on their bias, and do a few battles with the obamabots.
Every little helps, no?
I think helping online is great.
Keep leaving comments different places showing the bias.
Also keep reminding people that when they use the word “liberal” they help the Left. Getting people to stop saying that stupid word is the biggest victory we could ever achieve. It does so much damage and conservatives don’t realize how much PR help they give the Left when they use it.
Keep up the good work, Michelle. Action-lady. I love it!.
Michelle remember a lot of us are overseas and can’t volunteer. All we can do is cheerlead from across a very very very large pond and vote. You guys are all making us proud to. Everytime I see my husband in his uniform and the kids running around doing their jobs like good Marines I think they deserve a Commander in Chief who has as much integrity and honor as they do! You are fighting for them as well.
Michelle, you are an inspiration to us all. Reading your story was so awesome! As I was readin, I got just the biggest smile you can imagine, and now I can’t stop. People like you are the backbone of America. Your work will NOT go unrewarded!
On Nov. 7, you should treat yourself to a nice dinner at a really swanky place. I’m betting you’ll see lots of fellow celebrants there!
I hate to break it to you but the MR shop STINKS! I ordered $50 worth of merchandise 2 months ago – a shirt, a sticker and a sign – and only got the sign. The one time I got through to the shop manager he said the campaign had just turned over the shipping and handling to him because they couldn’t keep up with it, their records were terrible and the backlog was huge.
I still have not gotten all my stuff. I finally went to cafepress for my sign and bumper sticker and chalked up the $50 as a campaign donation but I am NOT impressed with the way the MR people are handling business. I’ll bet the POS shop has no such problems.
Oh, and to add – many of the Republican local election signs just came out recently, so we’ll be seeing more out and about soon. There wasn’t much to choose from as people have been picking them up. Again, no Presidential signs, but just local and State elections.
I am so giddy about this! I tend to get Eeyorish, so this will be good for me to get my mind off of things by physically helping the campaign.
This just in from MA!!!! Lizzie Warren caught practicing law in MA without a license. Her campaign is about to go Coakley! Pochantus can now celebrate Thanksgiving with her native relatives.
http://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-warren-law-license-poll-2012-10
Massachusetts Lawyer Weekly recently polled attorneys in the state about whether Warren should be investigated for “possibly” practicing law without a license from the state.
Eighty-seven percent of the 1,134 lawyers polled want the Harvard law professor investigated.
I scored last night’s MA debate: Brown’s 14 Redskins 0
It is old news by now and William Jacobsen did a lot of the research on the subject. It is very interesting.
What do you know/ think about Dr. Beller and her chances?
Something for the leftist who has everything – the truth. A nice, short article from the UK Telegraph on the Benghazi coverup. Send it to a leftist and raise their blood pressure.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/concoughlin/100183452/did-the-white-house-order-a-cover-up-over-the-murder-of-libyas-us-ambassador/
PS this is what real journalists do, they report the news not parrot propaganda..
“CAMPAIGN DRAMA: VIDEO MADE 6 YEARS AGO SURFACES ON EVE OF FIRST PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE… DEVELOPING TONIGHT.”
drudge
This is interesting cause I read something last night wherein BO himself made a comment that he was worried about October surprises and then apparently thought the election was 34 days away and had to be corrected and told 36 days. That stuck in my brain cause earlier Michelle gave out the wrong date to vote,
Makes you wonder if they are even paying attention.
At first, I thought maybe someone coughed up the Khalid tape to Breitbart but that was made in 2003 I think. Ok, I’m officially curious
What’s the video?
Apparently it will be on Fox tonight. It’s Obama giving a speech about race according to the Drudgr updated headline.
What’s the video? Drudge doesn’t say which candidate it affects.;
No one knows yet, Stay tuned…..
I have to think about this information:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/10/02/Benghazi-Attacker-Was-A-Libyan-Fighter-Freed-During-Arab-Spring?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BreitbartFeed+%28Breitbart+Feed%29
It concerns the terrorist who most likely planned the terrorist attack. I do not think that he was from Libya, but Gadhafi did release about 100 people from prison prior to the civil war. It sounds more like he was an Egyptian.
This is relevant because it goes to the heart of the Arab Spring and the aims of interference by the White House.
this piece is quite accurate. It ties in with information that I learned within a day of the bombing – that authorities were watching a training camp in the desert in Libya. What this report does is give a name to the leader and explains more about those involved.
The person is an Egyptian and was locked up in Egypt’s prison system since 2000.
The White House lied about the whole episode.
As this information gets out I think that more people will be keen to get rid of Obama. They could not possibly think that this White House administration is better equipped than the Romney team because it is not the case. They are dangerous, and their attitudes are going to cause a total disaster if they are not stopped in their tracks.
The voters in the USA need to get it right this time.
Info on the tape. From another site.
Sean Hannity: “Tonight at 9pm we will show a video from 2007 that will effect the race.”
He’s referring to the tape Drudge referenced.
Curious tape dropping tonight. NOT from MOTHERJONES. Will cause controversy,ignite accusations of racism — in both directions!
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) October 2, 2012
Internal debate at news network about airing tape tonight, on eve of debate… MORE
— MATT DRUDGE (@DRUDGE) October 2, 2012
Fox News welched on another video Hannity was going to show. They killed it due to White House pressure. I won’t believe it’s being aired until I see it.
On Drudge now with a siren.
Obama’s other Race Speech
Huge headline on Drudge Report with a flashing siren:
FOXNEWS TONIGHT: OBAMA’S OTHER RACE SPEECH
I know Sean Hannity will show this video as he said so on his radio show. I also know they made it a point to release this video tonight, the evening before the first debate. Matt Drudge tweeted out a teaser about it this afternoon.
Check the top left corner.
The accent . . . the anger . . . . the accusations
The Michelle Obama “whitey” video is still lingering out there as well. This was a speech she gave at some offshoot event during the DNC 2004 convention. She apparantly went off on a rant. I remember Bob Beckel stating he had seen the video and that it was a game-changer — then curiously, you never heard another word about it. The Chicago mafia is not that powerful, but the global mafia they are linked up with certainly are.
File this under you just don’t know who do you root for. If Obama was a real president he would attempt to stop this before it explodes and suffer the wrath of Planned Parenthood.
Because there is not enough social unrest in the Middle East, It is the perfect time for the so-called “abortion ship” to stir the waters even more. Women on Waves has announced it will anchor this week in a Muslim country for the first time ever: Morocco, a country where 98.7% of the population identify as Muslims, and where the Islamic Justice and Development Party came to power in November 2011.
Women on Waves specializes in committing offshore abortions in countries where abortion is illegal.
Islam is a bit all over the map on abortion, but by and large the religion forbids it. In Morocco abortion is allowed for life or physical/mental health of the mother.
Women on Waves has decided to test the waters at an interesting time, right after Moroccan Islamists joined those in several other Muslim countries to protest the U.S. This CNBC photo, taken September 14, shows them burning an American flag outside a Moroccan mosque…
Source -http://www.jillstanek.com/2012/10/abortion-ship-to-enter-muslim-waters/
These Women on Waves people could qualify as the greatest morons in world history.
Question:
I was flipping channels here at our far away base, at the “Edge of the Empire” and saw MSLSD on. Madcow was screetching as she does about GOP not registering people in certain states like CO and I think NV and NM. Anyone else heard that. I have Eeyores bugging me about it. I know it means nada. But I’d like to have something more concret to shut these people up.
MSLSD: Good one!
Somewhere here I posted something about this. I too am being hit with this so much so that I am thinking it’s the next meme. It is alleged that a firm, hired by the GOP to register voters was doing something unethical. No one ever defines the something they were doing except to call it voter fraud and to try desperately to tie Governor Romney to said firm. In the articles I’ve read they end with the GOP finding out there was a problem and firing the firm immediately.
In my original comment with a link to a story I believe I expressed my skepticism. Something with the entire story just is not resonating.
Theothermichelle: I had a Romney call about 4pm from a gal in Arizona, (I’m in Fl) After we did her survey, I asked where she was calling from and I told her about the ground reports here on HillBuzz. She was writing things down while we talked. My husband walked by and gave me tho googily eyes, like ‘I can’t believe you are making conversation with a perfect stranger’. That’s coming from someone who never met a stranger and really does give our garbage men cold drinks!
Anyway we talked, or should I say I ranted for about 15 minutes. See, you are going to talk to silly old women that can’t wait to talk to another Conservative!
When I go to Tea Party events it’s is so comforting to just be with people that feel like you do. When Bush was running for his second term, he flew in here and landed at Space Coast Stadium. The crowd was huge and we had all gone thru rather tight security. The experience was awesome because Everyone there looked and acted patriotic, appropriate, wholesome, and hung on every word, applauding, no booing, just so homogenous! We were young and old, black and white, men and women, handicapped and virile. You could talk to anyone and see right thru to their hearts. The feeling was great. I hope we can all experience this again!
Was reading around the web this morning and encountered a claim that the president had a grass roots rally at a local high school with over eleven thousand people. The person provided a link but it was one of those sites where I don’t trust the link. So I figured out that the link led to a place called “examiner”. For the record, haven’t found the original article talking about the alleged rally. But I did find this article:
“Romney v. Obama debate I”
http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-v-obama-debate-i
It’s sort of unbelievable how Romney is painted in this article. They keep repeating his age and saying he isn’t charismatic. I’m thinking of registering there to counteract the nonsense (a nice word I wanted to use two letters one starting with a B but I want to not put any cuss words out there out of respect for Kevin and his site)
Brand New Reader – After reading your post, I couldn’t resist reading the article. Now, given the outcome of the debate, this article makes the author look rather pathetic and stupid. That’s what happens, I guess, when a supposed writer replaces reality and truth with the collective delusion of those Leftist loonie-tunes.
One more comment. Tonights debate reminded me of the movie “A Few Good Men” There is a scene when Demi Moore tells Tom Cruise that he needed to go into court and get an admission out of the arrogant Colonel (Jack Nicholson). “You go in there and just get it out of him” Tom Cruise just hammers away at him on the witness stand until the narcissistic Colonel explodes and says “You’re damn right I ordered the Code Red!!” Tonight I felt that with just a little more time Mitt Romney would get a frustrated Obama to scream out “You’re damn right I am a Socialist!!”