Team Brown Beats Team Kerry In DC Softball Game

Now, you tell me what is wrong with this picture:

“Can I get me a pair a shorts,  heyah?”

The Hill reported:

The athletic lawmakers faced off on the National Mall on Tuesday for a friendly softball game between their office teams, which Brown’s team, the Great Scotts, won handily, 11-6. Brown, wearing a team jersey and shorts, played a very capable first base for eight innings and went 2 for 3 at the plate, scoring two runs.

Kerry, who arrived in a shirt and tie, had one at-bat and grounded out to third.

But before he batted, the senator took off his tie — to whooping cheers from his staffers.

When it was Brown’s turn to bat, however, Brown asked to wear Kerry’s tie at the plate. Kerry was happy to oblige and Brown batted in “business attire.”

Hat tips: Hillbuzz:  Hottie McAwesome Scott Brown kicks John Kerry’s sorry butt in softball — and Kerry wore a button-down shirt AND TIE to play the game and Fausa: What not to wear, Senator style

Hey, let’s can the “Hottie McAwesome” stuff. He’s proving to be more of a  “Rino McBigDisappointment”.

Another (Non) Shocker: Documents Reveal Journalists Conspiring to Derail Palin, Fall of 2008

Oh Yes.

This is the Daily Caller document drop I’ve been waiting for. This batch of JournolList emails, follow the announcement of Palin as McCain’s V.P. pick, as many of the Journolisters eagerly formulated talking points to derail the McCain momentum.  Johnathan Strong of The Caller says “the tone was more campaign headquarters than newsroom”:

Daniel Levy of the Century Foundation noted that Obama’s “non-official campaign” would need to work hard to discredit Palin. “This seems to me like an occasion when the non-official campaign has a big role to play in defining Palin, shaping the terms of the conversation and saying things that the official [Obama] campaign shouldn’t say – very hard-hitting stuff, including some of the things that people have been noting here – scare people about having this woefully inexperienced, no foreign policy/national security/right-wing christia wing-nut a heartbeat away …… bang away at McCain’s age making this unusually significant …. I think people should be replicating some of the not-so-pleasant viral email campaigns that were used against [Obama].”

Ryan Donmoyer, a reporter for Bloomberg News who was covering the campaign, sent a quick thought that Palin’s choice not to have an abortion when she unexpectedly became pregnant at age 44 would likely boost her image because it was a heartwarming story.

“Her decision to keep the Down’s baby is going to be a hugely emotional story that appeals to a vast swath of America, I think,” Donmoyer wrote.

Politico reporter Ben Adler, now an editor at Newsweek, replied, “but doesn’t leaving sad baby without its mother while she campaigns weaken that family values argument? Or will everyone be too afraid to make that point?”

Everybody knows family values means mothers have to stay home with the baby. That turned out to be one of the talking points against her.  Liberals pretended to care that her choice to accept the nomination might infringe on her duties as a mother of a special needs baby.

Blogger Matt Yglesias sent out a new post thread with the subject, “The line on Palin.”

“John McCain picked someone to help him politically, Barack Obama picked someone to help him govern,” Yglesias wrote.

They were pushing the idea that “Slow Joe” was all about gravitas? Heh.

Ed Kilgore, managing editor of the Democratic Strategist blog, argued that journalists and others trying to help the Obama campaign should focus on Palin’s beliefs. “The criticism of her really, really needs to be ideological, not just about experience.  If we concede she’s a ‘maverick,’ we will have done John McCain an enormous service.  And let’s don’t concede the claim that [Hillary Clinton] supporters are likely to be very attracted to her,” Kilgore said.

Amidst this debate over how most effectively to destroy Palin’s reputation, reporter Avi Zenilman, who was then writing about the campaign for Politico, chimed in to note that Palin had “openly backed” parts of Obama’s energy plan. In an interview Wednesday, Zenilman said he sent the information as a means of promoting a story he had written for Politico.

Chris Hayes of the Nation wrote in with words of encouragement, and to ask for more talking points. “Keep the ideas coming! Have to go on TV to talk about this in a few min and need all the help I can get,” Hayes wrote.

Suzanne Nossel, chief of operations for Human Rights Watch, added a novel take: “I think it is and can be spun as a profoundly sexist pick. Women should feel umbrage at the idea that their votes can be attracted just by putting a woman, any woman, on the ticket no matter her qualifications or views.”

Mother Jones’s Stein loved the idea. “That’s excellent! If enough people – people on this list? – write that the pick is sexist, you’ll have the networks debating it for days. And that negates the SINGLE thing Palin brings to the ticket,” he wrote.

Another writer from Mother Jones, Nick Baumann, had this idea: “Say it with me: ‘Classic GOP Tokenism’.”

All of this was in the hours just after the announcement was made. It must have gotten considerably worse in the days following the announcement, when McCain’s poll numbers finally overtook Obama’s.

Tragically,  the subprime mortgage meltdown and the resulting rippling repercussions occurred in mid September,  effectively ending McCain/Palin’s chances, because in 2008, the electorate foolishly blamed the economic downturn on Republicans.

UPDATE:

Ed Morrissey and Jim Geraghty focus on the Joe Klein emails, which I didn’t excerpt.

UPSIDE?

At least no one goes through a plate glass window in this one.

Others blogging:

The Other McCain: Oh, Joy! Guess What the Journolisters Had to Say About Sarah Palin?

Linked by Michelle Malkin, thanks!

Liberal Bias? — What Liberal Bias?!

Instapundit reader, Elliott Davis: “The best part about Eric Alterman’s participation in Journolist is his authorship of What Liberal Media?: The Truth About Bias and the News.”

Best of the Journolist so far:

Dave Weigel, formerly of the Washington post, reacting to “ACORN Ratf*cker, James O’Keefe’s arrest:

Weigel’s response: “HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.”

“Deep breath.”

“HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHA.”

“He’s either going to get a radio talk show or start a prison ministry. That’s was successful conservative ratf*ckers do for their second acts,” Weigel wrote, likely alluding to Nixon aide Charles Colson who converted to Christianity after a stint in prison for obstruction of justice and founded Prison Fellowship.

Weigel on Matt Drudge:

This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.

Spencer Ackerman, of Wired: On how to deal with the Rev. Wright controversy:

What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.

If the right forces us all to either defend Wright or tear him down, no matter what we choose, we lose the game they’ve put upon us. Instead, take one of them — Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists. Ask: why do they have such a deep-seated problem with a black politician who unites the country? What lurks behind those problems? This makes *them* sputter with rage, which in turn leads to overreaction and self-destruction.

Chris Hayes, The Nation on Wright:

“I’m not saying we should all rush en masse to defend Wright. If you don’t think he’s worthy of defense, don’t defend him! What I’m saying is that there is no earthly reason to use our various platforms to discuss what about Wright we find objectionable,” Hayes said.

Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA on yanking Fox News off the air:

“I hate to open this can of worms,” he wrote, “but is there any reason why the FCC couldn’t simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?”

Sarah Spitz NPR on her wish that Rush Limbaugh would die of a heart attack:

Spitz wrote that she would “Laugh loudly like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out” as Limbaugh writhed in torment.

In boasting that she would gleefully watch a man die in front of her eyes, Spitz seemed to shock even herself. “I never knew I had this much hate in me,” she wrote. “But he deserves it.”

Josh Berman, LA Weekly on Obama’s 2008 victory:

11 months ago I burst into tears by myself on a plane while watching Hardball when my mind wandered to the image of President Obama being sworn in. I’ve been fighting it ever since.

A triumphant Spencer Ackerman

Let’s just throw Ledeen against a wall. Or, pace Dr. Alterman, throw him through a plate glass window. I’ll bet a little spot of violence would shut him right the f*ck up, as with most bullies.

UPDATE:

Sarah Spitz has issued a tepid apology for her comment about Rush Limbaugh, which she claims does “not represent the values by which I conduct my life.”

Andrew McCarthy, at The Corner isn’t buying:

I think she shouldn’t have bothered. She apologizes to anyone I may have offended? When she was spewing out her bile, she had no trouble aiming it quite directly at Rush. But now that she’s been found out and feels the need — for entirely self-serving reasons — to say she’s sorry, she can’t bring herself to apologize directly to Rush. Apparently, even after all this, there’s still too “much hate in me,” as she told her colleagues. The best she can do is apologize to “anyone” who “may” have been offended by her statement that she gleefully imagines Rush Limbaugh having a fatal heart attack so she can “laugh out loud like a maniac and watch his eyes bug out.”

We all say stupid things from time to time — maybe not that stupid, but pretty darn stupid nonetheless. Is it really that hard to address the person you’ve directly offended, even if you don’t like that person, and say you’re sorry? And if you’re too consumed with spite to do that, wouldn’t it be better to just zip it?

UPDATE II:

See Clarice Feldman at The American Thinker for a list of 65 Known Journolisters

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Journolist pix via iOWNTHEWORLD.

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Linked by Ed Driscoll, All the President’s Listservs, and Michelle Malkin in buzzworthy, thanks!

Journolisters On 2008 Election: Insufferable D-Bags Even In Victory

We already knew they were sore losers. They’re also despicably sore winners, as the latest Daily Caller document drop reveals. I’ve been noticing how disturbingly violent in their rhetoric, some of these guys are…Spencer Ackerman, once again, distinguishes himself:

LAURA ROZEN, FOREIGN POLICY (NOW POLITICO): Can you imagine if these bozos had won?

Nov. 7

LAURA ROZEN: People we no longer have to listen to: would it be unwise to start a thread of people we are grateful we no longer have to listen to? If not, I’ll start off: Michael Rubin.

MICHAEL COHEN, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: Mark Penn and Bob Shrum. Anyone who uses the expression “Real America.” We should send there ass to Gitmo!

JESSE TAYLOR, PANDAGON.NET: Michael Barone?  Please?

LAURA ROZEN: Karl Rove, Newt Gingrich (afraid it’s not true), Drill Here Drill Now, And David Addington, John Yoo, we’ll see you in court?

JEFFREY TOOBIN, THE NEW YORKER: As a side note, does anyone know what prompted Michael Barone to go insane?

MATT DUSS: LEDEEN.

SPENCER ACKERMAN: Let’s just throw Ledeen against a wall. Or, pace Dr. Alterman, throw him through a plate glass window. I’ll bet a little spot of violence would shut him right the fuck up, as with most bullies.

JOE KLEIN, TIME: Pete Wehner…these sort of things always end badly.

ERIC ALTERMAN, AUTHOR, WHAT LIBERAL MEDIA: F**king Nascar retards…

What’s this fascination Ackerman has with throwing people through plate glass windows?  Remember this from the Jeremiah Wright emails?

It’s not necessary to jump to Wright-qua-Wright’s defense. What is necessary is to raise the cost on the right of going after the left. In other words, find a rightwinger’s [sic] and smash it through a plate-glass window. Take a snapshot of the bleeding mess and send it out in a Christmas card to let the right know that it needs to live in a state of constant fear. Obviously I mean this rhetorically.

What’s up with these people?

A commenter like that on most right wing blogs would get banned for such violent, unhinged rhetoric.

RELATED:

Dr Zero: Whistling Past The JournoList Graveyard

Doc’s 2 cents is always worth reading:

The general public will be able to digest this story, and they won’t like the taste.  They’ve already got a low opinion of journalists.  It will plummet even further once they get a few bites of JournoList.  No magazine, newspaper, or network that continues to employ any of the people quoted in the Daily Caller story can be trusted by any fair-minded person as a reliable news source.  Period.

The discussion of false racism charges is an outrage. The American public is growing very tired of being pummeled with the racism club.  The cynical plan to pick a random conservative – “who cares?” – and slander them as racists will mix with disgust at the NAACP for trying the same wretched tactic on the Tea Party movement.  The once-feared Race Card is looking rather tattered around the edges.  The Left has been putting a lot of effort into shuffling those cards into the deck for the 2010 and 2012 campaigns.  The nitwits at JournoList just made them much more difficult to play.

By the way, Wired is standing by Ackerman. As Jim Treacher says, “Apparently, lying about somebody who disagrees with you is a “political leaning.”

New Daily Caller Journolist Document Drop: This Time Lefty Crapweasels Discuss Ways To Shut Down Fox News

The first part of the piece by Jonathan Strong deals with our lefty heroes’ rabid dislike for Rush Limbaugh, and the town hall protesters, last summer. We’re  uncouth, and nasty anti-everythings – reminiscent of brownshirts …icky-icky-poo! (Because we all know that the brownshirts represented the out of power minority!) There’s nothing here you haven’t already heard from any garden variety internet troll.

The second half is more ominous because here, they may have had some influence with the White House. Their pig-pile on Fox News foreshadowed the White House’s attacks on Fox News later that Fall:

The very existence of Fox News, meanwhile, sends Journolisters into paroxysms of rage. When Howell Raines charged that the network had a conservative bias, the members of Journolist discussed whether the federal government should shut the channel down.

“I am genuinely scared” of Fox, wrote Guardian columnist Daniel Davies, because it “shows you that a genuinely shameless and unethical media organisation *cannot* be controlled by any form of peer pressure or self-regulation, and nor can it be successfully cold-shouldered or ostracised. In order to have even a semblance of control, you need a tough legal framework.” Davies, a Brit, frequently argued the United States needed stricter libel laws.

Good lord. Fox News doesn’t care if it doesn’t get invited to all the right parties. The horror.

“I agree,” said Michael Scherer of Time Magazine. Roger “Ailes understands that his job is to build a tribal identity, not a news organization. You can’t hurt Fox by saying it gets it wrong, if Ailes just uses the criticism to deepen the tribal identity.”

Tribal identity, really? Conservatives are like a foreign, exotic culture to these misfits.

Jonathan Zasloff, a law professor at UCLA, suggested that the federal government simply yank Fox off the air. “I hate to open this can of worms,” he wrote, “but is there any reason why the FCC couldn’t simply pull their broadcasting permit once it expires?”

And so a debate ensued. Time’s Scherer, who had seemed to express support for increased regulation of Fox, suddenly appeared to have qualms: “Do you really want the political parties/white house picking which media operations are news operations and which are a less respectable hybrid of news and political advocacy?”

But Zasloff stuck to his position. “I think that they are doing that anyway; they leak to whom they want to for political purposes,” he wrote. “If this means that some White House reporters don’t get a press pass for the press secretary’s daily briefing and that this means that they actually have to, you know, do some reporting and analysis instead of repeating press releases, then I’ll take that risk.”

I’m “genuinely scared” that Johnathan Zasloff is a Professor of law with influence over young minds. I have no idea what connections (if any) Zasloff has with the White House, but can it be mere coincidence that in October of ’09, The White House Communications Director, Anita Dunn, led a  broadside against fox news, that seemed organized and calculated to delegitimize the news organization. When the White House tried to exclude Fox from the “Pay Czar” interviews, the WH Press pool came to it’s defense, and the White House blinked. After being called “Nixonian” by not only right of center pundits, but some in the MSM, as well, the White House finally backed off.

Back to the Journolisters:

Scherer seemed alarmed. “So we would have press briefings in which only media organizations that are deemed by the briefer to be acceptable are invited to attend?”

John Judis, a senior editor at the New Republic, came down on Zasloff’s side, the side of censorship. “Pre-Fox,” he wrote, “I’d say Scherer’s questions made sense as a question of principle. Now it is only tactical.”

Back when progs had a monopoly on the news, they were totally against censorship…now that there are competing ideas…. different rules.

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Anyway, pssst: The next time some lib disses Fox News, say, “did Jonathan Zasloff tell you to say that?”

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Previously

Psssst: Any mention of racism should be met with “Did Spence Ackerman tell you to make that up?”

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UPDATE:

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Byron York spoke with Rush Limbaugh this morning for his reaction to the latest Journolist revelations: Limbaugh responds to JournoList death wish report

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Also Blogging:

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Ed Morrissey: Journolisters debate, endorse gov’t control of Fox News

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Newsbusters: Liberals on JournoList Would Watch Limbaugh Die, Press DNC, Obama to Refuse to Recognize Fox News

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Ace: More Leaked JournoList Emails

Video: Andrew Breitbart Defends Sherrod Video (with updates)

Shirley Sherrod served as director of rural development in Georgia until yesterday. After an  explosive video appeared on Big Government, where she made shockingly  blatant, racist statements, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack forced her to resign.

From the get-go,  there were some in the right-wing blogosphere, most notably, The Anchoress,  who were questioning the editing of the video. It seemed like she was leading up to something redemptive…. (although her attitudes were initially, severely  jacked up).

Charles Krauthammer believes Sherrod deserves an apology, and restitution, because the full video is a heartwarming story about racial redemption:

The most disturbing part of the video for me were the murmurs of approval from her NAACP audience when she admitted that she was not going to do everything she could do for the white farmer who was facing foreclosure on his farm. That, argues Breitbart, was the main point of the video, which he says, was sent to him in two parts. Here he is defending his “get” on CNN:

Right after that appearance, he appeared on The Dana Show:

Looks to me like Shirley Sherrod got caught in the crossfire in the war between the right and the left-wing medias.

UPDATE:

Here’s the tail-end of Breitbart’s appearance on Hannity, tonight.

UPDATE II:

Breitbart debates arch-nemesis, Eric Boehlert of Media Mutters on Good Morning America. Video at Gateway Pundit.

Love the part where Boehlert robotically mutters “I’ll take John Lewis’ word…I’ll take John Lewis’ word…John Lewis is a American icon…” as Breitbart gestures: Four videos … four videos! FOUR!

The left is reduced to defending the March 20 tea party smear as a “he said, he said”, and of course they take the word of  their Alinskyized brethren. What a pathetic joke.

UPDATE III:

Tom Blumer: Shirley Sherrod’s Disappearing Act: Not So Fast

Ms. Sherrod’s previous background, the circumstances surrounding her hiring, and the USDA’s agenda may all play a part in explaining her sudden departure from the agency. These matters have not received much scrutiny to this point.

An announcement of Ms. Sherrod’s July 2009 appointment to her USDA position at ruraldevelopment.org gives off quite a few clues:

RDLN Graduate and Board Vice Chair Shirley Sherrod was appointed Georgia Director for Rural Development by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on July 25. Only days earlier, she learned that New Communities, a group she founded with her husband and other families (see below) has won a thirteen million dollar settlement in the minority farmers law suit Pigford vs Vilsack.

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Here are a few bigger-picture questions:

• Did Shirley Sherrod resign so quickly because the circumstances of her hiring and the lawsuit settlement with her organization that preceded it might expose some unpleasant truths about her possible and possibly sanctioned conflicts of interest?
• Is USDA worried about the exposure of possible waste, fraud, and abuse in its handling of Pigford?
• Did USDA also dispatch Sherrod hastily because her continued presence, even for another day, might have gotten in the way of settling Pigford matters quickly?

UPDATE IV:

This keeps getting better….for Breitbart:

American Power: Terry Moran on ‘Nightline’ — ‘A Kind of Victory for Breitbart’

UPDATE V:

Right  Pundits come to Breitbart’s defense:

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Dan Reihl: In Defense of Andrew Breitbart

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Andrew McCarthy: Ms. Sherrod’s Speech Was Most Certainly Not About Transcending Racism

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Matt Lewis: Ann Coulter to Sean Hannity: ‘Andrew Breitbart Was Set Up’

MORE:

RedState: Breitbart Goes Fishing for Minnows and Brilliantly Bags the Big Fish!

Fox News : Official Ousted From Agriculture Department Had Taken USDA to Court, Won

Also blogging:

Ace: After Outcry From Its Members, NAACP Decides It Was “Snookered” Beck Defends; Krauthammer Defends; So, Tentatively, Do I

Hot Air: NAACP and Glenn Beck agree: People rushed to judgment on Sherrod

Sister Toldjah: More to Sherrod/NAACP story than we know? (UPDATE: NAACP RELEASES FULL VID, SHERROD ACCUSES TP OF RACISM IN VID)

Big Government: NAACP Blames Fox and Breitbart For The NAACP’s Overreaction to Shirley Sherrod Video

Hot Air: Should Shirley Sherrod get her job back?

Ace: Nightline: Breitbart’s Moment

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst #70: Flight 93 father says ground zero mosque is the SECOND mosque being built on a 9/11 site

This is a flight 93 memorial blogburst, which was started and is written by Alec Rawls, of Error Theory. I began participating  in the fall of 2007. Almost three years later, we are still at it:

Pamela Geller, who is leading the fight against the ground zero mosque in New York, has posted the following letter from Tom Burnett Senior.

To our fellow 9/11 families and to all who are concerned about the Ground Zero mega-mosque in New York:

We want everyone to know that the Park Service is right now building an even larger Islamic victory mosque atop the Flight 93 crash site. Many of you were outraged in 2005 when the Crescent of Embrace design was unveiled to be a half-mile wide Islamic shaped crescent:

Left: 2005 publicity shot of the Crescent of Embrace design. Right: typical Islamic crescent and star, viewed from a similar angle.

Few people know that this giant crescent actually points to Mecca, or understand the religious significance of this orientation. A crescent that points the direction to Mecca is a very familiar construct in the Islamic world. Because Muslims face Mecca for prayer, every mosque is built around a Mecca direction indicator called a mihrab. The classic mihrab is crescent shaped. Here are the two most famous mihrabs in the world:

Left: the Mihrab of the Prophet, at the Prophet’s mosque in Medina. Right: the mihrab of the Great Mosque in Cordoba Spain.

Face into the crescent to face Mecca

As with the Medina and Cordoba mihrabs, a person facing into the Crescent of Embrace will be facing Mecca. In the image below, superimposed red lines show the orientation of the Flight 93 crescent. The green qibla circle is from an online Mecca-direction calculator:

A person standing between the tips of the crescent and facing into the center of the crescent (red arrow) will be facing almost exactly in “qibla” direction (the Muslim prayer direction). You can verify the qibla direction from Somerset PA using any number of on-line Mecca-direction calculators.

To be precise, the Crescent of Embrace points 1.8° north of Mecca, ± a tenth of a degree. The final construction drawings alter this orientation slightly, so that instead of pointing a little less than two degrees north of Mecca, the actual crescent will point less than three degrees south of Mecca. Such small deviations from Mecca are insignificant by Islamic standards, which developed over a period of more than a thousand years during which far flung Muslims had no accurate way to determine the direction to Mecca.

The Park Service does not call the Crescent of Embrace a crescent anymore. Now they call it Circle of Embrace, but the only actual change was to add an extra arc of trees (planted to the rear of a person facing into the giant crescent) that explicitly represents a broken off part of the circle. The unbroken part of the circle, what symbolically remains standing in the wake of 9/11, is just the original Crescent of Embrace. It is still a giant Islamic shaped crescent, still pointing at Mecca.

This is the Park Service’s official explanation for the design: the terrorist attacks are depicted as smashing our peaceful circle and turning it into a giant crescent. A clearer depiction of Islamic victory is hard to imagine, so no one should be too surprised that the damned thing points to Mecca, and actually turns out to be a mosque.

Other mosque features

Mosque design is based on a dozen typical mosque features, every one of which is realized in the Crescent/Circle design, all on the same epic scale as the half mile wide crescent-mihrab. Note, for instance, that the 93 foot tall minaret-like Tower of Voices is topped with another Islamic-shaped crescent, akin to the crescent-topped minarets seen in many Islamic countries:

An Islamic shaped crescent, soaring in the sky above the symbolic lives of the 40 heroes, which literally dangle down below. In Islam, there is only heaven and hell. Symbolic damnation?

The Flight 93 mosque needs to be stopped, along with the Islamic victory mosque at ground zero in Manhattan. May the fight against these two desecrations strengthen each other.

Sincerely,

Tom Burnett Senior
Loving father of Flight 93 hero Tom Burnett Junior

Pamela’s Atlas Shrugs post includes a second letter from Mr. Burnett, thanking her for her help and passing on some information about the design selection process. (The vote for was 9 to 6 from a judging panel where family members were outnumbered 8-7 by left wing design professionals.)

Want to join our blogburst against the crescent mosque?

Just send your blog’s url.

There is also an online petition that people can sign.

Contact information for the Flight 93 Memorial Project here.

Flight 93 Memorial Blogburst BlogRoll:

Video: The Kansas City Tea Party Responds To NAACP Charge Of Racism

The race card is the lefts’ increasingly obvious ploy to discredit opponents. It is as desperate as it is dishonest and it’s fooling fewer and fewer people.

Here’s the Kansas City Tea Party, Political Chips’ response to the latest transparent  attempt to smear conservatives:

Documents Prove What We All Suspected: Journalists Colluded To Kill Rev. Wright Story

Somehow…. Tucker Carlson at The Daily Caller got his hands on some more Journolist archives, and  these documents are far more consequential and damning than the documents he shared about Dave Weigel’s dopey dissing of conservatives. This time we see what many of us instinctively knew at the time was going on, and what goes on with other stories to this day: MSM journalists conspiring to ignore an important story, and smear critics. What’s their smear of choice? You all know the answer to that question…..

…in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”

Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. “George [Stephanopoulos],” fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is “being a disgusting little rat snake.”

Others went further. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller, at several points during the 2008 presidential campaign a group of liberal journalists took radical steps to protect their favored candidate. Employees of news organizations including Time, Politico, the Huffington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the Guardian, Salon and the New Republic participated in outpourings of anger over how Obama had been treated in the media, and in some cases plotted to fix the damage.

In one instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject. Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, “Fred Barnes, Karl Rove, who cares — and call them racists.”

Michael Tomasky, a writer for the Guardian, also tried to rally his fellow members of Journolist: “Listen folks–in my opinion, we all have to do what we can to kill ABC and this idiocy in whatever venues we have. This isn’t about defending Obama. This is about how the [mainstream media] kills any chance of discourse that actually serves the people.”

Read the whole damning thing.

These people are naked propagandists  who would do Soviet era Pravda writers proud. This is why we declared the MSM dead after the 2008 election. This is  why we’ve come up with different pseudonyms for the MSM: LWM, fishwrap, MFM,  or Palin’s favorite: Lamestream media.

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I vividly remember writing about the  Rev. Wright affair while all this was unfolding  thanks to that primary debate in which George Stephanopoulos asked Obama about his affiliation with the Pastor. It was an important story because it revealed a lot about Obama’s radical worldview…

Here’s what I wrote at the time:

You know what? I think it’s over for Obama.

This story is going to mark the turning point of Obama’s fortunes this election year. I’m afraid there is really no escaping the truth. This man is no “uniter”. This man is no “post-racial” “healer”. His campaign is a complete sham.

He may still be able to squeak ahead of Hillary in the primaries, simply because of her low approval ratings, but this is going to be an albatross around his neck for the general.

Little did I know how deep the conspiracy was to kill the story. They did this by ignoring it,  by their constant deployment of the race card, and by their nauseating, fawning praise of Obama’s unsatisfying, unedifying “race speech” which did nothing to answer the question of why he stayed at an anti-Semitic, racist church for 20 years. For some inexplicable reason, after that speech, the story was over. The MSM closed the lid on it.  Those who who tread in those waters were accused of racism…which is almost certainly why John McCain made the Rev. Wright issue out off limits for his campaign.

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Why a bunch of moronic lowlifes should have so much influence on the news is beyond me. As Andrew Breitbart, and Tucker Carlson have proven, these slimeballs can be dealt with. The truth can come out if we’re willing to fight for it.

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That’s why their new campaign to label the tea party as racist needs to be pushed back every single day. These people lie. They plot, they collude, and they have no shame. We should have no compunction what-so-ever in calling these people out.

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See also:

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Breitbart, Big Journalism: JournoList: …Yes, But the Reporters at Pravda Weren’t Such Insufferable Assholes

Hot Air: Daily Caller discovers Journolist plot to spike Wright story, smear conservatives as racists

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More to come?…

…this first entry in the Journolist exposés — Tucker Carlson promises more to come — shows that far from being a benign place to have chats among colleagues, Journolist also served as a place for journalists to plot against their political opponents and strategize to twist the news and propose smear campaigns.

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Pssst…pass it on:

Ace: (Drew’s idea: Any mention of racism should be answered with “Did Spence Ackerman tell you to make that up?”)

Lol.

MORE:

Doug Ross: A Trip Through The Archives: The Agitprop The Journolist Conspiracy Produced

Sarah Palin: Media Bias? What Media Bias? BOMBSHELL!

Linked by Michelle Malkin, thanks!

Hey, All You Lefties Feeding Off of Sarah Palin’s “Refudiate” Gaffe….

You might enjoy this, too:

(オバマ失言で学ぶアメリカ

Translated: “He’s Not As Eloquent A Speaker As Advertised”

A book ridiculing Obama’s gaffes debuted in Japan in May.

New book out on stands in Japan which took many by surprise: Title: “Obama Shitsugen De Manabu America” , by Marie Nishimori (KK Bestsellers (2010/5/15) Subtitle: “Top 101 Gaffes of Barack Obama”

Imagine that. A whole book devoted to  Obama’s gaffes…..

That’s only vol. one, too. At the rate he’s going, there are sure to be many, many more.

RELATED:

Big Journalism: Politico’s Ben Smith More Interested in Palin Mis-tweet Than DOJ Whistleblower

Hat tip: Memorandum

Obama Sends Berwick Nomination to the Senate (Update: “Simply a Formality”)

He must have been feeling some heat to have made this 180. Naturally, he blames Republicans for forcing him to make the recess appointment in the first place.

Senatus reports:

President Barack Obama sent the Senate his nomination of Donald Berwick as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Monday — a move that comes two weeks after Obama bypassed Congress to put his stalled nominee in the post until the end of 2011.

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The president originally nominated Berwick to the CMS post in April, but Republicans blocked the effort and have tied the nomination to their criticism of the health care overhaul. Obama broke the logjam earlier this month by using a recess appointment to install Berwick in the post, a tactic that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said illustrated the president’s attempt to “arrogantly circumvent the American people.”

MORE:

From Bloomberg Business Week:

Sending the nomination to the Senate following the recess appointment is “simply a formality,” said Reid Cherlin, an administration spokesman.

Oh, that’s how it is. Will he at least get hearings?

Kabuki Theater. It’s what Washington does best.

Why did I think this was a story?

MORE:

The New Ledger: The Berwick Renomination: Just a Formality

Hat tip: Hot Air Headlines

Linked by Michelle Malkin, and Doug Ross, thanks

Video: Obama Lies – The Individual Mandate/Tax Edition

I can’t watch an Obama speech or interview because I’m allergic to b.s., and I detest lies. That makes him pretty much unwatchable:

The New York Times reported:

WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”

Hey what’s with the Times, lately?

From today’s Times: TARP Audit Questions Rush to Close Auto Dealers

And Gabe at AoSHQ also caught this: Obama’s “Job Training” Failures Noted by…NY Times? After Training, Still Scrambling for Employment

Ya think maybe Pinch got himself a case of voters’ remorse?
Hat tip: Weasel Zippers

Monday Morning News Round-up

Spotted off of 470 South of KC

Lots of interesting stuff out there today, so let’s get to it:

Everyone is talking about this The American Spectator piece by Angelo M. Codevilla  (including Rush, right now): America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution (loading slow).

VDH has more on that theme: Pity the Postmodern Cultural Elite

Dan Riehl: Poll: DC Elites Out Of Touch On Tea Party, And Everything Else

Related in a way: New Miss CA Under Fire For “Controversial” Immigration Views Only to an out of touch elite ruling class, is the idea that “people should come here legally if they want the privileges of American citizenship”, deemed controversial.

PJ Media: J. Christian Adams: Why the Left Shouldn’t Defend the New Black Panther Dismissal

Michelle Malkin: Bob Schieffer: I Didn’t Ask Holder About the Black Panther Thing Because I Didn’t Know About It Ignorance is bliss.

Meanwhile. look what our friends at Verum Serum dug up: Black Panther Leader King Samir Shabazz Brings Da Noise, Raps “I’m a Terrorist Trained By Osama Bin Laden” (Language Warning) What a card.

Politics Daily: New Black Panther Leader: A Black Man Can’t Be a Racist Get that man a job in Holder’s DOJ

Instapundit: The New DOJ Website Is Kinda Creepy This whole administration is creepy.

The Powers That Be: Gee, What Do You Think Attracted Obama to This Ice Cream Shop? -Just go look.

Weasel Zippers: NYT: Obama Administration Arguing ObamaCare Individual Mandate is Really a Tax, Will be the Linchpin of Their Case… There must be some mistake….Obama promised not to raise taxes….

Human Events: GAO Report: Carbon Capture Increases Power Costs up to 80%

The Daily Beast: McCain-Hayworth Debate Gets Ugly

(If you have to ask….) McCain, Hayworth, Deakin: was there a clear winner? -No.

Videos are up on YouTube: part one, part two, part three, part four, and part five.

Check back…I’ll be adding more links throughout the day.

Fox News: Team Obama Braces for Upcoming Story Set to Expose Intelligence Spending

Politics Daily: Glenn Beck Tells Audience He Might Be Going Blind

CFP: Obama’s Economic Time-Bomb Set to Explode in 2011

WSJ: GOP Sees Path to Control of Senate YES!

Weasel Zippers: Unreal: Aide to NYC Mayor Bloomberg Calls Sarah Palin a Racist For Opposing Ground Zero Mosque…

Gateway Pundit: CNN Guest Compares Black Tea Party Protesters to Jewish Guards at Nazi Concentration Camps (Video)

Don’t look now, but there’s another celebrity gala at the WH, tonight: Nathan Lane, Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel Offer “A Broadway Celebration” at the White House July 19

MUST SEE:

Andrew Breitbart has the goods, again: Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism – 2010

UPDATE: NAACP Award Recipient, Shirley Sherrod, Resigns After Big Government Video Expose.

Gateway Pundit: Oh My… Obama Approval Rating Drops to 28% in Arizona Don’t be suffering any natural disasters any time soon, AZ.

Shout First, Ask Questions Later: Bracing For A Big Tax Hit

LifeNews:  Surgeon General Koop Urges No Vote on Kagan Based on Abortion Manipulation Koop is still alive, and still kicking  A$$.

New Miss CA Under Fire For “Controversial” Immigration Views

Miss CA, Arianna Afsar

California libs have barely gotten over last year’s controversy, featuring anti-gay marriage  Miss CA, Carrie Prejean, and now they are in full swoon again.

Dave Gibson of  The Examiner explains the latest vapor- inducing outrageous outrage to come out of the lips of a beauty queen:

During a webcam interview with NBCLA, Arianna Afsar, the UCLA sophomore, and recently crowned Miss California came out strongly against amnesty for illegal aliens, saying: “I think that people who want to be a United States citizen need to come over here legally in order to get the privileges that every American receives.”

Afsar’s father is an immigrant, from Bangladesh. He also helped three family members come here. All arrived through legal means.

Afsar told the reporter: “It ended up taking him 10 years, but he did it legally. I don’t think that if you are close to the border that you have the right to be given the rights of a United States citizen.”

Let the feeding frenzy begin!

“Well, first of all, she won’t win Miss America because she just signed her death sentence…she’s alienated maybe 50% of the country!” crows Leo Terrell, an attorney, and talk show host:

Leo is an awesome debater…there’s no way that 65-70% of  Americans are against amnesty because the federal government just filed a lawsuit against the state of AZ …so there! (The latest numbers: 56% Oppose Justice Department Challenge of Arizona Law; 61% Favor Similar Law In Their State).

The unfortunate lesson to be learned here for beauty pageant contestants? Just stand there and look pretty, girls. Do not by any means express any educated, and/or well thought out, heartfelt opinions that might conflict with an elite’s worldview. No black or white answers for God’s sake! Or the Leo’s of the world run to their fainting couches.

Give only bland, silly, vapid non answers. The dumber the better. Spout the latest nonsense you heard in the pop culture about carbon footprints, or some such idiocy. That makes them happy!

Hat tip: Infidel Joe.

Video: George Will Calls NAACP Resolution ‘Left-wing McCarthyism’

I think George Will exchanged his bow-tie for a can of whoop-a$$, and he opened it up on Clarance Page this morning on This Week:

Niiice.

A couple of minor criticisms:

Besides the 4 news videos, he might have also mentioned the umpteen amateur videos that are also up on YouTube showing no racial incidents,  and this was cute -  Andrew Breitbart, (the guy offering the $100,000 reward for proof) isn’t a “talk show host”, he’s an internet news mogul, although he is a frequent guest on talk shows.

Speaking of Breitbart….

You know, once upon a time, not too long ago, guys like George Will might have felt cowed into agreeing with the  “racist tea party” narrative. But thanks to some fierce counter-moonbattery in the right wing blogosphere, led by Andrew Breitbart, the counter narrative (i.e: truth) has taken hold.

Hat tip: Gateway Pundit