That’s Right Nate

We Republicans have been watching a lot of television lately.   In February of 1999, Jerry Falwell went after Teletubbies for the obvious homosexual subtext of the show.   Recently, Bill O’Reilly and Andrew Breibart showed outrage at Sesame Street when the show aired a rerun and on second viewing they realized that when Oscar the Grouch called Pox News trashy, he was really taking a jab at Fox News.   I’m actually kind of surprised it took repeated viewing for such an obnoxious attack to sink in.

I have always given PBS a wide berth because I believed that their political messages were going over the heads of small viewers so if Thomas the Tank Engine was pushing for organized labor or Dora the Explorer was calling for amnesty for illegal immigrants I didn’t say anything.   I even ignored Clifford the Big Red Dog’s subtle messages about the danger of feeding animals growth hormones.   However, the PBS show Boobah has finally gone to far.

Boobah is nothing more than political indoctrination.   I’m not talking about their insipidly saccharine messages of fat acceptance and racial harmony, but of their constant shilling for the Obama administration.  To begin with, you need to translate baby talk.   Don’t forget just how young and audience that this show is aimed at.   When Emily was a little girl I could never get her to say the words “special prosecutor”  usually it would come out as something like “procu”.   A small child saying “Obama” would end up saying something like “Boobah”.   The repeated saying of the word Boobah over and over in the show indoctrinates small children that Obama is their friend.

Now it is possible that this is a coincidence and I’m overreacting a bit.   However, if you look at the ball floating in at the beginning of the show’s intro.  That floating ball of light looks very familiar.  Now where have I seen it before?   Hmm?  I think I remember now.   Was it here?

Now, we’re starting to get past the realm of any possible coincidence.   Our tax dollars are going to support PBS and while I do enjoy the occasional Yani concert from the Acropolis, I do not approve of my tax dollars being used to support indoctrinating our preschool children to blindly serve President Obama.   If we don’t put a stop to this now, there is no telling where it will spread to next.

I read an article in the Independent Collegian today about a group of students at the University of Toledo who have gotten sick and tired of putting up with liberal professors picking on them and correcting their mistakes.   I had many experiences during college with liberal professors who marked me down for my political biases, particularly in math classes.  White males are already in a very difficult position in most universities in this country.   This sort of bias only makes life harder.

Even in English literature classes, professorial bias reared its ugly head.  One time, I had gone down to Atlanta to visit a girl over Spring Break.   By a weird coincidence, my sister had taken the same class with the same professor 5 years earlier.   She had been kind enough to give me her old papers and while the professor changed the assignments, this one remained the same.   My sister had received a 95 on her paper on Paradise Lost.  I retyped it and made only the changes that the professor had indicated in grading my sister’s paper.   My sister with her overabundance of college partying had turned in her paper “late as usual” according to the cover page.   I turned mine in on time.  The result?  She got a 95 and I got an 83.

That sort of bias and more exists on today’s campuses.   Try explaining to a geology professor that you know the planet is 6,000 years old because the Bible tells you so and don’t even get me into history or political science classes.   I once had a South American History professor try to tell me that the United States was responsible for many of South America’s problems.

We need colleges to show respect for all points of view.  Many of the supposed facts they teach have a liberal bias.  They even use Arabic numerals.  To me, that’s extremely unamerican.  We need the colleges to show the same kind of sensitivity that the town of Sedalia, Missouri had when the School Board banned the Smith-Cotton High School from wearing shirts which seemed to promote the idea of evolution and just as disturbingly the idea that apes could play brass instruments.   “I was disappointed with the image on the shirt.” said band parent and district teacher Sherry Melby,  “I don’t think evolution should be associated with our school.”

With the school year just starting, it’s time we stop the political correctness and start being supportive of students with all political viewpoints or at the very least those that are right of center.  There is room in this country for moderates, neo cons, traditional conservatives, and libertarians.

Howard Kurtz had a remarkable column in today’s Washington Post about the role of race for female reporters covering Michelle Obama.   It seems that in recent decades, as magazine and newspaper editors have put a big emphasis on diversity in their reporters they may have made a mistake.   Looking at the press pool covering the First Lady, Kurtz noted that five were African-American women.  As Kurtz points out, “whether racial and gender identification produces a gauzier, more favorable portrayal of Obama is perhaps too early to judge.”

I can’t help worry that reporters who naturally pull for the success of a politician simply because of their age and gender will result in biased reporting.   This is a natural side effect of the election of an African-American candidate, which challenges the impartiality of black reporters.  We have not had to deal with this issue before only because all previous Presidents have been white and white journalists have proven their talent for not letting their personal viewpoint cloud their reporting.  White male reporters have blazed a trail that all minorities can aspire to.

Actually, Kurt’s own newspaper The Washington Post may have found a remarkable new business model that will help make itself and other newspapers profitable for years to come.  As reported in Politico, the Post’s publisher Katharine Weymouth had planned an exclusive “salon” at her home where for as much as $250,000 lobbyists and association executives could have off-the-record access to Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.   For the mere cost of a few dinners where reporters learn about the health benefits of relaxing with a cigarette after a hard day of work or the lack of clinical data showing any danger from asbestos, the paper could collect millions.  I think the future of newspapers in this country is suddenly looking much brighter.

As usual, the convention was amazing.

I just returned from what should have been one of the greatest week’s of my life.   Very few people are lucky enough to attend the Great Lakes Regional Public Storage Expo and Convention, which in my mind is the Super Bowl of self-storage conventions.   They are doing amazing things with corrugated cardboard and I don’t mind telling you that within 5 years, it will revolutionize the way we pack things.  My song parody “The Locks I Love” (sung to The Look of Love) was a huge hit and even bigger than last year’s Baby Got Box.  I did quite well at self-storage pictionary too.  The father of modern storage facility management Martin Loviglio not only talked with me, but recognized me.   I even got to see the United States beat Brazil 2-0 in some soccer tournament at the hotel bar between conferences.

Then I came back.  I discovered that my good name had been run through the dirt at a variety of websites simply because I dared to use my first amendment rights to question whether Obama had murdered South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford.   Well my friends, I’m rested, invigorated and ready to take on such liberal bastions as Intershame , Wordsmoker, and Balloon-Juice as well as a myriad of forums and message boards.   Look, I’ll be the first to admit that I was probably wrong about Obama murdering Sanford, but as I’ve said before, politicians have a responsibility to avoid not just impropriety, but the appearance of impropriety.  Obama deserves just as much of the blame as I do because it was his behavior that enabled me to mistakenly accuse him of murder.  Obama may not have murdered the governor of South Carolina, but there are 49 other states and for their sakes, we need to remain ever vigilant.

[One of the great things about my blog is that it has enabled me to meet some of the real movers and shakers in the world of politics.   One of these men is occasional guest on this blog Congressman Jack Kimble.  He's here today, to tell you about one of the greatest threats to our nation today - liberal bias.]

My friends, I am writing today to warn you of the growing danger of left wing bias in the media. The Republican Party has been under siege for most of the past 100 years and liberal bias is nothing knew.   Even in the 1930s, the media tried to blame the FDR created Great Depression on Herbert Hoover and not on FDR’s massive social programs.   Today, the media seems all too willing to give Barrack Obama a free pass despite the two wars he has mismanaged in the Middle East, a terrible economy, too much reliance on foreign oil, and corruption in the Justice Department.

In an effort to combat this rampant corruption, Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), myself, and a dozen other GOP congressman have formed the Media Fairness Caucus.  Our mission is to point out left leaning news reports and strike a blow for the kind of fair and balanced news reporting that is currently only found on Fox Television and The National Review.  Sure the further eroding of the economy and the possibility of a terrorist attack or all out nuclear war in the Middle East is troubling, but not nearly so much as our nation’s media favoring the liberals.

I have devised a handy plan to help in the event that you encounter reporting that you believe has a liberal bias:

1. If you spot liberal bias in print or on the air do not attempt to argue with the media yourself.   This will be completely ineffective and will increase your exposure to the biased reporting.  Instead immediately leave the room.   Do not waste time closing the newspaper or changing the channel.   Simply get up and leave the room.

2. Immediately dial the congressional office of the Media Fairness Caucus representative closest to your present location.   Remain calm and answer any questions that the staffer needs to ascertain the nature of the bias.

3. If it is determined that you are in fact exposed to biased media, we will dispatch a trained staffer to go over approved talking points with you and to remove the offending media from your home or business.

4. A Media Fairness Caucus member will write an op-ed piece in an appropriate newspaper.

5. Rehears these steps with your family.   Through repeating this drill, it will soon become second nature to you.

Thank you for your time and support as we fight to keep the country free of this despicable media bias.   If you contact my office, I can get you a list of approved broadcasters who are 100% liberal bias free.

I was listening to Rush Limabugh the other day and he made a great point about Obama’s trip to Buchenwald in Germany–”Who cares”.   Let’s face it folks it’s been 60 years and it’s time to move on and thank our lucky stars that the wholesale slaughter of a people can never happen again.  Limbaugh rightfully took Obama to task for, “ripping  Germany to shreds over something they did 60 years ago.”

Sure the Holocaust was sad and all that, but it is the product of an earlier age over 60 years ago and the result is a whole lot of museums, memorials, and presentations.   Let’s face it, The Holocaust has become big business.  Of course Limbaugh did little to hide his contempt from those who continue to profit from the Holocaust saying “Of course Elie Weisel gets up there and does his thing but it’s 65 years here or close to it.”

When somebody who loves this country as much as Rush Limbaugh and somebody who hates this country as much as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad actually agree on something, its either got to have some merit or they both have to be completely irrational.  Do we really need to refight this battle when it has now been established by Limbaugh and Newt Gingrich that traditional racism is dead and now is the vestige of liberal reverse racists?  Let’s face it most of the Jews who died in the Holocaust would be dead by now anyway.  It is sad, but true.  Fortunately, Rush Limbaugh isn’t afraid to point this out.  Instead, as Republicans we need to let bygones be bygones and move on to an even more dangerous threat—liberal bias.

Last week,  Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX) launched the Media Fairness Caucus, made up of about a dozen House Republicans, aiming to fight liberal media bias before the liberals can get to Fox News.  As Smith said, Let me just say — this is going to sound radical, I don’t mean for it to be radical — but to me, the greatest threat to America is not necessarily a recession or even another terrorist attack. The greatest threat to America is liberal media bias.”

This doesn’t sound radical to me at all.  Some of Smith’s complaints include attempts by the media to try and tie the Bush administration to the current Obama recession, being too pro immigrant, not calling Obama “liberal” often enough, and not grilling the First Lady with hard hitting questions.   This evil that was brought down upon the Republican Party this past election party is something that we can never forget.   As Republicans we must cry out when we see such liberal bias–Never again!

Once again, I am live blogging an Obama Press Conference. I know that I can’t count on the mainstream media to ask the tough questions so it looks like it is up to me to hold his feet to the fire.

7:02 – The first thing Obama does is to deny his responsibility for HIS economic crisis.  How surprising.

7:06 – The Road is Long….He’s Not Heavy, He’s Obama – I need to record this.

7:08 – Excellent first question.  If the banks won’t tell us how they’re spending their money and not spending it the way we want, should we really try to regulate them?   Awesome question for a chick.

7:10 – Chuck Todd has an excellent point.  All Obama wants to do is raise our taxes and then not ask for any sacrifices from us.   Maybe we could all cut our standard of living or something.

7:14 – So we’re just supposed to take Obama’s word that Americans are making sacrifices?  None of the network news anchors are seeing any sacrifices and neither am I.  Don’t just ask the poor folk.  Reach out to the upper class.

7:15 – Who is Jake Tapper?  I think I had a fake ID that said Jake Tapper when I was in college.  Jake…Jake Tapper by day he’s a private eye, by night he’s a lady’s man.

7:19 – Chip Reid – do you have to have a cool name to be a reporter?

7:19 – Jim Cramer can probably tell you what the economy will be like 10 years from now.  The man is a genius.

7:24 – I find it very hard to believe that the budget deficit is the result of health care and not AIG bonuses and pork projects to study volcanoes.

7:26 – We need to keep Mexico’s problems in Mexico.  Those gangs there are horrible and they ship their drugs to this country.  Not only that, they buy guns at gun shows in this country to wage their wars depriving American gun collectors, the chance to buy those firearms.

7:29 – The Stars and Stripes reporter is a mumbler in an out of date suit, I bet Chip and Jake give him the business.

7:32 – Following up on Chip and Jake.  Ed Henry is such a wannabe.

7:35 – Why wasn’t he publicly outraged before he knew what he was talking about.  Trust your feelings Barrack.

7:38 – The Australian government’s stimulus plan consists of putting another shrimp on the barbie.

7:39 – By the way Major Garrett can join the cool name reporter club.

7:41 – I wouldn’t give money to charity, but if I did I certainly wouldn’t do it if I had to donate at 28% instead of 39%.  Let the middle class write off 28%.

7:44 – Hello?  If these children are homeless how are they supposed to be watching this press conference?

7:46 – Straight outa Compton comes a question about race.  Michael Steele would have a field day with this.

7:51 – Obama has been blinded by science.  Bush never touched the stuff.

7:54 – Obama loves bragging about his parties

7:58 – I love the way that Fox News can put the whole speech in to simple terms.

Well that’s it.  I pretty much agree with the analysists on Fox News’ panel.  He wasn’t fooling anybody.

Anybody who regularly reads this blog knows that I do not read.  I do not support tax money being used on an outdated medium like books and I believe Gutenberg was one of the great villains of the past millennium.  However, every now and then a book comes along that I think is whether of a review.  Sometimes, an author will demonstrate such wisdom and understanding on a particular subject that one doesn’t even have to read it to give it a stellar review.

Such a book is Michael Medved’s “The 10 Big Lies About America”.   I admit that at first I thought a book composed entirely of telling 10 lies about American seemed like a rather short read.  I also thought that telling your audience right off the bat that you’re lying sort of defeats the purpose.  Lies should be subtle and believable like much of Bush administration.    Upon further review however, these lies of Medved’s aren’t so much fibs as an attempt to piece together a heroic national narrative and that’s something every American should be able to get behind.

Take the genocide of the Native Americans frequently blamed on Europeans by liberals.  Medved makes the case that it was actually blacks who whiped out the Indians.   Medved says, “In fact, intermarriage (including frequent intermarriage with African-Americans, slaves and free) and assimilation caused more Indian “losses” than all occasional massacres by governmental and irregular forces — incidents invariably condemned by federal authorities, never sponsored by them.”  I already feel better about my country knowing that it was the black population and not whites who were responsible for Indians disappearing from this land.

Now, America has some awfully unforgivable sins in her past like slavery.  America was build on the backs of slaves–right? WRONG!!  Medved states, The claim that our forefathers built America “on the backs of slaves” rests on the idiotic idea that involuntary servitude proved vastly more productive than free labor. In fact, the states dominated by the slave economy counted as the poorest, least developed in the union.”  We couldn’t have built this country on the blacks of slave labor because slaves were lazy.  In fact, they brought down the standard of living of the white people who owned them.

Medved is brilliant in the way he avoids letting facts get in the way of telling the story of this great land we live in.  Other historians allow themselves to get tripped up by facts, but not Medved who deftly jumps from blaming FDR for the Great Depression to confronting the secular militants who have been trying to change our country for the past 8 years.  Though Medved may be telling 10 big lies about America, they’re lies I want to believe and that to me is the essence of good writing.  Medved’s book should be on any Conservative’s Christmas list.

It is about time the McCain campaign set the record straight.  If you haven’t read today’s Bloomberg you need to check out McCain adviser Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute’s column calling out the press for “politically motivated pessimism”.  According to Hassett:

The bias has an easy explanation. Yale University economist Ray Fair has shown that a weak economy hurts the incumbent party. If a Democratic-leaning press can convince everyone that the economy is in recession, then it can influence the election.

Truer words have never been spoken.  What the left wing biased mainstream media is doing is acting like gas is way overpriced at $4.25 per gallon or that the recent 5.5 percent unemployment rate is bad.  They love acting like there’s a mortgage crisis, but all America really needs is a little bit of gumption and hardwork.   I can tell you that the economy is doing great thanks to the Bush tax cuts and this is coming from a guy who only gets 9 miles a gallon.  Don’t let the media tell you otherwise.  In the words of the immortal Bobby McPherin, “Don’t worry be happy.”