By The OttO Show, on May 30th, 2010 | 11:22 pm
Being a Washington press pooler is not that exciting. Usually it’s observing stuff even too boring for C-Span. But last night, camped outside a friend of Obama’s home, the press pool had an adventure with the Nation of Islam.
The press pool had gathered outside the Chicago home of Obama family friend Martin Nesbitt, where Obama was attending a cookout. They were waiting in a bus across the street. Chuck Todd started begging Ed Henry for a bite of his turkey sandwich. (Unconfirmed.) Little did they know, they had parked in front of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan’s mansion. The Times’ Jackie Calmes was assigned that night to write the pool report, and she filed these emails from her Blackberry detailing the press pool’s encounter with the Nation of Islam.
via White House Press Pool Barely Escapes Death at Hands of Nation of Islam Agents.
By The OttO Show, on March 21st, 2010 | 12:43 pm “… by angry protesters who had gathered at the Capitol to protest health-care legislation, and one congressman said he was spit upon.”
This is the report that is dominating the news coverage of yesterday’s protest at the Capitol. I have no idea who was the source of any saliva and nasty words, but it’s important to realize how easy it is for someone who isn’t typical of the group or who is even its adversary to do things like this. It’s one of the oldest dirty tricks.
It’s also important to distinguish “angry protesters” from particular individuals who cross the line into the kind real ugliness or violence that should be condemned. There’s nothing wrong with showing anger at the thing that motivates you to protest. That’s what protests are for! The members of Congress have a lot of power, and they ought to have to hear the anger their exercise of that power is causing. It’s outrageous for them to pose as victims without very good cause. So what if some idiot said a bad word? That’s a trivial distraction compared to the power they are about to exercise in the face of such strong opposition to what they are about to do.
via Althouse: “Members of the [Continue...]
By Ballew, on February 27th, 2010 | 5:00 pm The Democratic National Committee’s Organizing for America has quietly launched an initiative aimed at making Obama supporters’ voices heard on the largely conservative airwaves.”The fate of health reform has been a focus of debate in living rooms and offices, on TV and online — and on talk radio. And since millions of folks turn to talk radio as a trusted source of news and opinions, we need to make sure OFA supporters are calling in with a pro-reform message,” says the introduction to the online tool.
via Obama campaign arm focuses on talk radio – Ben Smith – POLITICO.com.
By Max Venom, on February 25th, 2010 | 8:11 pm And in the critical next few days after today’s bipartisan meeting on health reform, millions of folks will turn to talk radio as a trusted source of news and opinions. So we need to make sure OFA supporters are calling in with a pro-reform message.
That’s the idea behind “On the Air,” our new radio call-in tool, where you can find the phone number of a local show and get helpful talking points.
The link generates a random talk show for you to call, including C-SPAN, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, Democracy Now and Diane Rehm, yes, but also Savage Nation, Focus on the Family, Sean Hannity, Fred Thompson, and Heaven help me, the big dogs, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.
Source: MYDD Organizing For America article
By The OttO Show, on February 23rd, 2010 | 7:38 pm
To MSNBC and other so-called news outlets insistent on linking Joe Stack to the Tea Party movement: obviously MSNBC supports child rape and incest. There must be a connection because I know that several MSNBC hosts oppose parental notification laws for pregnant teenagers and espouse the same views as the adults who impregnate them.
Sounds as ridiculous as their approach to Stack and the Tea Parties.
First off, let’s make this clear – Stack, in his eyes, was a victim. Victims of the economy and the tax system represent all walks of life and those loners who would become suicide bombers over it do not have any kind of mainstream support.
Secondly, in his letter, Stack railed against organized religion, Catholicism and big business – these are not views shared by most Tea Party members. He was also motivated by class warfare and railed against the rich as well as the notion of an American dream. None of this is reflected in the Tea Party movement. We might as well link him to the leftist radicals empathized by moveon.org or the Huffington Post.
This is the same game the MSM played by trying to tie a [Continue...]
By The OttO Show, on February 23rd, 2010 | 7:36 pm Stack has not been linked to any specific political philosophy or party, though his anti-government views are sometimes espoused by Tea Party members in Texas who have supported Medina’s surprising run against Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.
Phillip Dennis, a leader of the 15,000-member Dallas Tea Party, disavowed any connection to Stack.
“We never advocate violence and overthrow of the government,” Dennis said. “We have a framework to solve problems, and that framework does not include flying airplanes into buildings.”
via To some, attack on IRS office made pilot a hero – Crime & courts- msnbc.com.
By Ballew, on February 21st, 2010 | 1:57 pm
No clearer difference can be seen in how the Old Media and its left-wing compatriots treat mass killers, terrorists and nutjobs than the way Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and Joe Stack have been portrayed by the Old Media and the left. Abdulmutallab, the jihadi Christmas Bomber, was treated as an aberration unconnected with any larger group — despite that he trained with al Qaeda — and Joe Stack, who flew a plane into an IRS building in Austin, Texas, has been held up as the epitome of the “teabaggers” and the “anti-government right” despite that not a single tie to those folks has been yet discovered.
via » IRS Plane Attacker Part of ‘Right Wing,’ Christmas Bomber Just a ‘Lone Wolf’ – Big Journalism.
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