Politico and NBC announce they won’t push off a Republican presidential debate, and then a MSNBC contributor says Obama’s skin color is why Republicans don’t want a jobs speech from Obama…

Funny!

Ok. Here is the story:

Weeks ago it was decided that NBC and Politico will host a Republican Presidential Debate in California on the eve of September seven. The President however sent a letter to the Speaker of the House this week that he wants to give a speech to a joint session of Congress on the same night of the debate. Politico and NBC made it clear by mid Wednesday afternoon that they won’t move the date. The Speaker of the House too said that the date won’t work since the members of Congress are merely coming back that eve into session, and therefore the Speaker asked that the speech be given a night later. Obama gave in.

But MSNBC contributor Richard Wolffe said yesterday night that “it could be, let’s face it, the color of his skin,” as to why Republicans react so weird to a simple request from the President. In other words, a contributor from a station claims that its parent/sister station (NBC) has maybe a problem with Obama’s skin color and that is why they didn’t move the debate…

You goto love it when people who sit at dry TV sets in DC or in dusty basements tell you that preparing for Irene – the Hurricane that killed someone in your neighborhood; left you without power for a day; flooded your friend’s house with five feet of water; disrupted food and gas supply in your area; and dropped a huge tree into your uncle’s dining room – is all just hype.

Indeed, Irene didn’t kill hundreds or thousands of people, but this is because people took the warnings serious and stayed indoors or evacuated in a timely manner. Many if not most deaths related to Katrina exactly six year ago were due to flooding (not the stronger-than-Irene winds), and due to people who didn’t heed the warnings to get out of harm’s way days earlier. But of course, after Katrina all three levels of government were attacked for their lousy work, but this time around state and local governments are attacked for trying to do their work.

Get a life, Toby Harden

Harden, the UK Telegraph writer noted that by lunchtime Sunday, sun shines were seen across New York. Indeed the sun was out, but huge sections of the NY 17 and the NYS Thruway were flooded into the evening hours, and mudslides and trees snapping took place late afternoon too. The 46 year old father of four who got electrocuted blocks from my house trying to help a six year who stepped into a small puddle that had a live wire, died when the sun was out, and the 83 year old Jewish woman who was swamped by water in Fleischmann’s New York perished after lunchtime.

Personally, I view NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg as an elitist snob; New York State Governor Andrew Cuomo as a Mob Boss, and New Jersey Governor Christie as someone who is full of himself. Additionally I think Government failed the Jewish woman in upstate New York as they failed my mother eight weeks ago when she was nearly killed in a flash flood. But all in all, the local and state leadership did the right move to warn people of an impending disaster. One can only imagine what chaos and loss of live we would have if people were going about their Sunday commute and shopping as in a regular weekend. George Will would be saying that yet again government failed the people on a massive scale…

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Funny how the world works: The NYT broke the story June 30 that the DSK case is falling apart and suddenly major media, press and tabloids are filled with “scoops” and “inside information” as to why this case stinks and how rotten the accusing Maid is. These reports are available at CNBC, AP, Reuters, New York Post, the New York Daily News, and I only named a half a dozen.

My question is: Where was all this digging back in mid-May when the story first broke? Where were all these inside info of the incompetence of the Manhattan DA that is running this DSK case? Why didn’t we see a month ago any reports that the Maid in the case – who was sold as a ‘poor immigrant, and devout Muslim’ – was in fact a slut (with “service” on the side) who lied in the past about being raped in her African home country and who works as a front for drug traffickers and money launderers? Why do we have all these reports from the media only a month AFTER a man’s professional life went through a major ruin?

My questions to the Media and Press are: Why are you ready to give headline and front page coverage to a case before a person is convicted? Why are you running film when zealous and self-serving Prosecutors and Cops are giving someone a perp-walk before that person was found guilty? Why didn’t you grill and torture the Manhattan DA back in mid-May as to how credible his source is? Why didn’t you dig up information of the accuser and splash that on the front pages in the place and space of the face of DSK? Why didn’t you grill the Government as to why a person – officially “innocent until proven guilty” – cannot have bail almost a full week until after his arrest?

You may claim that DSK may have escaped. Well, em er… Why should he at all been apprehended before the accuser’s story is fully fact-checked? Is DSK some fly by-night guy? He came and went from the USA multiple times a year. Why not take him down after you have your facts a month or two later. You may be stupid to think that someone with responsibilities as IMF boss won’t return to the USA out of fear of being arrested. Fine. Good. Would it not be good enough that the World Court or Interpol should be alerted after you have your facts 6-8 weeks later? Why the rush to drag DSK off a plane? Why the rush to keep people behind bars without bail for days and months? Confiscating a person’s passport and placing an ankle bracelet should be way more than enough if that person isn’t convicted yet. Why do we treat people as world-criminals when the are just hours before or after being charged with a crime?

On May 19, the week of the DSK arrest, I tweeted this: “Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been indicted #DSK You Are Innocent Until Accused!” a few days earlier, on Sunday May 15 the first day of DSK’s arrest news, people were already asking that he step down as head of the IMF. I however tweeted, “Wo wo. Why should IMF Boss Strauss-Kahn resign? As of now he is NOT proven guilty on any unethical charges!” In a May 17 Tweet, I asked what every reporter who is out there “for the truth” should have asked: “In a country where ‘Innocent Until Proven Guilty’ is said with such frequency, why can’t #DSK be out on bail?”

THE REASON why people in this country are seen as guilty even before any chargers are presented to a Judge; the reason why people in the USA are Innocent Until Accused, is due to the Media/Press giving full scale coverage to prosecutors! Whatever a prosecutor says or claims is good enough to make news without a challenge. Instead of journalists ignoring these publicity-hungry press conferences where prosecutors act as Judge and Jury too, the reporters rush to get a good seat in the room. Instead of reporters asking Law Enforcement officials why they keep tight hand-cuffs on defendants and schlep them around all day chained to others like dunkies when these people were barley charged, the Media runs in the evening with tape of these infamous Perp-Walks.

Reports wrote constantly that “prosecutors say they found DNA in the hotel room.” This implied that something “ahhmm” took place. Well great! You can find DNA in my bedroom too. Now what? You want to arrest me too? So my questions to the Media/press are, now – after you destroyed a person – you come with all your “inside information” to tell us as to why DSK is perhaps not guilty? Now you are rushing to press with all your great “scoops”? Only now you are asking the DA why in hell he didn’t complete a full investigation before sending people to drag down DSD from the plane like a convicted and known criminal? Take all your reporting and shove it where its dark! Ok?

Regardless if DSK did commit something illegal or criminal, it is still unjust and communist-like how this person was treated! We don’t need a ban on Perp-Walks, nor do we need “five lessons” based on the DSK case as to what we should know for next time. Instead, my dear journalists when any criminal case breaks and prosecutors announce a press conference just don’t go! Next time officials give a person – not yet convicted – the perp-walk, shut your cameras! When you are “forced” to report a story – like of an IMF Boss being schlepped off the place like Jews in the 1930’s – aim your ammunition at the DA as to what are the basis and backing of his investigations! Put prosecutors under pressure and give them hell every time they are looking for publicity! Do this for three months, and prosecutors will think twenty times before taking down people based on faulty evidence or just blowing cases out of proportion with drama for their personal childish ego.

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My following piece was posted today eve on American Thinker: http://dlvr.it/GCFWV

As reported, the House had only 277 votes Tuesday night to pass extensions of the Patriot Act, falling short of the 284 needed. Among the Nay votes were 26 Republicans. Leading Dem Congressman Van Hollen said on this, “I think our Republican colleagues are struggling with the burden of leadership and clearly they have not found their footing going forward.”

The main reason why MSNBC and other “objective,” yet Leftist news channels fail, is this: there is no need to explain and educate people why to be a Liberal. Really, who needs an intelligent course how to smoke joints, collect government programs without limits and to place sonar panels on bridges? Every child of age 2 and up knows, by nature, that leading a happy-go-lucky and destructive life is fun. Therefore, few liberals tune into these Leftists shows; they know what they need to know, or they simply don’t care one drop on a host of issues.

To be a Conservative, however. To be a person that wants to use brains over “feelings,” one IS in great need of education, especially when the careless way of living is out there with its temptations every day. As a result, people tune into Conservative shows.

It’s that simple.

Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, and Sean Haniti cannot be pushed aside as just “right wingers” with no voice. It’s their work, and the work of some on the internet, and mainly Fox News (which includes Haniti and Beck), that gave President Obama and the left the run for their money in recent weeks, despite the tireless attempts of the old media outlets to ignore it.

Following are just a few instances where Fox News and others held President Obama accountable, and/or had the power to adjust the state of affairs in this country. More so: it forced the old media to report news that they otherwise ignored.

Here it is:

       The White House had an email address where people from all over the country had the chance of reporting “fishy” activities against the WH agenda of Health Care Reform. After an outcry from the right, the email address was scrapped.

       President Obama was about to give a speech to school kids. From my perspective, I didn’t see any problem with it. However, some on the right did, and had the administration and its apologists in the media sweat about it a few days.

      A self-admitted communist racist served as the so-called Jobs Zar for Obama. After the right pounced on it and the old media ignored it for weeks, Jones resigned in shame.

      ACORN was busted time and again by a crew of two and was reported and debated by the right wingers. The old media had limited to no mention of it, yet before anyone (relying on the old media for information) knew, the House voted overwhelmingly to strip that fraudster group from getting federal funds.

All these instances took place in a matter of weeks. It proves clearly that the old media no more controls the minds of the American people, or the discourse of this nation. Better yet, it is “the right” that creates news these days and the old media need to follow inline, sooner rather than later.