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Liberals to lose, Republicans to Rise.

Monday, November 2nd, 2009 at 7:58 pm  
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Mark my words: The Republicans would sweep into power in the House and / or Senate by 2014. I guarantee that! You may hear many other “pundits” in the radio, television and the Internet that the Republican Party is going to be a dying brand. I am pitting my words directly against theirs. Here are my reasons.

1)Liberals cannot see the threat that is staring in their faces.

The story of the tortoise and the hare is one that people never seen to forget but, at the same time, never seem to learn from. Yes, the Democrats made huge strides last year. But the fact is that, the reason for their shift in momentum was due to the charisma that President Obama had in 2008 and the economic collapse. The chips was all in their favor; then.

The politically-dim Democrats, however, thought it was because of poisonous characters like Governor Sarah Palin that had been rejected by the populace. To them, the Republican party has fallen. Them, referring to most of the hosts of MSNBC, “strategists” like James Carville and Radio show hosts like Cenk Uyghur of the Young Turks. President Reagan’s big tent may have collapsed, but his winning formula is still around. The biggest reason that the Republican Tortoise is going to cross the line is because the Democratic hare is sleeping.

2)Movement and superior grassroots organization of the right wing.

Examples of right-wing movements are the talk radio shows, FOX News Channel, in the net, and print media that are obviously on the right wing but declare themselves as Independent and unbiased. The liberals have no answer but the wrong answers to check these right-wing movements.

The second is the grassroots organization. Examples of these are Tea Party movements and churches. I find it eerily powerful that Churches have the power to stop a law in California and are now being approached for help to stop health care reform. The Tea Party movement just highlights how bad the management of handling the Tea Party protests were by the Democrats. 75000 protested against President Obama on 9/12, while 80 000 protested less than a month later for gay rights. See the difference in media coverage? Again, that is down to grassroots organization, that the Democrats lack.

3)Right Wing money.

The far right fights for tax cuts for the corporations, the incorporation of flat taxes, privatizing Social Security and Medicare,etc. These are all things that are favorable to the big companies. The only group of companies that are on the usually left leaning are the tech companies.

Whilst the Democrat can count on the loony left wing unions, their base does not have the guaranteed cash flow that the right wing has. In this way, I think that the Republican National Committee would always have more money than the DNC. Money buys airtime, ads and also personal visitations. This also an area that President Obama did very well last year, but the Democrats were not as successful as they should be.

4)Lack of defense for President Obama.

Liberals also do not know how to protect one another. When Van Jones was all but forced to resign over the silliest of issues, no left wingers stood up to defend them. When ACORN is being attacked, they never stood up. Public Option was torn apart and shredded and the Democrats do nothing. With this weakness, the President is left exposed and it would be a matter of when not, if, to disregard his credibility.

Seriously, when would the Liberals learn? Since the Liberals never learn, why aren’t people supporting the Independents? To me that is the biggest mystery.

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FOX attacks Judge Chen, proves Obama right

Saturday, October 31st, 2009 at 8:45 am  
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Sean Hannity and Bill O Reilly have gone after Judge Edward Chen now. He is their their latest victim in their hit-list of Presidential Obama nominees. It is outrageous and stupid. FOX News has gone so far to the right that it is crazy and this time, hurtful.

Before I go about writing my views about this, I would have to declare that I am an Asian American. I would rather let you know about this now, rather than you guys finding out about this. It does influence my views, and yes, so will experience.

Had Bill O and Sean Hannity gone after Judge Chen over matters regarding policy or his time at the bench, there is nothing much wrong with that. If you were to Google about Judge Chen, you would see that some people are not happy about Judge Chen with regards to a case involving Symantec. They felt that he sided too much with the big corporation and that he fined the smaller one. Some also state that he committed fraud based on that case. I have no idea about the case and would find that to be a legitimate criticism if it is true.

However, that was not what the people at FOX went out to do. Here is the Judge’s quote from the O’Reilly Factor that makes him too left wing for the wackos at FOX: “One has to wonder whether the seemingly irresistible forces of racism, nativism and scapegoating, which has recurred to often in our history, can be effectively restrained.”

Of course his statement is 100% right! On the night of September 11, my dad said something along those lines. He said that had it been a North Korean agent that committed the crime, he would have feared for our safety due to racists that would put all Asians in the same boat and dish out their version of revengeful justice. Don’t you think Muslim parents and parents of kids from South Asian origin did not feel the same way?

Of course his statement is 100% right! Wasn’t Islamophobia born at that time? Aren’t we profiling people at airports. Didn’t American Sikhs die because there were crazy people who thought that Sikhs were Muslims and that they deserve to pay for 9/11 with their lives? Didn’t racial attacks on Muslims increased by a lot around that time?

I do not know if this is true, but I think that the Conservatives are really so white in their party, that they really do not see the perspective of other races. I really cannot imagine anybody that would not be viewing this in the manner that we did. Honestly, where did Monica Crowley get her PhD? I felt insulted with the statement and would have lost my temper on the set after hearing her claims.

And you know what is Judge Chen other big crime. He does not like the song “America the Beautiful”! Here is the quote that drives them mad: “Sometimes I cannot help but feel that there are too much injustice and too many inequalities that prevent far too many inequalities that from enjoying the beauty extolled in that anthem.

I bloody guarantee that the fact that that statement is taken out of context. We could clearly see that he was making a point about our country’s past. Again, I bet that there would be some far right people that still would not get the point and would think that I hate America. Even if he did say that he did not like the song: So? How is that hateful in anyway at all?

FOXNews has exposed itself yet again as the megaphone for the far right and the Republican Party. This plays to the hands of the White House claims. The part that the would not tell you though is that MSNBC does the exact same things for the far left and the Democrats.

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Health-care Wastes up to 800 billion a year!

Monday, October 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm  
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This is the worst example of waste I have ever heard of! Thomson Reuters, the news mega giant and one of the 4 news real agencies in America, did this study and found that the governments waste up to 800 billion this year. Yes it is billion, with a freaking b!

37% of the waste is to have protection against malpractice suits. 22% is just wasted fraud, where are the Feds!? Aren’t they supposed to settle this? Having a rigid paper system alone wastes up to $60 billion a year! Administrative inefficiency and medical mistakes take up 18% and 11% respectively. What are we thinking wasting all this money away!

$800 billion. What was our government and our Presidents doing the last 10 years? Was President Clinton too busy with interns in the Oval Office? Was President Bush just too dumb not to understand how big $800 billion was.

$800 billion, that is close to the cost of the stimulus package, every year. $800 billion, that is higher than the defense budget. $800billion, that is more than what we gave out to corporations via TARP last year. It is bloody insane that this had gone unnoticed!

The best part is that Reuters reports that there is at least $505 billion in wastage every year. So we are wasting at least half a trillion a year! I really though that the President was exaggerating it when he said that we could save half a trillion in Medicare by cutting wastes, but he was proven right!

There is also the perspective of the national debt here. $500 billion may be today’s figure, but I bet that we have wasted $2.5 trillion in the last ten years. If we are to include long term interest, we are going to get the figure to be around $3trillion. And that is at the lowest end of the spectrum.

Do you know what does this mean? It means that all the while health care has all along been the huge component of the national deficit. All the while everybody, including me, had been ignoring these numbers at our own peril! We must wake up to this!

The report also suggests that $1 out of every $3 of our health care bill is a waste. $1 in $3! Can you imagine what would happen if this kind of wastage happens outside government? I sure know that my boss would fire me if I wasted that ratio of office funds!

Where in the world are the other so called news agencies in America reporting this? Where is FOX News, MSNBC, CNN, HLN, PBS and so on. Isn’t this the top news? What can be bigger than this? Hillary Clinton, Balloon Boy hoax, ACORN (guess which channel still runs that nonsense?) or the LA Dodger’s divorce? Why don’t they report this at all?

It is time that we hang place politicians feet by the fire! Having entire bodies of Congress ignoring this is next to treason to me! It really appalls and offends me! That being said, we should give credit where it is due and we would like to thank our President for bringing this up.

Please visit http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE59P0L320091026?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0 for further reading

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Obama and FOX News

Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 7:45 am  
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Duh! The President and his administration is definitely right when he says that and has a right to “fact-check whatever the President says. This is something that we have been saying all along! But what the President forgets is that there is also MSNBC that worships his every word.

I really do not see any defense for FOX News when it comes to this. When you can have nuts like Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck, you cannot claim to be “fair and balanced”. When they have producers that are trying to rally up crowd gathered by their own anchor, how can FOX claim to be a news organization? How can they be considered sensible when they think that Google is biased towards liberals and is left leaning? Google?!

“Fair and balanced is just a catchphrase and is not in any way accurate about FOX News. It is like tourism brochures that claim “kingdom of wonder” or fast-food outlets claiming that they are “finger licking good”. It is just sale-pitch, not reality.

Our take on it though is that the President is not being fair to the network. This is because, it is not just FOX news, but the news cycle itself that is becoming nothing more than opinion journalism. Far left MSNBC is basically the left wing version of FOX News with only left wing punditry. CNN leads the rest of the cohorts with left vs right wing punditry on their shows. They also tend to have mellow hosts like Anderson Cooper and Campbell Brown.

All of the above mentioned companies are not really supplying news. The real supplier of news are agencies like the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Press (AFP). But lets be honest, how many people watch or read their news? CSPAN is definitely the best political channel in America, but don’t we snooze when we watch it.

It is we, the consumer, that should be blamed. It is no secret that FOX News has the highest ratings amongst the news channels. Why? It is because we Americans, Conservative, Liberal or independent would prefer to watch Jay Leno and the NFL rather than to watch news. Additionally, the people that want to watch the news are from the far right. Hence, FOX news dominance.

The nuts are real, have no doubt about that. Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann, Rachael Maddow etc… But at the end of the day, it is all about the numbers. And WE make the numbers. FOX is just following a strategy that makes them more money.

The other point that I want to make is the hypocrisy of President Obama. MSNBC did this for the last 8 years. Did he complain? MSNBC “carried his balls” throughout his Presidential campaign. Did he complain then? MSNBC is openly skewered to the left. Does he complain? No! He has said nothing about them.

I also think that he should have taken the approach that Michael Moore took. He should have gone on a show that hates him the most, like Sean Hannity’s show and bitch-slapped them. He should have done things Slashing Tongue style and tell FOX News off during their show in their face. But he did not do that when he should have.

At the end of the day, I want people to understand the effect of what we are doing. We “stupify” debates when we take our news from comedians like Letterman rather than Katie Couric. We are buying crazy talk when we listen to people like Rush Limbaugh.

To be brutally honest, that was why this set was set up. And we hope that we are providing a better alternative in text than these guys are providing!

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FOX hate that you would have to hear to believe

Monday, September 28th, 2009 at 8:29 pm  
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FOX and MSNBC are the terrible news networks of America. If we were to make a list of all the screw ups that they make and how partisan their so called “news” is; we would have nothing else to write about. But this really takes the cake. It is really something so irresponsible that it could lead to blood…

Frank Gaffney, a person that believe it or not was actually nominated and worked in the (Presidents) Reagan and Clinton administrations, runs a “think tank” and is, in my opinion, the father of Islamo-phobia.

He is actually a frequent guest on the MSNBC and FOX. Only these two crappy news organizations would have a person like this on. FOX News bans Bill Maher but this guy is okay for them to have! I equate this to President Ahmadinejad’s denial of the Holocaust.

This is what he said, “ This (Sharia) is the program that I think we need to be worrying about is the connective tissue between these myriad of attacks.” Does he even know what Sharia is? It is basically the law of Islam. What do you think the Muslim reaction would be?

More proof “ I am saying though that there is this well, virus as you will, a virus that is far more toxic than swine flu. And we are failing to recognize it as such; even though it is actually animating people to believe that Jihad is what God wants them to engage in to the lots of people….:” Wow! Sharia is a virus more toxic than swine flu? Are you kidding me?

What if this was being said about Christians on air? What if there was just one person that said that crazy Evangelism is the disease that is worse than swine flu? What if this message was said or played in volatile regions like South Asia? Do you know how many Hindu Muslim riots has happened in India because of speeches like that? Does he even think of the consequences?

Sharia is the law for the Muslims. It is like the Talmud or the Bible. Of course there are verses in it that sound bad. But they are for Proselytizing. E.g.
“If you eat with a Gentile, it is the same as eating with a dog”–Talmud
“Fight them (non-believers), until all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam.” – Quran
“When the Gentiles worship their Gods, they worship demons.”– Bible

But in the end of the day, there needs to be a person wise enough to decipher them. The people of the three religions above should know that the Earth is not flat despite what is being written as their religious order.

But that is something Frank Gaffney does not understand. He blames the entire legal framework of Islam and rather than the idiots that cannot decipher what is right and what is wrong.

With regards to his point about inmates converting to Jihadi Islam, he should understand that these are the people that Al Qaeda target, not the other way round. As we in Slashing Tongue have mentioned earlier. They already have violent tendencies or are exposed to such thought in prison. Adding in religion would just add the excuse. I think that the state should stop sponsoring religion to these people due to those facts.

Fighting hate with fear and hate is not going to solve the problem, it is going to make it worse. That is the biggest mistake that Frank Gaffney is making. We should not fall into that trap.

Please view clip at Moxnews.com

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