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Palin vs Family guy == Stupid America?

Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at 4:48 pm  
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I really cannot believe that this is what America is talking about after so many days! This really makes me wonder whether our troops are defending a retarded nation! Come on! A joke and a media-whore and people love to talk about it!

For those media-retarded, or those living in a hole somewhere, this is a recap. There is an episode of the FOX TV cartoon, The Family Guy where a teenage character in that show dates a girl who has Down’s Syndrome and when asked what her parents do, she says : “My dad’s an accountant, and my mom is the former (G)overnor of Alaska.” Governor Palin then spurned a fake outcry on FOX News claiming that this was poking fun at her child in some way…

Well lets see. You have a 2 year old toddler, the cartoon character was a teenager. Your toddler is a boy, the cartoon character is a girl. Your toddler is real, all flesh and blood. That girl was a cartoon character on Family Guy. Has she ever watched the Family Guy? Come on! ( I can’t believe I am writing this down in a POLITICAL commentary.)

And anyhow, how is this joke making fun of the child? If anything, it was a lame joke aimed at Governor Palin! It is not at all aimed at her child! There was no way it was anyhow connected to the child! Also, the person that was playing the child was also special with Down’s Syndrome. The Family Guy should be applauded for hiring that artiste, rather than being bashed by Governor Palin.

How many times is this drama queen going to stop pimping her kids for spotlight? She did it the first time with David Letterman, she did it with Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for using the word retarded on Democrats but forgives Rush Limbaugh for using it all the time and now this. Hey Governor Palin, you kid is special, you are retarded.

Why the hell can’t see through this fake outrage? Why is it that we are talking about this stupid even that would not affect our lives and not about the Governors meeting with the President or the President’s proposed health care bill? Why? Are we all getting excited over small events and not the big ones?

It is partially our failure in giving attention to something that Senator McCain picked Governor Palin who had accomplished nothing, over Meg Whitman who made E-bay what it is today. Because he knew that we would watch Governor Palin and Meg Whitman would bore the heck out of us!

We are so interested in gossip and nonsense like the President swatting a fly rather than reading bills that is available to us. Maybe that is why politicians always claim that they do not have time to read bills when given overnight, because they know that their constituents are not going to read it. Only people like us do, and we know that it can be done in a day!

Wake up America. Please! Do not throw your country away with your ignorance. Do not buy emotions and controversies, look at the facts! Stop watching Olbermann and Beck and watch CSPAN! Please, for the sake of your country, please stop being stupid!

Carrie Prajean utter lack of respect!

Thursday, November 12th, 2009 at 5:44 pm  
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I have never really gotten down hard on Carrie Prajean. I always felt that she was just a media whore, someone like Levi Johnston, who is doing anything for media attention. But after her treatment of Larry King, I think it is time to give her a tongue slashing usually reserved for older hosts.

I do not like the manner that she answered her question, but then I would have disqualified half the women based on the manner the answered their questions. So, yes I am not an expert! Politics is my field, not beauty pageants.

Then she went about opening her mouth saying that she was doing it for God and so on and so forth. She became the darling of the far right. Of course there are the instances of her topless photographs and her masturbation videos, okay. I would not be surprised if it was Carrie Prajean herself that exposed all these leaks to stay in the media. Hey, there is no such thing as bad publicity right.

I always put her as a person that was crying for attention. I put her in the same category as Levi Johnston who is doing the same thing by posing nude for playgirl and throwing dirt at Governor Sarah Palin. They are just attention seeking whores to me.

This incident changed everything. In political commentary, there are many people who could be considered bigots, rude, obnoxious, terrible. These can be from the left like Keith Olbermann, Bill Maher and Rachael Maddow, from the right like Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck or Bill O Reilly or even independents like Governor Ventura, Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader or the people here at ST.

But nobody disses CNN’s Larry King. Anybody would tell you that he is a very soft-ball host. He has been doing this for so many years and I never heard of anybody being pissed off with Larry King. Even people like Bill O Reilly and Rush Limbaugh do not mind him. I am shocked at the manner that she treated Larry King. It is disgraceful.

She began by saying how she is “Palinized” by the far-left media like Keith Olbermann. Okay, that is a fair point. He is really a jacka**. But is there really a double standard as she suggests? Would right-wingers be forced out of the air because of mean words?

Rush Limbaugh supported (supports?) the apartheid government is South Africa in the 90s, he is still on the air. Glenn Beck called President Obama a racist for no damn reason, he is still on the air. Michael Savage in on the air despite his outright racist remarks against Latinos. Governor Sarah Palin is still on the air despite claiming that our President pals with terrorists. So, the idea of there being a double standard is really ridiculous.

Larry King then went to the point where she agreed to settle for some lawsuits that she made. He did not ask what the settlement was, he asked why. Why did she settle? It is a fair question. It is nothing intrusive. Even then he went on for just 30 seconds.

“So you can even say why you settled? I am not asking for what is in the agreement? … So the agreement discusses why each party agreed to settle?” That was basically all Larry King asked! That was it! It was not a tough one. She could have answered that she was tired of everything and wanted it to end quickly etc. Those kinds of excuses are okay, but you can’t tell why you settled?

Because of that, she gave Larry King the ultimate disrespect by taking off her microphone while a viewer was asking her a question. If I were Larry King, I would have freaking exploded. Try doing that to other hosts like Bill O Reilly, Geraldo Riviera, Ann Coulter, Olbermann and see what the reaction would be.

I also hope there was a person she was talking to in the room, because if she was talking to herself, she would really need psychiatric help!

Watch it at cnn.com/video

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Fort Hood : ST reaction

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 at 6:43 pm  
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The team, including me, did not put up an article due to the tragedy that has happened at Fort Hood. I have personally served there and I am sincerely affected by this. If this happened years ago, people I know and me could be dead today.

One of the most difficult thing about this is that we are shot dead by one of us. That is really a double blow. Major Nidal Malik Hasan guy was not a person of lower rank (like me). He was a freaking Major. He entered the service via the medical route, not by the tougher mean courses like most other Officers go through.

Why? Why did he did it? Is it purely hate? Is it due to Imams in America that spread hate like Keith Olbermann and Rush Limbaugh do? Is it due to overseas influence, that has caused radicalism to seep to the person that should be amongst the most patriotic in our country? Or was it something personal. I really question this.

And even in this the crazy conservatives and loony liberals want to take sides. It is almost as if they are playing with our lives for sake of their games. Governor Jesse Ventura said it best. They are all just interested to keep their jobs, rather than to take our stand.

The far right with loons like Michelle Malkin and Debbie Schlussel went all out berating an entire religion. They start stoking the nonsense that is Islamo-phobia. If we allow a religion to be targeted today, tomorrow it could be my religion, your religion or atheists. These people are stoking hate which is no different to Nazi Germany propaganda against the Jews.

At the same time, the far left continues to ignore the fact that America does have a problem with the radicalization of Islam. Add that to the surging radicalism of Christian sects, it is a mixture that is going to lead to explosive disaster.

I think that the problem is not with the Koran or the teaching of Islam, I think it is the mentality of general Muslim thought is the problem. I feel that Muslim leaders are overtly sensitive to criticism of Islam and I think they feel that Islam is being attacked. That is why they react so strongly to a cartoon that went too far, while they say nothing about the Beslan massacre or 9/11. This is the heart of the problem and it must be solved.

I would also like to add that I agree that this may not be the top priority of Americans. I understand that there are many things out there that trouble some Americans more, like the shooting in Orlando, Florida that took place recently. But I hope that the readers understand that this has a personal touch for me.

We also would like to send our condolences to people that are victims of such a great crime.

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Orly Taitz and responsible speech

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 5:50 pm  
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I never liked the Joy Behar and never watched her show on HLN. However, a member of the team e-mailed me a link to an interesting video. She sounds like Arianna Huffington and is the right-wing crazier version of her. She is also hailed as the queen of the Birthers.

Firstly, to the Birthers, get your damn story straight! It is as if they had theory of every place they can think of and made him be born there. Choose one of your ridiculous claims and stick to it:

He is Kenyan and born in Kenya via in his paternal ancestral home;
He is a Brit, as he was born in Kenya which was a British colony then;
He is Cuban, his mum slept with an African-Cuban man and she was educated in Communist schools in Washington state and making Obama President is all part of Castro’s conspiracy to destroy America
He is Vietnamese, is a product of a Vietnamese-Black relationship,Vietnam wants to bring Communism to America just in case Vietnam lost the war, so they sent Obama;
He is Indonesian, born in Indonesia to an Indonesian man and his mum;
He was born in Hawaii, which is not part of America;
He was born in Mexico and is actually an illegal immigrant in the United States;
He was not born, but is the Anti-Christ to rid the world of Christianity and to install himself as God;

If there are other conspiracy theories, please add in the commentary box below. I would authenticate President Obama’s Birth Certificate and all the courts that rejected your claims, if you can prove that he has a birth certificate in the place where you say he is born; (Sorry to those of you that think he is Satan).

Back to Orly Taitz, the best part of this lady’s position is that, even if he was born in Hawaii and Hawaii is part of the United States, President Obama still would not be President. Why? Because she defines a natural born citizen as one that have parents born in the US!

She even went after Governor Piyush “Bobby” Jindal, saying that he should not even be considered as a Presidential candidate because his parents were born in India. When she attacked Jindal, it showed me that this lady is nothing but racist! She just cannot take it that a non white individual can be President in our great country.

This lady is just pure crazy. She is like Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann during the President Bush administration. They just spurt out nonsensical theories filled with hate to get attention and get away with it Scot free. I think that the laws of slander should be reformed, and lets bankrupt these jerks with lawsuits.

If we punish them financially, maybe this kind people would think twice when they talk. They would not dare tell people to stab President Obama, mention that President Bush was a Nazi and say that President Obama is not born in the US. They have got to back thier up. I also think that the judge that told Orly Taitz off did his job excellently, and the next judge should really take action against her if she pursues this matter without evidence as it is.

I agree that we should have freedom of speech. This site is an opinion commentary blog about American politics. Without free speech, this site cannot exist. But we cannot go around saying nonsense. We allow a person to go around calling a lady lesbian so that he can become Governor of Texas. We cannot allow people to call Obama anti-Christ or say that people who eat meat should be killed. There is a limit, and we should draw the line.

The reason I say this is because speech can incite violence. Up to a million people died in Rwanda because there were hate speeches on the radio that went unchecked. Hitler rose, because his hate speech was unchecked. Hate speeches of Jews are being left unchecked in the Middle East now.

Like many great things, free speech must never be abused. Its abuse can be fatal Never again should we allow it to happen.

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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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