Lie to Say Illegals Not Insured by Health Reform?
September 15, 2009
When South Carolina Republican Congressman Joe Wilson shouted out “You lie!” during President Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on health care reform last week, most reasonable people rejected the outburst, but I was surprised to see how much time Fox News spent giving intellectual support to the accusation and particularly surprised to see that support coming from Judge Andrew Napolitano, Fox News’ senior judicial analyst, as I explain in this video.
The public domain video of President Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on health care reform last week from which I took a clip for this video is available on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSJugLUsM58
The 3 clips of Judge Andrew Napolitano are from Fox News’ “Your World with Neil Cavuto” broadcast on September 10, 2009 which I have not been able to find online.
The image of title 8 section 1611 of the US Code which I show in this video comes from the Cornell webpage at http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/8/usc_sec_08_00001611—-000-.html
The image of the ACLU of Sacramento letter I show in this video comes from the webpage at http://aclusac.org/node/149
And, finally, as always, you can find DOZENS and DOZENS more examples of Fox News bias on my Fox News bias playlist on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=A3BD2524FE99BD4D
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Keith Olbermann Tea Party Recap; Fox News Lies About Teabagger Turnout
July 21, 2009
Teabaggers forget to secure a permit for dumping tea bags at the Treasury Department, and Fox News the number of teabaggers who showed up at a Tea Party in Sacramento.
Plus a rundown of all the “teabag cities”.
And a sweet reference to the classic British sitcom “The Young Ones”!
April 15, 2009.
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Glenn Beck’s Tea Party at the Alamo in San Antonio Texas with Ted Nugent and, “We the People”
June 29, 2009
Ted Nugent said, “the hadn’t quite gotten hot enough yet”, and he is right. But now it has and the people are as mad as , and they are not going to take it anymore. They have had enough, and the time to act is now. Obama is the straw that has broke the camels back, so the jig is up; it is time to pay the piper.
Americans are going to have to take sides. Do they want an ever growing government that will eventually control every aspect of their lives, but in return give them the security that they crave. Or do they want freedom and liberty which come at the cost of pain and suffering from time to time. Which will it be?
I choose freedom and liberty. I am willing to get hurt and lose everything that I have in order to remain a free man, are you? I do not want the government to rule over me and tell me what is best for me. I am quite able to make my own decisions; I do not need the government telling me how to live my life. If I make the wrong decisions and end up screwing my life up, then so be it, it was my life to screw up.
jbranstetter04
National Media Dismiss, Disparage and Attack Tax Day Tea Parties
Three networks and CNN ignore populist storm until tax day; blast FOX and repeat left-wing claims of ‘AstroTurf’ in same-day coverage. MSNBC continues vulgar ‘teabagging’ jokes.
Silent no more, by tax day the networks, CNN and the major papers finally acknowledged the story of the Tax Day Tea Party protests. And while they covered them, they found many ways to discredit the movement by repeating the claims of the left.
In CNNs case, the network also became the story when one of its reporters showed contempt for people at the Chicago Tea Party, calling the protests anti-government and anti-CNN. One night earlier, Anderson Cooper repeated the offensive sexual term teabagging, which had been the favorite anti-tea party slur of liberal MSNBC since April 9.
National broadcast or print media used the term AstroTurf at least 12 times since April 10 to attack the idea that the protests were a grassroots movement of conservatives. Left-wing bloggers at BuzzFlash used that term to label the tea party movement as early as March 24.
A number of reports also accused Fox News of being too involved in the protests. ABCs Dan Harris repeated criticism from the left that the tea parties were a product of Fox News and lobbyist organizations. All three network newscasts tried to discredit the protests on April 15.
All of those themes Teabagging remarks, AstroTurf slams and claims that Fox News was organizing the protest were popularized on left-wing blogs and MSNBC before resounding in the mainstream medias echo chamber.
NBCs Chuck Todd wrote off the protests for Today viewers April 15 saying, Theres been some grassroots conservatives who have organized so called tea parties around the country. But I tell you, the idea hasnt really caught on.
Perhaps Todd should have been attending a tea party himself, like the one in Atlanta that was estimated to have 15,000 people. According to the San Francisco Chronicle a Sacramento rally drew about 5,000, and ociated Press reported that 1,000-2,000 attended a D.C. rally. According to CNN.com tens of thousands of people spent part of April 15 at tea party demonstrations.
CNN Chooses Sides
Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz told CNN viewers on April 15 that much of the media seems to have chosen sides for tea day. Kurtz also admitted it was a non-story for most major newspapers and that his paper ran its first story on page B4 of the Metro section today.
While he was exactly right, Kurtz went easy on CNN and MSNBC.
He criticized Fox News for promoting the tea parties, but chided CNN for ignoring the story before April 14. He also noted MSNBCs mockery of the protests, but did not condemn the vulgarities used repeatedly by David Shuster, Rachel Maddow and guests of the cable network.
FOX News sees this tax protest as a big story, CNN as a modest story and MSNBC as a great story – to make fun of. Kurtz said CNN had done occasional reports, but did not question correspondent Susan Roesgen for her disgraceful behavior at the Chicago Tea Party, even though during CNNs Situation Room. he showed a partial video clip of Roesgen being belligerent with one protester.(Two hours later when CNN ran Kurtz package again the video of Roesgen had been switched for a video with a calmer reporter.).
http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2009/20090416130347.aspx
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Another White House “Saturday night massacre” and the news media is silent
June 23, 2009
President of these here United States of America (USA), President Barack Obama (Democrat) has fired Gerald Walpin. Mr. Walpin is or was the Inspector General for AmeriCorps who uncovered some irregularities with an $850,000 grant from AmeriCorps. The grant was to St. Hope which is run by an NBA star Kevin Johnson (Democrat), and supporter of President Obama. Kevin Johnson is also the Democratic mayor of Sacramento, California.
The Inspector General investigates a friend and support of Barack Obama and the IG gets fired. To this the once independent news media is silent. Which gives credence to Rush Limbaughs claim the media in the USA is now government run as the media volunteered their surrender to this current administration.
Back in 1973 when President Richard Nixon (Republican) fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox and the next day newspaper headlines across the nation labeled this a “Saturday night massacre.” Now with the firing of Inspector General Walpin by President Obama, per the news media no “massacre” or news took place.
Here is a link to an article appearing in The Wall Street Journal on this issue:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124511811033017539.html
NOTE: Please accept my apology in advance. I will delete any comments posted on this video not related to this video. There are too many trolls posting comments on my videos which have absolutely nothing to do with the topic of the video. May I suggest these trolls post their own videos to vent their opinions on topics not related to this video?
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“Confused” Inspector General Takes Competency Test by Glenn Beck – Obama dishonors…
June 21, 2009
…an honorable man. Obama accuses Gerald Walpin of senility, and being disorientated and off his rocker at a recent meeting. Obama fired and is now trying to discredit and disgrace a man who wanted nothing more than to serve his country in the last years of his life, and now this is his thanks. Obama should feel ashamed of himself; he’s a disgrace to the office of the President.
I have not been this upset in a long time. It’s just like Glenn Beck says; just think if this was your Dad or Granddad. How would you feel if his name and honor was defiled for political reasons?
Obama and his corrupt Administration will fall of their own weight, just you wait and see. There is just no way that the news media will not eventually take notice of this kind of corruption. Or is there? I might be wrong.
What a pathetic man this Obama is turning out to be. How can he do something like this to a public servant who is only doing the job that he was hired to do. I have given Obama his chance, and he has failed. I feel like I’m in the old Soviet Union where anything goes to destroy the integrity and reputation of those who seek the truth. Is this the kind of country that we want to live in?
jbranstetter04
Major Garrett Contributing Editor
WASHINGTON – Responding to criticism from a Senate Democratic ally, President Obama for the first time explained why he fired the Inspector General of the AmeriCorps without the 30-day notification required by law, calling Gerald Walpin so “confused” and “disoriented” that there was reason to question “his capacity to serve.”
In a letter to the bi-partisan leaders of the Senate Committee that oversees AmeriCorps, Obama listed these alleged defects in Walpin’s leadership as an Inspector General.
* Removed after unanimous request from the AmeriCorps board of directors
* At May 20, 2009, board meeting Walpin “was confused, disoriented and unable to answer questions and exhibited behavior that led the board to question his capacity to serve.”
* The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of California complained about Walpin’s conduct to the IG oversight board and alleged he withheld exculpatory evidence.
* Walpin had “been absent from the Corporation’s headquarters, insisting upon working from his home in New York over the objection” of the board.
* He “exhibited a lack of candor in providing material information to decision makers.”
* He “engaged in other troubling and inappropriate conduct.”
* He “had become unduly disruptive to agency operations, impairing his effectiveness.”
The letter, authored by Norman Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for ethics, concluded: “It was for these reasons that Mr. Walpin was removed.”
Hours before, Sen. Claire McCaskill, Missouri Democrat, criticized Obama for failing to specify why he fired Walpin.
“The White House has failed to follow the proper procedure in notifying Congress as to the removal of the Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service,” McCaskill said in a statement. “The legislation which was passed last year requires that the president give a reason for the removal. ‘Loss of confidence’ is not a sufficient reason. I’m hopeful the White House will provide a more substantive rationale, in writing, as quickly as possible.”
Walpin led a 2008 investigation into allegations of misused taxpayer funds distributed by AmeriCorps to the St. HOPE Academy of Sacramento, founded in 1989 by Obama supporter and former NBA player Kevin Johnson. Walpin said Johnson, now mayor of Sacramento, misused roughly $850,000 in AmeriCorps funds. His referral to the U.S. Attorney’s Office did not result in the filing of criminal charges. But St. HOPE officials agreed, via a settlement, to repay half of its AmeriCorps grants.
On Tuesday, Rep. Darrell Issa, California Republican, sought all White House information Walpin’s firing. That followed a request from Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, that AmeriCorps provide “any and all records, e-mail, memoranda, documents, communications, or other information” related to Walpin’s firing. Issa and Grassley are minority members of congressional oversight panels….
http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/06/16/obama-accuses-fired-inspector-general-of-americorps-of-being-confused-disoriented/
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Obama Fires Inspector General for doing his Job – IG Gerald Walpin interviewed by Glenn Beck
June 17, 2009
Obama fires Gerald Walpin for “no” reason. He was just doing his job investigating AmeriCorps money that went to a community group called St. HOPE Academy, which was founded by Kevin Johnson, former point guard of the Phoenix Suns, who was elected Mayor of Sacramento last November, and who just happens to be a buddy of Obama’s. Does it not seem strange that Obama would fire someone who was investigating a friend of his?
Anyone who paid attention to the election last year knows what is happening; it’s called Chicago politics at its finest. And it seems that Obama is a pro at it. Does Obama think that he can get away with something like this? The answer is yes. The fact of the matter is that any President can get away with anything up to and including murder, if the news media does not cover it, or they bury it in the back pages.
But all is not lost, I do see hope for the future. I feel that the stucco façade that surrounds Obama is beginning to crack, and that soon chunks of it will begin to fall off, which will expose Obama for what he truly is, which is an imposter, a fake, a charlatan. It will be at this time that the news media will begin to smell blood, and they will rush to investigate the imposter so as to look as if they were on the job from the beginning; they will not want to be left holding the bag.
Now here’s part of a hack piece by ABC News. The comments are better than the article.
jbranstetter04
Political Punch
Power, pop, and probings from ABC News Senior White House Correspondent Jake Tapper
President Obama Fires Controversial Inspector General
With little public notice, President Obama Thursday fired the Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service, Gerald Walpin.
Saying he was exercising my power as president, Mr. Obama suspended Walpin with pay, saying his termination would be effective 30 days from now.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/president-obama-fires-controversial-inspector-general-.html
Obama fires Inspector General – Politically motivated and illegal?
When President Bush fired a handful of U.S. Attorneys in 2006, all of which were appointed by him and “serve at the pleasure of the President,” the cries of “political corruption” from the newly Democrat-controlled Senate could be heard across America.
Today, President Obama has terminated a government inspector general, possibly in violation of laws established to prevent the same kind of political influence Bush was accused of using.
Gerald Walpin, whose job it was to review grants awarded by AmeriCorps and its parent agency, the Corporation for National and Community Service, had discovered improprioties involving a charity headed up by the Mayor of Sacramento, Kevin Johnson. According to his investigation, Mr. Johnson’s “St. HOPE Academy” had misappropriated nearly $1 million by using money to pay volunteers for political activities, run personal errands and even wash his car.
Mayor Johnson is a huge supporter of Barack Obama’s, and this link between the two of them gives every appearence of political payback, not to mention the possibility of serious illegalities by the President.
http://www.examiner.com/x-7507-Frisco-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m6d12-Obama-fires-Inspector-General–Politically-motivated-and-illegal
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This Is How Main Stream Media Covered the Anti-Tax Tea Parties
April 17, 2009
Tax Day Tea Party Protest Across the Nation. United We Stand.
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Fox News Tea Party Montage
April 15, 2009
A montage of Fox News Channel’s many endorsements and promotions of Anti-Tax Day Tea Parties – presented by “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” April 14, 2009.
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Fox News: The Official Tea Party Network!
April 13, 2009
Fox News Channel is going to have wall-to-wall coverage of “tea parties” on April 15. Not very “fair and balanced” to Howard Kurtz. April 12, 2009.
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When will it be Obama’s Economy?
March 10, 2009
Obama: Stimulus plan is already saving jobs •Yesterday, Obama told reporters that his $787 billion economic recovery plan is already saving jobs. •The unemployment rate is the highest in 25 years. •He said that we should talk to the 25 police recruits in Ohio’s capital city who owe their jobs to stimulus spending. And “talk to the teachers who are still able to teach our children because we passed this plan •Those are government jobs; those jobs were produced by direct spending, not …
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