Republicans Infuriated; Rep. King Blasts Rangel
Reporting
Marcia Kramer
NEW YORK (CBS) ― Already under fire for his tax troubles, Manhattan Congressman Charles Rangel really put his foot in his mouth on Friday.
In a CBS 2 HD exclusive interview, Rep. Rangel called Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin "disabled."
The question was simple: Why are the Democrats so afraid of Palin and her popularity?
The answer was astonishing.
"You got to be kind to the disabled," Rangel said.
That's right. The chairman of the powerful House Ways & Means Committee called Palin disabled -- even when CBS 2 HD called him on it.
CBS 2 HD: "You got to be kind to the disabled?"
Rangel: "Yes."
CBS 2 HD: "She's disabled?"
Rangel: "There's no question about it politically. It's a nightmare to think that a person's foreign policy is based on their ability to look at Russia from where they live.
Republicans think Rangel's comments are insulting as well as shocking.
"Charlie Rangel's comments are clearly disgraceful," Rep. Peter King, R-Long Island, said. "This is just another liberal Democrat who can't accept an independent woman running for president."
King, who is co-chair of the McCain-Palin campaign in New York, watched Rangel's comments with CBS 2 HD. He was particularly upset because Palin's 4-month-old son, Trig, is disabled. He has Down's syndrome.
"We should be sensitive to her or any woman who has a child or family member who has any affliction at all," King said. "And so to use the word disabled in the context of a female candidate for vice president who has a child who is disabled really is wrong. Charlie owes her and the entire disabled community and apology."
Advocates for the disabled are also upset.
"It makes me feel as if he's trying to put her down, trying to say she's not good for the presidency or the vice presidency," said Michael Imperiale of Disabled In Action Of Metropolitan N.Y.
"A disabled president ran this country. He was disabled. His name was Roosevelt."
A spokesman for the McCain-Palin campaign also piled on, saying that this kind of rhetoric has no place in politics.
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Leftist media sire hypocrisy AWOL on Edwards, all over Palin
By Michael Graham
Thursday, September 4, 2008
When the story first broke that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards had cheated on his cancer-stricken wife and sired a baby with a bimbo on his campaign payroll, The New York Times [NYT] refused to run it.
But when the news hit that not the president, not the vice president but the daughter of the vice-presidential nominee is pregnant, the Times ran five - count ’em, five - stories about it. In one day.
Edwards dragged his sick wife through the Iowa boonies and paid his girlfriend off in campaign dollars, and the Times decides it’s not worth writing about.
Meanwhile Bristol Palin is too young to even vote for Edwards, and she makes the front page of nearly every major daily that for weeks refused to report on the Edwards Love Child story.
But remember: There is no liberal media bias. Don’t believe me? Just ask Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews.
When the daughter of a vice-presidential candidate turns out to be 17, unmarried and pregnant, of course that’s news. But it doesn’t come close to legitimizing the all-out media assault (there is no other word for it) the press has unleashed on the Palins.
So-called “reporters” on CNN and MSNBC have speculated on Gov. Palin’s fitness as a mother. Sally Quinn from The Washington Post says that Palin should “rethink her priorities” and turn down the VP job. US Weekly - owned by the same people who put fawning faux-Jesus photos of Barack Obama on the cover of Rolling Stone - calls the Palin story “Sex, Lies and Scandal.”cw-4
Deeper in the fever swamps, Fox News’ token liberal Alan Colmes has suggested that Palin abused her youngest son Trig by denying him proper prenatal care.
And The Atlantic, once a respected, thoughtful voice of the American left, has actually promoted the lunatic - and utterly disproven - theory that Gov. Palin wasn’t pregnant with Trig at all. Trig is really Bristol’s son, and the governor of Alaska took time out of her schedule fighting against hack GOP congressmen and oil company insiders to fake a pregnancy on her daughter’s behalf.
According to Steve Schmidt of the McCain campaign, mainstream media organizations are demanding to see medical reports on Gov. Palin’s amniotic fluid and a DNA test on little Trig.
These aren’t the actions of bad journalists. These are the actions of bad people. From the set of MSNBC to the pages of The Boston Globe-Democrat, there are people willing to do anything to elect Barack Obama, up to and including the trashing of a 17-year-old girl.
But remember: Barack Obama is, as one San Francisco columnist put it, the “light bringer” who will heal our partisan divide.
It’s odd to hear liberal journalists who complained about the sexism of the Obama campaign now complaining that Gov. Palin won’t stay home and raise them babies.
It’s confusing to hear die-hard lefties like PBS’s Mark Shields releasing their inner Jerry Falwells to criticize Palin for putting “ambition” over her daughter’s well-being.
And it’s downright bizarre to read in the Boston Herald yesterday that our own U.S. Rep. Barney Frank believes the Palins’ private life is “fair game.” Hey, Barney - when you catch Bristol running a male prostitution ring out of the governor’s mansion basement, then we’ll talk.
Not to mention the Obama campaign sending out a press release attacking (erroneously, as is often the case) Gov. Palin for supporting “Nazi sympathizer” Pat Buchanan in 2000.
Gov. Sarah Palin: Lousy mom, trashy family and a Nazi. And you can read it all in The New York Times [NYT].
But remember: Don’t listen to talk radio. That’s hate speech.
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
When the story first broke that Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards had cheated on his cancer-stricken wife and sired a baby with a bimbo on his campaign payroll, The New York Times [NYT] refused to run it.
But when the news hit that not the president, not the vice president but the daughter of the vice-presidential nominee is pregnant, the Times ran five - count ’em, five - stories about it. In one day.
Edwards dragged his sick wife through the Iowa boonies and paid his girlfriend off in campaign dollars, and the Times decides it’s not worth writing about.
Meanwhile Bristol Palin is too young to even vote for Edwards, and she makes the front page of nearly every major daily that for weeks refused to report on the Edwards Love Child story.
But remember: There is no liberal media bias. Don’t believe me? Just ask Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews.
When the daughter of a vice-presidential candidate turns out to be 17, unmarried and pregnant, of course that’s news. But it doesn’t come close to legitimizing the all-out media assault (there is no other word for it) the press has unleashed on the Palins.
So-called “reporters” on CNN and MSNBC have speculated on Gov. Palin’s fitness as a mother. Sally Quinn from The Washington Post says that Palin should “rethink her priorities” and turn down the VP job. US Weekly - owned by the same people who put fawning faux-Jesus photos of Barack Obama on the cover of Rolling Stone - calls the Palin story “Sex, Lies and Scandal.”cw-4
Deeper in the fever swamps, Fox News’ token liberal Alan Colmes has suggested that Palin abused her youngest son Trig by denying him proper prenatal care.
And The Atlantic, once a respected, thoughtful voice of the American left, has actually promoted the lunatic - and utterly disproven - theory that Gov. Palin wasn’t pregnant with Trig at all. Trig is really Bristol’s son, and the governor of Alaska took time out of her schedule fighting against hack GOP congressmen and oil company insiders to fake a pregnancy on her daughter’s behalf.
According to Steve Schmidt of the McCain campaign, mainstream media organizations are demanding to see medical reports on Gov. Palin’s amniotic fluid and a DNA test on little Trig.
These aren’t the actions of bad journalists. These are the actions of bad people. From the set of MSNBC to the pages of The Boston Globe-Democrat, there are people willing to do anything to elect Barack Obama, up to and including the trashing of a 17-year-old girl.
But remember: Barack Obama is, as one San Francisco columnist put it, the “light bringer” who will heal our partisan divide.
It’s odd to hear liberal journalists who complained about the sexism of the Obama campaign now complaining that Gov. Palin won’t stay home and raise them babies.
It’s confusing to hear die-hard lefties like PBS’s Mark Shields releasing their inner Jerry Falwells to criticize Palin for putting “ambition” over her daughter’s well-being.
And it’s downright bizarre to read in the Boston Herald yesterday that our own U.S. Rep. Barney Frank believes the Palins’ private life is “fair game.” Hey, Barney - when you catch Bristol running a male prostitution ring out of the governor’s mansion basement, then we’ll talk.
Not to mention the Obama campaign sending out a press release attacking (erroneously, as is often the case) Gov. Palin for supporting “Nazi sympathizer” Pat Buchanan in 2000.
Gov. Sarah Palin: Lousy mom, trashy family and a Nazi. And you can read it all in The New York Times [NYT].
But remember: Don’t listen to talk radio. That’s hate speech.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Democrat Party is the anti-thesis of everything they claim to champion The Party Of Anti-Achievement
By Bob Parks Wednesday, September 3, 2008
If Sarah Palin has learned anything from her less-than-a-week in the international spotlight, she’s learned what it’s like to be black.
Think about it.
She’s the first woman to be the vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party. One would think this would be the 18 millionth and one crack in the glass ceiling. Sarah Palin has a reasonable chance of becoming President of the United States within her first term in office. Her selection should have been celebrated from sea to shining sea.
But the coordinated attack on Palin and her family proves once again that the Democrat Party is the anti-thesis of everything they claim to champion. They ARE anti-woman and anti-minority, that is unless that celebrated woman and minority are Democrats.
When Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice became the first two black Secretaries of State, the highest-ever political appointments of blacks in American history, it was not celebrated. Instead the “Party of Civil Rights” (another false myth) launched condoned racist attacks on the ”showcase appointments”, not their documented qualifications.
The mainstream media, academia, and liberal blogs had a field day (as they always have) resurrecting every racial taboo imaginable, and did so with impunity. They justified it with Powell and Rice’s not being “the right kind of black”. Like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele, Janice Rogers Brown, and Ken Blackwell, when it came to destroying the reputation of people outside the group Democrats “own”, nothing was off the table.
Now, enter Sarah Palin. She’s accomplished everything the liberal feminists said a woman could. She’s raised a family while moving up the old boy’s ladder. She became the chief executive in her state, yet once those achievements were recognized, it became necessary for the Democrat Party to tear this woman down precisely because they couldn’t take credit for that milestone.
And it’s not like they didn’t have a chance. Like her or not, Hillary Clinton could’ve been that milestone during a year of milestones.
Barack Obama became the first black to be receive his party’s nomination for president. Hillary Clinton received more of the popular vote along the way. Granted, Hillary does come with a lot of old baggage, but it’s nothing the media hasn’t dealt with before, and once the ultimate lines were drawn, she would have been embraced.
But the party of gender equality went the other way. They played party insider politics with the delegates, making rules and breaking them and making them again, just to pressure those delegates into a fixed result on the convention floor that brought that glass ceiling crashing down on the woman, again.
Even while being led by a black presidential nominee, the Democrat Party fell back on the old white guy (Joe Biden) for his running mate. They had the chance to make history. They had the chance to issue a double whammy on the history books for all time. A black man and woman on a presidential ticket, and they balked when it came time to seal the deal. So how do they make up with the 18 million who voted for and still support that woman?
The set out on a search-and-destroy mission against the other woman in the mix.
EVERY rule Democrats made and held us all to have been broken. Respect and sensitivity to minorities, gone. Now, they’re going all out on the woman.
We, the simpleton citizens in the mix, were instructed by every liberal establishment to respect women. We were told that women could do anything a man could do, and would be wholeheartedly encouraged to do so. We were also told what we couldn’t do.
We were told it was bad to assume that a woman couldn’t raise a family and be public servants at the same time. We were told that family members were not to be subject to adult, political attacks. While the privacy of Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton are the most recent examples, we were instructed to ease up off the kids even after Chelsea recently became a bonafide political agent for her mother’s presidential campaign. I guess that was a makeup for the Bush twins who were relentlessly savaged for eight years.
The upside to this is that many Democrat women are on to this egregious double standard. While Sarah Palin is a Republican, many liberal women do consider the rules still in effect. The sexist attacks on Palin, along with the attacks on her pregnant teen daughter are just the latest tact used by the Democrat establishment, and it is being noticed. Democrat women aren’t going to change their party affiliation because of party actions, but show me a woman that doesn’t keep insults parked away in her mind for future reference.
The Democrats have talked a good game for decades, but as barriers and ceilings are broken, they will only recognize the ones they can take ownership of. If it means the high-tech lynching of blacks or the political rape of women, so be it. Democrats traditionally own those of use to them, and hunt down those who pose a threat.
So I don’t want to hear any more shock and awe from liberal women who wonder how this could be happening. It was okay when it was happening to Condoleeza Rice, so you’d better be ready for what Democrats have in store for Sarah Palin. They blew you off despite the Hillary vote, and they’ll blow you off while they attack a 17-year-old girl and a Down Syndrome baby. You were repeatedly told Republicans were the party of intolerance and hate.
If that’s the case, the Democrat Party is that of anti-achievement. The road they are taking is a rocky one, and they never let women drive.
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Bob Parks is a of the National Advisory Council of Project 21, Senior Writer for the New Media Journal, VP of Marketing and Media Relations for the New Media Alliance. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight
Bob can be reached at: blackandright@gmail.com
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If Sarah Palin has learned anything from her less-than-a-week in the international spotlight, she’s learned what it’s like to be black.
Think about it.
She’s the first woman to be the vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party. One would think this would be the 18 millionth and one crack in the glass ceiling. Sarah Palin has a reasonable chance of becoming President of the United States within her first term in office. Her selection should have been celebrated from sea to shining sea.
But the coordinated attack on Palin and her family proves once again that the Democrat Party is the anti-thesis of everything they claim to champion. They ARE anti-woman and anti-minority, that is unless that celebrated woman and minority are Democrats.
When Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice became the first two black Secretaries of State, the highest-ever political appointments of blacks in American history, it was not celebrated. Instead the “Party of Civil Rights” (another false myth) launched condoned racist attacks on the ”showcase appointments”, not their documented qualifications.
The mainstream media, academia, and liberal blogs had a field day (as they always have) resurrecting every racial taboo imaginable, and did so with impunity. They justified it with Powell and Rice’s not being “the right kind of black”. Like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele, Janice Rogers Brown, and Ken Blackwell, when it came to destroying the reputation of people outside the group Democrats “own”, nothing was off the table.
Now, enter Sarah Palin. She’s accomplished everything the liberal feminists said a woman could. She’s raised a family while moving up the old boy’s ladder. She became the chief executive in her state, yet once those achievements were recognized, it became necessary for the Democrat Party to tear this woman down precisely because they couldn’t take credit for that milestone.
And it’s not like they didn’t have a chance. Like her or not, Hillary Clinton could’ve been that milestone during a year of milestones.
Barack Obama became the first black to be receive his party’s nomination for president. Hillary Clinton received more of the popular vote along the way. Granted, Hillary does come with a lot of old baggage, but it’s nothing the media hasn’t dealt with before, and once the ultimate lines were drawn, she would have been embraced.
But the party of gender equality went the other way. They played party insider politics with the delegates, making rules and breaking them and making them again, just to pressure those delegates into a fixed result on the convention floor that brought that glass ceiling crashing down on the woman, again.
Even while being led by a black presidential nominee, the Democrat Party fell back on the old white guy (Joe Biden) for his running mate. They had the chance to make history. They had the chance to issue a double whammy on the history books for all time. A black man and woman on a presidential ticket, and they balked when it came time to seal the deal. So how do they make up with the 18 million who voted for and still support that woman?
The set out on a search-and-destroy mission against the other woman in the mix.
EVERY rule Democrats made and held us all to have been broken. Respect and sensitivity to minorities, gone. Now, they’re going all out on the woman.
We, the simpleton citizens in the mix, were instructed by every liberal establishment to respect women. We were told that women could do anything a man could do, and would be wholeheartedly encouraged to do so. We were also told what we couldn’t do.
We were told it was bad to assume that a woman couldn’t raise a family and be public servants at the same time. We were told that family members were not to be subject to adult, political attacks. While the privacy of Amy Carter and Chelsea Clinton are the most recent examples, we were instructed to ease up off the kids even after Chelsea recently became a bonafide political agent for her mother’s presidential campaign. I guess that was a makeup for the Bush twins who were relentlessly savaged for eight years.
The upside to this is that many Democrat women are on to this egregious double standard. While Sarah Palin is a Republican, many liberal women do consider the rules still in effect. The sexist attacks on Palin, along with the attacks on her pregnant teen daughter are just the latest tact used by the Democrat establishment, and it is being noticed. Democrat women aren’t going to change their party affiliation because of party actions, but show me a woman that doesn’t keep insults parked away in her mind for future reference.
The Democrats have talked a good game for decades, but as barriers and ceilings are broken, they will only recognize the ones they can take ownership of. If it means the high-tech lynching of blacks or the political rape of women, so be it. Democrats traditionally own those of use to them, and hunt down those who pose a threat.
So I don’t want to hear any more shock and awe from liberal women who wonder how this could be happening. It was okay when it was happening to Condoleeza Rice, so you’d better be ready for what Democrats have in store for Sarah Palin. They blew you off despite the Hillary vote, and they’ll blow you off while they attack a 17-year-old girl and a Down Syndrome baby. You were repeatedly told Republicans were the party of intolerance and hate.
If that’s the case, the Democrat Party is that of anti-achievement. The road they are taking is a rocky one, and they never let women drive.
Click here to send this page to a friend!
Website: Black & Right
Bob Parks is a of the National Advisory Council of Project 21, Senior Writer for the New Media Journal, VP of Marketing and Media Relations for the New Media Alliance. Bob’s websites are Black & Right and youtube.com/BlackAndRight
Bob can be reached at: blackandright@gmail.com
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Fowler Fouls: Hurricane is God's Favor to Democrats
Posted by: absentee
Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 01:17PM
UPDATE (see below for SC GOP Statement)
On a plane from Denver to Charlotte following the Democrats' convention, I found myself seated behind former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Don Fowler and Congressman John Spratt of South Carolina. Their conversation was interesting to say the least.
For example, they made fun of Sarah Palin for several minutes, Fowler calling her "Dan Quayle" on steroids and Spratt creatively describing her as "just terrible." They both agreed that, "Other than the simple fact that she's a female," she has nothing to offer.
Then there was this gem of a moment from Fowler:
Watch the video
So you see, it's funny. That New Orleans will get a hurricane. That's funny because it is due to hit when President Bush is scheduled to speak. Isn't that cool? Fowler isn't the only one who thinks so, just ask Michael Moore.
We all know Democrats used and use Katrina as a political football as callously as possible. Here's a candid moment showing some can hardly wait for another one.
All Class.
BREAKING: Statement from SCGOP Chairman Katon Dawson
"The outrageous behavior of two of the Obama campaign's highest profile supporters in the south is despicable, a cynical politization of life and death. I call on Barack Obama to immediately denounce Fowler and Spratt and demand sincere apologies from these members of the Democratic leadership."
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Saturday, August 30, 2008 at 01:17PM
UPDATE (see below for SC GOP Statement)
On a plane from Denver to Charlotte following the Democrats' convention, I found myself seated behind former National Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Don Fowler and Congressman John Spratt of South Carolina. Their conversation was interesting to say the least.
For example, they made fun of Sarah Palin for several minutes, Fowler calling her "Dan Quayle" on steroids and Spratt creatively describing her as "just terrible." They both agreed that, "Other than the simple fact that she's a female," she has nothing to offer.
Then there was this gem of a moment from Fowler:
Watch the video
So you see, it's funny. That New Orleans will get a hurricane. That's funny because it is due to hit when President Bush is scheduled to speak. Isn't that cool? Fowler isn't the only one who thinks so, just ask Michael Moore.
We all know Democrats used and use Katrina as a political football as callously as possible. Here's a candid moment showing some can hardly wait for another one.
All Class.
BREAKING: Statement from SCGOP Chairman Katon Dawson
"The outrageous behavior of two of the Obama campaign's highest profile supporters in the south is despicable, a cynical politization of life and death. I call on Barack Obama to immediately denounce Fowler and Spratt and demand sincere apologies from these members of the Democratic leadership."
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