... follow.
Meanwhile, the comments at HotAir about the Schumer-Casey plan are a garden of money-before-America thinking (hotair . com/headlines/archives/2012/05/17/
senate-dems-want-to-tax-ex-patriates-who-renounce-citizenship-for-tax-reasons):
* Or they could simply lower the tax rate. But that would make too much cents. (aunursa)
* Berlin wall 2.0. (the_nile)
* 49% of Americans pay no federal...
Earlier today, the Washington Post published allegations that Mitt Romney was a bully back in prep school (link). I didn't read the story, but that's not what this post is about.
Instead, this is a meta post: the WaPo's story is yet another example of how the establishment media is going to help Barack Obama be reelected. The media will publish or broadcast story after story just like the current...
... ago I wrote about J.E. Dyer of HotAir.com ignoring immigration's impact on California.
They've done it yet again, with Erika Johnsen of Townhall (they and HotAir share a parent company) offering "Go west, young man, go west! …Unless you're into being successful" (link).
There isn't much fundamentally different between that and their earlier post. Both present helping corporations as the solution...
In a HotAir "Greenroom" post ("California by the numbers", link) that was promoted to their front page, J.E. Dyer engages in the Fiscal Con. As described at that link, that consists of fiscal conservatives ignoring their role in the problems they whine about and using those problems to push another part of their agenda.
In the current case, that consists of pushing lower taxes, fewer regulations...
... it.
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[1] hotair.com/archives/2012/02/11/
video-crowder-loesch-rap-at-cpac
[2] Those playing the race card (or setting up their commenters to do it) include:
Gawker
gawker.com/5884224/
awful-white-rappers-drop-the-n-word-at-cpac-receive-standing-ovation
Terkel of Huffington Post
huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/cpac-2012-rap_n_1268571.html
RawStory
rawstory.com/rs/2012/...
... see many of the comments on the HotAir thread about Fuentes' plan (link):
* I wonder if a state can be stripped of its statehood, cause California sure needs it.
* Time for America to deport the CA government.
* California is planning on leaving the union? Hasta la vista, baby!
* I’m sure that California will enjoy its new status as Greece without the Parthenon.
* Personally, I won’t invest a...
... Media (checked: front page)
* HotAir
* Patterico
* Just One Minute
* Andrew Breitbart's Big Government, Big Journalism (which doesn't even have an immigration category!), breitbart.tv or breitbart.com (checked: front pages)
* Powerline
* Dan Riehl's site (note: he did tweet the news about the signing however)
* Human Events (checked: front page)
* Gateway Pundit
* Ace Mu Nu
If that changes I'll...
... posts [1] and Ed Morrissey of HotAir hypes [2] an editorial blaming the minimum wage for very high teen unemployment (see this). While the minimum wage might play a role, a clearer role is played by massive low-skilled immigration. Yet, neither the WSJ nor Morrissey even hint at that. Perhaps it's because the WSJ is a strong supporter of unlimited immigration, and Morrissey isn't exactly a...
... mentions of the listed terms at HotAir [1]. In 2007 there were an average of just 8 mentions per month of the word "deficit" at HotAir. By 2011, there were an average of 222 mentions per month:
Ed Morrissey of HotAir uses the recent tragic earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Japan as a launching point to promote his idea of free market capitalism. Except, he forgot to mention free market capitalism's possible role in the current nuclear issues associated with the tragedy (link):
Well, the question here is whether wealth allows for adaptation - or whether an economic system’s openness to...
... video is linked by AllahPundit of HotAir at
hotair.com/archives/2011/01/18/
video-the-very-dumbest-political-soundbites-
about-the-arizona-shootings and by Glenn Reynolds at pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/113424 See his name's link for much more information on him, including his attempts to run away from his violent rhetoric.
... the red flags on Loughner?", hotair.com/archives/2011/01/10/
did-dupnik-miss-the-red-flags-on-loughner), even if he CYAs:
we’re getting lots of e-mails about this post, but I’m unfamiliar with the site and can’t vouch for its credibility. Under those circumstances I’d normally pass on it, but since America’s new standard of journalism requires no supporting evidence whatsoever before tossing an...
... Reynolds [1], Ed Morrissey of HotAir [2], and Lachlan Markay of Newsbusters [3] take them to task. That's definitely a valid concern.
However, at the same time, those three all fail to even acknowledge the role that massive/illegal immigration has played in the problems that Bell and other cities in that area have been having for years. When complaining about the media not telling the whole...
... the way it's being presented by HotAir [2] and by the low-wattage "StandWithAZ" group (the video was uploaded by them).
Unfortunately, it's not clear whether Reid was referring to all construction jobs or just those funded by the stimulus. In the first case he's, of course, lying through his teeth: as the report points out, Pew Hispanic says that 17% of all construction workers are illegal...
Ed Morrissey of HotAir recently conducted an interview of Sharron Angle, and even his commenters call him out for engaging in McCarthyism on the Obama citizenship issue. Morrissey says [1]:
In the past few days, rumors have swirled that Angle is a crypto-Birther. I asked her “flat out” whether she believed Barack Obama was born somewhere other than Hawaii, and she replied, “No. Is that flat-out...
... For instance, the Ed Morrissey HotAir post about this [1] uses the phrase "Milk Carton Democrats", as if that's going to cause them to start holding meetings again. That post has comments like: "This is gonna backfire on the Dems come November" and the even dumber "They can’t avoid the most important “town hall”– election day!" That's not that likely: in almost all districts the tea party types...
... is promoted by Ed Morrissey of HotAir; he says nothing about how ineffective the video is (hotair.com/archives/2010/04/02/
video-shea-porter-plays-april-fools-joke-on-town-hall/).
... and being promoted by at least HotAir; please see this discussion of the proper way to handle the "Birthers" issue. It involves simply telling the truth, something that many across the political spectrum have problems with.
... corrections at post time:
* AllahPundit hotair.com/archives/2010/02/24/ron-paul-grills-bernanke-
wasnt-the-fed-involved-with-saddam-and-in-watergate (no correction at post time)
* Sudeep Reddy of the Wall Street Journal
blogs.wsj.com/economics/2010/02/24/
ron-paul-on-watergate-saddam-hussein-and-the-federal-reserve/
* NPR npr.org/blogs/money/2010/02/
ron_paul_ben_bernanke_and_wate.html
* Heather...
... AllahPundit links to it approvingly at hotair.com/archives/2010/02/20/
video-breitbart-goes-nuclear-on-salon-writer-
at-cpac-for-smearing-james-okeefe-as-racist and, of course, Glenn Reynolds does too (pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/94260).
UPDATE: Apparently it's difficult to even just glance at my site and see how I do things. I'd be more effective if more people would link to me, but apparently...
... she meant. Even Ed Morrissey of HotAir calls them on being misleading, and that's not a good sign:
hotair.com/archives/2010/01/16/coakley-on-immigration-we-didnt-pay-attention-to-immigrant-status
Over at HotAir, there's nothing I can find about yesterday's re-introduction of an amnesty bill. Meanwhile, Ed Morrissey offers "A curious case of visa denial" [1] which is a bit of a conservative version of a PIIPP (see that link if you aren't familiar with that term). A Romanian gym coach came here on an H1B visa and applied for a green card; the visa was renewed once but not a second time. In...
... Huffington Post [1] or Allahpundit at HotAir [2] are having a field day.
Meanwhile, her supporters will most likely do things that are ineffective and things that won't strike back at her detractors.
If you're a Palin supporter, here's what you have to do: point out that many of those detractors have lied about the basic, easy-to-understand facts of this matter. You have to work to discredit...
... fruit that even Allahpundit of HotAir gets it mostly right (link).
However, neither of the above stress that this is yet another marker on the road to Idiocracy. Instead of asking political leaders tough questions about their policies - policies that affect hundreds of millions or billions of people - about all we get is one dumb stunt after the other.
There are a lot of forces working towards...
... latter, over to Allahpundit of HotAir (link):
Just imagine Menendez’s attack ads against [Dobbs]; he wouldn’t have to venture outside of Media Matters’s clip vault to gather enough material for the entire campaign.
There's a reason why Dobbs' opponents keep bringing up the leprosy story years after he issued a correction: they don't have that much material to work with. It wouldn't be that...
Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina recently announced her candidacy as a Republican for senator from California; she's trying to unseat Barbara Boxer. While the latter is a highly worthy goal, she appears to be a globalist, profits-at-any-cost supporter of massive immigration at least of the skilled variety. Her position on low-skilled immigration isn't known, but generally speaking people...
... of stupidity, Allahpundit of HotAir links to the videos (hotair.com/archives/2009/10/13/
video-lindsey-graham-heckled-at-south-carolina-town-hall) and says "So why am I on his side? Watch the first clip and see for yourself who it is that’s heckling him and what they think about, oh, say, George Bush. I’ll take Grahamnesty over these tools [Ron Paul fans] any day of the week." That's a false...
Ed Morrissey of HotAir offers "An end to fringe mainstreaming?" (link) in which he worries about the backlash from the Democrats and the MSM over the Van Jones resignation. He also shows that solving problems isn't exactly his forte:
...we can expect the media to hold Republicans to the standards the conservative punditry imposed on Van Jones, and to be a lot more aggressive about it than they...
... leave the expected reaction to HotAir [1].
Instead, I'll point out that the video is little more than entertainment; it's not going to have an effect on much of anything. SJL's supporters are going to continue to support her, and her detractors are going to keep doing the opposite. Her making a phone call isn't as emblematic as Obama's "bitter" comment.
And, the lady who's ranting while SJL is...
... Media Matters for America and HotAir continues, with Allahpundit embedding the audio at MMFA's link at [1].
Maybe if I FAXed the link above to HotAir or Beck in a nice crayon font they might be able to understand this.
[1] hotair.com/archives/2009/08/04/audio-birtherism-ripped-to-shreds-by-glenn-beck
AllahPundit of HotAir posts about CNN's Jon Klein supposedly forbidding Lou Dobbs from covering the Obama citizenship issue (something that Klein has since walked back). In comments he says about this issue:
It’s a useful way for the left to make the right look paranoid. Obama’s shedding no tears seeing it get lots of coverage this week.
He's right about that, but only because I'm one of the few...
... conservative commentator Ed Morrissey of HotAir recently got a special treat: a shout-out from Media Matters for America in their article 'Unlike Dobbs, some conservative media think birthers are "nutburgers"' (by Julie Millican, mediamatters.org/research/200907220051). Rather than criticizing him, they were giving him a cookie for helping "[to] debunk[] the birth certificate rumors" about...
... the posts about this issue at HotAir and at FreeRepublic. The first doesn't mention his name at all, the second only includes it in the body of the post:
hotair.com/headlines/?p=44853
freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2285113/posts
And, of course, both give the HuffPost perfectly good links. In other words, at the same time as they aren't striking out - except in a temporary fashion - at the author...
The following cartoon from Chris Muir is, as are many others of his cartoons, unintentionally hilarious (link). While Ed Morrissey does occasionally say the smart thing, both he and Allahpundit more often than not fall into the go-along-get-along mode and, while they're offering plenty of Sonia Sotomayor coverage they aren't exactly going as far as this. As for those rightwing blogs, most of them...
Allahpundit of HotAir has posted two videos that - completely unwittingly - show just how futile, stupid, and pernicious the tea parties are: link. Both of them feature CNN reporter Susan Roesgen; watch the second first which features her puffball coverage of far-lefties holding a friendly, running protest near Obama's house in Chicago.
The first video on the Hot Air page was shot after a live...
Ed Morrissey of HotAir links to a new Gallup poll called "Views of Income Taxes Among Most Positive Since 1956" (link) and opines [1]:
If 48% believe that their taxes are just right, it might be because that’s the exact same percentage that will pay zero in the near future, according to Barack Obama’s tax policies. With Obama’s emphasis on refundables, 48.7% of Americans will wind up paying no...
... Beck program. You can see it at HotAir here.
It's even worse than you'd expect, and it pushes the tea parties even further down the road to Idiocracy. Previous sign posts on that road have included mailing tea bags to politicians. The current sign post Basso is aiming for is for people to honk their horns three times at noon on April 15.
No, I'm not kidding. For all his bombastic dire warnings...
... conspiracy stuff."
Meanwhile, over at HotAir, one of their staffers links to the Little Green Footballs entry [1] with the title "Surprise: Pittsburgh cop-killer was anti-semitic, white supremacist, Alex Jones fan".
Over to Ed Morrissey at the same site (hotair.com/archives/2009/04/05/kos-conservatives-like-to-shoot-cops):
Those who would use such horrifying tragedies to smear their political...
... athwart our descent into Idiocracy, HotAir correspondent Jason Mattera decided to help us descend even further by asking Charlie Rangel about his tax problems on the attached video. While the question he asked was not as bad and as personal as something that the sleazy Mike Stark has asked, it was still just a worthless question about Rangel himself rather than about things that are important....
... pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/72434) and Ed Morrissey of HotAir (hotair.com/archives/2009/03/08/fullerton-tea-party-gets-15000-protestors).
There's a running commentary on the event here and a news report here.
UPDATE: There's video from the rally here. And, Insty doubles-down at the first of his links above:
A reader emails: "I'm just wondering if 8-15 thousand at Fullerton is enough for doom...