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Monday, May 11, 2015

Life In The Fishbowl

Michelle Obama Complains About Comments From Fox News, Michelle Malkin, Rudy Giuliani And Rush Limbaugh

Source: Tuskegee University

By Charles Spiering, May 11, 2015, Breitbart.com

With less than two years left in the White House, Michelle Obama is taking time to respond to her critics, accusing them of treating her differently because she is the first African-American First Lady.

She made her remarks during a commencement speech at Tuskegee University over the weekend, comparing her experience as the wife of the first African-American president to the experiences of historical civil-rights leaders.

The First Lady recalled her experience on the campaign trail, accusing the media of giving her unique attention thanks to the “fears and misperceptions of others” who questioned whether she was “too loud, or too angry, or too emasculating.”

She alluded to Fox News personalities discussing her “terrorist fist jab” and referring to her on-screen as “Obama’s baby mama” as well as Rush Limbaugh suggesting that she had“a little bit of uppityism” thanks to her nanny state food polices.

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Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Not just Obama, Mayor, it's his party, too

elderstatement.com December 23, 2014 Barack Obama , Bil de Blasio 0 Comments

Obama's 'Propaganda' Pushed People To 'Hate The Police,' Giuliani Says

Justin Sink, Dec. 21, 2014, The Hill

“We’ve had four months of propaganda starting with the president that everybody should hate the police,” Giuliani said during an appearance on Fox News early Sunday. “The protests are being embraced, the protests are being encouraged. The protests, even the ones that don’t lead to violence, a lot of them lead to violence, all of them lead to a conclusion: The police are bad, the police are racist. That is completely wrong.”

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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Ferguson Obscures Much Bigger Problems in the 'Black Community' By Larry Elder

elderstatement.com November 27, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , Attorney Robert McCulloch 0 Comments

By Larry Elder, Nov. 27, 2014

From the very beginning, this was much ado about an aberration, a tragic aberration to be sure, but an aberration nonetheless.

Michael Brown was shot and killed by Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9, 2014. Immediately, according to St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Robert McCulloch, witnesses began to give different versions of what happened.

The apparent would-be star witness, Dorian Johnson, was with Brown when the shooting occurred. He gave a dramatic account of a trigger-happy bigoted cop who shot "my friend" in the back and gunned him down despite the victim attempting to surrender by placing his hands up. Other alleged eyewitnesses came forward with similar, if not identical, descriptions of an aggressive, out-of-control cop.

Several witnesses, according to McCulloch, later changed their testimony, with some admitting that they really didn't see the incident -- just heard about it and so filled in the blanks in their own mind. And some witnesses were simply proven wrong by the physical evidence. Others corroborated the officer's account.

McCulloch explained why more information wasn't released in a "timely" fashion: "Those closely guarded details, especially about the physical evidence, give law enforcement a yardstick for measuring the truthfulness of witnesses." McCulloch explained that a trail of Brown's blood led from the police car, and was found 25 feet farther away from where Brown's body lay -- suggesting Brown turned and came toward Wilson, as the officer said. "Physical evidence," said McCulloch, "does not change because of public pressure or personal agenda."

After summarizing the evidence, McCullough ended his press conference with a note of hope. He said don't let this "fade away ... we have to keep that discussion going."

But the "discussion" we should have is one we rarely do -- that is, about absentee black fathers, poor education and urban crime.

Ironically, in Wisconsin just three weeks ago, Milwaukee police Chief Edward Flynn was being criticized for inappropriate and disrespectful behavior. Flynn, during a police commission meeting related to an officer-involved shooting, was on his cell phone. Didn't he appreciate the gravity of this hearing? Later, at a press conference, he was asked why he was rude.

The chief said: "Well, I was on my phone, yes. That is true. I was following developments with a 5-year-old girl sitting on her dad's lap who just got shot in the head by a drive-by shooting. If some of the people gave a good goddamn about the victimization of people in this community by crime, I'd take some of their invective more seriously.

"The greatest racial disparity in the city of Milwaukee is getting shot and killed -- hello! Eighty percent of my homicide victims -- every year -- are African-American; 80 percent of our aggravated assault victims are African-American; 80 percent of our shooting victims who survive their shooting are African-American.

"Now, they know all about the last three people who have been killed by the Milwaukee Police Department over the course of the last several years. There's not one of them that can name one of the last three homicide victims we've had in this city. ... But this community is at risk all right, and it's not because men and women in blue risk their lives protecting it. It's at risk because we have large numbers of high-capacity, quality firearms in the hands of remorseless criminals who don't care who they shoot.

"Now I'm leaving here to go to that scene. I take it personally, OK? We're going up there, and there's a bunch of cops processing a scene of a dead kid. And they're the ones that are going to be out there patrolling and stopping suspects that may have guns under the front seat. They're the ones that are gonna take risks to their lives to try to clean this thing up, all right?

"We are responsible for the things we get wrong, and we take action. We've arrested cops, we've fired cops and so on. But the fact is, the people out here, some of them -- who had the most to say -- are absolutely MIA when it comes to the true threats facing this community. It gets a little tiresome, and when you start getting yelled at for reading the updates of the kid who got shot, yeah, you take it personally, OK?"

Meanwhile, in an exchange with black MSNBC pundit Michael Eric Dyson, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani called the Ferguson killing a rarity. He argued that the "heavy policing" in black areas results from the need to address black crime: "I find it very disappointing that you're not discussing the fact that 93 percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks. We're talking about the exception. ... I would like to see the attention paid to that, that you are paying to (Ferguson). ... It is the reason for the heavy police presence in the black community. ... The white police officers won't be there if you weren't killing each other."

Dyson's response? "This is a defensive mechanism of white supremacy at work in your mind." Well, at least we're "keeping the discussion going."

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Friday, May 30, 2014

Obama And GWB Made Surprise Visits To Afghanistan -- Coverage Very Different By Larry Elder

elderstatement.com May 30, 2014 Articles by Larry Elder , George W. Bush 1 Comments

By Larry Elder, May 30, 2014

One leg of the Axis of Indoctrination: our leftwing major media.

The “Today “ show gives us a recent example of the leftwing bias of our major media. President Barack Obama made a Memorial Day surprise visit to Afghanistan. And, in March 2006, so did President George W. Bush. The “Today” show’s coverage, perspective and tone could not have been more different.

Depending upon the poll, Obama’s popularity rating is lower now than Bush’s at comparable times in their presidencies. Yet, the “Today” show failed to mention Obama’s poor poll numbers, let along the scandals of the IRS or NSA or Benghazi. It did mention the VA scandal, but ended the piece with a sound bite of Obama determined to get to the bottom of it. On the other hand, “Today’s” coverage of the Bush visit included a comment on to how poorly the Iraq War was going, as well as a reference to the controversy over leasing American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

Here’s “Today’s” Obama coverage: “President Obama has just returned to Washington this morning following a surprise visit with U.S. service members in Afghanistan, and he has a busy Memorial Day planned. NBC’s Kristen Welker is at the White House. Good morning to you, Kristen.”

Here’s “Today’s” Bush coverage: “Breaking news. President Bush makes a surprise visit to Afghanistan, his first ever. Meanwhile, back at home, his approval rating sank to an all-time low. The president’s travels come at a time when his popularity at home has, itself, gone south -- his latest job approval rating down to 34.

Consider how ABC, NBC and CBS covered the first days to the presidency of Bill Clinton versus the first day of the presidencies of George W. Bush:

Peter Jennings, ABC News, 1993 -- "President Clinton kept a promise [emphasis added] today on the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion. Mr. Clinton signed presidential memoranda rolling back many of the restrictions imposed by his predecessors."

Peter Jennings, ABC News, 2001 -- "One of the president's first actions was designed to appeal to anti-abortion conservatives [emphasis added]. The president signed an order reinstating a Reagan-era policy."

Tom Brokaw, NBC News, 1993 --"Today, President Clinton kept a campaign promise [emphasis added], and it came on the 20th anniversary of Roe v. Wade legalizing abortion."

Tom Brokaw, NBC News, 2001 -- "We'll begin with the new president's very active day, which started on a controversial note [emphasis added]."

Dan Rather, CBS News, 1993 -- "Today, with the stroke of a pen, President Clinton delivered on his campaign promise [emphasis added] to cancel several anti-abortion regulations of the Reagan-Bush years."

Dan Rather, CBS News, 2001 -- "This was President Bush's first day at the office, and he did something to quickly please the right flank [emphasis added] in his party: He reinstituted an anti-abortion policy."

But, for a combination of blatant media bias and chutzpah, the award goes to The New York Times.

On New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s waning days in office, the Times wrote an editorial praising the job he did as mayor. Eight years later, when Giuliani decided to run for president, the same newspaper trashed the job he did as mayor:

New York Times editorial (December 30, 2001): "It would be easy to go on about the things Mr. Giuliani failed to do -- New York City has so many problems and crises and needs that all mayors leave office with far more losses than wins. The most its residents can expect of a mayor is that he -- or someday she -- accomplish one big thing. When measured in that way, Mr. Giuliani more than did the job. He restored New Yorkers' confidence in their ability to control the city's destiny. The long years he spent fighting crime and disorder became the platform from which he showed us how to fight terrorism and Osama bin Laden."

New York Times editorial (January 25, 2008): "The real Mr. Giuliani, whom many New Yorkers came to know and mistrust, is a narrow, obsessively secretive, vindictive man who saw no need to limit police power. Racial polarization was as much a legacy of his tenure as the rebirth of Times Square. Mr. Giuliani's arrogance and bad judgment are breathtaking. When he claims fiscal prudence, we remember how he ran through surpluses without a thought to the inevitable downturn and bequeathed huge deficits to his successor. He fired Police Commissioner William Bratton, the architect of the drop in crime, because he couldn't share the limelight. He later gave the job to Bernard Kerik, who has now been indicted on fraud and corruption charges."

Same guy, same job, same newspaper, same editorial page. But once Giuliani’s running for president against a Democrat, the same guy and job the Times previously applauded is now a racist, corrupt, seedy s.o.b. Sheer gall.

In “Left Turn” UCLA professor Tim Groseclose argues left wing media bias gives the typical Democratic candidate an 8 to 10 point advantage. These examples show how it’s done -- from the subtle to the blatant.

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