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Yes we can: BUT!

Posted: October 28, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/news
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That is the single biggest take away line from the Jon Stewart / President Obama appearance on comedy central:

“You ran on very high rhetoric, hope and change, and the Democrats this year seem to be running on, ‘Please baby, one more chance’,’’ Mr. Stewart said at one point. At another, he asked the president if he was now running on “Yes we can, with certain conditions.’’

Mr. Obama replied, “I think I would say, ‘Yes we can, but –“

Yes we can BUT!

With a slick sales pitch you can get people to go to a new restaurant, but if the food stinks, it doesn’t matter how you sell it they’re not coming back.

When even the NYT can’t spin this positive you know the game is up.

An amazing sequence of events took place in the last hour that might have an incredible impact.

By now you’ve heard the Mike Pezzano stomping incident at the debate last night. Joe Scarborough being a reasonable man tweeted this:

Joe Objects to the stomping

Being a rather snarky fellow I answered thus:

Ken Gladney Snark

Joe being a reasonable person (no matter what some people say) was Gobsmacked!

The light dawns! Joe asks Gladney questions

The fact is the right side of the blogosphere has known and written about this for almost a year, but the MSM never touched it. Why, because I suspect news directors ignored it knowing what the beating of a black tea party person at a rally by a White supporter of the president during the healthcare debate would do. So I followed up a bunch of tweets including:

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My own links and mentions of the Gladney story

Lets quote RCP:

Last week, a black gentleman named Kenneth Gladney went to a town-hall meeting hosted by Rep. Russ Carnahan, Missouri Democrat. While passing out “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, he was viciously attacked by Service Employees International Union (SEIU) members. One called him a “nigger.”

These union thugs were directed by the White House to go to the protests and “punch back twice as hard.” And they did.

While the attack was captured on video and is available on YouTube, Mr. Gladney’s horrifying story is absent from MSNBC’s 24/7 media cycle. Mr. Krugman has yet to write about it. And Mr. Cooper has yet to condemn the attack.

And here is Instapundit’s archives, and Gateway Pundit’s it’s a Gladney palooza.

Bottom line is this. Before today Joe Scarborough had no idea about the Ken Gladney case. Now he does.

What if anything he chooses to DO with this information will say an awful lot about the MSM.

This really isn’t worth a post except for one point.

The Globe’s willingness to endorse Tierney simply shows that there is no level of corruption or illegality that a democrat can do, oh I’m sorry be “ignorant” of that would cause them to endorse a conservative republican.

Michael Graham notes this and Opines:

My favorite part? Their headline is “A Record of Accomplishment.” In-freakin’-credible.

He gets very upset over this, I don’t see why, they Democrats have a record of Accomplishment, just not a record of positive accomplishment.

It will be almost as much fun reading the Globe on the 3rd & 4th as it was watching MSNBC after the Brown win.

Update: I have no idea what those block quotes are doing there.

Republican and democratic candidates for congress will be on WCRN tonight starting with Conservatively speaking at 7 p.m. and going right on deep into the evening. It will not be a boring evening that’s for sure.

I’m off to the studio, You can listen live at the WCRN web site here