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“What’s the use of being elected or re-elected if you don’t stand for something?”

Posted: December 3, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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My favorite president Grover Cleveland said this. It is my answer to this post and others like it.

Pubic office wasn’t meant to be a meal ticket, it is meant to give the best possible governance by advancing idea and policies for the public good. I’ve read the resolution and it looks good to me.

The party has to decide if principles are more important than the approval of the MSM.

And if principle won’t do it consider: Conservatives are a huge source of Republican funding and have been sending back fundraising solicitations with colorful comments. What is more important? A happy MSM or a happy voter base?

On any kind of oath or pledge there is a simple rule: An honorable man doesn’t need an oath and a dishonorable man won’t keep it. The trick is to start with honorable candidates.

All of this wouldn’t be coming up if the party had remembered another saying of old Grover:

“A public office is a public trust.”

A lot of people forget Grover Cleveland, read his Obit from the New York times of 100 years ago. This man epitomized what a public servant should be.

Q: What has John Stewart done for Climategate?

Posted: December 2, 2009 by datechguy in internet/free speech, opinion/news
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A: He has forced the media’s hand.

Twice before Stewart has led the media. Back in January he was the first to tweak Obama as Bush 3 and remember the atmosphere where that took place:

As an aside, did you note the hesitancy of the audience to laugh at this stuff? They’re really so besotted, they think they’re not supposed to laugh or question President Obama, who Hollywood is declaring we must “pledge to serve.”

That was back in January when nobody would touch him. It was Stewart’s move that allowed what would eventually follow.

Next Came ACORN, While all the media was pretending the tapes didn’t exist Stewart Struck.

When you have a video on the Daily Show that complements Fox News AND Michelle Malkin vs the regular media then you know you have troubles.

Hey MSM when John Stewart isn’t going to go along you’d better start worrying.

And now for the 3rd Time John Stewart has struck on a story that the MSM has ignored or pooh poohed.

What does this mean? It means that the story that the MSM has ignored is now before the audience. It means that the customers of NBC & MSNBC that has made the green cause their own is openly scooped by a person who openly states that his business is “fake news”

This explains why so many on the left consider him a valuable news source. To them he is “breaking news”.

Stewart is biased, that is known but he is smarter than the networks. He is far sighted enough to know what was coming and got ahead of it, (at least compared with the MSM).

Stewart and his staff’s actions protect his reputation as a newsman & staff. Apparently their reputations are more significant than the reputations of Couric, Williams, et/al. Just think about it, a fake newsman is more worried about getting news out than the people who supposedly do it for a living.

If the media is not ashamed, it’s only because they have no pride or standards left.

It would be very funny if it wasn’t so sad.

Compare and contrast…

Posted: December 2, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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MSNBC’s Norah O’Donnell on Sarah Palin to a 17 year old Palin supporter:

“Did you know that Sarah Palin supported the bailout?…So, Sarah Palin was for the bailout…She’s against the stimulus, but during the campaign, she was for the bailout, as was John McCain.”

MSNBC’s Mika Brzezinski this morning on Morning Joe concerning Joe Biden doing the network circuit supporting the president’s Afghanistan decision that he personally opposes:

“That is the job of a Vice President”

How ’bout that. The duties of a VP have changed in under two weeks!

The Huffington Post where every day is Rule 5 Sunday!

Posted: December 1, 2009 by datechguy in opinion/news
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I guess this can be Charles Plan C if his other stuff doesn’t work:

Mary Katharine Ham, in the Weekly Standard, is the latest to blast Huffington Post for its practice of drumming up hits with NSFW pictures of naked and semi-naked women:

Ham’s post is here. Kaus gets the exact answer right on the second try

This sort of argument seems open to the response Robert Nozick made when defending doctors who are in it for the money (as opposed to healing the sick). They’re not doctors, you say? OK. Let’s call them schmoctors. They are fulfilling the Aristotelian purpose of schmoctoring, which is to make a lot of money by treating people.

It’s all about the hits, Comcast, Verizon et/al make good money off their x-rated stuff that pays for other things. Do you think that all those hotels offer XXX stuff on pay per view as something to do. It makes money!

Arianna Huffington may have more European sensibilities but the bottom line is she is selling hits. The volume and the relevance that her voice is allowed in the “salons” of the political hallways is based upon those hits. If she goes the way of Air America she might get polite acknowledgment but not respect. She needs those hits and a weekly link from Robert Stacy every Sunday isn’t going to do it.

As with the Palin stuff “feminists” are channeling the Godfather:

Arianna Huffington: Where does it say that you can’t go after a woman?
Tina Brown: Come on, Arianna…
Arianna Huffington: Tina, wait a minute. I’m talking about a woman that’s mixed up in conservatism. I’m talking about a – a – a anti-abortion woman – a republican woman who got mixed up with Rush and Beck and got what was coming to her. That’s a terrific story. And we have media people, like Katie & Norah on the payroll, don’t we, Tina?
[Tina nods]
Arianna Huffington: And they might like a story like that.
Tina Brown: They might, they just might.
Arianna Huffington: [to Kim Gandy] It’s not personal, Kim. It’s strictly business.

It’s not misogyny Mary Katherine, it’s strictly business, although I think Dr Violet would disagree.

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