Obama, Carnies and 'The Emperor's New Clothes'

Everyone knows the story of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes.’ It’s an old story where a slickster convinced the king only the smartest amongst us could see the fabric being used for the new clothes. Of course, no one wanted to admit they could not see the clothes so everyone played along. That worked well until the king was parading naked down the street and a kid asked where the clothes were. Suddenly everyone realized they had all been duped and the king was standing embarrassed in the street.
Which brings us to our press, the Obama Administration, healthcare, the economy and Global Warming… oops, Climate Change. (Hey, when Mother Earth decides to make you look like a fool with no warming for over a decade you declare ANY climate change is a problem and blame the same people you were blaming before and use the same solutions as before and call it by its new name without missing a beat.) These guys have been selling us ‘new clothes’ for a LONG time and they’re GOOOOOOD. Unfortunately for them, Americans are starting to see them standing there with their asses out.
Every day brings us pundits talking to each other, running around in circles with absolutely no logic and making no sense. They throw ideologies and talking points back and forth and say absolutely nothing. They are so impressed with themselves and what they THINK they’re saying they wind up only saying how impressed they are they have a large vocabulary. Really? That’s the best the Ivy League can do for us? No wonder they are trying to dumb down the public schools. It’s so when these guys talk around in circles with their large vocabularies and convoluted logic they can do it in a way that they think no one can understand them. Wrong. A lot of us can understand them EXTREMELY well and we also realize they are full of… themselves.
I remember hearing a slickster selling his bottle of ‘Dr. Feelgood’ in a traveling carnival midway show when I was a boy. He sounded much the same as CNN, MSNBC, etc. sound today when I hear them ‘selling’ their brand of news. The guy was talking fast, challenging those who took him on with well rehearsed rhetorical ‘talking points’ and in the end telling the crowd that only the brightest and boldest amongst us would use his product – it was hair growth tonic based on the ‘cutting edge’ of ‘hair-growth technology’ – and be years ahead of anything that was on the market today. He had all kinds of studies, charts and testimonies he threw up there for everyone to see – very impressive. He was as eloquent a man as I had heard speak to that point in my life and being about ten I thought the guy made all the sense in the world. My grandfather who took me to the carnival was bald so I asked him if was going to get any to grow hair on his shiny head. He put his hand on my shoulder and laughed uproariously. I, naturally, failed to see the joke. Finally, he took me aside and explained to me a lesson I have carried with me ever since. He said, “Son, a man can have all the charts and smooth talk he wants – and a lot of men will come at you with a blizzard of it – but if the man is selling BS it’s still BS no matter how he dresses it up.”
“How do I know the difference?” I asked, scared I was going to get taken at some point in the future.
“A man who has something good to sell is going to be able to sit down and show you the logic of it, not challenge your intelligence or your manhood and blow it by you like a carnie hustler. Once you buy what this man is selling he’ll be gone and you’ll be stuck with lilac water. A man who is good to what he has will be able to show you it’s worth and will be there to back it up.”
Hm. Those words have come racing back across the years in the last ten months as week after week we are being hustled by carnies.
Americans are being given the ‘carnie shuffle’ almost every day. Either our politicians are trying to create disasters that have to be handled immediately or the press is throwing a blizzard of BS at us backing up the position of their chosen one.
One recent example was when an impersonator tried to pass himself off as a spokesman for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He was telling reporters the Chamber had changed its position and was backing the White House position on Climate Change. When he was caught the press wanted him to continue because he was saying what they wanted to hear. He appeared later on CNN and his excuse was – again for the panting sycophants at CNN – that those in opposition to man-made climate change were acting in a ‘troglodylic’ (new word on me) manner and that only those who believed in the science had the proper understanding of the problem and how to handle it. So here we have a liar calling all of us troglodytes and because we failed to understand hoax science we should stay out of the conversation on climate change. Hm… Yet, this liar has fallen for a hoax that is being pushed down our throats in spite of scientists disagreeing with the whole ‘Global Warming’ junk science four-to-one.
Here we have the classic elements of the ‘carnie shuffle.’ He’s calling Americans names to demean us and then challenges our intelligence. That’s not a debate. There was no presentation of facts and then a presentation of facts from the opposition for all to see and discuss. Why will Al Gore not debate anyone about his theory? Because if he loses he stands to lose millions of dollars he has invested in the ‘green sector?’ Yes.
That’s the ‘carnie shuffle.’
Unfortunately we see this becoming the common denominator of all discussions from Washington. The Obama Administration daily attacks someone – creating their demons to attack (this week the insurance companies who challenged Obama’s healthcare plans) – then sets about destroying them with ‘carnie shuffle’ slanders. There is no ‘selling us’ on their side of issues because there is nothing for them to sell that the American people want, so they are becoming the slicksters in the carnival sideshows hawking their wares.
This approach was as reprehensible in the carnival as it is out of Washington today. They have a horrible product so they are trying to shove it down our throats through weak challenges and vicious attacks. The problem for the Obama White House now is that Americans have seen it, weathered it and are seeing them standing naked and we’re starting to laugh at them – when we’re not disgusted at them for thinking us to be the fool.

Obama's America: Techno-Lynching In The Media

The “Political Correctness” crowd has been laid bare for the world to see. This week the Political Correctness crowd threw all their cards on the table to show themselves as the vile, prejudiced, bigots they are. They are actually the modern day version of the KKK from the early Twentieth Century all dressed up and well camouflaged in the shorthand of modern media. They have educated themselves in the Ivy League ways, but the outcome is the same as their brothers in hoods. The unbridled HATRED that was unleashed this week in the name of ‘investigative reporting’ was another case of the media and their panting sideshow of race jackals running to get their faces in front of the cameras to back up libels the press failed to ‘source’ and – in the process – destroyed whatever last shreds of journalistic integrity they had left.
Why SHOULD the media do their job?? They are never held accountable – there is no license required to get in front of a camera and start talking. All that is required is they have to pass the journalistic litmus test – do you HATE differing opinions?
Does anyone remember the Duke Lacrosse scandal when the press swooped in and dropped the ball to the point of criminality by failing to wait to see where the evidence took them before calling out their electronic lynch mob? How about the Tawana Brawley fiasco? What about the cop and the professor just this past summer at Harvard that went up to the White House to have a beer after the president stuck his foot in his mouth? The basic elements are always the same. Some black person starts screaming about a white person. IMMEDIATELY the press jumps in and lynches the white person. Without waiting for the evidence or asking any questions, it’s jump in and go on the offensive to destroy the white person. It’s RACISM pure and simple – and those taking part are racists. It’s the racists’ brand of HATRED.
The press loves to HATE their favorite enemy… ANYONE CONSERVATIVE. It’s that hatred that has gotten to the point of revisiting some of the most reprehensible hatreds of American history. The Left and the press have spent the better part of half a century building Conservatives into sexist, racists, homophobes through innuendos, half-truths and bald faced lies. It has gotten to the point where it’s no longer questioned, it is a flat assumption and the people continually leveling the attacks view the world purely through the eyes of race.
This week the press went after the Conservative Icon Rush Limbaugh – and made a HUGE mistake. The whole country got to hear the drivel the sports media rolled out that turned out to be slanderous lies put on Wickapedia from a computer at a law firm in New York that has been responsible for making up and posting to Wickapedia the same kind of lies on the pages of Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Karl Rove, Sarah Palin and others. THE MEDIA BELIEVED THE LIES BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BELIEVE THEM. It’s now in their genetic code.
The firestorm we saw unleashed by the sports media this week was nothing short of their preconceived hatred of a Conservative based on the media’s long-standing prejudices – the same kind of blind hatred that was leveled against Americans of African descent by members of the KKK. That level of reflexive hatred comes from the same place as the hatred against races. The same tactics were employed to keep Limbaugh from getting into the NFL as were used to force Americans of African descent to sit in the back of buses or keep them out of jobs. There was no difference in the hatred that was displayed or the tactics used. AND THE SAME ACCOUTABILITY AND LAWS SHOULD BE APPLIED TO THEM FOR THEIR HATE CRIMES.
On display was media at its most vile and most base. And it was coming from the Left again – the same place we saw racism and sexism on display last fall in the election campaign. The Left and the media placed on display who they really are and what it is they project of themselves into people and situations – and that is their own hating difference.
Way to go, MEDIA. You have pulled back the veil and shown us what a cesspool of incompetent, self-loathing HATERS you really are. It’s about time you manned up and came out of the closet.

Dems Butch Up While Republicans Learn To Lead

The New York Times proclaims that Democrats are going to have to get ‘ugly’ if they are going to win in 2010. That is going to include the use of fowl language, character assassinations and downright dirty politics.
So what else is new? That’s what the Democrats ALWAYS do. I fail to see where this is a new strategy? What would be a major shift is if the New York Times was counseling the Republicans to do ANYTHING other than ‘drop dead.’
Republicans are left with listening to their leadership… who think it’s a good idea to try to make that same ‘drop dead’ media happy. Too many times the Republican leadership has jumped through hoops like poodles at the circus to try to get the approval of the likes of the New York Times or the Washington Post or ANY of the Sunday morning shows. Face it, all any of those news outlets are interested in is hearing how bad George W. Bush was and any Republican who is willing to whore to them is a hero for half a minute. Anything else is a sadistic sideshow for them.
So if the Democrats are going to ‘butch up,’ what piece of ‘brilliant’ strategy are the Republicans going employ? Run out and try to win over the moderates by sucking up to them while, at the same time, tiptoeing around them so as to not scare them? That gave Republicans John McCain and a loss last November. The Republicans need to quit listening to the Washington ‘smarter-than-thous.’
The answer is simple. Quit listening to a bunch of emasculated media hacks who are so far out of touch with Americans they need to go through passport control to leave their studios. Do what you do best, Republicans, LEAD. Leave reading polls to the Democrats. Let THEM whip in the wind like limp laundry at the many changing moods of the public. YOU, Republicans, need to get back to being one of The People. Americans respond to TRUE leadership that understands them, a party that is ONE OF THEM. Joe Six Pack is one of you and you know how to speak his language. Americans DO NOT want the hysterical, ‘the sky is falling,’ panty-wastes they get from the Left. Those people think they’re too smart to talk to Americans, so they talk down.
The American people want leaders who are grounded in their beliefs about the country, who can explain their beliefs in terms all Americans understand and who do not waver in steadfast defense of those principles and this country. Find those people and you will have the formula to bring us back from the brink of the disaster.
It’s called LEADERSHIP. Learn it, live it, love it.Pure and simple.

The Cost Of Obamacare - Loss Of Liberty and Freedom

The cost of the healthcare plan for Americans became a little clearer this week. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) gave us a ‘rough estimate’ – since they were giving us numbers from a bill that has not been written yet – that they say will SAVE us $81 billion dollars. At a price tag of nearly a TRILLION dollars over ten years – before we start into REAL costs and cost overruns – we’re going to save a little. The TRILLIONS of tax dollars healthcare will eventually cost us is insignificant compared to the REAL cost of healthcare –the loss of our freedom and liberty.
Many have warned of the coming tyranny in the name of healthcare, but this week the first indications of what it will become were clearly on display. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius this week said all Americans MUST get an H1N1 Flu shot. It may have been a slip of the tongue, but the reaction from Rush Limbaugh was an immediate ‘screw you’ followed by a refusal to get the shot. The firestorm that arose following that proclamation was predictably from the media attacking Limbaugh for leading his listeners into getting sick with the flu to follow their leader.
The story that was missed by our clueless media was the beginning of the march to tyranny in the name of healthcare costs. For now getting an H1N1 Flu shot is a suggestion from the HHS Secretary. The scary part was in the reaction from the government and the press attacking an American exercising his right to free choice – or at least what used to be free choice. Once the healthcare bill is in place suddenly the tables will shift. Everything related to health will be viewed through the prism of costs. No matter what the edict handed down by the HHS Secretary or the Health Czar the American people will be REQUIRED to march to the health centers, stand in lines and get their shots.
Will Americans have a choice to get the H1N1 Flu shot? The short answer is no. The logic thrown at America will be that you MUST get the shots to keep the number of people catching the flu to a minimum reducing the number of people needing hospitalization and doctors’ attention. After all, who wants to cost the healthcare system millions of dollars that could be avoided by taking a simple preventative shot? The argument against the safety of the vaccine, the need for the vaccine or the right of the government to dictate the action of American citizens will be over. Americans will be FORCED to get the vaccine. And every other vaccine that comes along the government decides it wants to inflict on our people in the name of saving healthcare costs. You will have an ID card that will be swiped into the master system – remember those computerizations of your medical records to save your life in an emergency? Those computerized records can and will be used to insure you do what you are told. Failure to comply will be simple. You’ll be arrested like you would be for failure to comply with any other regulation. Fines, suspension of your healthcare – if not the total revocation – and jail time are the logical penalties for failure to follow the edicts.
Slowly but surely your freedom will be taken from you. It will start with logical cost initiatives they will take the time to sell to the public and end up with the government dictating that you get shots, procedures or ‘take the pill’ – no sales pitch – and you will be expected to show up and get it done.The sentiment of Rush Limbaugh to stand up to the dictatorial powers of the government and scream ‘screw you’ at the top of his lungs is the correct reflex – and now is the time to do it before it’s too late. All Americans who believe in their liberty and freedom need to start screaming loud and clear before time runs out.

Obama's Train Wreck

Have you noticed how the Obama Administration seems to be lost without a clue? They keep pushing their ‘redistribution agenda’ while America keeps sinking deeper into the Recession. I understand they keep telling us we’re back from the brink, but I think all of us can read the economic indicators and those indicators tell us we’re still running full bore for that brink. Yet even as common sense dictates that we should take a breather from all the massive spending bill debates and get to work on fixing the economy, the Obama Administration is keeping the pedal to the metal pushing for spending there is no way we will ever be able to afford. Additionally, as more and more spending keep being thrust at us those who see what that will mean to the economy are getting more and more frightened and are laying more people off making the whole situation worse.
Recently there have been a lot of speeches given about ‘inheriting’ the current economic disaster. Maybe. But what is going on now is making it worse. When Obama was running for office last year he promised us that if he was elected he had a plan that would turn it all around. After he was elected he told us the Stimulus Bill was going to fix it all. Unemployment was going to stop before it hit eight percent, jobs were going to be created and all would be right with the world. Where is it? Where’s the turn around we were promised. Obama says it was worse than he was told by the Bush Administration. Really? He was in the U.S. Senate, he was in constant contact with the White House and in his transition he was still confident he could fix it.
Until he couldn’t.
Or maybe he never wanted to fix it. See, we all are operating under the conventional thought process. Our thoughts are that we should fix the economy THEN move on to discussing healthcare and global warming and endless taxes. Yet the Obama Team are ignoring what is going on in the world and are still focused on their agenda. They are on a mission.
A professor once told me that if I got a zero on a test I would get an A. His theory was that if you could get EVERYTHING wrong you knew the answers and were INTENTIONALLY getting a zero. Of course, if you got one right you were sunk, but it was a good theory.
What seems to be happening from the standpoint of conventional thought is the Obama Administration seems to be getting EVERYTHING wrong. The only conclusion I can come to is that they are doing it INTENTIONALLY. It is leading to a kind of ‘planned chaos.’
What else is happening is the Obama Administration is on a mission to get their domestic agenda – no matter what it does to the economy. It seems that if the economy is wrecked it fits the Obama Agenda more than if they save it. So they are wrecking the economy.
It is the Obama End Game that makes their agenda seem like chaos to us now. All we know for sure at this point is that saving our economy is NOT high on the list of their End Game. They are sticking to their agenda no matter what other distractions come along, slashing their way through tax money, building staggering deficits and destroying the psyche of the American people in a headlong sprint toward a goal they have as yet to reveal…
Or have they?
Are we looking at the total ‘redistribution of wealth’ when the Capitalistic system fails? Are we looking at realigning our government to be part of a larger World Government? Are we looking at destabilizing the dollar to allow a world denomination to rise? Are we looking at total domination of every part of our lives for ‘the greater good’ of the rest of the world? Whatever it is, Americans are NOT going to like it and they know it. If it was good and was going to make Americans happy they would be out there on every news show and every primetime time block telling us about their plan sucking up the glory for the Obama Ego.
Or are we looking at a total train wreck?Only time will tell…

Wanted In Washington - A Set Of Stones

There are troops in the line of fire. Would someone PLEASE give that message to Washington. On second thought, I think that’s the problem. They KNOW and they’re scared to death. With troops on the line UNDER FIRE our Congress is making decisions to control troop levels through funding cuts.
Let’s face it. Our Congress is a bunch of wimps and are led by a wimp and his idiot sidekick. They have NO PROBLEM with calling the American people names, impugning our intelligence, slinging insults and diverting debates with baseness; but when it comes to standing up to the tyrants of the world our leaders roll over and expose their genitals for evisceration. In other words, our leaders are bullies in OUR yard because they think they have power over us, but when it comes to a real fight they’re a bunch of wimps. Simpler?? They’ve got no balls unless it’s to abuse US!!
And don’t think this is an endorsement of Republicans. Where are THEY? We Americans are out there being vocal about what we want and the Republicans are hiding. No one is stepping up and taking a leadership role. We, the American people, are looking for leadership. Right now there is a MASSIVE leadership vacuum on BOTH sides of the aisle at the top of our federal government.
Today it’s Afghanistan troop levels, last week it was a MAJOR defeat in prestige by the IOC. The week before it was Iran telling us they had another nuke site and our response was stamping our feet. Having people in our government lacking the fortitude to stand up to the tyrants of the world – and in a lot of cases courting them – we are looking weak. And for those of you who have forgotten, it was that very look that convinced Osama bin Laden we were vulnerable.
The confusion for our allies is they’ve not seen a President of the United States look this weak in a generation. We should have had our first MAJOR clue when Obama showed up to throw out the first ball in designer Soccer Mom Jeans. The indecisiveness and the total change in direction has our allies looking on this as President Obama being naïve. Hardly. He just sides with our old enemies. In his global apology tours he has made it clear to the world that he agrees with those who are America’s detractors. Our allies are expecting this to be some kind of feint, but it’s the real thing. Obama actually sides with our enemies AGAINST the United States and our allies. Our allies are used to American presidents standing up for Freedom and Liberty, standing AGAINST tyranny and facing down dictators. We don’t have that kind of leader now. We have a man who will stand AGAINST our own military, but is afraid to use it. A few weeks ago we sold out our allies and removed missile defenses from Poland. The bottom line is that we need to take out the missiles, dismantle out nukes and disband our military because our commander-in-chief doesn’t have the stones to use any of it. After all, we’re an unjust nation and President Obama is going to do all he can to put us in a position to get our asses kicked.

America's Civics 101 Lesson 2009 Style - The Obama Years

Americans will come away from this time in History with a whole new outlook on their country and themselves. American history is at a critical turning point and the days we are living through right now will be recorded as one of the most pivotal in the history of our republic. As a result of the healthcare issue, cap and trade, conducting two wars and countless skirmishes, constant battling back and forth bickering, double-dealing in Congress and being called names by our own elected officials Americans are getting a much needed lesson in Civics. For over half a century Americans grew less and less interested in what Washington was doing in our name letting the government run itself. Congressional scandals were quickly forgotten and people who committed crimes were often folded into the flock by their colleagues until their names were faded onto pages of old news articles.
2009 changed all that.
President Obama promised us “change” during his election campaign. We got “change,” but this is not the “change” we envisioned. He also promised us bipartisanship. Well, we got that, too, but it is now bipartisan opposition to his healthcare plan. And “hope?” Right now most of us simply hope we can survive to 2010 when we can throw most of the bums out of Washington – if we can. As stacked as Congress has made the deck it will be difficult to clear away the detritus to allow our republic to have a shot at recovery.
It’s our fault Washington is having such a hard time being under close scrutiny. For years they ran on autopilot. No one was watching and no one cared what they did. The only time anyone thought about Washington was when it was shoved down our throats at election time. When it was over we all went into a recovery period for a couple months and wanted to know nothing about politics, then we moderately listened as we went about our daily lives. This year when we came out of our winter hibernation we turned on the lights in Congress it was like finding roaches scrambling for cover on a crumb covered kitchen floor.
While we slept they were on the march just like the cockroaches trying to rush bill after bill through before we woke up and figured out what they were up to. Suddenly we turned on the klieg lights and they were caught selling out our future. Deny all they want, but it was obvious to us all what was going on. They were all busy making deals, taking over industries, bailing out their buddies and doing floating OUR money to their buddies. They were using our tax money – calling it names other than what it was – and giving to the people who helped get them elected. Once the lights came on and everyone was aghast at what was happening there was more back-peddling, denying, double-talking and outright lying than if they had all been caught at a whorehouse. Quite frankly, I would RATHER they were caught at the whorehouse. It’s less expensive for us taxpayers.
I’d like to say there is a party in Washington that is on our side, but I would be kidding myself. No one is on our side. Only WE are on our side. Do you see Republicans rushing to the cameras to take up our side? Only when they think they can get points for their campaign bids. Are the Democrats selling us on their proposals? No, they are calling us names and telling us we are too stupid to understand what they are doing – sure signs that they are losing the arguments.
What we have learned from our Civics lesson in 2009 is that it is us Americans against the Washington Inside The Beltway Crowd. Before they were elected they walked among us and told us they were going to go there and do good things for us like ‘reform Washington,’ but once they got inside the beltway they were taken aside by their colleagues and made to “get their minds right.” Now they are “one of them.” An Insider.
The only answer is to take them all out. Call it a ‘FLUSH’ of Washington. We need people who are willing to go and do the tough jobs and get out. And we need to keep changing them out until we find a set who is willing to do what WE want them to do. And then we want to get rid of them, too, before they start it all over again. Let’s talk about term limits. Do we really get quality legislation from people who have been in Congress for fifty years? Or from those who are the children of those who were there before? We need fresh blood. We need people who are concerned about those of us who foot the bill and we need them to understand that we can’t afford all the pork they keep giving away. That’s OUR MONEY they’re buying OUR VOTES with!!! That’s INSANE. But that’s the way it works. Now we need to get back to Civics 101 and get our government back on track to where it is supposed to be.