As some of you may know I have started a little activism on behalf of Red Eye W/ Greg Gutfeld. The show was moved back an hour to 3 am EDT, 12 am EDT, and that is just too darn late. And DVRing it is just not the same thing as seeing it live. So I started a petition (click to sign it here) and am hoping that this will help change Fox News’ mind about moving the show. From my point of view the move seems to be a slow bleed method of canceling the show. They better not or else, or else, um, I guess I’ll just stop watching the channel altogether.
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(Courtney Friel, one of many hotties on the show nightly)
Another embattled person in the news is Harry Reid. Foolishly he locked horns with the maha Rushie over the “phony” soldiers non-scandal. He called on Rush’s broadcasting partner to punish Rush and called Rush unpatriotic in the letter he sent. Well, that was a while ago and in the meantime Rush turned that letter into the biggest charitable auction, by far, in eBay’s history. All is well on our side because the Marine Corps - Law Enforcement Foundation is going to get over $4.4 million (Rush is going to match the winning bid) and “Dingy” Harry Reid has energized the conservative base.
It seems that he has also energized forces within his own state of Nevada against him as well. Nevada, inexplicably to me, have voted this guy in year after year. Maybe that was OK when he wasn’t the leader of the Senate for his party but things have changed. Reid is now the face of the kookosphere in the senate and Nevadians are noticing.
Sherman Frederick in the (Las Vegas) Review Journal has written an opinion piece that explains the shaky ground that Mr. Reid stands on now in his home state. According to Mr. Frederick Reid’s negatives within the state are now 51% and the amount of support Reid enjoys in his state has plummeted to 32% (2% below President Bush’s favorable ratings to put it in context).
Let me spell out Harry’s problem. No one can win a statewide race in Nevada on a platform that appears anti-military, anti-family, anti-marriage, anti-religion, anti-free speech, pro-illegal immigration, pro-abortion, and pro-taxation. While Harry isn’t all of that personally, he clearly projects elements of them all when he’s doing the bidding of his party on the national stage.
Nevada is definitely a center-right state. Harry Reid panders to a base that is somewhere closer to Stalin. The next time the voters of Nevada will get a chance to kick him out of office is in three years, so a lot can change. And I think a lot will change in the house and senate if a democrat (code for Hillary) gets elected. Can anyone say 1994?
Can anyone say circulation numbers? Yes, the New York Times is in a tailspin because they spin more then a nuclear centrifuge in Iran. One of their chief circulation killers is Paul Krugman and in The Conscience of a Liberal, a piece written for the NY Times by David Kennedy, we find out why he stops circulation faster then a heart attack:
In our time, Krugman argues, the malefactors of megawealth have triumphed. He recites the now-familiar data that the wealthiest 0.01 percent of Americans are seven times richer than they were three decades ago, while the inflation-adjusted income of most American households has barely nudged upward. Chief executives who typically earned 30 times more than their average employee in the 1970s now take home more than 300 times as much. The American plutocracy, Krugman concludes, “have become rich enough to buy themselves a party” — and readers are left in no doubt which party we’re talking about.
First, I would would have to say that it just doesn’t matter. Sure, the megawealthy are uber-loaded but I would also have to say that, correcting for inflation of course, everyone’s lives have improved in America as well. There are more homes with modern amenities then ever before. Most homes have air conditioning, multiple cars, and an X Box. That is a heck of a lot more then a chicken in every pot. As long as we’re talking about chickens it would seem that most Americans are eating too much of the fried variety of this food. We’re a nation of overweight tubs of excess. Who cares if Bill Gates has his own zip code as long as my waste encompasses a zip code all by itself?
Secondly, and finally, CEOs and Chairman’s of the Board do a lot more then they use to. The amount of knowledge executives must have is mind boggling. And do you know how much work it takes to maintain and retain that knowledge? It’s a hell of a lot. They have to work a dozen-plus hours a day to achieve the salaries they are paid. Sure, point to Robert Nardelli and Home Depot. Maybe there are mistakes but our system punishes those mistakes severely (I should know seeing how I own Home Depot stock, sigh). And for every Home Depot you point to I can point to hundreds of businesses who are making more money thanks to their creative CEOs. Maybe Mr. Krugman’s idea of a CEO is warped because he happens to work for one who has heralded in an age of paucity for a one-time media megalith.
I wonder what all those NY Times failures think about the right wingers taking over a bunch of countries in Europe. Germany, France, and now Switzerland (well, they increased their lead).
The right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) is set to consolidate its position as the alpine nation’s most popular grouping in a parliamentary election on Sunday, outstripping its rivals after a provocative campaign.
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Polling booths in Switzerland are due to close around midday (11 a.m. British time). A large proportion of Swiss ballots are cast by mail in advance of election day. The first estimated national result is due at around 1900 local time (6 p.m. British time).
According to the last opinion poll conducted before the election, the People’s Party are expected to win 27.3 percent of the vote, a slight increase over 2003 when they raced to the top of the polls amid accusations of xenophobia.
Xenophobia, by the way, is now considered to be any effort to deport alien criminals or the black sheep. What? Black sheep is too provocative? Judge for yourself, look at the picture.
All I’ve got to say is that this immigration campaign pales in comparison to libs throwing Oreos on stage because a black republican was speaking. “The nerve of that evil black republican, he should know what his views are supposed to be.” Says the liberal. “And the nerve of those race-baiting Swiss right wingers!” Again, the liberal.
Criminal aliens need to be deported because living in a country of your choosing is not your right, its a privilege. If they were born in that country that would be a different story. But moving to a new country implies you have to live up to some standards. If you can’t meet those standards then hasta la bye bye.
One last thing before the Linkapalooza; the media is trying to hype up the Mormon issue in this presidential season. They see Romney as a threat and will do whatever they can in their power to create the doubt in voter’s minds that Mormons are untrustworthy scum. But there is still hope out there. While acknowledging the media’s narrative about how Evangelicals are untrustworthy of Romney because of his faith a story in The Hill reported that he received a warm welcome at one of his speeches.
Despite that 800-pound gorilla in the packed ballroom, Romney was well received by the socially conservative Evangelical crowd.
The former governor stuck to a discussion on family values, discussing all of the religious rights greatest hits.
Romney talked about what he sees as the importance of two-parent homes, the threat of gay marriage and his anti-abortion rights stance.
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Romney scored points during his evening address, saying as president he would “champion” a constitutional amendment outlawing gay marriage, something former Sen. Fred Thompson (Tenn.) and Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) did not commit to earlier in the day.
“A federal marriage amendment is the only way we can protect marriage from liberal, unelected judges,” Romney said to big applause.
Maybe his religion is a problem for some people. It never was for me and I seriously doubt it is a problem for even a slim minority of republican voters. Republicans don’t vote for people because they represent a certain faith or have a certain amount of pigmentation on their skin or because they have the correct anatomy. We vote for people based on their ideas and how much we think they’re going to limit the growth and the power of government. Still, I’m for Fred.
BigT’s Linkapalooza:
Hogwarts’ Master is under the spell of another dude.
Ahmadinejad’s 11,000 bombs coming to a base near you!
19 tons of explosives found in Iraq.
Hollywood’s new idea, vampires, scores big at box office.
“Hot for Teacher” is this nation’s public school anthem, look at the picture of sexual abuses in schools (the darker the more abuses).
And, please, sign the SAVE RED EYE W/ GREG GUTFELD petition. It’s your duty. BigT
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