How the right crushes thought and the myth of Liberal media dominance.

President Obama is a Muslim, Sharia Law is taking over, Health Care reform will mean death panels, crime is rampant on our borders, Americans don't want gays to serve in the military, Obama has raised taxes more than any other president, these are just some of the out right lies spread by the right wing conservative propaganda machine and believed by many Americans. These are clearly lies, so why do they seem to gain traction in the media and why do so many Americans begin to believe them? I believe it's the domination of news media by conservative cable news and talk radio. But how can that be? Haven't we all been told that the media is dominated by liberals? Read on.

For years I've watched the conservative right, howl about left leaning media. I've heard Rush, Beck, Malkin, GOP pols (I won't even mention the twit from Wasilla) and just about every person who votes Republican go on and on about liberal dominance in the media. Generally speaking I never really saw it. To be fair this could very well be because I lean liberal on many issues. Though I like to think I can be impartial it's possible that I see the world through progressive eyeglasses and therefore don't see the bias which they whine incessantly about. It wasn't until I started to see the huge ratings for Fox News and Rush Limbaugh that I began to really wonder if there is a liberal bias at all or if maybe the conservatives are playing one of their favorite games, "we're the victims, liberals are big meanies".

Over the past few weeks I've scoured the internet looking for ratings and polls concerning cable news. As you'll find the majority of Americans get their news from cable news so this was the logical place to search. With each poll or ratings or article, I'll have a link to the original for you to read and verify. Strap yourself in, it's time for a little myth busting.

A recent poll by Politco/GWU shows that 80 % of Americans get their midterm political news from cable news channels and their websites. This shows just how dominate cable news is over all other forms of media when it comes to politics. Fox news was the big winner with 42%, followed by CNN with 30% and MSNBC with 12%. Of the three, Fox is clearly conservative. If you doubt that than there's no point in me trying to convince you, please go to the Drudge Report and continue your indoctrination. MSNBC is the most liberal by far, but to be fair the network does have conservative show hosts and they do not run a 24 hour news cycle like Fox or CNN. The one in the middle here is CNN. Despite what extreme right wingers might say, they are apolitical. Meaning they do not take sides. No matter, for in this debate, Fox news is the clear winner when it comes to shear numbers. Their influence can not be denied.

Let's stick with cable news television. On a typical weekday night during prime time, here's the numbers, Fox News 2,270,000, CNN 343,000, MSNBC 867,000! Fox News dominates MSNBC almost 3 to 1! Even if you add CNN and MSNBC it's a 2 to 1 domination. So, can we all agree that when it comes to cable news, conservatives dominate? Again, if you can not see and concede this fact, please click on the link and continue to be zombieized.

Now we'll turn our attention to talk radio. Surely, liberals must dominate talk radio. I mean we've all heard conservatives crying about liberals all over the media. I've just proven that at least on cable news conservatives dominate, so surely it must be in radio where liberals and progressives reign supreme? Er, no. Sorry, it get's worse.

Of the top ten politically based talk radio shows out there conservatives hold the the first nine spots. There are a total of 15 radio talk shows in the top ten, this is due to several being tied in ratings. Rush Limbaugh leads the way with 15 million weekly listeners, followed closely by Sean Hannity at 14 million. It's not until you reach the tenth spot do you find progressive radio shows. There are four each with 2.5 million weekly listeners. That means the top four progressive shows still don't equal the number of listeners of Rush Limbaugh. In fact if you add them all up you'll find conservative radio reaches approximately 80 million listeners compared with just 10 million progressive listeners. Conservative talk radio not only leads progressive shows, it crushes them.

I think we've smashed the myth of liberal news domination once and for all. It is clear that conservatives dominate political news by an amazingly huge margin. What this means of course is they can with one voice get their message out to the public in a monopolistic fashion that I doubt anyone really understands.

In the first paragraph I illustrated several lies spread by the right and believed by many Americans. I also asked why. So far I've showed you how great and vast the right wing propaganda machine is. Now I'll attempt to show you why it's effective.

Obviously, if 100 million or more Americans hear the same message weekly that has to have some effect. If you generally only listen or watch conservative media and you hear the same message day in and day out, such as Obama is a Muslim, it's conceivable that eventually you will begin to believe it. If you hear anything often enough, the message becomes part of your subconscious. Let's try a little exercise to illustrate this point. Try to finish each sentence; "Have a coke and a _____" or "Baseball, hotdogs, apple pie and _____" or this last one, "Where's the ____?" think old lady. How did you do? Despite the fact that the oldest commercial was 35 years old and the youngest was 26 years I bet you got one or all of them, why? Being popular you were inundated with their message. You saw them on tv, heard them on radio and read them in magazines. You were exposed to these messages hundreds if not thousands of times and now, after at least 26 years they're a part of your subconscious. This is similar to what the conservatives can do. By dominating both cable news and talk radio and by sending the same message, 24 hours a day, seven days a week for months at a time their message becomes part of the subconscious and then the conscious mind of their listeners and viewers.

A recent study of smear campaigns by Michigan State University psychologist, Spee Kosloff, was conducted. Here's an excerpt from the article:

There's something beyond plain old ignorance that motivates Americans to believe President Obama is a Muslim, according to a first-of-its-kind study of smear campaigns led by a Michigan State University psychologist.

The research by Spee Kosloff and colleagues suggests people are most likely to accept such falsehoods, both consciously and unconsciously, when subtle clues remind them of ways in which Obama is different from them, whether because of race, social class or other ideological differences.

These judgments, Kosloff argues, are irrational. He also suggests they are fueled by an "irresponsible" media culture that allows political pundits and "talking heads" to perpetuate the lies.

"Careless or biased media outlets are largely responsible for the propagation of these falsehoods, which catch on like wildfire," said Kosloff, visiting assistant professor of psychology. "And then social differences can motivate acceptance of these lies."

Notice the last two paragraphs. He doesn't say Fox news or mentions conservatives and I'd agree. It starts with the conservative media machine and with their 100 million ears (and dollars) other news organizations pick up the story. Anyone remember what happened to Shirley Sherrod?

It's almost a form of brain washing. First they terrorize you with outrageous stories of how Democrats are going to let immigrants take your job, or let Muslims install Sharia law at ground zero or allow gay service members to wear pink hats while on duty or whatever ridiculous thing they come up with, then, using the massive media propaganda machine they possess they smother their viewers with the same message incessantly until the viewers believe it's true. Once that happens the lazy general media picks up the story until CNN has a right winger frothing at the mouth screaming about pink hats and the Democrat pundit stunned, asking, "I thought we were here to talk about job growth?"

The right wing conservative propaganda machine is real and it's terrifying. They can make reasonable Americans believe the unreasonable. It's real, it's out there and it's coming for you.

It's about what's right.

"THEY CAME FIRST for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.

THEN THEY CAME for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

THEN THEY CAME for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.

THEN THEY CAME for me
and by that time no one was left to speak up."

These words were spoken by Martin NieMoller, a pastor and German citizen, in 1946. For the previous eight years (freed in 1945) he was a prisoner of several concentration camps. His crime was that he did not support the government's attempts to nationalize religion. As a member of an influential organization he and that organization stood by quietly when when one group after another was demonized and attacked by citizens and government. Finally, there was no one left to protect him and they arrested him.

More than any other cause or belief, our country was founded on the ideal of religious freedom and tolerance. In the 17th century pilgrims from England crossed a terrifying ocean and braved deprivation and death to worship as they wanted. In the centuries following, millions more have come for this reason.

Our very first amendment to our contistution, reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." It is no coincidence that this was the first.

Since that time, over one million Americans have died and millions more injured, fighting to preserve our principles and way of life. So, why after centuries of struggles and the blood of millions of Americans, spilled to protect our freedoms are we now, actually debating whether or not a Muslim group has the right to build a Muslim community center in NYC? Did I miss something? Does the first amendment make an exception for Islam or for religions which are currently not in fashion? Give me a sec while I review it......well I'll be damned, there are no exceptions! So, why then, are so many Americans who fly a flag outside of their homes, wear stars and stripes on their ball caps and attend Tea Parties with copies of the constitution and with tears in their eyes, proclaim they'll die defending that constitution, so willing to piss on it now?

We all know what happened on September 11, 2001. An act of terror and horror was committed against the people of NYC. All the terrorists involved in this most despicable act were self proclaimed Muslims. They were almost all Saudis. So should we not blame Saudi Arabia too? Should we not allow Saudis to own property in our country as well? Hell, they were all men. By this reasoning, we should discriminate against all men. Or maybe just men of a darker skin color or men with accents?

It takes no stretch of the imagination to realize what's going on here. Despite the ideals of this country, bigotry and intolerance are always present and politicians and news people are always willing to exploit this dark bit of evil. The politicians in this case are almost overwhelmingly Republican. Luckily for them they have a propaganda machine that Goebbels would envy. Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of right wing media have been trumpeting this call to arms to it's bigoted and/or ignorant followers day and night, until now we are actually debating whether or not a religious organization has the right to build a community center in a US city.

I get that it's blocks away from ground zero and I get the trauma and pain (not that I have an idea of the actual pain felt) the survivors and families must feel. I also get that what the terrorists on 9/11 wanted was for us to change. They wanted us to resort to that basic instinct of revenge and hate and to become just like them. Because if we do, they can then say to the rest of Muslim world, "See, the America you believe in is dead. All they want is to discriminate, hate and kill Muslims". This of course leads to more hate and more violence. This is what they want. This is not what America is all about.

We can't paint every Muslim as someone to fear just because there are Muslims in the world who want to do us harm. Just as we can't paint every African American as a criminal just because there are more African American men in prison than any other ethnicity. Do you realize the stupidity of such logic?

Just because we are still a white, Christian majority it does not mean we have greater rights than anyone else. Just because your immediate world is being filled with more and more people that don't look like you, does not give you the right to lash out at those same people.

This is America. The first country born on the premise of religious freedom. A country which men and women have shed blood to protect that freedom. And a country which if it is determined to carry on those ideals must look very hard at itself and decide if hatred and intolerance are to be the rule or if our rights are untouchable and resolute. Because if we choose the former, one day by the time they come for you, there will be one left to speak up.

Hypocritical Rat Bastard Series, 1. President Obama

I just said that Obama is on my watch list and he has the distinct honor of being the first to be exposed in this series. During the campaign for president, candidate Obama was adamant that was happening at Guantanamo Bay was wrong and that the prison holding alleged terrorists would be closed. He said torture was wrong. He said holding people without the rule of law was wrong and that once president, he would immediately change the way the US dealt with the prisoners held there and then the symbol of US injustice and abuse would be closed. Well it's been two years since then and it's still open. It's still open and American injustice is beamed into television sets and sent via the internet to cities and small villages all over the world.

Before any of my right wing war mongering friends get up in arms, let me say this. To any terrorist who harms innocent people, or to anyone who assisted in terrorism, I wish them death or life long incarceration. But you have to do it right. You have to expose these people in a legal system which is admired the world over, except by Republicans in our own country. So, to those Republicans, I ask, "why do you hate America?". OK, that was a little joke to play on their hypocrisy. But it kinda rings true doesn't it? Back to the point. Unfortunately there are many problems with convicting these people in US courts and they all start with the policies of "The Little Goat Reader", GW Bush. First, there is little evidence to suggest that there was any discretion used when many of the Guantanamo inhabitants were picked up, blindfolded and flown to Camp X Ray (side note; I was among 20 security specialists sent to GB in 1994 who oversaw the construction of the prison and ran it for the first 6 months. Another story, another time.) Taxi cab drivers, farmers, goat herders were swept up in a huge fishnet in a race to catch real terrorists. Many of these people were held for months or years before being released. If they didn't have a hatred for America before they kidnapped and tortured, they do now. Another problem is evidence. We may suspect they are terrorists but may not have all the facts needed to convict them. But the main problem, is torture. Tortured subjects who confess during torture can not be convicted with that evidence.

Yes, the non-closure of GB is hypocritical but what this post is really about is a 15 year old Canadian boy, Omar Khadr. Don't know the name? A little history; Omar Khadr was 15 years old when he was caught up in the war in Afghanistan. He was indoctrinated to believe that America was the enemy and that enemy was going to kill him and to be a good Muslim he would have to fight if the Americans came. The Americans came and amidst a battle, Omar threw a grenade which killed an American service member. As tragic as one of my fellow Americans deaths was, it was not by terrorism. It was done during an act of war by a 15 year old boy defending himself and those he loved. What happens next is detailed in a piece by Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/news/guantanamo/index.html?story=/opinion/greenwald/2010/08/11/khadr

"It boggles the mind that the military judge could find that Khadr was not coerced and gave these statements to interrogators voluntarily. Khadr, then 15 years old, was taken to Bagram near death, after being shot twice in the back, blinded by shrapnel, and buried in rubble from a bomb blast. He was interrogated within hours, while sedated and handcuffed to a stretcher. He was threatened with gang rape and death if he didn't cooperate with interrogators. He was hooded and chained with his arms suspended in a cage-like cell, and his primary interrogator was later court-martialed for detainee abuse leading to the death of a detainee. During his subsequent eight-year (so far) detention at Guantánamo, Khadr was subjected to the "frequent flyer" sleep deprivation program and he says he was used as a human mop after he was forced to urinate on himself."
Omar Khadr is being tried as a terrorist by a military tribunal which is supposed to be fair and protect the accused basic rights, like not allowing admissions of guilt to be allowed if gained by torture. A miliatry judge has ruled that his guilty statements, made while being repeatedly tortured, are admissible.

President Obama promised us to shut down the Guantanamo Bay prison and restore our rule of law. He has not and by trying a boy who was 15 years old when he defended himself, was then tortured, is barbaric.

Our country used to be a shining beacon of decency and hope for the world to admire. President Obama was the guy who was going to help restore that admiration. Unfortunately, as we have seen with GB and Omar Khadr, President Obama is a Hypocritcal Rat Bastard.

Two New Series to Watch for!!!!!

OK, I haven't finished the "End Justifies the Means" series and I haven't released the blog on my crazy Grandma yet (I'm still pulling together stories), but I've been inspired to write two new series! The first one is titled "Hypocritical Rat Bastards!". In this series I will from time to time chime in and highlight blatant hypocrisy in politics. Mostly it'll be from the GOP but the Obama administration is startin' to piss me off is on my watch list, so they could be a target as well. The second series is titled "Republican translations, free of charge". This is a free service in which I will break down, Republican speeches, statements and talking points and translate them to you, the dear reader. This is an important service because the Republican language is full of double speak and code which completely distorts the meaning. Only those who've been indoctrinated or have been given the decoder ring know the true meaning.

So there you have it. Two new series to look forward to. And you thought this was going to be a boring summer?

How I find my Zen.

I love motorcyles. That's it, that's the perfect sentance. No more needs to be said. I should end this right now while it's still perfect. I don't think you win pulitizers for three word stories so I'll continue. Motorcycles are everything which are right and good in the world.

I look at a bike and I see sex. It's sleek, daring, growling and begging for adventure. It's everything that attracts me to bad women. Just like women, there's hardly a bike I wouldn't want to own or ride at least once. Ok, that was a little joke but it illustrates my point. Honestly though, you can make some comparisons. Bikes can be dangerous. Women can definitely be dangerous. You can treat both well, you can baby them, spend too much on them, devote your life too them, but one bad slip can leave you heartbroken or dead. Both can fill a void in your soul like nothing else can. Be without a good woman or lose one and a darkness will creep into your life that you can not lift unless she returns. Be without a bike too long and you'll gaze longingly at every bike that passes you on the road. Worse yet is when there's a beautiful woman on the back of that bike. Your only response is to sigh and wonder where you went wrong.

Bikes can heal. Whenever there is a bad spot in my life, my bike has been there for me. When a trusted employee, a girl I treated like my daughter, stole from my business and left me hurt and unsure, I went camping on my bike. The long ride and nights by the fire helped me to gain perspective. The Irish whiskey and PBRs had a different but still helpful effect as well.

When my wander lust became too much to bear, my bike took me through an 8000 mile ride through Mexico. Long rides in the desert cleared my thoughts. Technical riding in the twisties of the mountains forced me to focus until my instincts took over. My bike was an ambassador to the local people. Where are you from? How big is your bike? Is it fast? How do you like Mexico? These were the questions we were asked every time we got off our bikes. My bike introduced me to the Mexican people in a way I could not have done alone. (check out my blog from my ride, Motolocogringo)

Something happens on a very long ride that I can't find anywhere else. When riding your left with your own thoughts. You may have an ipod filling your head with 80s New Wave or ACDC but you can only focus on music for so long. Sooner or later your mind takes over and thoughts creep in. There doesn't seem to be reason, method or sequence they just come. On long rides virtually every thought, conversation or experience you've ever had enters your head. It's uncontrollable. Sometimes I'll smile when I think about my daughter playing in the rain when she was three. Other times I may feel shame over something I said unfairly to a girl in high school. Problems with work or relationships get mulled over time and time again until a solution works itself out, usually with me realizing I've been a slave to my ego and I should just let it go.
Thought after thought after thought come and go like subway cars in New York or like bad politicians in Detroit. The thoughts keep coming and you continue to solve problems until finally, you've solved every problem, you've seen every face in your data bank and have rehashed every conversation you've ever had a dozen times over, until there's nothing. Nothing else comes. Not the last argument you had with your wife, not global warning or your favorite boots your old dog chewed up five years ago, nothing. That's when you've done it. You're now part of the machine. The bike is a part of you. Fifty miles have dropped off and you realize you've been smiling for every one. This is my Zen. Some people find this place in different ways. But this is mine. I need this. I need this every so often like a computer needs to reboot when running slowly. I need to reboot.

Yes, I love motorcycles. I know they may one day kill me. But I'd die a slower and unhappier death without them. Watch for me on the roads. If one day I pass you with a wide grin on my mug, don't honk at me to grab my attention. Let me go. Leave me to that space in my mind that I can only find while riding my bike.

ends justify the means, part I

(Note: this piece will have several posts, this is part I

Republicans aren't bad people. The Republican party is a bad party. Seriously, the vast majority of Republicans are great people who love their country and contribute in some way to it's health. They work, raise families and are passionate about what they believe in. You won't find me saying what they believe in is necessarily bad. Much of the time it's a difference in opinion. The main thing wrong with individual Republicans is they have no spine. They have no guts or courage to stand up to those in their own party who corrupt, lie and cheat to further an agenda which is now so far to the right, Eisenhower would be considered an extreme liberal. Hell, by today's standards, Reagan would be a left center Democrat. The main thing wrong with Republicans as a party is they too, have no spine.

The Republican party is morally bankrupt and have been for at least 50 years. Your average Republican has stood by as bit by bit their souls, the part of you which knows right from wrong has been picked apart and devoured by those within the party who live by the motto "the ends justify the means". Or in other words, we will do whatever it takes to remain in power. We will oppose those things we know are in the best interest of our country as longs as we get reelected. We will lie, we will slander, we will oppress whole classes of people, we will wage war, we will terrify our own people, we will empower the rich at the expense of the working class and we will punish the poor, we will sell our souls to the devil because we know that once in power we will be able to shape this country and this world into our own choosing. This is what the Republican party does. The average Republican stands quiet and says nothing.

I use 50 years because this is the approximate date of the fight for the Civil Rights Act. Many could argue that their sins go much further back but I use this date because I believe it ties itself to the modern era of the GOP and to the current party. The Civil Rights Act and the movement which bears it's name, divided the country like no other issue since the civil war. The premise is simple, the no man should be denied equal rights and protections under the law for any reason, race included. This seems simple enough. It seems to be the honorable, humane way a country with the highest ideals should treat it's people, except the GOP didn't think so.

At the time of the Civil rights movement the South was a staunchly Democratic region. Poor white people in the South had always chosen the party that fought for them. This did not sit well with the GOP. They knew they were in trouble because blacks were flooding the Democratic party with new voters by the millions. Sinister elements in the GOP had an idea, "what if we could scare all them white folk in the South, by baiting them incessantly with race? We'll tell em' how scary black people are and remind them that black people vote Democratic". This was called the "Southern Strategy". This is not rumor or theory or urban legend, it is fact http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy. It is fact based upon Nixon appointees and their own accounts. From that moment on, the ugliest elements within the GOP have relentlessly pursued the "Southern Strategy" with great success. Today the South is the only real power base the GOP has left. Any normal person would find this to be abhorrent. I find it vile. But what about the average Republican? Have they stood up and said that this strategy is immoral? Maybe one or two, but as a whole they are silent. Remember, with the GOP, "the ends, justify the means".

The evil of Nixon couldn't be hidden for long. Evil like that is hard to hide, though many of those involved with the formulation of the "Southern Strategy" moved on into all the subsequent GOP administrations to include the former Vice President Dick (Sith Lord) Cheney.

Every single chance ever since the GOP has used race as a lever to divide our country along racial lines.

Era by era, GOP prez by GOP prez there are examples; Nixon, whose administration devised the Southern Plan. Reagan in large part rode into power on the wave of the Southern Strategy. George HW Bush used a convicted murderer, Willie Horton who was furloughed by Massachussetts' Governor Micheal Dukakis' administration, and later went on to rape a white woman, like a racial battle bugle to get elected to the White House. The bugle notes were clear, "Don't elect Mike Dukakis, he'll let other scary negros out of prison to rape your white women". Apologists will argue the campaign was about crime. Horseshit, it was about continually beating the race drum until white America was terrified of it's black neighbors. Katrina, wasn't George W Bush's fault. The aftermath was. Again, apologists can make up excuses and if were not a half century of calculated use of race you could almost give him a pass. Now, there is Shirley Sherrod, an honest and noble black woman who has been the victim of a lifetime of racism. She did not let that hate into heart though you could understand if she did. Her life was forever transformed because of a "the ends justifies the means" punk by the name of Adam Breitbart. He along with the assistance of Fox news followed by the rest of the brain dead national media, slandered this woman.

Additionally, the "Immigration debate" is just another way for rousing the ire of the same constituents the GOP uses in it's Southern Strategy. I find this particularly stupid considering that Hispanics will soon (if not already) make up the largest ethnic group in the U.S. Combined with all the other ethnic groups, they will be the majority in 20-40 years. This does not bode well for the GOP. In their defense, they will search and search until they find a way to divide Americans again just so Republicans can attain power.

To pretend for one moment that the GOP is not racist is to admit one of two things; 1. that you are ignorant or 2. that you are stupid.

This is not the point of this article. The point of this article is to highlight the apathy of the individual Republican. Like I stated at the beginning of this piece, most Republicans are good people, but their silence in the affairs of their party are damning in the same way people of regimes throughout history were silenced when their party terrorized or mistreated citizens of their own country. When, you Joe Republican do not stand up to your party or the media members acting on behalf of your party you are complicit just the same. When you sell your soul because you really wanted that tax break so you could upgrade your BMW from a 5 series to a 7, or when Joe Six Pack blindly follows the race baiting at the expense of his own well being, then you too are guilty. In the Republican party "the ends justify the means".

In part II, I'll outline more disturbing actions and policies the GOP has used, from war, slander, terrorizing it's own people to the assault on science and intellectualism all in an effort to remain in power.




(Reagan era, black poverty levels rose, do research. Bush, war on Iraq, dumbing of the GOP, attacks on science and smart folk. Current, racist attacks on Obama, tea party, sherrod, leadership silent while rabid rw attack dogs, defame)

more on the Southern Strategy; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302342.html,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Atwater

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,399921,00.html

http://freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/912

Hack job journalism and the gutless Obama Administration

I watched the video. There was a black woman speaking at a NAACP meeting about how she essentionally screwed a white farmer out of assistance while working at the USDA, because he was smug and she had the power to do so. I saw and admittedly I was dismayed. Dismayed because this is just the sort of fuel the right wing douchebag media salivates over. Sure enough Fix News picked up on it and bludgeoned it's brain dead viewers repeatedly with the story. In the on demand news world we live in the entire news galaxy was running the story. Yep, I watched the video and the coverage and believed it. I believed it because for some stupid ass reason I want to believe we can trust those who give us the news. Even those sexy porn star looking chicks on Fix News. But it wasn't true. It was all a lie. It was a lie and a good woman by the name of Shirley Sherrod was forced to resign her job.

The outright lying, slime fucks at Andrew Breitbart's biggoverment.com, manipulated the tape. They used the first half of her speech and omitted the part where she goes on to say that before she could screw the white farmer out of the help he needed, she realized that it wasn't about race it was about helping poor people, white or black. She went on to help that farmer save his farm. The farmer and his wife now say they would've lost the farm without Mrs. Sherrod's persistent help and have the highest praise for her.

So it was a lie. It was a manufactured story to discredit a black woman, the NAACP and the US Government. But for what possible reason could Breitbart and the Porn Stars working at Fix News have for slandering a good woman? To remind you that there is a black man in the White House. There is a black man leading this country and he's dishonest and immoral and he's bringing all the welfare cheating, drug dealing pimps and ho's with em'!

Don't believe me? Let me remind you who Breitbart is. Remember the ACORN scandal which turned out wasn't a scandal at all? That was Brietbart and his thugs. ACORN if you don't recall was a community activist organization, with mostly black staffers helping a mostly black community. President Obama was a volunteer much to the dismay of a racist Republican party. To refresh, the video showed two white people posing as a pimp (Breitbart's people) and his ho trying to get advice from an ACORN official on how to dupe the system and get free government assitance. The video was pretty damning. The official appears to be giving them advice on how to lie and break the law to get assistance just like white America thinks all poor people do. It wasn't until after congress voted to withhold federal funds from Acorn causing the community organizing group to shutdown that the whole video was released to the public. The video goes on to show that the official actually tells them that she can't help them. Additionally, police records show the official actually calls the police to report the incident. It was proven that the whole scandal was a sham but it was too late. The damage had been done. ACORN was no more and millions of American's trusted the media and were duped again. Adding insult to injury the media hardly covered the follow up part of the story which unraveled the made up scandal.

The rightwing blogging douchebags along with Fix News and their porn stars are making every attempt to foment racism against black people in this country. They do it openly, all the while the Republican leadership sits back and while smiling denies there is any racist agenda within the party. Guys like the orange skinned Boehner or facial boneless wonder McConnell can tell the public that they have an "open tent". To prove it they installed a clown by the name of Steele as party head. Their tent is open like a Klan rally is.

What I really want to know is, where's the accountability? I mean how can these news organizations or quasi-jornalistic/political blog sites invent news which is blatantly false and not face repercussions? Why is there no "truth in journalism" laws but there is in product advertising. I can't create a pill claiming it cures cancer and makes all fat men uncontrollably attractive to supermodels and then sell it, can I? No, I can't it's illegal. So why can these racist, puss filled, skin sacks get away with it over and over?

There is one more disturbing part of this story, the scared knee jerk reaction from the Obama administration. They had Sherrod fired before Glenn Beck could sob on camera. No investigation, no questions asked before they shit canned an honorable woman. Fucking cowards. Fucking cowards to grovel at the feet of these moraless ass monkeys. USDA cheif Vilsack has empty ballsacks and Obama needs to find the pair he rode into to town with.

I'm disgusted with myself for believing this bullshit. Disgusted that we allow such shitty journalism to exist and disgusted by the gutlessness of this administration. As for myself, I will never, never believe anything which comes from those goddless fucks again without concrete corraberation from many other new sources, ever again.

Salon article concerning Breitbart's lying ways; http://www.salon.com/news/andrew_breitbart/index.html?story=/opinion/conason/2010/07/21/acorn