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		<title>&#8216;Hating Breitbart&#8217; Trailer: Internet Upstart Declares War on Establishment Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:46:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Publius</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new documentary to be released later this year will illustrate the ongoing tooth-and-nail battle of one Andrew Breitbart against the mainstream media&#8217;s decades-long monopoly on disseminating information and shaping public opinion. Watch the trailer (language warning) below:

From the film&#8217;s website:
&#8220;Hating Breitbart&#8221; tells the story of how one man  with a website upended the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new documentary to be released later this year will illustrate the ongoing tooth-and-nail battle of one Andrew Breitbart against the mainstream media&#8217;s decades-long monopoly on disseminating information and shaping public opinion. Watch the trailer (language warning) below:</p>
<p><center><iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/reIxxGVxuwE" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></center></p>
<p><strong>From the film&#8217;s <a href="http://hatingbreitbart.com/">website:</a></strong></p>
<p>&#8220;Hating Breitbart&#8221; tells the story of how one man  with a website upended the traditional press and repeatedly found  himself the target of a media feeding frenzy.</p>
<p>The filmmakers have been following Andrew Breitbart  since the birth of the Tea Party movement in 2009, and they&#8217;ve got  behind-the-scenes access to many of the media controversies in which  Breitbart was a key player&#8211;from the ACORN takedown to Congressman  Anthony Weiner&#8217;s crotch-shot Twitter scandal.<span id="more-427512"></span></p>
<p><strong>Follow @HatingBreitbart on <a href="https://twitter.com/#!/HatingBreitbart">Twitter.</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>More information <a href="http://hatingbreitbart.com/">here.</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Obama and NLRB Continue to Cost Union Jobs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David A. Bego</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Labor union membership continues to be blind to the fact that the support of its &#8220;leadership&#8221; to President Obama and his political allies is coming at the cost of the members. Big Labor bosses and their political allies are happy to continue to throw the membership under the bus for their own personal gain. For [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Labor union membership continues to be blind to the fact that the support of its &#8220;leadership&#8221; to President Obama and his political allies is coming at the cost of the members. Big Labor bosses and their political allies are happy to continue to throw the membership under the bus for their own personal gain. For President Obama, this is the prospect of re-election; for the labor bosses, this is the survival of their &#8220;way of life.” This can be seen through the President&#8217;s actions and comments over the past three years.</p>
<p>Early in his presidency, President Obama made disparaging remarks about business owners whose companies had corporate jets. This was done in a blatant attempt to incite class warfare, despite the fact that the country was in a deep recession. By his words, the President willingly sacrificed the jobs of the very people who supported him through union dues. He knew the liberal media would not expose the tragic result his words would have on the private jet and airplane manufacturing industry.</p>
<p><a href="http://theunionnews.blogspot.com/2012/01/chosen.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheUnionNews+%28The+Union+News.%29"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-414616" title="nightmare-at-1600-pennsylvania-avenue" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2012/01/nightmare-at-1600-pennsylvania-avenue-201x300.jpg" alt="" width="201" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>In Wichita, Kansas, the home of private aircraft manufacturing has suffered tremendously, as thousands of union employees employed by Cessna and Beechcraft have been laid off, not to mention the thousands of jobs affiliated with general aviation lost across the country including manufacturers, part suppliers, fuel, pilots, mechanics, FBO services and insurance providers. Additionally, due to the loss of significant sales, use, income environmental and aviation tax revenues, thousands of local, state and federal employee positions, many of which were union jobs, have disappeared.</p>
<p>Adding insult to injury now the <a href="http://nbaa.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0yMDU0NjQ5JnA9MSZ1PTEwMjEzNDUwNTgmbGk9OTc0NTYyMg/index.html"><em>White House Defends User Fees</em></a> of $100/flight on general aviation and corporate aviation to raise revenues in Obama&#8217;s continued class warfare and redistribution of wealth scheme in his effort to bring down America. Ironically this will cost more jobs, many of them union, as revenues ultimately will be reduced as fewer aircraft are purchased and general aviation travel is curtailed due to the added expense. The vicious cycle will continue to perpetuate itself at the expense of American jobs!</p>
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<p>Further evidence was seen in December when Obama began his campaign against the Keystone XL pipeline (see <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/201917-white-house-gop-battle-for-supremacy-on-keystone"><em>White House, GOP Battle for Supremacy on Keystone</em></a>) and again recently when he voiced his opposition of the Keystone XL pipeline that would have created or saved some 20,000 union jobs. He did so to cement campaign support from his environmental buddies. His reasoning:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>The President says he’s turning down the project not because it isn’t worthy, but because of what he calls an arbitrary Feb. 21 deadline he was given by Congress to make a decision. The deadline was set by a GOP-written provision as part of a tax bill that Obama signed into law just before Christmas. </em></p></blockquote>
<p>This is the same President that rejected a Republican controlled house offer in December 2011 to extend employee payroll deductions until December 31, 2012, and instead demanded a two month extension so he could further evaluate the Keystone XL pipeline (see <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577172852629309954.html?mod=djemITP_h"><em>Obama’s Keystone Delay Flouts the Law</em></a>). This is despite the fact <a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/environment_energy/56_favor_building_keystone_pipeline_think_it_s_good_for_economy"><em>56% Favor Building the Keystone Pipeline, Think It’s Good for the Economy</em></a> (see <a href="http://www.friendsoftheuschamber.com/article/obama-ignores-his-own-energy-goals-in-rejecting-keystone-xl--"><em>Obama Ignores His Own Energy Goals in Rejecting Keystone XL</em></a>). It should be apparent this President has no loyalty to anyone, except himself. It is another perfect example of his intent to <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/rule-by-fiat/"><em>Rule by Fiat</em></a> and move America to totalitarian socialism!</p>
<p>Based on these comments, the President has riled certain labor leaders (see <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/job-killers-2-american-workers-0-137592088.html"><em>Job Killers-2, American Workers-0</em></a>). It is apparent that some union members are now questioning who the President is looking out for!</p>
<p>Knowing he had to mollify union members and Big Labor bosses after throwing them under the bus the last three years, Obama recess appointed radical members to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in an effort to achieve <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/01/21/card-check-through-regulation-vs-legislation-actions-speak-louder-than-words/"><em>Card Check</em></a>.  The <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/boeing-sleight-of-hand-from-the-rogue-nlrb/"><em>Rogue NLRB</em></a> has responded by reversing previous pro-business decisions and proposing new regulations designed to promote union <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/corporate-campaigns-vehicle-to-forced-unionism-and-political-payback/"><em>Corporate Campaigns</em></a> in a blatant attempt to achieve <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/efca-through-the-backdoor/"><em>EFCA Through the Backdoor</em></a>. Additionally, the NLRB decided to take on Boeing in an effort to further big labor power and suppress <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/12/08/right-to-work-a-basic-american-freedom/" target="_blank"><em>Right to Work</em></a> in South Carolina and across the country. However, despite the fact that the Machinists&#8217; union and Boeing came to an agreement and the NLRB has rescinded its charge this <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/boeing-sleight-of-hand-from-the-rogue-nlrb/"><em>Sleight of Hand from the Rouge NLRB</em></a><em> </em>has actually resulted in the loss of union jobs, not reported by the liberal media. Boeing recently announced it will be closing its 85 year old plant in Wichita, which will result in the loss of approximately 2100 jobs, most of them union (see <a href="http://moran.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/newsletter?ID=ae50e867-ced5-437c-953a-9ea6762ebd12"><em>Kansas Common Sense – Kansans Troubled by Boeing’s Announcement to Close Wichita Facility</em></a><em>).</em></p>
<p>Again, Obama&#8217;s media friends provided little coverage of this disastrous loss of jobs seemingly oblivious to the fact <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/america-needs-an-effective-leader-not-a-politician/" target="_blank"><em>America Needs an Effective Leader, Not a Politician! </em></a> Their liberal ideology blinds them to the fact Obama&#8217;s <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/06/27/rule-by-fiat/">Rule by Fiat</a> is <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/a-death-penalty-for-employees-and-employers/" target="_blank"><em>A Death Penalty for Employees and Employers</em></a>. <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/when-will-congress-and-the-main-stream-media-wake-up/" target="_blank"><em>When Will the Main Stream Media Wake Up</em></a> and realize they are adding and abetting the loss of the very middle class they claim to support?</p>
<p>It is inconceivable that rank and file union members will continue to allow the Big Labor bosses and the President to sell them down the river. However, with little mainstream media coverage most of them are going about their daily lives taking care of their families, doing their jobs and trying to enjoy life. It is a shame that the President’s delusional ambition of <a href="http://devilatmydoorstep.wordpress.com/2011/09/06/political-aspirations-payback-ahead-of-american-jobs/"><em>Political Aspirations &amp; Payback Ahead of American Jobs</em></a><em> </em>combined with Big Labor boss greed and quest for survival are rapidly destroying the middle class dream they purport to defend. Each union rank and file member needs to realize that America needs a new leader and it is time for a change at the top, before the American dream is gone forever.</p>
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		<title>Newt’s S.C. Secret Weapon: Taking the Fight to the Left</title>
		<link>http://biggovernment.com/amarlow/2012/01/23/newts-s-c-secret-weapon-taking-the-fight-to-the-left/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander Marlow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Less than a week after ABC released (and Drudge essentially spoiled) the story that we were told could &#8220;end [Newt Gingrich's] career,&#8221; the former Speaker came from behind to win the South Carolina primary by a startling 13%.  Not only did South Carolina voters ignore the latest unverifiable mainstream media report on the private life [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Less than a week after ABC released (<a href="http://drudgereport.com/flash2.htm">and Drudge essentially spoiled</a>) the story that we were told could &#8220;<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/exclusive-gingrich-lacks-moral-character-president-wife/story?id=15392899">end [Newt Gingrich's] career</a>,&#8221; the former Speaker came from behind <a href="http://biggovernment.com/publius/2012/01/21/gingrich-wins-sc-primary-upsets-romney/">to win the South Carolina primary</a> by <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/primary-election-results-2012/state.shtml?state=SC">a startling 13%</a>.  Not only did South Carolina voters ignore the latest unverifiable mainstream media report on the private life of a Republican candidate—a report that was specifically timed to inflict maximum damage—many of them likely voted for Gingrich to spite the MSM.  <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/behind-the-numbers/post/debates-late-deciders-propel-gingrich-to-win-in-south-carolina/2012/01/03/gIQAgIrGHQ_blog.html">Exit polling suggests</a> that Newt’s entire margin of victory was comprised of South Carolinians who decided on their candidate near or on primary day, i.e. after ABC&#8217;s story had leaked.  Those who decided after the CNN debate in which <a href="http://biggovernment.com/amarlow/2012/01/20/debate-recap-mainstream-media-got-served/">Gingrich embarrassed CNN&#8217;s John King</a> for his liberal bias voted solidly for Newt.</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2012/01/american-flag.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-413468" title="american flag" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2012/01/american-flag.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="300" /></a></p>
<p>Conventional wisdom is that debates don’t decide nominations, but that notion is as antiquated as the paper route. This is, after all, the media age.  It’s the era of YouTube, Twitter, and the 24-hour news network.  Fear the candidate who can beat the media at their own game, and right now, that candidate is Newt Gingrich.</p>
<p>Their imperfect track-records aside, the former speaker has been able to distinguish himself from Governor Romney in two crucial ways.  The first difference is in who, or what, they are campaigning against.  The foundation of Mitt Romney’s campaign is keeping a narrow focus on Barack Obama.  This isn’t a bad strategy, per se, but it doesn’t comprehensively address the problems we are facing as a society.  After all, Barack Obama is a product of the American left.  He was raised in academia, sold to us by Hollywood, and elected by the mainstream media.  The President is the tip of the iceberg, and the Republican candidate should understand that Obama is a symptom of what ails us, not the cause.<span id="more-413360"></span></p>
<p>Newt has decided to run a broader campaign, addressing crony capitalism at length and waging <a href="http://biggovernment.com/amarlow/2012/01/20/debate-recap-mainstream-media-got-served/">war against Obama’s palace guards in the mainstream media</a>.  Needless to say, the media criticism in particular has resonated with South Carolina voters:</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OE4BAhHMsHY"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/OE4BAhHMsHY/default.jpg"/></a></p>
<p>Yesterday <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/01/22/newt-gingrich-tells-david-gregory-nobody-elite-media-wants-cover-obam">Gingrich spoke out, yet again</a>, against the philosophies and influence of Saul Alinsky, the patron saint of postmodern leftism.  This isn’t merely how the GOP nominee should campaign, it’s also how he should govern if elected.  In the battle for America&#8217;s future, our primary adversary isn&#8217;t the man in the White House, it&#8217;s the ideas and values that put him there.</p>
<p>Another reality in the media age is that the most articulate candidate will have the best chance to succeed.  In the past couple debates, Mitt Romney has stumbled when backed into a corner on relatively minor issues such as the request to release his tax returns.  Newt, on the other hand, has taken gotcha questions and skillfully and confidently rebutted them.</p>
<p>This is not to say Mitt hasn’t been a competent debater.  He most certainly has been.  But recently, Newt has presented himself as the clearer thinker.  His rhetoric can <em>soar&#8211;</em>as Obama&#8217;s did in 2008&#8211;and in the media age, that may be what voters care about most.</p>
<p>The irony is, of course, that the principal beneficiaries of Gingrich winning South Carolina in such convincing fashion are the media (both old and new), because nothing boosts ratings and page views like a horse-race.</p>
<p>So, now we look to Florida, and that should be another wild ride.  <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/fl/florida_republican_presidential_primary-1597.html">The polling there</a> has been, for lack of a better term, schizophrenic.  Newt had a monster advantage over Mitt a few weeks ago, then Romney erased that and is currently way out in front.  Can Newt come back again <em>again</em> after blowing a big lead already?  It seems like the Sunshine State is susceptible to swings in momentum, and Newt has all of it right now.</p>
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		<title>Preliminary Hearing Set Monday Morning for Man Accused in Sept. 8 Murder at Missouri Bus Station</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob McCarty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A preliminary hearing for Mohamed H. Dawod, a Muslim man accused in the Sept 8 murder at a Springfield, Mo., bus station, is set to take place Monday morning.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>A preliminary hearing for Mohamed H. Dawod is scheduled to take place Monday at 10 a.m. Central in Springfield, Mo.  The 25-year-old Glendale, Ariz., man is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the Sept. 8 shooting death of an Ohio man at a Greyhound bus station in the southwest Missouri community.</strong></p>
<div id="attachment_43439" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 203px"><a href="http://bobmccarty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Dawod.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-43439 " style="margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; border: 0pt none initial;" title="Mohamed H. Dawod" src="http://bobmccarty.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Dawod.jpg" alt="" width="193" height="262" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Mohamed H. Dawod</p></div>
<p>Dawod is accused of shooting Justin Hall, 32, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, during a late-night rest stop for travelers on a St. Louis-bound bus full of passengers from as far away as Amarillo, Texas, point of origin for the bus.</p>
<p>On Sept. 9, I was the first to raise the possibility that the shooting might be a case of terrorism at <a title="Police Say Deadly Shooting at Bus Station on Eve of 9-11 Anniversary..." href="http://bobmccarty.com/2011/09/09/police-say-deadly-shooting-at-bus-station-on-eve-of-9-11-anniversary-was-random-but-was-it-really/" target="_blank"><strong>my website</strong></a> and at <a title="BigG: Was the Deadly Shooting at Bus Station..." href="http://biggovernment.com/bmccarty/2011/09/10/was-the-deadly-shooting-at-bus-station-on-eve-of-9-11-anniversary-a-terror-attack/" target="_blank"><strong>BigGovernment.com</strong></a> after officials in the Southwest Missouri community, according to a <a title="News-Leader: Shooting at Greyhound Terminal Appeared to be Random..." href="http://www.news-leader.com/article/20110909/NEWS01/110909021/Shooting-Greyhound-terminal-appeared-random-police-report-says" target="_blank"><strong>report in the <em>Springfield News-Leader</em></strong></a>, were quick to say the shooting appeared random.</p>
<p>A day later, a <a title="KSPR:  Greyhounds Bus" href="http://articles.kspr.com/2011-09-09/greyhound-bus_30137530" target="_blank"><strong>KSPR-TV report</strong></a> cited Springfield police officials as saying that, because of a language barrier, they only learned Dawod’s name and<strong> </strong>had asked the FBI to help them with the investigation.  That local television report included this telling paragraph:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">Ten separate witnesses say they did not notice the men fighting or arguing before the shooting. One passenger said she watched the suspect wander around the terminal until the call to line up to re-board the bus. “She then observed the suspect remove a silver and black handgun from a back pack he was carrying,” the officer wrote. “The suspect then pointed the handgun upward while saying something. The witness could not understand what the suspect said and didn’t know if he was speaking English.” No matter what was said the witness said Hall didn’t react or turn around. Shortly after the witness says Dawod shot him from a few feet away.</span></strong></p>
<p>I went on to draw information from two other television news reports that seemed to reveal more than the “official” story lets on about the deadly incident that involved a <strong>man with a Muslim name allegedly shooting someone he did not know less than 48 hours ahead of the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States</strong>:</p>
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<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">The <a title="KSDK:  Passenger on St. Louis-Bound Greyhound Shot to Death" href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/crime/article/275818/147/Passenger-on-St-Louis-bound-Greyhound-shot-to-death" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;">first television report</span></a> which aired on St. Louis NBC affiliate KSDK prior to any names being released or charges filed, features witnesses saying it appeared the assailant would have kept shooting, but his gun jammed;</span></strong><span style="color: #000080;"> and</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><strong><span style="color: #000080;">The <a title="KSDK:  Charges Filed Against Greyhound Bus Shooter" href="http://www.ksdk.com/news/article/275911/3/Charges-filed-against-Greyhound-Bus-shooter" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;">second report</span></a>, which aired on the same station after the Springfield Police Department announced the alleged shooter’s name and charges against him, offered much the same story.</span></strong></p>
<p>Below, in chronological order, are other important milestones related to this case:</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>On Sept. 12</strong>, Dawod pleaded <a title="OzarksFirst.com:  &quot;Not Guilty&quot; plea." href="http://ozarksfirst.com/fulltext?nxd_id=520187" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>not guilty</strong></span></a> to the charges.  On Monday, represented by public defender Shawn Markin of Springfield, he&#8217;ll stand before Judge Mark Fitzsimmons courtroom in his 31st Judicial Circuit courtroom.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>On Sept. 14</strong>, I shared news of <strong><a title="Witness Says Suspect Asked Question in English After Deadly 9-11 Anniversary Shooting in Missouri (Update)" rel="bookmark" href="http://bobmccarty.com/2011/09/14/witness-says-suspect-asked-question-in-english-after-deadly-9-11-anniversary-shooting-in-missouri/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;">what a man traveling with the victim had to say about the suspect</span></a></strong>.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>On Sept. 16</strong>, I asked the question, <strong><a title="Will MSM Cover Trial of Accused Killer in Bus Station Shooting on Eve of 9-11 Anniversary?" rel="bookmark" href="http://bobmccarty.com/2011/09/16/will-msm-cover-trial-of-accused-killer-in-bus-station-shooting-on-eve-of-9-11-anniversary/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;">Will MSM Cover Trial of Accused Killer in Bus Station Shooting on Eve of 9-11 Anniversary?</span></a></strong> Why?  Because, one week after the shooting, no media outside of Missouri had picked up the story.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong> </strong><strong>On Sept. 25</strong>, it was revealed in this <a title="NBC4: Bus Shooting Suspect's Belongings..." href="http://www2.nbc4i.com/news/2011/sep/25/4/bus-shooting-suspects-belongings-hold-knife-ammuni-ar-757304/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>report</strong></span></a> that, in addition to a handgun, Dawod had a 9-inch knife and 37 rounds of ammunition when arrested.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>On Sept. 28</strong>, I shared details of the story with <strong>Aaron Klein </strong> on his 77 WABC radio show, <a title="Bob McCarty on Klein Online Investigative Radio 9-28-11" href="http://kleinonline.wnd.com/audio/was-there-a-9-11-revenge-attack-in-u-s-last-month/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>Klein Online Investigative Radio</strong></span></a>.</span></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span style="color: #000080;"><strong>On Nov. 22</strong>, according to a posting on <a title="CaseNet" href="https://www.courts.mo.gov/casenet/base/welcome.do" target="_blank"><strong>CaseNet</strong></a> [Case #1131-CR06034], Judge Fitzsimmons decided to allow media to film in and around the courtroom prior to the commencement of the hearing but will require all cameras and microphones to be turned off before the hearing begins.</span></p>
<p>Stay tuned for updates on this story as it will be interesting to see how &#8212; <em>or, more accurately, <strong>IF</strong></em> &#8212; any of the major national media cover this story.</p>
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		<title>Lessons From the Battle of BlogCon 2011: The Occupiers Deserve Derision</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 20:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kurt Schlichter</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The weirdos, losers and mutations who make up the Occupy movement showed the world their glass jaw when their Denver branch descended upon the FreedomWorks BlogCon 2011 new media convention on Friday.  There’s a lot for conservatives to learn from this close encounter of the dumbass kind.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The weirdos, losers and mutations who make up the Occupy movement showed the world their glass jaw when their Denver branch descended upon the FreedomWorks BlogCon 2011 new media convention on Friday.  There’s a lot for conservatives to learn from this close encounter of the dumbass kind.</p>
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<p>Sure, we learned that their personal hygiene leaves much to be desired – like, well, personal hygiene.  We learned that their concept of private property is shaky at best; radio host <a href="http://allpatriotsmedia.com/about/the-tony-katz-radio-spectacular/">Tony Katz</a> hilariously schooled one shaggy gentleman on the air at length about who owned a particular chair the Occupier attempted to occupy.  And we learned that they wear Guy Fawkes masks not because of any particular affinity for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes">noted radical Catholic terrorist</a> but because some guy wore it in the movie <em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0434409/">V For Vendetta</a> </em>and it was apparently a really bitchin’ movie.</p>
<p>These are not deep thinkers.</p>
<p>But the most important lesson is that the Occupiers are a joke; they are nothing but coddled, Potemkin protesters who collapse at the first sign of resistance.</p>
<p>These clowns have been treated with kid gloves by gutless (or even sympathetic) politicians from Zuccotti Park to the Port of Oakland.  They’ve been allowed to live in filth, dominate public spaces and generally descend into a festering petri dish of <a href="http://biggovernment.com/jjmnolte/2011/10/28/occupywallstreet-the-rap-sheet-so-far/">social, criminal and epidemiological pathologies</a> by cowardly mayors and other enablers unwilling to do the most basic job of any government leader and keep order.</p>
<p>The mainstream media adores them, viewing them as advancing their shared left-wing agenda while also recalling the activist Sixties of legend.  And, of course, the media helpfully covers up the ever-growing roster of outrages perpetrated by these nimrods.  No accountability there.  Even the cops are required to treat these geniuses with professional respect.</p>
<p>It’s been all up-twinkles for them – until now.</p>
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<p>Not to paint a couple of botched protests as the Battle of Stalingrad, but when these idiots rushed into the midst of the assembled conservative new media folks gathered at BlogCon 2011, it was about the first time anyone ever took these cretins on en masse.</p>
<p>They ran into an impenetrable wall of mockery, and they had no clue what to do.  They folded like a house of stinky cards.</p>
<p>The foundation of the success of the Occupiers is the tacit agreement by the elite to treat them with respect, to take their incoherent assemblage of bad ideas seriously, and to ignore the fact that the emperor’s new clothes are dirty, clichéd and have Che’s mug emblazoned on them.</p>
<p>The BlogCon folks didn’t.</p>
<p>They did not play along.  They showed no respect.  Instead, they <a href="http://biggovernment.com/kschlichter/2011/05/09/going-on-the-offense-some-lessons-for-our-side/">went on the offense</a>, <a href="http://biggovernment.com/kschlichter/2011/08/05/keeping-on-the-offense-more-lessons-for-our-side/">kept on the offense</a>, and turned the Occupiers&#8217; strengths <a href="http://biggovernment.com/kschlichter/2011/10/04/conservative-judo-how-to-fight-the-smears-and-take-the-offensive/">against them</a>.  It was awesome.</p>
<p>Round one started at about 2:00 pm when several walked into the hotel lobby and tried to crash the meeting room.  But it didn’t quite go as they thought it would.  The losers suddenly found themselves surrounded by a horde of eager conservatives with flip cams immortalizing the happening.</p>
<p>Yeah, invade a conservative bloggers&#8217; convention.  Good plan.</p>
<p>There was some shouting and some pushing – a hefty, troll-like woman shoved the very buff Steven Crowder.  He was quite patient with her, which was wise since she had weight on him.  Stephen Kruiser, John Nolte, Dana Loesch and her husband Chris were right in the middle of the fun too, ladling out heaping helpings of mockery.  The bad guys were stunned; no one has ever before told them that they are idiots to their faces.</p>
<p>This is what happens when you have a generation that got trophies for losing.</p>
<p>Nearby, an Occupier kid of maybe 20 with a ridiculous hat stood there, smiling wanly until he was hustled out with the rest of them to a chorus of laughs and jeers.  Outside, the clearly-inebriated guy who had earlier tried to occupy Tony Katz’s chair got wrestled to the ground by a triumvirate of cops. It was pretty amusing.</p>
<p>The mainstream media finally showed up well after Round One was over.  By then, dozens of citizen journalists were draining the hotel’s bandwith as they uploaded their video clips and, figuratively, tossed a few more shovelfuls of dirt into the open grave of the Dinosaur Media.</p>
<p>At about 5:00 pm, the gang showed up again, with a few dozen folks who looked like the dorks who worked in your college’s organic food co-op stopping outside the lobby and trying a new tactic.  As the bloggers rushed out with their cameras to document Round Two, they started with the creepy call-and-response “human microphone” act to draw tenuous parallels between the Occupiers and the Tea Party and to invite us to join together in one giant, incoherent movement toward socialism.</p>
<p>We declined.</p>
<p>The bloggers took the offensive and commandeered the Occupiers’ human mic act, baffling the assembled radicals with a tsunami of chants, my favorite being “Where&#8217;s the dog?”  Perhaps you haven’t heard, but they elected a dog as their leader.  It was a collie named Shelby, if you’re wondering.</p>
<p>Sadly, we never met the dog.</p>
<p>They did not like it.  As I chanted “Pay your bills,” one young lady went into a veritable spasm of fury in front of me.  Her wide-open mouth revealed a metal stud disturbingly far back on her tongue.  Perhaps she might find it easier to get one of those good jobs she demands if she didn’t look like a freak of nature.</p>
<p>Nearby, an ancient doofus in one of those blue Greek sailor caps announced that he was strongly in favor of “Palestinian self-determination.”  He’s probably still hasn’t gotten over that whole fall of the Soviet Union thing.</p>
<p>I stood next to a young guy who was relatively clean-cut and asked him what he was outraged about.  Understand that I wasn’t trying to engage him in a rational exchange of ideas and views – not only did I not even remotely care what he thought, but to do so would give him the false impression that his ideas are worthy of consideration.</p>
<p>I just wanted to see if he could articulate his beliefs.  He really couldn’t.  They boil down to a vaguely held belief in less regulation of individuals, but more on corporations.  So, apparently, one guy alone should have more rights, but if you have two or more individuals together they should have fewer rights.  Whatever.</p>
<p>It’s pretty clear he hadn’t spent a lot of time in deep thought pondering this conundrum; in fact, he seemed to become somewhat embarrassed by his companions as they continued to flail in the face of the bloggers’ withering torrent of contempt.  It turns out that he was really more of an Occupier dilettante.  I asked if he was actually sleeping outside every night and he sheepishly admitted he wasn’t.  I assume that after the march he drove back to his parent’s house for the night in the Volvo he borrowed from his mom.</p>
<p>He was probably the smartest guy in the bunch.</p>
<p><a href="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/11/guy-fawkes-mask1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-373968" title="Guy Fawkes" src="http://biggovernment.com/files/2011/11/guy-fawkes-mask1.jpg" alt="" width="425" height="309" /></a></p>
<p>After a few minutes of mockery, they decided it was time to go.  However, before they wandered away, the troll-lady made another appearance and threatened Steven Crowder again.  There was a little pushing and shoving and soon they wandered away.  Later, on the way to Tony Katz’s cigar smoker at a local bar, the cabs passed their encampment. It looked like the same kind of Obamavilles that dot the country, except with a couple of signs.</p>
<p>The big lesson of the Battle of BlogCon?  When the Occupiers encounter resistance – real resistance that attacks their cherished premises with mockery and contempt – they will fold.  This is a generation of special snowflakes, of kids instilled with self-esteem instead of a drive to achieve.  No one has ever called them idiots before and treated them accordingly.</p>
<p>And they can’t take it.  They’ve never had to defend their views against people who think they’re stupid.  They simply don’t know how.  The Occupy movement is performance art, not political science.  It is an information operation, not an authentic, organic expression of beliefs.</p>
<p>They have not earned respect and they don’t deserve it.  Don’t “engage” them, don’t “reason” with them, don’t try to “understand&#8221; their views.</p>
<p>Mock them.  Treat them like the buffoons they are.  And win.</p>
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		<title>Media Treatment and the Tea Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason Bradley</dc:creator>
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In light of a recent poll showing America’s distrust of the national media, I thought I would pick a topic for a case study. What better topical study is there when exploring the media’s methods and concerns than with the Tea Party?
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<p>In light of a <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=7&amp;ved=0CE0QFjAG&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fbigjournalism.com%2Fjjmnolte%2F2011%2F09%2F22%2Fgallup-majority-of-americans-dont-trust-news-media-to-be-unbiased%2F&amp;ei=_F2CToOOKaTv0gHH-qh2&amp;usg=AFQjCNHV0USfLeMI70w5FhV9xCP-iKUyPA">recent poll</a> showing America’s distrust of the national media, I thought I would pick a topic for a case study. What better topical study is there when exploring the media’s methods and concerns than with the Tea Party?</p>
<p>My approach was simple. I took data from 2010 and up to this point in 2011 based off key word searches in Google. For example, In 2010 I searched “Tea Party and racists” and pulled the number given from its search engine. On a positive side, as you can see from the chart, spending was a major keyword associated with the Tea Party in 2010. My, though, how the change a year makes.</p>
<p>In 2011, the tea party/racists word association climbed to over one million results, an increase from the year before.</p>
<p>The tea party/terrorists word association increased by over 10 million results from the year before.</p>
<p>As one would expect, tea party/spending word association dropped from over 17 million hits in 2010 to just over 300,00 heading into the tenth month of the year.</p>
<p><strong>Some limitations to my approach</strong></p>
<p>As I searched through the fist couple of pages of results, it became apparent that not every headline used “racism” or “terrorists” negatively. For example a writer at National Review Online or Big Government may use those two words in a headline, but it would be so to point out some ridiculous claim made by a blogger or media personality, etc. However, the fact that it must be done, that the words “racism” and “terrorists” are so commonly associated with the Tea Party around the web, and that point become moot. Because instead of laughing the assortment of yahoos who make these claims off the planet, conservatives and civic minded people busy themselves with defending the accusations.</p>
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<p>The Tea Party has become victim to extreme media bias. A hostile media, though unpopular, can still help shape its public image. Throw in the fact that liberal members of Congress carefully select word usage for maximum effect, which guarantees a long shelf life in the news cycle, and the Tea Party’s detractors get free media to vent their disapproval.</p>
<p>Some of the <a href="http://people-press.org/2011/08/25/section-3-congress-the-political-parties-and-the-tea-party/">Tea Party’s recent disapproval</a> can almost certainly be attributed to those facts.</p>
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		<title>Anticipating the Coming Convulsions as the Welfare State Dies</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s already happening – the liberal dream of a perpetual social welfare state where deadbeat liberal constituencies feed off of the work of productive conservative citizens in perpetuity is dying.  There’s no doubt about that; the only question left is how long and hard the process will be as the hideous leviathan the utopian liberal [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It’s already happening – the liberal dream of a perpetual social welfare state where deadbeat liberal constituencies feed off of the work of productive conservative citizens in perpetuity is dying.  There’s no doubt about that; the only question left is how long and hard the process will be as the hideous leviathan the utopian liberal establishment has created convulses and dies.</p>
<p>It’s going to die hard.  And ugly.</p>
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<p>The collapse is well-underway in Europe – Greece has gone from the cradle of democracy to a cesspool of union-fueled mobs – but America faces the same trauma.  As the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/janetdaley/8685945/If-we-are-to-survive-the-looming-catastrophe-we-need-to-face-the-truth.html">contradictions inherent in the vision</a> of a societal plan based on the notion that an ever-expanding pool of Democratic-voting serfs sucking the wealth away from the mostly Republican-oriented producers who labored to create it become more apparent, the reactions and rear-guard efforts of the terminal liberal elite will grow more extreme.</p>
<p>We are already seeing the liberal elite lash out in anger and frustration at what is a perfect storm of failure.  Glenn Reynolds, the legendary <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/">Instapundit</a>, chronicles the daily disintegration, while the brilliant Mark Steyn’s cheery new book, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1596981008/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=0895260786&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=10WMQX340X23NMF037HT">After America: Get Ready for Armageddon</a></em>, drops on August 8, 2011 &#8211; I’ll race you to Amazon to get a copy.</p>
<p>As the three components of the liberal establishment – the media, the unions and politicians – <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/raging_at_the_dying_of_their_light.html">rage at the dying</a> of the liberal light, the insanity meter will swing far into the red.  It’s already begun.  The Tea Party has dared to speak the truth, and the uncomfortable realities it has pointed out have destroyed the bogus consensus that has allowed the debt <em>Titanic</em> to sail giddily on toward the iceberg.  That’s why the establishment response is to demonize the popular movement.  We’re “terrorists” or “lunatics” or, bizarrely, “hobbits.”  Our crime is telling the truth.</p>
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<p>Never mind that the Tea Party candidates were absolutely clear about their debt crisis solution when running for election – the voters spoke.  Apparently, the only polls that matter get taken around the tables at Manhattan and Georgetown dinner parties – and, oddly, the results are always unanimous in favor of a “compromise” that tries to shore-up the crumbling status quo.</p>
<p>The problem with the Tea Party is not what it does – at best, right now, it can only make a moral and political case; it does not have the numbers to make anything happen without non-Tea Partiers joining it.  The problem with the Tea Partiers, in the eyes of the liberal establishment and the pet moderate GOP enablers, is that it dares to point out the indisputable truth that must be hidden at all costs:  That the social welfare state is unsustainable and will collapse.</p>
<p>But the demonization campaign does not seem to be working as expected – amazingly, the Tea Party caucus was able to provide the missing spine to the go-along/get-along gang running the House and present a primary-based incentive to the collegial Senate Republicans who have to face the voters next year and don’t want to join booted squish ex-Utah senator Bob Bennett in his new sinecure as the MSM’s go-to, slam-the-conservatives, pseudo-GOP nobody.  While the resulting deal was terrible, it was still a massive humiliation for the liberal establishment.  They are not in a forgiving mood, and it’s easier to hate on the Tea Party than face the fact that they’ve driven us to bankruptcy.</p>
<p>So when demonization doesn’t work, government lifers like Senator Kerry <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/08/05/john_kerry_media_has_responsibility_to_not_give_equal_time_to_tea_party.html">advocate silencing the opposition</a>.  One might think that a United States senator demanding that the media refuse to report the views of his political opponents because too many people are accepting them might stir some outrage in the media.  But then, if you did, you probably might believe in unicorns, leprechauns and global warming as well.</p>
<p>Instead of a chorus of outrage at this creepy fascism, the media elite seem to think this is a great idea.  But that should not be a surprise.  The media – at least the old media (call it the MSM) – is dying, killed off not only by technology that allows conservatives to evade the gates it used to defend to prevent the political discourse from being contaminated with ideas that challenge its <a href="http://biggovernment.com/kschlichter/2011/08/05/keeping-on-the-offense-more-lessons-for-our-side/">foundational liberal premises</a>.  It is grasping at a life preserver, trying to take in a few more lungfuls of air before it sinks under forever.</p>
<p>With the establishment politicians far “<a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100099792/in-this-grave-crisis-the-worlds-leaders-are-terrifyingly-out-of-their-depth/">out of their depth</a>” in response to the coming crisis, watch for more moves by the Left not to resolve the situation but to kill the messenger.  Do not put it past the elite to actually try again to limit debate using law and/or regulations.  They still salivate at the notion of killing off conservative radio by resurrecting the Orwellian <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123508978035028163.html">Fairness Doctrine</a>, and the government at one point argued that it had the right to <a href="http://www.campaignfreedom.org/blog/detail/kagan-campaign-finance-and-banning-books">criminally prosecute citizens for publishing a book critical of politicians</a> until it backed down.  Note that the MSM strongly supports these forays into fascism – not surprising since <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/08/07/cokie-roberts-problem-we-have-here-constitution-united-states-america">they think that the Constitution that allows conservatives’ voice to be heard is a “problem.”</a></p>
<p>But it will be impossible to regulate conservative opposition out of existence – not just because of the First Amendment but because the coming reckoning will be so severe that it can no longer be swept under the rug.  Yet, rug sweeping will become their next strategy.  Playing off the demonization tactics, they will continue to attempt to engage moderate – read “squishy” – Republicans toward some sort of “compromise” that will give them just a bit more time before everything comes crashing down.  Watch for this when the “Super Commission” comes back with its plan.  Their goal – get past November 2012 then hopefully use the crisis to their advantage to turn the ship of state even harder to port.</p>
<p>But that’s a fool’s errand.  The DC establishment can ignore math, but math won’t ignore it.  There is simply not enough wealth that exists or can be imagined into existence through borrowing to support the redistributionist utopia they seek.  Greece is a harbinger of the future.  The EU will cobble together a bogus bailout that will keep the Hellenic rowboat afloat just a bit longer before it is swamped, but Zorba best learn to swim because it is going under.</p>
<p>Then the other failed states of Europe – Ireland, Spain, Italy, Portugal – will collapse too, taking with them Europe’s banks and our banks along with them.  The only reason we won’t fail first – S&amp;P did not act too early but, rather, far too late in downgrading the US – is that Europe’s social democratic elite is even more delusional than ours.</p>
<p>It’s over.  The system must crash and reboot.  The choice is a hard landing or a harder landing.</p>
<p>The prescription is clear to anyone looking at the situation, except for the establishment that will not see it because to admit what must be done and embrace it means to wave goodbye to its members’ power, prestige and position.  We need to slash spending to less than the revenue we take in – the difference going to pay off the $14 trillion-plus tab.  And we need to do it now, not in some hazy future where some other Congress will have to make the tough calls – though reality may just make them for it.</p>
<p>That means a radical return to Constitutional government where the federal government goes back to what it was formed to do – those things set forth in the Constitution and nothing else.  The relatively easy part will be zeroing out the cowboy poetry slams, largely unwatched government TV networks and <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/treadmillrunning_shrimp_is_a_y.html">creepy shrimp-on-a-treadmill study grants.</a></p>
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<p>The hard part is the entitlements all of us were promised and none of us will ever see.  It means repealing Obamacare, but moreover returning the responsibility for health care to where it belongs – the individual.  The same with retirement – Social Security is a ponzi scheme and everyone knows it.</p>
<p>Government student loans, farms subsidies, corporate bailouts, food stamps, Section 8 housing  – none of these are federal responsibilities.  These should be eliminated not only because they are counterproductive, ineffective and soul-crushing for recipients but because if we don’t do it on our own terms fiscal reality will do it for us cold turkey.  And let’s not forget eliminating vast swaths of federal regulations – something that will both free up business and have the added benefit of dumping hundreds of thousands of government loafers off of Uncle Sam’s payroll.</p>
<p>There is a major change coming, and it could get ugly.  Union members will do their masters’ bidding with the support of the MSM, threatening violence and maybe committing some.  Look for well-planned and carefully-coordinated “spontaneous” mass marches on public buildings by scores of public employee union slugs demanding we keep subsidizing their retirements at full pay at age 50.</p>
<p>Fortunately, again <a href="http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/06/sunday-reflection-hard-get-good-goons-these-days#ixzz1OPX3VnrI">as observed by Glenn Reynolds</a>, the present crop of union activists aren’t the hardscrabble blue collar bruisers of the storied past.  Today, most seem to be skinny green tea-sipping public school teachers, naggy Department of Weights &amp; Measures diversity officers, or massive welfare-dispensing office drones clad in form-fitting purple size-XXXXL SEIU t-shirts that were made in China.  Not exactly a fearsome crew, unless you&#8217;re between them and a muffin.</p>
<p>The Tea Party did not cause what will be a brutal reckoning.  It only pointed out the truth  and said, “No more” – an unforgivable crime to the people who caused this disaster and want to keep milking the system for as long as possible.  The key to getting through the coming trauma – and it will be traumatic, as the social contract the liberals unilaterally imposed is rewritten by an implacable reality – is for the productive citizens of the United States to stand firm and stand fast.  In other words, just the way Americans have gotten through every other crisis we’ve faced before.</p>
<p>America’s greatest days need not be in the past.  Guided by the Founder’s vision and the principles of the Constitution, we will find that they lie ahead, over just one more hill.</p>
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