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VIDEO: ‘Why Don’t You Tell Her What a Great Sister You’ll Be’ (Mother’s Day)

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 5 Comments

They’re just selling groceries — strictly business. So why does Jill Stanek warn women to “get out the Kleenex”?

 

Category: Video

Irony-Impaired Planned Parenthood Hosts Mother’s Day Fundraiser
UPDATE: New York Democrat Offers Another Ironic Suggestion!

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 24 Comments

Do they lack a sense of irony? Or have no sense of shame?

As families across the nation gather to celebrate Mother’s Day, others will gather to support the abortion industry. Never one to miss a fundraising opportunity, a New York affiliate of Planned Parenthood is hosting a Mother’s Day brunch to support the clinic. . . .
This is not Planned Parenthood’s first attempt to raise money through Mother’s Day. Year after year, the abortion giant encourages supporters to donate on behalf of their mothers. . . .
The organization responsible for the death of over 300,000 children annually has no right to be raising money in honor of mothers. Abortion steals motherhood from women.

Remember this: If you were born after 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States has declared your life utterly worthless, without value, and deserving of no legal protection. That you are even alive to read this is therefore proof that God had some purpose for your life.

Why don’t you think about that? Ask yourself whether you, having miraculously survived despite the hatred of those who viewed your life with such vicious contempt, have a duty — indeed, an obligation of sacred honor — to speak up on behalf of those yet unborn.

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.
— Deuteronomy 30:19 (KJV)

UPDATE: Democrat death-monger Kirsten Gillibrand wants you to honor Mother’s Day by giving to pro-abortion EMILY’s List. (Hat-tip: Life News and Jill Stanek.) Meanwhile, the author of the article about the Planned Parenthood brunch was excited to learn she’d been linked by Doug Powers at Michelle Malkin’s site.

UPDATE II: “Get out the Kleenex”!

 

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Category: Abortion, National Offend a Feminist Week, Planned Parenthood

FMJRA 2.0: Iron Head

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

National Offend a Feminist Week 2012

No ‘BullyGate’ Pulitzer for WaPo?
UPDATE: Using a Second-Hand Source for a Dead Man’s Words? WTF?

Hope and Change Go Gay

Dreams of My Ghostwriter’s Ex: Did Bill Ayers Use Dead Weather Underground Terrorist Diana Oughton as Model for Obama’s ‘Composite’ Girlfriend?

Rule 5 Monday

So Funny, When Feminism Thinks The Unborn Should Die

Boreal Supremacy: Bruce Bartlett’s Tendentious History of Partisanship

FMJRA 2.0: Atomic Power

Not #ReadyToGo? New Hashtag Doesn’t Fill Ohio Arena for Obama Campaign

Knuckle-Dragging Creationist Threatens College With Unorthodox Thoughts & Shield Of Faith, But Mostly Thoughts

Shout Out To #Fauxcahontas

Arianna’s Power Scaled Back at AOL?

Little Joe In Big Trouble?

France To U.S.: We Will Make The Election Of Obama Seem Smart

An Apparent Misunderstanding

Democrats Against Journalism?

Occupy the Environment!

Team Mitt: Let Them Do Their Jobs

Tom Barrett’s War on Wisconsin Women

Grim News in WaPoVille

Number One, He’s French

You Say That Like It’s a Bad Thing

Commissars Sacrifice Naomi Schaefer Riley to the ‘New Gods of Diversity’

Memo From the National Affairs Desk: Time to Quit Whining and Get to Work

Gaffe-Tastic!

Wow. This Almost Never Happens.

Kate Beckinsale’s Ghastly Vagina of Death: Another Ex-Starlet Aborts Her Career

#AskMichelle

Say Good-Bye, Dick; Orrin’s Next

Which Is Worse: Gang-Rape or Racism?

This Might Be What You’d Call ‘Relevant’

Some Guy You Never Heard Of Wants to Be Some Woman You Never Heard Of

Fox News Closet Case (Who’s Not Fooling Anybody) Declares GOP Opponents of Gay Marriage ‘On the Wrong Side of History’

Midweek Rule 5 Catch-up

If We Had an Actual Press Corps, They Would Be Asking …

President Obama Sends Me E-Mail

As a Notorious Homophobe, Of Course, I Don’t Do Broadway Show Tune Lyrics

Probably Just a Coincidence

Silly AFP, Thinking BHO Will Hold To Any Prior View

Easter Island Yields Ancient Prophecy

Rutherford B. Hayes Sympathizes With Obama Sweat Shop Workers, Sort Of

‘BullyGate’: What Did Jason Horowitz Know, and When Did He Know It?

Hard Times in WaPoVille: ‘BullyGate’ Timing Questioned on ‘Morning Joe’

Good May Come Of This Administration: The Realization That Federal Involvement In Personal Matters Is False

MSNBC Host Loses It When Reporter Won’t Play Along With ‘Get Mitt’ Meme

Top linkers this week:

  1. DaleyGator (17)
  2. Lonely Conservative (13)
  3. (tied) Da Tech Guy and The Camp Of The Saints (11)
  4. The Rio Norte Line (7)
  5. (tied) Daily Pundit and Zion’s Trumpet (5)

Thanks to everyone for linking! This has been a big week, with lots of folks adding their linkagery to the four Instalanches, and it’s been good to have you with us for this big news week. Deadline for next week’s FMJRA is Friday, May 18. Don’t be strangers, now. 🙂

 

Category: FMJRA Award

Great: Corporate America Now Paying Democrats to Call Americans Racist

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 20 Comments

One of the great truths of political life is this: Money is fungible.

Therefore, the Wall Street Journal headline, “Democrats’ Fund Taps Corporate Donors for Convention,” has profound significance when we consider what the Greedy Fat Cats are paying for.

House Democrats received training this week on how to address the issue of race to defend government programs, according to training materials obtained by The Washington Examiner.
The prepared content of a Tuesday presentation to the House Democratic Caucus and staff indicates that Democrats will seek to portray apparently neutral free-market rhetoric as being charged with racial bias, conscious or unconscious.

Read the rest of that article by Joel Gehrke, but only if you think you can handle the blood-boiling rage reaction it will almost certainly induce. Who paid for this “training”? And who funds the trainer, Maya Wiley of the Center for Social Inclusion? A glance at her organization’s 2010 annual report (PDF, see Page 13) lists many of the usual suspects, including George Soros’s Open Society Institute and the Soros-funded Tides Foundation. Surely there’s no need to do a Glenn Beck chalkboard talk to explain that, is there?

Yet what kind of vicious corporate swine would give a single penny to the Democratic Party, which deliberately seeks to warp public-policy debate with divisive racial rhetoric? Read more

Category: Blogging, Democrats, Racism, Shoe Leather Fund

Episode 42,747 Of #OccupyResoluteDesk Is Doomed

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 5 Comments

by Smitty

Not a whole lot of new ground here, but the packaging and delivery are pitch-perfect:

His web site is here.

via BlueGrass Pundit

Update: linked at Truth Before Dishonor.

Category: Barack Obama

Crack That Whip!

Posted on | May 12, 2012 | 10 Comments

by Smitty

Yeah, got him doing the dishes at 9 months: yeah.

Not really, he's just playing in the dishwasher at this point

The World's Youngest Blogger has to clean that dinner plate, or it's gonna get broken!

Oh, and if you’re a fan of Dilbert mashups, I have your ‘heh’.

Category: humor, World's Youngest Blogger

Bias by Omission: What the WaPo Didn’t Include in Its ‘BullyGate’ Hit Job

Posted on | May 11, 2012 | 12 Comments

Susan Swift at Big Journalism located a profile feature about Mitt Romney in Automobile magazine, including quotes from some of the same sources used in Jason Horowitz’s “BullyGate” story. One of the common sources was Phillip Maxwell, who is quoted by the WaPo as an authority on the Infamous Homophobic Bullying Haircut. So, what didn’t Horowitz tell us about Maxwell that Automobile does?

“I’m a Democrat, so I won’t vote for him. . . . He’s determined to claim the highest office in the land — to be the first Mormon to do it. He keeps that undercover because he doesn’t want to frighten people.”

Hmmm. Let me get this right:

  1. Democrat.
  2. Thinks the Mormon-quest-for-power theme would “frighten people.”

Kinda like Lawrence O’Donnell, really. But it’s rather curious that the same Philip Maxwell who told Automobile magazine that he’s a Democrat is not clearly identified as such by Horowitz. And, as John Nolte notices, ABC News also presented Maxwell as apolitical.

I have “long been bothered” by this . . .

Category: ABC, Election 2012, Media Bias, Mitt Romney

MSNBC Host Loses It When Reporter Won’t Play Along With ‘Get Mitt’ Meme

Posted on | May 11, 2012 | 24 Comments

Tim Carney had a piece this morning about BullyGate and “the casual indifference The Post displays as it destroys lives in pursuit of its goal of electing Democrats.” Somehow, Tim got booked onto MSNBC, where host Tamron Hall wanted him to play along with the game. Amid her increasingly angry interruptions, Carney managed to speak some truth to power:

{W}hat you’re doing here is a typical media trick: You hype up a story, and then you justify the second-day coverage of the story by saying, “Oh, well, people are talking about it. Here’s how Romney responded to it” . . .
You are bringing up a meta story here, which is, “What is the Romney response to this other non-story?”

Watch the video as Hall tells Carney “you are actually irritating me right now” and eventually cuts off his mike:

Via Memeorandum with more commentary by Patterico and by Brian Cates at Draw and Strike.

UPDATE: Bryan Preston scores the Headline of the Day:

The Washington Post Could Not Be Reached
for Comment, On Its Own Blockbuster Story

Much more from Ed Driscoll, who’s aggregating like a mofo.

UPDATE II: Ace of Spades weighs in on the Tamron Hall/Tim Carney segment:

After Carney’s kicked off due to his refusal to play the left’s Reindeer Games, a Democratic strategist opines it’s a “red herring” that we must talk about the GDP and jobs, and argues that George Bush won in 2004 by talking about “gay marriage, gay marriage all day long.”
Thus, he argues, turnabout is fair play.

Can we talk, just for a minute, about the media’s conception of “fairness”? Because I think this is what you might call a “teachable moment.”

What is the simplest, most childish definition of “fairness”? Even-Steven, 50-50, halfsies — a down-the-middle division, where everybody takes turns and everyone’s slice of the pie is the same. If your mind is fixated on that kindergarten notion of “fairness,” then the real world is an endless carnival of unfairness.

To the Kindergarten Mind, “inequality” is a synonym for “injustice.”

This is the basic liberal worldview on everything, and no amount of adult common-sense argument has ever proven capable of persuading liberals from turning loose of this infantile concept.

We might examine how liberals apply their Kindergarten Mind to many areas of public policy, but let’s just stick to the concept of “fairness” as it applies to political coverage in the media. To the Kindergarten Mind, fairness could mean many things in this regard:

  1. 50-50 — Power is exactly divided between Republicans and Democrats, and everybody cooperates so they can get at least a “satisfactory” grade for “plays well with others.”
  2. Taking Turns — After a Republican gets the White House for four or eight years, then it’s the Democrats turns to have the White House for an equal period of time. The same is true with the House, the Senate, governorships, state legislators, etc. As long as everybody takes turns, both Democrats and Republicans can say that the political process is “fair.”
  3. The Triumph of the Party of Fairness — In this conception of “fairness,” Republicans are the party of Evil Rich Haters, and also vicious cheating partisan bullies who don’t play fair, so they don’t deserve a “50-50” share and also have no right to claim power on the basis of it being “their turn” to be in charge. Kindergarten-style “fairness” therefore requires that Republicans always lose, and any time Democrats lose an election, the result is inherently unfair.

Think back to the alleged “golden age of bipartisanship,” the passing of which has been much lamented of late, in light of the defeats of such “moderate” Republicans as Dick Lugar, Mike Castle, Arlen Specter and Charlie Crist. Between 1954 and 1994, Democrats controlled the House of Representatives without exception, and controlled the Senate for all but a few years of that four-decade span. Between 1968 to 1992, however, Republicans won the White House in five elections (Richard Nixon in 1968 and ’72, Ronald Reagan in 1980 and ’84, George H.W. Bush in 1988), and the Democrats won only once (Jimmy Carter in 1976). Barely had a Democrat broken the (obviously unfair) 12-year Reagan-Bush presidential tenure (with Bill Clinton’s 1992 election) than those Evil Rich Haters in the GOP swept the 1994 midterms to take control of the House and Senate. Although Clinton won re-election in 1996, Republican control of Congress extended another decade (until the Pelosi-led Democrats won in 2006), and the Evil Rich Haters actually stole the 2000 election (or so, Democrats would have us believe) in order to install Chimpy McHitler George W. Bush as president.

All of which is to say, if you look at the situation with the liberal Kindergarten Mind conception of “fairness,” we’re more than 40 years into a long steady succession of unfair outcomes. After the eight-year presidency of Republican George W. Bush, Democrats deserve — under the “taking-turns” conception of fairness — at least eight years of President Oh My God He’s So Historically Awesome Obama.

Thus, the media (about 90% of whom are Democrats) consider Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign an effort to bring about a grossly unfair result, to deprive Democrats of “their fair share” of electoral success. “Fairness” requires that Romney must lose.

Also, if you vote for Romney, you’re a greedy racist who hates gay people and wants women to die from back-alley abortions.

Republicans who demand that the Thrill-Up-My-Leg Obama-Loving Media should give “fair” treatment to Mitt Romney are therefore actually advocating unfairness, as defined by the Kindergarten Mind.

 

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