MY VIDEO of Michele Bachmann’s Christian Testimony Used in SMEAR JOB

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This is so shocking I don’t know how to begin to describe it. Regular readers will recall that on Friday, Aug. 5, I covered an appearance by Michele Bachmann at the Spirit Midwest Christian Music Festival in West Des Moines, Iowa. It had been raining all afternoon before Bachmann arrived and gave her Christian testimony, which I recorded on video and posted the next day.

Some vicious monster ripped off my video and edited it, so that when Bachmann begins by jokingly asking the crowd, “Who likes wet people?” — because everybody was soaked to the bone, including me — instead there is a caption, “Who likes white people?”

Ken Layne of Wonkette then spread that smear all around the Internet.

Thank goodness, Chris Moody of Yahoo News spotted the lie and posted the truth.

Now, who do I sue for copyright infringement, piracy and fraud?

UPDATE: Linked by Da Tech Guy, by Eternity Matters and by Lisa Graas at The American Catholic and welcome, Instapundit readers! I’ve also written this up at Right Wing News and cross-posted at the Hot Air Green Room, concluding:

[A]fter I learned that my video had been stolen and misused for such a defamatory purpose, I put up a blog post denouncing the smear, and sent an e-mail to the anonymous proprietor of the “On Knees” Web site. He then deleted his first lie and substituted another vicious smear as a “correction.” But his pirated and re-edited version of my video — a clear violation of my copyright, and of YouTube’s terms of service agreement — is still online. I have spoken to an attorney and fully intend that the perpetrator of this crime will be brought to justice.

And I want the creep who did this to understand that he has just forfeited whatever legal right he had to anonymity. In pursuit of legal action, my attorney informs me, we can subpoena YouTube to get the actual name of this pseudonymous monster, who has made the mistake of picking the wrong dude to rip off in pursuit of his vile purposes.

By the way, Bachmann’s campaign manager is Ed Rollins, a guy who isn’t likely to take this kind of crap too kindly, either.

UPDATE II: Linked by Roxeanne de Luca and by Joy McCann at the Conservatory — thanks!

UPDATE III: Linked by Duane Lester at All American Blogger and by Bob Belvedere at The Camp of the Saints — thanks!

UPDATE IV: Lowlife Who Pirated My Video Apologizes for Smearing Michele Bachmann — we’ll see what my attorney says about this.

Linked at Pirate’s Cove — thanks!


‘This Whole Capitalistic System Is Basically in Place to Rip Your Ass Off’

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Ace of Spades discovered this “philosopher of economics”:

Lots of f-bombs and other NSFW language here, but the really necessary content warning involves the coffee-spewing moment at which she starts talking about her “ancient ancestors.”

Watching this lady explain her worldview, I found myself wondering if she’s been hanging out with Peggy Joseph.

Probably because I’m such a horrible racist.





And yeah: My ancient ancestors said you should hit the tip jar, because otherwise I’ll be getting ripped off by this whole capitalistic system.

UPDATE: Commenters inform me that Darleen Click’s ancient ancestors deserve credit for discovering this video.

UPDATE II: Wait a minute — Darleen gives credit to Full Metal Patriot at Left Coast Rebel, who gives credit to Kira Davis. You racist crackers need to get this cleared up. That’s all I’m sayin’ — y’know what I mean?

UPDATE III: My video reply:

UPDATE IV: Thanks to Serr8D for pointing out that this lady Alberta Parish has a blog, where she posts lunatic gibberish like this:

Based on recent discovery of the so-called origin of Hebrews; THERE IS NO HEBREW RACE! THERE IS NO JEWISH RACE EITHER! Hebrew or Jew is related to a religious institution and the ideology associated with it. The story of the biblical Hebrews from Genesis to Malachi is pure fiction because Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Solomon, etc. are fictional characters created by an ancient priesthood after the exile of Israelites to Babylon in 586 BCE. These Israelites were the inhabitants of Canaan (aka modern-day Israel and Palestine), and NOT the so-called biblical Hebrew or Jewish race. The biblical Hebrew and Jewish story is the literary fictionalized version behind the real history of Africans living in Canaan, because this land was also part of Africa before being renamed the Middle East. The so-called “biblical Jews” in the First Century were citizens of Judea. This land was also called Palestina (“Palestine”) by the Romans, and the people were called Palestinians. These people were dark in complexion. What you see living in the State of Israel today are Khazar Europeans, and they originally migrated from the northern Caucasus region, which include Georgia and southern Russia. The Khazars claim a biblical history that isn’t theirs, because the biblical history of a Jewish people as descendants of Abraham is pure myth.

Scratch an Afro-centrist and an anti-Semite bleeds.

Alas, Tomorrow Is Not Election Day

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Hot Air Headlines citing an article in The Hill about Obama’s prospects: “If the election were next Tuesday he’d lose. That’s how bad it is.”

No doubt that is true — anyone can look at the polls pitting Obama against a “Generic Republican” and conclude the same — but the hypothetical “if” posits two scenarios that don’t match the facts:

  1. Obama’s opponent won’t be a generic Republican; and
  2. The election isn’t next Tuesday.

Earlier today I had a phone conversation with Ladd Ehlinger in which we both lamented some of the internecine unpleasantness regarding the Republican primary candidates. When Ladd made reference to the fact of Rick Perry’s current front-runner status, I pointed out that Perry hasn’t even been in a debate yet. There will be three GOP debates in September (Sept. 7 at the Reagan Library, Sept. 12 in Tampa and Sept. 22 in Orlando) followed by a Sept. 24 Florida straw poll.

Perry may still be the front-runner when September is said and done, but there’s no need to race ahead — borrowing tomorrow’s trouble as it were — and fret about the “what-if” scenarios as if we could predict the future.

So all the ugly infighting, predicated on the notion that our August arguments will determine the future viability of Perry’s candidacy, is as much a waste of breath as talking economics with Democrats.

Discrimination Against the Ugly? Expect a Class-Action Lawsuit by Smitty and Me

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Conclusively demonstrating that aesthetically impaired Americans suffer economic disadvantages, an academic writes in the New York Times:

A more radical solution may be needed: why not offer legal protections to the ugly, as we do with racial, ethnic and religious minorities, women and handicapped individuals?
We actually already do offer such protections in a few places, including in some jurisdictions in California, and in the District of Columbia, where discriminatory treatment based on looks in hiring, promotions, housing and other areas is prohibited. Ugliness could be protected generally in the United States by small extensions of the Americans With Disabilities Act. Ugly people could be allowed to seek help from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other agencies in overcoming the effects of discrimination. We could even have affirmative-action programs for the ugly.

You laugh, but it’s really no laughing matter — although, 20 years ago, I myself used to laugh at the beauty-pageant finalists who, during the interview segment of the competition, would tell the emcee that their career ambition was to be a television news anchor.

Print journalists have an instinctive contempt for the overpaid show-biz of TV news and tt never occurred to me, during the first dozen years of my career as a journalist, that anyone gave a damn what a writer looked like. Then I arrived in Washington, where journalists are often also TV commentators, and was shocked to discover the advantages enjoyed by the camera-friendly. Continue reading Discrimination Against the Ugly? Expect a Class-Action Lawsuit by Smitty and Me →

How About That Commitment To Mediocrity

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by Smitty

Update: crossed out a word, added a couple to the first sentence of the second para to avoid a friendly fire incident.

Insty links spaceflightnow.com discussing the possible abandonment of the International Space Station. The Russkies are having lift problems, which puts them ahead of the U.S., which currently ain’t got no sack whatsoever.

This is why I’m not sure it’s good not to be purely libertarian on the topic of space. I don’t know what the libertarian argument in favor of a space program is. As a conservative, one can ask if, unlike ObamaCare, space flight can be argued as a federal task. Space actually has significant national security impacts, and falls neatly under the federal task to provide such.

And have a space program we should. Its one of those national inspiration things that are cool, without explicitely making other countries look bad. We all benefit from the technology trickle-down, like the integrated circuit for the Apollo program.

Instead of pushing the edge, we get ObamaCare. Managing individual health is not a federal Constitutional task, irrespective of the mental gymnastics of the lawyers and judges. Beside being wrongheaded, and wasteful, socialist programs like ObamaCare insidiously divert resources from inspirational programs like space flight, and pour them down a mediocre money hole of health care. Instead of motivational pictures of the stars-and-stripes on the moon, we get a pallet of generic cough syrup that does little but provide jobs to some paper-pushers. Certainly doesn’t improve anyone’s existence.

Set low goals; fail to meet them. Thanks for nothing, Progressives.

“Act Now,” Says Lagarde, As In “Keep The Kabuki Caterwauling, Kids”

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by Smitty via Drudge

“The standard old bits of farce are losing traction on the world stage,” she was not quoted as saying, “as more people have access to information. [NSFW] 73 percent of Americans are no longer able to suspend their disbelief for our merde.”
What she did say was:

She called for a “mandatory substantial recapitalization,” through private channels if possible, but otherwise through some form of public, Europe-wide funding, such as the European Financial Stability Facility.
Lagarde also warned advanced economies away from tightening their belts so fast that it imperils recovery.
“Put simply, macroeconomic policies must support growth,” the former French economy minister said. On Friday, she made the same point in a phone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama, in which the White House said they agreed on the need for policies to spur job creation.

Translated out of Prog-speak, this means:

“Public officials must re-invigorate their dance routines, and shake their money-fabricators, to keep the audience focused on policy as the ultimate source of solutions. If the lumpen proletariat goes old-school and relies on archaic sources such as the private economy, capitalism, and individual industry to recover from the idiocies of globalization, then the very core of Progressive Theater itself could be threatened.

  • Bureaucratic slugs could find themselves exposed to the harsh light of competition.
  • People may realize that musicians using AutoTune are self-identifying as useless hacks.
  • Independent thought could break out, triggering a loss of faith in Holy Progress.

This possibility must, of course, be crushed like Gibson guitars.”

progressive twig on the warpath
Christine Lagarde of the IMF demonstrates a new move, the 'bureau-karate chop', for use when acting in roles that save the global economy.

‘Self-Appointed Republican Elites’

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Nothing says “grassroots populism” quite like a column in Politico:

A wave of fear has come over Washington — and it’s not the earthquake or the hurricane. Self-appointed Republican elites, fretting Hill Republicans and left-wing carnival barkers all have one thing in common: Perryphobia.
It’s an acute condition, with different manifestations. But it has the same root cause – arrogance toward Texas Gov. Rick Perry. . . .

A list of “Perryphobia” sufferers ensues and then . . .

Finally, and this is my personal favorite, we have those self-appointed Republican elites. You know the type: they wear the Adam Smith tie; yammer at us on FOX News all day; read the Journal with devotional religious fervor; skip church to watch “Meet the Press,” and make their living off the generosity of people they secretly look down on with benevolent disdain.

OK, so let’s skip down to the Politico columnist’s bio blurb:

Curt Anderson is a Republican strategist and a partner at OnMessage Inc., a GOP media and polling firm.

Anderson’s polling/PR/strategy firm is based inside the Beltway, in Alexandria, Virginia, and lists among its clients the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the Republican Governors Association. Anderson is former political director of the RNC, worked on the Bush-Cheney campaigns in 2000 and 2004, and also worked on Mitt Romney’s 2008 campaign.  

So if you’re looking for a grassroots anti-elitist who courageously stands up to the GOP Establishment, then obviously Curt Anderson’s your man.

Professional Republican consultants: Vox populi, vox dei.