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Young Obama Bullied….A Girl

Posted on May 10, 2012 | 128 Comments

The above text comes directly from President Obama’s first memoir, “Dreams From My Father” and recounts an incident which occurred while he was in middle school.  When our president became the subject of taunts from his fellow classmates, he decided to shove a little girl named Coretta.   Although he chronicles his feelings of regret, he never does not offer her an apology.

Now let us campare this to the Romney revelation of the day:

The Washington Post ran a story today entitled, “Mitt Romney’s prep school classmates recall pranks, but also troubling incidents”.  In it, Jason Horowitz recounts the story of an “incident” involving Mitt Romney, a pair of scissors, and a forced haircut.

“Mitt Romney returned from a three-week spring break in 1965 to resume his studies as a high school senior at the prestigious Cranbrook School. Back on the handsome campus, studded with Tudor brick buildings and manicured fields, he spotted something he thought did not belong at a school where the boys wore ties and carried briefcases. John Lauber, a soft-spoken new student one year behind Romney, was perpetually teased for his nonconformity and presumed homosexuality. Now he was walking around the all-boys school with bleached-blond hair that draped over one eye, and Romney wasn’t having it.

“He can’t look like that. That’s wrong. Just look at him!” an incensed Romney told Matthew Friedemann, his close friend in the Stevens Hall dorm, according to Friedemann’s recollection. Mitt, the teenaged son of Michigan Gov. George Romney, kept complaining about Lauber’s look, Friedemann recalled.

A few days later, Friedemann entered Stevens Hall off the school’s collegiate quad to find Romney marching out of his own room ahead of a prep school posse shouting about their plan to cut Lauber’s hair. Friedemann followed them to a nearby room where they came upon Lauber, tackled him and pinned him to the ground. As Lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help, Romney repeatedly clipped his hair with a pair of scissors.”

According to Horowitz the sources for this story were:

“The incident was recalled similarly by five students, who gave their accounts independently of one another. Four of them — Friedemann, now a dentist; Phillip Maxwell, a lawyer; Thomas Buford, a retired prosecutor; and David Seed, a retired principal — spoke on the record. Another former student who witnessed the incident asked not to be named. The men have differing political affiliations, although they mostly lean Democratic. Buford volunteered for Barack Obama’s campaign in 2008. Seed, a registered independent, has served as a Republican county chairman in Michigan. All of them said that politics in no way colored their recollections.”

The circumstances of the two stories are different.  Romney was in high school when the forced-haircut incident occurred, while Obama was a middle schooler when he shoved Coretta on the playground.

The Obama campaign and their lap-dog media buddies seem to want to equate what Romney did with the “School Ties” locker room fight between Matt Damon and Brendon Fraser. But the Romney incident sounds tame compared to oh I don’t know fraternity hazing.  I am not excusing his behavior, but shouldn’t Obama’s admitted bullying also be examined?

Also, Romney, unlike Obama,  has apologized;

“Back in high school, I did some dumb things, and if anybody was hurt by that or offended, obviously I apologize for that,” Romney said in a live radio interview with Fox News Channel personality Brian Kilmeade. Romney added: “I participated in a lot of hijinks and pranks during high school, and some might have gone too far, and for that I apologize.”  [WaPo "Romney apologizes for high school pranks that 'might have gone too far"]

PR maverick Hilary Rosen couldn’t resist tweeting about the WaPo article.  Below you will find the tweet she sent out, along with the follow up question I had for her.  I find it frighteningly telling that she hasn’t responded to my inquiry.

***Update***
A very special thank you to one of my heroes, the conservative #war-rior, Michelle Malkin.
Hilary Rosen Answers Michelle Malkin.

A thank you to my fantastic twitter family! Especially these fine gentleman who made sure that my story got out quickly,

@SooperMexican

and @FoolishReporter

Thanks to their efforts this happened;
Thank you Adam Baldwin!

Thank you David Burge!

Thank you Jim Treacher!

I would also like to thank everyone that linked to this piece, Jim Teacher, Sarah Hoyt, Twitchy, Jim Geraghty, Moe Lane, John Nolte, The Right Scoop,

And to everyone else that pushed this story #forward thank you!

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Dinosaur Flatulence Caused Global Warming: Stupid Conservative Joke to Brilliant Liberal Science

Posted on May 7, 2012 | 1 Comment

Back in 2007, Dana Rorhbacher (R-CA) caught a bunch of flak from the left when he joked about dinosaur farts being a cause for global warming. Some over zealous leftists even made a video to make fun of Rorhbacher’s obvious joke. They present evidence that suggests that there is no way dinosaur farts could account for “all emissions responsible for past warming cycles.”

FireDogLake couldn’t resist taking a swipe at Rorhbacher.
“Now, I know it was probably some sort of smart-assed retort to protect whatever pollution-friendly interests were funding whatever was making Rohrbacher happy in the moment but…hello?!? Yes, I’m certain that we can all stop for a moment in our day to pause and reflect on how dinosaur farts could, indeed, be the cause of a mass, global extinction. Now THAT is some powerful tooting, if you ask me.”

Think Progress also posted the FireDogLake Article on their site.

Oh but it could be true. Current Biology journal published the findings of a “scientific” study that was conducted by David Wilkinson of Liverpool John Moores University and Graeme Ruxton of the University of St. Andrews.

Wilkinson and Ruxton worked in conjunction with methane expert Euan Nisbet at the University of London to “make an educated guess about the degree to which gaseous emissions from sauropods could have warmed the atmosphere.” [Reuters; It’s a gas: dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the Earth.]

These guys came up with a mathematical formula to determine how much methane gas may have been emitted by sauropod dinosaurs. “A simple mathematical model suggests that the microbes living in sauropod dinosaurs may have produced enough methane to have an important effect on the Mesozoic climate,” said researcher Dave Wilkinson.

Here’s the neato graph they created;

So what’s the end game here? Seems to me that this is the starting gun to commence an assault on methane emissions.  Australia has already placed a carbon-credit bounty on its ferral camel population.  And here in the US, they’d just love to start taxing livestock, and any other animal whose flatulence may pose a supposed threat to our environment.

Keep your hemp-mittened hands off of our cows!

Here are a few tweets from “reputable” sources about the dino-farts-may-have-caused-prehistoric-warming revelation;

BBC News UK

Discovery News

The Huffington Post is buying it…

Live Science

Gizmodo

TreeHugger.com

I reached out (via twitter of course) to the biggest global warming true believer on the planet. No not Al Gore silly, I’m talking about Jose Canseco.

I have yet to receive a response. If I do, I’m sure that it will be just as intelligent and coherent as his previous statements about global warming.

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Obama Eats Tiger Meat

Posted on April 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

If you haven’t heard, Obama ate a dog. Yes it’s true and he admitted as much in his first autobiography “Dreams From My Father”. Obama even made fun of his youthful dog-eating adventure at the White House Correspondents Dinner. By laughing at himself, he effectively minimized the continued impact of Dog-gATE.

But not so fast kids, dog isn’t the only unusual meat that Obama ingested during his time in Jakarta, Indonesia. He also wrote about eating snake, crickets and he discussed his stepfather Lolo’s promise to bring home tiger meat for him to sample.

It would seem, according to President Obama’s own autobiography, that Lolo made good on that promise, and he partook in the eating of Tiger meat.   The following can be found on page 138 of “Dreams From My Father”.


There used to be nine subspecies of tiger.  Three of these subspecies have become extinct over the last one hundred years.  Of the subspecies only three are native to Indonesia; the Bali tiger which became extinct in the 1930′s, the Javan tiger which became extinct in the 1980′s and the Sumatran tiger.  The World Wildlife Foundation estimates there are fewer than 400 wild Sumatran tigers alive today.

Even if the subspecies of tiger that Obama ate as a child is not one native to Indonesia, where he was living at the time, all tiger species are endangered.   SaveTigersNow.org claims there may be as few as 3,200 left today.

Will PETA summarily dismisses this like they did with the revelation that Obama ate dog meat?  Guess we’ll just have to wait and see.

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Marco Rubio Joins Mitt Romney for a Town Hall Event in Pennsylvania

Posted on April 25, 2012 | Leave a comment

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined Mitt Romney on Monday April 23, for a town hall event in Aston Pennsylvania.  On the eve of the state’s primary, Rubio seems rather an odd choice considering that Pennsylvania is the home state of the estimable Senator Pat Toomey.  Could this be a subtle signal that Romney will indeed be selecting Rubio as his running-mate?  Fingers crossed.

Marco Rubio first came to my attention when he was the subject of a National Review article  “Yes, He Can” which was published in August of 2009. I was immediately drawn to his compelling life story and his long list of accomplishments that reflected a strict adherence to the traditional republican platform; limited government, low tax rates, and fiscal responsibility.

Two and half years later, Rubio, now a freshman senator has become the darling of the republican party. His Reaganesque ability to effectively communicate the principals of conservationism is serving Romney well. The democrats are terrified of him, and have already begun drilling for dirt (the only kind of drilling that they support) on him.

It’s easy enough to tell who the democrats fear, as they immediately attack anyone whom they feel poses a threat to their continue reign of tyranny. In that vein, we’ve seen them morph into Rubio-birthers, claiming that although he was born in the United States, neither of his parents were citizens at the time of his birth. Funny, weren’t these the very same people telling us that demanding to see a birth certificate is racist? Attempts have also been made to discredit his back story but Rubio remains undeterred.

After having the opportunity to see him speak at the town hall event, I have little doubt that one day in the not too distant future, Marco Rubio will be our President. Mitt Romney should select Rubio to be his running mate. Rubio’s energy and enthusiasm for conservatism is infectious. His ability to communicate conservative principles has the potential to convince a huge swath of independent voters that by supporting Romney in the fall, they will be protecting individual liberty and continued American exceptionalism.

If you still have doubts, please take the time to watch the video of the event.

Full Transcript:
Introducing Romney:
Tomorrow, tomorrow you get to practice doing that when you turn out and vote. You know all the noise that surrounds these elections let’s never forget what these elections are. Elections are choices. Now four years ago this nation made a choice one that I disagreed with, and I think that from what I hear today, one that most of you disagreed with. But we made a choice and the choice was to give Barack Obama a chance to lead this nation. And from the day he took over in January of 2009 till today he has a records as president and that record has numbers behind it. Like unemployment which under his watch has gone up. Like the debt, which under his watch has gone up. Like that value of our homes which under his watch have gone down. He’s no longer a theory, Barack Obama is a reality. For millions of Americans today life is worse than it was three years ago. Because he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Now of course he’ll make all kinds of excuses about it, it’s somebody else’s fault. It always is, but the truth is his party controlled the House and the Senate for two years. His first two years as President, they would have given him anything he wanted and they did. They gave him a stimulus that failed. They gave him a health care that’s failing. They gave him regulations that are failing our country. And so we get to choose again. And what we should chose are the things that make America great. This place man, this place where we are today is a testament to America’s greatness. I used to give speeches during my campaign where I would say that one of the great things about America is it’s one of the few places in the world where you can start a business out of your parent’s garage. Yes, in violation of the zoning code, but you can do it! And one day employ a bunch of people and build a big building. That’s what she’s done. And the job of government is to make is easier on people to do that, not harder. And there’s only one person running for president that understands that. There’s only one person that’s running for president that’s ever helped do that. There is only one choice that’s running for president that will help us reclaim and recapture the things that make this nation of ours different from all the other countries on the earth and he happens to be here today, his name is Mitt Romney, the next president of the United States!

Voter I.D. :
About a week ago I went and bought and exercise bike because my wife said I was looking too senatorial if you know what I mean. You know what the cashier asked me for, when I went to pay? My I.D. This morning I got on an airplane, you know what they asked me for? My I.D. So what’s the big deal? What’s the big deal?

Energy Independence:
Do you realize that this is the most energy rich country in the world? Do you realize that the American innovator has invented ways to access natural gas and oil that we’ve never had a chance to get to? At a time when the world needs more energy, we found more of it. And let me give you a graphic example of the direction of this administration. Canada has decided to build a pipeline. It can go in two directions, it can go towards China or it can come towards us. Guess, which direction do you think the president chose? (Audience “China!”) Which direction do you think Mitt Romney will choose? America.

The American Dream:
Your question strikes a chord with me. First of all let me tell you how honored I am to be here today. About half a century ago, my parents came to the United States. They could speak English, barely. They didn’t really have much of an education, they both grew up pretty poor. They didn’t know anybody here. It’s hard for me to imagine what life was like then, because even though my parents weren’t rich at all, I was privileged because I lived in a strong and stable family and I had all kinds of opportunities they didn’t. And if my dad was still alive and my mom who is hopefully watching if one of these guys will cut-in live. It would have been unimaginable that I would be standing here with you today. Now why is that? Why am I here today with you why do I get to serve in the United States Senate, why have I been privileged to have opportunities they didn’t? Well it isn’t because I worked harder than they did. It isn’t because I’m smarter than they were. It’s because I had something that they didn’t the privilege and the honor of being born in the single greatest society in all of human history. In a place where anyone from anywhere can accomplish anything. You know why we’re different? Because I don’t remember growing up my parents saying to me, “You know why weren’t not better off? Cause those guys are doing too well.” I don’t ever remember my parents saying to me, “You know what, if only we took something away from them and gave it to us, things would be better.” I don’t ever remember my parents teaching me that. In fact when my parents would do, they would point to people that had made it and they would say, “That’s a source of inspiration, if they made it, you can make it as well.” We now have a leader in this country who wants to take that from us. Who is telling Americans that the reasons why they’re hurting is because other people are doing too well. That the way that they can climb up the ladder is to pull other people down. If we do that, we become like every other country in the world, we cannot do that. Because if we are that, if we become that, then the American inspiration will be gone and there will be nothing that the rest of the world can look to hopefully, in the hopes that they too can one day have what we have. So your question goes to the heart of what this election is about we need, this is who we’ve been and this is who we are, and this is who we must remain. But we will not if Barack Obama is president another four years.

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Silver Spoons Episode 101: Guess Who Had a Zoo

Posted on April 20, 2012 | 3 Comments

I never had any interest in reading either of Obama’s memoirs, but that changed when I read Jim Treacher’s Daily Caller piece, “Obama Bites Dog“.

Turns out none of the left-wing media sycophants ever bothered to read Obama’s book, “Dreams From My Father”, or surely they would have engaged in preemptive damage control.

Unwilling to pay for a copy of Obama’s book, since he’s already stolen enough money from me via taxation, I checked my library’s overdrive offerings.  Low and behold, both e-book copies of ‘Dreams’ were available, click to download, and I was off!

I had rather low expectations of the writing abilities of our “smartest president evah” considering his propensity to stumble over common words (see: corpsman and un-intellected)  I was pleasantly surprised to find the prose are quite beautiful.  It’s a quick read, and I thought about holding off on posting my findings until I had completed the book, but the stuff I’ve found so far is just too good to hold back.

Only 44 pages into ‘Dreams’, I came upon this:

So Obama not only had a pet ape named Tata, he had his own zoo! I’ll eat my flip-flop if you can find me one American kid who wouldn’t want to have their own zoo.  Quick, somebody ask born-with-silver-spoon-in-mouth Mitt Romney if he ever had his own zoo!

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Silver Spoons Starring the Obamas

Posted on April 19, 2012 | Leave a comment

Maybe Obama wasn’t born with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he has spent the last three years luxuriating on our dime.

For the sake of fairness I decided to re-cut the opening credits of the 80′s sitcom ‘Silver Spoons’, and make the Obamas the stars.

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From Cross-Hairs to Kicking Ass

Posted on April 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

When Congresswoman Gabbie Giffords and 18 others were shot by lone lunatic Jared Lee Loughner, the media and democrat politicians quickly rushed to microphones to blame Sarah Palin. Why blame Palin? Because she had posted, on her website a political map that highlighted “targeted districts”, with cross-hairs and one of those districts was Giffords’.

Surely this picture is what set off the shooting spree of a madmen right? I don’t see the correlation, but democrats had no problem making the connection. They would have us believe that violent imagery and rhetoric is dangerous.

Based on their own standard, in the spirit of everybody playing by the same rules, and everyone getting a fair shake, I believe it is necessary to point out that the DNC has been operating “Kicking-Ass Blog” since 2003.

Here are a few screen grabs for the DNC’s website

Notice the date on this – last updated January 6 2012…

This link was what originally tipped me off to the existence of “Kicking Ass Blog”. I stumbled on to it yesterday (April 5, 2012) while doing a search for news on DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s visit to Philadelphia.

DNC Chairwoman Wasserman Schutlz was in my area for an event with Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz (D-PA).
” these women were united in outrage that so many members of the Republican Party—from presidential candidate Mitt Romney to Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett—are going after their rights and their health.”

“United in outrage” says the article I found by clicking the link entitled – DNC: Kicking Ass – Blog. What happens with you add outrage to kicking ass ? I expect that they will try to brush this off as a simple play on words, based upon the imagery of the democrat donkey kicking its feet up in the air. But remember we all must play by the same rules and when you measure this against the same standards the democrats demanded from republicans in the wake of the Loughner shooting/cross-hair ad, this name should be considered outrageous, violent and potentially dangerous.

I expect DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz to come out and denounce the usage of the term “Kick-Ass Blog” and demand that, that phraseology be removed from the site immediately.

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Smartest President Ever: The “UN-INTELLECTED” Edition

Posted on April 2, 2012 | 1 Comment

President Obama, aka the ‘smartest’ president ever, made yet another word-blunder during today’s joint press conference with Prime Minister Harper and Presidente Calderon. I am going to go out on a limb here and bet that none of the nightly news programs will report on the gaffe.
I’m happy to do their job for them, go to :47 on this clip and you will hear President Obama say, “an UN-INTELLECTED group of people”. Yes that’s right, our president, the ‘smartest’ president ever said ‘UN-INTELLECTED’. Also earlier on in the clip, if you care to watch the whole thing, smartypants can be heard demonstrating a grasp of the English language befitting a New York Time’s best selling author with this little gem, “A economic”. Behold the brilliance!

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See How They Spin: The Hunger Games Edition

Posted on March 31, 2012 | 1 Comment

Even before “The Hunger Games” movie was released, both right and left were trying to claim that the message of the story reflected their values.

Having read all of the books, unlike most who have penned the reviews I’ve read, I can safely say that the leftist progressives are way off base with their claims.

Their attempts to cast THG as paying homage to progressivism are incoherent and desperate. Current.com attempted to combat the claims made by Eric Bolling of Fox News’ The Five, that THG had a conservative message, with a piece by Julie Booth entitled; ‘The Hunger Games’: 5 scenes that send a progressive message”.

I was interested to see what Julie would nit-pick from the film and recast as ‘progressively’ themed. She did not disappoint. Here are the 5 progressively themed scenes she found in the movie. (my commentary in bold) Oh and before I forget I’ll add something that Julie left out of her piece ***SPOILER ALERT, MAJOR PLOT POINTS WILL BE REVEALED, DO NOT READ IF YOU WANT TO BE SURPRISED WHEN YOU SEE THE MOVIE!***

From Julie’s piece;
So we’ve put Bolling’s theory to the test and discovered five moments that suggest “The Hunger Games” actually sends a prominently progressive message (if the progressive message is so prevalent why could you only come up with 5 moments Julie?!):
1. Rue’s Funeral – The nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts (actually there are 13 districts and a Capitol, these are things you’d know if you had read the books, but please continue), each segregated with electrified fences. During the games, Katniss creates an alliance with a tribute named Rue from District 11, a poor, primarily black district. When Rue dies in the Hunger Games, Katniss places flowers around her body and sends a signal of respect to the citizens of District 11 who are watching on the big screen. Rue’s death triggers a rebellion against the Capitol in District 11. The citizens there want a voice in how their government works; (Demanding that the government listen to the citizens, how very Tea Party of them!) how they’re allowed to live their lives (hmm, again, like the Tea Party, conservatives and libertarians who are adamantly opposed to ObamaCare because it imposes a demand upon them, to purchase healthcare, thus removing the freedom of individuals to decide how to live their lives). Katniss makes the choice to speak out against the elite-run government (um hello? Tea Party rallies?), showing flashes of the uprisings seen in the last couple of years throughout the Middle East, and from the Occupy movement (the only thing that the district 11 uprising and the occupy movement have in common is they both involved citizens acting violently towards police officers. The revolt in District 11 has everything to do with throwing off the oppressive hand of big government, and nothing to do with demanding free college tuition or the arrest of bank executives)

2. • Peeta’s speech to Katniss before the games – Knowing he may not make it out alive, Peeta tells Katniss that if he was going to die in the games, he still wanted to be himself (a reinforcement of the importance of individuality). Unlike the current crop of Republican presidential candidates, who are sprinting to the right to appease fringe elements in their party (also unlike the occupy wall street crowd who proudly proclaim ‘we are the 99%!’, ceding their individuality and happily joining the collective), Peeta refuses to change himself for the Capitol. He will not accept the idea that it’s OK to lie, steal and, in this case, kill in order to advance in society (or government) (I can think of a politician, **cough President Obama cough** who habitually lies, and steals tax payer dollars which he funnels to his green buddies). He wants out of their system and firmly states that the Capitol will not change the person that he is.

3. • Suicide Plan – In the middle of the games, the Capitol announces that there can be two winners of The Hunger Games if they are from the same District. After Cato (Did you say Cato? As in the LIBERTARIAN Cato Institute? Must be a coincidence, after all it’s a fairly common name, let’s move along) from District 1 falls to his death, Katniss and Peeta are left standing as the winners. But when the Capitol announces they have revoked this rule and there can be only one winner, Katniss plans a double suicide by proposing that they both eat poisonous berries. The didn’t choose to be part of a televised war with their peers. They didn’t choose to have their names put in the reaping. In this scene, they finally make a choice of their own. They choose not to be pawns in the Capitol’s game of control over the Districts (sounds like an exercise of individual liberty/ free-will to me). Just because a government says war is necessary to maintain peace and order — doesn’t mean it’s true.

4. • Bull’s Eye – Before the Hunger Games begin, each tribute is given a score based on their skills and the gamekeeper’s stereotypes on gender, race and class (really? Is that how it worked? Did we see the same movie?). The gamekeepers rudely ignore Katniss (because they are elitist creeps, see Obama’s dismissive language about PA voters clinging to God and guns) during her skill evaluation because she is a woman from a poor, overlooked District. To gain their attention, she shoots an arrow straight into the apple inside a roasted pig’s mouth, shocking a crowd of dining Capitol members. Rather than just accept the low score the Capitol plans to assign her, which would doom her chances of survival in the Hunger Games, Katniss makes her voice heard. Her arrow is a terrifying reminder to the gamekeepers the women can not be overlooked. Her outrage is reflected in the real life battle women are fighting with Republicans to protect their reproductive freedoms (oh so the recently branded “war on women”, was a theme that Suzanne Collins had in mind when she wrote the series years ago? I’m not buying it but keep clutching at straws Julie!)

5.”Girl on Fire” Concept – Cinna, the stylist assigned to the underdogs of District 12, crafted a non-traditional image for Katniss and Peeta. Instead of coal miners (who are treated poorly and looked down upon by those in the Capitol, not unlike the Obama administration and its great disdain for coal production and complete disregard for how EPA regulations are costing coal industry jobs), Cinna dressed them in black and set their costumes on fire, creating a blazing chariot at the opening ceremony. But their act of rebellion in this scene is not their flaming outfits; it’s that Katniss and Peeta hold hands. This simple act shows that they have rejected the role the Capitol planned out for them, which is to view each other as enemies. Instead of becoming propaganda the Capitol can use to control the Districts, they light the fire of rebellion (a rebellion that champions the rights of individuals to be free from the vice-grip of big government, doesn’t sound like a progressive movement to me…)

What’s next for you Julie? Perhaps a spin-job on “Animal Farm” that recasts it as an endorsement of wind energy?

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Are You Going to Believe Them or Your Lying Eyes?

Posted on March 18, 2012 | Leave a comment

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Almost a month has passed since Congressional Democrats staged what one CBS reporter called, “a pretend hearing while Congress is not in session” so that Ms. Sandra Fluke, a third year Georgetown Law student might give her ‘testimony’. According to most media reports, Ms. Fluke was not permitted to testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee during its hearing on the birth control mandate, by Chairman Rep Darrell Issa (R-CA) because she is a woman.

This could not be further from the truth. The actual reason that Rep Issa did not allow Ms. Fluke to testify has been entirely overlooked because it does not fit well with the Democrat’s assertion that there is war going on, ‘The Republican war on women”. In order to further is myth, the focus was shifted to the optics, and away from the facts.

The panel of experts, invited by the Republicans on the committee, were all men, oh the horror! Would you look at that?! Those nasty, women-hating Republicans held a hearing on birth control and would not allow a single woman to voice her opinion!

A Google search of “Issa contraception hearing” turns up page after page of headlines like ABC news’ “Rep Darrell Issa Bars Minority Witness, a Woman, on Contraception”.

But that’s not the whole story. Rep. Issa explained to in a Op-Ed published by Roll Call :

“The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee recently convened the first Congressional hearing on the administration’s mandate that religious employers pay for abortion-inducing drugs, contraceptives and sterilization procedures in their employee health care plans, despite the fact that some of these items and services violate the employers’ core religious teachings.
The committee heard from a Catholic, a Lutheran, a Baptist, a rabbi and university administrators united in their opposition to the administration’s mandate. These men and women spoke eloquently about their concerns, not because they share the same views about contraception or even abortion (they do not) but because they value their religious freedom, guaranteed by the First Amendment of the Constitution.’

In the same Op-Ed, Rep. Issa also addressed the Democrat’s claim that no women were allowed to testify:

“As Democrats asked, “Where are the women?” 20 feet from them, Dr. Allison Garrett from Oklahoma Christian University and Dr. Laura Champion from Calvin College would explain their belief that this was an issue of religious freedom, not contraception.”

It would seem that there really wasn’t a Republican ban on women at the hearing. But why wasn’t Ms. Fluke permitted to testify? A Washington Examiner article by Byron York offers this from a “Republican committee source”:

“After days of asking for a witness, they waited until the last minute, the afternoon before the hearing. They asked us to invite Rev. Barry Lynn [head of Americans United for Separation of Church and State] and Ms. Fluke. We said we’ll invite one, per standard procedure. We formally invited Rev. Lynn, and the Democrats, at 4:30 pm, changed their mind and said they wanted Fluke. We said too late. They told Rev. Lynn not to show up the next day.”

So why not allow Ms. Fluke to testify in Rev. Lynn’s stead? The York continues:

As for Fluke, Issa said Republicans had never heard of the Democrats’ last-minute choice. “I asked our staff what is her background, what has she done,” Issa said at the hearing. “They did the usual that we do when we’re not provided the three days and the forms to go with it. They did a Google search. They looked and found that she was, in fact, and is a college student who appears to have become energized over this issue and participated in approximately a 45-minute press conference…I cannot and will not arbitrarily take a majority or minority witness if they do not have the appropriate credentials, both for a hearing at the full committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and if we cannot vet them in a timely fashion.” (Fluke is in fact a 30 year-old law student with an extensive history of activism in leftist causes.)

There is a reason that this side of the story has been grossly under-reported. The Democrat Party and those members of the media who repeat their talking points rather than reporting factually based news, recognize that the President’s approval rating is on the decline. They have gone into full-on survival mode. They understand that their continued grasp on power necessitates the perpetuation of the myth that there is a ‘Republican war on women’.

Even though the ‘Republican war on women’ never actually began, I am declaring officially over as of this very moment.

If you’re interested in watching the second panel of experts that appeared before the Committee, the panel which included female experts Dr. Allison Garrett and Dr. Laura Champion, here it is

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