CNN hacks can't be heard over the proletariat

• No one threw marbles on the street for the purpose of tripping and crippling police horses as was done by left wing demonstrators in New York protesting the Iraq war (which now, I guess they like) during the Bush administration. framus. from Breitbart TV, via the Drudge Report, 9/12/09.

Where are anti-war protesters v Obama? CINDY SHEEHAN RESPONDS.

• SHEEHAN: 'HYPOCRISY OF DAILY KOS'
  

Byron York, Washington Examiner: "After my column, "For the left, war without Bush is not war at all," appeared Tuesday, I got a note from Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist who was the subject of so much press coverage when she led a protest against the Iraq war outside then-President George W. Bush's ranch in Texas. This is what the note said:

"I read your column about the "anti-war" movement and I can't believe I am saying this, but I mostly agree with you.

The "anti-war" "left" was used by the Democratic Party. I like to call it the "anti-Republican War" movement.

While I agree with you about the hypocrisy of such sites as the

DailyKos,

I have known for a long time that the Democrats are equally responsible with the Republicans. That's why I left the party in May 2007 and that's why I ran for Congress against Nancy Pelosi in 2008.

I have my own radio show, "Cindy Sheehan's Soapbox," and I was out on a four-month book tour promoting the fact that it's not about Democrats or Republicans,

but it's about the system.

Even if I am surrounded by a thousand, or no one, I am still working for peace.

Sincerely,

Cindy Sheehan

After receiving the email, I asked Sheehan to give me a call, so I could verify that the note in fact came from her. She did, and we discussed her plans to protest next week in Martha's Vineyard, where President Obama will be vacationing.

• "I think people are starting to wake up to the fact that even if they supported Obama, he doesn't represent much change," Sheehan said. "...8/18/09 via Lucianne.com
  

Goldman Sachs=CCX=US citizens stabbed again. And no one blinks.

LA Times: "In all, there were some 300 pages of last-minute amendments, many designed to make money for industries and constituencies important to fence-sitting congress members.

• The bill that passed the House included sweeteners for developing gas-powered cars and energy-efficient mobile homes,

• plus financial rewards for early participants in the

• Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX),

North America's first trading center

• for greenhouse gas emissions."...7/19/09, "House Climate Bill Full of Sweetening Provisions," by Jim Tankersley

Goldman Sachs owns at least 19% of CCX.

• Goldman Sachs admits it has developed software to manipulate the cap and trade market. 7/14/09 (Don't worry, plenty of so-called Republicans are in the tank too).
  

Washington Post sold access to Obama administration and their 'reporters'

• The Washington Post plans more sessions involving cash transactions for access to those they allegedly cover. Why not? Who's stopping them or any other so-called 'journalists'?
  

Politico, 7/3/09: "Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth said today she was canceling plans for an exclusive "salon" at her home where for as much as $250,000, the Post

• offered lobbyists and association executives off-the-record access to "those powerful few" —

Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and even the paper’s own reporters and editors.

• The astonishing offer was detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist,
  

who provided it to a reporter because the lobbyist said he felt it was a conflict for the paper to charge for access to, as the flier says, its “health care reporting and editorial staff."

With the Post newsroom in an uproar after POLITICO reported the solicitation, Weymouth said in an email to the staff that "a flier went out that was prepared by the marketing department and was never vetted by me or by the newsroom. Had it been, the flier would have been immediately killed, because it completely misrepresented what we were trying to do."

• Weymouth said the paper had planned a series of dinners with participation from the newsroom “but with parameters such that we did not in any way compromise our integrity."...

WHAT INTEGRITY? THIS IS THE POINT. YOU ALL SAY YOU'RE OBJECTIVE--ANYONE CAN SAY THAT. WHO THE HELL ARE YOU TO ANNOINT YOURSELVES OBJECTIVE? YOUR OWN OMBUDSMAN SAID MOST OF YOU WERE BIASED WHICH IS OBVIOUS ANYWAY.

• THE PROBLEM IS--YOU SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR BIAS.
  

(Politico): "Sponsorship of events, like advertising in the newspaper, must be at arm's length and cannot imply control over the content or access to our journalists. At this juncture, we will not be holding the planned July dinner and we will not hold salon dinners involving the newsroom. “

• She made it clear however, that The Post, which lost $19.5 million in the first quarter, sees
  
• bringing together Washington figures as a future revenue source.
  

“We do believe that there is a viable way to

• expand our expertise into live conferences and events that simply enhances what we do - cover Washington for Washingtonians and those interested in Washington,” she said.

“ And we will begin to do live events in ways that enhance our reputation and in no way call into question our integrity.”

Executive editor Marcus Brauchli was as adamant as Weymouth in denouncing the plan promoted in the flier."

• POLITICO--THIS MAKES NO SENSE, YOU JUST SAID WEYMOUTH DEFENDED THE IDEA. She only made a lame excuse that the 'flier' hadn't been correctly vetted.
  

(Politico): “You cannot buy access to a Washington Post journalist,” Brauchli told POLITICO.

• Brauchli was named on the flier as one of the salon’s "Hosts and Discussion Leaders."" (!!!)
  

(Politico): "Brauchli said in an interview that he understood the business side of the Post planned on holding dinners on policy and was scheduled to attend the July 21 dinner at Weymouth’s Washington home, but he said he had not seen the material promoting it until today. “The flier, and the description of these things, was not at all consistent with the preliminary conversations the newsroom had,” Brauchli said, adding that it was “absolutely impossible” the newsroom would participate in the kind of event described in the solicitation for the event."...

• (You're such sorry your plan was exposed).
  

(Politico): "Underwriting Opportunity: An evening with the right people can alter the debate," says the one-page flier.

• "Underwrite and participate in this intimate and exclusive
  

Washington Post Salon, an off-the-record dinner and discussion at the home of CEO and Publisher Katharine Weymouth. ... Bring your organization’s CEO or executive director literally to the table.

• Interact with key Obama administration and congressional leaders."

The flier promised the dinner would be held in an intimate setting with no unseemly conflict between participants. “Spirited? Yes. Confrontational? No,” it said. “The relaxed setting in the home of Katharine Weymouth assures it. What is guaranteed is a collegial evening,

• with Obama administration officials,

• Congress members,

• business leaders, advocacy leaders and

• other select minds typically on the guest list of 20 or less. …

Brauchli emphasized that the newsroom had given specific parameters to the paper’s business staff that he said were apparently not followed. He said that for newsroom staffers to participate, they would have to be able to ask questions and that he would “reserve the right to allow any information or ideas that emerge from an event to shape or inform our coverage.” That directly contradicts the solicitation to potential sponsors,

• which billed the dinner as “off-the-record.”

“Our mission in the news department is to serve an audience,” Brauchli said, “not serve our sponsors.”

“We do not use the Post’s name or our journalists to gain access to officials or sources for the benefit of non-news purposes,” he continued.

Brauchli said that Post employees on the business side — not the newsroom — would have been responsible for seeking participants for this event. Reporters, he said, would not solicit sources or administration officials. Brauchli said that he did not know who was invited or who accepted.

Ceci Connolly, a Post reporter who covers health care, told POLITICO that she had been told there would be a dinner and that she would be invited. However, Connolly said, she “knew nothing about sponsorships and had not seen any flier or invitation.”

Brauchli declined to comment on whether anyone on the business side would be held responsible for the abortive plan. He said that would be a decision for either Weymouth or Stephen Hills, The Post’s president and general manager.

But regarding future events, Brauchli said: “I would hope that everybody in the Washington Post Company is always sensitive to the importance of the newsroom’s integrity and independence.”

• Charles Pelton, The Post business-side employee listed as the event contact,

• seemed to dispute Brauchli’s version of events.

Pelton was quoted by Post ombudsman Andy Alexander in an online commentary as saying that newsroom leaders, including Brauchli, had been involved in discussions about the salons and other events.

• “This was well-developed with the newsroom,” Pelton told Alexander. “What was not developed was the marketing message to potential sponsors.”

According to Alexander, who called the flier a “public relations disaster,” Pelton told him: “There’s no intention to influence or peddle.” “There’s no intention to have a Lincoln Bedroom situation,” referring to charges that President Bill Clinton used invitations to stay at the White House as a way of luring political backing.

Pelton did not return a phone call from POLITICO.

If POLITICO had not reported on the flier this morning, Brauchli said he expects someone would have seen it before the event and, given the obvious ethical issue, it would have been canceled.

Kris Coratti, communications director of Washington Post Media, a division of The Washington Post Company, said the flier “came out of a business division for conferences and events, and the newsroom was unaware of such communication. It went out before it was properly vetted, and this draft does not represent what the company’s vision for these dinners are, which is meant to be an independent, policy-oriented event for newsmakers.

"As written, the newsroom could not participate in an event like this. We do believe there is an opportunity to have a conferences and events business, and that The Post should be leading these conversations in Washington, big or small, while maintaining journalistic integrity. The newsroom will participate where appropriate."

Earlier this morning, Brauchli sent an e-mail entitled “Newsroom Independence” to his staff explaining his position.

"Colleagues,” Brauchli said. “A flier was distributed this week offering an 'underwriting opportunity' for a dinner on health care reform, in which the news department had been asked to participate. The language in the flier and the description of the event preclude our participation.

"We will not participate in events where promises are made that in exchange for money The Post will offer access to newsroom personnel or will refrain from confrontational questioning. Our independence from advertisers or sponsors is inviolable. There is a long tradition of news organizations hosting conferences and events, and we believe The Post, including the newsroom, can do these things in ways that are consistent with our values."

The first "Salon" was to be called "Health-Care Reform: Better or Worse for Americans? The reform and funding debate." More were anticipated, and the flier described the opportunities for participants:

• “Offered at $25,000 per sponsor, per Salon. Maximum of two sponsors per Salon. Underwriters’ CEO or Executive Director participates in the discussion. Underwriters appreciatively acknowledged in printed invitations and at the dinner. Annual series sponsorship of 11 Salons
  
• offered at $250,000 … Hosts and Discussion Leaders ...
  
• Health-care reporting and editorial staff members of The Washington Post ... An exclusive opportunity to participate in the health-care reform debate among the select few who will actually get it done. ... A Washington Post Salon ... July 21, 2009 6:30 p.m. ...
  

"Washington Post Salons are extensions of The Washington Post brand of journalistic inquiry into the issues, a unique opportunity for stakeholders to hear and be heard," the flier says. "At the core is a critical topic of our day. Dinner and a volley of ideas unfold in an evening of intelligent, news-driven and off-the-record conversation. ... By bringing together those powerful few in business and policy-making who are forwarding, legislating and reporting on the issues, Washington Post Salons give life to the debate.

• Be at this nexus of business and policy with your underwriting of Washington Post Salons.""...

Bud Selig's girly-men in the back room

• It would take one BBWAA member willing to lose his career to expose this fraudulent group and its practices. But that man, a man with guts, does not exist. Proving something about a person who chooses this as a career in the first place:

Mike Vaccaro, NY Post, 11/9/05

• "Mariano Rivera wasn't just robbed. He was mugged.
  

• He was pistol-whipped.

"He was bound and gagged and put under an interrogation lamp

• by a blind gaggle representing the Baseball Writers Assn. of America, who voted
  

overwhelmingly to make Bartolo Colon one of the most underwhelming Cy Young Award winners ever.

• "Ridiculous? It isn't just ridiculous,
  

• it's shameful. It's dreadful.""

"And don’t think for one second that the fact that

• Mariano Rivera plays for the New York Yankees

• wasn’t held against him

in certain quarters.

• So that makes it spiteful, too.""

via Leather Penguin, "Bastards"

• 11/10/05, LA Times by Larry Stewart, "They are trying to give closer Closure"

Did Kansas City Royals "LIE" to media-or are they allowed to protect their business?

MLB.com, 4/24/09: "There is something wrong with Royals closer Joakim Soria after all.

• Manager Trey Hillman said on Friday that Soria is expected to miss at least the next three to five days because of tightness behind his right shoulder.

"There is a problem but it's not a DL situation," Hillman said. "He doesn't have any structural damage but he does have a tight right shoulder on the back side. We're looking at a minimum of three to five days."

• Both Hillman and Soria insisted earlier this week that he was fine despite
  

• not appearing in a game for eight straight days.
  

He returned on Wednesday night to post a save at Cleveland but apparently felt stiffness on Thursday.

• General manager Dayton Moore said the stiffness came to the Royals' attention last Saturday at Texas while Soria was warming up as a potential replacement for Zack Greinke who finished the game.

Hillman said he'd kept Soria's situation under wraps until now

• to avoid tipping off opposing teams."...

WHEN THE YANKEES DO THE SAME THING WITH ONE OF THEIR PLAYERS, IT'S CALLED A LIE AND THE MANAGER

• IS FORCED TO APOLOGIZE TO THE MEDIA.
  

Cooling of Global Warming Hysteria

"The latest Rasmussen poll reports that the lowest number of voters ever polled -- one-in-three -- believe that global warming is caused by human activity. That’s an astonishing figure, especially considering the all-out green

• propaganda assault the mainstream media (MSM) exposes the public to on a daily basis.

After all, it’s become nearly impossible to open a magazine, unfold a newspaper or turn on the television without being scolded about the selfishness of your energy consumption and the damage your unworthy existence does to the planet. And yet, Friday’s Rasmussen found that forty-eight percent of all likely voters attribute climate change to long-term planetary trends, not their so-called carbon-footprint. That’s up 4% in less than three months.

• Aided by an all-too-eager MSM, policy makers speak of manmade climate change as “settled science” and perpetrate the lie that only a few “fringe” scientists question its tenets. Nevertheless, the latest Gallup Poll

So despite a MSM that spoon feeds its audience the latest alarmist crap about how manmade CO2 kills polar bears, threatens coastal cities and islands, incubates all manner of pestilence and so on and so on,

• the number of people actually buying into their still-unsubstantiated carbo-chondria continues to shrink.

Speaking at last month’s 2^nd Annual International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC), a gathering of over 700 scientists, economists, and policy makers that the MSM either completely ignored or debased as the “denier’s conference,” James Taylor explained why. The Heartland Institute senior fellow credited talk radio, cable television, the internet, and blogs with providing information to the American public

• “whether the mass media wants them to have it or not.”

I couldn’t agree more. What’s more, the availability of such information from Alternative Media sources has had a tremendous impact on public opinion.

Earlier in the conference Larry Solomon explained that polls in Canada showed that those who believe in consensus feared global warming. Yet those who have heard from skeptics EVEN ONCE do not. Quite a strong position – theirs.

• Any guesses why alarmists stifle dissenting opinion on the subject?

Also speaking at ICCC, Lord Monckton of Brenchley referred to alarmists as “bed-wetting moaning Minnies of the Apocalyptic Traffic-Light Tendency -- those Greens too yellow to admit they’re really Reds”...

(In) the latest Gallup poll... Global warming ranked last in public concern among eight specific environmental issues. Dead last....

Which is exactly why the Big Green Scare Machine has shifted into overdrive.

• After all, the planet is cooling, not warming.

IPCC models predicted 1°F warming by 2011, but there’s been none since 1998, so they are well on their way to being proven completely wrong. In fact, the 1°F drop in 2008 was the largest global temperature change ever recorded. 2008 was the coolest year and March 2009 was the coolest March of the century. Meanwhile, diminished sunspot activity since 2000 and Pacific Sea Surface cooling since 2008 predict a 20-30 year global cooling due to short term Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).

• But if you weren’t a consumer of Alternative Media, and particularly the New Media (ezines, blogs, etc.), you wouldn’t know that, would you? You’d likely continue to believe the lame MSM warnings that we’re running out of time to save the planet. And given the acute rise in public skepticism that one monster of a winter energized, just imagine the panic the specter of decades of cooling stirs in those whose dreams of controlling our energy consumption – and thereby our lives --

• depend entirely upon an alarmed populace.

You see, it’s actually climate alarmists that are running out of time -- and they know it. Policy makers know very well that time grows short to implement their carbon control schemes. And the media face a similar problem. Sure, today

• NBC launches yet another of their excruciatingly silly “Green is Universal” weeks to celebrate this year’s Earth Day on Wednesday. And once again they’ll sully their often worthwhile conservation tips by

• spreading carbon phobia and climate alarmism throughout their broadcast and myriad cable networks.

But these recent public opinion shifts suggest that more and more people will be turned off by such counterfeit tactics, and will in turn turn off their TVs and head over to sites like American Thinker to immerse their minds in the MSM alternative.

• The whole truth."