The Daily Caller has uncovered documents that show members of the mainstream media conspiring to kill stories about President Obama’s former pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s campaign.
The crisis reached a howling pitch in mid-April, 2008, at an ABC News debate moderated by Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. Gibson asked Obama why it had taken him so long – nearly a year since Wright’s remarks became public – to dissociate himself from them. Stephanopoulos asked, “Do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do?”
Watching this all at home were members of Journolist, a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists, as well as like-minded professors and activists. The tough questioning from the ABC anchors left many of them outraged. “George [Stephanopoulos],” fumed Richard Kim of the Nation, is “being a disgusting little rat snake.” Read the rest after the jump.
Here we have the Tea Party, one of the nation’s most organic, Athenian, democratic movements, being attacked by a political organization—the NAACP—that is among the most sclerotic, dinosaurian, and cadaverous of America’s political groupings. Read the full article here.
In researching for this presentation, I was reminded about the movie teaser for “Jaws” – “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water . . . . . “ Read more »
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Bikers Launch 17000 Mile Ride to Promote Tax Reform
Bikers and others seek real change through tax reform to help our depressed economy. Read more »
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The Founding Mothers and Fathers of the Tea Party Movement to be Honored in Live Webcast by Viguerie Marketing Institute on 1 Year Anniversary Tomorrow
MANASSAS, Va., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Viguerie Marketing Institute will honor the 95 founding mothers and fathers of the Tea Party Movement tomorrow on the 1 year anniversary of the first 52 tea party protests held across the country on February 27, 2009. The names of these 95 founding mothers and fathers will be announced at the end of a free live Webcast that will be held tomorrow, Saturday, February 27, 2010, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. eastern. The Webcast will include highlights of the recent training conference of Leadership Tea Party, held in Dallas, Texas on January 29-31, which consisted of 10 sessions, and included the keynote address by Richard A. Viguerie, Chairman of ConservativeHQ.com.
Among the points Viguerie made were:
The Tea Party movement should avoid the temptation of forming a third party. It would be a disaster for the cause of freedom and limited government.
Tea Party leaders should work to be a third force in politics in order to push Republican and Democratic politicians to the right.
For now, all Tea Party activities should be focused on the 2010 primaries challenging every establishment Republican and Democrat.
Other topics in the Webcast conference include community organizing, dealing with the media, defeating powerful political machines, and protecting members and groups from legal pitfalls.
Nationally renowned presenters include American Liberty Alliance founder Eric Odom; Zen Conservatism author and co-founder of the St. Louis Tea Party Bill Hennessy; attorney Mark Fitzgibbons; Dallas Tea Party leader Lorie Medina; and St. Louis-based radio talk show host Dana Loesch.
The Webcast will be hosted live by Nationwide Tea Party Coalition co-founder Michael Patrick Leahy, author of Rules for Conservative Radicals. Leahy will be joined by other presenters to respond on camera during the Webcast to viewers’ emailed questions. In addition, the Webcast will provide a live report from the Dallas Tea Party in Dallas, Texas, to discover if MSNBC broadcaster Keith Olbermann shows up to accept the Dallas Tea Party’s recent YouTube invitation to attend their tea party celebration of the one year anniversary of the Tea Party Movement.
The live webcast is free. A complete schedule of the February 27 Webcast and registration information is online at www.vmionline.com. Additional registration for on-demand viewing of all ten training sessions is available for $19.95.
NOTE TO EDITORS: Richard A. Viguerie pioneered political direct mail and has been called “one of the creators of the modern conservative movement” (The Nation magazine) and one of the “conservatives of the century” (The Washington Times). He is the author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause.
Asheville Tea Party, an organization which was born on a cold and rainy February 27th 2009 in Asheville’s Pritchard Park, is among the listed 95 “founding mothers and fathers.”
BREVARD, NC – Dr. Dan Eichenbaum, a practicing ophthalmologist and congressional candidate from Murphy, NC, scored another landslide victory in a straw poll conducted immediately following a candidate forum Saturday night in Transylvania County. The candidate forum and straw poll were hosted by the Transylvania County Republican Party and were held in conjunction with the Transylvania County GOP’s annual “Lincoln Day Dinner” at Brevard Middle School.
Other forum participants included candidates Jeff Miller and Greg Newman of Hendersonville, Kenny West of Hayesville, and Ed Krause of Marion. Candidates Jake Howard of Macon County and Dan Ostergaard of Asheville were in abstention.
Although the audience was comprised of voters from throughout the 11th District, voting in the straw poll was limited to registered voters of Transylvania County.
Straw poll results:
Dr. Dan Eichenbaum – 36
Kenny West – 7
Greg Newman – 6
Jeff Miller – 4
Ed Krause – 1
These results make Dr. Dan Eichenbaum the winner of every post-debate straw poll conducted thus far. Dr Dan’s previous straw poll victories were in forums hosted by the Buncombe County GOP on December 7th and another hosted by the Cherokee County 9/12 Project on February 1st.
The next scheduled congressional candidate forum will be at AB Tech Community College on March 5th at 6:30 pm and is hosted by the Asheville TEA Party. A straw poll of audience members will be conducted immediately following.
Dr. Dan Eichenbaum, an Ophthalmologist residing in Murphy, is a Constitutional Republican who is standing for election to congress in North Carolina’s 11th district. As a founding member of the Cherokee County 9-12 Project and Tea Party participant, Dr. Dan is the true grassroots candidate in the 11th district.
Asheville Tea Party Condemns Use Of Public Funds For Asheville Regional Airport Board Members’ Junket To Hawaii And Calls For Public Apology
Asheville, NC January 10, 2010 -
Three members of Asheville Regional Airport’s governing board, North Carolina General Assemblywoman Susan Fisher, Buncombe County Commission Chairman David Gantt, and Asheville attorney and airport board Chairman Dave Hillier, have flown to a Hawaii resort at a cost of just more than $17,000 in taxpayer money. The Aviation Issues Conference is being held Sunday through midday Thursday at the Westin Maui Resort & Spa, Ka’anapali.
Two of the participants, both elected officials, justify the expense by pointing to what they will gain personally from the conference. According to the Asheville Citizen-Times, County Commission Chairman Gantt believes the thousands of dollars in public money is well spent because the connections he makes may “come in handy later.” State Rep. Susan Fisher likes these types of conferences because they improve her effectiveness as a board member. Neither commented on what the actual benefit would be to area taxpayers. Fisher did allow, “It makes me feel for people who have to deal with 17-degree weather.”
“In the current economy, it is unconscionable that the airport board would send one person, much less four persons, to Hawaii for a conference of questionable value on the public dime. Private businesses do not have the luxury of not participating in the recession. The last organizations that should be ignoring the effects of the down economy are those which exist at the expense of the taxpayer and contribute nothing to the economy. If area citizens needed any proof that our local elected officials are out of touch with reality, this episode certainly fits the bill.” said Erika Franzi, Asheville Tea Party director.
On behalf of local business owners who have canceled regular trips, eliminated all but non-essential expenses, and cut their payroll; on behalf of private citizens who have slashed their family budgets, skipped annual vacations, and gone without; on behalf of all area residents who are offended by this flagrant misuse of public funds and obscene violation of the public trust: the Asheville Tea Party calls upon all Asheville Regional Airport board members who participated in this taxpayer funded trip to Hawaii to publicly apologize for their incredibly poor judgment.
Don’t worry, Dan Savage. The Promise Breaker In Chief has seen fit to throw you and yours a bone. He has appointed a transgendered senior technical adviser in the US Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security. Doesn’t that make it all better? Don’t you feel recognized and approved of? Good. You go away now. The President can’t be seen with such a cheap date.
I certainly hope the LGBT community takes this for the slap in the face that it is and holds the President accountable to his promises. If not, then they were a cheaper date than even the President imagined.
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Learn about GOOOH (Get Out of Our House), a revolutionary plan to replace all 435 members of the US House of Representatives with competent candidates who have NO ties to money or party platform. Meet other concerned citizens and discuss GOOOH and related issues.
What: GOOOH Founder Tim Cox Comes to Asheville!
When: 7-9 pm, Sunday, Jan 17th
Where: AB Tech Enka Conference Room
Tim Cox, founder of GOOOH (Get Out of Our House), will explain this plan to replace all 435 members of the US House of Representatives in the 2010 election with competent candidates who have NO ties to special interests or party platform. In the second hour we will have a mock candidate selection, an eye-opening experience.
The AB Tech Enka conference room is just 1.5 miles from I-40 exit 44.
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