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Raaaaacism?

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 138 Comments › )
Filed under Crime, Democratic Party, Humor, Open thread, Political Correctness, Politics, Progressives at May 26th, 2010 - 11:00 pm

Yesterday, hackers changed the message on one of the ubiquitous portable illuminated traffic signs in Florida. From NBC Miami, we get this report:

A highway sign flashing “NO LATINOS NO TACOS” greeted drivers on the Palmetto Expressway in Northwest Miami-Dade, after hackers managed to alter it early Tuesday morning.

The sign was in the northbound side of the 826, right near the Northwest 25th street exit.

It’s unknown how long the sign had been flashing the message, but by 6 a.m., members of the Florida Highway Patrol and a road crew had turned the sign away from the highway and were working to erase the message.

Almost immediately the MSM and left-wing blogs (like this one) tagged the prank as right-wing racism. Seems that everyone has forgotten about this unadulterated image:

According to the race-baiters, illegal immigrants and legal hispanics are way too stooopid to figure out the complexity of a programmable road sign, so it’s gotta be the evil Mr. Whitey McConservative. Good thing that the lovely and gracious Missus X is a Latina, because I’d never be able figure out how to make tacos or burritos on my own.

Meanwhile, this was spotted near Copperhill, Tennessee:

Much of today’s racism is promoted by the left, just like it always has been. And because of it, we have another post for an Overnight Open Thread.

The MSM Ignores Tea Party Diversity

by Bunk Five Hawks X ( 341 Comments › )
Filed under Free Speech, Humor, Multiculturalism, Open thread, Tea Parties at April 15th, 2010 - 10:30 pm

Not all Tea Party protesters are angry old white men. There are angry old white women, too. And not all the angry old women are white:

Photos above were snapped as a CNN camera van drove by.  Why do they continue to squelch the truth?  In  response to the Tea Party protests, and all criticism of his Messiahness in general, President Obama offered his take:


We get it, the Bird is the Word. Speaking of the truth, this is an Overnight Open Thread.
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Update: Urban Infidel is posting some great stuff from the NYC  Tea Party like this:

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The NYT — defending murderous dictators since Walter Duranty

by Mojambo ( 195 Comments › )
Filed under Cuba, Media at March 3rd, 2010 - 8:30 am

Walter Duranty – the man who denied that there was a famine in the Ukraine  (1932 -33) – Stalin’s favorite Western journalist, was one of the worst reporters ever. Unfortunately he was not alone,  others such as Castro’s de facto public relations man Herbert Matthews were just as bad. To this day the New York Times instead of trying to get at a story puts its ideological objectives first. Let us also not forget the disgraceful non coverage of the Holocaust as it was unfolding because W.A.S.H. (White Anglo Saxon Hebrew) publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger was afraid that the Times would be referred to as a “Jewish” newspaper. The Times Middle East correspondents are (with some exceptions) particularly bad as well.

by Humberto Fontava

“A foreign reporter — preferably American — was much more valuable to us at that time (1957) than any military victory,” wrote Ernesto “Che” Guevara in his diaries. “Much more valuable than rural recruits for our guerrilla force, were American media recruits to export our propaganda.”

“We cannot for a second abandon propaganda. Propaganda is vital — propaganda is the heart of all struggles,” said Fidel Castro in a letter to a revolutionary colleague in 1954.

“In all essentials Castro’s battle for Cuba was a public relations campaign fought in New York and Washington.” — British historian Hugh Thomas

Fidel Castro has strong ideas of liberty, democracy, social justice, the need to restore Cuba’s Constitution…this amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical, democratic and therefore anti-Communist. (Herbert Matthews, New York Times Feb. 1957.)

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One Thousand Killed in 5 days of Fierce Street Fighting,” blared a New York Times headline on Jan 4, 1959 about the “battle” of Santa Clara in central Cuba where Ernesto “Che” Guevara earned much of his enduring martial mystique. “Commander Che Guevara appealed to Batista troops for a truce to clear the streets of casualties,” continues the Times article. “Guevara turned the tide in this bloody battle and whipped a Batista force of 3,000 men.”

A year later, Che’s own diaries revealed that his forces suffered exactly one casualty during this Caribbean Stalingrad, as depicted by the Times.  British historian Sir Hugh Thomas, author of a 1700 page Cuban history and who initially vied with Herbert Matthews as a Castro sycophant, claims a grand total of six casualties for this Caribbean Verdun. Your humble servant here interviewed several eye-witnesses (on both sides) to this “battle” and their consensus came to about five casualties total for this Caribbean Iwo Jima.

True to New York Times– form, during this “battle,” they didn’t have a reporter within 300 miles of Santa Clara.  Instead they relied on their trusty Cuban Castroite “correspondents.”

Read the rest here: The New York Times — Defending Murderous Dictators Since Walter Duranty

UPDATE – an interesting article from seven years ago about Walter Duranty – Pulizter Winning Lies.

The Fat Lady Sings for Keith Olbermann

by Mojambo ( 142 Comments › )
Filed under Media at February 2nd, 2010 - 7:30 am

I predict that one day Olbermann will have such a melt down on his show “Countdown to No Ratings” where he curses, spits, tears at his hair – that even MSNBC will have to pull the plug on him and call for medics to take him over to a mental institution for observation. He is a perfect example of the Peter Principle at work – he rose to his true level of mediocrity. He was a forgettable sportscaster and then got promoted to spew Leftist pap at MSNBC. He never, ever has an opposing viewpoint on his show because like a certain husky, pony-tailed blogger – he cannot debate.  (By the way last night on O’Reilly – a man I find insufferable most of the time – he had on as guests the leftist mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsome, and the angry leftist columnist from Time Magazine, Joe Klein. At least there is balance on Fox.)

by Stuart Schwartz

It ain’t over until the fat lady sings.”

The fat lady is doing more than singing for Keith Olbermann. And, like most of the other women in the life of MS-NBC’s premiere leftist sexist, she’s not interested in dating him. Rather, she merely wishes to see his well-padded bottom fade into the distance.

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By the end of 2009, media observers were noting the “abysmal” state of Olbermann’s ratings. And now the thirty-day moving average of ratings shows him steadily sinking as Bill O’Reilly leads the charge of FOX News to the top. The FOX blowout of Keith and friends during the State of the Union this past week prompted National Review to ask, “[A]t what point does MSDNC pull the plug on its all-Left format?”

And so the fat lady is not just singing for Olbermann and MS-NBC: Rather, she is belting out an aria that rushes Katrina-like past the designer finery of Old Media grandees in the audience of Manhattan’s Metropolitan Opera, rattles the Swarovski crystal chandeliers above their heads, hurtles across Central Park, and pierces the floor-to-ceiling windows of Olbermann’s  $4.2-million 40th-floor Trump Palace roost.

It is from here that Olbermann leads the progressive media battle on behalf of America’s downtrodden, joined by neighboring New York Times staffers and mainstream media executives, fighting their self-described war on privilege from foxholes developed by Donald Trump. The various Trump Towers dotting upper Manhattan are, collectively, a progressive Pentagon, headquarters for the media war on Middle America…with Olbermann among the most polished of its brass.

…That is, until America began paying attention. The result: The audience of Countdown has sunk to roughly 20% of FOX News-viewers led by Bill O’Reilly. And now the fat lady is howling her delight as she joins a decades-long string of females in Keith’s life — beginning with his mother, who thought her son needed psychological help — whose fist-bumps will come when he has exited their lives.

Olbermann does not like women, especially attractive and/or accomplished women. Nor is he particularly fond of men. He is forever the awkward, angry teenager of his high school days who mystified psychologists, the überdork whose cruel taunts of the athletes he covered as a sports broadcaster were legendary, even as he yearned to be thought of as the stud that covers studs. Give it up, a Philadelphia Inquirer sports columnist suggested after watching Olbermann ridicule the appearance of an overweight athlete. He noted that the hefty lefty is “so bloated he looks as if he swallowed Dan Patrick [his ESPN co-anchor] back in 1997.”

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Women are anathema to Olbermann. He delights in demeaning them, and the more attractive or accomplished they are, the more malicious he gets. Conservative Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, who relishes her role as policymaker and  mother, is a frequent object of his anger; columnist Michelle Malkin is a “big mashed up bag of meat with lipstick” because of her intelligence and traditional values; Sarah Palin is a moronic “Bush in a skirt”; and there’s nothing wrong with Hillary Clinton — who had the nerve to oppose Barack Obama in the Democrat primaries — that a good beating won’t cure.

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