Nov 6 2012

Now it’s up to you — your vote comes with much responsibility

We like to bandy the idea of democracy around, promoting the value of elections and citizen involvement. But those features are not the primary intention of democracy. Instead, it is to promote deliberation, consideration which produces a broader perspective and more considered response.

Exercising the rights of our representative democracy – voting, free speech, etc. – is valuable only in as much as it produces said deliberation.

Alexis de Toqueville, whose insightful 19th century observations on American political life continue to bear fruit in contemporary analysis, noted that “liberty is an arduous apprenticeship.”

If you wish to assert your rights, you must respect the responsibilities that come with them.Electronic communications and social media only magnify the significance of these concerns. Continue reading


Nov 6 2012

The Worst Media Election Since The Last One

No matter which candidate wins Tuesday, it’s clear the media didn’t just cover this election, they shaped it. To paraphrase Dickens, it was the best of coverage and the worst of coverage.

If you were President Obama, you got the best of coverage and photos of you with halos around your head. Your made-up autobiography and “composite” girlfriend were a blip in the news, your radical positions downplayed and the ongoing failures of your administration – economy, fast and furious, foreign policy in general – were all given short shrift in the major media.

Even your massive failure on Libya where four Americans were killed was somehow “utterly contrived” and CNN’s Candy Crowley covered for you during the debates. Every silly thing your PR people thought up from Big Bird to bayonets to binders received journalistic attention.

The major media, on the other hand, turned Mitt Romney into a caricature straight off a Monopoly card. They hollered “Bain” like it was a scene from “Batman,” dug into long-forgotten high school pranks and tried to depict him as radical right-wing, a well as bash him for his faith. A casual comment about the “47 percent” became “seismic” or a “disaster.” Things like the massive decline in the job participation rate and Obama’s $16-trillion nation debt were afterthoughts to news coverage.

To paraphrase Dickens, it was the best of coverage and the worst of coverage.

Perhaps journalists were simply projecting as a result of their own attacks against Palin, Bachmann and O’Donnell.

While it wasn’t a war on women, it sure was a war on truth and truth lost most days. The top issue to voters was the economy, but you’d never know it from the news coverage. Even the GOP primary, moderators pushed social issues to give Team Obama ample distractions from the 23 million under and unemployed.

When economic news was covered, it looked nothing like it had during the Bush administration. This time journalists found or created a silver lining inside every dark cloud. High gas prices weren’t bad, they were “improving.” And lousy economic growth was seldom called a major Obama failure.

For journalists, this election represented the reign of the fact checkers as the media used a new device to try and whine about Republicans. Yet the fact checking, as Crowley showed, was wildly one-sided and more to celebrate Dem talking points than anything. In one example, CNN journalist/Obama press secretary  Soledad O’Brien was caught on air reading the Democratic blog Talking Points Memo to fend off a Romney spokeswoman.

But all that bias has led up to the election. Now all that’s left is the counting, and perhaps, the recounting. If the race goes into extra innings, look for journalists to pull out all stops to help their man Obama once more to the top spot. But no matter who wins, the media ensured that the American public lost.

Dan Gainor is the Boone Pickens Fellow and the Media Research Center’s Vice President for Business and Culture.


Nov 6 2012

The End of a Scandalous and Uncivil Presidency

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This may be premature but I shall jump the gun with a big prayer and hope this Nation wakes up Wednesday morning with Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan winning the election by electorates and popular votes. I am so sick and tired of watching an administration that believes it is above the law and they are untouchable.  Hopefully, reality hits this entire administration like a grand piano falling out of a fifty story building possibly breaking the fall of the piano. I would hate to see such a wonderful instrument damaged.

President Obama came into office claiming he would be a civilized unifier of the people with transparency.  This administration has been anything but all the promises made through wonderfully delivered speeches.  I must give him credit where credit is due.  He does a magnificent job reading deceiving lines off a teleprompter while smiling at the same time.   I would have never thought a community organizer could be so talented.

In the past four years we have been hit with one bombshell after another that has put this country on a great divide and a landslide deficit.  The socialists agenda of Obamacare was pushed through behind the transparent doors in the White House with a reconciliatory vote.  Of course, we know that the majority of America’s citizens were highly opposed to such an idea, but with the taxpayer’s money Obama bought the votes and shoved it through. This bill was challenged with allegations of it being unconstitutional.  Thanks to John Roberts, we know the outcome of that event.

Then we have “Fast and Furious”, a plan that I believe was originally an effort to put a national ban on firearms.  Did this one ever backfire.  Someone in the administration gave permission to The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to run guns to our beloved Drug Cartels across our southern border.  This resulted in the death of a United States Border Patrol agent, Brian Terry, and more than likely an unaccountable number of many more lives.  Will we ever see the truth exposed on this cover-up? Continue reading


Nov 6 2012

Keep Your Boy from Becoming an Obama Entitlement Wuss!

Progressives, especially feminists, would love nothing more than to take your son and eradicate his masculine uniqueness. They hate men, and therefore, they will hate your son. That is, of course, assuming that you, the parent, intend to raise your son to be a man instead of an Obama entitlement hound.These whacked mooks actually believe that masculinity, the male composition, and a guy’s hormones cause boys to become wicked oppressors, sexually abusive and brutal beasts. Your daunting mission parents is to go against the grain, stand up to the radical Progressives, and raise your little boy to be a man, capable of leading the next generation into a moral culture of God, family and country.God created your son, mom and dad, to be wild; to lead; to cultivate culture; to slay dragons; to be smart and to reflect God’s majesty.  Don’t let this cruddy culture craft him into anything less!  My new book will help you help your son become the provider, protector, hunter and hero!

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Nov 6 2012

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE 2012

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Every now and then as things develop it’s necessary to cut political connections between one group and another, and, for good cause, establish separate operations according to the laws of Nature and God.  Good manners require the initiating party explain the reasons for declaring independence.

First, some background about what we believe and how those beliefs require us to exact severance.

It is obvious that every person is created equal, including babies still preparing to enter the world. All human beings are precious, sacred, created by a loving God. This God endows each one of us with ironclad, inseparable human rights, to name a few, the right to Life, Liberty and the opportunity to work toward Happiness in this world, always understood to mean the right to own private property and to live our lives free of government domination.

Government exists to secure all Rights provided by God. Government can only do its job if it first gets permission from The People.  Government is therefore placed under the control of The People and exists to serve the interests of The People.  The traditional values of the majority of The People, dearly held for millennia, make up the foundational moral code of society, and government, if rightly securing the rights of The People, will respect that foundational code. Continue reading