We Got Questions (You Got Answers)

 

 How do Libertarians understand a debt, when contracts are broken on Game of Thrones, but not when it comes to America and black people? 

   

How do hospitals push wellness but not hire faith healers?

How is George Stephanopoulos shocked that all the long-promised legal trouble Democrats manufactured hasn't made Donald Trump less popular?

How crazy is this nigga if he's being warned to "step away from the computer"?

 

Oprah Winfrey Is The Bill Cosby Of The Democrat Party (After Bill Clinton)

 

There are few things more satisfying than watching the "Shame Nun" (former press secretary for Bill Clinton-turned-ABC News "journalist") George Stephanopoulos, failing to force Sen. Rand Paul to confess to something Paul knows to be untrue. 

Except when you remember, deep down, that's what The Democrat Party's really always been about. 

You can see it in how smug liberals are, rather than shamed, that decades of deceit, after wallowing in pseudoscience, has somehow only enhanced the influence of Oprah Winfrey and Whole Foods with Barack Obama's supposedly-intellectual voters. 

And worse - The Democrat Party. They're actually "happy" because lies have paved the way for new, more preposterous lies, like calling themselves "The Party Of Science" the same year the antivaxxer-and-former-AIDS-misinformation-maven, Marianne Williamson, was celebrated as "a breath of fresh air" for the left. 

Or The Party of Civil Rights, the same year Hillary Clinton's mega-donor, Ed Buck, was murdering blacks, but the media refused to report it. Again, to protect Hillary - who didn't say a word, BTW. Yeah, she cared we know.

Long ago, San Francisco Democrats claimed pot was medicine (like homeopaths say water is medicine) because the lie worked better than the simple, then-unmarketable, truth: they wanted to smoke pot without the fear of getting busted.

But it's the lies The Democrat Party built-up around Harvey Milk - to cover-up the fact that he, and they, were involved in Jim Jones' People's Temple cult, just like the party's still involved with multiple cults today - those lies,...well, they were, really, the grandaddies of them all.

Sen. Rand Paul's a doctor - a real doctor, not one of Oprah's quacks - but, I don't know if he treats political schizophrenia. Somebody should ask.

Just NOT George Stephanopoulos or Oprah.

 

Ain't Newspapers 'Sposed To Make The Comfortable Uncomfortable? (Part II)

 

Two mature takes, on President Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize nomination, we did NOT hear regularly in the news: 1) it was like giving an Academy Award to a Director in the hopes he'll make a great film one day (which he never did) and 2) Obama became Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter became Jimmy Carter. The newspapers said just the opposite.

   

Here's Hitchens in 2009, noticing Obama and Hillary Clinton's "unbelievably patronizing attitude toward the Heartland" - one of the very things that led to President Donald Trump's win in 2016 - which is a long time for Obama to have been an asshole,...without him, his supporters, or the media, noticing.

   

They didn't notice Hillary's first, real political act was to actively humiliate a black guy. So, they also did NOT notice, it wouldn't be the last time the Clintons decided ambushing a black person could earn them a ticket on the road to riches. 

   

American newspapers don't print anything, the way it is, anymore.

   

 Before it was fashionable to call people "cult members", Hitch was already saying the Clintons knew how to create them, but the media, generally, hasn't ever been reporting that.

Especially not this cult member.

I pity poor Francis Wheen, who wrote his great books on it, nobody (else) read.

 

Those Who Kept Us Down Aren't Trusted To Lift Us Up

Ann Althouse & Meade To TMR: "I Know - It's A Cult. It's Not Scientific. But You Don't Have To Join To Let [It] In."

 So lookee here - this is,...interesting.

The New York Times did a puff piece on David Lynch and his TM cult (what else?) but what's cool is they also included a chart (above) of who's in it, and - whouldn't you know - all the media's major movers and shakers are in there:

The David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace may focus on teaching meditation techniques to at-risk children and soldiers suffering from PTSD. But Lynch has had a significant impact in his own industry. Some of the foundation's recent initiates are shown above.

So, as I've always told you, if you're ever trying to discover why Oprah, Ellen, Dr. Oz, Susan Sarandon, George Stephanopoulos, Candy Crowley and all the rest are spoon-feeding us what seems like a mutli-pronged but singular message (feminism, gays, save the planet, soul mates, etc.) and who it's really coming from, we might now know who one of their biggest cult leaders in America is:

Eraserhead. 

Now, let's not forget who David Lynch is. I've done a lot of work on Lynch, and I'm not alone. But first, the blog for people who've escaped the cult, TMFree, led me to the NYT article and they have a few things to say about it:

Longtime TM Initiator-Governor Bobby Roth, currently employed by David Lynch’s foundation, carefully cultivates celebrity TMers. Like high profile celebrities in other cult-like groups, TM celebrities are sheltered from the dysfunctions, demands, psychosis and poverty experienced by many rank and file TM devotees.

This is what I'm now calling "The Instapundit/Ann Althouse (& Meade) Effect". It's when you dispense misinformation without a care for it's effects on others you exploit. ("You've got your good thing, and you've got mine.") Here's some more from TMFree:

On March 4, 2013 John Horgan pubished for his Scientific American “Cross-Check” blog “Do All Cults, Like All Psychotherapies, Exploit the Placebo Effect?” referring to Hoffman’s article, above. 

Horgan offers a short discussion of the placebo effect, followed by an explanation of destructive cults.  He closes his essay “The more you believe in the uniquely transformative power of your cult, the more you get out of it. The only price you have to pay is your rationality.” 

A few days later, on March 8, Horgan offered another essay critiquing TM’s research, in response to the True Believer comments on his first TM expose’ post, “Research on TM and Other Forms of Meditation Stinks”.

Anyway - back to David Lynch. If you truly want to see him in action, you have to check out the film, David Wants To Fly, where Lynch shows the venality in his heart and that of his program. I've told you what it's about - Naziism - and the Germans saw it clearly when Lynch spoke there:

"The flap those words created, with their echoes of the Third Reich, reveals both the deadly seriousness with which Germans view their wartime past and the gulf separating Lynch's new-age agenda from that of some hard-bitten Berliners with a more historical mind-set.”

 Yeah, don't anybody dare remember where the phrase "Mind/Body/Spirit" came from. (Has anybody else noticed that hasn't ever been a news item?) And the fact the Nazis were doing yoga while maintaining concentration camps for undesirables, like me, who didn't want to practice that or homeopathy. 

Well, not me, baby, I know what Nazis are about - killing anyone who has a real culture:

And - just like last time - I'm waiting for 'em to dare and try to get me,...

 

Charlie Sheen Runs With A Bad Crowd? (Rubes)

Considering all the BS everybody wants to dump on regular guy Charlie Sheen - and, especially, considering the we-played-for-Gaddafi troupers - here's a few stories everybody should keep in mind the next time one of these celebrities are paraded before us as people we should look up to:

It’s no secret that Bill Clinton has long been friends with convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein has contributed to both Bill and Hillary’s campaigns. But no one knew about the night Bill spent on Epstein’s private Caribbean island with three underage girls until now.

Oh, but this Epstein nonsense gets better:

Last week I wrote about a party thrown by this convicted sleazebag for a group of news anchors including Charlie Rose, George Stephanopoulos, and Katie Couric. The next day I received a message from Katie Couric expressing her regret for attending the party, Stephanopoulos and Rose never responded. So let me ask again: Why are George Stephanopoulos and Charlie Rose socializing with this guy? Don’t ABC and PBS have some kind of ethics clause in their employee contracts?

Nope, not done yet - over to England:

Prince Andrew attended naked pool parties at the home of his billionaire paedophile friend, it was claimed yesterday.

Young women frolicked nude in the swimming pool while the Duke of York visited the Florida mansion of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

And since we have to tie everything - literally everything - into Oprah and her friends (like NewAge "sweat lodge" murderer James Arthur Ray) here comes her gal pal - and children's book author - Sarah Ferguson:

The British Royal Family has added another scandal to its growing list, as news broke this weekend that ex-Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson once accepted £15,000 ($30,000) from a millionaire New Yorker convicted of pedophilia. 

 Ferguson, who held the nickname 'Fergie' from 1984 to 2003, accepted funds from hedge-fund millionaire and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in order to pay debts to her former personal assistant. Ferguson's ex-husband, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, reportedly assisted with the deal.

And to that we can only add one word:

Winning!

ABC News' George Stephanopoulos Goes Insane

We already knew, as a high-ranking member of Billary's administration, that George Stephanopoulos was a Democrat partisan, but the way this man - who covered for Hillary during her "psychic" period - shifts his interview with Michele Bachmann to Obama's religion and Birtherism is both hilarious and scary silly. Then, after Bachmann tries to keep the conversation on issues of substance, he shifts again to something even more outrageous - whether Bachmann is "a fan" of the NewAge performance artist Lady GaGa! (He must have thought he was talking to Ann Althouse!)

If this isn't a clear example of the frivolousness - and NewAge biases - of our leading media figures, then we don't know what is:

George Stephanopoulos needs to get a grip before he drifts from reality for good.

Hat Tip: Hot Air

Social Corrosion: John Edwards' Adultery Has Almost Everyone It Touches Being Eaten Alive

We Were Sold Out (And It's Time For It To End)

"Many observers believe that the mainstream media could have blown Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign to bits over a single long weekend. A couple of hit pieces featuring Rashid Khalidi, Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Edward Said, Franklin Raines, Jim Johnson, the lost years at Columbia, ... well, you get the picture. Any of the big outlets could've put a stake in the heart of Obama's campaign with a single 20-minute segment of John Stossel presents: Barack Obama's Whackjob Friends.

So why didn't our world-class U.S. journalists explore Barack's background? In fact, the world wonders how our media could be so biased, so in the bag, so incredibly tilted that even the Saturday morning cartoons are mocking 'em. The answer is right in front of our noses.

• Senior Obama adviser Susan Rice (a former Clinton administration official) is married to Ian Cameron, the Canadian-born executive producer of ABC News’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

• NBC's David Gregory is married to Beth Wilkinson, a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington and a former official in the Justice Department during the Clinton administration.

• ABC's George Stephanopoulos hosts a show bearing his name and earlier served as a senior advisor to the Clinton administration.

• Chris Matthews hosts MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews and served as a speechwriter for Jimmy Carter.

• David Gergen is a political analyst for CNN and served as a special adviser to President Clinton.

• Paul Begala is a CNN commentator ("[President Bush is] a high-functioning moron") and a former senior adviser to President Clinton.

• Bill Moyers is a journalist employed by PBS and was a press secretary for President Lyndon Baines Johnson. His son is a producer for CNN.

Put simply, there appears to be only a turnstile between a Democratic administration and a cushy media job. Perhaps that explains the disconnect. After all, career and spousal advancement come before integrity."

-- Doug Ross, showing those who were willing to betray America for their choice in this election, on Doug Ross @ Journal.

We need new pundits and journalists in this country - and I want to be one of them - but new voices can't be heard without your support, which should go to:

This Ain't No Game

The game mainstream media is playing while covering Barack Obama's campaign is just stunning. Is it that they don't want to do their job? Or they no longer know what their job is? Are they part of the "Obama Cult"? Being a news junkie, those are but a few of the many questions I'm left to wrestle with these days.

Take the language "journalist" Ron Claiborne (above) used in this ABC News article on the McCain campaign's decision to go forward with attacking the connections between Barack Obama and Bill Ayers:

"There is scant evidence that the two men were much more than acquaintances who happened to serve together on two not-for-profit boards several years ago."

Really? From what I've heard, their families have a relationship that goes all the way back to 1987 when Michelle Obama and Ayers's wife, the terrorist Bernadine Dorne, worked together in a Chicago law firm. Funny that the "girls" of The View never brought that up. But since it's out there, and documented as fact, do you think it's fair or accurate for Claiborne to report "there is scant evidence that the two men were much more than acquaintances"?

And why are reporters taking the word of Obama's supporters and ignoring his many critics, when his supporters have, repeatedly, been doing nasty things to keep the story quiet? Their ugly attempts to censor others, alone, should be a huge story considering the supposed intent and image of the campaign Obama claimed to be leading. But, for some reason, the MSM hears and sees no evil.

Barack Obama headed Bill Ayers's multi-million dollar pet project, The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and it was a complete and utter failure. Hardly the relationship of just "a guy who lives in my neighborhood" that Obama described to George Stephanopoulos. Where are the TV news stories and newspaper articles holding up The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, or The Woods Foundation, or the results of his housing policy, as proof Obama doesn't know how to run anything? Isn't that the media's job?

And why can I find all these articles but Ron Claiborne and George Stephanopoulos of ABC News can't? What are they doing with their time this election season? Apparently coming up with clever ways to say nothing so, if there's an Obama presidency, they're insured to have access so they can spew more blow-dried nonsense to the citizens of the country.

Check out the lawyer-speak Obama used when talking about Ayers:

"He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."

So Obama admits he does "exchange ideas" with the commie terrorist; it just doesn't happen "on a regular basis", right? Maybe we've got some kind of "Manchurian Candidate" thing going on here?

Maybe not. But wouldn't you think a real "journalist" would want to know what ideas a potential president of the United States is exchanging with an unrepentant terrorist who has said he's determined to bring down America and our capitalist system? Sounds like a front page headline for whoever gets to the bottom of all this stuff but, for some reason - after 19 months on the campaign trail - no journalist has seen fit to find out. Bizarre, isn't it? I mean, it's bad enough that Obama said it during a televised debate and neither George Stephanopoulos, most other journalists, or the general public cared enough to bat an eyelash, but considering that charges of cultism have been leveled at the Obama campaign for some time now, I ask you: what else could be going on here? Or am I to believe, when it comes to the highest office in the land and the most powerful position in the world, all these supposedly smart people just got struck with a bad case of stupid?

Ron Claiborne continues:

"What was known about Obama and Ayers' relationship was that Obama attended a political function at Ayers' home in Chicago in 1995. They served together on a couple of non-profit community service boards. Ayers contributed $200 to Obama's state Senate campaign in 2001."

This is just a bunch of easily disproven lies. That "political function at Ayers' home" was actually the coming out party for Obama's Senate campaign. Those "non-profit community service boards" were actually Left-wing organizations with a mandate to indoctrinate our youth with Ayers's ideology. And why would Ayers give any money to a guy he hardly knows, or thinks rejects his ideology? This story - and the reporting that's offered as "coverage" - stinks like a pastor smoking in church. What gives?

Claiborne again:

"The McCain campaign kept suggesting there was more to it. Whenever McCain officials were asked what more they knew, they would say only that they were certain the relationship was closer than Obama described it."

Wouldn't anybody think reporters would try to see if they're right? Get a little "Watergate" action going? What are they waiting for? Like Steven Colbert is going to get to work? Ayers is a terrorist, y'know? Why wait for the McCain campaign to sort it out? Is it just me or isn't running for office what political campaigns are supposed to do and investigations of terrorists what reporters are supposed to do? Could I be confused about that? All Ron Claiborne seems to want to know is what he ends his article with:

"Obama was at Ayers's house once 13 years ago. They served together on two boards. Their children went to the same school."

Sorry, bub, but, amongst those of us who still have working brains, that simplistic assessment of this particularly complex relationship just won't do:

This ain't no game.

Lame-O

For the record: TMR's honorable correspondent served in the United States Navy - from 1979 to 1983 - and considers this a lousy excuse.

Hat Tip: Hot Air

Cute (Sophisticated) Redneck Humor

I'd noticed these guys on the web before but never actually watched 'em work - they're good:

Raisin' a smile on the cheap.

Hat Tip: Little Green Footballs

The Difference Between Left And Wright (None)

mis·an·thro·py – noun: hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.

If You Can't See It You're Blind

“While I’ll be the first to admit that Stephanopoulos having a role in a debate in which Hillary Clinton participates is legitimate reason to complain, we can do without the hyperbole. What about the Republican YouTube debate of last fall, during which questions came directly from Democratic opponents’ campaigns? Moreover, what about the plight of Republicans, who have been subjected to numerous interviews and debates with Democratic partisans including Stephanopoulos, Tim Russert, and Chris Matthews? Is there a single Republican partisan on the staff of a major network-news team who enjoys status equal to these three – let alone has had the opportunity to moderate a presidential debate?

Whatever complaints Democrats and lefty bloggers have with any of those broadcasters seem at odds with their silence in years past. Of course, in days gone by, they couldn’t conceive of a situation in which having a liberal partisan operative, such as Stephanopoulos, in a journalistic catbird seat, would hurt their cause. So they raised no objection when he was assigned one of the most covetable posts in the world of political journalism. When Matthews moderated a couple of Republican debates, no one on the left questioned the fairness of a moderator who routinely spouts such plainly tendentious nonsense as “God help us if we had Cheney during the Cuban missile crisis. We’d all be under a parking lot.” Republicans soldier on. Any Republican who sits down on This Week, Meet The Press, or Hardball stares down the barrel of an ideologically loaded gun; Stephanopoulos asks some tough questions of the presumptive Democratic frontrunner and a chorus of complaints about being pistol whipped arises from the masses.”

-- Mark Hemingway, using the recent crowing over the last Democratic debate to expose liberal bias - inside and outside of journalism - while writing for the National Review Online

My Ex Dreamed Of Sex With Bill Clinton (She Should Have Been His Girl) I'm More Like Christopher Hitchens: I Want Out Of Their Whole Sleazy World*

"She did seduce a married man, damage the presidency for the sake of casual sex, lie frequently and insouciantly, and blab her 'secret' affair to anyone who'd listen."

>-- From David Plotz, writing in Slate Magazine.

"[Monica Lewinsky] was,...sexually exploited by her older, sleazy boss; had her reputation smeared by Clinton's lackeys."

"[Betty Currie, Clinton's Secretary] knew Clinton's history when she took her job then enabled Clinton's sleaziness anyway. She stood by while Clinton cuckolded his wife and perhaps even helped him commit obstruction of justice. And did she protest? Not as far as we have heard. Did she quit on principle? No. Currie may not be [Monicagate's] chief malefactor, but nor is she the saintly innocent that the American public believes her to be."

"George Stephanopoulos has become a white knight,...the former Clinton aide who had the courage to turn on his boss. And bravo to George for chastising Clinton! But it smacks of hypocrisy for Stephanopoulos to 'discover' in 1998 that Clinton is a lying, womanizing dog. He has, after all known this since 1992. Back then Stephanopoulos himself helped quell bimbo eruptions and parroted Clinton's lying denials. He has never shouldered blame for those deceptions. And while loyalty isn't a universal good, it was opportunistic for Stephanopoulos to betray Clinton just at the moment Clinton's stock was about to plunge."

"The reason [Hillary Clinton's] a U.S. senator, the reason she's a candidate for president, the reason she may be a front-runner is her husband messed around."

-- Chris Matthews.

"Monicagate is the last thing [Hillary Clinton] wants to hear about, especially now. Which probably helps explain why its anniversary has gone ignored in the press. The whole subject is a source-killer for any journalist who wants to cover Hillary's presidential campaign."

-- Timothy Noah, writing in Slate.com.

"a) [Hillary Clinton] knew what a lech [Bill Clinton] was, yet always protected him.

b) [Hillary Clinton] may have always known the truth about Lewinsky, yet still lied to protect Bill.

c) [Hillary Clinton] chose aggressive, political strategy over contrition."

"[Hillary Clinton is] indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast and loose with national security: The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry."

-- Christopher Hitchens, writing in Slate.com.

On this 10th Anniversary of the Monica Lewinsky Scandal (and the release of my underground classic, The Big Lowensky: Crackhouse Hits From the Clinton Era) I dedicate this post to my New Age ex from Wissembourg, France, Karine Anne Brunck (who did dream about having sex with Bill Clinton - and the pimp-like former mayor of San Francisco, Willie Brown) and all of her post-adultery supporters - and the New Age Clintons and all of theirs:

Thanks for "raising the energy of the planet" to the point where, with my new "higher level of consciousness", it's ensured that my world will be as sick, and sleazy, a place to live as yours.

I'm really enjoying it. Can't you tell?