See Part 1 in the post below this one.

As if the journalistic negligence wasn’t already bad enough concerning the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s coverage of the Blunt/ Carnahan senate race, the same article I discussed in another post on Donkey-Riding Commies today (see post: Keeping the Disgrace in Post-Dispatch) also mentions an internal poll from the League of Conservation Voters that showed Carnahan and Blunt running “at the error margin.” The article then mentions the Rasmussen Report survey of 750 likely voters that shows Blunt leading Carnahan by 10 points with a 4% margin of error. So far so good, right? Not for long. They proceed to repeat the League of Conservation Voter’s claim that their poll also showed “a plurality of voters endorsing climate change legislation in Congress.” What was the polling question that gave this result, the exact wording was:

“Here are some laws passed in at least one House of Congress in the past two years. Please indicate whether you approve or disapprove of each one:

The plan to encourage clean energy production known as cap-and-trade.

45% of respondents approved with 40% disapproving”

Opinion polls can easily be managed to provide the answers the pollster is looking for. This is what separates legitimate pollsters from hacks. This poll question solidly lands this pollster in the hack category.  

Anyone familiar with the issue of cap-and-trade understands that it’s not simply about “encouraging clean energy production.” The method used to encourage clean energy is to charge corporations for the ability to pollute. Companies are sold credits to pollute a certain amount and they can sell their unused credits to companies that need more. This is the most generous description of cap-and-trade. The true method for the program is to essentially tax the bejesus out of traditional sources of energy to discourage their use. You may remember during the 2008 election hearing then-Candidate Obama explain that under his energy plan “energy prices would necessarily skyrocket.” He was right, too. Cap-and-trade creates a hidden tax onto everything sold that requires energy to produce, market, and sell and that covers just about anything and everything we may buy. As corporations see their costs increase, those costs are passed along to consumers through higher prices. This is what cap-and-trade is really about – not the League of Conservation Voters feel-good description in the question of just “encouraging clean energy production.”

The LCV’s internal poll also fails to describe the trade-offs associated with “clean energy.” Namely that wind, solar, and other green energy solutions are much more expensive and inefficient than the burning of fossil fuels. This is where Obama’s statement that energy prices would “necessarily skyrocket” comes into play. However, despite the obvious hackery of the pollster’s phrasing of the question, the Post-Dispatch reporter repeats the findings unchallenged.

Contrast the LCV’s poll findings with that of Rasmussen’s findings: In a May, 2009 poll, only 24% of the 1,000 likely voters polled could even identify that cap-and-trade involved climate change legislation. (No doubt that number has risen since but that ignorance is what LCV was counting on and, from their results, it looks like it worked.) In a July, 2009 poll, 56% of the 1,000 likely voters polled opposed climate change legislation if it caused their energy bills to increase. With the economy only getting worse, it’s very improbable that voters are now more favorable to a cap-and-trade plan that would raise costs.

It’s difficult to believe the Post-Dispatch would allow such a baseless phony poll result to run unchallenged if it was coming from a conservative group. I guess it’s my fault for still being surprised enough to care about the paper’s obvious leftward tilt.

Do they really wonder why subscriptions have dwindled?

An article from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s website, STLToday.com, on Thursday discussed how the green lobby was throwing support to Democrat Robin Carnahan’s run for US Senate. It told us to expect to see more “ads skewering Roy Blunt like that recent spot with the names of oil companies scrolling across the screen.” Apparently, the left-wing League of Conservation Voters Action Fund (LCVAF) is staking the money for the ads, although the Post-Dispatch writer fails to mention the exact amount. Nowhere in this article is any party affiliation given for the LCVAF. (The left-leaning label above was my clarification. It was nowhere near the actual article.) Contrast this to another article the Post-Dispatch ran six days earlier discussing ad time purchased by the groups Crossroads GPS and American Crossroads. In this article, the Post-Dispatch is quick to point out that both groups “were created under the tutelage of GOP masterminds Karl Rove and Ed Gillespe, one-time aides to former President George W. Bush.” (Notice that the article even follows the official Democrat strategy of linking everything to George W. Bush?) However, all we know about the LCVAF that is buying ads to support Robin Carnahan is that it’s “the political arm of the environmental movement.”

This is an interestingly short description since LCVAF’s board of directors includes John Podesta from the Center for American Progress, a George Soros-funded group that is one of the most left-wing organizations in American politics. Podesta, a former Clinton staffer and the head of President Obama’s transition team, is an important man with incredible access and influence with the Obama White House. Also included on the LCVAF’s board is Brent Blackwelder who SourceWatch.org calls the “most senior environmental lobbyist in Washington.” Marcia Aronoff is listed as a member of the board. Aronoff was chief of staff to former US Senator Bill Bradly who also made a couple of unsuccessful runs for the Democrat presidential candidate. LCVAF’s current president is John H. Adams who also founded the National Resource Defense Council which is a left-leaning green group that calls for cap-and-trade and more “green” energy sources like wind and solar. These are just a few of the current board members indicative of the ideological composition of the group in charge of LCVAF. It would definitely seem that there are an equal number of conservatives involved with Crossroads GPS as liberals running LCVAF. However, this didn’t seem to register to the Post-Dispatch as anything relevant enough to classify them as a left-wing group.  

Proving the solid left-wing-history of the group, LCVAF’s board has also been home to Carol Browner who is President Obama’s current “Green Energy Czar”, headed the EPA under President Bill Clinton for eight years, and also was listed as recently as 2008 as a commissioner in Socialist International. (Yeah, that type of socialist.) Currently, Democrat Representative Donna Edwards from Maryland is taking a leave of absence from her board position at LCVAF while she’s campaigning to keep her job. The group has endorsed her and run ads on her behalf. Still, none of this tipped the scales enough for the Post-Dispatch to place any ideological label on the group as they did with the organization running ads on Roy Blunt’s behalf.

The Post-Dispatch also didn’t think that the fact that the LCVAF so far has endorsed 32 candidates running for federal House and Senate seats across the nation 30 of which are Democrats. Ninety-four percent of the endorsements made by the LCVAF have been for Democrats. That’s a pretty left-leaning track record but apparently not enough to garner the equivalent ideological label as the group buying ads on behalf of Roy Blunt. (By the way, according to the Post-Dispatch, Crossroads GPS’s ads didn’t even “skewer” Carnahan. Instead, they “attacked” her. Interesting.)

Yes, the Blunt article and Carnahan article were written by different “journalists.” However, they were approved by the same editor and it’s very obvious that the same standards of transparency don’t apply as the subject turns from a Republican candidate to a Democrat. Just scanning the headlines of the pieces written on each candidate, it’s perfectly clear that the paper is leaning towards Carnahan which anyone familiar with the Post-Dispatch wouldn’t be very surprised about. It would just be nice if they could at least pretend to be somewhat impartial in the articles they label as straight news pieces.

In the wake of the gulf oil spill, polls showed that more people approved of George W. Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina than they did of President Obama’s handling of the oil spill cleanup efforts. That has to hurt for liberals. Obama’s poll numbers have been in a steady downward trend and the oil spill didn’t do anything to help that trend. Obama is currently so unpopular that many Democrat candidates across the nation don’t even want him stopping by to campaign for them.

Now, just a few months before the midterm elections where Democrats have announced that they will put Obama’s record against that of George W. Bush, National Geographic is jumping in with a new special called “Witness: Katrina” scheduled to debut on August 23.

Democrat Congressman Steny Hoyer, the House majority leader, explained that the Democrat campaign strategy this year is to run against George W Bush’s record…again. Democrat Party leadership has also told candidates not to run on a strategy of “bragging about” any of the party’s “achievements” in the last two years and instead campaign against, you guessed it, George W Bush’s record. Of course, you can’t run on legislative victories when you completely disregarded you constituents’ wishes and insulted their intelligence in the process. Besides, running against Bush worked in the previous two elections. Why should the fact that he’s not in office or even in the public’s eye anymore mess up a winning strategy? The only problem now though are the polls showing potential voters have a better view of Bush than President Obama. Something needs to be done. Some wagons need to circle. That’s where National Geographic’s new show comes in to play.

National Geographic Channel always seems to have some interesting timing for many of their shows. Each year before Easter and Christmas, the channel runs documentaries questioning the validity of the New Testament along with shows about the supposed Gospels that were left out of the Bible because they didn’t paint the picture the Church wanted. They also love to run “documentaries” about an illicit, sexual affair with Jesus and Mary Magdalene – complete blasphemy in Christianity. (How many shows do they run during Ramadan questioning the Koran or Islamic traditions?) As I mentioned, these shows show up much more frequently during Lent and Easter, the most sacred parts of the year for Christians.

The channel also loves to run specials about the immanent doom we are all facing from global warming along with scare pieces about what would if the world ran out of oil. Coincidently, these seem to run much more frequently right around the time that liberals are pushing climate change legislation.

If National Geographic didn’t have a tendency to run shows promoting a left-of-center viewpoint that just happen to deal with issues that Congress or voters are in the process of deciding, their new Hurricane Katrina show wouldn’t raise any suspicion. However, both National Geographic magazine and television station have assumed a position of liberal advocacy over recent years. It wouldn’t be out of character for them to “remind” voters who are currently unhappy with President Obama’s reaction to the gulf oil spill about how incompetent George W Bush was. 

As posted earlier, Ed Klein, Newsweek editor and close personal friend of recently-deceased Senator Ted Kennedy, explain that the Chappaquiddick incident was one of Kennedy’s favorite humorous subjects. Most conservative commentators have avoided the Chappaquiddick incident out of respect for the recently deceased and his mourning family. However, there has been no shortage of references about the 1969 fatal car accident coming from sources friendly to Kennedy and his politics. As displayed through the Klein comments, Kennedy’s supporters don’t seem concerned with how tasteless or cold-hearted their comments are about the incident that claimed the life of 29-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne. The worst reference so far has to be the comment from Melissa Lafsky writing for the liberal Huffington Post on Friday.

Talking about the death of Kopechne, Lafsky wrote,

No Ms. Lafsky, we don't think Mary Jo Kopechne would "feel it was worth it."

“We don’t know how much Kennedy was affected by her death, or what she’d have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history. What we don’t know, as always, could fill a Metrodome.

“Still, ignorance doesn’t preclude a right to wonder. So it doesn’t automatically make someone (aka, me) a Limbaugh-loving, aerial-wolf-hunting NRA troll for asking what Mary Jo Kopechne would have had to say about Ted’s death, and what she’d have thought of the life and career that are being (rightfully) heralded.

“Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it.” (emphasis added)

Does Lafsky really think that a young lady left to gasp for her last breaths in an air pocket while trapped inside Kennedy’s submerged Oldsmobile would have considered her death justifiable after reading about Kenney’s accomplishments in the Senate? Is this the level of idolatry that liberals maintain for their elected officials? It is believed that Kopechne was trapped in the car for about five hours before running out of air. While she was pressed against a closed car window, trying to cling to life, the man responsible for her death was walking past many phones and a fire station on his way back to tell his friends what had happened. After all of the men returned to the scene of the crime, they were convinced they couldn’t save her and then went to drop Kennedy off at the ferry landing so he could swim the channel alone and fall asleep in his hotel room. By the time Kennedy fell asleep, Kopechne’s air pocket had probably run out and her 29-year-life ended on the bottom of an inlet under a bridge. Even after he woke the next morning, Kennedy did not call the authorities until after he chatted about yachting with a local man and met with him for breakfast.

No Ms. Lafsky, I don’t think that Mary Jo Kopechne would have sacrificed the rest of her life with the prospects of getting married, having children, and impacting the world in her own way in order for a self-serving politician to secure life-time tenure in the US Senate. How dare anyone even hint that Kopechne would have viewed her own life as that insignificant?

After Kennedy’s death, no one was expecting wall-to-wall coverage about what was probably the darkest chapter of his life. There would be a time to discuss it, but not during his funeral. During the initial shock of his death, his family shouldn’t have to have the incident replayed on a perpetual loop while they are mourning. However, at the same time, Kennedy’s supporters are doing the senator they obviously admire a severe disservice by writing such inflammatory rhetoric.   

There is a difference between honoring a friend and colleague and blatantly bending the truth in an attempt to whitewash history. Lafsky and Ed Klein do their fallen friend a grave disservice by making it necessary for us to truthfully address their hideous claims about the death of Mary Jo Kopechne.

Although it shouldn’t come as a surprise, it does continue to shed light on the extremely favorable media coverage President Obama receives from his lap-dogs in the press. This week, the nonprofit group League of American Voters submitted a commercial to run on all of the major networks. The ad’s message focuses on the fact that the current health care proposals before Congress will lead to rationing of health care and will disproportionately “decimate the quality of health care for seniors.” Bob Adams, executive director of League of American Voters, said that the advertisement is already running on local network affiliates in several states. CBS has agreed to air the commercial during national network programming and talks are currently underway with FOX. However, both ABC and NBC are refusing to run the commercial. NBC is reportedly questioning some of the facts and ABC rejects it for being too “partisan.”

ABC and NBC won't dare offend the president by running anti-ObamaCare commercial.

None of this should surprise anyone. ABC was the network that turned over a whole day’s programming to the White House for B. Hussein Obama to push his health care proposals. The network refused to give any time to any of the president’s opponents to counter the numerous false claims the president made throughout the day. The other network, NBC, might as well be run from the White House every day. Jeffrey Immelt, the CEO of GE, NBC’s parent company, has advised the president on an array of topics including “renewable energy.” GE happens to be the largest manufacturer of wind turbines and has developed products to be used in national carbon trading schemes. Without Obama’s cap-and-trade plan, these products would be worthless. Immelt has also been appointed by the Obama administration to sit on the New York Federal Reserve Board. On any given night, MSNBC can be found singing the praises of B. Hussein Obama and getting thrills up their legs at the sound of the president’s voice while simultaneously demonizing anyone who dares question him.

It’s obvious that journalism is officially dead, especially at ABC and NBC. They’re partisan motives are completely transparent and it shouldn’t surprise anyone that they are refusing to run an ad critical of Obama’s health care plans. These two networks shouldn’t be surprised that as Obama’s public approval ratings tank, so do their ratings.

While Pelosi sees Nazis everywhere and MSNBC accuses health care reform opponents of inciting violence, none seem too concerned with the leftwing extremists running wild.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi claims that health care opponents are “carrying swastikas and symbols like that” to town hall meetings. Washington State Democrat Brian Baird publically stated that opponents to ObamaCare are using “brown shirt tactics.” Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid must have run out of Nazi descriptions when he cut to the chase and called health care reform protestors “evil mongers.” While Democrats are falling all over themselves to conjure up visions of Nazi Germany, their lapdogs in the press also give warnings that the protestors are fueling violence from the militia movement and stoking the flames of racism. Recently, I posted about MSNBC’s “report” about angry white people showing up with guns to an event where President Obama was scheduled to speak. While the video showed a close-up of the AR-15 slung across a man’s back, MSNBC cropped the shot to exclude an important fact considering their statement that racist white people were bringing guns to protest the president – the man in the video was black. Yes, liberals are losing sleep over threats of violence from those nasty “rightwing extremists” that Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security issued a report warning about. After focusing so hard on the potential for rightwing violence, these same liberals missed a few other recent stories about actual acts of violence and domestic terrorism.

Last fall at the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Minnesota, two liberals from Austin, Texas were arrested for possessing Molotov cocktails which they made to throw at police cars securing the RNC. The men were sentenced in federal court last May. The two men had traveled from Texas to Minnesota last year with 35 riot shields that they had constructed from stolen traffic barrels. They planned to use the shields to help demonstrators block safe entrance to the RNC held at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The St. Paul police discovered and confiscated the shields which angered the two men further and led them to purchase the materials to manufacture the Molotov cocktails. Their plans to bomb police cars at a parking lot that served as a checkpoint for people entering the RNC were overheard by an FBI informant. The two liberal activists were caught and the Molotov cocktails were found in their possession at the time of the arrest. After the men were arrested, Katyanne Marie Kirby, a 25-year-old lady also from Texas sent an email to the informant threatening his life. She was also arrested and faces trial this month.

As if the two domestic terrorists arrested for plotting to kill innocent people entering the RNC wasn’t bad enough, another story in St. Louis involves another liberal Democrat attempting to bomb his adversaries. Milton “Skip” Ohlsen III, a former Democrat campaign strategist, was arrested recently for setting off a bomb that injured a 70-year-old attorney in a parking garage in Clayton, Missouri. Authorities believe the bomb was actually intended for a different attorney who worked in the same building who had represented Ohlsen’s ex-wife during a divorce in December 2007. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the targeted attorney also represented another man who obtained a temporary restraining order against the Democrat campaign strategist. In an unrelated case, Ohlsen was also arrested on federal fraud and firearm charges on December 18. As if the previous legal woes aren’t enough, Olhsen is also facing more charges for his role in the current scandals surrounding the 2004 congressional campaign of Democrats Jeff Smith, a state senator from St. Louis, and Steve Brown, a state representative from Clayton. The scandal involves an FEC complaint accusing Smith of skirting federal law to produce anonymous fliers criticizing current US representative, Democrat Russ Carnahan.

Good thing none of the bombers above weren’t opposed to ObamaCare. If they had been, Democrats might also label them violent extremists and MSNBC may have actually reported the story in between editing video to paint a picture of racist white men hell-bent on gunning down the president. Violent liberal activists aren’t anything new. From B. Hussein Obama’s good buddy, William Ayers, to the environmental whackos who blow up SUV dealerships and other targets committing perceived crimes against Mother Nature, leftwing extremists have a long history of turning their anger into violent explosions. However, just as none of the Democrats or Obama-friendly press seemed concerned about SEIU thugs putting a man in the hospital because he was a black conservative, they seem to be following the trend of ignoring other violent liberals. The plots to blow up the DNC, the death threat of the FBI informant, Ohlsen’s bomb, and the beating of Kenneth Gladney don’t require imagination and predictions from liberal pundits to analyze. These are all actual incidents of violence from agents of the left. Isn’t the double standard getting old?

Democrat Russ Carnahan faced "tough" questions from three people selected for the event by President Obama's campaign group "Organizing for America."

Democrat Representative Russ Carnahan finally found a health care forum where he won’t be bothered by unhappy constituents. After hosting a couple of town hall meetings on health care reform where angry constituents far outnumbered supporters of the Democrats’ health care proposals, Carnahan has withdrawn from any debate over the issue and surrounded himself with friendly supporters. St. Louis talk radio station KMOX reports that Carnahan held a round-table discussion about health care on Friday in a private home in south St. Louis. The media was not allowed to announce the meeting beforehand which only had three participants in the discussion who were chosen by “Organizing for America.”

On their website, KMOX states, “The three participants who shared their health care concerns with Carnahan were pre-selected by a group called “Organizing for America”, which bills itself as a grass-roots project of the Democratic Party.” This is highly misleading because Organizing for America is not exactly a grassroots movement that has popped up to support health care reform. Instead, the group is actually President B. Hussein Obama’s 13-million-member campaign organization that the president emails when he needs activists in his corner. Some might even label them “Astroturf.” Too bad the same labels and rules don’t apply to liberal Democrat groups.

In the private meeting, the owner of the residence, Connie Cominsky, asked Carnahan why so many people are violently opposed to the “public option.” (Wow, Carnahan sure was fielding some tough questions.) Carnahan responded, “They (opponents) fear the public getting the facts and so their strategy has been really to disrupt that.” Thus says the Democrat whose union thugs hospitalized a man because he was a black conservative and who also holds a “discussion” that the media was not allowed to announce and was populated with people specifically selected by B. Hussein Obama’s campaign organization. Frustrated by hearing from the unwashed, ignorant masses, Carnahan decides to hold a secret private meeting surrounded by supporters. Considering all of this, exactly who is trying to keep people from getting the facts? It looks like Carnahan has decided to avoid those pesky constituents and insulate himself from the actual debate. Out of sight, out of mind, eh Mr. Carnahan?

MSNBC cast off any final remnants of credibility when discussing their horror over a man in Arizona legally wearing an AR-15 rifle and a pistol to the rally. In Arizona, residents are able to openly carry legally-owned firearms in plain view without any special permits. Liberals became inflamed at video of a protestor bringing firearms to the rally in order to make a political statement about Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Contessa Brewer of MSNBC charged that the weapons were indications of the racist motivations driving protests to President Obama’s health care reform plans. She said, “’A man at a pro-health care reform rally…wore a semiautomatic assault rifle on his shoulder and a pistol on his hip….there are questions about whether this has racial overtones….white people showing up with guns.” (Emphasis added.) Her statement was accompanied by a video which was obviously edited to “prove” her point. What was so obvious about the editing job of the video? The video clip failed to show a trait of the armed man that completely disproves Brewer’s assessment – the man carrying the firearms was black. This bit of information that MSNBC conveniently left out of their reports shows how far the network will go to push their love for B. Hussein Obama onto, what they perceive to be, an unsuspecting, uninformed, and gullible population.

Below is the video from Brewer’s “report”:

Here’s a picture of the man carrying the firearms. He doesn’t exactly seem to be part of Brewer’s “white people showing up with guns” crowd.  

This is a full shot of Brewer's "white people showing up with guns." From seeing a full picture of the man in MSNBC's cropped video, it's pretty clear that he's not exactly your typical Klansman.

I don’t necessarily agree with this guy’s decision to bring firearms to the event in order to make a political point. As MSNBC has quickly proven, the Obama-freaks in the media are looking for any excuse to label opponents to the president’s plans as violent extremists. However, since the man wasn’t wearing a purple SEIU shirt or a red ACORN shirt, I don’t think he posed much of a threat to the crowd. Even the Secret Service working security at the Arizona event said that they were not worried at all about Obama’s well-being. The armed man stayed in the designated area for protestors and was never anywhere near a position to harm the president.

MSNBC is not a source of any type of honest, serious journalism. Instead, they are just a middle man that the White House and other far-left groups use to push their propaganda into the airwaves. It’s pretty clear that Chris Matthews isn’t the only person in the studio who gets thrills up his leg when Obama speacks. Maybe this is why their ratings continue to plummet every month. Is it any surprise that NBC’s parent company, GE, is run by Jeffrey Immelt who was and continues to be a large supporter of B. Hussein Obama? GE stands to profit greatly from Obama’s push for government-subsidized solar and wind power since the company is one of the largest producers of wind turbines. MSNBC seems to be providing their end of the bargain in this “you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” relationship.

However, before we pass judgment on this man’s decision to bring his weapons, we might want to recall Kenneth Gladney’s story in St. Louis. Gladney was brutally beaten by Democrat union goons because he was a black conservative. Maybe this man in Arizona was motivated by racism -fear of racist Democrat goons looking to crack the skull of everyone who doesn’t tolerate opposing political views, especially from members of minority groups who don’t support liberalism. Even the Supreme Court recognized a right to self defense, even against politically-connected union thugs. 

This is another video from GatewayPundit. This one shows that while hundreds of protestors were kept out of the town hall meeting, Carnahan’s staff was letting union thugs in through a side door to the building. The criminal thugs are definitely in charge now. If you don’t agree, people are going to be called in to make you agree. This should never happen in a free society and Carnahan should be immediately shown the door in the 2010 elections.

This video is from GatewayPundit’s site. It shows SEUI thugs beating up on regular Americans who oppose Obama’s health care plan. Up until now, Americans have attended town hall meetings and expressed their anger without any threat of violence. Only after B. Hussein Obama sends his email to the 13 million recipients on his distribution list and orders his union thugs to arrive on the scenes did people’s physical well-beings become threatened. The president of the United States of America is calling out strong-arm thugs in order to quiet anyone opposed to his totalitarian agenda.

In this incident, an African American gentleman was selling Don’t Tread on Me flags outside of the meeting. He was stomped by SEIU employees and is currently still in the hospital. His attorney is trying to determine what link the SEIU had to Russ Carnahan’s office. Before leaving for August recess, Speaker Pelosi told Democrats that liberal groups promised to provide support. Her memo specifically mentioned the SEIU as a group Democrats could count on for support. After reading the Post-Dispatch’s account, readers would think that the “angry mob” was there to protest health care reform. The aftermath and video shows the exact opposite. However, a Post-Dispatch reporter was arrested in the fray for interfering in the arrests of SEIU thugs. St. Louis doesn’t have an honest newspaper and America doesn’t have an honest administration in charge. Don’t let the intimidation quiet the discontent.