The AP reports that "this week's ratings, with an average of 34.5 million viewers watching the GOP convention over three days, proved people are becoming more interested in what the Republicans have to say. The Democrats had an average audience of 30.2 million over four days." It went on to say that "38.9 million people watched McCain accept the GOP nomination Thursday on either ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel or MSNBC. PBS, which has a more imprecise estimate based on samples in a few big cities, said 3.5 million watched on its network. Last week, Obama's speech in Denver was seen by 38.4 million on 10 different commercial networks, and an additional 4 million on PBS."
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Friday, September 5, 2008
On Average, More Watched The Republican Convention Than The Dem Convention
Obama's "Friend" Detriot Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Is Being Sent To The Slammer
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of Detriot agreeing to resign and serve time in jail as part of plea deal. The mayor plead guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice, and in exchange the Democrat will get four months behind bars, pay the city $1 million in restitution, lose his license to practice law, and his ability to run for elected office for five years.
The video you are about to see is of Barack Obama with the crook Kwame Kilpatrick. What Obama says can be perhaps be explained away as gratuitous compliments, but it is still priceless to have a video in which Obama delivers effusive praise of Kilpatrick and declares that he is "grateful" to call the corrput mayor "a friend and a colleague."
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Blatantly Biased US Weekly Smear Of Sarah Palin
Watch and be prepared to be disgusted by a magazine that everyone will see while waiting in line at the grocerty store:
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RNC Sarah Palin And John McCain Video Biographies
Amazingly, the Sarah Palin speech generated 37.2 million viewers. That was only 1.1 million viewers less than Barack Obama’s speech at the Dem Convention. Palin's speech, mind you, was carried on six networks while Obama's was carried on ten.
This Palin bio did not end up being broadcasted at the convention:
Here is John McCain's video biography that was shown just prior to his convention speech:
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
123 People Shot And Killed In Chicago Over The Summer Amounting To Almost Double The Number Of Troops Killed In Iraq
Chicago's CBS 2 News reports that "an estimated 123 people were shot and killed over the summer. That's nearly double the number of soldiers killed in Iraq over the same time period. In May, cbs2chicago.com began tracking city shootings and posting them on Google maps. Information compiled from our reporters, wire service reports and the Chicago Police Major Incidents log indicated that 123 people were shot and killed throughout the city between the start of Memorial Day weekend on May 26, and the end of Labor Day on Sept. 1. According to the Defense Department, 65 soldiers were killed in combat in Iraq."
Maybe it's time for a withdrawal from Obama's home town.
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Chris Matthews And Pat Buchanan Shouting Match Over Sarah Palin And The "Sexist" Media
I do not know if the media has a sexist bias, I think it is more likely they may have a liberal bias.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Rudy And Palin Rock The House At The Republican Convention
Rudy Guilianni:
The media and Obama camp underplayed and underestimated McCain's VP pick, leading anyone who saw Sarah Palin speak to feel that she exceeded expectations in her first real national debut. Here is Sarah Palin:
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Newt Gingrich On Palin's Record Of Experience
Here is McCain's new ad on Obama's record of "empty words" and being the "most liberal" as opposed to Palin's record:
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Washington Post Columnist Slams Palin For Not Being Enough Of A "Hands-On Mother"
Apparently the blatant irony of essentially arguing that Palin belongs in the house and not at work evades liberal Washington Post columnist Sally Quinn. This is a new day in feminism, my friends. It seems the female CNN anchor is not buying it:
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Fred Thompson At The Republican Convention
Fredheads unite behind McCain! There is a lot more Republican red meat in this speech than in the Lieberman speech, which is to be expected. So if that is what you are looking for, enjoy!
For me these were his top three lines (just skip ahead to the video if you would rather watch the whole speech):
"To deal with these challenges the Democrats present a history making nominee for president. History making in that he is the most liberal, most inexperienced nominee to ever run for President. Apparently they believe that he would match up well with the history making, Democrat controlled Congress. History making because it's the least accomplished and most unpopular Congress in our nation's history.
Together, they would take on these urgent challenges with protectionism, higher taxes and an even bigger bureaucracy. And a Supreme Court that could be lost to liberalism for a generation. This is not reform. And it's certainly not change."
"Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit."
"We need a President who doesn't think that the protection of the unborn or a newly born baby is above his pay grade."
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Former Dem VP Pick Joe Lieberman Speaks At The Republican Convention
Go Joe, Go! The Republican Convention has got the Joementum!
I don't think he sounded this good, simply in terms of his speaking abilities, when he was on the stage as the VP nominee in 2000. His message was geared to independents and it was a simple one. John McCain is the real reformer, John McCain represents true "change" and bipartisanship, John McCain can shake up Washington, and John McCain unlike Obama has the record backing this all up.
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Monday, September 1, 2008
Leading Clinton Supporter Defects To McCain
The following is a link to the video: http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/tamcam/archive/2008/09/01/top-hillary-supporter-switches-to-mccain.aspx
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Barack Obama's Greatest Hits
In the interests of full disclosure, the follwoing compilation was made by a fellow blogger, Eyeblast. He did good work making this top 10 collection and I thought it was certainly worth sharing:
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Sunday, August 31, 2008
Why Palin Was The Right Choice For VP
I think she was a very smart choice politically. McCain's strong points politically are experience and foreign policy. Those are Palin's weak points, but it does not matter because she fills in many of the other gaps and is the bottom of the ticket, unlike Obama. Any attack on her experience will inevitably lead back to Obama's experience. Experience is a losing issue for Obama.
The following are the reasons why I believe she was a great VP pick, in no particular order:
1. She may be able to get a few Hillary voters, though probably not many. There might be some female voters that vote purely on identity politics ( voting to break the "glass ceiling" is probably a more charitable way of putting it). In a close election this could make a difference.
Regardless of Hillary voters, Palin being a woman gives McCain a little of that "change" stuff that this election seems to be obsessed with. If Obama wins it will obviously be historic because of his race, but this pick makes a McCain victory a historic one as well because of his VP's gender.
2. She helps get rid of the age issue because she is 28 years younger than McCain.
3. She is the polar opposite of the Biden pick. She is not a Washington insider at all. She is a new face. She is a woman. She does not have hair plugs. She is mild mannered. Biden can't be a blowhard in the VP debate or he'll come off as a jerk.
4. Energy will be a key issue in this election, and an Alaska governor knows a lot more about energy than a Senator from Illinois or Delaware. Energy independence is also a national security issue.
5. She has energized the Republican base, the Christian right, that really cares about the social issues, especially abortion.
6. She helps reinforce the mantle of reform oriented candidates on the Republican ticket with her record of reform measures in Alaska.
7. She has executive experience, something no one else on either ticket has.
8. She is very likable and in no way can she be painted as "elitist" (as the Obama people have been doing to McCain because of the number of houses he owns). She is down to earth and has a great story and background that many people will identify with.
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He's Back! Jeremiah Wright Speaks Glowingly Of Obama
"Uncle" Jeremiah "God Damn America" Wright, Obama's pastor of 20 years that married him and baptized his children, has again commented on the election:
"Twenty years ago, a scrawny little kid with a pointed nose and big ears -- mama from Kansas and daddy from Kenya," he began. "An ordinary black boy raised in a single-parent home. The boy walked into my office 20 years ago to talk about his dream for a community that concentrated on things that we could achieve in common, things that united us rather than to focus on all the problems and the issues in the community about which we disagree or the things that divided us." He also said that "the Lord turned the ordinary into the extraordinary. Y'all just saw it this past week. It was on national television. This ordinary boy just might be, come November, the 4th, this ordinary boy from a single parent home with a daddy from Kenya and a mama from Kansas. This ordinary boy just might be the first president in the history of the United States to have a black woman sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania, legally."
I am glad to see that Obama once again has the all-important Trinity United anti-America, Israel-hating, Wright endorsement.
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Former DNC Chair Says Timing Of Hurricane Gustav During Republican Convention Shows "God’s on Our Side"
If a former RNC chair said the same thing, would we be hearing a lot more about this? The question answers itself.
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