Clipping blog

---

• Clearing the Browser Tabs – Birthageddon Thursday Edition
• The Delivery Presents – The MSM’s Real Game and How Andrew Breitbart Can Help You
• Again, Ban Ki-Moon Will Vote “Present” on Human Rights
• It’s Looking an Awful Lot Like the Deck of the Titanic Around Here

Clearing the Browser Tabs – Birthageddon Thursday Edition Posted: 28 Apr 2011 03:10 AM PDT Yesterday, President Obama released his long sought-after birth certificate. If you just yawned deeply and said, “…and?”, you pretty much had the correct reaction to that sentence. However, there is a certain segment of the fringe right for whom yesterday was Christmas and the Moon Landing all rolled up into one and tied off with the craziest of crazy ribbons. You can pretty much sum up my reaction to the whole affair in these posts by Michelle Malkin and Stacy McCain. I will add this. It bugs me that the MSM didn’t spend any real time trying to get its hands on the President’s birth certificate, but turned itself into knots trying to figure out whether George W. Bush got the requisite number of hours in as an Air National Guard pilot. Take that as you will. Oh, I may write something about this later, but in case I don’t, today is my birthday. And now, links! Whatever happened to that Maxine Waters ethics trial? If Ron Paul is the harbinger of a Libertarian Moment, then I’ll say we’re not anywhere near one. Call me when he does something more than vote “no” to a bill or brings home a giant truckload of pork to his shrimp farmers. If you’ve never heard Andrew Breitbart speak, you really should. He’s far from the most polished public speaker in the world but he gets the job done very well. It’s a good thing Ezra Klein didn’t write Ben Bernanke’s speech yesterday. We couldn’t have handles that much pure economic fantasy in one go. I’ll admit, using the anti-bullying message to bully people into going along with your view of the world is certainly one way of doing it. It’s not the way with integrity, but it’s about the only way Hollywood knows, I imagine. It’s amazing how many of these demands made on WalMart by “activists for the poor” wouldn’t do much for the poor but would but an awful lot of money and power in hands of the activists. Mark Steyn: It’s Hard Out Here for A Pump. Finally, a few prayers for the tornado-stricken in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee wouldn’t be amiss.

The Delivery Presents – The MSM’s Real Game and How Andrew Breitbart Can Help You Posted: 27 Apr 2011 02:05 PM PDT The theme of Episode 91 is the narrative the media are building in anticipation of the 2012 election. I did take a brief second-half detour down memory lane prompted by the Easter Holiday and my yearly Jesus Christ Superstar tradition. My post at the Sundries Shack that prompted the first half of the show is here and there are a couple more links there that will provide more background. I think that our ability to punch gaping holes in the MSM’s efforts to flack for the President will ultimately decide whether Barack Obama gets a second term or not. If we can out-hustle the media, he’ll lose. If not, then we’ll get four more years of…well, let’s not contemplate that too deeply. I did bend my “no politics” rule in the second half of the show to talk about Andrew Breitbart’s new book, Righteous Indignation. It’s no exaggeration to say I consider it an essential book for anyone who wants to understand why new media savvy is a must for anyone active in politics, whether it’s a Senator’s office or a local Tea Party group. Breitbart has the practical experience you simply can’t get from a training seminar and the advice he doles out from beginning to end is solid, practical, and inspirational. If you haven’t read it, and you have any interest at all in where conservative new media will have to go over the next couple years, you should get your hands on a copy. Don’t forget to Deliver for The Delivery! There are about two weeks left in the fundraiser and I’m not quite halfway to where I’d like it to finish. If you have donated, know that I’ll send out a little note sometime this week (time, podcast, and blog permitting!) and I’m working on the goodies you’ll get once it’s finished. If you haven’t, please get in on the action! The Delivery - Episode 91 This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now

Again, Ban Ki-Moon Will Vote “Present” on Human Rights Posted: 27 Apr 2011 01:17 PM PDT I’m going to go way out on a limb and suggest that it’s not a good thing for the UN Secretary General to vote “present” on the matter of human rights. The brutal crackdown by Syrian President Bashar Assad may finally be getting the attention of world leaders — but apparently not enough to stop Syria from becoming the newest member of the U.N. Human Rights Council. And despite calling for an independent investigation into the crackdown, which has left hundreds dead, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon apparently won't do much about blocking Syria's path to the human rights group. “That’s not really for the secretary general to suggest to a member state,”  said Martin Nesirky, a spokesman for the secretary-general, when asked if the U.N. chief would ask Syria to drop out of the running for the post. When asked if Ban had brought up the point during his telephone conversation April 9 with Assad, Nesirsky told Fox News, “that’s not really something the secretary general would raise specifically, because it’s for other member states to decide on the membership of the Human Rights Council.” Surely, though Ban’s word must have some weight among member states. If he can’t swing a few of them to block Syria’s appointment, he might as well pack up shop and go home now because his position is worth about as much as the job of Assistant Crack Whore in Times Square. What Bashir al-Assad has perpetrated in Syria can only be honestly described as a slaughter. His troops have attacked women and children. They have gunned down mourners at funerals of people killed by the regime just days earlier. Ban Ki-Moon has no good excuse for not using all the power of his office to deny Assad the legitimacy a seat on the Human Rights Council would carry. If he can not stand up for the innocent and defenseless victims of the tyrant’s murderous rampage, he should resign in shame. Of course he won’t do that. The tyrants are his largest constituent group. They lend him power so he can strut and preen on the world stage. They allow him to chase the mythical monsters of global warming, the United States world hegemony, and the devilishly clever Jews to his heart’s content so long as he does nothing to impede their savagery. Shame on him, and shame on us for not demanding just a small scrap of decency from him.

It’s Looking an Awful Lot Like the Deck of the Titanic Around Here Posted: 27 Apr 2011 11:40 AM PDT I’m completely baffled by this move. WASHINGTON (AP) — President Obama plans this week to name CIA Director Leon E. Panetta to replace Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, and Gen. David H. Petraeus, now running the war in Afghanistan, would take the CIA chief's job in a major shuffle of the country's top national security leadership, administration and other sources said Wednesday. All sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the changes are not final. The changes probably would take effect this summer. Mr. Gates already has said he will leave this year, and the White House wants to schedule Senate confirmation hearings in the coming months. I honestly have no idea what would prompt the White House to make these moves. I would have thought Petraeus a better fit at the Pentagon, where he has experience not only with the military bureaucracy but also with the war we’re currently fighting against the Islamists. Panetta appears to be doing a competent job at the CIA, or at least he’s not botched things so badly that he needs to move. Of course, there could be a lot more to this story than I know about. Hopefully a few folks with better knowledge than I can fill in some of the blanks. I do know this. The President’s base will not be happy about General Petraeus’ promotion. Remember that MoveOn paid quite a bit of money for a full-page ad in the New York Times just to smear Petraeus. The left had to swallow quite a lot of bile when the President promoted Petraeus to head our efforts in Afghanistan. I’m not sure they’re able to do it again. We will almost certainly hear cries of anguish over this, either now or during his Senate confirmation hearing. As for the rest, well, I just can’t say. President Obama is surely re-arranging the deck chairs. I’m just not sure to what end. What I fear is that he doesn’t exactly know either.

You are subscribed to email updates from The Sundries Shack To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now.	Email delivery powered by Google
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610