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Home Front: Politix
Ep. 6: October Surprise
In "October Surprise", Molotov Mitchell interviews the plaintiff in a stunning federal case against Barack Obama. The case is nothing short of electrifying, but the mainstream media is doing its best to keep Americans in the dark. Let's get the word out! Pass this video on to everyone you know.

If Obama's innocent, then why isn't he cooperating with the court?
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/12/2008 14:21 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Video's been pulled, I wonder who pulled it, I wonder why.
Safe to say "Democrats" to both questions
I think.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 10/12/2008 14:40 Comments || Top||

#2  It's there now ...
Posted by: lotp || 10/12/2008 14:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Listing yourself as a foreign and minority student on college entrance applications, might well explain how someone from modest means and average intelligence is able to attend Ivy League schools. It would indeed be interesting to see the college records.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/12/2008 15:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I realize that Mr Berg has demanded Obama produce a hard copy of his birth cert but I don't think any court has demanded it. If this is true Obama's lack of a hard copy birth cert is no big deal.
Posted by: mhw || 10/12/2008 16:30 Comments || Top||

#5  This kind of clumsy propaganda will get you no where. It is surprising there are still crude things like this being made. It is at WW2 level and will only preach for converted and even then well those of lesser intelectual level.
Posted by: Snolusing White3902 || 10/12/2008 18:59 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, Snolusing, I guess that means you don't approve of having a candidate for the most powerful job in the most powerful country on earth present his basic credentials the way any other job seeker would. My daughter had to show her birth certificate to get a job as usher at the movie theater.
Posted by: Darrell || 10/12/2008 19:42 Comments || Top||

#7  It may be quaint, but some of us believe in the rule of law -- for everyone. If Bammo can't prove he's a citizen, then he's not eligible to be president. I'd rather discuss substantive issues with the Dems, but the procedural issues count too. Posting a fake birth certificate as proof of his citizenship, and now stonewalling further inquiry, doesn't exactly build confidence that he's telling the truth. Rather the opposite I would think.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/12/2008 20:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Birth certificate? Health records (mental health record)? For phuechs SAKE!!!! This man will have COMMAND AUTHORITY OVER THE NUCLEAR WEAPONS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Come on people, lets get serious.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/12/2008 21:04 Comments || Top||

#9  ...Some reporter actually showed a little initiative and tried to find something that WASN'T on the internet. He did - Obama's birth announcement in the Honolulu Advertiser (the local paper) in August of '61. This is over at the always accurate www.hotair.com . Now, if someone wants to give me proof of time-traveling DNC operatives who went back to plant this, please do - but in the meantime, these idiots need to LET IT GO. There is so much else out there that has a real chance to derail Obama, not this crap that has literally been disproven a dozen times over.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 10/12/2008 21:29 Comments || Top||

#10  The greatest threat to the cabal of 1960s radical Dem controlling the Obama campaign --- is always the truth.
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 10/12/2008 22:04 Comments || Top||

#11  Mike,

If Sen. Obama has a valid US Certificate of Live Birth let him produce it. That shuts everyone up and let's us get on to the issues.

When Sen. McCain was challenged on his birth in Panama he produced his documents, no messing around, Certificate of Live Birth and medical records.

I have to prove I am legally able to work in this country every time I get a job, why should Sen. Obama (or Sen. McCain) be any different?
Posted by: DLR || 10/12/2008 23:14 Comments || Top||


Five Myths About Those Tinseltown Liberals
Hollywood used to be called the Dream Factory, but nowadays it seems to be grinding out as much propaganda as anything else. Next off the weary assembly line: Oliver Stone's "W.," which opens on Friday. If the trailer is any indication, this movie will depict our current president's life as an evolution from drunken loser to dangerous idiot - and just in time for the election, too.

The director of "Nixon" and "JFK," Stone has shown himself to be a master of rewriting reality until it resembles his left-wing ideology, but he's by no means alone. For the past 30 years or so, Hollywood storytelling has been guided by a liberal mythos in which, for example, blacklisting communist screenwriters during the '50s was somehow morally worse than fellow-traveling with the Stalinist murderers of tens of millions ("Trumbo"); Che Guevara was a dashing, romantic liberator instead of a charismatic killer ("The Motorcycle Diaries"); and the worldwide violence currently being waged by Islamo-fascists is either a figment of our bigoted imaginations or the product of our evil deeds ("V for Vendetta").

Hollywood moviemakers, in other words, have been telling lies - loudly, constantly and almost always in support of a left-wing point of view. And these lies are most prolific and tenacious when the Hollywood left is lying about itself. Here's a list of their most egregious whoppers:

1. Hollywood has no political agenda - it's just out to make money.

Would that it were so. All through 2007, Hollywood sent American multiplexes the message: "We don't like the war on terror." All year, American moviegoers sent a message back to Hollywood: "We don't care." "Lions for Lambs," "In the Valley of Elah," "Redacted," "Rendition" - movie after movie in which our film-land elites derided U.S. efforts to smack down Islamist terrorism bombed at the box office. Even the guys who ran Fannie Mae would have figured out that this was a losing economic strategy. But not Hollywood; 2008 gave us even more anti-war flops, such as "Stop-Loss" and "War, Inc." As ace film blogger John Nolte pointed out, only one war-on-terror film, the mediocre "Vantage Point," did good business. Why? Because it showed Americans as the good guys they are. If Hollywood were all about making money, it would do that a lot more often.

2. Hollywood liberals speak truth to power.

In a pig's eye - and a pig wearing lipstick at that. Sure, left-wing filmmakers are fearless when depicting snarling, evil Republican politicos, as in "The American President," or savage environment-destroying businessmen, as in "Michael Clayton," or the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, as in the Edward R. Murrow hagiography "Good Night, and Good Luck." But those make-believe right-wingers and long-dead senators have no power whatsoever over the filmmakers. The people who do have power are the executives and directors who hire them, the reviewers who bolster their product and the elite opinion-makers who lavish them with prizes and prestige - and they're all part of the Hollywood left-wing establishment. To the true Hollywood power, liberal filmmakers speak nothing but slavish conformity ... and after a while, they start to think it's the truth.

3. Hollywood liberals are liberal.

Is censorship liberal? Movie ideas that don't toe the liberal line are hampered and censored at every level. I have personal knowledge of ideas that were shot down, drastically rewritten and limited in release simply because their themes were pro-American or pro-military.

But Hollywood supports unions, a stalwart Democratic cause, right? Well, yeah, if you watch "Norma Rae" or "Hoffa." But in real life, filmmakers routinely outsource their productions to places such as Vancouver and Budapest, where they can avoid paying union premiums. And when the Writers Guild struck last year, we saw studio liberals turn into corporate hard-guys in the blink of an eye.

All right, but anyone who saw "The Contender," with its tale of a female vice presidential candidate slandered by sexists, might think that the Hollywood left wouldn't run down a politician because of her gender. Yet Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has found that this applies only if you conform to the leftist agenda. Hollywood insiders have attacked Palin with sexist remarks so low and crude they can't even be repeated here.

4. Liberals don't exclude conservatives; conservatives just aren't that creative.

I get this in letters all the time - and even fielded it while sparring recently on washingtonpost.com: "Why don't you just admit it? Conservatives have no talent!" But how often have we heard this argument made by those on the inside wanting to keep others out? "We're not excluding blacks; they're just not smart enough to manage baseball teams." "It's not that we wouldn't hire a woman; women just don't have a brain for business." There are a million pro-American, pro-God, pro-family, pro-liberty stories waiting to be told and plenty of good writers and directors to tell them. Can't they film "Hard Corps," the autobiography of Navy Cross recipient Marco Martinez, who went from being a New Mexico gangster to a Marine hero in Iraq? Or "My Men Are My Heroes," the rousing story of Marine 1st Sgt. Brad Kasal and the taking of Fallujah? Forget it. The door is shut, the fix is in, and the blacklist - or at least a graylist - is alive and well.

5. Hollywood leftists are patriotic in their own way.

Words -- despite what you might have learned at university - actually have meanings. The meaning of the word patriotism is "love of country." If you don't love your country, you're not a patriot. "When I see an American flag flying, it's a joke," the late director Robert Altman told the Times of London in January 2002. "America is dumb," actor Johnny Depp, who lives in France, said in 2003. Receiving an award in Spain in 2002, actress Jessica Lange told the audience, "It makes me feel ashamed to come from the United States - it's humiliating."

Making anti-war films while American troops are under fire is not patriotic. Exporting movies that consistently show the United States in a bad light is not patriotic. Ceaselessly casting America and its government as the bad guy is not patriotic, either. And while, yes, I admit that there are many people of good will and patriotism on the left, those who love truth, courage, tolerance and America might be forgiven for wondering whether it isn't time for regime change in Los Angeles.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/12/2008 05:54 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  #1 box office: Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Oh how the mighty have fallen. It seems the only things Hollywood makes anymore goes straight to video or the Bangkok matinee.
Posted by: ed || 10/12/2008 9:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Five Myths About Those Tinseltown Liberals self anointed aristocrats

Pelosi-Reid Bailouts awaiting the coming of The One. Must keep the Ministry of Propaganda in operation.

"Why don't you just admit it? Conservatives have no talent!" Didn't I just live through that when it was "Why don't you just admit it? Negros have no talent!". [See it wasn't about principle, it was all about POWER.] By the way, if Hollyweird has so much talent, why do they have to continuously raid old films, comic books, and video games for ideas? [rhetorical question]
Posted by: Prococipus2k || 10/12/2008 9:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Like the car manufactures they don't understand that they are going out of business, just like newspapers. They are so, 20th century and think that people will forever fawn over their output when their output is only bought for $19.99 and shown 2 or 3 times in somebody's home theatre.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 10/12/2008 10:52 Comments || Top||

#4  If #1 were true, they'd make movies that made money instead of making movies they want to make.
Posted by: Zorba Shose6140 || 10/12/2008 12:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Re: #1, I thought "The Kingdom" wasn't bad... check it out, decent flick.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 10/12/2008 14:01 Comments || Top||

#6  neither was Dark Knight or Iron Man. Both had stong messages of responsibility, good vs evil.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/12/2008 14:07 Comments || Top||

#7  The article is a bit off. There are two Hollywoods. The money folks and the creative folk. So Number 1, the money folk certainly are out to make money and only money, but they allow the creative folks a movies they know will lose money in order to get them to do the big pictures. It's an investment. THat is why you don't find the massive summer movies with a political agenda. Same with Number 3. The money folk don't pretend to be liberals, they fight to make money while dependent upon Liberals and they clash from time to time. That is why the Guilds came about in the first place. Number 4 is also a compromise that the money people make in order to work with the creative liberals.

Having said that the rest is true and the ones I mentioned are partially true.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/12/2008 15:08 Comments || Top||

#8  "The Kingdom" was ruined in the last 45 seconds with the moral-relativism... "how can you say we are any different" and the panning to the boy deciding to get his revenge..

/spit
Posted by: Abu do you love || 10/12/2008 15:42 Comments || Top||

#9  actually 4 Hollywoods

the creative types
the big money types
the on screen "talent"
the stage hands, stunt folks, etc.

The first three tend to be left to far left
The last tends to be conservative (partly I think because of the obnoxiousness of the 1st 3 Hollywoods)
Posted by: mhw || 10/12/2008 16:32 Comments || Top||

#10  So how may went to see An American Carol? It was Zucker's best work in decades and was very funny and entertaining. What I did not expect was how moving some of the scenes would be. John Voight's Washington was incredible, although too brief. Unfortunately, this conservative movie has not done well at the box office.

Lots of Palin/McCain bumper stickers in the parking lot. Including one with WICCAN as a license plate. Pagans for Palin? It's a funny world.
Posted by: Minister of funny walks || 10/12/2008 20:22 Comments || Top||

#11  There are unsubstantiated rumors that some theaters are deliberately under reporting ticket sales (chalking them up to other films instead).  However, when we went the theater was only about 1/4-1/3 full and a good part of the audience were in their 50s and 60s.     Red county in a blue state FWIW
Posted by: lotp || 10/12/2008 20:59 Comments || Top||

#12  An outstanding movie and comedy. I would encourage everyone to see An American Carol. It was a hoot!
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/12/2008 21:01 Comments || Top||

#13  I've read recently that actually Hollywood did not fund "W", it was a number of foreign investors that backed Mr. Stone. Even Hollywood wouldn't support propaganda against a sitting president.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/12/2008 21:21 Comments || Top||


Candidates refuse to name the real enemy in the WoT
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ACORN’s Nutty Regime for Cities
Or how David brought the Mighty Goliath to its knees.
Soon to have the person who is their public face as POTUS.
Posted by: tipper || 10/12/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Farrakhan Endorses Obama HITLER YOUTH - Helter Skelter
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/12/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The more I see this kind of thing about the "One," the more terrified I get about what may transpire in 23 days. I have seen this stuff (in history books and in documentaries) before and it did NOT end well.
Posted by: djh_usmc || 10/12/2008 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  It's the next 23 months that have me concerned.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/12/2008 9:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Why 23 months, B?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 10/12/2008 10:17 Comments || Top||

#4  Seeing McCain and the Republicans slip away and $ 700B bailout and the entire treasury handed to this Kenyan scares the hell out of me. I think the next two years may be some very, very rough sledding.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/12/2008 15:40 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
The Bailout — Failure of the Elites and the Populists
Continued : The Bailout — Failure of the Elites and the Populists Part 2
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 10/12/2008 11:51 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front Economy
Ex-U.S. Comptroller: Candidates' Fiscal Plans 'Zip'
Posted by: tipper || 10/12/2008 04:01 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:



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Sun 2008-10-12
  Lankan president asks LTTE to surrender
Sat 2008-10-11
  North Korea taken off US terror list
Fri 2008-10-10
  15 dead in suicide blast at Pakistan tribal meeting
Thu 2008-10-09
  Boom Bitch Kills 10 in Diyala Province
Wed 2008-10-08
  World's Stock Markets Plunge
Tue 2008-10-07
  Iran forces down Corporate Executive ''Fighter Jet''
Mon 2008-10-06
  Saudi hosts Afghan peace talks with Taliban reps
Sun 2008-10-05
  Baitullah makes appearance amid reports of his death
Sat 2008-10-04
  US drone strikes kill 20 in North Waziristan
Fri 2008-10-03
  'Biggest suspect' in ship piracy arrested
Thu 2008-10-02
  U.S. Begins Transferring Sunni Militias to Iraqi Government
Wed 2008-10-01
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