Trying to get away from the blog for a while, but I've got to direct everyone to this post by The Political Teen. As always, he's got the video... In this case of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin insisting that New Orleans should and will be "chocolate" (read: black.) Of course saying such a thing is okay, partly because he's a Democrat, and partly because he's any race but white.

Think for a moment if a white mayor of some predominently white city said that, only using the adjective vanilla or something.... especially if he were a Republican. You know it would go as far as demands that the White House distance itself and make a public statment condeming the comments, etc. And don't accuse me of blowing my hypothetical situation out of proportion, you know it happens everytime any Christian or Republican makes an politically incorrect comment.

Anyway, someone should tell Nagin that he'll have some competition from the reigning "chocolate city", Hershey, PA. I actually went on the lame little tour of the Hershey's Chocolate World on a drive through PA one time years ago.

Anyway, who wants to bet the media totally ignores this and doesn't excoriate him the way they might if the candy simile were on the other.... uh.... sweet tooth? Whatever, you know what I'm saying.

UPDATE: As I was typing this, I quickly jumped over to Drudge who had a link to this AP story.

Excerpt:

"Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane after hurricane after hurricane, and it's destroyed and put stress on this country," Nagin, who is black, said as he and other city leaders marked Martin Luther King Day.

"Surely he doesn't approve of us being in Iraq under false pretenses. But surely he is upset at black America also. We're not taking care of ourselves."
Nagin also promised that New Orleans will be a "chocolate" city again. Many of the city's black neighborhoods were heavily damaged by Katrina.

"It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild New Orleans _ the one that should be a chocolate New Orleans," the mayor said. "This city will be a majority African American city. It's the way God wants it to be. You can't have New Orleans no other way. It wouldn't be New Orleans."

As I was saying... Does anyone expect the media to come down on him, or even question him at all about this? It wasn't but a couple weeks ago that Pat Robertson was being condemned by, what seemed like, everyone on the planet. The White House, right to left bloggers, elite media, Israelis.... Everyone.

Please explain to me why Nagin's comments aren't the same if not worse than what Robertson said. In fact, Robertson didn't say "surely" this was "God" the way Nagin is. He basically said cautioned any Israeli PM, based on scripture (or at least his view of it), not to divide God's land, but barely even went as far as suggesting the possibility that Sharon's illness was linked to him doing that. Watch the video for yourself of what Robertson said. Remember how Bush had to publically distance himself and how it made world headlines for about a week? The Washington Post called Roberston and Iranian President Ahmadinejad a "duo", etc. Let's see what the press says about Nagin.

And by the way, who is this joker to be commenting about Iraq and "false pretenses"? Perhaps he should have his nose in business where it belongs... Maybe trying to figure out why he didn't use his own evacuation plan to use school buses to get people out of the city when thousands were readily available. For anyone who hasn't seen the pictures, a quick search turned up this Free Republic thread that has a number of them... not sure about the "famous" one we've all seen though.

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Awesome! Thanks to someone who used the email address fu**you@foff.org (you can guess the missing letters) for being my first unhinged lefty commenter.

If you follow this link to his comment (which I left up, because his email address is only visible to me, and he didn't use the language in the post) you'll see he is linking to a post on the DailyKos that the lefties seem to think defends the NY Times, although I'm not sure how. What it boils down to is that they are defending the Times by, at best, saying they are stupid and/or lazy. I don't think that's an excuse when you're one of the most well known news organizations in the world.

Anyway, I've had a couple liberal commenters... but this is the first one who I believe to be of the unhinged variety. I just can't think of what anger/hatred must have been flowing through him to need to put that as his email address. He could have put "nobody@nothing.com" or something, which I've done myself when I wanted to make sure I put my email address in the wrong hands.

 

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Ha! This is hilarious.... (via Reuters)

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran on Monday banned CNN journalists from working there after the broadcaster misquoted President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as saying Iran wanted nuclear weapons, the ISNA students news agency said.

CNN's simultaneous translation of Ahmadinejad's lengthy news conference on Saturday included the phrase "the use of nuclear weapons is Iran's right".

In fact, what the Iranian president said was that "Iran has the right to nuclear energy," the official IRNA news agency reported. CNN later clarified in an apology on Sunday night.

The always accurate CNN, right? Anyway, it's one thing to throw an X over Cheney's face during a speech (later firing an employee who defended it as free speech, and other anti-Bush things to a caller), but no one expected CNN to stab their own friends in the back, like they did with this misquote of the Iranian President. Hopefully they'll kiss and make up... after all, if we have a conflict with Iran any time in the near future, we'll need CNN to get back in the saddle as the enemy's mouth piece.

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I'm sure I don't need to rehash the far left liberalism of the New York Times, particularly what we've seen over the past few years (although I would like to gather together a comprehensive and ongoing list at some point), so I'll just get right to it...

I actually read about this on another blog the other day, but I was actually specifically looking for something else at the time and forgot all about it. I'm pretty sure I saw it at Hit & Run first, but either way they were certainly out earlier than the rest of us. Anyway, at least we're talking about it now.

Anyway, the long and the short of it is that this is a false caption, leading to the belief that this photo is all together a staged event meant for maximum heartstring pulling impact (i.e. "How could Bush bomb these poor people, look at how sad they are standing in their rubble next to that U.S. missile")

Pakistani men with the remains of a missile fired at a house in the Bajur tribal zone near the Afghan border.

This exceprt from a Thomas Lifson article on TheAmericanThinker.com (Great article, breaks it all down)

Ned Barnett is an expert on military technology, and frequently serves as a contributor to The History Channel on mil-tech issues. He has plenty of experience researching military ordnance. He told me:

“Based on my extensive experience in researching military technology, I can verify that this is a 152mm or 155mm artillery shell – unfired – and by the looks of it, fairly old. It also looks like it has a fuse in it, suggesting that the guys in the photo are either ditch-water dumb or have a death-wish.

Again, I'm no expert, so someone might be able to convince me that a Predator would drop one of these things... but I'm not the NY Times, and I probably still would have checked it anyway! This kind of reminds me of MoveOn.org not knowing the difference between British and U.S. troops in one of their commercials *cough*propaganda films*cough*. Then busted photoshoping stills on their web page trying to cover their tracks.

Like all the other daily examples of staged photos, headlines, and articles the Misleadstream Media won't touch this... These sort of things happen with such regularity, equaled only by the regularity at which the media ignores it, even when the bloggers bring it to their attention. I just wish enough people knew so we could demand media reform, because it's only going down hill folks.

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Well, if you didn't already know how nutty the socialist British politician was, you will in a moment. I'm sure this bio is all to fair, but give it a look anyway.

Anyway, this guy is in the realm of Belafonte, Sheehan, Farrakhan, etc. I wish I had the time right now to pull together a list of ridiculous things he has said in recent years. He was however on O'Reilly last year, and you can find the video by following this link to The Political Teen's post about it. Keep in mind, this is just the tip of the iceberg, and I think if you do your own research, you'll be more than a little put off by this guy.

Well, I don't know if this was like the time Cindy Sheehan got mad that news coverage turned focus to the hurricanes ("a little wind and a little rain") and away from her, but in what seems like a desperate cry for attention Galloway got down on the ground and pretended to be a kitten and drink milk from the hands of actress Rula Lenska on some British reality show called Celebrity Big Brother. She goes on to treat him like a cat by cleaning his whiskers and rubbing behind his ears.

I'd rather not attempt to describe it any further, just check out the video, also via The Political Teen. And consider what might happen if an American politican did something like this? Or any normal person for that matter?

My sister's cat Lucy was not pleased to say the least, and has demanded a public apology from Galloway.

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Okay Cronkite we get it, you are an extreme leftist.... now please shut up.

Ancient moonbat Walter Cronkite, who right before the 2004 election put forth a theory on Larry King Live that a recently released Bin Laden tape was somehow "set up" by Karl Rove, is now putting his two cents in about U.S. troops leaving Iraq.

"It's my belief that we should get out now," Cronkite said in a meeting with reporters.

It's not enough to listen to Senators talk like they know about running this campaign, all to politicize it for their own benefit... but somehow it's now news when senile old men who've been retired news anchors for multiple decades are now making headlines with their statements on Iraq? Riiiiiiiight, because he's so qualified that this deserves coverage.

Thanks General Cronkite, but I think I'll get my military analysis elsewhere.... Maybe from commanders and troops on the ground, and other military experts. But we all really appreciate your insight though...

...I'm a little inclined to think that Karl Rove, the political manager at the White House, who is a very clever man, he probably set up bin Laden to this thing.

Anyway, read the "new" story here

And enjoy the new CBS News format... apparently the anchors feel more at home in this setting.

Rather: ...and if a fro..... if a camel had side pockets he'd carry an RPG
Cronkite: Dan, your stupid one liners make even less sense after you've Al Qaedized 'em up.
Rather: Hey buddy, you don't tell me how to make an ass out of myself, and I won't tell you how to trim your eyebrows?

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