Wonder if Mattel would be interested in selling this to 50 year old Gaga fans?

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You cannot make this stuff up.

First the 57-year old woman in a man’s body, (to paraphrase Ann Coulter) gets caught making donations to a couple of Dems who were running in 2010 (including doing so while interviewing said Dem) and is given the pink boot by MSNBC.

Then one, Chris Hayes, who is the editor for The Nation, this nation’s longest running Communist digest, is tapped as the Olb’s replacement. Only to be laid aside when it is discovered that, he too, had opened up his wallet to one Dem who was running in 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal via Doug Powers:

Chris Hayes, tapped Friday by MSNBC to fill in for the indefinitely suspended Keith Olbermann as host of the prime-time political show “Countdown,” gave money to two Democratic campaigns in recent years. Now, following that disclosure, MSNBC says Mr. Hayes won’t get the gig after all.

Mr. Hayes, editor of The Nation, a liberal magazine, made a series of donations to Josh Segall, an Alabama Democrat, who ran for Congress in 2008 and considered running in the Democratic primary for this election. Mr. Hayes donated $1,500 to Mr. Segall in 2008 and $250 in December 2009, according to Federal Election Commission records.
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Several hours later, MSNBC said Mr. Hayes was no longer slated to take Mr. Olbermann’s place. The network said it would name a new replacement soon.

Suggestion: Just put a Tickle Me Elmo in the chair, spin it around every 10 seconds and it will provide more entertainment, less spin and higher ratings then trying fill it with disgruntled, failed Yale TA’s.

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Well, political correctness has claimed another victim.

What is interesting is that of late, more and more of those that are being hammered under the tyranny of MengeleSpeak are liberals and leftists of various stripes and colors. Which just shows that there is NO straying from the North Korean-like famine plantations that the Daily Kos Leftist Types love to oversee.

Hell, just ask Joe Lieberman what happens if you so much as move a spoon the wrong way on the Table of Stalin.

And now Juan Williams knows how that can feel.

From Michelle Malkin:

Un-freaking-believable.

Cable news blogger Johnny Dollar red-flagged NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik’s Twitter feed, which announced tonight that liberal NPR analyst/Fox News contributor Juan Williams’ contract was terminated — over comments Williams made about Muslims on The O’Reilly Factor. He gave his honest opinion: “[W]hen I get on the plane, I got to tell you, if I see people who are in Muslim garb and I think, you know, they are identifying themselves first and foremost as Muslims, I get worried. I get nervous.”

Here is the video:

I remember first seeing Juan Williams back on the old “Inside Washington” show on Channel 9 in DC. And over the years, he has been a frequent face on many news shows on many networks. Granted, I disagree with him on probably 80% of the issues, but I always liked him, as he is generally a pretty reasonable fellow. One who debates and does not go into gutter and gets personal, unlike the slugs like Beckel, Olbermann or the very lame jokes like John Stewart or Spock Ears Colbert.

Just a fair warning to any other liberal who just happens to be thinking the same thing in their head. Speak the truth at your own peril. You sleep with the Left, they own you.

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First the DISCLOSE Act and now this.

I suppose it will not be too long before anyone looking to run advertisements on their site to make a few bucks will be forced to only run Democrat-friendly ads that will not pay you directly, but instead whose funds will be in a Social Security-like “trust fund”, that can only be drawn upon to make campaign donations to committee-picked candidates.

From SF Gate – (Hat Tip: Make No Law):

Politicians’ tweets and status updates should be held to the same standards as paid advertising that voters see on television, hear on radio or find in their mailboxes, California’s campaign watchdog agency says in a report being released Monday.

The Fair Political Practices Commission is considering how to regulate new forms of political activity such as appeals on a voter’s Facebook page or in a text message.

It’s become necessary as politicians in California and elsewhere announce their candidacies and major campaign policies through Twitter, YouTube and a host of social networking sites, said FPPC Chairman Dan Schnur.

He said California’s 36-year-old Political Reform Act needs rewriting to keep up with the times.

“Our goal here is to meet the new challenges of 21st Century technology,” Schnur said. “There’s no way that the authors of the act could have anticipated that these of types of communicating a campaign message would ever exist.”

A rather amusing justification. I can just imagine this person saying the same thing 20 years after the printing press was invented.

Of course, this will go beyond what is considered “paid advertising” and extend to anyone supporting a candidate via their blog or any other online presence they might have.

Bloggers who accept payment to present their opinion in favor of or against a candidate but do not disclose their ties to a campaign are becoming increasingly common in California, but the report does not recommend regulating them — for now. The subcommittee urged bloggers to voluntarily disclose on their websites if they are being paid.

If that doesn’t work, it said regulators or lawmakers may need to step in.

Like California’s current regulations, federal campaign watchdogs regulate only paid political advertising, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Other states also are just beginning to consider whether their disclosure laws are sufficient to cover modern communications.

Who wants to bet $50 that when all of the dust has settled that unions of all stripes and any phony front-group (ala Media Matters) will be exempt from any of these regulations or prohibitions?

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The stench of Youth Dew has not even faded from Helen Thomas’ seat and already the usual leftist suspects and their Soros-funded groups are clamoring for and sending out mass mailings to have one of their pet “networks” butts be placed in that seat.

I would strongly advise whoever gets that seat to check underneath it and made sure there are not any love letters from Yassir Arafat stashed under there. You just never know.

From News Busters:

For anyone who does not think National Public Radio is a taxpayer-funded propaganda organ for the left, consider that the radical leftists at MoveOn.org are conducting an e-mail campaign to assign the “Helen Thomas seat” in the front row of the briefing room to NPR a “real, public” news organ, not that Fox “propaganda machine.” They think NPR can offer a better cloning of Helen Thomas:

Dear MoveOn member,

As early as Sunday, the White House Correspondents’ Association will decide which news organization will be awarded a recently-vacated front-row center seat in the White House briefing room. The contenders? National Public Radio, Bloomberg News—and Fox.

Yes, Fox—which we all know is actually a tool in the right-wing propaganda machine, not a legitimate news organization. They simply don’t deserve the best seat in the White House briefing room—a seat held for years by journalist Helen Thomas until she retired recently.

So we’re joining our friends at CREDO Action to petition the Correspondents’ Association to award the seat to a real, public news organization: NPR.

Can you sign the petition today? Tell the Correspondents’ Association to give the best seat in the briefing room to NPR, not Fox.

The petition says, “Give Helen Thomas’ former briefing room seat to NPR, which has provided public interest coverage for decades—not Fox, which is a right-wing propaganda tool, not a legitimate news organization.”

Then, please forward this email to your friends and post on Facebook and Twitter so we can spread the news faster. Already 140,000 people have signed onto this call through CREDO Action. Help us get up to 250,000 before the meeting on Sunday!

Winning this seat would give Fox legitimacy it simply doesn’t deserve—not after years of race-baiting, smears against progressives and Democrats, and spreading right-wing propaganda 24/7.

So instead we’re calling on the Association to award the seat to one of our nation’s premiere news organizations, which has served the public for years and currently reaches an audience of 27 million.

Also, no surprise that the criminal front group, Media Matters is also involved in this ridiculous exercise. But would you expect anything less from such an outfit?

Media Matters is encouraging the petition, naturally, and reports “They have collected more than 80% of their targeted 200,000 signatures. Read the petition text below and add your name to the more than 162,000 signers”.

Amazing that Media Matters could find that many ObamaBorg who can sign their own names.

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Well, this was inevitable as Obama taking the weekend off for another 18 holes.

Over the last 25 years, the news media, both of the print and broadcast varieties, have suffered a massive loss of readership and viewership. Network TV viewership, which peaked in the mid 80′s has lost more than 55% of it’s viewership since then. Many papers across the nation have closed and even long-standing stalwarts in the field, such as The New York Times, have instituted massive budget cuts and staff layoffs. (up to 90% in some sections of the paper)

To quote from “Cool Hand Luke”, “Gentleman, what we have here is a failure to communicate.” Only this applies in sort of a reverse order. The communication is not the problem. It is the message. Compared to just 25 years ago, when the news was dominated by the Big Three networks and large newspaper such as the Times, the Washington Post etc., today the news consumer has more choices for getting their news and other information from then there are brands of cola. And what we really have here is a rejection of the old-style, leftist/liberal slant that has so dominated the industry for the better part of a century.

Now we have the FTC coming up with a “Drudge Tax” in order to bail out (read: redistribute wealth) from the taxpayer to the usual Leftist House Organs.

From The Washington Times: (Hat Tip: Free Conservatives)

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is seeking ways to “reinvent” journalism, and that’s a cause for concern. According to a May 24 draft proposal, the agency thinks government should be at the center of a media overhaul. The bureaucracy sees it as a problem that the Internet has introduced a wealth of information options to consumers, forcing media companies to adapt and experiment to meet changing market needs. FTC’s policy staff fears this new reality.

“There are reasons for concern that experimentation may not produce a robust and sustainable business model for commercial journalism,” the report states. With no faith that the market will work things out for the better, government thinks it must come to the rescue.

The ideas being batted around to save the industry share a common theme: They are designed to empower bureaucrats, not consumers. For instance, one proposal would, “Allow news organizations to agree jointly on a mechanism to require news aggregators and others to pay for the use of online content, perhaps through the use of copyright licenses.”

In other words, government policy would encourage a tax on websites like the Drudge Report, a must-read source for the news links of the day, so that the agency can redistribute the funds collected to various newspapers. Such a tax would hit other news aggregators, such as Digg, Fark and Reddit, which not only gather links, but provide a forum for a lively and entertaining discussion of the issues raised by the stories. Fostering a robust public-policy debate, not saving a particular business model, should be the goal of journalism in the first place.

That is, when they are not trying every tactic, smear and unconstitutional trick in the book to shutdown FOX News and talk radio.

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The dominoes continue to fall. First ABC News cuts their staff by 25% (and not all of them gofers and paper-pushers) and now Newsweek is put up for sale.

My question is who even reads that magazine anymore? Or has since the 1970s?

From FOX News: (Hat Tip: Free Conservatives)

The Washington Post Co. says it is putting Newsweek up for sale, another stunning moment for a struggling magazine industry.

The company says it has retained the investment bank Allen & Co. to help find a buyer for the money-losing weekly.

Can TIME be far behind?

If I were Katie Couric and Brain Williams, I would start looking for beachfront property in France. Your services will not be needed for much longer.

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