This is what happens when you combine Rules for Radicals 
Kudos to Giles & O’Keefe for this new result:
UPDATE: Related: Andrew Breitbart gives credit where due.
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Now CNN is pushing the “Carter said you’re racist” meme. Give Carter a platform at your own risk.
Not that Carter is the only one. ABC News (there’s video here) is also very interested in the topic (via @Vermontaigne). At any rate, it’s not working (via Professor Jacobson, who tells you why here.)
Meanwhile, Troglopundit shows us how bias is done: don’t try this at home, folks. Leave it to Giles & O’Keefe (our very own Woodward & Berstein? Just give them time). They are, clearly, professionals at making masks fall off.
G & O are so good, even some MSM outlets are following their lead, finally! (H/T: Insty)
Not ABC News, of course…
UPDATE: American Power: Rachel Maddow piles on.
MORE: A little ACORN coverage from ABC News’ Jake Tapper.
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A photograph by Michael Beck, shot from the top of the Capitol.
2 million? Nah. But who cares when it was freaking huge, anyway?
Via Ace.
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Steven Crowder: “Liberals don’t believe for a second that tea party protesters are a bunch of Robert Byrd-like Klansmen out there. No, the whole ‘race’ card is a conscious/concerted effort to keep racism alive when it should have been put to rest a long time ago.”
I’d like to think they don’t believe it either, but that they like to pretend they do. It’s easier than debating opposing viewpoints, after all.
Case in point: Matt Yglesias, who wants to make these two pictures emblematic of the 9/12 March; and indicative of “a very racism friendly environment”.
The Confederate flag has been a symbol of Southern pride for generations. If you want to take it as a pro-slavery symbol, ok, Matt. I’ll give you that one, reluctantly (incidentally, I bet it was proudly waved by Democrats just a few years before I was born); but saying this t-shirt is “ridiculing the idea of anti-racism”? Wow.
Matt, from one Hispanic man to another: Cálmate, cabrón…
UPDATE: Rush: Race rules all in Obama’s America. He may have a point: is it official policy at Justice to enforce civil rights laws in a discriminatory fashion?
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Hot Air: Is Valerie Jarret the next Van Jones?
Does that mean Glenn Beck will force her to resign? I hope so…
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Obama is on a media blitz, but does he know that Obamacare is in bad shape and looking worse by the minute?
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Audio of Obama calling Kanye West a “jackass”, at the Berman Post.
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AP: Obama supports extending Patriot Act provisions.
This raises an important question: in response to these news, how would an Obama supporter act?
But we knew this was coming, right from the start.
UPDATE: REVEALED: Who are the Rubes?
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But little Hope: Politico: “Some of the most influential aides in the closed-door Senate Finance Committee negotiations over health care reform have ties to interests that would be directly affected by the legislation.”
They sure sound like some very special interests…
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Big Government: ACORN Illegally Operating in Maryland.
UPDATE: Ace: Murder!
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It follows then that passing a health care bill that polls well won’t necessarily quell the Mob in 2010.
Ross Douthat: The Ghosts of 1994:
This August’s town-hall fury wasn’t just about the details of health care. Neither were the anti-Obama protests that crowded Washington over the weekend. They were about the Wall Street bailout, the G.M. takeover, the A.I.G. bonuses, and countless smaller examples of middle-income Americans’ “playing by the rules…and having someone else benefit.”
The bad news for Democrats is that actually passing a health care bill could further enflame these anxieties.
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Have R.S. McCain and Dan Riehl done it again?
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Obama’s barely been President for more than 200 days, so it’s definitely to soon to talk about a failed presidency; but this Politico piece has a point: that agenda is going nowhere.
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Reuters: Homes raided; “Al Qaeda ideology suspected”.
More, from the WSJ: WMD worries.
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Chris Yogerst: Film Noir Revival, Anyone?
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NYT: New Routes to the Indies.
(Via Consumed by Media)
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…and every other loudmouth who emits unwarranted talk of racism (raaaaacism?) everytime someone stands up to disagree with Obama, but I don’t really know what brought about this violence. No one seems to know just yet. Local officials are calling it a hate crime, so…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Drudge): White student beaten on school bus. Crowd cheers. Raw video below (raw as in “unedited”, not as in NSFW):
Still, I think it’s safe to say that Obama has not ushered in a post-racial era just yet. And after Gates-gate, I doubt he ever will. ACORN’s whining and the imprudent cries of “raaaaacism” of all the Maureen Dowd’s out there just make matters worse.
UPDATE: Gateway Pundit: Calling Al Sharpton!
MORE: Jimmy Carter piles on. Yawn.
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TV Squad: Gone to Soon: Firefly.
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Mark Salter: The Media’s Pathetic Double Standard.
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Rasmussen: Obamacare support back to pre-speech levels (via Insty, where there’s more).
So much for the “bounce” hype.
UPDATE: More at Hot Air: “It wasn’t even a nine-day wonder”. Ouch.
MORE: Ace has a fever and a link to Gallup.
ANOTHER ONE: You could even say it was like the speech never happened. Joe Wilson’s outburst was the only news made that evening. The rest was Obama doing more of the same; and the result was – as the polls show – more of the same.
Maybe that’s why Ray Edroso concluded that the conservative blogosphere made the speech all about Joe Wilson…
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There’s more to come; and it’s “devastating”.
UPDATE: Related content: Breitbart comments on the MSM’s Decline and the People filling in (there’s video). H/T: Insty.
It’s like I said yesterday: Look, Ma! No MSM! Who needs them if they won’t do their job right?
MORE: And here’s the video, in all its Alinksy-ite glory. Alinsky must be spinning in his grave…
ANOTHER ONE: Related: Anita Moncrief: ACORN, the Roots of a Scandal.
AND ANOTHER ONE: The immediate aftermath, a round-up, at Instapundit.
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POWIP: Congratulations, Mr. President, on a job well done.
I echo this sentiment…
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Politico: Obama calls Kanye a “jackass”, but we only know because ABC News‘ Terry Moran failed to observe proper Obama-reverence protocol.
I’d just like to take this moment to state my unequivocal support for President Obama’s anti-Kanye stance.
Plus, advice to broadcasters on how to deal with such Kanye antics in the future, because they’ll probably happen again (given that they’ve happened several times before).
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Vanity Fair‘s Politics & Power blog: “Bruce Feirstein charts the 100 people, companies, institutions, and vices most responsible for the economic mess.”
Surprisingly fair for a list put together by a Hollywood screenwriter. Senators Dodd and Frank get a mention. All of the U.S. Congress does, actually.
But no Obama or Biden. How come? We know that if Obama hadn’t signed the Stimulus, things would be better. And Biden runs the Stimulus. How about at least listing the Stimulus?
Can’t have it all, I guess…
(Via Nikki Finke)
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THR: Patrick Swayze, dead at 57.
May he rest in peace.
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Professor Jacobson on how government micromanagement of any industry results in devastating unintended consequences.
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A blog dedicated to linking to published, freely accessible, scholarly works on cinema.
You can’t beat that. A cinema studies degree will run you several tens of thousands of dollars. It’s like a free library on the subject at your fingertips.
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Nice. We owe a standing ovation to (in alphabetical order) Breitbart, Giles, and O’Keefe for their ACORN exposes.
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As I’ve said before, counting people in huge crowds is difficult, but a picture speaks a 1000 words. Two pictures side by side – one of the 9/12 Tea Party and the other of a 9/13 pro-Obamacare rally - say much more.
Via Ace headlines.
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Nikki Finke: “What a strange and depressing opening weekend for movies.”
I couldn’t agree more, but she has figures and analysis if you want to check them out. We need some good movies in theaters, not just at film festivals.
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The WaPo attempts to boost the spirits of Obamacare enthusiasts everywhere claiming opposition to it is easing, although still high. This is based on a poll they conducted with ABC News.
I guess they feel this way because their survey found opposition has gone from a 50-45 margin in mid-August to a 48-46 margin now. Hardly impressive, as Mickey Kaus points out (via Insty). Especially since the new spread is within the poll’s +/-3% margin of error.
Co-pollster ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos was a little more to the point: “Bottom line: right now, voters are almost exactly where they were before the speech.”
UPDATE: Related: Jonah Goldberg: So what’s Plan B? “At some point this White House is going to have to realize that ‘more Obama’ isn’t the answer to every problem.”
I hope they never do. I’m willing to put up with the irritating overexposure. It’s worth watching O’s agenda go nowhere.
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ANOTHER ACORN TAPE!
This one at an ACORN facility in New York City, the third such video in less than two weeks. Is every ACORN office involved in criminal conduct?
And ACORN has the temerity to threaten a lawsuit. For which cause of action, they didn’t say. But I doubt they’ll go ahead with it. If you have this much to hide, you don’t want to be anywhere need a lawsuit. Believe you me.
There are many positive aspects to these videos, but one of them definitely has to be being able to say “Look, Ma! No Mainstream Media!” and make someone sweat at the same time…
UPDATE: Fox News: GOP turns up the heat.
MORE: Related: Press accuracy rating at two decade low. “Journalism is dead“ (via Memeorandum).
Its credibility is dead, I think. But journalism itself isn’t. The thing is certain standards must be observed in order to carry it out, and that makes it just too hard for most news organizations and newspersons.
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"Times Are Hard On the Blvd." (crappy photo courtesy of my cellphone)
Some interesting street art in an empty lot, on Los Angeles’ famous Melrose Ave. between Vine and Larchmont Blvd. This was a driving school just a few months ago, if memory serves.
The figures flanking the phrase are He-Man and the Masters of the Universe characters. Not sure what that means. You can’t quite tell in this pic, but He-Man (on the left) is in drag. Just another day in Hollywood, I guess.
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I had some errands to run after church this evening, but I got so hungry I just had to make a stop.
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WSJ: Congratulations. You’re about to own $100 billion a year in student loans:
“Starting next summer, taxpayers will have to put up roughly $100 billion per year to lend to students.”
I’ve seen the future, and it looks like this:
Congratulations. You’re about to own $100 billion a year in student loans.
