The Beck Rally and What its Media Coverage Means

So, TV/radio talk show host Glenn Beck held a rally in Washington on Saturday at which well over half a million folks were in attendance, and the leftist nitwits in the news media and on the radical blogs don't know quite what to make of it. 

The New York Times dealt with the event by writing it off as a "Tea Party" rally, and tossing out a lowball estimate of 87,000 in attendance.  The use of an odd number like 87,000 was no doubt designed to promote the notion that the Gray Lady had somehow actually performed a real head count and come up with this exact number of attendees.  To understand what a bald-faced lie this number really is, all one has to do is view aerial photos of the event, which shows that the throng of people stretched all the way from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument.  Any of you who may have actually walked the length of the reflecting pool and onto the Washington Monument knows that is a long and tiring walk, especially in the heat of a Washington summer.  The reflecting pool itself spans 2,028 feet.  It is at minimum another 1,000 feet from the end of the pool to the Washington Monument.

By comparison, Darrell K. Royal Texas Memorial Stadium in Austin easily holds 100,000 people.  From stem to stern, that stadium is about 600 feet in length.

The New York Times, as is its habit, lied to its diminishing base of readers.

The Times also bald-faced lied by characterizing the Beck event as a "Tea Party" rally.  The event itself in fact had nothing to do with any of the myriad Tea Party chapters around the country.  Nor was it organized by Fox News, as some lefties have claimed.  It was organized by Beck and contractors in his employ, and promoted by Beck on his television and radio programs.

And, whether the leftwing activists at the New York Times, MSNBC, the Huffington Post, CBS and ABC like it or not, more than half a million peaceful, respectful, well-behaved Americans showed up.  They came to praise America, to celebrate the members of the U.S. military who achieved victory (yes, victory, a word you will never hear President Obama use) in Iraq and are now returning home to their loved ones to resume their lives.  They came to talk about the need to return this nation to the traditional values that made it great, and the fiscal responsibility that made it the strongest economy the world has ever known.

Much to the dismay of the leftwing news media, no one carried any nasty signs – you know, the kind you invariably see at leftwing rallies that are habited by professional protesters and malcontents.  There was no talk of the Tea Party, little talk of politics of any sort, no one calling anyone else nasty names – in other words, none of the things the leftwingers who infest our national news media were hoping and praying to see.

Heck, these folks even cleaned up after themselves.  Unlike what invariably happens at leftist rallies of the sort held on Earth Day, National Abortion Rights Day, and the Obama Inaugural, this half-million throng of people left the national mall free of litter – one Park Service spokesman said it was almost as if there had been no rally at all.

Another big disappointment to the leftist radical editors at the NY Times.

All of which leads me to the following observation:  the Democrats running for office this year are by and large going to be slaughtered.  The polling data just keeps getting worse and worse for politicians with a (D) by their name, and there is little they can do to change that.

One of the main drivers of this anti-Democrat tidal wave is of course the rank unpopularity of the policies pursued by President Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.  That is a given.

But an even bigger driver is the utter, outright contempt that Democrat leaders at the national level and their press agents in the national news media have shown and continue to show for ordinary everyday Americans like those who showed up at the Beck rally on Saturday.  It is as if these elitist thugs cannot believe that the average old Joe Schmoe from Beeville Texas has exactly the same number of votes – one – that they do.  The attitude of entitlement and contempt for anyone who disagrees with them literally oozes from their pores with every speech they make and report they file.

One leftist commentator on MSNBC stated last week that 'people who watch this show know what's going on because we are here to analyze it and tell them'.

That attitude, that hubris, that inability to understand that Americans in "flyover country" can figure out what is going on without being told by Washington elites is, more than any other factor, why the coming election will be a landslide in favor of the Republicans.

Life in the Liberal Zoo is becoming hazardous for liberals.

The President Gets the Bad News

Recently in the Oval Office…

President Obama:  Rahm, I gotta talk to you about this memo we just got from our pollsters.

Rahm Emmanuel:  um, yeah, go ahead, but I'm in a hurry here – got some heads to bash on the whole Wall Street reform deal, and then I gotta go dig up some dirt on a couple of Blue Dogs who aren't toeing the party line on climate change.

Obama:  Says here that our pollsters are advising Democratic congressional candidates to avoid mentioning things like healthcare reform, immigration reform, and jobs in their re-election campaigns.

Rahm:  Yeah, so?

Obama:  Says that the very mention of these issues – issues, by the way, that have been the very centerpieces of my administration thus far – can ensure defeat for members of our party in November.

Rahm:  (glancing at watch) uh-huh, uh-huh, can we get to the point here?

Obama:  Well, uh, Rahm, reading this memo, you'd think our policies are unpopular with the people or something.

Rahm:  (nodding head rapidly while fidgeting in chair)  Ok, so what are you wondering about?

Obama:  …

Rahm:  Look, you're acting as if you're surprised here – haven't you been paying attention?

Obama:  Well, I've been kind of busy…

Rahm:  Mr. President, the people hate our policies.

Obama:  What?  But I'm fabulously popular!

Rahm:  Sir, don't you read those polling memos we place on your desk each morning?

Obama:  Not really.  I'm not good with paper. I'm more of a high-tech guy.  It'd be better if you'd give them to Betty over there and have her scroll them on the TelePrompter, like she does with the newspaper every day.  That as you know is my learning tool of choice.

Rahm:  (Sigh)  Sir, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you are not fabulously popular anymore.

Obama:  I'm not?

Rahm:  No, sir.  Now, you're not in Bush territory or anything like that, but your job approval rating has been down in the 40s for quite some time now.

Obama:  (gasp!)  But how can that be?  I mean, I'm The One and all…

Rahm:  um, well, sir, it turns out that country really didn't move to the left politically in 2008 like we initially thought.  Turns out the voters just had Bush fatigue, and voted for you just because you were less like Bush than McCain was.

Obama:  Wow.  You know, that's damn near impossible for me to believe.  I mean, my entire world view is now in jeopardy because of what you just said there, Rahm.  Are you certain about this?

Rahm:  Yessir, I can get you the polling data if you like.

Obama:  Ok, just get it to Betty over there so she can scroll it up on the TelePrompter.

Rahm:  And, uh, sir?  It really is worse than that.

Obama:  What do you mean?

Rahm:  Well, see, you are actually more personally popular than your policies are.

Obama:  (smiling broadly)  Well, that's good news, right?

Rahm:  Depends on your outlook, really.  I mean, I guess it's good news to you…

Obama:  Yes!  I knew it!

Rahm:  …but it's really not good news to Democrats running for re-election who voted for your healthcare nationalization bill, and who support your policies on other issues.

Obama:  But, but I've always thought that good news for Barack was good news for everybody.  I mean, that's how I've lived my entire life!

Rahm:  Yessir, I know that – it's pretty self-evident to everyone.  But the reality of the situation is that your healthcare bill makes about 60% of the population sick to its collective stomach, and public approval for your immigration policies is even lower than that.

Obama:  hmmm…that does present a bit of a problem, then.  But what about jobs?  I mean, wasn't the public listening last November when I announced from my TelePrompter that my administration would henceforth have a "laser-like focus" on job creation?

Rahm:  uh, well, yes they were, but you know, they were also watching as we moved on to healthcare nationalization immediately after you read that speech.  And then they watched as you moved to Wall Street reform immediately after that.  And they have watched over the last couple of weeks as you have spent your time bashing the State of Arizona over the immigration law they recently passed.  And they've also watched as the rate of unemployment has continued to hover at around 10% ever since you read that speech last November…

Obama:  Ok, ok, enough! Geez!  So tell me this:  If our candidates can't run on healthcare, immigration, or jobs, and Wall Street reform isn't doing us any good either, how in the world are they supposed to run?

Rahm:  Well, I'm suggesting they run away from you, sir.  Heh-heh.

Obama:  Ok, that was uncalled for.

Rahm:  I know, but I couldn't resist.  Now excuse me while I go bash some heads and blackmail some Blue Dogs.  After all, that's the way we really get things done around here.

The Sunday Morning Sensation

Well, Professor Phil Jones has apparently finally decided to begin weaving some level of actual truth into his global warming fantasy tales.  His admissions this week that a) the earth may well have really been warmer during the medieval warming period than it has been over the last 20 years, and b) there has been no global warming since at least 1995 amount to a concession that his infamous "hockey stick" chart was in fact a fraud - as it has repeatedly been demonstrated to be over the last 5 years - rendering the entire foundation for global warming theory suspect at best, more likely the complete and utter sham we've long suspected it to be.

Gawd, it's great being right.

Meanwhile, Howard Dean continues to be the raving lunatic we've all come to know and love, and Al Gore, the Pope of the Church of Global Warming, remains sequestered away from the public eye, as he has been since the abject failure of his Copenhagen global warming confab back in December.

But the complete collapse of the Church of Global Warming fairy tale and its full reporting in the European and Asian news media has done nothing to stop the leftist parrots in the American news media from robotically blubbering its talking points.  Reliable liberals Ceci Connoly and Juan Williams dutifully repeated the CGW-approved lines on the Fox News Sunday roundtable, even as host Chris Wallace and the other roundtable participants no doubt had to strain to hide their snickering.  The whole Climategate scandal has yet be really reported in any meaningful way on any of the major network news broadcasts, or in reliably leftist newspapers like the NY Times.

Of course, the radical leftist government employee James Hansen , continuing his unfettered violation of several federal statutes with apparent impunity, continues to spew his fright scenarios, although this week he likely had to do it from his living room given that the record snowfall in Washington DC likely had him shut in.

And nothing, short of congressional action or a court order, can stop the Environmental Protection Agency from making every effort to destroy what little is left of the U.S. economy by continuing to pursue its mad goal of regulating carbon dioxide, one of the key staples of life on earth, under the Clean Air Act.   While all the attention of the public and the media has been focused on the Obama Administration's efforts to destroy the U.S. economy through massive new socialist legislative proposals, little attention has thus far been paid to the backdoor efforts to accomplish the same goal via soviet-style command and control regulation of every aspect of our daily lives.

Now that the voters have stopped the Obama legislative agenda dead in its tracks, we'll see more attention paid to the administration's regulatory agenda.  One can only hope the courts will come to their senses before it's too late and the EPA has been allowed to go too far down this road.

The nine months left until the November mid-term elections are possibly the most critical nine months in this nation's history.  We must somehow survive the belligerent Obama surge until the voters get their next opportunity to continuing to correct the horrible error they made in 2008.

The Friday Fix

After November, there will be one less chronic drug abuser in the House of Representatives.  Patrick Kennedy has announced he will not seek re-election.  The fewer Kennedys around abusing everything and everyone in sight, the better.

John Mayer, after bragging in an interview with Playboy Magazine about his "racist penis", and using the vaunted "n-word" in the process, obviously decided a simple apology was not enough , and that crying was in fact required here.  I have to admit I had no idea until this morning that it was even possible for a penis to possess racist thought. Go figure.

The erstwhile liberals over at the Politico assure us that, all the mountain of evidence to the contrary aside, the leftists in the mainstream media love Sarah Palin, they really, really do.  Whew.

As if the poor folks in Haiti didn't have it bad enough, this morning they must frantically hide their women, children and wallets, because Nancy Pelosi is coming to town along with a contingent of her fellow leftist thieves.  God help Haiti.

You know it's getting bad for President Obama when even the fake polls conducted by CBS and the NY Times feel the need to accurately show his public approval rating diving below 50% into the mid-40s.  They dummied it up just enough to keep the 46% approval hovering 1 percentage point above the 45% disapproval, but nobody's really buying that nonsense anymore.  This guy is on a free fall into the high 30s by summer.

Finally, I leave you today with a link to the the coolest of all the cool webites in the Internet: this site chronicles everything that was ever blamed on "global warming".  It's well worth taking a little time to browse through some of the most absurd claims.  Of course, we now know that most of those claims were thrown into the IPCC report without any fact-checking at all.

Have a great Friday, folks.