MediaMatters: Beck repeatedly gets basic facts wrong despite boasting that “some of the biggest minds in America” do his research Fox News’ Glenn Beck has bragged that “[m]y credibility means everything to me,” and that he has “some of the biggest minds in America” on his research team “working harder than … any staff ever on television” to get the truth out, but Beck frequently gets his facts wrong. For instance, in recent weeks Beck has falsely claimed Van Jones was a “convicted felon“; repeated Andrew Breitbart’s false claim that an online video showed community organizers from the Gamaliel Foundation “pray[ing]” to President Obama; claimed an obsolete constitutional provision protecting the slave trade applies to “immigrants”; and, most recently, claimed a “Class of 2007” mosaic painted on tiles outside a California school was carried by G-20 protesters in Pittsburgh this week. [ READ MORE ]

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….and the ladies of the view told him in his face that he is A LYING SACK OF DOG SHIT!
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Beck “The IDIOT” Defends His “University Research” Prowess

MediaMatters: Fox News Launches Another Smear Campaign Against an Obama Official — Washington, D.C. – Today, Media Matters for America condemned the latest Fox News-driven smear campaign, in which right-wing media figures have called for Department of Education official Kevin Jennings to be fired. Conservative media have promoted the made-up charge that Jennings “cover[ed] up statutory rape.” They have painted him as a “radical” “gay activist” and have misrepresented and distorted Jennings’ previous comments. [ READ MORE ]

Coulter says Jennings is “another William Ayers“

Hannity obsessions collide: Breathlessly reports Jennings “wrote the forward” for a book that Ayers “wrote a blurb for the back” of

Coulter compares Jennings writing the forward of a book to Polanski “anally raping a 13-year-old“

Olbermann gives Limbaugh “Worst Person” “bronze” for smear of Jennings

Dobbs lets Rollins claim – contradicting CNN’s reporting – student Jennings counseled was a “14-year-old“

Limbaugh continues smear of Jennings, says “priests get sued 20 years later for this stuff — liberals get promoted“

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Dr. Jeremy Levitt, a Law professor at Florida A&M University: “Fox News and the far right have a race deck, and they play the ace of spades every day.“

Comedian Colbert slams racially-tinged remarks by Beck and Limbaugh

SNL Mocks Glenn Beck’s “Tour of Insanity“

Armed in America – Bullets Fly off The Shelves

Dr. Levitt Confronts Osama Bin O’Reilly of the O’Racist Factor

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The Canines

Savage claims song in school kid video is “brainwash[ing] the children into accepting Arabic names” because they say “Hussein“

Hannity, Andersen still promoting conspiracy theory that Ayers “helped write” Obama’s autobiography

Beck identifies next target: “The one that you need to start asking questions on is Valerie Jarrett”

Stimulus Distortions

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   Bill Ayers [Enlarge Pic]
Former Weather Underground member William Ayers told Hardball’s Chris Matthews that he takes responsibility for past actions and is thankful the American saw through the manipulations of the McCain/Palin team, and elected Barack Obama as president.

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Fugitive Days: A Memoir

Editorial Reviews From Publishers Weekly: “Memory is a motherfucker,” begins 1960s-era political activist and Weather Underground member Ayers, who went underground with several comrades after their co-conspirators’ bomb accidentally exploded in 1970, destroying a Greenwich Village townhouse and killing some of the activists involved. Ayers (A Kind and Just Parent), now a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, grew up well-to-do, attended private schools and became politicized at the University of Michigan. He describes his spiraling New Left involvement as he became aware of what he casts as the injustice of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, inner-city race relations, and police brutality and battle tactics, especially in Chicago during demonstrations at the 1969 Democratic convention. The terrific first half of the memoir details 1950s and ’60s U.S. culture his own childhood, shaped by images of the atomic bomb and TV war movies; the influence of Bob Dylan, Mao and Che Guevara on American youth but the book really takes off once he goes underground. He and his colleagues invent identities (often using names such as Nat Turner or Emma Goldman), travel continuously and avoid the police and FBI as Nixon bombs Cambodia and My Lai is ravaged. Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn raised two children underground before turning themselves in in 1981, when most charges were dropped because of “extreme governmental misconduct” during the long search for the fugitives. Written without self-righteousness or apology, this memoir rings of hard-learned truth and integrity and is an important contribution to literature on 1960s culture and American radicalism. From Library Journal: “Memory is a motherfucker,” writes Ayers (A Kind and Just Parent). In the 1970s, he was a head of the radical Weathermen and one of America’s Ten Most Wanted, along with his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, but he is now a distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago. His memoir is a breath of fresh air in this self-absorbed age. Ayers discusses his reservations about the use of violence to achieve an end to violence (reservations he held then as well), but he is unrepentant in believing that America was the aggressor against North Vietnam and that right-minded people have an obligation to resist unjust wars. The book is uneven in tone, alternating fluffy passages about the passage of time with straightforward narration of Ayers’s more than ten years on the lam. The sentiments expressed in the book still seem noble, however, regardless of one’s opinions of the means used by Ayers’s comrades. There are many lessons still to be learned from such narratives. Recommended. David Keymer, California State Univ., Stanislaus See all Editorial Reviews

When Sarah Palin speaks extemporaneously it seems like the Pentecostal hottie is speaking in tongues. I keep waiting for someone in the audience to stand up and interpret her utterance.

Palin makes a modicum of sense only when she is reading from a teleprompter or reciting talking points. When she’s off script she looks like a moose caught in her husbands snow mobile headlights.

Palin comes to life when she is smearing Barack Obama with outrageous lies. Her eyes light when she accuses Obama of “palling around with terrorists.” Palin is such a ruthless campaigner that she makes Attila the Hun look like a wimp.

But even Palin is disgusted by the McCain camp’s use of robo calls.

“Here’s what Palin said in Colorado last night: ‘If I called all the shots, and if I could wave a magic wand, I would be sitting at a kitchen table with more and more Americans, talking to them about our plan to get the economy back on track and winning the war and not having to rely on the old conventional ways of campaigning that includes those robocalls.’” — Trail Blazers Blog/Todd J. Gillman

This may be the only time that Palin made sense when she wasn’t reading from a script. I commend Palin for denouncing robo calls, no campaign should rely on this despicable tactic. I recently wrote an article that explains McCain’s use of robo calls in detail

I wish Palin would talk about the economy, and refrain from bashing Obama. If Palin really wants to change the tone of the campaign, she can start by sticking to the issues.

Obama was delighted with Palin’s condemnation of robo calls:

“Obama blasted the other side for negative campaigning, using Gov. Sarah Palin’s statement yesterday – distancing herself from the flood of robocalls the McCain operation and the RNC have poured on battleground voters, trying to link Obama to Vietnam-era radical William Ayers.

‘It’s getting so bad that even Sen. McCain’s running mate denounced his tactics last night. You know, you really have to work hard to violate Gov. Palin’s standards on negative campaigning. You gotta work hard,’ Obama told the crowd of about 8,000 in Tampa. ‘He’s on the attack. That’s what you do when you’re out of touch, out of ideas and running out of time.’” [ MORE ]

Americans are disgusted with robo calls, and we need to send John McCain a clear message that we won’t put up with gutter politics by voting for Obama/Biden.

“ABC News’ Imtiyaz Delawala Reports: Republican vice presidential nominee Gov. Sarah Palin invoked fear for the first time when discussing Sen. Barack Obama’s connection to former 60′s radical William Ayers.

‘I am just so fearful that this is not a man who sees America the way that you and I see America — as the greatest source for good in this world,’ Palin said of Obama to 2,000 supporters at a rally in Clearwater, Florida this morning. “I’m afraid this someone who sees America as imperfect enough to work with a former domestic terrorist who had targeted his own country.’

‘This, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change that anyone can believe in, not my kids, not for your kids,’ Palin added.” http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/10/palin-plays-fea.html

With only a month to go before the general election, McCain finds himself behind in all the national polls, and most importantly trailing in all the battleground states. McCain feels he has no choice but to play the fear card, and so once again we are forced to endure the spectacle of GOP gutter politics.

Palin is playing the fear card, she is misrepresenting Obama as a radical with dubious personal associations.

It’s ironic that the McCain camp choose Palin to deliver the opening blow of their campaign of dirty tricks, when nobody inspires more fear than the governor of Alaska.

I tremble when I think of the awful prospect of McCain winning the general election, and then quickly dying. That would leave a woman who isn’t even qualified to be a White House clerical employee as leader of the free world.

The choice is quite clear, should we vote for Obama who represents and embodies hope and change, or should we go with a grouchy old man who resorts to playing the fear card?

Playing the fear card is bad enough, but the McCain card is also subliminally playing the race card. Racists see African Americans as different from other Americans, they are the “other” who think differently and act differently. Palin is arguing that “You and I” (read: Whites) see America one way and Obama sees America another way. Obama like most blacks, Palin is subliminally suggesting, is criminally-minded and likely to pal around with other scum like terrorists.

Reckless and desperate politicians rely on fear and racism to inspire citizens to vote for them, and statesmen trust in the goodness of the American people.

Vote for hope and change, and say no to fear and racism by voting for Obama the first Tuesday in November.