You Know Who Dishonored the Memory of Dr. King?

You Know Who Dishonored the Memory of Dr. King?

Today, it was the Media and Al Sharpton.

Two years ago, it was Barack Hussein Obama.

The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said:

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

The “Restoring Honor” rally today focused on the content of our character, not the color of our skin, and it was attended by people from every background.

But what did the Associated Press focus on in the very first paragraph of their story? (emphasis mine)

Conservative commentator Glenn Beck and tea party champion Sarah Palin appealed Saturday to a vast, predominantly white crowd on the National Mall to help restore traditional American values and honor Martin Luther King’s message. Civil rights leaders who accused the group of hijacking King’s legacy held their own rally and march.

Focusing on the color of people’s skin is “hijacking King’s legacy”, and if the Associated Press really wants to “go there”…

Which of the two rallies looked more like a cross-section of Americans?

Which of the two rallies drew more Americans, by two orders of magnitude?

Which of the two rallies focused on what unites Americans, and which focused on what divides Americans?

I don’t believe in dividing Americans into different “hyphenated groups”.

We are Americans.

Not African-Americans and European-Americans and Asian-Americans, etc.

We are Americans. And if we want to honor the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., we should not even be paying attention to the color of people’s skin.

Did the New York Times do any better than the Associated Press?

No, not really.

The rally organized by Mr. Beck, a Fox News broadcaster who has been critical of Mr. Obama and Congressional Democrats, has come under attack as dishonoring the memory of Dr. King by staging the event on the anniversary of his speech. Critics have suggested that Mr. Beck was trying to energize conservatives for the midterm elections.

Across town, several hundred people packed a football field at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School to stage a rally commemorating Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech.

“We come here because the dream has not been achieved,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton, an organizer of the rally. “We’ve had a lot of progress. But we have a long way to go.”

“They want to disgrace this day,” Mr. Sharpton told the crowd, referring to Mr. Beck’s event.

While the crowd at Dunbar was mostly African-American, the audience at Mr. Beck’s rally was overwhelmingly white, though a number of speakers and performers were black.

In my opinion, the New York Times is “dishonoring the memory of Dr. King”.

And if they want to repeat the attack that staging the event on the anniversary of Dr. King’s speech is somehow dishonoring his memory, that the date alone, and not the content of rally, dishonors Dr. King, then why didn’t the New York Times complain about that two years ago when Barack Obama did it?

I wrote about that more than two years ago here:

Obama vs. MLK’s Dream

Book Titles – In America vs. In Muslim World

“Ground Zero Mosque” Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s book…
Book title in America:

What’s Right with Islam is What’s Right with America

Book title in Malaysia and the Muslim world:

A Call to Prayer from the World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of post 9/11 America

Barack Hussein Obama’s book…
Book title in America:

The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming The American Dream

Book title in Indonesia and the Muslim world:

Assault Hope: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse

An American Expat in Southeast Asia says:

The words “menerjang” (assault or attack) and “harapan” (hope or expectation) make sense when used separately, but used together, the term “menerjang harapan” makes no sense in Indonesian. But while the term makes no sense, it does however present a mental picture to the native Indonesian speaker, the imagery of a “hopeful assault” a “struggle for victory” or to put it more bluntly, a “jihad”, or as the Indonesians see it, Obama’s “jihad” for the Whitehouse. For the native Indonesian speaker, this figurative language creates a mental image whereas the translation of the book’s title can actually come to mean “Jihad: From Jakarta To The Whitehouse”.

Inherited? No, Instigated!

See the video in the first comment below (Hat Tip: Obamateurism of the Day by Ed Morrissey).

Obama has claimed on mulitiple occasions that he “inherited” a big deficit. He is constantly looking to blame President Bush with statements like:

“When I arrived in the White House, I had a $1.3 trillion deficit, wrapped in a bow waiting for me…”

But what Obama fails to mention is his direct participation in budgets while he was a U.S. Senator from January 2005 until he arrived in the White House, and Obama fails to mention that over 25% of that $1.3 trillion deficit, was “waiting for” him precisely because HE ASKED FOR IT!

“I felt that it would be irresponsible for me, with the first $350 billion already spent, to enter into the administration without any potential ammunition should there be some sort of emergency or weakening of the financial system.”

- Barack Hussein Obama II
January 13, 2009
U.S. Seeks Rest of Bailout Cash

I wrote about this previously in the post “Irresponsible”.

The point is that $350 billion of that $1.3 trillion deficit, was “waiting for ” him precisely because HE ASKED FOR IT!. Obama wanted Bush to take the blame for it, but Obama got to spend the money.

President George W. Bush, always the gentleman, did what Barack Hussein Obama asked him to do.

But Barack doesn’t want you to remember that.  Barack wants you to think that all Bush gave him was a $1.3 trillion deficit.  Barack doesn’t want you to know that Bush gave him nice present of $350 billion in TARP cash to spend. 

You’d think that Barack would say, “Thank you”.

AP Puts More Trust in Obama Rumors Than in Facts

“AP” here can actually refer equally to two different entities:

1) AllahPundit

2) The Associated Press.  The Associated Press propaganda spin machine is spinning faster than an Iranian centerfuge.

Let’s face some simple, straightforward facts, and put the rumors to rest.

A single honest recitation of the Shahadah in Arabic is all that is required for a person to become a Muslim. A conversion to Islam is meant to be a one-way process, both for the individual and their descendants.

The Associated Press overlooks the simple fact that Barack Hussein Obama took Shahada.

The Only Group That’s Grown is “Strongly Disapprove”

The Only Group That’s Grown is “Strongly Disapprove”…
and that has more than tripled!

Source of Data: RasmussenReports

Source of Graphic: Hillbuzz

CNN Edits Governor Lingle’s Words to Conceal her Lie and Create their own Lie

The truth is that Governor Lingle has never claimed to have looked at the original, initial vital record for the birth of Barack Hussein Obama.

The truth is that Governor Lingle has never claimed that the COLB that was produced at and by the Obama campaign headquarters is authentic. She has never “certified”, in a legal sense, anything about Obama’s birth.

The truth is that Governor Lingle did an interview with WABC that included her saying the following words (bold emphasis mine):

This issue kept coming up so much in the campaign, and again I think it’s one of those issues that is simply a distraction from the more critical issues that are facing the country. So I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that’s just a fact and yet people continue to call up and e-mail and want to make it an issue and I think it’s again a horrible distraction for the country by those people who continue this.

The truth is that Lingle, whether intentionally or not, did not tell the truth.

Here’s what Fukino did and did not say in her October 31, 2008 statement: Parsing the Statement by Dr. Fukino about Barack Hussein Obama’s Official Birth Certificate

Here’s what Fukino did and did not say in her July 27, 2009 statement: Which Government Organization Was The First To Say, “Obama was born in Hawaii”?

Now, Governor Lingle falsely claimed that the October 31, 2008 statement said “that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.” That is patently false. Regardless of whether Lingle is being intentionally dishonest or just clueless, it doesn’t matter… she is speaking lies, and cannot be trusted.

If that weren’t bad enough, CNN is now selectively editing Governor Lingle’s words in order to conceal her lie and create their own lie… the lie that Lingle “certified Obama’s birth certificate as legitimate”.  CNN says (again, bold emphasis mine):

The Republican governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, has recently certified Obama’s birth certificate as legitimate.”I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health,” Lingle recently told WABC. “The president was in fact born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that’s just a fact.”

Do you see CNN’s distortion?  Do you see what they left out? 

Let’s take Lingle’s actual words and see how CNN edited them…

I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health, and we issued a news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that’s just a fact and yet people continue to call up and e-mail and want to make it an issue and I think it’s again a horrible distraction for the country by those people who continue this.

“And that’s just a fact…”
No, that’s just a lie.

Governor Lingle’s Lie:

we issued a news release at that time saying that the president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii.

CNN Edits Governor Lingle’s Words to Conceal her Lie and Create their own Lie:

I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health.  The president was, in fact, born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that’s just a fact.

Do you think CNN’s editing leaves out a key detail? A detail that is demonstrably a lie?

When Governor Lingle said, “And that’s just a fact”, she was referring to the releasing of the news release.  (A news release that absolutely did NOT say what she claimed it said, but she was referring nonetheless to the releasing of the news release)

CNN edited Governor Lingle’s words to leave out the false claim about what the news release said, and instead creates their own misperception that the false claim itself was what Governor Lingle was referring to when she said “And that’s just a fact.”

Do you think this shows any bias on CNN’s part?

The people who are creating “a horrible distraction for the country” are those who will not tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

Audio of Lingle’s interview can be found here, and I’ll also post it as the first comment.

Lingle has stated outright falsehoods as certain truths. She is either a useful idiot or an intentional and shameless liar. (I personally think it’s the former, but that’s irrelevant…) What matters is that Lingle cannot be trusted.

If Obama was in fact born at Kapi’olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii, then there is a long-form birth certificate to prove it. And that’s just a fact. If they don’t release the long-form birth certificate to prove it, then we must assume that it does not really exist. And if it does not exist, then the Obama birth narrative is fraudulent.

The Contrapositive: If No Long Form Birth Certificate, Then Obama “Birth Narrative” is Fraudulent

“Progressives”, Fear, and Palin

Washington Post front-page story from Wednesday, September 29, 2004:

The Politics of Fear
Kerry Adopts Bush Strategy of Stressing Dangers

By Jim VandeHei and Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, September 29, 2004; Page A01

With voters expressing anxiety about Iraq, nuclear attacks and the threat of terrorism in the first presidential election since Sept. 11, 2001, John F. Kerry and his supporters are adopting President Bush’s strategy of playing on the public’s security fears and sometimes using incendiary charges to stoke them.

Kerry, the Democratic National Committee and party officials have warned voters in recent weeks, sometimes without evidence, that a second Bush term could lead to greater casualties and another Vietnam in Iraq, a military draft, a secret call-up of reservists and even a nuclear attack on U.S. soil. They are also suggesting Osama bin Laden could remain a haunting and elusive threat unless the Democratic presidential nominee takes charge.

Remember how “Progressives” continually said that “Fear-mongering” and “the politics of fear” was a “Bush strategy”, and that when Democrats played on the public’s fears and used incendiary charges to stoke them, that was merely their “adopting President Bush’s strategy”?

Remember how they warned us, without evidence, that a second Bush term “could lead to greater casualties and another Vietnam in Iraq, a military draft, a secret call-up of reservists and even a nuclear attack on U.S. soil”? Well, none of that happened.

And remember how they suggested “Osama bin Laden could remain a haunting and elusive threat unless the Democratic presidential nominee takes charge”? Well, a year and a half into a Democratic Presidential administration and majority Democratic Congress, Osama bin Laden remains a haunting and elusive threat.

Where’s the HOPE we were promised?

Where’s the CHANGE we were promised?

Sorry, “Progressives” are still practicing the politics of fear.

And their biggest fear is summarized by Chris Matthews in three words:

“…the three scariest words in the English language: President Sarah Palin”

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UPDATE: Governor Palin gives President Obama a birthday spanking!

Read it on Facebook or at The PaliNation.

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UPDATE: Hit ‘em again, Sarah!

I agree that we must Fact-Check the “Fact-Checkers”!

Fact Checking Annenberg Political Fact Check