The security at these events needs to take a lesson. These idiot protesters gained access to the RNC on Wednesday night in a stunningly easy way:

Code Pink is a group of mostly women that are against the Iraq War.

Two members of the group managed to get right down by the stage inside the Xcel Energy Center Wednesday night and were within 30 feet of Gov. Sarah Palin as she was speaking. They tried to pull out a banner protesting the war, but Secret Service grabbed them.

They were hauled up the stairs and briefly detained, but not arrested.

Medea Benjamin and Jodi Evans said they got into the Xcel Energy Center by asking people who were leaving the Center if they could have their credentials. A person gave them two passes.

I never knew David Blaine was an anti war nutty protester. It always amazes me how this nut and the other code pink protesters get into these events. Of course leave it to CSpan to encourage this garbage by giving Blaine or whatever his name is, a solid thirty seconds of airtime. Fox News showed this guy for one second, even that is too much, just like at a sporting event, the networks don’t show people running on the field, why do they show these fools?

Andrew Sullivan’s reputation is down in the gutter:

When he prints some bucket of slop from Kos or Obsidian Wings, it becomes “news”. He does for the fever swamp hate-mongers what front-businesses and a church did for Nino Brown in the movie New Jack City.

Andrew Sullivan has become a smear-laundering outfit for the detestable dregs of the far-left blogosphere. Publically, at least, even Barack Obama is embarrassed by those of Sullivan’s despicable ilk. There are some things in life that are too disgusting to accept, no matter how much they offer a short-term benefit.

Andrew Sullivan has helped to define cheap and classless down. He drags The Atlantic through the dirt. If The Atlantic has any legitimate right to consider itself a valid source of news and information, Andrew Sullivan needs to be relieved of his duties in the same manner that Scott Thomas Beauchamp was relieved of his blog at The New Republic.

What once was an intelligent, independent, and well run blog has turned into Daily Kos Lite. Andrew Sullivan has slowly but surely lost his mind in his devotion to doing all things to get Barack Obama elected. The funny thing is he rails against a divided nation and partisan politics, yet anyone who dares question or challenge Barack Obama gets thrown into his personal slime machine. Is this what happens when an Obama cultist fully gives himself to the cause? Is this what America has to look forward to for the next four years if Obama gets elected?

All you have to do is look at how he covered the Republican National Convention and Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech tonight. Now flash forward to an Obama Presidency and what will happen if you dare criticize that Presidency. You will be dragged into the mud. The National Review has posted a quick summary of some of Sullivan’s slime tonight:

Sullivan’s Descent [Jonathan Adler]
For some reason I popped over to the Daily Dish to check out Andrew Sullivan’s response to the speech, and he’s outdone himself. Now he’s complaining about Gov. Palin’s facial expressions, the fidgeting of her youngest daughter, and the fact that more than one member of the Palin family has held infant Trig — as if this was some sort of staged display. Sullivan’s obviously never had to sit somewhere for several hours with an infant in his arm, or he’d understand, and he’s still harping on the need to ask questions about Trig’s provenance.

I still remember how impressive I found Sullivan to be when I first met him nearly 20 years ago, and it’s hard for me to believe that this commentary is coming from the same man.

Sullivan has lost all credibility, he now runs a trash blog. To be fair this blog has been against the election of Barack Obama, but we believe that politics is not worth the trashing of family. These Obama cultists need a wake up call, Obama is not going to change the world if elected, he will be another Jimmy Carter. Most independent minded folks realize that both parties have problems, you pick some causes, you elect a person who you feel will help out a little, but if you are rational you know that only the individual has the ultimate power to shape their lives. When you realize that it puts things in perspective, it makes you think twice before you sell your soul to a political party or specific politician.

The cult of personality is in full effect for the Obama fans and many will lose all integrity to see that he is elected.

He needed a political star to match Barack Obama, if tonight is any indication, this Governor is well on her way.

Hilarious, these pundits are paid to give their opinion, yet they even lie about their opinions, they say one thing on the air and the opposite off the air, they write one view in their editorials but have a different view in private.

This just confirms my view that most of these pundits are disingenuous blowhards. I don’t get it, why don’t you reveal your true opinions on the air, but this also proves another point, most of these pundits are not conservative or liberal, they are Washington, they are elite, they are about making money while the middle class gets screwed and nothing gets done in Washington. Few of them actually shake things up and hold our politicians accountable, they are more concerned with their own celebrity and getting invited to the right cocktail parties. Peggy Noonan is the epitome of the blowhard Washington D.C. phony media:

After a segment with NBC’s Chuck Todd ended today, Republican consultant Mike Murphy and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan were caught on a live mike ridiculing the choice of Sarah Palin.

“It’s over,” said Noonan, who then responded to a question of whether Palin is the most qualified Republican woman McCain could have chosen.

“The most qualified? No. I think they went for this — excuse me — political bullshit about narratives,” she said. “Every time the Republicans do that, because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at, they blow it.”

Murphy chimed in:

“The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.”

Noonan’s blunt call contrasted with her conflicted column today saying Palin “could become a transformative political presence.”

“The Sarah Palin choice is really going to work, or really not going to work,” Noonan wrote. “It’s not going to be a little successful or a little not; it’s not going to be a wash. She is either going to be magic or one of history’s accidents. She is either going to be brilliant and groundbreaking, or will soon be the target of unattributed quotes by bitter staffers shifting blame in all ‘The Making of the President 2008′ books.”

The rumor is that the laughable on air bickering and biased coverage by MSNBC in their coverage of the Democratic National Convention have caused a tremendous rift among executives and anchors. MSNBC executives reportedly told Olbermann to stay home for the RNC. We are not sure if:

1. Olbermann is worried about a conservative assassination plot as reported by the NY Post and refused to travel to Minnesota without additional security.

2. Chris Matthews demanded that Olbermann report from New York.

3. MSNBC execs had enough of Olbermann’s horrible partisan reporting and decided to reduce his role for the Republican National Convention.

All three are possible but our spies over at MSNBC reported that Matthews and Olbermann have been getting in frequent off air bouts, yelling at each other, and Matthews even launched a verbal barrage of curses at Olbermann last week. After that particular brow beating, the source stated it looked as if Olbermann was crying as he left the studio.

Since when does a Presidential candidate meet with executives of news organizations:

During the sit-down in a Waldorf-Astoria hotel suite in Manhattan that included Rupert Murdoch, the network’s owner, Obama expressed concern about the way Fox was covering him. “I just wanted to know if I’m going to get a fair shake from Fox News Channel,” Ailes recalled him saying.

The media is supposed to be the fourth estate, they are supposed to be our watchdogs, they are not supposed to make friends with the people in power. Why is Barack Obama asking to get fair coverage? He is supposed to be scrutinized by the media. Yes it should be fair but he should concentrate on his job and let the media do their job. He can complain about Fox News but he should not be having meetings with Fox News execs.

The media should be tough but fair, most have failed to be either in this election cycle. They have not properly investigated Barack Obama and they have been unfair in smearing Sarah Palin’s family.

And the wheel spins round and round. What does Savage call it, the government-media complex…

I could be wrong but I think there always is a breaking point with the public when it comes to media scrutiny, especially when it involves family. Did not the media learn from the Bill Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, Clinton’s approval ratings actually went up after the media and the Republicans tried to impeach a sitting President.

These Obama-bots, Obama-cultists, whatever you want to call them are so heavily invested in getting him elected that they are not even thinking rationally.

My prediction, Friday Gallup numbers John McCain 50-46 over Obama and then over the weekend you see a number of polls with similar numbers. The Obama cultists have gone too far and the American people are going to dump this media creation down the river.

Andrew Sullivan has turned into a lunatic fringe Obama cultist in this election and has now turned his blog into a full time Sarah Palin smear site. He runs with Daily Kos lies, smears, and rumors and paints a crazed portrait of this candidate. Yes, it is the same Andrew Sullivan that did not mention the rumors about John Edwards, even though the Edwards campaign scrubbed all of the Reille Hunter videos from their website, despite paying her over 100,000 dollars. That piece of information was known in October of 2007, surely enough evidence to warrant further scrutiny from the media.

It is the same Andrew Sullivan that ignored all of the shady characters in Obama’s life, his racist preacher Jeremiah Wright, his connections with a terrorist named William Ayers, and a man who paid Obama millions of dollars named Antoine “Tony” Rezko who was later convicted of corruption.

Yes Sarah Palin’s record is not perfect but it is true that she has fought Republican corruption in the state of Alaska. Can any Obama supporter point to one time he fought corruption in the notably corrupt Chicago political machine? Obama is supposed to be the agent of change but he never did anything politically risky in his life.

Now we have this kindergarten notion by the media that Sarah Palin was not vetted because McCain only met her twice. The candidate is not the one that vets a candidate, it is his team of lawyers and advisors that does this. Yet the childish media only wants to take down McCain’s VP pick because she might help take down the false Messiah named Obama.

But now we have reporting that Arthur Culvahouse was in Juneau, Alaska in May of 2008:

A tipster sent us word that John McCain’s VP advance man Arthur Culvahouse has been spotted in Juneau, Alaska. There’s only one reason he would be there - to meet with Alaska Governor Sarah Palin about the Vice President position.

We all know these candidates exaggerate their profiles. Republican or Democrat, it does not matter, however the media will nitpick every little detail from Sarah Palin’s background, yes she has fought corruption but also has secured earmarks for Alaska, she does not have a perfect record. But it is curious that the media have not examined Joe Biden’s history in much the same way. With the exception of one Chicago Tribune reporter:

Joe Biden once got in trouble for plagiarizing a speech and inflating his academic record. So it will not surprise you to find that his famous working-class background turns out to be mythical. But it may surprise you to learn that Biden isn’t the one who has trouble with the facts.

In his Wednesday night speech at the Democratic convention, Biden referred to “those of us who grew up in middle-class neighborhoods like Scranton and Wilmington [Delaware].” In the video preceding his address, he said that the people he knew as a boy didn’t regard themselves as working class but as middle class.

So what did the news media report? “Sen. Joseph R. Biden accepted the vice presidential nomination of the Democratic Party with a speech that harkened back to his working-class roots in Scranton,” said The Washington Post. The Wall Street Journal informed readers that “Sen. Joe Biden showcased his working-class upbringing.” The New York Times said he “spoke frequently, and earnestly, of his blue-collar background.”

No, he didn’t. In fact, he did just the opposite. Anyone paying attention would have noticed as much. But the legend of Joe Biden, born in a welding shop, dies hard with political reporters, who find it easier to romanticize a gritty, hardscrabble childhood than a conventionally comfortable one.

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The facts are there for anyone who wants to look at them. When Joe Biden Sr. died in 2002, his obituary in the News-Journal of Wilmington reported that when he married in 1941, “he was working as a sales representative for Amoco Oil Co. in Harrisburg.”

It went on, “Biden also was an executive in a Boston-based company that supplied waterproof sealant for U.S. merchant marine ships built during World War II. After the war, he co-owned an airport and crop-dusting service on Long Island.” Upon moving his family to Delaware, the News-Journal said, Biden “worked in the state first as a sales manager for auto dealerships and later in real-estate condominium sales.”

Executive, co-owner and manager? Those titles identify the jobholder as solidly middle class, if not better. They fall in the category of white-collar occupations, not blue-collar.

And Biden Sr. clearly knew the difference. In his book, “Promises to Keep,” Biden writes that his father was “the most elegantly dressed, perfectly manicured, perfectly tailored car sales manager Wilmington had ever seen.”

Biden notes that he himself could have gone to the best public high school in Delaware. Instead, he enrolled at Archmere Academy, a Catholic prep school that made him think he had “died and gone to Yale.” He took a summer job to help pay the steep tuition, which today amounts to $18,450 a year.

That doesn’t mean the family never had financial trouble. Biden says they had to move in with his mother’s parents after one setback, and he remembers “when the electric company would send a collector to the house.”

For nearly a year, the father was reduced to cleaning boilers for a heating company. But middle-class people are not immune to unemployment and bad business deals, and the Bidens regained their footing before long.

Of course many in the mainstream media were parroting this same argument, now of course they are more concerned about a Republican’s VP experience versus a Democrat’s Presidential nominee’s experience.

Obama later dredged up one of his stump-speech lines to take a second shot at the “experience” question — and at his leading rivals: “Nobody had more experience than Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney and many of the people on this stage that authorized this war.”

Ha, check out the video at the 2 minute mark, Joe Biden can’t help himself, you can see his charm, some may call it charm, others may call it ego, others may call it a phony used car salesman quality, I don’t think Biden is particularly phony, I do think he has an outstretched ego, either way just by watching this video one can tell that Biden won’t be able to help himself. The debate between Sarah Palin and Joe Biden is going to be interesting because I don’t think Biden will be able to stop from showing America what an intelligent man he really is.

But the key is this exchange, Biden can’t help but dominate the exchange and look at Barack’s face, Obama gets serious, nervous, and embarrassed when Biden puts his arm around him and says this:

Joe Biden: I watched, this guy sort of just grabbed the lightning, just grabbed it.

Barack Obama: (with head down, interrupts Biden) I don’t know about that.

Joe Biden: I can tell you, my team knew in August.

Barack Obama: (now nervous, a look of “shut the fuck up Joe”) We were (unintelligible), so, but this is exciting.

The last line Obama cut off Biden before Joe made more of a fool of himself.

Now watch the duo’s reaction when Steve Kroft brings up Sarah Palin. They have a stunned, deer in the headlights look when Steve talks about the qualities that should appeal to the working class voters in the swing states, you can see the fear in their faces at the 4 minute mark.

It is coming folks , many October surprises for the Obama cultists:

RUSH: Yeah, he’s associating with him, and he’s lying about it! He saying he’s just somebody that lives in the neighborhood. He’s lying about it! Now, there’s gotta be a reason. He lied. I’m convinced he lied when he said he never heard Jeremiah Wright say any of those things that we’ve all heard Jeremiah Wright say. And, by the way, speaking of our old buddy Jeremiah Wright, you just have to know, folks, about October this country is going to be saturated with Jeremiah Wright video and audio. Oh, you know it will resurface. We’ve already got it on our calendar here.

I wonder, has Obama picked a church yet, oh that’s right he is waiting until January 1, 2009, he could always go back to Wright, for the most part he left race out of his sermon:

From NBC/NJ’s Athena Jones
HOUSTON, Texas — The Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama’s controversial former pastor, reappeared here Sunday.

Wrights spoke glowingly of Obama while preaching at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church
…
Jeremiah Wright, “This ordinary boy just might be the first president in the history of the United States to have a black woman sleeping at 1600 Pennsylvania, legally.”

And how did MSNBC characterize this sermon with the above comments:

MSNBC HEADLINE: REV. WRIGHT REAPPEARS, STRIKES CONCILIATORY TONE

I’m sure the mainstream media will mention this just as much as they mentioned the five deferments Dick Cheney received:

Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden received five student draft deferments during the Vietnam War, the same number of deferments received by Vice President Dick Cheney, and later was disqualified from service because of asthma as a teenager.

Officials with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s campaign released Biden’s Selective Service records at the request of The Associated Press. Less detailed records were available from a National Archives facility in Philadelphia.

According to the documents, Biden, 65, received several deferments while he was an undergraduate at the University of Delaware and later as a law student at Syracuse University. A month after undergoing a physical exam in April 1968, Biden received a Selective Service classification of 1-Y, meaning he was available for service only in the event of national emergency.

Come on tough talking Joe Biden, you couldn’t have brought an inhaler to Vietnam.

Of course the Washington echo chamber chattering class were laughing, since when has this group been right about anything. Most are elitists that don’t understand middle America, these were the same journalists laughing at George Bush in 2000. They simply don’t get it:

ELEANOR CLIFT: This is not a serious choice. It makes it look like a made for TV movie. If the media reaction is anything, it’s been literally laughter in many places across news-

JOHN McLAUGHLIN, TALKING OVER CLIFT: Where is that? See that?

CLIFT: In very, very many newsrooms.

On Election Day it is going to be great fun laughing when Obama loses, hopefully the Democrats will realize that they need to reorganize the entire party, it has gone too far left.

The more I think about this Palin pick, the more it looks like a brilliant move. Watching her in a televised roundtable gubernatorial debate only makes me more confident, underestimate this woman at your own peril.

By the way, Eleanor Clift and the rest of the McLaughlin Group are the same people who praised Vladimir Putin and his crushing of democratic freedoms.

A little reminder of Eleanor Clift’s wisdom regarding Putin:

MS. CLIFT: And the Russians love Putin. And we’re in a country that has vested power in the hands of two families —

MR. BUCHANAN: Exactly.

MS. CLIFT: — for two decades —

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: Right.

MS. CLIFT: — maybe going on three. But, look, I mean, I think, you know, there are some concerns about the way he’s shut down civil liberties. But the Russian people like — they like the job he’s doing. He’s given them —

More stupidity from Buchanan and Clift:

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: So where do we stand? Is Putin a Russian autocrat trying to recreate czarist empire, or is he a Russian reformer trying to rein in a corrupt society and reassert the rule of law?

MR. BUCHANAN: He’s an autocrat and a patriot.

MS. CLIFT: He’s an autocrat trying to rein in a corrupt society that he helped create.

MR. BLANKLEY: He’s probably an autocrat and a patriot, as Pat says. I think he probably recognized there should be some democratic aspect of that.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: But he’s good where he is today.

MR. BLANKLEY: I think he’s a solid man.

MR. MCLAUGHLIN: He’s good where he is today.

MR. O’DONNELL: He’s doing his best in an impossible situation. They will fail to subdue the Chechen –

Wow these Obama supporters need serious help. When Michael Moore said this to Keith Olbermann, Olbie had a smile as if he was a child on Christmas Day. If a Republican had said this in reference to the Democratic National Convention, Olbermann would have had a stroke on air as he delivered a special 30 minute, wait, maybe an entire “Special Comment” show deriding the person and the comments.

Now Michael Moore did preface it by saying he hopes nobody will get hurt and that the people should take cover but this guy knows that people will be killed if the storm hits with such power. They are predicting that Hurricane Gustav could hit as a category 2 or 1 Hurricane, this is going to kill people, destroy homes, wreck the local economies, displace people.

Jesus does Michael Moore and Keith Olbermann have a soul, nothing on Earth warrants the kind of destruction these people will have to go through yet again, no political advantage is worth one person’s life, one person’s home, what the hell is going on in this country.

We would love to see Gallup poll how many Americans who watched Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, think Obama is already the President of the United States, would not be shocked to learn it is above thirty percent. The funny thing is it might actually backfire on election day….VOTE??? Why would we vote, Obama is already the President.

P.S. You can always tell when a party is scared, they overreach in their criticism, yes the pick of Sarah Palin is a huge risk, but the Democrats and their supporters in the media would not be so animated in their description of her lack of experience if they were not scared.

Just heard Bill Maher rip Palin to shreds on her lack of experience. Come on Obama supporters, you have to at least pretend you are intellectually honest. No Obama supporter can seriously rip any candidate on a lack of experience when Obama is perhaps the most inexperienced Presidential candidate in the history of the United States.

This is going to be an interesting two months.

It would be interesting to know what Axelrod and the Obama campaign are thinking right now. This is a major shake up and gamble by John McCain, so far Palin seems to be very capable, but it is one speech, long way to go, one thing is certain, McCain is a risk taker.

Of course the Hot Air commenters have the best take:

I can now identify with Crissy Matthews - that is a first.

Fuquay Steve on August 29, 2008 at 1:34 PM