When The President Met With A REAL Journalist

There are three major cable news networks: Fox News, CNN, MSNBC. On any given day, if you add the viewership of CNN and MSNBC together, you'll have one half to two thirds the viewership of Fox News.

Compared to the other two networks, what does Fox News have that folks like? Real, live, Honest-to-God JOURNALISTS. The White House treats Fox News the same way they treat the majority of America; with rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth disdain.

Fox News isn't even a news organization - White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, on CNN
Fox News is really not news. ... Other news organizations like yours ought not to treat them that way. We're not going to treat them that way. - White House Senior Advisor, David Axelrod, on ABC.
Fox serves as the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. - White House Communications Director, Anita Dunn

There's an old saying, "preaching to the choir", that means one is attempting to convert the already converted. Pres. Obama has been preaching to the choir on CNN and MSNBC for the past 14 months. During this time support for his Federally-mandated health care rationing bill has plummeted from an even split to 23% who Strongly Favor the plan and 46% who Strongly Oppose it.
Finally, Pres. Obama stopped preaching to the choir for a few minutes and sat down for an interview with Fox News journalist Bret Baier.

I call the interview The Smart-ass vs. The Class-act:

Martinsville VA Activist Mary Martin

Well I won't back down

No I won't back down
You can stand me up at the gates of hell
But I won't back down

No I'll stand my ground, won't be turned around
And I'll keep this world from draggin me down
Gonna stand my ground
... and I won't back down


Well I know what's right, I got just one life
In a world that keeps on pushin me around
But I'll stand my ground
...and I won't back down
-Tom Petty

You know you're doing something good for the area when the Martinsville (full of) BULLetin repeatedly slams you. On Mary Martin's tenure on the local school board:

In 2007, the Martinsville Bulletin hammered Martin more than once -- opining editorially that "the list of Ms. Martin's embarrassments [while on the board] is too long." The editorials cited as missteps her secret taping of a board meeting in Richmond and issuing flawed information about asbestos removal at an elementary school.

You know you're doing something good for the area when a member of the Good Ole Boy network doesn't think you're a "team player":

Curtis Millner, a member of the Henry County School Board, was on the board with Mary Martin when her behavior during a three-year tenure sometimes riled him and others.

"During the time Ms. Martin served with me on the Henry County School Board, I did not consider her a team player or a consensus builder," Millner wrote in a recent e-mail.

Nope, the local status quo powers in Martinsville Virginia don't like trouble makers exposing illegal Henry County School Board meetings or asbestos in an elementary school.

Most recently, Mary has her sights set on APCO. I wouldn't want to be APCO.

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Steyn's Breathtakingly Excellent Analysis

This is well worth a full read. Here are some excerpt's from Mark Steyn's 'It's Not About Healthcare'.

So there was President Obama, giving his bazillionth speech on health care, droning yet again that "now is the hour when we must seize the moment," the same moment he's been seizing every day of the week for the past year..

Why is he doing this? Why let "health care reform" stagger on like the rotting husk in a low-grade creature feature who refuses to stay dead no matter how many stakes you pound through his chest?

Because it's worth it. Big time. I've been saying in this space for two years that the governmentalization of health care is the fastest way to a permanent left-of-center political culture. It redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in fundamental ways that make limited government all but impossible. In most of the rest of the Western world, there are still nominally "conservative" parties, and they even win elections occasionally, but not to any great effect. (Let's not forget that Jacques Chirac was, in French terms, a "conservative.") The result is a kind of two-party-one-party state: Right-of-center parties once in a while will be in office, but never in power, merely presiding over vast leftist bureaucracies that cruise on regardless.

A year or two back, when the Canadian Islamic Congress attempted to criminalize my writing north of the border by taking me to the Canadian "Human Rights" Commission, a number of outraged American readers wrote to me saying, "You need to start kicking up a fuss about this, Steyn, and then maybe Canadians will get mad and elect a conservative government that will end this nonsense."

Makes perfect sense. Except that Canada already has a conservative government under a Conservative prime minister, and the very head of the "human rights" commission investigating me was herself the Conservative appointee of a Conservative minister of justice. Makes no difference. Once the state swells to a certain size, the people available to fill the ever-expanding number of government jobs will be statists - sometimes hard-core Marxist statists, sometimes social-engineering, multi-culti statists, sometimes fluffily "compassionate" statists, but always statists. The short history of the postwar welfare state is that you don't need a president-for-life if you've got a bureaucracy-for-life...

Look at it from the Democrats' point of view. You pass Obamacare. You lose the 2010 election, which gives the Republican Party co-ownership of an awkward couple of years. And you come back in 2012 to find your health care apparatus is still in place, a fetid behemoth of toxic pustules oozing all over the basement, and, simply through the natural processes of government, already bigger and more expensive and more bureaucratic than it was when you passed it two years earlier. That's a huge prize, well worth a midterm timeout.


I've been bandying comparisons with Britain and France, but that hardly begins to convey the scale of it. Obamacare represents the government annexation of "one-sixth of the U.S. economy" - i.e., the equivalent of the entire British or French economy, or the entire Indian economy twice over. Nobody has ever attempted this level of centralized planning for an advanced society of 300 million people. Even the control freaks of the European Union have never tried to impose a unitary "comprehensive" health care system from Galway to Greece. The Soviet Union did, of course, and we know how that worked out.

This "reform" is not about health care, and certainly not about "controlling costs." As with Medicare, it "controls" costs by declining to acknowledge them or pay them.

Another Lunatic Leftie Shooting

Friday, March 05, 2010 Resentment of the U.S. government and suspicions over the 9/11 attacks have surfaced in writings by the Californian identified as the gunman who shot two Pentagon police officers before he was mortally wounded in a hail of return fire.
Signs emerged that Bedell harbored ill feelings toward the government and the armed forces, and had questioned the circumstances behind the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

In an Internet posting, a user by the name JPatrickBedell wrote that he was "determined to see that justice is served" in the death of Marine Col. James Sabow, who was found dead in the backyard of his California home in 1991. The death was ruled a suicide but the case has long been the source of theories of a cover up.
The user named JPatrickBedell wrote the Sabow case was "a step toward establishing the truth of events such as the September 11 demolitions."