Effigy of Palin Hanged in West Hollwood - Not a Hate Crime. Obama Effigy Hanged in Ky - Is a Hate Crime

An effigy of Sarah Palin is hanging in West Hollywood. Police investigated but said it was not a hate crime and left the effigy. Story here.

"Offensive as it may be, the Palin doll -- outfitted with beehive wig, glasses and a vintage Neiman Marcus red coat dress -- appears to violate no law, said officials of the Secret Service, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the West Hollywood city Code Enforcement Division.

"The sheriff made this clear: This is a country that has freedom of speech, and we protect that right even when we think it's idiotic and stupid and in bad taste," said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Sheriff's Department."

An effigy of Obama was hanged at the University of Kentucky in Lexington and police immediately took it down and the university issued an apology.

"University President Lee Todd said he planned to apologize to the Obama family on behalf of the school and that he is "personally offended and deeply embarrassed by this disgusting episode."

Federal authorities have been notified, Todd said. He said the effigy violates the university's code of ethics and won't be tolerated.

'I am outraged because we work very hard, every day, to build bridges across the divides," Todd said. "Diversity and inclusion are among our most precious core values. Episodes like this serve only to erode our confidence in and respect for one another.'" Story here.

Go figure.

What Does America's Leading Feminist Think of Sarah Palin? You Might Be Surprised to Know that It is Quite Favorable

Camille Pagliais a noted feminist, Yale PHD and writes for one of the biggest left leaning blogs in the nation, Salon.com.

So why would she have a good opinion of Sarah Palin? Paglia has been honest in pointing out that the left only thinks a woman is a feminist if she espouses the standard leftist causes: pro-abortion, secular humanism, anti-marriage, etc. But Paglia says that the feminist movement is about empowering women to be who THEY want to be, not want the left wants them to be.

I've had strong females in my family all my life. My wife has been a broadcaster, a business owner, a school teacher, a realtor and a care-giver. All this while boosting me up and raising 2 tough kids. My mother and grandmother were both in the business world and worked long, hard hours. My paternal grandmother outlived 2 husbands, ran a farm, and raised 7 kids. These women were strong, but they didn't and don't believe in the things the left believes in.

Anyway, here is part of what Camille Pagilia says. I encourage you to read the rest at her site.

Yes, both Todd and Sarah Palin, whom most people in the U.S. and abroad had never even heard of until six weeks ago, have emerged as powerful new symbols of a revived contemporary feminism. That the macho Todd, with his champion athleticism and working-class cred, can so amiably cradle babies and care for children is a huge step forward in American sexual symbolism.

Although nothing will sway my vote for Obama, I continue to enjoy Sarah Palin's performance on the national stage. During her vice-presidential debate last week with Joe Biden (whose conspiratorial smiles with moderator Gwen Ifill were outrageous and condescending toward his opponent), I laughed heartily at Palin's digs and slams and marveled at the way she slowly took over the entire event. I was sorry when it ended! But Biden wasn't -- judging by his Gore-like sighs and his slow sinking like a punctured blimp. Of course Biden won on points, but TV (a visual medium) never cares about that.

The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses. The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality.

And where is all that lurid sexual fantasy coming from? When I watch Sarah Palin, I don't think sex -- I think Amazon warrior! I admire her competitive spirit and her exuberant vitality, which borders on the supernormal. The question that keeps popping up for me is whether Palin, who was born in Idaho, could possibly be part Native American (as we know her husband is), which sometimes seems suggested by her strong facial contours. I have felt that same extraordinary energy and hyper-alertness billowing out from other women with Native American ancestry -- including two overpowering celebrity icons with whom I have worked.

One of the most idiotic allegations batting around out there among urban media insiders is that Palin is "dumb." Are they kidding? What level of stupidity is now par for the course in those musty circles? (The value of Ivy League degrees, like sub-prime mortgages, has certainly been plummeting. As a Yale Ph.D., I have a perfect right to my scorn.) People who can't see how smart Palin is are trapped in their own narrow parochialism -- the tedious, hackneyed forms of their upper-middle-class syntax and vocabulary.

Continue reading.

A tip of the hat to all the tough women we know and love. We wouldn't have made it without them.

CBS Poll: Race Has Tightened Again After VP Debate

Sarah Palin pulls one out again as a new CBS poll shows McCain-Palin pulls within 4 points 47% - 43% amongst registered voters. Before the VP debate, Obama led McCain by 9 points. So I guess all that baloney about polls showing that people thought Biden did better than Palin at the debate was fabricated by the main stream media.

McCain still has an uphill battle as he gave up the lead he had by hiding Palin after she accepted the nomination. His task is also made difficult by the financial markets meltdown.

Has McCain Finally Let Palin Off Her Leash?

Bloomberg News is reporting that Palin is now out on the stump criticizing Obama's association with terrorist and Weatherman founder Bill Ayers.

It's about time. McCain and everybody else ought to get a clear idea of who is exciting in this campaign.

I personally don't trust these main stream media polls that say America thought Biden did better at the debate. Why? Because pollsters often lie (remember last election exit pollsters announced Kerry would win Ohio by a landslide, when in fact Bush took it big.)

If they don't lie, it might be the way the question was asked:
1. Who do you think won? or
2. After watching the debate, which politician seemed to have more experience with debates?

The reason I say that, is the numbers. Almost 70 million people turned into the VP debate. [Post here.] That's 33% more than the number of people who turned into the presidential debate.

Why were these people turning in? To see Joe Biden? Of course not. They were turning in to see Sarah Palin. That means 23 million more people turned into see the VP debate than turned into see Obama and McCain go at it.

That was almost twice as many as the 38.4 million who watched Obama's acceptance speech, the 38.9 million that watched McCain's speech and the 37 milion that watched Palin's acceptance speech.

That tells me that Joe SixPack and Hockey Mom were watching the debate. And I don't think they were disappointed (Tina Fey and Saturday Night Live notwithstanding. The video of Fey is funny. Watch it below.)

Now I think the bailout will hurt McCain more than Obama. I think McCain's only chance is to let Palin off her chain and go on attack mode.

This is our election John, let her out of the cage to say the things you should have been saying all along.

LA Times story on how Palin says Obama pals around with terrorist.

Palin - Biden Debate Has Almost 70 Million Viewers

From the Live Feed

Final: 69,989,000 viewers -- Palin-Biden the most-watched vp debate ever

UPDATED: Thursday's highly anticipated face-off between Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Delaware senator Joe Biden was the most-watched vp debate of all time.
Last night's event was seen by nearly 70 million viewers, according to Nielsen Media Research.
That's the most-viewed debate -- presidential or vp -- since at least the second round between Bill Clinton, Ross Perot and George Bush in 1992.

Thursday's debate was...
-- 33% higher than Friday's top-of-the-ticket debate between John McCain and Barack Obama (52.4 million).

-- 61% higher than the 2004 vp debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards (43.6 million).

-- 23% higher than the 1984 match up between George Bush and Geraldine Ferrarro (56.7 million), the former title-holder for the most-watched vp debate

33% MORE People Watched the VP Debate Than Watched the McCain/Obama Debate

Who do you think THE PEOPLE were tuning in to see? We've heard all week about how the VP candidates don't make a difference, only the main candidates. Then why did so many people tune in?

Do you think they were tuning in to see Joe Biden?

Come on, McCain, let our Hockey Mom out of her cage and do what she does best.

See the early numbers post on The Live Feed.

Who Won? Palin or Biden?

I personally think that Sarah Palin beat out Joe Biden in the debate, but I was impressed with how smooth Joe Biden was. Neither side scored a knock-out punch, but I thought Sarah did a great job of "answering the questions that the Joe Six-Packs and Hockey Moms want to have answered instead of the ones Joe [Biden] or the moderator wanted answered" [Note: Palin did say something like this but the quote is from my memory not my notes so she probably said it in a different manner but the essence was the same.]

From Tom Brokaw's comments afterwards, it appears that he thought Palin did very well (although a fellow political junkie from the left coast called me then to discuss it so I don't know how he finished his analysis).

Noted bloggist Michele Malkin thought that Palin not only won, she rocked:

SARAH ROCKS!
By Michelle Malkin • October 2, 2008 10:50 PM

First, I would like to see all the Sarah doubters and detractors in the Beltway/Manhattan corridor eat their words.

Eat them.

Sarah Palin is the real deal. Five weeks on the campaign trail, thrust onto the national stage, she rocked tonight’s debate.

She was warm, fresh, funny, confident, energetic, personable, relentless, and on message. She roasted Obama’s flip-flops on the surge and tea-with-dictators declarations, dinged Biden’s bash-Bush rhetoric, challenged the blame-America defeatism of the Left, and exuded the sunny optimism that energized the base in the first place.

McCain has not done many things right. But Sarah Palin proved tonight that the VP risk he took was worth it.

Her performance also underscored the underhandedness of the hatchet job editors at ABC News and CBS News, which failed to capture her solid competence on the whole array of foreign and domestic policy issues on the debate table tonight. (I didn’t care for all the “greed” rhetoric, but I understand they are trying to appeal to independents and Dems. They’re trying to win the election.)

Pause to reflect on this: She matched — and trumped several times — a man who has spent his entire adult life on the political stage, run for president twice, and as he mentioned several times, chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Sarah Palin looked presidential.

Joe Biden looked tired.

Sarah made history.

Biden is history.
***
Prediction: Watch for a whole new, severe strain of Palin Derangement Syndrome to begin tonight.
They hated her before tonight. They are going to pour on more unfathomable hate at a level we have never seen before.

Sarah, we’re praying for you.

This Women Will Be the "Neutral Moderator" for the VP Debates. Her Book on Politics in the Age of Obama Comes Out on Inaugural Day

This woman, Gwen Ifill has written a book called "The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama" and it will be released on the day of the inaugural. She stands to make a lot more money on the book if Obama wins.

Why is she the moderator for the VP debate on Thursday?

Read about it here and here and see a video of how she reported Sarah Palin's speech at the RNC convention.

Congressman Alcee Hasting: Since Sarah Palin Hunts and Strips Moose, What Will She Do to Jews and Blacks?

Democratic Congressman from South Florida. Alcee Hastings said:

"Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through,"

about Sarah Palin. He later apologized.

You probably heard this racist, anti-Semitic statement in the main stream media along with calls for Rep. Alcee Hastings' resignation from Congress!!!

Or not.

It seems that depending on who is making the racist and anti-Semitic statements, you will or will not hear about it in the main stream media.

You see, Alcee Hastings is a black Democratic Congressman from a solidly Democratic district. The Dems wouldn't want to lose that district.

EXTRA CREDIT for those who seem to remember Alcee Hasting's name from before...gee, what was it?

Oh that's right, HE'S AN IMPEACHED FEDERAL JUDGE that was kicked off the bench in a case where ithe Senate determined that he took $150,000 to give a lenient sentence and then perjured himself in the investigation. Impeached Federal judges, bribery, corruption, perjury, and making racist anti-Semitic remarks - but from a solid district. Why would the liberal media go after that one?

1. Stars at Emmy Awards Make Fun of Bush, McCain and Palin; 2. Emmys Have Lowest Viewership in Years. 3. Hollywood Doesn't Know Why

Seems like a simple formula to me. Hollywood stars make fun of what we Americans hold near and dear; they put things on prime time TV that we wouldn't want to see in an adult film; then they make fun of our President, a war hero, and a successful governor and they wonder why the award show for TV has the lowest ratings ever (in fact, they were 12% lower than last year's previously lowest ever Emmys.

Well, d'uhhh!

Left Wing NBC's Saturday Night Live Does Skit that Palin's Husband Commits Incest

NBC's Saturday Night Live did a skit this last weekend where NY Times reporters were trying to prove that Todd Palin committed incest, "as is done in backwards Alaska". In one way, it was a slam on NYT reporters for them trying to find any dirt whatsoever on Palin. But, it definitely also spread dirt on Palin in the way in which liberals slam the other side and then say they didn't really mean you. (Remember when Obama used the phrase "You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig" and the democratic crowd knowingly laughed and then he claimed he wasn't talking about Palin at all. It's a typical MO.)

Skits have to be done in taste or skip it. Can anyone imagine a skit about Obama's mother hunting out a black man, the way "white women from Kansas do" or such other outlandish thing. Remember the outroar when the New Yorker ran the cartoon of Obama and Michelle in turbans with a portrait of Osama Bin Laden on the wall?.. Their were screams of impropriety then and there should be screams for decency here also.

Especially since it was NBC, which has pretty well established itself as a mouth of the left.

Newsweek Prints Article Favorable to Palin

Newsweek actually printed an article favorable to Sarah Palin. Please read all the way to the bottom!

Newsweek stated:

In Alaska, Palin is challenging the dominant, sometimes corrupting, role of oil companies in the state's political culture. ..." For Palin, that has meant tackling the cozy relationship between the state's political elite and the energy industry that provides 85 percent of Alaska's tax revenues... But even as she tackles Big Oil's power, Palin has transformed her own family's connections to the industry into a political advantage. Her husband, Todd, is a longtime employee of BP, but, as Palin points out, the "First Dude" is a blue-collar "sloper," a fieldworker on the North Slope, a cherished occupation in the state. "He's not in London making the decisions whether to build a gas line."

In an interview with NEWSWEEK, Palin said it's time for Alaska to "grow up" and end its reliance on pork-barrel spending. Shortly after taking office, Palin canceled funding for the "Bridge to Nowhere," a $330 million project that Stevens helped champion in Congress. The bridge, which would have linked the town of Ketchikan to an island airport, had come to symbolize Alaska's dependence on federal handouts. Rather than relying on such largesse, says Palin, she wants to prove Alaska can pay its own way, developing its huge energy wealth in ways that are "politically and environmentally clean."

But uhhh, don't bother looking for this article in this week's Newsweek. It was printed October 15, 2007, back before Palin was on the McCain team challenging The One and his VP candidate Biden.

H/t to Drudge Report and The Fix from the Washington Post

MoveOn.Org Continues to Move in the Shadows with Unmarked Facebook Ads

MoveOn.Org - that ultra leftist organization financed by George Soros, the billionaire currency trader that steps over boundaries to influence nations (see post infra), is now running ads against McCain and Palin, on Facebook.com. If you don't know what Facebook is, then you don't have kids, because Facebook and MySpace are the social meeting places for the teen and 20 something set.

The ads, as reported in the Wall Street Journal blog by Emily Steel here, state things like "Palin lied" and then click through to a main stream media story or columnist who is lambasting McCain or Palin. The problem is, you can't tell that MoveOn.Org sponsored or paid for the ad.

Now anyone should be able to run ads for or against a presidential candidate. And both Obama and McCain advertise on the internet. But their ads say "Paid for by Obama for President" or "Paid for by McCain for President" but these MoveOn.org ads don't tell you who paid for them. Why are MoveOn.org and George Soros hiding in the shadows?

Remember Soros has claimed he owns the Democratic party. What price will he extract if Obama wins? [Links to editorials about Soros, MoveOn.Org and the Democratic party.]

Be sure to read "The Enemy Within" here.

Here is a great blog on MoveOn.Org moving legally against t-shirt vendors selling t-shirts with logos against MoveOn.org.

When you lift a rock, all the little cockroaches scurry to hide again. They don't like being exposed.

Did ABC Use Intentional Camera Trickery On Palin Interview

One blog site, anonymously written by a conservative hollywood cameraman points out that the camera angle, with Gibson appearing taller and larger is specifically done by a scene selection camera angle shot to disparage Palin. In support, he shows clips from interviews of Obama and Clinton. He also shows the shot from storyboard software, used by directors to plan shots.

Read the blog here and look at these clips. Note the height of Gibson's head (higher than Palin, equal with Obama and Clinton) and the facial expression of Gibson to Palin (like a disapproving father)

Pamela Anderson Calls Out Sarah Palin

Pamela Anderson, noted academic and phony PETA spokeswoman challenged VP candidate Sarah Palin on the issues of today.

In issuing her challenge, Pamela said:

“I can’t stand her,” and “She can suck it!”

Uh, thanks Pam. Next time we want the reasoned opinion of a Baywatch babe, we'll be sure to call you.

Full story with video here.

Developing: Could Obama be Ready to Switch to Hillary as VP?

Tip of the hat to Don the engineer for this heads up.

Yesterday, as featured in this site below, Joe Biden amazingly said:

"Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Let’s get that straight. She’s a truly close personal friend, she is qualified to be president of the United States of America, she’s easily qualified to be vice president of the United States of America, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick than me. But she’s first rate, I mean that sincerely, she’s first rate, so let’s get that straight." See ABC story here.

This blogger wondered in another post whether, given the fact that Obama has been reeling like a punch drunk sailor since McCain chose Palin as his VP candidate, Biden was floating a trial baloon to see if the Dems would be happy or mad if he stepped aside and let Hillary come in and fight Palin mano a mano (no it doesn't mean man to man, it means hand to hand).

The trial balloon would be important because the last time a Dem Presidential candidate dropped his VP was when McGovern did it 30 years ago when he dropped Sen Eagleton because the latter had sought psych help at an earlier date. That was a disaster. (Read how Sen. Eagleton was forced to withdraw by Sen. McGovern in place of Sargent Shriver of the Kennedy clan on Wikipedia here.)

But Obama and the old white guy from Delaware are sinking fast. McCain/Palin have not only gotten a 15 point switch amongst likely voters, they have the momentum and buzz.

Well my friend Don the engineer (will engineer for food!), called me and let me know that Obama was having lunch with President Bill Clinton - on Clinton's turf - NYC. TODAY 9/11/08. This is confirmed on a WSJ blog site here although the meeting is not listed on Obama's official web site.

Could it be just a meeting to catch up since they last were together 10 days ago at the DNC? Or was Obama coming with hat in hand to persuade Bill, and by extension Hillary, to let Hillary take over the VP spot if Biden stepped out of the way.

Sheer whimsy you say? When you're suddenly losing a race that is only 55 days away that was previously yours for the taking, and the only known new ingredient is a women named Sarah Palin, and the attack dogs haven't found any Palin skeletons, one might do anything to grab potential victory back.

Now in one sense, Hillary would be foolish to take the VP spot. If Obama loses, then fate will surely make her the nominee in 4 years. And she will be able to crow "I told you so" all the way to the bank.

But there is now suddenly a downside in her bid to make history as the first woman president. That is, Sarah Palin could become the VP, with a mandate to be a visible reformer in DC and she could come back the favorite to be the first woman president of the US.

This downside is only made more probable by the possibility that McCain could die in office and Palin would become the sitting president ... and eligible for two more terms!!! (Constitutionally, it is possible that Palin could be president for up to 10 years. If Johnson had run and won a second term in '68, he would have been president for almost 10 years. Here is the 22nd Amendment on Wikipedia.)

And if Hillary now came back and helped Obama win, she surely would be given the key to DC. She could be the most active VP ever.

We have contracted the Obama campaign to verify this issue and we will update the site once and if we hear from them.

McCain Throws Lipstick Back in Obama's Face

New McCain Ad on YouTube:



UPDATE 9/10/09 AT 3:30 PM.

This video is no longer available. John McCain's site says: "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by CBS Interactive Inc"

This is tantamount to censorship. I saw the video. All it had was a clip of Palin talking about the difference between hockey moms and pit bulls being one wears lipstick, then a clip of Obama saying you can put lipstick on a pig but you still have a pig, and then the closing of a pic of Obama with the title Ready to Lead? or Ready to Smear?

So it appears that CBS does not want McCain making mileage off of a clip they shot of Obama slamming Palin.

What is this? A media that decides for us what we'll know about the candidates? Do they think they can protect Obama by limiting video of him?

Did Obama Use Sexist Term in Calling Palin a Pig?

Obama in a stump speech said that "even if you put lipstick on a pig, you still have a pig". The audience (Obama supporters) laughed loudly. Many think he was referring to Palin who at the Republican convention said she was a hockey mom and the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is lipstick.

Now would lipstick be a gender specific term?

What if one candidate was an Arab American and somebody made a joke referring to camels? Or a candidate was Indian American and one made a joke about convenience stores (like Joe Biden did)? Or if one candidate was African American and one made a joke about putting on whiteface (a twist on the "blackface" that actors used to put on to portray African Americans). Would the media be enraged about those comments?

I think so, but where is the outcry today?

You decide what Obama meant...

How Dare She Be A Working Class Woman

One of our readers notified us of an article in the National Review:

Writers for the New York Times are still sneering at Sarah Palin and her family on a regular basis. After all, these snobs will never forgive her for going to the University of Idaho, or for having a husband who isn’t a lawyer or an investment banker, but a member of the United Steelworkers union, who doesn’t have a degree, whose mother (who is part Yupik) is a former secretary of the Alaska Federation of Natives, and whose grandmother is a member of the Curyung tribe.

The article goes on to point out the outrageous lies which have been circulated against Sarah Palin, all of which are untrue, including:

1. Sarah Palin was a member of the Alaska Independence party for two years in the 1990s. (She wasn't)

2. Sarah Palin didn’t support Pat Buchanan in the 1999-2000 campaign; she was an official on the campaign of Republican presidential contender Steve Forbes.

3. Her eldest son Track (who is deploying to Iraq this week) didn’t join the National Guard because he was a drug addict.

4. Her daughters Willow and Piper aren’t named after witches on TV.

5. She’s not anti-Semitic. In fact, she has an Israeli flag in her office, and quietly turned up for services at a newly opened Wasilla synagogue to pay her respects.

6. She didn’t cut funding for unwed mothers, but increased it by 354 percent.

Read the full article here.

Gallup: McCain Now Leading Obama with Independents 52% to 37%

Gallup released it's latest poll showing that McCain had a whopping 15 point lead with independents over Obama. That lead expands to 20% when polling independents with no previous political leanings. Even Democrats who only favored McCain by 9% prior to the convention had swelled to 14%.

A post convention bump is normal for most candidates. Obama had a 8 point lead following his Friday night acceptance speech. But it appears that McCain has been greatly helped by the addition of Palin and her speech.

This race is far from over. Don't expect the Dems to take this lying down. Shots are being fired already. Obama has accused McCain and Palin of lying about being mavericks [story here and elsewhere on this blog].