The Right Word | The Guardian <a href="">Fox News</a> anchors like <a href="">Glenn Beck</a>, <a href="">Sean Hannity</a> and <a href="">Bill O'Reilly</a> and radio talkshow hosts such as <a href="">Rush Limbaugh</a>, <a href="">Michael Savage</a> and <a href="">Laura Ingraham</a> speak to millions of Americans. Their commentary is crucial in shaping the conservative and Republican political agenda of the day. So what are they saying, week in, week out? <a href="">Sadhbh Walshe</a> listens and reports so you don't have to en-gb Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2014 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 02:20:55 GMT 2014-12-29T02:20:55Z en-gb Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2014 The Guardian Rush Limbaugh's Sandra Fluke slander | Sadhbh Walshe Limbaugh is unapologetic for calling a female student 'a slut'. But he may change his tune if his radio show sheds advertisers<p>Rush Limbaugh is finding himself being vilified yet again by the liberal media, and elites in general, over remarks he made about a <a href=";tag=contentMain;contentBody">young college student named Sandra Fluke</a>, who testified before the mock congressional hearing on the White house contraception rule. </p><p>Fluke, who had been turned away from the official, men-only hearing on the issue of female contraception earlier in the month, spoke mostly about the high cost of contraceptives and their importance to women's health.</p><p>What does it say about the college coed Susan [sic] Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex, she can't afford the contraception; she wants you and me – the taxpayers – to pay her. What does that make us? We're the pimps! The johns! That's right. We would be the John's. No, well, pimp's not the right word. OK, so she's not a slut, she's round-heeled.</p><p>I'm gonna button my lip on that one.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Rush Limbaugh US politics US news US television Talk radio Radio Barack Obama Women Gender Contraception and family planning Obama administration Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:19:00 GMT Alex Wong/Getty Images Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown University, giving testimony on contraception and health insurance during a House hearing on 23 February – for which she was later branded 'a slut' by talk radio shockjock Rush Limbaugh. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Alex Wong/Getty Images Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown University, giving testimony on contraception and health insurance during a House hearing on 23 February – for which she was later branded 'a slut' by talk radio shockjock Rush Limbaugh. Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images Sadhbh Walshe 2012-03-02T22:19:00Z The Right Word: who's to blame for the eurozone crisis? | Sadhbh Walshe The talk pundits know the answer: Europe's pampered public sector workers – oh, and President Obama<p>Conservatives are growing increasingly frustrated with the eurozone debt crisis and fear there will be no recovery until Europeans confront the true source of their problems: the public sector unions and President Obama.</p><p>Can you believe that Poland has asked Germany to use its power to bail them out? In our lifetimes, would you ever believe that that could happen? No 2: the International Monetary Fund is not meant to be used as it is being used here. Without going into great detail, the International Monetary Fund is not to prop up countries. It's a temporary infusion to help, at best, currencies, but it's not meant as it's being used now. The latest plan for the IMF – which is us, and we don't have the money, either. Nobody has any money. None of this is real!</p><p>In Great Britain, pensioners, public workers – their equivalent of the TSA – walked off the job at the airports, which, incidentally, has caused operations at the airports to run much more smoothly. With two thirds of the bureaucrat employees on strike, everything's running better but they're on strike because they are being asked to contribute a measly 3% to their pensions, and they are also objecting to a pay increase of only 1%. Now, Britain doesn't have any money.</p><p>And the euro's going to collapse; it's done. The world has to accept it. And if they sustain it artificially for a long period, that's a bigger mistake 'cos we're just kicking the can down the road.</p><p>I think it projects nothing but weakness. I think he is weak. I think he … look he's even said it that he doesn't believe in American exceptionalism, that America has been arrogant at times. He's been on his apology tour.</p><p>Let me share one thing with you. I can't believe I missed this: <a href="">one of the stories that came out last week</a> was that the Germans couldn't sell 35% of their bonds. The Germans couldn't! Now Germany is the engine of Europe. There is no question that Germans have it down, that Germans are the engine. Everyone is looking to Germany to bail the rest of Europe out, and Germany can't sell its bonds – yet, at the same time, Spain and Italy can? That doesn't make sense!</p><p>They won't buy German bonds but they'll buy Italy bonds. What?! Why would you buy Italy, which you know is on the verge of collapse, but you wouldn't buy Germany, which … Germany is not on the verge of collapse. Then the German finance minister comes out and says we might back off a bit on the demands of the private banks hold all the troubled debt from Greece and Italy and Spain. We might accept part of the cost of the bailout by writing off some of the debt ourselves!</p><p>&quot;You're not going to bail the rest of Europe out? You watch what happens when you put your bonds up for sale.&quot; And Goldman Sachs and their ilk went and stood guard and made sure that people were not buying German bonds – and thus Germany reverses itself. You already have lost control of much of this planet to technocrats and to global financing. It's already happened and I contend there's a possibility that what you saw on the German bond market was really an act of war. If it was a country that did this, not the Fed or Goldman Sachs or the central banks, it would be an act of war.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Eurozone crisis US television Talk radio Talk shows Media Fox News US politics Obama administration US news Business Euro Germany Bonds Glenn Beck Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:07:57 GMT Luke Macgregor/Reuters Live reactions to the strikes Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters Sadhbh Walshe 2011-12-01T19:07:57Z The Right Word: if not Mitt, Newt? | Sadhbh Walshe The conservative talk hosts despair over the Republican party settling on a credible candidate to beat arch-enemy Obama<p>After yet another inconclusive Republican primary debate, conservatives are starting to despair of ever finding a future president who will satisfy family values-oriented Republicans, as the popularity of one candidate who has been accused of sexual harassment by four women is overtaken by another who has been married to three.&nbsp;</p><p>Now, in the beginning of this whole debate cycle and everything like that, it was fluid, all right. So, then, you had a Rick Perry come in, he rocketed to the top; then you had Cain, he took Perry's place and now he's going down. And then, you have Newt Gingrich. When are things going to start to stabilise, so we know who the real contenders are!?</p><p>Every second- and third-tier Republican candidate gets an anal exam, a media anal exam. We know about their marriages. We know about their friends. We know about their enemies. We learn about their barmaids and their floozies. We know everything about their kids. We know about their grades. You name it: we're told everything that we want to know or don't want to know and more about every Republican. And as a Republican matriculates in the top of the heap, the anal probe gets even deeper. </p><p>But yet, we know nothing. We're coming up on three years of the Obama regime and we know nothing about Obama beyond what has had to be pulled from the tightest of closed circles. We don't know what his grades were in college and law school, and we're told not to worry about it, that he's smart, he's intelligent, he's smarter than all the rest of us anyway, so it doesn't matter what his grades are.</p><p>We don't know who his girlfriends were. We don't have people from his past popping up and telling everybody how inspiring Obama was, what a difference he made in their lives. I mean, he taught law. Well, he taught &quot;Alinsky Law&quot; at the University of Chicago. As far as we know, nobody knew the guy at any stage of his life. And, in fact, what we do know – that he was introduced to politics in the living room of Bill Ayers' house – is downplayed: that was just a guy in the neighborhood. We know actually very little about his father and mother. We know that he has a brother who, to this day, still lives in a six-by-nine-foot hut in Kenya, even after three years of Obama's presidency. But we know this because of our own efforts. There has not been any vetting. There is not and there won't be any vetting.</p><p>Obama has destroyed the world, he's wrecked the Middle East, he's wrecked the United States, he's wrecking Europe and you're telling me that the Republicans can't marshall a single voice to elucidate a single message that tells the world that the reason the world is in turmoil is because of an incompetent community organiser, leftwing-fanatic Marxist and his band of lunatics ruining the world! </p><p>No! Impossible to believe. Not one of the stooges on the stage tonight will say that.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Republicans Republican presidential nomination 2012 US politics Newt Gingrich Herman Cain Mitt Romney Barack Obama Obama administration US news Media Rick Perry Fox News Tea Party movement Talk radio US television Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:46:04 GMT Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Jon Huntsman confers with Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Sadhbh Walshe 2011-11-25T16:46:04Z The Right Word: Glenn Beck talks 'crap' | Sadhbh Walshe The Occupy movement has caused conservative talkshow hosts deep consternation – chiefly about protesters' personal hygiene<p>Conservatives are in a celebratory mood following the eviction of the Occupy Wall Street rabble from their encampment in lower Manhattan, although they remain conflicted over whether the movement is already dead or about to grow into something more deadly.</p><p>The more we saw and heard, the more fair-minded Americans came to believe that the Occupiers were not interested in legitimate issues so much; many of them simply want to blow up the economic system. In addition, some of their behavior was and is reprehensible. All kinds of violent crime, all kinds of provocation against the police, all kinds of depraved behavior in general.</p><p>I don't believe we saw any hypodermic needles at the Tea Party protests – or am I wrong? The leftwing media still trying to portray the occupiers as the liberal equivalent to the Tea Party. One simple question: would you prefer that your daughter demonstrate with the Tea Party people or with the Occupiers? You make the call – remembering the hypodermic needle.</p><p>The cops went in there and they told everybody to get out, they're gonna clean the place.&nbsp;&quot;You can come back after we clean it up, but when you come back, you can't bring any tents or anything to stay overnight.&quot; And they went out and found a judge, &quot;Oh, no, you can't do that, Mr.Mayor. If those people want to go back, they can go back. You can't establish rules on these people after they're there. You have to have these rules for them before they get there or you can't have these rules at all.&quot; Jeez, what a way to start the program. This judge – the name is Lucy Billings – she's an ACLU veteran. She was found for this case by the National Lawyers Guild, which is the same Communist front group that has represented all the terrorists at Club Gitmo, or Occupy Gitmo, whatever it's called.</p><p>How much do you want to bet that most of these protesters are glad Bloomberg finally kicked 'em out and that the judge is letting the rules be enforced? This way, all of these protesters can move back in with their parents without losing face now. They can still go back home as heroes. They didn't go home, see, because it got too cold. They didn't go home because of the lice. They didn't go home because of all of the sexually transmitted diseases and the scobies and the scotties and whatever else was going on. They didn't go home for any of that. They were forced out. They were forced to go home by The Man. So, they're heroes. It wasn't the conditions that drove 'em out of there.</p><p>Let me ask you something: you're out crapping like a bear in the street! You're picking lice off yourself, you're pushing the cops, you've been arrested, you're raping and molesting! What's really left to escalate to? &quot;Off with their heads!&quot; – Wouldn't that be good?&quot; You can go around with pikes and heads – oh wait, they're already doing that!</p><p>I've been asking God these questions for a while now and lately, all I keep hearing is &quot;Get out of the way!&quot; I don't know what that means. He's told me to build it. He's told me to go down to Dallas. He's told me to do what we're going to announce here in the next couple of weeks. I don't know what the rest of that means, but OK, I'll listen and obey. God talks to all of us. Now, if he's telling you to blow something up, that's not God. Well, that maybe the God of the Arab Spring and soon to be the God of the American Spring, but that's not God. Different voice.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Occupy movement Tea Party movement Occupy Wall Street Michael Bloomberg New York US news US politics Media Fox News Glenn Beck US television Protest Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:22:00 GMT Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters Occupy Wall Street demonstrators march over the Brooklyn Bridge during what protest organizers called a "Day of Action" in New York Photograph: Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters Sadhbh Walshe 2011-11-18T17:22:00Z The Right Word: Herman Cain v the 'feminazis' | Sadhbh Walshe In a week of reverses for conservatives, Rush Limbaugh is especially sore about the rising tide of political correctness<p>It's been a trying week for conservatives as the disappointing election results in Ohio and Mississippi and the continuing victimisation of GOP frontrunner Herman Cain are forcing them to face the reality that Americans may just not be ready for a Tea Party republic.</p><p>But now the bad news, a bold Republican attempt to curb union power in Ohio went down in flames. This is – and forgive the phrase – a teachable moment for conservatives. Governor John Kasich made a no-nonsense free-market case for curbing unions' collective bargaining rights but he failed to win over independents, the working class and even many Republicans.</p><p>So if you're one of those Republicans who thinks President Obama is bound to lose next year because he's done a really bad job on the economy, think again. He has an enormous amount of money. He has a huge get-out-the-vote machine, and he has the support of the media, and he has the backdrop of the White House behind him.</p><p>You had initiative 31 – and this is important and I hope other states follow in your footsteps here, because eminent domain has run amok and what you have is municipalities, counties, that want more tax dollars, and they're taking the homes, in some cases, of veterans who served their countries, not to build a school, a hospital, a road but because they want to build new buildings that bring in more tax revenue for the city or the municipality.</p><p>&quot;When I listen to journalists in their thirties and forties unable to explain what Cain has done, but treating it as though it is reprehensible, I sadly conclude, we're losing this. Political correctness, which is censorship, has now spread to behavior, not just speech. It's spread to behavior. And sexual harassment now is a political weapon, and it's anything anybody wants it to be. You don't need a specific allegation. All you need is the appearance of impropriety.&quot;</p><p>I'll tell you, you women, why don't you just make it official, put on some burkahs, and I'll guaran-damn-tee you nobody will touch you! You put on a burkah and everybody will leave you alone, if that's what you want. I can remember, folks, and I've told you this, early 70s, I'm away from home, my early twenties, first time in my life and it coincided with the modern era of &quot;feminazi-ism&quot;. You couldn't tell a woman that she looked attractive without arousing some sort of suspicion about what you intended. On a date, I got grief for opening a car door. &quot;I can do that myself, thank you.&quot; You praise a woman's attractiveness and get a sermon on how you don't respect her brain!</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Fox News Fox US television Media Republicans US politics US news Talk radio Talk shows Thu, 10 Nov 2011 22:12:49 GMT Brendan Mcdermid/REUTERS Sharon Bialek speaks during a news conference accusing Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain of sexual harassment in New York, November 7, 2011. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) :rel:d:bm:GF2E7B71LQE01 Photograph: Brendan Mcdermid/REUTERS Sadhbh Walshe 2011-11-10T22:12:49Z The Right Word: Herman Cain and a vast leftwing conspiracy | Sadhbh Walshe It's been a busy week for Ann Coulter and Dick Morris, touring the studios to defend Cain from sexual harassment allegations<p><a href="">As more allegations of misconduct emerge</a> and the <a href="">GOP presidential race is thrown into turmoil</a>, the conservative media rally to Herman Cain's defense against what they believe is a &quot;high-tech lynching&quot; by bigoted liberals and opportunistic women.</p><p>&quot;We have some late breaking news: <a href="">Herman Cain told Forbes magazine</a>, I guess in an interview, that a guy working for Rick Perry by the name of Curt Anderson is leaking the stuff about Cain. Now, we don't want to get into any of this. We don't know what happened. Mr Anderson, I guess, denies it; of course, he would. But the whole thing is a mess, right?!&quot;</p><p>That speaks volumes. Now, in the interview with Greta [Van Susteren], he [Cain] describes what happened. He said he was aware of the settlement, so he basically was thinking, &quot;Did I remember or not remember?&quot; Apparently, he said he was [sic]. &quot;She was in my office one day, and [I] made a gesture. I was standing close to her; I said, 'You know, you're the same height as my wife.' And brought my hand – I didn't touch her – up to my chin and said, 'You know, you are the same height as my wife,' because my wife comes up to my chin, my wife of 43 years, and that was put in there to make her uncomfortable.&quot; That's part of the sexual harassment charge. Does that sound like harassment to you?</p><p>&quot;Bill Clinton must be laughing himself sick over this hit job from the Politico on Cain. And Cain now has denied it, without question. He has categorically denied any of this. But a story like this involving Bill Clinton … why, Clinton would be getting high fives, millions of dollars of campaign contributions from the NAGs [Limbaugh's corruption of National Organisation of Women]. If this story were about Bill Clinton, the left would be circling the wagons, doing everything they can to fend off the charge. I mean, this story is a joke that can only truly be appreciated by Clinton and other sexual predators.&quot;</p><p><a href="">Snerdley says</a> that putting your hand right here by your chin, like this, to designate somebody's height – what did you say? That it's close to the mouth. OK, it's close to the mouth. So a woman might think that, &quot;You know what, you're about the same height as my wife. Here, my wife comes up to about here on me,&quot; and you put your hand on your chin, you're saying that there are women who could interpret that to be a request for a Lewinsky? I don't see it. I just don't see it.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Herman Cain Republicans Republican presidential nomination 2012 US politics Media US television Talk radio Talk shows US news Bill Clinton Discrimination at work Thu, 03 Nov 2011 20:56:53 GMT Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Herman Cain mops his brow Sadhbh Walshe 2011-11-03T20:56:53Z The Right Word: 'sharia' scare in Libya | Sadhbh Walshe The conservative talkshow hosts fear that Obama will snatch defeat from victory in Libya by waving on radical Islamists<p>As Nato ponders its withdrawal from Libya just a week after the announcement that all US troops are to be withdrawn from Iraq, conservatives are unsure if President Obama is deliberately trying to plunge the Middle East into chaos or just trying to get himself re-elected.</p><p>Just as hopes were running high that Libya would embrace its recent liberation and establish a democracy for the people, the transitional government declared that the nation will now be run as an Islamic state based on sharia law. Now, speaking to a celebratory crowd, the leader of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, announced over the weekend that Libya will legalise polygamy and throw out any existing regulations that do not conform to Sharia law.</p><p>Here's what sharia law will represent, at least in other states, Saudi Arabia being one, we know Iran's a … requirement that women obtain permission from their husbands for their daily freedoms, beating of disobedient women and girls, execution of people that are gay, engagement of polygamy, forced child marriages, requirement of testimony of four eyewitnesses if a woman is to claim rape, stoning if you commit adultery, lashing of adulterers and amputation of body parts, in some cases, female genital mutilation. I can go on and on. This is sharia, as it is applied in many countries. Where is the outrage?!</p><p>When I checked the Nags website, the National Association of Gals, and I don't see any condemnation of the new Libyan leader's vow to put Libya under sharia law. That includes the reinstatement of polygamy. Men will now be allowed multiple wives in Libya. Up to four. You can have harem after harem after harem!</p><p>Obama's base, the Michael Moore crowd, would love it if we got shellacked, they would love it if we end up – quote, unquote – losing in Iraq. It would be a repudiation of Bush; they could say, &quot;See, we never shoulda gone there in the first place, it didn't make any difference.&quot; Damn straight. Even after 4,500 American soldiers dead, damn straight. We're not dealing with a rational bunch of people on the left. We're dealing with people who have an abject hatred for this country, who believe this country needs to be taken down a peg or two or three, who believe we shouldn't have gone to Iraq in the first place and we need to pay a price for going in there. And what would that be? Worldwide humiliation.</p><p>I believe God's hand is behind this invasion of the west by radical Muslims. I believe God wanted us to see the weakness of liberalism and secularism and multiculturalism, and I then believe God insists that we either change our ways and either go back to God's word, go back to the church, go back to the temple, try our best, take one step forward in a more dignified more Godlike life – or we're going to lose our society completely.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Libya Barack Obama Obama administration Arab and Middle East unrest Islam US news World news US politics Middle East and North Africa Nato US military Iraq George Bush Muammar Gaddafi Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:40:09 GMT Francois Mori/AP NTC chairman Mustafa Abdel Jalil must urgently organise Libya's first free elections for more than 40 years. Photograph: Francois Mori/AP Sadhbh Walshe 2011-10-27T19:40:09Z The Right Word: Glenn Beck snarls at Fox | Sadhbh Walshe The Occupy Wall Street argument grows bitter after a Fox News reporter calls Beck 'paranoid or delusional'. What can he mean?<p>President Obama has ruffled conservative feathers once again by not only sympathising with the Occupy Wall Street protesters, but going so far as to compare some of their frustrations to those voiced by the Tea Party movement.</p><p>&quot;Actually, Mr President, the two groups couldn't be more different. Among a million other painfully obvious distinctions, here's something the two movements definitely do not have in common. Ohio police are currently <a href="">investigating a 19-year-old woman's claim that she was raped</a> in a tent during an Occupy Cleveland protest last Saturday. Now, we've never seen that kind of violence – or even alleged – at a Tea Party rally!&quot;</p><p>What about the people with the moral belief that the government has an obligation, a moral obligation to provide cradle-to-grave entitlements, including college education to everybody?! So why would they be depressed or why would they be people on psychological skids if that was their firm belief and they say, &quot;You know what, just like the Tea Party, I'm standing up for my belief system; I believe this is the right way for human beings to conduct themselves with a strong central force providing people who can't provide for themselves?&quot;</p><p>I agree with you that that [wanting a piece of the wealthy] is a destructive emotion, that if you think the world would be fair and everyone should get the same. There have been more atrocities and violence committed in the name of that than anything else in history. But what about the people who say you know we're not all born, we're not all created equal, like it says in the declaration of independence? Some people have more aptitude than others. Look at me compared to [Alan] Colmes – just a joke, don't get upset. But other people, they'll say, &quot;Look, some people are born [with] high IQs, they're gifted and other people here, they're walking into the wall, but aren't we supposed to be compassionate towards them?&quot;</p><p>For anyone who's thinking about Occupy Wall Street and saying, &quot;you know, they made a good point,&quot; we're going to do a little critical thinking today and one of them is this. When the lion lays down with the lamb, that's when Jesus comes. In the meantime, the lion eats the lamb. Another name for lamb? Sheep! Stop being sheep, America! Otherwise, he will eat you!</p><p>For two years, I've been warning about this book, The Coming Insurrection. Radicals, planning revolution, global revolution – and they feed on chaos. They destroy everything in its way. They're not trying to reform anything. They're tired of being lied to by the politicians. It's communist. That's who's doing it. It was published anonymously in France and that started the riots that nearly burnt that country down.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Occupy Wall Street Protest Glenn Beck Media US politics US news Fox News US television Talk shows Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:28:19 GMT Oliver Weiken/EPA Glenn Beck has been criticised for staging his rally so close to the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, and the Haram al-Sharif, revered by Muslims. Photograph: Oliver Weiken/EPA Sadhbh Walshe 2011-10-21T20:28:19Z The Right Word: more Republican nomination angst | Sadhbh Walshe Bill O'Reilly wants Romney picked so the GOP wins Congress, but Rush Limbaugh hopes to see a real conservative pull ahead<p><a href="">Another strong debate performance by Mitt Romney on Tuesday</a> leaves conservatives with no choice but to make their peace with the increasing inevitability of his candidacy.</p><p>The Republican party knows that independent voters are much more likely to vote for Romney than they are for Herman Cain and independent voters will decide the general election. According to a new Pew poll, independents now favor Romney over President Obama 54% to 41/%. The Republican party desperately wants not only to win the White House, but the Senate as well, thereby totally controlling the agenda in Washington. If that happens next year, say goodbye to Obamacare: it will be repealed faster than the Boston Red Sox fell apart last month. Also taxes will be lowered, federal spending will be cut and Nancy Pelosi will be distraught and confused. That's the scenario the Republican establishment want – and they believe Romney is their best hope.</p><p>&quot;You were asked repeatedly today about whether or not you'd consider being his running mate and you said, quote, 'That's not a decision I have to think about right now. I cannot imagine it happening.' I can imagine it happening!&quot;</p><p>Now, I think you went out of your way today. This isn't an indictment against the other candidates; you just chose Governor Romney. If any of the other candidates were to emerge and to win the nomination, would you support any of them? He [Romney] certainly has maintained his consistency more than anyone else in the polls. Congresswoman Bachmann went up; she's kind of fallen back a little bit. Rick Perry surged and he's fallen back a bit. Right now, Cain is surging. What do you think of Herman Cain and his candidacy, considering he's doing so well at this moment?</p><p>That's right on the money! And she [Bachmann] said that in 44 seconds. Brevity is the soul of wit. Bang, bang: get in, get it, and get out – and she did. And the look on [moderator] Karen Tumulty's face was one of total vacancy, deer in the headlights. She had no idea what Michele Bachmann was talking about.</p><p>They [the mainstream media] know it [that Wall Street is not responsible for Wall Street], and what infuriates me is that they continue with the lie. They continue with the myth, for the express purpose of trying to trip up these Republicans and make 'em look like cold-hearted, uncaring-about-people Republican candidates who &quot;only want to support the rich&quot;. That's what infuriates me. That's why I love Newt's answer to this, and it's why I like Bachmann's answer. But the truth is not enough. Because after this debate's over, these people in the media continue to spread this lie – and they continue the construct that Republicans are a bunch of fringe kooks who don't care about people!</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Republican presidential nomination 2012 Fox News Republicans US politics Mitt Romney Herman Cain Rick Perry US television Talk radio Media US news Talk shows US taxation Michele Bachmann Newt Gingrich Occupy Wall Street Chris Christie US Congress Occupy movement Protest Thu, 13 Oct 2011 20:40:00 GMT Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Republican presidential hopefuls gather prior to the start of the debate in Hanover, New Hampshire. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Sadhbh Walshe 2011-10-13T20:40:00Z The Right Word: Fox News grapples with Wall Street protests | Sadhbh Walshe There's dissension as to whether the protesters are a threat to democracy or just unwashed. Either way, Not a Good Thing<p>But you don't think this is spontaneous do you? No they're not, they're not! There's groups behind them. These are professional people! These people, we sent (Fox News roving reporter) Jesse Waters out there. These people are just wandering around. These aren't Vietnam! They're jobless because they don't want to work! They admitted it to us. They don't want to work for the corporate man!</p><p>Juan, let me break it to you. If you have a college degree in this country, unemployment is at 4.5%. So, all these people, all they have to do is take a shower and they can get a job if they went to college!</p><p>&quot;Have you noticed just how incoherent this message is? I mean I'm trying to understand why you give up three weeks of your life, a nice warm shower, to hang out in the same location. Somebody asks you why you're here: 'I don't know, it feels good?'&quot;</p><p>If there's one, I guess, narrative theme that they're advancing down there, it's that they hate corporations, they hate capitalism and in the end, they ultimately want statism over free market. So they really don't like freedom, because they'd empower the government to take everybody's money and redistribute it to programmes they want, right?</p><p>You know, when Apple went out and destroyed IBM, they didn't just go out and destroy IBM, and say we're going to make a better computer eventually: &quot;I think, maybe, I don't know … are we going to do computers? I don't know, just destroy IBM!&quot; They never said that. That's not the way creative destruction works. Creative destruction, which is the way the western world works, is you create something better and it destroys all other competition. That's the way it works. These people are not interested in creative destruction. They are only interested in&nbsp;<em>destruction</em>. That leads to gas chambers! That leads to guillotines! That leads to millions dead, that leads to Mao, that leads to totalitarianism, every single time!</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Fox News Occupy Wall Street Protest Glenn Beck Media Democrats Republicans US politics US news Banking Financial crisis US unemployment and employment data Occupy movement Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:31:40 GMT Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images Occupy Wall Street demonstrators stage a march dressed as corporate zombies during a protest near Wall Street in New York, October 3, 2011. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images Sadhbh Walshe 2011-10-06T14:31:40Z The Right Word: Praying for Chris Christie to run | Sadhbh Walshe The talk hosts are excited about Chris Christie as a possible GOP presidential runner. But Glenn Beck has other worrries<p>This whole notion that the field is weak, in other words, is not something that the voting public thinks. The reaction that some people are having to Christie is, &quot;Oh, God, please get in,&quot; and then that does indicate an unhappiness with everybody else that's in the field. It boils down, I think, to people wanting somebody they think can win, and it boils down to people wanting somebody that talks tough, and talks straight, from the gut.</p><p>The columnists, the magazine directors, editors, publishers, whatever, they are reaching and searching for a counter to the conservatives. They don't want Herman Cain getting the nomination; they don't want Perry getting the nomination; they don't want Bachmann getting the nomination. The Republican establishment does not want a conservative getting the nomination. If Chris Christie can come along, catch fire, see to it that Palin, Bachmann – Palin not in, she might get in, who knows, doubt it, but still too soon to say – if they can co-opt any conservative getting the nomination, they will do it.</p><p>Senator, I had Governor Perry on my radio show on Friday and I asked him about your exchange. And his answer to me was, &quot;Well, wait a minute. You're saying that it's OK for the children of illegal immigrants to go, and the only area of difference is on the subsidy side. In other words, the in-state tuition break that they get. So, for example, the children of illegals: it's OK with you to go to public schools, universities?&quot;</p><p>All right. But if they're here illegally. In other words, I think there's two issues here. And I think you made your point on whether or not they get in-state tuition breaks. There's a clear difference between you (and Perry). What I'm trying to ascertain here: is there a difference if children or people are in this country <em>illegally</em> – should they be allowed to go to American schools even though they're in the country illegally?</p><p>Remember all those banks and why they made loans to people they shouldn't have made loans to? Why did they make those loans? Why did they do that? They made those loans because they were afraid. Because the left came out and said, &quot;You are a racist!&quot; And then, the government – like Barney Frank – came and said, &quot;You know what, I happen to agree with them and we're not going to, we can't let you be racist like this; you better write those loans that people aren't qualified for.&quot; So they were afraid and they did nothing.&nbsp;The banks are culpable, but no less than those who told them to write the loans in the first place!</p><p>Does Obama … do you think Obama has checked? 'Cos I guarantee you, that George Soros is paying a lower rate than Warren Buffet's secretary. I'm just saying – and it wouldn't match Obama's rhetoric. The politician's rhetoric doesn't match the rhetoric of the unions, and the unions don't match the hippies and the hippies don't match Soros and Soros, Wall Street, does it? Or does it?</p><p>One more thing here on Soros. How does a guy who says things would be unimaginable without bailouts get in bed with a guy [Obama] who won't speak out about the bank protest. If he [Obama] is so concerned about this guy [Soros], so concerned about it, why won't this guy [Obama] who's in bed with this guy [Soros], both saying they're concerned about these guys [Wall Street] speak out against these guys [the hippies] or these guys [the unions] who are really only hurting you.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Chris Christie US politics Fox News Glenn Beck Media US television Talk shows Talk radio US news Republicans Rick Perry Rick Santorum US elections 2012 Republican presidential nomination 2012 Occupy Wall Street US immigration Occupy movement Protest Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:30:01 GMT Kevork Djansezian/Getty New Jersey Governor Chris Christie wipes a tear as he responds to a woman's request to run for president after he delivered remarks during the Perspectives on Leadership Forum at the Reagan Library. Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/Getty Sadhbh Walshe 2011-09-30T12:30:01Z The Right Word: Fox News fights class war | Sadhbh Walshe Bill O'Reilly despairs that Warren Buffett and President Obama say he must pay more taxes. Rush Limbaugh offers solidarity<p>Correct. So let me ask you: what's changed in two years? The economy is still awful and unemployment's even higher. So why have you changed your mind about a tax increase on the affluent and business?</p><p>I must tell you, I want the feds to get more revenue. I don't want to starve them, as some people do. We need a robust military, a good transportation system and protections all over the place. But if you tax achievement, some of the achievers are going to pack it in. Again, let's take me. My corporations employ scores of people. They depend on me to do what I do so they can make a nice salary. If Barack Obama begins taxing me more than 50%, which is very possible, I don't know how much longer I'm going to do this. I like my job, but there comes a point when taxation becomes oppressive.</p><p>I don't feel like a lone wolf any more. I don't feel like a lone voice because the whole point of all this is to defeat it; the whole point is to see to it that people are educated and informed and understand exactly what a total joke Obama has become; how meaningless his remarks yesterday were; how destructive, if implemented, they are. And more and more people are seeing it, and more and more people are willing to say so. I mean, even O'Reilly last night was admitting that he was rich. When I said it's a shame the rich aren't fighting back, the rich were fighting back.&nbsp;O'Reilly was admitting being rich and he was putting in context of what all he pays and how much it's gonna cost him and what's fair and everything, and I was sitting [clapping] all night.</p><p>Why don't you just give her a raise, Mr Buffett? For crying out loud, what are we talking about here? Here's a guy, a trillionaire, who is running around talking about how his secretary pays a higher tax rate than he does, which isn't actually true. Give her a raise, for crying out loud. This poor woman is being paid to sound like she can barely get through the day because the government's taking so much of what she earns. The top 1% of taxpayers already pay 40% of all income taxes.</p><p>Here's my theory: I think he (Obama) is mentally … intellectually exhausted. I think he's out of … completely and utterly out of … think about this, you're giving me a &quot;Woo, Hannity&quot; – no, I think he's out of ideas. He's been pampered his whole life! I think he has his Messiah complex that people gave him – well, hear me out here – I think now that it's all coming apart, he's angry and he's becoming unhinged!</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Fox News US television Talk shows Talk radio Republicans US taxation US politics Barack Obama US news Media Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:18:03 GMT Public Domain Fox News. Sadhbh Walshe 2011-09-22T20:18:03Z The Right Word: Beck's back | Sadhbh Walshe Obama's jobs bill maddened conservatives – especially Glenn Beck, who awaits a hero on a capitalist white charger from China<p>Surely the president knows the Republican-dominated House will not pass the legislation because it includes an income tax increase to pay for it – or at least, we think so. The president will announce that next week. So why is Mr Obama putting us through all this? I don't – as it stands now, you know, he is saying that the corporations and the wealthy Americans have to pay their, quote, &quot;fair share&quot;. I mean, that's just code for, &quot;look, I'm going to raise taxes&quot; – and, you know, the House isn't going [to]. So why, why are we on this merry-go-round?</p><p>No, and they won't. And they won't. So the die will be cast again. President Obama will tell the nation these people are obstructionists: they don't care about jobs. They don't care about you. And the Republicans will say to the folks, &quot;He doesn't know what he's doing. Why would we throw more bad money after the stimulus failed in the first place? That's insane.&quot; And the folks will have to decide who is right. That's what it comes down to, correct?</p><p>&quot;What Obama has proposed is not a jobs plan. And, by the way, it is not designed to pass. It is not designed to pass! It is designed for the Republicans to oppose this thing. I mean, every tax increase Obama's ever dreamt of, wet or dry, that he's been trying for three years to get passed, is there – tax increases that even the Democrats, when they ran the whole House and Senate, when he had super-majority, couldn't get passed. It's the same tax increases. He wants to punish the people that create and produce energy for us in this country. He wants to punish them with higher taxes.&quot;</p><p>In fact, I have a PDF copy of the thing there. It's 155 pages. There are 235 mentions of the word &quot;tax&quot; in the 155-page bill. At any rate, what Obama wants to do is limit mortgage deductions, as well as the deductions for charitable contributions and state tax deductions. He's been trying to get these same exact tax increases passed for more than three years.</p><p>The Germans work hard. They will push back. This will cause the beginning of the rise of the old right. Remember that's the socialist right; it's not the American right. It's the socialist, big-government right, the spooky Nazi right. Greeks are going to push back, which will be the rise of the old left. This is already happening. The Greeks are already saying wait a minute the Germans can't tell us how to spend our money.</p><p>What you have to be aware of the president is spending us into oblivion because you have to equalise the rest of the world. If the rest of the world is going down and your desire is to fundamentally transform – remember, in his campaign promise, he said we will start with the United States and then we will transform the world? You can't have anybody with a white horse to ride in on, not that we even own our own horses – we'd be borrowing them from China. But you can't have anybody to ride in on with a capitalist horse.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Glenn Beck Republicans Fox News US television Talk radio Talk shows US news Media US politics Barack Obama Obama administration US Congress Thu, 15 Sep 2011 21:45:02 GMT Michael Caulfield/WireImage Glenn Beck, who is famed for his vitriolic attacks on the Obama administration Photograph: Michael Caulfield/WireImage Sadhbh Walshe 2011-09-15T21:45:02Z The Right Word: Labor Day blues | Sadhbh Walshe Our conservative pundits were disgusted by the tone of some of the Labor Day rhetoric from Democratic and union leaders<p>So, it's &quot;let's get these sons of bitches&quot;, let's see, the Tea Party is the real enemy, they're terrorists. They can go to hell. This is all the rhetoric! Here's the question: the president lectures on civility, then it's civility in his own party where it's over the top – where is the president? Where is your president? Where is Barack Obama, and don't you think if he had any moral courage, he would stand up to his own party?</p><p>Words?! Son of a bitch? Excuse me, let's see … We can go straight to hell. Son of a bitch, racist, terrorist and barbarians at the gate! You want me to keep going!?</p><p>&quot;That's a declaration of war. I mean that is a come-on to violence. That's a call for violence, folks, from Don Hoffa to Barack Obama, standing right beside him. Can there be any doubt Hoffa, maybe Obama, [have] been thinking of the Republicans as their bitches ever since he was elected? Detroit&nbsp;has the highest unemployment rate in the&nbsp;US. It's 15.7%. I hope, before this is all over, Hoffa has to go hide in&nbsp;Italy&nbsp;someplace. This is all about the Tea Party, scared to death. Hoffa wants to go to the mattresses!&quot;</p><p>&quot;Well, the only question is should we expect an Oktoberfest surprise from Hofbrau Jr [Hoffa]. Because apparently Hofbrau Jr was channelling his father as portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the movie Hoffa, where, of course, he stirred up the union thugs with their clubs to go in and beat people up with the truncheons, the clubs and the shoes. And it seems to me that history is repeating itself, and there's no question in my mind that what's going in America today with the black caucus first, and now the unions, trying to stir up civil unrest – it is right out of the pages of history. Not only American history, but back in the 1920s, [when] the unions and the communists in&nbsp;Germany&nbsp;were acting in a very similar manner to how they're acting now in&nbsp;America. You see, in the&nbsp;Weimar&nbsp;Republic&nbsp;of Germany,&nbsp;there were many comparisons that could be made with the&nbsp;United States&nbsp;of today.&quot;</p><p>In reaction to the unions and the communists in Germany in the 1920s, there formed a group of Nazis called the Brownshirts under Adolf Hitler and they went out into the street, and they met the communists and the unionists with clubs, and they got into street fights with the communists and the unionists. And then there were pitch[ed] battles in the streets; this led to the rise of Adolf Hitler.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Fox News US television Talk radio Talk shows Republicans US unions US politics US news Tea Party movement Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:59:59 GMT Jeff Kowalsky/EPA Teamsters President James Hoffa Jr speaks at a Labor Day event on 05 September 2011. Photograph: EPA/Jeff Kowalsky Photograph: Jeff Kowalsky/EPA Sadhbh Walshe 2011-09-08T16:59:59Z The Right Word: battling far-left political correctness | Sadhbh Walshe The topics varied this week – God, Dick Cheney and courage – but the theme is the same: save America from the pinko PC mob<p>Now, you can imagine if Mr Keller had denigrated the Jewish faith or the Muslim faith in stark terms like that, all hell – pardon the pun – would have broken loose. But in&nbsp;America&nbsp;today, you can kick Christianity around all day long.</p><p>And this is really the heart of far left and Mr Keller is a far left individual. It's the heart of the far left attack mode. When you throw a basic Christian tenet that a priest a minister has the power through ordination to change bread into the body of Christ, &agrave; la the last supper when Christ Jesus gave the dictum to his apostles to do that … when you say you know that's like believing in aliens and that's like doing this, that and the other thing. You know, it doesn't offend me and I'll tell you why. There are a lot smarter people than Bill Keller who do believe that happens and it's a belief system – you just believe it or you don't.</p><p>How did you deal … I mean, being the person that you are, investing your life for the goodness of this country … How did you deal the last eight years of your service being called &quot;a demon&quot;, &quot;a devil&quot;, &quot;Darth Vader&quot;, &quot;the most divisive&quot;? People want to understand what that's like from a personal standpoint, and how you dealt with it and stayed focused on your job. How did it affect you?</p><p>If you can't find courage now, you're not going to find it when you really need it. It does take courage, that's why we just had Restoring Courage. It takes honour. Make sure you know who you are. Make sure you know what you believe. Make sure you know your place in the universe; make sure you know that you've got power. Make sure you know that you're not alone and then, as they turn up the heat, they're going to try to do everything they can to make sure you are alone.</p><p>In&nbsp;South Africa, it's black and coloured, and I don't remember the difference, but there is a difference: one is indigenous and the other had come from someplace else. I don't remember which one's which, but like, Indian, I think, even came in; I think maybe it was coloured that was also like Indian, or – you know – elsewhere.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Fox News Religion Christianity Dick Cheney US politics US news US television Talk radio Talk shows Race issues Torture Human rights Al-Qaida Osama bin Laden Obama administration US military Rick Perry Michele Bachmann Evangelical Christianity Media New York Times Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:30:02 GMT Jim Hollander/EPA Glenn Beck takes a breather during his Restoring Courage rally in Jerusalem's Old City. Photograph: Jim Hollander/EPA Sadhbh Walshe 2011-09-01T14:30:02Z The Right Word: Obama gets B grade on Libya | Sadhbh Walshe Fox News' armchair generals award Obama a grudging pass on the Libyan intervention, but Michael Savage is incensed<p>I'm concerned. Because if you remember during the Arab spring, which, by the way, is responsible for our economic collapse in the country according to the Obama administration, but all the predictions were: this new democracy is emerging, and it seems that as bad as Mubarak was, that it seems things are going to get rather worse. So, the question is obvious right now, you know: what are the president's plans? He did not lay out an economic plan. What are the plans for the short term, what are his plans for the long term?</p><p>What's interesting if you read this constitution – and you and I actually had a private discussion about this last night – I mean it talks about freedoms, it talks about freedoms of the press, of assembly, all these freedoms. They're all words, and then it goes into the sharia law aspect of it – and I think we have a pretty good idea of what would emerge if, in fact, as they say here, Islam is the religion of the state and the source of their legislation is Islamic jurisprudence, sharia law.</p><p>It's a little bit more than that. Here's the box score. No Americans killed, costs kept down. If the full brunt of American airpower in the Mediterranean had been unleashed, you would have had a lot of civilian casualties. Very difficult to do the bombing that they did. The bottom line is: Gaddafi's gone after six months not to come back again. No American dead.</p><p>&quot;It's a sad day for me, in a way, because no one's listening to the news. I mean, Obama has overthrown Gaddafi – and now what? He talks about it as though this is a good thing. He has overthrown Gaddafi. Are you listening to me out there? Who do you think is more dangerous, Gaddafi or those who will replace him?&quot;</p><p>He [Obama] wants to take away every dollar of every taxpayer if he can. Now, of course, he wouldn't do that but that's his goal; he would love to do that. That's the protocols of Leninism, which is to tax the Kulaks and if the Kulaks refuse to hand over their farms, what you do is you put the Kulaks in the archipelagos. The Gulag archipelagos are Obama's manifestation of the federal homeland security act.</p><p>The man [Obama] has destroyed the world, wrecked the economy, wrecked the peace of the … look, I mean, the world was already in trouble, the man has wrecked everything; wherever there was peace, he made war; wherever there should have been war, he made peace. Instead of going to war against Syria, instead of going to war against Iranian mullahs, he goes to war against a little tin pot dictator like Gaddafi!</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Fox News US politics US television Talk shows Talk radio Republicans Tea Party movement Barack Obama Libya Arab and Middle East unrest Middle East and North Africa US military US foreign policy US news World news Islam Thu, 25 Aug 2011 14:06:22 GMT Barack Obama calls upon Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi to relinquish power Photograph: Sadhbh Walshe 2011-08-25T14:06:22Z The Right Word: Fox News fears riots | Sadhbh Walshe The talk show pundits have no hangups about attributing the UK riots to cuts and deprivation, but their prescriptions differ<p>I'm looking at what's going on in&nbsp;London&nbsp;right now and the rioting that's taking place there. Rioting is taking place in large part because of austerity measures because their country's going bankrupt. We should be learning from their mistakes but we're not; and people are out there, they're blaming conservatives, they're blaming the government, they're blaming &quot;rich people&quot; that it's their fault. They've got 16,000 police officers in&nbsp;London&nbsp;trying to handle this – more than they've ever had – and I'm thinking this sounds a lot like&nbsp;America&nbsp;ten, 12, 15 years down the road, because once those promises can never be fulfilled [sic].</p><p>Half the country doesn't pay taxes; 15% of the country now is on food stamps, Senator, and the chairman of S&amp;P said they upgraded after they downgraded five countries, the average length of time that takes is between nine and 18 years. We're not going to be upgraded anytime soon, in spite of congressional senate investigations. That's not going to happen.</p><p>All this is happening 'cause of rich people, the people that got businesses, the conservatives.&nbsp;That's why all this is happening. You're dubious about this? They burn down the stores to show the rich people we can destroy what they have so that they will have nothing, too. We can burn down the property of the rich people so that they've got nothing, either.</p><p>They live in a full-fledged socialist country. They have their equivalent of food stamps. They have interminable unemployment. They have free medical care, ostensibly. This is what they were promised. These were the people that bought into the false promises of socialism. These are the people that bought into the false promises of Utopia, and who are they mad at? They are mad at people who didn't! They are mad at people who are self-reliant. They're mad at people who are making something of themselves independently. They think they have been defrauded.</p><p>Yeah, these are neighbourhoods that are marginalised, they're largely immigrant neighbourhoods; there is a class system in Great Britain, but this is similar to Rodney King situation in LA – and I was right in the middle of that, Amy, where you had the Rodney King beaten by the cops, and then you had all the riots and the looting and the burning and people dying … and it was crazy; there's no difference. All right, so the fuse is lit and this happens.</p><p>The difference between&nbsp;America&nbsp;and&nbsp;Great Britain&nbsp;is that here in&nbsp;America, many of us are armed because of the second amendment. In&nbsp;Great Britain,&nbsp;they don't like guns, as you mentioned, the cops don't even carry guns. But here is a really good example of if you are a shop owner or a store owner and you don't have a gun, you're in big trouble. Now, is [sic] any of that been raised by the BBC and the other liberal British press that maybe the cops should be tougher and maybe should be armed?</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> UK riots 2011 Fox News US politics US television Talk radio Talk shows UK news London US news Republicans US gun control Rand Paul Tea Party movement Media US Congress Barack Obama US healthcare US taxation Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:09:31 GMT Robert Timoney/Rex Features A car burns during riots in St Pauls, Bristol Photograph: Robert Timoney/Rex Features Sadhbh Walshe 2011-08-11T13:09:31Z The Right Word: No deal on the Bush tax cuts | Sadhbh Walshe Despite a consensus that Republicans got the better of the debt ceiling deal, the pundits' anxiety is high about the Bush tax cuts<p>On the left, it is a different story as Democrats are outraged over the fact that the bill does not immediately trigger any <em>new</em> tax hikes on you, the American people. However, this is something that we are keeping a close eye on because it is the belief of many that the bill authorises a so-called special committee to repeal the Bush tax cuts and also possibly set into motion other so called revenue enhancers down the road.</p><p>It really aggravates me: the 2010 election, which was historic was because of the Tea Party … I think even the changes were a result of the Tea Party conservatives, the elected people they hired and they said do this job, right? So Congressman Mike Doyle of Pennsylvania actually said the following about this bill; and <a href="">he said we have negotiated with &quot;terrorists&quot;</a> – a small group of terrorists have made it impossible to spend any money.</p><p>There's no question that that's what the narrative is, because the economy is not gonna improve, and they're gonna carry this illusion forward that there are all these massive budget cuts and cuts in government spending. He'll be able to say, &quot;See? It hasn't helped. It hasn't done anything. The Republican way just doesn't work.&quot; It's all gonna depend. He's not gonna get away with that <em>here</em>, and he's not gonna get away with it (hopefully) with the Republican presidential nominee, but that's what the narrative is gonna be.</p><p>Now, when the economy still falters, as it will, Obama's going to say during the campaign that he worked hard and that he sacrificed and that he compromised and he went along with all these budget cuts, and he went along with entitlement reform: it didn't work. The economy is still gonna be mired in recession. There will not be gazillions of new jobs being created. That's where Obama's Plan B surfaces. Raising taxes on everybody. Now, many of his constituents, of course, don't pay anything. But the Bush tax extensions for the rich are dead in the water. When the economy continues to tank, Obama will call for more skin in the game. He's gotta go where the rest of the money is. That's his point. He's gonna raise taxes on the only people who have any money left!</p><p>This debate was all about him setting down the guidelines for that campaign and he [Axelrod] says this is the debate that he wants Obama to have and Obama's going to win it. Obama says we must tax the rich and that's the campaign theme upon which Obama is going to run. Now, the Republicans don't know what to do to defend themselves against that kind of claim, because you can't just say &quot;no, don't tax the rich&quot;; what you have to do is redefine the argument.</p><p>I can't look at him [President Obama] because he makes me ashamed to watch him, and the reason I can't watch him anymore is when I watch him and I get angry, is because he's lying. He knows we know he's lying and yet he knows that the intelligent people who know he's lying aren't numerous enough to counter the welfare cheats, the government bureaucrats and the other grifters who are sure to put him over the top.</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> US taxation Public finance US economy Barack Obama Obama administration US politics Republicans US news US economic growth and recession US unemployment and employment data Fox News US television Talk shows Talk radio Media Bush tax cuts Thu, 04 Aug 2011 16:00:01 GMT Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images George Bush – 'Whatever the verdict on my presidency, I'm comfortable with the fact that I won't be around to hear it'. Photograph: Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images Sadhbh Walshe 2011-08-04T16:00:01Z The Right Word: Telling left from right | Sadhbh Walshe For O'Reilly, Beck and Co, it's hard to know which is the greater outrage: the Norway attacks or the liberal media's reporting<p>The leftwing press wants to compare nuts like Breivik and McVeigh to state sponsored terrorism and worldwide jihad. Again, dishonest and insane. The second reason the liberal media is pushing the Christian angle is they don't like Christians very much because we are too judgmental. Many Christians oppose abortion, gay marriage and legalised narcotics, secular left causes. The media understands the opposition is often based on religion, so they want to diminish Christianity – and highlighting so-called Christian-based terror is the way to do that.</p><p>Wait, wait! I want everybody to know how this works. The editors in the New York Times sit down and they decide what their lead story is going to be, what their headline's going to be and then they put it there. The reporter had nothing to do with it. This was an intentional, without a doubt, intentional brand of a mass murderer as a Christian. It is appalling. This is a serious situation, ladies. This isn't a mistake or sloppiness or laziness. This is appalling!</p><p>&quot;Well, when we heard the explosion, everyone was willing to say, 'It's Muslim extremists! It's Muslim extremists!' I don't think we made a comment on it because we didn't know other than that there was a bombing that happened, and as the thing started to unfold and then there was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever. You know, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing. But anyway, so there was this political camp and some crazy man goes and starts shooting kids.&quot;</p><p>The left and right in Europe … because once they got rid of the kings, they didn't replace it with &quot;we the people&quot;; they had to replace it with another strong government and that's where fascism and communism came from. That's your left and right: fascism on the right, Nazis and communists on the left. And there are variations of both of those theories, but it's fascism and communism, left and right. This guy, who's the shooter, is from the right wing, different than our right wing. It is still big government. He is coming out and he is doing the work of a madman, he's doing the work of what all people that want big government always do – and that is, commit terrorist acts. They want to destroy a government so they can put another one in that they like.</p><p>We do not believe in shared sacrifice! Go find it for me in the founding documents, go find it for me! Probably right there next to the book Great Moderates in American History. Shared sacrifice in America's founding? What is this!? And I'm talking about it as an intellectual concept or as a policy that people adhere to: shared sacrifice. This whole bite – once again, I think the guy [President Obama] is losing it!</p><p>Look, I'm not a professional on clinical matters. I can't, of course, make a diagnosis. Something's not right here with the man, folks. He's cracking up. What sacrifices have illegal aliens made, by the way, let alone shared? He's out there talking to <a href="">La Raza</a>. Is he gonna ask the illegal aliens to sacrifice, like pay taxes and follow our laws?</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Fox News Fox US television Talk radio Talk shows Media Republicans US politics Obama administration Barack Obama Norway Anders Behring Breivik US news World news Al-Qaida September 11 2001 Religion Christianity Islam Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:32:41 GMT Holm Morten/AFP Injured people lay on the ground at the site of an explosion near the government buildings in Norway's capital Oslo. Photograph: Holm Morten/AFP Sadhbh Walshe 2011-07-28T17:32:41Z The Right Word: Bill O'Reilly breaks Fox News silence on phone hacking Rightwing talk show hosts finally get to grips with the phone hacking story<p>You know look, people are exploiting this situation. It is a bad situation, anyone who broke the law should be held responsible. Everybody knows that. Journalists are citizens too. We break the law, we should be held responsible for it. But here in the United States there isn't any intrusion of this story thus far on News Corp properties, none! Yet you have the New York Times absolutely running wild with the story, front page, front page, front page, column, column, column, vicious stuff and ah it's all ideological! Is it now?</p><p>I couldn't believe what I watched, the kangaroo court of them left wing in England, the Stalinist inquisition, the vermin of the<br />Labour party, people who never in their life never created one job, just like in this country with the Democrats. The left wing never creates jobs and yet they're attacking a man who employs 53,000 people around the world.</p><p>I look at this and if that's not a metaphor for England today a country that cannot defend itself against a pie thrower, let alone against radical Muslim terrorists. This is an amazing story we saw today!</p><p>I've been through this with Bill Maher, I don't want him fired. He can say whatever he wants. Here's, I guess what we have to examine here is this double standard because it now is so over the top, it's so vicious, it's so mean, it's so cruel and I don't hear this coming from conservatives about liberals!</p> <a href="">Continue reading...</a> Fox News Media Phone hacking Press intrusion Thu, 21 Jul 2011 15:30:00 GMT AP Sadhbh Walshe 2011-07-21T15:30:00Z