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CNN Used Republican Debate to Create Conservative Wedge Issue

Gays in the military was not an issue in the 2008 presidential campaigns, at least not before CNN manipulated the Republican debate last week to set it up as a wedge issue. This is exactly the sort of thing that Hugh Hewitt was posting about earlier this year when he strongly advised the GOP not to agree to a YouTube debate. Now Jack Cafferty at the New York Times is promoting the whole Gays in the Military schtick.

Some are calling for:  Save the Debate, Ditch CNN  (HT: Instapundit)

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Phony Soldiers, the Pseudo-Controversy, More Links

The MSM is working hard to keep the liberal, George Soros funded, attack against Rush Limbaugh going. As I have documented on my Rush Limbaugh program index, this entire phony soldier issue is a contrived lie by the anti-war political left in this country in preparation for the 2008 elections. The left needs to damage Rush's reputation and to reduce influence so he doesn't negatively impact Hillary Clinton's campaign for the presidency. Remember, in 1994 Rush was called "the majority maker" by the newly elected Republican congressional majority.

Conservative bloggers are working to counter the lying spin (there's a redundancy, n'est-ce-pas?) of the Democrats and their MSM allies. Here are some great resources/opinion pieces:

• List of the phony soldiers who have been lauded by the political left, who were fakes: Jesse MacBeth, Jeff Engelhardt, Josh Lansdale, Scott Thomas Beauchamp, Edward Daily, John Kerry
• National Review's Kathry Jean Lopez weighs in to support Rush
• Democrat Tom Harkin, on the Senate floor last week, stated that Rush is a drug user, but he's wrong
• Elizabeth Edwards questions Rush's draft deferment and quotes from the lefty blogs
• Meanwhile, Code Pink (of the anti-war movement) really does demean the troops by defacing a Marine recruiting office

This is all so faux, so contrived...all for the price-per-click Google AdSense keywords...

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GE Locomotives & Top Gun? Who Knew??

One of our family members has worked many happy years at GE Transportation. So we were delighted with this commercial for a locomotive made by GE Transportation:

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Iraq's Sistani Doesn't Like the Media Either

Don't know much at Sistani, the Shiite Meester Big of Iraq, but I do know that I agree with Sistani's take about the MSM - his media opinions didn't, of course get reported in the MSM.

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MSM: The Deciders: Rathergate

Ted Koppel's been saying that Dan Rather should not have been fired for Rathergate, that the whole TANG pack of lies that Rather using to try to throw the 2004 presidential election was more right than wrong. As Ace says, when it comes to the MSM, they are The Deciders.

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World War II/Southern Ireland

My fact for today:

southern Ireland was famously neutral in World War Two and so the only Irishmen who fought Nazism and Fascism were the many who volunteered to serve in British regiments

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Obsession, the Documentary, Is Controversial in the Academy

Obsession, is a vitally important documentary. Using video footage from Arab television, Obsession describes how too many Muslims are indoctrinated into the Islamic Jihad movement. Also depicted, is the historical connection between Nazism and the jihadis. I own a DVD of the movie, and I recommend that all Americans view this important film. I believe that our survival as a country is at stake in our war against radical Islam.

Obsession, the movie, is finally beginning to get some attention.

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Hugh Hewitt: "All of Radio Isn't Dead of Dying"

Read the whole thing:

It is the sail v. steam dynamic at work again.  The content providers who commit to quality and innovation will prosper, whether in print, radio or on the tube, just as they will on the web.

Those that don't, won't.

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Glenn Beck Exposes Militant Islam

I don't have cable TV in my house (the 24 hour news channels are too un-American for me), so I didn't see Glenn Beck's CNN Headline News special about radical Islam. But it's now on a blog so all can see.

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9/11 TV Documentaries

As the anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks on our country nears, Ed Morrissey reviews and recommends Discovery Channel's Inside the Twin Towers.

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