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[xbjllb]

As long as they don't tackle you...

[gringoman]

I'll be a guest on "The O'Reilly Factor" TONIGHT at 8pm and 11pm ET on the Fox News Channel. Please tune in to catch the fireworks as I tackle both O'Reilly and Colmes.

August 12, 2009 at 01:12 PM | Permalink

Will the gentlemen be wearing Aphrodite Kallipygos Hazmat Suits?

Imus's El Bernardo del Bronx, with a Celtic eye for the chicks, today pronounced Monica "hot and steamy."

But how could our Princess ever forget that gringoVision, in times of yore, dubbed her as "proof that brains can be blonde"?

[gringoman]

We'll skip by what Imus asked Monica re her boyfriend on today's tape replay (while Imus is away, getting certain body parts attended to.)

There are certain things a gentleman doesn't ask a lady. That's obvious. What's less obvious: There are certain things a real man doesn't need to ask.

[gringoman]

ANATOMY OF THE MEDIA

(Part of a continuing series, digitizing a Vietnam Legacy Projects. See July 4 post(gringoman.com) for details.)

SAIGON NOTES

by
Daniel Cameron

(The Saigon Post, March 12, 1971)

A look at how the media covered the Vietnam war, via a satire in Washington Post, followed by a Saigon Post take on how this media would have covered the American Civil War. Here, first, from WaPo....

KENNETH CRAWFORD in the February 23 Washington Post reports a speech made by former Post Editor J. Russell Wiggins who asked the rhetorical question: How would the modern media have reported
George Washington's crossing of the Delaware at McConkey's Ferry on Christmas 1776?

We can't answer that, but Wiggins' reply sounds like Chapter 1 in a manual of how to succeed in the Saigon bureaus of some US news agencies without hardly trying.

"Television cameramen would have focused their zoon lenses on the rag-wrapped feet of Washington's troopers. When it was over, microphones would have been thrust under the noses of stripling recruits to catch their answers to the question: 'How do you feel about some of your buddies being lost in this sneaky operation'?....New York editorial writers would have followed lamentations....Washington, instead of attacking, should have been negotiating....His occupation of Trenton and quick withdrawal showed that he was still engaged in search-and-destroy operations---following the will-o-the-wisp of military victory...."
(continued at http://www.gringoman.com/)

[gringoman]

OBAMASUCKINGS EARNING THEIR KEEP (Media suggests people must be bigots, racists, KKK, Nazis, coach class, gun owners, SUV-ers, soccer mommies, oatmeal-dripping grandmas, Viagra-sucking grandpas, and maybe even Christians....)

///////ABC framed its Tuesday night story, on citizens using town hall forums held by Members of Congress to express opposition to ObamaCare, around undermining their credibility by asserting the reaction “appears to be orchestrated” and “organized” and thus is forcing the victimized “White House to push back” by “fighting Internet fire with fire.”

After anchor Charles Gibson insisted “some of that criticism appears to be orchestrated, causing the White House to push back,” reporter Jake Tapper showed some instances of “people protesting health care reform with visceral anger” and relayed how “Texas Democrat Lloyd Doggett, who was shouted down before he could even speak, says there's nothing authentic about these protests.” Doggett charged: “This notion of a grassroots campaign is totally and completely phony. The Republican Party has coordinated this apparent outrage and stirred it up.”

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/08/05/abc-town-hall-wrath-obamacare-appears-be-orchestrated

[gringoman]

A VIEW OF THE LIBERAL (SIC) MIND

Maybe this will help cut through the fog

"Welcome to the thoughtless world of contemporary liberalism. Beginning in the 1960s, liberalism, once the home of many deep thinkers, began to substitute feeling for thought and descended into superficiality.
One-word put-downs of opponents' ideas and motives were substituted for thoughtful rebuttal. Though liberals regard themselves as intellectual -- their views, after all, are those of nearly all university professors -- liberal thought has almost died. Instead of feeling the need to thoughtfully consider an idea, most liberal minds today work on automatic. One-word reactions to most issues are the liberal norm.
This is easy to demonstrate.
Here is a list of terms liberals apply to virtually every idea or action with which they differ:
Racist
Sexist
Homophobic
Islamophobic
Imperialist
Bigoted
Intolerant
And here is the list of one-word descriptions of what liberals are for:
Peace
Fairness
Tolerance
The poor
The disenfranchised
The environment
These two lists serve contemporary liberals in at least three ways.
First, they attack the motives of non-liberals and thereby morally dismiss the non-liberal person.
Second, these words make it easy to be a liberal -- essentially all one needs to do is to memorize this brief list and apply the right term to any idea or policy. That is one reason young people are more likely to be liberal -- they have not had the time or inclination to think issues through, but they know they oppose racism, imperialism and bigotry, and that they are for peace, tolerance and the environment.
Third, they make the liberal feel good about himself -- by opposing conservative ideas and policies, he is automatically opposing racism, bigotry, imperialism, etc.
Examples could fill a book."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...f_liberal.html

[Ree]

Dear Democrats you're pushin too hard.

http://youhavetobethistalltogoonthisride.blogspot.com/2009/08/was-captain-of-titanic-democrat-too.html

[gringoman]

As part of the Indochina Legacy Series being digitized, one byline at a time, from the notorious (in Saigon) column, SAIGON NOTES....A colorful visit to the US Army's De-Dopification Center.

July 21, 1970 The Saigon Post

SAIGON NOTES
by
Daniel Cameron

URINALYSIS & DE=DOPIFICATION

De-Toxification Center, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam

Coming at http://www.gringoman.com/ Another in the series "from the boondocks," that included, previously, THE HIGH COST OF KILLING, from booby-trap country in the wild hedgerow by the snaky Saigon River (a view of Search-and-Destroy.)

[gringoman]

gringoNOTE: (Even the clever Democrat Camille Paglia is horrified. Yes, she continues, like a good soldier, to support her Bama. He gives "dignity" she says (Oh, sure, such a dignified bow to Saudi King, Camille, didn't you love it?)) and he provides "authority") (yes, while he's on Axelrod's teleprompter--Camille is always readable, but alas, even brilliant scholars have their, uh, problems. Still, Camille comes down from the clouds when looking at the Obamacare nightmare)

////Obama's healthcare horror

Heads should roll -- beginning with Nancy Pelosi's!

By Camille Paglia

Aug. 12, 2009 |
Having said that, I must confess my dismay bordering on horror at the amateurism of the White House apparatus for domestic policy. When will heads start to roll? I was glad to see the White House counsel booted, as well as Michelle Obama's chief of staff, and hope it's a harbinger of things to come. Except for that wily fox, David Axelrod, who could charm gold threads out of moonbeams, Obama seems to be surrounded by juvenile tinhorns, bumbling mediocrities and crass bully boys.......

But who would have thought that the sober, deliberative Barack Obama would have nothing to propose but vague and slippery promises -- or that he would so easily cede the leadership clout of the executive branch to a chaotic, rapacious, solipsistic Congress? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, whom I used to admire for her smooth aplomb under pressure, has clearly gone off the deep end with her bizarre rants about legitimate town-hall protests by American citizens. She is doing grievous damage to the party and should immediately step down.

There is plenty of blame to go around. Obama's aggressive endorsement of a healthcare plan that does not even exist yet, except in five competing, fluctuating drafts, makes Washington seem like Cloud Cuckoo Land. The president is promoting the most colossal, brazen bait-and-switch operation since the Bush administration snookered the country into invading Iraq with apocalyptic visions of mushroom clouds over American cities.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2009/08/12/town_halls/

[gringoman]

Quote:
Originally Posted by RJJohnson

Leave it to the Associated Press and the Southern Poverty Law Center to start the fear and smear campaign whenever the Democrat dejur is in office and the American people start voicing their opposition to his policies. It's the AP and the SPLC that are fabricating conspiracies to try to discredit their ideological opponents. SPLC is just hot off of their crusade against Lou Dobbs for even mentioning Obama's constitutional lack of eligibility to be President.

///////GRINGOMAN////////ARE AMERICANS ON THE BRINK OF REVOLT?.......When libs, Dems and Obots and their media all try to ram their dog-eared race cards and Nazi cards down America's throat, one thing is obvious: They are in full-scale panic mode. It appears to be bordering on hysteria. Not even The Teleprompter can sedate the nation. It's getting beyond Axelrod.

[Dgscol]

People can either resort to crime, or call people to lower their rates.

[Dgscol]

Should we give Bush and Cheney over to the UN?

Well, they did try to institute the "first use of force", but it was only against an oil rich country that was not a nuclear power (which was enticing to former frustrated oil exec) . Perhaps we should leave it, at letting them waterboard the two of them for a few days. It might buy some goodwill abroad. Its better than walking around like a bunch of Commies.

WE can always defend his record on cleaning up companies like Enron -causing all those blackouts and arm-twisting the Hindus. Perhaps we could give them the Enron prisoners.

[M/M]

We'll skip by what Imus asked Monica re her boyfriend on today's tape replay (while Imus is away, getting certain body parts attended to.)

There are certain things a gentleman doesn't ask a lady. That's obvious. What's less obvious: There are certain things a real man doesn't need to ask.

Posted by: gringoman | August 12, 2009 at 01:50 PM
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That was one of the few times, other than when Bernie or Kinky are speaking, that I actually LOL. Hope Imus moves to the Fox Business Channel and Bernie is able to spin off a show of his own.

[gringoman]

gringoNOTE: A life-long Democrat lauds Sarah Palin. Camille Paglia is known as a world-class intellectual, scholar and writer. She is now a devastating critic of Obamacare. Here she comments on what Sarah Palin said.

PAGLIA////////As a libertarian and refugee from the authoritarian Roman Catholic church of my youth, I simply do not understand the drift of my party toward a soulless collectivism. This is in fact what Sarah Palin hit on in her shocking image of a "death panel" under Obamacare that would make irrevocable decisions about the disabled and elderly. When I first saw that phrase, headlined on the Drudge Report, I burst out laughing. It seemed so over the top! But on reflection, I realized that Palin's shrewdly timed metaphor spoke directly to the electorate's unease with the prospect of shadowy, unelected government figures controlling our lives. A death panel not only has the power of life and death but is itself a symptom of a Kafkaesque brave new world where authority has become remote, arbitrary and spectral. And as in the Spanish Inquisition, dissidence is heresy, persecuted and punished.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/...ls/index1.html

[gringoman]

We'll skip by what Imus asked Monica re her boyfriend on today's tape replay (while Imus is away, getting certain body parts attended to.)

There are certain things a gentleman doesn't ask a lady. That's obvious. What's less obvious: There are certain things a real man doesn't need to ask.

Posted by: gringoman | August 12, 2009 at 01:50 PM
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That was one of the few times, other than when Bernie or Kinky are speaking, that I actually LOL. Hope Imus moves to the Fox Business Channel and Bernie is able to spin off a show of his own.

Posted by: M/M | August 12, 2009 at 07:50 PM

I was waiting for Monica to reply with something like, "Don, you really want a measurement?"

[M/M]

Guess gringoman would be pissed because i quoted THIS gook on my blog today:
http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/scorn-in-america-right-wingers-riled-up-raging-1.1361082
There is no taxes in Somalia...YOU wanna be the next Roman empire but don't wanna render unto Caesar...
Posted by: EminemsRevenge | August 12, 2009 at 08:36 AM
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Gringoman, will you accept my apology? The LIEberal racists are proving to me that racism is alive and well in the U.S.

[gringoman]

Speaking of the musical Camille Paglia, she is very hot on Bahia do Brasil, Daniela Mercurio etc, the universe of samba, but here she reccommends an atmospheric of Paris and la vie des cafes. Way too Parisian for American tastes, but apparently there is still some milieu left there, even while un-assimilated youth torch the Renaults and Citroens and Peugots.....

PARIS LE FLORE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN0PFgzQXCc

[gringoman]

Guess gringoman would be pissed because i quoted THIS gook on my blog today:
http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/scorn-in-america-right-wingers-riled-up-raging-1.1361082
There is no taxes in Somalia...YOU wanna be the next Roman empire but don't wanna render unto Caesar...
Posted by: EminemsRevenge | August 12, 2009 at 08:36 AM
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Gringoman, will you accept my apology? The LIEberal racists are proving to me that racism is alive and well in the U.S.

Posted by: M/M | August 12, 2009 at 08:03 PM

M/M,

No need for apology. Vision is more important anyway, whenever it comes.

(Of course, I wouldn't dare speak for Ummah Gummah.)

[Dgscol]

Is winning a political campaign, the same as winning a war? I recall Bush telling fellow Republicans that they got the spoils, simply for winning the campaign! This sort of attitude, everyone gets money in the party because they won the campaign, has led to payouts and favors that drive the cost of government up, without any commensurate accomplishments or contributions to society.

[Dgscol]

In a similar way, graduates from Harvard, have a portal to future contributions to society,
but they are not just worth it because they managed to graduate. In fact, this has led to
serious problems obtaining employment after graduating from Harvard, and you can only pay
that rent so long. In fact the faculty often live a rather staid life, and occassionally
are taken for Commies because of the high cost of living in Boston. One guy drove a Studebacker
for so long they took him for a car collector.

Bean town means big money, and so, medical people there have seriously driven up the cost
of medicine. In fact, it is hard to interest them in something that does not pay off bigtime.
As a personal experience, a diagnostic device costing about $100 to make, was offered by
its designer for sale at $1000. To have a medical company in Boston make and market it, the
cost went up to $20K. Medical institutions pay anything, and pass the cost on to the insurance
companies. This, I believe, is customary. No one has mentioned this as a reason for inflated
medical costs.

Ann Coulter brought up the lack of competition in medicine - in insurance plans, insurance
companies, in the cost of hospitalization, clinical costs and drugs. Doctors do not advertise
or publish their rates. You have no idea what procedures will cost, how long therapy will
continue, and ... how long the bills will keep rolling in, and if your insurance company and
medicare will pay. Lawyers had it this good, but no longer do. Where are they going to
foster competition? Very little has been mentioned. Huge insurance companies monopolise the
industry. Part of medicine is not competitive since the government sets rates, Then all the
government can do in this arena, is cut those rates. Again little is being said about this,
except some kind of nebulous agreement with big Pharma. The question people ought to ask is
"Are these politicians serious about reforming health care, or is this all a show ending either
in a giveaway to the medical community, or just smoke in order to say they tried.

[Dgscol]

The country is in financial trouble - I'd like to see Bean town say they could do it better.

[Dgscol]

Lou Dobbs has compared the medical system of the US with other major countries in Europe. Conclusion? We have the most expensive health care, and one of the worse in performance if based on life expectancy. Logically, it would appear that without any effort at all, considerable improvements might be made.

[M/M]

Mark Simone just said that if you put a cap on trial lawyers, you would save about $500 billion in health insurance costs. Savage was discussing how no one discusses the effects of trial lawyers on our health care costs.