Magnify Your Efforts

You all know that Obama has filled his Cabinet with people with ethical challenges. They fly through without any major challenges. It seems that we are fighting against the wind as we write, call, fax our opposition to the many actions by Obama, Pelosi, Reid and friends.

I have a suggestion. Rather than JUST sending petitions to Washington D.C. and contacting our elected representatives, let's also contact every media outlet we can imagine. Not just this time, but every time you have a concern.

If you call your Senator, call the local news stations, too. If you write your Congressman, write every media outlet you can find (radio, television, newspaper, etc.). Duplicate everything you do ten-fold.

They're saying the opposition isn't there. They're ignoring our pleas for ethical representation. They're treating us like pesky flies that can be swatted away. Let's show them.

Magnify everything you do.

Get the addresses for every media outlet you can find and make sure you copy them when you send your letters. Get the email addresses of every national and local news outlet you can dig up and copy them on every email you send in protest.

Let's overwhelm them. Let's make it impossible for them to ignore us or swat us away.

(I just posted the above on my main personal blog, Barracuda Babes. Figured I'd share it with a few more of my friends on here)

Tea Party Mania

What a day yesterday! Locally we had a small noon-time Tax Day Tea Party in Peachtree City that attracted somewhere between 400 - 500. Not bad for a small town. I headed downtown for the Atlanta Tea Party. The energy was fantastic. I was right behind Sean Hannity which was very cool. I got to see Joe the Plumber, John Rich and others fairly closely. Two different stages were set up, one for the non-TV speakers, one for Fox News / Sean Hannity Show.

I've been watching the news, which I usually try not to do given the blatant bias. I'm sure you've all heard Pelosi's sneering disdain and Gibbs' belittling comments. Arrgggg... Then there's the complete misrepresentation by the mainstream media of the numbers who turned out. One reporter practically attacked someone she was interviewing (I just heard about that one, guess I'll have to scan the blogs to find out more).

Here in Atlanta we had over 15,000 peaceful tea baggers. The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported we had a thousand at the same time we were making the 10,000 mark. Today's paper says thousands showed up avoiding the numbers. Typical, typical.

Ah well. Sometimes I wish I subscribed to some of these msn newspapers and magazines just so I could cancel.

One thing that is coming through loud and clear reading Homeland Security's description of a home-grown terrorist, seeing the coverage of events like the Tea Party, hearing comments by White House spokepersons... they are trying to paint us into an ugly corner.

More and more of us are going to be needed to ensure that they don't and can't stop the peaceful dissent. We watch. We vote. We need to do more. We need to continue to network and learn to work together.

I'll be sharing photos and videos on the Fayette Front Page (.com) and our Read My Lipstick Network website. If you have photos you'd like to share from your Tea Party, please email in jpg format. Love to have 'em!

(I was going to share some photos, but blogger is acting up... maybe later).

Here's my early morning post in one of my blogs:
One word for Atlanta Tea Party: Wow!
One word to describe it in the title, but a lot more in this short post! I'm one tired puppy right now but I had to share as I guzzle my morning caffeine. We had a blast yesterday at the Atlanta Tea Party. I didn't get home until close to midnight, then I had to watch the midnight Hannity repeat to see what I'd missed! Yawn and double yawn...

Tea Party map via FreedomWorks; sabotage articles via Michelle Malkin

Left wants in on Tea Party action
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/07/left-wants-in-on-tea-party-action/

Get ready for the anti-Tea Party sabotage and smear campaign
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/04/06/get-ready-for-the-anti-tea-party-sabotage-and-smear-campaign/

Map with locations (4/08/09 - Over 450 events listed!) :
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=112875499027114938790.0004647d9f61bab744fd4&ll=38.272689,-96.679687&spn=27.495109,57.128906&z=4&source=embed

Tea Party website: http://taxdayteaparty.com/

Here are a few stories from around the country:

Fort Bend woman protests government spending by holding tea party
The Boston Tea Party is in the history

CWFF holding a Tea Party April 15
FERNLEY--Citizens Working for Fernley will be holding a Tea Party on April 15 from 2:30 p.m.-4:00 p.m. at City Hall.

Tea party protests coming to Great Falls, Helena
The "Tea Party" movement spreading across the nation is gaining some traction in the Treasure State. A tea party in Kalispell last week drew between 500 and 1,000 people, and now tea parties are scheduled

TEA Party shifted to park
The TEA party in Greenwood is still scheduled to go forward — just not outside City Hall. Cindy Saulter, who is organizing the anti-tax rally, appeared before the City Council Tuesday to request permission to hold the gathering outside Greenwood City Hall on Wednesday, April 15 n tax day

Rowlett residents organize TEA Party to protest taxes
Rowlett residents will join people all across the country on tax day for a rally to protest government spending that they believe is out of control. On April 15, the last day for tax returns to be mailed, Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party rallies will be held in thousands of cities.

Tax Day Tea Party
"it's something that's one of the ways of getting the message out that we do not approve of this tremendous amount of money being spent on the bailout,” said Jeb Filkins, an organizer of the Tax Day Tea Party in Casper.

Tea Party Rally April 15th
Zanesville will be one of 2,000 communities around the country to participate in a Tea Party Rally. Zanesville residents will participate as a part of a national movement to protest government spending.

TEA Party set for April 15 at courthouse
A group of Clark County citizens is organizing a TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party rally on the Clark County Courthouse square at 5 p.m. Wednesday, April 15, the day tax returns are to be mailed.

Houston Tea Party Set For Tax Day
HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - April 8, 2009) - It's a Tea Party -- and it's revolutionary. On Tax Day, Wednesday, April 15, at 4:00 p.m., taxpayers from across Houston and Southeast Texas will gather in downtown Houston at Jones Plaza to protest unprecedented government spending in Washington. Wednesday is the deadline for mailing federal income taxes. Jones Plaza is located in the theater district ...

Media Malpractice

I hope everyone with the means to do so will support John Ziegler's efforts to expose the media during the election. All Sarah Palin supporters, and anyone considering a run for office, should see Media Malpractice so they can understand the lengths the media will go to support "their" candidate. We are preparing for the 2010 and 2012 elections. We need to fully understand what we're up against and try to find ways to combat this pervasive liberal campaign tool.

The cost for the DVD is very reasonable, $19.99 plus $4.50 for shipping. If you go to see a movie at the theater you'll spend at least that much these days (if you buy popcorn or soda ;-). Buy an extra copy and give it to someone who's unable to buy their own. Have a viewing at your house, make it a party! Get the word out. We need more John Zieglers!

DVD description: Documentary filmmaker John Ziegler has woven together a
compelling story using the mainstream media's own words to show how their
malpractice achieved new heights in this election and influenced the narrative
of the campaign. Carefully analyzing thousands of hours of media footage from
the past two years, Ziegler paints a stunning portrait of media malpractice that
is undeniable.

You can purchase the film directly here: http://howobamagotelected.com/order-media-malpractice.asp

A Fairy Tale: The Delighted Republican and the Passive Governor

This is a great article from Why Mommy is a Republican, one of our newer Read My Lipstick Network members. I hope you'll read it, then share it on your blogs.

A Fairy Tale: The Delighted Republican and the Passive Governor
Michael Leahy, a WaPo staff writer, offered a piece today that serves as a prime example of what is wrong with American mainstream media today. Leahy's piece is so devoid of proper grammar, it must have either been ghost-written by a seventh grader who can wing a good piece of writing for his age or it was an attempt by Leahy to discredit Sarah Palin as someone whose mettle had been tested in the national election and found lacking, perhaps even sorely. For the sake of argument and for giving Leahy the benefit of the doubt, I will assume it was the latter.

Leahy's caricature has had the opposite effect on me than the one intended, as such ventures into fantasy land by the mainstream press often do for conservatives, because it is just the latest in a long list of examples of the most brutal testing Palin was forced to withstand – that of irresponsible journalism.
http://genuinegopmom.blogspot.com/2009/02/fairy-tale-delighted-republican-and.html

Wake Up America Movement Hosts Televent

To be included in the Televent send an email to joinwam@wamtoday.org and tell them you read about the event on here and would like to be included. Include your name and state please.

AN URGENT ALERT TO ALL CONCERNED WITH OUR COUNTRY'S ECONOMIC SURVIVAL
TELEVENT: HOW TO BE PART OF THE SOLUTION - MONDAY FEBRUARY 2 8:30 - 9:30 ET

We all know that without the brainwashing of the American public - by the mass MEDIA -Obama wouldnot be in the White House. Now we are confronted with the ongoing MSM cover-up of the facts of the so-called "Stimulus Plan". The secrets being kept include:

* the fact that the current bill's 600 pages include mountains of special interest expenditures, campaign pay-offs and other costly measures which have nothing at all to do with "stimulating the Economy."

* not only does this bill - HR1 - multiply the staggering debt of the T.A.R.P. funds previously agreed to and already of doubtful outcome. This next step spending spree is ONLY THE BEGINNING. The entire "Obama Recovery Plan" is actually composed of TEN NEW PIECES of LEGISLATION - of which this TRILLION DOLLARS of debt is barely the tip of the iceberg!

* also this week, with no MEDIA scrutiny, the SENATE SAILED THROUGH THE NEW SCHIP PROGRAM which spends millions more to ensure the healthy birth and ongoing health care of children of ALIENS. This, despite the fact that forecasts now indicate our health care system is not equipped for this burden.

The general public is ill-informed of the FACTS & DETAILS of what has been spent and WHO it will help or HOW it can be expected to serve the CRITICAL PURPOSE of resolving the real-estate crisis or creating the jobs we need! It's no exaggeration to say that Americans are being swindled by our own government!

There is only one way to circumvent the MEDIA's cover-up of Washington's current INSANITY - WE MUST BECOME THE MEDIA - and SPREAD the TRUTH ourselves - in well coordinated ways for maximum impact and influence on current events.

JOIN this TeleEvent to learn a STRATEGY that really will work to correct the public ignorance while there is still time to mobilize middle-class America to STAND UP FOR OUR RIGHTS to FAIR REFLECTION by our Washington officials. Your ACTION is needed to preserve our democracy - but not all courses of action are equal. Just complaining and protesting won't achieve needed REFORMS.

As part of W.A.M. Strategic MEDIA REFORM PROGRAM, you'll be at the leading edge of the real facts as they unfold - and your coordinated ACTIONS on the MEDIA will make a real difference!

Take the time for this STRATEGIC CONFERENCE to urgently change the public perception and reaction to Obama's big socialist game plan. Efforts without a plan are futile and ineffective. Cooperative involvement of those who know enough to care and care enough to know make all the difference.

W.A.M. knows you care - join this Event to be "in the know" and make your Voice heard!

REMEMBER THE FUTURE IS UP TO YOU & NOW IS THE TIME WE MUST SHIFT ITS COURSE.

Palin Alert --- Tacky Media Alert

Tacky to say the least. "The Week" (never heard of it before) has a contest where they ask readers to "supply an imaginative twist" to news stories. This week they're asking readers to supply stories as if they were writing a romance novel. Wait until you read the example they give! Tacky.

I left a one-word comment. You'll never guess which word ...

I almost hate to write about this one simply because it brings attention to what they're doing and it'll give them free publicity, albeit negative. With the negative will come the libs / left / progressives / dems. (In case you're wondering why I keep using so many labels, it's cause if I use dems, they write and say they're libs; if I use libs, they write and say they're progressives. I figure I'll make sure I capture all the labels that are being used just so I don't miss anyone ;-)

They know that any time they use Sarah Palin's name, even if it's in a tacky, despicable way, they attract attention. The caricature they use of Sarah is hideous. If the tacky contest didn't show their true leanings, the caricature would clinch it.

Anywaze, here be the link to the tacky contest: http://www.theweek.com/article/comment/92113, and here be part of the tacky contest info:

Arts & Leisure
Friday, January 9, 2009
“What Next?” Contest: Sarah Palin
Every week, we’re asking readers to supply an imaginative twist to one of the recent news stories featured in The Week. Submissions should be emailed to whatnext@theweek.com. Please include your name, address, and daytime telephone number for verification, and please type “Sarah Palin’’ in the subject line. Entries are due by 6 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday, Jan. 12. The winner will appear on the Puzzle Page of the magazine next week, as well as here, at TheWeek.com/WhatNext Friday, January 16th.

Prize: One year’s subscription to The Week

This week’s question: Sarah Palin is now fielding more than a dozen offers to write a book and 800 requests for interviews. But if a publisher commissioned a romance novel about her instead, how would that novel begin? (No more than five sentences, please.)

Example:

Sarah Palin sat down at the boardroom table and crossed her legs angrily as the political operative launched into his PowerPoint. “You need foreign-policy credentials, so we’re sending you abroad,” the dashing operative said. Frowning, Sarah shook her head so hard that soft brown tendrils tumbled from her bun, framing her face like a heart. “What I want to know,” she said, “is why I am being sent to that country with the kangaroos.” With a sigh, the operative replied, “You mean the country with The Sound of Music.”

http://www.theweek.com/article/comment/92113

Another reason or two to boycott the media... and one great story

The following came in my daily "cyber alert" from the Media Research Center. I'd normally post just the first paragraph and a link, but they sent the whole thing and I couldn't easily find it on their site (ha, probably because it's on Newsbusters, duh.. just noticed a comment when scanning, no time to find it now though so will just post). Below the MRC post I've included a link to the interview and video Matthews and Alter are slamming.

Newsweek's Jonathan Alter Slams Sarah Palin as 'So Lame'

On Thursday night's Hardball, Chris Matthews played several clips from documentarian John Zeigler's interview with Sarah Palin, in which the former GOP VP candidate criticized Katie Couric and the press as a whole for bias against her, but his guest, Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter, dismissed Palin's charges as "so lame," and called her "a Nixonian Nanook of the North." Alter noted "the subtext of this is that somehow the Democratic candidates are treated better by the press," a notion he dismissed: "Ask Bill Clinton the way he was treated, you know, by the press. I mean it's just not true."

[This item, by the MRC's Geoffrey Dickens, was posted Thursday evening on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: www.newsbusters.org]

The following exchanges were aired on the January 8 edition of Hardball:

First up, after Matthews aired a clip of Palin criticizing the McCain campaign for forcing her to conduct continuing interviews with Couric, Alter called the Alaskan governor: "So lame."

CHRIS MATTHEWS: There ought to be a law against politicians blaming their handlers. What do you think Jonathan?
JONATHAN ALTER, NEWSWEEK: Yeah this was just so lame, Chris. I mean why didn't it go well the first day? It wasn't because Katie Couric was asking awful questions. Her questions were very straight, no spin on the ball. The problem was Sarah Palin couldn't answer the questions in a way that showed the knowledge that is required to be Vice President and quite possibly President. So if she had decided not to go back for the rest of the interview she would have been conceding that she simply wasn't qualified to be Vice President if she couldn't answer Katie's questions.

Then after a clip of Palin wondering if Caroline Kennedy would get better coverage in her quest for the New York Senate seat because of a "class issue," Alter insulted Palin as acting like a "Nixonian Nanook of the North."

ALTER: Chris you wrote the book on Kennedy and Nixon. You know this is Sarah Palin acting kind of like a Nixonian Nanook of the North. She's trying to play that class argument against the Kennedys. That goes back a long way. It's had some success in American politics. But you know this, at this point it's kind of comparing apples and oranges. She was on the threshold of becoming Vice President and possibly President. Caroline Kennedy hasn't even been, you know, chosen yet for the U.S. Senate, as one of 100. So you know the standards in covering them aren't quite comparable. Not to mention the fact that Caroline's had a pretty tough press so far. She has hardly been handled by kid gloves in the last couple weeks.
MATTHEWS: You're right.

Finally right before the close of the show, Alter denied Palin's claim of liberal bias that she would've received positive coverage if she was on the Democratic ticket:

MATTHEWS: Jon, Jon would she have gotten better treatment had she been on the "D" ticket instead of the "R" ticket?
ALTER: Well first of all, first of all Chris she never would've been on the Democratic ticket. I mean John McCain said that the first requirement for his pick was that, that person be qualified to step in at a moment's notice and deal with terrorism and all the big international issues. So he violated his own standards. That was also Barack Obama's standard for who he would put on the ticket and he chose somebody with, with the requisite experience. But if she had been -- the, the subtext of this is that somehow the Democratic candidates are treated better by the press. Ask Bill Clinton the way he was treated, you know, by the press. I mean it's just not true.
MATTHEWS: Okay, ask Jimmy Carter.
ALTER: Jimmy Carter! Yeah.
MATTHEWS: Anyway. Ask Jimmy Carter, he got a terrible press.

Here's a link to Zeigler's great interview:

Video Exclusive: A Revealing Morning With Sarah Palin
by John Ziegler
If someone told me five months ago that in early January I would pay over $1,400 for an incredibly inconvenient plane ticket and $120 for a 3 a.m. cab fare to get from sunny Los Angeles to Wasilla, Alaska, I would have told them there was a better chance the Dow Jones would be below 9,000 and a gallon of gas less than two dollars.

Your efforts succeed; CNN does it again...

A few days ago Palin supporters across the blogosphere were up in arms about CNN's inclusion of Sarah in their notorious list of bad guys for 2008. They had a slide show with politicians who fell from grace because of their crimes and misdemeanors in which they included Sarah Palin.

Well, due to YOUR emails and complaints they've quietly taken Sarah out of the mix. Yep, she's no longer in the story. No explanation, no apology, no rationale for including her or for removing her from the list.

I've been reading the news from China thanks to one of our blogging members, Cristy Li. One of the news stories I read exposed a controversy with a photo at a promoted government event. A photo was posted of attendees with a gentleman in the front row clearly snoozing. When attention was called to the photo, it magically appeared the following day with the guy wide awake (they doctored the eyes). Another story showed a painted documentary picture of a historical event that had been changed due to political whims. Over the years as the officials in the picture fell out of favor they were painted out of the picture. Later when in favor, they were brought back. People who weren't there were painted into the photo.

They changed history.

CNN attempted to re-write history by including Sarah in the criminal mix, then quietly changed history again by taking her out without acknowledging they made a HUGE error in judgement. I hope you'll all consider blogging about this issue and continue to hold CNN's feet to the proverbial fire.

CNN has been called on the carpet for many controversial choices they've made to the detriment of our military and / or conservatives. They should be called on the carpet about this issue, too.

There is a Mainstream Media Blackout effort that I now believe should consider focusing on ONE media outlet at a time. We had discussed doing a 3-hour Friday blackout of ALL media each week, which seemed like an easy task. However, I don't think the idea is catching on. I know many of you are already boycotting CNN. What would you think about putting a button on your blogs that linked to a new blog I just grabbed, "CNN Boycott"? Promoting a CNN boycott?

If you're interested in participating, let me know (readmylipstick at live dot com). If you'd like to be a fellow blogger on the CNN Boycott blog and / or the Mainstream Media Blackout blog, let me know, too.

We must have fairness in the media. We can not rely on radio (the Dem's are coming after talk radio soon with the so-called "Fairness Doctrine"), we can not rely on Fox News. We need fairness across the board.

CNN Scrubs Palin from NewsBusters Covered Criminal Politicians Story
By Warner Todd Huston
As most of you know, I originally posted this story on Sunday under the headline CNN Places Sarah Palin With 2008's Criminals, Sex Addicts, and the Corrupt here at NewsBusters. It raged all day Sunday in the Blogosphere and into the night among Palin fans and center right bloggers. Gretta Van Susteren even posted about it on her FoxNews blog (It garnered 4 pages of comments there, too).
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/01/06/cnn-scrubs-palin-newsbusters-covered-criminal-politicians-story

My blog: Time to Rumble with CNN; They Lump Palin with Criminals

CNN Places Sarah Palin With 2008's Criminals, Sex Addicts, and the Corrupt
By Warner Todd Huston
January 4, 2009 - 07:06 ET
Showing they have no sense of morality, no grasp of corruption and no understanding of what defines a criminal, CNN gives us another one of those ubiquitous year in review stories, this one titled "Politicians who fell from grace in 2008." In this one, CNN has decided to reveal for us their top eight politicians that found 2008 to be a "career-buster" because of their "crimes and misdemeanors" or their outrageous controversies.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2009/01/04/cnn-places-sarah-palin-2008s-criminals-sex-addicts-corrupt

CNN Story: Politicians who made headlines for the wrong reasons
Politicians who fell from grace in 2008
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/31/politician.scandals/index.html