Newspapers, such as the New York Times, are agenda driven and they attempt to shape opinion with thier choice of stories, they do not let events determine what is news worthy. The constantly declining circulation proves that they are sinking to feeding an ever tightening niche audience of radicals who expect partisan attacks on any political issue rather than fair and balanced and truthful reporting. They print for thier spoon fed audiences and not for the wide open masses. The new media, the blogosphere, talk radio, XM, newsletters that cater to individual tastes, and networks like Fox News that are not driven by an inside agenda but rather by delivering a factual accounting of the  events of the day or the week..., have served to cut down once giant news media machines like the NY Times to the point where they only appeal to thier own rigidly ideological readership.  The Audit Bureau of Circulations reports that the daily version of the NY Times is at a current circulation of 1,077,256 which is down from the previous year, and they continue to sink.
 
Now, on to the latest attacks on Sarah Palin. At a recent fund raising event she said the following ;

"We believe that the best of America is not all in Washington, D.C. We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard working very patriotic, pro-America areas of this great nation. This is where we find the kindness and the goodness and the courage of everyday Americans. Those who are running our factories and teaching our kids and growing our food and are fighting our wars for us. Those who are protecting us in uniform. Those who are protecting the virtues of freedom."

For this innocent statement she has been ridiculed, derided, and in general attacked as she always is by the politically motivated left wing press for every statement she makes on anything at all.  The mistake Sarah made here, and always makes,  is that she forgets she's not allowed to express her own opinion.  Her opinion of what makes America great must  match the views of the left wing press, or she's ridiculed as a rube from an outland of snowblind posers. Well, Sarah said it herself back at her convention speech, she's not going to DC to please the media.  And we love that attitude in her. We love it when the liberal press is flummoxed and angry and panicked and flabergasted at Sarah, because it exposes them for the hyper-partisan yellow dog Democrats they are, as they attempt to hide behind a window dressing of impartiality and fairness. Sarah is absolutely correct to point out that some areas of our country produce a higher ratio of openly displayed genuine patriotism than others. We all know, even the liberal press knows..., that there are rabid anti-American hate mongers foaming at the mouth in all sorts of places around our country.  Barack Obama could introduce you to several of the more prominent ones since he has allied himself with some of the most vicious examples. We have been long exposed to the inbred hatered of middle America by the liberals of this country who think that the average American is a racist, redneck ingnoramus... as that fumble-mouthed idiot congressman John Murtha recently expressed. The entire Democrat leadership on Captiol Hill could easily be declared a gaggle of facist anti-American anti-patriotic narcissists. They held our troops in Iraq hostage time after time by fighting against success, against funding, and deriding the effort at every turn.  It's about time we have some courageous political figure like Governor Palin to point out that this country does have a distinct lack of patriotism in some circles. We already know this is the truth, but it takes a real leader to state fearlessly that fact in an open forum in front of a hostile media. Sarah has what it takes to do that. Frankly we'd all be much better off with  a President Palin than a President Obama or a President Biden.
 
- Mike Silverman

I've noticed that almost every topic and subject matter now has an "Awareness Month". So, I thought , why not have an "Obama" awareness month?  Therefore, I am declaring that this month is "National Obama Is An Empty Suit Awareness Month". If you are someone who wears a suit regularly please be sure to carry an extra "empty" suit around with you this month in order to focus awareness on this important subject matter. Communities are encouraged to organize "Empty" rallies where you can donate an empty suit to your local ACORN chapter manager to be distributed to all the empty spaces occupied by the voters they have registered who don't exist. A spokesperson for the New York City branch of ACORN which is called the "Volunteer Organization for Mobilizing Indigent Turnout" (VOMIT) said today they have registered 500 homeless street vagrants as Democrats and urged them to the polls for Obama. ACORN executive Ahma Lyre, the Senior Manager in charge of hiding Obama's connections with ACORN said they would be happy to donate any empty "Obama suits" they receive to VOMIT as an incentive for thier indigent voter drive. In a statement released this morning, Lyre said the following;

"We need to work together as fraud inciters and scheming liars to insure that Barack Obama has a massive support network of stupefied homeless drunks,burned out drug addicts, corpses, convicts, cartoon characters and unverifiable polling data to prop him up all the way to the White House. He promised us that we would be setting the agenda for his administration and we intend to carry him there no matter how much fraud we need to commit. We will work with "President" Obama on reshaping this country into a social playground for our liberal indoctrination agenda."

So let's make sure everyone is "aware" this month that Obama's real record is one of radical social activism, alliance with fraud-manipulating community organizations and terror sympathizers, with a real congressional track of vote avoidance and lack of leadership.

By the way... Where oh where has Senator Biden gone? We've been hearing a lot lately from the media about Sarah and the allegedly hate-filled rallies full of rabble rousing peasants with torches and pitchforks..., but an ominous emptiness from the Biden front. Could he have been proving to be a bit of a liability to THE ONE? Have Obama's poll numbers been rattled by the nonsense from Biden's mouth? McCain should have asked him about that at the Debate.  I suspect Obama daily regrets having selected Biden as his running mate.
 
- Mike Silverman

Republican politicians, and particularly Conservatives , are tougher than anyone else in politics today.  They need to be, since they are the endless target of nearly all mainstream press smears, screeching left wing zealots supporting every social taboo in existence, and backstabbing political colleagues in the Democrat party. If, despite all this, Conservative politicians stand fast on thier principles then they are by far the toughest politicians around this country today and very worthy leaders. By contrast, Liberal Democrat politicians today can be soft, squishy, and cowardly..., and still be liberal. They get petted by the media, cheered by the screaming extremists, and get thier way with jelly spined moderates in the Republican party. They need exert very little effort to be who they are.  And, Democrat politicians don't need to concern themselves that moderators at debates between Republican and Democrat might be lopsided conservative Republican supporters. They won't be. Never have been.  So, where does that bring us?  Nowhere.  The upcoming debate between Governor Sarah Palin and Senator Joe Biden is being moderated by a woman named Gwen Ifill, who loathes Republicans. Wow.., that's a surprise ( not ). Here's a quote from the gracious Gwen Ifill commenting on Senate Republcians who, in 1998, defeated a bill for campaign finance reform, and Ms. Ifill was obviously not happy that the Senate Republicans expressed satisfaction at having done so..., Here's her quote...,

"It was a bill that was doomed to die. The last time you heard people so eager to claim responsibility for something like this, they were terrorists." — NBC reporter Gwen Ifill, February 27 Washington Week in Review on PBS. ( source = https://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/bestof/1998/best7-9.asp )

Yes, she called Republicans terrorists. This is the fair minded level headed moderator who will be throwing questions of her own design at Sarah Palin.  Now..., don't misunderstand. I actually think this wonderful. What better way to contrast the differences between a strident Liberal extremist woman and a strong confident everyday Conservative woman?  Sarah will come out fine from this, and even more so if Ms. Ifill stoops to trying to sabotage Sarah Palin. If Ms. Ifill gets testy with her Sarah should just flash that friendly smile, answer the questions smoothly, and show that she's not the least bit rattled by spiteful left wing windbags. Nothing irks Liberals more than having no effect on the people they target.

- Mike Silverman , Milford MA

* "You got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”

The "FIRST"? Wow...

* “You cannot go to a 7/11 or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”

Way to go Joe... insult yet another constituency.

* To State Senator Chuck Graham, Joe implored ...: “Chuck, stand up, let the people see you.”

Hey Joe.., did you or your staff happen to notice that Chuck is in a wheelchair? Sheesh!

* "Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America", "Quite frankly it might have been a better pick than me"

Hey Joe... we can agree on something! Obama made a terrible pick and showed lack of judgement.

* "We want to take money ...."

Yes Joe... we know.

*.... "and put it back in the pocket of middle-class people."

What about "poor" people Joe? Oh, that's right. You took care of that already. You donated $995 to charity ( $400 of that was an unspecified "non-cash" gift, reducing the real cash donation to $595 )... out of your $360,000.00 income last year. How about this Joe, give up your salary as a politician for the coming year and give it to the middle class instead. Then you don't have to steal it in the form of higher taxes from other people so that you can play a phony santa claus trying to buy votes with liberal income redistribution schemes.

* ...( continuing in his statement about taking money ( through higher taxes) and putting it in the pocket of the middle-class , Joe said..) “It’s time to be patriotic … time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”

Thanks Joe. Thanks for helping us all understand what the word "patriotic" means. Paying more taxes. I don't suppose being patriotic would be something like supporting the troop surge, which you declared a "failure". I don't suppose it would be anything like supporting General Petraeus to whom exactly 1 year ago you demanded to end the surge and bring the troops home declaring you had no reason to believe the violence would end in Iraq despite General Petraeus telling you that his commanders see improvement in security and reductions in violence. Who was it, Joe, that was the lone voice on your foreign relations committee who warned that it would be rash to jump to conclusions and force an end to the war? That's right... it was Senator John McCain. Guess what Joe? He was right, you were wrong. You flubbed it again Joe.

So , Flubber Biden, flubbing his way through his Senate career with his ridiculous comments and inept analysis, is now the VP candidate? Good Lord! If Obama wins, Flubber is only one heartbeat away from the Presidency! We simply can't allow Flubber Biden to flub-up the country too! What a scary thought!

- Mike Silverman, Milford MA