The Muppets Smackdown Fox News...Fox News 'False And Biased'

Fox News... or should we say Fox Noise resident racist and economic wonk (pun intended) Eric Bolling accused the Muppet creators of a liberal bias. Teaching children liberal ideology. Leave it too the LIARS and warmongerers and thought police at FOX Noise to accuse the Muppets of some liberal, Saul Alinsky, Socialist bent. Ms. Piggy And Kermit The Frog smacked down Fox's silly, ridiculous, and hilarious balderdash . KERMIT/MISS PIGGY... Enough said. Turn off FOX "Bad News For America". more Too come. need4trtj

Occupy Oakland's Weekend Of Action...Oakland Police/Mayor Jean Quans Response Violence... Occupy Mondays

OCCUPY OAKLAND...

Weekend Of Action 

As I've mentioned in the past FOTM  does not attempt to speak For OWS in any way. We are not affiliated as an organisation although I, myself, am a member of the 99%.  This is also not an attempt too lecture Occupy Oakland.  After all I was not there. I didn't see what happened. The only information that came too my attention was through various News organizations.

OPD and Teargas

Looks like things got a little out of hand. As usual the OPD's response was over the top.  actually provoking protesters, to move towards defending themselves


FROM ABC NEWS...

"...For weeks the protests had waned, with only a smattering of people taking to Oakland's streets for occasional weekend marches that bore little resemblance to the headline-grabbing Occupy demonstrations of last fall. Then came Saturday, which started peacefully enough — a midday rally at City Hall and a march. But hours later, the scene near downtown Oakland had dramatically deteriorated: clashes punctuated by rock and bottle throwing by protesters and volleys of tear gas from police, and a City Hall break-in that left glass cases smashed, graffiti spray-painted on walls and an American flag burned. More than 400 people were arrested on charges ranging from failure to disperse to vandalism, police spokesman Sgt. Jeff Thomason said. At least three officers and one protester were injured..." abc news via AP

FROM NBC LOS ANGELES...

View more videos at: http://nbclosangeles.com.

However, everything I viewed didn't have a very positive spin too it.  Not too say the OPD weren't up too there notorious, behaving badly, reputation. Going as far as too arresting journalist.

FROM THE MOTHER JONES ...

Glen Halog via Flickr

"..On Saturday, Occupy Oakland re-entered the national spotlight during a day-long effort to take over an empty building and transform it into a social center. Oakland police thwarted the efforts, arresting more than 400 people in the process, primarily during a mass nighttime arrest outside a downtown YMCA. That number included at least six journalists, myself included, in direct violation of OPD media relations policy that states "media shall never be targeted for dispersal or enforcement action because of their status."..." read more at MotherJones.com

OPD'S STATEMENT...

OPD Teargas and American Citizens

"..."The Oakland Police Department ("OPD") is ... prepared to deter criminal activity or respond to illegal actions, including vandalism, arson, acts of violence, trespassing, and interference with officers performing their duties. Such activities disrupt otherwise peaceful and lawful gatherings and will not be tolerated."..." via dailykos

THIS IS...

OPD attacks Occupy Oakland

the side I don't think we want too be portrayed as.  The 99% is not a violent protest movement.  Only in Oakland have we seen protesters and the media attacked and placed under arrest at psychotic pace.  Mayor Jean Quan and the OPD feel the need too either stifle the movement or make a name for themselves. The violence they continue to engage in unrestrained is evidence of intolerance of peaceful protest.  Perhaps the DOJ need step in.

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The Sunday Evening Post... The 'Right's' Barack 'X'

I HAVE TOO...

return to the mythological for a moment. Many are beginning to see that the right-wing version, the right-wing media version of who President Obama, just isn't. It is a fictional made up character created over a three year period of Fox News talking points, Radical daffy Michelle Bachman's inflamed comments, Glenn Beck's suicidal insanity, Rush 'oxycodone' Limbaugh' medicated delusion, Sean Hannity's bitter resentment etc. These among others have fed the Nation and the Corporate/Conservative Media this false image.  Unfortunately the American Corporate, as Sarah Palin so aptly put it, Lame Stream Media, has done little too nothing to counter this mythological right wing creation, Barack X, the American hating Socialist.  Don't look too CNN to challenge the right.  Remember how Newt literally shamed Jon King for asking him a real question.  Of course CNN Pesident Ken Jautz, probably jumped all over Jon King arguing, "Don't lose the network access by doing real journalism".  Not if you want too keep your job.

BILL MAHER REAL TIME...

This American hating socialist. as Bill Maher so aptly put it, "Barack X" ....




Bill makes one of the best cases of the delusional falsehoods which this current crop of right wing hypocrites, have polluted the Media and the National conversation with. Their fantastical delusional creation never quite called into question by as Sarah Palin, as ignorant as she is, so aptly put it, "The Lame Stream Media".

What did we think we'd get from them? Journalism?  The prestige and the paycheck trumps journalistic integrity

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The Week In Review...

FROM OCCUPY BROOKLYN...

Approximately 35 people arrested for nonviolent civil disobedience, singing in courtroom: “Mr. Auctioneer, all the people here are asking you to stop all the sales right now.  Jan.26, 2012

"...Brooklyn, NY — This afternoon approximately one hundred people peacefully and powerfully disrupted a foreclosure auction by bursting into song. At 3pm the foreclosure auctioneer attempted to start bidding on homes that had been foreclosed upon. When the bidding started, the courtroom burst into song: “Mr. Auctioneer All the people here Are asking you to stop all the sales right now We’re going to survive, but we don’t know how”..."  Occupy Brooklyn

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S WEEKLY ADDRESS...




President Obama calls out Senate Republican gamesmanship,

"...Just two days ago, a senator from Utah promised to obstruct every single American I appoint to a judgeship or public service position – unless I fire the consumer watchdog I put in place to protect the American people from financial schemes or malpractice..."

President Obama

"...For the most part, it’s not that this senator thinks these nominees are unqualified. In fact, all of the judicial nominees being blocked have bipartisan support. And almost 90 percent have unanimous support from the Judiciary Committee. Instead, one of his aides told reporters that the senator plans to, and I’m quoting here, “Delay and slow the process in order to get the President’s attention.”..." President Obama Weekly Address

Which Senator from Utah  made these comments?  President Obama didn't drop any names.  Each State is allowed 2 Senators.  Utah's Senators are Orin Hatch (R) Utah and Mike Lee.  You can contact their offices in Washington at,


Senator Orin Hatch (R) Utah

104 Hart Office Building Washington, DC 20510 Tel: (202) 224-5251 Fax: (202) 224-6331

Vowing Obstruction Of Judicial Nominees

and

Senator Mike Lee (R) Utah

316 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Phone: 202-224-5444 Fax: 202-228-1168

Please take the time too call these Senators offices and tell them stop obstructing Judicial nominations for political gain.


THE BIG PICTURE W/Media Matters...



 


The Right Wing freak out over light bulbs was, as most of their freak outs, unfounded.

 "...For over a year, conservative media outlets have told consumers that in January 2012, they would no longer be able to purchase incandescent light bulbs due to federal efficiency standards. A trip to CVS shows that in fact, incandescent light bulbs are available, only now they're more efficient..." Media Matters

WHAT SEEMED... 


like the 100th Republican Liefest 'er,  "debate" took place in Jacksonville Florida this week. The WAPO fact checker took a look at some of the statements made, and as it is with Republicans, there was no shortage on over the top bald-faced LIES.

FIRST FROM CBS...



"...ROMNEY: President Barack Obama's $814 billion economic stimulus program "didn't create private-sector jobs."

THE FACTS: There is no support for that assertion. Between 1.2 million and 3.7 million full-time-equivalent jobs were created last year because of the stimulus, according to an August 2011 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. Meanwhile, another government report found the stimulus program has paid $34.5 billion in tax incentives to businesses, including $260 million to hire younger, unemployed war veterans. Economists debate whether the stimulus lived up to its promise or was worth the cost, but no one seriously argues that it created no jobs. Many believe it helped to end the recession even while falling short of its employment goals..."

FROM CBO DIRECTORS BLOG...

Congressional Budget  Office

"... CBO estimates that ARRA’s policies had the following effects in the second quarter of calendar year 2011 compared with what would have occurred otherwise: They raised real (inflation-adjusted) gross domestic product by between 0.8 percent and 2.5 percent, Lowered the unemployment rate by between 0.5 percentage points and 1.6 percentage points, Increased the number of people employed by between 1.0 million and 2.9 million, and Increased the number of full-time-equivalent (FTE) jobs by 1.4 million to 4.0 million compared with what would have occurred otherwise. (Increases in FTE jobs include shifts from part-time to full-time work or overtime and are thus generally larger than increases in the number of employed workers)..."  CBO

Felt the need topoint this out beyond CBS .


FROM WAPO FACT CHECKER...


Newt Gingrich

 Gingrich, attempting the double down on his claim that the Palestinians are an “invented people,” gets his facts wrong here. The Palestinian Liberation Organization, for instance, was founded at an Arab League conference held in Cairo in 1964. 

Newt Gingrich

The Palestinian National Charter, issued in 1964, refers repeatedly to the “Palestinian Arab people.” The PLO was granted observer status at the United Nations in 1974. We are not sure what is significant about “the late 1970s” in Gingrich’s mind..." WAPO

Mitt Romney

"...“I don’t like the Obama plan. His plan cuts Medicare by $500 billion. We didn’t of course touch anything like that. He raises taxes by $500 billion. We didn’t do that. He wasn’t interested in the eight percent of the people that were uninsured. He was concerned about a hundred percent of the people of the country.” — Mitt Romney 
 This litany of supposed differences between the Obama health care law and “Romneycare” is a bit specious. We have previously shown how the Medicare reference is misleading. 

Mitt Romney

But the last line is truly puzzling. Both Obama and Romney were trying to deal with the problem of the uninsured, and both try to deal with it through an individual mandate.  Obama’s plan will eventually cover 95 percent, the CBO estimates..." WAPO

"...“I’ve never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot. And in my state of Massachusetts, you could register as an independent and go vote in which either primary happens to be very interesting. And any chance I got to vote against Bill Clinton or Ted Kennedy, I took. I have always voted for a Republican any time there was a Republican on the ballot.” — Romney

Romney has given different statements over the years concerning his vote for Sen. Paul Tsongas in the 1992 Democratic primary, when he was a registered independent. Over time, his comments have ranged from liking Tsongas’s ideas over Bill Clinton’s (1994) to making a tactical vote to get the weakest candidate in the Democratic field (2007). But he certainly had a choice that year to cast a Republican ballot..."

WAPO


This last one
Romney didn't really have too LIE about this. I guess being a pathological LIAR,  he just couldn't help himself.

This goes out to Mitt Romney....Come too the Cayman's




by Mike In Raliegh On Sound Cloud

That's it for this week in review.

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Mitt Romney Blood Money w/Bain Capital Scamming Medicare...

AS I'VE SAID...

 again and again. When you want to find out the real truth about what it is Republicans do when they attain wealth and political power. Republicans are the best source.

When they tell the truth on each other. It's some of the best opposition research you can find. Again, in my opinion, and if anyone takes a deep exegetical look at what Republicans say and do. You can't help but realize, they are at most LIARS.


 I realize that with some the word "liar"  is not pleasant.  Yet when someone LIES on a continuum, what else are they?  One can only misspeak so much, until it's realized you're not misspeaking.  The fact is you're a LIAR. This isn't an accusation, this is a realization.  I Lie.  Yet I'm not a person who willingly practices telling lies.  If I lie generally it's based on fear.  However I've learned to correct my lies.  In other words, I feel remorse, and allow it to move me to correct this wrong. A person that practices LIES on a continuum is usually a sociopath and a LIAR.


REPUBLICANS...


  are at most LIARS and SOCIOPATHS. We will never need to apologize for seeing this as it is. If the premise a politician or political leader begins from is a LIE. He is moving in deception and deception in relations with the public on a large scale is nothing more than evil. In fact you place your listeners under a delusion. How can anyone make a healthy decision when they move under the delusion of a LIE?

 Again, Republicans like Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are at most LIARS.

 THAT SAID...

when they tell the truth about what is their fellow Republicans have done and are attempting to do. Though it be scattered amongst LIES. When you remove the scales of LIES, you can't help but meet some small kernel of truth. With that....

 BLOOD MONEY MITT ROMNEY BAIN CAPITAL AND SCAMMING BILLIONS FROM MEDICARE...

 The things the 1% are willing to do too the 99% percent to enrich themselves on the backs of the elderly, the poor, the working poor, and the middle class.

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Fact Check Friday...Gov. Chris Christie Florida GOP Lie Fest #2

IN INTEREST...


of Americans that treasure the Civil Rights Movement Governor Chris Christie ought to be called out publicly in the Media about this insane sociopathic comment,

Chris Christie F Student In History

"...The fact of the matter is,”... “I think people would have been happy to have a referendum on civil rights rather than fighting and dying in the streets in the South.”..."

Governor Chris Christie (R) New Jersey


Some interesting facts Gov. Christie might consider before he makes such a ridiculous statement again,

"...Racial conflicts have plagued the United States from its very beginnings, in particular driven by racial prejudice against Blacks. The civil rights movement triggered the elimination of Jim Crow segregationism several decades ago, and Whites’ opinions about many racial issues have subsequently liberalized (Schuman, Steeh, Bobo, & Krysan, 1997). However, the substantial disadvantages experienced by Blacks in most domains of life have not disappeared (Sears, Hetts, Sidanius, & Bobo, 2000). Proponents of Blacks’ interests have therefore continued to push for further advances, efforts that have often met with substantial White opposition. Such opposition has generated considerable research interest.

 Theoretical explanations fall into three main categories. The first is that some new form of racism has taken over the political role played in pre– civil rights days by the “old-fashioned,” “redneck,” or “Jim Crow” racism that incorporated social distance between the races, beliefs in the biological inferiority of Blacks, and support for formal discrimination and segregation. One version of a new racism has variously been described as symbolic racism (Kinder & Sears, 1981; McConahay & Hough, 1976; Sears & Kinder, 1971), modern racism (McConahay, 1986), or racial resentment (Kinder & Sanders, 1996)..."
 UCLA.edu

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After taking the facts into consideration we rule Christie statement 'out touch with reality' and a 'pants on fire LIE'. It takes pain sometimes to change failed human behavior.

FACT CHECKING FLORIDA GOP LIEFEST #2


let's begin with "say anything depending on who's listening" ,Which Mitt coreless Romney'.


Romney Falsely Claims President Obama "Said Nothing" In U.N. Speech About Rockets Fired Into Israel

Mitt 'Blood Money'Romney

"... GOP presidential debate in Jacksonville, Florida, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney claimed that President Obama had not made a reference to or condemned rockets being fired into Israel by Palestinian militant groups when he spoke before the U.N. last September.

 ROMNEY:" This president went before the United Nations and castigated Israel for building settlements. He said nothing about thousands of rockets being rained in on Israel from the Gaza Strip..." LIE


FromThe Presidents Speech

"..OBAMA: "...Let us be honest with ourselves: Israel is surrounded by neighbors that have waged repeated wars against it. Israel’s citizens have been killed by rockets fired at their houses and suicide bombs on their buses. Israel’s children come of age knowing that throughout the region, other children are taught to hate them. Israel, a small country of less than eight million people, look out at a world where leaders of much larger nations threaten to wipe it off of the map..."

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We rule this wreckless inflamed rhetoric a 'Pants on Fire' LIE

Newt Gingrich repeats claim that he balanced the federal budget four times as speaker

Taking Credit For Clinton's Success

"..."When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets, the only time in your lifetime, Brian, that we've had four consecutive balanced budgets," Gingrich said. "Most people think that's good."..."

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"...Our ruling Gingrich was off-base with this claim -- again. The budget was indeed balanced for four years, but it’s a stretch for him to take credit for anything more than two of those years. We rate Gingrich’s claim False..."

Something I always keep in mind when Republicans are speaking, Republicans are at most LIARS ACTORS and JOB KILLERS.  


Given a Mic and Free Range to LIE and a Captive CNN audience


Republicans will not only spew out a litany of debunked LIE.  They'll attack  African Americans, Latino Americans, Civil Rights For All, the Social Safety Net, Unions, Teachers, Their Mythical Creation Called 'Radical Socialist Obama', and the 99%.  Their is nothing beneath them.  They pander to the lowest sentiments of their conned, deceived, tricked, fooled, and racial resenting, supporters.

GOP Lords Of Illusions

The sad thing is, these people who support them are living and walking in a well planned strategic Republican illusion.  For them LIES have become their reality.  The GOP are the 'Dream Masters' of the 21st Century.  They are the modern day Lords of Illusions.




As obvious and blatant the LIES are there are those that hate the Republican mythological creation the 'Radical Socialist Obama' , so much if Newt Gingrich said slitting their wris would accomplish the President's failure. Theuy'd quickly oblige.


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President Obama...The Campaign Begins

THERE IS...

The Disrespect Of The Right-Wing

 so much to say. So much to address. Before we get into this I feel like this disrespectful move by Arizona's Jan Brewer is just one in many disrespectful moves as well as comments made by Republithugs. I say thugs because if I put my finger in your personal space, I'm either trying to test you or I'm trying too start a fight. So what was it? Brewer was more than upset when her anti-immigration law SB1070 was picked up by the DOJ and challenged in Court. Her "papers please" law ie racial profiling law.

FROM THE DOJ...


Citing Conflict with Federal Law, Department of Justice Challenges Arizona Immigration Law

"...The Department’s brief said that S.B. 1070 will place significant burdens on federal agencies, diverting their resources away from high-priority targets, such as aliens implicated in terrorism, drug smuggling, and gang activity, and those with criminal records. The law’s mandates on Arizona law enforcement will also result in the harassment and detention of foreign visitors and legal immigrants, as well as U.S. citizens, who cannot readily prove their lawful status. In declarations filed with the brief, Arizona law enforcement officials, including the Chiefs of Police of Phoenix and Tucson, said that S.B. 1070 will hamper their ability to effectively police their communities..."     justice.gov 

So maybe that resentment coupled with being called to the carpet by President Obama about some misinformation Governor Brewer included in her book.

"...she described Obama as lecturing her. In an interview in November Brewer described two tense meetings. The first took place before his commencement address at Arizona State University. "He did blow me off at ASU," she said in the television interview in November..."   cbs News

I suppose as Governor Brewer herself put it on FOX News, yet turned around to correct the LIE, she not the President is "thin skinned". Not too mention tight skinned and botoxed.


THE ABJECT DISRESPECT...

of the President from the right wing has become one of their staple hallmarks.  the absolute disregard for even the office of POTUS.  Last week serial adulterer Newt Gingrich told an audience of Republican supporters that he didn't want to bloody the Presidents nose he wanted to knock him out.

Watch it...

"...When asked how he planned to "bloody" President Obama's nose in a debate, Newt Gingrich on Tuesday said he wants to do more than bloody Obama's nose, he "wants to knock him out."..."   cbs News 

THE HATRED...


of this President doled out daily by the right wing is unprecedented.  It's actually unbelievable.  As an average citizen, what I've seen and heard shocks me, yet it also embarrasses, me as a citizen of this Nation.  What's really sad is the fact that these people are not ashamed nor embarrassed by their own sociopathic behavior.  Yet, if you're a person with a conscience that is seared through how can you feel remorse for anything you do?  As I've said before, these people have repeated their LIES about the President, and have been inundated by the LIES of their peers about the President that they are living in their own delusion and their mythological Barack Obama has become their reality.

ONWARD AND UPWARD...  

Stepping up and out of right wing world, let's move on to President Obama's 2012 campaign.  Yesterday the President flew over to Iowa and spoke clearly and concisely as he outlined his vision for an America "That's built To Last"

"...Our economy is getting stronger. We’ve got a lot of work to do, but it’s getting stronger. And we’ve come way too far to turn back now. After everything that’s happened, there are people in Washington who seem to have collective amnesia..."

FROM POLITICAL CORRECTION...

"...From December 2007 to July 2009 - the last year of the Bush second term and the first six months of the Obama presidency, before his policies could affect the economy - private sector employment crashed from 115,574,000 jobs to 107,778,000 jobs. Employment continued to fall, however, for the next six months, reaching a low of 107,107,000 jobs in December of 2009.

 So, out of 8,467,000 private sector jobs lost in this dismal cycle, 7,796,000 of those jobs or 92 percent were lost on the Republicans' watch or under the sway of their policies. Some 671,000 additional jobs were lost as the stimulus and other moves by the administration kicked in, but 630,000 jobs then came back in the following six months. The tally, to date: Mr. Obama can be held accountable for the net loss of 41,000 jobs (671,000 - 630,000), while the Republicans should be held responsible for the net losses of 7,796,000 jobs. [Sonecon.com, 8/10/10, emphasis added..."

OBAMA CONTINUES...

 "...They seem to have forgotten how we got into this mess. They want to go back to the very same policies that got us into it -- the same policies that have stacked the deck against middle-class Americans for years. And their philosophy, what there is of it, seems to be pretty simple: We’re better off when everybody is left to fend for themselves, and everybody can play by their own rules.
 And I’m here to say they’re wrong. We’re not going to go back to an economy weakened by outsourcing and bad debt and phony financial profits. That’s not how America was built. We’re not going to go back to that..." President Obama in Iowa 

Tomorrow Fact Check Friday and Occupy Fridays

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