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July 21st, 2008 at 6:16 am

Media Matters… or Does It?

» by Nikitas in: '08 Elections, Mainstream Media

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When The New Yorker magazine recently ran a cartoon cover of Barack and Michelle Obama as radical, gun-toting Muslims who burned the American flag and revered Osama bin Laden, the Obama campaign was outraged. And while The New Yorker is fully in the can for Obama along with all of America’s leftist intelligentsia, their cover “joke” was lost on the Illinois senator, the joke being that the cartoon really was intended to poke fun at the right-wingers who apparently are hinting that Obama is nothing less than a Muslim jihadist.

But Barack Hussein Obama is being thin-skinned yet again. If a guy with that name wants to emerge from the underbrush and run for president, he’d better expect some skepticism. Americans have a healthy habit of wanting to know who they are voting for for president.

And after almost a decade of savage attacks and acid cartoons of Bush, Cheney, Rice, etc., you don’t see GWB & Co. playing victim as Obama has done on everything from Reverend Wright (quit the church) to his 1996 questionnaire answers that were perceived as anti-gun (a staffer filled it out) to any mention of his wife (she is off limits). Continue Reading »

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July 14th, 2008 at 5:42 am

Obama Glow Fading?

» by Nikitas in: '08 Elections

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Obama Glow In late June, Newsweek magazine announced poll results that showed Barack Obama with a 51-36 lead over John McCain. At the time, Nikitas3.com editorialized:

Meanwhile, a new Newsweek poll shows Obama with a 51-36 lead over McCain. While this is intended to stimulate the chattering classes and frighten conservatives, we can take comfort in the fact that Newsweek has morphed into a far-left publication that can and will conveniently skew the polls any way it wants.

For instance pollsters know that phone surveys conducted at certain times of the day or week will produce results biased one way or another. Or people in certain demographic zones will tilt one way or the other. And that the polls can be rigged by the questions asked, or even by their sequence. Continue Reading »

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July 7th, 2008 at 6:15 am

Jesse Helms, 1921-2001, Righteous Warrior

» by Nikitas in: Heritage of America

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Jesse Helms, the conservative US Senator from North Carolina who energized the political right for decades and perpetually angered those on the political left, died July 4 at age 86, leaving a legacy that will far outshine even what most Republicans know about him.

One of four key figures in the rise of American conservatism in the second half of the 20th century (the others being William F. Buckley Jr., Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan) Helms was a tireless, unrepentant and serially politically-incorrect leader.

He served 30 years in the US Senate from 1972 to 2002. In his life he opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Martin Luther King holiday; despised the United Nations and tried to de-fund it; railed against public-funded art that he found repugnant; represented North Carolina tobacco interests unwaveringly; fought for school prayer and against abortion; vocally opposed homosexuality and other sexual license; was fiercely anti-communist; hated liberalism in its every form; and ultimately was the central figure in helping to make Ronald Reagan the 40th President of the United States.

Born in Monroe, NC the son of a sheriff, Helms wanted early on to become a journalist. In his book “Righteous Warrior, Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern Conservatism”, University of Florida history professor William Link describes Helms’ career in the Navy, then as a radio commentator. Continue Reading »