Africa is a Continent, and Palin knew that.

The other day I had one of my typical discussions on politics with my neighbor Jerry. Jerry is a great guy, a construction supervisor for our school district and he bleeds Democrat blue. One of the things that separate him from the liberal elite is that he is capable of deciding an issue on the facts, not on rhetoric or talking points, except where Sarah Palin is concerned.

Let’s take a look at what the elites have said and are continuing to say about this woman: she must be a terrible mother because her daughter became pregnant. Ok, so Sarah Palin is facing what a vast majority of mothers with teenage daughters is facing or does this only happen in Republican families? She decided to keep her downs syndrome baby, so she must not care about women’s issues. They still talk about that notorious interview with Katie Couric but Ms. Couric deliberately misquoted Henry Kissinger. Earlier than that, ABC News misquoted the Bush doctrine in an obvious attempt to throw off Palin, their chosen scapegoat.

Sarah Palin surprised everyone in the debate with Biden, including those McCain staffers who are working overtime to trash this woman’s reputation, Joe Biden was wrong about that restaurant he claimed to go to in order to learn about the middle class. It closed down in 1986. Biden doesn’t have a time machine nor has anyone in the elite media done a live broadcast from the nonexistent Katie's Restaurant to point out that Joe Biden is just out of touch with reality. On the other hand, Sarah Palin has received just that sort of treatment and unlike Biden she didn’t lie. There were approximately 14 “factual mistakes” uttered by Biden in that debate but the media hasn’t even mentioned one. Let Sarah Palin utter a single malaprop during a private rehearsal and suddenly she thinks Africa is a country and not a continent.

The liberal elite love the sort of libel that is coming from the McCain staffers. They saw that Palin was a far better candidate than McCain could ever hope to be…and she was better in a debate than Obama’s best showing. This woman had to be silenced. So the stealth attacks and the phony leaks began. In one egregious incident Sarah Palin heard that Bill O’Reilly wanted her on his show. Palin called O’Reilly and agreed to go on. McCain’s staffers heard about the call and, behind Palin’s back canceled the appearance. They then told her that O’Reilly had cancelled her appearance, which was a lie.

Republicans, just like Democrats have their own elite snobbery. McCain made the fatal mistake of filling his campaign staff with people of that stripe. If anyone was out of touch, McCain was right there along with Obama and Biden. Sure, he may have had a hard time in Vietnam, but he has spent far more time living the good life in Washington. He has been pampered and coddled to the point where it is the norm. He would no more recognize middle class America than Joe Biden would. For him, eating at a truck stop would now be torture. This is why people like Adams, Franklin and Jefferson instituted term limits. They saw the danger and hoped to prevent its occurrence. For the Republican elite in McCain’s campaign Sarah Palin was a contamination not to be tolerated.

Now, the liberal elite attacking someone like Palin is understandable. The fact that Michelle Obama can make a statement about how important her children are to her and that they will be her chief focus in Washington…the fact that that becomes a point of honor by the media, but when uttered by a Republican woman becomes a concern…we can all recognize and understand the obvious hypocrisy. Biden lies and it is ignored. Obama stumbles during a debate and it is called a “thoughtful pause”. Sarah Palin has a moment of anger behind the scenes about her treatment by the media and she is a shrill, spiteful monster. What really gets me is that so many Democrats are totally blind to the lopsidedness here. Judgments are made about an individual with regard to her home life, her character, her intelligence and even her thought processes and they have never even met her nor done one single bit of research on their own. Here is the capper; they call that “fair”.

Obama and Biden are liars

Lying. That means to cover or hide the truth. People lie to cover up a fact they do not want the listener to be aware of. People lie to hide weaknesses in their character, to avoid the responsibility for a wrong they have done, and to cheat their way into or out of a situation, always for their profit and the loss of those they are cheating.

If we were attentive parents, we taught our children not to lie and we punished them if they were caught doing so. In today’s world it seems that lying is being taught in the home as a viable tool for advancing in society and in business. In the political realm, lying is now seen as an attribute and the office holder who is caught being honest instantly become a pariah.

You think I’m spewing hyperbole here? Look at Joe Biden. The good Senator has a history of being an unrepentant plagiarist. That means he took the published words of someone and called them his own, when in fact, none of the work was his at all, and he did it more than once. I brought this fact up before an Obama supporter. The response? They could not have been less concerned. Here we are, readying ourselves to give this man the second highest office in our land, and he’s a proven liar and a thief. It used to be that those traits were considered a flaw on a man’s character. Today, if you point those out, you’re “judging”, or you’re being narrow-minded. All right, when little Johnny breaks something valuable and tells a Biden, are you going to spank him, or are you going to look on him with pride because he’s emulating the good senator.

Obama is on record as voting to drastically curtail our second amendment rights. He has called babies a “punishment”. He has indicated a preference for criminals over their victims. He wants to punish small business for succeeding and he plans on immediately restricting the right of free speech for those who disagree with him upon taking office. Every single one of these charges are an established fact taken in context from either an Obama speech or a statement. They have been said in discussions, interviews and on the Senate floor. Now, when it appears that the country may not be all that thrilled with his true Marxist leanings, Obama has turned his message around a full 180 degrees and began advocating the exact opposite of what he has said before. A cynical man would call that lying.

A politician would call it “growth”.

A Sarah Palin Knockout

I would be interested in knowing what your opinions are about the Vice Presidential Debate held last night. We have all seen the polls and I consider every single one of the posted results, except one suspect at best. First of all, the samplings were of less than 500 people as in CBS’ poll and secondly, it would be like asking Al-Qaeda for an opinion on Judaism and then posting the result as a world view.

Every major network except Fox has Biden winning decisively over Palin. The problem is that every major network except Fox is owned and run by people who have declared their support for Obama. The Moderator of the debate published a book proclaiming Obama’s superior leadership qualities. Frankly, Palin was not being put in front of a friendly audience. She was supposed to be the sacrificial lamb. She did not go along with PBS’ plan.

She came across as a woman with a Ronald Reagan style sense of humor. She upset the media elite terribly by not going along with the question bombs of Gwen Ifill. She has endured slander, libel, threats of violence, and denigration. The network talking heads looked and sounded furious because Palin, in spite of Ifill’s leading questions, stuck to the issues with a down home folksy attitude that has born incredible results in real America. The Drudge Report poll has her leading Biden 226,563 to a puny 92,471. Those are numbers that have a far more viable impact than MSNBC’s silly instapoll.

You thought the left hated her before. Just think what they are feeling now? They thought the Katie Couric interview had showed the real woman that was hiding behind the GOP’s teleprompter. To their horrified shock, the real woman was the one of the convention and not what Couric’s editing had produced. The comments posted on the networks’ forums tell the story, “…rude…condescending…didn’t listen to the moderator…” Of course they’re upset. They had a nice juicy target all set up and ready for the kill…and then she, not they, attacked. It’s not fair. Oh, just for the record, Biden, the admitted plagerist, is also a liar. If anyone remembers the Democrat debates, Obama not only said that he would meet with Iran's leader, but he also included North Korea in that offer. Biden's assertion to the contrary was not just politics, it was a lie.

What do you think?

An Objective Media? Not a chance.

Webster’s Dictionary has a definition of the term “objective” as this: expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations.

The news media of today needs to learn to use that resource. Based on Webster’s definition we do not have an objective media. Since the days that brought us the term “yellow journalism”, publishers have played fast and loose with the truth simply to further their own personal agendas. An example of this was William Randolph Hearst’s response to illustrator Frederic Remington's request to return from a Havana that was quiet, "Please remain. You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."

Bill O’Reilly writes that around 80% of the media is nonobjective. I disagree. Bill is only looking at the left side of the equation. The figure is much closer to 100%. The amount of objective reporting is so minute that it isn’t worth considering. Most of it is reserved to the comics page.

In the upcoming Vice Presidential debate, the Democrats would not even consider allowing a moderator with a history of fairness. The Republicans insisting on someone outside of the liberal media as moderator would have made the debate a non-starter. If they had said Fox News or nothing, we would have seen the end of presidential debates for the foreseeable future.

I find the lefties version of fairness sadly lacking in the equality quotient. To them, an 80-20 split is somehow grossly weighed over to the 20% side. The right has Fox. The left has CBS, NBC, MSNBC, TNT, ABC, etc., nearly all the radio networks and over 80% of the newspapers. Yet somehow the right has an unfair advantage. True equality, to them, is discrimination. To the left, the ability to answer their arguments with one of your own is not fair.

There is no truly objective reporting any more. I witnessed that first hand as a Nevada Assemblyman. Ed Vogel, a reporter with the Las Vegas Review Journal, teamed up with the Treasurer of the GOP in Nevada to phony up an ethics charge against me. If this had been done outside of a political campaign, those individual would have been guilty of a crime...but we are talking about the media here. Molly Ball, a reporter for the Review Journal and Jon Ralston, a columnist for The Sun, both have drunken driving citations on their records and both have gone after representatives for assumed misjudgment. The “pot calling the kettle” squared. Reporters with no experience whatsoever in public education regularly trash teachers in these rags, while at the same time they are earning easily twice the salary of those people they lambaste…while working half the hours.

Moving to the national stage, we have seen article after article about how dangerous Sarah Palin is, while not one paper writing that has brought up Obama’s connection to Acorn and Clinton’s executive order beginning the process that melted down our economy. Not one of those papers has brought to mind Biden’s plagiarism. In Obama and Biden’s cases, those items are public record; everything they have against Palin is supposition at best. The elite hate conservatism. The elite media hate conservatism with a depth of loathing that surpasses what the Islamists feel about Israel, and they will do what they can, short of violence, to destroy it utterly.

Does Sarah Palin have any Experience?

I spoke with my brother who lives in Oregon yesterday. He asked me what I thought about Sarah Palin. The same question has been asked several times over the past few weeks by people all over this country. A number of them are surprised by my answer; I think she is the most qualified out of all the candidates.

Now, after you've wiped up the coffee you've sputtered all over the table, let me explain my reasoning. Mrs. Palin is the only one out of al the four who has had actual executive experience in a governmental post. Like Reagan she is a governor running for a national electoral seat. She has had more relevant experience in dealing with international energy issues because of the pipeline and the ongoing dispute the US has had with Russia over Alaskan territory. She has had to deal with the Inuit Tribes, a far more rounding experience than being a community organizer.

By the way, Pontius Pilot was not a "governor" in the true sense; he oversaw the taxation of Judea for Rome. Nor was Jesus a "community organizer", he was a wandering teacher who happened to also be God's son. If you compare Jesus' teachings with what Obama did, Obama would have been one of those Jesus drove out of the temple at the end of a whip.

Back to Palin, she saved Alaska hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in costs associated with the Governor's office by working out of her home. She has refused costly perks other people, including Obama, would have taken for granted as their due. She has a sense of humor, something Biden has no relation with, and she answers her own phone, something Hillary Clinton would never consider. And isn't it interesting. This is no longer a race between Obama and McCain, it is between Obama and Sarah Palin, and the two old white guys have been pushed to the side. Now wouldn't this make for an interesting movie plot?

Mr. Chapman, your bias is showing

Let me get this straight. An effective Governor who also served on a city council and later as mayor...plus was courageous enough to begin saving taxpayer funds by cutting her own salary first, is less qualified for the Vice Presidency than the Senator of a tiny northeast state who has never done anything decisive. A senator who's running mate has never held an executive position, period. What am I missing here? Oh yes, she a true conservative, not just a republican. She went up against the GOP party leadership and committed the worst of sins, she won.
As for all those comments pushing her lack of experience. I would like to see the details on all the accomplishments and experience of Obama and Biden. Longevity in the Senate is not experience for the White House. The buck doesn't stop with you, so Palin is more qualified than Biden. As for Obama, please...I had to stop typing to giggle...a girl scout has more experience than he does.
Let's move on the the speeches. Anyone remember Reagan? The intrenched media attempted to slough him off as just a good speaker. Well, considering that attribute, Palin is a better speaker than Obama, and she can do it off the cuff as well as using a prepared document. You give Obama an unscripted question and he stammers for a half hour. Reagan never did that, nor does Palin. Biden tries to deliver a nonanswer. And the scrabbling from the lefties, Chapman has joined that group, continues. Because Palin's speech was so well delivered she blew Obama out of the water, they have decided to nit pick. The chosen talking point is that she did not mention issues such as the economy and healthcare and the solutions to those problems. Well, I have to admit Obama and Biden have mentioned both, but I have yet to hear a solution from either man. Apparantly, to please the Washington Chapman-style media that is what you do...in addition to being a Democrat. Sarah Palin delivers a better speech than Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi or any other leftty woman, and she has more exectutive experience that Clinton will ever have. Remember, Hillary may have lived in the White House for eight years, but she did nothing. The first lady is not an executive. She has no executive authority. By the way, neither does a community organizer.
Mr. Chapman, your bias is showing.

We've hit slime

It was inevitable, a record has been broken. The left, not satisfied with a substantive discussion on the issues, has descended deeply into the gutter to attack Sarah Palin, a woman they have never met.

This blog will not repeat the topics covered in these attacks. Let it be said that the spectrum has been broad and offensive. What I find interesting is that if the same style of attack was done by conservatives against a Democrat...we would already have marches in Washington and defamation suits on file. Talking heads on every network other than Fox would be decrying the unfairness of the attack and Fox would be clicking its tongue in sympathy.

Obama did the right thing in immediately saying that family was off limits, but you notice that he has moved on past that now as the slime continues to flow. His tail is covered and he can safely say he stood up for the right thing all the while secretly chuckling at the lefty blogs, saying, “Go get her guys.”

There is no question that Mrs. Palin has more executive than any of the other three candidates. As the Alaskan Governor she has had more access to classified material than Obama, Biden or McCain. Remember, the Alaskan National Guard occupies a number of bases that have a direct line of sight to Siberia. Russian military aircraft often fly over US territory up there. Can any of the three say they have been the commander in chief of any military group? The two Dems haven’t even experienced boot camp.

Imagine the ACLU suit if hypocrisy in political campaigns were made a felony.