Whoopi Cries Foul, Slams GOP-again

New York Daily News gave voice to Goldberg again today:

“America’s heart and soul is freedom of expression without fear of reprisal,’ she said in a statement.”

So why are we forced into dealing with the consequence of your tossing blame at Republicans, when it was your boss, a Democrat, who canned you?

Here’s the thing; the Experiment in freedom was defined as a lack of consequence from the GOVERNMENT. You exercised right to free speech… And pretty free it was… To the point of abuse, I think.

Your problem, Ms.Goldberg, is that in response to your using that right, other Americans have exercised THEIR right to free speech… and further, they have threatened to take their business elsewhere… Something they always have the right to do a free marketplace.

Interesting tidbit from, of all things, a Nader supporter… at Petrelis Files:

He asks the question…Where do Reporters political dollars go, accoridng the FEC?
The search of their database, which he links, BTW, makes for some interesting reading, and some interesting results, one of which won’t shock anyone:

“President George Bush didn’t receive a single donation from any outlet or reporter in my search”

Arnold King’s most recent Tech Central Station column is a good one:

“Today, there are two Americas. One America agrees with Congressman Sanders and Senator John Edwards that life is getting harder for working Americans, that things have been going down hill for thirty years, and that our only hope is bigger government. The other America realizes that it is nonsense to suggest that the middle class is disappearing and that the standard of living is eroding for working Americans.”

He lays out a convincing case against the biggest Democrat lie to come down the pilke in decades… that we’re in worse problems than we were in the 30’s.

The Boston Herald today suggests that the Democrats at the convention will be full of it… Literally.

Pols are terrified over the 11th-hour realization that Boston’s handful of public toilets shut down at 5 p.m. sharp – long before the 35,000 convention-goers stagger into the streets after last call in local bars.

The specter is all the scarier because the images, and odors, are fresh from this year’s public Super Bowl party, when portable johns were yanked off the streets for security reasons and reveling fans simply answered when nature called.

Pardon the pun, but I’m not goin’ there.

DRUDGE REPORT is saying in part:

“Osbourne opened his concert with the song ‘War Pigs,’ featuring a video portrait comparing Bush to Adolph Hitler.

The video featured Bush and Hitler on the same screen, with the caption: ‘Same sh*t different a**hole,’ says a source”

Look, let’s call this what it is, shall we? This is someone who for 20 years, has given new levels of meaning to the phrase “air head”. And now suddenly he’s being hailed as some kind of visionary because he decides he’s going to try and crap on the President?

News flash, people: The only “visions” this vacant stare on legs is having involve what all that drug use brought on, OK?

What a waste of air.

(I’m spending some of today looking out my window because the Blue Angels are here in town, doing practice runs for the ESL International Airshow which is here in Rochester this weekend.
Here’s another site, this one flash encoded) Great stuff.

While watching the skies from my 7th floor perch, I noted someone on the ground passing out Kerry Pamphlets right at Main and Clinton, arguably the second biggest surface intersection in our fair berg. He was as loud as you might expect…(in fairness those jets get pretty loud)

An encouraging sign, this; He was being told off, in no uncertain terms by half the people and flat-out ignored by the rest.

Getting the Butler Report out to me here took a bit longer than I’d have thought
But here it is.

You’ll need Adobe Acrobat to read it… which you can get from this link if you like.

Daily Times Of Pakistan:

“LONDON: Saddam Hussein had links with terrorists like Carlos the Jackal and Abu Nidal and groups connected to Al Qaeda, Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Wednesday.

“The record of Saddam shows very well his connections to international terrorists, like Carlos and Abu Nidal,” Allawi told BBC radio. “We know for sure that he had established links with chieftains in Sudan, to work closely with Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda style organisations,” he said.”

Funny thing; The quote is attributed to a BBC interview, and yet the quote doesn’t show up, far as I can tell on the BBC site.

Captain’s Quarters quotes a Drudge link that in turn reports:

Despite promises to expand the election playing field, John Kerry has reduced his ad spending in Missouri, Arizona and throughout the South in the run-up to the Democratic presidential convention.

The story gets longer and complicated, but it bottoms out here:

Kerry’s in trouble.

Read the story at CQ.

OK, I do get a little Monty Pythonish at this hour…
(Ahem)

I’ve had lots to say on Joe Wilson and Valarie Plame, his wife.Ann Coulter as usual, says it better about Wilson…  And so does Novak, who has some closer views of this than anyone else.. and amazingly enough, Chris Hitchens comes up with an article I can link to about Plame, as well.

Update:
The Instant One has a link you should check out. seems Kerry’s paying for a website that Wilson’s running called “Restore Honesty”

Perhaps Kerry is simply replacing his Botox regimen, with Raw Egg.

Update2:

WSJ has a really good write up of all of this, today:

“All of this matters because Mr. Wilson’s disinformation became the vanguard of a year-long assault on Mr. Bush’s credibility. The political goal was to portray the President as a “liar,” regardless of the facts. Now that we know those facts, Americans can decide who the real liars are. ”

My Way News says:

LOS ANGELES (AP) – The Slim-Fast diet drink company has dumped Whoopi Goldberg from its advertising because its executives were unhappy with remarks the comedian made at a recent political rally that mocked President Bush.

“We are disappointed by the manner in which Ms. Goldberg chose to express herself and sincerely regret that her recent remarks offended some of our consumers. Ads featuring Ms. Goldberg will no longer be on the air,” Slim-Fast general manager Terry Olson said in a press release Wednesday

Yes, I saw this yesterday when it happened, but hadn’t really thought much about it. But I got to discussing it with my wife, and it started me thinking on the topic. I guess one reason is, it’s pretty much par for the Democrats course, anymore to spew this kind of hate at these things.  But my freind here at work asks a good question: Where’s the outrage? Have we become so beaten down by this stuff that we simply ignore it?

He’s got a point. We shouldn’t let this stuff slide.

John Kerry for his part, has publicly suggested that Ms Goldberg’s drunken tirade, along with the rest of the idiots on stage that night, including Kerry himself, represent the “Heart and Soul” of America.

The fact of the matter is, Kerry has never understood what constitutes the ‘Heart and Soul of America’ and wouldn’t be able to identify it if it leaped up and bit him on his Botox supply.  If Kerry thinks this is the heart and soul of America, then what he’s telling us is that heart and soul of America is filled with hatred, bigotry, and vulgerity… because that’s all we got out of that show in NYC the other night.

However, Kerry’s statement does go a long way indeed toward reinforcing what I said the other day about Ted Rall and other Democrats;

Rall is not being outrageous for it’s own sake, he’s simply being a mainstream Democrat. That connection between Ralls outrages and the Mainstream Democrats needs to be hammered home.
Again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.
And again.

And once the American people really see this bigotry for what it is, not only will Rall be on his back looking up, but so will the political party he speaks so well for.

And the same goes for the likes of Goldberg. It’s part and parcel of the same phenom.

That kind of blind hatred taints the entre party, right to the top. Think; Kerry, the presidential candidate, has no time to read reports on terrorism. Yet he has time to join a bunch of his fellow Democrats in spewing vulgarity and hate.. and then claim it’s reflective of America.

No wonder the Democrats are lothe to release the tape. They know the American people will see the Democrat Party in all it’s glory, and will react accodingly.

Note to Ed Gilespie: Keep up the pressue of the Democrats to release this tape. Make sure the American people know what the Democrat party really stands for… in their own words.

Now, over the next few days, You’re going to hear the Democrats, Goldberg included, whine loud and long about “Freedom of speech’ but the bottom line is she still has that.  What she got a reminder of yesterday was that others have freedoms as well… for example to use their money in ways they see fit… for example… not to spend money on a firm that supports such as Whoopie Goldberg.

And, think also; the Slimfast Company is led by a staunch liberal, who gave over a million Dollars to the Kerry Campaign. That point bears close watching over the next weeks, I think.

Update:

I noticed this Joe Katzman post, and was caught by a line just now, over at Winds of Change.

The post is talking about another outrage.. Moore and “Feral Hate 9/11”.
Joe quotes Irfan Khawaja of the Institute for the Secularization of Islamic Society:

“Moore’s film, we’re told, is unfair, impolite, unsubtle, unwise, obnoxious, tendentious, and maddeningly self-contradictory – all Scott’s terms, not mine. And yet, Scott insists, Moore is a “credit to the republic” for having made the film despite this. It seems not to have occurred to Scott that once you concede that crap like Fahrenheit 9/11 is a “credit to the republic,” you’ve already conceded that the republic is itself a piece of crap “…….

And it occurrs to me to ask; If Kerry thinks this display in NY that I’ve been writing about, constitutes a reflection of the “Heart and Soul” of the country, what is he really saying about our country? Our culture?

And for that matter, more directly, what is he saying about you and I? Personally, I’m decidedly insulted, and think you should be, as well.

THIS is why the Patriot act needs to be renewed.

Hat tip to Byron at Slings and Arrows

Ed over at Captain’s Quarters points up an interesting tussle developing between the Clinton and Kerry camps within the DNC. Kerry’s people don’t want Hillary speaking for all the obvious reasons…. Political baggage, Hillary is motivated to arrange for Kerry to lose, else she’ll never have a chance to run for president on her own, as we’ve discussed, and she’s a shrill, boring, screamer of a speaker anyway.

But Hillary of course has her own ideas. This is going to be the sole interesting point in the convention for me… At least based on what we have going so far.

Read Ed’s post.

Aldaynet notes that:

“…the Communist Party of The United States of America, CPUSA, is publicly supporting the election of John Kerry.

The CPUSA has made available on its Web site, cpusa.org, an advertisement entitled Top Ten Reasons To Defeat Bush. This advertisement can be downloaded. The communist party urges readers to place this ad in local newspapers throughout the country to defeat President Bush.”

Chew on that one for a while.
Tom asks: “Is anyone really suprised?”

Nobody here, Tom.

The Command Post is reporting:

“Attackers have killed the governor of the Iraqi city of Mosul as he was driving in a convoy of vehicles towards Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source has said.”

As the Slug suggests, this is breaking news… and you should check the usuals… and Command Post seems to be on top of it, too.