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What’s news got to do with it?

This morning, the New York Times deigned to place the focus of the Tucson massacre where it should have been all along, talking about the sorry state of mental health facilities across the United States. The history of the de-institutionalization of the mentally ill in our country is a depressing topic that deserves some historical context, but I'm not going to treat that here. Instead, I'll just point out that the states are now facing declining revenues, due to necessary federal cutbacks in aid, their incredible debt obligations to public employees who haven't paid in nearly enough to merit the benefits that they are supposed to have accrued, and the continuing sluggishness of the economy.

President Obama's pep rally speech at the University of Arizona, which distinctly noted that blaming ideological divisions was bootless, should have been enough to rouse the leftist media from their stupidity, but dead-enders hung on--such as Joan Walsh of Salon, who found it preferable to rewrite the words of his speech in order to preserve the narrative that "incendiary rhetoric" (from the right wing) was to blame. Stacy McCain's done a bang-up job of unraveling the new age tripe behind the Zeitgeist "documentary" that justified and fed the paranoia of paranoid schizophrenic Jared Loughner, who murdered and wounded a score of people at Gabby Giffords' public appearance. Oddly enough, it turns out that that piece of work has found financial backing from Brazil's state-owned petroleum enterprise, Petrobras, with which George Soros was at the time financially partnered, as well as the United States.

Remember that the administration decided to back this offshore exploration and drilling initiative with several billion taxpayer dollars, even as they were citing environmental concerns as justification for their moratorium on drilling and exploration in the Gulf of Mexico, going so far as to rewrite the opinions of the experts that they had called in to provide them with an after-report on the disaster. As industry insiders warned at the time, offshore platforms and rigs cost an enormous amount of money to operate, and if there was no work available in the United States, they were going to go elsewhere. So it was that the administration capitalized on the aftermath of the disaster to move all of those assets where they wanted them, offshore of the area that zoologists and botanists claim is the most elaborate and delicate ecosystem on the planet. For the children.

Those who are paying attention have probably noticed that Brazil recently elected their first woman president, which would be laudable, I suppose, were she not an ardent (ex?) communist. Thus this important Latin American nation joins others such as Nicaragua, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela in the surging Castroite cluster. Facing mounting pressure at home due to economic crisis, Chavez has been rattling his sabre at Colombia, making noise about nuclear ambitions, and most recently claimed that Venezuela has oil reserves in excess of Saudi Arabia's. Skipping lightly over the details of government-funded mosque building, Hezbollah ties, uranium enrichment, and importation of Cuban doctors, I'll just note that the Obama administration's recent pressuring of Honduras to accept would-be-dictator and obvious lunatic Manuel Zelaya back into the country, by urging them to drop the charges against him, demonstrates their commitment to a Reverse Monroe Doctrine which has the stamps of Susan Rice and Samantha Power all over it.

Yes, the attempted assassination of Representative Giffords and the murders of six other people was a newsworthy event. In the continuing aftermath, though, a Philadelphia grand jury brought charges against local professional abortionist Kermit Gosnell for the murders of seven babies beyond legal term, and for the death of a patient from malpractice at his filthy clinic, where the unsanitized instruments of his repugnant trade spread venereal disease and death while the organs of the state looked away, despite the testimony of whistleblowers. Fifteen seconds of fame lefty hero J Eric Fuller may have ranted about collecting the ears of his perceived political enemies on a necklace, but that was nothing but violent rhetoric compared with the collection of babies' feet Kermit Gosnell accumulated for his pleasure whilst enriching himself through state-condoned murder. As Michelle Malkin says, you should read the entire 281 page indictment to get an idea of the conditions in which this fiend was permitted to execute hundreds of infants.

Somehow, though, even as they retrace in detail the steps leading to Loughner's rampage, his encounters with friends and hotel night clerks, his MySpace postings and voice mail messages, the MSM seem reluctant to share the details of "Doctor" Gosnell's Little Shop of Horrors, or to consider what kind of rhetoric might have led him so viciously to flout the law, not to mention any standard of human decency by "snipping" the spinal cords of his hundreds of tiny victims with scissors, refusing to let the companions of his "patients" call ambulances when his procedures went awry, and all the rest. These deeds cry out to heaven for justice, but not through the voice of the MSM, who erupted so vociferously at the murder of abortionist George Tiller and who, until Obama was elected, clamored so greedily for the right to peer into the coffins of our dead soldiers.

Indeed, as Thomas Friedman and his ideological brethren wish that we were more like enlightened totalitarian China, and the President fetes their leaders with all the pomp, circumstance and surfeit that he so rudely stints to the leaders of other democracies, we are reminded what how it is that they treat their own:

Smith recounted the testimony of a Chinese woman who told the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission of the U.S. Congress that she was forced to have an abortion.

“Since it did not come out as expected, they decided to cut my baby into pieces in my womb with scissors and then suck it out with a special machine,” the woman said. “I did not have any time to think as this most horrifying surgery began by force. I could hear the sound of the scissors cutting the body of my baby in the womb.

“Eventually, the journey in hell, the surgery, was finished, and one nurse showed me part of a bloody foot with her tweezers,” the woman said.

“Through my tears, the picture of the bloody foot was engraved into my eyes and into my heart, and so clearly I could see the five small bloody toes,” the woman said. “Immediately the body was thrown into a trashcan.

“The one-child policy and forced abortion policy have killed millions of innocent lives in China,” the woman said.

Fear not: I am certain that Obama will have expressed his concern that their execution buses emit greenhouse gases.

Oh, hey. Did you hear the one about how the Fed made it impossible for them to become insolvent? Or about the fellas who beat a guy to death for asking for the seven cents change he was owed? Or about the Representative who admitted he was aware of Pigford fraud and did nothing about it, then recanted and blamed Breitbart?

Of course not. That's incendiary.

Remember the one about the Supreme Court Justice who rewrote a physicians' opinion on abortion? Neither do I.

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Budweiser Packers Commercial Fail

It's a good commercial, very flattering to us Wisconsinites. Dere's just one problem: it's "ya dere hey," not "ya hey dere."

Via @iowahawkblog

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Polls! Polls!

Chicago viral marketing for Zombie movie.

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