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Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies, 2006-2007 Edition
Gregg Jackson
Description: Gregg Jackson, co-host of WRKO Pundit Review Radio, discusses his book, “Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies.” In the book, he presents comebacks to liberal claims about abortion, the Clinton administration, and weapons of mass destruction. During a mock debate, Mr. Jackson shows conservative high school students how to refute Democrats’ claims and assertions. This event was part of the Eagle Council, hosted by the Eagle Forum.
Author Bio: Gregg Jackson is the co-host of WRKO Pundit Review Radio and a contributing editor to punditreview.com. Mr. Jackson was a 2005 Weblog Award Finalist in the Best Media Journalist Blog category.
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The reason you don’t hear much from the angry left about the “jobless recovery” and the worst economy since Herbert Hoover” etc is that one of the least reported stories is how on fire the economy is (and has been since the 2003 Bush Tax Cuts that were unanimously opposed by just about every liberal Dem in Congress).
In case you missed it those tax revenues keep pouring into the Treasury as a result of the Bush Tax Cuts-the exact opposite of what liberals predicted:
The federal budget estimate for the fiscal year just completed dropped to $250 billion, congressional estimators said Friday, as the economy continues to fuel impressive tax revenues.
The Congressional Budget Office’s latest estimate is $10 billion below CBO predictions issued in August and well below a July White House prediction of $296 billion.
The improving deficit picture _ Bush predicted a $423 billion deficit in his February budget _ has been driven by better-than-expected tax receipts, especially from corporate profits, CBO said.
If it really is “about the economy stupid” then The GOP will retain control of Congress in a few weeks. (which I predict).
Update:
Nancy Pelosi had this to say about the Labor Department’s September jobs report showing an increase in jobs, a jump in average hourly income and a decrease in unemployment. and Speaker Hastert’s comments that “September’s lower unemployment rate, steady job growth and increased hourly earnings comes on the heels of a record-setting week on Wall Street.”
But Pelosi said the economy is bad for most Americans, because “the cost of everything from housing, to health care, to energy is making it harder than ever to make ends meet, tightening the middle-class squeeze,” Pelosi said. “The Dow is up, but people’s retirements are less secure than ever.”
Yup Nancy, we are all doomed. NO doubt. Nice campaign message. Scare Americans and tell them how 14 consecutive quarters of positive GDP, record low unemployment and inflation, record stock market levels and decreasing defecits are bad for “average working Americans.” (i.e. people that work and pay taxes). Yes I am sure that Americans are chomping at the bit Nancy to elect tax and spend libs like you for a “New Direction” (really novel campaign slogan) so that you can increase taxes and regulations to put an end to all the obvious damage the Bush Tax Cuts have wrought on America.
And they wonder why they lose election after election?
Update:
I wonder if Nancy read this report?
Unemployement Falls to 4.6%
So says the Bureau of Labor Statistics (PDF). It also notes that average hourly earnings rose from $16.80 to $16.84 – while over the past year hourly and weekly earnings have increased by 4%.
Full story here. (HT B4B).
This week the biggest story in the mainstream media has been (unfortunately) the Mark Foley story and his alleged electronic flirtations with a male Congressional page. If proven true, Foley did the right thing by resigning immediately instead of dragging the country thru the mud like Clinton and many other liberals have done in the past. There is no room for that type of promiscuous immoral behavior in Congress. (unless you are a Democrat of course.)
Having said that however I believe some context is usefull in putting this situation in perspective. Everybody knows that liberal Dems who are “outraged” that a homosexual Congressman would flirt on line with a 17-year old male page are being a tad disingenuous.
The Patriot Post has this fantastic piece on the subject.
In the early days of 2001, amid the hasty removal of the letter â??Wâ? from White House keyboards and the theft of the presidential china from Air Force Oneâ??s galley, the departing President Clinton was busily dispensing no fewer than 176 last-minute presidential pardons to convicted criminals from sea to shining sea. One of these was for Mel Reynolds, a former Democrat congressman from Chicago. Reynolds had been serving a five-year federal sentence for fraudulent-loan and campaign-finance practices, having completed a 30-month sentence for 12 counts of statutory rape of a 16-year-old campaign volunteer.
Clinton pardoned Reynolds at the behest of Jessie Jackson, who then snatched up the sleazy pol to work for his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition. Of course everybody remembers Bill Clintonâ??s infamous affair with 21-year-old intern Monica Lewinskyâ??letâ??s call that the â??Clinton legacy.â? Perhaps fewer, though, recall Jacksonâ??s sordid four-year affair with a subordinate, one Karin Stanford, a staffer with Rainbow/PUSH.
Where was the “outrage” of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid then? Any calls then for Clinton to “step down” or “resign” when he pardoned Congressman Reynolds? Seems to me that Clinton’s pardon of such a sordid individual would be far more “outrageous” than Foley’s on line flirtations.
If not then perhaps consideration should be given to some other notable liberal Democrats involved in far worse sex scandals.
When, in 1983, Democrat Rep. Gerry Studdsâ?? homosexual affair with an underage page was publicized, not only did he refuse to apologize, but he also called a press conference in which he appeared side by side with his 17-year-old conquest, defending his act as a â??mutually voluntary, private relationship between adults.â? Studds was censured, but being from Massachusetts he was re-elected five times. At about the same time, when Republican Rep. Daniel Crane was found to have committed statutory rape with a female page, he too was censuredâ??but voters from Craneâ??s state of Illinois had the good sense to remove him.
Did you get that? Dems re-elected that vermon of an individual Studds five times while Crane was removed by Republicans. That’s how outraged liberal Dems in Mass were I’ll tell ya.
Or consider the case of our own Barney Frank (why are all these guys from Mass?)
Another fine Democrat of the Massachusetts delegation is the all too out-of-the-closet Rep. Barney Frank, who once employed a live-in call-boy lover named Steve Gobie. Frank paid Gobie $20,000 to work as a personal aide while Gobie, a convicted felon, ran a homosexual-prostitution ring from Frankâ??s apartment in the 1980s. When the House convened for disciplinary action against Frank in 1990, only two Democrats voted to censure him. In both cases, Democrats controlled the House and failed to act against these most wayward of members, who not only violated the chamberâ??s ethical standards, but also broke serious laws in so doing.
Democrat Honorable Mentions:
Rep. Fred Richmond, arrested in 1978 for soliciting a 16-year-old girl; Sen. Brock Adams, accused multiple times of drugging, assault and rape beginning in 1988; Rep. Gus Savage, accused of fondling a Peace Corps volunteer during a 1989 African tour; and Sen. Daniel Inouye, accused throughout the 1990s of sexual assault by various women. Then there are Reps. John Young, Wayne Hays and the ever affable Sen. Ted Kennedyâ??all Democrats involved in sexual escapades under Democrat majorities, all of which went unpunished by their colleagues.
Yes Foley’s actions are clearly reprehensible and he deserves whatever punishment he recieves. But does anybody really doubt the liberal-Dem’s real intentions in making this a national issue? The real story here is that the Dems have no positive agenda to run on and an election only weeks away. They were wrong about the Bush Tax Cuts and wrong to oppose the Patriot Act and the Terrorist Dentention Act. Yes Americans know that Iraq is messy, but they don’t favor the cut and run-appeasement strategy of the Dems (err- “strategic redeployment”).
They smell blood and are convinced that they will win back Congress- which they may- who knows. But I believe that every “October Surprise” they have launched in the past have all back fired. This one will too. The American people are not as dumb as the liberal elites in the Democrat “War Room” think they are.
Conservative blogging powerhouse PoliPundit recently interviewed Gregg about his new book, Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies.
Listen to this interview with Gregg Jackson, author of a great new book titled Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies. Much like Ann Coulterâ??s How to Talk to a Liberal, Conservative Comebacks gives the reader detailed and well researched responses to the lies of the left on topics like racism, religion, same-sex marriage, tax-cuts and plenty of others.
Buy this book and arm yourself with a powerful weapon to help defeat the looney lying left.
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Patterico’s five part interview with a Psych Nurse at Gitmo, who goes by the nickname Stashiu, is a must read. The introduction and background is here. Links to the rest of the series can be found here.
Part Two: In this post, Stashiu talks about what the terrorists at Gitmo are really like, based upon his hours of speaking with them.
Part Three: This part deals with the hunger strike, the suicides, and the mental health of the detainees at Gitmo. Based on his experience with the detainees and their mental history, Stashiu opines that the recent suicides were an organized political act.
Part Four: Treatment of the detainees. The nurse (“Stashiu”) discusses some of the brutality that detainees inflict on guards.Part Five: Stashiu reacts to Big Media pieces about GTMO.
For the MSM’s predictable take on GITMO, click here.
MSNBC is out with its second installment in their series Faces of Courage. Op-For has the video story of Leigh Ann Hester from the Kentucky National Guard.
Sound familiar? Her unit, Raven 42, was the subject of a recent edition of Someone You Should Know. Matt from Blackfive does a great job telling the story, in vivid detail. You can listen to it here.
We also recently told you how Leigh Ann was named Army Servicemember of the Year by the USO. That post is here.
Remember, let MSNBC know that you appreciate a MSM outlet FINALLY telling these stories. Email tehm at heroes@msnbc.com
The prima donnas in the MSM never cease to amaze. Take the case of Brian Williams, anchor of the top-rated, for now, NBC Nightly News.
Two weeks ago, we interviewed Vietnam veteran Tom Lyons about The Congressional Medal of Honor Society’s annual convention which was being held in Boston from September 26th through October 1st, 2006. Tom told us all about the week long celebration of these special American heroes. The Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Peter Pace, was coming to town along with 78 out of the 111 living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The special week of events was to be capped off with the annual Patriot Awards gala. Brian Williams, who had hosted the event in year’s past, was slated to do so again this year, and he did, sort of.
Boston Herald
Williams�?? cut & run from Medal of Honor ceremony riles vets
NBC Nightly News nabob Brian Williams came under fire yesterday after he reportedly beat a hasty retreat from his MC duties at the Congressional Medal of Honor Society soiree in Boston to appear on Saturday Night Live.
One event participant griped to the Track that the newsie �??was there for the reception, then kicked off the program around 7:30 and was out of there by 8:30.
And shortly after 11:30, Williams was Live from New York!
Six months ago, we’re told, the NBC anchorman had re-upped to host the annual Patriot Awards gala that honored, in addition to the 61 medal-wearing war heroes, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace.
“You think the man in charge of our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan had somewhere else to be than in Boston that night,” groused another fired-up dinner guest. Ooh, ouch.
Williams was “horrified” by the criticism and told the Track that he had informed the organizers of the dinner earlier in the week that his plans had changed.
“They were fine with it,” said the newsie, a Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation board member. �??But the primary focus of my day was to attend the three-hour board meeting and participate in the dinner, which I did. These are my guys, I work hard for them. I love these guys.”
At ease, Williams.
After that, the Peacock People’s primo newsman – who was replaced at the podium by Society leader Tom Lyons – hopped a private plane back to the Apple to appear on SNL for less than two minutes.
Call it an Honorable Discharge!
Nice priorities Brian. A two minute segment on a dead TV show that nobody watches over hanging with the majority of living recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, not to mention the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I guess when your competition is Katie Couric, you can afford to act like a self-absorbed, pompous ass.